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LSE: Public lectures and events
The London School of Economics and Political Science public events podcast series is a platform for thought, ideas and lively debate where you can hear from some of the world's leading thinkers. Listen to more than 200 new episodes every year.
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Common law: a better foundation for Liberalism
Contributor(s): Professor John Hasnas | In conventional political philosophy, law is understood as consciously created rules that are a necessary mech...
Women in economics: progress, challenges and perspectives
Contributor(s): Janet Henry, Clare Lombardelli, Professor Almudena Sevilla | Despite decades of progress, women remain underrepresented in the field o...
Economic impacts and legacies of British rule in India
Contributor(s): Professor Bishnupriya Gupta | In her latest book An Economic History of India: Growth, income and inequalities from the Mughals to the...
The politics of hunger in Sudan
Contributor(s): Dr Nisrin Elamin | The ongoing war in Sudan has produced the world’s largest humanitarian and hunger crisis—devastating a country that...
Why I am an anarchist: insights into British anarchist thought and politics
Contributor(s): Dr Sophie Scott-Brown | Anarchism has had a more powerful impact on political life than most people realise. What are the roots of thi...
Should the UK have a wealth tax? The Wealth Tax Commission five years on
Contributor(s): Professor Arun Advani, Emma Chamberlain, Dr Andy Summers | In 2020, the Wealth Tax Commission brought together world-leading academics...
Fiscal threats in a changing global financial system
Contributor(s): Pablo Hernández de Cos | Sovereign debt levels have increased considerably since the Great Financial Crisis, reaching historical post-...
America first and the future of Eurasian geopolitics
Contributor(s): Dr C Raja Mohan | America’s longstanding role as the guarantor of security in Europe and Asia is now under question at home.
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John Rawls and unequivocal justice
Contributor(s): Professor Christopher Freiman | urious about how free markets and social justice intersect? Join us for an engaging lecture by Christo...
Will the next World War be a cyberwar?
Contributor(s): | It seems every week we hear a new report of a cyber-attack. Recent examples include the hacks on Marks and Spencer's, Jaguar Land R...
AI, technology and society: shaping the future together
Contributor(s): Professor Cosmina Dorobantu, Marion Dumas, Professor Helen Margetts | AI is about people – the most sophisticated AI models are traine...
World Children’s Day: digital futures for children – children’s rights under pressure in the digital environment
Contributor(s): Gerison Lansdown, Dr Kim R. Sylwander, Gastón Wright | In 2021, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child introduced General Comment...
Is there a Trump doctrine? Making sense of US foreign and security policy since Trump’s return to the White House
Contributor(s): Professor Ronald Krebs, Katharine M Millar, Dr Luca Tardelli, Dr Boram Lee | In January 2025, Donald Trump returned to the White House...
Britain in a changing world
Contributor(s): Sir John Major | Discussing the topic, Britain in a changing world, former British Prime Minister and Leader of the Conservative Party...
Greece’s economic and digital transformation: in conversation with Kyriakos Pierrakakis
Contributor(s): Kyriakos Pierrakakis | Join us for a discussion with Kyriakos Pierrakakis, Greece's Minister of the Economy and Finance, on the key ch...
Spreading it around: a new look at redistribution and tax
Contributor(s): Professor Deborah James FBA, Dr Miranda Sheild Johansson, Dr Johanna Mugler, Dr Robin Smith | In this panel discussion, anthropologist...
America adrift: the end of the east coast foreign policy elite
Contributor(s): Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter | America is undergoing rapid demographic change. By the mid-21st century, European Americans, long the...
Saving Britain's wildlife
Contributor(s): Dr Iris Berger, Dr Luke Hecht, Dr Karen Kovaka, Matt Phelps | Britain's wildlife has been under pressure for centuries. Many of the la...
Fault lines: the new political economy of a warming world
Contributor(s): Professor Helen Milner | In this lecture, Helen Milner addresses why vulnerability, lived experience, and material self-interest will...
Great global transformation: national market liberalism in a multipolar world
Contributor(s): Professor Branko Milanovic | Join us for this talk by Branko Milanovic about his new book, The Great Global Transformation: National M...
The growth story of the 21st century: the economics and opportunity of climate action
Contributor(s): Professor Lord Stern, Professor Nicola Ranger, Dimitri Zenghelis | The world stands at a crossroads. The next decade will determine wh...
Joyful revolution: poverty, social justice and a pioneer of participation
Contributor(s): Dr Eileen Alexander, Fran Bennett, Kate Evans, Diana Skelton | Tackling poverty and campaigning for social justice must be with, not j...
Syria after Assad: a reporter’s view on a nation in transition
Contributor(s): Raya Jalabi | This talk delivered by Raya Jalabi, Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times, as part of the annual Ian Black M...
Sustainability, peace and development: in conversation with Juan Manuel Santos
Contributor(s): Juan Manuel Santos, Professor Mary Kaldor, Professor Lord Stern | Join Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and LSE alumnus Juan Manuel Santos a...
Seeing the unseen: combining data to better understand our environment
Contributor(s): Professor Claire Miller, Dr Sefi Roth | Join us as the University of Glasgow’s Claire Miller explores the statistical and data analyti...
Will AI free us from work?
Contributor(s): | Will artificial intelligence cause huge unemployment? Will it free us from working? Will it replace us? In this special edition of...
How to help left behind regions and workers
Contributor(s): Professor Gordon Hanson | The decline of manufacturing and the acceleration of technological disruption have concentrated joblessness...
Unlocking climate action opportunities: progress amid geopolitical turbulence
Contributor(s): Dr Swati Dhingra, Dr Matilde Mesnard, Dr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Chris Skidmore, Professor Lord Stern, Sharon Yang | This event w...
The social safety net as an investment in children
Contributor(s): Professor Hilary Hoynes | Join us for the Department of Social Policy’s Annual Lecture at which Hilary Hoynes will explore the concept...
Mutually assured survival: feminist solidarities amidst planetary threats
Contributor(s): Dr Lyn Ossome, Professor Shirin M Rai, Dr Gloria Novović | We are beset by existential planetary threats - from environmental emergenc...
How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations
Contributor(s): Dr Carl Benedikt Frey, Professor Jane Gingrich, Professor Michael Storper | How will progress end? In this event, Carl Benedikt Frey –...
Technology for the public interest: preventing capture and promoting welfare
Contributor(s): Professor Padmashree Gehl Sampath, Dr Laura Mann | In this lecture, Padmashree Gehl Sampath compares the trajectories of two critical...
On liberalism on defence in freedom
Contributor(s): Professor Cass R. Sunstein | Join us for this lecture by New York Times bestselling author and Harvard academic Cass R Sunstein.
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The CEO: the rise and fall of Britain's captains of industry
Contributor(s): Dr Michael Aldous, Professor John Turner, Dr Judy Stephenson | The CEOs of Britain's largest companies wield immense power, but we kno...
US-Iran relations under Trump 2.0: prospects and challenges
Contributor(s): Dr Dana H. Allin, Dr Anahita Motazed Rad, Dr Sanam Vakil | This event will examine how a second Trump administration might reshape U.S...
Permission to be queer: the case for liberty
Contributor(s): Professor Deirdre Nansen McCloskey | Join us in welcoming back to LSE, economist Deirdre Nansen McCloskey who will deliver this specia...
Why we're getting poorer
Contributor(s): Dr Cahal Moran | As the UK economy struggles along while the US seems destined for chaos, evaluating why we’re getting poorer has neve...
Not just lines on a map: borders in a changing world
Contributor(s): Dr Tarsis Brito, Dr Maya Goodfellow, Dr Luke de Noronha | We are joined by Maya Goodfellow, Tarsis Brito and Luke de Noronha who will...
The promise and peril of Trump's America first
Contributor(s): Professor Charles Kupchan | Donald Trump’s America First is a response to too much globalisation, too much immigration, and too many w...
How to save the internet
Contributor(s): Sir Nick Clegg | Join us for this special event where former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will talk about his new book, Ho...