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2008

• The International Criminal Court ten years on: An appraisal
  Speaker: Luis Moreno-Ocampo
  Chair: Professor Gerry Simpson
  Date: Tuesday 7 October 2008
   
• Negotiating a new international response to Climate Change: the prospects for COP-15 in Copenhagen 2009
  Speaker: Connie Hedegaard
  Discussant: Hilary Benn MP
  Chair: Professor Judith Rees
  Date: Wednesday 1 October 2008
   
• Mexico’s Foreign Policy: Its role as an Emerging Power
  Speaker: Patricia Espinosa Cantellano
  Chair: Professor George Philip
  Date: Monday 16 June 2008
   
• Regional Developments: Thailand and Emerging Asia
  Speaker: Noppadon Pattama
  Chair: Professor Lord Meghnad Desai
  Date: Monday 2 June 2008
   
• AIDS: exceptionalism revisited
  Speaker: Dr Peter Piot
  Chair: Professor Tony Barnett
  Date: Thursday 15 May 2008
   
• Green Peace: Energy, Europe and the Global Order
  Speaker: Rt Hon David Miliband
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Wednesday 7 May 2008
   
• Religious Faith and Human Rights
  Speaker: Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
  Chair: Professor Conor Gearty
  Date: Thursday 1 May 2008
   
• The Single Monetary Policy and the Analytics of OCAs: what has the Euro area experience taught us?
  Speaker: Nicholas C Garganas
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Wednesday 30 April 2008
   
• A lecture by Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia
  Speaker: The Honourable Kevin Rudd MP, Prime Minister of Australia
  Chair: Professor Sarah Worthington
  Date: Monday 7 April 2008
   
• Dialogue of Cultures or Clash of Civilizations?
  Speakers: Hans-Gert Pöttering
  Chair: Professor Damian Chalmers
  Date: Wednesday 27 February 2008
   
• The New Swedish Model: A Reform Agenda for Growth and the Environment
  Speaker: Fredrik Reinfeldt
  Chair: Professor Damian Chalmers
  Date: Tuesday 26 February 2008
   
• Is Islamic Law Ethical?
  Speaker: Professor Mona Siddiqui
  Chair: Roger Bolton
  Date: Tuesday 26 February 2008
   
• The Ideas that are Changing Politics
  Speaker: David Willetts MP
  Chair: Professor Kenneth Minogue
  Date: Wednesday 20 February 2008
   
• Completing Europe: Integration with Neighbours and Engagement with Russia
  Speaker: Valdas Adamkus
  Chair: Professor Damian Chalmers
  Date: Thursday 14 February 2008 
   
• Climate Change and Global Social Justice
  Speaker: Douglas Alexander MP
  Chair: Stephen Twigg
  Date: Wednesday 6 February 2008
   
• Kosova’s Independence: Balkan Stability
  Speaker: Ambassador Zef Mazi
  Date: Wednesday 6 February 2008
   
• An Open Economy – the Progressive Response to Global Change
  Speaker: John Hutton MP
  Chair: Professor Saul Estrin
  Date: Monday 4 February 2008
   
• International Economic Engagement with Iraq for 2008 and Beyond: a strategy for private sector-led diversified growth
  Speaker: Ambassador Charles Ries
  Chair: Yahia Said
  Date: Monday 4 February 2008
   
• International Relations in a Post-Hegemonic Age
  Speaker: Professor Fred Halliday
  Chair: Professor Michael Cox
  Date: Wednesday 30 January 2008
   
• New Industrial Centres and the Rise of the Justice and Development Party to Power in Turkey
  Speaker: Professor Sevket Pamuk
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Monday 28 January 2008
   
• Europe-Africa: the indispensable partnership
  Speaker: Louis Michel
  Chair: Professor Stuart Corbridge
  Date: Thursday 17 January 2008
   
• Thinking Like a Social Scientist: a lecture by Professor Ron Anderson
  Speaker: Professor Ron Anderson
  Chair: Professor Sarah Worthington
  Date: Thursday 17 January 2008 
   
• The Conservatives' Response to the Credit Crunch
  Speakers: George Osborne MP
  Chair: Professor Danny Quah
  Date: Friday 11 January 2008
   
• Oil, War and Geopolitics: the struggle over what remains
  Speaker: Professor Michael Klare
  Chair: Professor Michael Cox
  Date: Wednesday 9 January 2008
   
• The EU at 27 - taking on a global role
  Speaker: Jim Murphy MP
  Chair: Maurice Fraser
  Date: Wednesday 9 January 2008
   
• Social Science and the Middle East: myths, pitfalls and opportunities
  Speaker: Professor Fred Halliday
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Monday 7 January 2008

2007

• Shared Protection, Shared Values: Next Steps on Migration
  Speaker: Jacqui Smith
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Wednesday 5 December 2007
   
• Past, Present and Future of Oil
  Speaker: Lord Browne
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Tuesday 13 November 2007
   
• Hungary in the 21st Century
  Speaker: Ferenc Gyurcsány
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Monday 12 November 2007
   
• Popperian Pathways: the demarcation between quack cancer cures and scientific remedies
  Speaker: Professor Michael Baum
  Chair: David Miller
  Date: Tuesday 6 November 2007
   
• The Role of Inter-governmental, State and Non-governmental Players in Conflict Resolution
  Speaker: Martti Ahtisaari
  Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
  Date: Monday 29 October 2007
   
• Is Democracy in Crisis? Lessons from the Greek Experience
  Speaker: Dr Costas Simitis
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Tuesday 23 October 2007
   
• Europe, Migration and Globalisation – What About the Workers?
  Speaker: John Monks
  Chair: Professor Richard Hyman
  Date: Tuesday 23 October 2007
   
• Macedonia - tests passed and the challenges ahead
  Speakers: Antonio Milošoski
  Chair: Professor Christian Lequesne
  Date: Thursday 18 October 2007
   
• Can the Welfare State Work in a Globalising World?
  Speaker: President Tarja Halonen
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Wednesday 17 October 2007
   
• Europe’s Emerging New Energy Policy
  Speaker: Andris Piebalgs
  Chair: Professor Damian Chalmers
  Date: Tuesday 16 October 2007
   
• Positions, Activities and Organisations: strategy, from conception to implementation
  Speaker: Professor Luis Garicano
  Chair: Professor Saul Estrin
  Date: Monday 15 October 2007
   
• Why services are crucial for concluding the WTO Doha Round
  Speaker: Pascal Lamy
  Chair: Lord Vallance
  Date: Monday 15 October 2007
   
• Reforming the United Nations – Mission Impossible?
  Speaker: Professor Paul Kennedy
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Thursday 11 October 2007
   
• Cool It: global warming and getting our priorities straight
  Speakers: Professor Bjørn Lomborg, Dr Simon Dietz
  Chair: Professor Gwyn Prins
  Date: Tuesday 2 October 2007
   
• 40 Years of ASEAN: Its Evolution and its Challenges today
  Speaker: Dato’ Seri Syed Hamid Albar
  Chair: Dr Jurgen Haacke
  Date: Monday 10 September 2007
   
• Meeting Economic Challenges of the Future
  Speaker: The Rt Hon David Cameron MP
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Monday 10 September 2007
   
• Sustaining Growth and Promoting Inclusion in India's Economy and Society
  Speaker: Professor Stuart Corbridge, Mr Anwar Hasan, Professor S Parasuraman, Professor Sir Nicholas Stern
  (transcript of Professor S Parasuraman only)
  Chair: Professor Lord Meghnad Desai
  Date: Tuesday 26 June 2007
   
• The NHS: The Next 10 Years
  Speaker: Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP
  Chair: Professor Alistair McGuire
  Date: Thursday 14 June 2007
   
• A 2020 Vision for the Public Services
  Speaker: Alan Milburn MP
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Wednesday 16 May 2007
   
• Economics and Identity
  Speaker: Professor George Akerlof
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Wednesday 25 April 2007
   
• Public Diplomacy – Steps to the Future
  Speaker: Lord Triesman
  Chair: Dr Ann Lane
  Date: Monday 23 April 2007
   
• The Ageing Society: challenges, opportunities and unnecessary scares
  Speaker: Lord Adair Turner
  Chair: Professor John Hills
  Date: Monday 23 April 2007
   
• The Politics of Culture Talk in the Contemporary War on Terror
  Speaker: Professor Mahmood Mamdani
  Chair: Professor Paul Gilroy
  Date: Thursday 8 March 2007
   
• Universities in Global Competition: how well is the UK doing?
  Speaker: Howard Davies
  Chair: Professor Simon Lee
  Date: Wednesday 28 February 2007 
   
• Future of EU Migration and Integration Policies
  Speaker: Franco Frattini
  Chair: Professor Damian Chalmers
  Date: Friday 23 February 2007
   
• Getting More from Financial Services Markets: greater competition for a better deal for consumers
  Speaker: Neelie Kroes
  Chair: Professor Willem Buiter
  Date: Monday 19 February 2007
   
• Economic Policy and Taxation
  Speaker: Charles Clarke MP
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Wednesday 7 February 2007
   
• Prospects for Peaceful Development in a Globalised World
  Speaker: Dr Gerhard Schröder
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Monday 5 February 2007
   
• Islamic Finance: relevance and growth in the modern financial age
  Speakers: Mohamed Elgari, Michael Hanlon, Iqbal Khan
  Chair: Professor Ross Cranston
  Co-Chair: Professor Baber Johansen
  Date: Thursday 1 February 2007
   
• India - the Land of Growth Opportunities
  Speaker: P Chidambaram, Finance Minister of India
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Monday 29 January 2007
   
• The European Union: a positive view
  Speaker: Andrus Ansip, Prime Minister of Estonia
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Tuesday 23 January 2007
   
• The Media and the Rwandan Genocide
  Speakers: Allan Thompson, Mike Dottridge, Richard Dowden, Linda Melvern, Lars Waldorf
  Chair: James Putzel
  Date: Wednesday 17 January 2007
   
• Education Reform in Taiwan: local and global perspectives
  Speaker: Professor Cheng-Sheng Tu
  Chair: Professor Stephan Feuchtwang
  Date: Wednesday 10 January 2007

2006

• Real Reform at the United Nations
  Speaker: Dr Edwin J Feulner
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Thursday 30 November 2006
   
• Social solidarity, altruism and self-interest in assessing the effects of healthcare interventions
  Speaker: Sir Iain Chalmers
  Chair: Professor Alistair McGuire
  Date: Monday 27 November 2006
   
• Europe's Place in the World in the 21st Century
  Speaker: Peter Sutherland KCMG
  Chair: Sir Stephen Wall KCMG
  Date: Wednesday 22 November 2006
   
• Climate Change: global solutions for an international problem
  Speaker: Professor Sir David King
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Monday 20 November 2006
   
• Greece and the European Union: Partners in European Reform
  Speaker: Dr Costas Karamanlis
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Monday 20 November 2006
   
• The Development of China's Capital Markets: Review and Outlook
  Speaker: Dr Shang Fulin
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Friday 17 November 2006
   
• The ICJ, the United Nations system and the rule of law
  Speaker: Judge Rosalyn Higgins
  Chair: Professor Christopher Greenwood
  Date: Monday 13 November 2006
   
• Modern New Zealand in a Changing World
  Speaker: Prime Minister Helen Clark
  Chair: Professor Paul Johnson
  Date: Friday 10 November 2006
   
• The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
  Speaker: Sir Nicholas Stern
  Chair: Lord Meghnad Desai
  Date: Tuesday 7 November 2006
   
• The Long-term implications for Development of the War in Iraq
  Speaker: Clare Short MP
  Chair: Dr James Putzel
  Date: Monday 6 November 2006
   
• Reframing Global Governance: apocalypse soon, or reform!
  Speaker: Professor David Held
  Chair: Professor Michael Cox
  Date: Wednesday 1 November 2006
   
• Legal Issues in the War on Terrorism
  Speaker: John Bellinger III
  Chair: Professor Christopher Greenwood
  Date: Tuesday 31 October 2006
   
• Romania and the European Union: a win-win scenario
  Speaker: Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu
  Chair: Maurice Fraser
  Date: Monday 30 October 2006
   
• Rethinking Inflation Targeting and Central Bank Independence
  Speaker: Professor Willem Buiter
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Thursday 26 October 2006
   
• The United Nations in the 21st century – a perspective from a developing country
  Speaker: Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Wednesday 25 October 2006
   
• Globalisation and Inflation
  Speaker: Professor Charles Bean
  Chair: Professor Christopher Pissarides
  Date: Tuesday 24 October 2006
   
• When Values Conflict: How citizens, stakeholders and experts contributed to formulating policy for managing the UK’s radioactive waste
  Speaker: Professor Lawrence Phillips
  Chair: Professor Gwyn Bevan
  Date: Wednesday 18 October 2006
   
• Money versus Morality: is corruption just a matter of mis-aligned incentives?
  Speaker: David Nussbaum
  Chair: Tim Besley
  Date: Wednesday 18 October 2006
   
• Financial Reform in China: what next?
  Speaker: Howard Davies
  Chair: Dr Lawrence Saez
  Date: Thursday 17 October 2006
   
• Is there a Future for European Integration?
  Speaker: President Giorgio Napolitano
  Chair: Professor Sarah Worthington
  Date: Thursday 12 October 2006
   
• The UN’s role in a revitalised multilateral system
  Speaker: Dr Kim Howells MP
  Chair: Professor Gwyn Prins
  Date: Monday 9 October 2006
   
• The European Union and the Challenge of Globalisation
  Speaker: Matti Vanhanen
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Thursday 5 October 2006
   
• Al Jazeera - A Different Voice in the World?
  Speaker: Yosri Fouda
  Chair: Charlie Beckett
  Date: Monday 2 October 2006
   
• Development of Indian Capital Markets
  Speaker: Ghyanendra Nath Bajpai
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Monday 2 October 2006
   
• Foreign Policy and the Diplomat: the end of the affair?
  Speaker: Sir Michael Jay
  Chair: Zeinab Badawi
  Date: Wednesday 26 July 2006
   
• The Future for Democracy: politics in a spectator society
  Speaker: The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP
  Chair: Sunder Katwala
  Date: Wednesday 28 June 2006
   
• Experiments Without Borders: biology in the labs of life
  Speaker: Professor Sheila Jasanoff
  Chair: Professor Nikolas Rose
  Date: Thursday 15 June 2006
   
• Untangling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: a negotiation perspective
  Speaker: Professor Robert Mnookin
  Chair: Professor Christopher Greenwood
  Date: Tuesday 30 May 2006
   
• Beyond Power/Knowledge: an exploration of the relation of power, ignorance and stupidity
  Speaker: Professor David Graeber
  Chair: Professor Olivia Harris
  Date: Thursday 25 May 2006
   
• Globalisation, Governance, the IMF and the World Bank
  Speaker: Dr Ngaire Woods
  Discussants: Ken Shadlen, Professor Robert Wade
  Chair: Sir Nick Stern
  Date: Monday 22 May 2006
   
• Multi-culture in Times of War
  Speaker: Professor Paul Gilroy
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Wednesday 10 May 2006
    
• Lebanon's economic reform and prospects for the future
  Speaker: Fuad Siniora, Prime Minster of Lebanon
  Date: Tuesday 9 May 2006
   
• Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq: is there a role for law in modern warfare?
  Speaker: Professor Christopher Greenwood QC
  Chair: Professor Sarah Worthington
  Date: Thursday 27 April 2006
   
• Back to Basics - Putting Excellence at the Heart of European Research
  Speaker: Janez Potočnik
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Tuesday 25 April 2006
   

• The News We Deserve
  Speaker: Charles Clarke MP
  Chair: Sir Michael Bichard
  Date: Monday 24 April 2006
   

• Making the Doha Development Agenda a True Development Round
  Speaker: Valentine Sendanyoye-Rugwabiza
  Chair: Professor Robert Wade
  Date: Friday 31 March 2006
   
• Globalization for Development
  Speaker: Dr Ian Goldin
  Chair: Professor Robert Wade
  Date: Thursday 30 March 2006
   
• The United States of Europe
  Speaker: Guy Verhofstadt
  Respondent: Quentin Peel
  Chair: Professor Lord Wallace
  Date: Tuesday 21 March 2006
   
• Pathologies of the State and the Market
  Speaker: Professor Steven Lukes
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Thursday 16 March 2006
   
• The Selfish Gene: thirty years on
  Speakers: Professor Richard Dawkins FRS, Professor Daniel C Dennett, Professor Sir John Krebs FRS, Ian McEwan and Dr Matt Ridley
  Chair: Melvyn Bragg
  Date: Thursday 16 March 2006
   
• New Challenges for Europe in a globalised world: terrorism, transnational crime and illegal immigration
  Speaker: Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar
  Chair: Professor Paul Preston
  Date: Monday 13 March 2006
   
• The Current Status of the WTO Negotiations
  Speaker: Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Friday 10 March 2006
   
• The Human Rights of Persons With Disabilities: extending freedom to all
  Speakers: Anna Lawson, Professor Helen Meenan and Nick O’Brien
  Chair: Dr Jenny Kuper
  Date: Thursday 9 March 2006
   
• The Development of the European Capital Market
  Speaker: Charlie McCreevy
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Thursday 9 March 2006
   
• The Western Balkans: are they really part of Europe?
  Speaker: Lord Ashdown
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Wednesday 8 March 2006
   
• Suggestions for Economic Growth and Job Creation in Germany
  Speaker: Dr Thomas de Maizière
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Thursday 2 March 2006
   
• Changing the Rules: the judiciary, human rights and the rule of law
  Speaker: Roger Smith
  Commentator: Baroness Hale
  Chair: Professor Christine Chinkin
  Date: Wednesday 1 March 2006
   
• The Political Future of Europe
  Speaker: Valery Giscard d'Estaing
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Tuesday 28 February 2006
   
• Taking the ‘Social’ in ‘Socialism’ Seriously
  Speaker: Professor Erik Olin Wright
  Chair: Professor Richard Sennett
  Date: Thursday 23 February 2006
   
• Government and the Rule of Law in the Modern Age
  Speaker: Lord Goldsmith
  Commentator: Khawar Qureshi
  Chair: Lord Justice Jacob
  Date: Wednesday 22 February 2006
   
• The Blair Legacy? Competition and Choice in Public Services
  Speaker: Professor Julian Le Grand
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Tuesday 21 February 2006
   
• Law vs Presidential Power in the Bush Administration’s Anti-terrorism Policies: one at the expense of the other
  Speaker: Professor Nancy Kassop
  Chair: Professor Michael Cox
  Date: Monday 20 February 2006
   
• Protecting Human Rights in an Age of Uncertainty
  Speaker: Louise Arbour
  Chair: Professor Christine Chinkin
  Date: Thursday 16 February 2006
    
• Is there a European Culture?
  Speaker: Jan Figel
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Wednesday 15 February 2006
   
• Living in the World Risk Society
  Speaker: Professor Ulrich Beck
  Chair: Professor Nikolas Rose
  Date: Wednesday 15 February 2006
   
• Bridging the Divide
  Speaker: Ma Ying-jeou
  Chair: Dr Chris Hughes
  Date: Monday 13 February 2006
   
• The Idea of an American Century
  Speaker: Professor Alan Brinkley
  Chair: Professor Arne Westad
  Date: Tuesday 7 February 2006
  
  
• LSE Lawyers' Alumni Group Annual Dinner
  Speaker: Lord Falconer
  Date: Tuesday 7 February 2006
  
  
• The New Political Map of the Post-Soviet Space
  Speaker: Boris Berezovsky
  Chair: Dr Roy Allison
  Date: Tuesday 31 January 2006
  
  
• The Future of EU Enlargement: consolidation, conditionality and communication
  Speaker: Olli Rehn
  Chair: Professor Lord Wallace
  Date: Friday 20 January 2006
  
  
• A Critical Debate about the Nature of Globalisation
  Speakers: Professor Martin Wolf, Professor David Held
  Chair: Professor Michael Cox
  Date: Thursday 12 January 2006

2005

• Investment and reform: transforming health and healthcare
  Speaker: Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP
  Chair: Professor Elias Mossialos
  Date: Tuesday 13 December 2005
  
  

• The Reproductive Revolution: how far have we come?
  Speaker: Professor Sarah Franklin
  Chair: Professor Nikolas Rose
  Date: Thursday 24 November 2005
  
  

• What Future for Central Banks?
  Speaker: Howard Davies
  Chair: Professor Charles Goodhart
  Date: Thursday 24 November 2005
  
  

• Making Globalisation Work for Development
  Speaker: Professor Dani Rodrik
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Friday 18 November 2005
  
  

• The Biggest Problems in the World – What Should We Deal With First?
  Speaker:  Professor Bjørn Lomborg
  Discussants: Professor Julian Hunt and Dr Mark Maslin
  Chair: Professor John Sutton
  Date: Thursday 17 November 2005
  
  

• Can Human Rights Survive? The Crisis of Authority
  Speaker: Professor Conor Gearty
  Chair: Stephen Sedley, Lord Justice in the Court of Appeal
  Date: Thursday 10 November 2005
  
  

• Melting Modernity: each time unique
  Speaker: Professor Zygmunt Bauman
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Tuesday 8 November 2005
  
  

• The Role of Religion in a Changing Europe
  Speaker: His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Thursday 3 November 2005
  
  

• The Turkish Economy and the European Union
  Speaker: Süreyya Serdengeçti
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Thursday 27 October 2005
  
  

• Melting Modernity: living in utopia
  Speaker: Professor Zygmunt Bauman
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Thursday 27 October 2005
  
  

• New Threats and Security Challenges
  Speaker: Jonas Gahr Støre
  Chair: Professor Barry Buzan
  Date: Wednesday 26 October 2005
  
  

• Melting Modernity: the demons of open society
  Speaker: Professor Zygmunt Bauman
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Thursday 20 October 2005
  
  

• Europe and the World Trade Round: seizing the opportunity for growth and development
  Speaker: Christine Lagarde
  Chair: Professor Iain Begg
  Date: Monday 17 October 2005
  
  

• Terrorism and Development
  Speakers: Professor Jo Beall, Professor Jude Howell, Professor Ian Linden, Dr James Putzel, Dr Hugh Roberts and Dr Ben Wisner
  Date: Monday 17 October 2005
  Time: 6.30pm
  Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
  
  

• Director’s Dialogue with Ian Davis
  Speakers: Howard Davies, Ian Davis
  Date: Wednesday 12 October 2005
  
  

• Challenges for Germany in Europe
  Speaker: Professor Dr Georg Milbradt
  Chair: Dr Willem Buiter
  Date: Monday 3 October 2005
  
  

• Why (and How) Things Happen
  Speaker: Professor Charles Tilly
  Chair: Geoff Mulgan
  Date: Thursday 8 September 2005
  
  

• Europe: where do we go from here?
  Speakers: Robin Cook MP, Joschka Fischer, Lord Hurd, Charles Kennedy MP and Peter Sutherland KCMG
  Chair: Duncan Greenland
  Date: Monday 4 July 2005
  
  

• How Can We Get Trade Justice?
  Speaker: Hilary Benn MP
  Chair: Professor Lord Desai
  Date: Wednesday 29 June 2005
  
  

• Towards a New Partnership: America, Europe and the New World
  Speaker: John Edwards
  Chair: Professor Lord Giddens
  Date: Wednesday 25 May 2005
  
  

• Response and Responsibility: the global partnership for aid and development
  Speaker: José Manuel Barroso
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Friday 20 May 2005
  
  
• Greece’s Modernisation Process: visions and new realities
  Speaker: Dr Yannos Papantoniou
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Thursday 12 May 2005
  
  
• Torture: the ultimate abuse of human rights?
  Speakers: Alain Aeschlimann, Victoria Brittain, Professor Chris Brown, Sir Nigel Rodley
  Moderator: Lyse Doucet, BBC World
  Chair: Professor Conor Gearty
  Date: Wednesday 11 May 2005
  
  
• Is Autism an Extreme of the Male Brain?
  Speaker: Professor Simon Baron-Cohen
  Chair: Professor Simon Blackburn
  Date: Tuesday 15 March 2005
  
  
• The Economic Impact of ICT: a perspective from the age of steam
  Speaker: Professor Nicholas Crafts
  Chair: Professor Paul Johnson
  Date: Tuesday 15 March 2005
  
  
• Turkey and the European Union: the way forward
  Speaker: Abdullah Gül
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Monday 14 March 2005
  
  
• Cultural Perspectives on Cities: from Georg Simmel to Italo Calvino
  Speaker: Professor Gabriella Turnaturi
  Chair: Niall Hobhouse and Richard Sennett
  Date: Thursday 10 March 2005
  
  
• Barcelona FC and collective identity. More than sports management?
  Speaker: Joan Laporta
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Monday 7 March 2005
  
  
• European Emerging Financial Markets and E(M)U
  Speaker: Professor Drasko Veselinovic
  Date: Thursday 3 March 2005
  
  
• Human Rights Under Attack
  Speaker: David Lammy MP
  Chair: Dr Kate Malleson
  Date: Thursday 24 February 2005
  
  
• The Rehabilitation of ‘Human Nature’. Or Where Did Anthropology Go?
  Speaker: Professor Maurice Bloch
  Chair: Professor Charles Stafford
  Date: Thursday 24 February 2005
  

• Financial Reform in the Middle Kingdom
  Speaker: Howard Davies 
  Chair: Dr Linda Yueh
  Date: Tuesday 22 February 2005
  

• Life After Hutton: renewing the BBC Charter
  Speaker: Howard Davies 
  Chair: Roger Silverstone
  Date: Wednesday 16 February 2005
  
  
• 2005: make or break for Global Governance
  Speaker: Gareth Evans
  Chair: Professor Lord Desai
  Date: Friday 18 February 2005
  
  
• Risk, Community and Safety
  Speaker: Roger Graef
  Chair: Niall Hobhouse and Richard Sennett
  Date: Thursday 10 February 2005
  
  
• Intolerance and Civil Society
  Speakers: Bernard Burgoyne, Professor Jude Howell and Felicity de Zulueta
  Chair: Susie Orbach
  Date: Wednesday 9 February 2005
  
  
• Responding to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: prospects for near and distant futures
  Speaker: Dr Peter Piot
  Chair: Professor Tony Barnett
  Date: Tuesday 8 February 2005
  
  
• Trade, Development and the European Union
  Speaker: Peter Mandelson
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Friday 4 February 2005
  
  
• Regional Policy and the Lisbon Agenda – challenges and opportunities 
  Speaker: Danuta Hübner
  Chair: Professor Lord Wallace
  Date: Thursday 3 February 2005
  
  
• Meeting the Challenge of Development – An Action Agenda to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
  Speaker: Ian Goldin
  Chair: Dr Jean-Paul Faguet
  Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
  
  
• Will Biomedicine Transform Society? – the political, economic, social and personal impact of medical advances in the twenty-first century
  Speaker: Professor Nikolas Rose
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Wednesday 2 February 2005
  
  
• Intolerance and Fundamentalism
  Speakers: Karen Armstrong, Professor Henrietta Moore and Andrew Samuels
  Chair: Susie Orbach
  Date: Wednesday 26 January 2005
  
  
• US Capital Markets in the Post Sarbanes-Oxley World: why our markets should matter to foreign issuers
  Speaker: William H. Donaldson
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Tuesday 25 January 2005
  
  
• The Human Rights Movement and Civil Society: the final frontier for human rights
  Speaker: Irene Khan
  Chair: Professor Jude Howell
  Date: Wednesday 19 January 2005
  
  
• Secure Borders, Open Doors: international cooperation in the 21st century
  Speaker: Tom Ridge, US Secretary of Homeland Security
  Chair: Dr Alan Sked
  Date: Friday 14 January 2005

2004

• European integration: what is at stake now (for British, Greeks and others)?
  Speaker: Professor Loukas Tsoukalis
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Monday 6 December 2004
  
  

• Rights behind bars: the conditions and treatment of those in detention
  Speaker: Anne Owers
  Chair: Professor Peter Townsend
  Date: Thursday 9 December 2004
  
  

• Doing Justice to the Dead
  Speakers: Lincoln Crawford OBE, David Ould and Dr John Torpey
  Chair: Professor Conor Gearty
  Date: Thursday 25 November 2004
  
  

• The Future of World Society: the rich and the poor
  Speaker: Professor Lord Giddens
  Date: Wednesday 17 November 2004
  
  

• A Human Security Doctrine for Europe: presentation of the Barcelona Report of the Study Group on European Security
  Speaker: Javier Solana 
  Panellists: Professor Christine Chinkin, Professor Mary Kaldor and Pavel Seifter
  Chair: Professor Lord Giddens
  Date: Wednesday 10 November 2004
  
  

• The Future of World Society: the new terrorism
  Speaker: Professor Lord Giddens
  Date: Wednesday 10 November 2004
  
  

• The United Nations at the Cross-roads
  Speaker: Sir Emyr Jones-Parry, British Ambassador to the United Nations
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Wednesday 10 November 2004
  
  

• What Makes an Olympic City? Lessons and Legacies from the Athens Experience
  Speaker: Dora Bakoyannis 
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Thursday 4 November 2004
  
  

• The Future of World Society: Europe and Asia
  Speaker: Professor Lord Giddens
  Date: Wednesday 3 November 2004
  
  

• Abuse of Market Power
  Speaker: John Vickers
  Chair: Professor Timothy Besley
  Date: Tuesday 2 November 2004
  
  

• The Future of World Society: American Empire?
  Speaker: Professor Lord Giddens
  Date: Wednesday 27 October 2004
  
  

• Design and Dwelling - Housing in Harbours
  Speaker: Kees Christiaanse
  Chair: Richard Burdett, MaryAnn Stevens
  Date: Thursday 21 October 2004
  
  

• Inequality and the State
  Speaker: Professor John Hills
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Thursday 21 October 2004
  
  

• The Future of World Society: the coming of the global age
  Speaker: Professor Lord Giddens
  Date: Wednesday 20 October 2004
  
  

• Hayek and Market Socialism: science, ideology and public policy
  Speaker: Professor Peter Boettke
  Chair: Professor Tim Besley
  Date: Tuesday 19 October 2004
  
  

• Is the Idea of Human Rights Now Doing More Harm Than Good?
  Speaker: Professor Conor Gearty
  Chair: Professor Stanley Cohen
  Date: Tuesday 12 October 2004
  
  

• Egalitarianism: old and new
  Speaker: Professor Lord Giddens
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Thursday 7 October 2004
  
  

• Can local government survive five more years of New Labour?
  Speaker: Howard Davies, Director of LSE
  Chair: Sir Jeremy Beecham, LGA
  Date: Tuesday 7 September 2004
  
  

• Islam Under Siege: from clash to dialogue of civilisations
  Speaker: Professor Akbar Ahmed
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Tuesday 15 June 2004
  
  

• Whither America?
  Speaker: Professor Paul Krugman
  Chair: Professor Lord Layard
  Date: Wednesday 26 May 2004
  
  
• Problematising Asia: reflections on the re-emergence of the discourse of Asia
  Speaker: Professor Wang Hui
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Wednesday 12 May 2004
  

• A Sustainable Vision for Europe – From Words to Deeds
  Speaker: Margot Wallström
  Chair: Professor Yvonne Rydin
  Date: Tuesday 11 May 2004
  
  
• Recovering from Crisis - Argentina Today
  Speaker: Alfonso Prat Gay
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Tuesday 11 May 2004
  
  
• The Middle East After Saddam Hussein
  Speaker: Professor Fred Halliday
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Thursday 6 May 2004
  
  

• Good and Bad Government: change and continuity in the uneasy relationship between morality and power
  Speaker: Geoff Mulgan
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Tuesday 4 May 2004
  
  

• Inclusion, Changing Preferences and Public Policy
  Speaker: Nicholas Stern FBA
  Chair: Professor Timothy Besley
  Date: Tuesday 4 May 2004
  
  

• UNRWA’s Operational Environment and the Role of International Law
  Speaker: Peter Hansen
  Chair: Professor Christopher Greenwood
  Date: Wednesday 28 April 2004
  
  

• Reforming the UN and Other International Institutions
  Speakers: Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Federico Mayor, Mary Robinson
  Chair: David Held, Josep Xercavins
  Date: Thursday 1 April 2004
  
  

• The Foreign Policy of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
  Speaker: Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim, Brazilian Minister of Foreign Relations
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Wednesday 17 March 2004
  
  

• Can We Afford our Future?
  Speaker: Emeritus Professor Howard Glennerster FBA
  Chair: Professor John Hills
  Date: Tuesday 16 March 2004
  
  
• Britain and France: our place in Europe and the World
  Speaker: Gérard Errera, French Ambassador to the United Kingdom
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Friday 12 March 2004
  
  
• Five Years of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe: achievements and challenges ahead
  Speaker: Dr Erhard Busek
  Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
  Date: Monday 8 March 2004
  
  
• Human Rights for Women: liberation or mere rhetoric?
  Speaker: Baroness Helena Kennedy QC
  Chair: Lady Hale
  Date: Monday 8 March 2004
  
  
• How Development Can Help Deal with State Failure
  Speaker: Hilary Benn
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Thursday 4 March 2004
  
  
• Understanding Institutions Series
  Speaker: Professor Daron Acemoglu
  Chairs: Professor Lord Layard; Christopher Johnson; Howard Davies
  Date: Monday 23, Tuesday 24 & Wednesday 25 February 2004
  
  
• Freedom in Blair's Britain
  Speaker: Shami Chakrabarti
  Chair: Professor Conor Gearty
  Date: Tuesday 17 February 2004
  
  
• Multiculturalism and the ‘Open Society’: a Popperian approach
  Speaker: Professor Marcello Pera
  Chair: Professor John Worrall
  Date: Tuesday 10 February 2004
  
  
• Creating a Single Financial Market in Europe - what do we mean?
  Speaker: Howard Davies
  Chair: Professor Charles Goodhart
  Date: Tuesday 3 February 2004
  
  
• Human Rights, Civil Liberties and Democracy: ideas in conflict or in partnership?
  Speakers: Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Francesca Klug, Andrew Puddephatt
  Chair: Lord Justice Sedley
  Date: Tuesday 27 January 2004
  
  
• Serbia's Transition: Achievements and Challenges
  Speaker: Zoran Zivkovic, Prime Minister of Serbia
  Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
  Date: Friday 23 January 2004
  
  
• Top Incomes over the 20th Century
  Speaker: Professor Sir Tony Atkinson FBA
  Chair: Professor Tim Besley
  Date: Tuesday 20 January 2004
  
  

• Europe: adding value, changing quickly
  Speaker: Romano Prodi
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Monday 19 January 2004
  
  

• Migration and World Capitalism
  Speaker: Professor Bob Sutcliffe
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Tuesday 13 January 2004

2003

• International Human Rights Day Lecture
  Speaker: Irene Khan, Secretary General, Amnesty International
  Chair: Professor Peter Townsend
  Date: Wednesday 10 December 2003
  

• Peace Stabilisation: the lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Speaker: Lord Ashdown, The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
  Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
  Date: Monday 8 December 2003
  
  
• Equality - the Neglected Virtue
  Speaker: Rabinder Singh QC
  Chair: Professor Martin Loughlin
  Date: Wednesday 26 November 2003
  
  
• Creativity and Knowledge: managing and respecting intellectual assets in the 21st century
  Speaker: Professor Danny Quah
  Chair: Howard Davies
  Date: Thursday 13 November 2003
  
  
• Europe and America in the 21st Century
  Speaker: Lawrence H Summers, President of Harvard University
  Chair: Howard Davies, Director, LSE
  Date: Thursday 13 November 2003
  
  
• The Economics of Growth and Sustainable Development
  Date: Tuesday 11 November 2003
  Time: 6.30pm
  Venue: New Theatre, East Building
  Speaker: Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta
  Chair: Jonathon Porritt
  
  
• Demographics, Economics and Social Choice
  Speaker: Adair Turner
  Date: Thursday 6 November 2003
  
  

• Shaping a New Europe
  Speaker: Denis MacShane MP, Minister for Europe
  Chair: Professor Paul Taylor, European Institute
  Date: Tuesday 4 November 2003
  
  

• The United States and Western Europe After Iraq: just another crisis or transatlantic drift?
  Speaker: Professor Geir Lundestad
  Chair: Professor Michael Cox
  Date: Thursday 30 October 2003
  
  

• Children's Rights and Child Poverty
  Keynote speaker: Mary Robinson, Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Director, Ethical Globalisation Initiative
  Chair: Professor Conor Gearty, Director Centre for the Study of Human Rights, LSE
  Date: Tuesday 21 October 2003
  
  

• The role of international criminal prosecutions in reconstructing divided communities
  Speaker: Carla Del Ponte
  Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
  Date: Monday 20 October 2003
  
  

• The European Convention Fifty Years On
  Speaker: Professor Brian Simpson
  Chair: Professor Conor Gearty
  Date: Thursday 16 October 2003
  
  
• Monetary Policy and Financial Markets
  Speaker: Governor Ben S Bernanke
  Chair: Professor Tim Besley
  Date Thursday 9 October 2003
  
  

• A Lecture by the President of Brazil
  Speaker: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
  Chair: Professor Anthony Giddens, Director of LSE
  Date: Monday 14th July 2003
  
  

• The Roots of Racial Tensions: urban ethnic neighbourhoods
  Speaker: William Julius Wilson
  Chair: Professor Anne Power
  Date: Tuesday 24th June 2003
  
  

• Hayek's Contributions to Economics
  Speaker: Professor Roger Garrison
  Chair: Professor Anthony Giddens
  Date: Thursday 5th June 2003
  
  

• Deflation: causes, prevention and cure
  Speaker: Professor Willem Buiter
  Date: Monday 19th May 2003
  
  

• Innovation, social risk and political responsibility
  Speaker: Dr Piero Bassetti
  Chair: Professor Claudio Cibbora
  Date: Wednesday 14 May 2003
  
  

• Egyptian Women: major steps on the road to development
  Speaker: Her Excellency Mrs Susanne Mubarak
  Chair: Professor Anthony Giddens
  Date: Wednesday 7th May 2003
  
  

• Can the Internet economy be governed and if so, how?
  Speaker: Professor William H Melody
  Chair: Professor Roger Silverstone, LSE
  Date: Thursday 1st May 2003
  
  

• Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures:  Happiness: has social science a clue?
  Speaker: Professor Richard Layard
  Monday 3rd March - What is Happiness and are we Getting Happier?
  Tuesday 4th March - Income and happiness: rethinking economic polic
  Wednesday 5th March - What would make a happier society?
  
  

• Director's Dialogue
  Speakers:  Professor Anthony Giddens and Dr Javier Solana 
  Date: Thursday 20th February 2003
  
  

• The New American Empire
  Speaker: Professor Michael Cox
  Date: Wednesday 19th February 2003
  
  

• Economists and the Real World
  Speaker: Professor Charles Bean
  Chair: Professor Anthony Giddens
  Date: Wednesday 29 January 2003
  
  

• The Future of Kosovo
  Speaker: Michael Steiner, Special Representative of the Secretary General, and head of United Nations Interim Administration for Kosovo
  Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
  Date: Monday 27 January 2003

2002

• What is to be done? Foreign Policy as a site of political action
  Speaker: Professor Christopher Hill
  Chair: Professor Margot Light
  Date: Tuesday 26th November 2002
  
  
• The Basque Country in a Globalising World
  Speakers: Juan Jose Ibarretxe, Professor Lord Desai, Professor Derek R. Diamond and Professor John Gray
  Date: Wednesday 20th November 2002
  
  
• The Inflation Target Ten Years On
  Speaker: Mervyn King
  Chair: Professor Timothy Besley
  Date: Tuesday 19th November 2002
  
  
• Director's Dialogue - Sexuality and The Politics of Everyday Life
  Speaker: Professor Anthony Giddens and Susie Orbach
  Date: Friday 15th November 2002
  
  
• The Burden of Historical Perceptions and the Way Forward for Yugoslavia and the Balkans
  Speaker: Goran Svilanovic, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Yugoslavia
  Chair: Dr Odd Arne Westad, LSE
  Date: Thursday 31st October 2002
  
  
• Socialism for a Sceptical Age
  Speakers: Tony Benn, Professor Anthony Giddens, Professor Leo Panitch, Hilary Wainwright
  Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
  Date: Tuesday 29th October 2002
  
  
• The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology: the next challenge
  Speaker: Professor Claudio Cibbora
  Chair: Professor Ian Angell, LSE
  Date: Thursday 24 October 2002
  
  
• The Rise of the Far Right in Europe
  Speaker: Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, former Prime Minister of Denmark
  Chair: Professor Lord Desai, LSE
  Date: Wednesday 16th October 2002
  
  
• Director's Dialogue
  Speakers:  Professor Anthony Giddens and George Soros
  Date: Tuesday 8th October 2002
  
  
• The Miliband Lectures on Global Economic Governance: Global Governance: the corporate connection
  Speaker: Professor John Gerard Ruggie 
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Thursday 6 June 2002 
  
  
• BP Amoco Centennial Professor Lecture:  Why are there so many banking crises?
  Speaker: Professor Jean-Charles Rochet
  Chair: Professor Anthony Giddens
  Date: Tuesday 21 May 2002
  
  
• The Miliband Lectures on Global Economic Governance: Global Governance and Accountability
  Speaker: Professor Robert O Keohane
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Friday 17 May 2002
  
  
• US Foreign and Defence Policy for the 21st Century
  Speakers: Robert S McNamara, Robert K Brigham, James G Blight 
  Chair: Dr Odd Arne Westad, LSE
  Date: Tuesday 7 May 2002 
  
  
• Miliband Lecture on Global Economic Governance: Globalising Justice
  Speaker: Professor Robert Goodin 
  Chair: Professor David Held
  Date: Wednesday 20 March 2002
  
  
• Next Steps for New Labour
  Speaker: Rt Hon Tony Blair
  Date: Tuesday 12th March 2002
  
  
• From Doha to Johannesburg by way of Monterrey: How development can be achieved and sustained in the 21st century
  Speaker: Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations
  Date: Monday 25th February 2002
  
  
• Implementing a progressive agenda in a small country after 15 years of neo-liberalism: New Zealand's experience
  Speaker: Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand 
  Chair: Professor Anthony Giddens
  Date: Thursday 21st February 2002 
  
  
• Future of Europe - The Finnish Model
  Speaker: Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland
  Chair: Professor Anthony Giddens
  Date: Thursday 14th February 2002
  
  
• Global futures at a time of transition - the future of democracy
  Speaker: Professor Anthony Giddens
  Chair: Will Hutton, Governor of the LSE
  Date: Wednesday 30th January 2002
  
  
• Global futures at a time of transition - the future of the family
  Speaker: Professor Anthony Giddens
  Chair: Susie Orbach, Visiting Professor at the LSE's Gender Institute
  Date: Wednesday 23rd January 2002

2001

• A lecture by William J Clinton, former President of the United States of America
  Speaker: William J Clinton
  Date: Thursday 13 December 2001
  
  
• Global futures at a time of transition - the future of global inequality
  Speaker: Professor Anthony Giddens
  Chair: Anne Phillips, Professor of Gender Theory
  Date: Wednesday 21st November 2001
  
  
• Global futures at a time of transition - the future of the nation state
  Speaker: Professor Anthony Giddens 
  Chair: David Held, Professor of Political Science
  Date: Wednesday 14th November 2001 
  
  
• Global futures at a time of transition - the future of world order
  Speaker: Professor Anthony Giddens
  Chair: Fred Halliday, Professor of International Relations
  Date: Wednesday 7th November 2001
  
  
• The Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures - The International Financial System: crises and reform
  Speaker: Dr Stanley Fischer
  Date: Monday 29th-Wednesday 31st October 2001
  
  
• Globalisation: where next?
  Speakers: Professors Anthony Giddens, John Gray, Fred Halliday, David Held and Mary Kaldor
  Chair: Professor Lord Desai
  Date: Monday 8th October 2001

2000

• Lionel Robbins Lectures - Understanding unemployment: News from the front  
  Speaker: Professor Olivier Blanchard, MIT
  Date: Monday 16th - Wednesday 18th October 2000
   
• James Meade Memorial Lecture
  Speaker: Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown Chancellor of the Exchequer
  Chair: Professor Anthony Giddens
  Date: Monday 8 May 2000
   
• Africa and Its Position in the World Today
  Speaker: Nelson Mandela
  Date: 6th April 2000 .
   
• Emotion, Consciousness and Decision Making
  Speaker: Antonio Damasio
  Date: Monday 24 January 2000
   

1999

• The Unfinished Business of the Century
  Date: 28 June 1999
  Speaker: John Kenneth Galbraith

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