Spring Term
Where next for the UK and the EU after the referendum?
Date: Tuesday 28 June 2016
Speakers: Simon Hix, Harold Laski Professor of Political Science at the LSE and a UK in a Changing Europe ESRC Senior Fellow. Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London and Director of The UK in a Changing Europe. Angus Armstrong, Director of Macroeconomics at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). Patrick Dunleavy, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Government Department, LSE.
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LSE's Referendum Night 2016
Date: Thursday 23 June 2016 | 21:00-02:00
The UK voted in the referendum on the UK's membership of the EU. The LSE European Institute in partnership with The UK in a Changing Europe organised the LSE Referendum Night 2016, an evening of panel debates between LSE academics and external experts as well as expert commentaries as the first referendum results came in.
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The LSE Commission on the Future of Britain in Europe Report Launch Event
Date: Tuesday 7 June 2016
Speakers: Professor Iain Begg, Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute at LSE. Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Dr. Sara Hagemann, Assistant Professor at the European Institute, LSE and ESRC Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe Initiative.
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Equality - Smart Economics
The European Institute 'Perspectives on Europe' series
Date: Tuesday 7 June 2016
Speaker: Magdalena Andersson, member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, Minister of Finance since 2014
Chair: Professor Erik Berglöf
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The UK and Europe: An insider's view
The European Institute 'Perspectives on Europe' series
Date: Thursday 2 June 2016
Speaker: Professor Jonathan Faull, British Official in the European Commission and Director-General of "Task Force for Strategic Issues related to the UK Referendum"
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Slippery Slope: Europe's Troubled Future
The European Institute 'Perspectives on Europe' series
Date: Thursday 26 May 2016
Speaker: Giles Merritt, former Financial Times correspondent and current Editor-in-Chief and Founder of 'Friends of Europe', a leading Brussels think tank, and the policy journal Europe's World.
Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
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The Single EU Capital Market: progress and challenges
European Institute, Financial Markets Group and Systemic Risk Centre public lecture
Date: Monday 23 May 2016
Speaker: Jonathan Hill, current European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union
Chair: Professor Charles Goodhart
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Britain: leading, not leaving - the case for remaining in the European Union
The European Institiute 'Perspectives on Europe' series
Date: Wednesday 11 May 2016
Speaker: Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the UK
Chair: Professor Craig Calhoun
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Should we stay or should we go now?
LSE European Institute "Europe in Question" Annual Lecture 2016
Date: Tuesday 10 May 2016
Speaker: ProfessorDanny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography and Fellow of St Peter’s College, University of Oxford
Chair: Dr. Vassilis Monastiriotis
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The Dutch referendum on the EU-Ukraine Association agreement: what lessons for Brexit?
UK in a Changing Europe and European Institute event
Date: Thursday 14 April 2016
Speakers: Michiel van Hulten, Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE European Institute
Matt Steinglass, Europe Editor, Economist
Professor Sara Hobolt, LSE European Institute
Professor Anand Menon, Director of the UK in a Changing Europe Initiative, King's College London
Chair: Dr. Sara Hagemann, LSE and ESRC Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe Initiative and LSE European Institute
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Winter term
The World’s Climate Capital? COP21 and the Greening of Paris
European Institute and LSE Cities public lecture
Date: Tuesday 15 March 2016
Speaker: Celia Blauel, Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of the Environment, Sustainable Development, the Climate Plan for Energy, and Hydric resources since 2014
Chair: Philipp Rode, Director of LSE Cities and Senior Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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How to boost growth as the Oil Price Falls: transformation and reform of the Norwegian economy
The European Institiute 'Perspectives on Europe' series
Date: Friday 11 March 2016
Speaker: Siv Jensen, Norwegian Minister of Finance since October 2013
Chair: Professor Iain Begg
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Too Important to fail: Humanitarian financing in a more fragile world
The European Institiute 'Perspectives on Europe' series
Date: Thursday 10 March 2016
Speaker: Kristalina Georgieva, Vice-President of the European Commission for Budget and former Humanitarian Aid Commissioner
Chair: Professor Iain Begg
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Managing Europe - What is Germany's Responsibility?
LSESU German Society and LSE European Institute Lecture
Date: Thursday 3 March 2016
Speaker: Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has served as Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance in the second and third Merkel cabinets since 2009
Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone
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Public Lecture: One School, Two Visions
Date: Thursday 25 February 2016
Speakers: Professor Michael Cox, Director of LSE IDEAS
Professor Chandran Kukathas, Head of the Department of Government, LSE
Chair: Professor Simon Glendinning
This event formed part of the LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival 2016, which took place from Monday 22 - Saturday 27 February 2016, with the theme 'Utopias'.
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Britain and the EU: a view from the European Parliament
Date: Friday 5 February 2016
Speaker: Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament
Chair: Professor Craig Calhoun
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Hungarian perspective on the future of Europe
The European Institute Perspectives on Europe Series
Date: Thursday 4 February 2016
Speaker: Mr Péter Szijjártó, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade 2014 - current
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Autumn Term
'How Growth Regimes Change: The Co-Evolution of Economics and Politics in the Developed Democracies'
European Institute 'Perspectives on Europe' public lecture
Date: 8 December 2015
Speaker: Prof Peter A. Hall, LSE Centennial Professor and Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies at Harvard University
Chair: Dr. Waltraud Schelkle, Associate Professor of Political Economy
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'Unstable Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood: a range of threats to European security'
Date: 26 November 2015
European Institute 'Perspectives on Europe' public lecture.
Speaker: Edgars Rinkevics, Latvia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs
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'Europe's Perfect Storm: racism, anti-Semitism, terrorism and resurgent nationalism'
European Institute 'Perspectives on Europe' public lecture
Date: 23 November 2015
Speaker: Michel Wieviorka, French sociologist
Chair: Professor Maurice Fraser
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'Next Steps in EU Antitrust Law: boosting national enforcement'
European Institute 'Perspectives on Europe' public lecture
Date: 20 November 2015
Speaker: Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition
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'Climate change and migration to Europe'
LSE European Institute, LSE Institute for Global Affairs, LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, the Embassy of France in the United Kingdom and the European Commission Representation in the UK public debate
Date: 18 November 2015
Speakers: Neil Adger, Professor of Human Geography, University of Exeter. Mary Robinson, UN Special Envoy for Climate Change and former President of Ireland. Alain Le Roy, Secretary General of the European External Action Service.
Chair: Professor Lord Stern, first holder of the IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government, Director of the India Observatory and Chairman of the Asia Research Centre.
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'A turbulent period in Turkey'
European Institute public talk
Date: 9 November 2015
Speaker: Caglar Keyder, LSE Centennial Professor at the European Institute and Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Binghamton and at Koc University, Istanbul
Chair: Dr. Esra Özyürek Associate Professor and Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the European Institute, LSE.
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'The Way Forward for Europe: a Union of solidarity and differentiation?'
European Institute 'Perspectives on Europe' public lecture
Date: 24 September 2015
Speaker: Emmanuel Macron, French Minister for the Economy, Industry and Digital Affairs.
Chair: Professor Maurice Fraser
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'Drifting apart? The social reality of Europe after the crisis'
European Institute public debate co-hosted with Policy Network
Date: 5 October 2015
Speakers: Roger Liddle and Patrick Diamond, chair and vice-chair, Policy Network and co-authors of 'The Social Reality of Europe After the Crisis: Trends, Challenges and Responses'
Respondents: Jonathan Hopkin, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, LSE. John Park, Assistant General Secretary, Community Trade Union
Chair: Dr Mareike Kleine
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'Migration and security challenges in the Mediterranean: every country for itself or a European response?'
European Institute 'Perspectives on Europe' public lecture
Date: 13 October 2015
Speaker: Angelino Alfano, Italian Minister of the Interior
Chair: Professor Maurice Fraser, Head of the European Institute and Professor of Practice in European Politics.
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'The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt'
European Institute 'Perspectives on Europe' public lecture & book launch
Date: 13 October 2015
Speaker: Martin Sandbu, Economics writer for the Financial Times
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'Jobs only for the most skilled at the right age?'
European Institute 'Perspectives on Europe' public lecture
Date: 26 October 2015
Speaker: Fredrik Reinfeldt, former Prime Minister of Sweden
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'Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals: a new partnership between state and private sector'
European Institute 'Perspectives on Europe' public lecture
Date: 27 October 2015
Speaker: Sir Suma Chakrabarti, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Chair: Dr. Waltraud Schelkle, Associate Professor of Political Economy at the European Institute, LSE.
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