Summer 2011 | Public lectures and events | Video
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Video files from LSE's summer 2011 programme of public lectures and events, for more recordings and pdf documents see the corresponding audio collection.
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Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age | Contributor(s): Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger | Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. Earlier he spent ten years on the f | 8 8 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What next for Rupert Murdoch? The Man Who Owns The News | Contributor(s): Michael Wolff | Rupert Murdoch is currently engulfed in one of the most extraordinary news stories of recent times, his own. Michael Wolff has long argued that a trend of decline for media moguls is inevitable. In this conversation, Wolf | 28 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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An Evening with Michael Atherton | Contributor(s): Michael Atherton | A conversation and Q&A with cricketer Michael Atherton, author of Glorious Summers and Discontents: Looking Back on the Ups and Downs from a Dramatic Decade. Renowned as a shrewd and resolute captain of England, Athert | 27 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Monetary policy and banking fragility | Contributor(s): Professor David Miles | The banking sector across many developed economies proved fragile – insufficiently robust to prevent worries about the value of bank assets generating a banking crisis. This caused a downturn which in the UK has | 27 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Keynes v Hayek | Contributor(s): Professor George Selgin, Professor Lord Skidelsky, Duncan Weldon, Dr Jamie Whyte | How do we get out of the financial mess we're in? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views: John Maynard Keyne | 26 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 | Contributor(s): Douglas Edwards | Comparing Google to an ordinary business is like comparing a rocket to a wheelbarrow. No academic analysis or bystander's account can capture it. Now Douglas Edwards, Employee Number 59, takes us inside the Googleplex f | 20 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The End of the Peer Show?: A debate on the future of the House of Lords | Contributor(s): Professor Tim Bale, Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Mark Harper MP, Rt Revd Lord Harries | The draft House of Lords Reform Bill, published in May 2011, sets out a number of proposals aiming to reform the UK's Upper House. These proposals - a | 18 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Change in the Middle East? Democracy, Authoritarianism and Regime Change in the Arab World | Contributor(s): Professor Lisa Anderson | This lecture is an examination of the recent uprisings in the Arab world, highlighting where they happened, where they succeeded and what they may mean for both the practice and the study of politics in the regi | 13 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Migrants and Intellectual life | Contributor(s): Sir Harry Kroto, Philippe Sands QC, Mike Phillips, Gita Sahgal, Barbara Roche | Migrants are often presented as a burden, but no one can deny the impact they have had on Britain's intellectual life. One quarter of Britain's Nobel Prize w | 13 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Phone-hacking: is it time to get tough on the press? | Contributor(s): David Aaronovitch, Charlotte Harris, Martin Moore, Paul Staines | The furore around the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World has raised wider issues around the regulation and standards of British newspaper journalism. Is it ti | 13 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ED: The Milibands and the making of a Labour leader | Contributor(s): Mehdi Hasan, James Macintyre | Ed Miliband is perhaps the least understood political leader of modern times. Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre's book, ED: The Milibands and the making of a Labour leader, reveals where he has come from and | 12 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Arab Revolutions in the Making: Not a Perfect Storm | Contributor(s): Professor Fawaz A Gerges | Fawaz Gerges is a Professor of Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also holds the Emirates Chair of the Contemporary Middle East and | 7 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Powerful Portraits: What's in a Face? A slideshow lecture by Platon | Contributor(s): Platon | Portrait photographer Platon shares his experience photographing an eclectic mix of presidents, politicians, celebrities and artists through to his award winning portfolios for the New Yorker. He will also discuss highlights fro | 6 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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An Integrated Networking Approach for a Sustainable Textile Sector in Solapur City, India | Contributor(s): Rahul Hiremath | The textile sector in India plays an important role in the country's economy, providing employment to a significant population in rural and semi-rural areas. It generates sizeable foreign exchange for the country, and is | 5 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Family Futures: Childhood and poverty in urban neighbourhoods | Contributor(s): Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Dr Katharine Rake, Professor Anne Power, Jane Waldfogel | Family futures is about family life in areas of concentrated poverty and social problems where surrounding conditions make bringing up children more diff | 5 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Quality in Health and Social Care | Contributor(s): Dr Zack Cooper, Professor Julien Forder, Professor Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Dr Irini Papanicolas | In this lecture, organised by LSE Health and Social Care, and supported by LSE HEIF 4 Bid Fund, LSE academics will discuss quality and competit | 5 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Caribbean in a Changing Global Environment | Contributor(s): Professor Sir Hilary Beckles | This event is part of the celebrations that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Caucus of High Commissioners are organising to celebrate CARICOM day on 1 July 2011. Several activities are being planned to mar | 5 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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London Integration Forum 2011 - Exploring Diversity | Contributor(s): Liz Fekete, Dr Naika Foroutan, Dr Myria Georgiou, Nazia Hussain, Lamya Kaddor, Profressor Julian Petley | How can we formulate a vision of the future after the widely proclaimed "failure of multiculturalism"? The London Integration Forum | 1 7 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A lecture by Felipe Larraín Bascuñán, Minister of Finance of the Government of Chile | Contributor(s): Felipe Larraín Bascuñán | Since March 2010, Felipe Larraín Bascuñán has been the Minister of Finance of the Government of President Sebastián Piñera. Felipe gained a PhD (1985) and Master of Arts (1983) in Economics from Harvard | 29 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Urban regeneration and social sustainability | Contributor(s): Andrea Colantonio, Tim Dixon, Brian Field, Jan Olbrycht | Urban regeneration is a key focus for public policy throughout Europe. This launch marks an examination of social sustainability through the analysis of its meaning and significan | 29 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Moving Social Security Online (Conference) - 16:00 Session | Contributor(s): Sir Michael Bichard, Matt Briggs, Guy Ker, Simon Boniwell, Nick Chapman, David Dinsdale, Patrick Dunleavy, Harry Metcalfe, Ivo Gormley, William Heath, Teresa Perchaud, Kevin McLean, Mark O'Neill, Jerry Fishenden, Martin Ferguson | LSE Pu | 29 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Moving Social Security Online (Conference) - 14:45 Session 4 | Contributor(s): Sir Michael Bichard, Matt Briggs, Guy Ker, Simon Boniwell, Nick Chapman, David Dinsdale, Patrick Dunleavy, Harry Metcalfe, Ivo Gormley, William Heath, Teresa Perchaud, Kevin McLean, Mark O'Neill, Jerry Fishenden, Martin Ferguson | LSE Pu | 29 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Moving Social Security Online (Conference) - 13:45 Session 3 | Contributor(s): Sir Michael Bichard, Matt Briggs, Guy Ker, Simon Boniwell, Nick Chapman, David Dinsdale, Patrick Dunleavy, Harry Metcalfe, Ivo Gormley, William Heath, Teresa Perchaud, Kevin McLean, Mark O'Neill, Jerry Fishenden, Martin Ferguson | LSE Pu | 29 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Moving Social Security Online (Conference) - 11:45 Session 2 | Contributor(s): Sir Michael Bichard, Matt Briggs, Guy Ker, Simon Boniwell, Nick Chapman, David Dinsdale, Patrick Dunleavy, Harry Metcalfe, Ivo Gormley, William Heath, Teresa Perchaud, Kevin McLean, Mark O'Neill, Jerry Fishenden, Martin Ferguson | LSE Pu | 29 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Moving Social Security Online (Conference) - 10:15 Session 1 | Contributor(s): Sir Michael Bichard, Matt Briggs, Guy Ker, Simon Boniwell, Nick Chapman, David Dinsdale, Patrick Dunleavy, Harry Metcalfe, Ivo Gormley, William Heath, Teresa Perchaud, Kevin McLean, Mark O'Neill, Jerry Fishenden, Martin Ferguson | LSE Pu | 29 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Adaptation and regeneration in the EU's regions: The case of Wallonia | Contributor(s): Rudy Demotte | In the 19th century the Belgian region of Wallonia was the second industrial power of the world after England. Then, in the 1950s, came rapid and seemingly unstoppable decline. Now, with exports and investment rising, ther | 28 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Injunctions are a necessary evil: Privacy, free speech and a feral press | Contributor(s): Suzanne Moore, Max Mosley, David Price, Hugh Tomlinson | A public debate to celebrate the launch of the new issue of Index on Censorship magazine, Privacy is dead! Long live privacy. Index editor Jo Glanville chairs a panel featuring Hug | 28 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Policy and Philosophy for Children | Contributor(s): Phillip Blond, Jonathan Douglas, Professor John White | Three debates will examine the theoretical, practical and policy implications of teaching philosophy to children in primary and secondary school settings in the UK. Phillip Blond is | 23 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bread and Butter: Food, De-Development and the Arab Revolutions | Contributor(s): Dr Rami Zurayk | In his lecture, Rami Zurayk will discuss his current work on food and de-development in Gaza and the use of food insecurity as a weapon of siege. He will also look at Egypt and its post-revolution agricultural policies. | 23 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Philosophers and Philosophy for Children | Contributor(s): Dr Katerina Deligiorgi, Dr Angela Hobbs, Dr Vivienne Orchar | Three debates will examine the theoretical, practical and policy implications of teaching philosophy to children in primary and secondary school settings in the UK. Katerina D | 23 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Practitioners and Philosophy for Children | Contributor(s): Dr Mary Healy, Dr John Taylor, Peter Worley | Three debates will examine the theoretical, practical and policy implications of teaching philosophy to children in primary and secondary school settings in the UK. Mary Healy is senior lectu | 23 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Global Imbalances and Social Challenges | Contributor(s): Jean-Michel Severino, Martin Wolf | Two of the world's top commentators on economics, development and finance discuss some of the most pressing global imbalances and the social challenges that they pose in the years ahead. Jean-Michel Se | 22 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The European Parliament: Finally a Powerful and Legitimate Institution? | Contributor(s): Michael Shackleton, David Curry, Sara Hagemann, Hugo Brady | The launch of the 8th edition of the "The European Parliament" by Richard Corbett, Francis Jacobs and Michael Shackleton offers a timely opportunity to reflect on the developme | 22 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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KT Social Care Project Seminar: Mind the Gap - Getting Research Into Policy and Practice | Contributor(s): Philip Davies | It is almost thirty years since the American social scientist Carol Weiss noted that social science findings and evaluation evidence "were not having visible impacts on policy decisions". Weiss went on to suggest that "th | 22 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Too Many People in Britain? Immigration and the Housing Problem | Contributor(s): Professor Stephen Nickell | This lecture will look at immigration and its economic effects including the contribution to population growth. Why does housing not keep up with population growth? More generally, why do we find it so hard to | 21 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Power Shifts and Power Games in the G20: What do China and Japan want from the G20? | Contributor(s): Professor Yves Tiberghien | In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008 and at the time of major impasses regarding both the future of the global trading regime and the Kyoto protocol, the global economic governance is in the mids | 20 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Filter Bubble: What The Internet Is Hiding From You | Contributor(s): Eli Pariser | Imagine a world where all the news you see is defined by your salary, where you live, and who your friends are. Imagine a world where you never discover new ideas. And where you can't have secrets. Welcome to 2011. Google a | 20 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The fork in the road – time for the alternative | Contributor(s): Ed Balls | Ed Balls is the Labour & Co-operative MP for Morley and Outwood and Shadow Chancellor. He was previously MP for Normanton (2005-2010) and Labour's Shadow Home Secretary (2010-11), Secretary of State for Children, Schools and F | 16 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Turkey in the World | Contributor(s): Professor Michael Cox, Fadi Hakura, Professor Şevket Pamuk | Turkey's international role has grown in recent years as its economy has boomed under the direction of Prime Minister Erdogan and Foreign Minister Davutoglu's much-vaunted 'St | 15 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Reconsidering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War | Contributor(s): Professor Benny Morris | The lecture will look at various aspects, some of them innovative, of the 1948 War, the first between the Arabs and Israel. Benny Morris is professor of Middle East history at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, and i | 14 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Big Society and the Good Society: rethinking the place of the state in British society | Contributor(s): Lord Glasman, Jesse Norman MP | David Cameron has championed the 'big society' as his big idea for government; Ed Miliband has countered with the 'good society'. Two of the thinkers behind these concepts debate what is at stake in rethin | 14 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Delivering Meaningful Results in Global Development: A lecture by Dr Raj Shah, Administrator of USAID | Contributor(s): Dr Rajiv Shah | In the process of implementing one of the most sweeping sets of reforms in its history, the U.S. Agency for International Development is transforming the way it delivers development assistance. Administrator Rajiv Shah wi | 14 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Fabric of Our Social World | Contributor(s): Professor Chris Frith, Dr Alex Gillespie, Professor Dermot Moran | How do we create our world through shared experiences? What are the psychological and physiological mechanisms that underlie our abilities to relate to and interact with | 13 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The euro, its central bank and economic governance | Contributor(s): Jean-Claude Trichet | The Stamp Memorial Lecture is in memory of Josiah Charles Stamp, an alumnus and former governor of LSE. The recent financial crisis has been a turbulent period for policy-makers around the world. Originating in and | 13 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Impact Conference 2011 - 1130 | Contributor(s): Various - see description for details | Academics are increasingly being pressed to provide evidence of impact from their research on the world outside academia. And universities will have to provide evidence of impact as part of the new | 13 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Impact Conference 2011 - 1445 | Contributor(s): Various - see description for details | Academics are increasingly being pressed to provide evidence of impact from their research on the world outside academia. And universities will have to provide evidence of impact as part of the new | 13 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Impact Conference 2011 - 1600 | Contributor(s): Various - see description for details | Academics are increasingly being pressed to provide evidence of impact from their research on the world outside academia. And universities will have to provide evidence of impact as part of the new | 13 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Impact Conference 2011 - 1715 | Contributor(s): Various - see description for details | Academics are increasingly being pressed to provide evidence of impact from their research on the world outside academia. And universities will have to provide evidence of impact as part of the new | 13 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Fair Trial for the Human Rights Act | Contributor(s): Sadiq Khan MP | Sadiq Khan will explain Labour's approach to human rights. Sadiq Khan is shadow lord chancellor and shadow secretary of state for justice. | 9 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Indian herbal heritage and its rising global influence in economic growth | Contributor(s): Shahnaz Husain | Over the last few years, India has become one of the fastest-growing economies. Shahnaz Husain's experience is in organic / Ayurvedic beauty care, which has become relevant to the modern world. The world is looking at ho | 9 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Shadow of Its Former Self? Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwe's Education System | Contributor(s): Peter Godwin | Peter Godwin is an award-winning foreign correspondent, author, documentary-maker and screen writer. After practicing human rights law in Zimbabwe, he became a foreign and war correspondent, and has reported from over 60 c | 9 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Should China revisit the 1994 fiscal reforms? | Contributor(s): Dr Ehtisham Ahmad | Does China need to conduct another "fundamental rethink" of the fiscal system as in 1993/4? The 1994 reforms have served the country well, but are inadequate in relation to the needs of local governments, and the stag | 9 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Social Policy in an Ageing Society | Contributor(s): Dr Jose-Luis Fernandez, Professor Julien Forder, Philipp Hessel, Dr Tiziana Leone, Raphael Wittenberg, Professor Mike Murphy | Programme: Welcome from Chair - Professor Martin Knapp (co-director LSE Health and Social Care). The effect of | 9 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Why Nations Fail | Contributor(s): Professor James Robinson | Countries grow economically if they can build inclusive economic institutions. They stagnate if they have exclusive institutions. It is political conflicts and how they are resolved which determines the path a | 8 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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On Happiness | Contributor(s): Professor Andrew Clark, Dr Antti Kauppinen | Is there more to happiness than pleasure or belief that life is going well? Should public policy aim at increasing happiness instead of prosperity or social justice? Andrew Clark is a CNRS res | 7 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Preventing Financial Meltdowns | Contributor(s): Tim Harford | In this lecture, Tim Harford, the author, radio presenter and newspaper columnist looks at the lessons we can learn from the financial crisis and how the collapse of Lehman Brothers has close parallels in disasters such as | 7 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rhian Benson Returns to the LSE: Music, Conversation, African Inspiration | Contributor(s): Rhian Benson | A conversation with award-winning artist and LSE alumna Rhian Benson, hosted by journalist Emma Warren, discussing Rhian's time as a student at LSE, as well as her subsequent musical achievements and her involvement with W | 6 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Living in the Endless City | Contributor(s): Dr Joan Clos, Dr Gareth Jones, Professor Çaglar Keyder, Professor Saskia Sassen, Professor Richard Sennett | Marking the launch of a new book on Mumbai, Sao Paulo and Istanbul – the outcome of the Urban Age research programme at LSE | 6 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Flaw | Contributor(s): Professor Francesco Caselli, Philip Coggan, David Sington, Professor Robert Wade | Today, a question haunts America: what exactly caused the world's greatest economy to crash and burn? And why is it so slow to recover? In THE FLAW Sund | 6 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A lecture by Traian Băsescu, President of Romania - inEnglish | Contributor(s): Traian Băsescu, Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu | Traian Basescu is president of Romania. He was first elected to the post in December 2004, and was re-elected to a second 5-year term in 2009. He has previously served as mayor of Buchares | 6 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A lecture by Traian Băsescu, President of Romania - inRomanian | Contributor(s): Traian Băsescu, Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu | Traian Basescu is president of Romania. He was first elected to the post in December 2004, and was re-elected to a second 5-year term in 2009. He has previously served as mayor of Buchares | 6 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kuwait Programme seminar: Political change in the Gulf | Contributor(s): Sir Harold Walker, H.E. Khaled Al-Duwaisan | Sir Harold Walker is a former British Ambassador to Iraq, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. H.E. Khaled Al-Duwaisan is Ambassador of Kuwait to the United Kingdom. | 6 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other | Contributor(s): Professor Sherry Turkle | Facebook. Twitter. Second Life. "Smart" phones. Robot pets. Robot lovers. Thirty years ago we asked what we would use computers for - now the question is what we don't use them for. In this lecture, MIT technolo | 2 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Poor Economics; A Radical Rethinking of the way to Fight Global Poverty | Contributor(s): Professor Abhijit Banerjee, Professor Esther Duflo | Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have worked with the poor in dozens of countries, trying to understand the specific problems that come with poverty and to find proven solutions. In t | 2 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Evolution of the Individual | Contributor(s): Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith | The winner of the 2010 Lakatos Award (for his book Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection) will talk about the evolution of the individual. Peter Godfrey-Smith is a professor of philosophy at Harvard | 2 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Outsider Inside: Palestinian Citizens of Israel, their Context and Contest | Contributor(s): Dr Tilde Rosmer | This lecture examines the role of Palestinians citizens of Israel in Israeli politics and their place in a conflict in which they are often caught between the state of their citizenship and the nationality of their peop | 1 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Africa's Disease Burden | Contributor(s): Dr Ama de-Graft Aikins, Dr Olugbenga Ogedegbe, Dr Francis Dodoo | LSE Health and the LSE Africa Initiative in collaboration with The British Academy invites you to an event on Africa’s disease burden. Chronic non-communicable diseases | 1 6 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Health Care Reform in the US | Contributor(s): Dr Peter Orszag | Spiralling health care costs are currently threatening the future of the US economy. Peter Orszag offers insight on possible approaches to reduce health care costs over time without impairing the quality of medical care | 31 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Can single individuals still shape history? The Case of Osama bin Laden | Contributor(s): Michael Scheuer | Osama bin Laden was one of America's most formidable and implacable enemies. And yet no one has written a serious assessment of his influence over world events in the last decade. Michael Scheuer; a former head of CIA's | 26 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Following the trail of Islamism and the Veil across time and borders | Contributor(s): Professor Leila Ahmed | Professor Ahmed asks why the wearing of veils or headscarves has become a growing phenomenon in America – and across the world. Having almost vanished from many Muslim majority cities, why in the 1970s did veil | 26 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Beyond a Global Deal? A UN+ Approach to Climate Governance | Contributor(s): Dr Robert Falkner, Professor Lord Giddens, Thomas Hale, André Lieber, Scott Moore, Professor Michael Jacobs | How can we make progress on climate change in the face of gridlock? Global Governance 2020 is a group of young academics, poli | 25 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Eradicating Ecocide: laws and governance to prevent the destruction of our planet | Contributor(s): Polly Higgins | Polly Higgins advocates a different approach to preventing the destruction of our planet. Instead of our laws protecting the property rights of the few, we can shift to laws that impose responsibilities, duties and obliga | 25 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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It's all about people | Contributor(s): Sheryl Sandberg | We are witnessing the transformation of the web from the information web to the social web. This has profound implications for how people relate to each other, the communities around them and to government and business | 25 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Future of Finance: The LSE Report | Contributor(s): Professor Charles Goodhart, Dr Paul Woolley, Mark Schieritz, Dr Holger Schmieding, Hiltrud Thelen-Pischke, Dr Friedrich Thelen | The Future of Finance report presents a novel approach to the reform of the world's financial system, starti | 24 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Africa's Diasporas: a continental longing for form? | Contributor(s): Professor Ato Quayson | In 2005 the African Union declared the African diaspora to be the sixth region of the continent. But was the concept of ""African Diaspora"" understood correctly at the time? This lecture will offer a more comple | 24 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Excellence in Public Policy; A Celebration of Julian Le Grands forty years as a leading academic and policy analyst | Contributor(s): Professor Julian Le Grand, Professor Carol Propper, Peter Taylor-Gooby, Nick Timmins, Professor Albert Weale | For excellent public policy, it is necessary to have a clear idea of both the ends to be achieved (including equity, quality a | 24 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Conversation with Sandra Day O'Connor, former Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court | Contributor(s): Sandra Day O'Connor | Sandra Day O'Connor is an American jurist who was the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice O'Connor was appointed an Associate Justice by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, a position | 24 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Lessons of Northern Ireland for Contemporary Counterterrorism and Conflict Resolution Policy | Contributor(s): Professor Richard English, Martin Mansergh, Jonathan Powell, David Trimble | What are the lessons from the 30 years of the Troubles for modern counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism policy elsewhere, for peacemaking and for reconciliat | 23 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rethinking Investment Treaty Law - A Policy Perspective | Contributor(s): Alvaro Galindo, Margrethe Norum, Adam Sheppard, Randall Williams | Australia recently announced to discontinue investor-state-arbitration provisions in trade agreements; Ecuador abandons its BITS and left ICSID; South Africa seeks to ren | 23 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The three pillars of Colombia's recent progress | Contributor(s): Álvaro Uribe Vélez | Álvaro Uribe Vélez is the former President of Colombia, holding the office from 2002 to 2010. Mr. Uribe has a Law Degree from the Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia), and a post-graduate degree in Management and | 23 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Architecture of Social Investment | Contributor(s): Alfredo Brillembourg | This lecture explores the physical limitations of contemporary architecture and argues for a shift in emphasis from form-driven to purpose-oriented social architecture. Alfredo Brillembourg founded the Urban Think | 20 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Between: literature and memory, past and future | Contributor(s): Professor Robert Eaglestone | Final part of the series, in which an historian, a novelist and a literary critic explore the ways in which memory, literature and history shape contemporary Europe. Robert Eaglestone is professor of contemp | 19 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Distance and Cities: where do we stand? | Contributor(s): Professor Gerald Frug, Dr Asher Ghertner, Patrik Schumacher, Professor Richard Sennett, Dr Fran Tonkiss, Professor Larry Vale | This panel discussion will examine the concept of distance when writing about cities. How does this concept r | 19 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gay Liberation Now: global movements and transformations | Contributor(s): Sonia Corrêa | Since the late 1970s, Sonia Corrêa has been involved in research and advocacy activities related to gender equality, health and sexuality. She is the founder of various non-governmental initiatives in Brazil. Between 199 | 19 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Public Policy, Equity and Growth: a panel discussion | Contributor(s): Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, Professor Peter Diamond, Sir Nicholas Macpherson, Professor Sir James Mirrlees, Professor Lord Stern | This event is part of a celebration of 25 years on from the LSE project on Taxation, Income Distribution | 19 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bridging Facts and Values? | Contributor(s): Alan Montefiore, Professor Stephen Mulhall, Dr Sarah Richmond | Marking the publication of Alan Montefiore's new book A Philosophical Retrospective: facts, values and Jewish identity, this discussion will explore the idea that concepts o | 18 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Development of Good Living: The Social Transformation Agenda in Ecuador | Contributor(s): René Ramírez | This lecture provides an idea of the approach of the Ecuadorian Government to comply with its strategies of "Good Living", a concept developed in recent years that sees growth and economic development as a whole in which | 18 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Empowering Women to Meet New Challenges, from National Development to Conflict Prevention and Post-Conflict Recovery | Contributor(s): Michelle Bachelet | The UN's newest agency - UN Women - has a global mandate to empower women and build gender equality. UN Women's first Executive Director and Under-Secretary General Michelle Bachelet will outline her vision for empowe | 17 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Berlin, Seventh of November – History in Nonhistorical Fiction: a discussion and reading | Contributor(s): Dr Douglas Cowie | In this series, an historian, a novelist and a literary critic explore the ways in which memory, literature and history shape contemporary Europe. Douglas Cowie is a novelist and lecturer in the English department at R | 17 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Supporting Sustainable Transition in Afghanistan: an interagency approach | Contributor(s): Major General John Lorimer, Moazzam Malik, Sheelagh Stewart, Nick Williams | This event will examine the challenges faced by those responsible for overseeing the transfer of state power from external organisations to domestic institution | 17 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Architecture of Governance | Contributor(s): Professor Gerald Frug | Professor Frug looks at the fragmentation of current urban governance and how it undermines the authority of elected representatives. Gerald Frug is the Louis D Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and | 17 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Arbitration and Financial Markets Disputes | Contributor(s): Jeffrey Golden, Professor Jan Paulsson | Jeffrey Golden, the principal author of ISDA's Master agreements (FT: "Mr. Derivatives") and the driving force behind the efforts of setting up an international financial court will be challenged | 16 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Can China's Political System Sustain its Peaceful Rise? | Contributor(s): Professor Susan Shirk | What are the features of Chinese politics that could derail its peaceful rise? And how should other countries respond? Susan Shirk is director of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam pro | 16 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Equality, growth and sustainability – an impossible combination? | Contributor(s): Sigbjørn Johnsen | Equality and growth are often considered to be conflicting goals. Welfare cuts in order to achieve fiscal sustainability are now on the agenda in a number of European countries. In Norway, an abundance of natural reso | 16 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia | Contributor(s): Dr Stephane Lacroix | Since the events of 9/11, Saudi Islamists have attracted considerable attention. However, given the opacity of the Saudi Kingdom, very little is known about them. Who are those activists who challenge in the name of | 16 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Ethics of Photojournalism | Contributor(s): Luc Bovens, Simon Norfolk | This dialogue between a photojournalist and a philosopher will explore how war photography treads a fine line between truthfulness, procuring impact and respecting the dignity of the victims of war as well as | 13 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cities at the Speed of Light: Asian experiments of the urban century | Contributor(s): Professor Ananya Roy | The 21st century will be an urban century. It will also be a 'Southern' or even 'Asian' century, with much of the urban growth taking place in the cities of the global South. This talk highlights these Asian experi | 12 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A World Without Superpowers: de-centered globalism | Contributor(s): Professor Barry Buzan | As the inequality of power between the West and the rest diminishes, the most likely scenario for world politics is de-centered globalism, in which there will be no superpowers. But what does a world with no super | 10 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Budgeting for Gender Equality: is government economic policy fair to women? | Contributor(s): Dr Claire Annesley, Beatrix Campbell, Professor Diane Elson, Professor Susan Himmelweit | This panel will consider how far women, especially low income women, are bearing an unfair share of the burden of the budget deficit reduction. Cla | 10 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Unfathomable Event | Contributor(s): Dr Simon Glendinning, Dr Amber Jacobs, Professor Nicholas Royle | Marking the publication of Nicholas Royle's new novel Quilt, this event will attempt to explore the dimensions and ascertain the depths of the 'unfathomable'. Simon Glendi | 10 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Economic Fuel of the Arab Intifada | Contributor(s): Dr Ali Kadri | Arab countries represent stark cases of "de-development". Of the two paths of capital accumulation - accumulation by commodity realisation and accumulation by encroachment and dispossession - the Arab world falls subject t | 10 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Next-generation Leadership and Management | Contributor(s): Tim Macartney | A lecture from a leadership expert who seeks to challenge some of our fundamental preconceptions and current ways of thinking. Tim Macartney has been working as a people and organisation development professional since 198 | 9 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Pakistan: A Hard Country | Contributor(s): Professor Anatol Lieven | In this talk on the subject of his new book, Pakistan: A Hard Country, Professor Anatol Lieven will analyse the Pakistani state and political system, and explain how those factors which give the state its surpr | 9 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Democracy and Dissent | Contributor(s): Frank Vibert | A recent report by the IMF on why it failed to spot the 2008 international financial crisis identified what is known as 'cognitive failure' – failures in the way in which information is assessed and analysed. This is hig | 5 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Europe: Where is the Passion? | Contributor(s): Dr Hans-Gert Pöttering | These are troubled times for Europe. Where is the EU headed? Will its economy revive? Has the European Parliament found its role? Crucially: can the European 'project' be brought back to life? Hans-Gert Pötteri | 5 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How Not to Keep Bees | Contributor(s): Bill Turnbull | Bill Turnbull's light-hearted introduction to the world of beekeeping highlights the ups and rather more frequent downs of his ten years attempting to produce honey and keep his colonies alive. Definitely not a masterclas | 5 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Literature and History in European post-Cold War Memory | Contributor(s): Professor Dan Stone | In this series, an historian, a novelist and a literary critic explore the ways in which memory, literature and history shape contemporary Europe. Dan Stone is professor of modern history at Royal Holloway, Universi | 5 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Future of Power | Contributor(s): Professor Joseph Nye | Joseph Nye is a long-time analyst of power and a hands-on practitioner in government. His concept of "soft power" has been adopted by leaders from Britain to China and "smart power" has been adopted as the bumper-s | 4 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Most Human Human: A Defence of Humanity in the Age of the Computer | Contributor(s): Brian Christian | Author Brian Christian will talk on the subject of his debut book The Most Human Human a superbly engaging re-evaluation of what it means to be human in the light of breathtaking advances in artificial intelligence. Br | 4 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Turkey and Europe | Contributor(s): Professor Norman Stone | Joined to Europe by geography and linked to it byhistory and trade, can politics overcome religious and cultural differences so that Turkey ceases to be Europe's 'Other'? This event celebrates the publication of | 4 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Greek bail-out one year on: how can Greece return to growth? | Contributor(s): Professor Costas Meghir, Professor Herakles Polemarchakis | One year after Greece agreed a rescue package with the EU and the IMF, this debate considers how best Greece can secure future economic growth. Is the austerity plan working? Ca | 3 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Zero Degrees of Empathy: a new theory of human cruelty | Contributor(s): Professor Simon Baron-Cohen | World-expert Simon Baron-Cohen presents new discoveries on the importance of empathy, and the problems with evil. Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to i | 3 5 2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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