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  EDITING WOMEN IN THE ARCHIVES

SHE in Pakistan & Abroad      

To mark the centenary of The Women's Library at LSE, this special event launches the 'Editing Women in the Archives' project, funded by Teesside University & supported by LSE Library, celebrating five decades of Pakistani women in publishing. 

Thursday, 24 September 2026 | 6pm | LSE (Registration details below) 

SPEAKERS: Arati Banerjea was born in British India & has lived in England for over 50 years. She joined Spare Rib in 1982 & volunteered for Mukti in the 1980s, both ground-breaking feminist magazines of the time; Dr Madeline Clements is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the School of Arts & Creative Industries, University of Teesside, & leads the 'Editing Women in the Archives' project; Sulema Jahangir is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales and Advocate of the High Courts in Pakistan, specialising in child abduction, forced marriage & honour-based violence at Dawson Cornwell London; Ayesha Karim is founder, literary agent & former Senior Editor at SHE magazine (1993-97), and daughter of Zuhra Karim, founder, editor & proprietor of SHE magazine.

CHAIR: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre. 

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Please click here to register free for this event, which will be followed by a reception where you will be able to interact with the Speakers and other guests. 

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This event is in collaboration with LSE Library.

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Image © Cover of SHE magazine, 15 June 1972, The Women's Library, LSE Library.

TAXATION & CITIZENSHIP IN INDIA

Wednesday, 7 October | 4pm UK | 8.30pm India | ONLINE only

Registration details below.

SPEAKERS: Mukulika Banerjee is Professor of Anthropology at LSE, author, most recently, of Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India (2021), and currently on a British Academy-Leverhulme Senior Fellowship researching on taxation an democracy in India; Akhil Gupta is Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, currently working on questions of transnational capitalism, infrastructure and corruption, and author of Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence and Authority in India (2012); Margaret Levi is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, co-author, most recently (with Federica Carugati), of A Moral Political Economy: Present, Past and Future (2021), with research examining how organisations and governments provoke member willingness to act beyond material interest; Dr Jonathan Weigel is Assistant Professor in Business and Public Policy  at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley with research interests at the intersection of development economics, public finance and political economy, especially on the role of state capacity in development with a focus on taxation; he is co-author, most recently (with Anders D. Jensen), of 'No Taxation without Administration: Bringing the State Back into the Public Finance of Developing Countries' (2026).    

DISCUSSANT: Dr Miranda Sheild Johansson, an LSE alumnus, is a social anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology, University College London, where she was working until recently on a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project on 'The Sociality of Tax: A Multiperspective Study of Fiscal Relations'; her most recent publication is 'Stories of Extortion in Everyday Relations in Bolivia' (2026).  

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

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

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Image © Vitalii Abakumov, 'Tax Day', 2026, Unsplash.