Autumn 2012 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf Podcast
1) Demystifying the Chinese Economy
Contributor(s): Professor Justin Lin | As a result of the miraculous growth since the market-oriented reform in 1979, Chinaâs status in the global economy has dramatically changed. This speech will re...Show More
2) Visualizing Political Struggle in the Middle East
Contributor(s): Lina Khatib | Marking the publication of Lina Khatib's latest book Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle, this lecture focuses on the evolutio...Show More
3) Rousseau and the State of War
Contributor(s): Professor Chris Bertram | What can Rousseauâs recently reconstructed fragment Principles of the Right of War tell us about war and âhumanitarian interventionâ today? Are the principles...Show More
4) Can we learn from History?
Contributor(s): Andrew Marr | Andrew Marr is a journalist, broadcaster and author. He hosts the Sunday morning BBC1 programme The Andrew Marr Show as well as BBC Radio 4's Start the Week every Monday....Show More
5) With Good Reason: a debate on the foundations of ethics
Contributor(s): Dr Julian Baggini, Canon Dr Angus Ritchie, Dr Mark Vernon | Religious and secular philosophers have long debated whether ethics have an objective basis (moral realism) or a relative ba...Show More
6) Putting Rights Back Together Again
Contributor(s): Salil Shetty | The indivisibility of human rights is proclaimed as a goal, but the reality is different. Separating civil and political from economic, social and cultural rights could ...Show More
7) Blaming Europe? Citizens, Governments and the Media
Contributor(s): Professor Sara B Hobolt | âWho is to blame?â has become a familiar question in response to the economic crisis that is sweeping Europe. Professor Hobolt discusses when and why citizens...Show More
8) Iran's Nuclear Programme: A Surge into Modernity
Contributor(s): David Patrikarakos | Drawing on years of research and access to unique sources, David Patrikarakos will tell the history of Iranâs nuclear programme, from its beginnings under the Shah...Show More
9) Antifragile: how to live in a world we don't understand
Contributor(s): Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Taleb believes that many of the best and most successful systems in the world (such as evolution) have antifragility at their heart. Conversely, those...Show More
10) How Can We Improve UK Drug and Alcohol Policy?
Contributor(s): Professor David Nutt | David Nutt will reflect on his ten yearsâ experience on the governmentâs Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs until 2010, and present new analyses comparing t...Show More