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Forthcoming events
Lent Term 2012
Following packed houses for Paul Mason on 30 January and Richard Sennett on 6 February (see Previous events LT 2012) we have two more major public lectures coming up this term. For more details see below. Public lectures at LSE are free and open to all, unless otherwise specified. If you are planning to attend an event and would like details on how to get here and what time to arrive, please refer to Coming to an event at LSE|.
If you would like to join our mailing list so you don't miss out on forthcoming events, please email Sociology.events@lse.ac.uk|.
Follow the links on the left for other events hosted by our research centres and the research student-led Sociology Forum. See Past Events for lectures and other events last year and in previous years, with links to videos and podcasts where available.
Sociology Department Public Lecture
'European Community of Democracies - towards a new foundation of Europe'
Speaker: Ulrich Beck
Chair: Professor Bridget Hutter
Monday 20 February 2012, 6.30-8pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
German euro-nationalism is not inevitable. Europe's crisis is an opportunity to enlarge democracy.
Ulrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich and British Journal of Sociology LSE Centennial Professor.
For more information see LSE Public Events page|.
This lecture is free and open to all on a first come first served basis.
Info: events@lse.ac.uk| or call 020 7955 6043
Ralph Miliband Programme and Sociology Department Public Lecture
'Has the Future a Left?'
Speaker: Zygmunt Bauman
Chair: Professor Paul Gilroy
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Being on the left in times of globalisation and divorce of power and politics. New mechanisms of domination and reproduction of inequality, From society of producers to society of consumers. From proletariat to precariat. From solidarity to oneupmanship. Deficit of trust, crisis of agency, and people on the move.
Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds.
This lecture is free and open to all on a first come first served basis.
Info: events@lse.ac.uk| or call 020 7955 6043
Previous events LT 2012
Sociology Department Public Lecture:
'Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Co-operation'
Speaker: Richard Sennett
Chair: Dr Fran Tonkiss
Monday 6 February 2012, 6.30-8pm
Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
Living with people who differ – racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically – is one of the most difficult challenges facing us today. Modern politics emphasizes unity and similarity, encouraging the politics of the tribe rather than of complexity. In his new book and in this lecture, Richard Sennett argues that living with people unlike ourselves requires more than goodwill: it requires skill.
Richard Sennett is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at LSE, founder director of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and University Professor at New York University.
For more information see LSE Public Events page|. Video and podcast available soon.
Sociology Department Public Lecture:
'Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions'
Speaker: Paul Mason
Chair: Dr Nigel Dodd
Monday 30 January 2012, 6.30-8pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Our world is changing dramatically. Social upheaval has followed worldwide economic crisis and the gulf between the haves and the have-nots is widening. In 2011, this profound disconnect found expression in events that we were told had been consigned to history: revolt and revolution. In his new book Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere and in this lecture Paul Mason sets out to explore the causes and consequences of this current wave of struggle, illuminating the links between the economic and social crisis. He explores and analyzes what lies behind the new revolutions – a volatile combination of the near collapse of free-market capitalism, new technologies and changes in popular culture, and a profound shift in our understanding of what freedom means.
Why It's Kicking Off video and podcast|
Previous events MT 2011
Conference: Ralph Miliband and Parliamentary Socialism
Speakers: Tariq Ali, Robin Archer, Robin Blackburn, Hilary Wainwright
Friday 25 November 2011, 1-5.30pm
Morishima Conference Room, LSE
A conference to mark the 50th anniversary of Ralph Miliband's first major work, the hugely influential Parliamentary Socialism: A study in the politics of Labour. The book argues that Labour's belief in the centrality of parliamentary politics often undermined the very social movements that were needed to bring about real change. With protest on the rise, and Labour seeking a new way forward, the conference aimed to reassess Miliband's arguments and their contemporary relevance. See Conference Programme |(PDF).
Ralph Miliband Programme and Sociology Department Public Lecture:
'Whatever Happened to Parliamentary Socialism: Taking Ralph Miliband Seriously Today'
Speaker: Professor Leo Panitch
Chair: Dr Robin Archer
Friday 25 November 2011, 6.30-8pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
What can Ralph Miliband's arguments tell us about contemporary British politics and the modern Labour Party in a country suffering from greater economic turmoil, social division and unrest than it has seen in decades?
Leo Panitch is Distinguished Research Professor at York University (Canada) and a renowned political economist, Marxist theorist and co-editor of the Socialist Register, who knew Ralph Miliband well. He received his MSc and PhD from LSE in 1968 and 1974, respectively.
Whatever Happened to Parliamentary Socialism podcast|
Hobhouse Memorial Lecture: 
'Bombing Savages in Law, in Fact, in Fiction'
Speaker: Sven Lindqvist
Chair: Professor Paul Gilroy
Thursday 10 November2011, 6.30-8pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
This lecture marked the centenary of aerial bombardment and examined the relationship between racism, imperialism and aerial warfare. In November 1911 an Italian pilot dropped the first bombs from an aeroplane on to the oasis of Tagiura outside Tripoli. More than just a military revolution, this development changed both war and peace. It redrew the legal and moral boundaries between civilians and combatants, spread the theatre of war into new environments and expanded the battlefield, making cities into places of mass death and taking warfare into private, domestic spaces. The lecture was linked to the conference ‘Shock and Awe: 100 years of bombing from above’ (10-12 November), a joint initiative of LSE Sociology and the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. http://www.shockandawe.org.uk/|
Sven Lindqvist is the author of over 30 widely translated books. His work on racism, imperialism and aerial warfare has been influential, in particular his book A History of Bombing (2001).
Bombing Savages podcast
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British Journal of Sociology 2011 Public Lecture:
'Citizenship and Immigration: Rights and Obligations of Individuality'
Speaker: Yasemin Soysal
Chair: Gillian Stevens
Tuesday 18 October 2011, 6.30-8pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
This lecture addressed the recently intensified European debates and policies on immigrant integration in the context of the broad changes in the conceptions and institutions of citizenship. Yasemin Soysal is Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Essex and Gillian Stevens is Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Population Research Laboratory at the University of Alberta.
Sociology Forum
The Forum usually holds several events each term, including roundtable discussions, well-known external speakers, debates, and papers from academics and graduate students, open to all faculty and students in the Sociology Department and sometimes to a wider audience. To find out more about it see Sociology Forum|.