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Liberia's government has launched an investigation into an American charity set up to help vulnerable girls, following a report into how the organisation dealt ...
BBC News
J.M. Coetzee: "Growing Up with The Children's Encyclopedia": Neubauer Collegium Director's Lecture
Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, who served as a faculty member at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought from 1998 to 2003, ...
The University of Chicago
Fragility and Conflict: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Poverty
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World Bank
Impact of the Past - Rana Mitter
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Institute for Advanced Study
The Trouble with US Healthcare
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World Economic Forum
A Brief History of South Africa, with Dave Steward
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Big Think
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YaleCourses
The Holocaust as a Global History
Timothy Snyder Professor, Yale University Annual lecture organised by the Graduate Institute and the Pierre du Bois Foundation for Current History.
The Graduate Institute Geneva
LSE Events | Prof. David Harvey | Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
Recorded on 18 September 2017 If you would like to view this lecture with slides, please visit: https://youtu.be/9qmlxC3NAzY Leading Marxist scholar David ...
LSE
COVID-19 in Africa | A joint media briefing with WHO and WEF
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World Economic Forum
Intimacy in Isolation: How Technologies are Impacting Human Connection During the Pandemic
COVID-19 is challenging that most primal of human instincts — to be together. We're just a few weeks into physical isolation and many are feeling lonely, ...
The Aspen Institute
Burma's Lost Royals | Timeline
In 1885 the British army invaded Burma and deposed its King. He died in exile, ending a thousand years of monarchy. The royal family vanished, and the ...
Timeline - World History Documentaries
A Rock and a Hard Place: New Rules for India and the EU in a Multipolar World | Raisina 2020
With China and the US loudly proposing zero-sum models for globalisation, is it time for the EU, India and others to reject these binaries? Can India and the EU ...
ORF
Stephen Davies on Western Civilization
A crucial part of the self-consciousness of individuals and the way they define themselves socially is a perception of their location in a historical narrative, ...
Mercatus Center
Economic Outlook Hong Kong 2020
Booth's Economic Outlook on “Big Tech, Trade, and the Future of the Economy” took place in Hong Kong on January 15, 2020. Booth professors Randall S.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Persistent Racial Inequality in the U.S. An Economic Theorist's Account - Prof. Glenn C. Loury
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Columbia SIPA
Discrimination in America: African American Experiences
How do African Americans experience discrimination in daily life? A new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the Harvard T.H. ...
Harvard University
8. The Mixed Regime and the Rule of Law: Aristotle's Politics, IV
Introduction to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114) The lecture discusses Aristotle's comparative politics with a special emphasis on the idea of the regime, ...
YaleCourses
Decolonial Daughter: A Roadmap to Liberation | Lesley Ann Brown | TEDxOdenseWomen
"Decolonial Daughter: A Roadmap to Liberation" *This talk contains strong language. Viewer discretion is advised. Lesley Ann Brown Trinidadian-American ...
TEDx Talks
Venezuela relying on China to keep its economy afloat
Brazil, Paulo Cabral, Sao Paulo, unemployment, Economic crisis, Holiday season.
CGTN America
Visions of History: Ways of Seeing the Past
Dr. Steve Davies presents: The way we think about and understand the past shapes the way we view both the present and the future - Orwell's famous slogan ...
Mercatus Center
2017 ICSI Public Lecture: Michael Taussig | The New School
Sponsored by The New School for Social Research (http://newschool.edu/nssr). The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (http://www.criticalsocialinquiry.org) will ...
The New School
Polarised | Who Can Fix the Problem of Polarisation Within the British Labour Party?
With journalist Ayesha Hazarika and former Labour insider Chris Clarke.
The RSA
UPDATED LINK George Mason: The Founding Father Who Gave Us the Bill of Rights
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US National Archives
Homi Bhabha: Translation and Displacement
One of the foremost figures in postcolonial studies, Homi K. Bhabha discusses translation's impact on the construction of social memory, historical narrative, and ...
The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Dr Thomas Asbridge reveals that the outcome of these epic holy wars was decided not on the hallowed ground of Jerusalem, but in Egypt. As trade blossomed ...
BBC Documentary
The Importance of the Five Eyes in an Era of Global Insecurity
At a time of growing international instability, the Five Eyes intelligence arrangements (which brings the UK together with the United States, Australia, Canada ...
PolicyExchangeUK
LSE Events | Prof. David Harvey | Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason (With Slides)
Recorded on 18 September 2017 If you would like to view this lecture without slides, please visit: https://youtu.be/UY4zfJJDO7U Leading Marxist scholar David ...
LSE
Ancient Rome in 20 minutes
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Arzamas
The mental health and other needs of America’s veterans
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Brookings Institution
Prof. Amartya Sen - David Hume and the Demands of Ethics
Nobel Prize laureate Professor Amartya Sen presents a lecture entitled David Hume and the Demands of Ethics. The Professor of Economics and Philosophy at ...
The University of Edinburgh
Scholars' Hub - Jun 11: Reflection, Engagement and Action against Anti-Black Racism in Ontario
Members of the Youth Research and Evaluation Exchange (YouthREX) based at the School of Social Work at York University discuss the current groundswell of ...
YorkU Alumni
The 2019 Holberg Masterclass with Paul Gilroy: "Multiculture or Melancholia?"
Five PhD candidates from Nordic universities are invited to participate in a masterclass with the 2019 Holberg Laureate Paul Gilroy. From a historical perspective ...
Holberg Prize
The Stream - Birth tourism delivers a new generation of US citizens
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Al Jazeera English
Transdisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, Reductive Disciplinarity, and Deep Disciplinarity
Dr. Robert Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, gives the keynote talk at the ...
Emory University
Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari
What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail ...
TED
Marshall McLuhan 1974 - Full lecture Living in an Acoustic World | University of South Florida
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mywebcowtube
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VCUarts
Land of hope: A book event with Wilfred McClay | LIVE STREAM
Recent polling suggests that Americans are deficient in their knowledge of US history and concerned about their children's historical education. Part of the ...
American Enterprise Institute
Please stop helping us: How liberals make it harder for blacks to succeed | LIVE STREAM
Have progressive policies aimed at improving the prospects of black people in America worked? Have noble intentions borne fruit, or have they harmed ...
American Enterprise Institute
How The Entire World Came Together For WW2 | History Hit LIVE on Timeline
We often speak about the brave efforts from both British and American soldiers in the Second World War, but this was not a British nor American war, but a global ...
Timeline - World History Documentaries
"The Stack: Design and Geopolitics in the Age of Planetary-Scale Computing"
Benjamin Bratton Public Lecture October 29, 2014 From NSA surveillance to Jihadist social media and the Sino-Google Wars, computation has become more ...
Institute for the Humanities
