Events

Events

Members of the Government Department are involved in a whole host of Public lectures and events. Below is a selection of these events ordered by month.

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May


Event

Adam Smith and the Law
|A Conference sponsored by the LSE Legal and Political Theory Forum
Date: Thursday, 24 May 2012
Time: 09:00-17:30
Venue: Alumni Theatre, NAB (NABLG09), LSE
Speakers: Dr Fonna Forman (University of California, San Diego), Dr Lisa Herzog (University of St Gallen), Dr Fotini Vaki (Ionian University, Corfu)
Chair: Chandran Kukathas (Government) & Thomas Poole (Law)
Full Program|

 
 
CRG

Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields (film screening)
Conflict Research Group Public Lecture
Date: Thursday 24 May 2012
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Benjamin Dix
Chair: Professor Jim Hughes

 
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Feminist Judgment symposium|
Gender Institute and Department of Government symposium
Date: 25 May 2012  
Time: 10am-5.30pm
Location: Wolfson Theatre, NAB, LSE
Speakers:  Professor Clare Hemmings (LSE), Professor Kim Hutchings (LSE), Professor Linda Zerilli (University of Chicago), Professor Jennifer Nedelsky (University of Toronto), and Professor Sonia Kruks (Cornell University Press)
Chair: Professor Anne Phillips

 

June


Sir Alan Beith

Should We Build On The Greenbelt?
Date
: Wednesday 27th June
Time: 6:30-8:00
Venue: LSE New Theatre
Speakers: Professor Henry Overman (LSE), Alex Morton (Policy Exchange, Senior Research Fellow for Housing & Planning) plus others TBC.
Chair: TBC 

 
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“Reductionism and Non-Reductionism in the Social Sciences”
|LSE Workshop Sponsored by the Department of Government and supported by the LSE Choice Group
Date: June 7 – 9, 2012
Conveners: Christian List and Kai Spiekermann
To register email: gov.enquiries@lse.ac.uk|

 

July


Event
Extracting Political Information From Legislative
|Date: Wednesday 4th July
Time: 16.00 - 17.30
Venue: St Catherine's College Oxford
Speaker: Dr Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
Chair:  Derek Valles
Part of the 5th ESRC Research Methods Festival 2012|
 
Event
Domesticating Global Justice: African Perspectives
|Joint LSE / University of Ghana Conference
Date: 6 and 7 July 2012 
Venue: NAB Moot Court
Chair:  Katrin Flikschuh (Government, LSE) and Helen Lauer (Philosophy, University of Ghana)