The Department of International History hosts numerous lectures, roundtables, debates and workshops by our academics, visiting academics and others. Members of the Department are also involved in a series of events around LSE.
Below is a list of these events by chronological order. Our events are usually free and open to all with exceptions duly noted. We make video and audio recordings available whenever possible.
From time to time there are changes to event details so we strongly recommend that if you plan to attend this event you check back on this listing on the day of the event.
20 February 2025, Thursday 6pm - 7.30pm
Venue: Alumni Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku (CKK) Building, LSE
Chair: Professor Marc Baer
This year the Department welcomes Professor Aaron Moore to deliver the Annual Lecture.
Professor Moore's talk will describe some of the more frivolous fantasies of robots, androids, and clones in both East Asian science fiction and science reporting at the start of the twentieth century, doing so as part of a broader consideration of what it meant to be a modern person in an age of 'nation-building', mass production, and speculative science writing.
Read full event details HERE.
13 February 2025, Thursday 6.30pm - 8pm
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Event. Co-Hosted with the Department of Gender Studies
Venue: TBC to ticketholders
Chair: Dr Emrah Karakuş
Join us for an evening with Susan Stryker, a pioneering historian and theorist in trans* studies whose work has profoundly reshaped the fields of gender and sexuality scholarship.
6 February 2025, Thursday 6pm - 7.30pm
Venue: Alumni Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku (CKK) Building), LSE
Chair: Dr David Motadel
Laurence Rees, former Head of BBC TV History programmes and author of several acclaimed books on the Second World War joins us with the launch of his latest work: The Nazi Mind - 12 Warnings From History. He is a BAFTA winning historical documentary filmmaker and a British Book Award winning author of several books about Adolf Hitler, the Nazis and the atrocities committed.
His recent book asks questions like, how could the Nazis have committed the crimes they did? Why did the commandants of concentration and death camps willingly – often enthusiastically – oversee mass murder? How could ordinary Germans have tolerated the removal of the Jews?
5 February 2025, Wednesday 5pm - 6.30pm
Venue: CBG.1.06, Centre Building (CBG), LSE
Chair: Prof Rob Sidel
Join us as we celebrate the release of Dr Qingfei Yin's new book.
Departing from conventional studies of border hostility in inter-Asian relations, Yin Qingfei explores how two revolutionary states – China and Vietnam – each pursued policies that echoed the other and collaborated in extending their authority to the borderlands from 1949 to 1975.
Weaving together international, national, and transnational-local histories, this deeply researched and original study presents a new approach to the highly volatile Sino-Vietnamese relations during the Cold War, centering on the two modernising revolutionary powers' competitive and collaborative state building on the borderlands and local responses to it.