How to turn protest into powerful change - Eric Liu

source: TED-Ed    2016年7月14日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-turn...
We live in an age of protest. On campuses, in public squares, on streets and social media, protestors around the world are challenging the status quo. But while protest is often necessary, is it sufficient? Eric Liu outlines three strategies for peacefully turning awareness into action and protest into durable political power.
Lesson by Eric Liu, animation by Sarah Saidan.

Whither France? The Pessimistic Turn in Modern French Thought

source: London School of Economics and Political Science 2016年2月4日
Speaker(s): Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh
Recorded on 25 January 2016 at Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
How have the rise of conservative and inward looking intellectual traditions undermined France’s progressive imagination? Can French progressive ideals be revived?
Sudhir Hazareesingh is CUF Lecturer in Politics and Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Balliol College, University of Oxford.
Robin Archer is Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme at LSE.
The Ralph Miliband Programme (@rmilibandlse) is one of LSE's most prestigious lecture series and seeks to advance Ralph Miliband's spirit of free social inquiry.

Blood Oil: tyrants, violence and the rules that run the world

source: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 2016年3月4日
Date: Tuesday 1 March 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Leif Wenar
Chair: Dr Margot Salomon

Natural resources empower the world's most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS and Congo's militias spend resource money on atrocities and ammunition. For decades resource-fueled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West - and the ultimate source of their resource money is us, paying at the petrol station and the mall.
In this lecture, Leif Wenar will talk about his new book, Blood Oil, which goes behind the headlines in search of the hidden global rule that puts shoppers into business with the men of blood - and discovers an ancient law that once licensed the slave trade, apartheid and genocide. The abolition of this rule marked some of humanity's greatest triumphs - yet the rule zombies on in today's multi-trillion dollar resource trade, enriching tyrants, warlords and terrorists worldwide.
By our own deepest principles, over half of the world's traded oil is stolen. Blood Oil shows how the West can lead a peaceful global revolution by finally ending its dependence on authoritarian oil, conflict minerals and other stolen resources. Upgrading world trade will make us more secure at home, more trusted abroad, and better able to solve urgent problems like climate change. Blood Oil shows how citizens, consumers and leaders can act today to avert tomorrow's crises - and to create a more united human future.
Leif Wenar (@LeifWenar) is Chair of Philosophy and Law at King's College London. He has been a Visiting Professor at Princeton and Stanford and a Fellow of the Carnegie Council Program in Justice and the World Economy.
Margot Salomon is an Associate Professor in the Law Department and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights where she directs the multidisciplinary Laboratory for Advanced Research on the Global Economy (Lab).
The Centre for the Study of Human Rights at LSE (@LSEHumanRights) is a trans-disciplinary centre of excellence for international academic research, teaching and critical scholarship on human rights.

Objects of Belief; Stone Vessels with Roland Deines

source: University of Nottingham     2016年5月12日
Anyone who has heard of the Marriage Feast at Cana (Gospel of John 2:1-11) has heard of ‘the six stone jars, for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.’Jars made of stone seems a most strange idea!
Prof. Roland Deines looks at two, much smaller, stone vessel – they all date from a period of about 80 years before the destruction of the Jerusalem temple in 70 CE, and are found exclusively on Jewish sites – and what they can tell us about Jewish domestic life in the period from the beginning of the reign of Herod the Great until the destruction of the temple. The video illustrates the point that archaeological evidence can often remove the obscurity of texts and be a window into another culture and world.
Other videos you may wish to look at include;
Margaret Barker's walk through the Old Testament parts 1-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Mcd...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ9kj...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yduuT...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKzEC...
Why Study The Old Testament alongside the New with Margaret Barker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPsaY...

The Effect of Music on a Child’s Brain | Mr Know it All | WIRED

source: WIRED UK     2016年5月31日
You’ve may have heard that music is good for the development of a child’s brain, but does it matter what kind of genre you select for the speakers?
In this episode, Mr. Know-It-All weighs in on the age-old battle of the bands when it comes to positive cognitive development: Led Zeppelin or The Wiggles?
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Native Politics in Literature and Art | Native Peoples, Native Politics || Radcliffe Institute

source: Harvard University     2016年5月23日
PANEL 3: NATIVE POLITICS IN LITERATURE AND ART
Moderated by Shelly Lowe (Navajo), executive director, Harvard University Native American Program
(3:27) Kristiana Kahakauwila (Native Hawaiian), writer; 2015–2016 Lisa Goldberg Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
(20:34) Frank Waln (Sicangu Lakota), musician
(34:44) Matika Wilbur (Swinomish/Tulalip), photographer and creator, Project 562
Q&A (56:36)

Guy Claxton on Why Your Mind Needs Your Body

source: The RSA     2016年5月12日
Western Culture has long separated the mind from the body; the brain, has been privileged as the source of intellect, with the rest of the body annexed as mere matter. But the new field of ‘embodied cognition’, offers a richer, more holistic view of intelligence that involves the whole body. Author and education reformer Professor Guy Claxton introduces this new field, explores the far-reaching implications of the persistence of the Cartesian mind/body ‘error’, and reveals how an appreciation of the whole body’s intelligence can enrich all our lives.
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