Spring 2016 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf
by London School of Economics and Political Science · 99 episodes
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Audio and pdf files from LSE's spring 2016 programme of public lectures and events.
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1 h 16
The Life Project: the extraordinary story of 70,000 ordinary lives
Contributor(s): Dr Helen Pearson | On 5th March 1946 a survey began that is, today, the longest-running study of human development in the world, and has grown to encompass six gene…
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1 h 06
Europe and the Return of Geopolitics
Contributor(s): Pierre Vimont | The Ukraine crisis marked the return of geopolitics in Europe. Can the EU, which has been originally designed to prevent geopolitics inside its bord…
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1 h 20
In Conversation with Hilary Benn about Britain and Europe
Contributor(s): Hilary Benn | Hilary Benn (@hilarybennmp) is the Labour Member of Parliament for Leeds Central and the Shadow Foreign Secretary. Previously, he served as Internatio…
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1 h 27
Fraud at polls: can journalists and statisticians check? The Mozambican experience
Contributor(s): Johan Ahlback, Dr Joseph Hanlon, Dr Jouni Kuha | In every Mozambican election, the ruling party (Frelimo) won, and the opposition cried fraud. Can we tell who reall…
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1 h 25
Reconstructing the Law of Voyeurism and Exhibitionism
Contributor(s): Professor Stuart Green | The work discussed in this lecture is part of a much larger, book-length project titled Criminalizing Sex: A Unified Theory. Although the i…
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1 h 22
What Are Prisons For?
Contributor(s): Dr Christopher Bennett, Professor Kimberley Brownlee, Andrew Neilson | In this time of austerity, many of those who want a small state are also committed to a highl…
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1 h 37
Each Age Gets the Inequality it Needs: 20,000 years of hierarchy
Contributor(s): Professor Ian Morris | Changes in how we capture energy from the environment have determined the degree of inequality in society – but what does this mean for the f…
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58 min
How to Boost Growth as the Oil Price Falls: transformation and reform of the Norwegian economy
Contributor(s): Siv Jensen | The low oil price is testing the Norwegian economy’s flexibility and ability to re-adjust. Economic policy should facilitate restructuring and stimulat…
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1 h 29
"Rhodes Must Fall": South African universities as sites of struggle
Contributor(s): Professor Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni | The university in South Africa became a key site of struggle in 2015. Faculty and university leadership were taken by surprise as…
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1 h 29
Clear and Present Challenges to the Chinese Economy
Contributor(s): Dr Keyu Jin | Dr Keyu Jin will discuss the impact of China’s financial reforms. Keyu Jin (@KeyuJin) is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics and a member of the…
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1 h 31
Thus Bad Begins: a conversation with Javier Marias
Contributor(s): Javier Marías | Distinguished Spanish novelist Javier Marías discusses his latest work with the historian Paul Preston. Javier Marías is the author of sixteen works…
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1 h 27
From a Culture of Connectivity to a Platform Society
Contributor(s): Professor José van Dijck, Professor Sonia Livingstone | Online platforms are penetrating the organisation of societies, disrupting private and public sectors. What…
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1 h 28
The EU: friend or foe for progressive politics
Contributor(s): Caroline Lucas | Caroline Lucas will explore the role of the EU as a force for progress; the likely impact of the EU referendum campaign and what green progress mea…
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58 min
Managing Europe – What is Germany's Responsibility?
Contributor(s): Dr Wolfgang Schäuble | Wolfgang Schäuble is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has served as Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance in t…
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1 h 27
The Evening After the Night Before: analysing Super Tuesday
Contributor(s): Kate Andrews, Steve Erlanger, Gideon Rachman, Stephanie Rickard, Peter Trubowitz | On the 1st of March millions of American voters in 12 states will go to the polls…
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1 h 25
A Question of Law and Wealth
Contributor(s): Professor Jonathan Fisher, Dr Eva Micheler, Professor Niamh Moloney, Dr Joseph Spooner | The law plays a crucial part in the creation, proliferation, and distributi…
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51 min
Panama: consolidating democracy, growth and human development
Contributor(s): Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado | Isabel de Saint Malo de Alvarado, Vice-President and Foreign Minister of Panama, will discuss her nation’s role as a geo-strategi…
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1 h 26
Blood Oil: tyrants, violence and the rules that run the world
Contributor(s): Professor Leif Wenar | Natural resources empower the world's most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS…
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1 h 26
Darwinism and the Social Sciences
Contributor(s): Professor Tim Lewens, Dr Alex Mesoudi, Professor Christina Toren | A growing number of researchers are applying Darwinian ideas to explain aspects of human society,…
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1 h 26
Literary Festival 2016: Out of our Bodies: can we ever free consciousness?
Contributor(s): Ned Beauman, Dr Kate Devlin, Professor Nicholas Humphrey | While social psychologists and cognitive scientists affirm that minds do not exist separated from biologi…