LSE: Public lectures and events
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Margaret Thatcher - Herself Alone
October 14, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 42 MBContributor(s): Charles Moore | Charles Moore will speak about the third and final in his series of biographies of Margaret Thatcher, focusing on her last period in office. How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we live now? How did the woman who won the Cold War and three general elections in succession find herself pushed out by her own MPs? Charles Moore’s full account, based on unique access to Margaret That...
Margaret Thatcher - Herself Alone [Audio]
October 14, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 42 MBSpeaker(s): Charles Moore | Charles Moore will speak about the third and final in his series of biographies of Margaret Thatcher, focusing on her last period in office. How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we live now? How did the woman who won the Cold War and three general elections in succession find herself pushed out by her own MPs? Charles Moore’s full account, based on unique access to Margaret Thatcher...
Managing Risk in a More Uncertain World [Audio]
October 14, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 30.3 MBSpeaker(s): Allison Schrager | An uncertain world requires us to manage risks we could never have imagined. But tools exist that can help. What we can learn from sex workers, studs, and surfers. Allison Schrager (@AllisonSchrager) is an economist, author and journalist who specializes in retirement and more exotic risks. Her new book is An Economist Walks Into A Brothel. Dimitri Vayanos is Professor of Finance at the London School of Economics, where he also directs the Financial Markets Grou...
Labour and Brexit [Audio]
October 10, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 35 MBSpeaker(s): Clive Lewis, Deborah Mattinson | With the Brexit deadline fast approaching, a leading politician and a prominent pollster discuss what Labour can and should do now. Clive Lewis (@labourlewis) is Labour MP for Norwich South and Shadow Minister for the Treasury. Deborah Mattinson (@debmattinson) is a founding partner of Britain Thinks. Robin Archer is the Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme. The Ralph Miliband Programme (@rmilibandlse) is one of LSE's most prestigious lecture ...
Parents, Poverty and the State [Audio]
October 10, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 38.3 MBSpeaker(s): Naomi Eisenstadt, Carey Oppenheim, Ryan Shorthouse, Matthew Taylor | What do children need from parents, how is poverty a barrier to meeting needs, and what has Government done – and should do – about it? Naomi Eisenstadt and Carey Oppenheim explore the radical changes in public attitudes and public policy concerning parents and parenting. Drawing on research and their extensive experience of working at senior levels of government, the authors of this new book, Parents, Poverty an...
Labour and Brexit
October 10, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 35 MBContributor(s): Clive Lewis, Deborah Mattinson | With the Brexit deadline fast approaching, a leading politician and a prominent pollster discuss what Labour can and should do now. Clive Lewis (@labourlewis) is Labour MP for Norwich South and Shadow Minister for the Treasury. Deborah Mattinson (@debmattinson) is a founding partner of Britain Thinks. Robin Archer is the Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme. The Ralph Miliband Programme (@rmilibandlse) is one of LSE's most prestigious lect...
Parents, Poverty and the State
October 10, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 38.3 MBContributor(s): Naomi Eisenstadt, Carey Oppenheim, Ryan Shorthouse, Matthew Taylor | What do children need from parents, how is poverty a barrier to meeting needs, and what has Government done – and should do – about it? Naomi Eisenstadt and Carey Oppenheim explore the radical changes in public attitudes and public policy concerning parents and parenting. Drawing on research and their extensive experience of working at senior levels of government, the authors of this new book, Parents, Povert...
Protest and Power: can climate activism save the planet?
October 09, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBContributor(s): Ed Miliband, James Murray, Farhana Yamin | Can climate activism – from Extinction Rebellion to the school climate strikes – bring about the radical change in government and business that is needed to stop runaway global warming? The Grantham Research Institute hosts a debate about what works in climate politics, and what role street protests can play. Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) is a former leader of the Labour Party and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. He is M...
Protest and Power: can climate activism save the planet? [Audio]
October 09, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBSpeaker(s): Ed Miliband, James Murray, Farhana Yamin | Can climate activism – from Extinction Rebellion to the school climate strikes – bring about the radical change in government and business that is needed to stop runaway global warming? The Grantham Research Institute hosts a debate about what works in climate politics, and what role street protests can play. Ed Miliband (@Ed_Miliband) is a former leader of the Labour Party and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. He is MP fo...
Ending Wars and Making Peace: the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 re-examined [Audio]
October 08, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 38.4 MBSpeaker(s): Professor Margaret MacMillan | The Great War of 1914-18 left a shattered Europe and a changed world. Despite a widespread longing for peace and for a new international order, the world was to have a second catastrophic war 20 years later. The peacemakers of 1919 are often blamed for creating the conditions which sent some European nations down the road towards dictatorship and led Europe and the world towards the Second World War. This public lecture will ask why moving from war t...
Ending Wars and Making Peace: the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 re-examined
October 08, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 38.4 MBContributor(s): Professor Margaret MacMillan | The Great War of 1914-18 left a shattered Europe and a changed world. Despite a widespread longing for peace and for a new international order, the world was to have a second catastrophic war 20 years later. The peacemakers of 1919 are often blamed for creating the conditions which sent some European nations down the road towards dictatorship and led Europe and the world towards the Second World War. This public lecture will ask why moving from w...
Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: national action plans and beyond [Audio]
October 03, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBSpeaker(s): Professor Laura J Shepherd | As we approach the 20th anniversary of the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on ‘women and peace and security’, it is timely to consider the remarkable successes of the policy architecture formalised by the resolution. There are now nine related resolutions drawing attention to various dimensions of gendered power in peace and security processes and institutions; these resolutions form a robust framework for many efforts and initiatives a...
No Longer Special? The Death of Anglo-America? [Audio]
October 03, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBSpeaker(s): Professor G John Ikenberry, Dr Kori Schake, Professor Linda Yueh | Top thinkers from the world of international relations - John Ikenberry, Linda Yueh, Kori Schake and Michael Cox in the Chair - will here debate the idea of 'Anglo-America', what the relationship between the USA and UK has meant for the world in the twentieth century, and how a retreat by both from the world - and perhaps from each other - will impact on the international system. "There is general agreement amongs...
No Longer Special? The Death of Anglo-America?
October 03, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBContributor(s): Professor G John Ikenberry, Dr Kori Schake, Professor Linda Yueh | Top thinkers from the world of international relations - John Ikenberry, Linda Yueh, Kori Schake and Michael Cox in the Chair - will here debate the idea of 'Anglo-America', what the relationship between the USA and UK has meant for the world in the twentieth century, and how a retreat by both from the world - and perhaps from each other - will impact on the international system. "There is general agreement am...
Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: national action plans and beyond
October 03, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBContributor(s): Professor Laura J Shepherd | As we approach the 20th anniversary of the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on ‘women and peace and security’, it is timely to consider the remarkable successes of the policy architecture formalised by the resolution. There are now nine related resolutions drawing attention to various dimensions of gendered power in peace and security processes and institutions; these resolutions form a robust framework for many efforts and initiativ...
Plunder of the Commons: a manifesto for sharing public wealth [Audio]
October 02, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBSpeaker(s): Professor Guy Standing, Caroline Lucas, David Lammy | In this event about his new book Guy Standing leads us through a new appraisal of the commons, stemming from the medieval concept of common land reserved in ancient law from marauding barons, to his modern reappraisal of the resources we all hold in common. Accelerated by Margaret Thatcher and then even more so in the austerity era, our Commons have been depleted illegitimately. The commons belong to all commoners, and include ...
Plunder of the Commons: a manifesto for sharing public wealth
October 02, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBContributor(s): Professor Guy Standing, Caroline Lucas, David Lammy | In this event about his new book Guy Standing leads us through a new appraisal of the commons, stemming from the medieval concept of common land reserved in ancient law from marauding barons, to his modern reappraisal of the resources we all hold in common. Accelerated by Margaret Thatcher and then even more so in the austerity era, our Commons have been depleted illegitimately. The commons belong to all commoners, and incl...
Multiculturalism and Animal Ethics
October 01, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBContributor(s): Dr David Grummet, Dr Angie Pepper, Dr Varun Uberoi | Animal advocacy has made significant progress in recent decades, with the welfare of animals now enshrined in national and international law. But what should we do when cultural or religious traditions appear to conflict with these notions of animal welfare? How does Western influence in non-Western societies affect the scale and type of animal exploitation? And in a world where racism is rife, can we practice animal advocac...
Messengers: who we listen to, who we don't, and why [Audio]
October 01, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 34.6 MBSpeaker(s): Joseph Marks, Steve Martin | Why are self-confident ignoramuses so often believed? Why are thoughtful experts so often given the cold shoulder? And why do apparently irrelevant details such as a person’s height, their relative wealth, or their Facebook photo influence whether or not we trust what they are saying? These are just some of the questions that behavioural experts Steve Martin and Joseph Marks tackle in their new book Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don’t, and Why w...
Messengers: who we listen to, who we don't, and why
October 01, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 34.6 MBContributor(s): Joseph Marks, Steve Martin | Why are self-confident ignoramuses so often believed? Why are thoughtful experts so often given the cold shoulder? And why do apparently irrelevant details such as a person’s height, their relative wealth, or their Facebook photo influence whether or not we trust what they are saying? These are just some of the questions that behavioural experts Steve Martin and Joseph Marks tackle in their new book Messengers: Who We Listen To, Who We Don’t, and W...
Multiculturalism and Animal Ethics [Audio]
October 01, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBSpeaker(s): Dr David Grummet, Dr Angie Pepper, Dr Varun Uberoi | Animal advocacy has made significant progress in recent decades, with the welfare of animals now enshrined in national and international law. But what should we do when cultural or religious traditions appear to conflict with these notions of animal welfare? How does Western influence in non-Western societies affect the scale and type of animal exploitation? And in a world where racism is rife, can we practice animal advocacy wh...
The IMF and the Greek Crisis: myths and realities [Audio]
September 30, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 38.8 MBSpeaker(s): Poul Thomsen | Ten years after the start of the Greek crisis, the discussion will centre on the role played by the IMF, its coordination with the European Union, and the lessons to be learned in the case of future crises. Poul Thomsen has been Director of the European Department at the International Monetary Fund since November 2014 supervising the Fund’s bilateral surveillance work for the 44 countries in the Department, its policy dialogue with EU institutions, including the ECB...
The IMF and the Greek Crisis: myths and realities
September 30, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 38.8 MBContributor(s): Poul Thomsen | Ten years after the start of the Greek crisis, the discussion will centre on the role played by the IMF, its coordination with the European Union, and the lessons to be learned in the case of future crises. Poul Thomsen has been Director of the European Department at the International Monetary Fund since November 2014 supervising the Fund’s bilateral surveillance work for the 44 countries in the Department, its policy dialogue with EU institutions, including the...
Academic Impact on World Order – The Power of Ideas
September 26, 2019 17:30 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBContributor(s): Laura Diaz Anadon, Patrick Milton, Minouche Shafik, Aino Rosa Kristina Spohr, Nicholas Stern, Geraint Thomas | This event marks the 80th Anniversary of the war-time evacuation of LSE to Peterhouse. Laura Diaz Anadon is Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge. Former BBC Correspondent, Bridget Kendall was appointed the first female Master of Peterhouse, the University of Cambridge's oldest College, in 2016. Patrick Milton, Research Fellow at Peterho...
Academic Impact on World Order – The Power of Ideas [Audio]
September 26, 2019 17:30 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBSpeaker(s): Laura Diaz Anadon, Patrick Milton, Minouche Shafik, Aino Rosa Kristina Spohr, Nicholas Stern, Geraint Thomas | This event marks the 80th Anniversary of the war-time evacuation of LSE to Peterhouse. Laura Diaz Anadon is Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge. Former BBC Correspondent, Bridget Kendall was appointed the first female Master of Peterhouse, the University of Cambridge's oldest College, in 2016. Patrick Milton, Research Fellow at Peterhouse,...
Understand Today, Shape Tomorrow [Audio]
September 19, 2019 18:30 - 37 minutes - 48.1 MBSpeaker(s): Ruth Porat | LSE is delighted to welcome back to campus alumna Ruth Porat (MSc Industrial Relations 1981), Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alphabet and Google to take part in the launch of LSE 2030, our strategy to shape the world. LSE Director, Minouche Shafik (MSc Economics 1986) and Ruth will take part in a fireside chat about the role of LSE and how it can shape the world in turbulent times of economic uncertainty and social transformations. Their discussi...
Populism: causes and responses
September 19, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBContributor(s): Professor Michael Ignatieff, Professor Pippa Norris | A populist wave has swept across the democratic world. What are the economic and social causes of this wave, and how should democratic leaders respond? Michael Ignatieff (@M_Ignatieff) is President and Rector of Central European University. Born in Canada, educated at the University of Toronto and Harvard, Michael Ignatieff is a university professor, writer and former politician. Between 2006 and 2011, he served as an MP in...
Populism: causes and responses [Audio]
September 19, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBSpeaker(s): Professor Michael Ignatieff, Professor Pippa Norris | A populist wave has swept across the democratic world. What are the economic and social causes of this wave, and how should democratic leaders respond? Michael Ignatieff (@M_Ignatieff) is President and Rector of Central European University. Born in Canada, educated at the University of Toronto and Harvard, Michael Ignatieff is a university professor, writer and former politician. Between 2006 and 2011, he served as an MP in the...
Understand Today, Shape Tomorrow
September 19, 2019 18:30 - 37 minutes - 48.1 MBContributor(s): Ruth Porat | LSE is delighted to welcome back to campus alumna Ruth Porat (MSc Industrial Relations 1981), Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alphabet and Google to take part in the launch of LSE 2030, our strategy to shape the world. LSE Director, Minouche Shafik (MSc Economics 1986) and Ruth will take part in a fireside chat about the role of LSE and how it can shape the world in turbulent times of economic uncertainty and social transformations. Their disc...
Challenges Facing the Euro
September 17, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 36 MBContributor(s): François Villeroy de Galhau | The Governor of the Bank of France will take to the LSE stage to recall the tangible assets that the Euro has already provided to the Euro area and will focus on the efforts needed towards building a stronger Europe, against the backdrop of Brexit, while stressing three priorities: increasing resilience, increasing growth and affirming sovereignty. François Villeroy de Galhau is the Governor of the Bank of France, a position he has held since Nove...
Challenges Facing the Euro [Audio]
September 17, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 36 MBSpeaker(s): François Villeroy de Galhau | The Governor of the Bank of France will take to the LSE stage to recall the tangible assets that the Euro has already provided to the Euro area and will focus on the efforts needed towards building a stronger Europe, against the backdrop of Brexit, while stressing three priorities: increasing resilience, increasing growth and affirming sovereignty. François Villeroy de Galhau is the Governor of the Bank of France, a position he has held since November...
What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism [Audio]
September 16, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBSpeaker(s): Hassan Damluji | Today, globalism is seen as a reckless elitist plot. Meanwhile, nationalists are derided as racists and bigots. But what if the two were not so far apart? In this talk, British-Iraqi development expert Hassan Damluji discusses The Responsible Globalist, a manifesto for building an inclusive global nation. Hassan Damluji (@hassandamluji) leads the Middle East team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is a co-founder of the $2 Billion Lives and Livelihoods Fun...
What Citizens of the World Can Learn from Nationalism
September 16, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBContributor(s): Hassan Damluji | Today, globalism is seen as a reckless elitist plot. Meanwhile, nationalists are derided as racists and bigots. But what if the two were not so far apart? In this talk, British-Iraqi development expert Hassan Damluji discusses The Responsible Globalist, a manifesto for building an inclusive global nation. Hassan Damluji (@hassandamluji) leads the Middle East team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is a co-founder of the $2 Billion Lives and Livelihoods...
Social Integration and Inequality in London [Audio]
September 10, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBSpeaker(s): Sadiq Khan, Afua Hirsch | London is one of the most diverse and progressive cities in the world, but rapid change means social cohesion is being put to the test like never before. In discussion with Afua Hirsch, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will state why it’s essential that London is a city for all of us. Afua Hirsch (@afuahirsch) is a writer, journalist and broadcaster and is the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism and Communication at USC. She is a columnist for the Guardian, an...
Social Integration and Inequality in London
September 10, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBContributor(s): Sadiq Khan, Afua Hirsch | London is one of the most diverse and progressive cities in the world, but rapid change means social cohesion is being put to the test like never before. In discussion with Afua Hirsch, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will state why it’s essential that London is a city for all of us. Afua Hirsch (@afuahirsch) is a writer, journalist and broadcaster and is the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism and Communication at USC. She is a columnist for the Guardian...
Narrative Economics [Audio]
September 06, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 35.7 MBSpeaker(s): Professor Robert Shiller | Join us to hear from Nobel Prize winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller who will in this lecture talk about his new book which argues that looking at viral stories’ impact on the economy - an approach he coined as “narrative economics” - gives forecasters better tools for predicting a recession. Robert J. Shiller is Sterling Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Ya...
LSE IQ Episode 26 | Why do we need food banks?
August 13, 2019 12:00 - 38 minutes - 35.9 MBContributor(s): Dr. Aaron Reeves, Laura Lane, Daphine Aikens | Welcome to LSE’s award-winning podcast, LSE IQ, where we ask leading social scientists and other experts to answer an intelligent question. In this episode, Joanna Bale asks ‘Why do we need food banks?’ She talks to LSE’s Aaron Reeves and Laura Lane, as well as Daphine Aikens, founder and CEO of Hammersmith and Fulham food bank, and some of her clients.
LSE IQ Episode 26 | Why do we need food banks? [Audio]
August 13, 2019 12:00 - 38 minutes - 35.9 MBSpeaker(s): Dr. Aaron Reeves, Laura Lane, Daphine Aikens | Welcome to LSE’s award-winning podcast, LSE IQ, where we ask leading social scientists and other experts to answer an intelligent question. In this episode, Joanna Bale asks ‘Why do we need food banks?’ She talks to LSE’s Aaron Reeves and Laura Lane, as well as Daphine Aikens, founder and CEO of Hammersmith and Fulham food bank, and some of her clients.
The Levelling: what's next after globalisation
June 27, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 39.4 MBContributor(s): Michael O'Sullivan | The liberal, globalised world order is withering according to Michael O'Sullivan in his new book The Levelling: What's Next After Globalization which he will talk about in this lecture. The levelling is the process of ironing out imbalances like indebtedness and inequality, and proposing new ideas and frameworks to kickstart the next world order. The Levelling will involve the levelling of political accountability and responsibility between political leade...
The Levelling: what's next after globalisation [Audio]
June 27, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 39.4 MBSpeaker(s): Michael O'Sullivan | The liberal, globalised world order is withering according to Michael O'Sullivan in his new book The Levelling: What's Next After Globalization which he will talk about in this lecture. The levelling is the process of ironing out imbalances like indebtedness and inequality, and proposing new ideas and frameworks to kickstart the next world order. The Levelling will involve the levelling of political accountability and responsibility between political leaders a...
Britain and Europe: how did we get here, and where do we go next?
June 21, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 35.2 MBContributor(s): David Miliband | This year’s Maurice Fraser annual lecture will take the form of a conversation between David Miliband and Professor Kevin Featherstone, followed by questions from the audience. The discussion will assess the state of play of the UK’s attempt to find a parliamentary majority for leaving the EU, and put into geopolitical context the choices and the stakes in the negotiations about our future relations with our European neighbours. David Miliband (@DMiliband) is ...
Britain and Europe: how did we get here, and where do we go next? [Audio]
June 21, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 35.2 MBSpeaker(s): David Miliband | This year’s Maurice Fraser annual lecture will take the form of a conversation between David Miliband and Professor Kevin Featherstone, followed by questions from the audience. The discussion will assess the state of play of the UK’s attempt to find a parliamentary majority for leaving the EU, and put into geopolitical context the choices and the stakes in the negotiations about our future relations with our European neighbours. David Miliband (@DMiliband) is the ...
Global Health and Inequality
June 18, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBContributor(s): Professor Sudhir Anand, Professor Amartya Sen | To ensure that people live long and healthy lives it is important to know what kills different groups of people in different places. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) based on the Disability-Adjusted Life Year has been developed to do this. This lecture shows how this measure leads to various anomalies and biases, in particular it underestimates the health problems experienced by women and children. Sudhir Anand is Research Dire...
Global Health and Inequality [Audio]
June 18, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBSpeaker(s): Professor Sudhir Anand, Professor Amartya Sen | To ensure that people live long and healthy lives it is important to know what kills different groups of people in different places. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) based on the Disability-Adjusted Life Year has been developed to do this. This lecture shows how this measure leads to various anomalies and biases, in particular it underestimates the health problems experienced by women and children. Sudhir Anand is Research Director...
Finding My Voice: my journey to the West Wing and the path forward [Audio]
June 18, 2019 12:00 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBSpeaker(s): Valerie Jarrett | Join Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama in conversation with LSE's Peter Trubowitz about her new book. When Valerie Jarrett interviewed a promising young lawyer named Michelle Robinson in July 1991 for a job in Chicago city government, neither knew that it was the first step on a path that would end in the White House. Jarrett soon became Michelle and Barack Obama’s trusted personal adviser and family confidante; in the White House, she was...
Finding My Voice: my journey to the West Wing and the path forward
June 18, 2019 12:00 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBContributor(s): Valerie Jarrett | Join Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama in conversation with LSE's Peter Trubowitz about her new book. When Valerie Jarrett interviewed a promising young lawyer named Michelle Robinson in July 1991 for a job in Chicago city government, neither knew that it was the first step on a path that would end in the White House. Jarrett soon became Michelle and Barack Obama’s trusted personal adviser and family confidante; in the White House, she...
The Problem of Modernity: reinterpreting decolonisation and the modern?
June 06, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 38.9 MBContributor(s): Amit Chaudhuri | How might the modern, rather than the human, be recovered as a way of looking at a common inheritance? And why is modernity resistant to being recovered? Amit Chaudhuri (@AmitChaudhuri) is an essayist, literary critic and the author of seven novels. Robin Archer is the Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme, LSE. The Ralph Miliband Programme (@RMilibandLSE) is one of LSE's most prestigious lecture series and seeks to advance Ralph Miliband's spirit of free s...
The Problem of Modernity: reinterpreting decolonisation and the modern? [Audio]
June 06, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 38.9 MBSpeaker(s): Amit Chaudhuri | How might the modern, rather than the human, be recovered as a way of looking at a common inheritance? And why is modernity resistant to being recovered? Amit Chaudhuri (@AmitChaudhuri) is an essayist, literary critic and the author of seven novels. Robin Archer is the Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme, LSE. The Ralph Miliband Programme (@RMilibandLSE) is one of LSE's most prestigious lecture series and seeks to advance Ralph Miliband's spirit of free socia...
An Unexpected Convergence: informality, the gig-economy, and digital platforms [Audio]
June 04, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBSpeaker(s): Professor Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg | The Annual Economica Coase lecture is jointly sponsored by the journal Economica and the Department of Economics. Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg is Elihu Professor of Economics at Yale University and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group. She is former Vice-President of the American Economic Association and President elect of the Econometric Society (for 2021). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of both ...
An Unexpected Convergence: informality, the gig-economy, and digital platforms
June 04, 2019 18:30 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBContributor(s): Professor Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg | The Annual Economica Coase lecture is jointly sponsored by the journal Economica and the Department of Economics. Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg is Elihu Professor of Economics at Yale University and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group. She is former Vice-President of the American Economic Association and President elect of the Econometric Society (for 2021). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a recipient of b...