LSE: Public lectures and events

Epizódy

• How to win a trade war 04.06.2026 1h 24min

  In this public event, Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown discuss their new book, How to Win a Trade War.
• The everywhere millionaire: who is really rich in America and how they got there 02.06.2026 1h 23min

  The story of wealth in America isn’t just about Wall Street or Silicon Valley—it’s also about the quiet fortunes of Main Street business owners, whose growing economic and political power often escapes the spotlight.
• The halted march of the European left: lessons from history 01.06.2026 1h 22min

  In the 1970s, the European left was thriving. Across the continent, numerous groups emerged to defend the working‑class in all its diversity. New waves of organising—led by women, migrants, and young workers—pointed to the vitality of the labour movement. And then... the left’s progress came to a sharp halt. What brought about such decline? What lessons must we take away from this historical turning point?
• From citizen to subject: police militarisation and the imperial boomerang 27.05.2026 1h 28min

  Militarised policing is one of the preconditions for fascist rule, but how and why would police in liberal democracies militarise?
• Inheritance, demographics, and economic development 21.05.2026 1h 23min

  Inheritance institutions shape family structures and demographic decisions, with enduring implications for economic development. This lecture describes how inheritance rules affect fertility, marriage, and migration decisions in historical and development contexts.
• Trade under strain: policy challenges in a fractured world 20.05.2026 1h 31min

  In an increasingly fragmented global order, new forms of geopolitical and economic division are reshaping the world economy. Long‑standing trade partnerships face growing pressure, and rising tensions threaten to unwind decades of cooperation
• Economics, ethics, and the role of the state in climate action 19.05.2026 1h 32min

  Climate change and biodiversity loss are among the defining challenges of our time — but they also open the door to extraordinary possibility. The investments, innovation, and structural change required for climate action can unlock, particularly when combined with AI, far more dynamic and resilient paths of growth and development than anything the past has offered.
• Investable transition opportunities: what counts as a climate solution? 14.05.2026 1h 21min

  As companies in high-emitting sectors move from setting net zero targets to implementing detailed transition plans, investors are demanding greater transparency and fully quantified strategies.
• Why populists are winning and how to beat them 13.05.2026 1h 29min

  In 2024, two billion people went to vote – and populism won big. Donald Trump returned to the White House. Marine Le Pen surged in France. Reform UK became Britain’s most successful far-right party in modern history. Across the West, authoritarian populists now govern one-quarter of the world’s democracies. But is this peak populism – or the populists’ tipping point?
• Cooling a warming India: ecology and equity in our time 12.05.2026 1h 28min

  This talk will examine housing and work, sleep and sociality, as key aspects of everyday life where strategies to create more equitable and sustainable access to cooling must focus.
• Development finance after Trump 11.05.2026 1h 32min

  The Trump Administration has closed the world’s largest bilateral aid programme, USAID and poured scorn on its past effectiveness. Other donors are also cutting their aid programmes at the same time as there is a growing chorus of concern around aid effectiveness. It has created ‘’ a perfect storm” in the world of development finance. Can there be a happy ending or is development another casualty of Trump’s new global disorder?
• The foreign policy of Donald Trump in historical perspective 07.05.2026 1h 27min

  Commentators around the world draw some startling analogies when they seek to assess President Donald Trump, some even likening him to a Roman emperor or an inter-war dictator. In this lecture, Niall Ferguson puts Trump's foreign policy in an Anglo-American historical perspective.
• Who is Britain really saving in the fight against modern slavery? 06.05.2026 1h 28min

  As Black Lives Matter has exposed the legacies of transatlantic slavery and empire, Britain has launched a new moral crusade at home: the fight against “modern slavery.” This panel discussion marks the launch of Drugs, Race and the Politics of Modern Slavery Law by Insa Lee Koch and asks what this crusade is really doing.
• The ethics of foreign intervention: philosophical perspectives on Venezuela and Iran 05.05.2026 1h 24min

  The US capture of President Nicolás Maduro in January 2026 and the US–Israeli military campaign against Iran have thrust foreign intervention back to the centre of global debate.
• Greek Prime Ministers in the eye of the storm 29.04.2026 1h 31min

  This public lecture is for the book launch of Greek Prime Ministers in the Eye of the Storm: Crisis Management and Institutional Change, featuring authors Kevin Featherstone and Dimitris Papadimitriou.
• Global ideas for global challenges: a panel in honour of Nick Stern 22.04.2026 1h 41min

  Leaders of the world’s premier economic institutions and a Nobel Prize winning economist discuss how ideas have evolved to shape our world and what is needed for the future.
• From curiosity to prosperity: sharing the gains of science 20.04.2026 1h 45min

  Why should governments back “Big Science” when discoveries are uncertain and the benefits may seem distant from taxpayers’ daily lives? In this public lecture, France A Córdova—astrophysicist and former Director of the US National Science Foundation, NASA Chief Scientist, and President of the Science Philanthropy Alliance—explores how curiosity-driven research and the large infrastructures that enable it deliver value well beyond the lab.
• End of the America era? Looking back, looking forward 02.04.2026 1h 25min

  At a time of intensifying geopolitical rivalry, economic nationalism, and ideological extremism, this roundtable brings together a group of leading political scientists and historians to take stock of the choices and pathways that have brought America and the world to this unsettled moment.
• Mediate the middle: moving with and beyond dichotomies 31.03.2026 1h 28min

  Join us in celebrating the launch of Bart Cammaerts’ latest textbook, Dichotomies in Media and Communication Theory — a bold and original exploration of the key theoretical tensions that shape our media landscape.
• Is a democratic economy possible? Lessons from history, horizons for the future 30.03.2026 1h 31min

  Fifty years after powerful labour movements launched radical plans to democratise the economy and gain control of large businesses, what is the legacy of these efforts and what are the prospects for economic democracy today?