FABIAN DIALOGUES 1 - Beatrice & Sidney Webb: The Race for LSE ¦ 17 November ¦ 4-5.30 pm UK time

FABIAN DIALOGUES 1 - Beatrice & Sidney Webb: The Race for LSE ¦ 17 November ¦ 4-5.30 pm UK time
PANELISTS: Michael Cox ¦ Sue Donnelly ¦ Andrew Harrop ¦ Kevin Morgan ¦ Chris Renwick ¦ Nilanjan Sarkar
LSE’s foundational relationship with the Fabian Society - most prominently via founding members Beatrice and Sidney Webb - is well known. The LSE South Asia Centre is collaborating with the Fabian Society to curate a series of events that will unravel the complexities that underpinned the Fabians’ engagement with and about South Asia, their influence on Labour’s articulation of decolonisation in post-World War 2 Britain, and of the longer term association of several LSE Fabians with the region. From the retrospective advantage of our current hindsight, several actions of LSE Fabians in Britain seem counter-intuitive, grate against our good senses, and complicate our understanding of them. There is a deeper and lesser known story here; our events will explore this tension, tangled in the wider context of race, class, eugenics, Empire, imperialism, historiography, and attendant debates, motored by global political imperatives and intellectual movements of the 19th-20th centuries.