Events
Programme
2026
The Department of International History hosts numerous lectures, roundtables, debates and workshops by our academics, visiting academics and others. Members of the Department are also involved in a series of events around LSE.
Below is a list of these events by chronological order. Our events are usually free and open to all with exceptions duly noted. Please note that pre-registration for events is usually required.
From time to time there are changes to event details so we strongly recommend that you check the listing on the day of the event.
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Public Events Calendar:
Children of Abraham: The Story of Jewish-Muslim Relations
Book Launch Event
Date: Tuesday, 20 October (5.30pm - 7pm)
Venue: CKK.1.04, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE
Speaker: Professor Marc Baer
Chair: Professor Larry Kramer
Professor Marc David Baer discusses his latest book, Children of Abraham: The Story of Jewish-Muslim Relations, his timely new account of two groups whose intertwined histories continue to shape our world.
Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran and European Imperial Expansion (1797-1812)
The Gholam Reza Nikpay Annual Lecture
Date: Thursday, 22 October (6pm - 7.30pm)
Venue: TBC to ticket holders
Speaker: Professor Abbas Amanat
Chair: Dr Roham Alvandi
Join us for the Gholam Reza Nikpay Annual Lecture, hosted by the Iranian History Initiative in the Department of International History.
Women of the world unite: the UN Decade for Women and transnational feminisms 1975 to now
Roundtable Discussion
Date: Monday 26 October (6.30pm - 8pm)
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE
Speakers: Professor Sumi Madhok, Professor Durba Mitra and Dr Imaobong Umoren
Chair: Dr SM Rodríguez
In 2025, the Women’s Library at LSE organised an exhibition Women of the World Unite: The UN Decade for Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now to mark the fifty years since the United Nations declared 1975 the International Women’s Year and held the first in a series of conferences to mark the UN Decade for Women.
Pan-Africanism: A History
Black History Month Event
Date: Thursday, 29 October (6.30pm - 8pm)
Venue: CLM.4.02, Clement House, LSE
Speaker: Professor Hakim Adi
Chair: Dr Alex Mayhew
Join us for this Black History Month event featuring award winning academic and activist, Professor Hakim Adi.
National Reconstruction of Colonial Territory in Southeast Asia
Presentation
Date: Wednesday, 11 November (12pm - 1.15pm)
Venue: KSW.G.01, 20 Kingsway Building, LSE
Speaker: Dr Christian C. Lentz
Chair: Dr Qingfei Yin
This presentation examines diplomatic relations between Indonesia and the two Vietnams from 1955-65, when political elites toggled between commitments to free themselves from colonial rule on the one hand and imperatives to fill out territories defined by colonial rule on the other.
Interrogating Nazism: Spies, Soldiers and War Criminals in Second World War Britain
Book Launch Event
Date: Thursday, 12 November (6pm - 7.30pm)
Venue: MAR.1.08, Marshall Building, LSE
Speaker: Dr Artemis Photiadou
Chair: Professor Matthew Jones
Join us for the launch of Dr Photiadou's newly released book, where she will uncover Britain’s secret wartime interrogation system and explains what its encounters reveal about ideology, intelligence, and the ethics of war.
John Foster Dulles: Apostle of American Empire
Book Talk
Date: Thursday, 19 November (6pm - 7.30pm)
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE
Speaker: Dr Bevan Sewell
Chair: Professor Mathew Jones
Join us as we welcome Dr Bevan Sewell who will speak about his recently released book which reappraises the life and career of John Foster Dulles, one of America’s most consequential Cold War foreign policy figures.
Davos: A Local History of Globalization
The David McClure Visiting Fellowship Lecture
Date: Thursday, 3 December (6pm - 7.30pm)
Speaker: Dr Caitlín Doherty
Chair: Professor Vladislav Zubok
Join us for the inaugural David McClure Visiting Fellowship Lecture where Dr Doherty will present work for the book she is currently working on. She will argue that the town of Davos, the Canton of Graubünden, and the Swiss Confederation together provided essential conditions and key opportunities for the entry of American multinational corporations into European markets during the Cold War, and for Western control of the post-Warsaw Pact international order.