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Award-winning science fiction writer, Kim Stanley Robinson discusses the political economy needed to cope with climate change with Elizabeth Robinson, Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

Professor Olivier Blanchard, former Chief Economist at the IMF, explores how current global instability poses a challenge to economic wellbeing.

Our panel explore some of the issues coming to the fore in this bumper year for politics as well as their implications.

On the first day of voting in the elections, our panel discuss Eurosceptic parties, climate change, migration and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and more.

Baroness Beeban Kidron explores the issues around AI and why it must not be left to tech experts and unaccountable corporations.

Our panel explore how we can overcome social division and create a more cohesive society.

Our panel seeks to answer the central economic question of our time: what is the alternative to neoliberalism?

Branko Milanovic discusses his latest book, Visions of Inequality: from the French Revolution to the end of the Cold War.

Paul Seabright discusses his latest book, The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People.

Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears discuss their new book, England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight.

Dr Christina Heatherton reflects on the challenges of internationalism at present.

Governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey delivers his lecture on the key role that central bank reserves play in financial stability and monetary policy in honour of LSE's Charles Goodhart.

Our panel from philosophy, psychology and computer science explore episodic memory from its function – the ability to recall everyday events whether experienced or stated to its future in AI and more.

BBC correspondent, Daniel De Simone will offer previously unheard insights into his two-year investigation and how the sixth suspect was identified with responses by a panel of experts drawn from academia and politics.

The book launch of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back

The idea of an America in decline has gained traction in recent years and has, of course, been capitalized on by President Trump. Is America’s ‘greatness’ under threat?

Our panel explore large and growing gap between highly educated university graduates and those whose education finished at school.

Professor Anat Admati discusses her latest book, The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It.

Baroness Chakrabarti, delivers this year’s annual Wollstonecraft Society Lecture on her latest book, Human Rights: The Case for the Defence, which explains why human rights are essential for our future.

2023 Nobel Prize in Economics winner, Claudia Goldin delivers the first of two Economica-Coase lectures on US women obtaining legal rights equal to men's decades after winning the right to vote.

This event presents new thinking on how to design and finance loss and damage funds as a result of climate change.

Governor Hernández de Cos addresses the lessons learned so far from the latest inflationary-disinflationary episode in the euro area and the European Central Bank’s response to it.

As Nuclear security issues and risks are back on the international agenda, our panel examine the steps that can be taken to reduce them.

Political economist, journalist, and bestselling author, Will Hutton discusses his new book, This Time No Mistakes in which he shows how the right and left have gone wrong over the course of the last century – and how we can remake a better Britain.

The book launch event of The Future-Proof Career by Isabel Berwick, a guide to navigating the post-pandemic work world.