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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Jun 17, 2025 • 1h 1min
Data for development
Data plays a crucial role in designing effective development policies, yet its availability and use in low- and middle-income countries remain inconsistent.
Jun 16, 2025 • 1h 4min
Alternatives to capitalism
There are frequent discussions on how our current economic system should be reformed and improved to address global challenges
Jun 16, 2025 • 1h
The London Consensus: economic principles for the 21st century
A generation ago, the so-called Washington Consensus laid out a series of do’s and don’ts for policymakers around the world.
Jun 16, 2025 • 60min
A society free from poverty: how do we get there and what would it look like?
The event challenges the old adage, 'The poor will always be with us', by envisaging a future free from poverty.
Jun 11, 2025 • 1h 11min
Beliefism: how to stop hating the people we disagree with
Join us for this talk by LSE's Paul Dolan in which he will talk about his new book, Beliefism.
Jun 10, 2025 • 1h 28min
Amartya Sen and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in conversation with Nick Stern: building sustainability in a turbulent world
Join us for this special event celebrating LSE's new Global School of Sustainability at which our speakers will discuss fostering sustainability amidst global uncertainty
Jun 9, 2025 • 1h 24min
Economic nationalism and global (dis)order
Join us for this year's Martin Wight Memorial Lecture which will be delivered by Robert Falkner who will explore the rise of economic nationalism amidst growing geopolitical rivalry.
Jun 5, 2025 • 49min
Feminism, anti-feminism and affective economies of rage
In this event Sarah Banet-Weiser will theorize “mirror worlds” as an apt metaphor for the contemporary political and cultural feminist landscape.
Jun 4, 2025 • 1h 27min
A new data infrastructure for the social sciences?
The social sciences rely heavily on legacy data systems conceived to meet challenges of the 20th century (and earlier!). Is this the moment to build a new data system that meets new challenges and exploits new types of technology and data?
Jun 3, 2025 • 1h 27min
Fixing education for the AI age
The recent prominence of AI has exposed major deficiencies in education. Not only how much improvement can be made in the pedagogical process with modern technology, but also how the subject-matter has diverged from what's needed in the real world.
