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On Philippa FootRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
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... Play | Download: Audio
Responsible Corporations: Wealth and public goodRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
Revealing Indian PhilanthropyRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
Green PhilosophyRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
The Future of CapitalismRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio, Video
Cooking as a Political ActRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
Sartre on the Transcendental IRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
Progressive CapitalismRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio, Video
Anthropology and EmotionRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
On BeautyRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
The Theft of Creative Content: Copyright in CrisisRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
Truth and RationalityRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
The Philosophy of Mental IllnessRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
The Kurds and the Conflict in SyriaRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
The Democracy ProjectRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
Conflicted Societies, Memory and the Visual ArtsRecorded 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.... Play | Download: Audio
A Panel Discussion on PalestineRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
In conversation with Nancy PelosiRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
Khan Academy - Reimagining EducationRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
The Power of LiesRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
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,... Play | Download: Audio
Euro-crisis & GreeceRecorded 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. Professor Charles Goodhart,... Play | Download: Audio, Video
The Human in PoliticsRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio, Video
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... Play | Download: Audio
Literary Festival 2013: InnovationRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
Localism in LondonRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
Why Painting MattersRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
Greece's way out of the crisisRecorded on: 14 March 2013 Speaker(s): Alexis Tsipras Alexis Tsipras is President of Syriza-USF (Official Opposition Party, Greece). Professor Kevin Featherstone is director... Play | Download: Audio, Video
Nationalism and Transnational HistoryRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
Achieving a Social StateRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
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... Play | Download: Audio, Video
John Locke and European PhilosophyRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
Energy Security and Shifting Global PowerRecorded 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.... Play | Download: Audio
Healthy African CitiesRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
Why I am a Euro-optimistRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
Beyond Truth: Error and AdventureRecorded 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... Play | Download: Audio
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