LSE: Public lectures and events

LSE: The Ballpark | AI and deepfakes with Dr Gili Vidan

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the last decade or so, the the public have become aware of “deepfakes”, computer or AI generated fake images. The spread of deepfakes raises qu...

Should the UK have a wealth tax? The Wealth Tax Commission five years on

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2020, the Wealth Tax Commission brought together world-leading academics, policymakers and tax practitioners to ‘think big’ about tax policy.

Fiscal threats in a changing global financial system

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Pablo Hernández de Cos | Sovereign debt levels have increased considerably since the Great Financial Crisis, reaching historical post...

Fiscal threats in a changing global financial system

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture will discuss how policymakers should address these challenges by employing a carefully selected mix of tools that spans fiscal, monetary ...

America first and the future of Eurasian geopolitics

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr C Raja Mohan | America’s longstanding role as the guarantor of security in Europe and Asia is now under question at home. In this...

America first and the future of Eurasian geopolitics

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this lecture, one of India’s leading strategic thinkers and commentators examines the roots of Donald Trump’s America First agenda and assesses...

John Rawls and unequivocal justice

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Christopher Freiman | urious about how free markets and social justice intersect? Join us for an engaging lecture by Christo...

John Rawls and unequivocal justice

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Curious about how free markets and social justice intersect? Join us for an engaging lecture by Christopher Freiman, author of the book Unequivocal Ju...

AI, technology and society: shaping the future together

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Cosmina Dorobantu, Marion Dumas, Professor Helen Margetts | AI is about people – the most sophisticated AI models are trai...

Will the next World War be a cyberwar?

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): | It seems every week we hear a new report of a cyber-attack. Recent examples include the hacks on Marks and Spencer's, Jaguar Land R...

AI, technology and society: shaping the future together

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is about people – the most sophisticated AI models are trained on trillions of tokens that capture human communication, behaviours, and interacti...

Will the next World War be a cyberwar?

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It seems every week we hear a new report of a cyber-attack. What if those attacks were on our critical infrastructure? Our national grid? Our water su...

World Children’s Day: digital futures for children – children’s rights under pressure in the digital environment

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Gerison Lansdown, Dr Kim R. Sylwander, Gastón Wright | In 2021, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child introduced General Commen...

World Children’s Day: digital futures for children – children’s rights under pressure in the digital environment

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2021, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child introduced General Comment No. 25 on children’s rights in the digital environment, marking a mi...

Is there a Trump doctrine? Making sense of US foreign and security policy since Trump’s return to the White House

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Ronald Krebs, Katharine M Millar, Dr Luca Tardelli, Dr Boram Lee | In January 2025, Donald Trump returned to the White House...

Is there a Trump doctrine? Making sense of US foreign and security policy since Trump’s return to the White House

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In January 2025, Donald Trump returned to the White House. The ensuing months have been a dizzying blur for American foreign and security policy.

Britain in a changing world

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sir John Major | Discussing the topic, Britain in a changing world, former British Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party...

Britain in a changing world

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Discussing the topic, Britain in a changing world, former British Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party, Sir John Major, delivers this y...

LSE: The Ballpark | Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny with Dr Jennifer Lind

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The last three decades have seen China’s economic rise. Alongside this, China has become much more influential on the global stage, emerging as a co...

Greece’s economic and digital transformation: in conversation with Kyriakos Pierrakakis

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Kyriakos Pierrakakis | Join us for a discussion with Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Greece's Minister of the Economy and Finance, on the key ch...

Greece’s economic and digital transformation: in conversation with Kyriakos Pierrakakis

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for a discussion with Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Greece's Minister of the Economy and Finance, on the key challenges shaping the country’s future...

Spreading it around: a new look at redistribution and tax

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Deborah James FBA, Dr Miranda Sheild Johansson, Dr Johanna Mugler, Dr Robin Smith | In this panel discussion, anthropologist...

Spreading it around: a new look at redistribution and tax

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this panel discussion, anthropologists working on redistribution and tax will present the findings of—and interrogate each other on—two recent ...

America adrift: the end of the east coast foreign policy elite

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter | America is undergoing rapid demographic change. By the mid-21st century, European Americans, long the...

America adrift: the end of the east coast foreign policy elite

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

America is undergoing rapid demographic change. By the mid-21st century, European Americans, long the country’s largest demographic group, will be r...

Saving Britain's wildlife

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Iris Berger, Dr Luke Hecht, Dr Karen Kovaka, Matt Phelps | Britain's wildlife has been under pressure for centuries. Many of the la...

Saving Britain's wildlife

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Britain's wildlife has been under pressure for centuries. Many of the large mammals that once inhabited these islands were driven to extinction long a...

Why refugee return is not the solution to displacement crises

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The number of refugees worldwide has nearly doubled in the past decade. Amid this rise in forced migration, the humanitarian community touts voluntary...

Fault lines: the new political economy of a warming world

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Helen Milner | In this lecture, Helen Milner addresses why vulnerability, lived experience, and material self-interest will ...

Fault lines: the new political economy of a warming world

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this lecture, Helen Milner addresses why vulnerability, lived experience, and material self-interest will drive the next phase of climate politics,...

Great global transformation: national market liberalism in a multipolar world

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Branko Milanovic | Join us for this talk by Branko Milanovic about his new book, The Great Global Transformation: National M...

Great global transformation: national market liberalism in a multipolar world

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for this talk by Branko Milanovic about his new book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World.

The growth story of the 21st century: the economics and opportunity of climate action

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Lord Stern, Professor Nicola Ranger, Dimitri Zenghelis | The world stands at a crossroads. The next decade will determine wh...

The growth story of the 21st century: the economics and opportunity of climate action

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The world stands at a crossroads. The next decade will determine whether we avoid climate, biodiversity, and economic catastrophe – or unlock a new ...

Joyful revolution: poverty, social justice and a pioneer of participation

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Eileen Alexander, Fran Bennett, Kate Evans, Diana Skelton | Tackling poverty and campaigning for social justice must be with, not j...

Joyful revolution: poverty, social justice and a pioneer of participation

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tackling poverty and campaigning for social justice must be with, not just for, people in poverty.

Will AI free us from work?

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What does artificial intelligence really mean for the future of work?

Syria after Assad: a reporter’s view on a nation in transition

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Raya Jalabi | This talk delivered by Raya Jalabi, Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times, as part of the annual Ian Black M...

LSE: The Ballpark | US-China strategic competition with Professor Evan Medeiros

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In August 2025, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization held its 25th annual summit in Tianjin, China. The absence of the United States in this gatherin...

Syria after Assad: a reporter’s view on a nation in transition

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This talk delivered by Raya Jalabi, Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times, as part of the annual Ian Black Memorial Lecture Series, will e...

Sustainability, peace and development: in conversation with Juan Manuel Santos

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Juan Manuel Santos, Professor Mary Kaldor, Professor Lord Stern | Join Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and LSE alumnus Juan Manuel Santos a...

Sustainability, peace and development: in conversation with Juan Manuel Santos

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and LSE alumnus Juan Manuel Santos and LSE academics Mary Kaldor and Nicholas Stern in a conversation to explore how w...

Seeing the unseen: combining data to better understand our environment

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Claire Miller, Dr Sefi Roth | Join us as the University of Glasgow’s Claire Miller explores the statistical and data analy...

Seeing the unseen: combining data to better understand our environment

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us as the University of Glasgow’s Claire Miller explores the statistical and data analytics approaches being developed to successfully bring di...

How to help left behind regions and workers

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Gordon Hanson | The decline of manufacturing and the acceleration of technological disruption have concentrated joblessness ...

Will AI free us from work?

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): | Will artificial intelligence cause huge unemployment? Will it free us from working? Will it replace us? In this special edition of ...

Developing technology for the public interest | Coffee break research at LSE

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With the NHS frequently described as ‘‘in crisis’’, some have positioned partnerships with tech start-ups as the solution. Yet, the values and...

How to help left behind regions and workers

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The decline of manufacturing and the acceleration of technological disruption have concentrated joblessness in distressed regions and blocked many wor...

Unlocking climate action opportunities: progress amid geopolitical turbulence

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Swati Dhingra, Dr Matilde Mesnard, Dr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Chris Skidmore, Professor Lord Stern, Sharon Yang | This event w...

Unlocking climate action opportunities: progress amid geopolitical turbulence

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This event will serve as a timely preview of the upcoming UN Climate Conference (COP), offering insights into where meaningful progress can be made on...

The social safety net as an investment in children

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Hilary Hoynes | Join us for the Department of Social Policy’s Annual Lecture at which Hilary Hoynes will explore the conce...

The social safety net as an investment in children

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for the Department of Social Policy’s Annual Lecture at which Hilary Hoynes will explore the concept of viewing the social safety net as a l...

Mutually assured survival: feminist solidarities amidst planetary threats

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Lyn Ossome, Professor Shirin M Rai, Dr Gloria Novović | We are beset by existential planetary threats - from environmental emergen...

Mutually assured survival: feminist solidarities amidst planetary threats

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Can global feminist solidarity and a feminist theory of social reproduction provide an emancipatory agenda that will foster the material conditions th...

How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Carl Benedikt Frey, Professor Jane Gingrich, Professor Michael Storper | How will progress end? In this event, Carl Benedikt Frey –...

How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How will progress end? In this event, Carl Benedikt Frey – one of the leading scholars of technology and the economy – will discuss his new book, ...

How relations with lab animals can inform understandings of care | Coffee break research at LSE

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing on ethnographic research into laboratory animals and those who look after them, Dr Carrie Friese’s new book, A Mouse in a Cage, proposes a d...

Technology for the public interest: preventing capture and promoting welfare

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Padmashree Gehl Sampath, Dr Laura Mann | In this lecture, Padmashree Gehl Sampath compares the trajectories of two critical ...

LSE: The Ballpark | AI, social media, and political disinformation with Dr Josephine Lukito

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To talk about social media and politics, and how AI can help spread – or tackle – disinformation, the Phelan US Centre spoke to Dr Josephine Lukit...

Technology for the public interest: preventing capture and promoting welfare

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this lecture, Padmashree Gehl Sampath compares the trajectories of two critical technology-driven sectors, pharmaceuticals and artificial intellige...

On liberalism: in defence of freedom

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Cass R. Sunstein | Join us for this lecture by New York Times bestselling author and Harvard academic Cass R Sunstein. More ...

On liberalism: in defence of freedom

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for this lecture by New York Times bestselling author and Harvard academic Cass R Sunstein.

The CEO: the rise and fall of Britain's captains of industry

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Michael Aldous, Professor John Turner, Dr Judy Stephenson | The CEOs of Britain's largest companies wield immense power, but we kno...

The CEO: the rise and fall of Britain's captains of industry

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The CEOs of Britain's largest companies wield immense power, but we know very little about them. How did they get to the top? Why do they have so much...

US-Iran relations under Trump 2.0: prospects and challenges

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Dana H. Allin, Dr Anahita Motazed Rad, Dr Sanam Vakil | This event will examine how a second Trump administration might reshape U.S...

US-Iran relations under Trump 2.0: prospects and challenges

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This event will examine how a second Trump administration might reshape U.S.-Iran relations and regional security—whether through renewed maximum pr...

Permission to be queer: the case for liberty

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Deirdre Nansen McCloskey | Join us in welcoming back to LSE, economist Deirdre Nansen McCloskey who will deliver this specia...

How fake AI images sparked the Southport riots

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This video breaks down the Southport riots of 2024 - exposing fake AI images, anti-Muslim conspiracies and the real-world violence sparked by viral fa...

Permission to be queer: the case for liberty

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us in welcoming back to LSE, economist Deirdre Nansen McCloskey who will deliver this special lecture.

Why we're getting poorer

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Cahal Moran | As the UK economy struggles along while the US seems destined for chaos, evaluating why we’re getting poorer has ne...

Take our Ballpark podcast survey and you could win £250 in vouchers!

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ahead of our 10 year anniversary in 2026, and after more than 140 episodes speaking to academic experts on topics from across the social sciences, we'...

Why we're getting poorer

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the UK economy struggles along while the US seems destined for chaos, evaluating why we’re getting poorer has never seemed more relevant.

Not just lines on a map: borders in a changing world

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Tarsis Brito, Dr Maya Goodfellow, Dr Luke de Noronha | We are joined by Maya Goodfellow, Tarsis Brito and Luke de Noronha who will ...

Not just lines on a map: borders in a changing world

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We are joined by Maya Goodfellow, Tarsis Brito and Luke de Noronha who will each draw on their areas of expertise to discuss the implications of borde...

How to save the internet

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sir Nick Clegg | Join us for this special event where former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will talk about his new book, Ho...

The promise and peril of Trump's America first

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Charles Kupchan | Donald Trump’s America First is a response to too much globalisation, too much immigration, and too many...

How to save the internet

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for this special event where former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will talk about his new book, How to Save the Internet.

The promise and peril of Trump's America first

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump’s America First is a response to too much globalisation, too much immigration, and too many wars. But has Trump overcorrected?

The crime of war: from the Nuremberg trial to Ukraine

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Claus Kress | Eighty years on from the start of the Nuremberg War Crime Trial in November 1945 we ask what is the future of ...

Do we need to pay our debts?

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amid rising interest rates and inflation, we ask whether debts must always be paid—exploring causes of debt, bankruptcy’s role, and fresh perspect...

The crime of war: from the Nuremberg trial to Ukraine

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eighty years on from the start of the Nuremberg War Crime Trial in November 1945 we ask what is the future of the crime of aggression after the creati...

Depopulation: an ethical perspective

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Luara Ferracioli | oin us for the annual Auguste Comte lecture delivered by Luara Ferracioli, a leading thinker on the philosophy o...

Depopulation: an ethical perspective

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for the annual Auguste Comte lecture delivered by Luara Ferracioli, a leading thinker on the philosophy of immigration and the philosophy of t...

LSE: The Ballpark | AI and the workplace with Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI is now increasingly playing a role in many parts of our lives, and the workplace is no exception. AI is now being used by employers to help them to...

Can human solidarity survive social media and what if it can’t?

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Nick Couldry, Baroness Beeban Kidron | Drawing on his recent book, The Space of the World, Nick Couldry will reflect on the ...

Can human solidarity survive social media and what if it can’t?

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing on his recent book, The Space of the World, Nick Couldry will reflect on the global space of social communications and interaction that has be...

Racism and racial justice: 40 years on from the Broadwater Farm riots

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sharon Grant, Dr Clive Chijioke Nwonka, Dr Roxana Willis | Join us to explore the legal, political and community-based racial justice ...

Racism and racial justice: 40 years on from the Broadwater Farm riots

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We explore the legal, political and community-based racial justice work that emerged 40 years ago from the Broadwater Farm riots, examining methods of...

How AI is helping - and harming - animals

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Kristin Andrews, Dr Leonie Bossert, Jane Lawton, Dr Jeff Sebo | Learn more about the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentien...

Celebrating LSE's 130th anniversary

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

LSE was founded on a bold idea: that knowledge, shared widely, could help build a better society. Discover our 130-year story of learning, innovation,...

How AI is helping - and harming - animals

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learn more about the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience, a new LSE initiative committed to making sure technological change works for - rather ...

On natural capital: the value of the world around us

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta | How should we measure economic progress in an age of ecological crisis? Join us for a conversation wit...

On natural capital: the value of the world around us

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for a conversation with Partha Dasgupta, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge, as he discusses his latest book On Na...

Climate finance and investment in low-income countries

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Melinda Bohannon, Dr Vera Songwe, Dr Sudarno Sumarto, Professor Chris Woodruff | Climate finance is a critical tool in supporting low-...

Climate finance and investment in low-income countries

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Climate finance is a critical tool in supporting low-income countries as they face the growing impacts of climate change.

Valuing nature in a changing climate: rethinking natural capital

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Juliano Assunção, Jim Leape, Professor Rohini Pande | As climate change accelerates, the economic case for protecting and ...

Valuing nature in a changing climate: rethinking natural capital

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As climate change accelerates, the economic case for protecting and investing in natural capital has never been clearer.

Investing in our future: COP30 and the sustainable growth agenda

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Patrick Bolton, Professor Michael Greenstone, Sherry Rehman, Professor José Scheinkman | As the world prepares for COP30 in...

Investing in our future: COP30 and the sustainable growth agenda

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As the world prepares for COP30 in Brazil, this event provides a forward-looking platform to explore priorities, challenges, and opportunities for acc...

LSE: The Ballpark | Who is liable for AI? With Dr Anat Lior

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI has legal consequences. Who is responsible when AI makes a mistake which causes harm or financial loss? What role does government regulation play, ...