Marking 120 years since Beardsley’s death, The Eve of St Aubrey: Re†Collecting Beardsley (1872-1898) symposium brought together established and emerging scholars of the artist to examine his works, his public image, and his new – global – place in the art canon. The interdisciplinary symposium unlocked the geographical and chronological boundaries of the ‘Beardsley Period’ by reassessing the artist’s international reception and the impact of his aesthetics on modern movements in art, literature,...
Mar 21, 2018•21 min
Marking 120 years since Beardsley’s death, The Eve of St Aubrey: Re†Collecting Beardsley (1872-1898) symposium brought together established and emerging scholars of the artist to examine his works, his public image, and his new – global – place in the art canon. The interdisciplinary symposium unlocked the geographical and chronological boundaries of the ‘Beardsley Period’ by reassessing the artist’s international reception and the impact of his aesthetics on modern movements in art, literature,...
Mar 21, 2018•55 min
Dr Tim Reynolds, a senior lecturer from the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck discusses the relationship between Neanderthals and modern humans, following a recent discovery in a Neanderthal burial cave. Tim will deliver a talk that explores those discoveries and what they can tell us about our nearest relatives, on 17 April at City & Islington College, as part of Birkbeck’s Big Ideas series of free public lectures. Book your free spot here: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eve...
Mar 19, 2018•7 min
In this episode of Birkbeck Voices, we chat with Professor Ian Crawford from the Department of Planetary Sciences and Astrobiology. Professor Crawford discusses the recent launch of the world's most powerful operational rocket, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy and what it means for space exploration in the future, as well as the benefits of mining resources on the moon and why it is still so important to 'keep looking for aliens' (read more here: https://theconversation.com/why-looking-for-aliens-is-good-f...
Feb 15, 2018•18 min
Professor Daniel Monk from Birkbeck's School of Law discusses the debate around school uniforms and dress codes, and what it might be able to tell us about childhood, education and politics in contemporary Britain. Daniel will be speaking further on the topic at City and Islington College on 20 March as part of Birkbeck's Big Ideas series. Book your free place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birkbecks-big-ideas-school-dress-codes-who-cares-and-why-finsbury-park-tickets-43123651001
Feb 14, 2018•8 min
The Birkbeck Law Review recently held its annual conference, ‘Law and the City: Exploring the Urban Revolution in Critical Legal Studies’. In this podcast, we hear the keynote address from Mariana Valverde Professor of Criminology at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, introduced by Stewart Motha, Acting Dean of Birkbeck’s School of Law. Professor Valverde’s keynote talk is called ‘Beyond privatization and neoliberalism: analysing hybrid networks of urban development.’ Find out more abou...
Feb 05, 2018•45 min
Ron Balzan, who is in the third year of his PhD in psychology at Birkbeck’s Department of Psychological Sciences, will be speaking at Birkbeck's next Big Ideas event entitled, 'The biggest problem in the world: our problem with problems (and why truth matters)'. If you’ve ever struggled with solving a problem – and most of us have! – his thesis sets out to prove that you may not have represented, or modelled the problem correctly. Ron talk will be held on 20 February at City & Islington Coll...
Jan 23, 2018•13 min
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and History and Theory of Photography Research Centre hosted a panel discussion with a talk by Kate Flint and a response by Lindsay Smith to mark the publication of Kate Flint’s Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Jan 15, 2018•39 min
The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and History and Theory of Photography Research Centre hosted a panel discussion with a talk by Kate Flint and a response by Lindsay Smith to mark the publication of Kate Flint’s Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination (Oxford University Press, 2017) in November 2017. This is a recording of Lindsay Smith's response.
Jan 15, 2018•20 min
In this episode of Birkbeck Voices, we're joined by Dr Clare Makepeace, who completed her PhD at Birkbeck and is now an Honorary Research Fellow at the College. Clare’s work looks at prisoners of war, specifically those in Europe during the Second World War and the measures they took to cope and come to terms with wartime imprisonment. Perhaps the most inventive of these measures was putting on pantomimes, with prisoners dressed as female impersonators. Clare has recently published a book, Capti...
Jan 09, 2018•15 min
Researching (with) Difficult Feelings: A CHASE-funded training event with follow-up resources and activities This workshop took place on 14-15/12/2017 and was hosted by Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, School of Arts, Birkbeck College. This recording is of Jennifer Doyle giving the keynote.
Dec 20, 2017•49 min
Researching (with) Difficult Feelings: A CHASE-funded training event with follow-up resources and activities This workshop took place on 14-15/12/2017 and was hosted by Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, School of Arts, Birkbeck College. This is a recording of the Artists Panel,
Dec 20, 2017•1 hr 21 min
Researching (with) Difficult Feelings: A CHASE-funded training event with follow-up resources and activities This workshop took place on 14-15/12/2017 and was hosted by Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, School of Arts, Birkbeck College. In this recording we have Shane Boyle on 'Customer Relations' and Molly Flynn-My Nikolaevka on 'Notes from the field with Ukraine's Theatre of Displaced People'.
Dec 20, 2017•37 min
Researching (with) Difficult Feelings: A CHASE-funded training event with follow-up resources and activities This workshop took place on 14-15/12/2017 and was hosted by Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, School of Arts, Birkbeck College. In this recording we have Broderick Chow on 'Willful Things: Bodies, Equipment, and Potentialities' and Jennifer Parker-Starbuck-on 'How to deal with the (dead) Elephant in the room and other problems of the non-human'.
Dec 20, 2017•47 min
Researching (with) Difficult Feelings: A CHASE-funded training event with follow-up resources and activities This workshop took place on 14-15/12/2017 and was hosted by Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, School of Arts, Birkbeck College. In this recording we have David Harradine on 'How Do You Feel When Men and Girls Dance?' and Emma Cox on 'Ethics, embodiment and the long vantage'.
Dec 20, 2017•45 min
Researching (with) Difficult Feelings: A CHASE-funded training event with follow-up resources and activities This workshop took place on 14-15/12/2017 and was hosted by Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, School of Arts, Birkbeck College. In this recording we have Anna Harpin on 'Difficult Company: Research and Emotional Distress' and Clare Finburgh on 'The Greatest Possible Tact’: Writing about Torture'.
Dec 20, 2017•41 min
In this episode of Birkbeck Voices, we're joined by Dr David Brydan, Lecturer in Modern European History, to discuss his latest article examining leprosy and rebellion in Spanish colonial Africa during the 1940s and 50s. The article is available on open access: https://academic.oup.com/shm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/shm/hkx094/4590150 Dr Brydan is a member of the Reluctant Internationalists research group, based in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck. Find out more a...
Dec 19, 2017•12 min
Catherine Heard, Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR) at Birkbeck, introduces the speakers at a recent panel event, looking at the causes and consequences of the rising female prison population. The featured speakers were: Lady Edwina Grosvenor, prison philanthropist; Roy Walmsley from the World Prison Brief; Olivia Rope from Penal Reform International; Marie Nougier from the International Drug Policy Consortium; Teresa Njoroge from Clean Start Kenya; Madhurima Dhanuka f...
Dec 15, 2017•56 min
Cohn examines temporal dislocations in realist depictions of environmental crisis, emphasizing that novelists expand what narratologists call “narrating time” by shifting among these modalities in parallel and embedded clauses, suggesting that dilation and expansion are the “mental procedures” that substantialize seemingly inaccessible scales of experience. With this narratological method, she considers two realist accounts of flood, where conditions much exacerbated by human intervention render...
Dec 11, 2017•47 min
Dr Gabriele Finaldi, Director of the National Gallery, London: How to form a national collection. The Prado Museum and the National Gallery, London The lecture is named in honour of Peter Murray, who founded Birkbeck’s Department of History of Art in 1967 and is part of Opening Up Art History: 50 Years at Birkbeck, a series of events celebrating the Department’s 50th anniversary.
Dec 08, 2017•1 hr 20 min
In Times of Love and Hate is a new podcast series from Birkbeck Voices. In this episode, Professor of History Joanna Bourke discusses the worldwide conversation on sexual harassment in the wake of recent high-profile allegations, and whether it has the momentum to produce a cultural shift. The episodes in this series are brought to you by academics from Birkbeck’s MA Public Histories, MA History of Medicine: Minds, Bodies and Cultures, MSc War and Humanitarianism, BA Human Geography, BA Archaeol...
Dec 05, 2017•13 min
In this episode of Birkbeck Voices, we're joined by Sarah Childs, Professor of Politics and Gender at Birkbeck. Professor Childs discusses the benefits of equal gender opportunity in parliament, the current system of quotas for women in politics and a report she recently put forward that recommends a change to the law on job-sharing for MPs. She has worked extensively on representation theory and policies surrounding gender politics and currently advises the new Commons Reference Group on Repres...
Nov 30, 2017•15 min
In the winter of 2019-20 Tate Britain will be staging a major survey exhibition of the art of William Blake (1757-1827). It will be the latest in a succession of exhibitions which have presented Blake to the general public, including the Tate’s own shows in 2001 and 1978, and seminal earlier projects in 1876, 1927 and 1947. Blake himself was an exhibitor, most importantly with his one-man show of 1809, but also contributing to mixed exhibitions at a number of points in his career, lastly in 1812...
Nov 27, 2017•1 hr 1 min
Dr Stefan Engels from Birkbeck's Department of Geography discusses his field of palaeoclimatology, focussing on abrupt climate change during and following the last ice age as seen through the eyes of insects. He will discuss this further at a free public lecture on 12 December at City and Islington College as part of Birkbeck's Big Ideas series. Book your free place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birkbecks-big-ideas-insects-and-ice-ages-how-and-why-we-reconstruct-past-climate-change-finsbu...
Nov 27, 2017•6 min
Naureen Abubacker from the Widening Access team at Birkbeck discusses leading the development of the Compass Project, a ground-breaking initiative that is driven to improving access to higher education for forced migrants, and also funds places for 20 asylum seekers to begin their studies in the UK. One of the students, Gifty from Zimbabwe, also joins us to chat about her experiences with the programme and how she has settled into life in London. Read more about the #BBKCompass Project: http://w...
Nov 24, 2017•13 min
In Times of Love and Hate is a new podcast series from Birkbeck Voices. In this episode, Antoine Bousquet discusses whether war can ever be humanitarian, the effects of changing technology on combat and the humanity that wartime can bring. The episodes in this series are brought to you by academics from Birkbeck’s MA Public Histories, MSc War and Humanitarianism, BA Human Geography, BA Archaeology and Geography, and BA Intercultural Communication and Language. They will explore with you how the ...
Nov 09, 2017•11 min
Theatres of Contagion: Infectious Performance: On Thursday 11 and Friday 12 May, we hosted an international conference exploring themes of contagion and infection in performance and across disciplines, asking: how have theatre and performance represented, examined or been implicated in the transmission and circulation of medical and psychological conditions? How has our understanding of these relationships and phenomena changed over time, across cultures, including via developments in interdisci...
Nov 06, 2017•1 hr 3 min
Theatres of Contagion: Infectious Performance: On Thursday 11 and Friday 12 May, we hosted an international conference exploring themes of contagion and infection in performance and across disciplines, asking: how have theatre and performance represented, examined or been implicated in the transmission and circulation of medical and psychological conditions? How has our understanding of these relationships and phenomena changed over time, across cultures, including via developments in interdisci...
Nov 06, 2017•50 min
Theatre Conversation: Approaching socially engaged practice (Tuesday 10 May 2016) creative producer and Centre Fellow Elizabeth Lynch convened a discussion on how artists are approaching the creation of socially engaged practice now. The event asked: as the 2010s unfold, who are the new allies in making socially engaged practice? How do artists know what they are doing is working? What is shifting or changing as a result of artists’ interventions, and what has to be disrupted? Participants inclu...
Nov 06, 2017•2 hr 1 min
Theatres of Contagion: Infectious Performance: On Thursday 11 and Friday 12 May, we hosted an international conference exploring themes of contagion and infection in performance and across disciplines, asking: how have theatre and performance represented, examined or been implicated in the transmission and circulation of medical and psychological conditions? How has our understanding of these relationships and phenomena changed over time, across cultures, including via developments in interdis...
Nov 06, 2017•33 min
