Gender and the Hindu Right in India [Audio]
Speaker(s): Nishrin Jafri Hussain, Angana P. Chatterji, Meena Kandasamy | In the context of the forthcoming Indian elections in which the current Chief Minister of Gujarat, Narendra Modi is the Prime Ministerial candidate of the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, a panel of human rights campaigners and academics will discuss the key questions surrounding the issues of gender and the Hindu Right. Dr Angana P. Chatterji is a cultural anthropologist and human rights specialist. In 2005, she c
Peacebuilding: what is it and why is it important? [Audio]
Speaker(s): Judy Cheng-Hopkins | Peacebuilding has become a buzzword over the past decade. Yet, there are many diverging ideas of what peacebuilding is and what it entails. The United Nations is not exempt from such uncertainty, diverging interpretations, and misunderstandings, as well as the resulting conceptual and practical debates. Assistant secretary-general for peacebuilding support, Judy Cheng-Hopkins, will seek to outline the concept of peacebuilding, its practical significance, and tran
A Question of Law [Audio]
Speaker(s): Dr Chaloka Beyani, Professor Julia Black, Professor Emily Jackson, Dr Peter Ramsay | Should we be allowed the right to die? Can the UK do more to prevent international human rights abuses? What can the law do to prevent another recession? Are juries worth having? Tweet your questions to @LSELaw using #LSElaw. Chaloka Beyani is United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons. Julia Black is director of the Law and Financial Markets Project. Emily
p14 Trust Hierarchy
p14 Trust Hierarchy
Jon Rubin and "Conflict Kitchen"
In this Civic Media Lunch, the MIT Center for Civic Media welcomed Jon Rubin, co-creator of Conflict Kitchen, a Pittsburgh restaurant (and art project) that serves food only from countries the U.S. is in conflict with.
Read a full write-up: http://civic.mit.edu/blog/rahulb/civic-lunch-jon-rubin-on-conflict-kitchen
"They stuck a facade onto the building (cleverly getting around permitting issues). Now they run two restaurants out of one kitchen. Now that this project has moved out over the
Kent State President Beverly Warren Reflects on Her First 100 Days
Kent State University President Beverly Warren speaks at the Fall 2014 Bowman Breakfast. Her presentation is titled “Reflections on 100 Days as Kent State President and Kent Resident.”
Superconductivity -- alchemy for the 21st Century?
An exciting talk and demonstration about superconductivity and its potential practical applications by Ben Williams, Oxford Physics. Superconductivity is a weird property of some materials that has exciting applications both in the lab and outside, in new technologies. The only problem is, we don't quite know what makes superconductivity work! In this talk, you'll see superconductivity in action and find out how, just like modern-day alchemists, physicists are looking to turn the mundane into th
Theatre of Cruelties - Lecture 3: Geneva and the French Reformation
Theatre of Cruelties - Lecture 3: Geneva and the French Reformation
Pro Russian Serbian volunteers help patrol Crimea roads
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Serbian pro-Russian volunteers arrive in Crimea to help local self-defence groups patrol the region's roads. Rough Cut. (No Reporter Narration).
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Crude Reality: Why High Oil Prices Are Here to Stay
Oil prices swung wildly this week, rising to near 30-month highs after Saudi Arabia sent troops to Bahrain, then plummeting to less than $100 a barrel on expectations that an earthquake-ravaged Japan would demand less oil. The ride is not over yet, experts say. There may be ups and downs, but long term, high oil prices are here to stay. On top of volatility caused by natural catastrophes and political upheavals, a tight oil supply and increasing demand promise to keep driving prices up steadil
Emil Archambault, 2014 Concordia Valedictorian
Emil Archambault
Valedictorian, The Liberal Arts College Prize
Community: Season 5 | Talks at Google
The cast of NBC's "Community" stops by the Googleplex to answer questions from Human Beings. Jim Rash, Allison Brie, and Danny Pudi were joined by co-showrunner Chris McKenna. The talk was filmed in GoogleLA on March 5th, 2014, and moderated by Cliff Redeker of the Talks at Google team.
You can find Community on Google Play: http://goo.gl/fR1AVC
The cast hosted a subsequent Hangout on Google+: http://goo.gl/5czEtP
University of Surrey Learning Skills portal
The University of Surrey Skills Portal is a classified collection of quality materials designed to enable students to develop information literacy, research and study skills. It has been built using Openly licensed resources including several from Leeds Metropolitan University.
Introduction The aim of Managing Projects through People is to demonstrate the importance of managing people for the success of a project, to identify groups and individuals whose appropriate involvement in a project is important for its success, and to consider ways in which their contribution might be maximised. This material is from our archive and is an adapted extract from Fundamentals of Senior Management (B713) which is no longer taught by The Open University. If you want to study form
Advanced Graduate Seminar 2 SAQs Read the following account and then state which strategy from Table 1.1 it best fits. While freezing is lethal for most organisms, one group of organisms is unaffected by it. Water-bears or tardigrades (p 1.1.3 Activités 2 et 3 Listen to Extract 40 in which you ask Christine where three places are. Speak after each prompt. The first one has been done as an example. Écoutez l'extrait 40 et parlez dans les pauses. Enterprise in the sports industry POL342 Politics of the Middle East #09 Sp14 Complex Systems, Emergence and God
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This presentation discusses Drucker's thesis that failure is a "good thing" if the opportunities that arise from such failure allow the development of personal and enterprise skills
Politics of the Middle East with Hamoud Salhi
Guest: David Lloyd-Author/Professor, UC Riverside
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