Lectures+ is a collaborative project between the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (LSE SEAC) and the LSESU UN Society that seeks to enhance the experience of public events at LSE for students, speakers and guests.
Every year LSE welcomes some of the most renowned and influential minds of the world for a 90-minute lecture and Q&A, attracting thousands of students, experts and members of the public who are eager to listen, question and interact. Lectures+ will leverage this appetite for engagement.
For the audience
The public will, as always, get to engage with the speaker during Q&A. But in addition they will now get to do this during the lecture as well. More in the audience will now get to be heard.
For speakers
Speakers will get to access interactive mechanisms that give them better understanding of the audience perspective, and thus that allow them to reinforce their key messages. The result is increased and lasting impact to their ideas.
For students
LSE students will now have a unique opportunity to engage with the speakers' ideas (and potentially speakers themselves) in small group settings, in pre- and post-lecture seminars, thereby improving the LSE experience.
We are proud to present the first in our Lectures+, the LSE IDEAS public lecture with Philippe Roman Chair Ian Morris on Tuesday 9th February, titled Each Age Gets the Bloodshed It Needs: 20,000 Years of Violence.
Please find a summary and a Storify slideshow of this Lecture+ here.