The LSE’s
Mannheim Centre for Criminology
The Centre will host, at the LSE’s campus, ten PhD students for two days of vibrant interdisciplinary discussion about their research in the company of fellow students, LSE faculty, and the Mannheim Centre community.
Day 1: Monday, 18th May 2026 Time Day 1: Monday, 18th May 2026 10:00-10:30 Johann Koehler Welcome remarks, coffee and pastries 10:30-11:30 Session 1: Lewis Ross Paper 1 Pascual Cortés (LSE) ‘Order and fatherland’: Police identity and nation-state formation in Chile 11:30-12:30 Paper 2 Hannah Shackleton (Leeds) The rise of CFO activity hubs: Historical roots and contemporary responses to probation’s crisis 12:30-13:30 Staff Dining Room Lunch 13:30-14:30 Session 2: Richard Martin Paper 3 Maëlle Stricot (Paris School of Economics) Breaking news: How media coverage shapes judicial responses to violence against women 14:30-15:30 Paper 4 Tirza Sey (Warwick) Changing faces of policing: Austerity, Brexit, and the symbolic function of the police in shaping social identity 15:30-16:00 Coffee and tea 16:00-17:00 Session 3: Paper 5 Lilli Wolland Blomberg (Edinburgh) Red Cross nurses sentenced to Bredtveit Women’s Prison: An interdisciplinary study from Norway’s post-war reckoning 17:00-18:00 Paper 6 Yara Shahine Gharablé (Oxford) The politics of crime and the criminalisation of grief: Governing the ‘Inner Palestinian’ in contemporary Israel 18:00-19:00 Pub drinks 19:00-20:30 Dinner
Day 2: Tuesday, 19th May 2026 Time Day 2: Tuesday, 19th May 2026 10:00-10:30 Coffee and pastries 10:30-11:30 Session 4: Paper 7 Dina Kolliakou Ginzburg (Liverpool) ‘Life isn’t fair, get over it’: A critical evaluation of the stoicism program at HMP Persephone 11:30-12:30 Paper 8 Ramon Olads da Cruz Almeida (Brighton) Queering the Brazilian legal system: The limits of the law 12:30-13:30 Staff Dining Room Lunch 13:30-14:30 Session 5: Federico Picinali Paper 9 Preeti Pratishruti Dash (Cambridge) When protection becomes punishment: Liberal human rights and carceral logic in Indian child protection law 14:30-15:30 Paper 10 Emma Louise Blondes (LSE) Managing ambiguity: How French prosecutors construct credible organised crime narratives before trial 15:30-15:45 J ohann Koehler Closing remarks 16:00-17:30 Mannheim Annual Lecture 2026 Aristotle’s Prison by Alison Liebling Niki Lacey 17:30-18:30 Drinks Reception 18:30-20:30 Dinner
