Events Calendar

Book Launch for The undesirables by Sarah Wise

Hosted by LSE Library and the Mannheim Centre for Criminology

Tuesday 23 April 2024 6.30pm to 8.00pm, LSE Lecture Theatre, Centre Building

Speaker: Sarah Wise
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler

Join us to hear from author Sarah Wise as she launches her latest book, The Undesirables, which explores the history of the incarceration of people labelled with a new diagnosis - moral imbecility - and therefore deemed ‘undesirable’ by the state. 

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The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input

Seminar hosted by the Mannheim Centre and the Phelan United States Centre 

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 6.30pm-8.00pm, MAR.1.08, Marshall Building

The past few years have seen Americans express passionate demands for police transformation. But even as discussion of no-knock warrants, chokeholds, and body cameras has exploded, any changes to police procedures have only led to the same outcomes. Despite calls for increased accountability, police departments have successfully stonewalled change.  

In The Policing Machine, Tony Cheng reveals the stages of that resistance, offering a close look at the deep engagement strategies that NYPD precincts have developed with only subsets of the community in order to counter any truly meaningful, democratic oversight.

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End of the month vs end of the world politics: the green backlash

Hosted by LSE Festival: Power and Politics

Saturday 15 June 2024, 12.00pm to 1.00pm, in-person and online public event, Marshall Building

Speakers: Susan Aitken, Dr Liam Besier-McGrath, Ciaran Cuffe, Jean-Louis Missika
Chair: Dr Catarine Heeckt

Taking Liam Beiser-McGrath’s research around the political feasibility of climate action and research by the European Cities Programme at LSE Cities as a point of departure, this event will bring together a panel of European city leaders to discuss what has been driving a growing backlash against the green transition in Europe, and how this is shaping urban politics and policy making.   

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