category
social sciences
(total: 210)
available lectures| Title | Speaker(s) | Location/Host | Date | Duration | Added | Tradition and Modernity: The Making of Whitman College | Demitri Porphyrios | Princeton | 01:09:09 | The history of death and dying | Allan Kellehear | University of Bath | 00:57:13 | Jessica Flannery @ Pop!Tech 2007 | Jessica Flannery | Pop!Tech | 00:21:37 | Van Jones @ Pop!Tech 2007 | Van Jones | Pop!Tech | 00:23:12 | Victoria Hale @ Pop!Tech 2007 | Victoria Hale | Pop!Tech | 00:22:40 | Paul Polak @ Pop!Tech 2007 | Paul Polak | Pop!Tech | 00:21:18 | Education Fellows @ Pop!Tech 2006 | Education Fellows | Pop!Tech | 00:43:26 | Alex Steffen @ Pop!Tech 2006 | Alex Steffen | Pop!Tech | 00:21:38 | New Public Policy Perspectives and the Power of Engaged Citizens | Robert B. Reich; David L. Kirp; Carol Chetkovich | Berkeley | 01:04:03 | The Death of Environmentalism | Michael Pollan | Berkeley | 01:25:39 | Judging Forestry: Courts, the Constitution, Competence, and Conservation | Marc L. Kesselman | Berkeley | 01:26:44 | Harnessing Markets for Social Change: The Case for Fair Trade | Paul Rice | Amherst | 00:27:40 | The Sandbox Investment: Kids-First Politics | Kathleen McCartney, David Kirp, Mica Pollock, Jack Shonkoff | Harvard | 01:28:36 | Are Solicitors' Lives Necessarily Boring? | Stephen Cretney | London School of Economics | 00:42:00 | Cash In - Carbon Out | Michael Mainelli, Martin Wolf, Abyd Karmali, Ralf Martin, Jan-Peter Onstwedder, Sam Frankhauser | London School of Economics | 01:40:00 | The Divergence of the Bottom Billion | Paul Collier | London School of Economics | 01:27:00 | Can the Welfare State Work in a Globalising World? | President Tarja Halonen | London School of Economics | 01:05:00 | The Wonderful World of Punditry | Leonard Pitts Jr. | Georgia Perimeter College | 01:11:25 | Evolution & the Social Sciences | Glynis Breakwell | University of Bath | 02:02:30 | Schmentoring: Mentoring Gone Askew--with Even Better Results | Edward Tenner | Amherst | 00:58:39 | Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women | Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting | Center for New Words | 01:09:55 | Sexuality and the Internet | Audacia Ray | Center for New Words | 00:30:43 | Risking Hope: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars | Cristina Rathbone | Center for New Words | 00:58:59 | Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is | Abigail Garner | Center for New Words | 01:08:50 | Dan Rather on the Evolution of the Press | Dan Rather, Tom Johnson | Atlanta Press Club | 00:52:34 | Letters to a Young Teacher | Jonathan Kozol | Cambridge Forum | 01:11:19 | Does Parenting Contribute to Achievement Gaps? | Ronald Ferguson, Richard Murnane, Jelani Mandara | Harvard | 00:56:12 | Stopping Mass Atrocities: An International Conference on the Responsibility to Protect | Roméo Dallaire | Berkeley | 01:22:41 | Hispanics, Immigration and Politics | Maria Echaveste | Berkeley | 00:58:40 | Golden Apple Award | Leon Litwack | Berkeley | 01:26:01 | Global Warming: A Time to Act (Cap & Trade Conference) | Dianne Feinstein | Berkeley | 00:52:30 | The Past, Present, and Future of Food | Michael Pollan | Berkeley | 02:04:05 | A Talking Cure for Assimilation? Siegfried Bernfeld and the Politics of Jewish Orphan Care in Vienna | Sharon Gillerman | Center for Jewish History | 00:25:12 | The New Great Transformation | Paul Hawken | Long Now Foundation | 01:12:15 | Contracts Reference Points and the Theory of the Firm | Oliver Hart | London School of Economics | 01:19:00 | Morality and Media in the 21st Century - a panel in celebration of the work of Professor Roger Silverstone | Charlie Beckett | London School of Economics | 01:28:00 | When Values Conflict: How citizens stakeholders and experts contributed to formulating policy for managing the UK's radioactive waste | Lawrence Phillips | London School of Economics | 01:20:00 | Morality and Media in the 21st Century - a panel in celebration of the work of Professor Roger Silverstone | Daniel Dayan, Richard Sambrook | London School of Economics | 01:28:00 | Psychology as Social Science | Nikolas Rose | London School of Economics | 02:00:00 | Morality and Media in the 21st Century - a panel in celebration of the work of Professor Roger Silverstone | Robin Mansell, Stan Cohen, Lilie Chouliaraki | London School of Economics | 01:28:00 | Development Governance and the Media: the role of the media in building African society | Gerald Milward-Oliver | London School of Economics | 01:37:00 | Sustaining Growth and promoting inclusion in India's Economy and Society | Nicholas Stern | London School of Economics | 01:38:00 | Global Warming and the Political Economy of Cities | Saskia Sassen | London School of Economics | 01:25:00 | Development Governance and the Media: the role of the media in building African society | James Deane | London School of Economics | 01:37:00 | Financing Sustainable Urban Development | Hari Sankaran | London School of Economics | 01:34:21 | Liquidity Asset Prices and Market Efficiency | Jiang Wang | London School of Economics | 01:09:00 | Globilisation and Welfare | Paul Krugman | London School of Economics | 01:31:00 | Development Governance and the Media: the role of the media in building African society | Mark Wilson | London School of Economics | 01:37:00 | Is the 'Rule of Law' Good for Cities? | Gerald Frug | London School of Economics | 01:14:00 | Reclaiming Citizenship: Public Service for Public Good | Michael Dukakis | American U in Cairo | 00:44:42 | Does a Journalist Change the World or Does the World Change the Journalist? | Mona Eltahawy | American U in Cairo | 00:42:45 | Transforming American Healthcare | Bill Bradley | Arizona State | 00:54:00 | The New American Cooking | Joan Nathan | Library of Congress | 00:36:00 | A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes and Remembrances | Laura Schenone | Library of Congress | 00:39:00 | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man | John Perkins | Library of Congress | 01:04:00 | Taming the Regulation of Culture | Lawrence Lessig | Library of Congress | 00:31:00 | Food Politics: What to Eat in Today's Era of Food Anxiety | Marion Nestle | Library of Congress | 00:41:00 | Parting Words from a Surgeon General: Addressing Public Health Concerns | Richard Carmona | Amherst | 01:06:00 | Healing Communities Torn by Racism and Violence | Rigoberta Menchú Tum | Amherst | 00:52:06 | Lecture on Public Disourse | William S. Burroughs | Naropa | 01:29:04 | Authors@Google - Chris Anderson: The Long Tail | Chris Anderson | 00:38:47 | Shame and Courage at the Collapse of Civilization | Jonathan Lear | U of Washington | 00:54:45 | The Trading System In Crisis: The Threat From Proliferating Preferences | Jagdish Bhagwati | ANU | Starbucks and Society | Bryant Simon | Taste3 | 00:18:05 | Reith Lectures 2004: 5 - I am Right; You are Dead | Wole Soyinka | BBC | 00:44:01 | Reith Lectures 2004: 4 - The Quest for Dignity | Wole Soyinka | BBC | 00:44:01 | Reith Lectures 2004: 3 - Rhetoric that Binds and Blinds | Wole Soyinka | BBC | 00:44:01 | Reith Lectures 2004: 2 - Power and Freedom | Wole Soyinka | BBC | 00:44:01 | Reith Lectures 2004: 1 - The Changing Mask of Fear | Wole Soyinka | BBC | 00:44:01 | Reith Lectures 2002: 5 - Licence to Deceive | Onora O'Neill | BBC | 00:22:06 | Reith Lectures 2002: 4 - Trust and Transparency | Onora O'Neill | BBC | 00:21:57 | Reith Lectures 2002: 3 - Called to Account | Onora O'Neill | BBC | 00:22:06 | Reith Lectures 2002: 2 - Trust and Terror | Onora O'Neill | BBC | 00:19:53 | Reith Lectures 2002: 1 - Spreading Suspicion | Onora O'Neill | BBC | 00:23:19 | Reith Lectures 2000: 6 - A Royal View | Prince Charles | BBC | 00:56:07 | Reith Lectures 2000: 5 - Poverty and Globalisation | Vandana Shiva | BBC | 00:56:29 | Reith Lectures 2000: 4 - Health and Population | Gro Harlem Brundtland | BBC | 00:55:58 | Reith Lectures 2000: 3 - Business | John Browne | BBC | 00:54:01 | Reith Lectures 1999: 5 - Democracy - London | Anthony Giddens | BBC | 00:00:00 | Reith Lectures 1999: 4 - Family - Washington DC | Anthony Giddens | BBC | 00:00:00 | Reith Lectures 1999: 3 - Tradition - Delhi | Anthony Giddens | BBC | 00:00:00 | Reith Lectures 1999: 2 - Risk - Hong Kong | Anthony Giddens | BBC | 00:00:00 | Reith Lectures 1999: 1 - Globalisation - London | Anthony Giddens | BBC | 00:57:04 | Chris Anderson @ Pop!Tech 2006 | Chris Anderson | Pop!Tech | 00:27:00 | Bunker Roy @ Pop!Tech 2005 | Bunker Roy | Pop!Tech | 00:28:00 | Serena Koening @ Pop!Tech 2006 | Serena Koening | Pop!Tech | 00:23:00 | 9/11 Gender Shock | Susan Faludi | Harvard | 01:28:08 | Setting the Agenda? The New York Times and America's View of the World | Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Howell Raines | Berkeley | 01:20:01 | On Corporate & Government Responsibility | Ralph Nader | Berkeley | 01:44:35 | John Edwards: Forum on Poverty in America | John Edwards | Berkeley | 00:34:34 | Selling Out the First Amendment: The Collision of News, Entertainment and Politics | John Carrol | Berkeley | 01:05:16 | Clark Kerr Lecture: The University, Moral Education and the Commercialization of Its Products | Harold T. Shapiro | Berkeley | 01:02:38 | Robert Reich: How Unequal Can America Get Before We Snap? | Robert Reich | Berkeley | 01:39:01 | Norman Borlaug: 60 Years of Fighting Hunger | Norman Borlaug | Berkeley | Clark Kerr Lecture: Liberal Education, Professional Education, and the Soul of the University | Harold T. Shapiro | Berkeley | 00:53:16 | Freeman A. Hrabowski, III | Freeman Hrabowski | Berkeley | 01:22:10 | Clark Kerr Lecture: The University and Ethical Dimensions of Scientific Progress | Harold T. Shapiro | Berkeley | 00:57:15 | Dr. Richard Feachem: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria | Richard Feachem | Berkeley | 01:27:28 | Kenneth Prewitt: Ethno-Racial Classification in Public Policy | Kenneth Prewitt | Berkeley | 01:37:28 | Where Will the Poor Live? | Henry Cisneros | Berkeley | 01:00:44 | Global Competition: How We Can Win | Richard Newton | Berkeley | 01:07:26 | Dan Rather: Is the Media Failing in America? | Dan Rather | Berkeley | 01:38:38 | Can Newspapers Survive and Serve the Public Interest | Alan Rusbridger | Berkeley | 01:23:13 | Listening to global women's voices: reflections on interfaith dialogue | Ursula King | University of Bath | 00:49:53 | 21st Century City: Urbanism | Steven Holl | Columbia | 00:26:23 | 21st Century City: Toleration | Kathleen Sullivan | Columbia | 00:25:47 | 21st Century City: Urbanism | Yung Ho Chang | Columbia | 00:49:48 | 21st Century City: Toleration | Martha Nussbaum | Columbia | 00:45:18 | 21st Century City: Urbanism | Mark Wigley | Columbia | 00:28:23 | 21st Century City: Toleration | Ira Katznelson | Columbia | 00:22:57 | 21st Century City: Equality | Partha Chatterjee | Columbia | 00:58:07 | 21st Century City: Urbanism - Welcoming Remarks | Alan Brinkley | Columbia | 00:14:42 | 21st Century City: Equality | Richard Sennett | Columbia | 00:21:50 | 21st Century City: Urbanism | Marilyn Jordan Taylor | Columbia | 00:31:48 | The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy | Katherine Fulton | Long Now Foundation | 01:40:16 | Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future | Robert W. Fuller | Long Now Foundation | The Depopulation Problem | Phillip Longman | Long Now Foundation | The Long Time Tail | Will Hearst | Long Now Foundation | Cities & Time | Stewart Brand | Long Now Foundation | The Long Time Tail | Chris Anderson | Long Now Foundation | How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed | Jared Diamond | Long Now Foundation | Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening | Daniel Janzen | Long Now Foundation | The 21st Century Medieval City | Robert Neuwirth | Long Now Foundation | Girl Power | Eve Ensler | TED | 00:21:11 | Broken states and how to fix them | Ashraf Ghani | TED | 00:18:46 | The Freaking Point | Malcolm Gladwell | TED | 00:18:15 | Rethinking Poverty | Jacqueline Novogratz | TED | 00:13:38 | The Freaking Point | Steven Levitt | TED | 00:22:00 | Rethinking Poverty | Iqbal Quadir | TED | 00:16:37 | Girl Power | Helen Fisher | TED | 00:24:13 | Broken states and how to fix them | Sasa Vucinic | TED | 00:19:24 | Light at the End of the Tunnel? Costs and Benefits of Mideast Peace for the International Community | Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Yehuda Lancry | Princeton | 00:00:00 | A Conversation with Hillary Rodham Clinton | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Council on Foreign Relations | 00:00:00 | National Security Consequences of U.S. Oil Dependency | John Deutch, James R. Schlesinger | Council on Foreign Relations | 00:00:00 | Compassionate Conservatism | John DiIulio Jr. | Princeton | 01:44:05 | God and the Inner City [documentary screening] | Michael Pack | Princeton | 00:44:29 | Where the End of Poverty Begins | Peter D. Bell | Princeton | 01:00:11 | Inequality, Health and Wealth | Angus Deaton | Princeton | 01:33:17 | Collapses of Ancient Societies and their Lessons for Today | Jared Diamond | Princeton | 01:18:45 | Climax and Retreat: Racism in the Twentieth Century | George Fredrickson | Princeton | The Search for the Chimera | James Randi | Princeton | 02:10:46 | Religion and the Invention of Racism | George Fredrickson | Princeton | Islamic Law and Feminism: Opening a Dialogue | Ziba Mir Hosseini | Princeton | 01:13:18 | How Stereotypes Can Shape Intellectual Performance and Identity | Claude Steele | Princeton | 01:50:33 | Ethics of Identity | K. Anthony Appiah | Princeton | 01:22:06 | Affirming Dignity and Ending Poverty: The Search for a Better World | Peter D. Bell | Princeton | 01:16:01 | Teaching for Freedom | Lynne Cheney | Princeton | 00:51:22 | The Rise of Modern Racism(s): White Supremacy and Antisemitism | George Fredrickson | Princeton | Social Science and Public Policy | Ben Bernanke | Princeton | 00:41:45 | Rehabilitating Eugenics | Christine Rosen | Princeton | 01:04:21 | Imminent Endangerment: 'Lead' Astray by the EPA | Marc Edwards | Princeton | 01:20:18 | The Underground Railroad of Self-Determination: Beyond Victimization | Robert Woodson Sr. | Princeton | 01:18:45 | Nature and Nurture | Matt Ridley | Princeton | 01:01:55 | Fatal Confluences: Islam, Gender, and HIV/AIDS in Malaysia | Marina Mahathir | Princeton | 00:58:45 | The Consequences of Incompetence: The All-Too-Human Costs of Bad Thinking and Poor Decision-making by People in High Places | Bob Herbert | Princeton | 01:20:05 | The Racial Gap in Academic Achievement | Abigail Thernstrom | Princeton | 01:40:01 | The Doha Declaration: The World Affirms the Natural Family and Marriage | William Saunders Jr. | Princeton | 01:23:22 | The Outlook for the Global Economy and the Challenges That Must Be Met | Robert Rubin | Princeton | 01:00:22 | America's Two Visions: The Good and the Great | Alan Wolfe | Princeton | 01:24:24 | School Shootings: Why Terrible Things Happen in 'Perfect' Places | Katherine Newman | Princeton | 01:13:42 | Beyond Freakonomics: New Musings on the Economics of Everyday Life | Steven Levitt | Princeton | 00:58:38 | Encarta Africana: W.E.B. Du Bois to John Coltrane | Henry Louis Gates Jr. | Harvard | 00:00:00 | The United States and Korea: Adjusting to New Realities in Asia | Don Clark | Trinity University | 00:46:10 | Technology, Policy and Education: Education for Leadership in Engineering | Sheila Widnall | MIT | 01:53:50 | Talk to an Angel: Crucial Connections to Early Stage Capital | David Friend | MIT | 01:29:19 | Why Newspapers Matter | Pablo J. Boczkowski | MIT | 01:53:32 | TV News in Transition | Neal Shapiro | MIT | 01:59:03 | Global Entrepreneurship: Inefficiency as Opportunity in the Developing World | Iqbal Quadir | MIT | 01:27:50 | News, Information and the Wealth of Networks | Yochai Benkler | MIT | 02:00:40 | On a Liberal Education for the 21st Century | Woodie C. Flowers | MIT | 01:11:47 | Technology, Policy and Education: Education for Leadership in Engineering | Granger Morgan | MIT | 01:53:50 | Guanxi (The Art of Relationships): Microsoft, China and Bill Gates’ Plan to Win the Road Ahead | Gregory T. Huang | MIT | 00:42:07 | Global Entrepreneurship: Inefficiency as Opportunity in the Developing World | Damien Balsan | MIT | 01:27:50 | The Emergence of Citizen’s Media | Dan Gillmor | MIT | 01:56:54 | Technology, Policy and Education: Education for Leadership in Engineering | Richard de Neufville | MIT | 01:53:50 | Talk to an Angel: Crucial Connections to Early Stage Capital | Robert Greene | MIT | 01:29:19 | Why Newspapers Matter | Jerome Armstrong | MIT | 01:53:32 | The Purpose of Business | John Browne | MIT | 00:53:49 | Global Entrepreneurship: Inefficiency as Opportunity in the Developing World | Rick Burnes | MIT | 01:27:50 | The Emergence of Citizen’s Media | Alex Beam | MIT | 01:56:54 | Technology, Policy and Education: Education for Leadership in Engineering | Joel Moses | MIT | 01:53:50 | Talk to an Angel: Crucial Connections to Early Stage Capital | Cynthia Fisher | MIT | 01:29:19 | Why Newspapers Matter | Dante Chinni | MIT | 01:53:32 | TV News in Transition | Juju Chang | MIT | 01:59:03 | News, Information and the Wealth of Networks | Henry Jenkins | MIT | 02:00:40 | Fighting Poverty: What Works? The Work of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT | Esther Duflo | MIT | 00:37:29 | Talk to an Angel: Crucial Connections to Early Stage Capital | John May | MIT | 01:29:19 | Leadership in the Automotive Industry: A Conversation with Dean Emeritus Glen Urban | G. Richard Wagoner,Jr. | MIT | 00:56:31 | Guanxi (The Art of Relationships): Microsoft, China and Bill Gates’ Plan to Win the Road Ahead | Robert Buderi | MIT | 00:42:07 | Global Entrepreneurship: Inefficiency as Opportunity in the Developing World | Randy Zadra | MIT | 01:27:50 | The Emergence of Citizen’s Media | Ellen Foley | MIT | 01:56:54 | Why Large Companies Should Out-Innovate Small Ones | Dan Hesse | MIT | Leadership Lessons Learned on the Firing Line | Anne M. Mulcahy | MIT | Propaganda vs. Public Diplomacy | Nancy Snow | Center on Public Diplomacy | 00:00:00 |
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