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• Decolonising the curriculum: How to teach Empire | LSE Research 30.06.2026 7min

  LSE academics and secondary school teachers from the Historical Association's Teacher Fellowship Programme explore how economic history can transform the way British history is taught in classrooms.
• Global trends in climate litigation 25.06.2026 1h 22min

  This event marks the launch of the Grantham Research Institute’s Global Trends in Climate Change Litigation 2026 Snapshot report, an annual report now in its ninth year. The report presents an overview of the expansion, complexity, and maturity in the global field of climate litigation.
• Smarter than the storm 24.06.2026 1h 24min

  This public event marks the global launch of Smarter Than the Storm, a new book by Amitabh Kant and Siddharth Sinha, and explores its core ideas in conversation with Nicholas Stern.
• LSE: The Ballpark | Rethinking the 1990s with Professors G. John Ikenberry and Peter Trubowitz 22.06.2026 42min

  The 1990s were an important decade. They saw the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, falling trade barriers, an expanding capitalist democratic order and the rise of what came to be called the liberal international order.
• Can football catalyse climate action 20.06.2026 56min

  Football is more than a game. It’s a global cultural force with the power to shift norms, inspire communities, and mobilise collective action. As the climate crisis demands transformative change in how we live and consume, the world of sport, and football in particular, faces a critical question: can it become a genuine catalyst for climate action?
• Food futures 20.06.2026 59min

  Our current food system is a leading cause of biodiversity loss and global warming. It is also responsible for increasing the risk of diabetes, stroke, and heart disease, as well as public health threats such as antimicrobial resistance and pandemics emerging from industrial animal agriculture.
• Saving our digital world 20.06.2026 59min

  How can we reduce the inequalities and harms of commercial social media and the online world, while building spaces that better support our human need to connect and communicate?
• The power of storytelling and activism 20.06.2026 1h

  We know the importance of data and evidence in tackling global crises like climate change, but is it stories rather than statistics that will drive change? Our panel discuss how art, literature and performance can be used to connect and inspire people, and how this feeds into activism.
• What’s it going to take us to save the planet? 20.06.2026 1h 3min

  We live in polarised times, when global problems seem to be turning us against each other, not bringing us together. Over Festival week we will explore ways of tackling the enormous challenges we face, but there will be no solutions without cooperation.
• Why evidence matters 20.06.2026 1h 1min

  How can scientific evidence help us in an age of “alternative facts”? As chief data reporter for the Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch uses statistics and graphics to dig into the most pressing issues of the day, covering everything from the economy to climate change, social issues and healthcare. His high-profile use of visualization and data science helped audiences around the world understand the complexities of the coronavirus pandemic. He helps to inject data and evidence-based argument into what can be very polarising topics.
• Will AI secure humanity’s future? 20.06.2026 58min

  Artificial Intelligence is reshaping our world, transforming economies, societies, daily interactions and the institutions that support them. Many researchers and policymakers view this as a pivotal moment, one that could lead to greater global wellbeing if managed well or to growing instability if risks are left unchecked.
• Can we tackle climate change without deepening inequality? 19.06.2026 1h

  The climate crisis is reshaping economies, societies, and livelihoods—but not everyone bears its costs equally.
• Cruising 19.06.2026 45min

  This event brings together theatre and social science to explore some of the most urgent questions of our time, building on LSE IDEAS’ Geopolitics of Climate Change series.
• Global sustainability: in conversation with John Kerry 19.06.2026 1h 3min

  Join former US Secretary of State John Kerry for a wide-ranging conversation on global sustainability challenges and opportunities, reflecting on leadership, international cooperation, and the evolving intersections between sustainability, diplomacy and public policy.
• Saving the planet in an age of geopolitical rivalry 19.06.2026 1h

  Is the return of great power rivalry and conflict eroding the collective capacity and willingness of the international community to address environmental, trade, and public health crises globally?
• The artist formerly known as climate change 18.06.2026 1h

  Adam Met, climate advocate, educator and member of the multiplatinum band AJR, discusses how we can protect the planet and examines the future of climate communication in an age of political polarization, algorithmic media, and public distrust.
• The green shoots of the new economy 18.06.2026 1h 6min

  We know that governments across the world are acting far too slowly in tackling the ecological crisis across its many dimensions, but can we usefully look elsewhere for radical action? Can we even find new solutions in in the most unexpected places - from innovative firms and financial actors emerging in an otherwise ecologically destructive capitalism?
• How the right laws can save the planet 17.06.2026 1h 1min

  The planet and its inhabitants face critical threats – including climate change, collapse of biodiversity, reverses in progress on global poverty and persistent inequality.
• Saving the world one family at a time 17.06.2026 5min

  With growing tensions between China and the United States, new "third spaces" are emerging beyond great-power competition. Gone South Village is a short documentary film that explores how overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia create social and global orders that are neither wholly Chinese nor Thai.
• Surviving extreme times 17.06.2026 57min

  In their books, both Mishal Husain and Lea Ypi have explored their family histories through periods of authoritarianism, conflict and political upheaval. In this conversation they will explore the resonance with the present of themes from the past, like the rise of fascism, migration, colonialism and inequality. What can history tell us about how to live through difficult political times, and where to find hope?