Podcasts about festival of ideas

The Des Moines Lyceum's "Festival of Ideas" is coming up in a couple weeks. It is an awesome event that you should check out if you have the opportunity. Joe Carroll joins me to talk about the festival, and what the Lyceum has been up to over the past year.

Mark Chapman presents the Monday Night Club with Chris Sutton, Rory Smith and Conor Coady. Helped by Statman Dave, they consider what Liverpool might look like after Jurgen Klopp and his management team leave the club at the end of the season. Discussion then moves on to Marcus Rashford, after his absence from Manchester United's win over Newport was described by boss Erik ten Hag as an 'internal matter'. Coventry City manager Mark Robins then joins the show, with his side again fighting for a Championship play-off spot, after narrowly missing out on promotion last May. TIMECODES:04:08 Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool 17:45 Statman Dave joins 28:01 Marcus Rashford and Manchester United 37:20 Mark Robins and Coventry City

Cap Times capitol bureau chief Jessie Opoien talks about Idea Fest, an upcoming virtual and in-person event featuring national leaders on a host of policy ideas. And a new report shows how Sen. Ron Johnson benefited financially from a family company doing business with China, despite his tough talk on trade. On Wednesday – Kirk […]

In this episode of Eusebius on TimesLIVE, he is joined by fellow political analyst Ebrahim Fakir, and they debate whether the ANC's policy conference this weekend will produce honest and productive debate on policy. Fakir has written a trenchant critique of the ANC's obsession, as he sees it, with externalising its problems. The ANC, argues Fakir, still posits “colonialism of a special kind” as the prism through which to understand contemporary ills in society. This approach, he argues, is anachronistic and dishonest, because it does not adequately refer to ANC governance failures which are the major drivers of our poor economic and socioeconomic indices. McKaiser and Fakir also discuss the past failures of the party to implement policies already adopted and which are now being repackaged for hackneyed discussion this weekend. An example of this, which McKaiser wrote about on TimesLIVE, is the ANC's discussion document on “organisational renewal”.  In 2012, the ANC committed to a “decade of renewal” which, argues McKaiser, has not played out as the party resolved. This led McKaiser and Fakir to also debate the extent to which the ANC's policy stocktaking, and debates, can be regarded as a bona fide festival of ideas. Fakir concedes that, though in his view the post-1994 era is still too short an historical period to talk about ANC conference patterns, McKaiser is justified in asserting that the conference, like ones before it, is best seen as a dress rehearsal for the elective conference scheduled for the end of this year. They end the discussion by reflecting on why, despite these analytic and political problems with the ANC, citizens interested in the state of the nation and in the health of our democracy have no choice but to keep tabs on what happens at ANC conferences. Do you agree with Fakir and McKaiser? Have a listen, and assess their analysis for yourself.

In this episode of Eusebius on TimesLIVE, he is joined by fellow political analyst Ebrahim Fakir, and they debate whether the ANC's policy conference this weekend will produce honest and productive debate on policy. Fakir has written a trenchant critique of the ANC's obsession, as he sees it, with externalising its problems. The ANC, argues Fakir, still posits “colonialism of a special kind” as the prism through which to understand contemporary ills in society. This approach, he argues, is anachronistic and dishonest, because it does not adequately refer to ANC governance failures which are the major drivers of our poor economic and socioeconomic indices. McKaiser and Fakir also discuss the past failures of the party to implement policies already adopted and which are now being repackaged for hackneyed discussion this weekend. An example of this, which McKaiser wrote about on TimesLIVE, is the ANC's discussion document on “organisational renewal”.  In 2012, the ANC committed to a “decade of renewal” which, argues McKaiser, has not played out as the party resolved. This led McKaiser and Fakir to also debate the extent to which the ANC's policy stocktaking, and debates, can be regarded as a bona fide festival of ideas. Fakir concedes that, though in his view the post-1994 era is still too short an historical period to talk about ANC conference patterns, McKaiser is justified in asserting that the conference, like ones before it, is best seen as a dress rehearsal for the elective conference scheduled for the end of this year. They end the discussion by reflecting on why, despite these analytic and political problems with the ANC, citizens interested in the state of the nation and in the health of our democracy have no choice but to keep tabs on what happens at ANC conferences. Do you agree with Fakir and McKaiser? Have a listen, and assess their analysis for yourself.

The SOAS Festival of Ideas has a principle aim of fostering research synergies and enabling cross-disciplinary conversations within SOAS and throughout higher education in the West. The festival will celebrate and be shaped around the core theme of ‘decolonising knowledge’. At the heart of the Festival of Ideas is meant to be a debate. We have invited four speakers (Professors Margo Okazawa-Rey, and Yamila Hussein-Shannan and ‘FOR’ decolonising-- with a special message from Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Dr Kehinde Andrews and Dr Brian Alleyne ‘AGAINST’ decolonising higher education). This Oxford-style debate considers our location ‘in the heart of Britain post-Brexit in this period of late-capitalism to ask the burning question, Should we decolonise higher education?’ Some of the themes our speakers will consider for the debate are: What is the meaning of decolonisation? Why do we need to decolonise? Whose history matters and why? What are the structures that impede us? Is there a desynchronisation between academics as knowledge producers and students as customers in higher education? And what role does this changing dynamics play in the decolonising debate? How do we understand race and racialisation? Find out more at: www.soas.ac.uk/fest-ideas/

Join Myriam François as she speaks to the Director of the Festival, Amina Yaqin on decolonizing knowledge ahead of the SOAS Virtual Festival of Ideas. Find out more about the festival here: https://www.soas.ac.uk/fest-ideas/

SOAS Festival of Ideas Podcast: Decolonizing Education in Southeast Asia with Farish A. Noor by SOAS Radio

SOAS Festival of Ideas Podcast: Decolonizing Education with Eleanor Newbigin by SOAS Radio

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This talk considers how specifically language-based AI systems (for example, speech recognition, machine translation or smart telecommunications interfaces) have affected and transformed modern society. In an age when we spend large parts of our daily lives communicating with our smartphones and Virtual Personal Assistants such as Siri, Cortana, and Alexa, we need to consider how these technologies actually impact our lives. While these intelligent systems can certainly have a positive impact on society (e.g. by promoting free speech and political engagement), they also offer opportunities for distortion and deception. Unbalanced data sets used to train automated systems can reinforce problematical social biases; automated Twitter bots can drastically increase the spread of fake news and hate speech online; and the responses of automated Virtual Personal Assistants during conversations about sensitive topics (e.g. suicidal tendencies, religion, sexual identity) can have serious consequences. We will explore some of these issues as well as discuss opportunities to implement these systems and technologies in ways that may affect more positively the kinds of social change that will shape modern digital democracies in the immediate future. A talk by Dr Stephanie Ullmann and Dr Marcus Tomalin from the 'Giving Voice to Digital Democracies' project at CRASSH.

Dr Sean Lang talks to Ben Volkanakis about his upcoming talk at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.

David Karoly (pictured above) arrived in the landscape of my life when he spoke at the University of Melbourne's week-long "Festival of Ideas" in 2009. At the time he was a Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at the university - David is an internationally recognized expert on climate change and climate variability.This exceptionally generous man has been described as one of Australia's 'national treasures' and is now the leader of The Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub (ESCC) at the CSIRO, and is committed to building a world-leading climate and Earth systems science hub, using its capability and understanding of Australia’s past, present and future climate to supply useful and accessible climate information for Australia.

This event is part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. Bookings will open at 11:00 on Monday 24 September 2018. From MOOCS to networked institutions, remote and off-shore degrees, flexible and flipped learning, Universities seem to be changing at an unprecedented rate, on an unprecedented scale. This talk lays out some of the most radical of these changes and asks: What are we are witnessing now? Are we in the age of hyper education, and the end of Universities as they have been for centuries? Talk by Alison Wood, Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

We meet some of the greatest minds from art, architecture and music. Plus: we analyse Chinese comedy, look at how a song changed advertising and head to a new avocado bar in London.

A Springboard your Virtual University multimedia educational broadcast on Sunday 22nd July, 2018 with host Rev. Albert Ocran and Ebo Hammond & Naa Oyoo Kumodzi.

A Springboard your Virtual University multimedia educational broadcast on Sunday 15th July 2018 with host Rev. Albert Ocran and George Ofosuhene.

A Springboard your Virtual University multimedia educational broadcast on Sunday 17th August 2014 with host Rev. Albert Ocran.

A Springboard your Virtual University multimedia educational broadcast on Sunday 10th August 2014 with host Rev. Albert Ocran.

In this week's Environment Matters hear about Rothamsted Research's 175th anniversary Festival of Ideas and the interactive Sustainability Zone at the St.Albans Street Festival. Plus, a great volunteering opportunity with Groundworks, and, of course, this week's Open Gardens. Oh, and strictly no football!

We’re bombarded by information about our health. But who should be trusted? Physicians? Scientists? Patients? Pharma? Instinct? Come along for a range of researcher perspectives and to offer your own. The safety and effectiveness of medical interventions is highly contested, even when it is backed by clinical research. Who should we trust? The truth of the scientists loyal to evidence-based medicine paradigms, or that of patients with their lived experience? Should we trust big pharma? Or perhaps no one at all? In this panel discussion, we will address these questions, which are, quite literally, of life-and-death significance. The panel will include five speakers, all from the University of Cambridge: Anna Alexandrova, Gabriele Badano, Stephen John, Trenholme Junghans, and Jacob Stegenga. Speakers will first give a short talk each, looking from different angles at the plurality of actors who claim their perspective should take centre stage in clinical research. Next, they will have a short conversation among themselves before opening the floor to questions from the audience. Organised by the 'Limits of the Numerical' research project at CRASSH.

This talk explores what factors - religious, economic, political - make some and not others believe in conspiracy theories. Hugo Drochon considers what impact that has had on contemporary political events, from Brexit to Trump. Was Diana killed by the Secret Services? Is climate change a hoax? Did man not walk on the moon? Who shot JFK? Drawing on a nation-wide survey conducted with YouGov about belief in conspiracy theories, this talk explores what factors -religious, economic, political – make some and not others believe in conspiracy theories, and what impact that has had on contemporary political events, from Brexit toTrump. Hugo Drochon is a researcher with the 'Conspiracy and Democracy' research project at CRASSH.

We ask special guest Charles Clarke - the former Labour Home Secretary - about political leadership, the Corbyn phenomenon, and what he thinks Labour needs to do in opposition to become a party of government again. The original Election podcast panel also takes part, talking about what’s been happening in British politics since we finished broadcasting in June, as well as also looking ahead to the US primaries and the EU referendum. These are both subjects we will be talking about when ELECTION returns for a second series in January. The panel also take questions from the audience, who were asked to think of an answer to the question: "If Jeremy Corbyn can be elected leader of Labour, what other seemingly impossible things can happen?" (ELECTION returns for a 12 week run from January 2016. Follow @Dept_of_POLIS #ElectionPodcast, OR keep an eye on this page for how to find bonus interviews, features and to find out how pupils at your school or college can be involved.) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode: Andrew Kelly, Director of Bristol Festival of Ideas talks to Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator about the tenth anniversary of the festival. They discuss May's wide ranging programme of talks, events and screenings which cover amongst others science, literature, new wave feminism and the centenary of the start of World War One – and how audiences ten years on still have a voracious appetite to come together face-to-face to engage with ideas. Cinema screenings they discuss as part of the World War One commemorations include Bristol produced Till The Boys Come Home, in which the people of Midsomer Norton and Radstock re-enact the oral history of their ancestors, and Stanley Kubrick's incredibly brutal, anti-war film Paths of Glory.

In the last podcast from the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas, we ask if a new morality is needed in the new world order of the 21st century

In the last podcast from the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas, we ask if a new morality is needed in the new world order of the 21st century

In the latest podcast from the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas, two Middle East experts debate the future for the region

In this latest talk from the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas, we ask what is holding back social mobility in the UK

In this latest talk from the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas, we ask what is holding back social mobility in the UK

Professor Willie Brown and a panel of experts discuss the legacy of the recession at the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas

Dr Jude Browne presents a panel discussion on the cultural significance of Barbie, at the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas

Professor Willie Brown and a panel of experts discuss the legacy of the recession at the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas

Dr Jude Browne presents a panel discussion on the cultural significance of Barbie, at the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas

In the second of our podcasts from the Cambridge festival of ideas, we ask if the recession is likely to decimate the arts, and what can be done to boost private funding

In the second of our podcasts from the Cambridge festival of ideas, we ask if the recession is likely to decimate the arts, and what can be done to boost private funding

Professor Adrian Poole chairs a debate from the Cambridge Festival of Ideas on the origin of ideas, with writers Lisa Appignanesi and Andrew Robinson, and academics Dame Gillian Beer and Professor Rosamond McKitterick

Professor Adrian Poole chairs a debate from the Cambridge Festival of Ideas on the origin of ideas, with writers Lisa Appignanesi and Andrew Robinson, and academics Dame Gillian Beer and Professor Rosamond McKitterick