Podcasts of the latest LSE lectures and events:
2016:
Department of Sociology Public Lecture (#LSElife)
The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of 70,000 Ordinary Lives
Speaker: Dr Helen Pearson
LSE Africa Talks Public Lecture (#LSEAfrica)
‘Rhodes Must Fall’: South African Universities as Sites of Struggle
Speaker: Professor Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
LSE Arts and Cañada Blanch Centre Public Conversation (#LSEMarias)
Thus Bad Begins: A Conversation with Javier Marias
Speaker: Javier Marías
LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights and KCL Yeo Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy and Law Public lecture (#LSEbloodoil)
Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence and the Rules That Run the World
Speaker: Professor Leif Wenar
LSE Gender Institute and Feminist Review Public Dialogue (#LSEtalksGender)
Feminism in Transnational Times: A Conversation with Christine Delphy
Speakers: Professor Christine Delphy and Professor Sylvie Tissot
British Government @ LSE Public Lecture (#LSECorbyn)
Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup (Biteback, 2016)
Speaker: Rosa Prince
Chair: Professor Paul Kelly
Department of International History Public Lecture (#LSEthings)
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First (Allen Lane, 2016)
Speaker: Professor Frank Trentmann
Chair: Professor Janet Hartley
LSE Public Lecture (#LSELondon)
This is London: Life and Death in the World City (Picador, 2016)
Speaker: Ben Judah
United States Centre Public Lecture (#LSEUS)
Lessons for the Euro from America’s Past
Speaker: Professor Jeffry Frieden
Chair: Professor Peter Trubowitz
LSE Public Lecture (#LSEpunks)
Business for Punks (Portfolio Penguin, 2015)
Speaker: James Watt
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science Public Lecture (#LSEevomed)
Body By Darwin: How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
Speaker: Jeremy Taylor
Department of Media and Communications Public Lecture (#LSESchudson)
Expectations of Openness in an Age of Secrecy: Where the ‘Right to Know’ Comes From
The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945–1975 (Harvard UP, 2015)
Speaker: Professor Michael Schudson
Chair: Professor Nick Couldry
Department of Management Public Lecture (#LSEgoodday)
How to Have a Good Day (Crown 2016)
Speaker: Caroline Webb
Autumn 2015:
Department of Sociology and International Inequalities Institute Public Lecture (#LSEclass)
Social Class in the 21st Century (Pelican, 2015)
Speakers: Dr Niall Cunningham, Professor Fiona Devine, Dr Sam Friedman, Dr Daniel Laurison, Dr Lisa McKenzie, Dr Andrew Miles, Professor Mike Savage, Dr Helene Snee, Dr Paul Wakeling
Chair: Professor Nicola Lacey
Dahrendorf Forum, International Relations and LSE IDEAS Public Lecture (#LSEDahrendorf)
Russia’s Foreign Policy: Ideas, Domestic Politics and External Relations (Palgrave, 2015)
Speaker: Dr Dmitri Trenin
Chair: Professor Michael Cox
South Asia Centre Public Conversation: In Conversation with Amartya Sen (#LSESen)
The Country of First Boys (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Speaker: Professor Amartya Sen
Chair: Professor Lord Stern
British Government @ LSE Public Lecture (#LSEThatcher)
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants (Allen Lane, 2015)
Speaker: Charles Moore
Department of Economics and Centre for Macroeconomics Public Lecture (#LSEecon)
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception (Princeton University Press, 2015)
Speaker: Professor Robert J. Shiller
Ralph Miliband Programme ‘Progress and its Discontents’ Public Lecture (#LSEGeorge)
Shadow Sovereigns: How Global Corporations Are Seizing Power (Polity, 2015)
Speaker: Dr Susan George
Chair: Dr Robin Archer
Department of Economics and Centre for Macroeconomics Public Lecture (#LSEGDP)
GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Speaker: Professor Diane Coyle
‘Enough!’ Will Youth Protests Drive Political Change in Africa?: Africa Talks Public Lecture (#LSEAfrica)
The Time of Youth: Work, Politics and Social Change in Africa (Kumarian Press, 2012) and Youth and Revolution in Tunisia (Zed Books, 2013)
Speaker: Professor Alcinda Honwana
LSE Institute of Global Affairs Public Lecture (#LSEMason)
Postcapitalism: A Guide to our Future (Allen Lane, 2015)
Speaker: Paul Mason
Chair: Professor Erik Berglof
Department of Media and Communications Public Lecture (#LSEcreative)
The Creative Economy: Invention of a Global Orthodoxy
Speaker: Professor Philip Schlesinger
Respondents: Professor Angela McRobbie, Professor Jonothan Neelands
Chair: Professor Robin Mansell
Department of Management Public Lecture (#LSESusskind)
The Future of the Professions: How Technology will Transform the Work of Human Experts (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Speakers: Daniel Susskind, Professor Richard Susskind
Chair: Dr Carsten Sørensen
LSE Business Review Public Discussion (#LSEbusiness)
How Can the UK Improve Productivity and Still Build the Workforce?
This event marks the official launch of the LSE Business Review blog by bringing together a panel of prominent economists to discuss productivity, the UK’s economic future and the road ahead.
Speakers: Vince Cable, Professor Diane Coyle, Bronwyn Curtis, Anna Leach
Chair: Professor John Van Reenen
Department of International Relations Public Conversation (#LSEUkraine)
In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine (Allen Lane, 2015)
Speaker: Tim Judah
Chair: Robert Cooper
LSE IDEAS Public Lecture (#LSEMorris)
Each Age Gets the Great Powers It Needs: 20,000 Years of International Relations
Speaker: Professor Ian Morris
Chair: Professor Michael Cox