All Festival events are free and open to all, but registration for most of the events is required.
To watch the main events programme online, you will only need to register once and then choose which events you would like to watch. For the Festival Skills sessions, you will need to register individually for each webinar.
To attend events in-person, you will need to register for each event individually.
No booking is required for Festival exhibitions, but please note the opening hours on the event pages.
For the Family day, on the booking form please specify which events you plan to attend - most have timed slots to choose from between 10am and 1pm.
For our student research conference, Knowledge beyond boundaries, you register for the full day either online or in person, and drop in to the sessions you want to attend.
For any queries, please email events@lse.ac.uk
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Wednesday 18 June
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1-2pm, Green, just, and healthy: what do young Londoners want for the future of their neighbourhoods?
Speakers: Mete Coban, Rowena Champion, Maanya Jones
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5.30-6.30pm, Visions for the future with Daron Acemoglu
Speakers: Professor Daron Acemoglu
FULLY BOOKED - Returns queue in operation
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6-8pm, Lessons on revolution
Speakers: Lisa McQuillan, Sam Rees, Gabriele Uboldi, Dr Wendy Willems
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7-8pm, Breaking the Jeff Bezos model of new technology
Speakers: Dr Hilary Cottam, Dr Faiza Shaheen, Professor Jack Stilgoe
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Thursday 19 June
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12-1pm, Visions for the future with Anthony Scaramucci
Speakers: Anthony Scaramucci
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1.30-2.30pm, Are universities still relevant?
Speakers: Professor Aaron Reeves, Dr Boris Walbaum, Lord Willetts
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5-6pm, Who owns the future?
Speakers: Professor Ruha Benjamin
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6-8pm, Watch, act, vote: legislative theatre for health and climate justice
Speakers: Dr Miqdad Asaria, Katy Rubin, Samra Said
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6.30-7.30pm, Reimagining the way we work
Speakers: Professor Nava Ashraf, Dr Daniel Susskind
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Saturday 21 June
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2-3pm, Empowerment, safety and equity: children's visions of rights-respecting digital futures
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2-3pm, What's cooking? The future of food on the African continent
Speakers: Adejoké Bakare, Dipo Faloyin, Dr Edwini Kwame Kessie, Professor David Luke
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3.30-4.30pm, Reckoning with the past: truth-telling and the British Empire
Speakers: Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Lidia Thorpe, Dr Imaobong Umoren, Kofi Mawuli Klu
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3.30-4.30pm, The future of truth
Speakers: Professor Jason McKenzie Alexander, Professor Charlie Beckett, Hardeep Matharu, Abi Whistance
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5-6pm, Big data for public good
Speakers: Dr Sara Geneletti, Dr Laura Gilbert, Professor Helen Margetts
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5-6pm, The golden road
Speakers: William Dalrymple
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6.30-7.30pm, Positive futures
Speakers: Roger Highfield, Suhair Khan, Isabel Losada, Professor Michael Muthukrishna
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Knowledge beyond boundaries: LSE's interdisciplinary student research conference