Celebrating Hilde Himmelweit: women, scholarship, and LSE’s intellectual history

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  Welcome to the LSE events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

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  Welcome everyone.

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  I think we're about to start.

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  I would like to warmly welcome you to this event and to the LSE for this evening's

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  hybrid event titled Celebrating Hilde Himmelweit Women Scholarship and LSE Intellectual History.

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  My name is Miria Georgiou,

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  and I'm the head of the Department of Media and Communication and professor in that department.

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  As part of the LSE's 130th anniversary program,

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  we have this evening's event honoring the life and legacy of Hilde Himmelweit, a pioneering refugee scholar

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  and one of the very few women to hold a professorship at the school in its early history.

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  This is an event hosted by the Department of Media and Communication and is also co-sponsored

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  with the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences 2026. We have a wonderful panel of five distinguished scholars

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  and individuals who are going to be talking about the legacy and the work of Hilde Himmelweit and addressing

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  different dimensions of the questions that we're asking today in relation to women, scholars, and LSE's legacy.

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  So I will introduce the speakers very briefly because there's

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  a lot I could say about each one of them that will take the whole evening.

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  So please do check the website for more information if you don't know them already.

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  I will just introduce them in the order in which they will be speaking

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  to our audience here and to our online audience.

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