{"title": "Blurring Ethnic Lines Through Sport: Central Asia's Sporting Rise, State Investment Rationale, And The Integrity Risks.", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T21:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["sport"], "description": "A talk at Birkbeck's Sport Business Centre about how Central Asian states use sport for nation-building, international visibility and attracting investment, drawing on a recent paper by the speaker. Researcher and author Khais Ramanie presents cases from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, arguing that a closed-circle political elite controls sport governance there. He also warns international sport bodies and clubs about transparency and integrity risks, including the possible entry of illicit or opaque money into the sports sector from the region.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/blurring-ethnic-lines-through-sport-central-asias-sporting-r-80509/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/67172/blurring-ethnic-lines-through-sport-central-asias-sporting-rise-state-investment-rationale-and-the-integrity-risks", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T21:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Manufacturing Vulnerability in the Uyghur Region: State-Imposed Forced Labour and the Crisis of Corporate Complicity", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/human-rights"], "description": "A seminar on state-imposed forced labour in the Uyghur Region of China and how it reaches global supply chains from apparel to renewable energy. Organised by the SOAS China Institute, it features Professor Laura T. Murphy, a scholar of forced labour at Sheffield Hallam University and Senior Associate at CSIS, chaired by Professor Rachel Harris of SOAS. The talk examines how the government manufactures vulnerability among Indigenous citizens to justify its actions, and how corporations use discourses of 'urgency' and 'complexity' to shelter their complicity. The event is free and open to the public, though registration is required, and will not be recorded or live-streamed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/manufacturing-vulnerability-in-the-uyghur-region-state-impos-43662/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/manufacturing-vulnerability-uyghur-region-state-imposed-forced-labour-and-crisis", "image": ""}, {"title": "State of the sovereign transition 2026: from national targets to sector signals", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/finance"], "description": "A public panel discussion on the state of national climate transition planning in 2026, held in the week before COP31. It is hosted by the TPI Global Climate Transition Centre, an academic research centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and forms part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2026. Drawing on data from the ASCOR tool and the Centre's State of the Sovereign Transition 2026 report, panellists from investor and government perspectives will discuss sectoral transition planning and the financial instruments sovereigns use to raise transition finance. The chair is Professor Carmen Nuzzo of the TPI Centre, with speakers including Marjan Divjak of Slovenia's Ministry of Finance, Jana Harvey of RBC BlueBay, Maya Hennerkes of the EBRD and Setenay Hizliok of the TPI Centre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/state-of-the-sovereign-transition-2026-from-national-targets-63367/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/sovereign-transition", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf12df2256ca374a678f8e339f440b3f1b2ddebfb4b0a9d8ef0916f6b7aaad7d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "CIMR debates in Public Policy - Catching Up in the Digital Age: Capabilities, Governance, and Industrial Policy in Transitional Europe", "start": "2026-11-05T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/economics"], "description": "A CIMR Debates in Public Policy talk on how latecomer economies in transitional Europe can catch up digitally, drawing on Prof. Fadil Sahiti's book 'Catching Up in the Digital Age: Capabilities, Governance, and Industrial Policy in Transitional Europe'. It is hosted by Birkbeck's Centre for Innovation Management Research, with a welcome and chairing by Prof. Helen Lawton Smith and speakers Prof. Slavo Radosevic, Prof. Rainer Kattel, and Dr. Nahed Ahmed. The debate examines how capability building, governance, and industrial policy can drive sustainable economic transformation, with focus on the Western Balkans including Kosovo, Albania, and North Macedonia, and introduces the book's concept of the Developmental Network State.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cimr-debates-in-public-policy-catching-up-in-the-digital-age-80522/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/61292/cimr-debates-in-public-policy-catching-up-in-the-digital-age-capabilities-governance-and-industrial-policy-in-transitional-europe", "image": ""}, {"title": "The rise of the global shadow fleet and the geography of flags of convenience", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Geographical Society", "address": "Kensington Gore 1, SW7 2AR London", "price": "£5.00 - £12.00", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/geopolitics", "history/maritime"], "description": "A discussion on the rise of the global shadow fleet: hidden tankers operating through opaque ownership, flags of convenience and gaps in international regulation, raising questions about maritime security and accountability at sea. 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It takes place in the Ondaatje Theatre, with online attendance also possible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-rise-of-the-global-shadow-fleet-and-the-geography-of-fla-41989/", "official_url": "https://www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/global-shadow-fleet/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Panel Discussion: Finance and the Sacred", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T21:00:00Z", "place": "The Showroom", "address": "Penfold Street 63, London", "price": "£5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/finance"], "description": "A panel discussion titled Finance and the Sacred, exploring the systems at play between the debt regime and speculative imagination. It is convened by The Otolith Collective and brings together artist Bahar Noorizadeh, Adam HajYahia, Max Haiven and Lama El Khatib. The conversation acts as a live meditation on Noorizadeh's research, examining gamification as a mechanism of control, information as an urban medium, sacrifice as the social form of finance, and conspiracy as a mode of navigating this terrain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/panel-discussion-finance-and-the-sacred-39707/", "official_url": "https://theshowroom.org/events/rites-to-the-city-violence-finance-and-the-sacred", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e53158629982927ae9789dec56fa781d2bd788ffa1524afd5aa24ea628559879-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Mark Garnier OBE MP to Brief Asia House on Opposition Economic and Business Policy", "start": "2026-11-10T10:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T11:00:00Z", "place": "Asia House", "address": "63 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 7LP, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": [], "description": "An off-the-record briefing for Asia House members on opposition economic and business policy. Mark Garnier OBE MP, the UK Shadow Economic Secretary (Treasury) and Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation, Science and Trade), and a former trade minister in the Theresa May Government, will outline what a Conservative government's economic and trade policy may look like. He will discuss inward investment, the balance between economic growth and economic security, and the implications of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The briefing will be chaired by Michael Lawrence OBE, Asia House Chief Executive.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mark-garnier-obe-mp-to-brief-asia-house-on-opposition-econom-59993/", "official_url": "https://www.asiahouse.org/event/mark-garnier-obe-mp-to-brief-asia-house-on-opposition-economic-and-business-policy/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7023a5c2c36841a04eed5f61394a47e51e5c650cd088abe8ca0f35cd6f80bb4e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Asia House and McKinsey Global Institute to Host Roundtable on Structural Vulnerabilities of Global Trade", "start": "2026-11-12T09:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T10:00:00Z", "place": "Asia House", "address": "63 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 7LP, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/economics"], "description": "An in-person roundtable on the structural vulnerabilities – or \"Achilles' heels\" – of global trade. It is held by Asia House in partnership with the McKinsey Global Institute, whose latest research examines where trade is most exposed to disruption through product criticality, supplier concentration and geopolitical distance between trading partners. Senior business executives and trade experts will discuss what these vulnerabilities mean in practice and how companies and policymakers can respond with targeted resilience strategies. Jeongmin Seong, Partner, and Tiago Devesa, Senior Fellow, of the McKinsey Global Institute will share insights from the research.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/asia-house-and-mckinsey-global-institute-to-host-roundtable-59994/", "official_url": "https://www.asiahouse.org/event/asia-house-and-mckinsey-global-institute-to-host-roundtable-on-structural-vulnerabilities-of-global-trade/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/37e20ee106029ef96b8bdaf2ae05c5b5a38a7238022a5fa3c9cd50ffd6f041b8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Book launch: 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power'", "start": "2026-11-10T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "price": "Free to attend, but registration is required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/media"], "description": "A book launch for 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power', hosted by the SOAS Middle East Institute and the SOAS South Asia Institute at SOAS University of London. The book, published by Duke University Press, is edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews and offers cross-disciplinary, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan, focusing on the US intervention that began in 2001. Contributors Dawood Azami, Marya Hannun and Wazhmah Osman will discuss media narratives, information warfare and knowledge production, and how visual tropes and ideologies shape portrayals of Afghanistan. Attendance is free but registration is required, with seating allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-launch-decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-kno-43667/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-launch-decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-knowledge-and-power", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a3032d06453f61472b5faf6331ace0c9f76c3a2e2be8952a7d176992e71c768-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Governing growth: the postwar transformations of capitalism and democracy", "start": "2026-11-02T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar", "society/politics"], "description": "A public lecture at the London School of Economics and Political Science on how capitalist economies change over time and what political consequences follow. Peter Hall presents his new book \"Governing Growth\", tracing interactions between politics and economics in Western democracies over the past eighty years. He identifies three postwar growth regimes - modernization, liberalisation and knowledge-based growth - each paired with a distinctive regime of political representation, with discussants Sara Hobolt and David Soskice and chair Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey. The event is hosted by the Department of Government, takes place in the Malaysia Auditorium in the Centre Building, and is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/governing-growth-the-postwar-transformations-of-capitalism-a-63365/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/governing-growth", "image": "https://noky.io/images/20dac47debd37308b826eec6afd967f4d52cd91b166a045cd08efb5c581c5707-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Threat of Capitalism Without Democracy, with Martin Wolf", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T20:30:00Z", "place": "Conway Hall", "address": "Red Lion Square 25, WC1R 4RL London", "price": "Premium Seating £49.99, Standard £34.99, Concession £19.99 (each +£2 venue levy)", "price_from": "34.99", "price_to": "49.99", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/economics"], "description": "An in-person talk titled \"The Threat of Capitalism Without Democracy, with Martin Wolf\", part of the Intelligence Squared series at Conway Hall. Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, marks the launch of an updated edition of his book The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. He argues that democratic capitalism, the pairing of free markets and free elections, is under attack, citing Donald Trump's tariffs, Elon Musk's alignment with far right parties and the rise of extreme parties worldwide, and makes the case for why the combination of both democracy and capitalism is needed more than ever. The audience can ask questions in a live Q&A.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-threat-of-capitalism-without-democracy-with-martin-wolf-35425/", "official_url": "https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-threat-of-capitalism-without-democracy-with-martin-wolf/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed9f82dfdf88b3014c3d50be2174fc63d970a6c47988f1ed827d294a99e05d06-600.webp"}]}