LSE Festival 2020: Shape the World

If you could choose one superpower, what would it be? 🦸 If you could do one thing to change the world, what would it be? 🌍 At #LSEFestival, we're exploring how social sciences can make the world a better place. The good news is: we don't need superpowers to make that happen. On Saturday 7 March, our Festival comes to an end with the Closing Event: Imagining our Futures. 🎟️ More info and free tickets: 🔴 "LSE Festival: #ShapeTheWorld" will take place from Monday 2 to Saturday 7 March 2020. 🔴 The Festival will bring together global leaders, innovators and change makers to investigate how we can learn lessons from the past, tackle the challenges of today and shape the future. 🔴 All events are free to attend and open to all. 🔗 View the programme: 🔴 More from LSE: Study with us ➡️ Facebook ➡️ /lseps Instagram ➡️ /londonschoo.. Twitter ➡️ /lsenews LinkedIn ➡️ /londo..

What should you do for the betterment of society? Start volunteering? 🤲 Refrain from shopping too much? 🛍️ Recycle more? ♻️ Ahead of #LSEFestival, we're asking some simple questions with not-so-simple solutions, and exploring how social sciences can make the world a better place. On Saturday 7 March, we'll be asking the questions: If you could do one thing to change the world, what would that be? What do LSE academics think we should start, stop and continue doing? Join us as we explore how people can shape the world with their actions. 🎟️ More info and free tickets: 🔴 "LSE Festival: #ShapeTheWorld" will take place from Monday 2 to Saturday 7 March 2020. 🔴 The Festival will bring together global leaders, innovators and change makers to investigate how we can learn lessons from the past, tackle the challenges of today and shape the future. 🔴 All events are free to attend and open to all. 🔗 View the programme: 🔴 More from LSE: Study with us ➡️ Facebook ➡️ /lseps Instagram ➡️ /londonschoo

What's the one thing you do which is most detrimental to the environment? Can you stop committing your carbon footprint sins, or at least change your behaviour? ♻️🤔 Ahead of #LSEFestival, we're asking some simple questions with not-so-simple solutions, and exploring how social sciences can make the world a better place. Many positive developments are underway among central banks, investors, civil society and development banks to agree how to harness the world’s financial system behind a rapid transition to a net-zero, resilient and inclusive global economy. But at present, these do not add up to a credible strategy for mobilising the trillions that will be needed for climate action both in industrialised countries such as the UK and also in the developing countries of the Global South. 🎟️ More info and free tickets: 🔴 "LSE Festival: #ShapeTheWorld" will take place from Monday 2 to Saturday 7 March 2020. 🔴 The Festival will bring together global leaders, innovators and change makers to

Is Donald Trump a reptile? 🐍 Did Avril Lavigne die in a car crash and get substituted by a clone? 🤔 Are conspiracy theories completely ridiculous, or could there be some truth to them? Ahead of #LSEFestival, we're asking some simple questions with not-so-simple solutions, and exploring how social sciences can make the world a better place. On Wednesday 4 March, experts on propaganda and the internet will explore the populist problem presented by “fake news” – and how we can resist it. 🎟️ More info and free tickets: 🔴 "LSE Festival: #ShapeTheWorld" will take place from Monday 2 to Saturday 7 March 2020. 🔴 The Festival will bring together global leaders, innovators and change makers to investigate how we can learn lessons from the past, tackle the challenges of today and shape the future. 🔴 All events are free to attend and open to all. 🔗 View the programme: 🔴 More from LSE: Study with us ➡️ Facebook ➡️ /lseps Instagram ➡️ /londonschoo.. Twitter ➡️ /lsenews LinkedIn ➡️ /londo..

Are communities becoming more polarised? ↔️ Are we even heading in the right direction? 👣 Ahead of #LSEFestival, we're asking some simple questions with not-so-simple solutions, and exploring how social sciences can make the world a better place. An inclusive workforce offers companies a distinct competitive advantage. Enhanced profits, innovation, growth, and employee wellbeing. Companies with a diverse and inclusive workforce respond better to the needs and demands of global clients and corporations. Yet creating an environment which is inclusive of all talent is not straightforward. Join us at LSE Festival for a panel discussion on ‘Inclusion in the City’, a report that gives practical insights from behavioural science research to the problems and solutions posed by people who understand the financial and services industry the best: its own talent. This event will also announce The Inclusion Initiative (TII) at LSE. 🎟️ More info and free tickets: 🔴 "LSE Festival: #ShapeTheWorld" wil

Should we have more kids, or fewer? 👶 Do we have the resources to sustain our growing populations? 🌆 Or is overpopulation just a myth? Ahead of #LSEFestival, we're asking some simple questions with not-so-simple solutions, and exploring how social sciences can make the world a better place. On Friday 2 March, our Global Health Initiative will offer new insights on the best means to tackle environmental and demographic threats in a manner that enhances rather than restricts human rights. 🎟️ More info and free tickets: 🔴 "LSE Festival: #ShapeTheWorld" will take place from Monday 2 to Saturday 7 March 2020. 🔴 The Festival will bring together global leaders, innovators and change makers to investigate how we can learn lessons from the past, tackle the challenges of today and shape the future. 🔴 All events are free to attend and open to all. 🔗 View the programme: 🔴 More from LSE: Study with us ➡️ Facebook ➡️ /lseps Instagram ➡️ /londonschoo.. Twitter ➡️ /lsenews LinkedIn ➡️ /londo..

Are you happy with how much you're earning? 💰How much is enough to lead a good life and support a family? 🤑 Ahead of #LSEFestival, we're asking some simple questions with not-so-simple solutions, and exploring how social sciences can make the world a better place. On Saturday 7 March, we're asking how we can all thrive in a world with less work. Technological progress could bring about unprecedented prosperity, solving one of mankind's oldest problems: making sure that everyone has enough to live on. 🎟️ More info and free tickets: 🔴 "LSE Festival: #ShapeTheWorld" will take place from Monday 2 to Saturday 7 March 2020. 🔴 The Festival will bring together global leaders, innovators and change makers to investigate how we can learn lessons from the past, tackle the challenges of today and shape the future. 🔴 All events are free to attend and open to all. 🔗 View the programme: 🔴 More from LSE: Study with us ➡️ Facebook ➡️ /lseps Instagram ➡️ /londonschoolofeconomics Twitter ➡️ /lsenews Link

Which country wields the most influence? Is it the United States 🇺🇸? China 🇨🇳? The UK 🇬🇧? Or even somewhere like Iceland 🇮🇸? Ahead of #LSEFestival, we're asking some simple questions with not-so-simple solutions, and exploring how social sciences can make the world a better place. What are the forces that are shaping the world today? On Monday 2 March, LSE experts will examine the current political, economic and social landscape by using examples from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. How do they see the changing world from the perspective of those areas and what should the agenda be for the social sciences from their experience and expertise? 🎟️ More info and free tickets: 🔴 "LSE Festival: #ShapeTheWorld" will take place from Monday 2 to Saturday 7 March 2020. 🔴 The Festival will bring together global leaders, innovators and change makers to investigate how we can learn lessons from the past, tackle the challenges of today and shape the future. 🔴 All events are free to attend and