Summer 2007 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf
Audio and pdf files from LSE's summer 2007 programme of public lectures and events.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 82 minutes
- Episodes
- 28
- Years Active
- 2007
The Future of Iraq: the media and public response to the Iraq Commission
Contributor(s): Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Patrick Cockburn, Tim Finch, Baroness Margaret Jay, Professor Mary Kaldor | Following a series of hearings, Channel 4 aired the findings of the Channel 4/ Foreign P…
01:26:40 |
Tue 24 Jul 2007
Exploring options for the process of constitutional change
Contributor(s): The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, Shami Chakrabarti, Nick Clegg MP, Peter Facey Dominic Grieve QC MP, Professor Robert Hazell, Gus Hosein, Henry Porter, Justice Robert Sharpe, Roger Smith, Mi…
01:27:34 |
Wed 18 Jul 2007
Energy Crisis: Resource Scarcity Oil Wars and Climate Change
Contributor(s): Professor Mary Kaldor, Yahia Said, George Soros, Professor Sir Nicholas Stern | This event seeks to encourage a more holistic approach towards thinking about energy security, and will…
01:25:18 |
Wed 04 Jul 2007
Development Governance and the Media: the role of the media in building African society
Contributor(s): Mark Wilson, James Deane, Gerald Milward-Oliver | How can the media hold governments in developing countries to account? How can more effective media development improve development m…
01:37:19 |
Wed 27 Jun 2007
Sustaining Growth and promoting inclusion in India's Economy and Society
Contributor(s): Sir Nicholas Stern | Professor Stuart Corbridge is head of the Development Studies Institute, LSE. Mr Anwar Hasan, is managing director of Tata Ltd.UK. Professor S Parasuraman is Dire…
01:38:35 |
Tue 26 Jun 2007
Appropriation of Freedom: Freud's conception of the individual self-relation
Contributor(s): Professor Axel Honneth | This lecture develops Freud's implicit idea of the freedom of the will. For Freud, the 'healthy' person is very often determined by the same kind of irrationa…
01:34:46 |
Thu 21 Jun 2007
Liquidity Asset Prices and Market Efficiency
Contributor(s): Professor Jiang Wang | Liquidity is of critical importance to the stability and the efficiency of financial markets. Shortages of liquidity has often been blamed for exacerbating and …
01:09:18 |
Mon 18 Jun 2007
Globilisation and Welfare
Contributor(s): Professor Paul Krugman | Progressive free-traders - people who believe both in domestic equity and in the promise of globalisation - are feeling chastened these days. What's left of t…
01:31:46 |
Thu 14 Jun 2007
The NHS: The Next 10 Years
Contributor(s): Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP | In this lecture, Patricia Hewitt will reflect on the achievements and lessons learnt from the last ten years of investment and reform in the health service…
01:09:37 |
Thu 14 Jun 2007
Israel and the Palestinians: Domestic Developments and Prospects for Talks
Contributor(s): Professor Shai Feldman, Dr. Khalil Shikaki | Professor Shai Feldman is director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, Boston. From 1997-2005 he served a…
01:26:18 |
Wed 13 Jun 2007
Democracy or Dictatorship? Emerging Political Crisis in Pakistan
Contributor(s): Imran Khan | [Please note that due to a sudden change of venue, the beginning of this lecture is missing] Imran Khan is a member of the Pakistan parliament and Chairman of the Pakista…
01:08:03 |
Tue 12 Jun 2007
Global Warming and the Political Economy of Cities
Contributor(s): Professor Saskia Sassen | Global warming will fundamentally alter the political economy of cities. A large number of cities will be in the front line of the most massive onslaughts of…
01:25:16 |
Wed 06 Jun 2007
Is the 'Rule of Law' Good for Cities?
Contributor(s): Professor Gerald Frug | There is a widespread consensus that, everywhere in the world, urban development has to be based on the rule of law. But what is 'the rule of law'? Does any fo…
01:14:17 |
Tue 05 Jun 2007
Financing Sustainable Urban Development
Contributor(s): Hari Sankaran | Financing urban development and infrastructure requires consistent strategic planning. While urban planning adjusts to flexible, short-term and incremental implementat…
01:33:53 |
Mon 04 Jun 2007
American Policy Toward Israel: the power and limits of beliefs
Contributor(s): Dr Michael Thomas | Most scholars explain America's nearly unconditional support of Israel either as a result of inordinate influence by a small pro-Israel lobby or as the product of …
01:14:30 |
Wed 30 May 2007
Swords and Ploughshares
Contributor(s): Lord Paddy Ashdown | In this lecture Lord Paddy Ashdown discusses his new book - Swords and Ploughshares: Bringing Peace to the 21st Century. There have been 15 UN-led interventions s…
01:29:38 |
Mon 21 May 2007
Re-searching the Potential of Cultural-Historical Psychology
Contributor(s): Professor Michael Cole | From its founding as an academic discipline, psychology has been divided in its understanding of itself. The project to create a psychology that unifies exper…
01:27:30 |
Wed 16 May 2007
New Labour - Ten Years On
Contributor(s): Professor Anthony Giddens, Lord Kinnock, Ed Miliband MP, Mandy Telford, Stephen Twigg | Many children approaching adulthood today will not remember anything other than a Labour govern…
01:28:17 |
Wed 09 May 2007
The Hydrogen Economy: preparing the world for a new energy era and the third industrial revolution
Contributor(s): Jeremy Rifkin | This lecture critically examines the fossil fuel era and its consequences for industrial civilisation. It explores the nexus of politics, society and business and the …
01:26:21 |
Tue 08 May 2007
Trade and Inequality Revisited
Contributor(s): Professor Paul Krugman | Manufactured imports from developing countries have risen sharply since the mid-90s, when the effects of trade on inequality were a major political issue. Sho…
00:52:52 |
Fri 04 May 2007
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