LSE: Public lectures and events

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Economic nationalism and global (dis)order Jun 09, 2025

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Join us for this year's Martin Wight Memorial Lecture which will be delivered by Robert Falkner who will explore the rise of economic nationalism amidst growing geopolitical rivalry.

Feminism, anti-feminism and affective economies of rage Jun 05, 2025

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In this event Sarah Banet-Weiser will theorize “mirror worlds” as an apt metaphor for the contemporary political and cultural feminist landscape.

A new data infrastructure for the social sciences? Jun 04, 2025

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The social sciences rely heavily on legacy data systems conceived to meet challenges of the 20th century (and earlier!). Is this the moment to build a new data system that meets new challenges and exploits new types of technology and data?

Fixing education for the AI age Jun 03, 2025

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The recent prominence of AI has exposed major deficiencies in education. Not only how much improvement can be made in the pedagogical process with modern technology, but also how the subject-matter has diverged from what's needed in the real world.

Tolerance and freedom of expression Jun 02, 2025

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Join us for the Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture which will be delivered by Peter Godfrey-Smith who will speak about tolerance and the freedom of expression.

Elite conflict, colonialism and democracy in the Middle East May 29, 2025

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Why has democracy struggled to thrive in the Global South? In this British Academy-funded research project, Mohamed Saleh develops a new economic history of the Middle East that explains the economic roots of authoritarianism in the region.

Capitalism and its critics May 28, 2025

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In this lecture John Cassidy will speak about his new book, Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World.

Revolutions and world order: still the 'Sixth Great Power'? May 27, 2025

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This lecture, held in honour of the renowned scholar Fred Halliday, will explore the relationship between revolutions and world order in contemporary geopolitics.

Forests, finance, and the future: economic risks of nature loss May 22, 2025

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This event aims at addressing the often overlooked yet profound economic and financial consequences of deforestation.

Critique is the critique of power May 21, 2025

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This event will bring together sociologists from a range of traditions to discuss whether critique can be equated with the critique of power in the analysis of the social world.