Decolonise! A Long Table Seminar Series
Wednesday 12th June
Speaker: Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper (Kings College London)
Rethinking Human Rights: a southern response to western critics
Hosted by LSE Human Rights
Wednesday 22 May
Speaker: Muthoni Wanyeki (Open Society Foundations)
Chair: Dr Bronwen Manby (LSE)
Internationale Blues: revolutionary pessimism and the politics of solidarity
Hosted by LSE Human Rights
Friday 17 May
Speaker: Professor Robin D G Kelley (UCLA)
Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu (LSE)
Raquel Rolnik: Urban Warfare - housing under the empire of finance
Monday 25 March
Speaker: Professor Raquel Rolnik (University of São Paulo)
Discussants: Dr Glyn Robbins (Defend Council Housing) and Dr David Madden (LSE)
Chair: Dr Suzanne Hall (LSE)
Workshop: The Knowledge of Human Rights
Hosted by LSE Human Rights
Friday 22 March
Human Rights Knowledges: a pluralist and legal realist view
Hosted by LSE Human Rights
Thursday 21st March
Speakers: Professor Richard A. Wilson (UConn Law)
Chair: Dr Monika Krause (LSE)
White Screens/Black Images: James Snead and Black America in Film
Tuesday 12 March
Speakers: Professor Colin MacCabe (University of Pittsburgh)
Chair: Dr Clive Nwonka (LSE)
Law in a World of Struggle
Hosted by LSE Human Rights and the Department of Law
Thursday 7 March
Speaker: Professor David Kennedy (Harvard Law School)
Chair: Professor Gerry Simpson (LSE)
Racial Inequality in Britain: the Macpherson Report 20 years on
Thursday 7 February
Speakers: Professor Kalwant Bhopal (University of Birmingham), David Lammy MP (Labour Party), Dr Clive James Nwonka (LSE), Dr Faiza Shaheen (Centre for Labour and Social Studies)
Chair: Dr Coretta Phillips (LSE)
The Class Ceiling: why it pays to be privileged
Hosted with the International Inequalities Institute
Monday 28 January
Speakers: Dr Sam Friedman (LSE), Dr Daniel Laurison (Swarthmore College)
Discussants: Dr Louise Ashley (Royal Holloway),Dr Faiza Shaheen (Centre for Labour and Social Sudies)
Chair: Professor Mike Savage (LSE)
Tabula Rasa Regeneration
Wednesday 23 January
Speakers: Alberto Duman (Middlesex University), Dan Hancox, Malcolm James (University of Sussex), Anna Minton (University of East London)
Chair: Dr David Madden (LSE)
Book launch: Citizenship in Africa: The Law of Belonging
Thursday 15 November
Speaker: Dr Bronwen Manby (LSE)
Respondents: Dr Chaloka Beyani (LSE), Professor Nic Cheeseman (University of Birmingham)
Chair: Professor Chetan Bhatt (LSE)
From "having" to "being": self worth and the current crisis of American society
Annual British Journal of Sociology Lecture
Thursday 25 October
Speakers: Professor Michèle Lamont (Harvard)
Chair: Dr Rebecca Elliott (LSE)
199Z: Diversity Revisited and Fashion at the Saatchi Gallery
Thursday 16 October
Speakers: Dr Anna-Mari Almila (London College of Fashion), Dr Agnes Rocamora (London College of Fashion), Jake Young Shim, Jamall Osterholm, Dr Serkan Delice (London College of Fashion)
Chair: Dr Don Slater (LSE)
Renewing Sociology in the Digital Age
Thursday 11 October
Speakers: Professor Susan Halford (President, British Sociological Association)
Chair: Professor Mike Savage (LSE)
199Z: Diversity Revisited and Fashion at LSE
Monday 8 October
Speakers: Dr Mukulika Banerjee (LSE), Professor Sandy Black (London College of Fashion), Professor Ben Voyer (LSE), Dr Joanne Entwistle (King's College London), Dr Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas (University of the Arts London)
Chair: Dr Don Slater (LSE)
For the Love of Humanity: the World Tribunal on Iraq
Thursday 4 October
Speakers: Dr Ayça Çubukçu (LSE), Professor David Graeber (LSE), Haifa Zangana, Professor Kimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary), Dr Tor Krever (Warwick), and Dr Lori Allen (SOAS)
Chair: Professor Tarak Barkawi (LSE)