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 28, 2025 • 1h 24min
How to help left behind regions and workers
The decline of manufacturing and the acceleration of technological disruption have concentrated joblessness in distressed regions and blocked many workers from access to good jobs
Oct 27, 2025 • 1h 29min
Unlocking climate action opportunities: progress amid geopolitical turbulence
This event will serve as a timely preview of the upcoming UN Climate Conference (COP), offering insights into where meaningful progress can be made on international climate action.
Oct 23, 2025 • 1h 27min
The social safety net as an investment in children
Join us for the Department of Social Policy’s Annual Lecture at which Hilary Hoynes will explore the concept of viewing the social safety net as a long-term investment in children.
Oct 22, 2025 • 1h 22min
Mutually assured survival: feminist solidarities amidst planetary threats
Can global feminist solidarity and a feminist theory of social reproduction provide an emancipatory agenda that will foster the material conditions that make the reproduction of human and non-human life possible?
Oct 21, 2025 • 1h 25min
How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations
How will progress end? In this event, Carl Benedikt Frey – one of the leading scholars of technology and the economy – will discuss his new book, How Progress Ends.
Oct 20, 2025 • 1h 27min
Technology for the public interest: preventing capture and promoting welfare
In this lecture, Padmashree Gehl Sampath compares the trajectories of two critical technology-driven sectors, pharmaceuticals and artificial intelligence
Oct 17, 2025 • 1h 1min
On liberalism: in defence of freedom
Join us for this lecture by New York Times bestselling author and Harvard academic Cass R Sunstein.
Oct 16, 2025 • 1h 27min
The CEO: the rise and fall of Britain's captains of industry
The CEOs of Britain's largest companies wield immense power, but we know very little about them. How did they get to the top? Why do they have so much power? Are they really worth that exorbitant salary?
Oct 15, 2025 • 1h 26min
US-Iran relations under Trump 2.0: prospects and challenges
This event will examine how a second Trump administration might reshape U.S.-Iran relations and regional security—whether through renewed maximum pressure, diplomatic engagement, or military action to contain Iran’s nuclear and military ambitions.
Oct 14, 2025 • 1h 23min
Permission to be queer: the case for liberty
Join us in welcoming back to LSE, economist Deirdre Nansen McCloskey who will deliver this special lecture.
