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Summer 2007 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf

Audio and pdf files from LSE's summer 2007 programme of public lectures and events.

  1. 07/24/2007

    The Future of Iraq: the media and public response to the Iraq Commission

    Contributor(s): Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Patrick Cockburn, Tim Finch, Baroness Margaret Jay, Professor Mary Kaldor | Following a series of hearings, Channel 4 aired the findings of the Channel 4/ Foreign Policy Centre Iraq Commission in a special programme presented by Jon Snow on Saturday 14 July 2007. The Commission, the equivalent of the US Iraq Study Group, is an independent, cross-party Commission which has produced recommendations on the future of Britain's role in Iraq.

    1h 27m

  2. 07/18/2007

    Exploring options for the process of constitutional change

    Contributor(s): The Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, Shami Chakrabarti, Nick Clegg MP, Peter Facey Dominic Grieve QC MP, Professor Robert Hazell, Gus Hosein, Henry Porter, Justice Robert Sharpe, Roger Smith, Michael Willis MP | In what will be his first major speech since taking on leadership of constitutional reform, the Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, Jack Straw, will deliver a keynote address at the launch of the LSE's Future Britain project. The project is a two-year initiative to explore the best and most appropriate processes for constitutional reform in the UK. The Future Britain website, www.futurebritain.org, will go live on Monday 16 July 2007, with more about the project.

    1h 28m

  3. 07/04/2007

    Energy Crisis: Resource Scarcity Oil Wars and Climate Change

    Contributor(s): Professor Mary Kaldor, Yahia Said, George Soros, Professor Sir Nicholas Stern | This event seeks to encourage a more holistic approach towards thinking about energy security, and will mark the launch of the publication Oil Wars, edited by Mary Kaldor, Terry Karl and Yahia Said.

    1h 25m

  4. 06/27/2007

    Development Governance and the Media: the role of the media in building African society

    Contributor(s): Mark Wilson, James Deane, Gerald Milward-Oliver | How can the media hold governments in developing countries to account? How can more effective media development improve development more widely? What is the impact of the digital revolution in Africa? Are there fragile states in which media development must be abandoned altogether? This report sets out the POLIS view of 'networked journalism' for fostering media development in Africa.

    1h 37m

  5. 06/26/2007

    Sustaining Growth and promoting inclusion in India's Economy and Society

    Contributor(s): Sir Nicholas Stern | Professor Stuart Corbridge is head of the Development Studies Institute, LSE. Mr Anwar Hasan, is managing director of Tata Ltd.UK. Professor S Parasuraman is Director of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Professor Sir Nicholas Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics & Government and director of the Asia Research Centre at LSE.

    1h 39m

  6. 06/21/2007

    Appropriation of Freedom: Freud's conception of the individual self-relation

    Contributor(s): Professor Axel Honneth | This lecture develops Freud's implicit idea of the freedom of the will. For Freud, the 'healthy' person is very often determined by the same kind of irrational powers to which the neurotic personality is subjected. On the basis of a 'normalised' concept of repression, Freud has to explain how a normal subject should be able to gain emancipation from these unconscious constraints of his or her will. What conception of the individual self-relationship will enable us to solve this problem? How might we clarify the link Freud established between individual autonomy and the reflexive appropriation of one's own past?

    1h 35m

  7. 06/18/2007

    Liquidity Asset Prices and Market Efficiency

    Contributor(s): Professor Jiang Wang | Liquidity is of critical importance to the stability and the efficiency of financial markets. Shortages of liquidity has often been blamed for exacerbating and sustaining financial market crises such as the 1987 stock market crash and the 1998 near collapse of the Long Term Capital Management. Yet there is little consensus about exactly what liquidity is, what determines it, how it affects asset prices and welfare. Views become even more divergent when it comes to appropriate regulations and policies with respect to market liquidity, such as lowering barriers of entry in securities trading, increasing margins and capital requirements of broker-dealers when dealing with hedge funds, coordinating market participants and injecting liquidity during crises. Professor Wang will attempt to present a simple model of market liquidity, which will help consider these issues. In particular, it will help understand what gives rise to the need for liquidity and determines its supply, how liquidity influences asset prices and welfare, and what, if any, policies may help to achieve efficient liquidity supply in the market.

    1h 9m

  8. 06/14/2007

    Globilisation and Welfare

    Contributor(s): Professor Paul Krugman | Progressive free-traders - people who believe both in domestic equity and in the promise of globalisation - are feeling chastened these days. What's left of the case for globalisation? How can we make it work?

    1h 32m
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