LSEDoes what we do today determine the happiness or misery of trillions of people in the future? In this event, William MacAskill will discuss his recent book What We Owe the Future, and his argument for ‘longtermism’, which proposes that positively influencing the future is the moral priority of our time. MacAskill proposes that by making wise moral decisions today, we can navigate a multitude of crises – bioengineered pandemics, technological stagnation, climate change, and transformative AI – more fairly for generations to come. #LSEMacAskill
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What We Owe the Future: In Conversation with William MacAskill | LSE EventLSE2023-05-23 | Does what we do today determine the happiness or misery of trillions of people in the future? In this event, William MacAskill will discuss his recent book What We Owe the Future, and his argument for ‘longtermism’, which proposes that positively influencing the future is the moral priority of our time. MacAskill proposes that by making wise moral decisions today, we can navigate a multitude of crises – bioengineered pandemics, technological stagnation, climate change, and transformative AI – more fairly for generations to come. #LSEMacAskill
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Come experience a taste of Brazilian cuisine with us - you don't even need to leave London to get a little taste of Brazil! 🌍✨
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupInaugural Lecture by Larry Kramer | LSE EventLSE2024-10-15 | Join us for the inaugural lecture of LSE President and Vice Chancellor of LSE Larry Kramer.
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupVoter education: the challenge of the century | LSE EventLSE2024-10-14 | As authoritarianism and political violence threaten democracies throughout the world at levels not seen since the 1930s, attacks on free and fair elections are rife. Democracy is about choice, and achieving a legitimate democratic system of government relies on making representative social choices. Join us to find out about VoteDemocracy, which is a new global education initiative featuring a comprehensive course on the central role of voting in democracy.
In support of the new project, Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Eric Maskin address core democratic principles. Professor Sen revisits the foundational ‘rule by the people’ with his talk, Democracy—Why, and Why Not? Professor Maskin offers an electoral prescription in response to his topic, How Should Members of Parliament (and Congress) be Elected?
Speakers: Professor Eric Maskin Professor Amartya Sen
Discussant: Dr Suzanne Bloks Professor Richard Bradley Rudolf Fara
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupThe US presidential election and the left | LSE EventLSE2024-10-14 | What 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?
Join us for an inspiring evening with critically acclaimed journalist and author Kate Aronoff, as we reflect on the results.
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupPolicy epidemiology for emerging infectious diseases | LSE EventLSE2024-10-11 | This public event will describe the state of global health security, global governance of disease and the policy epidemiology framework used in the Analysis and Mapping of Policies for Emerging Infectious Diseases project. We will describe the importance of evidence-based decision making for responding to epidemic and pandemic threats and how to translate researcher findings for decision makers.
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupThe rise of Africas suburban middle classes | LSE EventLSE2024-10-09 | African cities are under construction. Beyond the urban redevelopment schemes and large-scale infrastructure projects reconfiguring central city skylines, urban residents are putting their resources into finding land and building homes on city edges. Claire Mercer’s research shows how the ‘suburban frontier’ has become the place where Africa’s middle classes are shaped.
This panel will discuss Claire Mercer’s new book, The Suburban Frontier: Middle Class Construction in Dar es Salaam. It examines how self-built housing on the urban periphery has become central to middle-class formation and urban transformation in contemporary Tanzania and beyond. The Suburban Frontier offers significant contributions to the study of urban social change in Africa and urbanization in the Global South.
Speakers: Professor Deborah James Professor Claire Mercer Professor Susan Parnell Professor Ola Uduku
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupNew world, new rules: what works for global governance | LSE EventLSE2024-10-09 | This event marks the launch of New World, New Rules by George Papaconstantinou and Jean Pisani-Ferry, in which two of European policymakers and analysts outline a new agenda for global governance.
In the book, they examine governance practices across several key policy areas – climate, health, trade and competition, banking and finance, taxation, migration and the digital economy – and consider what works and what doesn't, and why. The global governance solutions they put forward are ambitious but pragmatic. They require complexity, flexibility and compromise. Attributes that global governments are demonstrably short of, but today's global crises urgently demand.
Speakers: Dr George Papaconstantinou Professor Jean Pisani-Ferry
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupElements of a theory of the responsible firm | LSE EventLSE2024-10-09 | Patrick Bolton will deliver the second lecture of the Sir Oliver Hart Lecture Series.
The lecture will begin with a short review of economic theories of the firm, pointing out that although all the economic theories see the firm as an institutional response to improve on market and contractual inefficiencies, they ignore the problem of the economic responsibility of firms in a world of market inefficiencies, externalities, and government failures. Professor Bolton will then turn to a discussion of the meaning of economic responsibility, its relevance, and practical implications for firms, by drawing on some key readings from management, law, and philosophy.
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupData visualisation: alive visual words | LSE EventLSE2024-10-09 | The talk will explore the design process and motivations behind data visualization projects, characterized by different usage contexts, responding to various needs, and with differing levels of experimentation. It will focus on the visual languages used to shape information and stories and delve into how visual words in data visualizations can be alive and sometimes political.
Designing data visualizations will be likened to writing, reflecting on the usage of visual alphabets to convey information. As in writing, the choice of words is essential, this principle will be applied to the language of data visualization, exploring the process behind decisions to use organic visual languages to reflect the living presence behind the data and, in some cases, the fragility of the data itself. The talk will explore how different visual words have been used to visualize information and stories covering various topics such as migration, the climate crisis and its solutions, and inequalities.
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupFragments of home: refugee housing, humanitarian design and the politics of shelter | LSE EventLSE2024-10-09 | Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in the past decade. The story of international migration is often told through personal odysseys and dangerous journeys, but when people arrive at their destinations a more mundane task begins: refugees need a place to stay. Governments and charities have adopted a range of strategies in response to this need. Some have sequestered refugees in massive camps of glinting metal. Others have hosted them in renovated office blocks and disused warehouses. They often end up in prefabricated shelters flown in from abroad.
In this talk, Tom Scott-Smith draws on his new book to discuss how humanitarians, architects, and government authorities have sought to provide shelter to refugees. Drawing on detailed ethnographic research into these shelters, he will reflect on their political implications and open up much bigger questions about humanitarian action. The event will explore how the principle of autonomy can offer a fruitful approach to sensitive and inclusive shelter for refugees.
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupDaniel Kahneman: a legacy | LSE EventLSE2024-10-09 | Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman was the founder of modern behavioural science and behavioural economics. His close friends and colleagues Gillian Tett, Paul Dolan and Richard Layard will come together to discuss his research and the scale of his influence on society.
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupHow to code better… be a man? | LSE ResearchLSE2024-10-09 | Why are there so few women in tech? And does it matter?
We talk to Dr Siân Brooke of the Data Science Institute at LSE, who researches how technologies perpetuate gendered inequality, to find out if it's because men are inherently better coders.
Unsurprisingly, it isn't. In this video, we explore the hidden biases in the tech industry, discover the impact of gender on code acceptance, and investigate why diversity in coding is crucial for innovation and security.
This video is based on Dr Siân Brooke's research paper: "Programmed differently? Testing for gender differences in Python programming style and quality on GitHub" sianbrooke.com/programmed-differently
Special thanks to Hertie School, Berlin, where Siân Brooke was filmed by Matt Langthorne
#technology #internet #codingAI and the future of behavioural science | LSE EventLSE2024-10-09 | Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming various aspects of behavioural science. For example, AI-driven models are being used to predict human behaviour and decision-making, and to design personalized behavioural interventions. AI can also be used to generate artificial research participants on whom behavioural interventions can be tested instead of on humans. AI is creating many new opportunities and challenges in behavioural science, disrupting the discipline to the degree that researchers, practitioners, and any behavioural science enthusiasts are trying to keep up with the new developments and understand how to best navigate the rapidly changing landscape.
In this public event, speakers who are associated with pioneering work on AI in relation to behavioural science, as part of their own research or organisational initiatives, will discuss their views on how AI will change and is already changing behavioural science. This will involve touching upon topics such as the implications of AI for behavioural scientists in academia, public, and private sectors, new skills that will be required by behavioural scientists of the future, and impact on behavioural science education.
Speakers: Alexandra Chesterfield Elisabeth Costa Professor Oliver Hauser Dr Dario Krpan Professor Susan Michie Professor Robert West
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Join us for a thought-provoking evening as we provide an early assessment of the new Labour government’s actions and goals.
Speakers: Professor Sir John Curtice Professor Anand Menon Professor Paula Surridge
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupTruth as a constitutional value | LSE EventLSE2024-10-07 | Liberal constitutional theory rests on a fundamental division between duty-bearing public institutions and the rights-wielding private persons. This inaugural lecture will explore the implications of this division on the constitutional regulation of news media corporations. It will argue that constitutional theory needs to acknowledge the essentially public purpose of news media corporations, even when privately owned. The key implications for constitutional regulation that would follow from this acknowledgement will be explored.
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupF A Hayeks Nobel at 50: then and now | LSE EventLSE2024-10-07 | 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize won by liberal political economist F.A. Hayek. This lecture will review the life and times of F.A. Hayek and consider the implications of his ideas for contemporary politics. It will feature Bruce Caldwell, a leading historian of economic thought, author of a recently released book Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950.
The lecture will focus on Hayek’s early life, time at LSE as well as the deeper methodological implications of his academic contributions.
In his famous Nobel speech, Hayek critiqued the prevailing trend of positivism in social science, advocating instead for methodological pluralism. He argued that the complexity of social phenomena cannot be captured through mechanistic models that attempt to predict human action with scientific precision. Caldwell will discuss Hayek's challenge to the scientific community to recognize the limitations of such mechanistic approaches and the importance of embracing a variety of methodologies to broadly appreciate complex economic and social processes. This lecture will offer an exploration of Hayek's enduring influence on the study of complex phenomena and its implications for contemporary social science today.
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupHomelessness in London: why youth homelessness needs its own solution | LSE EventLSE2024-10-07 | An estimated 20,000 young people in London were experiencing homelessness, or were at risk of homelessness, in 2022/23. This represents a 10% increase compared to 2021/22, with a similar trend seen nationally. Crucially, estimates suggest that 48% of all young people experiencing homelessness do not contact their local authority, or face barriers in doing so. The event will explore why youth homelessness in London has increased; the special needs of young people experiencing homelessness; the challenges for London’s local authorities and voluntary organisations in addressing these issues; and proposals for helping solve the problem of youth homelessness.
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupThe 2024 US election: turning point for America? | LSE EventLSE2024-10-07 | Will the 2024 election mark a turning point in American democracy and in the country’s role in the world? Leading experts discuss the 2024 US election and its domestic and international implications.
Speakers: Marta Dassù Keith Magee Joseph C. Sternberg
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupAI in public policy: opportunities and challenges | LSE EventLSE2024-10-07 | In a world increasingly shaped by digital transformation, AI and data science present new opportunities to change policymaking in nearly all areas of policy. Yet the capabilities of these emerging technologies are still unfolding and need to be better understood, both in terms of their benefits and their limitations.
This event launches the publication of the most recent issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, which brings together contributions from a range of disciplines - from philosophy to statistics, government and law - to reflect together on future directions, applications, and consequences of the use of AI in public policies. Join our panellists as they discuss how emerging technologies can transform evidence-based policy development through their analytical capabilities, predictive powers, and real-time monitoring, while also bringing questions around regulation, transparency, accountability and ethics to the fore.
Speakers: Professor Helen Margetts Professor Andrew Murray Dr Kate Vredenburgh
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupThe world in crisis | LSE EventLSE2024-10-07 | Crises abound: our economies, democracies, social relations, cultural identities, and the very planet that we live on are subjected to repeated and increasingly severe shocks. Have we entered an age of chronic crisis?
From 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’.
Speakers: Professor Miguel de Beistegui Dr Demetra Kasimis Professor Jonathan White
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupA war like no other: challenge and change in reporting Gaza | LSE EventLSE2024-10-07 | This event will be the inaugural memorial lecture for the late Ian Black, former visiting fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre and Middle East editor for The Guardian.
In this first lecture, Jim Muir, Ian’s colleague at the LSE Middle East Centre and fellow seasoned journalist of the Middle East, will explore how reporting on the Middle East has been challenged and had to adapt in the extraordinary conditions prevailing since October 7, 2023.
Now more than ever, a year on since Hamas’ surprise attack on southern Israel, and Israel’s continued assault on Gaza, the role of journalists and media organisations has been vital, but it has also been called into question. With little direct access into Gaza for foreign journalists, the world has been relying on citizen journalists to document their lives, broadcast mainly through social media. What new modes of reportage have been created through these developments, and how has traditional media been affected by this? What role has social media played in exacerbating and debunking misinformation, and how can we understand the future of reporting on Israel and Palestine, and the broader Middle East in light of the past year?
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupWhat is it like to study for an MSc Accounting, Organisations and Institutions | LSELSE2024-10-04 | Jiayi Zhang shares her experience studying MSc Accounting, Organisation, and Institutions at LSE.
Graduate Study at LSE: lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/GraduateBorn to rule: the making and remaking of the British elite | LSE EventLSE2024-10-04 | In Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman’s new book, which they launch at this event, they provide a uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpetuate.
Think of the British elite and familiar caricatures spring to mind. But are today’s power brokers a conservative chumocracy, born to privilege and anointed at Eton and Oxford? Or is a new progressive elite emerging with different values and political instincts? Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman combed through a trove of data in search of an answer, scrutinizing the profiles, interests, and careers of over 125,000 members of the British elite from the late 1890s to today. At the heart of this meticulously researched study is the historical database of Who’s Who, but the authors also mined genealogical records, examined probate data, and interviewed over 200 leading figures from a wide range of backgrounds and professions to uncover who runs Britain, how they think, and what they want.
Speakers: Professor Sam Friedman Hashi Mohamed Professor Aaron Reeves Professor Lauren Rivera Dr Faiza Shaheen
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupReligion, nationalism, conflict and community: in conversation with Rory Stewart | LSE EventLSE2024-10-03 | While religion continues to be perceived as of diminishing significance by many in Western Europe, religious nationalisms are on the rise around the world and the religious dimensions of many conflicts are becoming more pronounced.
While the early twenty-first century focused on political Islam, we now see new political formations across all the world’s faith traditions, as well as new faith-based initiatives to engage more constructively with global issues such as conflict and climate change. Rory Stewart – academic, podcaster and former politician – will share his perspectives on why this happening and what can be done about it, in this conversation with James Walters, founding director of LSE Faith Centre, chaired by LSE's Mukulika Banerjee.
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupWhat’s it like to win a Nobel Prize? | LSE iQ PodcastLSE2024-10-01 | While there are always rumours about who might win a Nobel Prize every year, there is no short list for the globally revered academic awards. This means that winning one always comes as a complete surprise. In this episode of LSE iQ, we explore what it’s like to win the prestigious prize and how it changes your life. The Nobel Prizes were established in 1900 at the behest of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish Chemist, Inventor and Industrialist, known in particular for his invention of dynamite. In his will he stated that his fortune was to be used to reward those who have made the most significant contributions to humanity. The prizes would recognise achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. The prize for economics would come much later in 1968. The prizes are awarded in October every year. Sue Windebank and Charlotte Kelloway talk to two Nobel Laureates, Professor Esther Duflo and Sir Christopher Pissarides, as well as to the family of the first black person to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, Sir Arthur Lewis.
Contributors Professor Esther Duflo Elizabeth Lewis Channon Khari Motayne Sir Christopher Pissarides
Research Professor Esther Duflo published papers Sir Christopher Pissarides published papers Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour , Manchester School, by Sir W. Arthur Lewis The theory of economic growth, University Books, by Sir W. Arthur LewisSewage in our waters | LSE EventLSE2024-10-01 | We have a growing waste problem, which has been around for some time and is only getting worse. Dumping of sewage is threatening the health of our rivers. Plastics have penetrated deep into the world’s oceans. Leakages from landfills, farming and industry are contaminating our soil and groundwater. Waste pollution harms public health, biodiversity and the environment. To address it, we need new laws and huge investments. There has been much recent controversy in the UK around Sewage in Our Waters. New laws would have to specify who has the responsibility of undertaking the transition and the investments – water companies, producers, consumers or governments? Preventing transboundary waste flows would require international action to plug loopholes in domestic laws and international conventions.
To debate these issues, we bring together the Sky News Economics Editor Ed Conway who has written on legacy sewage systems, the CEO of a key frontline organisation tackling river pollution River Action UK James Wallace, and policy expert on international laws Kamala Dawar from QMUL Law. The event will begin with an introduction on the state of our waters by LSE’s Swati Dhingra, External Member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee.
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupShaping the future: AI in the workplace | LSE EventLSE2024-10-01 | To explore AI's impact on the workplace, we’ve assembled a panel of leading experts. This discussion will delve into current AI trends, focusing on transparency, fairness, accountability, and inclusivity across various industries.
Attendees will engage with expert speakers and participate in dynamic discussions. Join us as we navigate the complexities of AI implementation in the workplace and examine how these technologies are being developed to benefit society while challenging traditional work experiences. The event will feature conversations on the latest advancements, challenges, and ethical considerations in AI development, emphasising reducing bias and supporting diverse communities. Participants can interact with panellists during a Q&A session, fostering a deeper understanding of how AI can drive positive change.
Speakers: Matt Blakemore Richard Nesbitt Carolyn Scott Reshma Shaikh Noa Srebrnik
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupStudent Welcome 2024 | LSELSE2024-09-30 | A message from LSE President and Vice Chancellor, Professor Larry Kramer for the start of the new academic year!
#uniLSE move in weekend 2024LSE2024-09-27 | "I'm feeling super pumped to start the year at LSE!"
What's it like to move into LSE's halls of residence? Here's how our students are feeling and what the experience was like.
🔴 Visit halls.lse.ac.uk for more tips and advice on living in London as a student.Trade and climate change: managing policies on the road to net zero | LSE EventLSE2024-09-26 | Trade and climate change policies have become increasingly interwoven. Subsidies for green industries often provoke tariffs, such as US actions over Chinese solar panels and electric vehicles. The European Union’s Emission Trading System (ETS) has set an increasingly high price on carbon emissions. But if high emission industries like steel, simply relocate and European consumers then buy the imported steel, this “carbon leakage” undermines the original policy. To tackle this problem, the European Union has introduced the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) which seeks to tax such imports to prevent carbon leakage – and to encourage other countries to also introduce carbon taxes. The UK is planning the same. But many countries are unhappy, claiming this is simply disguised protectionism.
To debate these issues, we bring together one of the designers of the CBAM, former MEP Luis Garicano, an LSE economic policy expert together with Maisa Rojas Corradi from Chile, a representative of the global South who potentially lose out from these policies. Catherine Wolfram who served in Joe Biden’s administration, will give a US perspective. The event will begin with opening remarks by Professor Robin Burgess, Professor Economics and Director of the International Growth Centre at LSE.
Speakers: Professor Luis Garicano Professor Maisa Rojas Corradi Professor Catherine Wolfram
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupInnovative market solutions to confront climate change | LSE EventLSE2024-09-25 | Large investments are needed to confront climate change. Current levels are far below what is required. Bridging this investment gap rests on harnessing both public and private climate finance. Yet, accessing and effectively using these funds presents substantial challenges, especially in developing countries.
Innovative market solutions could help. Markets can be useful because climate change is a global commons problem and different countries have different abilities to reduce emissions. What is missing is a link between those who wish to and can pay for reducing emissions and those who have opportunities to do so.
These challenges are amplified in low and middle income countries which grapple with limited institutional capacity and complex international finance frameworks. Strict eligibility requirements and cumbersome application processes further complicate access to vital financial resources, exacerbating disparities between promised and actual funds disbursed, leaving many communities without necessary support for climate adaptation and mitigation initiatives.
This event brings together insights from policymakers, international organisation representatives, the private sector, and academia to explore how markets, such as for voluntary carbon credits, can support the advancement of sustainable development goals.
Speakers: Claudio Frischtak Basak Odemis Professor Rohini Pande Ali Sarfraz
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupDead Men’s Propaganda Ideology and Utopia in Comparative Communications Studies | LSELSE2024-09-23 | In Dead Men’s Propaganda: Ideology and Utopia in Comparative Communications Studies, Terhi Rantanen investigates the shaping of early comparative communications research between the 1920s and 1950s, notably the work of academics and men of practice in the United States. Often neglected, this intellectual thread is highly relevant to understanding the 21st-century’s challenges of war and rival streams of propaganda.
Terhi Rantanen is Professor in Global Media and Communications in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. She is the founder of the Department’s two double MSc programmes, with the University of Southern California (USC), which she directed from 2000 to date, and with Fudan University, Shanghai, which she directed for its first three years: lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/terhi-rantanen
The Department of Media and Communications is a world-leading centre for education and research in communication and media studies at the heart of LSE's academic community in central London. We are ranked #1 in the UK and #3 globally in our field (2024 QS World University Rankings): www2.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications
#LSE #Media #CommunicationStudiesLSE Student Welcome Presentation 2024LSE2024-09-20 | LSE's Welcome Presentation is a great introduction to LSE and the LSE Students Union, as well as great tips for settling into student life.
Whether you’re an international student or joining from within the UK, this step-by-step guide will help you get started with confidence.
The video covers: Booking arrival in halls: 0:16 Checking for council tax: 0:38 Collecting BRP: 1:00 Campus enrolment: 1:14 Collecting your LSE ID card: 1:43 Welcome Week 2024: 1:58
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#LSEOnboarding #NewStudentsGuide #LifeAtLSEA safer future for cycling in London | LSE EventLSE2024-09-18 | Cycling and other forms of active travel have significant benefits for wellbeing, local economies, air pollution and the environment. Indeed, a substantial increase in active travel is needed to achieve London’s 2030 target for net zero carbon emissions.
Yet, while London’s roads are increasingly popular and safe, more must be done to make them safer. London universities have repeatedly experienced the human cost of unsafe streets, with LSE losing three members of its community in less than a year. In response, staff and students initiated a cross-university letter to the London Mayoral candidates. The letter asked candidates to commit to putting a stop to cyclist and pedestrian deaths caused by motor vehicles in London by 2028, and to bring forward the deadline for London’s ‘Vision Zero’, its strategy to eradicate deaths from London’s roads, from 2041 to 2032.
Building on the letter’s demands, this event will focus on how these goals can be achieved. Speakers from academia, policymaking and urban planning will discuss what can be done to make cycling safer and more inclusive, how barriers to implementation can be overcome, and what we can learn from other cities around the world.
Speakers: Professor Rachel Aldred Professor Marco te Brömmelstroet Dr Will Norman Julie Plichon
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupIndustrialisation and national identity in modern Africa | LSE EventLSE2024-09-18 | The late LSE Professor Ernest Gellner famously proposed that industrialization generated modern national identities. Yet there has been very little empirical attention to examining the validity of Gellner’s theory using cross-national data, especially within the developing world.
In this inaugural lecture Elliott Green will examine the effects of industrialization on national identification in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa and show that industrialization and economic development more broadly have a surprisingly strong positive impact on the development of nationalism in the African context. The lecture will conclude with wider thoughts on how and why industrialization continues to transform national identities in the contemporary world.
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupThe most unequal region in the world: combatting inequality in Latin America | LSE EventLSE2024-09-18 | Latin America is exceptionally unequal, with data widely suggesting it is one of the world’s two most unequal regions. Inequality has persisted at exceptionally high levels despite clear social pressures for its reduction and the widely shared conviction that excessive inequality is detrimental to economic progress.
The 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. Through a meticulous blend of in-depth critical reviews of the literature, pioneering research, and novel analyses, LACIR endeavours to deepen our understanding of this complex issue. This public event will present the scale of the problem of inequality in Latin America and point to some of the possible ways out of this ‘inequality trap’. Bringing together scholars and policymakers, the event will explore solutions and strategies to combat inequality in the region.
Speakers: Dr Valentina Contreras Professor Julián Messina Dr Sebastián Nieto Parra Professor Andrés Velasco
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La región más desigual del mundo: cómo combatir la desigualdad en América Latina | Evento LSE
América Latina es excepcionalmente desigual y los datos sugieren que es una de las dos regiones más desiguales del mundo. La desigualdad ha persistido en niveles excepcionalmente altos a pesar de las claras presiones sociales para reducirla y de la convicción ampliamente compartida de que la desigualdad excesiva es perjudicial para el progreso económico.
La Revista América Latina y el Caribe (LACIR), comprometida con abordar estos desafíos, convoca a académicos de alto nivel para brindar una visión coherente y completa del problema de la desigualdad en América Latina. A través de una combinación meticulosa de revisiones críticas en profundidad de la literatura, investigación pionera y análisis novedosos, LACIR se esfuerza por profundizar nuestra comprensión de este complejo problema. Este evento público presentará la escala del problema de la desigualdad en América Latina y señalará algunas de las posibles salidas de esta "trampa de la desigualdad". El evento, que reunirá a académicos y formuladores de políticas, explorará soluciones y estrategias para combatir la desigualdad en la región.
Oradores: Dr. Valentina Contreras Profesor Julián Messina Dr. Sebastián Nieto Parra Profesor Andrés Velasco
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Rising numbers of employers worldwide are switching to a four-day week, making workers happier and organisations stronger. A four-day week with no loss of pay gives workers the time to live happier and more fulfilled lives, allowing for the parts of life that are often neglected, such as rest, parenting and leisure. It has significant benefits for businesses, as real-world examples show that employers who move to a four-day week improve productivity and cut costs. Research also shows that introducing a 4 day week could reduce the UK's carbon footprint by 127 million tonnes per year. This event will discuss how businesses, charities, and councils can reap the benefits of introducing smarter working. Our panel will present the academic evidence for the benefits of introducing a four-day week, and discuss practical ways to make the change.
Speakers: Fran Heathcote Joe Ryle Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupWicked problems: how to engineer a better world | LSE EventLSE2024-09-18 | Our world is filled with pernicious problems. How, for example, did novice pilots learn to fly without taking to the air and risking their lives? How should cities process mountains of waste without polluting the environment? Challenges that tangle personal, public, and planetary aspects―often occurring in health care, infrastructure, business, and policy―are known as wicked problems, and they are not going away anytime soon.
Systems engineer and author Guru Madhavan illuminates how wicked problems have emerged throughout history and how best to address them in the future using a model mindset informed by flight trainers that revolutionized aviation, while demonstrating how engineering is a cultural choice―one that requires us to restlessly find ways to transform society, but perhaps more critically, to care for the creations that already exist.
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupDead mens tales: ideology and propaganda wars in comparative communications | LSE EventLSE2024-09-18 | Who were the key pioneers in the formation of comparative communications between the 1920s – 1950s, and how do their legacies of scholarship and practice inform the contemporary global landscapes of news reporting on war and the dissemination of propaganda?
Exploring Terhi Rantanen’s new book, Dead Men’s Propaganda Ideology and Utopia in Comparative Communications Studies, this panel will examine how comparative communications research, from its very beginning, can be understood as governed by the Mannheimian concepts of ideology and utopia and the power play between them. The close relationship between these two concepts resulted in a bias in knowledge production in comparative communications research, contributed to dominant narratives of generational conflicts, and to the demarcation of Insiders and Outsiders. By focusing on a generation at the forefront of comparative communications at this pivotal time, this book uses detailed archival research and case studies to challenge dominant orthodoxies in the intellectual histories of communication studies.
Speakers: Professor Bingchun Meng Professor Jeff Pooley Professor Terhi Rantanen Dr Marsha Siefert Dr Wendy Willems
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupPart-time work while studying: become a Student Ambassador | LSELSE2024-09-11 | Get paid while studying at LSE by becoming a Student Ambassador! A part-time, flexible role is a great way to: - Develop your communication, leadership and team working skills - Enhance your customer service skills - Make some extra money - Meet new friends
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Visit the Welcome Marquee on Friday 20 September to find out more about part-time work opportunities!
Visit the Widening Participation team at the Welcome Fair on Thursday 26 September to ask any questions!
Join the drop-in session on Monday 30 September 2024.
#University #StudentLife #StudentJobsWealth, influence, and class: the British elite explained | LSE ResearchLSE2024-09-09 | Do today’s power brokers in Britain continue to be born to privilege and anointed at Eton and Oxford? Or is a new progressive elite emerging with different values and political instincts?
In search of an answer, Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman scrutinised the profiles, interests, and careers of over 125,000 members of the British elite from the late 1890s to today. Their findings offer an insight into who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpetuate.
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#Britain #Weatlh #ClassHow can we solve the gender pay gap? | LSE iQ PodcastLSE2024-09-06 | Can gender pay gap reporting, pay transparency and tackling gender norms reduce the gender pay gap?
On average across the globe, for every pound earned by a man, a woman earns around 80 pence, according to a 2023 report from the United Nations.
But despite huge advances in access to education, the labour market, and the introduction of the UK Equality Act of 2010, which guarantees equal pay for men and women doing equal work, those figures have remained stubbornly persistent for the past two decades. Still, the gender pay gap endures. So, how can we solve it?
Anna Bevan talks to broadcaster Jane Garvey about the impact of gender pay gap reporting and what happened to her after the BBC was forced to publish its gender pay gap report.
She also speaks to Nina Roussille, the Executive Director of LSE’s Hub for Equal Representation and Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT, about the role of the Ask Gap and pay transparency, and Camille Landais, Professor of Economics at LSE about the Child Penalty.
Research The Role of the Ask Gap in Gender Pay Inequality by Nina Rousille The Child Penalty by Camille Landais, Henrik Kleven and Gabriel Leite-Mariante
00:00 Introduction 01:50 Jane Garvey and Gender Pay Gap reporting 03:50 Allyship 06:30 Nina Roussille and the “Ask Gap” 11:20 The importance of networks and pay transparency 13:10 Gender norms and career choices 15:40 Camille Landais and the “Child Penalty” 21:01 The “Child Penalty” on same-sex couples 22:36 COVID and workplace flexibility 24:00 Reallocation of caring responsibilities 26:10 Tackling gender normsReversed realities revisited: 30 years of thinking in gender and development | LSE EventLSE2024-09-05 | 30 years ago, Naila Kabeer published Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, which became a landmark study in the scholarship on gender and development. It is widely regarded as a (if not the) key text in the field of Feminist Development Studies. It provided path-breaking perspectives on the politics of development knowledge production, specifically about how excluding feminist knowledge shaped development practice and unequal outcomes.
Several leading thinkers will join us in the fields of feminist economics and development studies to reflect on the legacies of this groundbreaking text and what has changed 30 years on.
Speakers: Professor Andrea Cornwall Professor Naomi Hossain Professor Naila Kabeer Dr Erin Lentz
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Sign up for news about upcoming LSE Events: lse.ac.uk/Events/signupA Day in the Life of an International Relations Student | LSE Student VlogLSE2024-09-02 | Ever wondered what it’s like to study International Relations at LSE? Join me, Olivia Olson, as I take you through a typical day in my life as a student at LSE.
From classes to study sessions, and exploring London in between, get a real look at what it's like to be an IR student here. Perfect for anyone curious about LSE or thinking of studying abroad!
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#LSE #DayInTheLife #InternationalRelations #StudentVlog #LSEStudent #StudyAbroad #LondonLife #StudentLife #universitylifeMy Experience as a Colombian Student in Spanish | LSE Student VlogLSE2024-08-30 | Join Sofia Matiz Pulido, our student content creator, as she shares her journey and experiences as a Colombian student. Discover the challenges, highlights, and unique aspects of her academic and cultural life.
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#lse #studentlife #studyinlondon #colombia #internationalstudents #studentvlogger #studentvlogs #studyabroad #spanishMalaysian Student Shares her Experience in Malay | LSE Student VlogLSE2024-08-28 | Join Roshinee Mookaiah, a Malaysian student at LSE, as she shares her journey from applying to becoming a current student.
In this insightful video, Roshinee shares her LSE experience and the challenges she overcame. Whether you're dreaming of studying at LSE or simply curious, Roshinee's story is bound to inspire! ✨
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#lse #internationalstudents #studyabroad #studentvlogger #studentvlog #lifeinlondon #malaysia #malaysian #malaysianvlog #studentslife #students #university #applyingtocollegeMy Experience as an International Student in Vietnamese | LSE Student VlogLSE2024-08-26 | Linh Dinh, one of our student content creators, shares her journey as an international student from Vietnam, all in Vietnamese. Discover the challenges she faced, the cultural adjustments she made, and the memorable moments from her academic life. This vlog gives a glimpse into what it's like to study abroad and adapt to a new culture.
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#InternationalStudent #StudyAbroad #Vietnamese #StudentLife #CulturalExperience #AcademicJourney #StudentStories #HigherEducationWhats It Like to Study at LSE and in London: Mandarin Edition | LSE Student VlogLSE2024-08-23 | Ever wondered what it's like to study at LSE and live in London? Join me, Yile Wang, as I share my personal experience as a Chinese student at LSE. From classes to exploring the city, this Mandarin vlog gives you a real look at student life in the UK.
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Chapters: 0:11 - Motivation for choosing LSE 0:42 - Application tips 1:14 - Transition to student life 1:42 - Beyond academics 2:20 - The biggest takeaway