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In Africa, like in other regions around the world, containment measures including lockdowns, confinement and drastic reductions in sociability have significantly impacted women.

What do the results tell us about the changing bases of voting behaviour and what do they mean for the left in the US and beyond?

This first lecture in the series discusses the concept of empire and resistance to empire in a long historical perspective.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted further – and indeed raised critically – the importance of digital connectivity and digital literacy for economic and societal resilience.

This talk explores the 2016/17 peace agreement, in its local and national dimensions, and which occurred as part of the state-building project that is still ongoing in Somalia and offers insights on the quality of international intervention.

Will President Trump be able to win a second term in the White House? Or will former Vice President, Democrat Joe Biden be able to beat the incumbent?

Join us for this event with LSE alumnus and writer and broadcaster James O’Brien who will talking about his new book, How Not To Be Wrong.

What role does empathy play in our social, moral, and political life? What are its limits? Can we be ethical without it?

This episode is dedicated to David Graeber, LSE professor of Anthropology, who died unexpectedly in September this year. David was a public intellectual, a best-selling author, an influential activist and anarchist.

Mathematician David Sumpter meets with tech entrepreneurs, professional gamblers and political researchers to reveal the ten equations that make our world go round.

This event explores the controversies around removing statues, constructing and reconstructing ‘heritage’, and protesting received ways of deciding what is commemorated, and what is not.

To celebrate Black History Month, join us for this conversation between LSE alumna Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu and LSE Director Minouche Shafik.

he panel will address four key questions related to International Relations as a mainstream academic discipline and racialized politics.

Listen to the speakers presenting their new book exploring the European Central Bank's (ECB) monetary policy during the last ten years and the impact of populism during the financial and economic crisis.

Join us in Black History Month for this event with Angelina Osborne and Patrick Vernon, the authors of 100 Great Black Britons, to celebrate the publication of their new book.

Our panel of experts in health and social policy issues will reflect on the life and legacy of Richard Titmuss.

In the first in a series of three lectures, Craig Calhoun will discuss the problems which arise from putting a secular conception of the human at its centre for our normative and political imagination.

We celebrate the 50th anniversary of the UK Gay Liberation Front (GLF), which had its first meeting on LSE's campus in October 1970.

The annual Robert H Smith Family Foundation Lecture in Democracy aims to promote the importance of international diplomacy and democracy in the spirit of Benjamin Franklin as a diplomat and politician.

This public lecture will evaluate the impact of Greek labour market reforms in relation to entering the formal labour market and estimate the impact of labour market reforms on selected macroeconomic and social indicators.

This panel discusses how racism has deeply shaped both European past and present and how young people today can determine how it’ll shape Europe’s future.

Somalia is in pre-election mode and is at the same time pushing for the licensing of oil, based on the promising prospects revealed by seismic surveys. In 2020, Covid-19 has dramatically reduced the demand and price of oil. This panel discusses......

Join us for this event to celebrate LSE's 125th Anniversary with Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and LSE Director Minouche Shafik

From the political to the nature of our experience, time affects all aspects of our lives. Join us to investigate our complicated relationship with time.

Jess Winterstein speaks to Dr Thomas Curran about the potential pitfalls of wanting to be perfect.