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12.25.2020

Contributor(s): Ann Cairns, Ruth Cairnie, Wanda Hope, Lance Uggla, Nate Yohannes | The impacts of COVID-19 within firms include cost-cutting, a move towards virtual working for many workers and the pivoting of business objectives. These impacts of COVID-19 have the ...

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12.25.2020 The Value of Inclusion for a Post-COVID-19 World Contributor(s): Ann Cairns, Ruth Cairnie, Wanda Hope, Lance Uggla, Nate Yohannes \| The impacts of COVID-19 within firms include cost-cutting, a move towards virtual working for many workers and the pivoting of business objectives. These impacts of COVID-19 have the ...
12.01.2020 How can we end child poverty in the UK? Contributor(s): Dr Kitty Stewart \| A campaign by the Manchester United footballer, Marcus Rashford, has prompted the UK government to provide extra support for children from low-income families during the pandemic. Even before coronavirus, child poverty had been rising for ...
11.30.2020 Working From Home: legal issues arising from the 'new normal' Contributor(s): Alice Carse, Professor Nicola Lacey, Dr Astrid Sanders, Dr Sarah Trotter \| A panel discussion of legal issues that arise from many people increasingly working from home, a pattern that seems likely to persist even after the Covid 19 ...
11.30.2020 Theory and Practice: designing anti-poverty programs when power matters Contributor(s): Professor Rohini Pande \| Join us for the annual Coase-Phillips Lecture which this year will be delivered by Rohini Pande. Even before COVID-19 changed the trajectory of global poverty reduction, the returns to economic growth were increasingly unequally divided ...
11.26.2020 Remembering the 1970 Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act Contributor(s): Dr Miro Griffiths, Dr Gareth Millward, Gill Morris \| An event to mark the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act with a personal view of Alf Morris, the MP who put the ...
11.26.2020 Making Wellbeing the Goal Contributor(s): Baroness Tyler, Lord O'Donnell, Professor Lord Layard, Alan Jope \| This 30th Anniversary CEP event will ask can wellbeing become the focus for social science? How would this change economics and policy analysis? How would it change policy priorities ...
11.24.2020 Two Faces of Populism Contributor(s): Professor Stephanie J. Rickard, Professor Barry Eichengreen \| Explanations for variants of populism are typically framed as a contest between culture and economics. Building on his recent book, The Populist Temptation, Professor Barry Eichengreen (University of California-Berkeley) will consider ...
11.23.2020 Covid-19 and global gender strategy: if not now, when? Contributor(s): Ginette Azcona, Dr Roopa Dhatt, Dr Roopa Dhatt, Megan O’Donnell \| This event brings together global experts on gender issues to discuss the urgent need to support women. How can women’s vulnerability be considered in pandemic preparedness and response? ...
11.19.2020 The Pandemic as a Portal:2020 Mobilization, Activism and Opportunities for Structural Change Following Crisis and Upheaval Contributor(s): Grace Blakeley, Dr Aviah Sarah Day, Chrisann Jarrett, Shanice McBean, Sakina Sheikh \| A burgeoning body of scholarship shows that activists can harness opportunities created by war, upheaval, and economic collapse to leverage transformative social change. Precisely because they ...
11.19.2020 Origins of Human Cooperation Contributor(s): Professor Michael Tomasello \| Humans are biologically adapted for cultural life in ways that other primates are not. Humans have unique motivations and cognitive skills for sharing emotions, experience and actions, whereas our nearest primate relatives do not. Michael ...
11.18.2020 Europe's (Euro) Crisis of Legitimacy Contributor(s): Professor Vivien Schmidt \| In this lecture, Vivien Schmidt will define democracy and legitimacy, discuss it's split-level nature in the EU and detail the processes of Eurozone governance that led to deteriorating economic performance and the rise of populism. ...
11.17.2020 Mary Midgley and Why She Matters Contributor(s): Dr Panayiota Vassilopoulou, Ellie Robson, Dr Gregory McElwain \| We celebrate the thought of Mary Midgley, whose writing ranges across animal ethics, religion, science, and the natural world, connecting philosophical thought to lived experience. A fierce opponent of the ...
11.16.2020 Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, A Conversation with Stephen A. Schwarzman Contributor(s): Stephen A Schwarzman, Professor Andrés Velasco \| Minouche Shafik talks with financier and philanthropist, Stephen A. Schwarzman, author of the new book What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence, which draws on his experiences in business, philanthropy, ...
11.12.2020 Africa Talks: The future of African feminist activism Contributor(s): Professor Amina Mama, Dr Siphokazi Magadla \| The coronavirus pandemic has magnified existing inequalities, particularly along lines of gender. In Africa, like in other regions around the world, containment measures including lockdowns, confinement and drastic reductions in sociability have ...
11.12.2020 After Brexit: the UK in the North Atlantic trade triangle Contributor(s): Anthony Gardner, Beatrice Kilroy-Nolan, Luisa Santos \| As the UK steers its post-Brexit future, it is placed between US and EU trade policies. What might these mean for the UK’s economic future? With multilateralism under threat, what are the ...
11.11.2020 Empires Past & Present: the idea of empire Contributor(s): Professor Odd Arne Westad \| For most of the past five millennia, the world has been dominated by empires. These mega-states have set the agenda for much of human development, but their rule has never been uncontested. Anti-imperialism is ...
11.11.2020 The US Presidential Election and the Left Contributor(s): Jennifer Epps-Addison, Professor Jeff Manza \| What do the results tell us about the changing bases of voting behaviour and what do they mean for the left in the US and beyond? Jennifer Epps-Addison (@jeppsaddison) serves as the President ...
11.10.2020 Finding peace in Somalia – the Galkaio ‘local’ agreement Contributor(s): Ilham Gassar, Khalif Abdirahman, Dr Nisar Majid, Mark Bradbury \| Galkaio town represents a boundary on the ground and in the imagination within Somali society. The 1993 Peace Accord held a fragile peace for many years as political and ...
11.10.2020 Is Greece Falling Behind in the E-Economy? What is to be Done? Contributor(s): Effie Bitrou, Dr Charalambos Tsekeris, Professor Calliope Spanou \| The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted further – and indeed raised critically – the importance of digital connectivity and digital literacy for economic and societal resilience. From enabling teleworking during times ...
11.09.2020 International Climate Politics after the US Presidential Election Contributor(s): Professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor Naomi Oreskes, Professor Lord Stern, Laurence Tubiana \| Taking place one week after the election, this panel assesses the outcome of the US election and the prospects for the future of American and international climate ...
11.05.2020 What Just Happened? Analysing the 2020 US Presidential Election Contributor(s): Professor Meena Bose, Dr David Smith, Professor Jeffrey Tulis, Professor Linda Yueh \| Will President Trump be able to win a second term in the White House? Or will former Vice President, Democrat Joe Biden be able to beat ...
11.04.2020 Behavioural Science and a Post-COVID World Contributor(s): Professor Nick Chater, Professor Paul Dolan, Dr Grace Lordan, Professor Tali Sharot, Rory Sutherland \| The impacts of COVID-19 on society post-COVID and how we deal with them hinge on how politicians, firms and the public respond. What valuable ...
11.04.2020 How Not To Be Wrong: the art of changing your mind Contributor(s): James O’Brien \| Join us for this event with LSE alumnus and writer and broadcaster James O’Brien who will talking about his new book, How Not To Be Wrong. In How Not To Be Wrong, James puts himself under ...
11.03.2020 Empathy Contributor(s): Professor Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, Dr Nadine El-Enany, Dr Danielle Sands \| What role does empathy play in our social, moral, and political life? What are its limits? Can we be ethical without it? In an age of stark ...
11.03.2020 Bullshit jobs, technology, capitalism Contributor(s): Professor David Graeber \| This episode is dedicated to David Graeber, LSE professor of Anthropology, who died unexpectedly in September this year. David was a public intellectual, a best-selling author, an influential activist and anarchist. He took aim at ...
11.02.2020 The Ten Equations That Rule The World And How You Can Use Them Too Contributor(s): Professor David Sumpter \| Is there a secret formula for improving your life? For making something a viral hit? For deciding how long to stick with your current Netflix series, job, or even relationship? In his eye-opening new book ...
10.29.2020 Occupying the Pedestal: Cultural Heritage, Protest, and the Law Contributor(s): Councillor Asher Craig, Dr Tatiana Flessas, Jonathan Jones, Dr Sarah Keenan, Dr Luke McDonagh \| This event explores the controversies around removing statues, constructing and reconstructing ‘heritage’, and protesting received ways of deciding what is commemorated, and what is ...
10.28.2020 Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World Contributor(s): Fareed Zakaria \| Join us for this online public event with Fareed Zakaria who will be talking about new book, Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World. Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to ...
10.28.2020 The Rise and Rise of Big Tech Contributor(s): Pilita Clark, Professor Helen Margetts, Chi Onwurah MP \| What will the long-term consequences of the pandemic be for the rise of new communication technologies and the changing nature of work? Pilita Clark (@pilitaclark) is an Associate Editor and ...
10.27.2020 COVID-19 and Economic Recovery in Greece: challenges and prospects Contributor(s): Dimitri Vayanos, Professor Helen Louri-Dendrinou, George Handjinicolaou, Christos Staikouras \| Greece has come through an exceptional debt crisis and now it faces the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Can it maintain its return to growth? What are its ...
10.27.2020 In Conversation With Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu Contributor(s): Baroness Shafik \| To celebrate Black History Month, join us for this conversation between LSE alumna Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu and LSE Director Minouche Shafik. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu (@SholaMos1) is a lawyer and political and women's rights activist. She speaks on ...
10.26.2020 The Active Ingredient of Inequality Contributor(s): Professor Francisco Ferreira \| Around the world, people’s life chances are powerfully shaped by their race, gender, place of birth and family background. Two individuals born in the same city and on the same day may turn out to ...
10.26.2020 Racism, Imperialism and Decolonization in International Relations Contributor(s): Dr Musab Younis, Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa, Dr Nivi Manchanda \| The panel will address four key questions related to International Relations as a mainstream academic discipline and racialized politics. Why might Black Lives Matter be a subject for ...
10.23.2020 100 Great Black Britons Contributor(s): Patrick Vernon, Dr Angelina Osborne \| Join us in Black History Month for this event with Angelina Osborne and Patrick Vernon, the authors of 100 Great Black Britons, to celebrate the publication of their new book. The arrival of ...
10.23.2020 The European Central Bank Between the Financial Crisis and Populisms: a conversation with Ewald Nowotny Contributor(s): Dr Sebastian Diessner, Dr Corrado Macchiarelli, Mara Monti, Professor Ewald Nowotny, Professor Claudia Wiesner \| The ECB's actions during the crisis were of immediate political importance, not only for the financial and banking sector but for the European Union ...
10.22.2020 Policing as a Public Good Contributor(s): Professor Tracey L Meares \| In the wake of public criticism of contemporary criminal justice processes in general and of policing specifically, especially in the United States, some critics of these institutions and processes have called for abolition. In ...
10.22.2020 A Commitment to Welfare: the impact of Richard Titmuss on health and social policy Contributor(s): Professor John Stewart, Professor Lucinda Platt, Dr Sara Machado, Jon Ashworth MP \| Having joined the LSE in 1950, Richard Titmuss almost single-handedly, created the academic field of social administration (what we would now call social policy) in Britain. ...
10.21.2020 Civil Society Under Threat: COVID-19, authoritarianism and more Contributor(s): Dr Sergej Ljubownikow, Nicola Macbean, Dr Mariz Tadros \| Since the launch of the global War on Terror, civil society has come under persistent threat. New laws restricting the spaces and activities of civil society have been passed across ...
10.21.2020 The "State of Emergency" as the Rule and Not the Exception: crisis conditions and exploitative lawmaking during COVID-19 and beyond Contributor(s): Professor Vasuki Nesiah, Carly A. Krakow, Dr Sinan Antoon \| Writing in the context of resistance to 20th century Fascism, in his "Theses on the Philosophy of History" Walter Benjamin wrote, “The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that ...
10.20.2020 Anti-vaxxers and Other Sceptics Contributor(s): Professor Heidi Larson, Dr Katherine Furman, Dr Rohin Francis \| Will a future COVID-19 vaccine be undermined by anti-vaxxers? We discuss the causes of and cures for distrust in medical expertise. Rohin Francis (@MedCrisis) is a Cardiologist at University ...
10.19.2020 Data-driven Responses to COVID-19: opportunities and limitations Contributor(s): Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Dr Orla Lynskey, Dr Alison Powell, Dr Edgar Whitley \| These range from contact tracing to address the spread of the disease, through the use of AI in the dashboards that allocate health resources to ...
10.19.2020 The Human in Human Rights Contributor(s): Professor Craig Calhoun \| In the first in a series of three lectures, Craig Calhoun will discuss the problems which arise from putting a secular conception of the human at its centre for our normative and political imagination. These ...
10.16.2020 50 Years on From the Founding of the Gay Liberation Front: progress made since and applicability today Contributor(s): Dr Jacob Breslow, Angela Mason, Dr Gillian Murphy, Professor Jeffrey Weeks \| The GLF was formed as an international activist movement for the liberation of LGBT people after the Stonewall Riots in New York in 1969. The event will ...
10.15.2020 Is it Time to Cancel Household Debt? Contributor(s): Sarah-Jayne Clifton, Professor Deborah James, Dr Johnna Montgomerie, Dr Jerome Roos \| Does the COVID-19 crisis mean that the time has now arrived for mass household debt cancellation? Central among the many social and economic policy challenges arising in ...
10.15.2020 Democracy and the Supreme Court: judges and the politicians Contributor(s): Dr Paul Apostolidis \| The settled position of law and the judges in our constitution has undergone very severe stress testing over the last five years, through Brexit and coronavirus. Those two crises demonstrate the dominance of the executive, ...
10.14.2020 Climate Change, Displacement and International Justice Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Tahseen Jafry, Professor Chukwumerije Okereke, Dr Joana Setzer \| This panel brings together experts in human rights, ethics and global governance to debate the principles of climate justice and how they can be applied to ...
10.13.2020 Evaluating the Impact of Labour Market Reforms in Greece during 2010-2018 Contributor(s): Professor Nikos Vettas \| In the context of three consecutive bail out programs, the Greek state legislated and implemented various reforms aiming to restore its fiscal sustainability and external competitiveness. In this context, the most significant and radical structural ...
10.12.2020 Young People and (anti-) Racism: whose lives matter in Europe? Contributor(s): Dr Manmit Bhambra, Hiba Latreche, Magid Magid, Dr Emilia Zenzile Roig \| In Europe, racism is often dismissed as an issue of the past, the others, or the extremes. People of colour, activists, and academics alike have long challenged ...
10.09.2020 Growth and solidarity: cities reimagining human mobility in Africa and Europe Contributor(s): Professor Ricky Burdett, Marta Foresti, Giuseppe Sala, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr \| The Mayors Dialogue on Growth and Solidarity, spearheaded by the mayors of Freetown, Yvonne Aki -Sawyerr and Milan, Giuseppe Sala, engages about 20 cities from both continents to develop ...
10.08.2020 A World Safe for Democracy Contributor(s): Professor G. John Ikenberry, Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, Minouche Shafik \| For the last two hundred years, the liberal internationalist project has built towards an open, rules based, progressive world. Outside threats from illiberal challengers and from the inside by ...

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