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2011
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China Model 2Recorded on: 8 December 2011 Speaker(s): Dr Kent Deng, Professor Jude Howell, Professor Athar Hussain Against all previous predictions China has been completely transformed. This raises the question of the "China Model"... Play | Download: Audio, Video
The US and the Arab RevolutionsRecorded on: 8 December 2011 Speaker(s): Professor William Quandt The US has been an active player in the Middle East over the past century, but has been of minor relevance during the... Play | Download: Audio
On LoveRecorded on: 29 November 2011 Speaker(s): Dr David Bell, Professor Simon May Is genuine love unconditional, or enduring, or disinterested? Simon May says 'no' and offers an alternative theory.... Play | Download: Audio
Democracy in the WorkplaceRecorded on: 24 November 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Axel Gosseries, Paul Loach This dialogue explores the prospects for workplace democracy - utopian ideal, or an idea whose time has come? Axel... Play | Download: Audio
The Evolution of MoralityRecorded on: 22 November 2011 Speaker(s): Dr Jason McKenzie Alexander, Dr Keith Jensen, Dr Andrew Pinsent What generates our capability to act morally? How much is it part of our basic biology? How is it socialised? Is it... Play | Download: Audio
The Global Value of the CommonwealthRecorded on: 21 November 2011 Speaker(s): Kamalesh Sharma Kamalesh Sharma will reflect on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in October 2011, which is expected... Play | Download: Audio
The Deaths of OthersRecorded on: 16 November 2011 Speaker(s): John Tirman US author John Tirman argues that while Americans are rightly concerned about the number of US troops killed in battle,... Play | Download: Audio
The Wit and Wisdom of Brian MooreRecorded on: 15 November 2011 Speaker(s): Brian Moore Former England rugby player turned journalist and media commentator gives his forthright views on a whole range of... Play | Download: Audio
The City of LondonRecorded on: 9 November 2011 Speaker(s): Professor David Kynaston David Kynaston's ground-breaking history of the City of London, published in four volumes between 1994 and 2001 and now... Play | Download: Audio
Europe's Vanished KingdomsRecorded on: 9 November 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Norman Davies, Maurice Fraser The history of Europe is not just the story of Britain, France and Germany. Norman Davies examines the lives and... Play | Download: Audio
Emerging art marketsRecorded on: 8 November 2011 Speaker(s): Melanie Gerlis With China now the second or even first biggest art market in the world, this lecture looks at the emerging markets for... Play | Download: Audio
Christ to Coke?Recorded on: 3 November 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Martin Kemp Informative, funny, sad, and surprising by turns, this is the first book to look at all the main types of visual icon,... Play | Download: Audio
Derrida and (the) EnglishRecorded on: 3 November 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Rachel Bowlby, Professor Robert Eaglestone, Dr Sarah Wood Marking the publication of Simon Glendinning's new book Derrida: a very short introduction, this discussion will... Play | Download: Audio
Them and Us: A Special Relationship?Recorded on: 3 November 2011 Speaker(s): Sarah Lyall, Justin Webb BBC Today Programme presenter and former Washington Correspondent Justin Webb in conversation with the New York Times'... Play | Download: Audio
LSE perspectives on the sovereign debt crisisRecorded on: 2 November 2011 Speaker(s): Dr Jon Danielsson, Dr Bob Hancke, Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis, Professor Dimitri Vayanos The panellists will each outline their analysis of the crisis, with particular emphasis on the Eurozone, and debate how... Play | Download: Audio
The Rare FindRecorded on: 2 November 2011 Speaker(s): George Anders How do we recognise greatness? The world-wide hunt for talent has never been more ambitious, more systematic -- and... Play | Download: Audio
ERC Security in Transition LaunchRecorded on: 2 November 2011 Speaker(s): Lakhdar Brahimi, Professor Mary Kaldor, Javier Solana The event will discuss the gap between contemporary security needs and security capabilities, and will launch the new... Play | Download: Audio
Decarbonising BritainRecorded on: 1 November 2011 Speaker(s): Dr David Kennedy The UK has an aggressive plan to decarbonise its economy by 34 per cent in 2020, 50 per cent in 2027 and 80 per cent in... Play | Download: Audio, Slides
Role of a Foreign Bank in ChinaRecorded on: 31 October 2011 Speaker(s): Sir Thomas Harris Drawing on his rich experience Sir Thomas Harris will talk about the role of a foreign bank in China. Thomas Harris is... Play | Download: Audio, Video
The Future of Economic ConvergenceRecorded on: 29 October 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Dani Rodrik Emerging and developing economies have grown much more rapidly than rich countries recently. This has led to hopes that... Play | Download: Audio
Building an International Rule of LawRecorded on: 27 October 2011 Speaker(s): Judge Patrick Robinson Since its establishment in 1993, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has irreversibly changed... Play | Download: Audio
Terrorism: a (self) love storyRecorded on: 27 October 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Arie Kruglanski Using research on terrorist organisations in Sri Lanka, the Philippines and the Middle East, Professor Kruglanski... Play | Download: Audio, Video
Arguments with GandhiRecorded on: 25 October 2011 Speaker(s): Dr Ramachandra Guha At once a freedom fighter, social reformer and environmental thinker, Mahatma Gandhi's ideas were original and... Play | Download: Audio
The Hidden Future of CitiesRecorded on: 21 October 2011 Speaker(s): Alex Steffen Alex Steffen uses real-world examples and big-picture research to show us that a brighter, greener future is ours to... Play | Download: Audio
Is There A Future For Multiculturalism?Recorded on: 20 October 2011 Speaker(s): Dr Jonathan Chaplin, Alan Craig, Claire Fox, Professor Tariq Modood Recent years have seen politicians and commentators of all stripes lining up to condemn multiculturalism. This event... Play | Download: Audio, Video
Global Reform for Derivatives MarketsRecorded on: 13 October 2011 Speaker(s): Gary Gensler In this seminar hosted by the LSE Financial Markets Group, Gary Gensler discusses derivatives reform as well as issues... Play | Download: Audio
Beatrice Webb: her quest for a fairer societyRecorded on: 12 October 2011 Speaker(s): Michael Ward, Jonathan Derbyshire, Professor David Piachaud, Stephen Timms MP Tackling poverty and inequality is at the heart of progressive politics. But what can history tell us about the... Play | Download: Audio
Portugal deliversRecorded on: 12 October 2011 Speaker(s): Paulo Portas In this lecture Paulo Portas, Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs will speak about the financial crisis in the... Play | Download: Audio
What Should We Do About Google?Recorded on: 12 October 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Martin Cave Google has been running into trouble with competition authorities in Europe, the US and elsewhere. Should its wings be... Play | Download: Audio, Slides
Extended SelvesRecorded on: 10 October 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Katalin Farkas Our iPhones, diaries, computers or collaborators are extensions of our minds, according to a philosophical argument.... Play | Download: Audio
Architecture and HappinessRecorded on: 6 October 2011 Speaker(s): Ben Rogers, Professor Roger Scruton Architecture is the most public of art-forms and has borne political, religious and moral meanings throughout history.... Play | Download: Audio
Cybercrime, Cybercops and YouRecorded on: 4 October 2011 Speaker(s): Misha Glenny In a world where we shop, bank, work and live online, security has become a nightmare for law enforcement agencies, as... Play | Download: Audio
Cities and Economic DevelopmentRecorded on: 21 September 2011 Speaker(s): Sergio Cabral, N K Singh, Professor Tony Venables Urban areas are the most productive parts of the developing world, yet concentrated urban poverty presents some of the... Play | Download: Audio, Video
Pakistan: A Personal HistoryRecorded on: 20 September 2011 Speaker(s): Imran Khan Born only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, Imran Khan has lived his country's history. Pakistan now... Play | Download: Audio, Video
Building Effective StatesRecorded on: 19 September 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Paul Collier, Sushil Kumar Modi Getting fragile states on a path of sustainable economic growth is currently a key policy imperative. This session will... Play | Download: Audio, Video
The 9/11 WarsRecorded on: 13 September 2011 Speaker(s): Jason Burke Throughout the 1990s a vast conflict was brewing. Jason Burke was a first-hand witness of many of the conflict's key... Play | Download: Audio
An Evening with Michael AthertonRecorded on: 27 July 2011 Speaker(s): Michael Atherton A conversation and Q&A with cricketer Michael Atherton, author of Glorious Summers and Discontents: Looking Back on the... Play | Download: Audio
Keynes v HayekRecorded on: 26 July 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio, Video
Migrants and Intellectual lifeRecorded on: 13 July 2011 Speaker(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.... Play | Download: Audio
Quality in Health and Social CareRecorded on: 5 July 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio, Video
London Integration Forum 2011 - Exploring DiversityRecorded on: 1 July 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio
Moving Social Security Online (Conference)Recorded on: 29 June 2011 Speaker(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 Public Policy Group, LSE Moving Social Security Online Conference, Wednesday 29 June 2011. In the present fiscal... Play | Download: Audio - Intro & Session 1, Audio - Session 2, Audio - Session 3, Audio - Session 4, Audio - Session 5, Slides - D Dinsdale, Slides - J Fishenden, Slides - M Briggs, Slides - M Ferguson, Slides - N Chapman, Slides - P Dunleavy, Slides - S Boniwell, Slides - W Heath
Policy and Philosophy for ChildrenRecorded on: 23 June 2011 Speaker(s): Phillip Blond, Jonathan Douglas, Professor John White Three debates will examine the theoretical, practical and policy implications of teaching philosophy to children in... Play | Download: Audio
Philosophers and Philosophy for ChildrenRecorded on: 23 June 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio
Practitioners and Philosophy for ChildrenRecorded on: 23 June 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio
Turkey in the WorldRecorded on: 15 June 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio, Video
The Fabric of Our Social WorldRecorded on: 13 June 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio
Social Policy in an Ageing SocietyRecorded on: 9 June 2011 Speaker(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 "social... Play | Download: Audio, Video
Why Nations FailRecorded on: 8 June 2011 Speaker(s): Professor James Robinson Countries grow economically if they can build inclusive economic institutions. They stagnate if they have exclusive... Play | Download: Audio, Slides
On HappinessRecorded on: 7 June 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio
Preventing Financial MeltdownsRecorded on: 7 June 2011 Speaker(s): Tim Harford In this lecture, Tim Harford, the author, radio presenter and newspaper columnist looks at the lessons we can learn... Play | Download: Audio, Video
Living in the Endless CityRecorded on: 6 June 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio, Video
The FlawRecorded on: 6 June 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio
The Evolution of the IndividualRecorded on: 2 June 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith The winner of the 2010 Lakatos Award (for his book Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection) will talk about the... Play | Download: Audio
Africa's Disease BurdenRecorded on: 1 June 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio
It's all about peopleRecorded on: 25 May 2011 Speaker(s): Sheryl Sandberg We are witnessing the transformation of the web from the information web to the social web. This has profound... Play | Download: Audio, Video
The Future of Finance: The LSE ReportRecorded on: 24 May 2011 Speaker(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, starting with the... Play | Download: Audio
Distance and Cities: where do we stand?Recorded on: 19 May 2011 Speaker(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 remain... Play | Download: Audio, Video
Public Policy, Equity and Growth: a panel discussionRecorded on: 19 May 2011 Speaker(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 and Incentives... Play | Download: Audio
Bridging Facts and Values?Recorded on: 18 May 2011 Speaker(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,... Play | Download: Audio
The Architecture of GovernanceRecorded on: 17 May 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Gerald Frug Professor Frug looks at the fragmentation of current urban governance and how it undermines the authority of elected... Play | Download: Audio, Video
The Ethics of PhotojournalismRecorded on: 13 May 2011 Speaker(s): Luc Bovens, Simon Norfolk This dialogue between a photojournalist and a philosopher will explore how war photography treads a fine line between... Play | Download: Audio
Unfathomable EventRecorded on: 10 May 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio
Pakistan: A Hard CountryRecorded on: 9 May 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Anatol Lieven In this talk on the subject of his new book, Pakistan: A Hard Country, Professor Anatol Lieven will analyse the... Play | Download: Audio
Democracy and DissentRecorded on: 5 May 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio, Slides
Europe: Where is the Passion?Recorded on: 5 May 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio
How Not to Keep BeesRecorded on: 5 May 2011 Speaker(s): Bill Turnbull Bill Turnbull's light-hearted introduction to the world of beekeeping highlights the ups and rather more frequent downs... Play | Download: Audio
The Future of PowerRecorded on: 4 May 2011 Speaker(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... Play | Download: Audio
Turkey and EuropeRecorded on: 4 May 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Norman Stone Joined to Europe by geography and linked to it byhistory and trade, can politics overcome religious and cultural... Play | Download: Audio
The End of RememberingRecorded on: 5 April 2011 Speaker(s): Joshua Foer Once upon a time remembering was everything. Today, we have endless mountains of documents, the Internet and... Play | Download: Audio
The Unfinished Global RevolutionRecorded on: 17 March 2011 Speaker(s): Lord Malloch Brown The dramatic shifts underway in global economic, political and social society are leading to new stress points. Both at... Play | Download: Audio
Changes in Labour Market InequalityRecorded on: 15 March 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Stephen Machin In this lecture, the third in a series to celebrate 21 years of the CEP, Stephen Machin surveys significant research... Play | Download: Audio, Video
Philosophy in the Public WorldRecorded on: 11 March 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Anthony Grayling Philosophy has an important role in public life. Anthony Grayling is one of the most prominent public faces of... Play | Download: Audio
21st Century StatecraftRecorded on: 10 March 2011 Speaker(s): Alec Ross Technology and innovation have changed the conditions for statecraft in the 21st century. Just as the internet has... Play | Download: Audio
Israeli Society and the OccupationRecorded on: 7 March 2011 Speaker(s): Gideon Levy Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper's editorial board. In his lecture he will explore how... Play | Download: Audio
Good Life in Hard TimesRecorded on: 2 March 2011 Speaker(s): Archbishop Vincent Nichols Archbishop Nichols will be speaking about the importance of religious freedom, and arguing that promoting religious... Play | Download: Audio, Slides
Has Fairtrade Asked for Enough?Recorded on: 1 March 2011 Speaker(s): Adam Brett, Deborah Doane, Julia Clark, Robin Murray In this discussion event, a range of speakers look back over 15 years of the Fairtrade Mark and consider whether the... Play | Download: Audio
Nuclear Arms and Human RightsRecorded on: 1 March 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Niall Ferguson The decisive breakthroughs in the Cold War occurred in seemingly unrelated fields – nuclear arms control and human... Play | Download: Audio, Video
A Perfect Storm in the Arab World?Recorded on: 24 February 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Fawaz Gerges Regardless of the outcome of events in Egypt, for Arabs, psychologically and symbolically, this is their Berlin Wall... Play | Download: Audio
Moral Error Theory and Moral ScepticismRecorded on: 24 February 2011 Speaker(s): Dr Hallvard Lillehammer, Dr Bart Streumer Is moral thought embroiled in some kind of error? And is the error attributable to moral thought as such or to those... Play | Download: Audio
Catch-Up History and the Cold WarRecorded on: 23 February 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Lord Peter Hennessy World-renowned expert on Cold War intelligence and espionage Peter Hennessy will address recently declassified... Play | Download: Audio
The Global Chaos of LoveRecorded on: 23 February 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Ulrich Beck, Professor Lynn Jamieson In the global age there are increasing numbers of long-distance relationships, bi-national couples, marriage migrants,... Play | Download: Audio, Video
Animal MindsRecorded on: 21 February 2011 Speaker(s): Professor Nicola Clayton, Professor Erica Fudge, Professor Gregory Radick This panel discussion will provide historical and contemporary perspectives on animal cognition and will consider the... Play | Download: Audio
Can Middle East peace be imposed?Recorded on: 21 February 2011 Speaker(s): Henry Siegman Henry Siegman is president of the U.S./Middle East Project, an initiative focused on U.S.-Middle East policy and the... Play | Download: Audio
Literary Festival 2011 - Placing MobilitiesRecorded on: 19 February 2011 Speaker(s): Brian Chikwava, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Olumide Popoola This panel will consider a number of complementary and competing themes around the topic of diaspora and place.... Play | Download: Audio
Literary Festival 2011 - Reality HungerRecorded on: 19 February 2011 Speaker(s): Geoff Dyer, Robert Hudson, David Shields Is the novel dead? Is art theft? Can you copyright reality? David Sheilds’s Reality Hunger questions every assumption... Play | Download: Audio
The Have and Have NotsRecorded on: 8 February 2011 Speaker(s): Branko Milanovic Inequality is a surprisingly slippery issue, involving not just straightforward comparisons of individuals, but also... Play | Download: Audio, Video, Slides
On ForgivenessRecorded on: 7 February 2011 Speaker(s): Dr Tom Farrow, Professor Raimond Gaita What role does forgiveness play in our private lives and in politics? And can neuroscience contribute to a more nuanced... Play | Download: Audio
Why Indians Win in BusinessRecorded on: 3 February 2011 Speaker(s): Patrick French Award-winning historian Patrick French looks at the cultural roots of India's transformation: how a stagnant planned... Play | Download: Audio, Video
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