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Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History in the department, gives his perspective of the Crimean crisis.
Dr Alan James and current student Rachel Blackman talk about the department's MA History of Warfare. 
Jayne Peake provides details of next week's events. 
Presented by Dr Peter Busch 
 DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this podcast are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.

2013/14 podcasts: Russia & Crimea: past & present

C. Christine Fair discusses her new book with Theo Farrell, 'Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War'

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Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War

The work of master economist John Maynard Keynes has been key in the resolution of successive crises from the Great Depression to the recent global financial crisis. An IMF economist gives an overview of the man, his ideas and their impact on economic policy.

The Long Life of Keynesian Economics

Eliot Higgins, known by his online pseudonym Brown Moses, talks to MA graduate Gus Constantinou about his open source intelligence methods that he used in analysing recent events like the 2013 attacks in Syria.
We also have a conversation between our Head of Department Professor Theo Farrell and Dr C Christine Fair of Georgetown University about her new book 'Fighting to Win: the Pakistani Army's Way of War' (Oxford University Press 2014).
Jayne Peake and our new media intern and MA student Charlie de Rivaz talk about next week's events.
Presented by Dr Peter Busch
DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in these podcasts are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.

Brown Moses on Open Source Intelligence / Dr Christine Fair on Pakistan's army

Despite his reputation as the father of greedy capitalism, Adam Smith did a great deal of thinking about the human condition and how to be a better, more generous person. One economist believes that Smith could change your life.

Listen to Russ Roberts on economics as entertainment: 


The World According to Adam Smith

From the New Line feature film CYBER WARS, starring Genevieve O'Reilly, David Warner, Luoyong Wang and Joan Chen.  Directed by Jian Hong Kuo and written by Christopher Hatton. Music composed by Jonathan Price.

Julius

Exit Vegas by Mindzai

On Sigmund Freud's On Dreams (1902), a bit of The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), and the lecture, “Revision of the Theory of Dreams” (1933).

Are dreams just a bunch of random crap? Freud says, no, they're actually the first and best way to figure out the structure of the mind, which (surprise) involves the unconscious and how repressed, anti-social desires get (sort of) revealed to us, albeit smashed together through chains of association with what seems like random crap.

How can Freud support such a view? Is it science? What are its implications for our capacity to philosophize? Mark, Wes, Seth, and Dylan are here to sort of hint at telling you, but in a repressed sort of way. Read more about the topic and get the texts. Sign up to attend the Aftershow on Sun., 6/7, 3pm Eastern.

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Freud on Dreams (Part 1)

On Thursday, March 3, 2016, the Ash Center hosted a conversation entitled "The Path to Denmark: How Do Societies Develop Control of Corruption?” with Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany as part of its Comparative Democracy Seminar Series. The event was moderated by Sultan of Oman Associate Professor of International Relations Tarek Masoud.

The Path to Denmark: How Do Societies Develop Control of Corruption? | AshCast

Poem #26 in my 2016 National Poetry Month project ARTSPEAK! Plant. Grow. Eat. This poem inspired by "Madame Monet and her Son" by Auguste Renoir. Read the poem and others in the series at http://irenelatham.blogspot.com/2016/04/artspeak-2016-poem-26-sunday-afternoon.html.

ARTSPEAK! 2016: "Sunday Afternoon" a poem Irene Latham

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This motivational Video and speech is about how to create your own path, how to come up with ways you can better your self, this is a compilation of speeches for life and success, I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom - how great is that? 

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Create Your On Path - Motivational Speech For Success In Life 2017

Ten years ago this week, on December 30, 2006, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed. Hussein was toppled soon after the U.S. invasion began in 2003. We continue our conversation with former CIA analyst John Nixon, author of the new book, "Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein."

CIA Interrogator Reveals Saddam Hussein Predicted Rise of ISIS & U.S. Failure in Iraq

Join us every Thursday this May for "A Benson Home Companion" at Barley St. Tavern! We'll be paying tribute to A Prairie Home Companion with live music, storytelling, comedy, poetry, and $1 beers! 

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What Do The Words Mean Though

In this episode, Michaela Boehm hosts a Q&A at her Wild Woman's Way Retreat at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. 

Topics include:

•Women’s practice and the unique energetics of a woman’s body
•The effects of the demands of modern life on a woman’s body•Pleasure as a woman’s birthright
•How to deal with an awakening of your sexual energy
•Keys to unlocking embodiment
•What to do with excess sexual energy
•How to infuse a house or a business with living energy
•Channeling energy into creativity
•Combining with nature to recycle your energy 
•Using your energy to call in your future partner 
•Defining your ideal man and clarifying your desire for a future partner 
•Don’t date potential
•How to actually use lists to call in a partner
•Non-negotiables in selecting a partner 
•Michaela’s advice for men
•Don’t go to the supermarket hungry
•Advice for casual sex
•The unprecedented choice that modern women enjoy
•The oxytocin high and the power of hormones
•Female vs male experiences of oxytocin 
•Hooking a man with sex
•How to bond a man to you 
•The number one factor for a successful long term relationship
•How to kill a relationship 
•How to tell if your movement expression is authentic or a copycat?•Discipline vs spontaneity
•How women learn 
•The world of women in tribal culture
•High agreeableness and the urge to be accepted
•The juxtaposition of the tribal sisterhood and modern competition•Edge pushing is not conducive to integration 
•Effective learning strategies that stick
•How to give your man feedback with generosity
•The double bind of unreasonable female expectation

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Michaela Boehm Podcasts

Episode #20: Finding a Man, Oxytocin and the Sisterhood

Prize-winning novelist Michèle Roberts, author of the recent pamphlet ‘Silly Lady Novelists?’, chairs a discussion about whether, in a supposedly post-feminist world, female writers are free to write openly about sex and gender or whether new constraints now operate on the imagination. Patricia Duncker is a novelist and academic. In 'Seven Tales of Sex and Death' she explores obsession, violence and the thin line between sex and death. Eimear McBride’s debut novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, won the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize and the 2014 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Born in England and brought up in Jamaica, Leone Ross is a novelist, journalist and academic. Her first short-story collection, 'Come Let Us Sing Anyway', was published in June.

Please note this talk contains adult themes.

Women writing about sex

Marking the 350th anniversary of the birth of Jonathan Swift, often seen as a founder of modern satire, four writers discuss contemporary satire in the light of Swift’s legacy. Revered as one of the fathers of modern satire, Swift is one of our most enigmatic, ambiguous and disturbing writers. In a conversation chaired by the novelist Jonathan Coe, author of a new version of Gulliver’s Travels for eight-yearolds, the panel attempts to pick apart the contradictions in Swift’s political positions, and to consider his continuing relevance: can he be claimed either for the Left or for the Right, and can his ‘savage indignation’ still pack a punch, when modern political reality seems to outstrip satire at every turn? Comedian and impressionist Rory Bremner is noted for his work in political satire. Judith Hawley is Professor of Eighteenth century Literature at Royal Holloway. Martin Rowson’s satirical cartoons appear regularly in The Guardian and the Daily Mirror. He is the author of a comic-book adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels. Sathnam Sanghera is the author of Marriage Material: A Novel and The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton.

Satire in an age of madness

Tracy Chevalier was catapulted to fame with the publication of her second novel in 1999. Girl with a Pearl Earring, inspired by Vermeer’s portrait of the same name, sold five million copies worldwide and was made into a film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson. Chevalier has a particular way of approaching visual art. Easily overcome by ‘gallery fatigue’, she makes a quick tour of an exhibition, before returning to spend time with the one or two paintings – very often portraits – that have struck her most forcibly. Then she allows her imagination to work on them until stories begin to emerge. In a conversation illustrated by slides, Chevalier speaks to writer, journalist and broadcaster Nicolette Jones, shares some of her favourite paintings and reflects on the tales they tell.

We are grateful to the National Portrait Gallery, our partner for this event.

Heads And Tales

In the run up to the LSE Festival: Beveridge 2.0, rethinking the welfare state for the 21st Century, we bring together a panel to discuss the relationship between literature and poverty. They reflect on questions such as: do you need money to access literature? If not, why are there comparatively few working-class writers? And can literature actively play a part in reducing financial hardship? Kit de Waal, author of My Name is Leon and editor of the forthcoming Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers will be joined by playwright, novelist and short story writer Paul McVeigh and Aaron Reeves, Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the LSE, whose work looks at the causes and consequences of social, economic and cultural inequality. The conversation will be chaired by journalist Sarah Shaffi.

Can literature solve poverty?

Novelist and journalist Hari Kunzru is the author of The Impressionists, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men and White Tears. His work has been translated into twenty languages. In 2003, he caused a sensation when he turned down the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize on the grounds that it was backed by the Mail on Sunday, whose ‘hostility towards black and Asian people’ he regarded as unacceptable. The same year he was named by Granta one of twenty ‘Best of Young British Novelists’. In a conversation with Lisa Appignanesi, Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, he reflects on what literature means to us; whether its meaning changes when you develop from a reader into a writer; and whether fiction should have political ramifications.

Literature Matters: Identity and idealism

Writer-director Matthew Brown, whose credits include “In the Treetops” and “Elk Garden,” joins Sean Tuohy on the show to discuss his latest film “Maine.” "Maine" was featured at 2018’s Tribeca Film Festival and stars Laia Costa and Thomas Mann.

Episode 337: ‘Maine’ Writer-Director Matthew Brown

New year, new rep report! Our latest edition looks at the annual mainstay of the restoration calendar, To Save and Project at the Museum of Modern Art—featuring everything from Chantal Akerman to Nude on the Moon—as well as a wide-ranging survey of the city symphony film at Anthology Film Archives. And on the new release side of the episode, we play catch-up with the likes of Welcome to Marwen and more. Joining Film Comment Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold this time were our regulars from Screen Slate, its founder Jon Dieringer and FC contributing editor and independent programmer Nellie Killian; and two colleagues from the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Programming Assistant Maddie Whittle and Digital Marketing Manager Jordan Raup, also founder of The Film Stage.

The Rep Report #4

The first single off my new upcoming full-length album, "For You Pretty Things".
Coming February 2013!

This track was produced by Fresh Kils.

Invincible (feat El Da Sensei)

"We're Gonna Drink A Lot Of Wine This Year, Boys", is my brand new mixtape with DJ Jon Deck!

This is the full mix, featuring guests spots from Muneshine, Timbuktu, Ambition, Apt, Chokeules, Swamp Thing, Wordburglar, Jesse Dangerously, and Torae! Showcasing production from Juju (Beatnuts), Bix, General Mills & Petey Punch, The Returners, Apt, and even myself.

Click the buy link for a "Name Your Price" download of this mixtape exclusively from Bandcamp.

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TRACKLIST:

01) Pop Corks [intro] 
02) High Key [EXCLUSIVE] 
03) Roofless 
04) Sweet Berry Wine [interlude] 
05) I'm Loaded [EXCLUSIVE] 
06) Value Village [EXCLUSIVE] 
07) Gustav Klimt [EXCLUSIVE] 
08) Ice Wine 
09) Keep it G [EXCLUSIVE] 
10) Grapez [EXCLUSIVE] 
11) C.H.U.D. I AM [feat. Swamp Thing][EXCLUSIVE] 
12) The Return [feat. Muneshine & Torae] 
13) Bottle of Wine Glass [interlude] 
14) Keep Goin' 
15) Eight Ways [EXCLUSIVE] 
16) Purple [feat. Ambition] 
17) Tech Wall [EXCLUSIVE] 
18) Leave the Radio On When You Leave [interlude] 
19) Hurtin' [feat. Chokeules, Timbuktu, Wordburglar & Jesse Dangerously] 
20) Zanzibar [feat. Timbuktu][EXCLUSIVE] 
21) I Like to Think About Wine [outro] 
22) Kill a Good Year [feat. Apt] [bonus][EXCLUSIVE]

Mixed, Scratched & Chopped by JON DECK

Ghettosocks & DJ Jon Deck - We're Gonna Drink A Lot Of Wine This Year, Boys (Mixtape)

As a six-week election campaign in the UK begins officially today, London editor Denis Staunton talks to foreign editor Chris Dooley about the various parties contesting the race, what their goals are, what challenges they face and, of course, how the Brexit factor plays into it all.

UK Election: The Parties, The Leaders & Their Goals, Explained - with Denis Staunton

Founded in 1820, the RSL acts as a voice for the value of literature, honouring and supporting emerging and established writers whilst creating a bridge between authors and audiences of all backgrounds and experiences to engage as many people as possible with the wealth of literature in the UK.

Satire in an age of madness

Royal Society Literature