Literary Festival 2011 - Mirrors of Violence: Representations of Conflict in Contemporary Subcontine
Speaker(s): Tahmima Anam, Mirza Waheed | A new generation of writers from the subcontinent has been producing exciting work on the region's armed conflicts. This panel features two such writers: Tahmima Anam, author of A Golden Age, a novel about the 1971 Bangladesh war, and Mirza Waheed, author of The Collaborator, a novel about the ongoing conflict in Kashmir. Anam and Waheed will be in conversation with Sumantra Bose, professor of international and comparative politics at LSE.
Africa's Diasporas: a continental longing for form? [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Ato Quayson | In 2005 the African Union declared the African diaspora to be the sixth region of the continent. But was the concept of ""African Diaspora"" understood correctly at the time? This lecture will offer a more complex definition. It will focus on the difference between dispersion and diaspora, the dynamics of identity formation, the contrasts between Indian Ocean and Atlantic processes of diasporization, and the growth of a mixed-race population. Ato Quayson is
The Future of Finance: The LSE Report [Audio]
Speaker(s): Professor Charles Goodhart, Dr Paul Woolley, Mark Schieritz, Dr Holger Schmieding, Hiltrud Thelen-Pischke, Dr Friedrich Thelen | The Future of Finance report presents a novel approach to the reform of the world's financial system, starting with the basic question, what is a financial system for? It shows that the existing system has become far more complicated than it needs to be to discharge its functions – and dangerously unstable into the bargain. It proposes some drastic remedi
It's all about people [Audio]
Speaker(s): Sheryl Sandberg | We are witnessing the transformation of the web from the information web to the social web. This has profound implications for how people relate to each other, the communities around them and to government and business. Sheryl will discuss how these relationships are changing in a world that is built around social principles and powered by web and mobile technologies. Sheryl Sandberg is Chief Operating Officer at Facebook. She oversees the company's business opera
Lecture 15, June 29
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Numeracy for Professional Purposes (9/10): Presenting Tables and Charts: 1
Numeracy & Quantitative Methods
Numeracy for Professional Purposes
Numeracy for Professional Purposes (10/10): Presenting Tables and Charts: 2
Numeracy & Quantitative Methods
Numeracy for Professional Purposes
From Olympic swimmer to Princess of Monaco
June 28 - South African swimmer Charlene Wittstock is getting ready to marry Prince Albert of Monaco. Gemma Haines reports.
Fancy Feet
Students use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem shoe engineering! Working in small teams, students design, build and test a pair of wearable platform or high-heeled shoes, taking into consideration the stress and strain forces that it will encounter from the shoe wearer. They conclude the activity with a "walk-off" to test their shoe designs and discuss the design process.
Episode 49 - Access Control in the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at @CloudCoverShow. In this episode, Vittorio Bertocci joins Steve as they discuss the role of Windows Azure Access Control in
2.2.1 Positive integers: denary numbers
Computers are all around us: in cars, kitchen scales, digital cameras, etc. But how do they store the data they hold? This unit will help you to understand how the data in a computer represents something in the outside world. You will also explore how ASCII code and Unicode are used to control data.
4.1 Background to Vue
The management of processes or operations is the very essence of any kind of business enterprise, and it is critically important that they are designed and managed well. This course taster uses case studies and models to illustrate the importance of effective operations management and outlines the steps to preparing your own operations proposal.
4.2 Making the most of the Vue video case study
The management of processes or operations is the very essence of any kind of business enterprise, and it is critically important that they are designed and managed well. This course taster uses case studies and models to illustrate the importance of effective operations management and outlines the steps to preparing your own operations proposal.
An audacious plan to save the world
June 30 - Paul Romer talks with Chrystia Freeland about building new cities in the developing world.
Carl - 60 Second Impressions, Further Education Summer School
We are keen to encourage more students at FE colleges to apply to Cambridge and organise specific open days, free summer schools, and other events to enable these students to learn more about studying here.
The FE Summer School is for students aged 16-19 currently studying at Further Education colleges in the UK. It offers a taste of university life and the wide variety of courses available to study at Cambridge. The Summer School includes lectures, practical work and social activities, and par
HP jumps into the tablet war
Jul 1 - HP launches the webOS TouchPad, but analysts wonder if a new operating system will be enough to dent strong iPad sales. Jill Bennett reports.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn released
July 1 - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the IMF, was released on his own recognizance as a sexual assault case against him falls apart. Conway G. Gittens reports.
Interlaminate shear strength test CORE-Materials posted a photo: This resource is a schematic image showing the Interlaminar Shear Strength (ILSS) test used to determine the Interlaminar strength of co
1.6 Keeping up-to-date
The internet provides a world of information, but how do you find what you are looking for? This unit will help you discover the meaning of information quality and teach you how to evaluate the material you come across in your study of technology. You will learn how to plan your searches effectively and be able to experiment with some of the key resources in this area.
