All Festival events are free and open to all, but registration for most of the events is required. Booking for all Festival events is now open.
To watch events online, you will only need to register once and then choose which events you would like to watch.
To attend events in-person, you will need to register for each event individually.
On Saturday 17 June, some of the children's sessions are drop in, as is our Makers Market. Find out more about Saturday's family events below.
No booking is required for Festival exhibitions, but please note the opening hours on the event pages.
For any queries, please email events@lse.ac.uk
Register here to watch LSE Festival events online.
Watch all events online during the Festival week, from Monday 12 to Saturday 17 June. Register for the LSE Festival online events once, and choose the events you would like to watch by adding them to your calendar.
Monday 12 to Friday 16 June
Monday 12 June
1-2pm, Rethinking Retirement: public policies to support life changes
Speakers: Professor Sir Vince Cable, David Sinclair, Susan Scholefield
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6.15-7.45pm, Changing lives in the Middle East: cinematic responses
Film screening, with speakers: Amira Louadah, Suzannah Mirghani
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6.30-7.45pm, Have Economists Improved Our Lives?
Speakers: Professor Richard Davies, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Baroness Shafik, Dr Linda Yueh
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Tuesday 13 June
1-2pm, The Road to Net Zero: how to seize opportunities and manage change
Speakers: Dr Liam F Beiser-McGrath, Chris Skidmore, Rain Newton-Smith, Dr Anna Valero
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6-8pm, The Modern Millionairess: a post-pandemic gender deal
Speaker: Professor Sarah Ashwin
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6.30-7.45pm, Why Is Change So Hard?
Speakers: Stella Creasy, Professor Conor Gearty, Laura de Molière, Dr Jens Madsen
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Wednesday 14 June
1-2pm, Financing Climate Change? Inspiration for Change from African Thinkers
Speakers: Bogolo Kenewendo, Annet Nakyeyune
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5-6pm, In Conversation with Sadiq Khan
Speaker: Sadiq Kahn
Tickets for the in-person will be availbe from Wednesday 31 May
6.30-7.30pm, The Power of "Good Enough"
Speakers: Dr Thomas Curran, Adrienne Herbert, Dr Rachel O'Neill
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Thursday 15 June
1-2pm, The Changing Inequalities of Citizenship
Speakers: Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey, Dr Kristin Surak, Dr Eleanor Knott
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5-6pm, In Conversation with Martin Lewis
Speaker: Martin Lewis
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6.30-7.30pm, The Birth Lottery of History
Speakers: Professor Robert J. Sampson, Professor Nicola Lacey
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6.30-7.30pm, Let Evil Prevail
Speaker: Dr Kieran Oberman
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Friday 16 June
1-2pm, Smashing the Class Ceiling
Speakers: Professor Lee Elliot Major, Professor Sam Friedman, Sophie Pender
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Festival Live Saturday 17 June
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11am-12pm, The Changing Nature of Religion in Today’s World
Speakers:Dr Mukulika Banerjee, John Casson, Georgette Bennett, Erin K. Wilson
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11am-12pm, Can People Change the World? Activists, Social Movements, and Utopian Futures
Speakers: Dr Armine Ishkanian, Dr Faiza Shaheen, Georgia Haddad Nicolau
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11am-2pm, Making Space for Girls: mapping and participatory approaches to research
Workshop leaders: Julia King, Olivia Theocharides-Feldman, Imogen Clark
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12.30-1.30pm, This is Not America: Why black lives in Britain matter
Speaker: Tomiwa Owolade
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12.30-1.30pm, The Power of Data in Health
Speakers: James Fransham, Alexandra Gomes
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2-3.30pm, Russia's War Against Ukraine: War crimes and responsibility for post-war reconstruction
Speakers: Olga Ayvazovska, Professor Tomila Lankina, Dr Olga Onuch, Oleksandra Matviichuk, Professor Steven Seegel, Mariia Zolkina
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2.30-3.30pm, How Did Britain Come to This?
Speakers: Professor Gwyn Bevan, Ros Taylor
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2.30-3.30pm, How is AI Changing the World?
Speakers: Dr Christine Chow, Dr Thomas Ferretti, Dr Giulia Gentile, Professor Michael Wooldridge
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4-5.30pm, Russia: does It believe in anything?
Speakers: Grigor Atanesian, Adam Curtis, Professor Tomila Lankina, Professor Vladislav Zubok
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4-5.15pm, #MeToo in the Media: survivors, believability, and emotional labour
Speakers: Rowena Chiu, Dr Kathryn Claire Higgins, Winnie M Li, Winnie M Li, Lucia Osborne-Crowley
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6-7pm, What Would a Fairer Society Look Like?
Speakers: Daniel Chandler, Dr Ayça Çubukçu, Swatee Deepak, Lord Willetts
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Family events
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Book a ticket for Family Day events taking place in and around our Centre Square:
Change for People by People
Alumni centre, Centre Building
Drop-in from 11:00-16:00 to make a mark on our graffiti wall or design your very own tote bag, badge or noise maker that sends a message about a cause you care about.
Book a place for the Protest Song Writing Workshop with sessions beginning at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm
Re-making the self - craft workshops (for ages 6+)
Alumni Centre, Centre Building
11am-1pm, or 2-4pm (drop-in)
For these sessions remember to bring some some items along from home to use in the creation of your children’s artworks – this could be photographs, textiles from clothes or items no longer used, newspaper or magazine scraps from a time of change your children would like to reflect back on, for example the pandemic, moving home, starting a new school etc.
LSE Generate Makers Market: Family workshops (recommended ages 5-12, but open to all)
Centre Building Square and GenDen
Including cookie-decorating, mural-making and sustainable fashion.
11am-1pm (ticketholders can drop in any time)
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Researchers of the Future
LSE Behavioural Lab, Lower Ground Floor, Clement House
Session beginning at 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm
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Please note, children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
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