Questions of Identity
Recorded on: 11 December 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Vincent Descombes, Alan Montefiore
What does it mean to speak of an individual’s very identity as a person? And what too of the ongoing identity of an...
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In Conversation with Shirley Williams
Recorded on: 10 December 2014
Speaker(s): Lady Williams, Mark Bostridge
Shirley Williams and Mark Bostridge will be discussing the impact of the First World War on the life and work of her...
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The Tyranny of Experts
Recorded on: 8 December 2014
Speaker(s): Professor William Easterly
The admirable fight against global poverty has a blind spot on democracy and human rights, which are both good in...
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Democracy, decency and devolution
Recorded on: 8 December 2014
Speaker(s): Dame Tessa Jowell
Dame Tessa Jowell will draw on her experiences at the heart of government to discuss the role of capacity building and...
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Anarchism and Sexuality
Recorded on: 4 December 2014
Speaker(s): Martha Acklesberg, Richard Cleminson, Terence Kissack
The panel brings together historians and political theorists of anarchism and sexuality to explore the importance of...
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Open Government in the Age of Total War
Recorded on: 2 December 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Matthew Connelly
The interwar years are vital to understanding the rise of the U.S. national security state and the government’s...
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Ethics Matters in Climate Change
Recorded on: 1 December 2014
Speaker(s): Professor John Broome
Climate change is a moral problem. Through our emissions, each of us causes harm to others - something that generally...
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Uncertainty as Competitive Advantage
Recorded on: 1 December 2014
Speaker(s): Mark Phillips
We are under attack by change. The marketplace and battle-space are increasingly populated by peer competitors and...
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On Progress and Human Development
Recorded on: 27 November 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Paul Anand, Catherine Audard, Professor Jonathan Wolff
What is progress and how do we measure it? What account of wellbeing could accommodate a concern for self-realization...
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The Global Public Sphere
Recorded on: 26 November 2014
Speaker(s): Dr Ingrid Volkmer, Professor Mary Kaldor
Dr Ingrid Volkmer completely rethinks the “public sphere” concept for an age of global media. <br><br>Ingrid Volkmer is...
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The Languages of Migration
Recorded on: 26 November 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Rosen
Language is central to our understanding of migration: on the one hand, migrants bring languages with them and, on the...
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Foreign Policy in a Time of Turmoil
Recorded on: 25 November 2014
Speaker(s): Børge Brende
We live in a world of unprecedented progress and unexpected crises. We have to adapt to a changing security landscape,...
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Museum Madness
Recorded on: 24 November 2014
Speaker(s): Fiammetta Rocco
All over the world, museums are springing up. Will they become white elephants? <br><br>Fiammetta Rocco...
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The War that Was Lost
Recorded on: 20 November 2014
Speaker(s): Dr Robin Archer
Why did radicals retreat on the eve of the Great War, even where opposition was strongest? What are the lessons for us...
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Dirty Old London
Recorded on: 19 November 2014
Speaker(s): Lee Jackson
Lee Jackson will discuss why the Victorians had boundless enthusiasm for cleanliness and sanitation, but still left...
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What Europe?
Recorded on: 17 November 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Professor Renaud Dehousse, Giuseppe Laterza, Professor Jan Zielonka
A panel debate to mark the official launch of Eutopia (@EutopiaMag) - the pan-European online magazine in which...
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Ethics Matters in the Family
Recorded on: 13 November 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Adam Swift
The family is hotly contested ideological terrain. Some defend the traditional two-parent heterosexual family while...
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War and Moral Stupidity
Recorded on: 12 November 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Kimberly Hutchings
Professor Hutchings offers a feminist critique of the idea of just war and calls for the renewal of forms of pacifism...
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The Need to Censor Our Dreams
Recorded on: 11 November 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Slavoj Zizek
Critique of ideology should not begin with the critique of reality, but with the critique of our dreams. As Herbert...
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Stalin's Team
Recorded on: 11 November 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick
We know a lot about Stalin but less about the team – Molotov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan and the rest of a group whose...
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Ebola, Peace and Security
Recorded on: 10 November 2014
Speaker(s): Karin Landgren
Ebola may not be a weapon but this disease threatens peace and security. To date, the total number of reported cases of...
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What is 'Modern' about Modern Greece?
Recorded on: 7 November 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Molly Greene, Professor Stathis N Kalyvas, Professor Vassilis Lambropoulos
The debt crisis has provoked new debate over Greece’s historical path and its identity. Was the crisis a result of it...
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The EU, Russia and Ukraine: Lessons Learned
Recorded on: 6 November 2014
Speaker(s): Dr Tomila Lankina, Professor Karen E Smith, Professor Vladislav Zubok, Dr Gwendolyn Sasse
LSE experts will be debating what the EU got right and what it got wrong in the political crisis that followed...
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Food Policy: ethics for your kitchen and beyond
Recorded on: 4 November 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Luc Bovens, Elena Rivilla Lutterkort, Duncan Williamson
You love it, you need it. But food production and consumption are changing fast. What are the ethics and policy issues...
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Afghanistan: the transition
Recorded on: 30 October 2014
Speaker(s): Renzo Frike, Dr Stuart Gordon, Emma Graham-Harrison
This panel of experts reflect back on more than a decade of international aid and investment and discuss what is next...
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Making Markets Fair and Effective
Recorded on: 27 October 2014
Speaker(s): Dr Minouche Shafik
The wholesale financial markets are some of the largest in the world, and matter to all of us. But public confidence in...
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Religion and the Environment
Recorded on: 24 October 2014
Speaker(s): Bruno Latour, Rowan Williams
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams of Oystermouth and the renowned sociologist Professor Bruno Latour will...
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The Social Life of Money
Recorded on: 23 October 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Nigel Dodd, Professor Keith Hart
Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as...
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Global News Media: the next horizon
Recorded on: 23 October 2014
Speaker(s): Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller will address the challenges facing the news-media amid continued technological upheaval, changing...
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A Changing World and China
Recorded on: 22 October 2014
Speaker(s): Ambassador Wu Jian Min
The rise of China has been one of the most important developments in global affairs. Despite China’s growing...
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Happiness by Design
Recorded on: 22 October 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Paul Dolan
Professor Paul Dolan will define happiness in terms of experiences of pleasure and purpose. He will describe how being...
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Do We Need to Shake Up the Social Sciences?
Recorded on: 21 October 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Nicholas Christakis, Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Dr Amanda Goodall, Professor Andrew Oswald
‘Yes’, according to Nicholas Christakis. He wrote, in the New York Times, ‘Taking a page from Darwin, the natural...
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In Search of Human Uniqueness
Recorded on: 20 October 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Tomasello, Professor Rita Astuti, Dr Alex Gillespie
Professor Tomasello will explore what distinguishes humans from other great apes in terms of their cognitive and social...
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Women in Public Life: above the parapet
Recorded on: 15 October 2014
Speaker(s): Dr Joyce Banda, Dr Purna Sen, Marie-Pierre Lloyd
Joyce Banda will reflect on her journey to the highest level of public life. This event launches a new Institute of...
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Polis Media Agenda Talks: Nick Davies
Recorded on: 14 October 2014
Speaker(s): Nick Davies
Nick Davies is a freelance journalist, working regularly as special correspondent for the Guardian. In the last few...
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Art and Politics Now
Recorded on: 13 October 2014
Speaker(s): Dr Anthony Downey
Since the turn of the 21st century, contemporary artists have increasingly engaged with some of the most pressing...
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The History Manifesto
Recorded on: 8 October 2014
Speaker(s): Professor David Armitage, Dr Jo Guldi, Professor Simon Szreter
How should historians speak truth to power - and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months...
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The Paradox of China's Peaceful Rise
Recorded on: 7 October 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Barry Buzan, Professor Arne Westad
Despite the widespread view that China does not have a coherent grand strategy, China has already articulated one that...
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Trails of the Great War 1914 - 2014
Recorded on: 3 October 2014
Speaker(s): Philip Bobbitt, Richard Sennett, Robert Gerwarth, John Horne, Lord Glasman, Donald Sassoon, The Rt Hon. Douglas Alexander MP, Zygmunt Bauman
The centenary year of the outbreak of the Great War began with a serious debate over the war guilt question. Historians...
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Gender, Inequality and Power
Recorded on: 1 October 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Diane Perrons
This lecture takes an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective to highlight the persistence of gender...
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Housing: The Crisis That Divides
Recorded on: 29 September 2014
Speaker(s): Richard Blakeway, Cllr Sir Merrick Cockell, Councillor, David Orr, Professor Henry Overman
Britain’s housing crisis is a nationwide issue with multiple dimensions. In the run-up to the election, all politicians...
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How to Build the Future
Recorded on: 26 September 2014
Speaker(s): Peter Thiel
It's easier to copy a model than to make something new. Adding more of something familiar takes the world from 1 to n....
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Energy and Growth: Facts and Consequences
Recorded on: 24 September 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Greenstone, Dr Kaikaus Ahmad, Dr Mohammad Irfan Elahi, Sanjay Kumar Singh
Economic growth depends critically on access to reliable energy. However, in much of the world, connectivity remains...
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Housing: the crisis that divides
Recorded on: 22 September 2014
Speaker(s): Emma Reynolds MP, David Orr, Professor Christine Whitehead
Britain’s housing crisis is a nationwide issue with multiple dimensions. In the run-up to the election, all politicians...
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Good Morning, Mr Mandela
Recorded on: 24 June 2014
Speaker(s): Zelda la Grange
Zelda la Grange (@ZeldalaGrangeSA) grew up in South Africa as a white Afrikaner who supported the rules of segregation....
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A 21st Century BBC
Recorded on: 23 June 2014
Speaker(s): Diane Coyle
Acting BBC Trust Chair Diane Coyle considers how the BBC can meet the challenge of providing a universal service while...
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The Constitutional Imagination
Recorded on: 17 June 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Martin Loughlin
The Chorley Lecture is an annual lecture inaugurated in 1972 and named in honour of Lord Chorley of Kendal, the...
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Internal Worlds, External Relations
Recorded on: 16 June 2014
Speaker(s): Lida Sherafatmand, Ruaridh Arrow, Captain APF Cassar
This public lecture is part of the LSE Arts exhibition Internal Worlds, External Relations. This lecture is based on a...
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Space for Architecture
Recorded on: 16 June 2014
Speaker(s): Sheila O’Donnell, John Tuomey
O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects won the LSE international architectural competition for the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre...
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Mandela, the Lawyer
Recorded on: 12 June 2014
Speaker(s): George Bizos, Catherine M. Cole, Professor David Dyzenhaus, Lord Joffe, Dr Jens Meierhenrich
What role for law in the struggle against injustice? On 12 June 1964, Nelson Mandela and seven of his co-defendants in...
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Housing: where will we all live?
Recorded on: 9 June 2014
Speaker(s): Richard Blakeway, Professor Paul Cheshire, Rachel Fisher, Wayne Hemmingway, John Stewart
The governor of the Bank of England recently warned that the overheated housing market represents the "biggest risk" to...
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A New Strategy? Russia as an Unlikely Soft Power
Recorded on: 9 June 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Iver Neumann, Dr Arkady Moshes, Dr Thomas Gomart
This expert roundtable will discuss Russia’s declared strategy to invest in soft power instruments in regional and...
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The Amartya Sen Lecture 2014
Recorded on: 6 June 2014
Speaker(s): Christine Lagarde, Professor Amartya Sen
Ms Lagarde will be speaking on the theme of 'empowerment'. Christine Lagarde is managing director of the International...
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The State of Freedom in Britain
Recorded on: 3 June 2014
Speaker(s): Shami Chakrabarti, Professor Nicola Lacey
The British like to believe they are free, but after Snowden, Miranda and the “war on terror”, how true can this be?...
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The Towers Debate: Does London need more tall buildings?
Recorded on: 2 June 2014
Speaker(s): Julia Barfield, Nicholas Boys Smith, Paul Finch, Simon Jenkins, Sir Edward Lister, Rowan Moore, Tony Travers, Nicky Gavron
There are now proposals for over 230 new tall buildings to be built in London over the next decade, 80 per cent of...
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England: a nation defined by dissent
Recorded on: 29 May 2014
Speaker(s): Billy Bragg
Is it possible to be both progressive and patriotic? Billy Bragg argues that from Magna Carta to Euro-scepticism,...
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Wise Choices
Recorded on: 27 May 2014
Speaker(s): Dr Maria Alvarez, Professor Lisa Bortolotti, Professor Christian List, Dr Magda Osman
Traditional philosophical accounts of decision making assume that conscious rational thinking leads to wise choices....
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Poverty, Justice and Development
Recorded on: 22 May 2014
Speaker(s): Professor David Hulme, Professor Thomas Pogge
What do we owe to the global poor? David Hulme and Thomas Pogge will discuss questions of global poverty from the point...
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An Economy of Temporary Possession
Recorded on: 22 May 2014
Speaker(s): Dr Rebecca Empson
In this lecture Rebecca outlines an economy based on the temporary, rather than outright possession of resources and...
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Risk Savvy: how to make good decisions
Recorded on: 21 May 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Gerd Gigerenzer
Remember the volcanic ash cloud over Iceland? The subprime disaster? What about mad cow disease? Each new crisis makes...
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Safeguards of a Disunified Mind
Recorded on: 20 May 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Wlodek Rabinowicz
Pragmatic arguments for rationality constraints on a decision maker’s beliefs or preferences show that disobeying such...
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The Macroeconomics of the Gulf
Recorded on: 15 May 2014
Speaker(s): Raphael Espinoza
Raphael Espinoza's talk will analyse the challenges created by the changes the economies of the Gulf states have gone...
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Imagining Global Health with Justice
Recorded on: 8 May 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Lawrence Gostin, Professor Richard Ashcroft
Lawrence Gostin will discuss his new book, Global Health Law, examining critical health threats such as obesity,...
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Scaling Up Excellence
Recorded on: 6 May 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Robert Sutton
Stanford professor Robert Sutton will discuss the lessons that he and colleague Huggy Rao gleaned from their seven year...
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The New Middle East Cold War
Recorded on: 1 May 2014
Speaker(s): F. Gregory Gause, III
The contest for influence in the post-Arab Spring Middle East is being played out in the domestic politics of states...
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In Conversation with Cherie Blair
Recorded on: 1 May 2014
Speaker(s): Cherie Blair
To mark the completion of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, the first brand new building on campus for more than 40...
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What's So Great About Strong Leaders?
Recorded on: 28 April 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Archie Brown
The conventional wisdom, shared by many politicians and political commentators, is that strong leaders who dominate...
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War: what is it good for?
Recorded on: 10 April 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Ian Morris
If you had been born 20,000 years ago, you would have faced a one in ten or even one in five chance of dying violently....
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LSE Asia Forum 2014
Recorded on: 3 April 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Craig Calhoun, Senator Dato' Sri Abdul Wahid Omar, Professor Arne Westad, Professor Tao Wenzhao, Dr Hassan Wirajuda, Professor Ricky Burdett, Datuk Syed Mohamed Ibrahim, Professor Mike Douglass, Professor Danny Quah, Azman Mokhtar…
The LSE Asia Forum is an important and very public part of the School's strategy to enhance its long standing...
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Reflections
Recorded on: 31 March 2014
Speaker(s): James Dawson, Kate Kingsley, Geraldine McCaughrean, Jon Robinson
The culmination of the 2013-14 LSE and First Story creative writing competition sees a panel of award-winning young...
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2014 Polis Journalism Conference
Recorded on: 28 March 2014
Speaker(s): Alan Rusbridger, Ian Katz, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Cathy Newman, Tom Giles, Luke Lewis…
The 5th Polis Journalism Conference on the topic of Transparency and Accountability was the biggest and most successful...
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Management Accounting Research Group conference 2014
Recorded on: 27 March 2014
Speaker(s): Michael Bromwich, Al Bhimani, David Otley, Chris Ford, Alasdair Macnab, Falconer Mitchell, Warwick Hunt, Henri Dekker, George Grosz, Alasdair Macnab, Kenneth Simmonds
The 35th annual MARG Conference will take place on Thursday 27 March 2014 at the London School of Economics and...
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Towards a sustainable financial system
Recorded on: 21 March 2014
Speaker(s): Haruhiko Kuroda, Richard Fisher, Riccardo Barbieri Hermitte, Jon Danielsson, Ulf Dahlsten, Luca Fantacci, Lars Jonung, Sheri Markose, Bao Mingyou, Adair Turner, Alan Wheatley, Yongding Yu, Jean-Pierre Zigrand
Have we done enough to avoid a new severe financial crisis? There are fundamental issues surrounding money creation,...
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Will China Dominate the 21st Century?
Recorded on: 18 March 2014
Speaker(s): Jonathan Fenby, Isabel Hilton, Wu Jian Min
Jonathan Fenby will talk about the theme of his new book Will China Dominate the 21st Century? Jonathan Fenby is the...
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Access to Justice and Extractive Industries
Recorded on: 13 March 2014
Speaker(s): Aidan Davy, Richard Meeran, Juan Pablo Sáenz, Jake White
A panel of international legal and industry experts discuss the fraught world of environmental justice, human rights,...
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In Conversation with Martin Lewis
Recorded on: 13 March 2014
Speaker(s): Martin Lewis
To mark the completion of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, the first brand new building on campus for more than 40...
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The Greek Growth Project
Recorded on: 11 March 2014
Speaker(s): Theodore Pelagidis
The emergence of the current crisis, and its handling by successive Greek governments once the crisis led to the loss...
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Russia, Ukraine and Us
Recorded on: 7 March 2014
Speaker(s): Anne Applebaum, Sir Rodric Braithwaite, Ben Judah, Olexiy Solohubenko
It was meant to be a moment of glory for Vladimir Putin, basking in the glow from a successful winter Olympics. Instead...
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A Question of Law
Recorded on: 5 March 2014
Speaker(s): Dr Chaloka Beyani, Professor Julia Black, Professor Emily Jackson, Dr Peter Ramsay
Should we be allowed the right to die? Can the UK do more to prevent international human rights abuses? What can the...
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Gender and the Hindu Right in India
Recorded on: 3 March 2014
Speaker(s): Nishrin Jafri Hussain, Angana P. Chatterji, Meena Kandasamy
In the context of the forthcoming Indian elections in which the current Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi is the...
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In Conversation with Bronwyn Curtis
Recorded on: 3 March 2014
Speaker(s): Bronwyn Curtis
To mark the completion of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, the first brand new building on campus for more than 40...
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Money and Inequality
Recorded on: 3 March 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Diane Elson, Professor Ruth Lister
With the arrival of The Women’s Library at LSE, the Gender Institute will be running a series of 'Conversations' for...
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Building London's private rented sector
Recorded on: 3 March 2014
Speaker(s): Christine Whitehead, Kath Scanlon
LSE London's 2014 Lent term seminar series begins on the 20th of January. Speakers from within and beyond LSE will...
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Literary Festival 2014: Voices of the Great War
Recorded on: 1 March 2014
Speaker(s): Tobias Hill, Michael Longley, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Louisa Young
One hundred years after the outbreak of the Great War, Sebastian Faulks, whose novel Birdsong has sold over 2.5 million...
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Literary Festival 2014: Alphabetical
Recorded on: 1 March 2014
Speaker(s): Michael Rosen
How on Earth did we fix upon our letters, what do they really mean, and how did we come to write them down in the first...
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Literary Festival 2014: Understanding the Self
Recorded on: 28 February 2014
Speaker(s): Mary Midgley, Jonathan Rée, Professor Raymond Tallis
What is the self? Should we turn to philosophy, psychology or science in order to better understand it? Does the self...
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Literary Festival 2014: Baby Boomers on Trial
Recorded on: 28 February 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Judith Rees, Richard Hermer QC, Alice Stapleton, Richard Gordon QC, Zahra Al-Rikabi, Professor Oriana Bandiera, Shiv Malik, Emma Soames, Bob Ward
The post-war generation stands accused of wrecking the world for the generations that follow them. It is those younger...
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Literary Festival 2014: The Power of Poetry
Recorded on: 28 February 2014
Speaker(s): Bridget Minamore, Chimene Suleyman
Join LSE Students' Union and LSESU Literature Society in hosting Bridget Minamore and Chimene Suleyman, two members of...
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Literary Festival 2014: Metaphors and Science
Recorded on: 26 February 2014
Speaker(s): Richard Bronk, Professor Roger Kneebone, Dr Felicity Mellor
This panel discussion will examine the role of metaphors in scientific thinking and in the presentation of science. It...
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Literary Festival 2014: War and Memory
Recorded on: 26 February 2014
Speaker(s): Richard Ormond, Rachel Wagstaff
The First World War is arguably the first major conflict to have been waged after the advent of mass levels of literacy...
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Literary Festival 2014: It's OK to be Gay
Recorded on: 26 February 2014
Speaker(s): Alice Arnold, Charlie Condou, Evan Davis, Stella Duffy, Claire Harvey, QBoy
For many lesbian, gay and bisexual people, coming out to family and friends can be a frightening moment in their lives....
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Literary Festival 2014: Where's the Wrath Now?
Recorded on: 25 February 2014
Speaker(s): Stephen Fender, Patrick Flanery, Maggie Gee, Professor John Sutherland
This panel will celebrate the 75th anniversary of John Steinbeck’s Great Depression novel The Grapes of Wrath...
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In Conversation with Rohan Silva
Recorded on: 25 February 2014
Speaker(s): Rohan Silva
To mark the completion of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, the first brand new building on campus for more than 40...
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Literary Festival 2014: Poetry Reading
Recorded on: 24 February 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampson has published more than twenty-five books of poetry, criticism and philosophy of language, and received...
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Literary Festival 2014: Paths of Glory
Recorded on: 24 February 2014
Speaker(s): Richard Daniels, Michael Leader
A screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 anti-war film Paths of Glory (88 minutes), set during the First World War...
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Reviving Famagusta: from ghost town to eco-city?
Recorded on: 21 February 2014
Speaker(s): Dr. James Ker-Lindsay, George C. Lordos, Symeon Matsis, Glafkos Constantinides, Layik Topcan, Robert Cowley, Dr Rebecca Bryant, Mustafa Öngün, Dr. Ceren Boğac, Dr. Wendy A. Pullan, Dr. Gabriel Koureas, Dr Christala Yakinthou
A half-day conference organised by the Hellenic Observatory, LSE and Contemporary Turkish Studies, LSE. Recent...
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On Exploitation
Recorded on: 20 February 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Hillel Steiner, Dr Nicholas Vrousalis
Child labour, sweatshops and low wages: there are many market exchanges that strike us as morally problematic because...
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An American Century or an Asian Century?
Recorded on: 18 February 2014
Speaker(s): Professor John Ikenberry, Professor Michael Cox
Will the future belong to the new rising powers of Asia revolving around China or the West still led by the United...
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Ethics Matters in War
Recorded on: 13 February 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Cecile Fabre, Professor Jeff McMahan
The 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I reminds us of the importance of ethics in war. Under what...
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Debating Jan Paulsson's Idea of Arbitration
Recorded on: 13 February 2014
Speaker(s): Dr Tariq Baloch, Salim Moolan, Dr Jan Kleinheisterkamp, Dr Charles Poncet, Sir Bernard Rix, Professor Derek Roebuck, Professor Catherine Rogers, Professor Horatia Muir Watt
This event launches Jan Paulsson's newest book The Idea of Arbitration in the form of three small debates on three...
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Risk Sharing and Cooperative Finance
Recorded on: 12 February 2014
Speaker(s): Farmida Bi, Paul Mills
Organised in conjunction with the Harvard Islamic Finance Project, Farmida Bi talks on Islamic finance in the Western...
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Economics, the Enemy?
Recorded on: 11 February 2014
Speaker(s): Dr Philip Roscoe
Could economics be responsible for the greatest problems we face? This lecture explores the making of the economic...
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LSE SU China Development Forum 2014: Rebalancing China
Recorded on: 8 February 2014
Speaker(s): Professor William Callahan, Mr David Dollar, Professor Michael Hockx, Mr Stephen Harner, Dr Yukon Huang, Sir Christopher Hum, Professor Nicholas Lardy...
The LSE SU China Development Forum (CDF) is an annual conference co-organised by the LSE SU China Development Society...
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Rainbow Jews
Recorded on: 6 February 2014
Speaker(s): Mark Solomon, Professor Catherine Harper, Surat Rathgeber Knan, Searle Kochberg, Peter Tatchell
Rainbow Jews is a pioneering oral history/archive project that records and showcases Jewish lesbian, gay, bisexual and...
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What Have You Got to Hide?
Recorded on: 5 February 2014
Speaker(s): Hazel Blears MP, Annie Machon, Professor Sir David Omand, Matthew Ryder QC
Without whistle blowers and the media the current debate over the accountability of the secret state would not be...
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Justice in Finance
Recorded on: 4 February 2014
Speaker(s): Dr Gabriel Wollner
Gabriel Wollner offers a political philosophy perspective on questions of international finance and defends the idea of...
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Libya: a happy ending that wasn't
Recorded on: 3 February 2014
Speaker(s): Dr Florence Gaub
The lecture will cover post-2011 Libya and ask key questions related to post-conflict reconstruction, security sector...
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The Next Crisis
Recorded on: 28 January 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Julia Black, Dr Jon Danielsson, Professor Charles Goodhart
The official response to the current economic crisis may create long term stability or, in actual fact, lay the seeds...
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The Ethics of 'Nudge'
Recorded on: 27 January 2014
Speaker(s): Professor George Loewenstein, Samuel Nguyen, Professor Drazen Prelec
Better decisions versus autonomous choices: should policy makers try to influence people’s behaviour using techniques...
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Brazil's Economic Outlook
Recorded on: 27 January 2014
Speaker(s): Alexandre A. Tombini
In his lecture Governor Tombini will discuss the current state of the Brazilian economy and perspectives on the future,...
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These European Elections Matter
Recorded on: 23 January 2014
Speaker(s): Nigel Farage
UKIP leader and MEP Nigel Farage will discuss the importance of this year’s upcoming European elections. Nigel Farage...
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The Future of the Liberal World Order
Recorded on: 23 January 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Barry Buzan, Trine Flockhart, Professor John Ikenberry, Professor Charles Kupchan
This roundtable of eminent scholars will debate the future of the liberal international order. The liberal order is a...
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Feminism Then and Now
Recorded on: 21 January 2014
Speaker(s): Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Natalie Bennett, Camille Kumar, Finn Mackay, Pragna Patel, Professor Lynne Segal
With the arrival of The Women’s Library at LSE, the Gender Institute will be running a series of 'Conversations' for...
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Cities and Globalisation
Recorded on: 20 January 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Ed Glaeser
Ed Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard, where he also serves as director of the...
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Measuring Happiness?
Recorded on: 15 January 2014
Speaker(s): Professor Paul Dolan, Professor Elaine Fox, Professor Andrew Oswald, Ben Page
What does it mean to measure happiness? Can it really be measured? If so, how? Is this a more meaningful indicator of...
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Japan after the Bubble
Recorded on: 15 January 2014
Speaker(s): David Pilling
In the 1980s, Japan was supposedly about to take over the world. Since the burst of the bubble in 1990, it has all but...
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