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The Ballpark is the LSE US Centre's regular podcast on the politics and policy of the United States. Through features and interviews with academics from the LSE and elsewhere, The Ballpark looks more ... more
FAQs about The Ballpark:How many episodes does The Ballpark have?The podcast currently has 5,855 episodes available.
March 29, 2021The Power to Say Yes, The Right to Say NoNatalia Kanem, Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, will discuss why bodily autonomy and sexual and reproductive health and rights are fundamental to advancing human dignity and equality....more1h 1minPlay
March 29, 2021Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic of Inequality to Build a Green, Inclusive, & Resilient RecoveryJoin World Bank Group President David Malpass, ahead of the Spring Meetings, at the London School of Economics and Political Science as he discusses what is needed to build a green, inclusive, and resilient recovery from the pandemic....more58minPlay
March 25, 2021Think BigIn this event, Paul Dolan will be in conversation with Grace Lordan about her new book, Think Big: Take Small Steps and Build the Future You Want....more1hPlay
March 24, 2021The Hype Machine: how social media disrupts our elections, our economy and our healthMIT professor Sinan Aral draws on two decades of his own research and business experience and go under the hood of the biggest, most powerful social networks...more1hPlay
March 23, 2021A Theory of Everything?The biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. Is there an even more general theory that can make sense of all the sciences?...more1h 15minPlay
March 23, 2021The Politics of Race in American Film: Episode 3, Class, Gender and Freedom at the Edges of American SocietyDr. Clive James Nwonka hosts a conversation with Melanie Hoyes, Dr. Luisa Heredia, and Dr. Shelley Cobb about the films American Honey and The Florida Project....more44minPlay
March 23, 2021Regimes of Inequality: the political economy of health and wealthIn this lecture, Julia Lynch will examine the political dynamics underlying the “new normal” of high and rising inequality since 1980....more1h 4minPlay
March 22, 2021The Left in Power: reflections on SYRIZA’s promise and achievementsWhen SYRIZA came to power in January 2015, it promised an end to the bailouts and to austerity. In this conversation with Kevin Featherstone, Euclid Tsakalotos will discuss its achievements and setbacks....more1h 35minPlay
March 22, 2021From Subject to Citizen – And Back: crises of the republicThis year’s Fred Halliday Memorial Event will explore how and why the symbolic investment in republican discourse and the building of republican institutions can be so detrimental to the rights of the very public that they are meant to represent....more1h 30minPlay
March 18, 2021Getting Developing Asia Back on TrackAsia has successfully transitioned from a low-income agrarian region in the 1960s to a global manufacturing powerhouse today, driving growth around the world. COVID-19 is threatening to turn back the clock on some of that progress....more0minPlay
FAQs about The Ballpark:How many episodes does The Ballpark have?The podcast currently has 5,855 episodes available.