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An industrial strategy for ...

09.14.2023

Contributor(s): Heather Boushey, Ed Miliband MP, Dr Arkebe Oqubay, Dr Anna Valero | The transition to a net zero economy requires a new industrial revolution. How should the UK and other countries craft effective policies to generate such radical change? ...

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09.14.2023 An industrial strategy for the green economy Contributor(s): Heather Boushey, Ed Miliband MP, Dr Arkebe Oqubay, Dr Anna Valero \| The transition to a net zero economy requires a new industrial revolution. How should the UK and other countries craft effective policies to generate such radical change? ...
09.14.2023 Four ways of thinking Contributor(s): Professor David Sumpter \| What is the best way to think about the world? How often do we consider how our own thinking might impact the way we approach our daily decisions? Could it help or hinder our relationships, ...
09.12.2023 From adversity to resilience: climate justice in developing countries Contributor(s): Professor Oriana Bandiera, Chipokota Mwanawasa, Asif Saleh, Ali Sarfraz \| The conversation will centre around the pressing needs of adaptation and social protection, both integral for survival and resilience in these regions. The speakers will discuss the need for ...
09.04.2023 Parenthood and the double x economy Contributor(s): Alison McGovern MP, Professor Henrik J Kleven, Professor Linda Scott \| In this event, expert and best-selling author Linda Scott, in a conversation with academic and political leaders, discusses how the unequal division of the burden of parenthood fuels ...
08.20.2023 Is AI coming for our jobs? Contributor(s): Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides, Professor Charlie Beckett, Dr Giulia Gentile \| We’ll hear about the introduction of Artificial Intelligence in the courtroom, and what might happen if robots take over the roles of judges. Experts will explore how journalism ...
07.03.2023 The Other Pandemic: how QAnon contaminated the world Contributor(s): James Ball \| The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World, takes us into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid ascent of QAnon – the world's first digital pandemic – and how we can ...
06.29.2023 Global Trends in Climate Litigation Contributor(s): Dr Joana Setzer, Catherine Higham, Dr Maria Antonia Tigre, Professor Lauge Poulson, Dr Birsha Ohdedar, Sophie Marjanac, Laura Ford \| This influential report presents an overview of climate litigation, highlighting recent developments and future trends. The report is widely ...
06.19.2023 Know Your Place: how society sets us up to fail – and what we can do about it Contributor(s): Professor Gary Younge, Gary Stevenson, Dr Faiza Shaheen, Kimberly McIntosh \| Part memoir, part polemic, this is a personal and statistical look at how society is built, the people it leaves behind, and what we can do about it. ...
06.17.2023 This is Not America: why black lives in Britain matter \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Tomiwa Owolade \| Debate abounds around racism, identity, diversity, immigration and colonial history, and, in the rush to address injustice, Britain has followed the lead of the world's dominant power: America. We judge ourselves by America's standards, absorb its ...
06.17.2023 How is AI Changing the World? \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Professor Michael Wooldridge, Dr Giulia Gentile, Dr Thomas Ferretti, Dr Christine Chow \| The sudden rise of ChatGPT has confirmed that artificial intelligence is no longer a technology of the future, but is already shaping our everyday lives – ...
06.17.2023 What Would a Fairer Society Look Like? \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Lord Willetts, Swatee Deepak, Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Daniel Chandler \| Whilst many are dissatisfied with the status quo, it is surprisingly hard to find a coherent vision of what a better and fairer world would look like. In the ...
06.17.2023 The Power of Data in Health \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Dr Angela Spatharou, Dr Alexandra Gomes, James Fransham \| We are rightly concerned about the misuse of our personal data, but data science and the tracking of data reveal crucial information about the impacts of change on people, as ...
06.17.2023 Russia's War Against Ukraine: war crimes and responsibility for post-war reconstruction \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): \| These include reported mass rape, torture, and abductions of children, as well as the destruction of civil infrastructure like schools, hospitals, and residential homes. Efforts are under way by inter-state and non-state organisations, governments, and civil society to ...
06.17.2023 How Did Britain Come to This? \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Ros Taylor, Professor Gwyn Bevan \| So what is wrong with the design of British government, and how has it resulted in catastrophic failures of governance in recent years? To mark the publication of his new book with LSE ...
06.17.2023 Can People Change the World? Activists, Social Movements, and Utopian Futures \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): \| More and more individuals and groups are taking action and using their voices to tackle the growing social and economic inequalities. Social movements and activists engage with, challenge, and seek to shape policy processes and wider political transformations ...
06.17.2023 #MeToo in the Media: survivors, believability, and emotional labour \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Lucia Osborne-Crowley, Winnie M Li, Dr Kathryn Claire Higgins, Rowena Chiu \| More than five years after the first Weinstein allegations appeared in news headlines, #MeToo continues to impact our media landscape, but we should not ignore the impact ...
06.17.2023 Russia: does It believe in anything? \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Professor Vladislav Zubok, Professor Tomila Lankina, Adam Curtis, Grigor Atanesian \| Adam Curtis’s BAFTA-nominated BBC series, Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone, documents what it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy, based on preserved and digitised footage ...
06.17.2023 The Changing Nature of Religion in Today's World \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Erin K. Wilson, Georgette Bennett, John Casson, Dr Mukulika Banerjee \| But this has distracted us from asking how religion itself is changing and, in turn, changing understandings of identity, political participation and citizenship for millions of people around ...
06.16.2023 Smashing the Class Ceiling \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Professor Sam Friedman, Professor Lee Elliot Major \| A society with high social mobility creates opportunities for people from all backgrounds to excel. The UK is becoming less socially mobile, meaning that, compared to previous generations, the chances of ...
06.16.2023 How to Manage Transition in Turbulent Times \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Dr Katerina Glyniadaki \| Drawing examples from her research on migration management, Dr Glyniadaki discusses some steps that organisations for migrants take to prevent crises, as well as some strategies individual migrants employ to tackle transition and overcome relevant ...
06.15.2023 The Changing Inequalities of Citizenship \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Dr Eleanor Knott, Dr Kristin Surak, Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey \| In this session three scholars from across the social sciences explore the varying, complex, and global nature of inequalities produced in and through citizenship in the 21st century. ...
06.15.2023 The Birth Lottery of History \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Professor Nicola Lacey, Professor Robert J. Sampson \| Does when you are born shape your life chances? A leading sociologist discusses his ground-breaking study of criminal justice that shows that when you come of age matters as much (and ...
06.15.2023 In Conversation with Martin Lewis \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Martin Lewis \| Ours is an age of rampant inequalities and pervasive financial struggles, where the power of big banks and corporations seems overwhelming to the individual. Whilst you might hope for longer term systemic change, what can you ...
06.15.2023 How to Negotiate: the essentials you need to know \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Dr Karin A. King, Dr Aurelie Cnop-Nielsen \| Negotiation is one of the most important skills of successful managers in organisations today. In the context of ongoing change in business, economies and society, organisations need to adapt the design ...
06.14.2023 The Power of "Good Enough" \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Dr Rachel O'Neill, Adrienne Herbert, Dr Thomas Curran \| Over the past 30 years, there has been a substantial increase in the percentage of people who feel they need to be perfect. The pressure we put on ourselves to ...
06.14.2023 Financing Climate Change? Inspiration for Change from African Thinkers \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Dr Luca Taschini, Annet Nakyeyune, Bogolo Kenewendo \| We consider the ways in which climate change mitigation will be financed, seeking approaches from key African academics and professionals. We address the environmental and ecological challenges the continent faces and ...
06.14.2023 How Should We Use AI in Higher Education? \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Dr Jonathan Cardoso-Silva \| Generative AI is a field of artificial intelligence that can create new data based on existing data, such as text, images, code and sounds. It can mimic the way humans create new ideas, concepts and ...
06.14.2023 In Conversation with Sadiq Khan \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Sadiq Khan \| For many years, Sadiq wasn't fully aware of the dangers posed by air pollution, nor its connection with climate change. Then, aged 43, he was unexpectedly diagnosed with adult-onset asthma - brought on by the polluted ...
06.13.2023 How to Understand Digitalisation and Change Management: a sociotechnical approach \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Dr Emilio Lastra-Gil \| People in different organisations may use the same new technology differently and, consequently, change informal organising in distinct ways. Materiality allows social effect if it is constant in the organisation under study. The aim of ...
06.13.2023 Why is Change so Hard? \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Dr Jens Madsen, Laura de Molière, Professor Conor Gearty, Stella Creasy \| Prevented by risk or fear; hampered by bureaucracy; stifled by people circumventing interventions; or cancelled out by unintended consequences - the panel will consider the legal, social, ...
06.13.2023 The Road to Net Zero: how to seize opportunities and manage change \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Dr Anna Valero, Rain Newton-Smith, Chris Skidmore, Dr Liam F Beiser-McGrath \| As new ways to power our homes, workplaces and transport are developed there will be opportunities for sustainable, healthier economic growth. But there will also be costs ...
06.12.2023 How Can Economists Change Our Lives? \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Dr Linda Yueh, Baroness Shafik, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Professor Richard Davies \| Expert economists share stories of what is possible, and what the pitfalls might be, showing how economists and policymakers have changed our lives – to create safer, ...
06.12.2023 How the Workplace is Changing: productivity, inclusion, and beyond \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Dr Jasmine Virhia, Yolanda Blavo \| In this session, we cover the changes to the workplace owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the potential changes we expect to see in the future, and the UTOPIA framework, which we developed for ...
06.12.2023 Rethinking Retirement: public policies to support life changes \| LSE Festival Contributor(s): Susan Scholefield, David Sinclair, Professor Sir Vince Cable \| Prior to retiring people rarely consider these questions, and there is little of a public policy framework to help them do so. How much do we understand – or anticipate ...
06.08.2023 The Future of Social Democracy Contributor(s): Professor Adam Przeworski \| The contemporary period of crisis has fundamentally altered party-political landscapes in democracies around the world. The rise of the far right, shifting voter preferences, renewed union activism, and new ideas have all contributed to a ...
06.07.2023 Black Ghost of Empire: failed emancipations, reparations, and Maroon ecologies Contributor(s): Professor Kris Manjapra \| Manjapra argues that during each of the supposed emancipations from slavery – whether Haiti after the revolution, the British Empire in 1833 or the United States during the Civil War – Black people were dispossessed ...
06.06.2023 Economics, Hayek, and Large Language Models Contributor(s): Professor Tyler Cowen \| For the first time, Large Language Models give us a direct and effective means of conversing with Artificial Intelligence on substantive questions of our choosing, including matters of economics. How do Large Language Models change ...
06.02.2023 How Web 3.0 Technology and Data Policy Combine to Promote Data Sovereignty, Privacy, and Trust Contributor(s): Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Professor Ken Benoit \| Tim Berners-Lee, an Oxford graduate and British computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Named one of Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Important People of the 20th Century,’ he is ...
06.01.2023 Global Governance in an Age of Fracture Contributor(s): Professor Cornelia Woll, Dr C Raja Mohan, Professor Charles A Kupchan, Dr Selina Ho \| Support for traditional international institutions such as the UN and the WTO is weakening in the Global North as well as the Global South. ...
05.31.2023 Social Capital and Economic Mobility Contributor(s): Professor Raj Chetty \| This talk will discuss recent research using data on billions of friendships from Facebook that identifies economic connectedness -- the degree of social interaction between low- and high-income people -- as a key predictor of ...
05.26.2023 Time to Think Contributor(s): Hannah Barnes, Professor Lucinda Platt \| In this event investigative journalist Hannah Barnes speaks about her book: how she came to investigate the Tavistock’s gender service for children, the testimony she received, and her attempts to understand how safeguarding ...
05.24.2023 Patriarchy: where did it all begin? Contributor(s): Bee Rowlatt, Angela Saini \| Join us as Angela reveals the true roots of gendered oppression, and the complex history of how male domination became embedded in societies across the globe. Travelling to the world’s earliest known human settlements, ...
05.22.2023 What We Owe the Future: in conversation with William MacAskill Contributor(s): Dr William MacAskill \| Does what we do today determine the happiness or misery of trillions of people in the future? MacAskill proposes that by making wise moral decisions today, we can navigate a multitude of crises – bioengineered ...
05.18.2023 Putting Bourdieu and Marx in Dialogue Contributor(s): Dr Gabriella Paolucci, Dr Poornima Paidipaty, Professor Bridget Fowler \| This book is the first sustained work reflecting on the relations between these two major theorists, and includes contributions from major writers drawing from both scholarly traditions. This new ...
05.17.2023 Central Bank Balance Sheet Expansion and Financial Stability: why less can be more Contributor(s): Professor Raghuram Rajan \| When the Federal Reserve expanded its balance sheet via large-scale asset purchases (quantitative easing) in recent years, we find an increase in commercial bank deposits with a shortening of their maturity, and also an increase ...
05.15.2023 What Would a Fair Society Look Like? Contributor(s): Polly Toynbee, Professor David Runciman, Professor Margaret Levi, Daniel Chandler \| In his new book, Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?, Daniel Chandler argues that the ideas we need are hiding in plain sight, in ...
05.11.2023 Blood and Power Contributor(s): Professor John Foot \| But how much does the contemporary period of political upheaval compare to the past? And what does this mean for the left in Italy and beyond? To find out, we're joined by John Foot to ...
05.09.2023 Anti-globalism and the Future of the Liberal World Order Contributor(s): Professor Brian Burgoon, Professor Michael Cox, Professor Sara Hobolt, Professor Peter Trubowitz, Dr Leslie Vinjamuri \| In Geopolitics and Democracy, Peter Trubowitz and Brian Burgoon provide a new explanation of why the liberal international order has buckled under the ...
05.04.2023 Shaping a 21st Century Policy Consensus Contributor(s): Professor Leonard Wantchekon, Professor Lord Stern, Professor Diane Coyle, Professor Pranab Bardhan \| A generation ago, the so-called Washington Consensus laid out a series of do´s and don’t´s for policymakers around the world, and particularly in emerging and developing ...
05.03.2023 The Travelling Salesman Problem Contributor(s): Professor William Cook \| The general setting is the following. Complexity theory suggests there are limits to the power of general-purpose computational techniques, in engineering, science and elsewhere. But what are these limits and how widely do they constrain ...

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