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  1. Politics, Power, Cities: Enrique Peñalosa at the LSE

    Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá and one of the world’s most challenging urban thinkers, describes the urgent need for governments to create socially inclusive and well-designed transport systems, public spaces and cities. Addressing mobility, public space, equity, quality of life and social inclusion, Peñalosa will propose that inequality and exclusion are the main causes of the problems that affect cities in developing countries, particularly issues relating to mobility and sustainability. Enrique Peñalosa was mayor of Bogotá, 1998-2001, and now acts as a consultant on urban vision. His advisory work concentrates on sustainability, mobility, equity, public space and quality of life.

    From http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm

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  2. The Sixth Crisis: Iran, Israel, America, and the Rumors of War — Dr Dana H. Allin at the LSE

    Dr. Allin will speak on the tangle of Middle East crises: Iran’s growing nuclear challenge, the impasse on Israel-Palestine, and the consequences of both for President Obama’s efforts to recast America’s relations with the world’s Muslims. This event marks the publication of Dr Allin’s latest book The Sixth Crisis: Iran, Israel, America, and the Rumors of War. Dana H. Allin is Editor, Survival, and Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Affairs at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. He is also Adjunct Professor of European Studies at the Bologna Center of the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University.

    From http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm

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  3. Noam Chomsky on the Economy, US Midterm Elections, Climate Change, Haiti, and More

    http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2010/11/30/noam_chomsky_on_the_economy_us_midterm_elections_climate_change_haiti_and_more

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  4. Them and Us: why we need a fair society — Will Hutton at the LSE

    Will Hutton discusses the issues raised in his new book Them and Us: politics, greed and inequality – why we need a fair society. Will Hutton is the executive vice-chair of The Work Foundation and senior visiting fellow at LSE Global Governance.

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  5. Slavoj Žižek: Far Right and Anti-Immigrant Politicians on the Rise in Europe

    We turn now to Europe, where many are concerned about the growing acceptability of anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Far from just being expressed by the extreme right wing, the anti-immigrant trend has entered the mainstream. German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a gathering of young members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union party this weekend that multiculturalism has utterly failed. A recent German poll found 13 percent of Germans would welcome the arrival of a new "Führer," and more than a third of Germans feel the country is "overrun by foreigners." We speak to the world-renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who has the been called "the Elvis of cultural theory."

    From http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/18/slavoj_zizek_far_right_and_anti

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  6. The Enigma of Capital: Prof. David Harvey at the LSE

    For three centuries the capitalist system has shaped western society and conditioned the lives of its people. Capitalism is cyclical – and increasingly bankrupt. Boom-and-bust is its model. Laying bare the follies of the international financial system, eminent academic David Harvey looks at the nature of capitalism and why it’s time to call a halt to its unbridled excesses.

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  7. Global Justice: Amartya Sen and David Held at the LSE

    In the first dialogue of the Global Policy Dialogue series, Amartya Sen and David Held will discuss Sen’s new book, The Idea of Justice. Injustices in the contemporary world include global inequities as well as disparities within nations. Understanding the demands of justice in each context requires public reasoning, and the challenges of global justice specifically call for global public reasoning. The Idea of Justice also investigates the contributions of human rights movements to the removal of some of the nastiest cases of injustice in the world in which we live.

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  8. All In The Mind - 4 September 2010 - Climate change and behavioural change: what will it take?

    Climate change is on and off the political agenda in Australia. Whether an emissions trading system or a carbon tax win the day, one big barrier stands in the way of change: human nature. How we think about the problem can trump what we actually do — right down to shorter showers and turning off the lights. Leading environmental psychologists are now taking on the climate change challenge.

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