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Banker to the Poor: Lifting Millions Out of Poverty through Social Business
Recorded on: 20 May 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus was born on 28 June 1940 in the village of Bathua, Chittagong, a seaport in Bangladesh. The third of...
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Progressive Capitalism
Recorded on: 20 May 2013
Speaker(s): Lord Sainsbury
The neoliberalism that has dominated economic thinking since Mrs Thatcher and Ronald Reagan first came to power is now...
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Synchronic and Diachronic Responsibility
Recorded on: 16 May 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Andrew Khoury
This lecture distinguishes between different types of moral responsibility and discusses the implications for our...
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Anthropology and Emotion
Recorded on: 16 May 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Andrew Beatty
The centrality of emotion in thought and action is increasingly recognised in the human sciences, though basic...
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Who Owns the "One Nation" and what does it stand for?
Recorded on: 15 May 2013
Speaker(s): Lord Glasman, Michael Gove
Britain as "One Nation" is an idea of government that belonged to the Conservative Party, originating with Benjamin...
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Does market-led development have a future?
Recorded on: 15 May 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Ha-Joon Chang, Professor Danny Quah
The Department of International Development’s third annual Development Debate will consider the topic “Does market-led...
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On Beauty
Recorded on: 15 May 2013
Speaker(s): Professor John Hyman, Dr Elisabeth Schellekens
What, if anything, do different manifestations of beauty have in common? Does it make sense to apply the concept of...
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The Theft of Creative Content: Copyright in Crisis
Recorded on: 9 May 2013
Speaker(s): Amelia Andersdotter MEP, Robert Ashcroft, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, Dr Luke McDonagh, Eg White
As the nature of music consumption reaches a critical point, a panel of experts on both sides of the debate discuss the...
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Is Self-Regulation of International Arbitration an Illusion?
Recorded on: 9 May 2013
Speaker(s): Sundaresh Menon, Professor Jan Paulsson
A debate on the roles and responsibilities of arbitral institutions, arbitrators and counsel for ensuring that...
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Truth and Rationality
Recorded on: 9 May 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Wolfgang Spohn
Drawing on his Lakatos Award winning book The Laws of Belief, Wolfgang Spohn asks how is truth best characterised? And...
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The Gaza Kitchen: Documenting a Culinary Heritage and a Food System under Stress
Recorded on: 8 May 2013
Speaker(s): Laila El-Haddad, Maggie Schmitt
In the summer of 2010, writer Laila El-Haddad and food documentarian Maggie Schmitt were able to fulfill a long-held...
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Global Power in a Shifting International Order: The West and the Rest
Recorded on: 8 May 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Joseph Nye
Wealth and power are shifting from the West to the rising economies of the East. But in a world of complex...
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The Lost Continent: Europe's darkest hour since the Second World War
Recorded on: 8 May 2013
Speaker(s): Gavin Hewitt
Gavin Hewitt will discuss the story of a flawed dream, a noble vision that turned dangerous and which has led Europe...
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Trafficking Networks and Threats to Security in West Africa: the case of Mali
Recorded on: 8 May 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Kwesi Aning
An examination of the changing strategic security environment in West Africa and the effectiveness of the response...
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The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It
Recorded on: 8 May 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Anat Admati
The past few years have shown that risks in banking can impose significant costs on the economy. Many claim, however,...
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The Philosophy of Mental Illness
Recorded on: 7 May 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Matthew Broome, Dr Bonnie Evans, Professor Tim Thornton
How should we think of mental disorders? Can psychiatry be reduced to neuroscience, or is there something irreducibly...
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The Kurds and the Conflict in Syria
Recorded on: 3 May 2013
Speaker(s): Saleh Muslim Mohamed
It is nine months since Kurds took control of towns in northern Syria, having established an unprecedented coalition of...
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Saving the Arab Spring: economic development in the Middle East
Recorded on: 2 May 2013
Speaker(s): Dr Bassem Awadallah, Dr Adeel Malik
The speakers will argue that the struggle for a new Middle East will be won or lost in the private sector, and that...
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The Challenges of Engaged Development in Brazil: Homage to Albert Hirschman and Oscar Niemeyer
Recorded on: 2 May 2013
Speaker(s): João Carlos Ferraz
An overarching sense of uncertainty prevails in the second decade of the 21st century, as dramatic changes sweep most...
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Obama, the Tea Party, and the future of American Politics
Recorded on: 2 May 2013
Speaker(s): Professor Theda Skocpol
What happened to Obama's "new New Deal"? Why did his achievements enrage opponents more than they satisfied supporters?...
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