New forms of citizen participation in global governance

Tuesday 4 March 2025, 7.00pm-8.15pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

The way in which many global problems are governed today is disappointing, as international cooperation often lacks both effectiveness and fairness. Can new forms of citizen participation improve global governance? Deliberative citizen forums are increasingly common at the local and national scale, but their potential at the global level is still unclear.

The event offers a conversation between leading experts on the promise, limits, and future development of transnational citizen initiatives, such as the Global Climate Assembly, and other forms of citizen involvement in policy-making on matters of global concern.

Meet our speakers and chair:

Professor Luis Cabrera, Professor of Political Science in the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

Dr Marit Hammond, Associate Professor in the Politics of Climate Change at the University of Warwick, as well as a Co-Investigator of the ESRC Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP)

Mr Rich Wilson, CEO, Iswe Foundation, and a democratic innovation specialist.

Chair:

Dr Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Associate Professor of International Relations and Government, LSE

This public event is free and open to all on a first come, first served basis. No registration is required.

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Erased: a history of international thought without men

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 6.00pm-7.30pm
Workspace 4 LSE Life, LSE Library

Co-hosted with LSE Library

The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field.

In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations has relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations. Indeed, women were among the leading international thinkers of the era, shaping the development of the field as scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals—and as heterosexual spouses and intimate same-sex partners.

Meet our speakers and chair:

Professor Patricia Owens, Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

Chair:

Dr James Morrison, Associate Professor of International Political Economy, LSE

This public event is free but registration is required.

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Atomized incorporation: Chinese workers and the aftermath of China's rise

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 6.30pm-8.00pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre

Author Sungmin Rho discusses her recently published book Atomized Incorporation: Chinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise. The panel will discuss debates around how China copes with the aftermath of its economic rise, as export-led growth becomes no longer sustainable.

Meet our speakers and chair:

Dr Sungmin Rho, Associate Professor of International Relations and Political Science at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Switzerland

Discussants:

Dr Boram Lee, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy, LSE

Ruofan Ma, PhD student in the Department of Government at Harvard University

Chair:

Dr Natalya Naqvi, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy, LSE

This public event is free and open to all on a first come, first served basis. No registration is required.

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Queer conflict research: new approaches to the study of political violence

Wednesday 26 March 2025 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre

Join us for a book launch: Jamie Hagen, Samuel Ritholtz, and Andrew Delatolla recently published an edited volume Queer Conflict Research: New Approaches to the Study of Political Violence (Bristol University Press, 2024). The volume provides a guide to the use of methodologies drawn from Queer Studies in the study of political violence and conflict.

Meet our speakers and chair:

Dr Jamie J Hagen is a Lecturer in Global Politics at the University of Manchester. Her work sits at the intersection of gender, security studies, and queer theory. 

Dr Samuel Ritholtz is Departmental Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Oxford, in association with St Hilda’s College. Their research explores LGBTIQ+ experiences of conflict, crisis, and displacement in the Americas with a particular focus on Colombia.

Dr Andrew Delatolla is a Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Leeds. His research interests centre on the intersections of race and sexuality in relation to statehood and state formation with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa. 

Chair:

Dr Milli Lake is an Associate Professor of International Security in thr Department of International Relations at LSE. Her research and expertise lies in political violence, institutions, law, poverty, and gender.

This public event is free and open to all on a first come, first served basis. No registration is required.

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Greenland, Iceland and the meltdown of the old order in the North Atlantic

Tuesday 6 May 2025 6.30pm to 8.00pm
In-person and online (LSE Campus, Venue tbc to ticketholders)

President Trump’s determination to increase American influence and presence in Greenland has generated great interest in the future of the world’s largest island and its surrounding regions in the Arctic and the North Atlantic. Iceland is Greenland’s closest neighbour in Europe. In 1944, Iceland declared full independence from Denmark, at a time when Greenland was still a Danish colony. This event will focus on the current position and future developments of these two countries in the Arctic and the North Atlantic at large.

Meet our speakers:

Gudni Jóhannesson is a professor of history at the University of Iceland. From 2016-2024, he was President of Iceland. 

Kristina Spohr is Professor of International History at LSE. 

Chair:

Jennifer Jackson-Preece is an Associate Professor in Nationalism, with a joint appointment in both the European Institute and the Department of International Relations, LSE.

This public event is free and open to all. This event will be a hybrid event, with an in-person audience and an online audience. 

For the in-person event: Members of the public, LSE students, staff and alumni can request one ticket via the online ticket request form which will be live on this listing after 10am on Monday 28 April until at least 12noon on Tuesday 29 April. If after this time we have received more requests than there are tickets available, the line will be closed, and tickets will be allocated on a random basis to those requests received. If we have received fewer requests than tickets available, the ticket line will stay open until all tickets have been allocated. You will be notified within 2 working days whether your ticket request has been successful.

For the online event: Registration for this event via LSE Live will open in mid April.

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For any queries email events@lse.ac.uk