LRB Winter Lectures | Perry Anderson: Regime Change in the West
The ‘London Review of Books’ Winter Lectures for 2025
On the historical meaning of ‘regime change’ and how far it applies, or doesn’t apply, to the political economy and sociology of the West since 2008.
Perry Anderson’s books include The H-Word, The New Old World and Ever Closer Union? Europe in the West. He is a professor of history and sociology at UCLA and sits on the editorial board of New Left Review. He has written more than fifty pieces for the LRB, on subjects including his father’s career in the Chinese Customs Service, Lula’s Brazil, Michael Oakeshott, Anthony Powell, Dmitri Furman, the modern political histories of Italy, Turkey, France, and India and the failings of the EU.
This year’s other Winter Lectures:
Friday 10 January: Katherine Rundell: What is children’s literature for?
Wednesday 22 January: Anne Carson: Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind
Tickets are £15 per lecture, or £35 for the series.
Now in their fourteenth year, the annual ‘London Review of Books’ Winter Lectures have been the occasion for many of the paper’s most widely discussed interventions of recent years, from Judith Butler on who owns Kafka to Hilary Mantel on royal bodies, Andrew O’Hagan on Julian Assange to Mary Beard on women in power, Meehan Crist on childbearing in the age of climate crisis to Pankaj Mishra on the Shoah after Gaza. A reading list of past lectures can be found on the LRB website here.
The ‘London Review of Books’ Winter Lectures for 2025
On the historical meaning of ‘regime change’ and how far it applies, or doesn’t apply, to the political economy and sociology of the West since 2008.
Perry Anderson’s books include The H-Word, The New Old World and Ever Closer Union? Europe in the West. He is a professor of history and sociology at UCLA and sits on the editorial board of New Left Review. He has written more than fifty pieces for the LRB, on subjects including his father’s career in the Chinese Customs Service, Lula’s Brazil, Michael Oakeshott, Anthony Powell, Dmitri Furman, the modern political histories of Italy, Turkey, France, and India and the failings of the EU.
This year’s other Winter Lectures:
Friday 10 January: Katherine Rundell: What is children’s literature for?
Wednesday 22 January: Anne Carson: Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind
Tickets are £15 per lecture, or £35 for the series.
Now in their fourteenth year, the annual ‘London Review of Books’ Winter Lectures have been the occasion for many of the paper’s most widely discussed interventions of recent years, from Judith Butler on who owns Kafka to Hilary Mantel on royal bodies, Andrew O’Hagan on Julian Assange to Mary Beard on women in power, Meehan Crist on childbearing in the age of climate crisis to Pankaj Mishra on the Shoah after Gaza. A reading list of past lectures can be found on the LRB website here.