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Stefaan de Rynck, Senior Advisor to Michel Barnier, Chief EU Negotiator for Brexit, will provide a state of play on the Brexit negotiations. He will focus on the Withdrawal Treaty and the nature of the transition and will address the current progress and possible ways forward.

Stefaan De Rynck (@StefaanDeRynck) is senior advisor of Michel Barnier, Chief EU Negotiator for Brexit, in charge of public engagement strategy and relations with think tanks. He is professor at the College of Europe since 2003, and also teaches on EU governance at the Collegio Carlo Alberto (University of Turin).

Kevin Featherstone is Head of the European Institute, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor of European Politics.

This lecture is part of the LSE Programme on Brexit. More details are available here.

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Hilary Benn will speak about the Brexit negotiations and the future of the UK-EU relations.

Hilary Benn (@hilarybennmp) is Labour MP for Leeds Central and Chair of the Select Committee on Exiting the European Union.

Tony Travers is Director of the Institute of Public Affairs, LSE.

This lecture is part of the LSE Programme on Brexit.

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Speakers: Naomi Clayton, Policy and Research Manager at Centre for Cities
Niamh Moloney, Professor of Law, LSE Law Department

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A new ‘populism’ is evident in a variety of countries. Experts and expertise are attacked as standing in the way of the popular will.  Universities are under new pressures from populist politicians. How should these pressures be resisted?

Born in Canada, educated at the University of Toronto and Harvard, Michael Ignatieff (@M_Ignatieff) is a university professor, writer and former politician. His major publications are The Needs of Strangers (1984), Scar Tissue (1992), Isaiah Berlin (1998), The Rights Revolution (2000), Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (2001), The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004), and Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics (2013).

Between 2006 and 2011, he served as an MP in the Parliament of Canada and then as Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition. He is a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and holds eleven honorary degrees. Between 2012 and 2015 he served as Centennial Chair at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York. Between 2014 and 2016 he was Edward R. Murrow Professor of the Practice of the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

He is currently the Rector and President of Central European University in Budapest.

Simon Glendinning (@lonanglo) is Professor of European Philosophy at the European Institute and the Director of the Forum for European Philosophy.

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This lecture will provide a broad overview of how industrial policy has gone in and out of fashion over the last few decades, and why it is so important at the moment. It will set out some of the challenges that current policies attempt to tackle – skills, productivity and regional disparities.

The speakers will furthermore discuss how trade policy and industrial policy are linked and what this means in the context of the UK and Brexit.

With Dr Steve Coulter and Dr Swati Dhingra. Chaired by Prof Tony Travers.

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In their latest book Clean Brexit, which they will discuss at this event, Liam Halligan and Gerard Lyons offer a vision of how Britain, and the world, can make a great success of Brexit. If the negotiations go well, the UK could become an inspiration for voters elsewhere in Europe who have long demanded EU reform. Unashamedly optimistic about Britain’s future, they argue that leaving the EU provides an opportunity for the UK to re-invent its economy, while reclaiming our place as a premier global trading nation.

Liam Halligan (@LiamHalligan) is a British economist, journalist and broadcaster.

Gerard Lyons (@DrGerardLyons) is a leading UK and international economist and writer.

Tony Travers is Director of the Institute of Public Affairs.

This lecture is part of the LSE Programme on Brexit.

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The Brexit debate saw a revival in talk of ‘sovereignty’. But what exactly is it, and why is it so highly prized? What are its essential features and what are its limits? In a globalized world, is sovereignty something modern states can achieve? We will explore this elusive concept, and ask whether it is still a useful concept in the twenty-first century.

Serena Ferente is Senior Lecturer in Medieval European History, KCL.

Carmen Pavel is Lecturer in International Politics, King’s College London.

David Runciman is Professor of Politics, University of Cambridge.

Sarah Fine (@DrSJFine) is a Fellow in The Forum and a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, King’s College London.

The Forum for European Philosophy (@ForumPhilosophy) is an educational charity that organises a full and varied programme of philosophy and interdisciplinary events in the UK.

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As the UK and the EU look ahead to their long-term relationship post-Brexit, what might the UK learn from the experiences of other European states that are outside the EU but have endeavoured to maintain close economic ties to it? What does life outside the EU offer? Is there a trade-off between market access and sovereignty? What are the implications for domestic politics and economics? This expert panel will probe beyond the rhetoric to outline the key issues.

Joachim Blatter is Professor of Political Science at the University of Lucerne.

Erik O Eriksen is the Director of ARENA and Professor of Political Science, University of Oslo.

Sieglinde Gstöhl is Director of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies, College of Europe (Belgium).

Kevin Featherstone is Head of the European Institute, LSE.

The LSE European Institute (@LSEEI) is a centre for research and graduate teaching on the processes of integration and fragmentation within Europe. In the most recent national Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) the Institute was ranked first for research in its sector.

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The impact of Brexit on human rights in the United Kingdom is at present uncertain.  It is clear that the elimination of European oversight over the many social gains that we now think of as ‘human rights’ exposes such guarantees to governmental attack, but of course it does not follow from this that such assaults are inevitable.

A mechanism for their dilution will be available to the authorities here post-Brexit, and as things stand their removal may not even involve substantive parliamentary oversight. Historically the UK government has strongly opposed much of Europe’s social rights agenda.  So will time soon be up for such rights as paid holidays, equal pay, maternity leave, agency protections, and much else besides?

This lecture is part of the LSE Programme on Brexit.

Conor Gearty is Professor of Human Rights Law, LSE Law.

Kevin Featherstone is Head of the European Institute, LSE.

The LSE European Institute (@LSEEI) is a centre for research and graduate teaching on the processes of integration and fragmentation within Europe. In the most recent national Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) the Institute was ranked first for research in its sector.

The Institute of Public Affairs (@LSEPubAffairs) is one of the world’s leading centres of public policy. We aim to debate and address some of the major issues of our time, whether international or national, through our established teaching programmes, our research and our highly innovative public-engagement initiatives.

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