Cañada Blanch Forum

Aside from the Centre's events, which you can see below, the Centre and Chair organise an annual flagship event in collaboration with the Fundación Cañada Blanch in Valencia to foster public debate on global challenges.

• Forum 2025: The green transition
• Forum 2024: The innovation challenge
• Forum 2023: Foreign direct investment and multinational corporations in a changing world
• Forum 2022: Populism and growing discontent in the era of COVID-19
• Forum 2021: Cities and regions in a post-COVID world

LSE-Cañada Blanch Lectures

Please browse below for a list of the Centre's past events at LSE, organised by academic year in reverse chronological order.

2025-6 ACADEMIC YEAR

20 November 2025

Cañada Blanch Fellows' Workshop Autumn Term 2025-6

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

11 November 2025

Natural disasters in the European regions: Challenges for regional governance and policy

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

2024-5 ACADEMIC YEAR

17 June 2025

LSE Miguel Dols' Fellows Workshop Spring 2025 

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

27 March 2025

Rethinking economic growth: paving the way for sustainable cities and regions

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

18 March 2025

LSE Miguel Dols' Fellows Workshop Winter 2025 

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

13 March 2025

Rooted in place: exploring how design choices shape communities (In collaboration with the Cervantes Institute)

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

17 February 2025

Dialogue with EU Vice-President RIbera on prosperity and green agenda 

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

13 February 2025

Urbanisation from a global perspective: Are towns urban or rural?

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

18 November 2024

LSE Miguel Dols' Fellows Workshop Autumn 2024

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

5 November 2024

The race for critical raw materials: challenges for resilience, sustainability and equity

 You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

2023-4 ACADEMIC YEAR

4 June 2024

LSE Miguel Dols' Fellows Workshop Spring 2024

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

25 March 2024

Strengthening Europe from Catalonia

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

5 March 2024

The future of British-Spanish bilateral relations 

 You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

4 March 2024

What can we learn from an emerging global definition of urbanisation?

 You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

27 February 2024

In conversation with Jimmy Burns-Marañon, OBE: book presentation "A Faithful Spy" (In collaboration with the British Spanish Society)

 You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

22 February 2024

Dialogue with EU Commissioner Ferreira on the future of cohesion policy 

 You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

13 February 2024

LSE Miguel Dols' Fellows Workshop Winter 2024

 You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

7 November 2023

LSE Miguel Dols' Fellows Workshop Autumn 2023

 You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

17 October 2023

Spain's changing politics with Michael Reid

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

2022-3 ACADEMIC YEAR

31 May 2023

LSE Miguel Dols' Fellows Workshop Spring 2023 

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

11 May 2023

Regional development traps in Europe: experiences and policies

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

31 March 2023 

Towards a New Economic Paradigm? by the Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Nadia Calviño and LSE President and Vice Chancellor Minouche Shafik

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel. 

  

 

2 March 2023  

LSE Miguel Dols' Fellows Workshop Winter 2023 

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel. 

 

9 February 2023  

Dialogue with the Governor of the Bank of Spain on the Future of Globalisation

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel. 

 

 

7 February 2023 

Development Traps and Discontent with Dr. Lewis Dijkstra

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel. 

 

19 January 2023 

The growth corridor vision and its realities — insights for development in Africa

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

 

16 January 2023

Global value chains for regional development in Latin America 

 You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

 

5 December 2022

LSE Miguel Dols' Fellows Workshop Autumn 2022 

 You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

 

13 June 2022  

Rethinking the World Today: The New Business Landscape, by Prof. Mauro F. Guillén (In collaboration with the Cervantes Institute)

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

24 May 2022  

FDI in Cuba: opportunities, challenges and its role in sustainable development

 

17 February 2022  

In Conversation with Nadia Calviño Santamaría

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

15 February 2022  

Regional disparities in the EU: old problems and new challenges

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

14 February 2022  

LSE Miguel Dols' Fellows Workshop Winter 2022 

 

 26 November 2021 

'Rethinking the World Today' Talk Series: The Oceans, 500 Years Later (In collaboration with the Cervantes Institute)

You can rewatch it on our YouTube channel.

 

12 November 2021

LSE Miguel Dols' Fellows Workshop Autumn 2021

 

ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/21 

15 April 2021

'Rethinking the world today' series: Cities and regions in a post-COVID world (In collaboration with the Cervantes Institute)