Welcome to Big Ideas, a podcast series to accompany Birkbeck’s free public lecture series, where academics bring their research out to local communities around London, sharing the exciting and innovative work that happens at Birkbeck, and opening up the world of research and universities. The series is organised by Birkbeck’s Access and Engagement team, who support underrepresented groups of people to apply and succeed in study here at Birkbeck, University of London. In this podcast we meet Prof...
Jun 06, 2019•16 min
As part of Arts Week 2019, Dr Sasha Dovzhyk held a screening and discussion of Askold Kurov’s documentary 'The Trial,' which investigates the truth about the arrest and imprisonment of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov by Russian FSB.
Jun 04, 2019•32 min
Welcome to Arts Week 2019 and the Monday Medley. Professor Sue Wiseman interviews guests, academics and artists about the events taking place over the course of the week. Birkbeck Arts Week runs from 20-24 May 2019. Find out more and book onto events: www.bbk.ac.uk/arts/about-us/events/arts-week
May 21, 2019•6 min
Birkbeck MFA theatre students discuss their upcoming #BBKArtsWeek event 'Testimony: a theatrical exploration' at the Birkbeck School of Arts on 23 May 2019. What can and can't we say in public in the modern world? Join us for a new interactive performance exploring truth, secrets and confidences, inspired by the facsinating testimony of three 17th century Calvinist women: Hannah Allen, Anna Trapnel and Sarah Wight. Students on the MFA Theatre Directing present a devised exploration. For more inf...
May 20, 2019•5 min
As part of the CIMR Financing Innovation Workshop, held on 16th April 2014, Jinmin Wang from the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at University of Nottingham presents his talk: How Government Venture Capital Guiding Funds Work in Financing High-Tech Start-Ups in China: A ‘Strategic Exchange’ Perspective 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 ...
May 08, 2019•44 min
As part of the CIMR Financing Innovation Workshop, held on 16th April 2014, Stephanie Macht from Newcastle Business School at Northumbria University presents her talk: The Benefits of Online Crowdfunding for Fund-Seeking Business Ventures. 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 focus...
May 08, 2019•37 min
‘Self-Education and Mentoring in the Domestic Medical Texts of Margaret Mason, Lady Mount Cashell’ - Dr Alexis Wolf (Birkbeck, University of London) Friday 5 April: ‘A Species of Knowledge’: Women and Medicine 1750-1850 This an interdisciplinary symposium, examined the ways that women gained, exchanged, and recorded medical knowledge during the period 1750-1850, including through correspondence, manuscript circulation, publication, apprenticeship, and training while considering how women engaged...
Apr 15, 2019•19 min
‘Women Advisers to the Foundling Hospital Governors’ Friday 5 April: ‘A Species of Knowledge’: Women and Medicine 1750-1850 - Janette Bright (Institute of Historical Research, University of London) This an interdisciplinary symposium, examined the ways that women gained, exchanged, and recorded medical knowledge during the period 1750-1850, including through correspondence, manuscript circulation, publication, apprenticeship, and training while considering how women engaged in medical practice i...
Apr 15, 2019•21 min
‘Seniority, Experience, and On-the-job Training at British Naval Hospitals 1775-1815’ - Dr Erin Spinney (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford) Friday 5 April: ‘A Species of Knowledge’: Women and Medicine 1750-1850 This an interdisciplinary symposium, examined the ways that women gained, exchanged, and recorded medical knowledge during the period 1750-1850, including through correspondence, manuscript circulation, publication, apprenticeship, and training while consider...
Apr 15, 2019•19 min
Knowledge, negotiation and nervous disorder in the diary and letters of Sara Coleridge, 1832-43 - Professor Hilary Marland (University of Warwick), keynote speaker Friday 5 April: ‘A Species of Knowledge’: Women and Medicine 1750-1850 This an interdisciplinary symposium, examined the ways that women gained, exchanged, and recorded medical knowledge during the period 1750-1850, including through correspondence, manuscript circulation, publication, apprenticeship, and training while considering ho...
Apr 15, 2019•53 min
Welcome to Big Ideas, a podcast series to accompany Birkbeck’s free public lecture series, where academics bring their research out to local communities around London, sharing the exciting and innovative work that happens at Birkbeck, and opening up the world of research and universities. The series is organised by Birkbeck’s Access and Engagement team, who support underrepresented groups of people to apply and succeed in study here at Birkbeck, University of London. In this podcast we meet Nata...
Apr 12, 2019•26 min
Episode 4 - Resilience and the job market: managing competition and perfectionism by Birkbeck, University of London
Mar 19, 2019•12 min
Episode 3 - Self-esteem and taking up your place at university by Birkbeck, University of London
Mar 19, 2019•15 min
Professor Julia Lovell from Birkbeck’s Department of History, Classics and Archaeology discusses the evolution and legacy of Maoism, both in China and internationally. Professor Lovell’s book, Maoism: A Global History, is published in March 2019, by The Bodley Head. Professor Lovell teaches on the following programmes - MA Global History http://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/2019/postgraduate/programmes/TMAGHESC_C/ - BA History programmes http://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/course_search?q=History&lvl=ug
Mar 06, 2019•17 min
Welcome to Big Ideas, a podcast series to accompany Birkbeck’s free public lecture series, where academics bring their research out to local communities around London, sharing the exciting and innovative work that happens at Birkbeck, and opening up the world of research and universities. The series is organised by Birkbeck’s Access and Engagement team, who support underrepresented groups of people to apply and succeed in study here at Birkbeck, University of London. In this podcast we meet Dr S...
Mar 05, 2019•13 min
Episode 1 – What to do if it’s all going wrong by Birkbeck, University of London
Mar 01, 2019•11 min
Episode 2 – Stress-Less by Birkbeck, University of London
Mar 01, 2019•14 min
On Wednesday 30 January, the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies welcomed Dr. Linda Freedman (UCL) to mark the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth with two papers that examined his reception in Victorian Britain. In his 1868 Essay on William Blake, Algernon Charles Swinburne closed with a comparison to Whitman in which he claimed: ‘The points of contact and sides of likeness between William Blake and Walt Whitman are so many and so grave, as to afford some ground of reason to tho...
Feb 26, 2019•35 min
On Wednesday 30 January, the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies welcomed Prof. Michael Robertson (The College of New Jersey)to mark the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth with two papers that examined his reception in Victorian Britain. During the 1890s, Whitmanite activity in Britain was centered, improbably, in the northern industrial town of Bolton, where a group of lower-middle-class men corresponded regularly with Whitman, made pilgrimages to his home in Camden, New Jersey...
Feb 26, 2019•34 min
What to do if it’s all going wrong… by Birkbeck, University of London
Jan 29, 2019•11 min
Stress-Less by Birkbeck, University of London
Jan 29, 2019•14 min
Welcome to Big Ideas, a podcast series to accompany Birkbeck’s free public lecture series, where academics bring their research out to local communities around London, sharing the exciting and innovative work that happens at Birkbeck, and opening up the world of research and universities. The series is organised by Birkbeck’s Access and Engagement team, who support underrepresented groups of people to apply and succeed in study here at Birkbeck, University of London. In this podcast we meet PhD ...
Jan 22, 2019•16 min
Welcome to Big Ideas, a podcast series to accompany Birkbeck’s free public lecture series, where academics bring their research out to local communities around London, sharing the exciting and innovative work that happens at Birkbeck, and opening up the world of research and universities. The series is organised by Birkbeck’s Access and Engagement team, who support underrepresented groups of people to apply and succeed in study here at Birkbeck, University of London. In this podcast we meet Dr M...
Jan 04, 2019•18 min
Exam Relaxation by Birkbeck, University of London
Dec 05, 2018•11 min
A one-day symposium discussing the most important aspects of scholarly editing for those new to the field. To learn more about the event and the CHASE consortium visit: https://www.chase.ac.uk/scholarly-editing/
Dec 03, 2018•8 min
A one-day symposium discussing the most important aspects of scholarly editing for those new to the field. To learn more about the event and the CHASE consortium visit: https://www.chase.ac.uk/scholarly-editing/
Dec 03, 2018•1 hr 2 min
A one-day symposium discussing the most important aspects of scholarly editing for those new to the field. To learn more about the event and the CHASE consortium visit: https://www.chase.ac.uk/scholarly-editing/
Dec 03, 2018•1 hr 41 min
A one-day symposium discussing the most important aspects of scholarly editing for those new to the field. To learn more about the event and the CHASE consortium visit: https://www.chase.ac.uk/scholarly-editing/
Dec 03, 2018•1 hr 12 min
Dr Alex Colás and Dr Jason Edwards travel between three London destinations to discuss the themes in their new book 'Food, Politics and Society: Social Theory and the Modern Food System'. They first visit the Princess Louise Pub in Holborn, where they discuss the politicisation of alcohol, such as how attitudes to drinking are shaped by class and gender; then to Pisqu, a Peruvian restaurant in Fitzrovia, where they explore the contemporary, capitalist food system and its origins in the Columbian...
Nov 23, 2018•19 min
Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/
Nov 12, 2018•53 min
