Events
Events Calendar 2025-2026
March 2026

Segregation by the Dispossession of Aspirations: Young Muslim Professionals and the Politics of Othering in Rental Housing Markets, New Delhi, India
Thursday 26 March 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in-person and online event, OLD 2.21.
Department of Social Policy seminar
Presenters: Dr Sunil Kumar (Department of Social Policy, LSE) and Rifan Rahim (Development Practitioner)
Chair: Professor Almudena Sevilla (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
April 2026

Does Speed Improve Justice? Fast-Track Courts and Violence Against Women in India [joint work with Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich]
Thursday 2 April 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm, in-person and online event, OLD 2.21.
Mannheim Centre for Criminology seminar
Presenter: Dr Nirvikar Jassal (Department of Government, LSE)
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler (Department of Social Policy, LSE)
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
