talks

Kongress Politische Romantik "Max Webers Fragestellung" mit Joachim Radkau, Jürgen Kaube, S. Schlak

Philosophy of the Essay Film 
with Christa Blümlinger, Gertrud Koch, Esther Leslie; Moderation: Stewart Martin

What is an essay film or an installation essay? Though their formal elements have existed since the early years of film, it is only recently that these terms have come to function as generic labels with certain aesthetic and conceptual stances: poetically wrought language, self-reflexion, a sustained rumination on one issue, and movement across disciplinary confines. What can essay films and installation essays communicate to, and about, philosophy?

54321… Radical Philosophy Conference 2015 - Philosophy of the Essay Film

Speaker(s): Professor Richard H. Pildes | A year of unpredictable political upheavals in the industrialised world promises an interesting period ahead.  What are the lessons from Brexit and the Trump election for our democracy? Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York University Law School.  He is one of the nation's leading scholars of constitutional law and a specialist in legal issues affecting democracy. Mervyn King was Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013, and is currently School Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Lord King was made a life peer in 2013, and appointed by the Queen a Knight of the Garter in 2014. The Department of Economics at LSE (@LSEEcon) is one of the largest economics departments in the world. Its size ensures that all areas of economics are strongly represented in both research and teaching. The Centre For Macroeconomics (@CFMUK) brings together world-class experts to carry out pioneering research on the global economic crisis and to help design policies that alleviate it.

Politics after Brexit and Trump: Rick Pildes in conversation with Mervyn King [Audio]

Speaker(s): Mary Dejevsky, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Professor James Tilley | Brexit has been viewed by many as part of a populist revolution sweeping not only the UK, but Europe and beyond. Why did Britain vote for Brexit? Was it a result of a UKIP-led revolt on the right? This discussion will explore the motivations of the leave vote and the implications for UK politics. Mary Dejevsky (@marydejevsky) is a writer and broadcaster for The Independent newspaper. Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett (@rhiannonlucyc) is a freelance writer for The Guardian and co-founded The Vagenda blog. James Tilley is a professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He is author of The New Politics of Class: The Political Exclusion of the British Working Class. Simon Hix is Harold Laski Professor of Political Science in the LSE Department of Government. The Department of Government is one of the largest political science departments in the UK. Activities cover a comprehensive range of approaches to the study of politics. Keep up to date with what Brexit means for the UK and the wider world at LSE Brexit blog (@lsebrexitvote).

LSE Literary Festival 2017 | Was Brexit a Populist Revolution? [Audio]

Speaker(s): Anne Applebaum, Jonathan Fenby, Gideon Rachman | Editor's note: Owing to a technical problem the question and answer session has been omitted from the podcast. For forty years the Cold War defined the world in which we all lived, shaping our political choices, killing over 25 million people, and nearly leading to the destruction of humanity itself on one very special day in October 1962.  Thirty years later the Cold War was no more and the world – we were told – could now look forward to a "new world order". Yet it was not be. America under G.W Bush revived spectres of the past by talking of a new 'axis of evil'.  Russian reform turned into Putin’s annexation of Crimea. While in China talk of a 'peaceful rise' was replaced by an altogether more assertive stance which seemed to question the established rules of the international community. This discussion asks and tries to answer three big questions: In what sense did the Cold War represent a revolution in world history? Was 1989 yet another – very different kind of - revolution in international affairs? And why does the Cold War we all thought dead and buried continue to exercise such influence on our discourses about the modern world? Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the Institute of Global Affairs at LSE and a columnist for the Washington Post. Jonathan Fenby (@JonathanFenby) is a former editor of the Observer and South China Morning Post and a founding partner and Managing Director of Trusted Sources Research Service. He is an author of several popular books on China, including the acclaimed Tiger Head, Snake Tails; The Penguin History of Modern China; and Will China Dominate the 21st Century?  Gideon Rachman (@gideonrachman) is the chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times. In 2016 he won the Orwell Prize for Journalism and was named Commentator of the Year at the European Press Prize awards. Previously he worked for The Economist for fifteen years, serving as a foreign correspondent in Washington, Bangkok and Brussels. His new book is Easternisation: war and peace in the Asian century. Michael Cox is Director of LSE IDEAS. LSE IDEAS (@LSEIDEAS) is a foreign policy think-tank within LSE's Institute for Global Affairs.

LSE Literary Festival 2017 | From One Cold War to Another? [Audio]

Speaker(s): Professor Michele Lamont | Michèle Lamont’s book contributes to the study of everyday racism and stigma management, the quest for recognition, and the comparative study of inequality and processes of cultural change. Michèle Lamont (@mlamont6) is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. She has been named winner of the 2017 Erasmus Prize, which recognises individual or group contributions to European culture, society, or social science. Mike Savage (@MikeSav47032563) is Martin White Professor of Sociology at LSE and co-Director of the International Inequalities Intitute. The International Inequalities Institute at LSE (@LSEInequalities) brings together experts from many LSE departments and centres to lead critical and cutting edge research to understand why inequalities are escalating in numerous arenas across the world, and to develop critical tools to address these challenges.

Getting Respect: responding to stigma and discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel [Audio]

Democracy Lectur: Wendy Brown – Democracy under Attack: Apocalyptic Populism
Wed, Jun 28, 2017

Discussion with Wendy Brown, Ulrike Beate Guérot, Micha Brumlik

An archetype of Homo Oeconomicus occupies the White House: for Donald Trump, democracy is an enemy of “free markets“ and all that counts successful is the uncompromising deal. Trump’s strongest weapon is an apocalyptic populism which fuels aggressive nationalist movements. Their goal is to abolish the democratic order: the rule of law, its institutions and the so-called “establishment.” What are the consequences of this devastating campaign against democracy? And how can it be stopped? Did Europe find viable answers in Emmanuel Macron and Jeremy Corbyn?

After lectures by Thomas Piketty (2014), Naomi Klein (2015), and Paul Mason (2016) Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik dedicates its fourth Democracy Lecture to the threatened future of democracy. Following the lecture, Wendy Brown will be joined for a discussion by political scientist Ulrike Beate Guérot and Blätter co-editor Micha Brumlik moderated by Mathias Greffath.

Image: Wendy Brown | © privat

Democracy Lecture | Discussion with Wendy Brown, Ulrike Beate Guérot, Micha Brumlik (English/German)

Hörstück / Audio Piece

Zur Shortlist 2013 
Internationaler Literaturpreis – Haus der Kulturen der Welt 

Produziert und komponiert von 
Cordula Dickmeiß und Susanne Franzmeyer

Das Hörstück zum Internationalen Literaturpreis 2013 ist eine poetische Audio-Komposition, produziert und konzeptioniert von  den Audiokünsterlinnen Cordula Dickmeiß und Susanne Franzmeyer. Ihre Montage bringt die nominierten Shortlist-Titel in Lesungen aus Original und deutscher Übertragung zum Klingen und fängt diese mit den  Lektüreeindrücken der Juroren in einem vielstimmigen Resonanzraum ein. 


SprecherInnen: 

Barbara Becker (deutsch)
Gerald Michel (deutsch)

Matthew Beavers (englisch)
Adriana Collande (spanisch)
Wesley Mathews (englisch)
Aurélie Maurin (französisch)
Julia Reim (russisch)
Oleg Zinkovskiy (russisch)
Jurystimmen 

Ton & Regie:

Cordula Dickmeiß
Susanne Franzmeyer

Audiocollage Shortlist 2013

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Democracy Lecture | Discussion with Wendy Brown, Ulrike Beate Guérot, Micha Brumlik (English/German)

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