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Speakers:

Dr Jasna Dragović-Soso, Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths University of London.

Dr Jelena Petrović, Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

Eric Gordy, Professor of Political and Cultural Sociology, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London

Dr Jelena Subotić, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University

James Gow, Professor of International Peace and Security, Department of War Studies, King’s College London

Chair:

Dr Denisa Kostovicova, Associate Professor, Department of Government, LSE

The panel discusses the implications for accountability for war crimes in the Balkans following the closure of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

This event is hosted by LSE Department of Government’s Conflict Research Group and AHRC-funded ‘Arts and Reconciliation’ project.

Entry to the event will be on a first come, first served basis with no ticket required. 

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Image credit: Paul Lowe

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Speaker: Sayeeda Warsi,  Britain’s first Muslim Cabinet minister, is also a lawyer, businesswoman and racial justice campaigner. Appointed a life peer at the age of thirty-six, she served as Chairman of the Conservative Party, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and as Minister for Faith and Communities. In the summer of 2014 she resigned from government, citing its ‘morally indefensible’ policy on Gaza.

Chair: Tony Travers, Director of the Institute of Public Affairs and Professor in Practice in the Department of Government, LSE.

How did British Muslims end up being branded “the enemy within”? Sayeeda Warsi draws on her own unique position in British life – as the child of Pakistani immigrants, an outsider, who became an insider, the UK’s first Muslim Cabinet minister – to explore questions of cultural difference, terrorism, surveillance, social justice, religious freedom, integration and the meaning of ‘British values’.

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Speaker: Ed Williams (@EdWilliamsUK), Ed leads Edelman’s UK and Ireland business, and is also Vice Chairman, Europe.  Before joining the firm in 2011, he oversaw communications for two global media companies: the BBC and Reuters. He advises senior executives on corporate communications and strategy as well as issues and crisis management.

Chair: Francisco Panizza, Dr Panizza is a Professor in Latin American and Comparative Politics at the Department of Government of the LSE.

Fake news, information wars, biased reporting. Today’s volatile information landscape is raising challenging questions. Do we trust our information, and what does it mean for the media if we don’t? Ed Williams, CEO of Edelman UK, discusses the findings from the newly released Edelman Trust Barometer, the world’s largest annual global study of trust. His lecture will delve into the shifting expectations of media, including what makes information trustworthy and what steps can be taken to earn back trust.

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Speakers: 

Matthew d’Ancona (@MatthewdAncona), British journalist who writes a weekly column for the Guardian and was previously editor of the Spectator

Tanya Filer (@TanyaFiler), Research Associate on the Leverhulme-funded Conspiracy and Democracy Project based at CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and

Humanities)

Juliane Reinecke, Professor of International Management & Sustainability and Associate Dean (Impact & Innovation), King’s Business School.

André Spicer (@andre_spicer), Professor of Organisational Behaviour and the founding director of ETHOS: The Centre for Responsible Enterprise at Cass Business School

Chair: Jonathan Hopkin (@jrhopkin), Associate Professor in Comparative Politics, LSE Department of Government

The study of bullshit has become a growing area of scholarly enquiry in political science, management, sociology and philosophy. This event discusses how bullshit has taken over the worlds of business and increasingly the political arena. The spread of management-speak from business the public sector organisations into politics has been a feature of recent years. This vacuous jargon can be easily laughed off, but is there a real cost to talking rubbish? André Spicer will present his book on Business Bullshit, and will be joined by Matthew d’Ancona and Jonathan Hopkin who will argue that politics is equally subject to the descent into bullshit, with potentially disastrous consequences for our democracy.

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Speaker: Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) is Fellow in Comparative Politics, Department of Government, LSE.

Chair: Jonathan Hopkin (@jrhopkin) is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Government, LSE.

Donald Trump isn’t a despot. But he is increasingly acting like a despot’s apprentice. An expert on authoritarianism, Brian Klaas is well placed to recognise the warning signs of tyranny. He argues forcefully that with every autocratic tactic or tweet, Trump further erodes democratic norms in the world’s most powerful democracy.

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Speaker: Professor Pippa Norris, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Chair: Bill Kissane, Associate Professor (Reader) in Politics, LSE Department of Government

Populist challengers have disrupted long established patterns of party competition in many contemporary Western societies, as exemplified by Donald Trump in the US, Marine Le Pen in France, Nigel Farage in the UK, and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.

The project for a new book Cultural Backlash seeks to analyse the phenomenon of Populist-Authoritarianism and its mass appeal as a style of governance which threatens progressive values as well as core principles and practices of liberal democracy.

This event is co-hosted by the LSE Department of Government and ASEN.

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Speaker: Dr Mariana Escobar, Dr Escobar has a PhD and a Master’s in Political Science from the LSE. As the General Director for the Colombian Agency for Territorial Renewal, she has the key task of reactivating governance and economy in conflict-affected rural areas of Colombia.

Chair: Dr Francisco Panizza, Dr Panizza is a Professor in Latin American and Comparative  Politics at the Department of Government of the LSE.

Join us in a conversation to explore the challenges and prospects of sustainable peace-building on the ground, how to overcome violent stereotypes and generate opportunities for local communities.

This event is hosted by the LSE Department of Government and the LSE SU Colombian Society.

This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. Only one ticket per person can be requested. All our events are over-ticketed so please do arrive early to avoid disappointment and note that a ticket does not guarantee entry to the event. Request a ticket.

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Speaker: Rachel Reeves MP, Labour MP for Leeds West. She is the second woman to represent Leeds in the House of Commons since Alice Bacon. Prior to her parliamentary career, Reeves worked as an economist.

Chair: Professor David Soskice, School Professor of Political Science and Economics in the LSE Department of Government

Rachel Reeves discusses the political life and legacy of Alice Bacon – the first woman MP for Leeds and Yorkshire in her new book Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon.

This event is hosted by the LSE Department of Government and the LSE SU Women in Politics Society, a new society at LSE aiming to encourage and enhance women’s political leadership.

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Speakers:

Ali Cirone, Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Economy, LSE Department of Government

Ben Lyons, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Exeter

Jason Reifler, Professor of Political science, University of Exeter

Chair:
Thomas Leeper, Associate Professor in Political Behaviour, LSE Department of Government

Do you know how to survive in an era of “post-truth” politics? Can you recognise dodgy statistics when you see them or spot fake news?

This event will provides tips and tricks on how to successfully evaluate political information found on social media or political campaigns. Using examples from the Brexit referendum, recent general elections, and the presidential election in the United States, academic experts will cover topics like fake news, sensational statistics, clickbait headlines and  echo chambers on Twitter and Facebook.

The lecture will conclude with drinks, snacks, and a general discussion about how to be a savvy consumer of political information.

This event is part of The ESRC Festival of Social Science, which is a celebration of the social sciences.

This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required, only one ticket per person can be requested. All our events are overticketed so please do arrive early to avoid disappointment and note that a ticket does not guarantee entry to the event. Tickets will be made available via Eventbrite from the 2 November.

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Speakers: 

Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement

Samia Al-Botmeh, Assistant Professor, Birzeit University

John Chalcraft, Professor of Middle East History and Politics, Department of Government, LSE

Nicola Pratt, Reader, International Politics of the Middle East, University of Warwick

Rafeef Ziadah, Lecturer Comparative Politics of the Middle East, SOAS

Chair:

Ayça Çubukçu, Assistant Professor in Human Rights, Department of Sociology, LSE

The week commencing 6 November marks 100 years since the Balfour declaration, in which the British government promised the Zionist movement a Jewish national home in Mandate Palestine. It is also 50 years since the start of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories (East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip). The Israel/ Palestine conflict is ongoing, but the diplomatic and political process has been stagnant for almost two decades. Since 2005, however, Palestinian civil society has led a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel, aiming to pressure the latter to concede basic rights to Palestinians. The movement has grown apace, scoring some high profile successes and, especially since 2010, attracting attention in the corridors of power. This panel brings together leading BDS protagonists, rights-activists and academics to discuss the movement and its prospects. What sort of transnational solidarity does the BDS movement propose? What sorts of normative claims does the movement make? What are its strengths and weaknesses? What are its most important achievements and failures to date?

This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required, only one ticket per person can be requested. All our events are overticketed so please do arrive early to avoid disappointment and note that a ticket does not guarantee entry to the event. Tickets will be made available via Eventbrite from the 1 November.

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