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Recently, many countries have looked to increase minimum wages as part of a strategy to address labour market problems. This lecture summarises these developments, what the impacts have been and what minimum wage policy should be in the future.

Our panel reflects on factors that give rise to sexual violence, persistent gaps in state and multilateral efforts as well as the effective prevention and response strategies that have been put in place.

Beverly Daniel Tatum and Minouche Shafik discuss Dr Tatum's book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race, a perennial bestseller on the psychology of racism.

Listen to the launch of a new book edited by Sieglinde Gstohl and Simon Schunz, The External Action of the European Union – Concepts, Approaches, Theories.

Will Hutton’s The State We’re In was one of the most important polemical works of the 1990s

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the 1871 Paris Commune: an event that profoundly influenced the development of the left.

This event takes the form of an open conversation to discuss the themes of gender equity and couple equity as presented in Claudia Goldin’s book, Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity.

Dylan Mulvin discusses his new book, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In.

Listen to our discussion on the idea of a global inclusion framework for firms.

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen talks about his recently publish memoir, Home in the World.

In the wake of the pandemic, governments across Europe, as well as the European Commission, have financed programs to spur economic recovery.

This discussion explores the seemingly paradoxical relationship between sexuality and Europeanness.

This event discusses the new book, Environmentalism and Global International Society.

Two leading US political scientists discuss how globalisation, economic inequality and democratic erosions are reshaping American political life.

Grief is something we all experience in our lifetimes, but how well do we understand it?

What is feminist data science? How is feminist thinking being incorporated into data-driven work? And how are scholars in the humanities and social sciences, in particular, bringing together data science and feminist theory in their research?

Our speakers reflect on the cost of broken promises and the failure to learn lessons, whilst highlighting ways to effectively prioritise and foster peace in both politics and the public arena in the midst and in the aftermath of violent conflict.

Why did Colombia and Chile experience bouts of social unrest and street violence recently? What are the roots of this discontent and what can be done about it? Might a new social contract in those countries provide a way out?

Just days ahead of the start of the COP26 summit, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry delivers remarks before taking audience questions.

We explore what philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology can tell us about our distinctly modern conversations.

Join us as Lea Ypi discusses her memoir and her experiences growing up in Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe during the fall of communism in 1990.

Craig Calhoun discusses the problems which arise from putting a secular conception of the human at its centre for our normative and political imagination.

Human rights bridge morality and politics, and underpin our sense of what it means to be human. But where do rights come from? Can non-human beings have rights? And does the rights model reinforce individualism?

To celebrate Black History Month, LSE Director Minouche Shafik talks to bestselling author and culture journalist Otegha Uwagba.

In our world of free capital mobility, we show that Central banks of large currency areas are drivers of financial cycles and of risk taking in the international economy.