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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.

Latest Episodes:

Joyful revolution: poverty, social justice and a pioneer of participation Nov 04, 2025

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Tackling poverty and campaigning for social justice must be with, not just for, people in poverty.

Syria after Assad: a reporter’s view on a nation in transition Nov 03, 2025

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This talk delivered by Raya Jalabi, Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times, as part of the annual Ian Black Memorial Lecture Series, will examine Syria’s fraught first year in the aftermath of Bashar al-Assad’s fall.

Sustainability, peace and development: in conversation with Juan Manuel Santos Oct 30, 2025

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Join Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and LSE alumnus Juan Manuel Santos and LSE academics Mary Kaldor and Nicholas Stern in a conversation to explore how we can build a sustainable, peaceful and stable world.

Seeing the unseen: combining data to better understand our environment Oct 29, 2025

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Join us as the University of Glasgow’s Claire Miller explores the statistical and data analytics approaches being developed to successfully bring different data sources together to improve environmental planning and management.

How to help left behind regions and workers Oct 28, 2025

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The decline of manufacturing and the acceleration of technological disruption have concentrated joblessness in distressed regions and blocked many workers from access to good jobs

Unlocking climate action opportunities: progress amid geopolitical turbulence Oct 27, 2025

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This event will serve as a timely preview of the upcoming UN Climate Conference (COP), offering insights into where meaningful progress can be made on international climate action.

The social safety net as an investment in children Oct 23, 2025

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Join us for the Department of Social Policy’s Annual Lecture at which Hilary Hoynes will explore the concept of viewing the social safety net as a long-term investment in children.

Mutually assured survival: feminist solidarities amidst planetary threats Oct 22, 2025

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Can global feminist solidarity and a feminist theory of social reproduction provide an emancipatory agenda that will foster the material conditions that make the reproduction of human and non-human life possible?

How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations Oct 21, 2025

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How will progress end? In this event, Carl Benedikt Frey – one of the leading scholars of technology and the economy – will discuss his new book, How Progress Ends.

Technology for the public interest: preventing capture and promoting welfare Oct 20, 2025

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In this lecture, Padmashree Gehl Sampath compares the trajectories of two critical technology-driven sectors, pharmaceuticals and artificial intelligence