I am proudly providing you the daily introductory lectures recorded at the EADI General Conference 2011 in York (UK):

1. Dudley Seers Lecture and Opening of the Conference: Prof. Mario Giampietro, ICREA Research Professor at the Catalan Institute of Research and Advanced Studies (19.09.2011): On the Social and Economical Metabolism of Societies - A Critique of Common Resource Saving Approaches. (Remark: If you are particularly interested, ask Prof. Giampietro to send you his slides - definitely worth medidating on!)
2. Prof. Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University: The New Riches? ODA Changes towards Middle Income Countries (MICs) from Low Income Countries (LICs)- 20.09.2011
   Prof. Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford): Presenting her new and super-intersting Multidimensional Poverty Index (20.09.2011). Attention: Same audio file as above! For more details, information, stats and slides, see also: http://www.ophi.org.uk/policy/multidimensional-poverty-index/ 
3. On South Korea's success (unknown speaker) and on The Challanges of Private Sector's Development Standards and Efforts for the Common Development Community (very interesting, promoting and controversial presentation!!): 21.09.2011.
4. From the Graduate Institute: An overwhelming and particularly rich-of-critique analysis opening year lecture by Prof. John Comaroff: How Europe Evolves Towards Africa, 22.09.2011 (Duration: 1h - first 30 min. missing!) - live video and more information also to be found here (opens in a new window).