Oxford University:
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This is the final meeting of the series organised by the OCRC for Michaelmas term.Please register to attend these meetings remotely on Zoom here.
London School of Economics: Online public event
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Our relationship with food is as complex as it is long. It connects us with our past, our ‘home’, and with other people. Shopping for it, cooking it, sharing it, and eating it all have significance beyond meeting our basic nutritional needs. Food is importantly connected with hospitality and care, but it can also be a source of guilt and shame. Recipes can be a way of preserving traditions and passing along cultural knowledge, but access to food, and specific kinds of food, can also be a matter of socio-economic inequality. We explore the complex history, philosophy, and politics of food. Meet our speakers and chair C. Thi Nguyen (@add_hawk) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. Or Rosenboim (@OrRosenboim) is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at City, University of London. Ahmed Sinno (@migratefulUK) is a chef at Migrateful. Sarah Fine (@DrSJFine) is a Fellow of the Forum for Philosophy More about this event The Forum for Philosophy (@forumphilosophy) hosts events exploring science, politics, and culture from a philosophical perspective. Co-sponsored by Arup Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEForum
Gresham College:
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For thousands of years, some men assumed that the original or ideal human type was male, with women being pictured as weaker or imperfect men. This ancient prejudice inspired fictions from E.T.A. Hoffman’s The Sandman (1816) to Ira Levin’s novel The Stepford Wives (1972). This lecture looks at fantasies of artificial women (usually seen by their male creators as superior to biological women) to examine the complex connections between science and assumptions about the supposed naturalness of gender roles. Registration and TicketsWe are live-streaming all our lectures in 2021-22. To watch lectures live online, please register using the button below. The registration process is simple, free, and only requires an email address.Register for Online Lecture Tickets for in-person attendance at this event are available now, please book using the button below. Read more about ticketing and Covid safety here: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/news/ticket-safety Book in-person tickets Support UsGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation.
London School of Economics: Online public event
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Join LSE IDEAS for the first Engelsberg Chair lecture of 2021/22 on alliances and war, delivered by historian Margaret MacMillan. Do alliances prevent war or lead to it? Can alliances outlast a war or are they doomed to break apart? Such questions are as old as recorded history and continue to engage international historians and political scientists. This lecture will examine the types and fates of alliances using examples from the past with particular attention to the alliance ‘system’ before 1914 and its part in the outbreak of the First World War. It will then look at the strategies, war aims, and tensions among the Allies and the Central Powers up to the crucial year of 1917. Meet the speaker Margaret MacMillan is Engelsberg Chair at LSE IDEAS for 2021/22. Margaret MacMillan is Emeritus Professor of International History at the University of Oxford and former Warden of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. She specializes in the history of the British Empire and the international history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Her book Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War won the Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2021, Margaret won the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. Her most recent book is War: How Conflict Shaped Us, looking at the ways in which war has influenced human society and how, in turn, changes in political organization, technology, or ideologies have affected how and why we fight. Meet the chair Christopher Coker is Director of LSE IDEAS and former Professor of International Relations at LSE. He is a former twice serving member of the Council of the Royal United Services Institute, a former NATO Fellow and a regular lecturer at Defence Colleges in the UK, US, Rome, Singapore, and Tokyo. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute for Defence Studies in Tokyo, the Rajaratnam School for International Studies Singapore, the Political Science Department in Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok and the Norwegian and Swedish Defence Colleges. He has published many books, including Rebooting Clausewitz; Men at War; and The Improbable War: China, the United States, and the Logic of Great Power Conflict, and his latest, Why War? Event hashtag: #LSEEngelsberg LSE IDEAS (@lseideas) is LSE's foreign policy think tank. Through sustained engagement with policymakers and opinion-formers, IDEAS provides a forum that informs policy debate and connects academic research with the practice of diplomacy and strategy.
V&A:
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‘The Story of the Country House’ is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, from its Roman precursors to today. Join author Clive Aslet for an insightful and fresh look at a building type that thrived especially in the Edwardian golden age, and continues to capture our imaginations. This talk will be held on Zoom, and all ticket holders will receive a link the morning of the event. Priority booking is currently open for Members; general booking will open Monday 8 November. Read more
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‘The Story of the Country House’ is an authoritative and vivid account of the British country house, from its Roman precursors to today. Join author Clive Aslet for an insightful and fresh look at a building type that thrived especially in the Edwardian golden age, and continues to capture our imaginations. Priority booking is open for V&A Members and Patrons; general booking will open Monday 8 November, subject to availability. Read more STAYING SAFE The V&A has put numerous health and safety measures in place to ensure the museum is a safe, relaxing and inspiring place for our patrons and visitors. We have taken steps to ensure that all V&A sites are reasonably COVID-19 secure with cleaning, handwashing and hygiene procedures in line with guidance. Hand sanitiser will be available, and face coverings are recommended. Some may choose not to wear face coverings, so please take this into account when deciding to book. A level of social distancing will be maintained, including limiting capacity in the Lecture Theatre for this event.
London School of Economics: Online public event
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Join us for the launch of a new book edited by Sieglinde Gstohl and Simon Schunz, The External Action of the European Union – Concepts, Approaches, Theories. This book gives us a taste of how rich analyses of EU external action have become. Once considered an exception, now EU foreign policy in its various guises appeals to a variety of theoretical perspectives and engages with the most important contemporary political debates, from the role of ‘normative power Europe’ to leadership and effectiveness issues to feminist insights. In this book launch, the editors will share their motivations for putting together this collection and, together with contributors, discussant and the audience, discuss the ultimate question: can the study of EU external action overcome Euro-centrism and contribute to a truly global politics? Meet our speakers and chair Nora Fisher Onar is Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of San Francisco. Sieglinde Gstohl is Director of the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe. Karen E Smith is Professor of International Relations at LSE. Simon Schunz is an Associate Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS, and professor in the EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department at the College of Europe in Bruges. Federica Bicchi is Associate Professor of International Relations at LSE. More about this event We are now in our 93rd year - one of the oldest as well as largest IR (@LSEIRDept) departments in the world, with a truly international reputation. We are ranked 2nd in the UK in the QS World University Ranking by Subject 2021 tables for Politics and International Studies. You can order the book, The External Action of the European Union, (UK delivery only) from our official LSE Events independent book shop, Pages of Hackney. Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEEUExternalAction
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Dr Erofili-Iris Kolia, Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Ilia The event will take place online via Zoom. For information about attending online events please see https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/attending-online-events This lecture will present the latest finds from excavations at Nikoleika, in the chora of ancient Helike, a city famous for its destruction in 373 BC. After presenting the apsidal temple of the late eighth century BC, as well as the mudbrick altar erected in the first half of the eighth century which laid buried beneath the temple floor, the remains of the Archaic temple, comprising mainly the remnants of a terracotta tiled roof and architectural sculpture, will be presented together with the recently excavated early eighth century BC layer containing an important quantity of fine vases of symposiastic character as well as coarse-ware pottery, both burnt and unburnt, and many bronze finds. What is the function of this layer? How is it connected with the mudbrick altar and the later apsidal temple? The presentation of the past and recent data from this unique sanctuary site will be discussed in order to make clear whether the sanctuary under discussion in Achaia was established and organized according to the common religious code, which existed during the early historical era in the Panhellenic sanctuaries of Olympia and Delphi. Furthermore examination of the religious practices that took place in the sanctuary at Nikoleika and of the types of offerings made there will hopefully reveal the donors’ personal status and shed light on the process towards various forms of political development.
Birkbeck: Online Book your place
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When: 30 November 2021, 17:00 — 19:00 Venue: Online Book your place This event will take place online via Collaborate. Following the lecture, Professor Angela McRobbie will be in conversation with Professor Esther Leslie. Drawing on the conjunctural methodologies of the late Stuart Hall this lecture reflects on a number of figurations of normative femininity which have functioned as forms of popular governmentality predicated first on the instituting of a moment (1997-2007) of post-feminism, where feminist campaigning and activism were repudiated as belonging in the past, to more recent times, with ‘feminism’ now granted a place within the consumer culture of contemporary capitalism. Through a web of media articulations a society of gender control moves seamlessly from iterations of a ‘post-feminist masquerade’ to the new ‘angel in the house’, a figuring which shores up family life as human capital. The lecture explores the racializing processes alongside and in coordination with the class and sexual logics at work in these cultural productions. The most recent figurations revolve round the idea of ‘resilience’ alongside a poverty-shaming stereotype both of which propose a new feminised moral economy of work and employment as part of the neoliberal dismantling of welfarism through the disavowal of dependency and the shaming of 'mismanaged lives'. The lecture concludes with a brief consideration of the impact of the pandemic and the possibilities now for countering the discrediting and silencing of disadvantaged women. This lecture continues our series of Feminist Flashpoint events, following from the Feminist Emergency Conference of June 2017, in which we seek to create space for dialogue around some of the most searching and difficult issues facing feminism today. The event is organised by Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (BIH) in collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR). Angela McRobbie is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths University of London and Fellow of the British Academy. An expert on gender and popular culture as well as on the creative economy and the new world of work, her most recent books are Be Creative: Making a Living in the New Culture Industries (2015) and Feminism and the Politics of Resilience (2020 forthcoming). Angela is a regular contributor to openDemocracy and to BBC Radio 4 Thinking Aloud. Esther Leslie is Professor in Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck University of London, and Co-Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities. She has research interests in Marxist theories of aesthetics and culture, with a particular focus on the work of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. Other research interests include the poetics of science, the bleeding edge of technologies, European literary and visual modernism and avant gardes, animation, colour and madness, art philosophy and politics. Contact name: Dr Elia Ntaousani, BIH Manager Speakers Prof Angela McRobbie Prof Esther Leslie Tags: International students Alumni LAW: School of Law Research students Public lecture or event ARTS: School SSHP: School Birkbeck Graduate Research School (BGRS)
Wellcome Collection:
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What you’ll doJoin Hannah Murphy to explore the practical role of medical experts in the construction of the early modern slave trade. Between 1440 and 1720, more than two million enslaved people from a range of African kingdoms and territories were forcibly transported to the Americas; tens of thousands more remained in Europe. From the first moments of contact between African and European peoples, medical practitioners played a key role in creating a domesticated discourse around enslaved bodies. Among their other practical duties, they provided medical treatment at every key stage in the process of enslavement: encounter, confrontation and commerce, transport, illness and injury, disembarking, inspection and processing. Over the course of the early modern period, their participation developed and became more formal. Using travel narratives, ship’s surgeons’ journals and printed books in Wellcome Collection, the talk will provide a broad overview of the dynamics at play as medical practitioners competed for expertise and authority over new conceptions of human difference.
Goldsmiths: 309, Richard Hoggart Building
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Can Music Make You Sick: Measuring the Price of Musical Ambition. **This event has been postponed to 31 March 2022, due to strike action** Join us for this special Music Research Series, held on Tuesday 30 November, with George Musgrave, a lecturer based in the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship. In this presentation, he will be outing some of the key themes and debates in his book ‘Can Music Make You Sick?’, which was released last year and was an Amazon Number 1 Best Seller in sociology. The book explores the paradox that whilst music making is therapeutic, making a career out of music can be traumatic, examining the possible causes of high levels of anxiety and depression amongst musicians. Moving away from ideas of the ’tortured genius’ or personality factors of musicians, the work instead examines the psychosocial working conditions of life as contemporary musicians, to suggest that an inter-related series of ’status’ factors, collide together to make the development of a musical career not quite the life of glamour, fun and excitement many imagine it to be. George is a Lecturer at Goldsmiths (University of London). His research concerns the psychological experiences and working conditions of creative careers, with a current focus on mental health and wellbeing in the music industry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Music Research Lectures are free and all are welcome. The Music Research Series invites researchers from across the country, and from within the department, to present and discuss their work. The Series is a space for the development of cutting-edge research in music, and for the training of postgraduate and Early Career Researchers from Goldsmiths and elsewhere. The sessions bring together scholars, practitioners, and people working in music outside the university. They may include formal papers, panel discussions, conversations, or any other format that suits the research. Attendance is strongly recommended for all postgraduate students (MA, MMus and PGR) in Music, as the events will help hone research skills, facilitate the creation of professional networks and help to consolidate the department’s postgraduate community. Undergraduates, researchers and visitors from across the college and the community are also most welcome to these public lectures.
Birkbeck: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square Book your place
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When: 30 November 2021, 18:00 — 21:00 Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square Book your place Skewed, cynical, and socially ambiguous, the photographs of Garry Winogrand epitomised the experimental style and irreverent attitude of post-war American street photography. This, along with the support of the Museum of Modern Art and its influential director of photography John Szarkowski, granted his work a significant presence in New York’s art world during the late 1960s and ‘70s. However, at the height of his fame, Winogrand turned his camera back on this world, producing a withering depiction of the exclusive art openings, functions, and balls held at institutions such as MoMA and The Metropolitan Museum of Art during the Vietnam war. In a seemingly bizarre development, this body of work would go on to be exhibited at MoMA in 1977 – alongside his shots of protests, sporting events, and press conferences – putting the museum’s institutional framework on display within its walls. My paper will consider the extent to which this exhibition and its accompanying photobook, Public Relations, can be understood as evidence of a little-recognised strain of institutional critique within Winogrand’s street photography. In doing so, it will seek to offer a non-formalist understanding of American street photography as a practice forged in dialogue with the wider post-war avant-garde. It will also attempt to explain the presence and status of these apparent critical tendencies within the work of an otherwise establishment photographer. Contact name: Patrizia Di Bello Contact phone: 02039262648 Speakers Dr Simon Constantine - Simon Constantine is Lecturer in History of Photography at Birkbeck, University of London. His work addresses street photography and recent documentary photography, with a particular focus on large-scale projects and photobooks which seek to map, criticize, or conceptualize the contemporary global economy. He has presented papers at SOAS, the University of Birmingham, Roma Tre University, and the Institute of Historical Research, and worked as an editor for the journal parallax. His writings have been published in the Oxford Art Journal, Arts, and The Burlington Magazine. Tags: Conferences/workshops International students Alumni Research students Corporate website Public lecture or event ARTS: School Prospective students ARTS: History of Art History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
The Francis Crick Institute:
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Bring your curiosity and have a chat with some of our friendly scientists. Discover what life in the lab is like and get hands-on with some of the tools they use in their daily work. This event is free - just turn up at any time. Suitable for individuals and small groups.
SOAS: Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS and Online
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Birkbeck: Online Book your place
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When: 1 December 2021, 13:00 — 14:30 Venue: Online Book your place Working With UK Communities to Secure Environmental Justice for All Speakers: Emma Montlake and Tom Brenan (Environmental Law Foundation), chaired by Dr Olivia Hamlyn (Lecturer in Law, Birkbeck) The Environmental Law Foundation are collaborating with Birkbeck’s School of Law, as part of the new LLM in Environmental Law, Policy and Governance. Emma and Tom will discuss the work of an environmental NGO. Abstract The Environmental Law Foundation (ELF), a charity, helps vulnerable communities have a voice in decisions that affect their environment and quality of life and that of future generations. ELF does this through advice and information, public legal education, and policy work. Over the past 29 years ELF has established a cross-disciplinary network of lawyers and technical consultants which each year provides thousands of hours of pro bono advice and assistance to communities and individuals who have nowhere else to turn to address their environmental concerns. This has been joined by ELF's growing networks of pro-bono environmental legal advice and policy clinics, in partnership with universities across the UK. The seminar will be an opportunity to find out more about ELF and its work with communities. Law Research Seminar Series This event is part of Birkbeck's Law Research Seminar Series. Free to attend and open to the public, the series welcomes scholars from around the world to discuss their latest research. To celebrate the launch of Birkbeck’s new LLM in Environmental Law, Policy and Governance, this term's research seminars will cover topics in the field of environmental law and policy. This event is open to the public and free to attend however booking is required via this page. The event will be hosted on Collaborate, a free to access website. You will be sent a link to access the event upon registration. Contact name: School of Law Tags: Conferences/workshops Law Research Seminar Series LAW: Department of Law LAW: School of Law Corporate website Public lecture or event
Birkbeck: Online Book your place
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When: 1 December 2021, 17:00 — 18:00 Venue: Online Book your place Estimating (fitting) a model on data always involves the optimisation of an objective function. Frequently, this function does not admit a closed form solution, and is non-convex. The latter property means that the function can have multiple global and local optima. There are numerous ways of estimating different optima of a non-convex function (the simplest being running the optimisation algorithm repeatedly from different random starting locations). A natural question that arises is the following: Given a set of candidate solutions, how many different optima are actually approximated (represented)? This problem is relevant because different optima can be associated with qualitatively different (machine learning/ statistical) models. To the best of our knowledge this problem is studied only from a very practical perspective where computational efficiency is the top priority. We provide a formulation to study this problem and an algorithm derived from this. We establish theoretical results that outline conditions under which our algorithm correctly allocates an arbitrary set of points to basins of attraction of the function. Unlike all existing algorithms, our approach makes no implicit assumptions about the distribution of points relative to the modes (or any other aspect of the morphology) of the objective function. Contact name: George Magoulas Speakers Dr Nicos Pavlidis - Nicos Pavlidis has studied Economics at Cambridge University and holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics of Computers and Decision Making from the University of Patras, Greece. He is currently a senior lecturer at the Department of Management Science, Lancaster University. His research interests are in machine learning, data mining and statistics. Tags: Research students Birkbeck Knowledge Lab Corporate website Public lecture or event BEI: Computer Science and Information Systems BEI: Economics, Mathematics and Statistics
Gresham College:
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European Protestant and evangelical Christians did not have to look far to find ‘infidels’ in the 16th and 17th centuries: as well as the ‘pagans’ of northern Scandinavia, Jews were scattered across the continent and Muslim powers were all too close. This lecture will consider the repeated, and repeatedly failed attempts to convert these peoples: some naively well-intentioned, some openly violent. Those bitter experiences would become a crucial lens through which Christians viewed global missionary projects, sometimes with unexpected consequences. Registration and TicketsWe are live-streaming all our lectures in 2021-22. To watch lectures live online, please register using the button below. The registration process is simple, free, and only requires an email address.Register for Online Lecture Tickets for in-person attendance at this event are available now, please book using the button below. Read more about ticketing and Covid safety here: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/news/ticket-safety Book in-person tickets Support UsGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation.
London School of Economics: Online public event
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This event has been postponed. LSE apologises for any inconvenience caused. We will announce a new date in due course.
The Francis Crick Institute:
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Bring your curiosity and have a chat with some of our friendly scientists. Discover what life in the lab is like and get hands-on with some of the tools they use in their daily work. This event is free - just turn up at any time. Suitable for individuals and small groups.
Gresham College:
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This lecture explores the destruction of libraries, archives and other knowledge, from Babylonian times until now, and its implications for society today. What are the motivations for destroying knowledge, and how have libraries and archives responded to these threats? What must we do now that knowledge is digital, and controlled by a small number of very powerful companies? Registration and TicketsWe are live-streaming all our lectures in 2021-22. To watch lectures live online, please register using the button below. The registration process is simple, free, and only requires an email address.Register for Online Lecture Tickets for in-person attendance at this event are available now, please book using the button below. Read more about ticketing and Covid safety here: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/news/ticket-safety Book in-person tickets Support UsGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation.
London School of Economics: Online public event
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Join us for this event in which author, journalist and activist Saumya Roy will discuss her new book, Mountain Tales, which explores the "noxious and wonderful world" of Maximum City's rising mountains of garbage and the waste pickers who trawl through them. The towering garbage mountains are reflections of modern India and provide a window into local and global inequalities that arise from overconsumption, pollution, climate change and poverty. Saumya Roy will be in conversation with Dr George Kunnath and Priyanka Kotamraju about the truths that are unravelled through the stories of the small, forgotten community that lives and works amongst Mumbai's castaway belongings. You can order the book, Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings, (UK delivery only) from our official LSE Events independent book shop, Pages of Hackney. Speaker: Saumya Roy is a journalist and activist based in Mumbai. She has written for Forbes India magazine, Mint newspaper, Outlook magazine, wsj.com, thewire.in and Bloomberg News among others. In 2010 she co- founded Vandana Foundation to support the livelihoods of Mumbai’s poorest micro entrepreneurs by giving small, low interest loans. Her first book, Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings, was published by Profile in 2021. Discussants: George Kunnath is a Social Anthropologist and a Research Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at LSE. His work focuses on the everyday world of Dalit and Adivasi communities living amidst India’s Maoist insurgency and counterinsurgency; on caste and class relations; relationality of poverty, inequality, conflict and development; and research ethics. Priyanka Kotamraju (@peekayty) is a PhD Candidate in sociology, and a Gates Scholar, at the University of Cambridge. She is an independent, bilingual journalist from India, with nearly a decade of experience in the media industry, and focused on issues of social justice, gender and inequality. Priyanka was part of the inaugural cohort of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme in 2017-18. Chair: Shalini Grover is a Research Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at LSE focusing on anthropology and gender studies. For over two decades her principal areas of research have been marriage, kinship, love, divorce, legal pluralisms and globalised care in urban India and transnationally. More about this event The International Inequalities Institute (@LSEInequalities) at LSE brings together experts from many of the School's departments and centres to lead cutting-edge research focused on understanding why inequalities are escalating in numerous arenas across the world, and to develop critical tools to address these challenges. The Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme is a Global South-focused, funded fellowship for mid-career activists, policy-makers, researchers and movement-builders from around the world. Based at the International Inequalities Institute, it is a 20-year programme that commenced in 2017 and was funded with a £64m gift from Atlantic Philanthropies, LSE’s largest ever philanthropic donation. The Twitter hashtag for the event is #LSEInequalities.
SOAS: Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings Room: Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT)
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London School of Economics: Online public event
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This event has been postponed. LSE apologises for any inconvenience caused. We will announce a new date in due course.
Architectural Association School of Architecture:
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New Models is a lecture series that invites practitioners from different disciplines to discuss how their work can change the models around which society is organised. These conversations will address how we can shift power structures, socio-economic forces and structural inequalities present in society today to give us new tools to rethink the world around us.