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. Please note that pre-registration for events is usually required.
We make video and audio recordings available whenever possible.
From time to time there are changes to event details so we strongly recommend that you check the listing on the day of the event.
Tuesday, 2 June 2026 (6pm - 7.30pm)
Venue: MAR.2.04, Marshall Building, LSE
Chair: Dr Tanya Harmer
Despite twenty-first-century fears of nuclear conflagrations with North Korea, Russia, and Iran, the Cuban Missile Crisis is the closest the United States has come to nuclear war. That history has largely been a bilateral narrative of the US-USSR struggle for postwar domination, with Cuba as the central staging ground—a standard account that obscures the shock waves that reverberated throughout Latin America.
Drawing on sources from across the hemisphere, this first hemispheric examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis shows how leaders and ordinary citizens throughout the region caused, participated in, and were profoundly affected by the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Please join us to hear Dr Renata Keller discuss her new book on the subject and to answer any questions you may have.
Full event details and registration HERE