LSE: The Ballpark

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

LSE: The Ballpark | Donald Trump and the far-right with Dr Rachel Blum

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Chris Gilson, Rachel Blum | Donald Trump’s links to the right, including the far right and the alt-right date back to least to his 2...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

LSE: The Ballpark | US-China relations under the new Trump administration with Professor Minxin Pei

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Chris Gilson, Minxin Pei | President Trump has made his feelings about US competition with China plain; one of the early acts of his s...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What are the implications of Michel Foucault’s critical social theories for how we think about freedom, power, and justice?

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

Contributor(s): Chris Gilson, Professor Shiping Tang | In the past decade, many commentators have increasingly spoken of growing competition between t...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contributor(s): Chris Gilson, Douglas Fuller | In December 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke Dr Douglas Fuller, Associate Professor in the Department of...

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!

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Chris Gilson, Professor Michael Mastanduno, Dr Jennifer Lind | In October 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Professor Michael Mastand...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Chris Gilson, Professor Kishore Mahbubani | In November 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Chris Gilson, Yeling Tan | In October 2024 the LSE Phelan US Centre spoke to Yeling Tan, Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik S...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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