Events
Events Calendar 2025-2026
May 2026
Aristotle’s Prison: A Search for Humanity in Tragic Places
Tuesday 19 May 2026, 4.00pm-5.30pm, in-person public event, Alumni Theatre, CKK Building.
Hosted by the Mannheim Centre for Criminology
The LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology is pleased to host Professor Alison Liebling for the Centre’s inaugural Annual Mannheim Lecture.
In her new book, Aristotle’s Prison: A Search for Humanity in Tragic Places, Alison draws on her professional lifetime’s work researching prisons. She shows how damaging and unsurvivable most prisons are, except in exceptional examples, from which we can learn a great deal.
Speaker: Professor Alison Liebling
Discussant: Professor Nicola Lacey
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler
June 2026
The Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub's second annual workshop
Tuesday 2nd June 2026, LSE
The workshop aims to bring together researchers who are working on the social dimensions of climate change and the environment, broadly defined, and policy responses to these challenges. In doing so, we aim to showcase cutting edge research, provide researchers with valuable feedback, and offer a platform for scholars to build their networks and explore future research directions in this growing field.
LSE Festival 2026: How to save the planet
Existential threats including the climate crisis, conflict and AI are affecting all parts of the world, transforming the way and where we live, and how our societies function. What can we be doing to save the Earth, its people and environment?
The LSE Festival 2026 will take place from Monday 15 to Saturday 20 June 2026. Join us in-person or online at our annual flagship event. Free to attend and open to all.
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