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LSE: Public lectures and events
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The London School of Economics and Political Science public events podcast series is a platform for thought, ideas and lively debate where you can hear from some of the world's leading thinkers. Listen to more than 200 new episodes every year.
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The US presidential election and the left
Nov 11, 202401:29:24Tap to summarizeWhat does the outcome of the US presidential election mean for democrats and progressives? What is its significance both in the United States and around the world?
Transcribe →AI in public policy: opportunities and challenges
Nov 5, 202401:27:50Tap to summarizeIn a world increasingly shaped by digital transformation, AI and data science present new opportunities to change policymaking in nearly all areas of policy.
Transcribe →The world in crisis
Nov 4, 202401:29:27Tap to summarizeFrom diverse disciplinary perspectives, the event will explore conceptual and theoretical approaches that might help us better to understand, engage with, and respond to our time as a time ‘out of joint’.
Transcribe →A safer future for cycling in London
Oct 31, 202401:31:49Tap to summarizeCycling and other forms of active travel have significant benefits for wellbeing, local economies, air pollution and the environment. A substantial increase in active travel is needed to achieve London’s 2030 target for net zero carbon emissions.
Transcribe →Industrialisation and national identity in modern Africa
Oct 30, 202401:23:46Tap to summarizeIn this inaugural lecture Elliott Green will examine the effects of industrialization on national identification in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa
Transcribe →The most unequal region in the world: combatting inequality in Latin America
Oct 29, 202401:26:12Tap to summarizeThe Latin America and Caribbean Review (LACIR), committed to addressing these challenges, convenes high-level scholars to provide a coherent and comprehensive overview of the inequality problem in Latin America.
Transcribe →LSE: The Ballpark | AI and elections with Professor Lawrence Lessig
Oct 28, 202400:46:11Tap to summarizeIn October 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to spoke to Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School.
Transcribe →Dead men's propaganda: ideology and utopia in comparative communication studies
Oct 21, 202401:25:06Tap to summarizeWho were the key pioneers in the formation of comparative communications between the 1920s-1950s? How do their legacies of scholarship and practice inform the contemporary global landscapes of news reporting on war and the dissemination of propaganda
Transcribe →LSE: The Ballpark | The West and the failure of democracy in the Middle East with Professor Fawaz Gerges
Oct 18, 202400:38:48Tap to summarizeIn October 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Relations at LSE, about his new book, “What Really Went Wrong: The West and the failure of democracy in the Middle East”.
Transcribe →What AI is doing to America's democracy
Oct 15, 202401:27:12Tap to summarizeIn this lecture, Lawrence Lessig will discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the 2024 American election, and the implications that this will have for democracy in the future.
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