How to contact us

Geography & Environment
LSE
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE

Undergraduate enquiries
Lee Mager
a.l.mager@lse.ac.uk|
+44 (0)20 7955 7903

Graduate enquiries
Tom Ireland
t.ireland@lse.ac.uk|
+44 (0)20 7955 7496
(MSc Human Geography & Urban Studies Research, MSc Local Economic Development, MSc Real Estate Economics & Finance, MSc Urbanisation & Development)

Sam Colegate
s.colegate@lse.ac.uk|
+44 (0)20 7955 6089
(MSc Environment & Development, MSc Environmental Economics & Climate Change, MSc Environmental Policy & Regulation, MSc Regional & Urban Planning Studies, PhD programmes)

Department Manager
Elaine Gascoyne
e.gascoyne@lse.ac.uk|

Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7412

Events

We host numerous lectures by visiting statespeople and academics throughout the year, discussing themes of interest to the LSE community and the general public.

Our events are free and open to all, and we aim to make video and audio recordings, as well as any materials used, available on this page whenever possible.

Coming Soon
AkhilGupta  

Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

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Sixty years after liberation from colonial rule, why has the Indian state been unable to eradicate extreme poverty? Akhil Gupta explores the policies that have resulted in dramatic increases in Indian productivity, but also generated spectacular new forms of inequality.

Akhil Gupta is professor of anthropology and director of the Center for India and South Asia at UCLA.

11th June, 6:30pm, Old Theatre, LSE

 
Diane Coyle

"Enough": policies for a sustainable economy

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The world's leading economies must explore key policy changes if they are to emerge from current crises with an economy for tomorrow as well as today.

Diane Coyle runs Enlightenment Economics|, is vice chair of the BBC Trust, and a visiting professor at the University of Manchester.

14th June, 6:30pm, New Theatre, LSE

 
Previous Events: videos, podcasts and information
David Harvey

Rebel Cities: The Urbanization of Class Struggle|

Exploring the city as a key arena within which class forces clash.

David Harvey is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include A Companion to Marx's Capital and Rebel Cities|.

Watch Video|     /    Download Podcast (mp3)|

 
Scott Barrett|

Climate Treaties and Approaching Catastrophes

Does the prospect of climate catastrophes make international cooperation on climate change any easier?

Scott Barrett, the Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, explores the question.

Audio Podcast|     /    Download Slides (.pdf)|

 
Professor Philip McCann

Redesigning the World's Largest Development Programme:
EU Cohesion Policy

Philip McCann is Special Adviser to Johannes Hahn (European Commissioner for Regional Policy), and the University of Groningen Endowed Chair of Economic Geography.

Watch Video|     /     Download Podcast|       /       Download Slides|

 
Francis Salway

Why the role of the developer matters

Francis Salway -  CE of Land Securites, Britain's largest commercial property company.

26th Oct 2011, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Watch Video|       /       Download Podcast|       /       Event Information|

 
Joe Oliver

Canada: a reliable, responsible contributor to global energy security and economic stability

Joe Oliver -  Canadian Minister of Natural Resources

20th Oct 2011, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Read Transcript|      /      Download Podcast|      /      Event Information|

 
Professor Ian Goldin

Exceptional People: how migration shaped our world and will define our future 

Ian Goldin -  Director of the Oxford Martin School |and former VP of the World Bank

11th Oct 2011, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Watch Video|       /       Download Podcast|       /       Event Information|

 
Ananya Roy

Cities at the Speed of Light: Asian experiments of the urban century 

Ananya Roy - Professor in department of City & Regional planning, director of Global Metropolitan Studies Centre at Berkeley

12th May 2011, New Theatre, LSE
Watch Video|       /       Download Podcast|       /       Event Information|

 
Pavan Sukhdev

The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity

Pavan Sukhdev - UN Environment Programme

21st March 2011, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Watch Video|       /       Download Podcast|       /       Event Information|

 
Edawrd Glaeser

Triumph of the City: How our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier and happier

Edward Glaeser -  Professor of Economics at Harvard University, author of 'Triumph of the City'

14th March 2011, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, LSE
Watch Video|       /       Download Podcast|       /       Event Information|

 
Sylvia Chant

Gender and Poverty in the 21st Century

Panel discussion -  The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty, edited by Professor Sylvia Chant

11th March 2011, Old Theatre, LSE
Watch Video|       /       Download Podcast|       /       Event Information|

 
Brian Chikwava

LSE Literary Festival 2011: Placing Mobilities

Panel discussion -  Brian Chikwava, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Olumide Popoola consider a number of complementary and competing themes around the topic of diaspora and place in literature

19th February 2011, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, LSE
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Bjorn Lomborg

An Evening with Bjørn Lomborg: Putting Global Warming into Perspective

Bjørn Lomborg -  adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist

16th February 2011, New Theatre, LSE
Watch Video|       /       Download Podcast|       /       Event Information|

 
Henry Overman

How did London get away with it?: The Recession and the North-South Divide

Henry Overman -  Professor of Economic Geography at LSE, director of the Spatial Economics Research Centre

20th January 2011, Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Watch Video|       /       Download Podcast|       /       Event Information|

 

 

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