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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Jan 13, 2025 • 1h 32min
Vulture capitalism
Join us to hear UK commentator and economic thinker Grace Blakeley talk about her latest book, Vulture Capitalism.
Dec 15, 2024 • 33min
Why are our rivers and seas polluted by sewage?
This episode of LSE iQ explores a national scandal: widespread illegal sewage dumping by our privatised water companies, and why they are all under criminal investigation.
Dec 12, 2024 • 1h 28min
Automation, management, and the future of work
As we move deeper into the 21st century, rapid advancements in automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence continue to reshape industries, raising concerns about the potential impact on workers.
Dec 11, 2024 • 1h 29min
The state of democracy after a year of elections
Our panel of LSE researchers explore some of the issues that have come to the fore in this bumper year for international politics, along with the key outcomes and implications for the world in 2025.
Dec 10, 2024 • 1h 36min
Human rights through the eyes of my native land: South Africa in the world
Drawing from the struggle to end apartheid, the lecture will explore the connections between the struggle for human rights and the idea of self-determination. While both ideas are local, the lecture will show that they are also global.
Dec 9, 2024 • 1h 27min
Getting lost in a field: a personal history in behavioural public policy
In his inaugural lecture, Adam Oliver will describe how he became involved in, and has helped contribute towards the development of, the still relatively new field of behavioural public policy (BPP).
Dec 9, 2024 • 1h 30min
AI, society, and our world order
Artificial Intelligence is not only a generational technology, but also a general purpose technology—one that has outsized potential to transform societies and economies globally.
Dec 5, 2024 • 1h 32min
Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful
In this talk based on her new book, Mirca Madianou will argue that digital innovations such as biometrics and chatbots engender new forms of violence and entrench power asymmetries between the global south and north.
Dec 4, 2024 • 1h 28min
Feeding the machine: the hidden human labour powering AI
Conversations around AI tend to focus on the future dangers, but what about the damage AI is inflicting on people right now?
Dec 3, 2024 • 1h 27min
The Edge of Sentience: risk and precaution in humans, other animals, and AI
Birch's new book, The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI, constructs a precautionary framework designed to help us reach ethically sound, evidence-based decisions despite our uncertainty.
