Shaping the Post-COVID World

LSE Film and Audio Team

Building on the important conversations and research being undertaken as part of LSE's COVID-19 response, the Shaping the Post-COVID World initiative convenes a debate about the direction the world could and should be taking after this crisis and what policies national and global actors should pursue.

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20 episodes
Updated Jun 9, 2022

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Jun 9, 2022 · 1 hr 32 min
The Future of the Liberal World Order
Has the post-Cold War era ended? Will the global response to Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine renew democracies’ commitment to the liberal order after years of international discord and domestic backsliding?
May 31, 2022 · 1 hr 29 min
Policy and Social Change
This panel brings together speakers who are working at the intersection of research and policy to discuss the question: what is the relationship between policy and social change?
May 23, 2022 · 1 hr 20 min
Artificial Intelligence and Democracy
Artificial intelligence (AI) creates opportunities to strengthen democracy and public debates but it also challenges existing democratic norms.
May 19, 2022 · 1 hr 36 min
Today's Fight for Open Society
Mark Malloch-Brown, President of the Open Society Foundations and Minouche Shafik, Director of LSE discuss today’s fight for open society.
May 17, 2022 · 1 hr 35 min
Climate Change Diplomacy: a most dangerous game
Professor Scott Barrett delivers this keynote lecture on climate change diplomacy.
May 11, 2022 · 1 hr 26 min
Cannibal Capitalism
Capitalism’s voracious appetite is devouring democracy, care, and the planet.
Mar 30, 2022 · 1 hr 31 min
Weathering the Pandemic: the emerging financial landscape in South East Europe
Panellists discuss the forces reshaping finance in South East Europe and the lessons learned from the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mar 14, 2022 · 1 hr 29 min
Great Powers, Climate Change and Global Environmental Responsibilities
This event discusses the new book on Great Powers, Climate Change and Global Environmental Responsibilities.
Mar 14, 2022 · 1 hr 1 min
COVID by Numbers: making sense of the pandemic with data
David Spiegelhalter and Anthony Masters crunch the data on the COVID-19 pandemic, exposing the leading misconceptions about the virus and the vaccine, and answering our essential questions.
Mar 3, 2022 · 1 hr 14 min
How To Beat Pandemics: a route map to ending COVID-19, ending AIDS, and keeping safe from the threats of the future
Winnie Byanyima, the feminist activist who leads UNAIDS and who chairs the People’s Vaccine Alliance for COVID-19, highlights lessons rooted in ongoing experience from the AIDS response and the commonalities between the two pandemics
Mar 2, 2022 · 1 hr
Public Service Broadcasting in its Second Century
Tim Davie, Director-General of the BBC, discusses the future of the BBC with Minouche Shafik, Director of LSE.
Feb 22, 2022 · 23 min
SHORTCAST | Systemic Risk in Interconnected Financial Markets
This is an event shortcast, a digested version of our live online public events series. This event was recorded on 08 December 2021. A full version is available to download on the LSE player.
Feb 21, 2022 · 1 hr 34 min
China and the World in the Post-COVID Era: a new agenda of public policy
This public event celebrates the launch of the LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Hub, an interdisciplinary panel of experts will be discussing key public policy challenges that China and the world faces post-pandemic.
Feb 11, 2022 · 1 hr 1 min
Leveraging Moments of Change for Pro-Environmental Behavioural Transformation
Lorraine Whitmarsh shares the initial findings of her most recent research project on ‘moments of change’.
Feb 8, 2022 · 1 hr 33 min
Are Countries Building Back Better?
Speakers discuss a recent report, From rhetoric to action: Delivering equality and inclusion from the Pathfinders initiative, which considers what actually works to address inequality and exclusion in different country settings.
Feb 3, 2022 · 1 hr 28 min
Wellbeing as a Goal of Public Policy
Our panellists discuss the new issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, Beveridge 2.0: Wellbeing. This latest LSE Public Policy Review issue discusses the extent to which wellbeing considerations can (and should) inform policy decisions.
Jan 16, 2022 · 23 min
SHORTCAST | Environmentalism and Global International Society
This shortcast discusses the new book, Environmentalism and Global International Society.
Jan 13, 2022 · 24 min
SHORTCAST | Career and Family: women's century-long journey toward equity
Taking the form of an open conversation, this event discusses the themes of gender equity and couple equity as presented in Claudia Goldin’s book, Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity.
Jan 12, 2022 · 20 min
SHORTCAST | 15 years on from the Stern Review: economics of climate change, innovation, growth
To mark the 15th anniversary of the publication of the landmark The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review, Nicholas Stern reviews progress and looks forward to the prospects of success at COP26 and beyond.
Dec 17, 2021 · 1 hr 1 min
Systemic Risk in Interconnected Financial Markets
Domino effects of losses can bring down entire financial systems with severe knock-on effects on the real economy.