Lent Term 2021

Menstruation is Everyone's Business. Period. 

Thursday, 25 March | 3.30 pm GMT

Panelists: Farah Ahamed (@FarahAhamed) is a writer, and editor of an anthology on period poverty in South Asia; Daniel Epstein (@daepstein) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics, UC Irvine, specialising in personal informatics, and has published on menstrual tracking applications; Suhani Jalota (@jalotasuh) is CEO and Founder of Myna Mahila Foundation, and a public health activist in India; Ayra Indrias Patras is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Forman Christian College, Lahore; Tashi Zangmo is Executive Director, Bhutan Nuns Foundation, and has written on the challenges of menstrual hygiene for nuns in Bhutan.

Chair/Moderator: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre.

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FABIAN DIALOGUES 2

Harold Laski & India's Freedom Struggle

Thursday, 18 March | 3 pm UK / 8.30 pm India

Panelists: Michael Cox is Professor, LSE IDEAS, and author of a new history of LSE, 'The School: LSE and the Making of the Modern World' (forthcoming); Jeanne Morefield (@JeanneMorefiel1) is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Birmingham, and has written on Laski's 'Habits of Imperialism'; Brant Moscovitch is Resident Fellow, McGill University, Montreal, and has a DPhil on Laski, international students at LSE and anti-colonial activism; Tejas Parasher (@TejasParasher) is Junior Research Fellow, King's College, University of Cambridge, and researches on Laski's Indian students; Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) is Member of Parliament, Karnataka, India, and author of A Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V.K. Krishna Menon. 

Moderator: Andrew Harrop (@andrew_harrop) is General Secretary, Fabian Society.

Chair: Simon Hix (@simonjhix) is Harold Laski Professor of Political Science, and Pro-Director (Research), LSE.

This event is part of LSE 125 Years anniversary celebrations, and is in collaboration with the Fabian Society. 

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Women: The Future of Start-ups

Wednesday, 10 March | 4.30 pm UK

Panelists: Jesse Draper (@JesseDraper) is Founding Partner, Halogen Ventures; Lata Krishnan (@Krishnan_Lata) is Chief Financial Officer at Shah Capital Partners; Ervin Massinga (@State_SCA) is Senior Advisor, Bureau of South & Central Asian Affairs, Department of State, USA; Sruthi Ramaswami (@sruthiramaswami) is Co-Founder of Neythri.

Chair/Moderator: Alnoor Bhimani (@AlnoorBhimani) is Director, LSE South Asia Centre, and Professor of Management Accounting, LSE. 

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FACT & FICTION

India Tomorrow: Conversations with the Next Generation of Political Leaders

Sunday, 28 February | 3 pm UK / 8.30 pm India 

This special book event is a discussion between the authors/interviewers Pradeep K Chhibber (Professor & Indo-American Community Chair in India Studies, UC Berkeley) and Harsh J Shah (@harshword; Harvard Business School), and a younger generation of Indian political activists, students and party-workers on competing visions of India's political future.

Discussants: Pushparaj Deshpande (@PushparajVD) is Founder of Samruddha Bharat Foundation, India; Kawalpreet Kaur (@kawalpreetdu) is National Vice-President, All India Students Association; Ali Khan Mahmudabad (@Mahmudabad) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ashoka University, Sonepat, and a member of the Samajwadi Party; Vignesh Karthik Rajahmani (@krvtweets) is currently a PhD Scholar at King's India Institute, King's College London, and is researching on the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) in Tamil Nadu, India;  Astik Sinha (@astiksinha) is President, Asian Democratic Leaders Alliance, and Additional Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs, Government of India.

Chair/Moderator: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre.  

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GEOPOLITICS BEYOND BORDERS 2

 Different Stars, Different Stripes: The US in South Asia 

Tuesday, 16 February | 4 pm UK / 11 am ET /  9.30 pm India 

Panelists: Husain Haqqani (@husainhaqqani) is Director for South & Central Asia, Hudson Institute, New York, and an expert on US-Pakistan relations;  Daniel Markey (@MarkeyDaniel) is Senior Research Professor in International Relations, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, and specialises in US-India relations; Rani D. Mullen (@RaniDMullen) is Associate Professor of Government, College of William & Mary, Virginia, USA, and her expertise is on US-Afghanistan policy relations. 

Moderator: Rahul Roy-Chaudhury is Senior Fellow for South Asia, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London.

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre.  

This event is in collaboration with LSE IDEAS, and The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London. 

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Becoming Bangladesh

A global multi-perspective on the independence & making of Bangladesh through 6 English-language books.

Monday, 8 February | 3 pm UK / 9 pm Dhaka

Panelists: Gary J Bass (@Gary_Bass) is author of The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide; Meghna Guhathakurta (@meghdola) is a contributor to Of the Nation Born: The Bangladesh Papers; Nayanika Mookherjee (@NakaMookherjee) is the author of Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971; Srinath Raghavan (@srinathraghava3) is the author of 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh; Yasmin Saikia has written Women, War and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971; Salil Tripathi (@saliltripathi) is the author of The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy.

Moderator: Katy Gardner is Professor in LSE Anthropology, and author of Global Migrants, Local Lives: Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh.

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre.

This event inaugurates our series of specially curated events to mark the Golden Jubilee of Bangladesh's independence in 2021-22.

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Rights of Minorities in Pakistan

Tuesday, 2 February | 3.30 pm UK / 8.30 pm Pakistan

Speaker: Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani is former Chief Justice of Pakistan (2013-14)

Participants: Mahvish Ahmad (@mahvishahmad) is Assistant Professor in Human Rights & Politics, LSE Sociology; Sulema Jahangir (@sj244) is a dual qualified English and Pakistani Advocate, Senior Associate at Dawson Cornwell London, and Honorary Executive Director, AGHS Legal Aid Cell, Lahore.

Mustafa Hiraj (@lsesupakdev) is studying for his LLB at LSE, and is President of LSESU Pakistan Development Society;

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre.

This event is in collaboration with the LSESU Pakistan Development Society. 

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THE INDIA CONFERENCE 2021: UK & INDIA after Brexit

Friday, 29 January | 1 pm UK / 6.30 pm India

Speakers: Lord Karan Bilimoria (@Lord_Bilimoria) is Founding Chairman of the UK-India Business Council, President of the Confederation of Business Industries, and President of the UK Council of International Student Affairs; Nirupama Rao (@NMenonRao) retired as Foreign Secretary, Government of India, and has served as India's Ambassador in the US and China; Sanam Arora (@NISAU_UK) is an LSE alumnus, and Chairperson, National Indian Students and Alumni Union, UK.

Ahaan Gupta (@LSESUIndiaSoc) is studying Politics, Philosophy & Economics at LSE, and is President of LSESU India Society.

Chair: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre.

This event is in collaboration with the LSESU India Society and National Indian Students and Alumni Union UK.

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Bangabandhu and Visions of Bangladesh

Wednesday, 27 January | 3 pm UK / 9 pm Dhaka 

Professor Amartya Sen will speak on ‘Bangabandhu & Visions of Bangladesh’ to commemorate the Birth Centenary (2020–21) of the Founding Father of Bangladesh Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. 

Speakers: Amartya Sen (Thomas W Lamont Professor, Harvard University); H. E. Saida Muna Tasneem (@BdhcLondon, is High Commissioner of Bangladesh in the United Kingdom); and Rehman Sobhan (@cpdbd) is an economist, and fought in the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.

Chair: Baroness Minouche Shafik is Director, LSE.

Moderator: Alnoor Bhimani (@AlnoorBhimani) is Director, LSE South Asia Centre, and Professor of Accounting, LSE.

This event is in collaboration with the High Commission of Bangladesh in the United Kingdom.

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TOUGH TALK 2: Does Liberalism Allow Populism?

Wednesday, 20 January | 3.30 pm UK / 9 pm India

Panelists: Michael Freeden, formerly Director, Centre for Political Ideologies is currently Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford; Harsh Gupta 'Madhusudan' (@harshmadhusudan) and Rajeev Mantri (@RMantri) are co-authors of A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State; Aakash Rathore (@aakashrathore) is Permanent Visiting Professor, LUISS University, Rome; Helena Rosenblatt (@HelenaRosenblat) is Professor, Graduate Center, City University of New York; and Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) is author of The Battle of Belonging: On Nationalism, Patriotism, and What it Means to be Indian (2020; reprinted in the UK as The Struggle for India's Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy (2021).

Chair/Moderator: Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre.

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