This year’s Fred Halliday Memorial Event will explore how and why the symbolic investment in republican discourse and the building of republican institutions can be so detrimental to the rights of the very public that they are meant to represent.

Asia has successfully transitioned from a low-income agrarian region in the 1960s to a global manufacturing powerhouse today, driving growth around the world. COVID-19 is threatening to turn back the clock on some of that progress.

At this event, our panelists will celebrate the achievements of Celebrating Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933-2020 and assess her legacy.

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed extraordinary challenges to all sectors of society and underscored the centrality of human health and well-being to the very survival of economies and societies at large.

Diseases present us with obvious health costs, but there are significant economic costs to illness too.

Africa is a 1.2 billion person market on the cusp of dramatic and transformative growth.

In the form of white privilege, ‘colour-blindness’ and supremacy, how does whiteness shape individual lives and European societies alike? This event will explore the role of whiteness in Europe and for European identities.

Has the sudden, intense common experience of the virus crisis generated a reservoir of social solidarity? How have public attitudes and political culture shifted and what is the significance of these changes for progressive politics?

This is an event shortcast, a digested version of the STICERD panel discussion that took place on January 13th 2021.

This is an event shortcast, a digested version of our live online public events series. This event was recorded on 8th February 2021. A full version is available to download on the LSE player.