LSE: Public lectures and events
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Engaging the global urban agenda: from the south
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Professor Susan Parnell | Sue Parnell outlines why a new urban disposition, that breaks with geographies, disciplines, and ideologies ...
Engaging the global urban agenda: from the south
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This year’s Chant lecture explores imperatives to reconfiguring global urban science to meet these ambitions.
A lecture by Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In conversation with LSE alumna Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados.
The economic costs of British planning: unaffordable housing and lost employment and productivity
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Lord Wolfson, Professor Paul Cheshire, Dame Kate Barker, Stephen Aldridge | It is 40 years since Paul Cheshire began to investigate th...
The economic costs of British planning: unaffordable housing and lost employment and productivity
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This event brings together some of the key contributors to this long running debate and underline LSE’s commitment to engage in this important publi...
Rights, virtues and humanity: re-thinking the ethics of human rights
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Professor Kimberly Hutchings | For the past twenty years the idea of human rights as an absolute and universal ethical standard has be...
Rights, virtues and humanity: re-thinking the ethics of human rights
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have human rights lost their power as an ethical discourse?
How can we tackle loneliness?
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Heather Kappes, David McDaid, Molly Taylor | According to the Office for National Statistics, 7.1 per cent of adults in Great Britain ...
How can we tackle loneliness?
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of LSE iQ asks, ‘How can we tackle loneliness?’.
The oceans, the blue economy and implications for climate change
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Dr Siva Thambisetty, Dr John Siddorn, Ishbel Matheson, Dr Joanna Post, Dr Darian McBain | The blue economy is estimated to be worth ov...
LSE: The Ballpark | Religion over Race with Dr Amanda Sahar d’Urso and Dr Tabitha Bonilla
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2023 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Dr Amanda Sahar d’Urso, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University and Dr Tabitha Bonilla, Associate Profess...
The oceans, the blue economy and implications for climate change
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many conversations about sustainability and climate-change focus on activities on land – the green part of our planet. This misses a vital part of t...
Greek foreign policy: future challenges and opportunities
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Professor George Gerapetritis | Climate change, worldwide aggression, migration flows, food crisis and public health emergencies have ...
The legacy of Richard Titmuss: social welfare fifty years on
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Professor Ann Oakley, Professor Chris Renwick, Professor Sally Sheard, Professor John Stewart | Richard Titmuss, the first chair in So...
Greek foreign policy: future challenges and opportunities
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Contemporary politics reveal that the problems humanity is facing are not merely national or regional, but global, eroding and transcending the tradit...
The legacy of Richard Titmuss: social welfare fifty years on
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This event discusses Richard Titmuss’s critique of the ‘welfare state’.
How economics changes the world
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Professor Mary S Morgan | While the conventional view is that ideas create policy change and economic change follows on - it is just n...
How economics changes the world
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Economic ideas are "performative" - meaning that they do change the ways economies work - but not on their own.
Why the racial wealth divide matters
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Professor Vimal Ranchhod, Faeza Meyer, Dr Eleni Karagiannaki, Dr Shabna Begum | Wealthy households able to draw on owner occupied hous...
Why the racial wealth divide matters
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Escalating asset price inflation in recent decades has helped to expose wealth inequality as a major dimension of socio-economic inequality across the...
Dementia and decision-making
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Professor Richard Pettigrew, Dr David Jarrett, Nicci Gerrard, Ruth Bright | Many of us will face this important question: over 850,000...
Dementia and decision-making
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How should we make decisions with – or on behalf of – those with dementia?
Making good law in a time of polycrisis
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Contributor(s): Lord McFall | He advises caution on radical reform of the Upper House, arguing that incremental change to the process for nomination o...
Making good law in a time of polycrisis
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Lord Speaker will explain how the House of Lords enables policy-makers to look beyond the five-year electoral cycle, at a time when the UK faces m...
Trends and determinants of global child malnutrition: what can we learn from history?
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In his inaugural lecture, Eric Schneider explores how child malnutrition, measured through child growth, has changed over the past 150 years around th...
The elusive plantation: imagining development in Mozambique
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wendy Wolford draws on multi stakeholder archival materials and field research to discuss an ambitious project called ProSavana intended to transform ...
Art, rights and resistance for the 21st century
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In conversation with Tanya Harmer, the interdisciplinary feminist collective, LASTESIS, will be reflecting on art, rights and resistance for the 21st ...
LSE: The Ballpark | In Quest of a Shared Planet with Dr Naveeda Khan
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2023 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Naveeda Khan, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University about her new bo...
Good jobs, bad jobs in the UK labour market
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Speakers discuss how we can define and measure deprivation in the labour market, by applying a methodology widely used to measure multidimensional pov...
AI disruption in the job market: navigating future skills and relevance
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Speakers discuss strategies you can put in place to make sure you hone the skills necessary to keep you relevant in the workplace in the future.
Can we change the world?
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of LSE iQ asks, ‘Can we change the world?’
How can you get happier?
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science on the theme of health and wellbeing, Paul Dolan introduces his new podcast series, Get Happier.
The women who made modern economics
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, unveils her book, The Women Who Made Modern Economics.
Underground empire: how America weaponised the world economy
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Abraham Newman and Henry Farrell discuss their forthcoming book Underground Empire: how America weaponised the world economy.
How did Britain come to this? The accidental logics of Britain's neoliberal settlement
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gwyn Bevan argues that the interaction of two ideas created an accidental logic in which financialised enterprises have exploited rules of the game to...
Towards a world of good relationships
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How are we to heal divided communities, to respect difference, trade fairly, care for the displaced, respond to crises, or share the natural world?
Black Feminism in Europe
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Speakers discuss the role of black women in social, cultural and political movements historically and in our times.
The Future of Capitalism Conference: Keynote Address: Rethinking Market Capitalism: Innovation and the Path to Shared Prosperity with Professor Daron Acemoglu
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the 20th and 21st of October 2023, the London School of Economics' Phelan United States Centre hosted the Future of Capitalism in an Age of Insecur...
The Future of Capitalism Conference: Panel 1 on Globalisation and the Return of Geopolitics
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the 20th and 21st of October 2023, the London School of Economics' Phelan United States Centre hosted the Future of Capitalism in an Age of Insecur...
The Future of Capitalism Conference: Panel 2 on Populism and Democratic Capitalism
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the 20th and 21st of October 2023, the London School of Economics' Phelan United States Centre hosted the Future of Capitalism in an Age of Insecur...
The Future of Capitalism Conference: Panel 3 on Global Governance in an Era of Anti-Globalism
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the 20th and 21st of October 2023, the London School of Economics' Phelan United States Centre hosted the Future of Capitalism in an Age of Insecur...
Can we change the world?
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of LSE iQ asks, ‘Can we change the world?’
The economic government of the world, 1933-2023
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Daunton discusses his new book, The economic government of the world, 1933-2023.
The psychosis of whiteness
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kehinde Andrews discusses his new book, The Psychosis of Whiteness.
In conversation with Arun Blair-Mangat
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate Black History Month, join us for this conversation between LSE alumnus Arun Blair-Mangat and LSE President Eric Neumayer.
The golden passport: global mobility for millionaires
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kristin Surak discusses her new book, The Golden Passport: global mobility for millionaires.
Organised labour and future of British politics
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In discussion with Paul Nowak, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress.
Homelessness in London in a time of crisis
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this debate we will be looking at the reasons why the housing situation has worsened in London.
Shattered nation: inequality and the geography of a failing state
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Geographer Danny Dorling marks the launch of his new book, Shattered Nation, and explains why we are growing further and further apart, exposing a ne...
Predicting our climate future: what we know, what we don't know, what we can't know
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Stainforth discusses his new book Predicting Our Climate Future: what we know, what we don’t know, and what we can’t know - how climate scie...
How to slay a dragon: building a new Russia after Putin
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mikhail Khodorkovsky speaks about his new book, How To Slay a Dragon: building a new Russia after Putin.
LSE: The Ballpark | The Birth Lottery of History with Professor Robert Sampson
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In June 2023, the Phelan US Centre spoke with Robert J. Sampson the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University about hi...
The identity trap: a story of ideas and power in our time
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yascha Mounk explores the transformation of a healthy appreciation for the culture and heritage of minorities into an obsession with group identity in...
Can Russia be remade?
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nina Khrushcheva discusses the current state of affairs in Russia.
Recovering enslaved peoples' perspectives from archives, literature, and art
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Henry Louis Gates, Jr in conversation with Isaac Julien and LSE's Imaobong Umoren.
How can we leverage transparency to the betterment of society?
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Leuz reviews what we know about the role and effectiveness of transparency regimes that target particular corporate activities by shining th...
Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European project
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Speakers discuss Hans Kundnani's latest book, Eurowhiteness: culture, empire and race in the European project.
What’s it like to be criminalised for being gay?
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Joanna Bale investigates how gay men living in Dubai create covert communities where they can meet and socialise.
Ukraine: the war that changed the world
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Speakers discuss the war in Ukraine and its global implications.
A theory of everyone: who we are, how we got here, and where we're going
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society.
Decentralised governance: crafting effective democracies around the world
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this panel discussion for the launch of Decentralised governance: crafting effective democracies around the world, a new publication from ...
The future of Crypto and Blockchain
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Andrew Lewis-Pye to explains more about what makes cryptocurrencies so attractive?
The international politics of outer space
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Alden and Dimitrios Stroikos explore the complexities around the international politics of space.
What’s it like to be criminalised for being gay?
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Joanna Bale investigates how gay men living in Dubai create covert communities where they can meet and socialise.
An industrial strategy for the green economy
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This event brings together leading thinkers and policy makers to discuss political solutions for a green economy.
Four ways of thinking
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor David Sumpter speaks about his latest book, Four Ways of Thinking: statistical, interactive, chaotic and complex.
From adversity to resilience: climate justice in developing countries
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this event that will address the critical issue of advancing climate justice and building resilience to climate change, focusing on the un...
The war on air pollution
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The average person on the planet is losing about 2 years of life expectancy due to air pollution. Despite greatly compromising people's well being and...
Is AI coming for our jobs?
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of LSE iQ asks, ‘Is AI coming for our jobs?’
Parenthood and the double x economy
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The event explores what actions and policies can be done to tackle the family penalty and address the fundamental exclusion at the heart of the "doubl...
LSE: The Ballpark | The Kennedy Withdrawal with Professor Marc Selverstone
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In December 2022, the Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson and Mohid Malik spoke to Marc Selverstone, Associate Professor in Presidential Studies at the ...
LSE: The Ballpark | Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries with Professor Pranab Bardhan
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2023, the Phelan US Centre’s Mohid Malik spoke to Pranab Bardhan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Californ...
Is AI coming for our jobs?
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of LSE iQ asks, ‘Is AI coming for our jobs?’
Climate Change: America and the World – Episode 6: The Future of Climate Change Politics in America
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode examines current trends in American politics in implementing policies to address climate change. Dr Bromley-Trujillo (Christopher Newport...
LSE: The Ballpark | Geopolitics and Democracy with Brian Burgoon and Peter Trubowitz
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2023, the Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson spoke to Brian Burgoon, Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy in the Departm...
What are Global Value Chains and why they matter for economic and regional development
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Global Value Chains are an end-to-end process that can foster economic development and jobs.
Climate Change: America and the World – Episode 5: The Cost of Climate Change in America
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Rebecca Elliot (LSE) and Professor in Practice Swenja Surminski (LSE Grantham) discuss how climate change and climate related hazards dispro...
The experiences of sex workers in Sweden and the Philippines
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How are sex workers affected by laws that claim to protect them?
The Other Pandemic: how QAnon contaminated the world
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball talks about his new book.
Climate Change: America and the World – Episode 4: Climate Change and Race
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we look at the different experiences of climate change in the United States from a racial perspective. We are joined by Centennial Pro...
Global Trends in Climate Litigation
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This event marks the launch of the Grantham Research Institute’s (GRI) 2023 Global Trends in Climate Change Litigation Policy Report, an annual repo...
LSE: The Ballpark | The defining global challenges of the coming decades with the Lloyd George Study Group
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We live in turbulent times. Globalized challenges like climate change, pandemics, migration, and supply chain disruptions are rising in urgency. With ...
The right of kids in a digital world
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we help our kids navigate the world of apps, websites, games and social media?
How refugees transform our cities
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What challenges do urban refugees face - from host governments and from the communities already living there?
The simple idea that could solve our political problems
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LSE researcher Daniel Chandler considers the work of one of the 20th Century’s foremost political philosophers
Understanding the sixth mass extinction
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Scientists believe we are currently in the midst of a modern-day mass extinction event, with biodiversity loss escalating at an unparalleled pace worl...
Know Your Place: how society sets us up to fail – and what we can do about it
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This event marks the launch of Know Your Place: how society sets us up to fail – and what we can do about it, the new book by Faiza Shaheen.
#MeToo in the Media: survivors, believability, and emotional labour | LSE Festival
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is the #MeToo movement about affecting change, or simply about visibility?
Can People Change the World? Activists, Social Movements, and Utopian Futures | LSE Festival
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, inequality is on the rise, but so is grassroots activism.
How Did Britain Come to This? | LSE Festival
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets’.
How is AI Changing the World? | LSE Festival
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How is AI changing the world? And how can we be prepared?
Russia's War Against Ukraine: war crimes and responsibility for post-war reconstruction | LSE Festival
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has been accompanied by atrocities against the civilian population.
Russia: does It believe in anything? | LSE Festival
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How might understanding this recent traumatic history help us understand the present, and future, of Russia and its political system?
The Changing Nature of Religion in Today's World | LSE Festival
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, social scientific study of religion has been dominated by the secularisation question: is religion growing or declining?
The Power of Data in Health | LSE Festival
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This event discusses the importance of health-related data as a resource to transform the world for the better and even save lives if used effectively...
This is Not America: why black lives in Britain matter | LSE Festival
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Across the West, racial injustice has become one of the most divisive issues of our age.
What Would a Fairer Society Look Like? | LSE Festival
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have inequalities become so entrenched that we can no longer imagine a fairer society?
How to Manage Transition in Turbulent Times | LSE Festival
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Change is an inevitable part of our lives, especially in times of high uncertainty.
Smashing the Class Ceiling | LSE Festival
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lessons in how to improve social mobility: what we can do, how we can do it and why it’s not being done already.
How to Negotiate: the essentials you need to know | LSE Festival
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This session looks closely at what it takes to be an effective negotiator and what that means for supporting people in organisations today to navigate...