Events Calendar

March

The Art of Storytelling in Authoritarian Regimes: Crafting Mainstream Consensus on Chinese Social Media

Monday 3 March 2025, 12.30PM  – 2.00PM GMT, OLD 2.21 (2nd floor, Old Building, LSE)

Hosted by the LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub and the Department of Social Policy, LSE

Please note: this seminar is only open to LSE Staff and Students 

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The Virality of Racial Terror

Wednesday 5 March 2025, 5.00pm-6.30pm, CBG 1.06

Mannheim Centre seminar hosted by the Mannheim Centre for Criminology

Speaker: Prof Geoff Ward, Washington University.
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler, LSE.

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Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) Online Seminar Series

Thursday 6 March, 16:30-17:30, OLD 2.21

Greening in Groups: Firm Concentration and Lobbying on Green Industrial Policy
Ryan Pike (Yale University)  
Supply Chains and Political Strategies: Analyzing Firm Responses to the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism  
Lingbo Zhao (Penn State University)

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Gender Inequality: Navigating New Frontiers and Paradigm Shifts

Wednesday, 12 March 2025 

Hosted by the Department of Social Policy and co-sponsored by the AXA Gender Lab at Bocconi, and NYU Abu Dhabi.

This workshop will explore emerging policy challenges and cutting-edge research on gender inequality in a rapidly changing world. It will examine how transformative forces like technology and climate change, alongside evolving issues such as fertility, labour participation, and caregiving, impact progress towards gender equality.

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Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) Online Seminar Series

Thursday 13 March, 4:30pm-5:30pm, OLD 2.21

Political signaling drives China's carbon market, not market signals 
Chen Xiang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Natural Disasters and the Electability of Women: Evidence from Philippine Mayoral Elections 
Holly Jansen (University of California San Diego)

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Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 5.00pm-6.30pm, CKK 2.04

Mannheim Centre seminar hosted by the Mannheim Centre for Criminology
 
Speaker: Prof Lilie Chouliaraki, LSE.
Chair: Dr Johann Koehler, LSE.

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Family change and welfare provision in complex families: evidence from the UK and policy lessons from abroad

Thursday 20 March 2025, 1.00pm-2:30pm, Department meeting room - OLD 2.21 and Online

International Social and Public Policy seminar hosted by the Department of Social Policy

Presenter: Professor Susan Harkness (University of Bristol).
Chair: Dr Shuang Chen (LSE).

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Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) Online Seminar Series

Thursday 20 March, 4:30pm-5:30pm, OLD 2.21

How Politics Percolates Through Science
Dahyun Choi (Princeton University)

The Impacts of Globalization on Political Knowledge: Evidence from Climate Knowledge in Africa  
Carlos Felipe Balacazar (University College London)   [In-person presentation]

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Inequalities in Applications and Offers to Graduate Recruitment Programmes

Thursday 27 March 2025, 1.00pm-2:30pm, Department meeting room - OLD 2.21 and Online

International Social and Public Policy seminar hosted by the Department of Social Policy

Presenter: Professor Lindsay Macmillan (UCL).
Chair: Dr Shuang Chen (LSE).

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Annual LSE Behavioural Public Policy Lecture- Normative Rationality After Behavioural Economics: What is Left?

Thursday 27 March 2025, 6.15pm-7:45pm, MAR 2.04, The Marshall Building

Hosted by the Department of Social Policy

Speaker: Professor Mario J. Rizzo (NYU).
Chair: Professor Adam Oliver (LSE).

Professor Mario J. Rizzo will give this year’s Annual LSE BPP lecture, offering an alternative to the orthodox economics notion of rationality.

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April

The enduring effect of higher education on attitudes towards immigrants across generations and within the family

Thursday 3 April 2025, 1.00pm-2:30pm, Department meeting room - OLD 2.21 and Online

International Social and Public Policy seminar hosted by the Department of Social Policy

Presenter: Dr Victoria Donnaloja (University of Essex).
Chair: Dr Shuang Chen (LSE).

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Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) Online Seminar Series

Thursday 3 April, 4:30pm-5:30pm, OLD 2.21

Green industrial policy in the voting booth: The electoral effects of the Inflation Reduction Act  
Aidan Miao (University College London)
Politics of the energy transition: a case study of electric vehicles policy from South Asia  
Anum Mustafa (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  

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