LSE: Public lectures and events
LSE Film and Audio Team
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.
Episodes
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Mar 16, 2026 • 1h 28min
Infinite justice: political cosmologies that protect our future
In her inaugural lecture, Shakuntala Banaji explores how our ethical and political imaginations of love, justice and rights—shaped by education systems, media and technologies under savage capitalism—differ between individuals, communities and geopolitical entities.
Mar 12, 2026 • 1h 24min
Donald Trump and the unmaking of Europe
Join us for this lecture by Nathalie Tocci who will argue that Donald Trump’s foreign policy record has not been very successful so far, as wars continue to rage in Ukraine and in the Middle East.
Mar 11, 2026 • 1h 27min
Gender, culture and equality in today’s Britain
Join us for a timely conversation on equality, gender and culture in contemporary Britain with Sarah Owen MP, chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee.
Mar 10, 2026 • 1h 24min
Invisible inputs: gender bias in AI systems
Behind every algorithm lies a set of choices, some visible, many not. This panel discusses the unseen forces that shape AI, focusing on how gender bias enters systems through data, design, and deployment.
Mar 9, 2026 • 1h 31min
Women’s health matters: science, systems, and global change
The LSE Health and Department of Health Policy Annual Lecture 2026 was delivered by Michelle A Williams, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University.
Mar 5, 2026 • 1h 8min
Complexity and complicity in social anthropology
Join us for Hans Steinmüller's inaugural lecture.
Mar 4, 2026 • 1h 33min
The politics of world heritage: visions, custodians, and futures of humanity
Albina Hoffman, a diplomatic studies lecturer, and Elif Kalaycioglu, a scholar of global heritage politics, discuss how World Heritage constructs visions of humanity, the politics of inscription and authority, shifts from monumental to vernacular values, contested atrocity sites, state reassertion, and tensions around custody, expertise, and identity in heritage politics.
Mar 3, 2026 • 1h 32min
The care economy and social housing
What is the relationship between the care economy and social housing and how do they directly influence each other?
Mar 2, 2026 • 1h 24min
Grassroots: shaping the digital realm and through it – the world
The digital realm today concentrates power and wealth in the hands of the few, excluding most of humanity from equal participation.
Feb 25, 2026 • 1h 32min
Do molecules have structure? The view from quantum physics
Join us for the inaugural BJPS Popper Prize lecture, delivered by philosophers of science Alexander Franklin and Vanessa Seifert.
