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
Europe, Migration and Globalisation - What About the Workers?
Contributor(s): John Monks | John Monks will explore the prospects for workers in a world increasingly dominated by the free movement of capital and the increased movement of goods and people. Who wi…
01:02:29 |
Tue 23 Oct 2007
Is Democracy in Crisis? Lessons from the Greek Experience
Contributor(s): Dr Costas Simitis | This lecture will cover aspects of politics and policy in contemporary Greece in relation to recent developments in Europe. Costas Simitis, an alumnus of LSE, was …
01:29:42 |
Tue 23 Oct 2007
Denied - This bit of Truth
Contributor(s): Shrenik Rao | The UK premier of a new documentary, Zimbabwe Revealed, by former LSE student Shrenik Rao, followed by a panel debate on media freedom in Zimbabwe.
01:22:48 |
Mon 22 Oct 2007
Cornered in the Centre: aid and development in a rough neighbourhood
Contributor(s): Professor John Gray | In his lecture Toby Lanzer looks at the challenges of kick starting and managing a humanitarian and development campaign for one of the world's forgotten crises,…
01:27:24 |
Mon 22 Oct 2007
The Divergence of the Bottom Billion
Contributor(s): Professor Paul Collier | The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which track poverty among 5 billion people, miss the key future challenge for development policy. This is that around…
01:27:05 |
Thu 18 Oct 2007
Utopian Hope and Apocalyptic Religion
Contributor(s): Professor John Gray | Where does the utopian impulse in politics originate, and does it have a future? John Gray argues that though they often claimed to be rooted in a scientific ana…
01:11:28 |
Thu 18 Oct 2007
Cash In - Carbon Out
Contributor(s): Sam Frankhauser, Abyd Karmali, Ralf Martin, Professor Michael Mainelli, Jan-Peter Onstwedder, Martin Wolf | How 'The London Accord' has focused City Research on Climate Change. This i…
01:40:07 |
Thu 18 Oct 2007
Macedonia - tests passed and the challenges ahead
Contributor(s): Professor John Gray | The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Macedonia (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Antonio Miloaoski, will present a picture of the political …
00:54:58 |
Thu 18 Oct 2007
Panel Discussion on Judicial Biography
Contributor(s): Neil Duxbury, Professor Lisa Jardine, Professor Nicola Lacey, Geoffrey Lewis | Legal biographies and autobiographies are a rich and important source of information about the legal sys…
01:06:15 |
Wed 17 Oct 2007
Can the Welfare State Work in a Globalising World?
Contributor(s): President Tarja Halonen | In a globalised world, can the welfare state model - such as the one in Finland and other Nordic states be successful and survive? Can the pursuit for compet…
01:04:53 |
Wed 17 Oct 2007
Public Space and the Body
Contributor(s): Antony Gormley, Darian Leader, Renata Salecl | Over the last 25 years Antony Gormley has revitalised the human image in sculpture through a radical investigation of the body as a plac…
01:31:38 |
Tue 16 Oct 2007
The Ukrainian Elections 2007: whatever happened to the Orange Revolution?
Contributor(s): Dr Gwendolyn Sasse, Dr Andrew Wilson | On 30 September pre-term parliamentary elections will be held in Ukraine. Can the country's stalemate be resolved by the ballot box? Gwendolyn S…
01:20:54 |
Tue 16 Oct 2007
Europe's Emerging New Energy Policy
Contributor(s): Andris Piebalgs | Since the call of the Hampton Court European Council for a European Energy Policy the Commission has been actively answering this challenge, with a new set of concre…
00:59:23 |
Tue 16 Oct 2007
Positions, Activities and Organisations: strategy, from conception to implementation
Contributor(s): Professor Luis Garicano | This is the first in a series of lectures to mark the establishment of LSE's Department of Management. Professor Garicano will discuss how recent advances in…
01:13:22 |
Mon 15 Oct 2007
Reforming the United Nations - Mission Impossible?
Contributor(s): Professor Paul Kennedy | Professor Kennedy's latest book is The Parliament of Man: the past, present and future of the United Nations (2006), which is inspired by the work he did on a…
01:30:16 |
Thu 11 Oct 2007
Litigating Human Rights in the Context of International Terrorism
Contributor(s): Dr Helen Duffy | This lecture will explore some of the key human rights challenges posed by the 'War on Terror' and the experience of resorting to the courts to address them. Helen Du…
01:02:23 |
Thu 11 Oct 2007
A Life In Law
Contributor(s): Lord Bingham, Professor Ross Cranston | Legal biographies and autobiographies are a rich and important source of information about the legal system, statute law and the legal professi…
00:59:03 |
Wed 10 Oct 2007
The Hubris Syndrome: the intoxication of power
Contributor(s): Lord David Owen | Lord Owen will explore the effects of political power on politicians themselves and investigate the concept of the Hubris Syndrome and its impact on politicians incl…
01:12:57 |
Tue 09 Oct 2007
Media and Democracy in Post-Putin Russia: has the death of press freedom been exaggerated?
Contributor(s): Miklos Haraszti, Edward Lucas, Pavel Andreev, Darya Pushkova | Who is to blame for the current state of the Russian media? Can press freedom be revived? Miklos Haraszti is the represe…
01:30:33 |
Mon 08 Oct 2007
The Challenges of Development and Environmental Sustainability in Africa: the case of Rwanda
Contributor(s): His Excellency Paul Kagame | Africa is experiencing major changes to its environment as a result of climate change. This has clear implications for a continent that has already suffer…
01:31:36 |
Thu 04 Oct 2007
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