LSE: Public lectures and events

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...

Is AI destroying the planet?

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Nick Couldry, Dr Eugenie Dugoua, Ceara Carney | Artificial intelligence is transforming the world around us, offering increa...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Valerie Ramey | Join us for the 2025 Economica-Phillips Lecture which will be delivered by Valerie Ramey. Starting in the 19...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Michèle Lamont | Join us for this lecture in which Michèle Lamont will discuss her book Seeing Others: How Recognition Wor...

How do we avoid falling for online scams?

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Suleman Lazarus, Professor Andrew Murray, Lisa Mills, Nikki MacLeod | This episode of LSE iQ looks at how we can avoid falling for ...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Jo Sharp | 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

Contributor(s): Alexander Stubb | Join us for this special event with LSE alumnus and President of Finland Alexander Stubb. Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Tiziana Leone | This inaugural lecture will look at key issues in the study of women’s health through the lens of reproduc...

The future of AI

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Gary Marcus | Is Generative AI morally and technically inadequate? Can we separate the hype around AI from its real potential? Gary...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Denisa Kostovicova | In her inaugural lecture, Denisa Kostovicova discusses how former opponents engage with the legacy of m...

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.

Wealth in people

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor James A Robinson | Join us for this special lecture by LSE alumnus and co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics Jam...

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

Contributor(s): Dr Michela Giorcelli | British business productivity growth has been lagging for the past couple of decades, and key to the Labour gov...

Unchaining Venezuela: a struggle for democracy

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Leopoldo López | Join us for a public event with Leopoldo López, political leader in Venezuela and prominent advocate for democracy....

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

Contributor(s): Professor Eduardo Bonilla-Silva | In this year’s annual British Journal of Sociology lecture, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will review the ...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Jonathan Roberts | Private actions for public benefit - philanthropy, charity, voluntary action or social entrepreneurship -...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Sir Michael Marmot | In LSE Health's Annual Lecture, kicking off the centre’s 30th anniversary celebration, Michael Marmot...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Kenneth Chambaere, Professor Emily Jackson, Father Hugh MacKenzie, Professor Alex Voorhoeve | A new bill proposes to legalis...

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

Contributor(s): Lord Maurice Saatchi | In an age of conformists and faux-contrarians, Maurice Saatchi has revolutionised British business and politics...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Mike Hulme, Professor Elizabeth Robinson | This lecture explores the merits of epistemic pluralism in understanding climate ...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Lilie Chouliaraki, Professor Rosalind Gill, Radha Sarma Hegde, Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen | Why is being a victim such a...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Mukulika Banerjee, Professor David Wengrow | A cultivar is a plant that people have selected for desired traits and which re...

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...

Artificial intelligence, intellectual property and the creative industries

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Tanya Aplin, Professor Martin Kretschmer, Dr Luke McDonagh, Professor Madhavi Sunder | This event will explore the challenge...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Mark Thomson, Professor Riccardo Crescenzi, Professor Sarah Sharples | The lecture will explore the cutting-edge frontier of...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Xavier Jaravel | Innovation is increasingly monopolised by a small entrepreneurial elite that is not representative of the p...

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

Contributor(s): Suzanne Heywood | Join us for a fireside chat with Suzanne Heywood, Chair of CNH Industrial N V and Iveco Group, and Chief Operating O...

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.

Peak injustice: Solving Britain’s inequality crisis

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Danny Dorling, Dr Danny Sriskandarajah, Professor Kitty Stewart, Polly Toynbee. | Why has absolute deprivation continued to ...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Shani Orgad, Dr Divya Srivastava, Dr Julia King, Dr Olivia Theocharides-Feldman | Research links: “Listening in times of c...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Cormac Ó Gráda | In his latest book, which forms the basis of this lecture, Cormac O'Grada argues that previous estimates ...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Allison Pugh | Allison Pugh explains how we have ended up in a moment in which machines have time for people, while human wo...

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

Contributor(s): Dr Benjamin Braun, Professor Brett Christophers, Professor Daniela Gabor | As the climate emergency intensifies, the efficacy of marke...

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

Contributor(s): Teresa Ribera | Join us for this special event at which European Commission Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera will take to the st...

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

Contributor(s): Dr Onni Gust, Professor Susan Stryker | This thought-provoking conversation will bring together diverse expertise to critically examin...

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

Contributor(s): Professor Mark Pennington | What are the implications of Michel Foucault’s critical social theories for how we think about freedom, ...

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?

Is there a new Washington consensus?

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Stephanie J. Rickard, Professor Andrés Velasco, Professor Robert Wade | For roughly a quarter century after the Cold War, t...

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.

LSE: The Ballpark | The international order and US-China competition with Professor Shiping Tang

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the past decade, many commentators have increasingly spoken of growing competition between the United States and China in areas like trade, industr...

Racism, anti-racism and the politics of popular culture

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Anamik Saha, Dr Francesca Sobande | Racism and antiracism clash on a daily basis in media discourse. This joint talk reflect...

Racism, anti-racism and the politics of popular culture

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Racism and antiracism clash on a daily basis in media discourse. This joint talk reflects on current practices of "othering" in popular media.

Does class inequality still matter? The Great British Class Survey ten years on

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Aditya Chakrabortty, Clare MacGillivray, Professor Mike Savage , Zarah Sultana MP | It is ten years since the seminal Social Class in ...

Do we need to drive?

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of LSE iQ looks at whether we should still be driving.

Does class inequality still matter? The Great British Class Survey ten years on

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

10 years since the seminal Social Class in the 21st Century was published, we will revisit the findings, ask if the trends have changed, why class see...

The Open Society as an enemy | Coffee break research at LSE

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In The Open Society and its Enemies, Karl Popper defended the Open Society – a conception of liberal democracy in which individuals have freedom of ...

Sustainability and prosperity in the age of ecological scarcity

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Edward B Barbier | Drawing on his book, Scarcity and Frontiers, Edward Barbier argues that how economies choose to exploit n...

Sustainability and prosperity in the age of ecological scarcity

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the present era, rising ecological scarcity and global environmental risks are a defining turning point for all economies, but especially those tha...

Genesis: artificial intelligence, hope, and the human spirit

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Craig Mundie, Mairéad Pratschke | As AI absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, it will help us to ...

Genesis: artificial intelligence, hope, and the human spirit

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As AI absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, it will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geo...

Has neoliberalism failed? Reflections on Western society

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Samuel Gregg, Dr Paola Romero | In this timely event, Samuel Gregg will delve into the origins of the term "neoliberalism," its ...

Has neoliberalism failed? Reflections on Western society

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this timely event, Samuel Gregg will delve into the origins of the term "neoliberalism," its contested usefulness in contemporary discourse, and wh...

From liberal peace to new Cold War? Turbulence and conflict in the 21st century

28 Jan 2025

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Contributor(s): Professor Barry Buzan, Dr Elizabeth Ingleson, Professor Vladislav Zubok | When Soviet power collapsed between 1989 and 1991, the overw...

From liberal peace to new Cold War? Turbulence and conflict in the 21st century

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Soviet power collapsed between 1989 and 1991, the overwhelming view in the West was that liberalism had triumphed.

Why the public should engage with new science | Coffee break research at LSE

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scientists, policymakers and regulators agree that public engagement is necessary and valuable for building understanding of new scientific developmen...

Do we need to drive?

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Phillip Rode, Professor Rachel Aldred, Dr Chris Tennant, Indira Ray | This episode of LSE iQ looks at whether we should still be dr...

Power to the people

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Danny Sriskandarajah, Lysa John, Jo Swinson | In 2024, two billion people headed to the polls in some 50 countries around the world...

Power to the people

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2024, two billion people headed to the polls in some 50 countries around the world. But the drama of these elections risks obscuring just how fragi...

Economic development in the 21st century

23 Jan 2025

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Contributor(s): Ali Allawi, Professor Shiping Tang | The problem of economic development in the Global South remains as important as ever. For centuri...

Economic development in the 21st century

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The problem of economic development in the Global South remains as important as ever. For centuries thinkers have tried to explain why some countries ...

The art of uncertainty: living with chance, ignorance, risk, and luck

22 Jan 2025

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Contributor(s): Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter | Chance, luck, and ignorance; how to put our uncertainty into numbers. We all have to live with unc...