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The end of the road
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Professor Alan Taylor | Join us for a special lecture by Alan Taylor, the newest member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Commi...
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
Contributor(s): Dr Danielle de Andrade Moreira, Kate Cook, Professor Michael Gerrard, Professor Jacqueline Peel, Dr Joana Setzer | This influential re...
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
Contributor(s): Professor Mary O’Mahony, Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides | How can we shape engaging work environments that foster productivity...
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
Contributor(s): Dr Melissa Chapman, Amy Fisher, Sylvan Lutz, David McNeil, Professor Carmen Nuzzo | Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning ...
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...
Big data for public good
21 Jun 2025
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Contributor(s): Dr Sara Geneletti, Dr Laura Gilbert, Professor Helen Margetts | Routinely collected UK government data sets contain staggering amounts...
Empowerment, safety and equity: children's visions of rights-respecting digital futures
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Dr Sakshi Ghai, Adam Ingle, Michael Murray, Professor Dylan Yamada-Rice | One in three internet users is a child, yet the digital worl...
Positive futures
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Roger Highfield, Suhair Khan, Isabel Losada, Professor Michael Muthukrishna | Where should we look for optimism about the future? Our ...
Reckoning with the past: truth-telling and the British Empire
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Kofi Mawuli Klu, Lidia Thorpe, Dr Imaobong Umoren | How can we reckon with the complex and painful legacies of the British Empire? Wha...
The future of truth
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Professor Jason McKenzie Alexander, Professor Charlie Beckett, Hardeep Matharu | In a world of mass information, and misinformation, t...
The golden road
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): William Dalrymple | How did ancient India transform the world and what lessons can we learn for the future? Historian and best-selling...
What's cooking? The future of food on the African continent
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Adejoké Bakare, Dipo Faloyin, Dr Edwini Kwame Kessie, Professor David Luke | Food is family, food is fuel, nourishment, cultural and ...
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...
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...
Visions for the future with Lila Ibrahim
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Lila Ibrahim | Lila Ibrahim, Chief Operating Officer of Google DeepMind, is shaping the company's strategic operations and partnership...
Putting wellbeing and mental health at the heart of progress
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Professor Martin Knapp, Professor Lord Layard, Dr Laura Taylor | The panel explore how we can identify cost-effective policies to impr...
The future of US-China relations
20 Jun 2025
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Contributor(s): Professor G. John Ikenberry, Professor Rana Mitter, Professor Nathalie Tocci | Navigating the US-China relationship will be one of the...
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
Contributor(s): Dr Zhamilya Mukasheva, Dr. Aaron Reeves, Dr Boris Walbaum, Lord Willetts | Is a university education still worth the investment of ris...
Reimagining the way we work
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Professor Nava Ashraf, Nick Dalton, Dr Daniel Susskind | As the world of work evolves, so do our expectations, values, and definitions...
Visions for the future with Anthony Scaramucci
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Anthony Scaramucci | Anthony Scaramucci, LSE alumnus and American financier and broadcaster, who briefly served as the White House Dir...
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
Contributor(s): Dr Hilary Cottam, Dr Faiza Shaheen, Professor Jack Stilgoe | New technology and AI are transforming the labour market at an unpreceden...
Green, just, and healthy: what do young Londoners want for the future of their neighbourhoods?
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Mete Coban, Rowena Champion, Maanya Jones | At a time of eco-anxiety, climate scepticism, and widespread disillusionment with formal p...
Visions for the future with Daron Acemoglu
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Professor Daron Acemoglu | Daron Acemoglu, LSE alumnus and co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics, whose work has provided ...
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
Contributor(s): Natalia Domagala, Mulele Maketo Mulele, Claire Melamed | Data plays a crucial role in designing effective development policies, yet it...
Tech and the future of the world economy
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Stan Boland, Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra, Kanishka Narayan | Driven in large part by the rapid growth of the tech sector, the US economy h...
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.
Alternatives to capitalism
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Grace Blakeley, Dr Abby Innes, Ryan Shorthouse | There are frequent discussions on how our current economic system should be reformed ...
The London Consensus: economic principles for the 21st century
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Professor Oriana Bandiera, Professor Margaret Levi, Professor Dani Rodrik | A generation ago, the so-called Washington Consensus laid ...
A society free from poverty: how do we get there and what would it look like?
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Abby Jitendra, Dr Abigail McKnight, Dr Thomas C. Stephens | The event challenges the old adage, 'The poor will always be with us', by ...
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
Contributor(s): Professor Paul Dolan | Join us for this talk by LSE's Paul Dolan in which he will talk about his new book, Beliefism. Do you avoid peo...
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
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Contributor(s): Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Professor Amartya Sen, Professor Lord Stern | Join us for this special event celebrating LSE's new Global Sch...
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
Contributor(s): Professor Robert Falkner | Join us for this year's Martin Wight Memorial Lecture which will be delivered by Robert Falkner who will ex...
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
Contributor(s): Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser | In this event Sarah Banet-Weiser will theorize “mirror worlds” as an apt metaphor for the contempor...
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
Contributor(s): Professor David B Grusky | The social sciences rely heavily on legacy data systems conceived to meet challenges of the 20th century (a...
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
Contributor(s): Conrad Wolfram | The recent prominence of AI has exposed major deficiencies in education. Not only how much improvement can be made in...
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
Contributor(s): Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith | Join us for the Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture which will be delivered by Peter Godfrey-Smith who wi...
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
Contributor(s): Dr Mohamed Saleh | Why has democracy struggled to thrive in the Global South? In this British Academy-funded research project, Mohamed...
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
Contributor(s): John Cassidy | In this lecture John Cassidy will speak about his new book, Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern...
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
Contributor(s): Professor George Lawson, Dr Jasmine K Gani | This lecture, held in honour of the renowned scholar Fred Halliday, will explore the rela...
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
Contributor(s): Elias Albagli, Elena Almeida, Jessica Dempsey, Pablo Pacheco, Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva | This event will delve into the intricate l...
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
Contributor(s): Professor Nick Couldry, Professor Claire Laurier Decoteau, Professor Monika Krause, Professor Thomas Scheffer | This event uses a deba...
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
Contributor(s): Professor Lelia Green, Professor Jessica Ringrose, Dr Kim Sylwander, Giselle Woodley | With the ubiquity of technological devices, you...
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
Contributor(s): Professor Michael Posner | Join us for the launch of Conscience Incorporated by Michael Posner. In today’s world, where corporations...
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
Contributor(s): Professor Patrick Wallis | In his latest book, The Market for Skill: apprenticeship and economic growth in early-modern England, which...
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...
Neoliberalism and social justice? Reconciling Adam Smith and John Rawls
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Dr Nick Cowen, Dr Paola Romero | This event will explore the relationship between Rawlsian liberal egalitarianism and neoliberalism...
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
Contributor(s): Professor Sir John Kay | Join us as John Kay, one of Britain’s leading economists, discusses his new book The Corporation in the 21s...
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
Contributor(s): Dr Alison Powell, Dr Chris Wiggins, Dr Erin Young | Data profoundly influences all of our lives and the social, economic and political...
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
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Contributor(s): Will Hutton, Professor Robert Kuttner, Professor Stephanie J. Rickard | Since the 1990s, progressive parties have tended to combine gl...
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
Contributor(s): Professor Gudni Jóhannesson, Professor Kristina Spohr | President Trump’s determination to increase American influence and presence...
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...