Is Europe Working?
Recorded on: 12 December 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides
The government announced earlier this year that LSE will be one of 12 universities to have the prestigious title of...
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Feminism in the Media
Recorded on: 10 December 2013
Speaker(s): Natalie Hanman, Lola Okolosie, Tracey Reynolds
The panellists will interrogate current representations of feminism in the media and share interventionist strategies...
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The Future of London within the UK
Recorded on: 9 December 2013
Speaker(s): Boris Johnson
The State Of The Union series has seen people from Alex Salmond to Martin McGuiness and Michael Heseltine discuss the...
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Constitutional Interpretation in the USA
Recorded on: 5 December 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Risa L Goluboff, Dr Jacco Bomhoff
The United States of America is famous for its system of constitutional review- its Supreme Court of unelected judges...
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Is ASEAN Still Relevant?
Recorded on: 4 December 2013
Speaker(s): Tan Sri Dr Tony Fernandes
Will the ASEAN Economic Community materialize by 2015 and how will it function in practice? Tan Sri Dr Tony Fernandes...
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The Open Society as an Enemy
Recorded on: 3 December 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Jason McKenzie Alexander
It is often said that openness and transparency are required for liberal democracies. But is this true for openness and...
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Dirty Wars
Recorded on: 27 November 2013
Speaker(s): Jeremy Scahill
Dirty Wars, winner of the Sundance Film Festival Cinematography award, follows the reporting on a US night raid gone...
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The Future of EU Enlargement
Recorded on: 26 November 2013
Speaker(s): Dimitar Bechev, Lawrence Meredith, John Peet, Professor Robert Cooper
Enlargement is widely hailed as the EU’s most successful policy, largely responsible for the successful transition from...
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Power in the Information Age
Recorded on: 25 November 2013
Speaker(s): Alec Ross, Professor Michael Cox
Information is transforming what power means and how it operates. Social media, wikileaks, surveillance and big data...
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The Old New Politics of Class
Recorded on: 20 November 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Mike Savage, Professor Bev Skeggs
In his inaugural lecture, Professor Savage will unravel "the paradox of class": that overt class politics and...
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The Progressive Agenda Now
Recorded on: 14 November 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger
The progressive left lacks the imagination to tackle the fundamental problems of society. Renowned social theorist...
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At Power's Elbow
Recorded on: 13 November 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Andrew Blick, Bernard Donoughue, Professor George Jones
Discreet, inconspicuous, prudent... the perfect Prime Ministerial aide should always be in the background, a...
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The Chicago Plan Revisited
Recorded on: 12 November 2013
Speaker(s): Michael Kumhof
Michael Kumhof will discuss his 2012 paper on the Chicago Plan, a radical reform plan for the banking industry that...
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Behavioural Economics and Diet
Recorded on: 12 November 2013
Speaker(s): Professor George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein is professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD from...
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Media Agenda Talk – ‘London Week’
Recorded on: 12 November 2013
Speaker(s): Eve Harris, Lloyd Bradley, Fatima Manji
This week’s Media Agenda Talk was about London’s identity and culture. Three panellists – Author Eve Harris, music...
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Gandhi Before India
Recorded on: 11 November 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Ramachandra Guha
The life of Gandhi is one of the most remarkable and potent in the modern era – yet few know what shaped him in his...
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Brazil
Recorded on: 6 November 2013
Speaker(s): Michael Palin
The story of the making of Michael Palin’s BBC1 Brazil series, made up of Michael’s own reminiscences, with a slide...
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What's the Point of Contemporary Art?
Recorded on: 30 October 2013
Speaker(s): JJ Charlesworth, Mark Rappolt
The art world seems to be going from strength to strength, even in the midst of recession and austerity. Collectors pay...
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Is Rape Different?
Recorded on: 30 October 2013
Speaker(s): Nazir Afzal, Barbara Hewson, Helen Reece, Professor Jennifer Temkin
Rape is a heinous crime but does it demand special treatment? Do rule of law and fairness pay a price? Helen Reece...
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Work as a Value
Recorded on: 29 October 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Lord Skidelsky, Lord Glasman
Why do we work almost as hard as we did 40 years ago, despite being on average twice as rich? Robert Skidelsky suggests...
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Richard Titmuss: forty years on
Recorded on: 23 October 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Howard Glennerster
Richard Titmuss was one of the world’s leading public analysts and philosophers. He was enormously influential in...
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Shaping Higher Education Fifty Years After Robbins: what views to the future?
Recorded on: 22 October 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Bahram Bekhradnia, Rajay Naik, David Willetts MP
The panel will discuss different views about the future of higher education. This event concludes a one-day conference...
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Virtue Ethics
Recorded on: 15 October 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Constantine Sandis, Professor Brad Hooker
This dialogue will assess the doctrine that what morality requires can be defined only as what a virtuous person would...
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The Cunning of Uncertainty
Recorded on: 15 October 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Helga Nowotny
The dominant Western narrative tells of a trajectory from fate to taking destiny into our own hands. This has induced...
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The Paralympic Movement Takes Off
Recorded on: 14 October 2013
Speaker(s): Sir Philip Craven
Since the origins of the Paralympic Games at Stoke Mandeville the key challenge has been putting basic building blocks...
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The EU in the Eye of the Storm
Recorded on: 14 October 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Javier Solana, Professor Robert Cooper
The EU and the Eurozone have been hit by the strongest crisis in their history. Southern Europe, particularly, has been...
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Global Migration and Urban Renewal
Recorded on: 10 October 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Philip Kasinitz, Professor Michael Keith, Rob Berkeley, Tim Finch, Professor Sharon Zukin
Increasingly, a strand of political conservatism depicts migration in terms of depleting assets. This event brings...
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Crowdsourcing a New UK Constitution
Recorded on: 8 October 2013
Speaker(s): David Blunkett MP, Richard Gordon QC, Carol Harlow, Dr Lea Ypi
The UK has no constitution written down in one document. Instead it has laws, conventions, practices, activities...
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The Nature of Existence
Recorded on: 8 October 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Tim Crane
What does it mean to exist? This lecture will address this question by contrasting things that exist with things that...
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Predatory Thinking
Recorded on: 2 October 2013
Speaker(s): Dave Trott
In this lecture Dave Trott will explain how to out think the competition, and how to use creativity to get upstream and...
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Molecules of Happiness: Why Love Matters for Vulnerable Children
Recorded on: 26 September 2013
Speaker(s): including Camila Batmanghelidjh, Commander Matt Bell, Professor Stephen Briggs, Charlotte Cecil, Professor Leon Feinstein, Frank Field MP, Dr Ernest Gralton, Sharon Hodgson MP, Professor Sandra Jovchelovitch, Professor Corinne May-Chahal
A one day conference to launch LSE research into the model of work used by Kids Company and to discuss what really...
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Transforming the Economic Lives of the Ultrapoor
Recorded on: 25 September 2013
Speaker(s): Robin Burgess, Abhijit Banerjee, Dean Karlan and Mushtaque Chowdhury
Robin Burgess, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Abhijit Banerjee,...
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Sustaining Inclusive Growth in Africa
Recorded on: 23 September 2013
Speaker(s): Trevor Manuel, Professor Francesco Caselli
This public lecture is part of Growth Week 2013 which takes place at LSE from 23-25 September organised by the...
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China's War with Japan
Recorded on: 10 July 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Rana Mitter
The story of China’s war with Japan is crucial to understanding the rise of modern China – both its relentless drive...
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One Nation, Many Roots
Recorded on: 9 July 2013
Speaker(s): John Denham MP, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Sunder Katwala
Britain as "One Nation" is an idea that originated with the Conservative Party, in particular its Victorian leader...
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Secrets of Silicon Valley
Recorded on: 8 July 2013
Speaker(s): Deborah Perry Piscione
Entrepreneur Deborah Perry Piscione offers an inside look at Silicon Valley's unique innovation culture and...
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The Thistle and the Drone
Recorded on: 26 June 2013
Speaker(s): Ambassador Akbar Ahmed
The United States declared war on terrorism in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. More than ten years later, the results are...
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Philosophy Stand Up – No Joke
Recorded on: 25 June 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Gordon Finlayson, Dr Simon Glendinning, Professor Laurence Goldstein, Professor MM McCabe, Dr Kristina Musholt, Dr Lea Ypi
Six philosophers have ten minutes each to pitch their arguments to a live audience. No deviation, hesitation or...
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On Philippa Foot
Recorded on: 18 June 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Sarah Broadie, Dr Alex Voorhoeve
Why be moral? May we kill one to save others? Is morality objective? This dialogue engages with renowned philosopher...
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Can Europe lead in a post-western world?
Recorded on: 11 June 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Jaimini Bhagwati, Professor Mary Kaldor, Mark Leonard
Since the last European Security Strategy when Western hegemony seemed unassailable, Europe has lost both hard and soft...
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Responsible Corporations: Wealth and public good
Recorded on: 11 June 2013
Speaker(s): Mathieu Cantegreil, Dweep Chanana, S. Gopalakrishnan, Farhad Forbes, Alok Kirloskar, R Mukundan and Shankar Vanavarayar
In India, business has never been just about wealth creation. Besides being engines of growth, corporations and their...
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Revealing Indian Philanthropy
Recorded on: 10 June 2013
Speaker(s): Mrs Rajashree Birla, Mr Dweep Chanana, Dr Ruth Kattumuri, Mr Gautam Kumar
From supporting the establishment of modern India to the innovative work of recent years, philanthropy has played, and...
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Green Philosophy
Recorded on: 5 June 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Rupert Read, Professor Roger Scruton
On the basis of a shared interest in planetary survival, can we forge an alliance across the left/right rift in our...
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The Future of Capitalism
Recorded on: 4 June 2013
Speaker(s): Professor John Kay, Professor Mariana Mazzucato
John Kay chaired the Review of UK Equity Markets and Long-Term Decision-Making which reported to the Secretary of State...
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Cooking as a Political Act
Recorded on: 30 May 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Pollan
The food writer and journalist discusses what is at stake when we let corporations do the cooking, and why we need to...
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Sartre on the Transcendental I
Recorded on: 28 May 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Joel Smith
This lecture will discuss some of the central ideas contained within Sartre’s The Transcendence of the Ego and consider...
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Progressive Capitalism
Recorded on: 20 May 2013
Speaker(s): Lord Sainsbury
The neoliberalism that has dominated economic thinking since Mrs Thatcher and Ronald Reagan first came to power is now...
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Anthropology and Emotion
Recorded on: 16 May 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Andrew Beatty
The centrality of emotion in thought and action is increasingly recognised in the human sciences, though basic...
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On Beauty
Recorded on: 15 May 2013
Speaker(s): Professor John Hyman, Dr Elisabeth Schellekens
What, if anything, do different manifestations of beauty have in common? Does it make sense to apply the concept of...
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The Theft of Creative Content: Copyright in Crisis
Recorded on: 9 May 2013
Speaker(s): Amelia Andersdotter MEP, Robert Ashcroft, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Dr Luke McDonagh, Eg White
As the nature of music consumption reaches a critical point, a panel of experts on both sides of the debate discuss the...
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Truth and Rationality
Recorded on: 9 May 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Wolfgang Spohn
Drawing on his Lakatos Award winning book The Laws of Belief, Wolfgang Spohn asks how is truth best characterised? And...
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The Philosophy of Mental Illness
Recorded on: 7 May 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Matthew Broome, Dr Bonnie Evans, Professor Tim Thornton
How should we think of mental disorders? Can psychiatry be reduced to neuroscience, or is there something irreducibly...
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The Kurds and the Conflict in Syria
Recorded on: 3 May 2013
Speaker(s): Saleh Muslim Mohamed
It is nine months since Kurds took control of towns in northern Syria, having established an unprecedented coalition of...
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The Democracy Project
Recorded on: 30 April 2013
Speaker(s): Dr David Graeber, Professor Craig Calhoun
From the earliest meetings for Occupy Wall Street, David Graeber felt that something was different from previous...
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Conflicted Societies, Memory and the Visual Arts
Recorded on: 29 April 2013
Speaker(s): Miriam de Búrca, Ruth Goddard, Adela Jušic, Jonathan Watkins, Dr Gwendolyn Sasse
Artists from Northern Ireland, South Africa and Bosnia will reflect upon the impact of violent conflict on their work....
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A Panel Discussion on Palestine
Recorded on: 26 April 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Karma Nabulsi, Professor Ilan Pappe, Professor Rosemary Hollis, Peter Kosminsky
On this panel discussion, chaired by Jon Snow of Channel 4 News, the speakers will discuss aspects of the current...
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In conversation with Nancy Pelosi
Recorded on: 19 April 2013
Speaker(s): Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi is the Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives. From 2007 to 2011, she served as the first...
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Khan Academy - Reimagining Education
Recorded on: 10 April 2013
Speaker(s): Salman Khan, Professor Martin Bean
Join Salman Khan as he tells the inspiring story of how the Khan Academy came to be and shares his thoughts on what...
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Error, Lies and Adventure: The Power of Lies
Recorded on: 21 March 2013
Speaker(s): Hilary Lawson, Dr Parashkev Nachev, Dr Jaime Whyte
We have seen a gradual erosion of belief in objective truth, but in a world without truth how are we to understand...
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The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Recorded on: 21 March 2013
Speaker(s): Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozov will be presenting his latest book To Save Everything, Click Here, which argues that the proliferation...
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German Europe: Are there Alternatives?
Recorded on: 21 March 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Ulrich Beck, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Professor Mary Kaldor
The basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments,...
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Euro-crisis & Greece
Recorded on: 20 March 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Daniel Gros, Professor Charles Goodhart, Professor Michael Haliassos
Dr Daniel Gros is director of Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels. <br><br>Professor Charles Goodhart,...
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The Human in Politics
Recorded on: 20 March 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Anne Phillips
In this inaugural lecture, to celebrate her appointment as the Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science, Anne...
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Is Multiculturalism Dead?
Recorded on: 19 March 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Cécile Laborde, Professor Tariq Modood, Professor Anne Phillips
Under the combined criticisms of feminism, secularism and nationalism, multiculturalism is repeatedly being pronounced...
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Literary Festival 2013: Innovation
Recorded on: 18 March 2013
Speaker(s): James Dawson, Kate Kingsley, Meg Rosoff
This event celebrates the culmination of the LSE/First Story creative writing competition for key stages 3, 4 and 5 and...
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Localism in London
Recorded on: 18 March 2013
Speaker(s): Michael Ward
LSE London's 2013 Lent term seminar series begins on the 14th of January. Speakers from within and beyond academia will...
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Why Painting Matters
Recorded on: 14 March 2013
Speaker(s): Professor David Ferris
This lecture will argue that painting, rather than retreat from the transformation of the visual image announced by...
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Greece's way out of the crisis
Recorded on: 14 March 2013
Speaker(s): Alexis Tsipras
Alexis Tsipras is President of Syriza-USF (Official Opposition Party, Greece). Professor Kevin Featherstone is director...
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Nationalism and Transnational History
Recorded on: 13 March 2013
Speaker(s): Professor John Breuilly, Dr Faisal Devji, Dr Mark Hewitson
This discussion will mark the launch of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism edited by Professor John...
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Achieving a Social State
Recorded on: 13 March 2013
Speaker(s): Kate Bell, Duncan Bowie, Howard Reed, Zoe Williams
Seventy years ago the Beveridge Report announced the pursuit of a new settlement, one that would dramatically change...
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Does Eastern Europe Still Exist?
Recorded on: 12 March 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Anne Applebaum
The nations of the region we called “Eastern Europe” were once closely linked, so much so that West Europeans had...
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John Locke and European Philosophy
Recorded on: 11 March 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Etienne Balibar
Etienne Balibar is Anniversary Chair in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University and emeritus professor of...
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Energy Security and Shifting Global Power
Recorded on: 11 March 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Roland Dannreuther
When there are shifts in distribution of power in international politics, energy security emerges as a salient concern....
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Healthy African Cities
Recorded on: 7 March 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Ama de Graft Aikins, Dr Gora Mboup, Professor Vanessa Watson
Notwithstanding improvements, urban health in Africa remains a particular challenge, with 70 per cent of urban dwellers...
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Why I am a Euro-optimist
Recorded on: 4 March 2013
Speaker(s): Alain Juppé
At this time of mistrust towards the European Union, Alain Juppé reiterates his strong beliefs and his faith in...
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Beyond Truth: Error and Adventure
Recorded on: 4 March 2013
Speaker(s): Hilary Lawson
Philosophers have pursued truth, and many have placed truth at the centre of their account of meaning. But might this...
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Update on the Demography of London
Recorded on: 4 March 2013
Speaker(s): Baljit Bains
LSE London's 2013 Lent term seminar series begins on the 14th of January. Speakers from within and beyond academia will...
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Literary Festival 2013: Austerity on Trial
Recorded on: 1 March 2013
Speaker(s): Hugh Tomlinson QC, Karon Monaghan QC, Jamie Burton, Martin Howe QC, Richard Honey, Tim Frost, Will Hutton, Andrew Lilico, Ruth Porter, Magdalena Sepulveda, Polly Toynbee
Organisers: Professor Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law, LSE; Professor Aoife Nolan, Professor of...
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Literary Festival 2013: My Mediterranean
Recorded on: 1 March 2013
Speaker(s): Professor David Abulafia
One great sea, a multitude of cultures and an embarrassment of riches: David Abulafia shares his intellectual odyssey...
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Literary Festival 2013: Women Writing History
Recorded on: 27 February 2013
Speaker(s): Molly Crabapple, Professor Mary Evans, Vicky Featherstone, Kate Mosse
In celebration of LSE’s acquisition of the Women’s Library, our distinguished panel will discuss the role of women in...
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Cancel the Apocalypse
Recorded on: 25 February 2013
Speaker(s): Andrew Simms
Is the sleeping architecture of a new economic approach already with us? Andrew Simms argues that while we might be...
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On Shame
Recorded on: 21 February 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Phil Hutchinson, Professor Vasudevi Reddy, Dr Jonathan Webber
Shame is often depicted as playing a socially negative role. But might it also play an important positive role in our...
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On Humour
Recorded on: 18 February 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Julian Baggini, Hardeep Singh Kohli
Humour is not to be confused with comedy and jokes. Humour concerns something that belongs to and can more or less...
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In Conversation with Jean-Paul Costa
Recorded on: 14 February 2013
Speaker(s): Jean-Paul Costa
A unique opportunity to put your questions to a former president of the European Court of Human Rights, via Twitter...
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On Responsibility and Justice
Recorded on: 12 February 2013
Speaker(s): Emily McTernan
Questions of responsibility play a central role within contemporary political debate. This lecture will revise the...
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Putinism: the ideology
Recorded on: 12 February 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Anne Applebaum
Containing elements of managed democracy and corporate capitalism – and reflecting the culture and values of the 1980s...
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Design in Nature
Recorded on: 7 February 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Sarah Coakley, Professor John Cottingham, Professor John Worrall
The idea that nature displays an inherent purpose, and more generally the hand of a wise designer, may have suffered a...
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Democracy and Emotion
Recorded on: 29 January 2013
Speaker(s): Professor James Jasper
On those rare occasions when democracy has emerged in history, emotions have been used to define who is a full citizen....
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Zimbabwe Takes Back its Land
Recorded on: 28 January 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Joseph Hanlon, Dr Jeanette Manjengwa, Teresa Smart
A discussion with the authors of the new book, Zimbabwe Takes Back its Land which offers a nuanced assessment of land...
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The Outbreak of War in 1914 Revisited
Recorded on: 22 January 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Christopher Clark
Few episodes in the history of modern Europe have attracted such intense and lasting historical interest as the July...
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The Olympic Legacy
Recorded on: 21 January 2013
Speaker(s): Richard Brown
LSE London's 2013 Lent term seminar series begins on the 14th of January. Speakers from within and beyond academia will...
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