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Speakers: Dave Arnold (Food Arts magazine's Contributing Editor for Equipment & Food Science), Harold McGee (author of On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen and columnist for The New York Times) and David Weitz (Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics at Harvard)

As part of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry's "Art of Wood" event series made possible by funding from the Ball Foundation, visiting architects Michael Green and Andrew Waugh presented the latest in timber-based architecture and design. Andrew Waugh presents Waugh Thistleton's 9 storey building made from cross-laminated timber (CLT). Waugh and Green also talk about their new project: Finding the Forest Through the Trees (FFTT). The FFTT project is an innovative, open source plan f...

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hasok Chang, Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science. This lecture was part of the Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science series and took place on 11 October 2012.

As part of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry's "Art of Wood" event series made possible by funding from the Ball Foundation, visiting architects Michael Green and Andrew Waugh presented the latest in timber-based architecture and design. Andrew Waugh presents Waugh Thistleton's 9 storey building made from cross-laminated timber (CLT). Waugh and Green also talk about their new project: Finding the Forest Through the Trees (FFTT). The FFTT project is an innovative, open source plan f...

(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv) Human-Specific Signaling Networks (Genevieve Konopka); Uniquely Human Gene Regulation (James Noonan); Human-Specific Changes in Siglec Genes (Ajit Varki) Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [8/2011] [Science] [Show ID: 21958]

The Beauty and Joy of Computing Professor Dan Garcia Link to lecture notes: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs10/fa11/lec/14/

Machine Structures Professor Dan Garcia - Professor Michael Franklin Link to lecture notes http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61c/fa11/lec/35/

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was one of the most important mathematical physicists of all time, after only Newton and Einstein. Within a relatively short lifetime he made enormous contributions to science which this lecture will survey. Foremost among these was the formulation of the theory of electromagnetism with light, electricity and magnetism all shown to be manifestations of the electromagnetic field. He also made major contributions to the theory of colour vision and optics, the kin...

In 1734 Bishop Berkeley published a witty and effective attack on the foundations of the calculus as developed by Newton and Leibniz. But it took nearly 90 years for the calculus to be given a rigorous foundation through the work of the prolific mathematician, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, who formalised the concept of a limit and created the specialism now called analysis. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac...

We are familiar with the formula for solving a quadratic equation where the highest power of the unknown is a square. The quest for a similar formula for equations where the highest power is three, four five or more led to dramatic changes in how this question was regarded. Powerful techniques in algebra were developed following work by Abel and Galois in the 19th century to show that there is no such formula when there are powers higher than four. The transcript and downloadable versions o...

Illuminated manuscripts are some of the most beautiful artefacts to survive from the Middle Ages. Their production involved transforming animal skins into parchment; copying texts; painting and gilding minatures; and binding folios between boards, a process that reveals much about medieval scribal and artistic practice. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-making-of-medieva...

Bubonic plague first swept Europe in the age of Justinian, in the sixth century, killing an estimated 25 million people in the Byzantine Empire and spreading further west. Its most devastating outbreak was in mid-fourteenth-century Europe, when it destroyed perhaps a third of the continent's population. Italian city-states pioneered the policies of quarantine and isolation that remained standard preventive measures for many centuries; religious revival and popular disturbances, crime and conf...

In 1734 Bishop Berkeley published a witty and effective attack on the foundations of the calculus as developed by Newton and Leibniz. But it took nearly 90 years for the calculus to be given a rigorous foundation through the work of the prolific mathematician, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, who formalised the concept of a limit and created the specialism now called analysis. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac...

From the 1880s through to the First World War, European empires slowly imposed their control on the territories that in many cases existed merely on paper. This lecture asks how and why European powers embarked on this trajectory. Often, occupation became effective through a long series of colonial wars and conflicts. Sometimes, as in the case of the German war against the Herero in South-west Africa in 1905-06, imperial violence reached genocidal proportions. In others, as in the British wa...

Margaret Thatcher sought to solve the deep-seated problems of the British state outside the parameters of the postwar settlement. The main ideological victims of the collapse of the postwar settlement were One Nation Conservatism, the paternalistic ethos of Churchill and Macmillan, and the belief in government intervention, the idea that governments could fine-tune the economy to secure full employment. Margaret Thatcher's governments encouraged the spread of ownership so that Britain could ...

European empires, re-divided after the defeat of Germany in 1918, continued to expand after the First World War, reaching their greatest extent in the early 1940s. The imperial ambitions of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany created new empires that turned out to be very short-lived. With the emergence of the Cold War came a bipolar world dominated by two anti-colonial powers, the USA and USSR. Nationalism in the colonies grew apace, spurred by the loss of imperial legitimacy through the genocida...

Bethlem Hospital was an integral part of London's charitable provision for the poor in medieval and early modern times. Hand in hand with public benevolence went great public interest in the objects of charity. Until 1770, the Hospital was open (at specified times of the week) to any member of the public who wished to see inside, and 'poor boxes' were strategically placed near the entrance for donations. Bethlem was by no means the only early modern hospital to permit this level of public acc...

"The Enlightenment" has been regarded as a turning point in the intellectual history of the West. The principles of religious tolerance, optimism about human progress and a demand for rational debate are often thought to be a powerful legacy of the ideas of Locke, Newton, Voltaire and Diderot. There was however a radical Enlightenment, indebted to the materialism of Hobbes and Spinoza, which posed an even greater challenge to traditional religious and political values. Given the 'return of re...

Psalters containing the 150 Psalms were immensely popular medieval manuscripts, used by a wide array of patrons for liturgical, scholastic and devotional purposes. This lecture explores how the Psalms inspired a rich tradition of literal, historical and interpretative illustration, from the 9th to the 14th centuries, across Europe. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/illuminated-...

Economic dominance brings cultural dominance and the architecture of Empire was, in part, a template for the world. But as the century turned there were already signs of big changes which were to go on to shape the England we now live in. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/on-top-of-the-world-1830-to-1914 Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This...

By 1900 Britain had produced the world's largest cities and the first industrial cities. These phenomena led to vast technical, social and architectural challenges. Victorian architects and engineers met these with some of the most impressive feats of construction since the cathedrals of the middle ages. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/building-the-victorian-city-splendour-an...

As part of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry's "Art of Wood" event series made possible by funding from the Ball Foundation, visiting architects Michael Green and Andrew Waugh presented the latest in timber-based architecture and design. Andrew Waugh presents Waugh Thistleton's 9 storey building made from cross-laminated timber (CLT). Waugh and Green also talk about their new project: Finding the Forest Through the Trees (FFTT). The FFTT project is an innovative, open source plan f...

Learn more about Rick's Guitar Chords course at: http://bit.ly/zngbK0 Berkleemusic hosted an online Open House with instructor Rick Peckham on May 19th. Rick is an internationally-known guitarist, clinician, composer, and writer. He's also the Assistant Chair of Berklee College of Music's Guitar Department, as well as a course author and instructor of several online guitar courses with Berkleemusic, including Guitar Chords 101 and Guitar Chords 201: Chord Melody and Inversions.

View the complete course at: http://ocw.mit.edu/21M-308S11 Five pieces from a student concert of new works for live electronics with laptops, iPhones, circuits, and other sonological mechanisms. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu

Pavlo Beznosiuk, one of the world's leading baroque violinists, explains and demonstrates the challenge of music for solo violin; works by Nicola Matteis and Heinrich Biber lead to a discussion and performance of the famous Chaconne from Bach's Solo Partita in D minor. Can such a work be satisfactorily analysed or does "music begin where words leave off"? The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-...

Learn more about Mike's Online Music Marketing course at: http://bit.ly/y5sGRZ Berkleemusic hosted an online Open House with instructor Mike King on February 23rd. Mike King is a course author, instructor, and the Director of Marketing at Berkleemusic, the online extension school of Berklee College of Music. Prior to working at Berklee, he was the Marketing/Product Manager at Rykodisc, where he oversaw marketing efforts for label artists including Mickey Hart, Jeb Loy Nichols, Morphine,...

Economic dominance brings cultural dominance and the architecture of Empire was, in part, a template for the world. But as the century turned there were already signs of big changes which were to go on to shape the England we now live in. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/on-top-of-the-world-1830-to-1914 Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This...

A lecture and performance of Franz Schubert's Quintet in A, D.667, commonly known as the 'Trout' Quintet. Christopher Hogwood, Gresham Professor of Music, was joined by performers from the Royal Academy of Music: Eleanor Corr violin Xin Xin Liu viola Hannah Rose Innes cello Jack Maran Hewetson double bass Morta Grigaliunaite piano The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-...

Hosted by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics http://www.newschool.edu/vlc http://www.veralistcenter.org Jane Bennett - Powers of the Hoard: Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter How can objects sometimes be vibrant things with an effective presence independent of the words, images, and feelings they may provoke in humans? This question is posed by Political theorist Jane Bennett delivers the inaugural lecture as the Vera List Center for Art and Politics embarks on a ...

Learn more about Michael's Blues Guitar course at: http://bit.ly/zGAfU7 Berkleemusic hosted an online Open House with instructor Michael Williams, author/instructor of our online Blues Guitar course, on September 8th. Michael Williams is a Professor at Berklee College of Music, and the author and instructor of Berkleemusic's online Blues Guitar course. His free guitar lessons are among the most popular videos on Berkleemusic's YouTube channel, with over three million views and counting!

Learn more about Thaddeus Hogarth's online course, Funk/Rock and R&B Guitar Soloing, at: http://bit.ly/JAgSYc Thaddeus Hogarth is an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, and the author and instructor of Berkleemusic's online Funk/Rock and R&B Guitar Soloing course. A two-time winner of the Independent Music Award for R&B/Blues, he has been a prominent guitar player and singer-songwriter on the New England music scene since 1990, when he graduated from Berklee.
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A conversation with Designer Chris Benz and Simon Collins, Dean of the School of Fashion at Parsons. Benz shared anecdotes and advice from his experience, starting with his days as a Parsons student and Marc Jacobs intern. Benz explained how he launched in 2007, the essential business roles he filled in his company first, how the business side feeds and informs the creative side, and why he produces his collection in New York City. He inspired the students to be fearless in networking and m...

The New School for Public Engagement is a division of The New School, a university in New York City offering distinguished degree, certificate, and continuing education programs in art and design, liberal arts, management and policy, and the performing arts. | http://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement Using a combination of lecture and experiential exercises, ESL education specialist Diane Larsen-Freeman traces the evolution of language teaching methods over the past 60 years, discussing h...

MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages: http://www.newschool.edu/matesol What is grammar, and how is it internalized in the mind? Is it made up of symbolic code or of neural connections? Is it a sedimented trace left by previous conversations or an innate human capacity? Our answers to these questions obviously shape the way we go about teaching second languages. In this talk, Scott Thornbury reviews some of the main models of grammar—often couched as metaphors—and looks at t...

Dr Nicholas Ostler argues for the preservation of the world's endangered languages, considering historical examples of threatened languages that have been wiped out (like Gaulish) and those that have been rescued from extinction (such as Basque). The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the full conference's page on the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/symposium-rare-and-endangered-languages Gresham College has been...

THE NEW SCHOOL | http://www.newschool.edu The New School's MATESOL program is very proud to present the annual MATESOL Student Speaker Series. The series is a forum for MATESOL students and alumni to share their ideas, research and reflections on various aspects of the ESL classroom. The overarching aim is to provide ESL teachers with practical ideas and techniques for lessons, and to create a shared space for reflection on teaching in the ESL classroom. MA in Teaching English to Spea...

Speakers: Professor Philippe Van Parijs Chair: Professor Luc Bovens This event was recorded on 12 February 2009 in the Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House Is democracy sustainable in a multilingual polity? Or should appropriate institutions make democracy compatible with multilingualism? Which of these views does the experience of the European Union support? Or is the EU irrelevant to this dispute as English fast becomes Europe's lingua franca? Philippe Van Parijs directs the Hoover Chair in ...

Future Forum -- How Will the Asian Century Shape Australia's Future? Is the first in a series produced by ABC News 24 with ANU, looking at the big issues that will confront the nation a decade from now. The first in the Future Forum series was filmed in Darwin with an eight-strong expert panel moderated by ABC Lateline presenter Ali Moore. The ANU panellists are: Dr Katherine Morton, Dr Nicholas Farrelly, Professor Andrew MacIntyre and Professor Hugh White. The discussion kicks off wit...

Professor Ronnie Cann, Personal Chair in Linguistic Semantics, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled "Doing Language". Abstract: One of the features of human language that distinguishes it from the call systems of other species is that the former can be used to refer to situations, objects and other things that are not in the immediate context of an utterance. It is, on the other hand, also well recognised that certain aspects of an utterance, written or spoken, depend for their interpr...

Film został przygotowany na potrzeby projektu Uniwersytet Partnerem Gospodarki Opartej na Wiedzy, przez Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach. Tematyka wykładu: „Funkcje wymierne". Pełny materiał z kursu „Matematyka - kurs wyrównawczy" dostępny jest na platformie UPGOW: http://el.us.edu.pl/upgow.

Winner Special Jury Mention - Best Documentary Film 4th Jaipur International Film Festival 2012 Official Selection ÉCU -- The 7th European Independent Film Festival 2012 Official Selection Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2012 Official Selection 10th Reykjavik Shorts & Docs Festival 2012 Cambridge University academic, Dr Emily Lethbridge, explores the centuries-old Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur) during a unique year-long research trip. Emily is discovering that the sagas are closely...

Watch "The Skinny on Obesity" with Dr. Lustig: http://www.uctv.tv/skinny-on-obesity Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16717] More UCTV videos about sugar: http://www.uctv...

(January 26, 2010) Michael Marks, Stanford Professor of Radiology, and Robert Dodd, Stanford Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery and Radiology, discuss three pathologies: strokes, aneurisms, arteriovenous malformations. Stanford Mini Med School is a series arranged and directed by Stanford's School of Medicine, and presented by the Stanford Continuing Studies program. Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford Continuing Studies: http://csp.stanford.edu/ Stanford Channel on Yo...

Did the eye evolve and, if so, how? Creationists and evolutionary biologists have argued over this controversy since Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859. About 830 million years ago, in the Cambrian period, an explosion of the number of species occurred, and the possession of vision was a major survival advantage. Did these diverse eyes evolve separately many different times? Recent genetic research on eyes in insects and mammals reveals that they are more closely related th...

For millions of the world's poor, parasitic infections can be debilitating or even lethal. There are high hopes for new mass medication programmes but treatment has not always proceeded as planned, and in some cases there has been fierce local resistance. In this Burning Issue public lecture, Tim Allen - professor of development anthropology -- will examine the facts, the failures and the future of our fight against one of humankind's most endemic invisible enemies. The lecture is the...

"Brain Reconstruction: The next biomedical breakthrough, or a biological impossibility?" by Professor Jack Price, Professor of Developmental Neurobiology and Head of the Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. How close are we to true brain reconstruction? Professor Jack Price details the latest advances in this field of neuroscience, as well as covering the conceptual and regulatory obstacles that researchers face. The transcript and ...

Presented by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University, the Yale AIDS Colloquium Series (YACS) is an interdisciplinary academic forum for discussion of HIV/AIDS-related research and policy.

Speaker(s): Bill Gates, Professor Hans Rosling Recorded on 9 February 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Building. The Global Poverty Project has partnered with The Co--operative during the UN Year of Co-operatives to launch a new initiative that will raise awareness and inspire communities to take action for the 1.4 billion people still living in extreme poverty. Bill Gates will speak to the inaugural Global Poverty Ambassadors as part of the London launch of his Annual Letter. In the letter, h...

Speaker(s): Professor David Nutt Chair: Professor Craig Calhoun Recorded on 5 December 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Building. David Nutt will reflect on his ten years' experience on the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs until 2010, and present new analyses comparing the harms of drugs and alcohol using more sophisticated methodology. David Nutt is Edmond J Safra Professor of Neuropsychology at Imperial College London. He was chair of the ACMD until 2010 and is now chair of th...

Contributors: Catherine Campbell, Morten Skovdal, Robin Sutherland, Cathy Vaughan The Health, Community and Development Research Group present an account of the Photovoice method for developing the theory and practice of community participation. Case studies from Kenya, Papua New Guinea and rural Canada. LSE Institute for Social Psycology - http://www2.lse.ac.uk/socialPsychology/ Health, Community and Development @ LSE - http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/socialpsychology/research/hcd/

Speaker(s): Professor Nancy Folbre Chair: Professor Carola Frege Recorded on 29 November 2011 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building. For Love and Money, a forthcoming book edited by Nancy Folbre provides an overview of care provision in the United States and develops a framework for the analysis of existing care policies. Nancy Folbre is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research explores the interface between political economy and feminis...

Speaker(s): Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Professor Christine Chinkin, Professor Nicola Lacey, Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, Dr Maung Zarni Recorded on 19 June 2012 in Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street. Audio podcast available here - http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1516 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is Chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) and Member of Parliament of Kawhmu constituency in Burma. She was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1...

Patent Attorney Katherine White of Enterprise Partners Venture Capital kicks off this new speaker series with advice for inventors on securing successful patents in a talk sponsored by the Von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering. Series: "Von Liebig Forum" [5/2004] [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 8679]

The University of London International Programmes presents 'Mediation Developments in England', a law lecture delivered by Professor Dame Hazel Genn DBE, QC (Hon) on Wednesday 11 July 2012 at the Conrad Centennial Singapore. Learn about studying Undergraduate Laws with the University of London International Programmes here: http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/llb

The permanent International criminal Court (ICC) was long in planning and finally came into existence after the ad hoc Yugoslavia and Rwanda Tribunals (the ICTY and the ICTR) were seen to have had some success. However, problems facing the permanent court that involves itself in continuing conflicts have been seen to be different from those of the ad hoc tribunals that deal with conflicts that had been largely concluded when the tribunals first sat. African countries whose citizens have been...

Speaker(s): His Holiness the Dalai Lama Chair: Professor Conor Gearty Recorded on 20 June 2012 in Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is visiting the LSE to deliver the opening speech of a one' day conference entitled Tolerance in a Just and Fair Society, at the invitation of Frederick Bonnart Braunthal Trust, Matrix Chambers, the Sigrid Rausing Trust and the London School of Economics & Political Science. HH the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader o...

Speakers: Judge Sir Christopher Greenwood Chair: Howard Davies This event was recorded on 18 February 2009 in Old Theatre, Old Building While each system of national law seeks to regulate affairs within only one society, international law concerns the entire world. Yet it has almost none of the methods of enforcement available to national legal systems. So, can it change the world? Christopher Greenwood was elected a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in November 2008. He is...

Speaker: Professor Amartya Sen Chair: Professor Lord Stern This event was recorded on 27 July 2009 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Amartya Sen explores the ways in which, and the degree to which, justice is a matter of reason, and of different kinds of reason. This event marks the launch of Professor Sen's new book The Idea of Justice. Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard and an honorary fellow of LSE. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master ...

Speaker(s): Alex Salmond MSP Chair: Professor Paul Kelly Recorded on 15 February 2012 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building. Alex Salmond will set out his vision for Scotland's future, including the opportunities provided by independence, setting the context for the Scottish government's plans for a referendum. Alex Salmond is the first minister of Scotland. He was born in Linlithgow in 1954. He attended Linlithgow Academy before studying at St Andrews University, where he gr...

Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. The World Wide Web brings much of the world's knowledge into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer and an internet connection. The availability of huge quantities of information at our fingertips is transforming government, business, and many other aspects of society. Topics include search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, and searc...

One of the Coalition Government's first actions was to attempt a bonfire of the quangos. In order that the baby should not be thrown out with the bathwater, one has to consider what areas of life do and do not need regulation. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is highly regarded and is a good example of inexpensive necessary regulation in the interests of patients and children. It has however been under consideration for abolition. There are good and bad quangos. What gener...

Speaker: Professor Amartya Sen Chair: Professor David Held This event was recorded on 8 July 2010 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building 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 just...

The Stanford Graduate School of Business View from the Top Series hosted venture capitalist John Doerr in a question and answer session where he helped enlighten students on such topics as start-ups, healthcare and jobs in emerging markets. Doerr, general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, emphasized that "The best entrepreneurs are the ones who really go the distance with their companies, who are always learning." During the presentation, Doerr also emphasized that the invest...

Carmine Gallo shares the three simple secrets all inspiring messages share, and how inspiring executives and entrepreneurs tell their brand or product story in a way that's understandable, memorable and emotional. Gallo addressed the Stanford Graduate School of Business as part of the Mastery in Communication Initiative's Expert Speaker Series. Gallo is a best-selling author, communications coach, and keynote speaker. He is a former reporter and anchor for CNN and CBS. He has sat down with...

The Mastery in Communication Initiative and the Stanford GSB Education Club hosted Salman Khan, who spoke about the history and evolution of the Khan Academy and how it is reshaping the way people learn today. Related Links: http://www.khanacademy.org/ http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mastery/

Jack Ma, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, delivered the closing keynote address at the conference "China 2.0: Transforming Media and Commerce", hosted by the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, on Sept. 30, 2011. Related Links: http://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/china2_2011.html

"Leadership is not a talent or a gift. It's a choice. It's not complex, but it's very hard.", General Stanley McChrystal explains to a packed auditorium of 600 at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. McChrystal shares his perspective on leadership and influence discussing the importance of understanding culture, leading by example, building trust, and creating a common goal within a team. McChrystal is a four-star general and former commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanis...

JD Schramm, Stanford GSB lecturer in organizational behavior and director of the Mastery in Communication Initiative, presents this workshop specifically designed to help alumni speakers for the 40-Year-Strong anniversary celebration of the Public Management Program and the Center for Social Innovation to create a four-minute personal story of impact . The workshop includes topics like how to get quickly to your point and how to inspire your audience. It also features case discussions h...

California, the ninth largest economy in the world, recently launched a new carbon cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, leads this program that could provide a model to support other regional or national efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Moderated by Professor Mar Reguant, Nichols discusses the new cap-and-trade system and the current thinking around regional and federal policies. Ni...

To a packed audience of students, faculty, and Ferrari enthusiasts, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, chairman of the Italian sports car manufacturer, spoke at the Stanford Graduate School of Business on April 24, 2012, as part of the View From The Top series. He shared with the audience his leadership style and what it takes to lead an international luxury brand. He ended his talk stating, "I'm not here to sell, but I'm here to help you dream." Related Links: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/cldr/new...

Ken Shotts, Professor of Political Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, chats with The Rt. Honorable David Miliband, Member of Parliament and former Foreign Secretary of the U.K., at a special speaker event hosted by the Center for Global Business and the Economy. Related Links: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/cgbe/ http://davidmiliband.net/blog/

The venture capital panel discussion at the conference "China 2.0: Transforming Media and Commerce", hosted by the Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, on Sept. 30, 2011. The panelists include: Tim Chang (MBA '01), Managing Director of Mayfield Fund; David Chao (MBA '93), Co-founder and Managing Partner of DCM; Paul Kwan (BAS '96), Managing Director of Morgan Stanley; and Richard Lim (MBA '88), Managing Director an...

Kent Thiry, CEO of DaVita, explains to a Stanford Graduate School of Business audience on November 17, 2011, that leadership is not something that can easily be taught. Management can be taught, but leadership is a human skill that requires learning about yourself and other human beings. All videos from the View from the Top speaker series: http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC5C14B375A7F2FEA8

The Mastery in Communication Initiative and the Stanford GSB Education Club hosted Salman Khan, who spoke about the history and evolution of the Khan Academy and how it is reshaping the way people learn today. Related Links: http://www.khanacademy.org/ http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/mastery/

Vera List Center for Art and Politics | http://www.veralistcenter.org | http://www.newschool.edu/vlc Roundtable III: Animism In the habituated scheme of modernity, objects are conceived as the passive stuff on which human action leaves its imprint or trace. Whenever this passive/active nexus between objects and subject, humans and the non-human is disturbed or even reversed -- as in the coming-to-life of seemingly dead matter, the becoming autonomous of inert things -- we inevitably st...

BEST (Brands, Experience and Social Technology) addresses the questions: How do leading organizations create compelling brands and connect through experiences? As today's savvy consumers are increasingly participating in brands (rather than merely receiving their messages), how do companies foster better experiences, conversations and relationships - with both their employees and customers? Moreover, how do you harness social media to build and amplify a brand? MC Hammer spoke to this l...

(March 9, 2010) Frank Longo, MD, PhD, George and Lucy Becker Professor, discusses the intricacy human mind and how different types of memory and memory loss function. Stanford Mini Med School is a series arranged and directed by Stanford's School of Medicine, and presented by the Stanford Continuing Studies program. Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/ Stanford School of Medicine: http://med.stanford.edu/ Stanford Continuing Studies: http://continuingstudies.stanford.e...

Panelists talk about what their organizations are doing to support teachers, and the most successful efforts and investments aimed at recruiting, strengthening, and retaining our teacher corps. Related Links: Stanford School of Education: http://ed.stanford.edu/ Connections Academy: http://www.connectionsacademy.com/home.aspx Nord Anglia: http://www.nordanglia.com/ The Preuss School: http://preuss.ucsd.edu/ Carnegie Foundation: http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/ The Education Trust-...

India China Institute | http://www.newschool.edu/ici The India China Institute, graduate program in International Affairs, Global Studies, National Coordination Council of USA, and the Association of Nepali Teraian in America are sponsoring this event with speaker Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, the recently elected Prime Minister of Nepal. Graduate Program in International Affairs | http://www.newschool.edu/internationalaffairs The Prime Minister will discuss how Marxism is relevant in curre...

Hosted by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics http://www.newschool.edu/vlc http://www.veralistcenter.org Jane Bennett - Powers of the Hoard: Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter How can objects sometimes be vibrant things with an effective presence independent of the words, images, and feelings they may provoke in humans? This question is posed by Political theorist Jane Bennett delivers the inaugural lecture as the Vera List Center for Art and Politics embarks on a ...

http://www.egs.edu/ Giorgio Agamben, contemporary philosopher, discusses gesture, commandment, language, religion, linguistics, Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, art, and poetry. This is the seventh lecture of his 2011 summer seminar. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. Giorgio Agamben is perhaps Italy's most famous contemporary philosopher; as a leading figure in both ...

Where are the greatest opportunities for those who want to invest in the education market? This panel of investment managers looks at the general business and regulatory climate for investment in this space, and where we are likely to see the action in coming years. Related Links: Stanford School of Education: http://ed.stanford.edu/ Sterling Partners: http://www.sterlingpartners.com/ Goldman Sachs: http://www2.goldmansachs.com/ Parthenon Group: http://www.parthenon.com/ Actis: http...

The New School for Public Engagement | http://newschool.edu/public-engagement The Nation at The New School - Ten Years After 9.11: How Has the United States Changed? "At times of crisis, the most patriotic act of all is the unyielding defense of civil liberties and the right to dissent," wrote celebrated historian Eric Foner days after the 9/11 attacks. As national security became an obsession in Washington and the mainstream media enlisted in the Bush administration's war, the need for...

THE NEW SCHOOL FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT | http://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement Hosted by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics | http://www.newschool.edu/vlc The Fifth Annual AICA-USA Distinguished Critic Lecture at The New School Peter Schjeldahl: The Critic as Artist in 2011 Is updating Oscar Wilde possible? If anyone could do it, it would be the art critic, educator, and celebrated poet Peter Schjeldahl. Schjeldahl has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1998 and is ...

"Our greatest natural resource in a global knowledge-based economy will always be our schools." To Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ, this statement is a self-evident one. He worries that to others, though, it may not be so clear. Related Link: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/edconf_booker_2011.html

THE NEW SCHOOL | http://www.newschool.edu The New School's MATESOL program is very proud to present the annual MATESOL Student Speaker Series. The series is a forum for MATESOL students and alumni to share their ideas, research and reflections on various aspects of the ESL classroom. The overarching aim is to provide ESL teachers with practical ideas and techniques for lessons, and to create a shared space for reflection on teaching in the ESL classroom. MA in Teaching English to Spea...

Free learning with The Open University http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2748 --- Author Iain Banks talks to Open University Lecturer in Creative Writing Derek Neale about the digitisation of books, his writing process, the impact of world events on his work and much more. (Full) --- Interview also available as audio only http://audioboo.fm/boos/263163-author-iain-banks-in-conversation-with-the-open-university Study 'Creative writing' with the OU http://www3.op...

(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Kathleen Fraser's newest collection, m o v a b l e TYYPE, foregrounds texts from four recently produced Artist Books. Her collected essays, Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity, is in its second printing. She edited and co-founded the journal HOW(ever) and in 2001, launched its on-line version, How2. While director of The Poetry Center, Fraser founded The American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University where she taught in the...

PART ONE: PUTTING A PRICE TAG ON LIFE Today, companies and governments often use Jeremy Benthams utilitarian logic under the name of cost-benefit analysis. Sandel presents some contemporary cases in which cost-benefit analysis was used to put a dollar value on human life. The cases give rise to several objections to the utilitarian logic of seeking the greatest good for the greatest number. Should we always give more weight to the happiness of a majority, even if the majority is cruel or i...

Most people fear giving speeches, almost as much as the rest of us dread listening to them. The lectern has a cruel capacity to render even the mighty vulnerable. Fortunately there is a science to the art of public speaking and it dates back to Ancient Greece. Simon Lancaster will open up a veritable treasure trove of ancient rhetorical devices and help you discover how to become a master in the language of leadership. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available ...

PART ONE: THIS LAND IS MY LAND The philosopher John Locke believes that individuals have certain rights so fundamental that no government can ever take them away. These rights—to life, liberty and property—were given to us as human beings in the the state of nature, a time before government and laws were created. According to Locke, our natural rights are governed by the law of nature, known by reason, which says that we can neither give them up nor take them away from anyone else. Sande...

PART ONE: THE CLAIMS OF COMMUNITY Professor Sandel presents Kants objections to Aristotles theory. Kant believes politics must respect individual freedom. People must always respect other peoples freedom to make their own choices—a universal duty to humanity—but for Kant, there is no other source of moral obligation. The discussion of Kants view leads to an introduction to the communitarian philosophy. Communitarians argue that, in addition to voluntary and universal duties, we also have obl...

Filmed during 2002 World Festival of Sacred Music-LA, the documentary shows the remarkable connections between people of diverse faiths, races, and musical traditions as they share their spaces, work together as artists and speak to the importance of bringing cultures together. This film offers 3 major sections with interviews that highlight the interactions of three international groups from New Caledonia, Taiwan, and Bali (Indonesia) as they perform with American artists in the Hindu Templ...

http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel Delanda, contemporary philosopher, discusses Gilles Deleuze, knowledge, perception, science, nature, philosophy, subjectivity, the subject, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Henri Bergson, Gilbert Ryle, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland. 2011 Manuel DeLanda. Manuel DeLanda, (born 1952 in Mexico City), is a writer, artist and d...

Captured February 1, 2013 at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. Resources for further study: http://apps.biola.edu/apologetics-store/collections/the-symposium-at-purdue-product-recommendations Apologetics Events Around the World: http://www.apologeticsevents.com Get Your M.A. in Christian Apologetics: http://www.biola.edu/apologetics

http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek, contemporary philosopher and psychoanalyst, discusses Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki, Western Buddhism, the West, capitalism, science, ideology, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis, bodhisattva, samsara, enlightenment, kharma, nirvana, war, Thomas Metzinger, free will, Benjamin Libet, Martin Heidegger, Patricia and Paul Churchland, and The Lion King. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communi...

Speaker: Professor Michael Sandel Discussants: Stephanie Flanders, Professor Julian Le Grand, Rt Revd Peter Selby Chair: Ann Pettifor Recorded on 23 May 2012 in St Paul's Cathedral, London. Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? Noted public philosopher and Harvard professor Michael J. Sandel will explore some of th...

‪http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek, philosopher and author, talking about the transcendental constitution of reality. In this lecture Slavoj Žižek discusses the logic of dreams in Freud, subjectivity, how real sex functions against fantasy, ethical certainty, temporal delay in the act of psychoanalysis and Badiou's concept of decision and forcing the real in relationship to Jacques Lacan, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sigmund Freud, Alain Badiou, David Lynch, Roland Barthes and Jean-Pierre Melville foc...

Vera List Center for Art and Politics | http://www.veralistcenter.org | http://www.newschool.edu/vlc Roundtable III: Animism In the habituated scheme of modernity, objects are conceived as the passive stuff on which human action leaves its imprint or trace. Whenever this passive/active nexus between objects and subject, humans and the non-human is disturbed or even reversed -- as in the coming-to-life of seemingly dead matter, the becoming autonomous of inert things -- we inevitably st...

PART ONE: PUTTING A PRICE TAG ON LIFE Today, companies and governments often use Jeremy Benthams utilitarian logic under the name of cost-benefit analysis. Sandel presents some contemporary cases in which cost-benefit analysis was used to put a dollar value on human life. The cases give rise to several objections to the utilitarian logic of seeking the greatest good for the greatest number. Should we always give more weight to the happiness of a majority, even if the majority is cruel or i...

PART ONE: THE MORAL SIDE OF MURDER If you had to choose between (1) killing one person to save the lives of five others and (2) doing nothing even though you knew that five people would die right before your eyes if you did nothing—what would you do? What would be the right thing to do? Thats the hypothetical scenario Professor Michael Sandel uses to launch his course on moral reasoning. After the majority of students votes for killing the one person in order to save the lives of five oth...

ART ONE: FREE TO CHOOSE Sandel introduces the libertarian conception of individual rights, according to which only a minimal state is justified. Libertarians argue that government shouldnt have the power to enact laws that 1) protect people from themselves, such as seat belt laws, 2) impose some peoples moral values on society as a whole, or 3) redistribute income from the rich to the poor. Sandel explains the libertarian notion that redistributive taxation is akin to forced labor with re...

PART ONE: THE CLAIMS OF COMMUNITY Professor Sandel presents Kants objections to Aristotles theory. Kant believes politics must respect individual freedom. People must always respect other peoples freedom to make their own choices—a universal duty to humanity—but for Kant, there is no other source of moral obligation. The discussion of Kants view leads to an introduction to the communitarian philosophy. Communitarians argue that, in addition to voluntary and universal duties, we also have obl...

Ken Shotts, Professor of Political Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, chats with The Rt. Honorable David Miliband, Member of Parliament and former Foreign Secretary of the U.K., at a special speaker event hosted by the Center for Global Business and the Economy. Related Links: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/cgbe/ http://davidmiliband.net/blog/

Most people fear giving speeches, almost as much as the rest of us dread listening to them. The lectern has a cruel capacity to render even the mighty vulnerable. Fortunately there is a science to the art of public speaking and it dates back to Ancient Greece. Simon Lancaster will open up a veritable treasure trove of ancient rhetorical devices and help you discover how to become a master in the language of leadership. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available ...

Speaker(s): Dr Ben S Bernanke, Olivier Blanchard, Professor Lawrence H. Summers, Axel A. Weber Chair: Professor Sir Mervyn King Recorded on 25 March 2013 in Old Theatre, Old Building. Five years on, the global economy continues to come to terms with the impact of the financial crisis. This event examines the lessons that both economists and policymakers should learn in order to lessen the chance of future crises. Ben S. Bernanke was sworn in on February 1, 2006, as chairman and a member of...