In conversation with Reni Eddo-Lodge
Speaker
Chair
Join us this Black History Month for a thought-provoking conversation between acclaimed author and broadcaster Reni Eddo-Lodge and LSE President Larry Kramer. This special event will explore questions of race, identity, history and society, and consider how the legacies of the past continue to shape the world we live in today.
Reni Eddo-Lodge, author of the bestselling Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, will share her perspectives on race and representation. The conversation promises to be an engaging and illuminating opportunity to listen, question and reflect. All are warmly invited to join us for this special Black History Month event.
Meet our speaker and chair
Reni Eddo-Lodge is a journalist, author, and podcaster. Her debut nonfiction book, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, was published in June 2017 to critical acclaim and spent more than 52 weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller list. In 2020, she made history by becoming the first Black British author to have written the number one selling book in the UK book charts.
A Sunday Times, New York Times and Der Spiegel bestseller, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race won the 2018 Jhalak Prize, the 2018 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing, and a 2018 British Book Award for Narrative Non-Fiction. A 2018 public poll by Academic Book Week named it the most influential book written by a woman. Her podcast, About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge, premiered in March 2018 and was chosen as one of the best podcasts of the year by Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Harper’s Bazaar UK, The Guardian, British GQ, and Wired UK.
In December 2024, Reni launched Monument Books, a publishing imprint in collaboration with HarperCollins’ 4th Estate, with the mission to publish revelatory, original, and agenda-setting writing. As Editor-at-large, she shapes the vision of the imprint, curating works that explore historical, present-day, and future issues; champion distinctive writers; and foster storytelling that informs, inspires, and challenges. The imprint releases three titles per year spanning non-fiction, as well as select fiction and classics.
Larry Kramer has been President and Vice Chancellor of LSE since April 2024. A constitutional scholar, university administrator, and philanthropic leader, he was previously the President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Dean of Stanford Law School.
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This event celebrates Black History Month and is hosted in partnership with the London School of Economics Students' Union. The event is organised in partnership with the International Inequalities Institute and the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity.
This event is supported by the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Division at LSE.
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