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2014 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf

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Audio and pdf files from LSE"s 2014 programme of public lectures and events.

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01:31:17

The Lakatos Award Lectures

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2014/10/22

Contributor(s): Professor Laura Ruetsche, Dr David Wallace | Joint winners of the 2013 Lakatos Award, Professor Ruetsche will speak on “Developing the Scientific Image: The Quantum Darkroom” and Dr Wallace will speak on “The Emergent Multiverse”. Laura Ruetsche is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. David Wallace is Tutorial Fellow at Balliol College and CUF Lecturer at the University of Oxford. John Worrall is Professor of Philosophy of Science at LSE. The Department of

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01:16:01

A Changing World and China

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2014/10/22

Contributor(s): Ambassador Wu Jian Min | The rise of China has been one of the most important developments in global affairs. Despite China’s growing interactions with the rest of the world, the country’s foreign policy is largely dictated by domestic politics and further economic reform. Distinguished Chinese diplomat Wu Jian Min will explore China’s international strategy and what this means for the country’s relations with the rest of the world. Ambassador Wu Jian Min is the former Chinese

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00:37:19

Short-termism, the market for corporate control and...

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2014/10/22

Contributor(s): Ian Gilham, David Kershaw, William Underhill | This first seminar in this series will explore the role, if any, of the market for corporate control and its regulation by the Takeover Code in encouraging short term behaviour by UK companies. Other seminars in the series will address the relationship between short termism and Shareholder activism and Shareholder rights and Disclosure regulation.

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00:30:40

Short-termism, the market for corporate control and...

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2014/10/22

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01:24:27

Do We Need to Shake Up the Social Sciences?

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2014/10/21

Contributor(s): Professor Nicholas Christakis, Professor Patrick Dunleavy, Dr Amanda Goodall, Professor Andrew Oswald | ‘Yes’, according to Nicholas Christakis. He wrote, in the New York Times, ‘Taking a page from Darwin, the natural sciences are evolving with the times. In contrast, the social sciences have stagnated. They offer essentially the same set of academic departments … This is not only boring but also counterproductive ...’ Is Christakis right? In this event, physician and sociologist

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01:26:32

The Radical Transparency of the American Republic

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2014/10/21

Contributor(s): Professor Matthew Connelly | For most of its history, the U.S. government’s commitment to transparency stood as a radical counter-example to the rest of the world. Washington, Madison, and Lincoln were in some ways as radical as Julian Assange in their commitment to transparency. During the Civil War, one hundred and fifty years before Wikileaks, the State Department routinely made public normally secret diplomatic correspondences. When the White House invoked executive privilege,

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01:23:19

Rituals and Ritualism in the International Human...

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2014/10/21

Contributor(s): Professor Hilary Charlesworth | This lecture will consider rituals in the international human rights system and their connection to ritualism. Hilary Charlesworth is Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice at Australian National University and Shimizu Visiting Professor at LSE Law.

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01:45:45

In Search of Human Uniqueness

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2014/10/20

Contributor(s): Professor Michael Tomasello, Professor Rita Astuti, Dr Alex Gillespie | Professor Tomasello will explore what distinguishes humans from other great apes in terms of their cognitive and social capacities. Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Rita Astuti is Professor of Anthropology at LSE. She is an expert of the anthropology of Madagascar and her research, which focuses on kinship, gender and ethnic identity,

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01:33:31

Buying Time: the delayed crisis of democratic capitalism

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2014/10/20

Contributor(s): Professor Wolfgang Streeck, Colin Crouch | The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the world on tenterhooks. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding about what is happening and how it started. Wolfgang Streeck is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society at Cologne and author of Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of

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00:44:20

The Impact of European Employment Strategy in Greece...

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2014/10/20

Contributor(s): Dr Sotirios Zartaloudis | Sotirios Zartaloudis will present and discuss his new book "The Impact of European Employment Strategy in Greece and Portugal". By focusing on three key areas of employment policy – public employment services, gender equality policies and flexicurity – in Greece and Portugal, this study provides a model to explore how European Employment Strategy can influence member states' employment policy.

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01:00:25

Confronting Climate Change: Economics, Fairness and...

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2014/10/20

Contributor(s): Professor Lawrence H. Goulder | How can climate change policies be designed to be not only environmentally effective but also cost-effective and fair? How can they be made more acceptable politically? Professor Lawrence H. Goulder’s talk will explore how these different and often competing goals can be approached. While acknowledging that no perfect approach exists, he will suggest some potentially promising directions, drawing from academic research and recent climate-policy

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01:15:50

Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: The United States and...

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2014/10/16

Contributor(s): Dr Roham Alvandi | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, is often remembered as a pliant instrument of American power during the Cold War. In this lecture and book launch, Roham Alvandi offers a revisionist account of the Shah's relationship with the United States by examining the partnership he forged with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1970s. Dr Alvandi will discuss how the Shah shaped US policy in the Persian Gulf under Nixon and Kissinger, including the CIA’s

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01:18:53

Hand to Mouth: the truth about being poor in a...

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2014/10/16

Contributor(s): Linda Tirado | Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She was working all hours at two jobs - as a food service worker in a chain restaurant and as a voting rights activist at a non-profit organization - to support her young family. She knows what it’s like to have problems you wish you could fix, but no money, energy or resources to fix them, and no hope of getting any. In 2013, an essay on the everyday realities of poverty that

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00:33:16

Rationality and Irrationality in Government

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2014/10/16

Contributor(s): Professor Cass Sunstein | What impact is behavioural science having on politics and business? Simplified disclosure, default rules, social norms, and ‘choice architecture’ are all being used to steer people in specific directions. Are these ‘nudges’ improving our decisions? Are they offsetting irrational behaviour? Cass Sunstein, author of Nudge and the previous Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration will discuss

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01:00:55

The Outlook for Global Financial Stability

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2014/10/16

Contributor(s): Dr José Viñals | José Viñals is currently the Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He is a member of the Financial Stability Board, representing the IMF. His professional career has been closely tied to the Central Bank of Spain, where he served as the Deputy Governor after holding successive positions. He has also held the positions of Chairman of the European Central Bank International Relations

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01:23:32

Women in Public Life: above the parapet

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2014/10/15

Contributor(s): Dr Joyce Banda, Dr Purna Sen, Marie-Pierre Lloyd | Joyce Banda will reflect on her journey to the highest level of public life. This event launches a new Institute of Public Affairs project exploring the roads taken by women who shape public life. Joyce Banda was the first female President of Malawi (2012 – 2014) and only the second woman to lead a country in Africa. Purna Sen (@Purna_Sen) is Deputy Director of the Institute of Public Affairs at LSE. Marie-Pierre Lloyd is Seychelles

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01:26:50

The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules: Inside the Greek...

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2014/10/15

Contributor(s): Yannis Palaiologos | Yannis Palaiologos, will present and discuss his new book "The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules: Inside the Greek Crisis". His presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with comments by Professor Featherstone and Philippe Legrain, author of the book "European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics are in a Mess - and How to Put Them Right".

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01:08:51

The Summit: the biggest battle of the Second World...

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2014/10/15

Contributor(s): Ed Conway | The idea of world leaders gathering in the midst of economic crisis has become all-too familiar. But the summit at Bretton Woods in 1944 was the only time countries from around the world have agreed to overhaul the structure of the international monetary system. And, what’s more, they were successful – it was the closest to perfection the world’s economy has ever been, and arguably the demise of the Bretton Woods system is behind our present woes. This was no dry economic

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00:50:21

Practical and ethical dilemmas of working in the...

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2014/10/15

Contributor(s): Dr Benjamin Black | Benjamin Black is a London based obstetrics & gynaecology registrar, currently working for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as part of the Ebola response. He has a special interest in humanitarian emergencies and their impact on the reproductive health of affected populations. From June to September, Benjamin undertook a mission with MSF in Sierra Leone, he will be returning for his next MSF mission in Sierra Leone next week. In this talk, Dr Black will give provide

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00:33:41

'Secure the Borders!' The Cost and Consequences of...

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2014/10/14

Contributor(s): Dr Ruben Andersson, Jeremy Harding, Dr Cecilia Malmström | The summer of 2014 has been yet another season of misery at Europe’s southern frontiers. The unseaworthy boats carrying migrants and refugees towards an uncertain destiny and destination have again multiplied along Italian shores, despite the large investments in more patrols, surveillance and coordination at the borders. Elsewhere, in Spain and Greece, a similar story repeats. A decade on from the founding of Europe’s border

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