Events Calendar

Department of Social Policy Annual Lecture

Reconceptualising African migrations towards decolonial futures

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 6.30pm-8.00pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building

This Lecture challenges the persistence of coloniality in policy making on intra-Africa migration. 

Drawing on the now extensive critique of the hegemony of coloniality/Euro-American modernity in the production of international migration/refugee regimes and policies, the Lecture discusses how global policy making contributes to the dehumanisation, protracted displacement, enslavement, and deaths of Africans who move, and asks why should African mobility be a problem at home and abroad and what are the alternatives for decolonial/rehumanising futures.

Speaker: Professor Patricia Daley (University of Oxford)
Chair: Professor Coretta Phillips (LSE)

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Book Talk: The No Club

Friday 01 November 2024 7.00pm to 8.30pm, The Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building

Hosted by The Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub (WISPPRH)

Attend a transformative event designed to empower your career trajectory and impact organizational leadership. Learn to navigate and mitigate the assignment of low-impact tasks that can stunt professional growth, particularly for women.

Speaker: Professor Lise Versterlund (University of Pittsburgh)
Discussant: Dr Margaux Suteau (LSE)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (LSE)

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An International Perspective on the Emotive-Cognitive Process of Judicial Decision-Making

Wednesday 13 Nov 2024, 5.00pm-6.30pm, MAR 1.08

Mannheim Centre Seminar

Speaker: Prof Stina Bergman Blix (Uppsala University)
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler (LSE) 

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Aid’s Impact on Social Protection in the Global South

Thursday 14 November 2024, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in person and online (OLD 2.21)

International Social and Public Policy seminar

Presenter: Dr Miguel Niño-Zarazúa (SOAS, University of London) 
Chair: Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey (LSE)

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Is Financial Literacy Good for Pension Fund Members’ Choices?

Thursday 21 November 2024, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in person and online (OLD 2.21)

International Social and Public Policy seminar

Presenter: Dr Piera Bello (University of Bergamo)
Chair: Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey (LSE)

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ENOUGH. A talk about a wealth and what it means to turn away from it.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 6.30pm-8.00pm, in person and online public event (MAR 1.10, The Marshall Building)

Hosted by the Department of Social Policy

Over the past 50 years extreme wealth has accelerated. Shareholder primacy, tax avoidance, executive pay and ‘hoover up economics’ have meant that more and more money is in private hands versus government and that that private money is increasingly concentrated amongst a few individuals.

Leading economist Kate Raworth and extreme wealth expert Jake Hayman will be speaking on this critical subject, in a conversation chaired by Dr Sunil Kumar.

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Neighbourhood Migration and the Air Pollution Disadvantage of Immigrant Minorities

Thursday 28 November 2024, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in person and online (OLD 2.21)

International Social and Public Policy seminar

Presenter: Dr Tobias Rüttenauer (University College London)
Chair: Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey LSE)

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How social media facilitates underground economy governance: the case of petty smuggling in Macao SAR, China

Wednesday 4 Dec 2024, 5.00pm-6.30pm, MAR 1.08

Mannheim Centre Seminar

Speaker: Prof Jianhua Xu (University of Macau and Visiting Senior Fellow in the Mannheim Centre)
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler (LSE) 

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Status-Enforcing Criminal Laws

Thursday 5 December 2024, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in person and online (OLD 2.21)

International Social and Public Policy seminar, co-hosted with The Mannheim Centre for Criminology

Presenter: Professor Jamelia Morgan (Northwestern University) 
Chair: Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey (LSE)

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Getting lost in a field: a personal history in behavioural public policy

Monday 09 December 2024 6.30pm to 8.00pm, In-person and online public event (Old Theatre, Old Building)

Hosted by the Department of Social Policy

In his inaugural lecture, Adam Oliver will describe how he became involved in, and has helped contribute towards the development of, the still relatively new field of behavioural public policy (BPP)

Speaker: Professor Adam Oliver (LSE)
Chair: Professor Larry Kramer (LSE)

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Bring Big Brothers Home: How Home Surveillance Cameras Become a Banality in China

Thursday 12 December 2024, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in person and online (OLD 2.21)

International Social and Public Policy seminar, co-hosted with The Mannheim Centre for Criminology

Presenter: Dr Jianhua Xu (University of Macau) 
Chair: Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey (LSE)

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