Events
Events Calendar 2025-2026
January 2026
Book Launch- Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China
Thursday 22 January 2026, 5:30pm - 7:00pm, in-person public event, Thai Theatre, CKK Building.
Hosted by the LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub
Author: Zhiying Ma, Crown School of Social Work, University of Chicago
This book launch event explores how families have been centrally and controversially involved in psychiatric governance in post-reform China.
Discussant: Yuan Zhang, LSE–Fudan Global Public Policy Hub
Chair: Hans Steinmüller, Department of Anthropology, LSE
Minds that Dare – liberation of thought and expression: The ALM and Academic Freedom
Wednesday 28 January, 6.00pm-7.30pm, in person public event. LSE Lecture Theatre, CBG G.01, Centre Building, followed by a drinks reception.
Co-hosted by the Department of Social Policy and LSE Academic Freedom Network
Paul Frijters is a highly esteemed economist known, particularly, for his work in the field of wellbeing. Having held Professorships at universities across the world (including LSE), he and colleagues recently took the bold step of establishing their own academy in a castle in Belgium: Academia Libera Mentis (ALM). In this talk, Paul will share his experiences in academia that led him to set up ALM, with the ambition of establishing form of rigorous academic education that encourages independent thought fostered by communal living.
How will we know if the AI revolution is happening?
Thursday 29 January 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in-person and online, OLD 2.21.
Department of Social Policy seminar
Presenter: Professor Diana Coyle (University of Cambridge)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Book Launch- The Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction: Stories, Movements & Hope
Friday 30 January 2026, 3pm-5pm, in-person public event. Shaw Library, 6th Floor, OLD Building, followed by a drinks reception.
Hosted by the Mannheim Centre for Criminology
This event will launch the findings of a new book, The Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction: Stories, Movements & Hope (OUP, 2026), that interrogates the past, present and future of the public health approach.
February 2026
Agenda-setting for selective schooling: A Swedish case study on the policy reframing of comprehensive education
Thursday 5 February 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in-person and online, OLD 2.21.
Education Research and Policy Hub Seminar
Presenter: Jonathan Lilliedahl (Linnaeus University)
Chair: Dr Sonia Exley (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
Rainbow Trap: Diversity Policies, LGBTQ Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion
Thursday 12 February 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in-person and online, OLD 2.21.
Global Sexual & Gender Identities Policy Lab Seminar
Presenter: Dr Kevin Guyan (University of Edinburgh)
Chair: Professor Hakan Seckinelgin (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
The Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty in the United States
Thursday 19 February 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in-person and online event, OLD 2.21.
CASE seminar
Presenter: Professor Zach Parolin (University of Oxford)
Chair: Professor Kitty Stewart (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
March 2026
Segregation by the Dispossession of Aspirations: Young Muslim Professionals and the Politics of Othering in Rental Housing Markets, New Delhi, India
Thursday 26 March 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in-person and online event, OLD 2.21.
Department of Social Policy seminar
Presenters: Dr Sunil Kumar (Department of Social Policy, LSE) and Rifan Rahim (Development Practitioner)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
April 2026
Does Speed Improve Justice? Fast-Track Courts and Violence Against Women in India [joint work with Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich]
Thursday 2 April 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in-person and online event, OLD 2.21.
Mannheim Centre for Criminology seminar
Presenter: Dr Nirvikar Jassal (Department of Government, LSE)
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
May 2026
Aristotle’s Prison: A Search for Humanity in Tragic Places
Tuesday 19 May 2026, 4.00pm-5.30pm, in-person public event, Alumni Theatre, CKK Building.
Hosted by the Mannheim Centre for Criminology
The LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology is pleased to host Professor Alison Liebling for the Centre’s inaugural Annual Mannheim Lecture.
In her new book, Aristotle’s Prison: A Search for Humanity in Tragic Places, Alison draws on her professional lifetime’s work researching prisons. She shows how damaging and unsurvivable most prisons are, except in exceptional examples, from which we can learn a great deal.
Speaker: Professor Alison Liebling
Discussant: Professor Nicola Lacey
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler
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