London School of Economics and Political Science (videos of the past month: 01/30-02/28/17)

source:  London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
1:23:18 LSE Events | Elif Shafak | Where are the Women in Today's Islamic World? Today all across the Middle East we observe a backlash of patriarchy. Women are being pushed back into the private space, reminded of their roles as mothers and wives. Even the fundamental rights ...
1:25:06 LSE Events | Women in Work: An unfinished revolution? Women in the UK workplace have undoubtedly taken great steps over the past 40 years, but at the current rate of progress it will take 50 years to close the gender pay gap and a child born today wil...
1:29:57 LSE Events | Nona Buckley-Irvine, Georgia Gould, John Hills, Omar Khan | Stagnation Generation Event: Stagnation Generation: Exploring intergenerational fairness
Are today's young people getting a bum deal? Young people have experienced the biggest pay squeeze in the aftermath of the financ...
2:44 LSE Executive MSc Health Economics | Cardiovascular Sciences: Scholarships and Support This video is an introduction to the European Society of Cardiology’s scholarship offerings for the Executive MSc in Health Economics, Outcomes and Management in Cardiovascular Sciences at LSE. Th...
4:33 LSE Executive MSc Health Economics | Cardiovascular Sciences This video is an introduction to the Executive MSc in Health Economics, Outcomes and Management in Cardiovascular Sciences at LSE. The programme is delivered in a two week modular format over two y...
1:29:52 LSE on Brexit | Alumni Event Professor Julia Black, LSE Interim Director and Pro-Director for Research, and a panel of LSE experts discuss the unprecedented challenges and opportunities that Brexit presents to the UK, Europe a...
1:06 #LSENewsroom | Bronwen Manby | State of human rights Amnesty International this week delivered its annual report on the state of human rights in 160 countries, warning of a global trend towards “angrier and more divisive politics”. LSE Visiting Fello...
5:59 LSE Growth Commission | UK Growth: A new chapter 2017 is a year of challenges for the UK - the LSE Growth Commission sets out policy recommendations to lead the UK towards inclusive and sustainable growth.
Based on leading research, advice and ...
3:16 LSE Student video diary | The LSE campus from Alex’s point of view Alex shows us around LSE’s central London campus, particularly the places he spends most of his time.
Contributor: Alex Selway
3:38 LSE Student video diary | Zack explains how the UK study system compares to the USA As a General Course student, Zack is at LSE for a whole year. He explains how things are different here, compared to his degree in the USA: from class structure, to workload, and how he’s graded at...
3:29 LSE Student video diary | Yea Won on degree structures and her January exam Yea Won explains how LSE undergraduate degrees are structured around compulsory and optional courses. She also tells us how she found her very first LSE exam.
Contributor: Yea Won Youn
4:01 LSE Student video diary | Katherine handles the challenges and rewards of graduate study How does a graduate degree compare to undergraduate study? Katherine discusses how she’s adapted to the pressures of her intense LSE degree, and how she feels rewarded for all her hard work.
1:49:52 LSE Events | Professor Jeffrey D Sachs | Lecture 3. Cultivating the Virtues of Globalization For Slides+Audio please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCO-Pycba-s
In his 2017 Robbins Lectures, Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs will argue for a new Moral Economics built firmly on the foundatio...
1:54:51 LSE Events | Professor Jeffrey D Sachs | Lecture 2. The Hard Problem of Inter-Group Morality In his 2017 Robbins Lectures, Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs will argue for a new Moral Economics built firmly on the foundations of the new moral sciences. The goal of moral economics is to promote w...
1:08 #LSENewsroom | Maria Norris | Why Prevent has failed The Prevent initiative needs a major overhaul if it is to tackle terrorism effectively, says Dr Maria Norris from LSE's Centre for the Study of Human Rights. Communicating with Muslims solely throu...
1:36:40 LSE Events | Drug Policies Beyond the War on Drugs? (Video) To view Slides+Audio please see: https://youtu.be/zYNYb0rkJlE
To download slides (pdf) please see: http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/......
1:49:25 LSE Events | Prof. Jeffrey D Sachs | Economics and the Cultivation of Virtue | Lecture 3 (slides) Lecture 3. Cultivating the Virtues of Globalization.
The two other lectures that are part of this series are on Monday 13 https://youtu.be/ajrJbnXTwL8 and Tuesday 14 February https://youtu.be/tffF...
1:54:22 LSE Events | Prof. Jeffrey D Sachs | Economics and the Cultivation of Virtue | Lecture 2 (slides) Lecture 2. The Hard Problem of Inter-Group Morality
The two other lectures that are part of this series are on Monday 13 https://youtu.be/ajrJbnXTwL8 and Wednesday 15 February https://youtu.be/uCO...
1:39:45 LSE Events | Prof. Jeffrey D Sachs | Economics and the Cultivation of Virtue | Lecture 1 (slides) Lecture 1. Economics and the New Moral Sciences
The two other lectures that are part of this series are on Tuesday 14 https://youtu.be/tffFXdmsqGY and Wednesday 15 February https://youtu.be/uCO-Pyc...
1:36:36 LSE Events | Drug Policies Beyond the War on Drugs? (Slides+Audio) To download slides (pdf) see: http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/...
Recorded Wednesday 15 February 2017 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Speakers: D...
4:43 LSE’s Paula Kiel on the digital afterlife For the past two decades, as in so many other fields of our social lives, digital media has permeated the field of death, dying and bereavement. Some of these online practices are arguable challeng...
1:09 #LSENewsroom | Julian Hoerner | Rise of the far right in Europe Populism and nationalism are rising in Europe but so is the reaction, says Dr Julian Hoerner from LSE’s European Institute. In this video he discusses the political forces that have been spurred in...
1:10:41 LSE Events | Ann Pettifor | The Production of Money: how to break the power of bankers Speaker(s): Ann Pettifor
Chair: Professor Wouter Den Haan
Recorded on 8 February 2017 at Old Theatre, Old Building
Political economist Ann Pettifor demystifies history’s most misunderstood inven...
1:13:28 LSE Events | Politics after Brexit and Trump: Rick Pildes in conversation with Mervyn King Speaker(s): Professor Richard H. Pildes
Chair: Professor Lord King
Recorded on 8 February 2017 at Old Theatre, Old Building
A year of unpredictable political upheavals in the industrialised worl...
2:56 LSE Executive Education Courses — About the Programme We spoke to staff and alumni to find out what the benefits of the LSE Executive Education Courses are and what participants can expect from their time in London. Find out more at http://lse.ac.uk/exec
34:06 LSE Events | Paolo Gentiloni | The Future of Europe Paolo Gentiloni is Prime Minister of Italy, a position he has held since December 2016. Prior to this he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Mr Gentiloni is a professional journalist and has a ...
1:29:12 LSE Events | John Milbank | The End of Religious Freedom and the Return of Religious Influence This lecture examines the empirical relationship between economic inequality and poverty across countries and over time, paying attention to different measurement issues. It then considers a range ...
1:38:14 LSE Events | Antje du Bois-Pedain, Richard Scorer, Phil Scraton | "Stale" Crimes Although civil law claims are subject to some temporal constraints, when it comes to criminal offences there is generally no limitation to prosecution and trial. The question of whether such time l...
1:18 #LSENewsroom | Andrew Murray | Should we give robots legal rights? As robots become smarter and more complex, is it time to start thinking about giving them legal rights? Humans have created them and so are responsible for their wellbeing, claims Professor Andrew ...
4:06 LSE Middle East Centre | Are women better off in Iraqi Kurdistan than the rest of Iraq? Dr Zeynep Kaya discusses why the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has made greater strides towards gender equality than the federal government of Iraq. She argues that the Kurdistan Region’s policies of ge...
1:32:50 LSE Events | The Quito Papers: towards the open city This film screening and discussion aims to disseminate the ideas of the newly authored "Quito Papers" beyond UN-Habitat's Habitat III conference and to launch Theatrum Mundi and the Kaifeng Foundat...
1:20:45 LSE Events | Tharman Shanmugaratnam | Inclusive Prosperity: making it possible Inclusive growth has to be at the centre of our agenda, if we are to avoid the continued unravelling of the social compacts that have underpinned an era of open economies. It will require new strat...
1:25:59 LSE Events | Professor Kenneth Benoit | The Brexit Debate through Social Media (Slides+Audio) A copy of the slides (pdf) can be downloaded here: http://www.lse.ac.uk/assets/richmedia/channels/publicLect...
Using over 3...
1:25:21 LSE Events | Mark Carney | Policy Issues Affecting the Bank of England (Slides+Video) A lecture by Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, followed by a discussion and Q&A with Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, chaired by Professor L...
1:21 #LSEShorts | Peter Trubowitz | Theresa May and US trade deals LSE US Centre Director Peter Trubowitz sounds a cautionary note for UK Prime Minister Theresa May to avoid becoming Donald Trump’s political pawn.
1:26:16 LSE Events | Professor Kenneth Benoit | The Brexit Debate through Social Media An Audio+Slides presentation of this event is available here: https://youtu.be/GPbet0G2Kkk
A copy of the slides (pdf) can be downloaded here: http://www.lse.ac.uk/assets/richmedia/channels/publicL...