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Department Events 2023-24

Events, media, appointments, publications and more

Spring Term 2024 

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The Silver Empire: how Germany created its first common currency

Thursday 9 May 2024, 6-7.30pm

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Oliver Volckart will discuss his new book "The Silver Empire", in which he examines the conditions leading to the creation of Germany's first common currency.

Full details and how to attend this event can be found here: The Silver Empire


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The economic impact of natural disasters: Japan's Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923

Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building

Professor Janet Hunter looks at contemporary explanations of the economic impact of Japan's greatest natural disaster of modern times, and how they foreshadow later scholarship.

More information, including a link to the recording, is available here: Japan's Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923

 

Winter Term 2024 

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Epstein Lecture 2024: 217 million census records: evidence from linked census data

Speaker: James Feigenbaum, Boston University

Thursday 7 March, 6.30-8pm, Auditorium, Centre Building, and online

New historical census sources and advances in record linking technology, allow economic historians to become big data genealogists. James Feigenbaum will show how the ability to link individuals over time, and between databases, means that new avenues for research have opened up, thus allowing us to track intergenerational mobility, assimilation, discrimination and the returns to education.

No ticket or pre-registration is required for the in-person event, as entry is on a first come, first served basis. 

Registration for the online event will open after 10am, Thursday 15 February 2023.

You can find more information here: 217 million census records: evidence from linked census data


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Public Event: As Gods Among Men

Speaker: Guido Alfani, Bocconi University

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 6-7.30pm, MAR.2.08, Marshall Building

In his latest book, which forms the basis of this lecture, Guido Alfani offers a history of the rich and the super-rich in the West, examining who they were, how they accumulated their wealth, and what role they played in society. His account offers a novel perspective on current debates about wealth and income disparity.

For more information, including a link to the recording,  go to the event page: As gods among men

 

View our Autumn Term Events programme here.

Autumn Term 2023


 

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Public Event: Slavery, capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

Maxine Berg, Pat Hudson, Nick Draper, Tirthankar Roy, Patrick Wallis

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 7-8.30pm,  PAN G.01 (Pankhurst House), LSE 

A round table discussion of themes raised in Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson’s Slavery, capitalism and the Industrial Revolution. Berg and Hudson ‘follow the money’, detailing the role of slavery in the making of Britain’s industrial revolution, and its development as a global superpower. 

For more information and details of how to register go to the event page: Slavery, capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

In case you missed it, a recording of this event is available here.


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Black History Month Film Screening
5.30pm, Wednesday 25 October, Wolfson Theatre, CKK

We will be screening Emitaï (1971), by renowned Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène. The screening will be accompanied by a short talk contextualising the film within the economic history of West Africa.

Afterwards we will host an inter-disciplinary social for students and staff of African heritage. 

Go to this page for more information: Emitai film screening and social


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Public event: The economic government of the world, 1933-2023

Speaker: Professor Martin Daunton

Thursday 26 October, 6.30-8.00pm, Old Theatre, LSE and online

Economic historian Professor Martin Daunton will talk about his new book, The economic government of the world, 1933-2023, in which he pulls back the curtain on the institutions and individuals who have created and managed the economy over the last ninety years, revealing how and why one economic order breaks down and another is built.

This event is co-hosted by the Department of Economic History and the Economic HIstory Advisory Board.

For more information and details of how to register go to the event page: The economic government of the world, 1933-2023

In case you missed it, a recording of this event is available here.


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Public event: Trends and determinants of global child malnutrition: what can we learn from history?

Speaker: Professor Eric Schneider

Thursday 16 November 2023 6.30-8.00pm, Auditorium, Centre Building, LSE and online

In his inaugural lecture Eric Schneider will explore how child malnutrition, measured through child growth, has changed over the past 150 years around the world. Children with poor nutrition or who are exposed to high levels of chronic disease grow more slowly than healthy children. Thus, children’s growth is a sensitive metric of how population health has evolved over time.

For more information and details of how to register go to the event page: Trends and determinants of global child malnutrition


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Public event: How economics changes the world

Speaker: Professor Mary S. Morgan

Thursday 23 November 2023 6.30-8.00pm, Auditorium, Centre Building, LSE and online

Do economists' ideas change the ways the economic world works? While the conventional view is that ideas create policy change and economic change follows on, it is just not that simple. We can see what is involved by looking at major changes, such as the reconstruction of post-war economies, post-colonial economic development planning, or switching from capitalist to socialist systems. Designing such new kinds of worlds required news ways of thinking about how the economic world could work involving imagination and cognitive work, and new kinds of economic measurements and accounts systems to deliver that change. Economic ideas are 'performative', meaning that they do change the way economies work - but not on their own.

For more information and details of how to register go to the event page: How economics changes the world