Managing Risk: A Global Imperative
Recorded on: 12 December 2008
Speaker(s): Michael Chertoff
Given the threats posed by terrorism and natural disasters, the issue of how to handle risk remains an essential one...
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Human Rights Day Event: The Right of Rights 1948-2008
Recorded on: 4 December 2008
Speaker(s): Shami Chakrabarti, Jonathan Cooper; Professor Conor Gearty; Baroness Helena Kennedy QC; Professor Francesca Klug; Professor Peter Townsend
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this fun yet challenging event will ask...
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In Conversation with Cherie Blair
Recorded on: 3 December 2008
Speaker(s): Cherie Blair, Howard Davies
Cherie Blair is a noted barrister and QC, specialising in human rights law. She is married to Tony Blair, the former...
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China After the Olympics
Recorded on: 2 December 2008
Speaker(s): Jonathan Fenby, Professor Athar Hussain; Martin Jacques; Professor Chen Jian
Whether we think sport and politics should or should not be mixed, it is clear that in the case of the Beijing Olympics...
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What's Wrong with the EU Budget?
Recorded on: 27 November 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Iain Begg, Zaki Cooper; Dalia Grybauskaite
With the formal review of the EU budget under way, a panel of policymakers, experts and other stakeholders ask: what...
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The Subprime Crisis
Recorded on: 26 November 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Robert J. Shiller
Bubbles in the stock market and the housing market are the cause of a financial crisis that is wreaking havoc around...
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The Politics of Mobility
Recorded on: 18 November 2008
Speaker(s): Peter Hendy
Sprawl versus dense? Public transport versus private car? This debate will outline how London's transport strategy...
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Revisiting Marx: is Marxism still relevant?
Recorded on: 18 November 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Lord Meghnad Desai, Professor David Harvey; Professor Leo Panitch
This event brings together leading social and political thinkers to debate the contemporary meaning and relevance of...
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Europe in the Global Economy
Recorded on: 13 November 2008
Speaker(s): Professor George Alogoskoufis
This lecture will address the impact of globalisation and the recent worldwide economic turmoil on Europe and in...
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Desiring Walls
Recorded on: 12 November 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Wendy Brown
In this lecture, Professor Wendy Brown will draw on discourse analysis, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory to examine...
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In Sickness and In Power
Recorded on: 27 October 2008
Speaker(s): Lord Owen
The course of world history has been critically shaped by the physical and mental illnesses of heads of state,...
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Women's Status, Men's States
Recorded on: 22 October 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Catharine Mackinnon
Analyzing the nature of the international in gendered terms, Professor MacKinnon provides a perspective on developments...
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Running Cities: London in contextd
Recorded on: 21 October 2008
Speaker(s): Sir Simon Milton, Professor Ricky Burdett; Deyan Sudjic
What is the new administration's vision for London? Speakers discuss how to design and manage the powerhouses of the...
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Hot, Flat and Crowded
Recorded on: 14 October 2008
Speaker(s): Thomas L Friedman
Thomas L Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of our biggest challenges - the global environmental crisis...
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Japan's Grand Strategy
Recorded on: 13 October 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Richard Samuels
As the Soviet Union disappeared so did the most serious threat to Japanese security. But it was not long before four...
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The Challenge of Climate Change
Recorded on: 13 October 2008
Speaker(s): Sir David King
Without a new deal between rich and poor countries, climate change will continue to accelerate. How can this be...
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The China Challenge as Myth and Reality
Recorded on: 8 October 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Chen Jian
Few countries have experienced changes as dramatic as did China in the past century - and the past quarter century in...
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A Global Deal for Climate Change
Recorded on: 6 October 2008
Speaker(s): Dr Nikolaus von Bomhard, Professor Ian Diamond; Jeremy Grantham; Professor Lord Stern of Brentford
To inaugurate the LSE's new Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Lord Stern of Brentford,...
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Zimbabwe: Beyond the Endgame
Recorded on: 17 July 2008
Speaker(s): Dr Martin Rupiya, Patrick Smith; Knox Chitiyo; Gugulethu Moyo
As talks between Mr Mugabe and both factions of the Movement for Democratic Change open in South Africa, the crisis in...
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The Post American World
Recorded on: 30 June 2008
Speaker(s): Fareed Zakaria
Global power is shifting, and wealth and power are bubbling up in unexpected places. Fareed Zakaria considers not so...
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A Critical Defense of Secularism
Recorded on: 10 June 2008
Speaker(s): Cécile Laborde
The global revival of religion has raised fundamental questions about its role in politics and its claim that it serves...
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Financial Market Stability
Recorded on: 6 June 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Axel A Weber
In light of the current tensions in financial markets Professor Axel Weber will look at financial market stability from...
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Secularism and Shared Values
Recorded on: 3 June 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Richard Norman
The global revival of religion has raised fundamental questions about its role in politics and its claim that it serves...
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Does Faith Matter for Human Morality?
Recorded on: 27 May 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Mona Siddiqui
The global revival of religion has raised fundamental questions about its role in politics and its claim that it serves...
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Fixing Failed States
Recorded on: 22 May 2008
Speaker(s): Dr Ashraf Ghani, Clare Lockhart
Authors Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart challenge existing concepts of state systems and offer new ways of fostering...
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Is there a European Foreign Policy?
Recorded on: 21 May 2008
Speaker(s): Lord Patten
Lord Patten served as a minister in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1983 to 1992, holding the...
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Ontario's Place in the 21st Century
Recorded on: 19 May 2008
Speaker(s): Dalton McGuinty
He led his party to a second-consecutive majority government in October 2007 and is Ontario7s 24th Premier. He was...
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Is the Middle East Europe's Business?
Recorded on: 13 May 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Ghassan Salame
The Middle East is a region where the United States plays a crucial role. But what about Europe? To what extent should...
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McMafia: Crime without frontiers
Recorded on: 12 May 2008
Speaker(s): Misha Glenny
International journalist Misha Glenny talks about his investigation into the world of organised crime. He reveals how...
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The Powers to Lead
Recorded on: 8 May 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Joseph S Nye
Leadership is always necessary in any endeavour, applying equally to politics, business, society, and culture. Whilst...
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Multiculturalism and Secularism
Recorded on: 6 May 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Tariq Modood
Can multicultural inclusivity extend to religious minorities? Can it do so without conflicting with secularism? Tariq...
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The New Politics of Identity
Recorded on: 29 April 2008
Speaker(s): David Goodhart, Professor John Keane, Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh
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The Bin Ladens
Recorded on: 24 April 2008
Speaker(s): Steve Coll
Steve Coll's new book 'The Bin Ladens: The Story of a Family and its Fortune' charts the rise of a family, and the...
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A Debate about the Definition of 'Britishness'
Recorded on: 11 March 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Sir Bernard Crick, Professor Anne Phillips
As the composition of British society transforms with immigration and transnational identities, ideas about the notion...
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The Pivot of the 20th Century
Recorded on: 4 March 2008
Speaker(s): Professor David Kennedy
Winston Churchill said in 1945 that 'the United States stands at this moment at the summit of the world'. Yet just five...
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Modern Erotics and the Quest for Intimacy
Recorded on: 4 March 2008
Speaker(s): Darian Leader, Professor Henrietta Moore; Professor Susie Orbach; Professor Renata Salecl
The demand that sexual relations should be at the basis both of self-understanding and self-realisation often puts our...
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Beyond the Banality of Evil
Recorded on: 28 February 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Steve Reicher
This lecture critically addresses Hannah Arendt's hypothesis on the banality of evil arguing that those who commit...
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Climate Change, Energy and the Way Ahead
Recorded on: 27 February 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Lord Nicholas Stern
The world must reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2050 with rich country cuts of at least 80 per cent....
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Distant Suffering in the Media
Recorded on: 27 February 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Lilie Chouliaraki
Professor Lilie Chouliaraki will talk about suffering in the media, addressing the question of how far images and...
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The Nuts and Bolts of Empire
Recorded on: 26 February 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Paul Kennedy
All great empires have required a sophisticated logistical system, and a secure communications system to sustain...
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The Shrivelling of European Citizenship
Recorded on: 19 February 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Damian Chalmers
The institution of EU citizenship is increasingly challenged yet the heterogeneity and intensity of membership rights...
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The Russian Elections
Recorded on: 12 February 2008
Speaker(s): Stephen Dalziel, Professor Richard Sakwa
After two terms in office, President Putin is constitutionally bound to step down in March 2008, but how stable will...
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The Logic of Life
Recorded on: 6 February 2008
Speaker(s): Tim Harford
From teenage sex to the scourge of racism, Tim Harford explains why economics can provide the answers other disciplines...
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The Politics of Aids Exceptionalism
Recorded on: 6 February 2008
Speaker(s): Alex de Waal
This lecture asks if the global AIDS response has been good for human rights but bad for disease control? Alex de Waal...
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Iraq: The Way Out
Recorded on: 31 January 2008
Speaker(s): Jonathan Steele
Jonathan Steele will argue that the occupation has failed, not because of a lack of pre-war planning, but because of a...
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The McCanns and the Media
Recorded on: 30 January 2008
Speaker(s): Clarence Mitchell, Justine McGuiness; Kelvin MacKenzie; Roy Greenslade; Roger Graef
The McCanns were the biggest media story of 2007. This event goes behind the headlines to ask why it became a media...
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Children's Media: More Harm than Good?
Recorded on: 24 January 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Sonia Livingstone
Public policy is scrutinising potential media harms, given rapid expansion of the internet, fears over 'toxic'...
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General Reflections
Recorded on: 23 January 2008
Speaker(s): General Sir Mike Jackson
A look at where today's strategic circumstances are and the position of the UK, and a look to the future. General Sir...
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The Last Resistance
Recorded on: 22 January 2008
Speaker(s): Professor Henrietta Moore, Professor Stephen Frosh
Jacqueline Rose's book The Last Resistance explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives...
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