Demystifying the Chinese Economy
Recorded on: 18 December 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Justin Lin
As a result of the miraculous growth since the market-oriented reform in 1979, China’s status in the global economy has...
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Rousseau and the State of War
Recorded on: 11 December 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Chris Bertram
What can Rousseau’s recently reconstructed fragment Principles of the Right of War tell us about war and “humanitarian...
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Can we learn from History?
Recorded on: 10 December 2012
Speaker(s): Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr is a journalist, broadcaster and author. He hosts the Sunday morning BBC1 programme The Andrew Marr Show as...
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Putting Rights Back Together Again
Recorded on: 6 December 2012
Speaker(s): Salil Shetty
The indivisibility of human rights is proclaimed as a goal, but the reality is different. Separating civil and...
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Free will in a deterministic world?
Recorded on: 4 December 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Christian List
Science, especially the idea that everything in the universe is physically determined, is often thought to challenge...
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Algeria and Post-colonialism
Recorded on: 4 December 2012
Speaker(s): Dr Jonathan Hill
In this lecture, Dr Hill seeks to make the case that Algeria has exerted a profound influence on the discipline of...
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The Future of Academic Impacts - Conference
Recorded on: 4 December 2012
Speaker(s): Patrick Dunleavy, Chris Thong, Sir Adrian Smith, Nicola Dandridge, Simon Bastow, Victor Henning, Ziyad Marar, Jason Priem, Jane Tinkler, Julia Lane, Cameron Neylon, David Sweeney, Stephen Curry, Mark Thorley, Robert Kiley, Jude England
The Future of Academic Impacts was an all day conference hosted by the LSE’s Impact of Social Sciences project team...
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The Creative Mind
Recorded on: 27 November 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Margaret Boden, Professor Gregory Currie, Professor Nicholas Royle
Creativity is among the most treasured human traits, and many of us admire and strive for more creativity in our lives....
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When Gay People Get Married
Recorded on: 26 November 2012
Speaker(s): Professor M V Lee Badgett
Same-sex couples on four continents—including eleven countries and six American states—can now legally marry. The...
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Syria: From Rebellion to Civil War
Recorded on: 26 November 2012
Speaker(s): Nir Rosen
Journalist Nir Rosen spent eight months in Syria during the current uprisings with unprecedented access to all parties...
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How Protest Movements Change America
Recorded on: 21 November 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Frances Fox Piven
Professor Piven will examine a number of pivotal movements in American history, including the mobs of the revolutionary...
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On Being Progressive
Recorded on: 20 November 2012
Speaker(s): Maurice Fraser, Polly Toynbee
‘Progressive’ is a slippery term. Right (i.e. Left) - thinking people use it with casual abandon, to confer moral...
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The Elves and the Shoemaker
Recorded on: 20 November 2012
Speaker(s): Giles Hedger
Giles Hedger joined Leo Burnett in September 2008 as Chief Strategy Officer. He leads one of the largest and most...
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On Cosmopolitanism
Recorded on: 19 November 2012
Speaker(s): Dr Laura Valentini, Dr Lea Ypi
What does it mean to be a cosmopolitan? Does cosmopolitanism demand the creation of ‘global’ institutional structures...
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US leadership in the 21st Century
Recorded on: 19 November 2012
Speaker(s): Julian Castro
The United States economy remains the worlds' largest. Demographic change is seeing Texas and other states increase...
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The Future of the Union: England
Recorded on: 14 November 2012
Speaker(s): Lord Heseltine
Part of the Future Of The Union series discussion on the future of each nation within the UK. Michael Heseltine is the...
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America and the World - After the Election
Recorded on: 12 November 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Anne Applebaum, Professor Craig Calhoun, Professor Michael Cox, Gideon Rachman
After a closely fought election, this highly topical LSE public debate will look ahead to Obama’s second administration...
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The Future Of The Union: Wales
Recorded on: 8 November 2012
Speaker(s): Carwyn Jones AM
Part of the Future Of The Union series discussion on the future of each nation within the UK. Carwyn Jones is the first...
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Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century
Recorded on: 7 November 2012
Speaker(s): Nicolas Berggruen, Nathan Gardels
A conversation about new models of governance, looking at Western democracy, Eastern mandarinates and the search for...
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Managing Uncertainty
Recorded on: 6 November 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Richard Bradley
How should we manage the uncertainty that we face in our decision making? Can this uncertainty be measured and tamed?...
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What has art got to do with sport?
Recorded on: 6 November 2012
Speaker(s): Ruth Mackensie
Ruth Mackenzie was the director of the Cultural Olympiad in 2012 which has featured a range of cultural programmes and...
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Underground Sociabilities - International Seminar
Recorded on: 2 November 2012
Speaker(s): Various - see description
Session 1 - Opening Ceremony. <br><br>Speakers: Professor Stuart Corbridge, Maria Helena Gasparian, Ana Souza, Isabel...
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The Ethics of Human Enhancement
Recorded on: 30 October 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Nick Bostrom, Professor Anne Kerr
This dialogue will consider how issues related to human enhancement fit into the bigger picture of humanity’s future,...
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Ethics and Regulation
Recorded on: 30 October 2012
Speaker(s): Claire Enders
Claire Enders is a founder of Enders Analysis that offers its subscribers research and advice covering the major...
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America Votes
Recorded on: 29 October 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Craig Calhoun, Professor Michael Cox, Dr Pippa Malmgren, Professor Sir Robert Worcester
With just a week to go to the US presidential election, this panel of experts will assess the state of the race, look...
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The Arab Uprisings
Recorded on: 25 October 2012
Speaker(s): Jeremy Bowen
For many living in the Arab world, change felt like a distant dream. But the desperate act of a young Tunisian man in...
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The Relevance of International History
Recorded on: 25 October 2012
Speaker(s): Professor David Stevenson
This lecture will re-examine the origins of international history in Britain after the First World War and re-assess,...
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The Nature of Business
Recorded on: 24 October 2012
Speaker(s): Kelly Grainger, Giles Hutchins
Giles Hutchins will introduce his new book The Nature of Business, in which he presents the challenges to the...
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Lies, damn Lies and Statistics
Recorded on: 23 October 2012
Speaker(s): Ben Page
Ben Page is Chief Executive of the polling company Ipsos MORI. Named one of the "100 most influential people in the...
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When China Rules the World Revisited
Recorded on: 18 October 2012
Speaker(s): Martin Jacques
Martin Jacques renews his assault on conventional thinking about China, above all, the failure to grasp how China is...
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A Life in Politics: Nigel Lawson
Recorded on: 17 October 2012
Speaker(s): Lord Lawson of Blaby
Nigel Lawson will discuss his career and life in the front line of British politics over the course of four decades....
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Voices from Syria's Opposition
Recorded on: 17 October 2012
Speaker(s): Bassma Kodmani, Nicholas Noe, Yara Nseir
How did the opposition to Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria emerge? This panel will explore the evolution of the Syrian...
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What Makes a Great Speech?
Recorded on: 16 October 2012
Speaker(s): Philip Collins
The talk will set out the conditions that have to be in place for a speech to be considered a great example of its...
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The Right to Offend
Recorded on: 11 October 2012
Speaker(s): David Aaronovitch, Mehdi Hasan
What right is there under freedom of speech to cause offence? How can we balance ideals of free expression with respect...
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Distilling the Frenzy
Recorded on: 11 October 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Lord Hennessy
Peter Hennessy will examine the special considerations that apply to writing the history of one’s own times, with...
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Bergson: a machine for the making of gods
Recorded on: 11 October 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Keith Ansell-Pearson
This lecture will consider the dramatic questions about human existence that Bergson poses in the conclusion to his...
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Reinventing Europe: one crisis, many futures
Recorded on: 10 October 2012
Speaker(s): Robert Cooper, Richard Corbett, John Peet
In a period during which much is being made of fundamental changes in the balance of power, how can Europe redefine...
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The crisis always rings twice
Recorded on: 8 October 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Manuel Castells
This event will present the analyses contained in a new book Aftermath: The Cultures of the Economic Crisis, edited by...
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Achieving your Dreams
Recorded on: 2 October 2012
Speaker(s): Gurbaksh Chahal
Entrepreneur Gurbaksh Chahal will discuss the lessons learned in his experiences on how people can achieve their...
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South Sudan - the path back from war
Recorded on: 2 October 2012
Speaker(s): Aggrey Tisa Sabuni
Aggrey Tisa Sabuni, Economic Advisor to the President, will discuss the successes and challenges of building core...
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Rebuilding Banking
Recorded on: 1 October 2012
Speaker(s): Stephen Hester
Stephen Hester took over as Royal Bank of Scotland CEO after the UK Government was forced to rescue the bank from the...
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A Universe from Nothing
Recorded on: 24 September 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Lawrence M. Krauss
The question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" has been asked for millenia by people who speculate on the...
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Cities: Places to Live, Places to Work
Recorded on: 24 September 2012
Speaker(s): Ben Akabueze, Professor Paul Collier, 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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Policies for Inclusive and Balanced Growth
Recorded on: 11 September 2012
Speaker(s): Heiner Flassbeck, Professor Robert Wade
In the context of the ongoing fall-out from the global financial crisis, income distribution is back to the centre of...
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The Greek Crisis and its possible resolutions
Recorded on: 11 September 2012
Speaker(s): Apostolos Doxiadis, Pavlos Eleftheriadis, Michael Jacobides, Andreas Koutras, George Prokopakis
The first part of the discussion focused on (a) what should be the long-term “vision” for Greek economy and society,...
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Britain should stay in the European Union
Recorded on: 24 July 2012
Speaker(s): Sir Stephen Wall, George Eustice MP, Roger Helmer MEP, Mark Reckless MP, Dr Helen Szamuely
With the crisis continuing in the eurozone, recent polls suggest that the vast majority of the British electorate would...
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Family Planning: Why Do We Need a London Summit?
Recorded on: 10 July 2012
Speaker(s): Dr Ernestina Coast, Gary Darmstadt, Karl Hofmann, Ashley Judd, Nina Muita
On July 11, the UK Government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will launch the London Summit on Family...
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Iran: The Next War in the Middle East?
Recorded on: 5 July 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Hamid Dabashi
Will the dispute over Iran's potential nuclear proliferation lead to war? Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian...
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The Price of Inequality
Recorded on: 29 June 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Joseph E Stiglitz
In his new book, The Price of Inequality, which he will discuss in this lecture Joseph Stiglitz considers the causes of...
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Creating a Learning Society
Recorded on: 28 June 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Joseph E Stiglitz, Professor Amartya Sen
Joseph E Stiglitz was chief economist at the World Bank until January 2000. He is currently University Professor at...
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How to Watch the Olympics
Recorded on: 25 June 2012
Speaker(s): David Goldblatt
Seventeen days, 12,000 athletes, 29 sports, 302 gold medals: this event will be your personal trainer for the back...
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A Capitalism for the People
Recorded on: 21 June 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Luigi Zingales
When the Italian-born economist Luigi Zingales first arrived in the United States in the 1980s, he embraced the...
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Philosophy and European Union
Recorded on: 19 June 2012
Speaker(s): Dr Simon Glendinning
A look at the role of philosophy in launching the idea of a European Union with reference to Kant and Nietzsche....
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The Big Society Debate: a new agenda for social welfare?
Recorded on: 19 June 2012
Speaker(s): Faiza Chaudary, Dr Armine Ishkanian, Professor David Lewis, Ralph Michell, Professor Simon Szreter
To coincide with the publication of The Big Society Debate: a new agenda for social welfare? the speakers will examine...
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The Rule of Law
Recorded on: 19 June 2012
Speaker(s): Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Professor Christine Chinkin, Professor Nicola Lacey, Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, Dr Maung Zarni
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is Chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and Member of Parliament of Kawhmu...
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At the Origins of Modern Atheism
Recorded on: 6 June 2012
Speaker(s): Rev Dr Giles Fraser, Professor John Gray
In the first event of the Programme for the Study of Religion and Non-Religion, Giles Fraser examines the links between...
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Freud on Translation
Recorded on: 6 June 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Robert JC Young
The translations of Freud have been a subject of controversy for many years, but how did Freud himself theorise the...
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In Conversation with Daniel Kahneman
Recorded on: 1 June 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Daniel Kahneman, Professor Paul Dolan
This public conversation with Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman hosted by LSE and the Hay Festivals will focus on his best...
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On Immortality
Recorded on: 30 May 2012
Speaker(s): Dr Stephen Cave, Professor John Gray
The will to live forever is central to the human story. Can it be fulfilled? And should we want it to be?...
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End This Depression Now!
Recorded on: 29 May 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Paul Krugman
The Great Recession is more than four years old—and counting. Yet, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and...
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Promoting Global Trade: the role of export credit agencies
Recorded on: 29 May 2012
Speaker(s): Pedro Carriço, Jon Coleman, Dr Hans-Joachim Henckel, Peter Luketa, Geetha Muralidhar, Professor Danny Quah, Lars H Thunell
A look at the role of export credit agencies and financial institutions in promoting global trade and the challenges...
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Seasons in the Sun
Recorded on: 28 May 2012
Speaker(s): Dominic Sandbrook
In the mid-1970s, Britain's fortunes seemed to have reached their lowest point since the Blitz. Across the country, a...
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What Money Can't Buy - the moral limit of markets
Recorded on: 23 May 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Sandel, Stephanie Flanders, Professor Julian Le Grand, Rt Revd Peter Selby
Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from...
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Evaluating the Impact of Climate Change Research
Recorded on: 21 May 2012
Speaker(s): Anna Wesselink, Neil Hirst, Philip Webber, Nick Mabey, James Smith, Juliet Davenport, Nafees Meah, David Kennedy, Jason Lowe, Sarah Samuel, Professor Sir Brian Hoskins
Evaluating the Impact of Climate Change Research is a half-day conference hosted by the LSE's Public Policy...
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UK-Argentina: is there a way forward?
Recorded on: 17 May 2012
Speaker(s): Ambassador Alicia Castro, Dr John Hughes, Professor George Philip
Although thirty years have passed since the South Atlantic conflict, disagreements over the Falkland/Malvinas islands...
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Mobile for Development – Global Justice
Recorded on: 16 May 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Joshua Cohen
The second lecture in this series will reflect on political-philosophical challenges raised by the "mobile" approach to...
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Hayek on the Wisdom of Prices
Recorded on: 15 May 2012
Speaker(s): Richard Bronk
How far was Hayek justified in viewing the price mechanism as a marvel in its capacity to solve the problem of...
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The Architecture of the Olympics
Recorded on: 15 May 2012
Speaker(s): Andy Altman, Professor Ricky Burdett, Jim Eyre, Jim Heverin, Michael Taylor
This event brings together the key decision makers and architects of the London 2012 Olympic Games facilities to...
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Dial M for Murdoch
Recorded on: 9 May 2012
Speaker(s): Martin Hickman, Tom Watson MP
In this event the authors will discuss their new book, Dial M for Murdoch which "looks to uncover the inner workings of...
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The War is Dead, Long Live the War
Recorded on: 9 May 2012
Speaker(s): Ed Vulliamy
Ed Vulliamy, who reported extensively on the mid-1990s war in Bosnia, will discuss his new book The War Is Dead, Long...
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On Guilt
Recorded on: 8 May 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Robert Eaglestone, Dr Edward Harcourt
What, if anything, is common to moral guilt, guilt at breaking a diet, survivor guilt, and collective guilt? Do...
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Finance and the Good Society
Recorded on: 3 May 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Robert Shiller
The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today with the ongoing financial crisis....
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Genesis: the origins of humanity
Recorded on: 30 April 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Ruth Mace, Professor Catherine Rowett, Professor Volker Sommer
What does it mean to be human? What are the origins of humanity, and what distinguishes us from non-human animals? Ruth...
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The Return of the Subject
Recorded on: 30 April 2012
Speaker(s): Ash Amin, Michel Wieviorka, Claire Alexander, Richard Sennett
This event will launch two new books on the society of strangers discussing issues of hyper-subjectivity and...
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The Civil Service
Recorded on: 26 April 2012
Speaker(s): Lord O'Donnell
As part of the Health of our Institutions Today series, the former cabinet secretary will discuss the health and...
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What About Women in London?
Recorded on: 23 April 2012
Speaker(s): Victoria Borwick, Jenny Jones, Ken Livingstone, Brian Paddick
In the run up to the London mayoral elections, the Fawcett Society has invited the leading mayoral campaigns to debate...
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Inside East-West Espionage
Recorded on: 19 April 2012
Speaker(s): Edward Lucas
In this talk, Edward Lucas will discuss his newly published book Deception: Spies, Lies and how Russia Dupes the West,...
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Can Greece get out of the crisis?
Recorded on: 28 March 2012
Speaker(s): Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Moritz Kraemer, Vicky Pryce, Poul Thomsen
This is a very timely discussion of whether Greece can get out of its current economic crisis. The financial markets...
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Language, Culture, and Being Human
Recorded on: 22 March 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Daniel Everett
Over the past fifty years, the most popular theory of language is that it is an outgrowth of an innate biogram, often...
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Has the Future a Left?
Recorded on: 14 March 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Zygmunt Bauman
Being on the left in times of globalisation and divorce of power and politics. New mechanisms of domination and...
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Enemies: A History of the FBI
Recorded on: 13 March 2012
Speaker(s): Tim Weiner
The United States is a country founded on the ideals of democracy and freedom, yet throughout the last century it has...
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Re-thinking Alienation
Recorded on: 13 March 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Rahel Jaeggi
Does modern society cause us to be alienated from ourselves? This lecture will argue that a re-thinking of the...
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Start Your Business in 7 Days
Recorded on: 13 March 2012
Speaker(s): James Caan
On Dragons' Den, James Caan saw over 1,000 budding entrepreneurs pitch their ideas from anything that ranged from the...
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Indian Democracy's Ferocious Faultlines
Recorded on: 12 March 2012
Speaker(s): Dr Mukulika Banerjee, Patrick French, Professor Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor Sunil Khilnani
This panel will focus on the underside of Indian democracy, as visible in, among other things, the insurgencies in...
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Will Competition Improve the NHS?
Recorded on: 12 March 2012
Speaker(s): Dr Zack Cooper, Paul Corrigan, Frank Dobson MP, Alastair McLellan, Zoe Williams
This event will bring together a range of experts in the field of NHS reform to debate whether competition has a role...
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Impact of Social Sciences Conference - From Research to Policy: Academic Impacts on Government
Recorded on: 12 March 2012
Speaker(s): Prof Patrick Dunleavy, Simon Bastow, Adam Cooper, Jonathan Portes, Prof Bernard Silverman, Neil Wholey, Dr Alan Cann, Prof Vicky Randall, Prof Stephen Hanney, Prof Huw Davies, Richard Bartholomew, Prof Edward Melhuish, Prof Sandy Thomas
A half day conference hosted by LSE's Public Policy Group/Impact of Social Sciences Project held on Monday, 12th March...
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Literary Festival 2012: Poetry Unites
Recorded on: 1 March 2012
Speaker(s): Phillip Gross, Sarah Salway, Ewa Zadrzynska
The Poetry Unites project consists of a series of five-minute films shown on TV, the Internet and in cinemas, in which...
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Literary Festival 2012: Science in the Media
Recorded on: 29 February 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Professor Pedro Ferreira, Professor Elaine Fox, Mark Henderson
Media reporting of the sciences can shape public opinion. While it may be insightful and revelatory, it can also be...
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What Are Universities For?
Recorded on: 28 February 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Stefan Collini
Across the world, universities are now more numerous than they have ever been, yet at the same time there is...
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The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and England
Recorded on: 27 February 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Roy Bridge
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand was heir to the thrones of Austria-Hungary before his assassination in 1914. Had he lived,...
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The Burning Issue: The DNA of Human Rights
Released on: 24 February 2012
Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty
'What are human rights and where do they come from?', asks Professor Conor Gearty in the latest Burning Issue lecture...
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Literary Festival 2012: Fantasy versus Reality
Recorded on: 23 February 2012
Speaker(s): Caroline Bird, William Fiennes, Meg Rosoff, Philip Womack
The most popular books today are filled with vampires, ghosts, wizards and other fantasy figures. Is real life so...
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On Friendship
Recorded on: 21 February 2012
Speaker(s): Dr Mark Vernon
What, in fact, is the love called friendship? What is the nature of its rules and perils, as well as its promise? Mark...
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The Burning Issue: Right to Die
Released on: 16 February 2012
Contributor(s): Professor Emily Jackson
In a humane society, should it be legal to help those who are suffering terribly to end their lives? Emily Jackson,...
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Does Culture Matter?
Recorded on: 15 February 2012
Speaker(s): Kurt Barling, Sehrish Ejaz-Khan, Rajiv Gopie
Kurt Barling, uses media to examine social injustice, racial prejudice and inequality. Over the past 20 years Kurt has...
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Neuroscience, Responsibility and the Law
Recorded on: 14 February 2012
Speaker(s): Professor Roger Brownsword, Professor Neil Levy, Professor Sir Michael Rutter
Will developments in the neurosciences change our moral and legal notions of criminality and responsibility – and if...
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Ghosts of Afghanistan
Recorded on: 9 February 2012
Speaker(s): Jonathan Steele, Francesc Vendrell
Jonathan Steele's new book, Ghosts of Afghanistan, is the definitive study of the Soviet and US wars in Afghanistan, by...
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Freedom of Speech on Campus
Recorded on: 8 February 2012
Speaker(s): Nicola Dandridge, Professor Sue Mendus
When does freedom of speech threaten the cohesion of a university as a learning community? Should there be any limits...
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Civilian Assistance to Pakistan - Cure or Curse?
Recorded on: 2 February 2012
Speaker(s): Dr Ehtisham Ahmad, Rachid Benmassoud, Dr Robert Hathaway, Shahid Kardar, Dr Maleeha Lodhi, Kashif Zafar
Has civilian assistance to Pakistan over the past three decades assisted with development and improvements in living...
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Religion for Atheists
Recorded on: 2 February 2012
Speaker(s): Alain de Botton
Is it possible to remain a committed atheist but nevertheless benefit from the wisdom of religion? Marking the...
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Revolution 2.0
Recorded on: 31 January 2012
Speaker(s): Wael Ghonim
In this conversation, Wael Ghonim will discuss his new book Revolution 2.0| providing a unique insider's story from the...
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The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage
Recorded on: 24 January 2012
Speaker(s): Jodi Kantor, Professor Sarah Churchwell
Jodi Kantor will be in conversation with Professor Sarah Churchwell to discuss her new book The Obamas: A Mission, A...
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Margin Call
Recorded on: 18 January 2012
Speaker(s): Bronwyn Curtis, Dr Jon Danielsson, Professor Robert Wade
LSE Arts are pleased to host a very special screening of the highly anticipated film Margin Call| based on the...
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Beyond the Eye of the Beholder
Recorded on: 17 January 2012
Speaker(s): Dr Guy Dammann
Everyone admits that there is no fact of the matter about aesthetic judgements. Nonetheless, constantly referring to...
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The Lean Startup
Recorded on: 12 January 2012
Speaker(s): Eric Ries
Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach to business...
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