Catch up on our past events
The European Institute has one of the most active events programmes in the School, making LSE one of the leading platforms globally for informed public discussion on the history and identity of Europe, and the policy challenges confronting the EU and the UK. We host over 30 public events a year, with high-level speakers from politics, public administration, academia and the media, including presidents, prime ministers, EU commissioners, and heads of European agencies and EU institutions.
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What happened to liberal democracy?
Tuesday 15 September, 10.30am to 11.30amSpeaker: Daron Acemoglu, institute professor at MIT and Faculty Co-Director of MIT’s Shaping the Future of Work Initiative
Chair: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE European Institute
Hosted by the European Institute
The Brexit effect: 2016 – 2026
Thursday 16 July 2026 6.30pm - 8pm
Speakers: Steve Baker, Privy Councillor and Fellow, RSA; Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, King’s College London; Anthony Seldon, book author and Madeline Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory, University of Oxford
Chair: Tony Travers, Professor in Practice, LSE Department of Government; Associate Dean, LSE School of Public Policy and Director, LSE London
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
The green shoots of the new economy
Thursday 18 June 2026 7pm – 8pmSpeakers: Dr Frédéric Basso, Associate Professor of Economic Psychology, LSE; Anuradha Chugh, currently serves on several boards, including B Lab UK (as Co-Chair), Zebra Growth, Routes Collective, Toms Group, and F&C Investment Trust; Akshat Rathi, senior climate reporter, Bloomberg News
Chair: Abby Innes, Associate Professor of Political Economy, LSE European Institute
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
Mobilising investment for a sustainable planet
Tuesday 16 June 2026 5pm – 6pmSpeaker: Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow, LSE European Institute; President Nadia Calviño, Spanish economist and lawyer with a 30+ year career in public policy, economics and finance
Chair: Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Princesa de Asturias Chair and Professor of Economic Geography, LSE
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
About "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind": roundtable on creativity, resilience, and inter-cultural translation
Wednesday 27 May, 6.30pm to 8pmSpeaker: George Harrison, dramaturg; Richy Hughes, book writer and lyricist; Tim Sutton, composer and lyricist
Chair: Denisa Kostovicova, Professor of Global Politics, LSE European Institute
Hosted by the LSE European Institute as part of the Beyond Eurocentrism programme
Coalitions of the willing in action: the role of non-EU NATO members in Europe’s security and defence
Thursday 14 May, 6pm to 7.30pmSpeakers: Aaron McKeil, Academic Director, LSE Ideas; Pernille Rieker, Director of the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo; İlke Toygür, Director of the Global Policy Centre and Professor of Practice in European Politics, IE University, Madrid
Chair: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE European Institute
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute
The Revival of Constituent Power?
Tuesday 12 May 2026, 6.30pm to 8pmSpeakers: Erin F. Delaney, Inaugural Director, Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism and the Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, University College London; Oliver Garner, Lecturer in Law, City Law School, City St George’s, University of London; Martin Loughlin, Emeritus Professor of Public Law, LSE; Carmen Pavel, Reader in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, King’s College London
Discussants: Markus Patberg, Research Associate in Political Theory, University of Hamburg; Mike Wilkinson, Professor of Law, LSE
Chair: Jonathan White, Professor of Politics and Deputy Head, LSE European Institute
Hosted by the European Institute and Alternatives to Capitalism
Does decarbonization still have a future?
Speaker: Mark Blyth, William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics and Director of the Rhodes Centre for International Economics and Finance, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Chair: Benjamin Braun, Assistant Professor in Political Economy, LSE European Institute
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
Rebalancing the new world order in an age of fragmentation
Speaker: Alexander Stubb, 13th President of the Republic of Finland
Chair: Susana Mourato, Professor of Environmental Economics and Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research), LSE
Hosted by the European Institute
Post Pax Americana: the six pillars of Europe's new security architecture
Speaker: Klaus Welle, Former Secretary General, European Parliament (2009 - 2022) and Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE European Institute
Chair: Spyros Economides, Associate Professor in International Relations and European Politics, LSE European Institute
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
Fossil fuel profits and the low-carbon transition: who stands to lose?
Speaker: Gregor Semieniuk, Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Discussant: Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London
Chair: Benjamin Braun, Assistant Professor in Political Economy, LSE European Institute
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
Security in Europe: how will it affect growth and competitiveness?
A high-level conference to celebrate Bruegel's 20th anniversary featuring two panels with leading experts, policymakers, and industry leaders for a rich discussion exploring the intersection between security, growth, and competitiveness in Europe. The conference concluded with a special fire-side chat between Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Jeromin Zettlemeyer, Director of Bruegel.
Hosted by LSE European Institute & Bruegel
Europe in a post-liberal world: in conversation with Pedro Serrano
Speaker: Pedro Serrano, European Union Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Discussant: Federica Bicchi, Associate Professor of International Relations, LSE Department of International Relations; Spyros Economides, Associate Professor in International Relations and European Politics, LSE and Research Coordinator, Hellenic Observatory Research Cluster on Politics & Geopolitics.
Chair: Karen E Smith, Professor of International Relations Theory, LSE Department of International Relations
Hosted by the Department of International Relations, the European Institute and the European Foreign Policy Unit at LSE
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Varieties of equality in European welfare states: a multi-disciplinary approach to redistribution
Speaker: Davide Orsitto, book author
Discussant: Minna van Gerven, Professor of Social Policy and Head of the Discipline of Social and Public Policy, University of Helsinki
Chair: Stefan Collignon, guest lecturer in European Political Economy at the LSE European Institute and Professor of Political Economy at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
Monetary policy and behavioural economics
Speaker: Martin Kocher, Governor of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and member of the ECB’s Governing Council since September 2025
Discussant: Ricardo Reis, Arthur Williams Phillips Professor of Economics, LSE Department of Economics
Chair: Silvana Tenreyro, Professor of Economics, LSE Department of Economics
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and the Centre for Macroeconomics
Prosecuting the powerful: confronting the challenges of international justice
Speaker: Steve Crawshaw, author, former UK director, Human Rights Watch, former director, the Office of the Secretary-General at Amnesty International and former chief foreign correspondent, The Independent
Chair: Denisa Kostovicova, Professor of Global Politics, LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
Britain in a changing world
Tuesday 18 November, 6.30pm to 7.45pmSpeaker: Sir John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Chair: Simon Glendinning, Head of the European Institute and Professor of European Philosophy, LSE
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
Trump's ten revolutions: the remaking of politics in the West
Speaker: Klaus Welle, Former Secretary General, European Parliament (2009 - 2022) and Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE European Institute
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Emeritus Professor, LSE European Institute, and Professorial Research Fellow, Hellenic Observatory, LSE
Hosted by the European Institute
Post-Europe: In Conversation with Yuk Hui
Speaker: Yuk Hui, Professor of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Chair: Simon Glendinning, Head of the European Institute and Professor of European Philosophy, LSE
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
On European fragmentation and the single currency in an uncertain world
Speakers: Ignazio Visco, Governor Emeritus, Bank of Italy; Jörg Kukies, German economist, politician and former Minister of Finance (Nov 2024 -May 2025); Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Advisor, Centre for Economics and Business Research
Chair: Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow, LSE European Institute
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
Nationalism and War in 21st-Century Europe
Thursday 5 June, 5.30pm to 7.00pmSpeaker: Siniša Malešević, Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology, University College Dublin
Discussants: Jasna Dragovic-Soso, Visiting Professor, LSEE; Maya Tudor, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government and Fellow, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford
Chair: Vesna Popovski, LSE Fellow in Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person (Wolfson Theatre, CKK Building)
Hosted by the LSE European Institute, UACES and JCMS
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Suspect citizenship: rethinking belonging and non-belonging in plural societies
Tuesday 27 May, 6.00pm to 7.30pmSpeakers: Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology,City University of New York (CUNY)
Chair: Kristin Surak, Associate Professor of Political Sociology at LSE.
Venue: In-person public event (OLD.3.24, Old Building)
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and the LSE Department of Sociology
Geography is back: A German view on Europe's perspectives in times of global uncertainty
Tuesday 15 April 2025 5.30pm to 7.00pmSpeaker: Jens Weidmann, Supervisory Board Chairman, Commerzbank AG, Professor, Frankfurt School of Finance, Management for Practice, Central Banking and Former President, German Central Bank
Chair: Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person and online public event (MAR.1.04, Marshall Building)
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and OMFIF
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In conversation with Alexander Stubb
Monday 31 March 2025 10.00am to 11.00amSpeaker: Alexander Stubb,13th President of the Republic of Finland and an alumus of LSE
Chair: Professor Larry Kramer, President and Vice Chancellor, LSE
Venue: TBC to ticketholders
Hosted by the European Institute
Europe's strategic crossroads
Friday 28 March 2025 12.15pm to 1.00pmSpeaker: Benjamin Haddad, Minister Delegate for Europe, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the French Republic
Chair: Spyros Economides, Associate Professor in International Relations and European Politics, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person (MAR.1.04, Marshall Building)
Hosted by the LSE European Institute, the Department of International Relations and the LSE SU French Society
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War crimes talk: does it help or hinder peace?
Wednesday 26 March, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMTSpeaker: Denisa Kostovicova, Professor of Global Politics, LSE European Institute
Chair: Simon Glendinning, Head of theEuropean Institute and Professor of European Philosophy, LSE
Venue: In-person (Auditorium, Centre Building, LSE) and Online Public Event
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
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Regaining our futures: how to build democracies with foresight
Tuesday 25 March, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMTSpeakers: Albena Azmanova, Professor of Political and Social Science at City, University of London and Senior Fellow at OSUN’s Economic Democracy Initiative, Bard College; Kalypso Nicolaidis, Chair in Global Affairs at the School of Transnational Governance (EUI)
Chair: Abby Innes, Associate Professor of Political Economy, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person (LSE Lecture Theatre, Centre Building, LSE) and Online Public Event
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
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Unconventional monetary policy – quo vadis?
Thursday 20 March, 2.30pm to 4.00pmSpeaker: Robert Holzmann, Governor, Austrian National Bank
Discussant: Daniela Gabor, Professor of Economics, SOAS
Chair: Donato Di Carlo, Assistant Professor in Political Economy, LSE European Institute.
Venue: In-person (MAR.2.06, Marshall Building) and Online Public Event
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and OMFIF
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The urgency of now: what can and should we do to bolster European security and defence?
Wednesday 12 February 2025 6.00pm to 7.30pmSpeakers: Richard Rose, Professor and Director, Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde; Klaus Welle, Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE European Institute and former Secretary General, European Parliament (2009 - 2022)
Chair: Denisa Kostovicova, Professor of Global Politics, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person (MAR.1.08, Marshall Building) and Online Public Event
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
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Burning down the house: carbon politics, American power, and the almighty dollar
Thursday 6 February, 6.00pm to 7.30pm GMTSpeaker: Mark Blyth, William R. Rhodes Professor of International Economics and Director of the Rhodes Centre for International Economics and Finance, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University
Chair: Benjamin Braun, Assistant Professor in Political Economy, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person (LSE Lecture Theatre, Centre Building, LSE) and Online Public Event
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
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Sovereign Europe: an agenda for Europe in a fragmented global economy
Tuesday 4 February, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMTSpeakers: Paolo Guerrieri, Visiting Professor, Sciences-Po and the Business School of the University of San Diego; Pier Carlo Padoan, Chairman of UniCredit and former Minister of Economy and Finance of Italy (2014-2018) and Member of Parliament (2018 to 2020)
Discussants: Tony Barber, European Comment Editor, the Financial Times; Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow, LSE European Institute; Lorenzo Codogno, Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE European Institute; Leila Simona Talani, Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the Centre for Italian Politics, King's college London
Chair: Paul de Grauwe, John Paulson Chair in European Political Economy. LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person (LSE Lecture Theatre, Centre Building, LSE) and Online Public Event
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
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Understanding solidary support for reparations: Memory production and public meaning-making after mass violence
Tuesday 3 December, 12.00pm to 1:30pm GMTSpeaker: Dr. Elke Evrard, Human Rights Centre of the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University.
Chair: Denisa Kostovicova, Professor in Global Politics and Director of LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute as part of the Beyond Eurocentrism programme
Venue: In-person event (LSE Campus, Marshall Building, MAR.1.08)
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Central and Eastern Europe's prospects for euro adoption
Tuesday 19 November, 6.30pm to 8.00pmSpeakers: Reiner Martin, Executive Director, National Bank of Slovakia; Piroska Nagy Mohacsi, Visiting Professor, LSE FLIA; Atanas Pekanov, Monetary Economist, WIFO Wien and Former Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria (via Zoom); Agnieszka Smolenska, Senior Policy Fellow,Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx) and Assistant professor, Florence School of Banking and Finance
Chair: Angelo Martelli, Assistant Professor in European and International Political Economy, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person (MAR.1.08, Marshall Building, LSE) and Online Public Event
Hosted by the European Institute, the Centre for Economic Transition Expertise and the LSE SU European Society
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The future of inflation
Monday 18 November, 6.30pm to 8.00pmSpeakers: Megan Greene, External member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England; Boris Vujčić, Governor, Croatian National Bank
Chair: Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person and online public event (Marshall Building, MAR.1.04, LSE)
Hosted by the European Institute and OMFIF
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What is right-wing populism? Understanding the experience in Europe and America
Thursday 14 November, 6.30pm to 8.00pmSpeaker: Klaus Welle, Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE European Institute and former Secretary General, European Parliament (2009 - 2022)
Chair: Jonathan Hopkin, Professor of Comparative Politics, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person (MAR.1.08, Marshall Building, LSE) and Online Public Event
Hosted by the European Institute
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The world in crisis
Monday 4 November, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMTSpeakers: Miguel de Beistegui, ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Honorary Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick; Demetra Kasimis, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago; Jonathan White, Professor of Politics and Deputy Head, LSE European Institute
Chair: Dr Abby Innes, Associate Professor of Political Economy, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person and online public event (Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE)
Hosted by the European Institute
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The Political Feasibility of the Adoption of the UNDP's "Türkiye Compact" by the EU, the UK, and Switzerland
Thursday 31 October, 6.00pm to 7.30pmSpeakers: Kemal Kirişci, nonresident senior fellow, Center on the United States and Europe’s Turkey Project, Brookings; Friedrich Püttmann, PhD candidate, LSE European Institute
Discussants: Virginie Guiraudon, CNRS research director, Sciences Po Centre for European and Comparative studies; John Alty,Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE European Institute
Chair: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person public event (LSE Lecture Theatre, CBG, LSE)
Hosted by the Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute
Monetary policy in perspective: three questions for a more volatile future
Wednesday 30 October, 3.15pm to 4.45pmSpeaker: François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor, Bank of France
Welcome remarks: Professor Larry Kramer, President and Vice Chancellor, LSE
Chair: Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person and Online Public Event (Auditorium, Centre Building, LSE)
Hosted by the European Institute and the LSESU French Society
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Europe at the beginning of a new era - Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture 2024
Tuesday 29 October, 6.00pm to 7.30pm GMTSpeaker: Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow Emeritus, University of Oxford, and Senior Fellow, Stanford University
Chair: Simon Glendinning, Head of the European Institute and Professor in European Philosophy, LSE
Venue: In-person and online public event (LSE Lecture Theatre, CBG, LSE)
Hosted by the European Institute
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The shortest history of migration
Thursday 24 October, 6.30 to 8.00pm BSTSpeakers: Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development, Oxford University and founding Director, Oxford Martin School
Chair: Kristin Surak, Associate Professor of Political Sociology, LSE
Venue: In-person and online public event (Marshall Building, MAR.1.04, LSE)
Hosted by the European Institute and the LSE School of Public Policy
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What is driving the green backlash in European urban politics? | LSE Festival
Saturday 15 June, 12.00pm to 1.00pm BSTSpeakers: Liam Beiser-McGrath, Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy Department of Social Policy, LSE; Ciarán Cuffe, member of the European Parliament (2019-2024); Jean-Louis Missika, Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE Cities; Shirley Rodrigues, London Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy (2016-2024)
Chair: Catarina Heeckt, Programme Lead for the European Cities Programme and Policy Fellow, LSE Cities
Venue: In-person and online public event (Wolfson Theatre, CKK Building)
Hosted by LSE Cities and LSE European Institute as part of the LSE Festival: Power and Politics
Global middle powers and the changing world order | LSE Festival
Wednesday 12 June, 6.30pm to 7.30pm BSTSpeakers: Chris Alden, Professor of International Relations and Director, LSE IDEAS; Yolanda Kemp Spies, Director of Diplomatic Studies Programme, Oxford University; Buğra Süsler, Lecturer, UCL Department of Political Science and Head of Turkey and the World Programme, LSE IDEAS
Chair: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person public event (Wolfson Theatre, CKK Building)
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE Ideas and LSE European Institute as part of the LSE Festival: Power and Politics
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5th LSE Workshop on Political Economy of Turkey
Friday 7 June, 9.00am to 6.00pm BSTKeynote speaker: Ufuk Akçiğit, Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Hosted by the Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE European Institute, LSE School of Public Policy and LSE Systemic Risk Centre
Venue:In-person public event (CBG.1.01, Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, Centre Building, LSE)
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The 2024 European elections and the challenges ahead
Thursday 6 June, 6.30pm to 8.00pm BSTSpeakers: Tony Barber, European Comment Editor, Financial Times; Heather Grabbe, Senior Fellow, Bruegel and Visiting Professor, University College London and KU Leuven; Sara Hobolt, Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and Professor, Department of Government, LSE
Chair: Chris Anderson, Ralf Dahrendorf Professor of European Politics and Society, LSE
Venue: In-person and online public event (Old Theatre, Old Building)
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and EUROPP – European Politics and Policy
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Race and Empire in Europe's Borders
Thursday 23 May, 10.30am to 5:30pm BSTSpeakers: Nadine El-Enany, University of Kent; Emmanuel Achiri, ENAR; Janine Silga, Dublin City University; Tarsis Brito, LSE; Hope Barker; Arshad Isakjee, University of Liverpool; Thom Davies, University of Nottingham; Jelena Obradovic-Wolchnik, Aston University; Magda El Ghamari, Collegium Civitas; Eva Polonska, LSE; Patrick Kimunguyi, LSE; Martina Tazzioli, University of Bologna
Chair: Eva Polonska, LSE.
Venue: In-person and online public event (LSE Campus)
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and the European Network Against Racism (ENAR)
Supporting Ukraine's European destiny: a multilateral's perspective
Monday 18 March, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMTSpeaker: Odile Renaud-Basso, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Institutional remarks: Eric Neumayer, LSE President and Vice Chancellor on an interim basis; Catherine de Vries, Dean for International Affairs and Professor of Political Science, Bocconi University
Chair: Angelo Martelli, Programme Director, LSE-Bocconi Double Degree in European International Public Policy and Politics
Venue: In-person and online public event (Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House)
Hosted by the European Institute and Bocconi University
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The 2024 European elections and beyond - Understanding the politics of the coming Brussels power-play
Thursday 14 March, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMTSpeaker: Klaus Welle, Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE European Institute and former Secretary General of the European Parliament (2009-2022)
Chair: Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person and online public event (CBG.2.03, Centre Building)
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
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Building prosperity through social solidarity and economic dynamism
Tuesday 12 March 2024 2.30pm to 3.30pmSpeaker: Humza Yousaf, First Minister of Scotland
Chair: Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person and online public event
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
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The Politics of the Future
Monday 11 March, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMTSpeakers: Richard Bellamy, University College London, Professor of Political Science; Gerard Delanty, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Sussex; Kimberly Hutchings, Professor of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London; Anne Phillips,Graham WallasProfessor of Political Science, LSE; Jonathan White, Deputy Head and Professor in Politics, LSE European Institute;
Chair: Marta Lorimer, Fellow in European Politics, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person and online public event (LSE LectureTheatre, Centre Building)
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
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Major Economic Challenges facing The EU After the elections
Monday 4 March, 6.00pm to 7.00pm CETSpeakers: Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics, LSE European Institute; Francesco Billari Rector, Bocconi University; Stefano Caselli, Dean, SDA Bocconi School of Management; Angelo Martelli, Director, LSE-Bocconi Double Degree in European and International Public Policy and Politics, LSE European Institute; Lanny Martin, Director, MSc Politics and Policy Analysis, Bocconi University; Catherine De Vries, Dean for International Affairs, Bocconi University;
Venue: Bocconi University, Room N08, Piazza Sraffa 13
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and the University of Bocconi
Experimentalist Governance: From Architectures to Outcomes
Tuesday 27 February, 6.30pm to 20.00pm GMTSpeakers: Niamh Moloney, Professor of Law, LSE Law School; Bernardo Rangoni, Senior Lecturer, University of York; Anthony Teasdale, Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE European Institute
Chair: Jonathan Hopkin, Professor of Comparative Politics, LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person and online public event (Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, Centre Building, LSE)
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
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Empowering the Economy
Monday 12 February 2024, 5.00pm to 6.00pm GMT
Speakers: Christian Lindner,Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance and a member of the German parliament.
Chair: Eric Neumayer, LSE President and Vice Chancellor on an interim basis.
Venue: In-person and online public event (LSE Campus, venue to be confirmed to ticket holders)
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
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Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail
Thursday 08 February, 6.30pm to 8pm GMT
Speakers: Dr Abby Innes, Associate Professor of Political Economy, LSE European Institute; Rafael Behr, journalist and political columnist for the Guardian.
Chair: Professor Simon Glendinning, Head of the European Institute and Professor in European Philosophy at LSE.
Venue: In-person and online public event (MAR.1.04, Marshall Building LSE)
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
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Russia's war against Ukraine
Tuesday 30 January, 6.30pm to 8pm GMT
Speakers: Gwendolyn Sasse, Director, Centre for East European and International Studies and Einstein Professor, Humboldt University; Sam Greene, Professor in Russian politics, King’s College
Chair: Abby Innes, Associate Professor of Political Economy, European Institute, LSE
Venue: In-person and online public event (Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, LSE)
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
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NATO Enlargement and Türkiye's Partnership with the West
Wednesday 24 January 2024 6.00pm to 7.30pm
Speakers: Sinem Akgül Açıkmeşe, Professor, Kadir Has University; Lisel Hintz, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS; Tacan İldem, retired diplomat, who served as NATO Assistant Secretary-General from 2016 to 2020.
Chair: Yaprak Gursoy, Professor and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE
Venue: Online Public Event however registration is required.
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and LSE Ideas.
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Protect, strengthen, prepare - 2024 as a moment of truth for the future of the European continent
Tuesday 23 January, 3.30 to 4.30 pm
Speaker: Alexander De Croo, Prime Minister of Belgium.
Chair: Chris Anderson, Ralf Dahrendorf Professor of European Politics and Society, LSE.
Venue: In-person and online public event
Hosted by the European Institute
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Bank of England and LSE European Institute - Workshop on Behavioural Macro and Finance
Friday 19 January, 8.55am to 5.45pm GMT
Venue: In-person and online public event (Shaw Library, 6th floor, Old Building LSE)
The geopolitics of Germany: ninth November – then and now
Thursday 09 November, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMT
Speaker: Klaus Welle, Visting Professor in Practice, European Institute, LSE
Chair: Chris Anderson, Ralf Dahrendorf Professor of European Politics and Society, European Institute, LSE
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
Venue: In-person and online public event (MAR.1.04, Marshall Building, LSE)
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Black feminism in Europe
Monday 30 October, 6.30pm to 8.00pm BST
Speakers: Mame-Fatou Niang, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Carnegie Mellon University; SM Rodriguez, Assistant Professor, Department of Gender Studies, LSE.
Chair: Joanna Lewis, Director, LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security
Venue: In-person and online public event (Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE)
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The future of European Union integration in light of the economic and geopolitical challenges
Thursday 26 October, 3.00pm to 4.00pm BST
Speaker: Pierre Moscovici, former French Minister of Finance and European Commissioner
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Professorial Research Fellow, European Institute, LSE
Hosted by the European Institute
Venue: In-person and online event (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, CKK Building, LSE)
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Talking Justice After Mass Atrocity Crimes
Friday 20 October, 6.00pm to 7.30pm BST
Speakers: Paul Drew, Professor, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York; Ger Duijzings, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Regensburg; Inger Skjelsbaek, Professor and Director of the Center for Gender Studies, University of Oslo
Chair: Denisa Kostovicova, Associate Professor of Global Politics, European Institute, LSE
Hosted by Justice Interactions and Peacebuiling (JUSTINT) and LSE European Institute
Venue: Yangtze Theatre, Centre Building, LSE
Homelands: a personal history of Europe
Thursday 19 October, 6.30pm to 8.00pm BST
Speaker: Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, Oxford University
Chair: Simon Glendinning, Head of the European Institute and Professor in European Philosophy, LSE
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
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How to slay a dragon: building a new Russia after Putin
Tuesday 10 October, 6.30pm to 8.00pm BST
Speaker: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, commentator and activist
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Professorial Research Fellow, European Institute, LSE
Hosted by the LSE European Institute.
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The transition paradox: navigating the path to becoming the world's first fossil-free welfare state
Monday 09 October, 6.45pm to 8.15pm BST
Speaker: Mikael Damberg, Former Minister of Finance, Government of Sweden
Chair: Andrés Velasco, Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy, LSE
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and the LSE School of Public Policy
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With or without the IMF? The ups and downs of the Turkish political economy since 2000
Wednesday 04 October, 6.00pm to 7.30pm BST
Speakers: G. Kemal Ozhan, Senior Economist, Bank of Canada and Research Economist, National Bureau of Economic Research; Selva Demiralp, Professor of Economics, Koç University and Director of the Koç University-TUSIAD Economic Research Forum; Sinan Ülgen, Director and founding chairman, Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM), and Senior Fellow, Carnegie Europe
Chair: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the LSE European Institute
Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European project
Tuesday 3 October, 6.30pm to 8.00pm BST
Speakers: Gurminder K. Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex; Hans Kundnani, Associate Fellow and former Europe Programme Director, Chatham House; Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy, University of Cambridge; Mike Wilkinson, Professor of Law, LSE
Chair: Simon Glendinning, Head of the European Institute and Professor in European Philosophy, LSE
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and the LSE Law School
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Permacrisis: a plan to fix a fractured world
Wednesday 27 September, 7.00pm to 8.00pm BST
Speakers: Gordon Brown, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Mohamed A. El-Erian, President of Queens' College, Univeristy of Cambridge; Michael Spence, Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Chair: Silvana Tenreyro, Professor of Economics, LSE
Hosted by the LSE European Institute
LSE Festival | At the Heart of War: Ukrainian resilience and resistance through art
From Monday 22 May, 10.00am to 6.00pm BST
Artists and Photographers: Svitlana Biedarieva, George F. Kennan Fellow at the Kennan Institute, Wilson Center; Yan Dobronosov, Ukrainian photojournalist; Kostiantyn Liberov, Ukrainian photojournalist; Vlada Liberova, Ukrainian photojournalist; Olha Pryymak, Royal College of Art London.
Hosted by the Department of International Relations and the European Institute as part of LSE Festival: People and Change.
Venue: Atrium Gallery, Old Building LSE.
What Art Makes of War: perspectives on and from the Ukraine War
Thursday 08 June, 6.30pm to 8.00pm BST
Speakers: Svitlana Biedarieva, George F. Kennan Fellow, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center; Rachel Kerr, Professor of War and Society, King's College London; Denisa Kostovicova, Associate Professor in Global Politics, LSE European Institute; Olha Pryymak, Artist, Royal College of Art London.
Chair: Jennifer Jackson-Preece, Associate Professor in Nationalism, LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute.
Venue: Online and in-person public event (MAR.2.07, Marshall Building)
Turkey’s Economic Problems and Solutions: A small open economy approach
Friday 2 June, 6.00pm to 7.30pm BST
Speaker: Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan, Neil Moskowitz Endowed Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
Chair: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor of European Politics and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE European Institute
Hosted by the LSE European Institute, LSE Systemic Risk Centre and LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies
Venue: Online
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A Decolonial Moment in European & EU Studies
Wednesday 31 May, 10:00am to 5:00pm BST
Keynote Speaker: Gurminder K Bhambra, Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies at the University of Sussex.
Speakers: Diamond Ashiagbor, Peo Hansen, Jan Orbie, Eva Połońska-Kimunguyi, Olivia Rutazibwa, Iyiola Solanke, Wendy Willems.
Chairs: Chris Anderson, Sonya Onwu, Eva Połońska-Kimunguyi.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute as part of the .
Venue: MAR.1.08, Marshall Building, LSE and Online
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Growing Apart: cities, nations and the future of Europe
Tuesday 23 May, 6.30pm to 8.00pm BST
Speakers: Aziza Akhmouch, Head of Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division, OECD; Neil Lee, Professor of Economic Geography, LSE; Ben Rogers, Bloomberg Distinguished Fellow in Government Innovation, LSE Cities
Chair: Simon Glendinning, Head of the European Institute and Professor in European Philosophy, LSE
Hosted by LSE Cities and the LSE European Institute
Venue: Online and in-person (MAR1.08, Marshall Building, LSE)
Maurice Fraser Annual Lecture | Ukraine, Europe and the Return of Geopolitics
Wednesday 17 May, 6.30pm to 8.00pm BST
Speaker: Klaus Welle, Former Secretary General, European Parliament (2009-2022)
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Professorial Research Fellow and Director of the Hellenic Observatory, LSE European Institute
Hosted by the LSE European Institute.
Venue: Online and in-person (Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building LSE).
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The Conflict, Justice and Peace Platform Annual Lecture | Nationalism and the return of geopolitics
Tuesday 21 March, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMT
Speakers: Lars-Erik Cederman, Professor, ETH Zurich; Anna Getmansky, Associate Professor, International Relations, LSE.
Chair:Denisa Kostovicova, Associate Professor at the European Institute LSE.
Hosted by the Conflict Justice and Peace Platform, LSE Department of International Relations, LSE Department of Government, LSE Department of International Development, and LSE European Institute.
Venue: Online and in-Person (Auditorium, Centre Building LSE).
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Celebrating Women in Science and Technology
Thursday 9 March, 6:30pm to 8:00pm GMT
Speakers: Melis Duyar, Senior Lecturer, University of Surrey; Özge Eyice, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London;Zeynep Kalender Atak, Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca; Zeynep Okray, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, University of Oxford;Emine Yılmaz, Professor, University College London.
Chair: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor and Chair, Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE.
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute.
Hosted as part of the programme for Turkish Week: 100 Years of the Republic.
Venue: Online and in-person public event (Thai Theatre, New Academic Building).
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100 years of the Republic of Türkiye: Changing Ideas of Modernity
Wednesday 8 March, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMT
Speakers: Faruk Birtek, Emeritus Professor, Boğaziçi University; Şuhnaz Yılmaz, Professor, Koç University; Laurent Mignon, Professor, University of Oxford; Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor and Chair, LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies.
Chair: Jonathan Hopkin, Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Government
Hosted by the Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute.
Hosted as part of the programme for Turkish Week: 100 Years of the Republic.
Venue: Online and in-Person (Auditorium, Centre Building LSE).
Cities in the Aftermath of the Earthquakes: Experiences, Needs and Possible Futures in Turkey
Wednesday 8 March, 12:30pm to 2:00pm GMT
Speakers: Mehmet Nuri Gültekin, Professor of Sociology, Gaziantep University; Mehmet Karlı, Research Fellow, European Studies Centre of the University of Oxford; Nilüfer Numanoğlu Atalay, Co-Founder and Trustee, Turkey Mozaik Foundation; Richard Sennett,Professor, LSE Department of Sociology.
Chair: Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor and Chair, Contemporary Turkish Studies at LSE.
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute
Hosted as part of the programme for Turkish Week: 100 Years of the Republic.
Venue: Online and in-Person (Auditorium, Centre Building LSE).
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Meritocracy, Growth, and Lessons from Italy's Economic Decline
Wednesday 1 March, 6:30pm to 8:00pm GMT
Speakers: Lorenzo Codogno, Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE European Institute; Giampaolo Galli, Italian Economist and Politician; Angelo Martelli, Assistant Professor, LSE European Institute; Alberto Mingardi, Director General of Istituto Bruno Leoni; Leila Talani, Professor of International Political Economy, King's College London.
Chair: Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow, LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute.
Venue: Online and in-person public event (LSE Lecture Theatre, Centre building).
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Emerging Europe's chronic distrust: Lessons from the region's COVID puzzle
Thursday 16 February, 6:30pm to 8:00pm GMT
Speakers: Christopher Dann, PhD student, Stanford University; Joan Costa-i-Font, Professor of Health Economics, Department of Health Policy; Piroska Nagy Mohácsi, Visting Professor in Practice, Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa; Előd Takáts, Visiting Professor in Practice, School of Public Policy.
Chair: Andrés Velasco, Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the School of Public Policy at LSE.
Hosted by the Corvinus University of Budapest, the LSE School of Public Policy and the LSE European Institute.
Venue: In-Person (LSE Lecture Theatre, Centre Building LSE) and Online.
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Inside the Deal: how the EU got Brexit done
Monday 6 February, 6:30pm to 8:00pm GMT
Speakers: Stefaan De Rynck, Senior Adviser to Michel Barnier, European Union's Chief Negotiator for Brexit; Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Adviser, Centre for Economics and Business Research.
Chair: Tony Travers, Associate Dean, LSE School of Public Policy.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and the LSE School of Public Policy.
Venue: Online and in-Person (Old theatre, Old Building LSE).
Global Trade Policy Challenges: preparing for the next decade
Wednesday 1 February, 6.30pm to 8.00pm GMT
Speakers: Ignacio Garcia Bercero, Director in DG Trade of the European Commission; Iana Dreyer, Founder and Editor of Borderlex.eu; Crawford Falconer, Second Permanent Secretary, Department for International Trade; Han-Koo Yeo, former Minister for Trade, Republic of Korea; Geoffery Yu, Senior EMEA Market Strategist at BNY Mellon; John Alty, Visiting Professor, LSE European Institute.
Chair: Robert Basedow, Assistant Professor, LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute.
Venue: Online and in-Person (Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE)
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Europe's Coming of Age
Thursday 26 January, 6:30pm to 8:00pm GMT
Speakers: Loukas Tsoukalis, Emeritus Professor, University of Athens; Helen Wallace, Fellow, British Academy
Chair: Kevin Featherstone, Professor in European Politics, European Institute
Hosted by the LSE European Institute.
Venue: Online and in-Person (MAR.1.04, Marshall Building LSE).
Changing Borders after Ukraine: the justice and utility of secession
Thursday 26 January, 1.00pm to 2.15pm GMT
Speakers: Timothy William Waters, Professor, Indiana University Maurer School of Law.
Chair: Denisa Kostovicova, Associate Professor in Global Politics, LSE.
Venue: In person (CBG.1.06, Centre Building, LSE).
Hosted by the LSE South East Europe Research Unit and the LSE European Institute.
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Growth for Good: reshaping capitalism to save humanity from climate catastrophe
Tuesday 17 January, 6:30pm to 8:00pm GMT
Speakers: Alessio Terzi, Lecturer, HEC Paris and Sciences; Anna Valero, Senior Policy Fellow at LSE's Centre for Economic Performance.
Chair: Angelo Martelli, Assistant Professor, LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and the LSE School of Public Policy.
Venue: Online and in-Person (Auditorium, Centre Building LSE)
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Digital Trade Integration: A new global dataset for 21st century trade policy
Monday 14 November, 6:30pm to 8:00pm GMT
Speakers: Sabina Ciofu, Associate Director (International) at techUK; Martina Ferracane, Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute; Graham Floater, Director for trade policy at the Department for International Trade, Sam Lowe, Partner at Flint Global.
Chair: Robert Basedow, Assistant Professor for International Political Economy at the European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and CIVICA.
Venue: Online and In-Person.
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European Remembrance
Tuesday 8 November, 6:30pm to 8:00pm GMT
Speakers: Dr Paris Chronakis, Lecturer in Modern Greek History, Royal Holloway, University of London; Professor Meena Dhanda, Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Politics, University of Wolverhampton; Professor James Mark, Department of History, University of Exeter.
Chair: Professor Simon Glendinning, Professor in European Philosophy and Head of the LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute as part of the LSE European Institute Series: 'Beyond Eurocentrism’.
Venue: Online and In-Person.
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The Early History of Humanity: We Have Never Been Stupid (Until Now?)
Wednesday 2 November, 6:00pm to 7:00pm GMT
Speaker: Professor David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology, UCL.
Chair: Professor Simon Glendinning, Professor in European Philosophy and Head of the LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute as part of the LSE European Institute Series: 'Beyond Eurocentrism’.
Venue: Online and In-Person.
Foreign States in Domestic Markets
Monday 24 October, 6:30pm to 8:00pm BST
Speakers: John Alty, Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE European Institute; Dr Robert Basedow, Assistant Professor, LSE European Institute; Adrienne Klasa, Asset Management Reporter, Financial Times; Professor Mark Thatcher, Professor of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, Luiss University, Rome; Dr Tim Vlandas, Associate Professor of Comparative Social Policy, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford.
Chair: Dr Xinchuchu Gao, Fellow in European Political Economy, LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute.
Venue: Online and In-Person.
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Archaeology and Soft Power: Cultural Diplomacy between Türkiye and the UK
Tuesday 18 October, 6:00pm to 7:30pm BST
Speakers: Professor Stephen Mitchell, Emeritus Professor of classics and ancient history, University of Exeter; Sir David Logan, British Ambassador to Turkey from 1997-2001; Professor Tuna Şare Ağtürk, Marie Curie Research Fellow, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford and Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University.
Chair: Professor Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE European Institute.
Hosted by LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE European Institute and the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara.
Venue: Online and In-Person.
The in-person event will be followed by a reception.
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Ideas and European Education Policy: Constructing the Europe of Knowledge
Tuesday 11 October, 6:30pm to 8:00pm BST
Speaker: Dr Marina Cino Pagliarello, Visiting Fellow, LSE European Institute.
Discussant: Professor Michelle Cini, Professor of European Politics, University of Bristol.
Chair: Dr Mareike Kleine, Associate Professor in EU and International Politics European Institute, LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute.
Venue: Online and In-Person.
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From Annexation to War: Russia's Aggression in Ukraine
Monday 3 October, 6:30pm to 8:00pm BST
Speakers: Dr Rory Finnin, UniversityAssociate Professor of Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge; Dr Olesya Khromeychuk,Director of the Ukrainian Institute in London; Dr Ellie Knott, Assistant Professor in Qualitative Methods, Department of Methodology, LSE.
Chair: Dr Denisa Kostovicova, Associate Professor in Global Politics, LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the Department of Methodology and LSE European Institute.
Venue: Online and In-Person.
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Europe At Risk? Democracy and Peace in a Global and Changing Europe
Thursday 8 September, 6:30pm to 8:30pm (CEST)
The Europe Salon, Sofitel Brussels Europe, Brussels, Belgium
Speakers: Marta Lorimer, Fellow in European Politics at the European Institute, LSE, Niclas Poitiers, Research Fellow at Bruegel, and Borja Guijarro Usobiaga, Security & Defence - Strategic Communications at European External Action Service.
Chair: Chris Anderson, Ralf Dahrendorf Professor of European Politics and Society, LSE European Institute.
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Ukraine's Wartime Economy and Financial Challenges
Monday 27 June, 1:05pm to 2pm BST
Speaker: Valeria Gontareva, Former Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine and Visiting Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy at LSE.
Chair: Professor Andres Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Hosted by the LSE School of Public Policy and the European Institute.
Venue: LSE campus.
Competition Policy in Europe After the COVID-19 Crisis
Thursday 16 June 2022, 1pm to 2pm BST
Speakers: Roberto Alimonti, expert in competition economics with over 10 years of professional experience; Natura Gracia, partner in the Linklaters Antitrust & Foreign Investment group, qualified in Spain and England and Wales; Ruben Maximiano, Regional Manager and Senior Competition Expert at the OECD in Paris.
Chair: Dr Angelo Martelli, Assistant Professor in European and International Political Economy at the LSE European Institute.
Hosted by LSE Festival: How Do We Get to a Post-COVID World and the European Institute.
Venue: Online and In-Person.
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70 Years in NATO: Turkey's partnership with the western alliance since 1952
Wednesday 8 June 2022, 5:30pm to 7pm BST
Speakers: Professor Oya Dursun-Özkanca, Endowed Chair of International Studies and Professor of Political Science at Elizabethtown College, USA; Colonel Rich Outzen, Geopolitical Consultant and Retired Colonel who served in the US State Department’s Policy Planning Staff; Professor Gencer Özcan, Professor of International Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University.Chair: Professor Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the LSE European Institute.
Hosted by Contemporary Turkish Studies and the European Institute.
Venue: Online.
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Criminalizing the Buying of Sex? Experiences from the Nordic Countries
Tuesday 24 May 2022, 6pm to 7.30pm BST
Speakers: Anna Błuś, Researcher on Western Europe and Women’s Rights at Amnesty International’s Europe Regional Office; Julian Curico, a Swedish current full service sex worker and the chair of Red Umbrella Sweden; Suzanne Hoff, International Coordinator of La Strada International; Elene Lam, an activist, community organizer, educator, and human rights defender; Charlotte Lee and Niki Adams, spokeswomen for the English Collective of Prostitutes; Dr Niina Vuolajärvi, Assistant Professor in International Migration at the LSE European Institute.Chair: Dr Oula Kadhum, LSE Fellow in International Migration at the European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute.
Venue: Online.
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The Criminalisation of Irregular Migration in Europe
Tuesday 17 May 2022, 5pm to 6pm BST
Speakers: Dr Matilde Rosina, Fellow in International Migration, LSE European Institute.Discussant: Dr Natascha Zaun, Assistant Professor in Migration Studies, LSE European Institute.
Chair: Dr Eiko Thielemann, Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy at the LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute.
Venue: Online.
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The French Presidential Elections of 2022: what they mean for France and for Europe
Tuesday 29 March 2022, 6pm to 7:30pm BST
Speakers: Dr Marta Lorimer, Fellow in European Politics, LSE European Institute; Professor Rainbow Murray, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London; Christine Ockrent, journalist and former chief operating officer of France 24 and RFI.Chair: Professor Chris Anderson, Professor in European Politics and Policy at the LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute.
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What Europe? Continuity and Change in Public Opinion About European integration
Tuesday 15 March 2022, 4.30pm to 6pm GMT
Speakers: Professor Sara Hobolt, Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and professor in the Department of Government; Professor Liesbet Hooghe, W.R Kenan Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Research Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence; Professor Lauren McLaren, Professor of Politics at the University of Leicester.
Chair: Professor Chris Anderson, Chris Anderson is Professor in European Politics and Policy and the LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute, as part of the LSE European Institute's 30th Anniversary Celebrations.
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Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Fairness and Democracy
Thursday 10 March 2022, 6:15pm to 7:45pm GMT
Speakers: Richard Bellamy, Professor of Political Science, UCL Dept of Political Science; Marta Lorimer, Fellow in European Politics, LSE European Institute; Oliver Gerstenberg, Senior Lecturer, UCL Laws; Charles Grant, Director, Centre for European Reform; Sean Hanley, Associate Professor in Comparative Central and East European Politics, UCL SSEES; Waltraud Schelkle, Professor in Political Economy, LSE European Institute; Stella Ladi, Reader in PublicManagement, Queen Mary University of London (TBC)
Chair: Claudia Sternberg, Head of Academic Programmes, UCL European Institute
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and UCL European Institute.
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A Hamilton moment for Europe? Demystifying the Next Generation EU and the EU Recovery Funds
Wednesday 09 March 2022, 6:30pm to 8pm GMT
Speakers: Professor Anthony Bartzokas, Visiting Professor in Practice at the LSE Hellenic Observatory and former EBRD Board Director for Greece; Dr Frank Neffke, Former Research Director of the Growth Lab at Harvard's Center for International Development; Vedrana Jelusic Kasic, Member of the Management Board of Privredna banka Zagreb; Ines Rocha, EBRD’s Managing Director of Impact & Partnerships.
Chair: Dr Corrado Macchiarelli, Visiting Fellow in European Political Economy at the LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute.
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Freedom in Transition
Monday 7 March 2022, 5pm to 6pm GMT
Speakers: Professor Lea Ypi. Professor in Political Theory in the Government Department, LSE.
Chair: Dr Abby Innes, Associate Professor of Political Economy in the European Institute at the LSE.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute.
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One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage
Wednesday 02 March 2022, 5pm to 6pm GMT
Speaker: Michael Crick, journalist and author of One Party After Another: The Disruptive Life of Nigel Farage.
Chair: Professor Tony Travers, Associate Dean of the LSE School of Public Policy.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute, School of Public Policy, and Library.
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In Conversation with Nadia Calviño Santamaría
Thursday 17 February 2022, 3pm to 4pm GMT
Speaker: Nadia Calviño Santamaría, First Vice-President of the Government of Spain and Minister for the Economy and Digital Transformation.
Discussant: Professor Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science.Chair: Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Princesa de Asturias Chair and a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Geography and Environment.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and the Cañada Blanch Centre.
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30 Years of EU Migration and Asylum Policies: success or failure?
Monday 14 February 2022, 5:30 to 7pm GMT
Speakers: Sophie Magennis, Head of Policy and Legal Support at UNHCR Representation for EU Affairs; Professor Florian Trauner, Jean Monnet Chair at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB); Dr Natascha Zaun, Assistant Professor in Migration Studies at the European Institute at LSE.
Chair: Dr Eiko Thielemann, Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy in the Department of Government and the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute, as part of the LSE European Institute's 30th Anniversary Celebrations.
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UK-Turkey Trade Partnership Post-Brexit: Limits and Prospects
Wednesday 9 February 2022, 3.30 to 5pm GMT
Speakers: Dr Pınar Artıran, Assistant Professor, WTO Chair Holder and the Director of the Research Center on International Trade and Arbitration Law at Istanbul Bilgi University; Christopher Gaunt OBE, Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce Turkey; Lord Robin Janvrin, Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Turkey from 2015-2021; Dr Mustafa Kutlay, Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at City, University of London.
Chair: Professor Yaprak Gürsoy, Professor and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies.
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Autumn Term
Europe: A Philosophical History
Wednesday 17 November 2021, 4pm to 5.30pm
Speaker: Professor Simon Glendinning is Head of the LSE European Institute and Professor in European Philosophy.
Chair: Dr Cristóbal Garibay-Petersen, Fellow in European Philosophy in the European Institute at LSE.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute.
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Queering Europe: nationalism and sexuality
Thursday 11 November 2021, 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Speakers: Professor Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University; Abeera Khan, Fellow in Gender and Culture at the Department of Sociology, LSE; Professor Richard Mole, Professor of Political Sociology at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies; Dr Alyosxa Tudor, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London
Chair: Dr Jacob Breslow, Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality in LSE's Department of Gender Studies.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute and Department of Gender Studies, and part of the LSE European Institute Series: 'Beyond Eurocentrism’.
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Maastricht 30 years on – lessons learnt?
Wednesday 10 November 2021, 5:30pm to 7pm
Speakers: Professor Kevin Featherstone, Professor in European Politics at the LSE European Institute; Professor N. Piers Ludlow, Head of the LSE Department of International History; Professor Dame Helen Wallace, previously Centennial Professor at the LSE European Institute.
Chair: Professor Yaprak Gürsoy, Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute, as part of the LSE European Institute's 30th Anniversary Celebrations.
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Maurice Fraser Memorial Lecture - Britain, Europe and America: lessons from the recent past and prospects for the near future
Monday 25 October 2021, 5:30pm to 6:45pm
Speakers:Lord Kim Darroch, former British Ambassador to the United States (2016-2019) and Security Adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron (2012-2015).
Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor in Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor in European Politics in the European Institute at LSE.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute, as part of the LSE European Institute's 30th Anniversary Celebrations.
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Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi: Forgotten Father of Europe
Thursday 21 October 2021, 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Speaker: Martyn Bond, former European civil servant and BBC foreign correspondent.
Discussant: Claudia Hamill, former Visiting Fellow at University of Maastricht.
Chair: Professor Simon Glendinning, Professor in European Philosophy and Head of the LSE European Institute.
This event will explore the book, Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard: Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and his Vision of Europe, written by Martyn Bond, and researched and edited by Claudia Hamill.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute, as part of the LSE European Institute's 30th Anniversary Celebrations.
The Euro@30: has the common currency finally grown up?
Wednesday 06 October 2021, 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Speakers: Professor Paul De Grauwe, John Paulson Chair in European Political Economy at the LSE European Institute; Professor Waltraud Schelkle, Professor in Political Economy at the LSE European Institute, Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times.
Chair: Dr Angelo Martelli, Assistant Professor in European and International Political Economy at the LSE European Institute.
Hosted by the LSE European Institute, as part of the LSE European Institute's 30th Anniversary Celebrations.
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My Secret Brexit Diary
Monday 27 September 2021, 5:30pm to 6:45pm
Speaker: Michel Barnier, European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2021.
Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor in Contemporary Greek Studies, Professor in European Politics and Director of the Hellenic Observatory at LSE.
Introductory and closing remarks: Baroness Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Hosted by LSE European Institute and School of Public Policy.
*Part of the LSE Programme: Brexit and Beyond*
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Germany After Merkel: end of an era or more of the same?
Thursday 23 September 2021, 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Speakers: Dr Ulrike Franke, senior policy fellow at ECFR; Dr Christian Odendahl, chief economist at the Centre for European Reform, Mujtaba Rahman, Managing Director, Europe, at the Eurasia Group; Dr Daniela Schwarzer, Executive Director for Europe and Eurasia at the Open Society Foundations.Chair: Professor Waltraud Schelkle, Professor in Political Economy at the European Institute and an Adjunct Professor (Privatdozentin) of Economics at the Economics Department of the Free University of Berlin.
Hosted by LSE European Institute.
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