LSE: Public lectures and events
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Home in the World
November 26, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 9.42 MBContributor(s): Professor Amartya Sen | Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen (87) home has been many places – Dhaka in modern Bangladesh where he grew up, the village of Santiniketan where he was raised by his grandparents as much as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged nineteen.
Proxies: the cultural work of standing in
November 26, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBContributor(s): Dr Tarleton Gillespie, Dr Cait McKinney, Dr Dylan Mulvin | Our world is built on an array of standards we are compelled to share. In Proxies, Mulvin examines how we arrive at those standards, asking, To whom and to what do we delegate the power to stand in for the world? Mulvin shows how those with the power to design technology, in the very moment of design, are allowed to imagine who is included—and who is excluded—in the future.
Europe's Recovery Programs
November 26, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 53.8 MBContributor(s): Professor Luis Garicano, Professor Stefanie Stantcheva, Professor Nikos Vettas | These programs differ in ambition, as well as in the scope of policies. This discussion highlights key features of the French, Greek and EU programs, while also focusing on policies to reduce inequality.
Inclusion in Global Markets
November 26, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 72.6 MBContributor(s): Dawid Konotey-Ahulu, Philip Fernandez, Ida Liu, Dr Grace Lordan, Beatriz Martin | This discussion marks the launch of the inclusion framework - a new behavioural science based framework to create inclusive global organisations.
Queering Europe: nationalism and sexuality
November 25, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBContributor(s): Professor Fatima El Tayeb, Abeera Khan, Dr Richard Mole, Dr Alyosxa Tudor | Challenging the binary of tolerant West and intolerant others, the speakers discuss how both homophobia and homonationalism are intertwined with nationalist projects across the continent.
Environmentalism and Global International Society
November 23, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBContributor(s): Professor Steven Bernstein, Professor Barry Buzan, Dr Robert Falkner, Professor Kathy Hochstetler | Climate change and other environmental threats have moved to the top of the international agenda. All major powers are now committed to fighting global warming and ensuring environmental sustainability. But it has not always been thus. How did the society of states come to accept a responsibility for the global environment? And how deeply committed are states to safeguarding the...
Grief
November 19, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBContributor(s): Professor Michael Cholbi, Dr Will Daddario, Priya Jay | Can we grieve well? Is mourning for public figures very different to the grief we feel after the death of friends and family? What is it like to grieve in the midst of something like a pandemic, where so many lives are touched by tragedy? And what have we learned about grieving though this pandemic, where death is both very publicly discussed but also hidden by the demands of social distancing? We explore the nature of gr...
Rethinking American Political Economy
November 19, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBContributor(s): Professor Paul Pierson, Professor Kathleen Thelen | Drawing on their new volume, The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power, Paul Pierson and Kathleen Thelen lay out a comparatively informed framework for understanding how business power, union decline, racial inequity, government weakness and regional disparities are impacting contemporary American politics and policy.
Data Feminism: what does feminist data science look like?
November 19, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBContributor(s): Professor Catherine D'Ignazio, Professor Lauren F Klein | Drawing from their recent book, Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a set of principles for data science that are informed by decades of intersectional feminist activism and critical thought. To illustrate these principles they will discuss a range of recent research projects, including some of their own. Taken together, these examples demonstrate how feminist thinking can be operationalised into...
Secular Stagnation After COVID-19
November 17, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 47.6 MBContributor(s): Professor Lawrence H. Summers | He received a bachelor of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and was awarded a PhD from Harvard in 1982. In 1983, he became one of the youngest individuals in recent history to be named as a tenured member of the Harvard University faculty. In 1987, Mr Summers became the first social scientist ever to receive the annual Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and in 1993 he was awarded ...
Putting Peace Back into Politics
November 17, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBContributor(s): Professor Monica McWilliams, Halima Mohamed, Amina Rasul | null
Flux: eight superpowers for thriving in constant change
November 16, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MBContributor(s): April Rinne | Rinne shows that when everything is in flux, everything benefits from a flux mindset: the ability to consistently see all change as an opportunity, not a threat. She harnesses her very personal experiences with flux, including the death of both of her parents in a car accident when she was 20, as well as her history as a futurist, advisor, global development executive, microfinance lawyer, investor, mental health advocate, certified yoga teacher, globetrotter (10...
Technological Change, Cities and Spatial Inequality
November 09, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 72.2 MBContributor(s): Professor Simona Iammarino, Dr Tom Kemeny, Dr Megha Mukim | null
Social Unrest in Colombia and Chile: causes and cures
November 09, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBContributor(s): Mauricio Cárdenas, Ricardo Lagos, Juan Manuel Santos, Baroness Shafik | null
How Can Africa Adapt to Climate Change?
November 09, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBContributor(s): Professor Christopher Gordon, Dr Richard Munang, Timo Leiter, Dr Swenja Surminski | null
Cogs and Monsters: what economics is, and what it should be
November 08, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 32.6 MBContributor(s): Professor Diane Coyle | null
Greece and the Euro: from crisis to recovery
November 03, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBContributor(s): Professor George Alogoskoufis, Professor Helen Louri-Dendrinou, Professor Lucas Papademos, Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides | What are the pre-conditions – economic, political and institutional - for a sustained recovery of the Greek economy? What's scope is there for recovery, which priorities need to be set, and what are the prospects for their attainment?
What Climate Change Loss and Damage Means for the US and the World
November 03, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBContributor(s): Professor Emily Boyd, Professor Ademola Oluborode Jegede, Professor Kyle Whyte | Emily Boyd is Professor in sustainability science and Director of Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies. She is a leading social scientist with a specialist focus on the interdisciplinary nexus of poverty, governance and resilience in relation to global environmental change. Ademola Oluborode Jegede is a Professor of Law and an NRF rated researcher in the School of Law, University of V...
Pandemic Public Finance: how historic is it?
November 02, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBContributor(s): Professor Graciela L Kaminsky, Professor Carmen M Reinhart, Professor Thomas J Sargent | Can we draw parallels between the impact of crisis and war on state’s indebtedness in the past with the consequences of public borrowing in today’s age of independent central banks and aging populations? This panel discussion will bring together experts on the history of finance to examine the fiscal challenges brought about by the pandemic. By situating today’s challenges in their histori...
In Conversation with John F Kerry, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
November 02, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBContributor(s): John F Kerry | null
China's Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism
November 02, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBContributor(s): Dr Benjamin Ho, Dr Joseph Chinyong Liow, Dr Beverley Loke | null
15 years on from the Stern Review: economics of climate change, innovation, growth
November 02, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBContributor(s): Lord Nicholas Stern | null
Britain, Europe and America: lessons from the recent past and prospects for the near future
November 02, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 32.8 MBContributor(s): Lord Darroch | What have we learnt after the PM’s recent visit to Washington and from the ‘AUKUS’ agreement?
Planning for the Post-COVID world: central bank policies in emerging economies
November 01, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBContributor(s): Professor Piroska Nagy-Mohácsi, Professor Ricardo Reis, Gent Sejko | null
Modern Conversations
November 01, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBContributor(s): Professor Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Professor Daniel Miller, Dr Rebecca Roache | But is there more to this than a mere increase in communication? Do these different channels of communication change the nature of communication itself? And what might all this mean for our sense of self and identity?
Free: coming of age at the end of history
November 01, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBContributor(s): Professor Lea Ypi | Pyramid schemes bankrupted the country, leading to violence. One generation’s dreams became another’s disillusionment. As her own family’s secrets were revealed, Ypi found herself questioning what “freedom” really means. With acute insight and wit, Ypi traces the perils of ideology, and what people need to flourish.
The Brexit Deterrent? How Britain's Exit has Shaped Public Support for the EU
October 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.4 MBContributor(s): Professor Sara Hobolt, Professor Sofia Vasilopoulou | null
The 'Human' in Human Rights
October 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBContributor(s): Professor Craig Calhoun | null
What's Wrong with Rights?
October 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 34 MBContributor(s): Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge, Dr Yoriko Otomo, Dr Adam Etinson | null
In Conversation with Otegha Uwagba
October 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 28 MBContributor(s): Otegha Uwagba | null
How to Stop Fascism?
October 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 33 MBContributor(s): Paul Mason, Professor Lea Ypi | null
Monetary Policy and Financial Cycles
October 19, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBContributor(s): Professor Hélène Rey | null
Changing the Story on Disability?
October 19, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.6 MBContributor(s): Fredrick Ouko, Liz Sayce, Kate Stanley, Professor Tom Shakespeare | null
Calling In, Not Calling Out
October 19, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBContributor(s): Professor Shani Orgad | null
The Aristocracy of Talent: how meritocracy made the modern world
October 14, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 29 MBContributor(s): Adrian Wooldridge | null
The Dawn of Everything
October 13, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.4 MBContributor(s): Professor Alpa Shah, Professor David Wengrow | null
The Indian Economy: recent developments and prospects
October 11, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBContributor(s): Shri Shaktikanta Das, Dr Swati Dhingra, N K Singh, Martin Wolf | In this event, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and the Chair of the 15th Indian Finance Commission will discuss the challenges facing the economy of India and what we can expect from it in the future. Meet our speakers and chair Shri Shaktikanta Das (@DasShaktikanta), former Secretary, Department of Revenue and Department of Economic Affairs, Indian Ministry of Finance, assumed charge as the 25th Gover...
Opportunities for Stronger and Sustainable Post-Pandemic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
October 07, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBContributor(s): Dr Eduardo Cavallo, Marla Dukharan, Dr Andrew Powell, Professor Andrés Velasco | The year 2020 will be remembered as one of the most challenging in modern history. Latin America and the Caribbean lost 7.4% of GDP, the largest drop on record in a single year. The region is expected to recover in 2021 but faces a hazardous time ahead. Most countries will require some type of adjustment to maintain fiscal sustainability. While the way forward will be challenging, specific public ...
The Plague Year: America in the time of COVID-19
October 06, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBContributor(s): Lawrence Wright | From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the US Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright’s The Plague Year tells the story of COVID-19 in authoritative, galvanising detail and with the full drama of events on both a global and intimate scale, illuminating the medical, economic, political, and social ramifications of the pandemic. A vivid, sweeping, panoramic account of the pandemic’s origins and the misse...
The Euro@30: has the common currency finally grown up?
October 06, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBContributor(s): Professor Paul de Grauwe, Professor Waltraud Schelkle, Martin Wolf | The idea of a common currency materialised with the Maastricht Treaty thirty years ago. But soon after it was tested in a major crisis in 1992/93, with more to come. This panel will discuss whether the reforms since 2010 have been sufficient to make the Euro a "mature" currency. Meet our speakers and chair Paul De Grauwe (@pdegrauwe) is John Paulson Chair in European Political Economy at the LSE European Inst...
From Crisis to Transformation: a path forward
October 05, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBContributor(s): Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter | Join us for this event discussing Anne-Marie Slaughter's new book, Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics. Like much of the world, America is deeply divided over identity, equality, and history. Renewal is Anne-Marie Slaughter’s candid and deeply personal account of how her own odyssey opened the door to an important new understanding of how we as individuals, organisations, and nations can move backward and for...
Reconciliation Processes in Post-Conflict Societies: Colombia and beyond
October 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.8 MBContributor(s): Professor Lord Alderdice, Dr Fabio Idrobo, Professor Nicola Lacey, Federico Rodriguez | null
Addiction
October 04, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.7 MBContributor(s): Molly Mathieson, Alexander Mazonowicz, Professor Hanna Pickard | What is addiction? Although it is often discussed in terms of neurobiology, this can’t begin to capture what it means to be addicted and what addiction does to our sense of self. Philosophers have long been concerned with questions about the self and identity, so might philosophy be able to help us to understand addiction? And what does understanding the relationship between addiction and identity mean for recove...
Why is Latin American Inequality So Extreme? Introducing LAC Inequality Review
September 29, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBContributor(s): Dr Santiago Levy, Professor Nora Lustig, Dr Marcela Meléndez, Professor James Robinson | For as long as data on income inequality has been available, Latin America has stood as one of the world’s two most unequal regions (along with sub-Saharan Africa). Despite some promising declines during the 2000s, inequality in many countries remains higher today than it was in the 1970s, suggesting a persistent high-inequality political economy equilibrium. Inspired by the Deaton Review ...
The Social Instinct
September 28, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBContributor(s): Professor Nichola Raihani | Join us for this event with Nichola Raihani who will be talking about her new book, The Social Instinct. Exploring evolution, animal behaviour and human psychology, The Social Instinct reveals how and why cooperation has shaped and defined humankind - and what happens when it goes wrong. This is the first book by Professor Raihani, drawing on decades of research in the field. Written at a time of global pandemic, when the challenges and importance o...
Reciprocity and the Welfare State
September 28, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.7 MBContributor(s): Professor Nicholas Barr, Professor Sir Tim Besley, Dr Tania Burchardt, Gregg McClymont | Join our panelists as they come together to discuss the new issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, Beveridge 2.0: Reciprocity Across the Life-Cycle. The welfare state plays a central role in managing risks and tackling vulnerability across the life-cycle. This new issue of the LSE Public Policy Review focuses on the relationships between individuals and between generations that underpin we...
My Secret Brexit Diary
September 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 35.3 MBContributor(s): Michel Barnier | This event will explore Michel Barnier's new book, My Secret Brexit Diary: a glorious illusion. In June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. As the EU's chief negotiator, for four years Michel Barnier had a seat at the table as the two sides thrashed out what Brexit would really mean. The result would change Britain and Europe forever. During the 1600 days of complex and often acrimonious negotiations, Michel Barnier kept a...
Survival of the City: living and thriving in an age of isolation
September 23, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MBContributor(s): Professor David Cutler | From New York to New Delhi, COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on our urban world, turning the physical proximity which is central to the creative energy of the city into a potentially deadly threat to our health and wellbeing. Most of us live or work in cities. They are a vital part of both local and global economies and shape the lives we lead and our interactions with others. How can we adjust to this new reality and what lessons can we learn fro...
Germany After Merkel: end of an era or more of the same?
September 23, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBContributor(s): Dr Ulrike Franke, Dr Christian Odendahl, Mujtaba Rahman, Professor Daniela Schwarzer | After 16 years of Angela Merkel's chancellorship, the signals for a new beginning in German politics are ambiguous. Her own party has gone for a candidate who promises continuity. But the Green Party has become the second strongest contender for office and this opens up new possibilities for coalition governments. What does either continuity or change mean for key policies and for European i...