Are universities still relevant? - panel discussion, 19 June 2025, 1.30pm - 2.30pm

On 19 June, LSE100 is hosting a panel discussion exploring a question vital to the future of Higher Education: are universities still relevant?

Join Professor Emma McCoy, LSE Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education), as she chairs an insightful conversation between Professor Aaron Reeves (Department of Sociology, LSE), Dr Boris Walbaum (Forward College), Dr Zhamilya Mukasheva (LSE School of Public Policy) and Lord David Willets (Resolution Foundation). Drawing upon a range of expertise from across various sectors, the panellists will reflect on the most urgent issues facing the relevance of universities and put forward new ideas about how best to envision a future for HE which benefits not just its students and staff, but society at large.

Happening as part of LSE Festival, this event is open to all and free to attend. Pre-registration is essential and you can book your free ticket here.

Knowledge Beyond Boundaries, LSE's interdisciplinary student research conference, 17 June 2025, 10am - 6pm

This year's Knowledge Beyond Boundaries, LSE's annual interdisciplinary student research conference, is taking place on Monday 10 June as part of LSE Festival!

The theme for this year's conference is: visions for the future.

Knowledge Beyond Boundaries is proud to showcase a diverse and fascinating range of student research, and contribute to the Festival's insights into how we envision and can plan for the future.

Explore the panels taking place throughout the day in our 2025 Conference Programme - please note, this is subject to change.

As part of the LSE Festival, the conference is free to attend and open to all, but registration is required.

Register for your place here.

Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching Conference, 10 April 2025

Happening on 10 April on LSE campus, the conference invites scholars and practitioners from across the UK and global community to meet and share about interdisciplinary approaches, opportunities and best practiced in Higher Education. In particular, this year’s conference will focus on examining the methods that engage and inspire students to think across disciplinary boundaries and challenge traditional subject-focused thinking and practice.

Hosted by LSE100, the Eden Centre for Education Enhancement and Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching UK, the conference will be co-chaired by LSE100 Co-Director Dr Jillian Terry and marks the first time that LSE will host the annual conference.

You can register for the conference here.

Spotify Unwrapped creative workshop, 24 January 2025

Hosted by LSE100, as part of Fellow Dr Nina Vindum Rasmussen's wider research on Spotify with Dr Taylor Annabel (Utrecht University), this workshop invites students to critically reflect on their experiences of music streaming.

Come along to join in the conversation and explore how algorithms shape your listening habits. Refreshments will be provided. 

This event is open to all students who are currently studying LSE100. Spaces are limited and registration is essential - sign up here.

Welcome to LSE100 sessions, 23-27 September 2024

LSE100 will be hosting events throughout Welcome week where students can learn more about the School's flagship interdisciplinary course and meet each other before classes start!

Led by LSE100 Co-Directors Dr Jillian Terry and Dr Chris Blunt, our events will introduce students to the LSE100 team and other teams and resources from across the School, all of whom will be supporting them through their LSE100 studies and beyond.

All of our Welcome to LSE100 session will include time for students to socialise with one another over snacks, drinks, and our LSE100 Tony's Chocolonely.

Students will find that they have been allocated a Welcome to LSE100 session in their Student Hub calendar, but they are free to attend whichever session best suits their schedule.

No prior sign-up is required. Entry will be on a first-come, first-served basis so prompt arrival is encouraged!

Knowledge Beyond Boundaries 2024: Power and Politics, Monday 10 June 2024

This year's Knowledge Beyond Boundaries, LSE's annual interdisciplinary student research conference, is taking place on Monday 10 June as part of LSE Festival!

For both Festival and conference, this year's theme is: Power and Politics.

Knowledge Beyond Boundaries is proud to showcase a diverse and fascinating range of student research, and contribute to the Festival's insights into how we engage with Power and Politics in the contemporary global moment.

Explore the panels taking place throughout the day in our 2024 Conference Programme - please note, this is subject to change.

As part of the LSE Festival, the conference is free to attend and open to all, but registration is required.

Register for your place here.

Developing AI Literacy in the classroom and beyond, Thursday 7 March 2024, 18.30-20.00

Hosted in collaboration between LSE100, LSE Data Science Institute and LSE Digital Skills Lab, this cross-sector panel discussion will examine the concept of AI literacy and its role in thinking critically about AI technologies and their impacts on the world around us. They will also discuss questions of how to initiate early AI literacy in the classroom, and how this literacy can be further developed in various professional settings and sectors.

Attendees will leave this event with practical steps towards supporting AI literacy and tailoring AI literacy strategies to their own educational or professional contexts.

The panel discussion will be chaired by Professor Emma McCoy (LSE Vice-President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education).

This event forms part of the AI UK Fringe 2024 organised by The Alan Turing Institute. Find out more and sign up for your free ticket here. 

Algorithms, Violence, and Youth in Brazil: towards an educational model for peace and human rights, Thursday 29 February 2024, 17.00-18.30

In this event, Fellow Dr Beatriz Buarque and her collaborators from Think Twice Brasil will be sharing their recent research on the relationship between the use of social media by Brazilian youth and access to violent content online.

Since 2002, Brazil has witnessed an increase in school-based violence, with perpetrators exhibiting signs xenophobic radicalisation on their social media prior to committing attacks. In their research, Beatriz and Think Twice Brasil seek to answer why this may be happening.

Beatriz will be speaking alongside Gabriele Costa Bento Garcia.

This event will take place on campus and online, and is free to attend. Sign up here.

Spotify Unwrapped Workshop, Thursday 15 February 2024, 13.00-15.00

Hosted by LSE100, as part of Fellow Dr Nina Vindum Rasmussen's wider research on Spotify with Dr Taylor Annabel (Utrecht University), this workshop invites students to critically reflect on their experiences of music streaming.

Come along to join in the conversation and explore how algorithms shape your listening habits. Refreshments will be provided. Sign up here.

Book Launch: Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave and Science, Gender and the Exploitation of Animals in Britain since 1945, Thursday 3 August 2023, 18.30-19.30

Come along on 3 August to celebrate two fantastic publications from members of the LSE100 team.

Dr Catherine Duxbury will be in conversation with Dr Emily Cousens about their recent monographs, and the convergence between critical animal studies and trans feminism.

Join us for the evening and carry on the discussion over free refreshments following the main presentations. Sign up for your free ticket here.

Mute Compulsion: author-meets-critics with Søren Mau | Tuesday 23 May 2023, 16.00-18.00

Join us on Tuesday 23 May 2023 for an author-meets-critics book talk at LSE for Søren Mau's Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital (Verso, 2023).

Mute Compulsion presents a new Marxist theory of the abstract and impersonal forms of power in capitalism, focusing on 'mute compulsion' as distinct from ideology or domination as the only forms of power in capitalism.

Mau will present the main arguments of the book before engaging in a conversation with three esteemed LSE professors: Sumi Madhok, Sara Salem, and Paul Apostolidis. The event is chaired by Lukas Slothuus.

The event is free and open to all, but registration is essential.

Find out more about the event here. Register for the event here.