The Ballpark

By LSE Film and Audio Team

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

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The podcast currently has 5,855 episodes available.

The Ballpark episodes:

October 24, 2022 Can't Pay, Won't Pay! A Popular History of Taxes
Join us for the screening of Xavier’s Villetard’s documentary Can't Pay, Won't Pay! and following this a question and answer session with Natacha Postel-Vinay and Geoff Tily.
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1h 31min
October 20, 2022 Landscapes of Environmental Racism
Settler colonialism and racial capitalism in the US has resulted in dramatic forms of inequality through institutionalized, geopolitical, and environmental racism.
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1h 28min
October 20, 2022 In Conversation with Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa
To celebrate Black History Month, join us for this conversation with Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa.
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1h 6min
October 19, 2022 The Past, Present, and Future of Global Economic Governance
Our panel of Jamie Martin, Abraham Newman and Stephanie Rickard discuss the future of globalisation and international economic governance, particularly since the 2022 Russian attack on Ukraine.
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1h 28min
October 18, 2022 Ronald Ross and Hilda Hudson: a surprising collaboration on the theory of epidemics
During WW1, the famous physician Ronald Ross teamed up with a young geometer, Hilda Hudson, and together they effectively founded mathematical epidemiology. This is the story of their collaboration.
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1h 22min
October 18, 2022 How does class define us?
This episode of LSE iQ asks, ‘How does class define us?’
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33min
October 17, 2022 The Rise and Fall of the Neo-Liberal Order
The neoliberalism that has defined American political economy for more than four decades appears to be in terminal decline.
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1h 26min
October 13, 2022 Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing
Engaging with LSE's core motto, "Rerum Cognoscere Causas" meaning "to know the causes of things", we engage with a fundamental question about the purpose and future of the social sciences.
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1h 29min
October 13, 2022 Threatening Dystopias: politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh
Launch of Kasia Paprocki's new book, Threatening Dystopias The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh.
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1h 31min
October 12, 2022 Coping When Life is Hard: can philosophy help?
Two recent books - Kieran Setiya's Life is Hard and Luc Bovens's Coping - argue that it can. In this panel event, the authors talk to Susanne Burri and Jonathan Birch about their ideas.
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1h 32min

FAQs about The Ballpark:

How many episodes does The Ballpark have?

The podcast currently has 5,855 episodes available.