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- 11 Dec 2002
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Falconer, Charles
Chair: Davies, Simon
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Falconer, Charles
Chair: Davies, Simon
Protecting human rights in an anti-terrorist world
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Jilani, Hina
Chair: Gearty, Conor
Protecting human rights in an age of uncertainty
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Arbour, Louise
Chair: Chinkin, Christine
Prospects for the future in East-Central Europe
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Boone, Peter; Robinson, Anthony; Bowman, Christopher; Flanders, Stephanie
Prospects for American hegemony in the 21st Century
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Gaddis, John Lewis
Chair:
Prospects and problems of democracy
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
Promoting civil society: how would the mayor involve Londoners in the life of their city?
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Gidoomal, Ram; Hughes, Simon; Johnson, Darren; Livingstone, Ken; Norris, Steve
Chair: Baine, Sean
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Howe, Geoffrey
Chair: Hill, Christopher
Series: Developments of British diplomacy: foreign secretaries reflect
Problematising Asia: reflections on the re-emergence of the discourse of Asia
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Hui, Wang
Chair: Held, David
Series: Miliband lecture
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Bearpark, Andy; Beyani, Chaloka; Gillard, Emanuela-Chiara
Private enterprise, public responsibility
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Sheppard, Allen
Series: Clifford Barclay memorial lecture
Privacy, identity and citizenship
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Rodota, Stefano
Series: Comparative law and social theory lecture
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Pinker, Robert
Part of LSE Community Histories
Personal author: Abishegam, Priscilla
Music Society's Lent Term Concert 2009; performing the aria Vissi d'arte from Act II of Puccini's Tosca
Part of LSE Community Histories
Personal author: Abishegam, Priscilla
India Week 2009 on Houghton Street; the International Officer of the Student's Union really wanted to wear a sari and this is a picture of us tying a sari for him.
Postcolonialism and the political imagination
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Spencer, Jonathan
Series: Malinowski memorial lecture
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Papandreou, George
Politics and power in the network society
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Castells, Manuel
Chair: Held, David
Series: Miliband lecture on culture in the age of global communications
Politics after socialism (Part 7 of 7)
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Giddens, Anthony
Series: Director's lecture
Politics after socialism (Part 6 of 7)
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Giddens, Anthony
Series: Director's lecture
Politics after socialism (Part 5 of 7)
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Giddens, Anthony
Series: Director's lecture
Politics after socialism (Part 4 of 7)
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Giddens, Anthony
Series: Director's lecture
Politics after socialism (Part 3 of 7)
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Giddens, Anthony
Series: Director's lecture
Politics after socialism (Part 2 of 7)
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Giddens, Anthony
Series: Director's lecture
Politics after socialism (Part 1 of 7)
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Giddens, Anthony
Series: Director's lecture
Political Science at the LSE: A History of the Department of Government, from the Webbs to Covid
Part of LSE Community Histories
Submitted by: Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
Date: Autumn 2019-January 2021
This book began in autumn 2019, and continued throughout the Covid pandemic. It is being published by Ubiquity Press, as an open-source book, with a publication date of about 1st October 2021. It was meant to be part of the School's 125th anniversary celebration and is the first ever history of the LSE Government Department.
The contributors include students at all levels (undergraduate, masters, doctoral), working together with Gordon Bannerman (a British historian who previously studied at LSE) and Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey as Head of the Department. Moreover, we wanted to ensure that different perspectives were heard and so along with archival research, we included dozens of interviews with current and former academics, PSS staff, students and alumni. We wanted the history to have many voices, and I think that we have achieved that.
Completing this during Covid posed many challenges. First, we had only two months to conduct the in-person archival work in the library before the first lockdown hit. This posed a major challenge as it made access to the historical archives impossible. Fortunately, the research that had been done, together with on-line research, allowed us to move forward.
A second challenge was that we were all working from various parts of the worldCanada, Kenya, Lebanon, Poland, and different parts of the UK! So, just keeping the focus and momentum going as the pandemic raged throughout the world was quite the task. Somehow, each of us managed to bring our contributions to the volume at different times, as we were each facing our own Covid-related disruptions along the way.
A third challenge was obtaining the interviews as the turmoil of Covid took hold. Here, Skype, Zoom and phone calls made the interviews possible, and in some cases, were more convenient than in-person interviews. The real difficulty was that in spring of 2020, many interviewees were difficult to contact, given the on-going turmoil in everyones lives. But the fact that so many interviewees were willing to take the time for us is a real testament to the strength of feeling that many have towards the Department and the School more generally.
The book itself traces the emergence and evolution of the LSE Government Department from 1895 to 2020, focusing on the personalities that guided the development of the Department, the social and political contexts the Department existed within, its research agenda and course structure, and the location of the Department in British politics. It also charts the evolution of the discipline of political science in Britain itself. The volume is divided chronologically into four chapters, each covering roughly similar time periods in the Departments history and focuses on the events that shaped it: personalities, events, and location. Key themes are the development of political science in Britain, the impact of location on the LSE Government Department, the professionalisation of academia in Britain, and the microcosm the Department presents of British political life during each time period. The conflicts between progressive and conservative forces are a recurring theme which helps link the internal dynamics of the Department with the wider social and political contexts that occurred from the beginning of the School to its 125th anniversary.
Part of LSE Public Lectures 1990 - 2006
Speaker: Ray, Debraj
Chair: Sutton, John
Series: BP lecture
Part of LSE Community Histories
Submitted by: Dana Ramadan
Date: February 2021
Location: In my kitchen, in my London shared flat in Islington
I finally found the time to start bulk shopping after discovering my local zero-waste stores.