Spring Term Events 2024
End of Year Drinks Reception
2-4pm, Wednesday 1 May
For all members of the Department of Economic History.
The Silver Empire: how Germany created its first common currency
Thursday 9 May 2024, 6-7.30pm
Alumni Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building
Oliver Volckart will discuss his new book "The Silver Empire", in which he examines the conditions leading to the creation of Germany's first common currency.
Full details and how to attend this event can be found here: The Silver Empire
The economic impact of natural disasters: Japan's Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923
Wednesday 22 May 2024, 6-7.30pm
Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building
Professor Janet Hunter looks at contemporary explanations of the economic impact of Japan's greatest natural disaster of modern times, and how they foreshadow later scholarship.
More details, including how to attend, are here: Japan's Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923
Autumn Term Events 2023
Autumn term events will include our Welcome Boat trip, public lectures, student competitions, careers events, the return of the pottery cafe, and the end of year drinks reception.
Thursday 21 September, 5.00pm-9.00pm
Start of Term Departmental Thames Cruise and Drinks Reception.
Pre-booking is required - students will be contacted with booking information.
Careers Workshop for undergraduate and master's students
1-2pm, Thursday 19 October
How to write effective CVs and cover letters
Slavery, capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson, Nick Draper, Tirthankar Roy, Patrick Wallis
Tuesday 10 October 2023, 7-8.30pm, PAN G.01 (Pankhurst House), LSE
A round table discussion of themes raised in Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson’s Slavery, capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. Berg and Hudson ‘follow the money’, detailing the role of slavery in the making of Britain’s industrial revolution, and its development as a global superpower.
For more information and details of how to register go to the event page: Slavery, capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
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Black History Month Film Screening
5.30pm, Wednesday 25 October, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, CKK
We will be screening Emitaï (1971), by renowned Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène.
The screening will be accompanied by a short talk contextualising the film within the economic history of West Africa.
Afterwards we will host an inter-disciplinary social for students and staff of African heritage. The venue is the Economic History Common Room, starting approximately 7.30-8pm.
For more information contact Oli Harrison
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Public event: The economic government of the world, 1933-2023
Speaker: Professor Martin Daunton
Thursday 26 October, 6.30-8.00pm, Old Theatre, LSE and online
Economic historian Professor Martin Daunton will talk about his new book, The economic government of the world, 1933-2023, in which he pulls back the curtain on the institutions and individuals who have created and managed the economy over the last ninety years, revealing how and why one economic order breaks down and another is built.
This event is co-hosted by the Department of Economic History and the Economic HIstory Advisory Board.
For more information and details of how to register go to the event page: The economic government of the world, 1933-2023
Autumn Pottery Cafe
3-7pm, Tuesday 7 November
Economic History Common Room
Take a break from study and get crafty. Make something with air drying clay to brighten up your room or give as a gift. We'll provide some inspiration and you can bring your own ideas.
No skill or experience required, just come along and get stuck in. We'll supply the clay, tools and lots of ideas and inspiration. We'll also supply paint and varnish so you can finish your object at home once it's dry.
The cafe will serve free hot chocolate, teas and coffee, and lots of cute sweet and savoury snacks.
More information is here: 2023 Pottery Cafe
Careers Workshop for undergraduate and master's students
1-2pm, Wednesday 8 November
How to write effective CVs and cover letters
Venue tbc
A Career Conversation... with Bain Consultant, Ivy Langat
6pm, 15 November
Online - link to follow
Ivy will talk about her careers since graduating from the BSc Economic History with Economics in 2017, and Master's in African Development. Ivy joined Bain in 2019 as Associate Consultant in Lagos, and is currently base in Londno.
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. They work across 40 countries, and 65 cities, working on urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment.
Public event: Trends and determinants of global child malnutrition: what can we learn from history?
Speaker: Professor Eric Schneider
Thursday 16 November 2023 6.30-8.00pm, Auditorium, Centre Building, LSE and online
In his inaugural lecture Eric Schneider will explore how child malnutrition, measured through child growth, has changed over the past 150 years around the world. Children with poor nutrition or who are exposed to high levels of chronic disease grow more slowly than healthy children. Thus, children’s growth is a sensitive metric of how population health has evolved over time.
For more information and details of how to register to to the event page: Trends and determinants of global child malnutrition
Public event: How economics changes the world
Speaker: Professor Mary S. Morgan
Thursday 23 November 2023 6.30-8.00pm, Auditorium, Centre Building, LSE
Do economists’ ideas change the ways the economic world works? While the conventional view is that ideas create policy change and economic change follows on, it is just not that simple. We can see what is involved by looking at major changes , such as the reconstruction of post-war economies, post-colonial economic development planning, or switching from capitalist to socialist systems. Designing such new kinds of worlds required new ways of thinking about how the economic world could work involving imagination and cognitive work, and new kinds of economic measurements and accounting systems to deliver that change. Economic ideas are ‘performative’, meaning that they do change the ways economies work - but not on their own.
For more information and details of how to register to to the event page: How economics changes the world