The republic of innovation: a new political economy of freedom
Thursday, 15 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Andrea Lorenzo Capussela, David Soskice, Leila Simona Talani, Valentino Larcinese
London School of Economics
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Thursday, 15 October 2026
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Monday, 19 October 2026
Chinese Business in the UK: What’s Changing?
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Chinese Business in the UK: What’s Changing?
Why Europe Needs to Take Back the Diversity Principle: From Humboldt and Mill to America's Diversity
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 13:00
'Governor, Traveller, Scholar, Spy': Sir Cecil Clementi and the making of 'modern' Hong Kong
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 17:00
TBCThe Good Russian: In Search of a Nation's Soul
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 17:00
Speaker: Jana Bakunina
Bush House North East Wing, Room 1.03, Strand Campus, LondonFrom crisis to stability to what? Greece in a fragmenting world
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Alexis Papahelas, Vassilis Monastiriotis
London School of Economics (LSE), on campusCentre of European Law 52nd Annual Lecture
FreeMonday, 19 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Commissioner Magnus Brunner, Professor Andrea Biondi
Reforming the British royal family: how the House of Windsor can survive the 21st century
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Andrew Lownie
London School of EconomicsThe Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Michael Gove
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Michael Gove
Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, Westminster, London, SW1P 3HAChina Week Opening Keynote & Reception - BRICS, the G20 and China
FreeMonday, 19 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Jim O'Neill, Gemma Chenger Deng
Bush House, Strand Campus, LondonThe Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook, with Michael Gove
Monday, 19 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Michael Gove
Smith Square Hall, Smith Square, Westminster, London, SW1P 3HA
Tuesday, 20 October 2026
Book Talk: 'We Shall Outlast Them: Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West' with Dr Hanna Notte
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 13:00
Speaker: Dr Hanna Notte
King's Building, Strand Campus, LondonThe Purpose of Parahistory in Postsocialist Vietnam
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 17:30
Russell Square: College Buildings / RG01EU Environmental Law at 50 – Legacy and Lessons for the UK
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:00
Can multilateralism survive the planetary crises?
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:30
SOAS Gallery Building / BGLTThe good, the black and the boujee: how black Britain became middle class
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Symeon Brown, Aamna Mohdin, Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Coretta Phillips
London School of EconomicsRussian active measures under Putin: how should Europe respond?
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Oleksandr V. Danylyuk, Jack Watling, Alexander Evans
LSE School of Public PolicyBook Launch "Demographic Anxieties" (Gala Rexer) | Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) - UCL – University College London
FreeTuesday, 20 October 2026 at 18:30
Speaker: Osama Tanous, Ghada Majadli, Ala Sirriyeh, Patricia Hamilton, Chair: Seth Anziska
Listening Session + Q&A : Where is Austin Tice?
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Josh Baker, Sara Obeidat
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJThe Battle for the Arctic and the New World Order, with Rana Foroohar and Gillian Tett
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Rana Foroohar, Gillian Tett
Swedenborg House, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, Holborn, London, WC1A 2THMichael Lewis on Musk, Trump and the Deep State
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Michael Lewis, Elizabeth Day
Royal Festival HallMichael Lewis: Blockers
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Michael Lewis
Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday, 21 October 2026
European Security Strategy: Geopolitics, Defence, and Economic Power
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:00
Speaker: European Security Strategy: Geopolitics, Defence, and Economic Power
Macadam Building, Room MAC 604, Strand Campus, LondonBuilding a Successful International Maritime Court: Lessons for International Commercial Justice
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:00
Easting the west: theorizing the postliberal conjuncture from China
Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 18:15
Speaker: Chenchen Zhang
London School of Economics
Thursday, 22 October 2026
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Thursday, 29 October 2026
Reframing Complete Abortion Decriminalisation as a Public Law Question: A Transnational Inquiry
Thursday, 29 October 2026 at 18:00
The Genocide in Gaza and Israel’s Deliberate Targeting of Children
Thursday, 29 October 2026 at 19:00
SOAS Gallery / BGLTWhat's Next for Trump, Xi and The West?
Thursday, 29 October 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Kevin Rudd, David Rennie
Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, London W2 1QJ
Monday, 2 November 2026
How sustainable (or unsustainable) is China's miracle growth since Deng's reforms?
Monday, 2 November 2026 at 17:30
TBCZadie Smith: Dead and Alive
Monday, 2 November 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Zadie Smith
St George's Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RRZadie Smith: Dead and Alive
Monday, 2 November 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Zadie Smith
St George's Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR
Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Thursday, 5 November 2026
CIMR debates in Public Policy - Catching Up in the Digital Age: Capabilities, Governance, and Industrial Policy in Transitional Europe
Thursday, 5 November 2026 at 16:00
Speaker: Prof. Slavo Radosevic, Prof. Rainer Kattel, Dr. Nahed Ahmed
TBCGuantanamo on the Euphrates: What Next for Detainees in Syria?
FreeThursday, 5 November 2026 at 18:00
Gresham CollegeAmerica’s Undoing in the Middle East, with Kim Ghattas and Lyse Doucet
Thursday, 5 November 2026 at 19:00
Speaker: Kim Ghattas, Lyse Doucet
Swedenborg House, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, Holborn, London WC1A 2TH
Monday, 9 November 2026
Manufacturing Vulnerability in the Uyghur Region: State-Imposed Forced Labour and the Crisis of Corporate Complicity
Monday, 9 November 2026 at 17:00
SOAS Main Building / RG01Marina Litvinenko on Russia, Putin and Resistance
Monday, 9 November 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Marina Litvinenko, Gordon Corera
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RLMarina Litvinenko on Russia, Putin and Resistance
Monday, 9 November 2026 at 19:30
Speaker: Marina Litvinenko
Conway Hall
Tuesday, 10 November 2026
Thursday, 12 November 2026
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