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Speakers: Nazir Afzal, Barbara Hewson, Helen Reece, Professor Jennifer Temkin | Rape is a heinous crime, and many people believe the conduct and outcome of rape cases insufficiently reflect this heinousness. As a result, rape complainants are treated differently; distinct rules of evidence have been developed; and measures to tackle rape myths are in place. But is all this helpful? Rape is a serious crime but is it a special crime, demanding special treatment? Do our rule of law and fairness pay a price? In this first debate in LSE Department of Law's ‘Debating Law’ series, LSE academic Helen Reece leads a debate on whether or not rape is in this sense special. Nazir Afzal is chief crown prosecutor for CPS North West. Barbara Hewson is a barrister in Hardwicke Chambers. Helen Reece is reader of Law at LSE. Jennifer Temkin is a professor at City Law School. Weds, 30 Oct 2013 GMT

Is Rape Different?

Immigration debate at Festival of Ideas 2013

A Dividing Issue - The Immigration Debate

Speaker(s): Professor Michael Cox | It has become the truism of our age that power is fast ebbing away from a declining West to the East and the "rest". Some indeed predict that the 21st Century will either be Asian or dominated by the so-called BRICs. But how far has this process really gone? Michael Cox is founding co-director of LSE IDEAS and professor of International Relations at LSE. Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Power Shift? The Rise of the Rest and the Decline of the West: facts, myths and economists [Audio]

Do we really need more biographies of Hitler, or are historians currently adding to the wealth of existing literature simply cashing in on continuing public interest in Hitler and World War II? In this seminar on Modern European History, three scholars currently working on studies of the Nazi dictator offer their thoughts, and discuss some of their latest research. With Prof Wolfram Pyta (Stutgart), Prof Brendan Simms (Peterhouse, Cambridge) and Dr Thomas Weber (Aberdeen). Presented by Dr Bernhard Fulda (Sidney Sussex, Cambridge) and recorded at Sidney Sussex College on November 19, 2013.

Why Hitler Needs Revisiting

Speaker(s): Dr Rachel Cooper, Professor Eileen Munro, Professor Emily Simonoff | The classification, identification and treatment of mental illnesses in children raises particular challenges. For example, what are the appropriate criteria for diagnosing children with a mental disorder? How can we avoid the risk of stigmatisation that some children and their families experience? What are the risks of not identifying mental illness in children and how does it impact on their well-being, self-esteem, academic attainment and social development? Is it true that there is an increased tendency towards medicalizing certain behaviours that might once have been seen as normal (if challenging)? To what extent is it possible to predict which children will experience deficits in physical, psychological and social development due to problematic parenting, and what are the implications for public policy decision making? Rachel Cooper is senior lecturer in philosophy at Lancaster University. Eileen Munro is professor of social policy at LSE. Emily Simonoff is professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at King’s College London. Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:30:00 GMT

The Ethics of the Cognitive Sciences: children's pathologies [Audio]

Laura Bates, who founded the Everyday Sexism Project draws attention to the sexism still routinely experienced by women. 

The Project, which was set up to catalogue instances of sexism experienced by women on a day-to-day basis, has become a global phenomenon, carrying thousands of stories from women around the world, and with some 124,000 people following its Twitter feed.

The Everday Sexism Project website can be found here http://everydaysexism.com/.


Everyday Sexism Project

Professor Graeme Barker discusses how recent archaeological research is transforming our understanding of how Homo sapiens became the dominant species on Earth. 

As well as a Fellow of St John’s College, Barker is Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Since 2000, much of his research has focused on two sites where the remains of early, anatomically “modern” humans have been found. These are the Niah Caves in Borneo, and Hauah Fteah, in Libya.

In both cases, large teams of researchers from different disciplines have been using tiny fragments of evidence to piece together a picture of how occupation of the sites developed, and how the landscape and environment shifted over time. This deeper understanding of the interaction between humans and their environment is changing what we know about how humans emerged from Africa and spread across the world. 

These migrations may date back to as long ago as 125,000 years before the present day, but the process itself was by no means as linear as we once thought. Relatively recent studies have shown that Homo Sapiens found itself in competition with other species, including not just Neanderthals, but the likes of Homo floresiensis, the so-called “Hobbit” discovered in 2003. Remarkably, the dispersals themselves also occurred against a backdrop of rapid climate change. How our ancestors coped with this, and why they did so more successfully than other species, is becoming clearer as a result of work at sites such as the Niah Caves and Hauah Fteah. 

“We are beginning to realise that, instead of the idea that we somehow developed as a fully-rounded species and sprang out of Africa fully-formed, much of what we are and who we are developed as part of the journey,” Barker suggested in his talk. “People also tend to see this past as a record of success, but our work shows that people took choices – wise choices, and sometimes foolish choices – and there are cases of extinctions in these caves as well as successes.”

Barker’s next project, commencing in a few weeks, will involve similarly extensive work at Shanidar Cave, in Iraqi Kurdistan – one of the few sites which, at different times, is known to have been occupied by both Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals. 

His presentation was part of a series of monthly talks, given by Fellows and College Research Associates at St John’s College, in which they provide an overview of their academic research. 


Tale Of Two Caves

The absorbing, colourful, and sometimes mysterious history of the oldest manuscript in St John’s College, Cambridge – the Southampton Psalter – is the subject of this talk by Professor Patrick O’Neill. His presentation offers a brisk tour through centuries of history, as it tracks the origins, likely uses and journey of the book from its beginnings in early medieval Ireland, through to its arrival at the College in the 17th century. 

The Story of the Southampton Psalter

Bob Parker, a Johnian and industry expert who has been working in the sector for over 30 years, gave alumni his expert insights into investment and market trends at an event last week. The networking evening at Canary Wharf on May 15 was held for Johnians working in the financial services sector. During an entertaining talk, Mr Parker summarised his thoughts on traps and opportunities for their investment portfolios, including an analysis of recent trends in the global capital markets. Bob Parker came to St John’s College in 1970 and received his BA in Economics in 1973. He is on the Development Committees of St John's College Cambridge and King's College School.

Bob Parker at the Johnians in Finance Networking Event

Dr John Slight, research fellow in History at St John's College, discusses the College and the First World War. This talk was first given at the St John's Donor Day in May, 2014. 

From New Court to France and the wider world

This week: an experiment reveals how professional identity can increase dishonesty in the financial industry, beams of twisted light carry data over Vienna's skyline, how the norovirus could actually benefit the body - and we capture the bumpy moment The European Space Agency’s Philae probe successfully landed on a comet surface.
www.nature.com/nature/index.html

Nature Podcast: 20 November 2014 - dishonest bankers, twisting lights, beneficial bug, comet landing

This week – a newly designed coating that can help cool buildings without the need for electricity, the science of sex laid bare, brain-linked devices attract serious attention from the FDA – and weaknesses in the modern publishing system are exposed as authors are caught reviewing their own papers.
www.nature.com/nature/index.html

Nature Podcast: 27 November 2014 - clever cooling, sexy science, brain implants, peer-review scam

South African English is a rich mix of Afrikaans, English, and indigenous languages such as Zulu and Xhosa. Martha and Grant discuss some favorite terms from that part of the world, including lekker, diski, and ubuntu. Also, where’d we get the term hurt locker and why do we say “pardon my French” after cursing? What’s the difference between supposedly and supposably? And is having a vast vocabulary filled with obscure words really all that important?

Pardon Our French (Full Episode)

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Summary:

With a former supermodel mother and a rock-and-roll legend father, Emma Preston has the best of everything. Nothing is as perfect as it seems though. After her parents divorce, she’s forced to live with her mother in a private Santa Monica community. Ignoring their parental roles, her mother becomes more focused on climbing the social ladder while her father is off on tour. Growing up in a trailer park with his mother, Jesse is used to people looking down on him. When his mother begs him to submit an application for a scholarship to one of Santa Monica’s top private schools, he never expects to actually get it. When he does, he is forced to attend school with a bunch of rich kids. He ignores their stares as they judge him for having tattoos and a less than impressive car.

As long as he has his surfboard and the guys at the tattoo shop, he knows he can make it through. When Jesse shows up on the first day of school, Emma can’t help but be intrigued. Her mother would never approve of Emma talking to someone so poor, but she doesn’t care because something about Jesse draws her to him. Jesse tries to hate Emma, but he discovers that he can’t resist her. Forced to hide their relationship from Emma’s mother and everyone else around them, things start to fall apart. When Jesse’s friend, Ally, decides to interfere, things go from bad to worse. Can they survive their first love? Or will they be left with nothing more than shattered ties?

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Shattered ties by  K.A. Robinson, Narrated by Kirsten Leigh

“A few pickles short of a jar,” “a few peas short of a casserole,” “two French fries short of a Happy Meal”—this week, Martha and Grant discuss these and other full-deckisms, those clever ways to describe someone who falls short in some way. Also, what’s the story behind the old phrase “fish or cut bait”? When does the word it’s have an apostrophe? And is “that’s a good question” really a good response?

Pickle Short Of A Jar (Full Episode)

What do you say if you have guests over and someone in your family has stray food left on the face? In some households, the secret warning is “there’s a gazelle on the lawn.” But why a gazelle? Also, this week: the term for a party to introduce one’s new baby to family and friends, the past tense of the verb “to text”, and why some people use three syllables when pronouncing “realtor.” And did you know there’s a language in which it’s perfectly normal to wash your clothes in Barf?

A Gazelle On The Lawn (Full Episode)

In the 14th Hinsley Memorial lecture – an annual lecture given at St John’s on international relations - Timothy Garton-Ash examines the competing interests vying for control of the internet

International Relations: The Struggle for Power Over the Internet in a Post-American World

It could be argued that over the last 20 years climate science has become synonymous with global warming, but there is so much more to climate science than just climate change. At its roots it is about understanding how the various components of the climate system – the atmosphere, oceans, land surface and ice – work together to give us the regional climates we experience around the world. This lecture will present a personal perspective of how climate science has evolved from meteorology and oceanography, through the application of theory, observations and modeling, to deliver the understanding we now have of how our climate system works and why climate change is arguably one of the greatest challenges facing us in the 21st century.

Biography

Julia Slingo became Met Office Chief Scientist in February 2009 where she leads a team of over 500 scientists working on a very broad portfolio of research that underpins weather forecasting, climate prediction and climate change projections. Since joining the Met Office Julia has sought to integrate the UK community in weather and climate research to ensure that the UK receives maximum benefit from its science investments. She has strengthened the NERC /Met Office Joint Weather and Climate Research Programme to secure the UK’s national capability in observations, modelling and supercomputing, and set in place a unique Academic Partnership with leading universities including Exeter University to advance cutting edge research and bring more of their science through to impact. Before joining the Met Office Julia was the Director of Climate Research in NERC ’s National Centre for Atmospheric Science, at the University of Reading. In 2006 she founded the Walker Institute for Climate System Research at Reading, aimed at addressing the cross disciplinary challenges of climate change and its impacts. Julia has had a long-term career in atmospheric physics and climate science, working at the Met Office, the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the USA . Throughout her career she has brought innovative approaches to understanding and modelling weather and climate. She has developed and used complex weather and climate models to deliver new insights into how the atmosphere and climate system works, as well as significant advances in predictive skill. Her special interests are in tropical weather and climate variability, understanding their influence on the global climate system and their role in monthly to decadal climate prediction.

Development of Climate Science - Professor Dame Julia Slingo

Suppose we have six people at a party. Any two are either friends or strangers. Can we always find three of them who are either mutual friends or mutual strangers? Professor Imre Leader introduces the mathematical theory of ‘order out of chaos’ - we can view the unknown pattern of friendships among the six people as`chaos', the three mutual friends/strangers as a patch of ‘order’ in this chaos.

11 March 2015 Order Out Of Chaos

We are busy people living in a competitive world with stresses from commuting on crowded trains to unpleasant and dangerous news events. How do we remain optimistic and resilient? Professor Barbara J Sahakian (University of Cambridge Department of Psychiatry and MRC/Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute), Dr Jennifer Wild (University of Oxford) and Allison Pearson (The Telegraph) show how to manage stress, get the most out of work and home life and how to successfully overcome problems of anxiety or depression.

12 March 2015 Get The Best Out Of Life - Resilience And Stress Management Organiser

Susan Koger, co-founder and chief creative officer of the online retailer ModCloth, shares lessons that transcend the fashion industry. Reflecting on her startup's early years and challenges along the way, Koger explains how emotion not only connects customers to a brand, it connects a team to the work.

Susan Koger - Find Your Venture's Emotional Core

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