Events
Events Calendar 2025-2026
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
