Identity and Violence – Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen is a definitive voice on developmental economics and a winner of the Nobel Prize for economics in 1998. In this lecture at UC Berkley, he talks about a convergence of a identity and violence.

The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations – Edward Said

At this lecture at the University of Massachussets at Amherst, the late Edward Said refutes the thesis and the material of the book and essay “Clash of Civilizations” by Samuel Huntington. For me, Edward Said is an incredibly lucid speaker and consistently tears down a certain western tendency to categorize and organize ‘the mysterious east’.