2017-03-02

The RSA (videos of the past month: 01/30-02/28/17)

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1:06:06 Architecture, Faith and Community | John McAslan CBE | RSA Replay Spiritual and religious spaces are fundamental features of a place, signifying the value and importance of faith and connection at the heart of a community. In a changing global context, the design...
2:14 Simon Sinek on Millennials The millennial, or ‘jilted’ generation make up a quarter of the UK’s population, and yet they are frequently derided as narcissistic, tech-dependent and lazy. But are these epithets fair? They are ...
7:00 The History of our Present Moment with Pankaj Mishra Renowned author and essayist Pankaj Mishra revives the Kierkegaardian term ‘ressentiment’ to help explain the age of frustration and division we find ourselves in. Against a backdrop of technologic...
57:19 How to Resist the Self-Improvement Craze | Svend Brinkmann | RSA Replay The pace of modern life is accelerating, and the self-help shelves are groaning with advice on how to keep up – and stay positive in the process. But the demands of life in the fast lane come at a ...
1:08:25 Mission Oriented Innovation | Jeffrey Sachs | RSA Replay Politics fractures when policy fails - as events of the last year have shown. Nine years on from the global financial crisis, policymakers are still struggling to find convincing answers to the eco...
59:23 How Play Made the Modern World | Steven Johnson | RSA Replay If you want to know where technology is headed next, you should be playing close attention to the way we play. In describing a vivid history of innovation, international bestseller and so-called ‘D...
6:57 The Truth About Lies with Daniel Levitin We are bombarded each day with bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies in amongst the facts. But how can we know if we are being sold mistruths? Neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling ...
1:03:39 The Entrepreneurial Audit | Frances O’Grady | RSA Replay Self-employment is once again on the rise. The number of people working for themselves has grown by 40 percent since 2000, and is set to reach a record 5 million by the end of the decade. A debate ...
7:08 How Stories Shape What We Believe with Alex Evans In this time of global crisis and transition – mass migration, inequality, climate change – Alex Evans believes it is only by finding new myths that we will navigate our way to a better future. It...
1:01:51 The Age of Anger | Pankaj Mishra | RSA Replay We are living in an age of anger: from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media. Renowned author and essayi...
6:57 The Role of Luck with Robert Frank ** Apologies for the audio quality at the beginning of the edit! **
The Role of Luck with Robert Frank. Is luck as important as hard work in becoming successful? In recent years, social scientists ...
6:48 The Innovation Illusion with Bjӧrn Weigel The Innovation Illusion with innovation strategist Bjӧrn Weigel. Is it still possible to be truly innovative, or has the innovation boom had its day? At a time of low growth and increasing income i...

UCL Lunch Hour Lectures (videos of the past month)

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39:28 The youth of our middling rich: how egalitarian were UCL’s founders? - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Mr Colin Penman, UCL Special Collections, Thursday 9th February 2017 #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, 1...
 Can we ever have a crime free world? - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Professor Kate Bowers, UCL Department of Security and Crime Science Tuesday 7th February 2017 #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, ...
40:29 Planetary Economics: getting to a stable climate with a healthy economy - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Professor Michael Grubb, Institute for Sustainable Resources, Thursday 2nd February 2017 #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwi...
41:07 The Global Reach of EU Law - UCL Lunch Hour Lectures Speaker: Professor Joanne Scott, UCL Faculty of Laws, Tues 31 Jan 2017 #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, 1.15 - 1...
38:40 Tackling the challenge of elder abuse in dementia cases - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Dr Claudia Cooper, Thursday 26th January 2017, #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, 1.15 - 1.55pm (term tim...
40:40 Following birds along the pathway to invasion - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Prof Tim Blackburn, UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Tuesday 24th January 2017 #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin...
41:48 Cosmic archaeology - UCL Lunch Hour Lectures Speaker: Dr Amelie Saintonge, UCL Department of Physics & Astronomy , Thursday 19th January 2017, #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwi...
41:08 The Neurobiology of Beauty - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture Speaker: Prof Semir Zeki, Faculty of Brain Sciences, Tuesday 17th January 2017 #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, ...

SchAdvStudy_U of London (videos of the past month: 01/31-02/22/17)

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53:43 The French Intifada: the long war between France and its Arabs 02-02-17 School of Advanced Study
http://www.sas.ac.uk/
The French Intifada: the long war between France and its Arabs
Professor Andrew Hussey (Centre for Postcolonial Studies)
Andrew Hussey, pr...
53:04 The end of the deterrence paradigm? Future directions for global refugee policy 09-02-17 Refugee Law Initiative
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: rli.sas.ac.uk
Protection in the context of large-scale movements of refugees and migrants
The end of the deterrence paradigm? Fut...
1:13:38 History Now and Then - History and Religion(s) 08-02-2017 Institute of Historical Research http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
History Now and Then - History and Religion(s)
Chair: Daniel Snowman (Institute of Historic...
50:34 Heinrich Wölfflin in the Hispanic World 08-02-2017 Warburg Institute http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://www.warburg.sas.ac.uk/ Heinrich Wölfflin in the Hispanic World
Professor Tristan Weddigen (University of Zurich)
One century...
59:21 The Stone Age Origin of Art: What, When, Where, Why and by Whom? 18-01-2017 Warburg Institute
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: http://www.warburg.sas.ac.uk/
The Stone Age Origin of Art: What, When, Where, Why and by Whom?
Professor Steve Mithen (University o...
42:58 The Neural Basis of Real-World Social Interaction 06-02-2017 School of Advanced Study http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Initiative: http://humanmind.ac.uk/
The Neural Basis of Real-World Social Interaction
Dr Suzanne Dikker (Utrecht University, Dept. of La...
1:06:22 The Shock of the Old. Art in the European Ice Age 25-01-2017 Warburg Institute http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://www.warburg.sas.ac.uk/
The Shock of the Old. Art in the European Ice Age
Dr Jill Cook (British Museum)
Recent discoveries ha...
1:04:45 Humans and Other Beings in Our Classical Past 18-01-2017 School of Advanced Study http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Humans and Other Beings in Our Classical Past
Professor Greg Woolf (Director, Institute of Classical Studies)
Professor Greg Woolf's res...
46:02 Dwelling in the temporary: (im)mobilities in conflict 01-02-2017 Institute of Historical Research http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Dwelling in the temporary: (im)mobilities in conflict
Cathrine Brun (Oxford Brookes Univers...
1:51:54 Process Philosophy | 7 30-01-2017 Institute of Modern Languages Research http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/  Process Philosophy | 7
Dr Johan Siebers (IMLR, School of Advanced Study)
Thi...
1:45:26 Process Philosophy | 6 16-01-2017 Institute of Modern Languages Research http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ Process Philosophy | 6
 Dr Johan Siebers (IMLR, School of Advanced Study)
Thi...
45:24 Richmond, Surrey: 1850-1900. A suburb of London? 01-02-2017 Institute of Historical Research http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Richmond, Surrey: 1850-1900. A suburb of London?
Mike Brownlee (IHR)
Metropolitan History ...
59:26 Using Painted Maps as Evidence: Images in Colonial Mexico's Land Grant Proceedings 10-01-2017 Institute of Historical Research
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Using Painted Maps as Evidence: Images in Colonial Mexico's Land Grant Proceedings
Ana Puli...
39:39 Imperial rivalries, insurgents and spies: Britain and Spain during Latin American Independence 13-12-2016 Institute of Historical Research
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Imperial rivalries, insurgents and spies: Britain and Spain during Latin American Independen...
39:34 Breaking the Silence: Voices of the British Children of Refugees from Nazism 05-12-2016 Institute of Historical Research
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Breaking the Silence: Voices of the British Children of Refugees from Nazism
Merilyn Moos ...
1:09:10 Hesitant Comrades: the Irish Revolution & the British Labour Movement 30-01-2017 Institute of Historical Research
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Hesitant Comrades: the Irish Revolution & the British Labour Movement
Geoffrey Bell
Social...
42:06 Reindigenisation and Culture in the Andes (Nineteenth Century) 24-01-2017 Institute of Historical Research
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Reindigenisation and Culture in the Andes (Nineteenth Century)
Adrian Pearce (University Co...
53:31 "It's all a matter of timing" - Human Rights Activism, Soviet Dissent and the Cold War 17-01-2017 Institute of Historical Research
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
"It's all a matter of timing" - Human Rights Activism, Soviet Dissent and the Cold War
Dr M...
42:48 Alan Turing's Apple. Towards a history of 'data science' 16-01-2017 Institute of Historical Research http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Alan Turing's Apple. Towards a history of 'data science'
John Lindsay
Socialist History se...
48:42 The Declaration of London Revisited: did the Admiralty Know What It Was Doing? 10-01-2017 Institute of Historical Research
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
The Declaration of London Revisited: did the Admiralty Know What It Was Doing?
Dr Alan Ande...
1:12:30 History Now and Then - Lessons from the Past 11-01-2017 Institute of Historical Research
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
History Now and Then - Lessons from the Past
Chair: Daniel Snowman
Jeremy Black
Taylor Dow...
50:27 Between conflict and survival: Unravelling the drivers of migration across the Mediterranean in 2015 17-01-17 Refugee Law Initiative
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: rli.sas.ac.uk
Protection in the context of large-scale movements of refugees and migrants
Between conflict and survival: Unravell...
25:01 Pieter Geyl and his entanglement in German Westforschung 17-11-2016 Institute of Historical Research http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Pieter Geyl in Britain, 1914 - 1935
Pieter Geyl and his entanglement in German Westforschun...
20:49 Pieter Geyl the Napoleonist, For and Against 17-11-2016 Institute of Historical Research http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Pieter Geyl in Britain, 1914 - 1935
Pieter Geyl the Napoleonist, For and Against
Mark Hay...
28:56 Pieter Geyl and the 18th Century 17-11-2016 Institute of Historical Research http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Pieter Geyl in Britain, 1914 - 1935
Pieter Geyl and the 18th Century
Reinier Salverda (Un...
30:08 Pieter Geyl as a Public Intellectual in Postwar Europe 17-11-2016 Institute of Historical Research http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Pieter Geyl in Britain, 1914 - 1935
Pieter Geyl as a Public Intellectual in Postwar Europe
22:29 Geyl and World War I 17-11-2016 Institute of Historical Research http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Pieter Geyl in Britain, 1914 - 1935
Geyl and World War I
Leen Dorsman (Utrecht University)...
18:02 The literary ambitions of Pieter Geyl 17-11-2016 Institute of Historical Research http://www.sas.ac.uk/
Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Pieter Geyl in Britain, 1914 - 1935
The literary ambitions of Pieter Geyl
Wim Berkelaar (V...
25:21 Geyl and the IHR 17-11-2016 Institute of Historical Research
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Pieter Geyl in Britain, 1914 - 1935
Geyl and the IHR
Stijn van Rossem (Institute of Histor...
30:33 Geyl and the Revolt of the Netherlands: History of an Interpretative Legacy 17-11-2016 Institute of Historical Research
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Pieter Geyl in Britain, 1914 - 1935
Geyl and the Revolt of the Netherlands: History of an I...
38:22 Pieter Geyl, Emile Cammaerts and the struggle for British public opinion of the Low Countries 17-11-2016 Institute of Historical Research
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Pieter Geyl in Britain, 1914 - 1935
Pieter Geyl, Emile Cammaerts and the struggle for Briti...
32:49 Pieter Geyl in Britain: Opening speeches and Pieter Geyl and the Greater Netherlands Idea 17-11-2016 Institute of Historical Research
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: http://www.history.ac.uk
Pieter Geyl in Britain, 1914 - 1935
Opening speeches
Professor Lawrence Goldman (Director, ...
48:09 Refugee protection in mixed migration - a UNHCR perspective pre- and post-summit 01-12-16 Refugee Law Initiative
http://www.sas.ac.uk/ Institute: rli.sas.ac.uk
Protection in the context of large-scale movements of refugees and migrants
Refugee protection in mixed migration -...
12:32 Rights to Data Portability (RDP) 09-11-2016 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies http://www.sas.ac.uk
Institute: http://ials.sas.ac.uk/
Restricted and Redacted: Where now for human rights and digital information control?
22:03 Intermediary Liability and Community Wireless Networks Design Shaping: the Mc Fadden ECJ Case 09-11-2016 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
http://www.sas.ac.uk Institute: http://ials.sas.ac.uk/