Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Video London School of Economics and Political Science
-
- Education
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.
-
The divine economy: how religions compete for wealth, power, and people
Contributor(s): Professor Paul Seabright | Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe. Vigorous competition between and within religious movements has led to their accumulating great power and wealth.
-
England: seven myths that changed a country – and how to set them straight
Contributor(s): Dr Marc Stears, Tom Baldwin | Some politicians will talk of restoring an English birthright of liberty or the swashbuckling self-confidence to rule the waves. Others will yearn for the old-fashioned morality with which, they claim, England once civilised a savage world. Still will more look inwards to a story of an enchanted island that can stand alone and isolated against the world. But England - written by Tom Baldwin, the best-selling author of Keir Starmer's biography, and Marc Stears, influential think tank head - unravels seven myths that have provided so much ammunition for charlatans or culture warriors from both left and right.
-
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.
-
The importance of central bank reserves
Contributor(s): Dr Andrew Bailey | He discusses implications for the future of the Bank’s balance sheet.
-
Living in the past: exploring memory in humans, animals, and artificial agents
Contributor(s): Dr Johannes Mahr, Dr Zafeirios Fountas, Dr Felipe De Brigard, Professor Nicola Clayton | From music to nostalgia, to recall your feelings of specific events is considered unique to humans. Yet other animals also share this function, though not in the same way.
-
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.