Lse: Public Lectures And Events

Since the 1990s, progressive parties have tended to combine globalist neoliberal policies with avant-garde social views.

This episode explores the AI sustainability paradox: can AI be both a climate solution and a climate problem?

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.

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?

Join us for the 2025 Economica-Phillips Lecture which will be delivered by Valerie Ramey.

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.

Join us for this special event with LSE alumnus and President of Finland Alexander Stubb.

Join us for the Sylvia Chant Lecture which this year will be delivered by Jo Sharp, Geographer Royal for Scotland.

Is Generative AI morally and technically inadequate? Can we separate the hype around AI from its real potential?

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.

In her inaugural lecture, Denisa Kostovicova discusses how former opponents engage with the legacy of mass atrocity.

Join us for this special lecture by LSE alumnus and co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics James A Robinson.

Join us for a public event with Leopoldo López, political leader in Venezuela and prominent advocate for democracy.

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.

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.

Private actions for public benefit - philanthropy, charity, voluntary action or social entrepreneurship - have long been at the core of societies, religions and human activity.

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.

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.

In an age of conformists and faux-contrarians, Maurice Saatchi has revolutionised British business and politics through his willingness to question received wisdom.

This lecture explores the merits of epistemic pluralism in understanding climate change today.