Autumn 2007 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf
Audio and pdf files from LSE's autumn 2007 programme of public lectures and events.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 78 minutes
- Episodes
- 63
- Years Active
- 2007
Migration and Social Transformation
Contributor(s): Professor Stephen Castles | Growing interest in migration research reflects the politicisation of international migration but this could lead to policy-driven research, cut off from c…
01:34:36 |
Thu 15 Nov 2007
Knowledge Economies in China
Contributor(s): Professor Danny Quah | As China takes its place among the world's richest economies, economic growth in the long run will endure only if innovation and technology capabilities ramp up…
01:10:19 |
Wed 14 Nov 2007
Iraq and the Law: what went wrong?
Contributor(s): Rabinder Singh QC | Rabinder Singh QC, a barrister at Matrix Chambers and Visiting Professor of Law at the LSE, has been involved in some of the leading cases of the last five years r…
01:20:53 |
Wed 14 Nov 2007
Past, Present and Future of Oil
Contributor(s): Lord Browne | Based on his experience as former chief executive of BP, Lord Browne will share his thoughts about the future of oil, as it relates to its past and its present. Lord Bro…
01:22:29 |
Tue 13 Nov 2007
Global Media System, Public Knowledge and Democracy
Contributor(s): Professor James Curran | Much of the world is moving towards the entertainment-centred, market-based media model of the United States. If this continues, we will enter a new era of po…
01:26:23 |
Tue 13 Nov 2007
The Modern Commonwealth: challenges in the 21st century
Contributor(s): Don McKinnon | On the eve of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kampala at end-November 2007, Secretary-General Don McKinnon will set the 53-nation family of nations in t…
01:00:34 |
Mon 12 Nov 2007
Hungary in the 21st Century
Contributor(s): Ferenc Gyurcsány | The lecture will focus on Hungary's economic development, reform process and energy security. The Prime Minister will also touch on Hungary's unique opportunity to …
01:31:57 |
Mon 12 Nov 2007
The Future of Impartiality - Is the Public Service Ethos Doomed?
Contributor(s): Professor Michael Baum | Is it possible to regulate for impartiality in a post 2012 world or is the public service ethos doomed? Emily Bell is a journalist for The Guardian. Evan Dav…
01:24:35 |
Thu 08 Nov 2007
Popperian Pathways: the demarcation between quack cancer cures and scientific remedies
Contributor(s): Professor Michael Baum | Why exactly is a scientific approach to medicine preferable to so-called 'alternative' approaches? Michael Baum is professor emeritus of surgery and visiting …
01:06:06 |
Tue 06 Nov 2007
Judging the Booker Prize: what concerns novelists in English today (and what does not)
Contributor(s): Howard Davies | Howard Davies is chair of the judges for the 2007 Man Booker prize. Following the award of the prize on 16 October he reflects on the judging process and what it revea…
01:25:35 |
Tue 06 Nov 2007
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
Contributor(s): Professor John Mearsheimer, Professor Stephen Walt | A look at the nature and activities of the 'Israel lobby' in the United States, and how various groups and individuals have encour…
01:30:10 |
Tue 06 Nov 2007
Field Notes: Human rights defenders speak
Contributor(s): Mandira Sharma, Arnold Tsunga | In this seventh 'Field notes' event held in conjunction with Human Rights Watch UK, frontline human rights defenders will discuss monitoring human righ…
00:59:30 |
Tue 06 Nov 2007
Greece and Europe: a lecture by Dora Bakoyannis
Contributor(s): Dora Bakoyannis | Dora Bakoyannis is Greek minister of foreign affairs and a leading member of the governing New Democracy Party.
01:12:40 |
Mon 05 Nov 2007
Globalising Capital Markets: new actors, new flows, new partnerships
Contributor(s): Richard J Gnodde | The global capital markets are being transformed by the emergence of new actors, new flows and new partnerships - creating opportunities as well as challenges for b…
01:01:49 |
Wed 31 Oct 2007
China's Financial Markets: how they are emerging as a global force
Contributor(s): Howard Davies | Howard Davies, who has advised the Chinese government on financial reform for the last four years, reviews the implications of China's rise for the world's financial m…
01:31:18 |
Mon 29 Oct 2007
The Role of Inter-governmental, State and Non-governmental Players in Conflict Resolution
Contributor(s): Martti Ahtisaari | Martti Ahtisaari will draw attention to both challenges and opportunities of multi-stakeholder co-operation in conflict resolution. Mr. Ahtisaari's lecture is based…
01:19:40 |
Mon 29 Oct 2007
Marking a New Era for Equality and Human Rights in Britain
Contributor(s): Baroness Jane Campbell DBE, Francesca Klug OBE, Trevor Phillips | The new Equality and Human Rights Commission has just started its work in Britain. Its goal is to be an 'independent …
01:37:50 |
Thu 25 Oct 2007
Beyond the Genome: the challenge of synthetic biology
Contributor(s): Professor Sarah Franklin, Professor Peter Lipton, Professor Chris Mason, Dr J Craig Venter | The 1970s introduced genetic modification, the 1990s cloning and GM food, and the human ge…
01:40:52 |
Wed 24 Oct 2007
Are Solicitors' Lives Necessarily Boring?
Contributor(s): Dr Stephen Cretney | Legal biographies and autobiographies are a rich and important source of information about the legal system, statute law and the legal profession. Stephen Cretney…
00:49:09 |
Wed 24 Oct 2007
Garibaldi: the patriot as global hero
Contributor(s): Professor Lucy Riall, Professor John Breuilly | The Italian revolutionary leader Giuseppe Garibaldi was not only worshipped as national hero in his country but he was also a hugely po…
01:26:19 |
Wed 24 Oct 2007
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