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Critical Partnerships for S...

01.14.2022

Contributor(s): Achim Steiner | UNDP’s Human Development Report regularly highlights the impacts of so-called ‘wicked problems’ of under-development, instability and conflict. Recent initiatives such as the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development and the SDG Investor Platform aim to encourage more ...

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01.14.2022 Critical Partnerships for Sustainable Development Contributor(s): Achim Steiner \| UNDP’s Human Development Report regularly highlights the impacts of so-called ‘wicked problems’ of under-development, instability and conflict. Recent initiatives such as the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development and the SDG Investor Platform aim to encourage more ...
12.20.2021 Dismantling the Apartheid of Our Time: the Palestinian Liberation Movement as an anti-racist struggle Contributor(s): Dr Noura Erakat \| The report built on decades of the intellectual work and political advocacy of Palestinians scholars and organizations. Notably, the HRW report diverges from those legacies in significant ways.
12.17.2021 Systemic Risk in Interconnected Financial Markets Contributor(s): Professor Luitgard Veraart \| This talk explains insights from mathematics to model loss cascades and apply them to recent financial stress events.
12.14.2021 How To Get Away With Killing? A Social Science Counter-investigation Contributor(s): Professor Didier Fassin, Dr Richard Martin, Christina Varvia \| The book engages in a 'counter-investigation' into a fatal encounter between armed French police and a member of the travelling community. In doing so, it raises deep and troubling questions ...
12.13.2021 What is it like to be an animal? Contributor(s): Dr Jonathan Birch, Professor Kristin Andrews, Dr Rosalind Arden \| This episode features Jonathan Birch, Associate Professor in LSE's Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, Professor Kristin Andrews, the York Research Chair in Animal Minds at York University ...
12.13.2021 Nudge: the final edition Contributor(s): Professor Richard H Thaler \| Richard H Thaler was awarded the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to the field of behavioural economics. He is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioural Science ...
12.13.2021 Minimum Wages: lessons from international experience Contributor(s): Professor Manolis Galenianos, Professor Alan Manning, Professor Antigone Lyberaki \| Manolis Galenianos is Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London. Antigone Lyberaki is Professor of Economics at Panteion University, Greece. Alan Manning is Professor of Economics in ...
12.10.2021 Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Contributor(s): Dr Beverly Daniel Tatum \| Walk into any racially mixed secondary school and you will see young people clustered in their own groups according to race. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel ...
12.10.2021 Why Women's Lives Don't Matter: ignoring sexual violence in conflict Contributor(s): Surood Mohammed Falih, Pramila Patten, Robinah Rubimbwa \| A nine-year-old girl is sold to a 50-year-old man for $2000. This is Afghanistan today. But it was Iraq a few years ago, and Uganda before that. The horror of sexual ...
12.07.2021 What is it like to be an animal? Contributor(s): Dr Jonathan Birch, Professor Kristen Andrews, Dr Rosalind Arden \| This episode features Jonathan Birch, Associate Professor in LSE's Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, Professor Kristen Andrews, the York Research Chair in Animal Minds at York University ...
12.06.2021 The External Action of the European Union Contributor(s): Dr Nora Fisher Onar, Professor Sieglinde Gstöhl, Professor Karen E Smith \| This book gives us a taste of how rich analyses of EU external action have become. Once considered an exception, now EU foreign policy in its various ...
11.29.2021 Career and Family: women's century-long journey toward equity Contributor(s): Professor Claudia Goldin, Professor Jane Humphries, Dr Berkay Ozcan, Dr Iva Tasseva \| Drawing on decades of her own groundbreaking research, Goldin provides a fresh, in-depth look at the diverse experiences of college-educated women from the 1900s to today, ...
11.29.2021 The State We're In at 25: reconsidering progressive politics Contributor(s): Will Hutton, Alison McGovern MP, Sir Geoff Mulgan \| Are the problems faced by the UK different now? And what lessons are there in progressive renewal? To mark the book's 25th anniversary, this event will bring together Will Hutton ...
11.29.2021 The Communards Contributor(s): Professor John Merriman \| John Merriman is the Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune and a recipient of the American Historical Association’s award ...
11.26.2021 Europe's Recovery Programs Contributor(s): Professor Luis Garicano, Professor Stefanie Stantcheva, Professor Nikos Vettas \| These programs differ in ambition, as well as in the scope of policies. This discussion highlights key features of the French, Greek and EU programs, while also focusing on ...
11.26.2021 Proxies: the cultural work of standing in Contributor(s): Dr Tarleton Gillespie, Dr Cait McKinney, Dr Dylan Mulvin \| Our world is built on an array of standards we are compelled to share. In Proxies, Mulvin examines how we arrive at those standards, asking, To whom and to ...
11.26.2021 Home in the World Contributor(s): Professor Amartya Sen \| Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen (87) home has been many places – Dhaka in modern Bangladesh where he grew up, the village of Santiniketan where he was raised by his grandparents as much as ...
11.26.2021 Inclusion in Global Markets Contributor(s): Dawid Konotey-Ahulu, Philip Fernandez, Ida Liu, Dr Grace Lordan, Beatriz Martin \| This discussion marks the launch of the inclusion framework - a new behavioural science based framework to create inclusive global organisations.
11.25.2021 Queering Europe: nationalism and sexuality Contributor(s): Professor Fatima El Tayeb, Abeera Khan, Dr Richard Mole, Dr Alyosxa Tudor \| Challenging the binary of tolerant West and intolerant others, the speakers discuss how both homophobia and homonationalism are intertwined with nationalist projects across the continent.
11.19.2021 Grief Contributor(s): Professor Michael Cholbi, Dr Will Daddario, Priya Jay \| Can we grieve well? Is mourning for public figures very different to the grief we feel after the death of friends and family? What is it like to grieve in ...
11.19.2021 Data Feminism: what does feminist data science look like? Contributor(s): Professor Catherine D'Ignazio, Professor Lauren F Klein \| Drawing from their recent book, Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a set of principles for data science that are informed by decades of intersectional feminist activism and critical ...
11.19.2021 Rethinking American Political Economy Contributor(s): Professor Paul Pierson, Professor Kathleen Thelen \| Drawing on their new volume, The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power, Paul Pierson and Kathleen Thelen lay out a comparatively informed framework for understanding how business power, union decline, racial ...
11.17.2021 Secular Stagnation After COVID-19 Contributor(s): Professor Lawrence H. Summers \| He received a bachelor of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and was awarded a PhD from Harvard in 1982. In 1983, he became one of the youngest individuals in ...
11.17.2021 Putting Peace Back into Politics Contributor(s): Professor Monica McWilliams, Halima Mohamed, Amina Rasul \| null
11.16.2021 Flux: eight superpowers for thriving in constant change Contributor(s): April Rinne \| Rinne shows that when everything is in flux, everything benefits from a flux mindset: the ability to consistently see all change as an opportunity, not a threat. She harnesses her very personal experiences with flux, including ...
11.09.2021 Technological Change, Cities and Spatial Inequality Contributor(s): Professor Simona Iammarino, Dr Tom Kemeny, Dr Megha Mukim \| null
11.09.2021 Social Unrest in Colombia and Chile: causes and cures Contributor(s): Mauricio Cárdenas, Ricardo Lagos, Juan Manuel Santos, Baroness Shafik \| null
11.08.2021 Cogs and Monsters: what economics is, and what it should be Contributor(s): Professor Diane Coyle \| null
11.03.2021 What Climate Change Loss and Damage Means for the US and the World Contributor(s): Professor Emily Boyd, Professor Ademola Oluborode Jegede, Professor Kyle Whyte \| Emily Boyd is Professor in sustainability science and Director of Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies. She is a leading social scientist with a specialist focus on the ...
11.03.2021 Greece and the Euro: from crisis to recovery Contributor(s): Professor George Alogoskoufis, Professor Helen Louri-Dendrinou, Professor Lucas Papademos, Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides \| What are the pre-conditions – economic, political and institutional - for a sustained recovery of the Greek economy? What's scope is there for recovery, which ...
11.02.2021 Pandemic Public Finance: how historic is it? Contributor(s): Professor Graciela L Kaminsky, Professor Carmen M Reinhart, Professor Thomas J Sargent \| Can we draw parallels between the impact of crisis and war on state’s indebtedness in the past with the consequences of public borrowing in today’s age ...
11.02.2021 Britain, Europe and America: lessons from the recent past and prospects for the near future Contributor(s): Lord Darroch \| What have we learnt after the PM’s recent visit to Washington and from the ‘AUKUS’ agreement?
11.02.2021 15 years on from the Stern Review: economics of climate change, innovation, growth Contributor(s): Lord Nicholas Stern \| null
11.02.2021 China's Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism Contributor(s): Dr Benjamin Ho, Dr Joseph Chinyong Liow, Dr Beverley Loke \| null
11.02.2021 In Conversation with John F Kerry, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Contributor(s): John F Kerry \| null
11.01.2021 Free: coming of age at the end of history Contributor(s): Professor Lea Ypi \| Pyramid schemes bankrupted the country, leading to violence. One generation’s dreams became another’s disillusionment. As her own family’s secrets were revealed, Ypi found herself questioning what “freedom” really means. With acute insight and wit, Ypi ...
11.01.2021 Modern Conversations Contributor(s): Professor Alexandra Georgakopoulou, Professor Daniel Miller, Dr Rebecca Roache \| But is there more to this than a mere increase in communication? Do these different channels of communication change the nature of communication itself? And what might all this ...
11.01.2021 Planning for the Post-COVID world: central bank policies in emerging economies Contributor(s): Professor Piroska Nagy-Mohácsi, Professor Ricardo Reis, Gent Sejko \| null
10.27.2021 Red or Green? Contributor(s): Dr Tarik Abou-Chadi \| null
10.27.2021 The 'Human' in Human Rights Contributor(s): Professor Craig Calhoun \| null
10.27.2021 The Brexit Deterrent? How Britain's Exit has Shaped Public Support for the EU Contributor(s): Professor Sara Hobolt, Professor Sofia Vasilopoulou \| null
10.22.2021 In Conversation with Otegha Uwagba Contributor(s): Otegha Uwagba \| null
10.22.2021 What's Wrong with Rights? Contributor(s): Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge, Dr Yoriko Otomo, Dr Adam Etinson \| null
10.22.2021 How to Stop Fascism? Contributor(s): Paul Mason, Professor Lea Ypi \| null
10.19.2021 Monetary Policy and Financial Cycles Contributor(s): Professor Hélène Rey \| null
10.19.2021 Calling In, Not Calling Out Contributor(s): Professor Shani Orgad \| null
10.19.2021 Changing the Story on Disability? Contributor(s): Fredrick Ouko, Liz Sayce, Kate Stanley, Professor Tom Shakespeare \| null
10.14.2021 The Aristocracy of Talent: how meritocracy made the modern world Contributor(s): Adrian Wooldridge \| null
10.13.2021 The Dawn of Everything Contributor(s): Professor Alpa Shah, Professor David Wengrow \| null
10.11.2021 The Indian Economy: recent developments and prospects Contributor(s): Shri Shaktikanta Das, Dr Swati Dhingra, N K Singh, Martin Wolf \| In this event, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and the Chair of the 15th Indian Finance Commission will discuss the challenges facing the economy ...

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