LSE: Public lectures and events
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Solutions for a Planet in Crisis
January 20, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBContributor(s): Inger Andersen | The planet is in the throes of the three connected crises of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. We urgently need to start delivering solutions or face major disruption. Inger Andersen, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, discusses how we can make science more democratic and inclusive to inform better policies. How the economic and businesses community can recognise t...
A Decade of Behavioural Science at LSE: A Fireside chat with Professor Paul Dolan
January 20, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBContributor(s): Professor Paul Dolan | Join us for this fireside chat where Paul Dolan will be reflecting on ten years of behavioural science at LSE, discussing biases, narratives, happiness, resilience and more. We will be summarising the learnings from behavioural science in the last 10 years, drawing from research from LSE and beyond. We will also be looking to the future, mapping out the most important and exciting areas of study. Those that join us can expect to laugh, learn and lean int...
Warfare and Peacemaking in the 21st Century: who's taking responsibility to protect and promote peace
January 19, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 35 MBContributor(s): HRH The Countess of Wessex, Visaka Dharmadasa, Abir Haj Ibrahim | In 2021, the UN Security Council’s Women, Peace and Security Agenda turns 21. The 20th anniversary year brought renewed commitments by member states, but the engine, ingenuity and commitment to this agenda has always come from the frontline peacebuilders, practitioners, and advocates. In this, the first 'In Conversation with' event, the director of the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, Sanam Naraghi And...
Hayekian Behavioural Economics
January 18, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MBContributor(s): Professor Cass R. Sunstein | Friedrich Hayek argued for freedom of choice based on outsiders knowing much less than choosers so that interferences with personal freedom will make choosers worse off. This lecture will explore the challenge to that argument that comes from behavioural economics and discusses an ongoing program of research which has created a form of Hayekian behavioural economics. Meet our speaker and chair Cass R. Sunstein (@CassSunstein) is currently the Robe...
Key Workers and Inequality
January 18, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 37 MBContributor(s): Kate Bell, Deborah Hargreaves | The vital labour of 'key workers' has been widely lauded during the pandemic. But can the trend of recent decades toward inequalities in earning and status be reversed? Meet our speakers and chair Kate Bell (@kategobell) is the Head of the Rights, International, Social and Economics department at the TUC. Deborah Hargreaves (@deborahharg) is the Chair of the London Child Poverty Alliance and a founder and director of the High Pay Centre, an inde...
What’s the point of social science in a pandemic?
January 05, 2021 00:00 - 44 minutes - 61.8 MBContributor(s): Professor Laura Bear, Nikita Simpson, Professor Joan Roses, Dr Adam Oliver, Dr Clare Wenham, Professor Patrick Wallis | In this month’s episode of the LSE IQ podcast we ask, ‘What’s the point of social science in a pandemic?’. On the 23rd March 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the country’s first national lockdown. In the months since, there has been a seismic shift in all our lives. As we embark on 2021 and, hopefully, the latter stages of the pandemic, now is an a...
The 'True' Brexit: where are we now?
December 10, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 38.3 MBContributor(s): Professor Tony Travers, Jill Rutter, Vicky Pryce, Professor Katy Hayward | In the aftermath of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the negotiations for the UK’s future relationship with the EU look even more challenging. Now that the UK is finishing its transition to Brexit, do we now know what it means? We explore the realities of Brexit for government, the economy, and our politics and look ahead to the policy choices we face. What are the unresolved questions for the UK? Our spe...
Why Aren't Policy-Makers and the Public Demanding That More Emphasis is Placed in Happiness?
December 09, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 32.9 MBContributor(s): Lord O'Donnell | Join Gus O'Donnell and Paul Dolan in conversation, as they discuss the role of happiness in public policy. Gus O'Donnell (@Gus_ODonnell) was Cabinet Secretary and Head of the British Civil Service from 2005-2011 and is currently Chairman of Frontier Economics. Paul Dolan (@profpauldolan) is Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of the Sunday Times best-selling book Happiness by Design, and Happy ...
Report of the UK Wealth Tax Commission
December 09, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.4 MBContributor(s): Dr Andy Summers, Emma Chamberlain, Dr Arun Advani | The unprecedented public spending required to tackle COVID-19 has been followed by debates about how to rebuild public finances and tackle inequalities exposed by the crisis. This event launches the final report of a major new project investigating the desirability and feasibility of a ‘wealth tax’ for the UK. Building on contributions by a network of world-leading experts on tax policy, the report will make recommendations ...
Why Does Globalisation Fuel Populism, and What Can We Do About It?
December 08, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.6 MBContributor(s): Professor Sara Hobolt | Dani Rodrik will explore the globalisation backlash and the ways (hyper-) globalisation has produced a political counter-reaction. He will present an alternative model of globalisation that is more compatible with economic prosperity and social inclusion. Dani Rodrik (@rodrikdani) is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is currently President-Elect of the International Eco...
Imperialism and the Developing World
December 08, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.7 MBContributor(s): Professor Atul Kohli, Dr Natalya Naqvi | How did Western imperialism shape the developing world? And what effect has Anglo-American expansionism had on economic development in poor parts of the world? This discussion will cover how Atul Kohli tackles this question in his new book, Imperialism and the Developing World, by analyzing British and American influence on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America from the age of the British East India Company to the most recent...
Have We Reached The End Of The 1951 Refugee Convention?
December 07, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBContributor(s): Professor Seyla Benhabib | The Annual Human Rights Day Lecture hosted by LSE Human Rights will be delivered this year by Professor Seyla Benhabib of Yale University. The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol are the main legal documents governing the movement of refugees and asylum seekers across international borders. As the number of displaced persons seeking refuge has reached unprecedented numbers, states have resorted to measure to circumvent their obligations und...
Trust, Resilience and the Effectiveness of Government: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis
December 03, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 45 MBContributor(s): Professor Sir Tim Besley, Professor Maria Petmesidou, Professor Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos | Crises and wars have historically been drivers of political and economic change. Such moments create opportunities to reflect on the nature of the economic and political institutions in place and their capacities. This event will look at some emerging lessons of the COVID-19 crisis and directions of change and renewal. While the pandemic has unique features, many things that we have wit...
Educating Equally: what is needed?
December 03, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 25.9 MBContributor(s): Jolanta Lasota, Professor Nicola Martin, Dr Amelia Roberts | On the International Day for People with Disabilities, this event looks at what is needed for children and adults with disabilities to have access to equal education, especially with the challenges of providing learning during and in the aftermath of COVID-19. This event marks 50 years since the Chronically Sick and Disabled Peoples’ Act was passed, which was passed as a private member’s bill brought to parliament by...
10½ Lessons from Experience
December 02, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.8 MBContributor(s): Sir Paul Marshall | Join us for this conversation between Minouche Shafik and Paul Marshall on his latest book, 10½ Lessons from Experience: Perspectives on Fund Management. In his book Paul Marshall, founder of LSE’s Marshall Institute distils the experience of 35 years of investing, including over 20 years at Marshall Wace, the global equity hedge fund partnership. The book describes the disconnect between academic theory and market practice, in particular the reality and pe...
Lives, Livelihoods and Lockdowns: debating COVID-19 policy trade-offs
December 02, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 36.8 MBContributor(s): Professor David Hunter, Professor Carl Heneghan, Professor Sunetra Gupta, Professor Paul Dolan, Professor Dame Sally Davies | The policy responses to COVID-19 have involved severe restrictions on the contact we have with other people. By and large, the restrictions have been imposed on everyone irrespective of their risks from the virus. Some people consider this to be the most effective way to deal with impact of the virus, whilst others have argued that our policy responses ...
How can we end child poverty in the UK?
December 01, 2020 00:00 - 17 minutes - 23.4 MBContributor(s): Dr Kitty Stewart | A campaign by the Manchester United footballer, Marcus Rashford, has prompted the UK government to provide extra support for children from low-income families during the pandemic. Even before coronavirus, child poverty had been rising for several years. This latest bite-sized episode of LSE iQ explores the question, ‘How can we end child poverty in the UK?’ Joanna Bale talks to Kitty Stewart of LSE’s Social Policy Department and Centre for Analysis of Social...
Science Fiction And Philosophy
December 01, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.8 MBContributor(s): Dr Lisa Walters, Professor Lewis Powell, Dr James Burton | Zombies, time travel, brain transplants… science fiction and philosophy have a lot in common. Indeed, they have a shared history, with some of the most important figures of the Enlightenment writing science fiction alongside their better-known philosophical work. And Naomi Alderman, Liu Cixin, and China Miéville are among the many that ensure this close relationship persists right up to today. From Francis Bacon’s utop...
Working From Home: legal issues arising from the 'new normal'
November 30, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBContributor(s): Alice Carse, Professor Nicola Lacey, Dr Astrid Sanders, Dr Sarah Trotter | A panel discussion of legal issues that arise from many people increasingly working from home, a pattern that seems likely to persist even after the Covid 19 pandemic has finished. Issues that will be considered include health and safety, working time, discrimination law, and the effectiveness of employment regulation. Alice Carse practices in employment and industrial relations law at Devereux Chambers...
Theory and Practice: designing anti-poverty programs when power matters
November 30, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBContributor(s): Professor Rohini Pande | Join us for the annual Coase-Phillips Lecture which this year will be delivered by Rohini Pande. Even before COVID-19 changed the trajectory of global poverty reduction, the returns to economic growth were increasingly unequally divided in developing economies. Based on lessons from India’s myriad social protection programs – including rural employment guarantee, post COVID-19 cash transfers to women and food transfer programs - this lecture will disc...
Making Wellbeing the Goal
November 26, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBContributor(s): Baroness Tyler, Lord O'Donnell, Professor Lord Layard, Alan Jope | This 30th Anniversary CEP event will ask can wellbeing become the focus for social science? How would this change economics and policy analysis? How would it change policy priorities for a post-Covid-19 world? Alan Jope (@alanjope) was appointed CEO of Unilever in 2019, and has worked for the company in North America for 14 years and in Asia for 13 years. Richard Layard (@RichardLayard) is Emeritus Professor o...
Remembering the 1970 Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act
November 26, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 34.2 MBContributor(s): Dr Miro Griffiths, Dr Gareth Millward, Gill Morris | An event to mark the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act with a personal view of Alf Morris, the MP who put the private members’ bill before Parliament. This event considers Alf Morris’ involvement in this Act and his work on behalf of people with disabilities, with perspectives on the legacy of the Act, and how debates and public awareness around disability have changed in the ye...
The Value of Inclusion for a Post-COVID-19 World
November 25, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.3 MBContributor(s): Ann Cairns, Ruth Cairnie, Wanda Hope, Lance Uggla, Nate Yohannes | The impacts of COVID-19 within firms include cost-cutting, a move towards virtual working for many workers and the pivoting of business objectives. These impacts of COVID-19 have the potential to erode the gains to inclusive culture that have been made within many firms over the last decade as focus is placed elsewhere. This is at a time when the benefits to having an inclusive culture have never been more need...
Two Faces of Populism
November 24, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.5 MBContributor(s): Professor Stephanie J. Rickard, Professor Barry Eichengreen | Explanations for variants of populism are typically framed as a contest between culture and economics. Building on his recent book, The Populist Temptation, Professor Barry Eichengreen (University of California-Berkeley) will consider the arguments for both. Utilising data from British Election Surveys, he will show that populism, and Brexit in particular, is as much about economics as it is about culture and identi...
Covid-19 and global gender strategy: if not now, when?
November 23, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBContributor(s): Ginette Azcona, Dr Roopa Dhatt, Dr Roopa Dhatt, Megan O’Donnell | This event brings together global experts on gender issues to discuss the urgent need to support women. How can women’s vulnerability be considered in pandemic preparedness and response? And what is the role of the policymaker in reestablishing the path to a more equal society for men and women? While there have been significant advances in gender equality in the past 30 years, the COVID-19 threatens to undo thi...
The Pandemic as a Portal: 2020 Mobilization, Activism and Opportunities for Structural Change Following Crisis and Upheaval
November 19, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBContributor(s): Grace Blakeley, Dr Aviah Sarah Day, Chrisann Jarrett, Shanice McBean, Sakina Sheikh | A burgeoning body of scholarship shows that activists can harness opportunities created by war, upheaval, and economic collapse to leverage transformative social change. Precisely because they are so destructive, moments of crisis can upend existing social and political hierarchies and create new spaces for mobilization and structural change. How can activists leverage this moment to advance ...
The Pandemic as a Portal:2020 Mobilization, Activism and Opportunities for Structural Change Following Crisis and Upheaval
November 19, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBContributor(s): Grace Blakeley, Dr Aviah Sarah Day, Chrisann Jarrett, Shanice McBean, Sakina Sheikh | A burgeoning body of scholarship shows that activists can harness opportunities created by war, upheaval, and economic collapse to leverage transformative social change. Precisely because they are so destructive, moments of crisis can upend existing social and political hierarchies and create new spaces for mobilization and structural change. How can activists leverage this moment to advance ...
Origins of Human Cooperation
November 19, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 29.3 MBContributor(s): Professor Michael Tomasello | Humans are biologically adapted for cultural life in ways that other primates are not. Humans have unique motivations and cognitive skills for sharing emotions, experience and actions, whereas our nearest primate relatives do not. Michael Tomasello, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, is one of the world’s leading researchers on social learning, communication and language in human children and great apes. Sandra Jovchelov...
Europe's (Euro) Crisis of Legitimacy
November 18, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 37.3 MBContributor(s): Professor Vivien Schmidt | In this lecture, Vivien Schmidt will define democracy and legitimacy, discuss it's split-level nature in the EU and detail the processes of Eurozone governance that led to deteriorating economic performance and the rise of populism. Europe’s crisis of legitimacy stems from the European Union’s ‘governing by rules and ruling by numbers’ during the Eurozone crisis. Rules-based governance focused on austerity and structural reform played havoc with the ...
Couples That Work
November 17, 2020 00:00 - 58 minutes - 27 MBContributor(s): Jennifer Petriglieri | There are challenges and joys of a dual-career life and Jennifer Petriglieri explores through rigourous research how couples can make their lives work for them. Jennifer Petriglieri is an associate professor at INSEAD, and the author of Couples That Work, a book on how dual-career couples can thrive in love and in work. Jennifer has spent over a decade researching how people’s close relationships shape who they become professionally and personally, and f...
Mary Midgley and Why She Matters
November 17, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.9 MBContributor(s): Dr Panayiota Vassilopoulou, Ellie Robson, Dr Gregory McElwain | We celebrate the thought of Mary Midgley, whose writing ranges across animal ethics, religion, science, and the natural world, connecting philosophical thought to lived experience. A fierce opponent of the over-reach of science and a lifelong advocate of the humanities, Mary Midgley’s writing ranges across animal ethics, religion, science, and the natural world. In all of these areas, she appealed to a philosophy ...
Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, A Conversation with Stephen A. Schwarzman
November 16, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.3 MBContributor(s): Stephen A Schwarzman, Professor Andrés Velasco | Minouche Shafik talks with financier and philanthropist, Stephen A. Schwarzman, author of the new book What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, which draws on his experiences in business, philanthropy, and public service. Stephen A. Schwarzman is Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone, a leading global investment firm with over $564 billion in AUM and businesses in private equity, real estate, hedge funds, credit...
Africa Talks: The future of African feminist activism
November 12, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBContributor(s): Professor Amina Mama, Dr Siphokazi Magadla | The coronavirus pandemic has magnified existing inequalities, particularly along lines of gender. In Africa, like in other regions around the world, containment measures including lockdowns, confinement and drastic reductions in sociability have significantly impacted women. Access to paid work and sustainable livelihoods has been significantly disrupted, rates of domestic violence have increased, and access to reproductive healthc...
After Brexit: the UK in the North Atlantic trade triangle
November 12, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBContributor(s): Anthony Gardner, Beatrice Kilroy-Nolan, Luisa Santos | As the UK steers its post-Brexit future, it is placed between US and EU trade policies. What might these mean for the UK’s economic future? With multilateralism under threat, what are the implications for a ‘Global Britain’ strategy? Can the UK balance its US and EU interests or will it be squeezed out? What can we expect from Washington and Brussels? Anthony Gardner (@tonylgardner) is former US Ambassador to the European ...
The US Presidential Election and the Left
November 11, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBContributor(s): Jennifer Epps-Addison, Professor Jeff Manza | What do the results tell us about the changing bases of voting behaviour and what do they mean for the left in the US and beyond? Jennifer Epps-Addison (@jeppsaddison) serves as the President and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy and CPD Action's network of partner organisations throughout the country. As President, Jennifer leads CPD’s racial justice campaigns, and works closely with its network of local af...
Empires Past & Present: the idea of empire
November 11, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 46.3 MBContributor(s): Professor Odd Arne Westad | For most of the past five millennia, the world has been dominated by empires. These mega-states have set the agenda for much of human development, but their rule has never been uncontested. Anti-imperialism is as old as empires. Economic change and devastating wars have weakened some states and promoted others. This first lecture in the series discusses the concept of empire and resistance to empire in a long historical perspective. Odd Arne Westad ...
Finding peace in Somalia – the Galkaio ‘local’ agreement
November 10, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.7 MBContributor(s): Ilham Gassar, Khalif Abdirahman, Dr Nisar Majid, Mark Bradbury | Galkaio town represents a boundary on the ground and in the imagination within Somali society. The 1993 Peace Accord held a fragile peace for many years as political and developmental trajectories differed markedly on either side of this border town. This talk explores the 2016/17 peace agreement, in its local and national dimensions, and which occurred as part of the state-building project that is still ongoing ...
Is Greece Falling Behind in the E-Economy? What is to be Done?
November 10, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBContributor(s): Effie Bitrou, Dr Charalambos Tsekeris, Professor Calliope Spanou | The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted further – and indeed raised critically – the importance of digital connectivity and digital literacy for economic and societal resilience. From enabling teleworking during times of lock-downs to facilitating social contact with vulnerable or self-isolating individuals, digital connectivity and internet use have become essential prerequisites of everyday life. Even prior to...
International Climate Politics after the US Presidential Election
November 09, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBContributor(s): Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor Naomi Oreskes, Professor Lord Stern, Laurence Tubiana | Taking place one week after the election, this panel assesses the outcome of the US election and the prospects for the future of American and international climate policy. The outcome of the 2020 US Presidential Election could have a lasting impact on the future of international climate politics. With the US set to exit from the Paris Agreement in November, a win by Donald Trump w...
What Just Happened? Analysing the 2020 US Presidential Election
November 05, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBContributor(s): Professor Meena Bose, Dr David Smith, Professor Jeffrey Tulis, Professor Linda Yueh | Will President Trump be able to win a second term in the White House? Or will former Vice President, Democrat Joe Biden be able to beat the incumbent? Join us for a lively evening of discussion with academic experts on US politics who will review the results of the 2020 US presidential election, as well as give insights into what we can expect over the next four years. Meena Bose is Professor...
Behavioural Science and a Post-COVID World
November 04, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 37.8 MBContributor(s): Professor Nick Chater, Professor Paul Dolan, Dr Grace Lordan, Professor Tali Sharot, Rory Sutherland | The impacts of COVID-19 on society post-COVID and how we deal with them hinge on how politicians, firms and the public respond. What valuable lessons can we learn from behavioural science in a post-COVID-19 world? These unique insights are crucial to mitigating the societal impacts of COVID-19. Nick Chater (@NickJChater) is Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business S...
How Not To Be Wrong: the art of changing your mind
November 04, 2020 00:00 - 58 minutes - 27 MBContributor(s): James O’Brien | Join us for this event with LSE alumnus and writer and broadcaster James O’Brien who will talking about his new book, How Not To Be Wrong. In How Not To Be Wrong, James puts himself under the microscope, laying open his personal beliefs and opinions on everything from racial prejudice to showing emotions, from fat-shaming to tattoos, as he digs up the real reasons – often irrational or unconscious – behind them. James airs the toxic masculinity and traditional ...
Empathy
November 03, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.7 MBContributor(s): Professor Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, Dr Nadine El-Enany, Dr Danielle Sands | What role does empathy play in our social, moral, and political life? What are its limits? Can we be ethical without it? In an age of stark political division and inequality, kindness seems a rare commodity and the failings in our social, moral, and political life are often thought to stem from a lack of empathy. For others, empathy leads to biased decision-making and distracts us from addressing societ...
Bullshit jobs, technology, capitalism
November 03, 2020 00:00 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBContributor(s): Professor David Graeber | This episode is dedicated to David Graeber, LSE professor of Anthropology, who died unexpectedly in September this year. David was a public intellectual, a best-selling author, an influential activist and anarchist. He took aim at the pointless bureaucracy of modern life, memorably coining the term ‘bullshit jobs’. And his book ‘Debt: The First 5000 years’ was turned into a radio series by the BBC. But David started his academic career studying Madaga...
The Ten Equations That Rule The World And How You Can Use Them Too
November 02, 2020 00:00 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MBContributor(s): Professor David Sumpter | Is there a secret formula for improving your life? For making something a viral hit? For deciding how long to stick with your current Netflix series, job, or even relationship? In his eye-opening new book The Ten Equations That Rule The World And How You Can Use Them Too which he will talk about at this event, mathematician David Sumpter meets with tech entrepreneurs, professional gamblers and political researchers to reveal the ten equations that mak...
Occupying the Pedestal: Cultural Heritage, Protest, and the Law
October 29, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.9 MBContributor(s): Councillor Asher Craig, Dr Tatiana Flessas, Jonathan Jones, Dr Sarah Keenan, Dr Luke McDonagh | This event explores the controversies around removing statues, constructing and reconstructing ‘heritage’, and protesting received ways of deciding what is commemorated, and what is not. The speakers will examine the conflicts around the intellectual and cultural rethinking of public spaces and statues in light of the Black Lives Matter movement, the re-sacralization of Hagia Sofia/...
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
October 28, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 30 MBContributor(s): Fareed Zakaria | Join us for this online public event with Fareed Zakaria who will be talking about new book, Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World. Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11 September 2001, the financial collapse of 2008 and - most of all - Covid-19. Each was an asymmetric threat, set in motion by something seemingly small, and different from anything the world had experienced before. Lenin is supposed to have said, ...
The Rise and Rise of Big Tech
October 28, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBContributor(s): Pilita Clark, Professor Helen Margetts, Chi Onwurah MP | What will the long-term consequences of the pandemic be for the rise of new communication technologies and the changing nature of work? Pilita Clark (@pilitaclark) is an Associate Editor and business columnist at the Financial Times. Helen Margetts (@HelenMargetts) is Professor of Society and the Internet at the University of Oxford and the Programme Director for Public Policy at The Alan Turing Institute for Data Scienc...
COVID-19 and Economic Recovery in Greece: challenges and prospects
October 27, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.6 MBContributor(s): Dimitri Vayanos, Professor Helen Louri-Dendrinou, George Handjinicolaou, Christos Staikouras | Greece has come through an exceptional debt crisis and now it faces the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Can it maintain its return to growth? What are its best opportunities – as well as its biggest risks? What support does Greece seek from the European Union, with the proposed Recovery Plan? How does the Government intend to respond to the proposals made by the Pissari...
In Conversation With Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
October 27, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 26 MBContributor(s): Baroness Shafik | To celebrate Black History Month, join us for this conversation between LSE alumna Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu and LSE Director Minouche Shafik. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (@SholaMos1) is a lawyer and political and women's rights activist. She speaks on law, politics, diversity equality and inclusion and women’s rights. Passionate about women in leadership, Shola is the founder & editor of the Women in Leadership publication. Additionally, Shola is an Equality Commissi...