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On making art and doing IR

Wednesday 4 October 2023 6.00pm to 7.30pm
Old Theatre, Old Building

Dr Saara Särmä has used art-making as part of her research in multiple ways over the years. In this talk she will introduce playful visual arts-based methods that she has used and developed in her work, namely collages and installations.

Collages and installations can work as modes to study IR issues, and they are important tools in making IR themes visual in accessible form for audiences outside of academia. Furthermore, art-making can be empowering on personal and collective levels, thus Dr Särmä will share with us why she thinks that these methods have transformative potential.

Meet our speakers and chair

Dr Saara Särmä, Tampere University. Dr Saara Särmä is a feminist, an activist, an artist and a researcher. She’s interested in politics of visuality and image circulation, feminist academic activism, and laughter in world politics.

Dr Audrey Alejandro, Assistant Professor in the Department of Methodology, LSE

Sara Wong, PhD candidate in the Department of International Relations, LSE

Chair: Professor William A Callahan, Professor in the Department of International Relations, LSE

This public event is free and open to all. 

No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. 

Find out more

For any queries email ir.comms@lse.ac.uk.

The Contested World Economy: On the Origins of International Political Economy

Thursday 12 October 2023 6.30pm to 8.00pm
The Auditorium, Centre Building

When International Political Economy textbooks discuss the pre-1945 roots of the field, they typically focus on European and American thinkers who pioneered the three perspectives of economic liberalism, neomercantilism, and Marxism. But debates about IPE issues between late 18th century and 1945 were much more global than this, involving prominent thinkers from all parts of the world.

They also included many more perspectives, including those focusing on wider topics such as national self-sufficiency, environmental degradation, gender inequality, racial discrimination, religious worldviews, civilisational values, and varieties of economic regionalism.

Drawing on his new book The Contested World Economy (Cambridge 2023), LSE IR alumnus Eric Helleiner highlights the rich diversity of pre-1945 thought about the world economy and the need to globalise and widen IPE’s deep history.

Meet our speakers and chair

Professor Eric Helleiner, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.

Dr Victoria Paniagua, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations, LSE 

Chair: Professor Robert Falkner, Professor in International Relations at LSE

This public event is free and open to all. 

No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. 

For any queries email ir.comms@lse.ac.uk.