The American Election and the Left
Recorded on: 16 November 2016
Speaker(s): Steven Erlanger, Professor Gary Gerstle, Bonnie Greer
The US election has seen a wave of authoritarian populism and xenophobia, the first real chance for a woman to win...
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Investing in Inclusive Growth
Recorded on: 15 November 2016
Speaker(s): Bill Morneau
Canada’s Minister of Finance, Bill Morneau, shares his views on the global economy and how Canada is investing to...
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Karl Marx: greatness and illusion
Recorded on: 10 November 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Gareth Stedman Jones
Gareth Stedman Jones will discuss Marx, history and nature; challenge ideas of Marx's ‘materialist conception of...
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What's Next? Analysing the 2016 US Presidential Election
Recorded on: 9 November 2016
Speaker(s): Bronwen Maddox, Professor Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Professor Peter Trubowitz
America goes to the polls on 8 November to decide who will succeed Barack Obama as the 45th President. With Donald...
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What Next for Growth in the UK?
Recorded on: 2 November 2016
Speaker(s): Vince Cable, Lord Darling, Stephanie Flanders, George Osborne
In 2013 the LSE Growth Commission published a report - Investing for Prosperity, a Manifesto for Growth. Those...
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The Legacy of Peace
Recorded on: 2 November 2016
Speaker(s): Juan Manuel Santos Calderón
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón was awarded with the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for his resolute efforts to...
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How Change Happens
Recorded on: 1 November 2016
Speaker(s): Duncan Green
In his latest book How Change Happens Duncan Green explores how political and social change takes place, and the role...
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Women in Politics: change and continuity
Recorded on: 26 October 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Sarah Childs, Professor Emma Crewe, Dr Mona Morgan-Collins, Sam Smethers
Has the emergence of a woman as Prime Minister in the UK and a possible President of the US indicated a new...
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Policies to Improve Upward Mobility
Recorded on: 25 October 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Raj Chetty
Professor Raj Chetty will give three lectures over three consecutive days in the 2016 Lionel Robbins Memorial Lecture...
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When Elephants Fight
Recorded on: 24 October 2016
Speaker(s): Peter Jones, Bandi Mbubi, JD Stier
#StandWithCongo presents the London premiere of When Elephants Fight, a documentary on how multinational corporations...
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The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
Recorded on: 19 October 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Markus K. Brunnermeier, Professor Harold James
Why is the Euro in trouble? A string of economic difficulties in Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and other Eurozone...
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Politics in Modern Arab Art
Recorded on: 18 October 2016
Speaker(s): Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
In his lecture, UAE based writer and art collector Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi will be discussing the political undertones...
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Post Brexit Diplomacy
Recorded on: 17 October 2016
Speaker(s): Tom Fletcher
With Britain plunged into uncertainty by the EU referendum, what does this mean for European and global diplomacy? Is...
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Everyday Sexism
Recorded on: 11 October 2016
Speaker(s): Laura Bates
Laura Bates will talk about the everyday sexism project, with a particular focus on students at university, and women...
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Mistaken Identities
Recorded on: 6 October 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah delivers the 2016 BBC Reith Lectures, focusing on four themes: colour, country, culture and creed....
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Why Washington Won't Work
Recorded on: 5 October 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Marc Hetherington
Marc Hetherington examines why Americans today viscerally dislike and distrust the party opposite the one they identify...
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The Worst Form of Government?
Recorded on: 5 October 2016
Speaker(s): Beatrix Campbell, Professor Peter Hallward, Dr Edward Kanterian
Winston Churchill famously described democracy as ‘the worst form of government except for all the others that have...
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The Future of the Labour Party
Recorded on: 4 October 2016
Speaker(s): Andy Beckett, Professor Matthew Goodwin, Faiza Shaheen
After a summer dominated by a bruising leadership contest, what is the future for the Labour party in Brexit Britain?...
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Museums in a Global Age
Recorded on: 4 October 2016
Speaker(s): Richard Armstrong, Adrian Ellis, Tiffany Jenkins
A panel discussion considering the roles and responsibilities of museums as cultural dialogue takes on a new urgency in...
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Politics: between the extremes
Recorded on: 15 September 2016
Speaker(s): Nick Clegg
A cautionary tale. An exposé. A defence of the centre-ground. An appeal to reason. A call to arms. An honest account...
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Anti-Semitism in the Modern Age
Recorded on: 7 September 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Yehuda Bauer
Professor Bauer will explore the fault lines and distinctions between radical criticism of the Israeli government's...
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The Euro: and its threat to Europe
Recorded on: 30 August 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Joseph Stiglitz
In his new book The Euro: And its Threat to Europe, Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Joseph...
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Tough Rides: Brazil
Recorded on: 4 August 2016
Speaker(s): Ryan Pyle
Join adventurer and TV presenter, Ryan Pyle as he talks about his two months traveling through the most remote and...
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Power and Pragmatism
Recorded on: 25 July 2016
Speaker(s): Sir Malcolm Rifkind
For almost forty years, Malcolm Rifkind served at the forefront of British politics. In this lecture, Sir Malcolm will...
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Growing Trade the Progressive Way
Recorded on: 14 July 2016
Speaker(s): Chrystia Freeland
In a world of growing protectionist trends, how can trade respond to the concerns of people who feel they were left...
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The Rise and Fall of Nations
Recorded on: 12 July 2016
Speaker(s): Ruchir Sharma
Ruchir Sharma explores the forces triggering political revolts and economic slowdowns in every major region. By...
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The Secret of Our Success
Recorded on: 22 June 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Joseph Henrich
The ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another has allowed us to create ingenious...
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The European Union: a citizen's guide
Recorded on: 15 June 2016
Speaker(s): Dr Chris Bickerton
For most of us today, 'Europe' refers to the European Union. At the centre of a seemingly never-ending crisis, the EU...
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Growth Challenges in Fragile States
Recorded on: 2 June 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Tim Besley, Professor Sir Paul Collier
This panel of experts will explore the major challenges that state fragility poses for creating an environment...
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UN - to be fit for purpose
Recorded on: 2 June 2016
Speaker(s): Dr Igor Lukšić
Many believe that this is by far the best time in history a human being can be born. Growing life expectancies, ever...
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The UK and Europe: an insider's view
Recorded on: 2 June 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Jonathan Faull
Jonathan Faull (@FaullJonathan) has worked in senior positions across the European Commission for most of the period of...
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The History of China's Future
Recorded on: 26 May 2016
Speaker(s): Isabel Hilton, Dr Leigh Jenco, Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom
In China, history isn't just about the past - it shapes the future. With the rise of China over the past four decades,...
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Challenging Inequalities
Recorded on: 25 May 2016
Speaker(s): Shami Chakrabarti, Duncan Green, Phumeza Mlungwana
This panel will debate different approaches to addressing key inequalities. Shami Chakrabarti is the Former Director of...
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Cities for a Small Continent
Recorded on: 24 May 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Bruce Katz, Professor Anne Power
Cities for a Small Continent is an international handbook, drawing together 10 years of ground-level research into the...
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In Conversation with Steve Schwarzman
Recorded on: 23 May 2016
Speaker(s): Stephen A Schwarzman
This event will be a wide ranging discussion and interview with Mr Schwarzman about his life and career. Mr Schwarzman...
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Somalia's Foreign Policy Priorities
Recorded on: 20 May 2016
Speaker(s): Dr Abdusalam H Omer
In this lecture the Foreign Minister will present Somalia's newly adopted foreign policy. He will also discuss the...
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Rebuilding the Politics of Hope
Recorded on: 17 May 2016
Speaker(s): Jeremy Corbyn
Trust and belief in politicians is low, while the crash has broken the idea that each generation will be better off....
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Recorded on: 11 May 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Robert J Gordon
Professor Gordon will examine the history of economic growth in the USA, and explore solutions needed to overcome the...
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Should We Stay or Should We Go?
Recorded on: 10 May 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Danny Dorling
The UK fares unfavourably in relation to other large countries in the EU in terms of health, educational fairness,...
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Protect and Develop
Recorded on: 5 May 2016
Speaker(s): Sir David Chipperfield
In this lecture renowned British architect David Chipperfield will discuss the current state of planning in London and...
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ISIS – a History
Recorded on: 3 May 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Fawaz A Gerges
The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What...
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A Changing World - a UN in Progress
Recorded on: 28 April 2016
Speaker(s): Natalia Gherman
Natalia Gherman is a former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the...
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Clash! How to Thrive in the Multicultural World
Recorded on: 25 April 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Hazel Markus, Professor Chandran Kukathas, Dr Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington
As the world gets smaller, people with different cultural backgrounds are colliding more than ever before. Drawing on...
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What Works: gender equality by design
Recorded on: 14 April 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Iris Bohnet
Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds...
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Culture and Intelligence
Recorded on: 12 April 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Richard Nisbett
Are humans getting smarter? Are some groups smarter than others? Are some groups getting smarter faster than others?...
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Europe and the Return of Geopolitics
Recorded on: 22 March 2016
Speaker(s): Pierre Vimont
The Ukraine crisis marked the return of geopolitics in Europe. Can the EU, which has been originally designed to...
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What Are Prisons For?
Recorded on: 15 March 2016
Speaker(s): Dr Christopher Bennett, Professor Kimberley Brownlee, Andrew Neilson
In this time of austerity, many of those who want a small state are also committed to a highly expensive criminal...
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A Question of Law and Wealth
Recorded on: 2 March 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Jonathan Fisher, Dr Eva Micheler, Professor Niamh Moloney, Dr Joseph Spooner
The law plays a crucial part in the creation, proliferation, and distribution of wealth. Through private law...
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Darwinism and the Social Sciences
Recorded on: 29 February 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Tim Lewens, Dr Alex Mesoudi, Professor Christina Toren
A growing number of researchers are applying Darwinian ideas to explain aspects of human society, but this work has...
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Literary Festival 2016: Re-Writing History
Recorded on: 27 February 2016
Speaker(s): Tom Holland, Margaret MacMillan
This discussion explores the ways in which history has been re-written to serve the purposes of political leaders or...
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Literary Festival 2016: BBC: British Born Chinese
Recorded on: 27 February 2016
Speaker(s): Dr Elena Barabantseva, Anna Chen, Andy Lawrence, Dr Véronique Pin-Fat
British Born Chinese engages the everyday struggles of two boys, Dan (aged between 11-13) and Kevin (aged between...
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Literary Festival 2016: United Nations on Trial
Recorded on: 26 February 2016
Speaker(s): The Hon. Mr Justice Jay, Gráinne Mellon, Professor Gerry Simpson, Paul Clark, Natalie Samarasinghe, Dr Nazila Ghanea, Professor Francoise Hampson, Antony Loewenstein, Carne Ross
The Charter of the United Nations, drafted in 1945, pledged in the name of the peoples of the United Nations to save us...
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Literary Festival 2016: One School, Two Visions
Recorded on: 25 February 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Cox, Professor Chandran Kukathas
A discussion of the competing utopian ideas of prominent LSE figures set in the context of the history of 20th century...
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Who will be the next US President?
Recorded on: 24 February 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Lawrence Jacobs
The most polarizing and anti-establishment candidates in modern US politics are dominating the battles for nomination...
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Literary Festival 2016: Utopias in History
Recorded on: 24 February 2016
Speaker(s): Dr Tim Hochstrasser, Dr Padraic Scanlan
Utopias come in many shapes and sizes - theological, ideological, or pure fantastical and visionary projections that...
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Can Imagination Change the World?
Recorded on: 18 February 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Craig Calhoun
The world is given its contours, reality and limits partly by how it is imagined. Creativity, unrealistically ‘utopian’...
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Getting Real about Utopia
Recorded on: 17 February 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Justin Champion, Dr John Guy, Kwasi Kwarteng, Gisela Stuart
Is politics about building a better world, or simply the art of the possible? Ahead of this year's LSE Literary...
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Literary Festival 2016: Faithful Visions
Recorded on: 16 February 2016
Speaker(s): Mark Lawson, Jonathan Moore
As part of this year’s LSE Literary Festival Fringe, Mark Lawson will be interviewing Jonathan Moore about his much...
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Are Conspiracy Theories Bad for Democracy?
Recorded on: 10 February 2016
Speaker(s): Professor David Runciman
Conspiracy theories go hand in hand with political mistrust. Are they symptom or cause of current levels of mistrust in...
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Russia and the EU: back to realism?
Recorded on: 3 February 2016
Speaker(s): Fyodor Lukyanov
Leading Moscow analyst Fyodor Lukyanov argues that it's time to redefine the Europe – Russia relationship based on a...
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Comrade Corbyn: a very unlikely coup
Recorded on: 3 February 2016
Speaker(s): Rosa Prince
Until recently, Jeremy Corbyn was barely known outside political circles, yet last summer he rode a wave of popular...
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One Second of Light
Recorded on: 3 February 2016
Speaker(s): Giles Duley
One Second of Light is Duley’s latest book, covering his work on the effects of conflict and humanitarian disaster over...
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LSE SU China Development Forum 2016 - Navigating Complexity
Recorded on: 30 January 2016
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The LSE SU China Development Forum (CDF) is the flagship annual conference of the LSE SU China Development Society...
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Lessons from the Greek Crisis
Recorded on: 28 January 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Louka T Katseli
The Chair of the National Bank of Greece visits LSE to discuss the lessons from the Greek crisis. A welcome address...
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Why I should be Mayor of London Tomorrow
Recorded on: 28 January 2016
Speaker(s): Sian Berry, Zac Goldsmith, Sadiq Khan, Caroline Pidgeon, Peter Whittle
Ahead of the 2016 London Mayoral elections, this event will allow the candidates from the main political parties to...
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This Is London
Recorded on: 26 January 2016
Speaker(s): Ben Judah
This is the new London: an immigrant city. Over one-third of Londoners were born abroad, with half arriving since the...
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Lessons for the Euro from America's Past
Recorded on: 19 January 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Jeffry Frieden
Drawing on early America’s struggle to develop a single currency, Professor Frieden will discuss the implications for...
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Business for Punks
Recorded on: 19 January 2016
Speaker(s): James Watt
BrewDog has been built in an unconventional way, borne out of boredom with conventional lagers and a desire to enjoy...
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Your Body By Darwin
Recorded on: 19 January 2016
Speaker(s): Jeremy Taylor
An evolutionary understanding of our bodies throws new light on why we get ill and how to cure disease. Jeremy Taylor...
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Emotions: do they control us?
Recorded on: 18 January 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Lisa Bortolotti, Professor Giovanna Colombetti; Dr Benedetto De Martino
From financial decisions to medical choices and political beliefs, emotion plays a crucial role. What is emotion and...
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Non-Western Mathematics
Recorded on: 18 January 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Robin Wilson
Explore the mathematics of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and the Mayans. Robin Wilson is Emeritus Professor...
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How to Have a Good Day
Recorded on: 13 January 2016
Speaker(s): Caroline Webb
Behavioural economics has the capacity to transform our everyday lives. Caroline Webb will demonstrate how easy it is...
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Economics Of Migration
Recorded on: 12 January 2016
Speaker(s): Professor Alan Manning
Immigration is currently the most common response when asked about the most important issues facing Britain. This...
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In the Front Line of Climate Change
Recorded on: 10 December 2015
Speaker(s): Anote Tong
Kiribati is in the front line of climate change. Despite Kiribati's best efforts at mitigation, relocation of its...
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Will Machines Rule the World?
Recorded on: 7 December 2015
Speaker(s): Dr Kate Devlin, Dr Mateja Jamnik, Professor Huw Price, Dr Mark Sprevak
AI is progressing fast. What level has it reached? Is human-level AI a realistic possibility? And if it is achieved in...
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In Wartime: stories from Ukraine
Recorded on: 7 December 2015
Speaker(s): Tim Judah
Veteran war reporter and Economist correspondent Tim Judah explores the impact of the ongoing conflict on the...
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Democracy, Diversity, Religion
Recorded on: 1 December 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Charles Taylor
Professor Charles Taylor will look at the constant temptation for modern democracies to veer towards exclusion. This is...
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Postcapitalism: a guide to our future
Recorded on: 18 November 2015
Speaker(s): Paul Mason
We know that our world is in the process of seismic change - but how can we emerge from the crisis a fairer, more equal...
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Migration: an English history
Recorded on: 18 November 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Robert Tombs
Migration has been a crucial element of British and English history. England emerged as a nation amid a period of...
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New Forms of Cultural Capital
Recorded on: 16 November 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Philippe Coulangeon, Dr Sam Friedman, Dr Laurie Hanquinet
A panel of leading international experts discuss whether traditional forms of 'highbrow' cultural capital associated...
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Making News For The New World
Recorded on: 12 November 2015
Speaker(s): Lionel Barber
The future of media is now. News organizations today face new and numerous opportunities and challenges, from the rise...
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Towards a Feminist Foreign Policy
Recorded on: 9 November 2015
Speaker(s): Zainab Salbi, Margot Wallström
What does Sweden’s concept of feminist foreign policy imply and what can it teach governments and institutions? How can...
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In Conversation with Amartya Sen
Recorded on: 6 November 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Amartya Sen
At this event Amartya Sen will be in conversation about his latest publication, The Country of First Boys, which is a...
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Suffragette: the making of the film
Recorded on: 5 November 2015
Speaker(s): Elizabeth Crawford, Sarah Gavron, Faye Ward
The Women's Library is one of LSE Library's most important special collections, documenting the history and foundation...
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Social Class in the 21st Century
Recorded on: 2 November 2015
Speaker(s): Dr Niall Cunningham, Professor Fiona Devine, Dr Sam Friedman, Dr Daniel Laurison, Dr Lisa McKenzie, Professor Mike Savage, Dr Helene Snee, Dr Paul Wakeling
A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'. Social class has...
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Will the 21st Century be Asian?
Recorded on: 2 November 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Cox, Professor Danny Quah, Dr Leslie Vinjamuri
If the 19th century was Europe's - and the 20th century became America's - is there any reason why the 21st century...
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Natural Capital: valuing the planet
Recorded on: 20 October 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Dieter Helm
Natural capital is what nature provides to us for free. Renewables - like species - keep on coming, provided we do not...
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Other People's Money
Recorded on: 20 October 2015
Speaker(s): Professor John Kay
Modern economies need finance, to enable us to make payments, transfer wealth across our lifetimes and between...
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The Crisis in European Security
Recorded on: 8 October 2015
Speaker(s): Sir Robert Cooper, Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, Professor Karen Smith
European security is in crisis. 25 years after the Cold War, we are still far from the OSCE vision of "Europe whole and...
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Why Cities Succeed and Fail Today
Recorded on: 7 October 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Storper, Dr Thomas Kemeny, Dr Naji Makarem
How well a city will cope with new opportunities and challenges relies on economic specialisation, human capital...
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A Right to Migrate?
Recorded on: 6 October 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Chris Bertram, Emily Dugan, Professor Matthew Gibney, Madeleine Sumption
Most people would agree that we have a right to leave our country of origin. But since leaving one country usually...
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Myanmar on the Brink
Recorded on: 5 October 2015
Speaker(s): Mark Canning, Dr Jurgen Haacke, Shibani Mahtani
In 2010 the world saw in Myanmar both relief and opportunity when - thirteen years after Myanmar achieved ASEAN...
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Does Europe Have a Future?
Recorded on: 1 October 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Stephen M Walt
Professor Walt will discuss strategic challenges facing the European Union and explore the geopolitical implications of...
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Why Demography Needs (New) Theories
Recorded on: 23 September 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Wendy Sigle
It is widely acknowledged that the theoretical perspectives that inform demographic inquiry have often come from other...
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How Business Can be a Force for Good
Recorded on: 12 August 2015
Speaker(s): Nick Giles, Michael Hayman
Business as usual is over. Belief is the new currency and to succeed you must follow new rules: purpose as the route to...
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When Will America and China go to war?
Recorded on: 6 August 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Cox
We have been told for years that war between great powers is a thing of the past: something that has been consigned...
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Sacred Mountains of China
Recorded on: 29 July 2015
Speaker(s): Ryan Pyle
Join adventurer and renowned photographer, Ryan Pyle, as he spends months exploring and photographing Western China’s...
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Do we need a New Macroeconomics?
Recorded on: 9 July 2015
Speaker(s): Lord Meghnad Desai
Lord Desai is an Indian-born British economist and Labour politician. He unsuccessfully stood for the Speaker in the...
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Decoding Glamour
Recorded on: 2 July 2015
Speaker(s): Virginia Postrel
Drawing on her path-breaking new book, The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion, Virginia Postrel...
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Above the Parapet - Women in Public Life
Recorded on: 30 June 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Ruth Simmons, Dr Purna Sen
This event is part of the Above the Parapet project, which seeks to capture the experiences of high profile women who...
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The Folly of Crowds?
Recorded on: 25 June 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Peter Ayton, Dr Sepideh Bazazi, Professor Chris Frith
In our modern world we are constantly exposed to the opinion of the group. When is the crowd wise and when is it prone...
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International Cooperation and Climate Change
Recorded on: 23 June 2015
Speaker(s): Dr Alina Averchenkova, Professor John Broome, Professor Robyn Eckersley, Fergus Green
Tackling climate change is crucial for human well-being. So why has the international community been faltering on...
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Understanding Economic Development
Recorded on: 22 June 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Sir Paul Collier, Professor Dani Rodrik
2015 marks the centenary of the birth of the LSE’s Nobel Prize winning economist, William Arthur Lewis (1915-1991). Sir...
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The EMU: a work in progress
Recorded on: 19 June 2015
Speaker(s): Herman Van Rompuy
Herman Van Rompuy is a Belgian politician who formerly served as Prime Minister of Belgium and then as the first...
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Striving for a Progressive Israel
Recorded on: 19 June 2015
Speaker(s): Isaac Herzog
In his lecture Mr Herzog will argue that most Israelis want to live in a country that is not only secure, but just,...
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After Your Death
Recorded on: 18 June 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Sam Scheffler
Imagine you discovered that shortly after your death an asteroid would destroy the world. How would that affect how you...
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Is the American Century Over?
Recorded on: 9 June 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Joseph S Nye
For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that...
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On Free Speech
Recorded on: 2 June 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Lisa Appignanesi, Professor Rae Langton, Dr Stephen Law, Professor Peter McDonald
What does it mean to have a right to free speech, and who has the right to curtail it? <br><br>Lisa Appignanesi,...
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Flood of Fire
Recorded on: 29 May 2015
Speaker(s): Amitav Ghosh
Flood of Fire, the conclusion to Amitav Ghosh's bestselling Ibis Trilogy, takes us from India to China, through the...
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In Conversation with Secretary Lew
Recorded on: 27 May 2015
Speaker(s): Jacob J. Lew
The conversation will focus on the state of the global economy ahead of the Secretary’s travel to a meeting of G-7...
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Race and Class: challenging inequalities
Recorded on: 26 May 2015
Speaker(s): Liz Fekete, Kiri Kankhwende, Professor James Nazroo, Dr Debbie Weekes-Bernard
This event will consider the ongoing significance of race and class to shaping inequalities in contemporary British...
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The Happiness of Cities
Recorded on: 20 May 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Ed Glaeser
Residents of big cities typically earn higher wages, but are they any happier? According to surveys on life...
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The Great Divide
Recorded on: 19 May 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Joseph E Stiglitz
Why has inequality increased in the Western world and what can we do about it? In this new book, The Great Divide,...
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Decolonising Gender
Recorded on: 18 May 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Raewyn Connell
The creation of contemporary knowledge about gender is a revolution in thought that has been closely connected with...
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In Defence of a Liberal Education
Recorded on: 18 May 2015
Speaker(s): Fareed Zakaria
Fareed Zakaria argues the turn away from the liberal arts is a mistake. In today’s world, the jobs of the future will...
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The Election and the Left
Recorded on: 12 May 2015
Speaker(s): Professor John Curtice, Polly Toynbee, Hilary Wainwright
What do the results of the British general election mean for the left? <br><br>John Curtice is Professor of Politics at...
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Dealing with China
Recorded on: 11 May 2015
Speaker(s): Hank Paulson, Lionel Barber
Hank Paulson has dealt with the government and business communities of China to a greater extent than any other...
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Inequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty
Recorded on: 11 May 2015
Speaker(s): David Soskice, Wendy Carlin, Bob Rowthorn, Diane Perrons, Stephanie Seguino, Lisa McKenzie, Naila Kabeer, Dr. Laura Bear, Gareth Jones, Mike Savage, Sir John Hills, Sir Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty
A day-long conference with Thomas Piketty, whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been of global significance in...
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Money and its Redemption
Recorded on: 7 May 2015
Speaker(s): Dr Laura Bear, Professor David Graeber, Professor Bill Maurer
Can “bad money” be made good? Leading economic anthropologists will debate the morality of money, philosophies of...
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Inequality: what can be done?
Recorded on: 30 April 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, Tom Clark, Professor Baroness Lister
Introducing his new book, Inequality: what can be done?, Professor Atkinson will argue we can do much more about...
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The Root of All Good
Recorded on: 28 April 2015
Speaker(s): Andrew Palmer
Finance distorts behaviour and destroys economies, but it also solves society's biggest problems. A new wave of...
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Is Politics Based on Morality?
Recorded on: 27 April 2015
Speaker(s): Dr Fabienne Peter, Professor Catherine Rowett, Dr Stephen de Wijze
Is politics the instrument of moral ideals and values? Is it something like ‘applied morality’? In recent years there...
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Engaging Citizens: a game changer for development?
Recorded on: 19 March 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Jon Paul Faguet, Dr Shirin Madon, Dr Duncan Green, Owen Barder, Yesil Deniz, Dr Bjorn-Soren Gigler, Abha Joshi-Ghani, Leni Wild, Vanessa Herringshaw, Fredrik Galtung, Duncan Edwards
Engaging citizens has a vital role to play in the process of development. It helps to improve transparency and...
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Deng Xiaoping vs Gorbachev
Recorded on: 18 March 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Alexander V Pantsov
Professor Pantsov will discuss why the USSR couldn’t follow the pattern of Chinese reforms in the decade leading up to...
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Shifting African Digital Landscapes
Recorded on: 17 March 2015
Speaker(s): Dr Sean Jacobs
Developments in online media point to interesting possibilities for African engagement in the global public sphere....
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How to Run a Government
Recorded on: 16 March 2015
Speaker(s): Sir Michael Barber
Billions of citizens around the world are frustrated with their governments. Political leaders struggle to honour their...
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Beyond the Budget
Recorded on: 16 March 2015
Speaker(s): Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) is Scotland’s first female First Minister and the first female to lead any of the...
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The Law, Finance and the Abyss
Recorded on: 12 March 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Julia Black, Dr Jon Danielsson, Professor Charles Goodhart, Professor Katharina Pistor
In financial markets law and finance are intrinsically connected. When markets collapse, however, legal rules are...
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European Politics and Government
Recorded on: 11 March 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Jonathan Holslag, Dr Mareike Kleine
This discussion will explore the vexed question of the demos of European citizenship and the democratic deficit....
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Code and Law between Truth and Power
Recorded on: 11 March 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Julie Cohen, Anne Barron
The problem of control over information flows has emerged as a doubly critical vantage point from which to interrogate...
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Political Economy of European Union
Recorded on: 11 March 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Bob Hancké, Professor David Soskice
This discussion will explore the pressures facing Europe’s welfare states in a time of austerity, an aging population...
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A Conversation with Eric Ries
Recorded on: 6 March 2015
Speaker(s): Eric Ries
Eric Ries (@ericries) is an entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup: How Constant...
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On Civil Disobedience
Recorded on: 5 March 2015
Speaker(s): Dr Kimberley Brownlee
When is it permissible to resort to civil disobedience? Do we sometimes have a moral duty to do so? Should we be...
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Touching and Feeling
Recorded on: 5 March 2015
Speaker(s): Professor David J. Linden
Professor Linden will explore the biology of touch ranging from sex to pain to caress, paying particular attention to...
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Why We Should Talk to Terrorists
Recorded on: 5 March 2015
Speaker(s): Jonathan Powell
Jonathan Powell was chief of staff to Tony Blair and the chief British negotiator on Northern Ireland. In his new book...
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Law, Economics and the Republic of Beliefs
Recorded on: 3 March 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Kaushik Basu, Professor Amartya Sen, Professor Lord Nicholas Stern
Kaushik Basu (@kaushikcbasu) is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. He is the second World...
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Gender and the Brain
Recorded on: 2 March 2015
Speaker(s): Professor John Dupré, Professor Gina Rippon
Are there ‘hardwired’ psychological differences between men and women? Do these alleged differences show that gender...
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Literary Festival 2015: Changing Worlds
Recorded on: 28 February 2015
Speaker(s): Neel Mukherjee, Elif Shafak
What are the foundations of society? Two award-winning writers look at the underpinnings of cultures and societies in...
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Literary Festival 2015: Digital Personhood and Identity
Recorded on: 28 February 2015
Speaker(s): Luke Dormehl, Aleks Krotoski, Professor Sonia Livingstone, Professor Andrew Murray
What are the foundations of our identity in the digital age? As digital devices make and manage more and more decisions...
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Literary Festival 2015: Why Remember?
Recorded on: 28 February 2015
Speaker(s): Lisa Appignanesi, Darian Leader, Owen Sheers
This panel explores our relationship with our sometimes traumatic past, and asks why we should remember and what...
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The Minimum Wage in the UK and Beyond
Recorded on: 26 February 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Alan Manning, Nicola Smith
The Centre for Economic Performance has played an important role in the development of the UK’s National Minimum Wage,...
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An urbanising world: triumph or tragedy?
Recorded on: 25 February 2015
Speaker(s): Herbert Girardet
Prof. Herbert Girardet’s public lecture was based on his new book, Creating Regenerative Cities, published by Routledge...
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Literary Festival 2015: The China Dream
Recorded on: 24 February 2015
Speaker(s): Professor William A Callahan, Chan Koonchung, Isabel Hilton
The 'China Dream' is the keyword of contemporary propaganda discourse in the People's Republic. This panel discusses...
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Literary Festival 2015: An Eye for Life
Recorded on: 24 February 2015
Speaker(s): Marion Coutts, Ali Smith
Ali Smith's How to be Both, in which the lives of a 15th-century fresco painter and a 21st-century Cambridge schoolgirl...
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Leaving the EU?
Recorded on: 17 February 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Damian Chalmers, Professor Carol Harlow, Dr Jan Komarek, Dr Jo Eric Khushal Murkens
Has the European Union reached the end of the road in the UK? The country has taken on a competence review aimed at...
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Children's Rights in the Digital Age
Recorded on: 11 February 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Sonia Livingstone, John Carr, Professor Robin Mansell
Are children’s rights enhanced or undermined by access to the internet? Charters and manifestos for the digital age are...
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Tuition Fees Assist Access: discuss
Recorded on: 11 February 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Nicholas Barr, Martin Lewis
Nicholas Barr has been described as one of the architects of student loans and tuition fees, and in particular of the...
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Hong Kong: the struggle at the end of history
Recorded on: 10 February 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Raymond Li, Professor Danny Quah, Isabella Steger
The Umbrella Revolution has re-ignited a global debate on democracy. Why have the dynamics in this small ex British...
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Philosophy, the Public and Other Subjects
Recorded on: 10 February 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Simon Glendinning
50 years ago Professor Glendinning gave an inaugural lecture arguing for the abolition of inaugural lectures. His...
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Women, Peace and Security Centre Launch Event
Recorded on: 10 February 2015
Speaker(s): William Hague MP, Angelina Jolie Pitt, Professor Christine Chinkin
LSE today hosted First Secretary of State William Hague and UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt to launch the UK’s...
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On Informed Consent
Recorded on: 9 February 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Baroness O’Neill, Professor Jonathan Wolff
Informed consent is not the most fundamental ethical standard, but a means of securing respect for other, more basic...
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LSE SU China Development Forum 2015: Paths to Modernisation
Recorded on: 7 February 2015
Speaker(s): Lord Adair Turner, Mr. John Hughes, Professor Göran Malmqvist, Professor Athar Hussain, Professor Yu Dan, Professor Zhou Hanmin, Professor Danny Quah and others.
The LSE SU China Development Forum (CDF) is the flagship annual conference of the LSE SU China Development Society...
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How to See into the Future
Recorded on: 5 February 2015
Speaker(s): Tim Harford
Tim Harford will explain what’s really going on in the large-scale economic world – and what it means for us all in the...
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The Age of Sustainable Development
Recorded on: 4 February 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs
In this public lecture Professor Sachs will talk about his upcoming book, The Age of Sustainable Development, which...
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Human Shield
Recorded on: 4 February 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Judith Butler
Recent debates about human shields in the summer bombardment of Gaza raised the question of how the unarmed human form...
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The Butterfly Defect
Recorded on: 3 February 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Ian Goldin, Professor Danny Quah
Professor Goldin will address how global hyperconnectivity creates systemic risks and how this can be managed...
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A Stress Test Of The Welfare State
Recorded on: 2 February 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Tito Boeri
How did the welfare state in Europe cope with the Great Recession and the Eurozone crisis? While a lot of attention has...
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On Truth
Recorded on: 2 February 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Pascal Engel, Professor Simon Blackburn
Realists take truth to be a robust property of our thoughts and assertions, one which fits certain facts in the world....
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Materiality and Computer Art
Recorded on: 29 January 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Margaret Boden
Professor Boden will explore philosophical issues about art. Are computer artworks physical objects? Do they really...
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AEC 2015 – A Perspective from Business
Recorded on: 28 January 2015
Speaker(s): Dato Sri Nazir Razak
How will the ASEAN Economic Community change the political and economic landscape of Southeast Asia? What form will it...
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Extradition and the Erosion of Human Rights
Recorded on: 28 January 2015
Speaker(s): Gareth Peirce, Professor Saskia Sassen, Professor Jeanne Theoharis
Since 9/11 the rules governing extradition from the UK to the US have been systematically relaxed, and safeguards...
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The return of the 'German question'
Recorded on: 26 January 2015
Speaker(s): Hans Kundnani, Quentin Peel
A panel debate to mark the launch of Hans Kundnani's recently published book 'The Paradox of German Power'....
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Hall of Mirrors
Recorded on: 21 January 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Barry Eichengreen
Popular understanding of the Great Depression shaped the response to the Great Recession. The experience of the Great...
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Defending Human Rights in Russia
Recorded on: 21 January 2015
Speaker(s): Dmitri Makarov, Dr Mary McAuley, Roman Udot
An unprecedented number of laws have been adopted in Russia over the past two years which dramatically restrict the...
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After Snowden
Recorded on: 20 January 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Ronald J Deibert, Dr Gus Hossein, Professor Sir David Omand, Professor Ronald W Pruessen
What are the implications of surveillance, big data, malware and hacking for individuals and societies? What...
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A Conversation on Central Banking
Recorded on: 19 January 2015
Speaker(s): Sir Alan Budd, Lord King
Lord King and Sir Alan will look back at central developments in banking over the last two decades. <br><br>Alan Budd...
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Second Annual CAF-LSE Global South Conference
Recorded on: 16 January 2015
Speaker(s): See event programme for details
Geopolitics and the Global South: Challenges of the Emerging International Order. <br><br>Opening Ceremony and Keynote...
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Should Markets be Moral?
Recorded on: 14 January 2015
Speaker(s): Felix Martin, Professor Lord Skidelsky
Professor Lord Skidelsky will be in conversation with Felix Martin about the topic of a recent book he edited, to...
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Picturing Race and Inequality: the potential for social change
Recorded on: 13 January 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Neville, Professor Tim Newburn, Professor Gwendolyn Sasse, Polly Toynbee
The panel will discuss effective ways of communicating and changing inequality, centring on the work of artist Mark...
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The Cold War and the Culture of Secrecy
Recorded on: 13 January 2015
Speaker(s): Professor Matthew Connelly
Official secrecy in the U.S. during the Cold War altered the culture of government and served many hidden agendas....
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What Is Rationality, Anyway?
Recorded on: 13 January 2015
Speaker(s): Dr Peter Dennis
Appeals to rationality are found in every area of life. But how can we accuse one another of being irrational if we...
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Questions of Identity
Recorded on: 11 December 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Vincent Descombes, Alan Montefiore
What does it mean to speak of an individual’s very identity as a person? And what too of the ongoing identity of an...
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In Conversation with Shirley Williams
Recorded on: 10 December 2014
Speaker(s): Lady Williams, Mark Bostridge
Shirley Williams and Mark Bostridge will be discussing the impact of the First World War on the life and work of her...
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The Tyranny of Experts
Recorded on: 8 December 2014
Speaker(s): Professor William Easterly
The admirable fight against global poverty has a blind spot on democracy and human rights, which are both good in...
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Democracy, decency and devolution
Recorded on: 8 December 2014
Speaker(s): Dame Tessa Jowell
Dame Tessa Jowell will draw on her experiences at the heart of government to discuss the role of capacity building and...
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Anarchism and Sexuality
Recorded on: 4 December 2014
Speaker(s): Martha Acklesberg, Richard Cleminson, Terence Kissack
The panel brings together historians and political theorists of anarchism and sexuality to explore the importance of...
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Open Government in the Age of Total War
Recorded on: 2 December 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Matthew Connelly
The interwar years are vital to understanding the rise of the U.S. national security state and the government’s...
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Ethics Matters in Climate Change
Recorded on: 1 December 2014
Speaker(s): Professor John Broome
Climate change is a moral problem. Through our emissions, each of us causes harm to others - something that generally...
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Uncertainty as Competitive Advantage
Recorded on: 1 December 2014
Speaker(s): Mark Phillips
We are under attack by change. The marketplace and battle-space are increasingly populated by peer competitors and...
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On Progress and Human Development
Recorded on: 27 November 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Paul Anand, Catherine Audard, Professor Jonathan Wolff
What is progress and how do we measure it? What account of wellbeing could accommodate a concern for self-realization...
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The Global Public Sphere
Recorded on: 26 November 2014
Speaker(s): Dr Ingrid Volkmer, Professor Mary Kaldor
Dr Ingrid Volkmer completely rethinks the “public sphere” concept for an age of global media. <br><br>Ingrid Volkmer is...
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The Languages of Migration
Recorded on: 26 November 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Rosen
Language is central to our understanding of migration: on the one hand, migrants bring languages with them and, on the...
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Foreign Policy in a Time of Turmoil
Recorded on: 25 November 2014
Speaker(s): Børge Brende
We live in a world of unprecedented progress and unexpected crises. We have to adapt to a changing security landscape,...
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Museum Madness
Recorded on: 24 November 2014
Speaker(s): Fiammetta Rocco
All over the world, museums are springing up. Will they become white elephants? <br><br>Fiammetta Rocco...
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