Children of a modest star
Tuesday 1 October 2024 6.30-8.00pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building
Deadly viruses, climate-changing carbon molecules, and harmful pollutants across the globe are unimpeded by national borders. While the consequences of these flows range across scales, from the planetary to the local, the authority and resources to manage them are concentrated mainly at one level: the nation-state. This profound mismatch between the scale of planetary challenges and the institutions tasked with governing them is leading to cascading systemic failures.
Our panellists will examine dominant ways of thinking about humanity's relationship to the planet, and explore a new architecture for global governance, to enable the habitability of the Earth for humans and non-humans alike.
Meet our speakers
Nils Gilman is the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at the Berggruen Institute. He is the co-author of Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises.
Ganga Shreedhar is Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science in LSE’s Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science. Her research examines how people perceive and understand complex dilemmas like mass extinction and climate change, and consumer and citizen motivations and choices.
Karen E Smith is a Professor of International Relations at LSE. Her main area of research is the ‘international relations of the European Union’, and she has written extensively on the formulation and implementation of common EU foreign policies.
Chair
Robert Falkner is Professor of International Relations at LSE and the Academic Dean of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA, a world leading executive MBA programme jointly run by NYU Stern School of Business, HEC Paris and LSE. His research focuses on global environmental politics, global political economy, and the role of business in international relations.
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