Events

How propaganda works: from conflict to COVID-19

Wednesday 24 March 2021
Online public event (90 mins)

We are delighted to host a roundtable on the violence of propaganda—its histories and logics. Reflecting on the changing character of propaganda in the twenty-first century, our distinguished experts will explore the uses of disinformation and misinformation in a variety of settings, from conflict to Covid-19. Bringing to bear cutting-edge perspectives from technology, advocacy, and anthropology, the interdisciplinary panel will illuminate the highly policy-relevant question of how propaganda works—and what, if anything, can be done to curb it.

Speakers:

Nicole Yung Au, doctoral candidate and researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute.

Susan Benesch, founder and director of the Dangerous Speech Project. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of International Service at American University and also a Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Richard Ashby Wilson, Gladstein Distinguished Chair of Human Rights and Professor of Law and Anthropology at the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Chair:

Jens Meierhenrich, Director of the Centre for International Studies at LSE.

Moderator:

Helena Ivanov, doctoral candidate in International Relations at LSE.

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How Propaganda Works: from conflict to COVID-19

Neither Settler nor Native: The Violence of the Nation-State

Wednesday 17 March 2021
Online public event via Zoom (90 mins)

Mahmood Mamdani spoke with Elizabeth Frazer about his latest book, Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities. Making the radical argument that the nation-state was born of colonialism, Mamdani calls us to rethink political violence and reimagine political community beyond majorities and minorities. An instant classic of decolonial thought, Neither Settler nor Native is destined to join the ranks of Hannah Arendt’s Imperialism, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, and Edward Said’s Orientalism.

Speaker:

Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University

Discussant:

Elizabeth Frazer, Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford, also an Official Fellow at New College. 

Chair:

Jens Meierhenrich, Director of the Centre for International Studies at LSE.

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Neither Settler Nor Native: the violence of the nation-state

The Hedley Bull Lectures 2019

The Centre for International Studies at LSE is proud to announce a new annual lecture series: The Hedley Bull Lectures.

In 2019 these three lectures took place on 18th, 20th and 22nd November and were given by Professor Stathis Kalyvas, the Gladstone Professor of Government in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford on The Present, Past and Future of Civil War.

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Arguing about immigration

When: Monday 21 October 2019
Where: Sheik Zayed Theatre, NAB, LSE
Speaker: Professor Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University

One of the world's most eminent international theorists delivered a public lecture entitled 'Arguing about Immigration'.

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Arguing about immigration

Book launch: Balancing Power without Weapons

When: Thursday 10 October 2019
Speakers: Dr Ashley Thomas Lenihan, Andrew Rozanov, Bilal Hafeez
Chair: Julius Sen

This event discussesd when and why states block foreign direct investments on the basis of national security, launching Dr Lenihan’s new book on the subject, Balancing Power without Weapons: State Intervention into Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions. The panel discussed the implications for policy, theory, and business.

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Permanent Majorities and Minorities: Decolonisation, Extreme Violence, and the Nation State

When: 20 June 2019, 6.00-8.00pm
Where: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
Speaker: Mahmood Mamdani, Columbia University

Law's Wars: Whither the Rule of Law? 

When: Friday, 3rd May 2019, 4.00-6.00pm
Where: TW1.G01 (PAN G.01)
Speaker: Professor Richard L. Abel, UCLA School of Law

The Secret State: How Secrecy Undermines Democracy and Makes Us Less Safe

When: 29 April 2019, 4.00-6.00pm
Where: NAB.2.04, New Academic Building, LSE
Speaker: Professor Oona A Hathaway, Yale Law School

NATO at 70: A Retrospective

When: 10 April 2019, 5.00-7.00pm
Where: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Speakers: 
Jamie Shea, former Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO
Adrian Kendry, former Senior Defence Economist and Adviser to the Secretary General, NATO
Charlotte Wagnsson, Professor of Political Science, Swedish Defence University
Moderators: Jens Meierhenrich, Tomila Lankina, LSE

Three leading experts debated one of the most controversial international organisations of our time.

Humane: The New Face of War

When: 8 January 2019, 4.00-6.00pm
Where: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Speaker: Professor Samuel Moyn, Yale University

Confronting Global Challenges 2017-2067

We celebrated the 50th anniversary of the LSE Centre for International Studies and the launch of the LSE International Studies Book Series, a joint venture between the CIS and Cambridge University Press. To mark the occasion, the Centre hosted an eminent panel of past and present CIS fellows and faculty to debate the global challenges likely to be faced in the next 50 years.  Speakers included Dr Kirsten Ainley, Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, Professor Barry Buzan, Professor Tomila Lankina, Professor Lutfey Siddiqi and Professor Julian Go.

Friday 8 December 2017, 18.15-20.00, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE

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The Interplay of Markets and Politics

The Systemic Risk Centre and CIS hosted a dialogue with Dr Axel A. Weber, Group Chairman UBS & Former President of the Bundesbank, moderated by Lutfey Siddiqi, Visiting Professor-in-Practice, LSE.

6 September 2017, 12.00 - 13.00, LSE

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Digital Society

Seminar three in the current Series on International and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Evidence-based Policy, hosted by the Academy of Social Sciences, CIS Visiting Professor Linda Hantrais and Visiting Fellow Ashley Lenihan.

This seminar explored how innovation can result from cooperation between researchers and policymakers, with contributors focussing particularly on developments in web science, online technologies, e-governance, e-health and children’s rights.

Convenors: Linda Hantrais FAcSS, International Advisory Group, LSE CIS; Ashley Lenihan, AcSS Senior Policy Adviser, LSE CIS.

18 May 2017, 1.15 - 5.00pm, Academy of Social Sciences, 33 Finsbury Square, London

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Intergenerational Relations in the Context of Changing Family and Household Structures

Seminar two in the current Series on International and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Evidence-based Policy, organised by the Academy’s International Advisory Group, looked at intergenerational relations in the context of changing family and household structures.

This half-day seminar in the new series on evidence-based policy took the form of ‘conversations’ between researchers and policy advisers/users, followed by group discussions. The seminar served as a forum at which participants from different national and disciplinary perspectives discuss and develop ideas for projects and articles in themed issues of journals.

Convenors: Fran Bennett FAcSS, Oxford Institute of Social Policy, University of Oxford; Linda Hantrais FAcSS, LSE Centre for International Studies

22 March 2017, 1.15 - 5.00pm, New Academic Building, Room 2.04

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Omission Accomplished: The Iraq Invasion in American and Japanese Security Narratives

In this public lecture, current CIS Senior Visiting Fellow Marie Thorsten examined the significance of the Iraq invasion in Japanese and American domestic and bilateral security narratives at the start of the new Trump administration.

18 January 2017, 6.30 - 8.00pm, Tower One, Room G.01

Supported by the LSE Department of International Relations.

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Pathways to Sustainability in a Changing Environment

This half-day seminar in the new series on evidence-based policy took the form of ‘conversations’ between researchers and policy advisers/users, followed by group discussions.

The seminar served as a forum at which participants from different national and disciplinary perspectives discuss and develop ideas for projects and articles in themed issues of journals.

Convenors: Dr. Ruth Kattumuri FAcSS, Co-Director of the LSE India Observatory (lead); Professor Linda Hantrais FAcSS, and Dr. Ashley Thomas Lenihan (LSE CIS)

17 January 2017, 1.15 - 5.00pm, Academy of Social Sciences, 33 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1PL

Supported by the CIS and Academy of Social Sciences.

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