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A year of elections: power and politics in 2024 | LSE Festival

Hosted by LSE Festival: Power and Politics

In-person and online public event (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building)

Speakers

Dr Nick Anstead

Dr Nick Anstead

Dr Mukulika Banerjee

Dr Mukulika Banerjee

Professor Sara Hobolt

Professor Sara Hobolt

Bill Neely

Bill Neely

Chair

Professor Tony Travers

Professor Tony Travers

This year people around the world are going to the polls. What have been the surprises and takeaways from election results so far, and what is still to come? Our panel will explore some of the issues coming to the fore in this bumper year for politics as well as the implications of key outcomes. 

Meet our speakers and chair

Nick Anstead (@NickAnstead) is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, where he also serves as Programme Director for the MSc in Politics and Communication.   

Mukulika Banerjee (@MukulikaB) was inaugural Director of the LSE South Asia Centre from 2015-2020 and is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at LSE. Her latest monograph is Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India. 

Sara Hobolt (@sarahobolt) is the Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and professor in the Department of Government at LSE. Previously, she has held posts at the University of Oxford and the University of Michigan. She is the Chair of the European Election Studies (EES), an EU-wide project studying voters, parties, candidates and the media in European Parliamentary elections.  

Bill Neely (@BillNeelyReport) is a Northern Irish journalist. He was the Chief Global Correspondent for NBC News from 2014 to 2021. He has been a broadcaster since 1981. Neely spent 25 years at ITN's ITV News before retiring from NBC in April 2021. 

Tony Travers is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Government at LSE and Director of LSE London.

More about the event

This event is part of the LSE Festival: Power and Politics running from Monday 10 to Saturday 15 June 2024, with a series of events exploring how power and politics shape our world. Booking for all Festival events will open on Monday 13 May.  

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