Summer 2007 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf Podcast
1) 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 Po...Show More
The Future of Iraq: the media and public response to the Iraq Commission
1:26:40 | Jul 24th, 2007
2) 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, Mic...Show More
3) 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 ...Show More
4) 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 mo...Show More
Development Governance and the Media: the role of the media in building African society
1:37:19 | Jun 27th, 2007
5) 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 Direc...Show More
Sustaining Growth and promoting inclusion in India's Economy and Society
1:38:35 | Jun 26th, 2007
6) 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 irrational...Show More
Appropriation of Freedom: Freud's conception of the individual self-relation
1:34:46 | Jun 21st, 2007
7) 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 s...Show More
8) 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 th...Show More
9) 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....Show More
10) 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 as...Show More
Israel and the Palestinians: Domestic Developments and Prospects for Talks
1:26:18 | Jun 13th, 2007