BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN URL:https://lectures.london/london-school-of-economics/in-the-realm-of-the -last-man/calender.ics NAME:Lectures London X-WR-CALNAME:Lectures London TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:47cb99f9-a866-46a0-9ca7-27443166db3f SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260713T084921 DTSTART:20260902T174500 DTEND:20260902T190000 SUMMARY:In the realm of the last man LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person public event (LSE campus\, venue tbc to ticketholders) DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 2 September 2026 6.45pm - 8pmSpeakerProfessor Franci s FukuyamaChairProfessor Larry KramerJoin us for this conversation with Fr ancis Fukuyama who will talk about his new book\, In the Realm of the Last Man.In 1989\, one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall\, Francis Fukuy ama - then an early-career academic who had cut his teeth conducting resea rch for Ronald Reagan during his years as California governor - delivered a conference paper that would go on to become one of the most celebrated - and controversial - works of political theory of our time: The End of Hist ory.By 2009\, he had broken with his neoconservative mentors\, from Allan Bloom to Paul Wolfowitz\, after recanting his support for the 'disastrous' invasion of Iraq in 2003\, and the laissez-faire economics that produced the financial crash of 2008.But why did he change his mind? In his powerfu l political memoir\, encompassing his father's involvement in the civil ri ghts movement and his own work on CIA contracts in the 1980s\, Fukuyama an alyses his life alongside the seismic political shifts of the last thirty years - from Bush to Obama to Trump\, from the War on Terror to Russia's i nvasion of Ukraine.Meet our speaker and chairFrancis Fukuyama is the autho r of The End of History\, The Great Disruption\, Our Posthuman Future\, St ate Building\,After the Neocons\, The Origins of Political Order and Polit ical Order and Political Decay. All have been hugely influential internati onal bestsellers\, translated and published in many languages. He is Olivi er Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for Internation al Studies\, Stanford.Larry Kramer has been President and Vice Chancellor of LSE since April 2024. 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