LSE: Public lectures and events

Contributor(s): Professor Anat R Admati | Professor Anat Admati explores how the banking system can be made safer and healthier, exposing the shortcomings of current policies and revealing how the dominance of banking presents dangers to the rule of law and democracy itself.

Contributor(s): Bee Rowlatt, Professor Conor Gearty, Baroness Chakrabarti | Baroness Chakrabarti's latest book, Human Rights: The Case for the Defence outlines the historic national and international struggles for human rights, from the fall of Babylon to the present day. Her intervention engages both sceptics and supporters and equips believers in the battle of ideas whilst  persuading doubters to think again. For human rights to survive, they must be far better understood by everyone.

2023 Nobel Prize winner Claudia Golden discusses the evolution of women's legal rights in the US post-suffrage, exploring opinion polls in the 1960s, shifts in public perspectives, intersectional feminism in economic decisions, care responsibilities, and the impact of women in Congress on gender equality efforts.

Contributor(s): Professor Esther Duflo, Shweta Banerjee | Head of BRAC International, India, Shweta Banerjee joins the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, Esther Duflo to examine how funds might be best spent to protect vulnerable populations against the effects of climate change.

Contributor(s): Pablo Hernández de Cos | In the last few years, central banks across the globe have faced a formidable surge in inflation, stemming from a succession of supply and demand shocks. In response, they have embarked on an extraordinarily sharp monetary policy tightening cycle. Governor Hernández de Cos looks at the lessons learned.

Contributor(s): Dr Lauren Sukin, Professor Jeffrey Legro, Dr Fred Kaplan | Russia’s war in Ukraine, breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, and mounting rivalry between the US and China in East Asia have raised anew concerns about the risks of nuclear war. Is the risk of nuclear war increasing?

Journalist Will Hutton discusses his book 'This Time No Mistakes' at LSE, critiquing neoliberalism, advocating for sustainable public investment, re-engaging with Europe post-Brexit, promoting an agile state, and highlighting hopes and challenges for the Labour Party's future.

Contributor(s): Isabel Berwick, Dr Grace Lordan | Dr Grace Lordan discusses hybrid work, workplace equality, and today’s evolving workplace with the host of Financial Times’ Working It podcast, Isabel Berwick at the launch of her new book, The Future-Proof Career.

Contributor(s): Professor Michal Feldman | The internet has become a huge computational platform for many heterogeneous, complex markets. These complex markets require the design of fast algorithms that take into account the economic, game theoretic, and computational considerations in a unified way. In this talk, Michal Feldman will discuss some of the challenges and opportunities that arise in this domain, through the lens of approximation.

Contributor(s): Madhumita Murgia | On the surface a British poet, an UberEats courier in Pittsburgh, an Indian doctor, and a Chinese activist in exile have nothing in common. But they are in fact linked by a profound common experience—unexpected encounters with artificial intelligence.