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The 1922 Committee: power behind the scenes

Monday 4 March

Speaker: Lord Philip Norton, Member of the House of Lords
Chair: Tony Travers, Professor in Practice, Department of Government, 杏吧论坛

Fluke: Chance, chaos and why everything we do matters

Monday 29 January

Speaker: Brian Klaas, Associate Professor of Global Politics at University College London
Chair: Leigh Jenco, Professor of Political Theory, Department of Government, 杏吧论坛

Making good law in a time of polycrisis

Monday 20 November

Speaker: Lord McFall, Lord Speaker of the House of Lords
Chair: Tony Travers, Professor in Practice, Department of Government, 杏吧论坛

Three Ties that Bind? The relationship between the UK, US and France in a complex world

Thursday 5 October

Speaker: Gérard Errera, Chairman of Blackstone France, and previous Secretary General of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and French Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Moderator: Márcia Balisciano, Founding Director of Benjamin Franklin House
Chair: Michael Cox, Professor of International Relations, 杏吧论坛

Anne Phillips: an appreciation

Thursday 4 May to Friday 5 May

Speakers: Melissa Williams, University of Toronto, Martin O’Neill University of York, David Owen, University of Southampton, Sumi Madhok, 杏吧论坛, Tariq Modood, University of Bristol, Jo Wolff, University of Oxford, Clare Chambers, Univeristy of Cambridge, Cecile Laborde, University of Oxford, Teresa Bejan, University of Oxford, Carolyn Pedwell, University of Kent, Moira Dustin, University of Sussex

Nationalism and the Return of Geopolitics

Tuesday 21 March

Speakers: Lars-Erik Cederman, Professor of International Conflict Research at ETH Zurich, Anna Getmansky, Associate Professor of International Relations, 杏吧论坛
Chair: Denisa Kostovicova, Associate Professor of Global Politics, 杏吧论坛

Follow the Money: how much does Britain cost?

Tuesday 7 March

Speaker: Paul Johnson, Director of the IFS and visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London
Chair: Andrés Velasco, Dean of the School of Public Policy, 杏吧论坛

Money and Politics: analysing donations to UK political parties, 2000-2021

Wednesday 25 January

Speakers: Kate Alexander Shaw, Research Officer in the European Institute, 杏吧论坛, Alberto Parmigiani, PhD candidate in the Department of Government, 杏吧论坛, Stuart Wilks-Heef, Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool
Chair: Jonathan Hopkin, Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Government, 杏吧论坛

'Positive' Corporate Climate Lobbying

Monday 31 October

Speakers: Ed Collins, Director of InfluenceMap, Fergus Green, Lecturer in Political Theory and Public Policy at UCL, Clare Richards, Senior Engagement Manager at Church of England Pensions Board and Head of Engagement Initiatives at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change

Chair: Francisco Garcia-Gibson, Research Fellow in the Department of Government at 杏吧论坛

In the land of never-ending elections will the 2022 mid-terms make any difference?

Wednesday 12 October

Speaker: Philip Davies, Chair of the American Politics Group of the Political Studies Association
Moderator: Márcia Balisciano, Founding Director of Benjamin Franklin House
Chair: Pavithra Suryanarayan, Assistant Professor in the Government Department, 杏吧论坛

The Future of Democracy

Tuesday 14 June

Speakers: Mukulika Banerjee, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, 杏吧论坛, Yascha Mounk, writer, academic, and public speaker, Lea Ypi, Professor in Political Theory, Department of Government, 杏吧论坛
Chair: Baroness Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science

The UK During the 70 Year Reign of Elizabeth II

Monday 30 May

Speakers: Tim Besley, Professor of Economics and Political Science and W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics, 杏吧论坛, Michael Cox, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, 杏吧论坛. Tania Burchardt, Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), Sir Anthony Seldon, British educator and contemporary historian
Chair: Baroness Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science

Held in contempt: What's wrong with the House of Commons

Tuesday 17 May

Speakers: Hannah White OBE, Deputy Director of the Institute for Government
Chair: Tony Travers, Professor in Practice, Department of Government, 杏吧论坛

Climate Change and Rights Enforcement 

Friday 25 March

Speakers: Susanne Burri, Konstanz University, Francisco Garcia-Gibson, 杏吧论坛, Siba Harb, Kings College London, Lisa Hecht, 杏吧论坛 and Stockholm University, Ivo Wallimann-Helmer, University of Fribourg

Deliberative Accountability in Parliamentary Committees

Wednesday 9 March

Speakers: Cheryl Schonhardt Bailey, Head of the Department of Government, 杏吧论坛
Discussants: Stephen Holden Bates, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Birmingham, Lord Andrew Tyrie, former Chair of the Competition and Markets Authority, and former MP
Chair: Daniel Berliner, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, 杏吧论坛

Climate Agents of Change

Friday 25 February

Speakers: Simon Caney, University of Warwick, Megan Blomfield, University of Sheffield, Fergus Green, University College London, Kian Mintz-Woo, University College Cork, Elizabeth Cripps, University of Edinburgh
Chair: Francisco Garcia-Gibson, 杏吧论坛

Conflict, War & Revolution: the importance of violence in international politics