LSE: Public lectures and events

Speaker(s): Professor Kenneth Benoit | Using over 35 million Tweets collected in the year before the Brexit referendum, we analyse the debate and campaign through social media to track the framing, the argumentation, and the patterns of communication about the issues and consequences of the vote. Kenneth Benoit (@kenbenoit) is Professor of Quantitative Social Research Methods, and Head of the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science...

Speaker(s): Ian Burger, Clare Chapman, Will Hutton, Professor David Kershaw and Professor Colin Mayer | Will Hutton, Chair of the Big Innovation Centre Steering Group and Colin Mayer of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford will present evidence from the Interim Report and indicate the nine headline areas in which they are developing recommendations for the Policy Report to be published in February 2017, which they help to co-author...

Speaker(s): Professor Amartya Sen | The conversation surrounds the re-issue of Collective Choice (1970), with new arguments and results, alternating between the mathematical and non-mathematical to discuss choice, welfare, inequality, poverty and rights. Amartya Sen is Thomas W Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics and an LSE Honorary Fellow...

Speaker(s): Robert Bourns, Dr Niamh Dunne, Rachel Merelie, Paul Philip | The Competition and Markets Authority, prompted by concerns raised by interested parties that the legal services sector might not be working as well as it should, launched a study into the legal services market in January 2016 focusing on individual consumers’ and small businesses' experience of purchasing legal services in England and Wales...

Speaker(s): Professor Henry Overman, Alexandra Jones | Henry Overman discusses what we know about the effectiveness of different policies in driving local economic growth and asks what role, if any, this evidence plays in formulating policy. Henry Overman (@henryoverman) is Professor of Economic Geography at LSE and Director of the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth. David Halpern is Chief Executive of Behavioural Insights Team (@B_I_Tweets)...

Speaker(s): Asma Jilani Jahangir and Professor Amartya Sen | Asma Jilani Jahangir will deliver the 2017 Amartya Sen Lecture. Asma Jilani Jahangir is a Pakistani human rights lawyer and activist who co-founded and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Amartya Sen is Thomas W Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics and an LSE Honorary Fellow...

Speaker(s): Dr Helen Hester, Dr Nick Srnicek, Dr Jamie Woodcock | We are witnessing a transformation of work. From the impact of de-industrialization to the emerging forms of labour generated by technological advances, the changing nature of work reflects deeper economic and political changes...

Speaker(s): Mark Carney, Professor Amartya Sen | A lecture by Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, followed by a discussion and Q&A with Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, charied by Professor Lord Stern. Mark Carney is Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee, Financial Policy Committee and the Board of the Prudential Regulation Authority. The Governor joined the Bank on 1 July 2013...

Speaker(s): Professor Hartmut Rosa | In this lecture Professor Rosa argues that popular and scholarly claims about acceleration gloss over the complex relationship of technology, speed and time. Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology at the University of Jena and Director of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt. Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology...

Speaker(s): Helle Thorning-Schmidt | Children suffered immeasurably in war and conflict in 20th century Europe, an experience which forged the modern child rights movement and organisations like Save the Children. Now, many children facing similar horror are fleeing to Europe from conflict zones in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The harm done to these children, and how we respond to try and protect them, could come to define the future of global child rights as we know it...