2025/26
Monday 27 October | Tales of Two Cities: Prodemocracy Protests and Beijing’s Lengthening Shadow in Bangkok and Hong Kong, 2015-2025 (cohosted with the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (SEAC))
Speakers: Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine) and Wichuta Teeratanabodee (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge)
Thursday 13 November | Collateral Damage: Lessons on Central Banking and Democracy from the Truss Premiership
Speaker: Professor David Woodruff (LSE)
Thursday 4 December | Dynasties, Oligarchies, Cartels: Barriers to Democratic Competition in Southeast Asia (cohosted Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (SEAC))
Professor Dan Slater (University of Michigan)
Thursday 5 February | Ethnic Enclaves and Entrenchment: City Politics and Democratic Control
Speaker: Dr Sherril Stroschein (UCL)
Thursday 12 March | Book Launch for 'Nationalism and the Transformation of the State: Border Change and Political Violence in the Modern World,’ by Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, Carl Müller-Crepon, and Yannick Pengl
Speakers: Carl Muller-Crepon with co-authors Lars-Erik Cederman, Yannick Pengl, Luc Girardin
2023/24
Thursday 5 October 2023 | Diminishing Returns? A Debate on the Growth Model Theory of Political Economy
Lucio Baccaro (Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies), Mark Blyth (Brown University), Jonas Pontusson (Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Geneva), Natalya Naqvi (Assistant Professor of International Political Economy, LSE), Pavithra Suryanarayan (Assistant Professor, LSE), Victoria Paniagua (Assistant Professor in International Political Economy, LSE)
Postponed | Welfare preferences of labour market insiders and outsiders in the Global South: evidence from Egypt
Thoraya El-Rayyes (Visiting Fellow, LSE)
Thursday 9 November 2023 | How does market power affect political contestation in advanced democracies?
Tommaso Crescioli (PhD Candidate, LSE) and Toon van Overbeek ( Assistant Professor in Europe, Climate and Digital Society, Maastricht University and Visiting Fellow, LSE)
Thursday 23 November 2023 | Legibility as Commitment: Land Record Digitization and Conflict Over Infrastructure in India
Aliz Toth (Assistant Professor of Political Science, LSE)
Thursday 25 January 2024 | Being Seen by the State: Programmatic Cash Transfers and Women’s Political Participation in Pakistan
Rehan Jamil (LSE Fellow in Public Policy and Administration, LSE)
Thursday 1 February 2024 | Populism and Bond Markets (topic tbc)
Alison Johnston (Associate Professor in Political Science, Oregan State University)
Thursday 15 February 2024 | Border Economies and Political Sovereignty
Victoria Hattam (Professor of Politics, The New York School for Social Research)
Thursday 7 March 2024 | Defending parliament: responses of mainstream parties to parliamentary erosion
Isabela Mares (Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and Director of the European Union Center, Yale)
Tuesday 26 March 2024 | Reimagining Property Rights
Margaret Levi (Professor of Political Science, Stanford), co-hosted with Political Science and Political Economy, 2.00pm to 3.30pm, SAL.3.05
2022/23
Thursday 13 October 2022 | Charismatic Leaders and Nation-building
Lydia Assouad (LSE)
Thursday 20 October 2022 | Electoral Change, Occupational Coalitions, and the Prospects for Mainstream and Challenger Parties in Western Democracies
Peter Hall (Harvard)
Thursday 17 November 2022 | Members of the Same Club?: Subnational Variations in Electoral Returns to Public Goods
Tugba Bozcaga (KCL)
Thursday 1 December 2022 | Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality and Resistance in Myanmar
Gerard McCarthy (National University of Singapore)
Thursday 19 January 2023 | With a Whimper or with a Bang? Dynamic Intensity in Civil Wars
Stathis Kalyvas (Oxford)
Thursday 2 February 2023 | Patchwork States: Historical Roots of Subnational Conflict and Competition in South Asia
Dann Naseemullah (KCL)
Thursday 9 March 2023 | Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy
Ana Catalano Weeks (University of Bath)
Thursday 23 March 2023 | Indentured Migration, Caste and Electoral Competition in Colonial India
Pavi Suryanarayan (LSE)