The halted march of the European left: lessons from history

How geoeconomics will affect the green transition

World events have shone a stark light on the vulnerabilities of energy markets, supply chains and global economic security. How will the need to tackle climate change be affected by the geopolitical shocks reshaping trade, production and investment?

The politics of climate change

The climate crisis is a global challenge requiring global cooperation to tackle it, but the political world seems further than ever from a consensus about how to do that. What explains the rollback of net-zero commitments, and the growing green backlash?

The ecological continuation of empire in the Arab world

This lecture by Marwa Daoudy, held in honour of the renowned scholar Fred Halliday, will explore the entanglement of colonialism, capitalism, and environmental exploitation that has shaped the modern global order in ways that continue to structure global inequality.

The runtime revolution: how generative AI is reshaping value and organisations

Join Youngjin Yoo for his inaugural lecture, where he will set out a new agenda for understanding how this technological and economic shift is reshaping value creation, technological design, and the organisation.

Reading wars: the story (so far) of Western literacy and the future of free speech

Who gets access to books? And, to what extent does the act of reading shape our humanity?