Mannheim PhD Symposium 2026
The LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology is pleased to announce the inaugural PhD Symposium on May 18th-19th, 2026 in the Old Building’s Vera Anstey Room.
The Centre will host, at the LSE’s campus, ten PhD students for two days of vibrant interdisciplinary discussion about their research in the company of fellow students, LSE faculty, and the Mannheim Centre community.
Programme
| Time | Day 1: Monday, 18th May 2026 | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Johann Koehler | Welcome remarks, coffee and pastries | |
| 10:30-11:30 | Session 1: Lewis Ross | Paper 1 | Pascual Cortés (LSE) ‘Order and fatherland’: Police identity and nation-state formation in Chile |
| 11:30-12:30 | Paper 2 | Hannah Shackleton (Leeds) The rise of CFO activity hubs: Historical roots and contemporary responses to probation’s crisis | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Staff Dining Room Lunch | ||
| 13:30-14:30 | Session 2: Richard Martin | Paper 3 | Maëlle Stricot (Paris School of Economics) Breaking news: How media coverage shapes judicial responses to violence against women |
| 14:30-15:30 | Paper 4 | Tirza Sey (Warwick) Changing faces of policing: Austerity, Brexit, and the symbolic function of the police in shaping social identity | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee and tea | ||
| 16:00-17:00 | Session 3: Sinja Graf | Paper 5 | Lilli Wolland Blomberg (Edinburgh) Red Cross nurses sentenced to Bredtveit Women’s Prison: An interdisciplinary study from Norway’s post-war reckoning |
| 17:00-18:00 | Paper 6 | Yara Shahine Gharablé (Oxford) The politics of crime and the criminalisation of grief: Governing the ‘Inner Palestinian’ in contemporary Israel | |
| 18:00-19:00 | Pub drinks | ||
| 19:00-20:30 | Dinner |
| Time | Day 2: Tuesday, 19th May 2026 | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee and pastries | ||
| 10:30-11:30 | Session 4: SM Rodriguez | Paper 7 | Dina Kolliakou Ginzburg (Liverpool) ‘Life isn’t fair, get over it’: A critical evaluation of the stoicism program at HMP Persephone |
| 11:30-12:30 | Paper 8 | Ramon Olads da Cruz Almeida (Brighton) Queering the Brazilian legal system: The limits of the law | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Staff Dining Room Lunch | ||
| 13:30-14:30 | Session 5: Federico Picinali | Paper 9 | Preeti Pratishruti Dash (Cambridge) When protection becomes punishment: Liberal human rights and carceral logic in Indian child protection law |
| 14:30-15:30 | Paper 10 | Emma Louise Blondes (LSE) Managing ambiguity: How French prosecutors construct credible organised crime narratives before trial | |
| 15:30-15:45 | Johann Koehler | Closing remarks | |
| 16:00-17:30 | Mannheim Annual Lecture 2026 Aristotle’s Prison by Alison Liebling Discussant: Niki Lacey | ||
| 17:30-18:30 | Drinks Reception | ||
| 18:30-20:30 | Dinner |