2025-10-01
1 小时 35 分钟Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Hi everyone, welcome to the LSE, this hybrid event.
My name is Coretta Phillips and I'm a Professor of Criminology and Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy here at the LSE.
A warm welcome to our in-person and our online audience this evening.
It's really nice to see so many of you here.
The events co-hosted by the International Inequality Institute and also the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity and is hosted in partnership with the London School of Economic Student Unions.
So many thanks to all of those.
organisations for hosting this event.
The event's being recorded and will hopefully be made available as a podcast subject to the usual technical difficulties,
so there'll be no technical difficulties.
There'll be an opportunity to take questions both from the in-person audience and online at the end once our speakers have finished.
and I'll give you some a reminder of just to introduce yourself and your affiliation before you ask your question.
Before I welcome and introduce our esteemed speakers,
I want to just reflect on what it means to be badged as a Black History event.
That's what we're celebrating and that's at the heart of tonight's event.
We've become very familiar with Black History Month events now,
but many of us will also recall when Black History Month was actually just organised often by left-wing councils and third sector organisations and I think it's still vulnerable to the kind of oppositional claims that it's advantage in black communities to have this separate event
as if every other month of the year isn't.
dominated by the white majority group that's of course economically and politically advantaged in this country.