What? The LSE Space for Thought series was created to celebrate the completion of the New Academic Building at LSE, which was officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen on 5 November 2008. These celebrations included an inaugural lecture series, with some of the world's leading academics, and has morphed into an ongoing Literary Festival each Feb/March.
When? Wednesday 27 February - Saturday 2 March 2013
Who? Ken Livingstone, David Edmonds, Nigel Warburton, Molly Crabapple, Professor, Mary Evans, Vicky Featherstone, Kate Mosse, Professor Christopher Andrew,Professor Lord Hennessey, Alan Judd & more Festival Programme (pdf)|, or view a full list of events|
Previous Festivals? Jane Davies, Tim Joss, David McDaid, Margaret Perkins, Jeanette Winterson, Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Professor Pedro Ferreira,Professor Elaine Fox, Charlie Beckett, Heather Brooke, Nick Cohen, AS Byatt, Robert Irwin, Professor Lord Desai, Professor Anatol Lieven,Kamila Shamsie
Where? The London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London,
WC2A 2AE, The festival forms part of the celebrations surrounding the completion of LSE's New Academic Building on Lincoln's Inn Fields. The events will take place in the new building designed by Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners – the award winning architects for the Eden project.| See transport details below
Festival Website? www.lse.ac.uk/spaceforthought
Past Festivals? Ken McLeod, Andrew Motion, Elif Shafak, Steve Bell, Lionel Shriver, Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Blake Morrison, Senay Ozdemir, Jill McGivering, Abdulrazak Gurnah
How much? This event is free to attend but you still neeed a ticket. www.lse.ac.uk/spaceforthought or the ticket request line 020 7955 6100.
Programme? Download 2011 programme as pdf . Tickets will be available to request online from Monday 31 January
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Sheffield Street and Lincoln's
Inn Fields there is no parking
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The London School of
Economics and Political
Science, Houghton Street,
London,
WC2A 2AE
Past Festivals? Dan Cruickshank, Giles Foden, Susie Orbach, Mark Lawson, Lionel Shriver, Ben Okri, Colin Thubron and A S Byatt; an afternoon of events for children; a morning of creative writing workshops; and a collective recitation of the Declaration of Human Rights with artist Monica Ross.
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Holborn (Central/Piccadilly)
Temple (District/Circle)
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This inaugural event for this British Overseas Territory will bring together around eighty world-class speakers who will take part in talks, discussions and debates on a variety of topics ranging from children’s books to crime writing, history and cuisine.
The event is being organised under advice from the Oxford and Woodstock Literary Festival crews.