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A collection of videos highlighting current research at LSE.

Publisher

LSE Film and Audio Team

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Oct 2006

Latest episode

27 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 5,898 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   27 Oct 2026

   Geography and the wealth of nations

   Two hundred and fifty years after the publication of The Wealth of Nations, Jeffrey D Sachs returns to one of Adam Smith's most striking claims: that "the discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind." Drawing on new geospatial datasets, Professor Sachs argues that Smith's observation captures deep truths about long-term global economic change — truths that remain profoundly relevant for our own age.

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   26 Oct 2026

   LSE: The Ballpark | America as a revisionist power with Professor Phillips O’Brien

   In the past decade, America has taken steps that appear deliberately designed to unmake the international order which it set up more than 50 years ago. This has led some commentators to argue that the US is now a revisionist power.

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   22 Oct 2026

   Celebrating Hilde Himmelweit: women, scholarship, and LSE’s intellectual history

   Join us to celebrate Hilde Himmelweit as part of LSE’s 130th anniversary programme, honouring the life and legacy of Hilde Himmelweit (1918–1989), a pioneering refugee scholar and one of the very few women to hold a professorship at the School in its early history.

Inside a recent episode

Internationale Blues: revolutionary pessimism and the politics of solidarity

Published 17 May 2019 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So blues stretches time. It's flexible, it's improvisatory, it's simultaneously in the moment, it's simultaneously in the past, and it's in the future. And the timeless space of imagination is where the blues is situated. In the blues, Baraka reminds us, quote, the past is also the future. What is nigh is coming. Eve before am. E before AM. The present was here before it was the past and after it was the future. So this brings me to Cedric Robinson's work, and I want to say something about it. So Cedric Robinson wrote, his first book was called The Terms of Order. And in that book, he reviews three concepts of time, linear time, cyclical time, and eschatological time. […]

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• Dr Laura Gilbert
• Dr Nils Peters
• Professor Tom Kirchmaier
• Professor Judy Wajcman

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