Close

UTOPIAS

LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2016

LSE's 8th annual Literary Festival, in partnership with the Times Literary Supplement, took place in February 2016. Inspired by the anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia, events explored the power of dreams and the imagination and the importance of idealism, dissidence, escapism and nostalgia, as well as the benefits of looking at the world in different ways.

DavidAaronovitch_420x747

Speaker highlights David Aaronovitch on his new book Party Animals: growing up communist
HeidiMirza_747x420

Speaker highlight Heidi Mirza as part of a discussion on Ideals of Equality: feminisms in the twenty-first century
ACGraylingLSE-747x420

Speaker highlight AC Grayling on Progress in Troubled Times: learning from The Age of Genius
Hestercombe_Gardens_747x560

Event highlight Utopian Gardening, Landscapes and the Imagination

A discussion with Anna Pavord, Dan Pearson and Margaret Willes
StarTrek_747x560

Event highlight To Boldly Go: what Star Trek tells us about the world

Celebrating Star Trek's 50th anniversary with Michèle Barrett, Duncan Barrett, Barry Buzan and Steve
Robert_Harris_747x420

Speaker highlight Robert Harris on The Political Novel
ChibundoOnuzo_747x420

Speaker highlight Chibundu Onuzo as part of a panel Imagining African Futures
Sinead_Moriarty_747x420

Speaker highlight Sinéad Moriarty joins a discussion on The Allure of Happy Endings
NazzilaGhanea_747x420

Speaker highlight Nazzila Ghanea joins LSE Law to put the United Nations on Trial
Alec_Ross_747x420

Speaker highlight Alec Ross on The Innovations of the Future
MargaretMacmillan_747x420

Speaker highlight Margaret MacMillan joins Tom Holland to discuss Re-Writing History
thumbnail_LSE RB Lit Fest 2017 Image

LSE Review of Books read about books and topics from the Festival

  Sign up for news about events

Contact us

Telephone

Events Information Line 020 7955 6043

Email

Louise Jones, Literary Festival Manager events@lse.ac.uk

Address

LSE Events Office, Ground Floor, Queen's House,, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Twitter

LSE Events LSEpublicevents

RT @MediaLSE: Great turnout for tonight’s public event, looking forward to hearing from our panellists and questions from the audience! 🐦…

17 hours ago

Reply Retweet Favorite

LSE Events LSEpublicevents

After listening to the LSE Choir, we had the pleasure of the LSE Orchestra - what a wonderful evening - with perfor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

2 days ago

Reply Retweet Favorite

Follow us on Twitter