LSE Alumni Newsletter - June 2008

Contents:

• Latest news
• Alumni news and events
• Public lectures and events
• LSE academic news
• Alumni benefits and services

Latest news

Risk & Regulation Magazine
The latest edition of the magazine of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation is now available on the CARR website - this edition's theme is responses to environmental risk.

Support for the New Academic Building hits £10 million
LSE alumni and friends from more than 20 countries have contributed over £10 million of philanthropic support to the new Academic Building. More

LSE CHOICE
The LSE CHOICE initiative is continuing to work with talented pupils around London to raise their aspirations and encourage them to fulfil their educational potential. More

LSE Arts - photography exhibition
Southpaw, an exhibition of new and recent work in photography by Kate Potter and James Tye will be on display in the Atrium Gallery from 16 June to18 July 2008, with a special reception on Tuesday 17 June 2008, from 7-9pm (RSVP required). More

Alumni news and events

Houghton Street Online
The School's new alumni web community launched in early October, and already over 12,000 alumni have signed up. For more details and to sign up, please click here. New features coming soon include the Alumni Professional Mentoring Network and discussion groups - watch this space!

Alumni events and reunions:

• LSE Director's lecture and cocktail evening in Shanghai
  Monday 9 June, 7.30pm
• Women's Alumni Network launch - guest speaker Shami Chakrabarti
  Thursday 12 June
• Media@LSE and LSE Media Group summer party - guest speaker: Mark Urban
  Monday 23 June, 6.30pm
• July Reunion Weekend
  Friday 11 and Saturday 12 July

More events available via Houghton Street Online.

Books of the month

• LSE alumni
  Poland under Communism: a Cold War history - Anthony Kemp-Welch (BSc Econ 1970, PhD 1975)
  The first English-language history of Poland from the Second War until the fall of Communism.  More alumni books
• LSE academics
  Governing the Present - Peter Miller, Professor of Management Accounting and Nikolas Rose, Martin White Professor of Sociology and Director, BIOS
  Bringing together empirical papers on the government of economic, social and personal life More academics' books

Public lectures and events

• The Stuff of Thought: language as a window into human nature - speaker: Professor Steven Pinker
  Monday 9 June, 6.30-8pm, Old Theatre
• The War for Wealth: the true story of globalization and how Western society can survive - speaker: Gabor Steingart
  Tuesday 10 June, 6.30-8pm, Old Theatre
• Mexico’s Foreign Policy: its role as an Emerging Power - speaker: Patricia Espinosa Cantellano
  Monday 16 June 2008, 5-6pm, Shaw Library
  Ticketed event - tickets will be available at 10am on Monday 9 June.
• A lecture by Dr Ivo Sanader, Prime Minister of Croatia
  Wednesday 18 June 2008, 6-7.30pm, Shaw Library
  Ticketed event - tickets will be available at 10am on Wednesday 11 June.
• Skills, Rights and Resources in the East Asian Path to Development - speaker: Professor Kenneth Pomeranz
  Wednesday 18 June 2008, 6-7:30pm, Old Theatre
• The European Exception? The public intellectual in Britain - various speakers
  Thursday 26 June 2008, 6-8pm, Old Theatre
• The Post American World - speaker: Fareed Zakaria
  Monday 30 June 2008, 6.30-8pm, Old Theatre

More events on the LSE Public lectures and events pages.

Podcasts of recent public lectures and debates:

• Why Civilisations Can't Climb Hills: a political history of statelessness in Southeast Asia - Professor James Scott
• Fixing Failed States - Dr Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart
• Finance in East Asia: from crisis to integration - challenges of second generation reforms - Professor Andrew Sheng
• The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means - George Soros and Howard Davies
• EU Competitiveness: Are we on the right track? - Alexandr Vondra
• Ontario's Place in the 21st Century - Dalton McGuinty
• AIDS: exceptionalism revisited - Dr Peter Piot
• Is the Middle East Europe's Business? - Professor Ghassan Salame
• McMafia: Crime without frontiers - Misha Glenny
• The Powers to Lead - Professor Joseph S Nye

All these and many more available on the Public lectures and events podcasts site.

LSE academic news

New LSE Research published in May includes:

• Fear of crime is much less common than previously thought More
• Creativity is key to economic growth in developing countries More
• ‘Phoenix’ cities show how to rise again from industrial ruin More
• Latest government plans for ID cards increase costs and risk for citizens More

More on the Research Excellence pages.

Alumni benefits and services

Highlight - Study opportunities: LSE offers a wide range of study programmes for alumni to get involved in lifelong learning and professional development. More

• Award-winning bi-annual LSE Magazine and regular email newsletters
• Extensive reunions and events programme
• Alumni groups and contacts in over 70 countries
• Access to the Library, including borrowing rights
• Alumni Professional Mentoring Network
• Houghton Street Online web community, including online email directory, email forwarding service and updating your details
• Membership of the LSE Alumni Association, representing your views to the School’s governing bodies
• Further study opportunities, including alumni discounts on postgraduate, Language Centre and Summer School courses
• Access to the LSE Careers Service
• Termly LSE Events Leaflet (UK addresses only)
• LSE memorabilia, clothing and personalised souvenirs from the LSE Shop
• Discounts on Students’ Union Gym membership
• Accommodation discounts on LSE halls of residence and local hotels

Useful links: Alumni Relations homepage, LSE Annual Fund homepage, Supporting LSE.

Your feedback is valuable and welcome. Please keep us informed and send any news or comments to alumni@lse.ac.uk or contact us.

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