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'So Then Its Farewell': Sir Christopher Meyer in Conversation with Raymond Snoddy
Location: London College of Communications, Elephant and Castle
Date: 12 Jan, 2009
POLIS, in parternship with The Media Society and The Society of Editors present Sir Christopher Meyer, Retiring chair of The Press Complaints Commission, in conversation with Raymond Snoddy, journalist and broadcaster.
The event will take place from 18.30 - 20.00 on Monday 12th January at the London College of Communications in Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SB. Tickets are £10 in advance. Students will be admitted for free. Please send cheques to Sam Keegan at 29 Prothero Road, London SW6 7LY. Cheques should be made payable to The Media Society.
For more information, please email sam_keegan@hotmail.com.
We would like to thank Camelot for it’s generous sponsorship of this event.
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The Guardian and Katine: Can the Media do Development?
Date: 13 Jan, 2009
POLIS, in partnership with will hold a small seminar on Tuesday 13th January to discuss a pertinent question in light of the The Guardian's three year experimental development project aimed at improving the lives of the 25,000 inhabitants of Katine, Uganda: Can the media do development?
This event will bring together key partners involved in the Katine Project, The Guardian and AMREF, to discuss the three year experimental development project using the Katine project as a case study. The purpose of this intensive seminar will be to discuss the reporting of development with the broader aim of understanding whether the media can play a constructive role or if the spotlight hampers prospects for progress.
Speakers will include the Guardian’s Madeleine Bunting, Ugandan journalist Richard Kavuma, and the Country Director of AMREF Uganda, Joshua Kyallo.
This is the latest event in POLIS' programme of seminars and research into humanitarian and development communication. For more information on this research programm please click here.
For more details, please contact Allison Brownlee at a.brownlee@lse.ac.uk
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Financial Journalism and the Economic Crisis
Location: E 171, First Floor, East Building
Date: 20 Jan, 2009
On Monday 20th of January from 2 - 4, Dr Damian Tambini of the LSE Media and Communications Department, and POLIS board member, will be hosted by the LSE SU Economics Society to discuss his findings about the financial reporting of the global economics crisis in a recently published POLIS report, "What is Financial Journalism for? Ethics and Responsibility in a time of Crisis and Change". The report can be read clicking here.
This event is free and open to everyone. No RSVP is required.
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Thinking Like a Social Scientist: a Lecture by Professor Robin Mansell
Location: U8, Tower 1, LSE
Date: 21 Jan, 2009
In this lunchtime series of lectures, a selection of LSE's academics from across the spectrum of the social sciences explain the latest thinking on how social scientists work to address critical problems of the day.
Robin Mansell is a professor of new media and the internet and head of the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE.
For more information please contact the LSE's Events Department at: info@events@lse.ac.uk. This event will start at 1.05pm and finish at 2.
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Here Comes Everbody: How change happens when people come together
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
Date: 03 Feb, 2009
Charlie Beckett, the Director of POLIS, will host a lecture by Professor Clay Shirky, to discuss the burgeoning online social explosion and ask what the implications are when people are given tools to work together, without needing traditional organizational structures.
Clay Shirky is a Professor at New York University's interactive telecommunications programme, and has consulted for many companies, including Nokia, Procter and Gamble, the BBC and the US Navy.
This event starts at 6.30 and finishes at and is free and open to all. For more information please contact events@lse.ac.uk
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The Internet and Its Myriad Ways: An Asian Perspective
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Date: 10 Feb, 2009
Chaired by Professor Robin Mansell, POLIS Advisory Board member and Head of the LSE's Media and Communications Department with POLIS Director Charlie Beckett as the discussant, this event will host Arun Mahizhnan, Deputy Director of Singapore's Institute of Policy Studies. The event will examine the vastly different impact of new communication technologies in different Asian countries.
This event will start at 6.30 and finish at 8.
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Why did nobody tell us? Reporting the Global Crash of ‘08
Location: Old Theatre, Old Building, London School of Economics
Date: 23 Feb, 2009
On Monday 23rd February from 6.30 - 8, POLIS, in partnership with the Media Society and Society of Editors, will hold an event to discuss the reporting leading up to the global credit crash of 2008.
Chairing the event is Howard Davies, along with Evan Davis of the BBC; Alex Brummer of the Daily Mail, Vince Cable MP, Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor and Gillian Tett, Assistant Editor, The Financial Times; and Professor Williem Butler of the LSE as key pannelists.