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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 112 days 19 hours 29 minutes
Politics and Language in the Age of Trump [Audio]
Speaker(s): Mark Thompson | How did changes in political language influence the Brexit vote and the US election? And what do these changes mean for the crisis of trust in the establishment? Mark Thompson is the CEO of The New York Times and former Director-General of the BBC. Robin Archer is Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme at LSE...
You Are Being Tracked, Evaluated and Sold: an analysis of digital inequalities [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Bev Skeggs, Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan | If our personal data is traded in milliseconds up to 70k times per day, what does this mean? Should we care? Are we aware? Does it matter? Is it possible to escape? Bev Skeggs will draw on research that uses software to track the trackers (Facebook) and identify how a person's browser use is tracked and searched in detail for sources of potential value that can be sold to advertising companies...
Can National Politics Still Support International Integration? The Case of the EU [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Mario Monti | 60 years after its foundation, major tensions are facing the EU. From institutional to political and economic tensions, from geopolitical tensions (North vs South, West vs East) to tensions between net contributors and net recipients. Threatened by the “-EXIT” temptation in the background, national politics often collide with European integration’s basic principles...
Reimagining Peacekeeping: gender, 'race' and militarisation in the global order [Audio]
Speaker(s): Dr Marsha Henry | Marsha Henry argues for reimagining peacekeeping, which starts with a return to critical theories and concepts in order to acknowledge the production of gendered, racial and classed inequalities in peacekeeping spaces and relations...
The Tycoon and the Escort: the business of portraying women in newspapers [Audio]
Speaker(s): Dr Marina Franchi, Katie Hind, Jane Martinson, Eleanor Mills, Allyson Zimmermann | This panel will discuss how the front pages of national newspapers portray women in terms of content and bylines. Marina Franchi (@marinapfranchi) is an LSE Fellow, LSE100. Katie Hind (@katiehind) is a showbusiness writer at the Mail on Sunday. Jane Martinson (@janemartinson) is a Guardian columnist...
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor David Harvey | Editor's note: We regret to say that owing to a technical problem the first few minutes of the lecture are missing from the podcast Leading Marxist scholar David Harvey discusses the profound insights and enormous power Marx’s analysis continues to offer 150 years after the first volume of Capital was published. His latest book is Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason...
A Changing Germany in a Changing Europe? The German Elections and Implications for Europe [Audio]
Speaker(s): Christian Odendahl,Professor William Paterson,Dr Natascha Zaun | Editor's note: We apologise for the poor audio quality of this podcast. The forthcoming elections in Germany have important implications for Germany, for Europe and international politics. For the UK, the next German Chancellor will likely have a crucial impact on the ‘BREXIT’ outcome. The re-election of Angela Merkel would further strengthen her international status – not to be underestimated by Moscow or Washington...
If Only They Didn't Speak English: notes from Trump's America [Audio]
Speaker(s): Jon Sopel | Jon Sopel, BBC North America Editor will be talking about his new book If Only They Didn’t Speak English – Notes from Trump’s America in which he sets out to analyse how a country that he says once stood for the grandest of aspirations is now mired in a storm of political extremism, racial division, and increasingly perverse beliefs. Jon Sopel (@BBCJonSopel) has been the BBC ’s North America Editor since 2014...
A Place for All People [Audio]
Speaker(s): Richard Rogers, Amanda Levete, Alan Yentob | Editor's note: While every effort has been made to trace the owners of copyright material reproduced in the advent of any omissions, please contact Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners...
The Interplay of Markets and Politics [Audio]
Speaker(s): Dr Axel A. Weber | Axel A. Weber, Group Chairman UBS and former President of the Bundesbank will be in conversation with Lutfey Siddiqi, Visiting Professor-in-Practice at LSE. br>Axel A. Weber was elected to the Board of Directors (BoD) of UBS AG at the 2012 AGM and of UBS Group AG in November 2014. He is Chairman of the BoD of both UBS AG and UBS Group AG...