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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Oct 30, 2024 • 1h 24min
Industrialisation and national identity in modern Africa
In this inaugural lecture Elliott Green will examine the effects of industrialization on national identification in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa
Oct 29, 2024 • 1h 26min
The most unequal region in the world: combatting inequality in Latin America
The Latin America and Caribbean Review (LACIR), committed to addressing these challenges, convenes high-level scholars to provide a coherent and comprehensive overview of the inequality problem in Latin America.
Oct 28, 2024 • 1h 22min
Taylor Swift and philosophy
Combining top-tier philosophical research and a passion for Taylor's music, a team of scholars investigate the wisdom that can come from Taylor's songs, bringing new perspectives to important contemporary issues.
Oct 23, 2024 • 1h 29min
The case for a four-day week
In the UK, we work some of the longest hours in Europe while having one of the least productive economies. We invented the weekend a century ago and are long overdue an update to working hours.
Oct 22, 2024 • 1h 22min
Wicked problems: how to engineer a better world
Our world is filled with pernicious problems. How, for example, did novice pilots learn to fly without taking to the air and risking their lives? How should cities process mountains of waste without polluting the environment?
Oct 21, 2024 • 1h 25min
Dead men's propaganda: ideology and utopia in comparative communication studies
Who were the key pioneers in the formation of comparative communications between the 1920s-1950s? How do their legacies of scholarship and practice inform the contemporary global landscapes of news reporting on war and the dissemination of propaganda
Oct 15, 2024 • 1h 27min
What AI is doing to America's democracy
In this lecture, Lawrence Lessig will discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the 2024 American election, and the implications that this will have for democracy in the future.
Oct 14, 2024 • 1h 29min
"What is needed is hard thinking": five challenges for the social sciences
Join us for the inaugural lecture of LSE President and Vice Chancellor of LSE Larry Kramer in which he will talk about his vision for LSE, the role of the social sciences in a changing world and our place in the 21st Century.
Oct 10, 2024 • 1h 14min
Policy epidemiology for emerging infectious diseases
This public event will describe the state of global health security, global governance of disease and the policy epidemiology framework used in the Analysis and Mapping of Policies for Emerging Infectious Diseases project.
Oct 8, 2024 • 1h 25min
AI and the future of behavioural science
In this event, speakers associated with pioneering work on AI in relation to behavioural science, as part of their own research or organisational initiatives, will discuss their views on how AI will change and is already changing behavioural science.
