Vulture capitalism
Join us to hear UK commentator and economic thinker Grace Blakeley talk about her latest book, Vulture Capitalism.
Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 32 min
LSE: Public lectures and events
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Why are our rivers and seas polluted by sewage?
This episode of LSE iQ explores a national scandal: widespread illegal sewage dumping by our privatised water companies, and why they are all under criminal investigation.
Dec 15, 2024•33 min
Automation, management, and the future of work
As we move deeper into the 21st century, rapid advancements in automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence continue to reshape industries, raising concerns about the potential impact on workers.
Dec 12, 2024•1 hr 28 min
The state of democracy after a year of elections
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 outcomes and implications for the world in 2025.
Dec 11, 2024•1 hr 29 min
Human rights through the eyes of my native land: South Africa in the world
Drawing from the struggle to end apartheid, the lecture will explore the connections between the struggle for human rights and the idea of self-determination. While both ideas are local, the lecture will show that they are also global.
Dec 10, 2024•1 hr 36 min
Getting lost in a field: a personal history in behavioural public policy
In his inaugural lecture, Adam Oliver will describe how he became involved in, and has helped contribute towards the development of, the still relatively new field of behavioural public policy (BPP).
Dec 09, 2024•1 hr 27 min
AI, society, and our world order
Artificial Intelligence is not only a generational technology, but also a general purpose technology—one that has outsized potential to transform societies and economies globally.
Dec 09, 2024•1 hr 30 min
Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful
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 and entrench power asymmetries between the global south and north.
Dec 05, 2024•1 hr 32 min
Feeding the machine: the hidden human labour powering AI
Conversations around AI tend to focus on the future dangers, but what about the damage AI is inflicting on people right now?
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 28 min
The Edge of Sentience: risk and precaution in humans, other animals, and AI
Birch's new book, The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI, constructs a precautionary framework designed to help us reach ethically sound, evidence-based decisions despite our uncertainty.
Dec 03, 2024•1 hr 27 min
The Open Society as an Enemy: Populism, Popper and pessimism post-1989
Across the world, populist agendas on both the left and right threaten to undermine fundamental principles that underpin liberal democracies, what were previously seen as virtues of the ‘Open Society’ are now, seen as vices, dangers, or threats.
Dec 02, 2024•1 hr 31 min
Cobalt rush: raw materials and the transition to net zero
Decarbonisation of the transportation sector is a vital component in achieving the goals set out in the Paris Agreement. Consequently, governments around the world are pushing forward the transition away from combustion engine to electric vehicles.
Nov 28, 2024•37 min
Is the internet good for children?
Public anxiety about children’s digital lives and wellbeing is reaching a fever pitch, marking a notable turnaround from the decades-long efforts to ensure children are fully digitally included, literate and empowered.
Nov 27, 2024•1 hr 25 min
The rise of Africa's suburban middle classes
African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, urban residents are putting their resources into finding land and building homes on city edges.
Nov 26, 2024•1 hr 16 min
New World, New Rules - What Works for Global Governance
This event marks the launch of New World, New Rules by George Papaconstantinou and Jean Pisani-Ferry, in which two of European policymakers and analysts outline a new agenda for global governance.
Nov 25, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Elements of a theory of the responsible firm
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 institutional response to improve on market and contractual inefficiencies
Nov 21, 2024•1 hr 24 min
Data visualisation: alive visual words
The talk will explore the design process and motivations behind data visualization projects, characterized by different usage contexts, responding to various needs, and with differing levels of experimentation.
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 26 min
Fragments of home: refugee housing, humanitarian design and the politics of shelter
The story of international migration is often told through personal odysseys and dangerous journeys, but when people arrive at their destinations a more mundane task begins: refugees need a place to stay.
Nov 19, 2024•1 hr 26 min
Daniel Kahneman: a legacy
Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman was the founder of modern behavioural science and behavioural economics. His close friends and colleagues will come together to discuss his research and the scale of his influence on society.
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Reversed realities revisited: 30 years of thinking in gender and development
30 years ago, Naila Kabeer published Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, which became a landmark study in the scholarship on gender and development.
Nov 14, 2024•1 hr 23 min
Liberal Constitutionalism, Media Ownership & the Public-Private Divide
Liberal constitutional theory rests on a fundamental division between duty-bearing public institutions and the rights-wielding private persons.
Nov 13, 2024•1 hr 24 min
F.A. Hayek's Nobel at 50: then and now
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 and especially his contributions to the methodology of the social sciences.
Nov 12, 2024•1 hr 28 min
The US presidential election and the left
What does the outcome of the US presidential election mean for democrats and progressives? What is its significance both in the United States and around the world?
Nov 11, 2024•1 hr 29 min
Who owns outer space?
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 heading into space in the future?
Nov 10, 2024•30 min
Homelessness in London: why youth homelessness needs its own solution
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 compared to 2021/22, with a similar trend seen nationally.
Nov 07, 2024•1 hr 31 min
The 2024 US election: turning point for America?
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 election and its domestic and international implications.
Nov 06, 2024•1 hr 31 min
AI in public policy: opportunities and challenges
In a world increasingly shaped by digital transformation, AI and data science present new opportunities to change policymaking in nearly all areas of policy.
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 28 min
A war like no other: challenge and change in reporting Gaza
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 media organisations has been vital, but it has also been called into question.
Nov 04, 2024•56 min
The world in crisis
From diverse disciplinary perspectives, the event will explore conceptual and theoretical approaches that might help us better to understand, engage with, and respond to our time as a time ‘out of joint’.
Nov 04, 2024•1 hr 29 min
A safer future for cycling in London
Cycling and other forms of active travel have significant benefits for wellbeing, local economies, air pollution and the environment. A substantial increase in active travel is needed to achieve London’s 2030 target for net zero carbon emissions.
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 32 min
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