The body, the mind, and the institution: Medical activism and the intellectual disability problem
By Simon Jarrett. Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/
Nov 12, 2018•25 min
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The body, the mind, and the institution: Treatment in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum
Cara Dobbing explores patient engagement and the equality of care in the nineteenth-century lunatic asylum. Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/
Nov 12, 2018•19 min
Writing health and care: The Whitehall studies and health inequalities in the late twentieth century
By Peder Clark. Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/
Nov 12, 2018•22 min
Writing health and care: Patient-powered publications
Emily Turner discusses Craiglockhart staff and Hydra writers as medical activists. Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/
Nov 12, 2018•19 min
Morals, ideals, and principles in health: The socio-medical activism of the ARMW, 1879–1916
Sophie Almond discusses the socio-medical activism of the Association of Registered Medical Women (ARMW), who acted ‘In the interests of medical women, of medical men, and of the nation as a whole’. Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/
Nov 12, 2018•16 min
Morals, ideals, and principles in health: ‘Common brotherhood’ and contagion
Jo Waugh explores the impact of the typhus epidemic of 1847. Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/
Nov 12, 2018•18 min
Morals, ideals, and principles in health: Female prisoners and medical activism in Britain, 1909–75
Ian Miller discusses force feeding, female prisoners, and medical activism in Britain, c. 1909–75. Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/
Nov 12, 2018•24 min
What we talk about when we talk about whistleblowing: Liz Hornby
Whistleblowing is a hot topic from Hollywood to Canary Wharf. It is rarely out of the media. But have you ever stopped to think about how we ‘talk’ about whistleblowing? Which words do we choose and why? Do those words matter? Liz Hornby, PhD candidate in the Department of Management discusses all these things and more, ahead of her Big Ideas talk on 15 November. Big Ideas is Birkbeck's public lecture series, bringing ground-breaking Birkbeck research to our local communities. They are free to a...
Nov 05, 2018•8 min
Waiting and care in rushed times: Professor Lisa Baraitser
Waiting is one of healthcare’s core experiences. It is there in the time it takes to access services; through the days, weeks, months or years needed for diagnoses; in the time that treatment takes; and in the elongated time-frames of recovery, relapse, remission and dying. Professor Lisa Baraitser from Birkbeck’s Department of Psychosocial Studies explores how waiting can itself be a form of care, and challenges assumptions about the value of waiting, counteracting the current political use of ...
Oct 11, 2018•10 min
Ethics And The Neighbour
A panel discussion with Prof Veena Das, Prof Lyndsey Stonebridge and Dr Anna Rowlands, 4 June 2018.
Aug 07, 2018•42 min
The art of compensation, slavery and British culture: Dr Sarah Thomas
Dr Sarah Thomas from Birkbeck's Department of History of Art examines the powerful impact of slave-ownership on some of Britain’s key cultural institutions, and how the brutal system of colonial slavery infused the world of aesthetics and taste during the first half of the nineteenth century. In particular, she looks at the impact of the £20 million paid by the British government to former slave-owners to compensate for their loss of income on the abolition of slavery on artworks, collections an...
Jul 02, 2018•7 min
The Age of Questions
The Centre for the Study of Internationalism launched with a lecture by Professor Holly Case examining ‘The Age of Questions’. The talk focused on a period in modern history – roughly 1810 to 1950 – when ‘questions’ reigned. The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy wrote his views on the ‘Eastern question’ through the character in Anna Karenina, the future president of Czechoslovakia penned over 700 pages on the ‘social question’, and a German novelist expressed his immoderate views on the ‘oyster questio...
Jun 26, 2018•1 hr 31 min
The Diplomacy of Decolonisation
The Centre for the Study of Internationalism recently welcomed Alanna O’Malley, Assistant Professor of History and International Relations at Leiden University, to talk on her book, The Diplomacy of Decolonisation: America, Britain and the United Nations during the Congo Crisis 1960-64. The book examines the role of the UN during the Congo Crisis from 1960 to 1964 and in her talk Dr O’Malley argued this was a pivotal moment in the Cold War. Through examining the divergent positions adopted by th...
Jun 26, 2018•1 hr 11 min
Overlooking Damage, or Antiquities in Peril and the Ethical Sublime in Volney and Ruskin
The collision of the sublime and the ethical is as unavoidable as the political crises that make us attend to antique ruins with sudden and renewed urgency. This presentation addresses the difficulty of reaching a perspective on damaged objects—a challenge that is both methodological and conceptual. The Comte de Volney’s memorable evocation of Palmyra in his widely influential Reflections on the Revolutions of Empires (1791) and John Ruskin’s searching reflections on the power of ruins and the c...
Jun 20, 2018•1 hr 1 min
2018 Sally Ledger Memorial Lecture - Holly Furneaux
Shooting Galleries: Soldiering, Domesticity and Art Trooper George’s shooting gallery turned refuge in Dickens’s Bleak House encourages us to think about the interleaving of military and domestic cultures in mid-Victorian Britain. I take George and his shooting gallery community as representative of the Victorian investment in domesticating the military man. At the same time soldiers themselves made strenuous efforts to forge connections between their military and home identities, often using ar...
Jun 20, 2018•51 min
Why Brexit is un-British: Dr Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos
Why did Britain vote to leave the European Union in 2016? Dr Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos argues that many of the reasons people voted to leave the EU are directly related to key decisions made by British governments: politicians who were voted into power by the British people. He will be discussing these ideas further at the next Big Ideas event, at Birkbeck's Stratford campus on 28 June 2018. Tickets are free but booking is required. Find out more and book your place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Jun 14, 2018•12 min
Visual protest: art and militancy in the Suffrage campaign (Gillian Murphy)
Militant suffragettes’ public demonstrations often deployed the visual arts. Exploring their campaigns, Gillian Murphy (Women’s Library, LSE) introduces the Artists’ Suffrage League and banners from their archive, while Monica Walker (Old Operating Theatre Museum) investigates links between art and militancy through the defacing of the Rokeby Venus.
Jun 04, 2018•20 min
Visual protest: art and militancy in the Suffrage campaign (Monica Walker)
Militant suffragettes’ public demonstrations often deployed the visual arts. Exploring their campaigns, Gillian Murphy (Women’s Library, LSE) introduces the Artists’ Suffrage League and banners from their archive, while Monica Walker (Old Operating Theatre Museum) investigates links between art and militancy through the defacing of the Rokeby Venus.
Jun 04, 2018•29 min
Financing Innovation Workshop - Global Overview of Venture Capital & Alternative Sources of Finance
As part of the CIMR Financing Innovation Workshop, held on 16th April 2014, Pierre Nadeau presents his talk "A Global Overview of Venture Capital and Alternative Sources of Entrepreneurial Finance". More information: www.bbk.ac.uk/cimr/2014/02/14/fi…nnovation-workshop The Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management (CIMR) is a college-wide research Centre of Birkbeck, University of London. Launched in 2008, it undertakes international research focusing on multi-disciplinary academic, industrial an...
May 31, 2018•40 min
Financing Innovation Workshop - ZEQUS: Crowdfunding Platform as Featured in BBC, CNN and Bloomberg
As part of the CIMR Financing Innovation Workshop, held on 16th April 2014, Benjamin Hamilton, of ZEQUS, presents his talk "ZEQUS: Crowdfunding Platform as Featured in BBC, CNN and Bloomberg". More information: www.bbk.ac.uk/cimr/2014/02/14/financing-innovation-workshop The Birkbeck Centre for Innovation Management (CIMR) is a college-wide research Centre of Birkbeck, University of London. Launched in 2008, it undertakes international research focusing on multi-disciplinary academic, industrial ...
May 31, 2018•44 min
Nihilism, Trump and Brexit Britain: Professor Ken Gemes
Professor Ken Gemes from Birkbeck's Department of Philosophy discusses Nietzsche's conception of nihilism, and how it relates to the rise of populist politics, including the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote. He will be discussing these ideas further at Birkbeck's next Big Ideas event, at City and Islington College on 29 May 2018. Tickets are free but booking is required. Find out more and book your place: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birkbecks-big-ideas-nihilism-whats-behind-the-br...
May 16, 2018•10 min
Birkbeck Arts Week - the Monday Medley
Welcome to Art Week 2018. In this podcast, Sue Wiseman and Louise Owen from the School of Arts speak to some of the performers and artists whose events took place on Monday; Greek chorus cabaret Myth Independent; Birkbeck Artist-in-Residence Lily Hunter Green with her immersive sound and art project, Bee Composed Live; director Brian Logan from the Camden People's Theatre; plus special guest Bernie, who looks after the School of Arts all year round. Birkbeck Arts Week runs from 14-18 May 2018. F...
May 15, 2018•10 min
Recollecting Beardsley - Simon Wilson
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 26, 2018•8 min
The world's first ToddlerLab: Professor Denis Mareschal
Professor Denis Mareschal, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development talks about the successes of Birkbeck's pioneering Babylab in identifying early markers of autism in infants. We are currently crowdfunding to be able to extend these learnings to toddlers with the world's first ToddlerLab, and to transform the lives of children with developmental disorders. If you would like to contribute, please go to our crowdfunding page: birkbeck.hubbub.net/p/toddlerlab/
Mar 23, 2018•5 min
Recollecting Beardsley: Matthew Sturgis, ‘Masks and Phases’
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•20 min
Recollecting Beardsley: Dickon Edwards, Camp Continuities: Ronald Firbank’s Motorising of Beardsley
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•16 min
Recollecting Beardsley: Sasha Dovzhyk, Beardsley’s Russian Afterlives
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•19 min
Recollecting Beardsley Second Panel Emma Sutton
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
Recollecting Beardsley First Panel Joseph Thorne
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•20 min
Recollecting Beardsley: Kate Hext, Aubrey Beardsley in the Swinging ’60s
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•24 min
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