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Welcome to the LSE and welcome to this Morris Fraser annual lecture hosted by the LSE's European Institute.
My name's Simon Glendining and I'm Head of the European Institute and I'm also the LSE Professor of European Philosophy.
First we've got to do a bit of housekeeping.
I would ask those of you in the theatre to please put your phones on silent so as not to disrupt the event.
The event's being recorded and will hopefully be made available as a podcast subject to no technical difficulties.
As usual, there will be a chance for you to put your questions to the speaker too.
For our online audience, welcome.
And you can submit your questions via the Q&A feature at the bottom of your screen.
Please include your name on that and your affiliation.
And for those of you here in the theatre,
I'll let you know when we will open the floor for questions.
And when we do,
please raise your hand and wait for the stewards with the roving microphone to get to you and please also let us know your name and affiliation.
Also please no speeches.
We're only having one.
So just questions and keep them short so that we can get in as many as possible.
I want to try to ensure a range of questions from both our online audience and our audience here in the theatre.
I'm going to introduce our guest in a moment but before I do I would like to say something about my former colleague and friend Morris Fraser in whose memory this annual event is held.