LSE: Public lectures and events

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

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chance, luck, and ignorance; how to put our uncertainty into numbers. We all have to live with uncertainty about what is going to happen, what has hap...

Leadership or drift: what's next for US foreign policy?

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Steven Erlanger, Dr Elizabeth Ingleson, Professor Anand Menon, Professor Leslie Vinjamuri | What will the next US president’s strate...

Leadership or drift: what's next for US foreign policy?

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this roundtable discussion, leading experts on world affairs take stock of the international challenges and opportunities facing the new administra...

Dangerous guesswork in economic policy

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Max Steuer | Join us to hear Max Steuer talk about his new book, Dangerous Guesswork In Economic Policy.The book is about the need ...

Dangerous guesswork in economic policy

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us to hear Max Steuer talk about his new book, Dangerous Guesswork In Economic Policy.

Malaysian Prime Minister Visits LSE

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Anwar Ibrahim, the Prime Minister of Malaysia | Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim visited LSE to deliver a lecture on Malaysia’...

Malaysian Prime Minister Visits LSE

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim visited LSE to deliver a lecture on Malaysia’s global strategy in an uncertain era

Vulture capitalism

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Grace Blakeley, Dr Michael Vaughan | Join us to hear UK commentator and economic thinker Grace Blakeley talk about her latest book, Vu...

Vulture capitalism

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Join us to hear UK commentator and economic thinker Grace Blakeley talk about her latest book, Vulture Capitalism.

LSE: The Ballpark | The Evolution of American Chip Controls on China with Dr Douglas Fuller

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In December 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke Dr Douglas Fuller, Associate Professor in the Department of International Economics, Government and Busine...

LSE Graduation Winter 2024

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Congratulations, LSE graduates! ✌️🎓 We're so proud to welcome the class of 2024 to our alumni community.

LSE Graduation Winter 2024

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Congratulations, LSE graduates!

How protests shattered Brazil's glossy branding campaign

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Governments worldwide invest heavily to project a positive image on the global stage, spending billions to host events like the #WorldCup or #Olympics...

Why are our rivers and seas polluted by sewage?

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Gwyn Bevan, Dr Kate Bayliss, Jo Bateman | This episode of LSE iQ explores a national scandal: widespread illegal sewage dump...

Why are our rivers and seas polluted by sewage?

15 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of LSE iQ explores a national scandal: widespread illegal sewage dumping by our privatised water companies, and why they are all under cr...

Automation, management, and the future of work

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Erik Hurst, Professor Chrisanthi Avgerou, Professor Noam Yuchtman | As we move deeper into the 21st century, rapid advanceme...

Automation, management, and the future of work

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As we move deeper into the 21st century, rapid advancements in automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence continue to reshape industries, raisi...

The state of democracy after a year of elections

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Victor Agboga, Professor Mukulika Banerjee, Professor Sara Hobolt, Professor Peter Trubowitz | This year billions of people around ...

The state of democracy after a year of elections

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our panel of LSE researchers explore some of the issues that have come to the fore in this bumper year for international politics, along with the key ...

Human rights through the eyes of my native land: South Africa in the world

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Tembeka Ngcukaitobi | The lecture will explore South Africa's complex relationship with the idea of human rights. Drawing from the str...

Have we outgrown democracy?

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

2024 has been a huge year in politics. With so many people going to the polls, a shift has been seen from "voter apathy" to "voter unhappiness."

Human rights through the eyes of my native land: South Africa in the world

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Drawing from the struggle to end apartheid, the lecture will explore the connections between the struggle for human rights and the idea of self-deter...

The 2024 Ghana Election: Why this election is so important for democracy in Africa

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ghana's upcoming elections see the return of a former President against a struggling incumbent party. Issues such as cost of living and recent protest...

The Biggest Electoral Year in History: Did Democracy Work?

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2024, over half the world's population went to the polls. We speak to Professor Mukulika Banerjee and Professor Michael Cox to give us their review...

Trump or Harris? What the first few days of a new US presidency will look like | LSE Global Politics

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is so much uncertainty in the lead up to this year's US Election. Will Kamala Harris win the presidency and succeed Joe Biden? Or will Donald Tr...

AI, society, and our world order

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Reid Hoffman | Artificial Intelligence is not only a generational technology, but also a general purpose technology—one that has out...

Getting lost in a field: a personal history in behavioural public policy

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Adam Oliver | In his inaugural lecture, Adam Oliver will describe how he became involved in, and has helped contribute towar...

AI, society, and our world order

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Artificial Intelligence is not only a generational technology, but also a general purpose technology—one that has outsized potential to transform so...

Getting lost in a field: a personal history in behavioural public policy

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In his inaugural lecture, Adam Oliver will describe how he became involved in, and has helped contribute towards the development of, the still relativ...

LSE: The Ballpark | China and technology export controls with Michael Mastanduno and Jennifer Lind

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In October 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Professor Michael Mastanduno, Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, and Dr...

Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Mirca Madianou | In this talk based on her new book, Mirca Madianou will argue that digital innovations such as biometrics a...

Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this talk based on her new book, Mirca Madianou will argue that digital innovations such as biometrics and chatbots engender new forms of violence ...

Feeding the machine: the hidden human labour powering AI

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Callum Cant, Dr James Muldoon, Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch | Conversations around AI tend to focus on the future dangers, but what ...

Feeding the machine: the hidden human labour powering AI

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Conversations around AI tend to focus on the future dangers, but what about the damage AI is inflicting on people right now?

The Edge of Sentience: risk and precaution in humans, other animals, and AI

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Jonathan Birch | Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether...

The Edge of Sentience: risk and precaution in humans, other animals, and AI

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Birch's new book, The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI, constructs a precautionary framework designed to help u...

The Open Society as an Enemy: Populism, Popper and pessimism post-1989

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor J. McKenzie Alexander, Dr Ilka Gleibs, Professor Alan Manning | Across the world, populist agendas on both the left and righ...

The Open Society as an Enemy: Populism, Popper and pessimism post-1989

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Across the world, populist agendas on both the left and right threaten to undermine fundamental principles that underpin liberal democracies, what wer...

Cobalt rush: raw materials and the transition to net zero

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Quentin Noirfalisse, Dr Richard Perkins, Anneke Van Woudenberg | The decarbonisation of the transportation sector is a vital component...

Cobalt rush: raw materials and the transition to net zero

28 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Decarbonisation of the transportation sector is a vital component in achieving the goals set out in the Paris Agreement. Consequently, governments aro...

Is the internet good for children?

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Sonia Livingstone | Public anxiety about children’s digital lives and wellbeing is reaching a fever pitch, marking a notab...

Is the internet good for children?

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Public anxiety about children’s digital lives and wellbeing is reaching a fever pitch, marking a notable turnaround from the decades-long efforts to...

The rise of Africa's suburban middle classes

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Deborah James, Professor Claire Mercer, Professor Susan Parnell, Professor Ola Uduku | African cities are under construction...

Hypnosis: the inside story | Coffee break research at LSE

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is hypnosis? Can everyone be hypnotised? Does being able to hypnotise other people change how you see the world?

The rise of Africa's suburban middle classes

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skyli...

New World, New Rules - What Works for Global Governance

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr George Papaconstantinou, Professor Jean Pisani-Ferry, Professor Andrés Velasco | This event marks the launch of New World, New Rul...

LSE: The Ballpark | America and the Asian 21st Century with Professor Kishore Mahbubani

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In November 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National Univer...

New World, New Rules - What Works for Global Governance

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This event marks the launch of New World, New Rules by George Papaconstantinou and Jean Pisani-Ferry, in which two of European policymakers and analys...

Elements of a theory of the responsible firm

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Patrick Bolton | Patrick Bolton will be talking on the topic of Elements of a Theory of the Responsible Firm. The lecture wi...

Elements of a theory of the responsible firm

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The lecture will begin with a short review of economic theories of the firm, pointing out that although all the economic theories see the firm as an i...

Data visualisation: alive visual words

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Federica Fragapane, Dr Marta Foresti, Dr Francesca Panero | The talk will explore the design process and motivations behind data vi...

Data visualisation: alive visual words

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The talk will explore the design process and motivations behind data visualization projects, characterized by different usage contexts, responding to ...

Who owns outer space?

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With companies, like SpaceX or Blue Origin, getting into space exploration and the cost of launching rockets dropping, could we see a lot more people ...

Fragments of home: refugee housing, humanitarian design and the politics of shelter

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Tom Scott-Smith, Nick Henderson, Dr Myfanwy James | Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three ...

Fragments of home: refugee housing, humanitarian design and the politics of shelter

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The story of international migration is often told through personal odysseys and dangerous journeys, but when people arrive at their destinations a mo...

How experiences of fraud impact support for financial regulation | Coffee break research at LSE

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Accounting scholars have long been interested in understanding the forces that shape financial regulation.

Daniel Kahneman: a legacy

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Paul Dolan, Dr Gillian Tett | Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman was the founder of modern behavioural science...

Daniel Kahneman: a legacy

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman was the founder of modern behavioural science and behavioural economics. His close friends and collea...

Reversed realities revisited: 30 years of thinking in gender and development

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Andrea Cornwall, Professor Naomi Hossain, Professor Naila Kabeer, Dr Erin Lentz | 30 years ago, Naila Kabeer published Rever...

Reversed realities revisited: 30 years of thinking in gender and development

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

30 years ago, Naila Kabeer published Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, which became a landmark study in the scholarship o...

Liberal Constitutionalism, Media Ownership & the Public-Private Divide

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Tarun Khaitan, Professor Lea Ypi | Liberal constitutional theory rests on a fundamental division between duty-bearing public...

Liberal Constitutionalism, Media Ownership & the Public-Private Divide

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Liberal constitutional theory rests on a fundamental division between duty-bearing public institutions and the rights-wielding private persons.

F.A. Hayek's Nobel at 50: then and now

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Bruce J. Caldwell | 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize won by liberal political economist F.A. Hayek. This l...

Can the media change our beliefs about wealth inequality? | Coffee break research at LSE

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this talk, Dr Sarah Kerr and Dr Michael Vaughan discuss the role that the media can play in shaping understandings of and opinions about the econom...

F.A. Hayek's Nobel at 50: then and now

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize won by liberal political economist F.A. Hayek. This lecture will review some of Hayek’s key ideas...

The US presidential election and the left

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Kate Aronoff, Stephen Castle, Professor Inderjeet Parmar, Richard Seymour | What does the outcome of the US presidential election mean...

LSE: The Ballpark | China’s evolving approach to economic security with Professor Yeling Tan

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In October 2024 the LSE Phelan US Centre spoke to Yeling Tan, Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Ox...

The US presidential election and the left

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What does the outcome of the US presidential election mean for democrats and progressives? What is its significance both in the United States and arou...

Who owns outer space?

10 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Helen Sharman, Dr Jill Stuart, Dr Dimitrios Stroikos | What kind of possibilities does this new space age bring—and what dangers ...

Who owns outer space?

10 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With companies, like SpaceX or Blue Origin, getting into space exploration and the cost of launching rockets dropping, could we see a lot more people ...

Homelessness in London: why youth homelessness needs its own solution

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Ellie Benton, Meghan Roach, Alicia Walker | An estimated 20,000 young people in London were experiencing homelessness, or were at risk...

Homelessness in London: why youth homelessness needs its own solution

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An estimated 20,000 young people in London were experiencing homelessness, or were at risk of homelessness, in 2022/23. This represents a 10% increase...

The 2024 US election: turning point for America?

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Mukulika Banerjee, Keith Magee, Joseph C Sternberg | Will the 2024 election mark a turning point in American democracy and i...

The 2024 US election: turning point for America?

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Will the 2024 election mark a turning point in American democracy and in the country’s role in the world? Leading experts discuss the 2024 US electi...

AI in public policy: opportunities and challenges

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Andrew Murray, Dr Dorottya Sallai, Chloe Smith | In a world increasingly shaped by digital transfo...

AI in public policy: opportunities and challenges

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a world increasingly shaped by digital transformation, AI and data science present new opportunities to change policymaking in nearly all areas of ...

The world in crisis

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Miguel de Beistegui, Dr Demetra Kasimis, Professor Jonathan White | Crises abound: our economies, democracies, social relati...

A war like no other: challenge and change in reporting Gaza

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Jim Muir | This event will be the inaugural memorial lecture for the late Ian Black, former visiting fellow at the LSE Middle East Cen...

A war like no other: challenge and change in reporting Gaza

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Now more than ever, a year on since Hamas’ surprise attack on southern Israel, and Israel’s continued assault on Gaza, the role of journalists and...

The world in crisis

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

From diverse disciplinary perspectives, the event will explore conceptual and theoretical approaches that might help us better to understand, engage w...

A safer future for cycling in London

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Rachel Aldred, Professor Marco te Brömmelstroet, Dr Will Norman, Julie Plichon | Cycling and other forms of active travel h...

A safer future for cycling in London

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cycling and other forms of active travel have significant benefits for wellbeing, local economies, air pollution and the environment. A substantial in...

Industrialisation and national identity in modern Africa

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Elliott Green | The late LSE Professor Ernest Gellner famously proposed that industrialization generated modern national ide...

Industrialisation and national identity in modern Africa

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this inaugural lecture Elliott Green will examine the effects of industrialization on national identification in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa

The most unequal region in the world: combatting inequality in Latin America

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Valentina Contreras, Professor Julián Messina, Dr Sebastián Nieto Parra, Professor Andrés Velasco | Latin America is exceptional...

Electronics repair and the circular economy | Coffee break research at LSE

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What happens to our electronics when we stop using them? While most of us depend on these technologies daily, we rarely see the labour that goes into ...

The most unequal region in the world: combatting inequality in Latin America

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Latin America and Caribbean Review (LACIR), committed to addressing these challenges, convenes high-level scholars to provide a coherent and compr...

Taylor Swift and philosophy

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Eline Kuipers, Dr King-Ho Leung, Dr Georgie Mills, Dr Catherine M Robb | Taylor Swift's music connects with philosophy in many places:...

LSE: The Ballpark | AI and elections with Professor Lawrence Lessig

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In October 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to spoke to Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School.

Taylor Swift and philosophy

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Combining top-tier philosophical research and a passion for Taylor's music, a team of scholars investigate the wisdom that can come from Taylor's song...

The case for a four-day week

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Fran Heathcote, Joe Ryle, Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch | n the UK, we work some of the longest hours in Europe while having one of the ...

The case for a four-day week

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the UK, we work some of the longest hours in Europe while having one of the least productive economies. We invented the weekend a century ago and a...

Wicked problems: how to engineer a better world

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Guru Madhavan | Our world is filled with pernicious problems. How, for example, did novice pilots learn to fly without taking to th...

Reaching vulnerable women in Afghanistan | Coffee break research at LSE

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Democratic backsliding, the climate crisis, and rising state fragility are creating new obstacles to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Wicked problems: how to engineer a better world

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our world is filled with pernicious problems. How, for example, did novice pilots learn to fly without taking to the air and risking their lives? How ...

Dead men's propaganda: ideology and utopia in comparative communication studies

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Bingchun Meng, Professor Jeff Pooley, Professor Terhi Rantanen, Dr Marsha Siefert, Dr Wendy Willems | Who were the key pione...

Dead men's propaganda: ideology and utopia in comparative communication studies

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Who were the key pioneers in the formation of comparative communications between the 1920s-1950s? How do their legacies of scholarship and practice in...

LSE: The Ballpark | The West and the failure of democracy in the Middle East with Professor Fawaz Gerges

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In October 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Relations at LSE, about his new book, “What Really Went Wrong...

What AI is doing to America's democracy

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Lawrence Lessig | In this lecture, Lawrence Lessig will discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the 2024 American e...

Homeland insecurity: the rise and rise of global anti-terrorism law

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How did the ‘‘war on terror’’ bed down so easily? Why have seemingly endless anti-terrorism laws been tolerated by our supposedly liberal and...