{"title": "Geography and the wealth of nations", "start": "2026-10-27T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-10-27T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/economics"], "description": "A public lecture held in person and online, examining what Adam Smith's insights reveal about global economic change and the enduring impact of exploration, trade, geography and globalisation on prosperity. It is hosted by the Huth Initiative for a New Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The speaker is Jeffrey D Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, with Sir Tim Besley, School Professor of Economics and Political Science at LSE and Director of the Huth Initiative, chairing. Marking two hundred and fifty years since the publication of The Wealth of Nations, Professor Sachs draws on new geospatial datasets to argue that Smith's claim about the discovery of America and of a passage to the East Indies captures deep truths about long-term global economic change that remain relevant today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/geography-and-the-wealth-of-nations-37080/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/geography-wealth-nations", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9987762557d0be512e9ba8a42a3daf941e5fad8b9a1f9b4d58dccdde5b8c289e-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-27T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-10-27T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The harms of extreme wealth: launching the evidence review", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/inequality"], "description": "A public talk asking how much wealth is too much and whether trillionaires should be able to exist. 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It features Sri Mulyani Indrawati, former Minister of Finance of Indonesia, in conversation with Professor Andrés Velasco, and is chaired by Professor Tony Travers CBE. The discussion draws on her extensive experience in public policy and economic leadership, including strengthening Indonesia's economic stability, sustaining growth, creating employment, and reducing poverty and inequality. 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Professor Kent Deng of the LSE presents his book 'The Rise and Fall of China's Economic Miracle, 1950-2030', charting China's economy from the 14th century to today. He explains how Deng's state-led model lifted China to the world's second largest economy, and argues that with doors now closing to its trade, China would need a new miracle to return to pre-2010 growth. The event, organised by the SOAS China Institute and chaired by Professor Steve Tsang, requires registration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/how-sustainable-or-unsustainable-is-chinas-miracle-growth-si-43654/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/how-sustainable-or-unsustainable-chinas-miracle-growth-dengs-reforms", "image": "https://noky.io/images/855b5f89b2cdb4f5666795bbaaf010631087f4fb61bf2758ae7a295d2bca3ab8-600.webp"}, {"title": "Sustainability and behavioural change: a discussion", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/sustainability"], "description": "A public panel discussion on what a sustainable future requires, weighing incremental against transformative pathways and how large-scale pro-environmental behavioural change can be fostered. It is hosted by the School of Public Policy and the Global School of Sustainability at the London School of Economics and Political Science, launches a new issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, and forms part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2026. A panel of policy and academic experts – Dr Liam Beiser-McGrath, Dr Kate Laffan, Baroness Parminter and Elizabeth J Z Robinson – is chaired by Professor Liam Delaney. Attendees can join in person in the Malaysia Auditorium at the Centre Building or watch online via LSE Live.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sustainability-and-behavioural-change-a-discussion-80744/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/sustainability-behavioural-change", "image": "https://noky.io/images/24f1f7bf5680aba41a38cf8d2d88347fbe68cd174116e6d876e22d5681941d73-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The conservative tradition in sociological thought", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society"], "description": "A public lecture on how conservative ideas have shaped sociology, held in person at LSE and streamed online. It is hosted by the Department of Sociology and forms part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2026. The speaker is Shamus Khan, Willard Thorp professor of sociology and American Studies at Princeton University, whose lecture is based on a paper co-authored with former LSE Director Craig Calhoun, and it is chaired by sociologist Sam Friedman. The lecture explores themes including hierarchy and authority, appeals to nature and God, family and community, and traditionalism and skepticism toward narratives of progress.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-conservative-tradition-in-sociological-thought-74266/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/conservative-tradition-sociological-thought", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d378848e4f068daaec0411583b342c4edb12080d6bcde4c450a345458c3e8c45-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Becoming America: How Science Shaped a Nation", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-04-25T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Science Museum", "address": "London", "price": "free, ticketed", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.sciencemuseum.org.uk/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["science"], "description": "Becoming America: How Science Shaped a Nation is a free, ticketed exhibition at a museum in South Kensington, on level 2 of the building and recommended for ages 11 and up. 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Through maps, paintings, instruments and artefacts — including a rare surviving 1776 print of the Declaration of Independence, a microscope made for King George III, a dugout canoe built with traditional Indigenous methods, and the first known chart of the Gulf Stream — it explores the scientific undercurrents of this tumultuous period.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/becoming-america-how-science-shaped-a-nation-70014/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5bcc567004fe5dfdc2f41a7b76caaae3eda9e030b52482fb7654f401cfef7bd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hope Working Group: Roundtable and Book Launch, David Chandler's Hope (Routledge Shortcuts)", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "University of Westminster", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://westminster.cventevents.com/wQzkNa", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/books", "society/politics"], "description": "A roundtable and book launch for David Chandler's Hope (Routledge Shortcuts), hosted by the Hope Working Group. Discussants include Noga Glucksam, Seán Molloy, Nitasha Kaul and Emma McCluskey, chaired by Aidan Hehir. The book explores the politics of hope against a world shaped by global crises, from political disillusionment to catastrophic climate change. Copies will be available to buy for £20 cash only.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hope-working-group-roundtable-and-book-launch-david-chandler-70738/", "official_url": "https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/hope-working-group-roundtable-and-book-launch-david-chandlers-hope-routledge-shortcuts", "image": ""}, {"title": "Governing growth: the postwar transformations of capitalism and democracy", "start": "2026-11-02T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/postwar", "society/politics"], "description": "A public lecture at the London School of Economics and Political Science on how capitalist economies change over time and what political consequences follow. Peter Hall presents his new book \"Governing Growth\", tracing interactions between politics and economics in Western democracies over the past eighty years. He identifies three postwar growth regimes - modernization, liberalisation and knowledge-based growth - each paired with a distinctive regime of political representation, with discussants Sara Hobolt and David Soskice and chair Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey. The event is hosted by the Department of Government, takes place in the Malaysia Auditorium in the Centre Building, and is part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/governing-growth-the-postwar-transformations-of-capitalism-a-63365/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/governing-growth", "image": "https://noky.io/images/20dac47debd37308b826eec6afd967f4d52cd91b166a045cd08efb5c581c5707-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The ADHDer’s Guide to Self-Discovery - Sol Smith", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "place": "Watkins Books", "address": "Cecil Court 19, WC2N 4EZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.watkinsbooks.com/event-details/the-adhders-guide-to-self-discovery-sol-smith", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["wellness/mental-health/adhd"], "description": "A talk titled \"The ADHDer’s Guide to Self-Discovery\" taking place at a bookshop in central London. It is led by Sol Smith, a neurodivergent life coach and author, and explores ADHD beyond the language of deficits and self-doubt. Drawing on personal experience and the latest research, Smith offers a fresh perspective on understanding your mind, embracing your strengths, and discovering new ways to thrive in a world not always designed for you.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-adhders-guide-to-self-discovery-sol-smith-42795/", "official_url": "https://www.watkinsbooks.com/event-details/the-adhders-guide-to-self-discovery-sol-smith", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ad9d2dd3a934ee9dcba85b62022e559273922a3e2ed7a858627574775a93a66-1200.webp"}, {"title": "2026 BRISMES Annual Lecture: Beyond Bearing Witness: Palestine, Knowledge Production and the Political Economy of the Future", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-tickets-2003047622359", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A public lecture, also streamed online, discussing what forms of knowledge and analysis are needed beyond documenting conditions in Palestine. The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) presents its 2026 Annual Lecture with Rafeef Ziadah, co-hosted at SOAS by the Centre for Palestine Studies and the SOAS Middle East Institute, chaired by Dina Matar. It examines the political and economic projects being assembled around Palestine, including infrastructures of regional integration, energy, logistics, reconstruction and normalisation. Admission is free, but registration is required and seating is first come, first served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-50444/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-knowledge-production-and", "image": ""}, {"title": "CIMR debates in Public Policy - Catching Up in the Digital Age: Capabilities, Governance, and Industrial Policy in Transitional Europe", "start": "2026-11-05T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T17:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/booking/event/61292", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/economics"], "description": "A CIMR Debates in Public Policy talk on how latecomer economies in transitional Europe can catch up digitally, drawing on Prof. Fadil Sahiti's book 'Catching Up in the Digital Age: Capabilities, Governance, and Industrial Policy in Transitional Europe'. It is hosted by Birkbeck's Centre for Innovation Management Research, with a welcome and chairing by Prof. Helen Lawton Smith and speakers Prof. Slavo Radosevic, Prof. Rainer Kattel, and Dr. Nahed Ahmed. The debate examines how capability building, governance, and industrial policy can drive sustainable economic transformation, with focus on the Western Balkans including Kosovo, Albania, and North Macedonia, and introduces the book's concept of the Developmental Network State.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cimr-debates-in-public-policy-catching-up-in-the-digital-age-80522/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/61292/cimr-debates-in-public-policy-catching-up-in-the-digital-age-capabilities-governance-and-industrial-policy-in-transitional-europe", "image": ""}, {"title": "Arcadia by Sir John Akomfrah", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-05-03T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Natural History Museum", "address": "Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/arcadia", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image", "history/colonialism"], "description": "\"Arcadia\" is a multi-screen film installation about a global migration of people, nature and disease. It is by John Akomfrah, a widely respected artist and filmmaker known for works exploring memory, post-colonialism and the experiences of migrant diasporas. The installation shows the mass movement of plants, people, animals, metals, diseases and ideas between the Americas, Afro-Eurasia and Europe from the 1400s onwards, known as the Columbian Exchange. Across five screens, imagery of deserts, ice fields, mountains and seas is set to a soundtrack of nature sounds, opera and poetry, asking how migration, colonialism and empire have shaped the planet and its legacies today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/arcadia-by-sir-john-akomfrah-37307/", "official_url": "https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/arcadia", "image": "https://noky.io/images/87cfdafa70afbf36f276ba78f0bbea4e9f99d2506264574d3eb39780c75ad3e0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Economics Masterclass for years 12 and 13: the £3.50 coffee – who really gets your money?", "start": "2026-11-03T10:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["society/economics"], "description": "An interactive economics masterclass for year 12 and 13 pupils, three hours long and held on campus. It is run by staff from the SOAS Department of Economics as a free widening participation event, open only to pupils at state schools, academies and colleges, with applications due by the morning of 12 October 2026. The session traces a £3.50 flat white back through cafés, roasters and exporters to the farms of the Global South, asking who really profits, why growers receive so little, and what environmental and social costs are missing from the price. Participants also play an interactive economics game about bargaining power and unequal outcomes, and the day includes a campus tour and a higher education workshop led by student ambassadors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/economics-masterclass-for-years-12-and-13-the-350-coffee-who-43656/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/economics-masterclass-years-12-and-13-ps350-coffee-who-really-gets-your-money", "image": ""}]}