New Political Science videos from worldwide Universities: conferences and seminars
Future Forum -- How Will the Asian Century Shape Australia's Future?
Future Forum -- How Will the Asian Century Shape Australia's Future? Is the first in a series produced by ABC News 24 with ANU, looking at the big issues that will confront the nation a decade from now.
Australian National University
Social Movements in the Age of the Internet
Speaker(s): Professor Manuel Castells - Chair: Professor Terhi Rantanen
How are Social Movements shaped by the availability of horizontal communication networks based on the Internet and wireless communication? How can indignation become collective action by the connection between neural networks, digital social networks and urban networks? Which are the cultural and political consequences of these developments?
London School of Economics
Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War
Joshua Sanborn, professor of history and chair of Russian and East European studies at Lafayette College, gives a lecture on the career and importance of Mikhail Gorbachev in advance of Gorbachev's visit to Lafayette in celebration of Lafayette's new Oechsle Center for Global Education. .
Lafayette College
How First Responding has Changed in a Post 9/11 Society
The 10th anniversary of 9/11 allows us time to reflect on how things have changed in the way we respond to disasters. A panel involving first responders in the field as well as emergency management specialists at the local and federal levels discuss how their roles as emergency first responders have changed as a result of 9/11 and in general in the past ten years.
Missouri State University
New Political Science videos from worldwide Universities: courses
Political Science 30: Politics and Strategy, UCLA
Taught by UCLA's Professor Kathleen Bawn, this courses is an introduction to study of strategic interaction in political applications. Use of game theory and other formal modeling strategies to understand politics are also studied in order to gain a better understanding of politics at large. Winter 2008. Videos:
19
Duration:
21 hours
UCLA
The HotSeat The LSE Government Department HotSeat is a monthly video and podcast series in which leading LSE academics are interviewed on current political issues. Videos:
29
Duration:
4 hours
London School of Economics
Dahrendorf Symposium: Europe as Social Space The Dahrendorf Symposium takes place 9-10 November 2011 in Berlin. In this short film, Professor Chetan Bhatt and Dr Hakan Seckinelgin, both of LSE, discuss how the new Europe calls for a new conception of the European social space. As open borders within Europe change our sense of what it means to be a migrant, new - and troubling - definitions of "European" are emerging. For more information, and details of the Symposium, see:
http://www.dahrendorf-symposium.eu/
