Tolerance and freedom of expression
Join us for the Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture which will be delivered by Peter Godfrey-Smith who will speak about tolerance and the freedom of expression.
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 29 min
LSE: Public lectures and events
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Elite conflict, colonialism and democracy in the Middle East
Why has democracy struggled to thrive in the Global South? In this British Academy-funded research project, Mohamed Saleh develops a new economic history of the Middle East that explains the economic roots of authoritarianism in the region.
May 29, 2025•1 hr 28 min
Capitalism and its critics
In this lecture John Cassidy will speak about his new book, Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World.
May 28, 2025•1 hr 24 min
Revolutions and world order: still the 'Sixth Great Power'?
This lecture, held in honour of the renowned scholar Fred Halliday, will explore the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics.
May 27, 2025•1 hr 31 min
Forests, finance, and the future: economic risks of nature loss
This event aims at addressing the often overlooked yet profound economic and financial consequences of deforestation.
May 22, 2025•1 hr 37 min
Critique is the critique of power
This event will bring together sociologists from a range of traditions to discuss whether critique can be equated with the critique of power in the analysis of the social world.
May 21, 2025•1 hr 33 min
Teens, sexting and image-based sexual abuse: a child rights approach
With the ubiquity of technological devices, young people are more visible and accessible than ever before, and they are encountering, using and producing an unprecedented amount of sexualised imagery.
May 20, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Conscience incorporated: pursuing profits while protecting human rights
In today’s world, where corporations wield immense power and influence, how can business leaders balance the pursuit of profits with ethical responsibility?
May 19, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Apprenticeship and economic growth in early modern England
In his latest book, The Market for Skill: apprenticeship and economic growth in early-modern England, which forms the basis of this event, Patrick Wallis shows how apprenticeship helped reshape the English economy between 1500-1800.
May 14, 2025•1 hr 30 min
Neoliberalism and social justice? Reconciling Adam Smith and John Rawls
This event will explore the relationship between Rawlsian liberal egalitarianism and neoliberalism, based on Nick Cowen's book Neoliberal Social Justice.
May 13, 2025•1 hr 32 min
The corporation in the 21st century
Join us as John Kay, one of Britain’s leading economists, discusses his new book The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong.
May 12, 2025•1 hr 8 min
The power of data: ethics, politics, and public interest
This event will discuss important questions around the role of data science in understanding and shaping the public interest, from access to information to civic participation and business development to democratic processes.
May 08, 2025•1 hr 25 min
The death and life of the center-left
Since the 1990s, progressive parties have tended to combine globalist neoliberal policies with avant-garde social views.
May 07, 2025•1 hr 34 min
Greenland, Iceland and the meltdown of the old order in the North Atlantic
President Trump’s determination to increase American influence and presence in Greenland has generated great interest in the future of the world’s largest island and its surrounding regions in the Arctic and the North Atlantic.
May 06, 2025•1 hr 22 min
Is AI destroying the planet?
This episode explores the AI sustainability paradox: can AI be both a climate solution and a climate problem?
May 06, 2025•31 min
How do we avoid falling for online scams?
What type of person falls for an online scam? Who are the fraudsters and how does colonialism motivate them? And what’s the connection between criminality and pop music?
Apr 08, 2025•33 min
Rethinking keynesian fiscal stimulus
Join us for the 2025 Economica-Phillips Lecture which will be delivered by Valerie Ramey.
Apr 02, 2025•1 hr 22 min
Global dignity and seeing others: political and environmental recognition compared
Join us for this lecture in which Michèle Lamont will discuss her book Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How it Can Heal a Divided World.
Apr 01, 2025•58 min
Agents of change? The challenges of understanding empowerment through international development
Join us for the Sylvia Chant Lecture which this year will be delivered by Jo Sharp, Geographer Royal for Scotland.
Mar 31, 2025•1 hr 27 min
In conversation with Alexander Stubb
Join us for this special event with LSE alumnus and President of Finland Alexander Stubb.
Mar 31, 2025•51 min
The future of AI
Is Generative AI morally and technically inadequate? Can we separate the hype around AI from its real potential?
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 29 min
From menarche to menopause: how reproductive histories shape women's health
This inaugural lecture will look at key issues in the study of women’s health through the lens of reproductive histories, looking at both contingent and cumulated events to include physical and mental shocks.
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 27 min
War crimes talk: does it help or hinder peace?
In her inaugural lecture, Denisa Kostovicova discusses how former opponents engage with the legacy of mass atrocity.
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 28 min
Wealth in people
Join us for this special lecture by LSE alumnus and co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics James A Robinson.
Mar 25, 2025•1 hr 25 min
The diffusion of soft technologies during and after WWII
British business productivity growth has been lagging for the past couple of decades, and key to the Labour government’s goal of improving economic growth is raising productivity.
Mar 20, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Unchaining Venezuela: a struggle for democracy
Join us for a public event with Leopoldo López, political leader in Venezuela and prominent advocate for democracy.
Mar 20, 2025•1 hr 26 min
On white normativity, racial habituation, and cracks in racial teams
In this year’s annual British Journal of Sociology lecture, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva will review the basics of his “racialized social system” with a focus on explaining how he has improved the theoretical apparatus over the years.
Mar 19, 2025•1 hr 23 min
The mysterious art and science of doing good
Private actions for public benefit - philanthropy, charity, voluntary action or social entrepreneurship - have long been at the core of societies, religions and human activity.
Mar 18, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Social justice and health equity
Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology at University College London and Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, will outline why the need to reduce inequalities in health is a matter of social justice.
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 24 min
Assisted dying: what should we think?
A new bill proposes to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill patients in England and Wales. Many difficult philosophical, moral, legal and social questions are raised by end-of-life legislation.
Mar 13, 2025•1 hr 27 min
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