In Revolution of Things, Kusha Sefat tells the story of political transformations in post-revolutionary Iran from the vantage point of the relationships between materiality and language. Listen to the recording.
This talk was drawn from a larger project entitled "Recalling C.L.R. James, Reconsidering Black Marxism". It offered an overview of James’s distinctive critical and political orientation. Listen to the recording.
This panel brought together scholars, experts, practitioners, and organisers who have investigated how financial investments can be entangled with human rights abuses, the arms trade, and climate breakdown. Listen to the recording.
As Bourdieu has demonstrated, the “rules of the game” determine access to scarce resources. Yet, in studies of immigrants, there has been insufficient attention to how organisational rules across a wide range of institutions matter. Listen to the recording.
In this lecture, Professor Shamus Khan sought to change the unit of analysis, centring not individuals but families within the studies of the super-rich. Listen to the recording.
The States of Exception: Biopolitics, Human Rights, Utopia by Costas Douzinas assessed and critiqued the ways in which governments responded to three recent emergencies: the 2008 economic crisis, the large flows of refugees and migrants since the 2010s and the COVID-19 pandemic. This book launch discussed the theoretical and practical consequences of the state of exception. Listen to the recording.
In this lecture Kalwant Bhopal (Birmingham), Dr Suki Ali (LSE) and Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa (LSE) explored how Black Lives Matter has made little if any difference to the experiences of ethnic minority students in schools and higher education. Listen to the recording.
Have human rights lost their power as an ethical discourse? In our annual Human Rights Day lecture, Professor Kimberly Hutchings explored the critical landscape of human rights thinking today and how we might re-think the concept of human rights in ways that will sustain its power as an ethical discourse into the future. Listen to the recording.
This event explored how and why international law and ideas of humanity attend to, and exceptionalise, the case of Palestine and Palestinians. İt brings together scholars of international law, media, culture, human rights and politics. Watch the recording.
This event marks the publication of Kristin Surak’s new book, The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires, which offers the first on-the-ground investigation of the global market for citizenship by investment. Listen to the recording.
With the war in Ukraine well into its second year, we were joined by Nina Khrushcheva to discuss the fault lines that the war has opened up in Russian society - and the potential of the Russia left to use these fractures to push for a more progressive Russia. Listen to the recording.