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🇪🇺🇬🇧To mark the 10-year anniversary of the 2016 Brexit #referendum this month, we spoke with 10 of our experts to hear their reflections on the vote which forever altered the course of British and European politics.
👉 Explore our #Brexit hub: lse.ac.uk/european-institute…
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🇹🇷 Wishing a warm welcome to our new Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies, Professor @ygursoy!
Find out more about Professor Gürsoy's work and research here 👉 lse.ac.uk/european-institute…
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Professor Waltraud Schelkle has won the SWIPE (Society for Women in International Political Economy) Mentor Award, after being nominated by women who have benefited from her mentorship over the years.
Congratulations! 🎉
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
We are offering fully-funded PhD scholarships in the broad area of European Studies, covering 4 years of funding. You will have opportunities for research methods training, fieldwork and teaching experience.
📅Deadline: 14th Jan 2022
ow.ly/7qp050H9yom
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🎉"Chris is a world-class scholar, a great teacher, a wonderful colleague, and a Europeanist through and through."
We're delighted that the EI's new named Chair, 'The Ralf Dahrendorf Professor of European Politics and Society', has been conferred on Professor Chris Anderson.
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Welcome to Dr @ralucapahontu, who has joined us as LSE Fellow in European and International Politics and Policy!🥳
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🔜Next week we will be exploring the “Nordic” model of criminalising the buying of sex, discussing how this policy affects people in the sex trade👇
Joined by @AnnaMBlus, @ButterflyCSW, @ProstitutesColl, @AmnestyIreland, @lastradainterna, @RedUmbrellaSwe
bit.ly/3G5axUd
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Prof Paul Preston @CO_LSE welcoming our guests for tonight's event exploring the political and judicial future of the #Catalan independentist movement @ClaraPonsati @AlfredBosch @AamerAnwar @jitorreblanca @LSEpublicevents #LSECatalonia
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With the start of term finally here, we're excited to welcome some new members to team EI!🎉👋
🔹 Prof @jrhopkin
🔹 Dr @ralucapahontu
🔹 Dr @jvaldeztappata
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📢 WE ARE HIRING
We are seeking a highly motivated, efficient and hardworking candidate for the position of Contemporary Turkish Studies Administrative & Research Assistant.
📆 Deadline for application: 6 March 2022 (23.59 UK time)
Find out more at 👉 bit.ly/3thpkHg
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🏅 "It shows she had a certain self-discipline, ambition, and toughness at an early age."
Professor Waltraud Schelkle discusses the rise of Annalena Baerbock - candidate for the Greens in the German federal election, and former champion trampolinist.
edition.cnn.com/2021/05/11/e…
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Congratulations to EI graduate Dr Christopher Wratil, pictured here with his PhD supervisor Professor @SaraHobolt.
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In the form of white privilege, ‘colour-blindness’ and supremacy, how does whiteness shape individual lives and European societies alike?
Join us on 15 March for our online panel with @jean23bean @NeemaBegum & @theodavid
ℹ️ bit.ly/3c37GfR
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We are proud to be partnering with @Unibocconi launching our new Double Degree in European and International Public Policy and Politics
participation of @MichelBarnier with a video at launch event of new Bocconi-LSE double degree in European and Intl Public Policy and Politics
@LSEnews @LSEEI
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An incredible event this evening, thanks to our amazing speakers🗣️ @ButterflyCSW, @ProstitutesColl, @AmnestyIreland, @lastradainterna, @RedUmbrellaSwe, @AnnaMBlus, @NiinaVu
If you missed it, the podcast and video will be out soon📺
🔴 We are LIVE for tonight’s @LSEEI event on Criminalizing the Sex Buyer.
Our panellists include @ButterflyCSW, @ProstitutesColl, @AmnestyIreland, @lastradainterna, @RedUmbrellaSwe and @NiinaVu
Watch now ➡️ facebook.com/lseps/videos
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A huge thank you to the PM of Luxembourg @Xavier_Bettel for joining us this afternoon with such a captivating discussion on the future of the #EU. We hope PM Bettel enjoyed the event as much as we all did! #LSEEU
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
We are offering fully-funded PhD scholarships in the broad area of European Studies, covering 4 years of funding. You will have opportunities for research methods training, fieldwork and teaching experience.
📅Deadline: 14th Jan 2022
ow.ly/7qp050H9yom
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Congratulations to our MSc students for graduating yesterday - we are so proud of you! Welcome to the @LSEalumni community! #LSEGraduation #LSEClassof2017
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👋 Introducing our new @LSEEI Fellows!
Find out more about our new staff members here 👉 lse.ac.uk/ei/people
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🔎 @_OrkunSaka has been awarded a research grant by @BritishAcademy_ to investigate the long-term impact of COVID-19 on financial technology adoption in the UK.
His ongoing work on how past epidemics have influenced FinTech adoption can be found here 👇
nber.org/papers/w29006
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7⃣ MARCH: @lea_ypi will be speaking to @innes_abby about her new book 📚which outlines her experiences growing up in the last Stalinist outpost in Europe during the fall of communism in 1990.
Register to attend👇
bit.ly/36lQGlS
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Congratulations to Professor Waltraud Schelkle and Professor Esra Özyürek on their professorial appointments! We are very proud of them here at the EI #partoflse @esragozyurek
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🏆 Congratulations to Dr Cristóbal Garibay-Petersen and Dr Matilde Rosina, who have been presented with LSE Class Teacher Awards by @EdenLSE!
Valerie Belu and @jvaldeztappata each received a High Commendation for their excellent work this academic year.
Congratulations to all!
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NEXT WEEK: #LSETransition 📚
How do lived experiences in the transition from state socialism to liberalism shape our understanding of freedom? We will be joined by @lea_ypi to discuss her new book, with @innes_abby 👇
lse.ac.uk/european-institute…
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Congratulations to Dr @angelo_martelli who has been appointed to the #T20 Task Force on Migration for the upcoming #G20! 🌍
The Task Force will produce a set of recommendations that will feature in the final communique of the G20 Summit.
Find out more 👉 lse.ac.uk/ei/news
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📢EVENT ALERT❗
Don't miss @jrhopkin next week on Anti-System Politics in light of the forthcoming #US election and the #Brexit end-game!
📆 27 October 2020
⏰ 4pm-5:30pm GMT
ℹ️ bit.ly/2TkKEYQ
#LSEAntiSystemPolitics @LSEGovernment
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Next week❗️From Annexation to War: Russia's aggression in Ukraine
With
🔴Rory Finnin, @CamUkrainistyka
🔴@OKhromeychuk, @ukr_institute
🔴@ellie_knott, @MethodologyLSE
Chair
🔴@DenisaKost
📆3 Oct⏰6.30pm
🌐 Free at LSE + online @LSEpublicevents
ℹ️ bit.ly/3dR6AJl
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A group of our students have created an initiative calling for more EU solidarity in the #COVID19 pandemic.
Join them at 18:00 GMT with the hashtag #EUnited @EUnitedWeStand! 🇪🇺
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Congratulations to all our MSc & PhD students from our academics! Welcome to the @LSEalumni community! #LSEGraduation #LSE #partofLSE
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The “Swedish” or “Nordic” model claims to revolutionise the policy field by criminalising buying instead of selling sex.
How does it affect the people it claims to protect and where do the policy solutions really lie?
Watch here: piped.video/watch?v=eF50y1Zj…
@NiinaVu @shaaarmila
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In this article, @yonatan_levi & @shaiagmon provide the first comprehensive account of the rise of right-wing populism in Israel over the 2010s, showing that this populism has been mainstreamed to an extraordinary extent.
Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3nxvhcy
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Tickets are released today for the President of #Kosovo event! @HashimThaciRKS discussing the Kosovo's future and its #European prospects @LSEE_LSE #LSEKosovo bit.ly/2S6mGy7
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EU citizens have to apply for a new immigration status to continue living lawfully in the UK, but this has been made digital-only.
@maikebohn argues will create barriers to opportunity and wellbeing for many EU citizens.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2020/…
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What can we learn from two experts who played a central role in managing the fallout from the financial crises in Greece and Cyprus? bit.ly/31B95mL @DahrendorfForum @lseideas #LSEEurope @IainBeggLSE @gpapak @pdemetriades
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We're excited to welcome our newest students next week! 🎉 Though it will take a slightly different form to usual, we have a packed week of inductions and activities heading our way as we introduce our new cohort to the EI and LSE! #eiwelcome #partoflse
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A big thank you to Prof Kevin Featherstone for leading the @LSEEI during the last 3 years & congratulations to Prof Simon Glendinning @lonanglo who has been appointed the new Head of Department! bit.ly/2xPcUYC #EIwelcome
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🚨 Tomorrow!
▶️ The Early History of Humanity: we have never been stupid (until now?)
🎤 @davidwengrow @lonanglo
📆 2 Nov, Wednesday| Hybrid | 6-7pm BST
✅ Register now! ow.ly/CxHn50LgoI0
@LSEpublicevents @UCLarchaeology
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Join our students in their transpartisan demand for European solidarity in the fight against #Covid19! #EUnited @EUnitedWeStand
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🚨 NEW JOB VACANCIES! 🚨
The European Institute is recruiting for two new roles ⬇️
1️⃣ Assistant Professor in European Politics and Policy: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/4…
2️⃣ Assistant Professor in Political Economy: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/4…
📅 Closing date: 18 February 2024
#LSEEI
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Thank you to @HelleThorning_S and everyone who joined us at tonight's #lsechildren event. A podcast will be online soon!
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Join us in two weeks for a symposium to explore what the future means today 💭
Our very own EI Deputy Head @JonathanPJWhite will be launching his new book: “In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea”.
➡️Register here: lse.ac.uk/european-institute…
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🔜 Next week we will be exploring the ways in which homophobia and homonationalism are intertwined with nationalist projects across Europe.
With @LSEGenderTweet & @LSEpublicevents, chaired by @jlbreslow and featuring @discoursekhala
Register now 👇
lse.ac.uk/Events/2021/11/202…
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How does individual wealth determine Brexit support?💰
Dr @ralucapahontu discusses her research in our #EIResearchinFocus video👇
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Merci beaucoup Mme @NathalieLoiseau for an outstanding afternoon discussion of #Brexit and the future of Franco-British relations with our #LSE audience. #LSEBrexit @LSEEI @LSEPublicPolicy @LSEnews @IainBeggLSE @FranceintheUK
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We will be kicking off the new term with #LSEGermanyVotes next week!
Join our panel @rikefranke, @COdendahl, @Mij_Europe and @D_Schwarzer as they explore what's next for German politics 🇩🇪
lse.ac.uk/Events/2021/09/202…
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Head of the European Institute @lonanglo welcomed former 🇬🇧 PM @GordonBrown, and his co-authors, renowned economist Mohamed @elerianm and Nobel laureate Michael Spence, to our event chaired by Silvana Tenreyro @LSEEcon last night for their 🆕📙
@LSEpublicevents @LSENews
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A huge congratulations to our superstar teachers - Dr Cristóbal Garibay-Petersen (winner), Dr Marta Lorimer (highly commended) and Dr Ivor Sokolić (highly commended) - for their achievement in the @EdenLSE 2019/20 LSE Class Teacher Awards!
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It’s an absolutely packed house and we are underway with ‘Brexit: The Constitution and the future of the UK”! #LSEBrexit @LSEEI @LSEPublicPolicy @LSEpublicevents @LSEnews
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🇪🇺 "Are far-right parties really naturally ‘Eurosceptic’, and what does it even mean to be ‘Eurosceptic’?"
📝 Summarising her in-depth research on Europe's far-right, @_mlorimer writes for the @IdeologyTheory blog.
Read it here 👇
ideology-theory-practice.org…
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The EI Team warmly welcomes its newest members of academic staff: Professor Chris Anderson and Dr. Angelo Martelli.
We are thrilled to have them on board!
#partofLSE @soccerquant @angelo_martelli
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We are delighted to honour one of our longest-serving members, Professor Nicholas Barr, with the new Nicholas Barr Fellowship in European Political Economy, recognising the commitment that Nick has shown to teaching and education in the department over the past 30 years. 🎓
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An honour to welcome Prime Minister of Luxembourg, @Xavier_Bettel to the @LSEEI today, discussing strengthening the European Union internally and towards the wider world! @lseideas @DahrendorfForum @LSEpublicevents #LSEEU
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Thank you very much to @akk for joining us tonight for what I'm sure all will agree was an engaging discussion, covering many key issue-areas in national, continental and global politics.
@lseideas @DahrendorfForum @LSEpublicevents #LSEGermany @KAS_UKIRL
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Are you interested in the Citizen's Basic Income debate? Register Now for the Morning & Afternoon sessions of the Citizen’s Basic Income Day Conference on 20/02 at LSE #LSEBeveridge #LSEFestival - free tickets available: bit.ly/2DDC3Lx
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🇪🇺🇬🇧 After five years of invaluable public events, the LSE Programme: Brexit & Beyond came to an end yesterday evening.
We'd like to thank our final guest speaker, @MichelBarnier, for providing a fascinating insight into the complex negotiations between Brussels and London.
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New podcast! Listen to Prof @pdegrauwe explaining what the failures of the #Eurozone are and what we need to do to fix them #LSEeuro bit.ly/2ACmUs3
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“Tsipras is the direct result of austerity; he is a creature of the creditors’ own making” - @pdegrauwe buff.ly/1LSf5Ns @HO_LSE
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'Universities are the guardians of knowledge. There is a thing called knowledge, it's extremely difficult to find, but it exists' @M_Ignatieff at his lecture on academic freedom #LSEIgnatieff
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Marking 100 Years of the Turkish Republic, the EI & CTS announce a week-long series of public events to examine the past, present & future of 🇹🇷.
ℹ️👉lse.ac.uk/contemporary-turki…
We stand in solidarity with the people of Turkey & Syria during this time of devastation & mourning.
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Why were wealthy voters willing to support a Leave vote gamble? Read this @guardian article based on Dr @ralucapahontu's co-authored paper 'Mind the Gap: Why Wealthy Voters Support Brexit'. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
bit.ly/3aHrpkK
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What a wonderful end to this term's series of public lectures! A huge thank you to our speakers @pdemetriades and @gpapak for an excellent discussion on the Governance of the EU and the Euro.
@agendapub @lseideas @DahrendorfForum
#LSEEurope
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.@GuyVerhofstadt: When an important country like Britain breaks away it's a failure #LSEbrexit
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Congratulations to @sarahagemann & Natascha Zaun for receiving the 2017/2018 LSE Excellence in Education Award! Well done! #partofLSE
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How does nostalgia drive the activism of well-off local intellectual far-right groups?
Dr @JGopffarth explores this using ethnographic data gathered in Dresden, Germany 👇
bit.ly/3unu2kR
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Tues 9 June: Europe's nation-states have been key actors in responding to #COVID19. What repercussions has this reassertion of national political power had on public opinion & identity across Europe? How will the Euro area cope?
ℹ️🎟️bit.ly/2TY0ERm
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Struggling to keep up with all the new books on Brexit? @timothyloliver created a #Brexit summer reading guide
bit.ly/2h7Kggm
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How did far-right parties go from the margins to the mainstream and did Europe have anything to do with it? 🇪🇺💭
We sat down with Dr @_mlorimer, Fellow in European Politics at @LSEEI @LSEnews, to discuss her new book coming out March 28! 📘👇
piped.video/002Q3gJAL5o
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In conversation with @lonanglo @davidwengrow (@UCLarchaeology) discusses his new book 'The Dawn of Everything: a new history of humanity', co-authored by the late David Graeber.
Join us!
📆 2 Nov, Wednesday | 6-7pm BST
✅ Register now! ow.ly/VgP750LgotO
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Appraising 100 Years of the #Turkish Republic: changing ideas of modernity
Our erudite panel will assess 🇹🇷 society, culture & politics, and the nation's mutating understandings of itself, its past & its future.
ℹ️ow.ly/gQiY50MYinK
@LSEpublicevents @ygursoy @jrhopkin
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🤔 Is the 🇪🇺EU a vehicle for Imperial amnesia?
Join us to discuss @hanskundnani's 🆕📘, Eurowhiteness, with @GKBhambra (@SussexUni), @HelenHet20 (@Cambridge_Uni), Mike Wilkinson & 🪑 @lonanglo !
W/ @LSELaw @LSEpublicevents
📅 Tuesday, 3 Oct
ℹ️ lse.ac.uk/Events/2023/10/202…
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Thanks to all those who attended our #LSEBrexit event on the EU elections yesterday evening: we hope you enjoyed it! The podcast will be coming soon @LSEEI @LSEPublicPolicy @LSEpublicevents @LSENews @lsebrexitvote
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Discussing the UK labour strikes on @trthaber, Dr Orkun Saka (@_OrkunSaka) said that potential bans on professions (e.g. nursing) won't be sufficient to prevent short-term strikes.
The push on wages due to labour shortages will continue to affect the country in the medium term.
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Tonight we welcome @pdemetriades and @gpapak, for rethinking the Governance of the EU and the Euro
#LSEEurope
@agendapub @lseideas @DahrendorfForum
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Congratulations to Dr Waltraud Schelkle who has been awarded together w/t Maurizio Ferrera & Hanspeter Kries a Synergy Grant by @ERC_Research exploring "Policy Crisis and Crisis Politics. Sovereignty, Solidarity and Identity in the #EU post 2008" bit.ly/2OgOLAw #ERCSyG
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🏆 Congratulations to @LSEEI students Harry Koromvokis, Sarah Phillips, Sydney Arceneaux and Sarah Doyel!
The group were awarded the 2021 European Policy Prize from @ESThinktank after submitting a policy memo on the management of the European Migrant Crisis.
Well done all!
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Tomorrow, Dr. @_mlorimer will be presenting her new book at @UoN_CRISPI! Tune in for an in-depth conversation about her upcoming publication 📘
📅 Wednesday 31 January (5-6.30pm)
📍Online (Microsoft Teams)
➡️ Sign up here: nottingham.ac.uk/crispi/news…
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The #COVID19 pandemic makes #UK-#EU negotiations even more challenging. This expert panel will assess where we are with the negotiations & where we might be heading 🇬🇧🇪🇺
🎫&ℹ️ bit.ly/2AwTb5y
@CSBarnard24 @anandMenon1 @MeredithCrowle1 @BCCAdam @LSEpublicevents
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We are so proud of all our nominees for the @lsesu 2020 Teaching Awards, spanning our Academic Faculty, Research staff, Professional Services and students!🥳👏 lsesu.com/teachingawards
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▶️ The Early History of Humanity: we have never been stupid (until now?)
🎤 @davidwengrow, @lonanglo
📆 2 Nov, Wednesday| Hybrid | 6-7pm BST
✅ Register now! ow.ly/CxHn50LgoI0
@LSEpublicevents @UCLarchaeology
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What does #Brexit mean for the #EU? Without the UK, will the EU push for deeper integration? Listen to @simonjhix talking about the possible ways in which Brexit will impact the EU @lsebrexitvote @LSEGovernment
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Today marks two-years since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Watch the video of our recent event with @GwendolynSasse and @samagreene on ‘Russia’s War Against Ukraine’, around Gwendoline’s new book.
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piped.video/watch?v=gqgPLiMq…
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A great honour to host @GuyVerhofstadt and welcome @SadiqKhan at last night's #LSEBrexit lecture. Thank you all for coming along!
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Happy Hanukkah to all of our Jewish students, colleagues, alumni and friends 🕎
Hanukkah is also called the Festival of Lights or the Feast of Dedication. We wish you all a wonderful celebration.
#Hanukkah #HappyHanukkah #PartOfLSE
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LSE Commission report @IainBeggLSE- Economic Impact of #Brexit: lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/… #LSEBrexitVote #EURefResults
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Join us for the workshop “Race and Empire in Europe's Borders” to examine the interactions between border practices and the character of the EU.
📅 23 May, 10.30 am⬇️
lse.ac.uk/european-institute…
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More shots from our early start of the #FutureEurope conference in London - free to attend, running until 3.00 PM! @LSEEI @ING_news @Deloitte @SocieteGenerale @FRM_GmbH @esmtberlin @FrankfurtSchool @goetheuni @europlace @malekicorporate @hrinfo @LSEnews
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HUGE congratulations to our European Institute December graduates! 🎓🎉
Here are a couple of photos from our celebrations this week - please do tag us in yours and we will share 😀
#partofLSE
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Politicians facing a term limit are 'substantially more likely to re-regulate financial markets after crises in ways compatible with their private incentives' argue @_OrkunSaka, Yuemei Ji & Paul De Grauwe for @voxeu. 👇
bit.ly/3ocvhiz
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Don't miss our event tomorrow w/ @jrhopkin & @LSEGovernment !!
#LSEAntiSystemPolitics
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🔜MONDAY: #LSETransition 📚
How do lived experiences in the transition from state socialism to liberalism shape our understanding of freedom? We will be joined by @lea_ypi to discuss her new book, with @innes_abby 👇
lse.ac.uk/european-institute…
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"All I can say is, we've only just begun" - Prof Tony Travers.
Thank you everyone who came to 'Brexit-third time lucky?' last week. If you missed out, catch the Podcast at bit.ly/31pIKcJ 🎧
@UKandEU @LSEPublicPolicy @LSEpublicevents #LSEBrexit
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🎧#podcast: What will be the political scar of the epidemic? @B_Eichengreen, @cevatgirayaksoy, @_orkunsaka, @anna_getmansky & @soccerquant discuss. 👇 bit.ly/3l0Rbok
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Earlier this month, we held a fantastic alumni event in Brussels - which formally brought to a close our anniversary year 🇪🇺 #LSEEI30
Thank you to our speakers and all who attended! Check out some of our event photos below 🎉
@_mlorimer @nfPoitiers @BGUsobiaga @soccerquant
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📢Tickets available! The #COVID19 pandemic makes #UK-#EU negotiations even more challenging. This expert panel will assess where we are with negotiations & where we might be heading 🇬🇧🇪🇺
🎫&ℹ️ bit.ly/2AwTb5y
@CSBarnard24 @anandMenon1 @MeredithCrowle1 @BCCAdam
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'A Decolonial Moment in European and EU Studies' with keynote address from @GKBhambra as part of our Beyond Eurocentrism programme looking at the varieties of colonialism that must be addressed in European studies.
Find out more: ow.ly/gxqg50ONWq7
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