The LSEE Visiting Speaker Programme is a regular series of research seminars aimed at bringing research and scholarship by academics, policy professionals and other South Eastern Europe experts to a wider audience.

During the 2011-12 academic year the LSEE Visiting Speaker Programme attracted researchers and specialists from the UK, Europe and SEE, covering a broad range of topics.

In the coming academic year The LSEE Visiting Speaker Programme plans to host five visiting speakers in each of the Terms. 

Venue: Canada Blanch Room, COW 1.11 (J.116), 1st floor, Cowdray House,
European Institute, LSE, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2AE

*New* Time: 18:00-19:30

                                    MICHAELMAS TERM

• Tuesday, 16 October 2012
  Beyond the Formal Constitution: Clan Culture and the Tyranny of Albania's Ancient Laws
  Professor Steven Blockmans, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and University of Leuven  

• Tuesday, 30 October 2012
  The Crisis of Croatian Veteran Politics 
  Dr Vanessa Pupovac, Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Nottingham

• Tuesday, 13 November 2012
  The Balkans Beyond the European Union
  Dr Philip Cunliffe, Lecturer in International Conflict, University of Kent

• Tuesday, 27 November 2012
  Modelling Public Sector Wage-Employment Behaviour: Evidence From Transitioning Economies
  Dr Jelena Lausev, LSEE Visiting Fellow; Assistant Professor in Economics, Belgrade University

• Tuesday, 11 December 2012
  Territorial Autonomy as a Form of Conflict Management in Southeastern Europe
  Dr Soeren Keil, Lecturer in Politics, Canterbury Christ Church University

                                                LENT TERM

• Tuesday, 29 January 2013
  Between Law & Politics: International Courts and the Conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia
  Dr Marko Milanovic, Lecturer in Law, University of Nottingham

• Tuesday, 12 February 2013
  Police Reform in Bosnia and Hercegovina- What went wrong?
  Dr Gemma Collantes Celador, Lecturer in International Security, City University
  Tobias Flessenkemper, German Institute for International and Security Affairs

• Tuesday, 26 February 2013
  Southeast Europe in the Wake of the Euro Crisis
  Max Watson, Visiting Fellow, St. Antony's College, Co-ordinator Political Economy at SEESOX programme

• Tuesday, 12 March 2013
  Post-Communist Metamorphoses of the "nomenklatura neighborhood" Privatization and Political Elites in Romania
  Dr Damiana Otoiu, LSEE Visiting Fellow, Lecturer, Political Science Department, University of Bucharest; Director, 'Diaspora and Minorities', Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile

• Tuesday, 26 March 2013
  A Comparative Perspective on Reckoning with the Past in Post-Conflict Balkans
  Dr Jasna Dragovic Soso, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Goldsmiths University

Source: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/LSEE/Events/Visiting_Speaker_Programme/Home.aspx