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.
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Mar 27, 2025 • 1h 27min
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 • 1h 29min
The future of AI
Is Generative AI morally and technically inadequate? Can we separate the hype around AI from its real potential?
Mar 26, 2025 • 1h 28min
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 25, 2025 • 1h 25min
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 20, 2025 • 1h 29min
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 • 1h 26min
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 19, 2025 • 1h 23min
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 18, 2025 • 1h 29min
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 17, 2025 • 1h 24min
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 13, 2025 • 1h 27min
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.
