LSE Literary Weekend - I Shall Die by Inches: Contemporary Approaches to Death and Dying
'All but death' wrote Emily Dickinson 'can be adjusted', and yet, the cold fact that bodies must eventually die only serves to hide the reality of death as a contested cultural domain, where competing notions of public and private, tradition and innovation, individual and collective, are played out, and discourses within literature, art, jurisprudence, medicine, religion, and politics all stake their claim to knowledge of the great unknown. This talk will illuminate the social aspects of death
Howard Davies in Conversation with Lord Goldsmith QC
The separation of powers idea is at the heart of all legal democracies. Yet within those democracies there will often be positions of high office which require their holders to perform functions which are both legal and political. In this series of events senior figures who hold or have held positions of this type talk about their lives in the law, the nature of their office, the institutions which they serve, their roles and responsibilities within those institutions, the role of lawyers in gov
A Broken Middle East: a wasted decade of war on terror
Today's Middle East is broken. The crisis of prolonged authoritarianism and failed economic policies have caused chronic poverty, pervasive corruption and the rise of extremism in Arab societies. A wasted decade of war on terror has reinforced widely held perceptions that the West is waging a crusade against Islam and Muslims. Fawaz Gerges is a professor of Middle Eastern politics and international relations at LSE.
Geopolitics and Imperialism: the British Empire and Halford Mackinder 1890-1940
It was perhaps no coincidence that Halford Mackinder, the most famous exponent of geopolitical theory, wrote his seminal essay in 1904 when British world power seemed on the verge of a secular crisis. This lecture examines how far the insights contained in Mackinder's four major works explain the geopolitical fortunes of the British world system in its age of blood and iron.
Living in an era of global terror
In this podcast, Professor Richard Aldrich from the School of Politics and International Relations, discusses the impact of globalisation, the opportunities this affords to global terrorists and the challenges faced by the intelligence services. Globalisation has led to a free flow of money, people and ideas, which has benefited many people in the West in recent years and enhanced our standard of living, but the price paid is a reduction in security. As we see a shift towards a de-regulated glob
Role plays and simulations for modules on Spanish politics and society
Role plays and simulations for modules on Spanish politics and society
British Parliament - elections and voting
British Parliament - elections and voting
British Parliament - The Revolutions of 1688-9
British Parliament - The Revolutions of 1688-9
British Parliament - politics in the age of Anne
British Parliament - politics in the age of Anne
Georgian Britain - the second British Empire
Georgian Britain - the second British Empire
British Parliament: The Age of Oligarchy, Jacobites and Opposition Politics
British Parliament: The Age of Oligarchy, Jacobites and Opposition Politics
British Parliament: George III and the politicians
British Parliament: George III and the politicians
British Parliament: Radicalism, 1760-90
British Parliament: Radicalism, 1760-90
British Parliament: Print and Politics
British Parliament: Print and Politics
British Parliament: The French Revolution and British Politics
British Parliament: The French Revolution and British Politics
British Parliament: Whigs and Tories, 1780-1832
British Parliament: Whigs and Tories, 1780-1832
British Parliament: Electoral Politics in the Age of Reform
British Parliament: Electoral Politics in the Age of Reform
British Parliamentary and Electoral Politics, 1688-1832.
British Parliamentary and Electoral Politics, 1688-1832.
Students Politics in Toulouse
Students Politics in Toulouse
Acknowledgements
Britain was the first country to industrialise, and it acquired the largest empire ever during this same period. But its sphere of economic influence extended far beyond the boundaries of the formal British Empire. This unit focuses on the economics of empire, using a case study of one town, Dundee in eastern Scotland, to explore this huge topic.
