2026-04-20
1 小时 45 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.
Good evening everyone, my name is Larry Kramer.
For those who do n't know me, I'm the President and Vice Chancellor here at LSE and it 's my great pleasure to welcome you
all to this very special event hosted by LSE's Department of Geography and Environment.
So we 've all seen, I think, over the last couple of weeks,
these extraordinary images coming back from the moon and Earth, of the moon and Earth, sent by Artemis II.
And, you know, looking at them, they remind us of the power of science to really inspire.
They're amazing.
They never sort of lose that sense of what science can do in terms of expanding the frontier of what 's technically possible
and giving the public a vivid sense of our collective ambition of what we can accomplish.
They also remind us that achievements of that kind are seldom, if ever, the work of one nation alone.
Like CERN, we 'll hear from a bit about later,
Artemis rested on cooperation across borders, across institutions, and across scientific communities.
Now, and despite remarkable achievements like that and countless others that we 've seen in recent years,
we 're living through a period of unprecedented pressure on public science,
or at least the kind of pressure that we have n't really seen since the early 20th century.
Now, some of that pressure is economic.
Concerns about the cost of living, about inflation, about taxation, dominate political attention,
and squeeze the fiscal budgets of anything that 's deemed less essential,