LSE Asia Forum - 14:00 - 14:50 (Chinese Translation) - Plenary session: Climate change and economic
The fifth LSE Asia Forum took place in Beijing on 25-26 March 2010 with the support of the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS). The Forum addressed a wide range of issues of deep interest to policymakers and wider society, under a general theme relating to the recent challenges and changes that have affected the global economy. A key focus of the Forum was on the role of China in tackling the recent challenges, and what lessons can be learnt for the future. 114:00 - 14:50 - Plenary s
LSE Asia Forum - 15:30 - 17:00 (Chinese Translation) - Plenary session: Health care: trust, mistrust
The fifth LSE Asia Forum took place in Beijing on 25-26 March 2010 with the support of the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS). The Forum addressed a wide range of issues of deep interest to policymakers and wider society, under a general theme relating to the recent challenges and changes that have affected the global economy. A key focus of the Forum was on the role of China in tackling the recent challenges, and what lessons can be learnt for the future. 15:30 - 17:00 - Plenary se
Public Health Emergencies: The Common Thread
Dr. Fred (Skip) Burkle, MD, MPH is a Senior Fellow with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a Visiting Scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a Senior Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC, Professor, Department of Community Emergency Health, Monash University Medical School, Melbourne, Australia, Senior Associate Faculty, Department of International Health and the Center for Refugee & Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins
The Long Road Home from Iraq "The Long Road Home from Iraq" Dr. Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize winning author of God: A Biography and bestselling sequel Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, was MacArthur Fellow 2002-2007, and in 2008 joined UCI as Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies. A Senior Fellow in Religion and International Affairs of the Pacific Council, Jack observes that since tribalism and religious interests in the Sunni, Shia, and Kurds take precedence over any sense
Has Political Correctness Really Gone Mad?
Has Political Correctness Really Gone Mad?
International Multilateral Negotiation
The seminar focuses on negotiated decision-making in multilateral settings. It will survey process issues such as: the differences between bilateral and multilateral negotiations, the particular problems of negotiations involving a very large number of parties, the complexities of issue-linkage, managed negotiation processes, the role of coalitions, conference diplomacy, treaty negotiations, knowledge in negotiation, etc. These topics will be discussed in the context of case studies dealing with
Georgian Britain - political identity
Georgian Britain - political identity
Leesburg Parade
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ABC Sing a Long
This is a basic video for Alphabet recognition. It displays the words on the bottom of screen and each letter and words are highlighted as it is sung (2:25).
The Great Civilizations of South and Central America: Mayans
The Mayans built some of the massive pyramids that still stand today. They created a very accurate calendar, and were a very advanced civilization. Unfourtunately, much of their knowledge that were written in books were burned by the Spanish who thought they were based on superstition. This video explains some of the exceptional accomplishments of the Mayans. (02:46)
GoNU.TV Game Recap - Men's Basketball vs. George Mason - January 12, 2011
George Mason forward Ryan Pearson scored 24 points and grabbed six rebounds to lead the Patriots to an 86-60 win over Northeastern in Colonial Athletic Association men's basketball action on Wednesday night at Matthews Arena. Sophomore guards Jonathan Lee and Joel Smith each netted 16 points for the Huskies.
Lecture 18 - 11/30/2010
Lecture 18
Terrorism and Political Violence in Spain
Terrorism and Political Violence in Spain
A Brief Look at the History of Passover
This video explains the history of Passover and how it came to be as the Jews escaped the Egyptians. Good video and easy to follow. A word wall might be a good idea as many words are used that may need more explanation.  04:37 run time.
Theatre of Cruelties - Seminar 9: Political Violence and Tyrannicide
Theatre of Cruelties - Seminar 9: Political Violence and Tyrannicide
What About Women?
Women’s votes will determine the result of this closely fought election and all the parties have mounted a media charm offensive to win their support. But is there any policy substance behind their spin? What would the parties' policies in key areas such as the economy, the family, crime and reforming politics mean for women’s lives and which party would best progress women’s equality and human rights?
Shared, Collective, Generative, Dynamic Virtual Environments - Geneve
In this project we plan to create an experimental novel medium setup for the study of the ?presence? experience in shared, collective, generative, dynamic virtual environments (GENEVEs) in order to study the cross interactions between a given GENEVE and/among its creators/users and to explore the logic of presence in each GENEVE. The new shareable / generative media will try to add personal creativity and social dimension to telefruition of contents. For the European Industry having a leading ed
The Art of Emergence
Since several years, the term emergence is mentioned in the paradigm of chaos and complexity. Following this approach, complex system constituted by multitude of individual develop global behavioral properties on the base of local chaotic interactions (self-organization). These theories, developed in scientific and philosophical milieus are rapidly spreading as a "way of thinking" in the several fields of cognitive activities. According to this "way of thinking" it is possible revise some fundam
Computer Visualisation as a Tool in Architectural Historical Research
The historical city has been represented over time using various ways of drawing, modelling and simulation. Using different kinds of visual information as a basis, computer visualisation techniques are used in this presentation to reconstruct the urban development in the twentieth century of the town of Heusden and other towns. The resulting visualisation provides us with a tool for a better understanding of the dynamics of urban transformation processes, typologies and morphological changes. Th
