Gearty Grillings
Episodes
The end of the road
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a special lecture by Alan Taylor, the newest member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, on monetary policy.
LSE: The Ballpark | The US-China AI race with Professor Angela Zhang
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In January 2025, the release of a new model and chatbot by Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, DeepSeek, sent shockwaves through the tech in...
Global trends in climate litigation 2025: report launch
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This influential report provides an annual overview of key developments in climate litigation worldwide and identifies emerging trends shaping the fut...
Skills in the age of AI
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can we shape engaging work environments that foster productivity and enable workers to flourish?
Harnessing AI: safeguarding high-integrity data for climate action
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are versatile technologies that have drastically lowered the cost of data production and analys...
The golden road
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did ancient India transform the world and what lessons can we learn for the future? Historian and best-selling author William Dalrymple will be in...
Big data for public good
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Routinely collected UK government data sets contain staggering amounts of information. The potential for the use of these data to understand how gover...
Empowerment, safety and equity: children's visions of rights-respecting digital futures
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What can we learn from engaging children from around the world in imagining what children’s digital lives might look like in the future and what cha...
Positive futures
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Where should we look for optimism about the future? Our final panel come together to share some of the ideas, innovations and discoveries that could s...
Reckoning with the past: truth-telling and the British Empire
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This event explores the vision for a Peoples' International Truth-Telling Commission on the British Empire - a platform to uncover historical injustic...
The future of truth
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world of mass information, and misinformation, truth seems both easier and harder to find than ever before.
The golden road
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did ancient India transform the world and what lessons can we learn for the future? Historian and best-selling author William Dalrymple will be in...
What's cooking? The future of food on the African continent
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Food is family, food is fuel, nourishment, cultural and fundamental. Connections made through food are an effective way to change minds, shift narrati...
Putting wellbeing and mental health at the heart of progress
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The panel explore how we can identify cost-effective policies to improve societal wellbeing — and why it will be key to shaping the future of the UK...
The future of US-China relations
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Navigating the US-China relationship will be one of the great challenges of our time. It will impact everything from geopolitics to global growth to t...
Visions for the future with Lila Ibrahim
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lila Ibrahim, Chief Operating Officer of Google DeepMind, is shaping the company's strategic operations and partnerships to drive innovation and impac...
Visions for the future with Lila Ibrahim
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lila Ibrahim, Chief Operating Officer of Google DeepMind, is shaping the company's strategic operations and partnerships to drive innovation and impac...
Are universities still relevant?
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is a university education still worth the investment of rising tuition fees and time spent studying towards a degree rather than gaining valuable work...
Reimagining the way we work
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the world of work evolves, so do our expectations, values, and definitions of success. How can we adapt to new ways of working while staying connec...
Visions for the future with Anthony Scaramucci
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Scaramucci, LSE alumnus and American financier and broadcaster, who briefly served as the White House Director of Communications, joins LSE's ...
Breaking the Jeff Bezos model of new technology
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New technology and AI are transforming the labour market at an unprecedented pace, often reinforcing existing inequalities and concentrating wealth in...
Green, just, and healthy: what do young Londoners want for the future of their neighbourhoods?
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At a time of eco-anxiety, climate scepticism, and widespread disillusionment with formal political institutions, how do diverse young Londoners connec...
LSE: The Ballpark | The US and India–Pakistan tensions with Lisa Curtis
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the May 7th, 2025, India launched missile strikes on Pakistan in response to a terrorist attack in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir on April 2...
Visions for the future with Daron Acemoglu
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daron Acemoglu, LSE alumnus and co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics, whose work has provided new insights into why there are such vast d...
Data for development
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Data plays a crucial role in designing effective development policies, yet its availability and use in low- and middle-income countries remain inconsi...
Tech and the future of the world economy
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Driven in large part by the rapid growth of the tech sector, the US economy has diverged from other advanced economies.
A society free from poverty: how do we get there and what would it look like?
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The event challenges the old adage, 'The poor will always be with us', by envisaging a future free from poverty.
Alternatives to capitalism
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are frequent discussions on how our current economic system should be reformed and improved to address global challenges
The London Consensus: economic principles for the 21st century
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A generation ago, the so-called Washington Consensus laid out a series of do’s and don’ts for policymakers around the world.
Beliefism: how to stop hating the people we disagree with
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this talk by LSE's Paul Dolan in which he will talk about his new book, Beliefism.
Amartya Sen and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in conversation with Nick Stern: building sustainability in a turbulent world
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this special event celebrating LSE's new Global School of Sustainability at which our speakers will discuss fostering sustainability amids...
Can AI save the NHS?
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is artificial intelligence the solution to the National Health Service? Can we use technology to help reduce wait times in Accident and Emergency (A&E...
Economic nationalism and global (dis)order
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this year's Martin Wight Memorial Lecture which will be delivered by Robert Falkner who will explore the rise of economic nationalism amid...
Feminism, anti-feminism and affective economies of rage
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this event Sarah Banet-Weiser will theorize “mirror worlds” as an apt metaphor for the contemporary political and cultural feminist landscape.
A new data infrastructure for the social sciences?
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The social sciences rely heavily on legacy data systems conceived to meet challenges of the 20th century (and earlier!). Is this the moment to build a...
Fixing education for the AI age
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The recent prominence of AI has exposed major deficiencies in education. Not only how much improvement can be made in the pedagogical process with mod...
LSE: The Ballpark | International Relations and Democracy in a Multipolar World
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The US-led international order is under strain from without and within. Authoritarian powers such as Russia and China are challenging the core tenets ...
Tolerance and freedom of expression
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for the Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture which will be delivered by Peter Godfrey-Smith who will speak about tolerance and the freedom of expr...
Elite conflict, colonialism and democracy in the Middle East
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why has democracy struggled to thrive in the Global South? In this British Academy-funded research project, Mohamed Saleh develops a new economic hi...
Capitalism and its critics
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this lecture John Cassidy will speak about his new book, Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World.
Revolutions and world order: still the 'Sixth Great Power'?
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture, held in honour of the renowned scholar Fred Halliday, will explore the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary ...
Forests, finance, and the future: economic risks of nature loss
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This event aims at addressing the often overlooked yet profound economic and financial consequences of deforestation.
Critique is the critique of power
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This event will bring together sociologists from a range of traditions to discuss whether critique can be equated with the critique of power in the an...
LSE: The Ballpark | AI and intellectual property with Dr Bhamati Viswanathan
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Many institutions are now using artificial intelligence (AI) models as tools to think about solutions to a variety of challenges, from the everyday to...
Teens, sexting and image-based sexual abuse: a child rights approach
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the ubiquity of technological devices, young people are more visible and accessible than ever before, and they are encountering, using and produc...
Conscience incorporated: pursuing profits while protecting human rights
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s world, where corporations wield immense power and influence, how can business leaders balance the pursuit of profits with ethical respons...
Apprenticeship and economic growth in early modern England
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his latest book, The Market for Skill: apprenticeship and economic growth in early-modern England, which forms the basis of this event, Patrick Wal...
AI's hidden supply chain explained: why it's more fragile than you think
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From writing emails and generating art to reshaping industries, artificial intelligence is transforming daily life. But what powers artificial intelli...
Neoliberalism and social justice? Reconciling Adam Smith and John Rawls
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This event will explore the relationship between Rawlsian liberal egalitarianism and neoliberalism, based on Nick Cowen's book Neoliberal Social Justi...
The corporation in the 21st century
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as John Kay, one of Britain’s leading economists, discusses his new book The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (almost) everything we are...
The power of data: ethics, politics, and public interest
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This event will discuss important questions around the role of data science in understanding and shaping the public interest, from access to informati...
The death and life of the center-left
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since the 1990s, progressive parties have tended to combine globalist neoliberal policies with avant-garde social views.
Greenland, Iceland and the meltdown of the old order in the North Atlantic
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump’s determination to increase American influence and presence in Greenland has generated great interest in the future of the world’s...
Is AI destroying the planet?
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores the AI sustainability paradox: can AI be both a climate solution and a climate problem?
LSE: The Ballpark | The state of American democracy with Professor Michael Latner
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Phelan US Centre spoke to Michael Latner, Professor of Political Science at California Polytechnic State University and Director of Research on De...
LSE: The Ballpark | The Origins of the US-China Chip War with Dr John Minnich
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2025 the Phelan US Centre spoke to John Minnich, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at LSE about why semiconduc...
Could this tech save lives?
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this film, we explore how cutting-edge artificial intelligence is being developed to assist event security and police forces in managing public saf...
How do we avoid falling for online scams?
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What type of person falls for an online scam? Who are the fraudsters and how does colonialism motivate them? And what’s the connection between crim...
LSE: The Ballpark | Cultivating Democracy with Professor Mukulika Banerjee
04 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In February 2025 the Phelan US Centre spoke to spoke to Mukulika Banerjee, Professor in LSE’s Department of Anthropology.
Rethinking keynesian fiscal stimulus
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for the 2025 Economica-Phillips Lecture which will be delivered by Valerie Ramey.
Global dignity and seeing others: political and environmental recognition compared
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this lecture in which Michèle Lamont will discuss her book Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How it Can Heal a Divided World.
How anti-gay laws reach beyond criminal justice | Coffee break research at LSE
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of law enforcement, we often focus on arrests and formal legal processes. But laws like Uganda’s sodomy legislation extend their reach...
Agents of change? The challenges of understanding empowerment through international development
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for the Sylvia Chant Lecture which this year will be delivered by Jo Sharp, Geographer Royal for Scotland.
In conversation with Alexander Stubb
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this special event with LSE alumnus and President of Finland Alexander Stubb.
From menarche to menopause: how reproductive histories shape women's health
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This inaugural lecture will look at key issues in the study of women’s health through the lens of reproductive histories, looking at both contingent...
The future of AI
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is Generative AI morally and technically inadequate? Can we separate the hype around AI from its real potential?
War crimes talk: does it help or hinder peace?
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In her inaugural lecture, Denisa Kostovicova discusses how former opponents engage with the legacy of mass atrocity.
Training military and police peacekeepers on gender | Coffee break research at LSE
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The practice of "gender training" has gained widespread popularity among numerous professions in the last few decades, even becoming a requirement for...
Wealth in people
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this special lecture by LSE alumnus and co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics James A Robinson.
LSE: The Ballpark | US-China strategic stability with Dr Nicola Leveringhaus
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has brought the spectre of potential nuclear conflict back into the public consciousness for the first time in decades...
The diffusion of soft technologies during and after WWII
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
British business productivity growth has been lagging for the past couple of decades, and key to the Labour government’s goal of improving economic ...
Unchaining Venezuela: a struggle for democracy
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a public event with Leopoldo López, political leader in Venezuela and prominent advocate for democracy.
On white normativity, racial habituation, and cracks in racial teams
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this year’s annual British Journal of Sociology lecture, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will review the basics of his “racialized social system” with ...
The mysterious art and science of doing good
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Private actions for public benefit - philanthropy, charity, voluntary action or social entrepreneurship - have long been at the core of societies, rel...
Social justice and health equity
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology at University College London and Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, will outline why the need t...
Assisted dying: what should we think?
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new bill proposes to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill patients in England and Wales. Many difficult philosophical, moral, legal and social...
In conversation with Maurice Saatchi
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an age of conformists and faux-contrarians, Maurice Saatchi has revolutionised British business and politics through his willingness to question re...
How apprenticeship transformed premodern England | Coffee break research at LSE
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For more than a century, apprenticeship in England has been in crisis. Brief moments of optimistic expansion have been punctured by political and econ...
Is AI really taking our jobs? The future of work explained
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will artificial intelligence and automation cause huge unemployment? Is the tech revolution going to deliver on its promises of transformational chang...
Epistemic pluralism and climate change
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture explores the merits of epistemic pluralism in understanding climate change today.
LSE: The Ballpark | Donald Trump and the far-right with Dr Rachel Blum
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump’s links to the right, including the far right and the alt-right date back to least to his 2016 presidential campaign and continued thro...
Wronged: the weaponization of victimhood
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Who claims to be a victim, and why? How have such claims changed in the past century? Who benefits...
Citizens as cultivars: democratic values in paddy fields and universities
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This inaugural lecture by Mukulika Banerjee draws on long-term fieldwork among paddy farmers in Bengal to explore the ways in which cultivation - of c...
Are we in danger of losing our communities?
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the cost-of-living crisis leading to the closure of community spaces around the UK, and the pressures on urban development projects, this episode...
Artificial intelligence, intellectual property and the creative industries
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This event will explore the challenge of artificial intelligence technologies in the creative industries (film, theatre, music, video games).
From the secrets of the universe to socio-economic impact: the power of big science
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The lecture will explore the cutting-edge frontier of particle physics and astronomy and the pivotal role of major research infrastructures in advanci...
The lost Marie Curies
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To simultaneously increase our innovation potential and reduce inequality, it is urgent to involve everyone, especially women and people of underprivi...
From the high seas to corporate boardrooms: Suzanne Heywood in conversation
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a fireside chat with Suzanne Heywood, Chair of CNH Industrial N V and Iveco Group, and Chief Operating Officer of Exor Group.
LSE: The Ballpark | US-China relations under the new Trump administration with Professor Minxin Pei
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump has made his feelings about US competition with China plain; one of the early acts of his second presidential term has been to place t...
Peak injustice: Solving Britain’s inequality crisis
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With child mortality rising in the UK and a majority of parents with three or more children going to bed hungry, Danny Dorling looks to the future, hi...
Are we in danger of losing our communities?
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the cost-of-living crisis leading to the closure of community spaces around the UK, and the pressures on urban development projects, this episode...
The hidden victims: civilian casualties of the two world wars
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In his latest book, which forms the basis of this lecture, Cormac O'Grada argues that previous estimates of civilian deaths in the two world wars are ...
The last human job: AI, depersonalization and the industrial clock
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Critics commonly warn about three primary hazards of AI-job disruption, bias, and surveillance/privacy concerns. Yet the conventional story of AI’s ...
Climate capitalism: can market-based solutions save the planet?
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the climate emergency intensifies, the efficacy of market-based solutions is under growing scrutiny. Can capitalism solve a crisis of its own makin...
The fluctuating fortunes of the market in international relations | Coffee break research at LSE
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The market is one of the primary institutions of the society of states, but it is an exceptionally contradictory and frequently unstable one.
Is it possible to achieve fair and inclusive prosperity without a green agenda?
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In an era of rising inequality and economic transformation, the question of how to achieve fair and inclusive prosperity is more pressing than ever. A...
Trans* lives, histories and activism
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This thought-provoking conversation will bring together diverse expertise to critically examine and address the urgent socio-political challenges of o...
Power, freedom, and justice: rethinking Foucault
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are the implications of Michel Foucault’s critical social theories for how we think about freedom, power, and justice?
AI Emergency service 911 calls: the limitations of AI
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How reliable is artificial intelligence in critical, high-stakes situations? We speak to Professor Elizabeth Stokoe to explore the limitations of AI i...
Is there a new Washington consensus?
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For roughly a quarter century after the Cold War, the Washington consensus or neoliberalism guided US foreign economic policymaking.