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 12, 2024 • 59min
Empowering communities? Exploring devolution's impact on low-income areas
Our panel explore the impact of localised governance on community sustainability, and particularly, the role of metro mayors in responding to austerity politics.
Jun 11, 2024 • 57min
How to make better decisions
As part of LSE Festival, Luc Schneider and LSE Online deliver this skills workshop. Learn about the main components of any good decision-making process, and how to break down these processes to improve your own decision-making.
Jun 11, 2024 • 29min
Is history a guide to politics?
A discussion on the New Cold War, the dynamics of resistance and coercion, and its impact on the shifting power arrangements.
Jun 11, 2024 • 1h 10min
100 days to kickstart Britain: what should the government's priorities be?
Our panel examine Britain’s economic model and how it can be re-built to kickstart productivity and tackle the country’s challenges.
Jun 11, 2024 • 58min
Authoritarian populism and media freedom
Our expert panel examine the disconcerting dynamic between authoritarian populism and public service media.
Jun 11, 2024 • 1h 1min
How can countries prepare for the next global health crisis?
Our panel assess countries’ prevention, preparedness and response for the next global health crisis after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jun 10, 2024 • 1h 16min
A year of elections: power and politics in 2024
Our panel explore some of the issues coming to the fore in this bumper year for politics as well as their implications.
Jun 10, 2024 • 1h 4min
Economics and wellbeing: inflation, public debt, and commercial wars
Professor Olivier Blanchard, former Chief Economist at the IMF, explores how current global instability poses a challenge to economic wellbeing.
Jun 10, 2024 • 1h 2min
The ministry for the future: navigating the politics of the climate crisis
Award-winning science fiction writer, Kim Stanley Robinson discusses the political economy needed to cope with climate change with Elizabeth Robinson, Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
Jun 6, 2024 • 1h 34min
The 2024 European elections and the challenges ahead
On the first day of voting in the elections, our panel discuss Eurosceptic parties, climate change, migration and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and more.
