LSE Events 2023/24

The average person on the planet is losing about 2 years of life expectancy due to air pollution. It represents one of the greatest challenges that humanity faces. Despite greatly compromising people's well being and contributing to climate change it receives too little attention. This event raises the profile of this important determinant of human well-being and explores innovative ways to reduce it. Speakers: Professor Michael Greenstone Professor Namrata Kala Professor Ji Zou Chair Dr Clare Balboni #AirPollution #Events #London Full details/attend: To turn on captions, go to the bottom-right of the video player and click the icon. Please note that this feature uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, or machine generated transcription, and is not 100% accurate. Featured image (used in thumbnail with watermark added): Photo by Pixabay on Pexels

Join us for this event that will address the critical issue of advancing climate justice and building resilience to climate change, focusing on the unique struggles of developing countries that are disproportionately impacted by climate change. Speakers: Professor Oriana Bandiera Chipokota Mwanawasa Asif Saleh Chair: Dr Jonathan Leape #ClimateChange #Events #London Full details/attend: To turn on captions, go to the bottom-right of the video player and click the icon. Please note that this feature uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, or machine generated transcription, and is not 100% accurate. Featured image (used in thumbnail with watermark added): Photo by Vincent M.A. Janssen on Pexels

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? What will be the effect of the Biden administration’s green subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act on the US, Europe and the rest of the world? This event brings together leading thinkers and policy makers on this vital issue. Speakers: Heather Boushey Ed Miliband Dr Arkebe Oqubay Chair: Dr Anna Valero #GreenEconomy #Events #Biden Full details/attend: To turn on captions, go to the bottom-right of the video player and click the icon. Please note that this feature uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, or machine generated transcription, and is not 100% accurate. Featured image (used in thumbnail with watermark added): Photo Karolina Grabowska on Pexels

A blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society. Playing on the phrase “a theory of everything” from physics, Michael Muthukrishna will discuss his ambitious, original, and deeply hopeful book A Theory of Everyone, which draws on the most recent research from across the sciences, humanities, and the emerging field of cultural evolution to paint a panoramic picture of who we are and what exactly makes human beings different from all other forms of life on the planet. Speakers: Michael Muthukrishna Chair: Matthew Syed #Physics #Events #London Full details/attend: To turn on captions, go to the bottom-right of the video player and click the icon. Please note that this feature uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, or machine generated transcription, and is not 100% accurate.

Few predicted the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Even fewer thought it would still be going on 18 months later. There is though almost complete agreement that what began as a regional conflict has changed the world forever. Speakers: Dr Eleanor Knott Professor Robert Falkner Professor Tomila Lankina Chris Alden Chair Professor Michael Cox #Ukraine #Events #London Full details/attend: To turn on captions, go to the bottom-right of the video player and click the icon. Please note that this feature uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, or machine generated transcription, and is not 100% accurate. Featured image (used in thumbnail with watermark added): Photo by Markus Spiske on Pexels

Publicity and transparency are frequently proposed as solutions to societal and environmental problems; after all, sunlight is famously said to be the best of disinfectants. The talk will review what we know about the role and effectiveness of transparency regimes that target particular corporate activities by shining the light on them. Speakers: Professor Christian Leuz Chair: Dr Maria Correia #Transparency #Events #London Full details/attend: To turn on captions, go to the bottom-right of the video player and click the icon. Please note that this feature uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, or machine generated transcription, and is not 100% accurate.

With the war in Ukraine well into its second year, we are joined by Nina Khrushcheva to discuss the fault lines that the war has opened up in Russian society - and the potential of the Russia left to use these fractures to push for a more progressive Russia. Speakers: Professor Nina Lvovna Khrushcheva Chair: Dr Robin Archer #RussiaUkraineWar #Events #London Full details/attend: To turn on captions, go to the bottom-right of the video player and click the icon. Please note that this feature uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, or machine generated transcription, and is not 100% accurate. Featured image (used in thumbnail with watermark added): Photo by 100 Files on Pexels

Join us for this event with Mikhail Khodorkovsky who will be speaking about his new book, How To Slay a Dragon: building a new Russia after Putin. The book is Khodorkovsky's account of what is happening in Russia today and what could happen in the future. Putin will not last forever: sooner or later, there will be a post-Putin era. But Russia's history has been deeply shaped by an autocratic trap: a revolution against an autocracy has produced another autocracy, followed by another revolution and another autocracy, and so on. If Russia is to find its place as a constructive partner in a global community of civilised nations, then it has to escape this vicious cycle. His book is Khodorkovsky's account of his own journey and of how the vicious cycle of Russian history can be broken. He charts a pathway towards a parliamentary federal republic which would enable Russia to become a free and democratic society, living in peace and without dragons. Speaker: Mikhail Khodorkovsky Chair: Profes

Join us for this panel discussion for the launch of Decentralised governance: crafting effective democracies around the world, a new publication from LSE Press. Speakers: Professor Jean-Paul Faguet Professor Sarmistha Pal Professor Fabio Sánchez Chair: Professor Adnan Khan #LSEEDecentralisedGovernance Full details/attend: To turn on captions, go to the bottom-right of the video player and click the icon. Please note that this feature uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, or machine generated transcription, and is not 100% accurate.

David Stainforth discusses his new book Predicting Our Climate Future: what we know, what we don’t know, and what we can’t know - how climate science works and why you should absolutely trust some of its conclusions and absolutely distrust others. Speakers: Professor David Stainforth Kathryn Brown Tom Sheldon Chair: Professor Elizabeth Robinson #Clilmate #Events #London Full details/attend: To turn on captions, go to the bottom-right of the video player and click the icon. Please note that this feature uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology, or machine generated transcription, and is not 100% accurate.