Autumn 2007 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf Podcast
1) Why is it Always 'Us' and 'Them': on the natural history of thinking through groups
Contributor(s): Professor Lawrence Hirschfeld | This event presents recent findings about representations of social categories that have potential relevance for anthropology, psychology and evolutiona...Show More
Why is it Always 'Us' and 'Them': on the natural history of thinking through groups
1:29:44 | Dec 6th, 2007
2) Human Rights in the 21st century: problems and prospects
Contributor(s): Kenneth Roth | In the past decade, Human Rights Watch has emerged as one of the leading human rights organisations in the world, its reports increasingly acclaimed for their accuracy a...Show More
3) The United States - Dangerous Nation?
Contributor(s): Dr Robert Kagan | The years immediately following the end of the Cold War offered a tantalising glimpse at the possibility of a new kind of international order, but that was a mirage.R...Show More
4) Shared Protection, Shared Values: Next Steps on Migration
Contributor(s): Jacqui Smith MP | Jacqui Smith is Home Secretary, a position she has held since June 2007. Prior to this she held several ministerial posts. From 1999 she served for two years as parli...Show More
5) Escaping the Prisoners' Dilemma
Contributor(s): Professor Nicola Lacey | Only by understanding the institutional preconditions for a tolerant criminal justice system can we think clearly about the possible options for reform within ...Show More
6) Turning Risk into Opportunity: An insider's guide to entrepreneurial strategy
Contributor(s): Sir Ronald Cohen | Sir Ronald Cohen is a founder of the private-equity industry in Europe and one of the world's leading private equity investors. At the age of 26, he co-founded the f...Show More
Turning Risk into Opportunity: An insider's guide to entrepreneurial strategy
1:09:14 | Nov 29th, 2007
7) The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against AIDS
Contributor(s): Helen Epstein | This lecture is one event in the LSEAIDS series of Public Lectures on HIV/AIDS, Infectious Diseases and Reproductive Health funded by the Department for International D...Show More
8) France and Britain in Europe and the World: let's seize the opportunities
Contributor(s): Gérard Errera | Most would agree that what unites those 'sweet enemies', France and Britain, is much greater than what divides them. But how can shared perspectives and interests be tr...Show More
France and Britain in Europe and the World: let's seize the opportunities
1:26:27 | Nov 29th, 2007
9) Re-Writing the History of the Constitution: from the miraculous to the political
Contributor(s): Professor Carol Berkin | Was the US constitution the work of confident demigods and innovators or the handiwork of anxious political leaders who relied on longstanding Anglo-American p...Show More
Re-Writing the History of the Constitution: from the miraculous to the political
1:02:52 | Nov 27th, 2007
10) Russia after Putin: revisionism or reform, isolation or integration
Contributor(s): Sir Roderic Lyne | Under Vladimir Putin, Russia's relations with many Western states has become increasingly edgy. What are the prospects for policy developments after Putin? Roderic L...Show More
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