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Latest 300 video files from LSE's programme of public lectures and events, for more recordings and pdf documents see the corresponding audio & pdf collection.
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Shadows without bodies: war, revolutionary nostalgia, and the challenges of internationalism
Contributor(s): Dr Christina Heatherton | She discusses how war, nationalism, and revolutionary nostalgia have confounded the development of an internationalist consciousness. In revisiting the radical theories and visions developed in an earlier era of global solidarity, she considers how we might now imagine otherwise.
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The importance of central bank reserves
Contributor(s): Dr Andrew Bailey | He discusses implications for the future of the Bank’s balance sheet.
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The sixth suspect: Stephen Lawrence, investigative journalism and racial inequality
Contributor(s): Dr. Clive James Nwonka, Ann-Marie Cousins, Daniel De Simone | The panel explore the potential of contemporary investigative journalism practices in uncovering historical institutional failings and intervening in structural racial inequalities.
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Data grab: the new colonialism of big tech and how to fight back
Contributor(s): Professor Ulises Ali Mejias, Professor Nick Couldry | Every time we click ‘Accept’ on Terms and Conditions, we allow our most personal information to be repackaged by Big Tech companies for their own profit. In this searing, cutting-edge guide, two leading global researchers – and leading proponents of the concept of data colonialism – reveal how history can help us both to understand the emerging future and to fight back.
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Are universities creating a new political divide?
Contributor(s): Professor Maria Sobolewska, Dr Elizabeth Simon, Professor Jonathan Hopkin | Is the level of education now becoming a central political cleavage? And is it displacing long-established cleavages like social class?
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Will the US remain the world’s superpower?
Contributor(s): Elizabeth Ingleson, John Van Reenen, Ashley Tellis | A shining city on a hill. America the beautiful. The United States has long been mythologised as the land of dreams and opportunity. And since the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s it has been undisputedly the most powerful nation on earth. But is it a fading force? The idea of an America in decline has gained traction in recent years and has, of course, been capitalized on by President Trump. Is America’s ‘greatness’ under threat?
In this episode of LSE iQ, a collaboration with the LSE Phelan US Centre's podcast, The Ballpark, Sue Windebank and Chris Gilson speak to LSE’s Elizabeth Ingleson and John Van Reenen and Ashley Tellis from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Contributors
Elizabeth Ingleson
John Van Reenen
Ashley Tellis
Research
Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade by Elizabeth Ingleson
The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms by David Autor, David Dorn, Lawrence F Katz, Christina Patterson and John Van Reenen, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2020.
Revising U.S. Grand Strategy Toward China by Robert D. Blackwill and Ashley J. Tellis
LSE Phelan United States Centre: https://www.lse.ac.uk/United-States
Listen to The Ballpark podcast: https://www.lse.ac.uk/united-states/the-ballpark/Podcasts; LSE Player, Spotify; Soundcloud
Related interviews on The Ballpark with guests on this episode
Dr Ashley Tellis - The Future of US-China Competition
Dr Elizabeth Ingleson - Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade