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SRI LANKA: Elections & Political Change

Wednesday | 30 October 2024 | ONLINE

3pm UK / 8.30pm Sri Lanka  

A panel discussion focused on Catch-All Parties and Party-Voter Nexus in Sri Lanka (2022) on elections and change in Sri Lanka, including the recent Presidential elections that brought a non-'dynasty' political party to power, and the forthcoming parliamentary elections in mid-November. 

SPEAKERS: Farzana Haniffa (@FaraFarout) is Professor of Sociology, University of Colombo, and Member, Human Rights Commission, Sri Lanka; Dr Pradeep Peiris (@pnpeiris) is Senior Lecturer in Political Science & Public Policy, University of Colombo, and author of Catch-All Parties and Party-Voter Nexus in Sri Lanka (2022); S. I. Keethaponcalan (@SKeethaponcalan) is Professor of Dispute Analysis & Conflict Resolution, Salisbury University, Maryland, USA, and author of Electoral Politics in Sri Lanka: Presidential Elections, Manipulation and Democracy (2022).   

DISCUSSANT: Dr Alan Keenan (@akeenan23) is Senior Consultant for Sri Lanka, International Crisis Group, London, where he coordinates & contributes to research, advocacy & publications on Sri Lanka.

CO-CHAIRS: Naufel Vilcassim is Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE) & Professor of Marketing in the Department of Management, LSE; Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).

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This event is part of our 'Fact & Fiction' series.

Please e-mail southasiacentre@lse.ac.uk to register free for the event; the livestream link will be sent to all registered attendees on the day of the event.  

NEPAL: Disaster, Labour Justice & Rights   

Wednesday | 13 November 2024 | ONLINE

3pm UK / 8.45pm Nepal

How do global disasters like the Covid-19 pandemic intensify injustices towards historically disadvantaged communities like informal workers and labour migrants? Focusing on Nepal, this panel discussion, drawing on an LSE-AFSEE research project on innovative forms of solidarity and rights-based movements as competing frames to the health security measures introduced by various governments, as newer political strategies are invented to deepen the prospects for just and democratic recovery from the pandemic. 

PROJECT MEMBERS: Narayan Adhikari is Country Director, Accountability Lab Nepal; Kripa Basnyat (@kripa_basnyat) is National Project Officer, 'Empowered Women, Prosperous Nepal' (EWPN), International Labour Organisation, Nepal; Flora Cornish (@FloraCornish) is Professor in Research Methodology, LSE; Dr Nimesh Dhungana (@NimeshDhungana) is Lecturer in Disasters & Global Health, Human Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester, and Lead Investigator in the LSE-AFSEE Project 'Demanding a "Just Recovery" from Below'.   

DISCUSSANTS: Neha Choudhary (@neachoudhary) is a Development Practitioner at the International Labour Organisation in Ethiopia (previously at ILO Nepal) and is particularly interested in labour migration; Dr Banhishikha Ghosh (@BanhishikhaGho1) is Lecturer in Health & Social Care, University of Sunderland (London), and has published on Covid-19 induced hardships for migrant workers in India.

CHAIR: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).

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Image © Badal Gyawali, Janakpur, 2018, Unsplash.

Please e-mail southasiacentre@lse.ac.uk to register free for the event; the livestream link will be sent to all registered attendees on the day of the event.  

FACT & FICTION

PAKISTAN: Afghan Refugees, Identity-Making & State Policy

Wednesday | 27 November 2024 | ONLINE

3pm UK / 7.30pm Afghanistan / 8pm Pakistan

An online panel discussion on media narratives of Afghan refugees in Pakistan and the government's recent enforcement of forced repatriation, focused on the recently published Afghan Refugees, Pakistani Media and the State: The Missing Peace (2024).  

SPEAKERS: Dr Sanaa Alimia (@SanaaAlimia) is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Aga Khan University, London, and author of Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan (2022); Dr Syed Irfan Ashraf (@syedirfanashraf) is Assistant Professor of Journalism & Mass Communications, University of Peshawar, and author of The Dark Side of Journalism: The Culture and Political Economy of Global Media in Pakistan and Afghanistan (2023); Dr Ayesha Jehangir (@zubaan_daraz) is Lecturer in Journalism & Communication, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and author of Afghan Refugees, Pakistani Media and the State: The Missing Peace (2024); Dr Sonja Kretzschmar (@kretzschmar_s) is Professor of Innovation in Journalism, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, and co-editor of Innovation in Journalism: Theories, Methods, Potential? (in German, Innovationen im Journalismus: Theoren -- Methoden -- Potenziale?, 2024). 

DISCUSSANT: Dr Omar al-Ghazzi (@omar_alghazzi) is Associate Professor of Media & Communications, LSE, specialising in the geopolitics of global communications, especially in relation to news media and popular culture. 

CHAIR: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).

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This event is part of our 'Fact & Fiction' series.

Please e-mail southasiacentre@lse.ac.uk to register free for the event; the livestream link will be sent to all registered attendees on the day of the event.