Melvyn Bragg and guests Robert Hoyland, Robert Irwin and Hugh Kennedy discuss the life and ideas of the 14th-century Arab philosopher of history Ibn Khaldun.
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‘Shocking’ scenes in besieged Syrian refugee camp
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees spoke Tuesday of the “shocking” conditions he had seen inside a Syrian Yarmouk camp which has been under siege and bombardment for months.
For more on Yarmouk see All That Was Left of Yarmouk: Notes to an Accomplice by Talal Alyan.
Simone de Beauvoir: Why I am a Feminist
An interview with Simone de Beauvoir in 1975 on Why I am a Feminist.
Joseph Stiglitz: The Price of Inequality
The Cultural Cold War, Frances Saunders
Frances Saunders talked about how the Central Intelligence Agency created the Congress for Cultural Freedom in 1947 as a secret program of cultural propaganda in Western Europe. The program focused on creating and sponsoring pro-American arts and literature. Following her remarks she answered questions from the audience.
Frances Saunders is the author of The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, published by the New Press.
The article that first sparked Saunders’ interest in this subject can be read here: Abstract Expressionism, Weapon of the Cold War.
Samuel Bowles on Economics, Socialism, and Cooperation
Samuel Bowles on Economics and Cooperation
The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, a discussion with Chomsky
Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Noam Chomsky, Howard Gardner, and Bruno della Chiesa (Askwith Forum – Harvard Graduate School of Education).
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Reconsidering a Classic: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Reconsidering a Classic: Walter Rodney’s “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”
The seminar on March 19, with commentators Pius Adesanmi and Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, focused on Walter Rodney’s influential and much debated book, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, originally published in 1972. Rodney was a Guyanese scholar educated first at the University of the West Indies and then at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His pioneering work focused both on the slave trade and on the European colonization of Africa. Rodney was also active politically in Guyana, where he was assassinated in 1980 at the age of thirty-eight.
Ha-Joon Chang on Free Markets and Free Trade
Bryan Bruce interviews Cambridge University Reader in Economics and best selling author Dr Ha-Joon Chang.
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