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Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video

London School of Economics and Political Science

Video files from LSE"s spring 2012 programme of public lectures and events, for more recordings and pdf documents see the corresponding audio collection.

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02:46:36

Literary Festival 2012: Approaches to Bamiyan:...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/03/03

Contributor(s): Dr Llewelyn Morgan | Dr Llewelyn Morgan explores historical and contemporary approaches to one of Afghanistan's most famous monuments, the Buddhas of Bamiyan. Their location's strategic position, controlling passage through the Hindu Kush, has seen a fascinatingly diverse array of visitors and commentators- from Muslims and Christians, to 19th Century classicists on the trail of Alexander the Great and, more recently, UN mine-clearers. Llewelyn Morgan is a classicist, normally

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00:53:05

Literary Festival 2012: Writing fiction – on and off...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/03/03

Contributor(s): Jonathan Gibbs | The introductory session to the day’s workshops will be looking at ways of getting started, or restarted, in writing fiction. What approaches can you take to plot and character when you do find time to write, and how can you use your time away from your desk to make sure that, when you’re there, you get the most out of it. Jonathan Gibbs has worked as a books journalist for 10 years. He took an MA in Creative Writing at UEA, and is currently nearing the end of a PhD

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01:26:30

Literary Festival 2012: Money into Art: Finance and...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/03/02

Contributor(s): Justin Cartwright, Professor John Sutherland, DJ Taylor | Recent literary responses to the financial crisis take their place in a rich tradition of novelistic portrayals of the city and finance. What do these tell us of our changing attitude towards, and understanding of, money? Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and educated in the US and at Oxford University. His work has won numerous awards. In Every Face I Meet was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Leading the Cheers won

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00:59:09

Literary Festival 2012: Noughties: Narrating the...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/03/02

Contributor(s): Ben Masters | Ben Masters' debut novel Noughties examines the highs and lows of modern student life, which reach a climax for his characters on the last night of university. In this conversation with LSE student Aleona Krechetova, he will discuss whether there is such a thing as a ‘standard’ student experience, and how he approached the question of 'relatability' when writing the book. Ben Masters is twenty-five years old. He was born in Northampton and went to Oxford University in

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01:12:25

Literary Festival 2012: Charles Dickens: the best of...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/03/02

Contributor(s): John Carey, Claire Tomalin | Claire Tomalin’s biography of Charles Dickens, published to mark the bicentenary of his birth this spring, has been acclaimed by critics. It is, as A.N. Wilson wrote in the New Statesman, ‘a book that goes to the heart of the mystery of Dickens as a writer’, and it conjures up a man with as many different selves as a Russian doll. ‘The inimitable’, as Dickens called himself, was a performer or rock-star charisma, who mesmerised audiences of thousands

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01:30:51

Literary Festival 2012: The Fight for Free Speech:...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/03/01

Contributor(s): Pavel Litvinov, Michael Scammell | Acclaimed writer and founding editor of Index on Censorship. Michael Scammell and former Russian dissident Pavel Litvinov discuss the nature of censorship and the future of freedom of speech. It was Pavel Litvinov’s courageous public appeal to the West for help, during a Soviet show trial in 1968, that inspired the creation of Index on Censorship magazine, a forum for banned writers, artists and intellectuals in the struggle against censorship

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01:22:00

Literary Festival 2012: Poetry Unites

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/03/01

Contributor(s): Phillip Gross, Sarah Salway, Ewa Zadrzynska | The Poetry Unites project consists of a series of five-minute films shown on TV, the Internet and in cinemas, in which a poetry lover speaks about his or her life in the context of presenting a favourite poem. This project with a literary dimension reveals both similarities and differences between people. By offering intimate insights into the mind of another person, it contributes to mutual understanding among European citizens. The

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01:29:06

Social democracy as the highest form of liberalism

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/03/01

Contributor(s): Professor Colin Crouch | Reflection on a century of European social democracy reveals its finest triumphs to have been when it has ensured a pluralism and political inclusiveness more extensive than anything that could otherwise be provided in capitalist societies. This essentially liberal achievement, rather than state control, should therefore be seen as its hallmark. This perspective provides the basis for an optimistic appraisal of social democracy’s future, but also points to

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00:46:25

Literary Festival 2012: Dr Seligman and the...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/03/01

Contributor(s): Professor Adam Kuper | Adam Kuper, who has written widely on the history and theory of anthropology, introduces the work of Charles Seligman, founder of LSE Anthropology, pioneer of fieldwork techniques, and medical doctor who devised means of treating servicemen for shell-shock. He gives insights into Seligman's journals and research notes housed in LSE Library, and provides commentary on Jonathan Miller's documentary about the 1898 Torres Straits expedition: 'Dr Miller and the

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00:41:52

Literary Festival 2012: A Moment of Mishearing

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/03/01

Contributor(s): Amit Chaudhuri, Ian Jack | A conversation between award-winning Indian wrtier and musician Amit Chaudhuri and former Granta and Independent on Sunday editor Ian Jack, will be followed by a performance by the five-piece Amit Chaudhuri Band. Amit Chaudhuri's first CD ‘This Is Not Fusion’ (Times Music) was released in Britain on the award-winning independent jazz label Babel, and received excellent reviews from some of the most considerable music publications in the UK. He is the only

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01:27:16

Literary Festival 2012: Class Wars/Culture Wars: Owen...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/03/01

Contributor(s): Sue Christoforou, Professor Mary Evans, Owen Jones | The recent riots in parts of England have focussed increased attention on what has increasingly been described as the 'underclass' of English society. Various politicians have clambered (or leapt) onto a bandwagon that has defined this group as beyond civil society. Many of the people regarded as dangerous are young and male and one half of the 'chavs' who have been the subject of Owen Jones's book. But who are 'these people' and

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01:25:47

Literary Festival 2012: Modernity's Contents and...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/03/01

Contributor(s): Patrick French, Reshma Ruia, Kamila Shamsie | The panellists will discuss and compare the political, social and economic trajectories of India and Pakistan since independence through the lenses of the social sciences and of literature. While India is heralded as a new, democratic, economic powerhouse, Pakistan is deplored as a basket-case of religious-fundamentalism, feudalism and corruption. But those who know the region are aware that both images are oversimplifications. India has

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00:55:30

The importance of strong data protection rules for...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/03/01

Contributor(s): Viviane Reding | Viviane Reding has been the Vice-president of the European Commission, responsible for Justice, Fundamentals Rights and Citizenship since February 2010. In 1999 she joined the European Commission as Commissioner responsible for Education, Culture, Youth, Media and Sports until 2004, and then as Commissioner responsible for Information Society and Media from 2004 to 2010. Prior to her political career, Viviane Reding started off as a journalist at the newspaper

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01:25:03

Literary Festival 2012: Myths for a Modern World

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/02/29

Contributor(s): AS Byatt, Robert Irwin | AS Byatt and Robert Irwin discuss the enduring relevance of mythical stories and their portrayal of the human experience , and explore whther they are worth retelling time and again. A S Byatt is renowned internationally for her novels and short stories. Her novels include the Booker Prize-Winning Possession and The Children's Book. Her most recent book is Ragnorak: The End of the Gods, a retelling of the Norse myth. A distinguished critic as well as a writer

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00:34:13

Literary Festival 2012: Censorship in an Age of Freedom

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/02/29

Contributor(s): Charlie Beckett, Heather Brooke, Nick Cohen | We will be talking about the paradox that we live in an age when the Internet should make information more available than ever and yet secrecy still abounds. New media should facilitate We will be talking about the paradox that we live in an age when the Internet should make information more available than ever and yet secrecy still abounds. New media should facilitate better democratic debate than ever before, and yet, some fear that

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01:24:04

Demonstrations, Riots, and Uprisings: mediated...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/02/29

Contributor(s): Professor Simon Cottle | This lecture examines some of the complex ways in which media and communications represent and enter into demonstrations, riots and uprisings. Simon Cottle is general editor of the "Global Crisis and the Media" series for the publisher Peter Lang.

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01:24:42

Rethinking Respectability: returning to value and...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/02/29

Contributor(s): Professor Beverley Skeggs | Professor Skeggs will revisit her 1997 study on "respectability" and its political parallels in the present day. In doing so, she will discuss the current vogue for reality television as social work, and our response to it as an audience. Beverley Skeggs is professor of sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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01:14:54

Literary Festival 2012: Science in the Media

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/02/29

Contributor(s): Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Professor Pedro Ferreira, Professor Elaine Fox, Mark Henderson | Media reporting of the sciences can shape public opinion. While it may be insightful and revelatory, it can also be misleading and sensationalist, even irresponsible. This distinguished panel will examine the positives and negatives of the media's role in science communication. Jim Al-Khalili is a British scientist, author and broadcaster. He is a professor of physics at the University of

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00:57:16

Growth for Europe: Resuscitating the Single Market

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/02/29

Contributor(s): RNDr Petr Nečas | In this lecture by Petr Nečas, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, he will examine how amidst a severe economic crisis, Europe is looking for solutions to restore growth and create jobs. Several fresh concepts and innovative initiatives have recently been put on the table while the potential of the Single Market – a key tool and a well-proven instrument to get the Union back on track – remains unexploited. Petr Nečas became Prime Minister of the Czech Republic

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01:25:09

Literary Festival 2012: The Medicine Chest of the...

Spring 2012 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2012/02/29

Contributor(s): Jane Davies, David McDaid, Margaret Perkins, Jeanette Winterson | This session explores the substantial role that arts can play in improving health and wellbeing. A number of studies have demonstrated the positive benefits from, for example, reading for people with dementia. Speakers within this session have been working to demonstrate the benefits of arts on health and to develop integral services within health and social care practices. This session will discuss the healing power

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