Public events
2011 Summer of Disorder: reading the English riots ten years after
Tuesday 30 March 2021, 5:00-6:20pm GMT
Speaker: Tim Newburn, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy
Chair: John Sidel, Sir Patrick Gillam Chair in International and Comparative Politics
This online event was live streamed on the LSE Government YouTube channel.
How much danger is American democracy in?
11 February 2021
Speaker: Brian Klaas, Associate Professor of Global Politics, UCL
Chair: Bill Kissane, Associate Professor (Reader) in Politics, Department of Government, LSE
New insights on where and why journalists are killed outside major wars
16 November 2017
Speaker: Sabine Carey, Professor of Political Science, University of Mannheim
Chair: Dr Livia Schubiger, Assistant professor in Comparative Politics, Department of Government, LSE
Nations Torn Asunder
23 February 2017
Speakers: Dr Bill Kissane (LSE Government) and Anthony Loyd (Journalist)
Chair: Dr Denisa Kostovicova
Bill Kissane discussed his book ‘Nations Torn Asunder: the Challenge of Civil War’ (OUP 2016) along with Anthony Loyd and Denisa Kostovicova as part of the LSE Literary Festival which is held every year.
Listen to the podcast of this event
How Has Violent Political Conflict Changed Over the Last Two Centuries?
Thursday 19 May 2016
Speaker: Prof. Stathis N. Kalyvas, Yale
Chair: Dr Kieran Mitton, Department of War Studies, KCL
Rape as a Practice of War: Towards a Typology of Political Violence
19 May 2016
Speaker: Prof. Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale
Discussant: Dr Kieran Mitton, Department of War Studies, KCL
Chair: Dr des. Livia Schubiger, Department of Government, LSE
Lunchtime seminars
15 March 2018
Dr Milli Lake, Assistant Professor, LSE International Relations Department
Everyday War: Monopolizing Violence in Low Intensity Armed Conflicts
14 March 2018
Dr. Anita Gohdes, Assistant Professor, University of Zurich
Women Combatants and the Politics of Sex-Selective Repression in the Syrian Conflict
1 March 2018
Dr. Nils-Christian Bormann, Assistant Professor, University of Exeter
Globalization, Institutions and Ethnic Inequality (with Lars-Erik Cederman, Yannick Pengl, and Nils Weidmann)
8 February 2018
Sophie Haspeslagh, PhD candidate at the International Relations Department, LSE
Getting to Havana: Impact of Proscription on Peace Negotiations between the Colombian Government and the FARC
25 January 2018
Denisa Kostovicova, Department of Government, LSE and Tom Paskhalis, Department of Methodology, LSE
Gender, Justice and Deliberation: Women’s Voice in Post-Conflict Reconciliation
30 November 2017
Kenneth Morrison, Professor of Modern Southeast European History, De Montfort University
The War Hotel as a Political and Geopolitical Space
16 November 2017
Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, PhD candidate in Demography, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
We need more children: pronatalism as a response to genocidal violence
12 October 2017
Dr. Jelke Boesten, Reader in Emerging Economies and International Development, Department of International Development, King’s College London
Peace for whom? Legacies of gender based violence in Peru
21 October 2015
Nicolas Lemay-Hebert, University of Birmingham
1 November 2015
John Gledhill, Oxford University
18 November 2015
Jana Krause, King’s College London
2 December 2015
Kieran Mitton, King’s College London
3 February 2016
Rebecca Bryant, London School of Economics
17 February 2016
Nils Metternich, University College London
2 March 2016
Govinda Clayton, University of Kent
16 March 2016
Helen Walasek, author of 'Bosnia and the Destruction of Cultural Heritage' and formerly of the Bosnian Institute, London and Deputy-Director of Bosnia-Herzegovina Heritage Rescue.