On the 10th of November after a great Show by Djane Missy Ness and Lebanese Hip Hop artist el-Rass, we met with Inès aka Missy Ness and talked about her sounds, her influences, some projects she runs, we talked about Feminism, her experiences as a Djane.
SOAS Concert Series welcomes Armenian Duduk player 'Arsen Petrosyan' to play in the Brunei. Sophie Darling of SOAS Radio interviewed Arsen before his performance about his upcoming show, the traditions of the ancient duduk and Armenian music. Arsen Petrosyan Duduk: Sound & Symbol of Armenia Arsen Petrosyan is a young master of the Armenian duduk, an ancient double reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood. He is a graduate of the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, where he studied un...
In the first episode of The Believers, a show about religion and faith at SOAS, Pablo and Krithika get under the skin of the Hare Krishnas, to learn more about them than the delicious free lunches that they provide students.
Tune in to Episode 1 as we take a look into behind the scenes of creating a student newspaper with The SOAS Spirit Editors. To get involved in The SOAS Spirit, email spirit@soas.ac.uk
This week we are speaking with 2 SOAS students from Egypt about Online Spaces & Overcoming Government Censorship. Hossam Fazulla is a researcher and writer from Cairo. He has spent the last 7 years bridging the gap between art and human rights as Director of Freedom of Artistic Creation at the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) and as a former trainer at Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. Fazulla’s work focuses on cultural policies and the contemporary Egyptian c...
First-time guests Alina Apostu and Imran Jamal join us again on the final episode of The Impostors to reflect on the last eight months of PhD chat on the show. Tune in for thesis submission and viva tips, some great advice on how to survive the winter blues and writing-up process, a few reflections on the future, and a very geeky discussion on the importance of 'communitas'. About the guests: Imran Jamal is a fourth year PhD student at the Department of Anthropology at SOAS: https://www.soas.ac....
This week we are speaking with Griff Ferris from Big Brother Watch about exactly Who Should Have The Right To Watch Over You? Big Brother Watch aims to expose and challenge threats to our privacy, our freedoms and our civil liberties at a time of enormous technological change in the UK. Their work includes research around facial recognition and biometrics, access to communications data, and digital surveillance. Their most recent campaign #FREESPEECHONLINE focuses on the risks of censorship onli...
SOAS Radio hosting Sudha Bhuchar and Neela Doleẑalová the team behind 'Decolonising the Curriculum', a new verbatim theatre project to be made in residence at SOAS by Bhuchar Boulevard theatre company. https://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem135509.html Editor: Mai Weisz Co-host and photographer: Lena Naassana
Welcome to the 2nd episode of our 10 part series on consent. This time we give some answers to the question ‘Where can I go?’ signposting help and resources available at SOAS and in the wider community, for those of you who have experienced sexual violence or want to support a loved one. We are also joined by SOAS Academic and Welfare case worker Susanna who tells us about her work, what support is available and how SOAS can do more to support its students. Use this form to give us feedback or r...
We speak with Soum Paul about Cultural Nuances & India’s Digital Economy. Soum is the CoFounder and CEO of Homescreen Network, a television network venture built for the smartphone era. Over the last two decades, he’s played instrumental roles in a series of disruptive startups - Knowlarity, State.com, Mixercast. He’s also a writer, and his books Topper Prepares andFlight of the Unicorns have both been published by Harper Collins India. When in between projects, he spends his time trotting t...
This Episode of Regional Spotlights Middle East features an exclusive interview with the directors of 'About a War' a documentary film exploring violence and social change through interviews with ex-fighters from the Lebanese Civil War. https://www.curzoncinemas.com/soho/film-info/about-a-war Editor: Mai Weisz Contributor and photographer: Lena Naassana
Doing a PhD is not an isolated activity: to progress with our careers whilst staying sane (and funded!) we often have to do a range of other things. In this month's discussion, we hear from two expert multitaskers on how to achieve a work-life balance, and how to cope when things can start to feel overwhelming. About the guests: Karla Cervantes Barrón is currently doing her PhD in Engineering at the University of Cambridge, looking at Energy Services across different countries: http://www.eng.ca...
DanDana returns in full force with special guest Hazem Jamjoum, who’s writing his PhD on Arabic Music and previously ran radio shows in Canada and New York. In this episode we discuss the Cairo Congress on Arab Music held in 1938, the history and politics around it and who attended the conference. We delve deep into details about what was going on behind the scenes, while we explore the rich musical recordings that ensued from the conference. Towards the end of the episode we invite you to atten...
We are speaking with Lecturer Matti Pohjonen about Research & Technology in Hard to Reach Locations. Matti is an academic at the intersection of digital anthropology, philosophy and data science. His work developing innovative research methods for hard-to-reach populations has taken him from Kenya and Ethiopia, to India. Now back at SOAS he is a Lecturer in Global Digital Media. Tune in every 2 weeks for conversations on the future of digital technologies and their global impact. https://www...
This podcast examines why it's important to use innovative approaches to evaluate development programmes and evidence. In recent years, there’s been increased scrutiny of international development and particularly foreign aid. For example, the UK’s Department of International Development (DFID) regularly faces criticisms regarding the effectiveness of its aid programmes from publications such as the Daily Mail and Sunday Express. At the same time, the Sustainable Development Goals have helped cr...
Live recording of Soas Concert Series' first performance of the academic year: Wiyaala 19th Oct 2018. Produced by Sophie Darling Wiyaala, which means “the doer” in her local Sissala dialect, is from Funsi, a village in the upper West region of Ghana, close to the borders of Burkina Faso and Cote D’Ivoire. Her music is a potent fusion of West African folk songs and stadium Afro-pop, informed by her personal interpretation of traditional West African mythology and storytelling. Despite growing up ...
Here is our next episode in the Global Sport Conversations Podcast Series. We interviewed Keir Radnedge, who has been covering football worldwide for more than 50 years, writing 36 books, from tournament guides to comprehensive encyclopedias, aimed at all ages. His journalism career has included reporting at 14 World Cups as well as many Olympic Games and European Championships. Radnedge speaks to SOAS academic Dr J Simon Rofe about: his own experiences of technology change in global sports medi...
In her new book, Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Dr. Rebecca Adami highlights the contributions made by Latin American female delegates and other prominent non-Western female representatives who took part in the drafting of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Intrigued by the history of gender equality in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Dr. Adami dedicated her research to uncover the hidden figures who pushed for more inclusiv...
"We have to be able to recognize that we have discrimination in our society, that there is prejudice and that we are going to have to do some concrete things to deal with it. But if we are not even prepared to admit that its there, we are not going to make any progress." Valerie Amos (2017) Director of SOAS since September 2015, Baroness Valerie Amos has already become a formidable presence on the campus. As the first black woman to be the Director of any UK university, what better person to pro...
Dr Simon Rofe discusses his recently published book: 'Sport and Diplomacy: Games within Games', (Manchester: Manchester University Press / USA Oxford University Press 2018) as the culmination of the first phase of research in Sport and Diplomacy spanning the years 2012-2018. The book critically enhances the appreciation of sport and diplomacy in global affairs from the perspective of both practitioners and scholars. It draws on a range of scholarship across the fields of history, politics, socio...
Bruce Jentleson is a professor of public policy and political science at Duke University, and is the recipient of the 2018 Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Award for Distinguished Public Service from the American Political Science Association International Security Section. He is a leading scholar of American foreign policy and has served in a number of U.S. policy and political positions. From 2009 to 2011, Mr. Jentleson was a senior advisor to the U.S. State Department Policy Planning Director. He wa...
Here is our next episode in the Global Sport Conversations Podcast Series. We interviewed Susan Brownell, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. Most recently she has co-authored (with Niko Besnier and Thomas F. Carter) The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics (University of California Press). She also wrote Beijing’s Games: What the Olympics Mean to China (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) and edited The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport,...
Neneh Cherry dropped by the SOAS Radio Studio the night before the release of her 5th album "Broken Politics", after her "In Conversation with Reni Eddo-Lodge" at SOAS as a part of the Black History Month events put on by the SOAS Students Union.
Isuru talks to Professor Almut Hintze and Author Farrukh Dhondy on Zoroastrianism
CARLENE The ORIGINAL DANCEHALL QUEEN talks to ISURU about her career and influences!
Is it a good idea to do a PhD while being a parent, or to become a parent while doing a PhD? In this month's episode, we escalate the question of how to balance PhD life and personal life by hearing experiences of parenting while being a doctoral student. About the guests: Miho Zlazli is a doctoral student at the Department of Linguistics at SOAS: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miho_Zlazli Dr Claudia Prieto Piastro completed her PhD at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at King's Col...
The Dust of Cairo Urban echoes wants to share the voices of London that are often drowned out by the hustle and bustle of the big city. By sharing honest, intimate and uncensored portraits of London’s souls, this podcast aims at discovering, and connecting the life bubbles shaping our big and sometimes anonymous cosmopolis. In this first episode, an anonymous speaker walks us through East London and shares what has been lost, or found back from a missed Egypt in his daily life in London. Songs: ...
PhD students are increasingly encouraged to disseminate their research to the wider public, but it can be tricky to know where to begin and how to do so effectively. In this month's episode, we talk about why public engagement is important, and explore different avenues to communicate with audiences beyond academia. About the guests: Alexandra Bulat is completing her PhD at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES): https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/people/politics-and-sociology-res...
A podcast on consent. Straightforward, right? With more and more cases of harassment and rape going public, the conversation seems to have found a wider platform. How come that harassments of different kinds are still the norm in most societies? What leads to survivors being blamed? What different and intersecting power dynamics are at play? These are only some of the questions we will be asking in this podcast. We aim to stir this conversation in a direction that takes radical approaches examin...
More than 1 billion people are estimated to be migrants, living either inside or outside their country of birth. Since an influx of Syrian refugees arrived in Europe in 2015, the question of dealing with migrants and asylum seekers has dominated Western headlines. Although net migration in Europe has declined, anti-migration rhetoric persists and has provoked political instability in countries such as Germany and Spain. What’s more, US President, Donald Trump, has drawn ire for his ‘zero toleran...
