Autumn 2012 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf

Demystifying the Chinese Economy

Visualizing Political Struggle in the Middle East

Rousseau and the State of War

Can we learn from History?

Putting Rights Back Together Again

With Good Reason: a debate on the foundations of ethics

Antifragile: how to live in a world we don't understand

Blaming Europe? Citizens, Governments and the Media

Iran's Nuclear Programme: A Surge into Modernity

How Can We Improve UK Drug and Alcohol Policy?

Algeria and Post-colonialism

Free will in a deterministic world?

Replacing the Nation: South Africa's passive revolution?

The Future of Academic Impacts - Conference- 18:00 Breakout summaries

The Future of Academic Impacts - Conference- 16:00 Session 4

The Future of Academic Impacts - Conference- 14:00 Session 3

The Future of Academic Impacts - Conference- 11:45 Session 2

The future of the European Union after the euro crisis: Political union and its discontents

The Eurozone's Design Failures: can they be corrected?

Secured transactions and the process of international harmonisation and domestic law reform

Social Movements and Social Change

The Creative Mind

Syria: From Rebellion to Civil War

Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826): utopian imperialist

When Gay People Get Married

"No Enemies - No Hatred" - Liu Xiaobo and The Struggle for Democracy in China

Should the Human Rights Act be replaced with a New Bill of Rights?

The Rise and Decline of the American "Empire"

More Relatively-Poor People in a Less Absolutely-Poor World- 17:00 Session

How Protest Movements Change America

Islamists in Power: governing the Arab world?

Was Churchill more of a Progressive than a Reactionary?

Monetary policy and the financial crisis 2006-2009

On Being Progressive

The Gulag: what we know now and why it matters

The Elves and the Shoemaker

Competing Economic Visions in the Arab Uprisings: Navigating without Roadmaps

Dazed and Confused: making sense of an uncertain economy

On Cosmopolitanism

US leadership in the 21st Century

Decentralization and Popular Democracy: governance from below in Bolivia

Developmental Diasporas in China and India: a reconsideration of conventional capital

The Future of the Union: England

Conspiracies, distrust and suspicions of health programmes in Africa

Knowledge Matters: the public mission of research universities

Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet

Economic Transition in the Arab world: Challenges and Opportunities

America and the World - After the Election

Secularism, Religion and Sexuality: A Postcolonial Genealogy

The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns The Earth