China Model 2
Recorded 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"...
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The US and the Arab Revolutions
Recorded 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...
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On Love
Recorded 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....
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Democracy in the Workplace
Recorded 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...
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The Evolution of Morality
Recorded 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...
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The Global Value of the Commonwealth
Recorded 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...
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The Deaths of Others
Recorded 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,...
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The Wit and Wisdom of Brian Moore
Recorded 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...
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The City of London
Recorded 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...
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Europe's Vanished Kingdoms
Recorded 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...
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Emerging art markets
Recorded 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...
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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,...
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Derrida and (the) English
Recorded 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...
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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'...
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LSE perspectives on the sovereign debt crisis
Recorded 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...
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The Rare Find
Recorded 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...
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ERC Security in Transition Launch
Recorded 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...
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Decarbonising Britain
Recorded 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...
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Role of a Foreign Bank in China
Recorded 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...
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The Future of Economic Convergence
Recorded 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...
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Building an International Rule of Law
Recorded 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...
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Terrorism: a (self) love story
Recorded 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...
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Arguments with Gandhi
Recorded 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...
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The Hidden Future of Cities
Recorded 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...
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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...
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Global Reform for Derivatives Markets
Recorded 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...
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Beatrice Webb: her quest for a fairer society
Recorded 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...
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Portugal delivers
Recorded 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...
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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...
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Extended Selves
Recorded 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....
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Architecture and Happiness
Recorded 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....
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Cybercrime, Cybercops and You
Recorded 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...
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Cities and Economic Development
Recorded 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...
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Pakistan: A Personal History
Recorded 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...
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Building Effective States
Recorded 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...
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The 9/11 Wars
Recorded 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...
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An Evening with Michael Atherton
Recorded 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...
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Keynes v Hayek
Recorded 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...
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Migrants and Intellectual life
Recorded 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....
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Quality in Health and Social Care
Recorded 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...
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London Integration Forum 2011 - Exploring Diversity
Recorded 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...
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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...
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Policy and Philosophy for Children
Recorded 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...
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Philosophers and Philosophy for Children
Recorded 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...
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Practitioners and Philosophy for Children
Recorded 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...
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Turkey in the World
Recorded 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...
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The Fabric of Our Social World
Recorded 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...
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Social Policy in an Ageing Society
Recorded 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...
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Why Nations Fail
Recorded 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...
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On Happiness
Recorded 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...
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Preventing Financial Meltdowns
Recorded 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...
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Living in the Endless City
Recorded 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...
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The Flaw
Recorded 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...
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The Evolution of the Individual
Recorded 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...
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Africa's Disease Burden
Recorded 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...
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It's all about people
Recorded 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...
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The Future of Finance: The LSE Report
Recorded 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...
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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...
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Public Policy, Equity and Growth: a panel discussion
Recorded 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...
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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,...
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The Architecture of Governance
Recorded 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...
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The Ethics of Photojournalism
Recorded 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...
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Unfathomable Event
Recorded 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...
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Pakistan: A Hard Country
Recorded 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...
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Democracy and Dissent
Recorded 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...
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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...
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How Not to Keep Bees
Recorded 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...
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The Future of Power
Recorded 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...
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Turkey and Europe
Recorded 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...
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The End of Remembering
Recorded 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...
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The Unfinished Global Revolution
Recorded 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...
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Changes in Labour Market Inequality
Recorded 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...
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Philosophy in the Public World
Recorded 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...
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21st Century Statecraft
Recorded 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...
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Israeli Society and the Occupation
Recorded 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...
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Good Life in Hard Times
Recorded 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...
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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...
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Nuclear Arms and Human Rights
Recorded 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...
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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...
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Moral Error Theory and Moral Scepticism
Recorded 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...
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Catch-Up History and the Cold War
Recorded 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...
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The Global Chaos of Love
Recorded 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,...
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Animal Minds
Recorded 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...
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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...
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Literary Festival 2011 - Placing Mobilities
Recorded 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....
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Literary Festival 2011 - Reality Hunger
Recorded 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...
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The economics of Palestinian-Israeli peace
Recorded on: 14 February 2011
Speaker(s): Professor Ephraim Kleiman
Ephraim Kleiman is Don Patinkin Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a graduate...
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The Have and Have Nots
Recorded on: 8 February 2011
Speaker(s): Branko Milanovic
Inequality is a surprisingly slippery issue, involving not just straightforward comparisons of individuals, but also...
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On Forgiveness
Recorded 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...
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Why Indians Win in Business
Recorded 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...
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The City of London and its Tax Haven Empire
Recorded on: 1 February 2011
Speaker(s): Dr Maurice Glasman, Nicholas Shaxson
The City of London is an offshore island inside the British nation state, floating partly free from the democratic...
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Phase Three of the Global Crisis
Recorded on: 31 January 2011
Speaker(s): Paul Mason
As countries adopt competitive exit strategies from the global crisis Paul Mason surveys the political economy of a...
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African Urbanism
Recorded on: 26 January 2011
Speaker(s): Edgar Pieterse
Africa is the fastest urbanising region in the world, and has become the focus of increasing attention from architects...
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America's Wars in the Muslim World
Recorded on: 26 January 2011
Speaker(s): Dr Alia Brahimi, Professor Fawaz Gerges, Nir Rosen
This event celebrates the publication of Aftermath by Nir Rosen and Jihad and Just War in the War on Terror by Alia...
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The Future of Global Economic Governance
Recorded on: 25 January 2011
Speaker(s): Professor Robert Wade
How have changes in world power been translated into governing bodies like the G20, the World Bank and the IMF? The...
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The Naked Scientist
Recorded on: 25 January 2011
Speaker(s): Dr Chris Smith
Dr Chris Smith explores present-day predicaments and tomorrow's technologies, from the most surprising facts to the...
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Latvia Turns the Corner
Recorded on: 19 January 2011
Speaker(s): Valdis Dombrovskis
After years of unsustainable growth and profligate spending, in 2009 Latvia experienced the deepest economic crisis in...
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Eating Animals
Recorded on: 19 January 2011
Speaker(s): Jonathan Safran Foer, Kristina Musholt
Eating Animals is an exhaustively-argued account of one man's decade-long struggle with vegetarianism. Part memoir,...
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The Grand Strategy of Detente
Recorded on: 18 January 2011
Speaker(s): Professor Niall Ferguson
'Nixon goes to China' shattered the façade of Communist unity and dug the United States out of the hole it found itself...
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Environmental Diplomacy
Recorded on: 17 January 2011
Speaker(s): Dr René Castro
René Castro is the Minister for Foreign Affairs for Costa Rica. He obtained his Masters and PhD from Harvard...
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The Naked City
Recorded on: 17 January 2011
Speaker(s): Professor Sharon Zukin
Renowned sociologist Sharon Zukin will discuss her latest book, The Naked City: the death and life of authentic urban...
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2011 Global Civil Society Yearbook launch
Recorded on: 13 January 2011
Speaker(s): Pierre Calame, Judy El-Bushra, Dr Hakan Seckinelgin
The 2011 Yearbook provides a critical examination of the ways global civil society promotes and delivers social...
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Israeli Academic Boycott: Helpful or Harmful?
Recorded on: 13 January 2011
Speaker(s): Dr John Chalcraft, Professor Daniel Hochhauser
This is a joint event hosted by the LSESU Palestine Society and LSESU Israel Society, this debate will be centred...
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The Future for Media Policy
Recorded on: 12 January 2011
Speaker(s): Jeremy Hunt MP
At a time when there are major media policy decisions being made in government, the secretary of state will outline his...
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The Meaning of Life
Recorded on: 12 January 2011
Speaker(s): Robert Rowland Smith
From Plato through Monty Python to Terry Eagleton and beyond, the question of the meaning of life has been a source of...
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Politics, Power, Cities
Recorded on: 11 January 2011
Speaker(s): Enrique Peñalosa
Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá and one of the world's most challenging urban thinkers, describes the urgent...
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