Gearty Grillings
Episodes
Critical Race Theory and the Black Radical Tradition: engaging with structural racism in education
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
LSE EmbRace and LSE’s Eden Centre engage in a dialogue on the topic of Critical Race Theory and education.
Shaping Cities in an Urban Age
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Using research from LSE’s global Urban Age programme – including new research on Athens - the illustrated lecture reviews how urban planning, gove...
The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a discussion of America’s current predicament and how it differs from past threats to democracy in the US.
Going for Growth
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can the UK and the world get back to sustainable growth following the COVID-19 pandemic?
Spaced Out
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we plan for a future where human beings can share both public and private spaces? Join Katie Beswick, Julia King and Antoine Picon to discuss ...
Building a Caring Economy
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do we build back our global economy by putting care – care of people and care of the environment - at its centre?
Electoral Hostility: is the sanctity of elections under threat?
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Between the disruption from external threats such as covid and terrorism and the ever-increasing tension and frustration between voters, is the sancti...
Our Slim Window of Opportunity: what the climate change agenda must achieve in 2021
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a world beset by a global pandemic and an existential climate change emergency, Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change Patricia Espinosa will pro...
The Epic Potential of Empowering Women
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book, which she will talk about at this event, Scott argues on the strength of hard data and on-the-ground experience that removing those b...
Building Resilience Through Data Centricity
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this fireside chat with Jacky Wright, Chief Digital Officer and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft US.
Should we be optimistic?
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Despite our growing collective pessimism about the state of the world, when it comes to our own lives, research suggests we are generally optimistic.
Should we be optimistic?
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Despite our growing collective pessimism about the state of the world, when it comes to our own lives, research suggests we are generally optimistic.
Defending the Future: gender, conflict and environmental peace
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion project addresses how the role of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda takes into account the climate crisis and its impact on w...
The Politics of Race in American Film
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What can film teach us about the evolution of racial politics and depictions of race in the United States?
Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this public lecture by Mariana Mazzucato who will outline her new approach for governments to deal with inequality, disease and climate ch...
Power and Impunity: what Donald Trump and Boris didn’t learn from the Ancient Greeks
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Are we living in a world marked by a new impunity of power?
SHORTCAST | Is it Time to Cancel Household Debt?
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is an event shortcast, a digested version of our live online public events series. This event was recorded on October 15th 2020. A full version i...
Mothering and Work, Mothering as Work
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this event we will grapple with past and present experiences of mothering. How can we tell a story of maternal labour in the past, in the absence o...
SHORTCAST | Behavioural Science and a Post-COVID World
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is an event shortcast, a digested version of our live online public events series. This event was recorded on November 4th 2020. A full version i...
The Politics of Inequality: why should we focus on resistance from below?
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The newly launched Politics of Inequality research theme at the International Inequalities Institute explores the practices of resistance, mobilisatio...
Empires Past & Present: empire around 1800
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Around 1800 the world was dominated by a number of predominant empires at different stages of development This lecture will discuss each of these empi...
Misinformation
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Information may be power, but misinformation appears to be usurping the throne...can democratic societies do anything to stem the flow of fake news?
COVID-19 and its Impact on Gender, Justice and Security
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This event will take stock of changing social and political landscapes, locally and internationally, one year into the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Impact of Brexit on Higher Education
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What impact might Brexit have on students and research?
Explaining the hegemony of financial inclusion
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are joined by Julie Zollman from Tufts University to discuss financial inclusion and why it has gone viral as a solution for inter...
Rebuilding the UK Economy for a More Secure Future
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds as she sets out Labour’s plans to recover jobs, retrain workers and rebuild businesses to build a better, mor...
The Next Four Years: what should we expect for America?
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What will the next administration's international and domestic priorities be? A roundtable discussion with leading experts on American politics.
Solutions for a Planet in Crisis
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Inger Andersen, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, discusses how we can make science more ...
A Decade of Behavioural Science at LSE: A Fireside chat with Professor Paul Dolan
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this fireside chat where Paul Dolan will be reflecting on ten years of behavioural science at LSE, discussing biases, narratives, happines...
Warfare and Peacemaking in the 21st Century: who's taking responsibility to protect and promote peace
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this, the first 'In Conversation with' event, the director of the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, will delve int...
Hayekian Behavioural Economics
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Friedrich Hayek argued for freedom of choice based on outsiders knowing much less than choosers so that interferences with personal freedom will make ...
Is Perfectionism an Illness?
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Tom Curran from LSE’s Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science researches perfectionism, its damaging effects and why society is makin...
Keeping up appearances: the changing face of the elites and their hobbies
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Sam Friedman and Dr Aaron Reeves examine how elites signal their superior social position via the consumption of culture.
Key Workers and Inequality
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The vital labour of 'key workers' has been widely lauded during the pandemic. But can the trend of recent decades toward inequalities in earning and s...
After the Drugs Wars
15 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who are the people most affected by the drugs trade? What are the challenges they face?
What’s the point of social science in a pandemic?
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we embark on 2021 and, hopefully, the latter stages of the pandemic, now is an apt moment to reflect on how we’ve got to where we are.
What’s the point of social science in a pandemic?
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we embark on 2021 and, hopefully, the latter stages of the pandemic, now is an apt moment to reflect on how we’ve got to where we are.
Public investment and graduate underemployment in Benin (Investissements publics et chômage des jeunes diplômés au Bénin)
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Quelle est la cause du taux de chômage croissant chez les diplômés au Bénin?
Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Stock explores what geographical reference works, textbooks, dictionaries, and encyclopaedias tell us about literate Britons' understandings of E...
LSE class of 2020
11 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Congratulations to the class of 2020! LSE Director Minouche Shafik shares her message to students graduating in this exceptional year.
Neglected Tropical Diseases: the rise of a global health issue
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing why and how ideas ‘go viral’, we speak to LSE Professor Dr Ken Shadlen and NTD specialist at the SCI Foundation Yael Velleman to explor...
The 'True' Brexit: where are we now?
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our speakers will comprise a range of expertise, covering British politics, knowledge of Whitehall, the economy, and UK-EU law to assess where we migh...
Report of the UK Wealth Tax Commission
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This event launches the final report of a major new project investigating the desirability and feasibility of a ‘wealth tax’ for the UK.
Why Aren't Policy-Makers and the Public Demanding That More Emphasis is Placed in Happiness?
09 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join Gus O'Donnell and Paul Dolan in conversation, as they discuss the role of happiness in public policy.
Imperialism and the Developing World
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How did Western imperialism shape the developing world? And what effect has Anglo-American expansionism had on economic development in poor parts of t...
The International Women's Tribunal: Gender Just Peace
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty years ago, the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery took place in Tokyo. This documentary commemorates ...
Why Does Globalisation Fuel Populism, and What Can We Do About It?
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dani Rodrik will explore the globalisation backlash and the ways (hyper-) globalisation has produced a political counter-reaction.
Have We Reached The End Of The 1951 Refugee Convention?
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Annual Human Rights Day Lecture hosted by LSE Human Rights will be delivered this year by Professor Seyla Benhabib of Yale University.
Educating Equally: what is needed?
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On the International Day for People with Disabilities, this event looks at what is needed for children and adults with disabilities to have access to ...
Trust, Resilience and the Effectiveness of Government: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Crises and wars have historically been drivers of political and economic change. This event will look at some emerging lessons of the COVID-19 crisis ...
10½ Lessons from Experience
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this conversation between Minouche Shafik and Paul Marshall on his latest book, 10½ Lessons from Experience: Perspectives on Fund Managem...
Digital tech and inclusive social policy
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses how digital measurement technologies are used in health insurance for risk assessments and the implications for inclusive healt...
Lives, Livelihoods and Lockdowns: debating COVID-19 policy trade-offs
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The policy responses to COVID-19 have involved severe restrictions on the contact we have with other people.This panel discussion will seek to flush o...
How can we end child poverty in the UK?
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Even before coronavirus, child poverty had been rising for several years. This latest bite-sized episode of LSE iQ explores the question, ‘How can w...
How can we end child poverty in the UK?
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Even before coronavirus, child poverty had been rising for several years. This latest bite-sized episode of LSE iQ explores the question, ‘How can w...
Science Fiction And Philosophy
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From Francis Bacon’s utopian island to Margaret Cavendish’s polar bear army, our literary and philosophical experts discuss how science fiction an...
Theory and Practice: designing anti-poverty programs when power matters
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for the annual Coase-Phillips Lecture which this year will be delivered by Rohini Pande.
Working From Home: legal issues arising from the 'new normal'
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A panel discussion of legal issues that arise from many people increasingly working from home, a pattern that seems likely to persist even after the C...
Making Wellbeing the Goal
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This 30th Anniversary CEP event will ask can wellbeing become the focus for social science? How would this change economics and policy analysis? How w...
Remembering the 1970 Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An event to mark the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act with a personal view of Alf Morris, the MP who p...
Bargaining power and market information systems in agriculture
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses Market Information Systems (MIS) to understand whether they have managed to increase the bargaining power and economic security...
The US Elections Explained: Government
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This film is part of the series The US Elections: Explained, which is made in collaboration with the LSE’s US Centre.
The US Elections Explained: Government
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This film is part of the series The US Elections: Explained, which is made in collaboration with the LSE’s US Centre.
The Value of Inclusion for a Post-COVID-19 World
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The impacts of COVID-19 within firms include cost-cutting, a move towards virtual working for many workers and the pivoting of business objectives.
Two Faces of Populism
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Explanations for variants of populism are typically framed as a contest between culture and economics. Building on his recent book, The Populist Tempt...
Covid-19 and global gender strategy: if not now, when?
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This event brings together global experts on gender issues to discuss the urgent need to support women.
What does data extractivism mean for African development?
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores how data is collected and used in African countries by discussing the power dynamics underpinning data practices.
Origins of Human Cooperation
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Humans are biologically adapted for cultural life in ways that other primates are not. Humans have unique motivations and cognitive skills for sharing...
The Inclusion Initiative
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Inclusion Initiative is a new research centre that will leverage behavioural science insights to advance our understanding of the factors that enh...
The Pandemic as a Portal: 2020 Mobilization, Activism and Opportunities for Structural Change Following Crisis and Upheaval
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A burgeoning body of scholarship shows that activists can harness opportunities created by war, upheaval, and economic collapse to leverage transforma...
Europe's (Euro) Crisis of Legitimacy
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture, Vivien Schmidt will define democracy and legitimacy, discuss it's split-level nature in the EU and detail the processes of Eurozone g...
Couples That Work
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are challenges and joys of a dual-career life and Jennifer Petriglieri explores through rigourous research how couples can make their lives work...
Mary Midgley and Why She Matters
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We celebrate the thought of Mary Midgley, whose writing ranges across animal ethics, religion, science, and the natural world, connecting philosophica...
Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, A Conversation with Stephen A. Schwarzman
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Minouche Shafik talks with financier and philanthropist, Stephen A. Schwarzman, author of the new book What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excell...
Africa Talks: The future of African feminist activism
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Africa, like in other regions around the world, containment measures including lockdowns, confinement and drastic reductions in sociability have si...
After Brexit: the UK in the North Atlantic trade triangle
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As the UK steers its post-Brexit future, it is placed between US and EU trade policies. What might these mean for the UK’s economic future?
Empires Past & Present: the idea of empire
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This first lecture in the series discusses the concept of empire and resistance to empire in a long historical perspective.
Season two introduction: how knowledge and technology shapes development
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does knowledge and technology shape economic and social development?
The US Presidential Election and the Left
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What do the results tell us about the changing bases of voting behaviour and what do they mean for the left in the US and beyond?
Finding peace in Somalia – the Galkaio ‘local’ agreement
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This talk explores the 2016/17 peace agreement, in its local and national dimensions, and which occurred as part of the state-building project that is...
Is Greece Falling Behind in the E-Economy? What is to be Done?
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted further – and indeed raised critically – the importance of digital connectivity and digital literacy for eco...
International Climate Politics after the US Presidential Election
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Taking place one week after the election, this panel assesses the outcome of the US election and the prospects for the future of American and internat...
The US Elections Explained: Race
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Melanie R. Brown, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, International Inequalities Institute, LSE provides explanation of commentary on some...
European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova explains how a supranational European mentality was forge...
What Just Happened? Analysing the 2020 US Presidential Election
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Will President Trump be able to win a second term in the White House? Or will former Vice President, Democrat Joe Biden be able to beat the incumbent?
Behavioural Science and a Post-COVID World
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What valuable lessons can we learn from behavioural science in a post-COVID-19 world?
How Not To Be Wrong: the art of changing your mind
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this event with LSE alumnus and writer and broadcaster James O’Brien who will talking about his new book, How Not To Be Wrong.
Bullshit jobs, technology, capitalism
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is dedicated to David Graeber, LSE professor of Anthropology, who died unexpectedly in September this year. David was a public intellectu...
Bullshit jobs, technology, capitalism
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is dedicated to David Graeber, LSE professor of Anthropology, who died unexpectedly in September this year. David was a public intellectu...
Empathy
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What role does empathy play in our social, moral, and political life? What are its limits? Can we be ethical without it?
The Ten Equations That Rule The World And How You Can Use Them Too
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mathematician David Sumpter meets with tech entrepreneurs, professional gamblers and political researchers to reveal the ten equations that make our w...
Occupying the Pedestal: Cultural Heritage, Protest, and the Law
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This event explores the controversies around removing statues, constructing and reconstructing ‘heritage’, and protesting received ways of decidin...
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this online public event with Fareed Zakaria who will be talking about new book, Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World.
The Rise and Rise of Big Tech
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What will the long-term consequences of the pandemic be for the rise of new communication technologies and the changing nature of work?
COVID-19 and Economic Recovery in Greece: challenges and prospects
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Greece has come through an exceptional debt crisis and now it faces the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Can it maintain its return to gro...
In Conversation With Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate Black History Month, join us for this conversation between LSE alumna Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu and LSE Director Minouche Shafik.
The US Elections Explained: Populism
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Former US Centre Visiting Lecturer Dr David Smith answers some the key questions about populism.
Racism, Imperialism and Decolonization in International Relations
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
he panel will address four key questions related to International Relations as a mainstream academic discipline and racialized politics.
The Active Ingredient of Inequality
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture, Professor Ferreira will discuss how (some) economists have come to define, model and measure inequality of opportunity, and why it ca...
100 Great Black Britons
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Join us in Black History Month for this event with Angelina Osborne and Patrick Vernon, the authors of 100 Great Black Britons, to celebrate the publi...