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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May 12, 2025 • 1h 8min
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 8, 2025 • 1h 25min
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 7, 2025 • 1h 34min
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 6, 2025 • 1h 22min
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 6, 2025 • 31min
Is AI destroying the planet?
This episode explores the AI sustainability paradox: can AI be both a climate solution and a climate problem?
Apr 8, 2025 • 33min
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 2, 2025 • 1h 22min
Rethinking keynesian fiscal stimulus
Join us for the 2025 Economica-Phillips Lecture which will be delivered by Valerie Ramey.
Apr 1, 2025 • 58min
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.
Mar 31, 2025 • 1h 27min
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 • 51min
In conversation with Alexander Stubb
Join us for this special event with LSE alumnus and President of Finland Alexander Stubb.
