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LSE: Public lectures and events
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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Invisible inputs: gender bias in AI systems
Behind every algorithm lies a set of choices, some visible, many not. This panel discusses the unseen forces that shape AI, focusing on how gender bia...
Women’s health matters: science, systems, and global change
The LSE Health and Department of Health Policy Annual Lecture 2026 was delivered by Michelle A Williams, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Heal...
Complexity and complicity in social anthropology
Join us for Hans Steinmüller's inaugural lecture.
The politics of world heritage: visions, custodians, and futures of humanity
In this book launch, Elif Kalaycioglu, will present her new book, The Politics of World Heritage: Visions, Custodians, and Futures of Humanity, follow...
The care economy and social housing
What is the relationship between the care economy and social housing and how do they directly influence each other?
Grassroots: shaping the digital realm and through it – the world
The digital realm today concentrates power and wealth in the hands of the few, excluding most of humanity from equal participation.
Do molecules have structure? The view from quantum physics
Join us for the inaugural BJPS Popper Prize lecture, delivered by philosophers of science Alexander Franklin and Vanessa Seifert.
Creative destruction, AI, and the European recovery
Join us for this special event with LSE's Philippe Aghion, joint recipient of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
From dialogue to decarbonisation: can investor engagement deliver?
With momentum behind the low-carbon transition faltering and headwinds mounting, investors play an increasingly critical role in in sustaining climate...
American foreign policy in the age of Trump
With the old world order visibly weakening, President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is both consequential and confusing. Does Mr Trump have a strategy...
Eco-social contracts for sustainable and just futures
For changemakers, students, and everyone seeking hope, direction, and clarity during a time of global uncertainty, join us for the launch of a book th...
Narratives in policymaking
We all love a good story. Stories provide coherence and help to form our sense of identity. Personal and social narratives fundamentally affect the wa...
Balancing economic reform and stability: Paraguayan lessons for policymakers
Join us as we welcome Carlos Gustavo Fernández Valdovinos, Paraguay’s Minister of Economy and Finance, for a lecture on the country’s economic transfo...
Immigration policy: challenges and options
In this third and final lecture Alan Manning offers solutions to the challenges facing immigration policy, and how to navigate among the often-competi...
EdTech at the crossroads of pedagogy vs profit
Education technology (EdTech) is transforming education at a fast pace – but at what cost?
Governing with nature: towards transformative change?
Nature-based solutions are gaining traction as transformative interventions addressing biodiversity loss, climate change, and social justice. Their ap...
Can natural capital be replaced? How the weak versus strong sustainability divide will shape our common future
This event celebrates the open access publication of the 5th edition of Weak versus Strong Sustainability.
A picture of migration
Join us for the 2026 Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures which this year will be delivered by Alan Manning. This lecture is one of three based on the new...
The national interest: politics after globalisation
Are the politics of national interest making a comeback in the multipolar world after the end of globalisation? What is the national interest and why...
Monetary policy in perspective
Join Klaas Knot, who served as President of the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) for 14 years, as he reflects on his extensive experience in the European Cent...
Why immigration policy is hard
Join us for the 2026 Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures which this year will be delivered by Alan Manning. This lecture is one of three based on the new...
LSE: The Ballpark | US-China relations in an era of illiberalism with Dr Scott Kennedy
To talk about the current state of US-China relations, in October 2025 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair i...
Our Dollar, your problem
Join us for this public lecture where Kenneth Rogoff will discuss his recently released book Our Dollar, Your Problem: An insider's view of seven turb...
Power and profit: stresses and futures of market economies
The famous epithet that “the old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters”, is most often attributed to the...
Abundant clean energy for all: the technological opportunity
For the past two centuries, growth in energy supply has been fundamental to human progress and economic development. But fossil fuel dependence is dri...
Are revolutions justified?
Ralph Miliband has written poignantly on the limits of parliamentary democracy. But are revolutions justified?
Are revolutions justified?
Contributor(s): Professor Lea Ypi, Professor Andrés Velasco | Ralph Miliband has written poignantly on the limits of parliamentary democracy. But are...
The measure of progress: counting what really matters
Professor Coyle argues that the way we measure the economy—developed in the 1940s—no longer fits today’s realities. The outdated framework underpinnin...
The measure of progress: counting what really matters
Contributor(s): Professor Diane Coyle | Professor Coyle argues that the way we measure the economy—developed in the 1940s—no longer fits today’s reali...
How oil rents fuel populist foreign policy
In his inaugural lecture (based on his research with Ferdinand Eibl) Steffen Hertog argues that populist leaders in all but the largest countries can...
How oil rents fuel populist foreign policy
Contributor(s): Professor Steffen Hertog | International relations literature has begun to focus on the foreign policy corollaries of populist ideolog...
Women, nature, and 2030: a transformational global climate solution
Climate change is not gender-neutral — not in its impact on women and girls, nor in the solutions women are leading. This lecture will share new resea...
Women, nature, and 2030: a transformational global climate solution
Contributor(s): Zainab Salbi | Climate change is not gender-neutral — not in its impact on women and girls, nor in the solutions women are leading. Th...
Who trains our doctors? The hidden workers behind medical education
In this lecture, Patricia Kingori examines a striking phenomenon revealed through her documentary Shadow Scholars: highly educated Kenyan scholars gho...
LSE: The Ballpark | “Is AI a threat or an opportunity for the US?” Master’s students essay competition for 2025
In 2025, the Phelan US Centre ran an essay competition for master’s students with a prompt about AI. In this episode we spoke to the author of the win...
Shared prosperity in a fractured world
Join us for this talk by Dani Rodrik where he will talk about his new book, Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, in which he shows how the nations...
Shared prosperity in a fractured world
Contributor(s): Professor Dani Rodrik | Fighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world...
LSE: The Ballpark | How to help left behind regions and workers with Professor Gordon Hanson
The last 40 years have seen a sharp decline in America’s manufacturing industries with growing joblessness in previously prosperous industrial regions...