This week we are joined by Isabelle Amazon-Brown to speak about Designing Chatbots for Social Development. With ten years experience in 'mobiles for development', working on projects funded by UNICEF, DfID, USAID and the World Bank. She started out running and designing feature-phone friendly mobile sites, but in the past few years has been working on chatbots. She's “passionately jaded” about digital development, having seen more projects “fail” than succeed, but still believes in the transform...
Sep 10, 2020•36 min
"WASH is the collective term for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. Due to their interdependent nature, these three core issues are grouped together to represent a growing sector. While each a separate field of work, each is dependent on the presence of the other. For example, without toilets, water sources become contaminated; without clean water, basic hygiene practices are not possible." (Unicef Website) Today’s guest is Professor Barbara Evans, who holds the chair in Public Health Engineering in...
Sep 02, 2020•34 min
This week, we are speaking to Marie Thaut on The Politics of Language Online. There are more than 7,000 languages on Earth, yet half of the world’s 7.6 billion people speak just 24 of them, and 95 percent speak just 400 of them. That leaves five percent of the global population spread across 6,600 different languages, hundreds of them now spoken by less than ten people. Marie is doing an MA in Language Documentation and Description and has completed a BA in Language Sciences at the Université Lu...
Aug 28, 2020•32 min
In light of the multiple events that have swept the globe this year, DanDana team decided to reflect on some of the music that matters. As protests highlighting the importance of black lives after the brutal killings of George Floyd and Brayonna Taylor and the rise of the decentralized Black Lives Matter movement, we felt the urge to shine a light on the rich musical heritage of black people in the region from Andalusia to Mongolia and from Yemen to Anatolia. In this episode we dug deep into the...
Aug 20, 2020•1 hr 36 min
“Sounds of the Wickedest”, Panjab In My Eye Episode 5 with that Panjabi sound therapy. Investigating Panjabi emotions, the experience of partition on the sounds of the Panjyaab and as always, the ‘Panjabi linear’. Takhat Hazara to Canada, Mehndipur to Birmingham (B21), 1947 to 2020. From Mustard Fields to Disco Lights (Alka Pande). Featured artists include Gitaz Bindrakhia, Surinder Rattan, Himmat Sandhu, Hans Mann and PHANTØM. *Note to Panjabi and non-Panjabi speaking listeners: feel free to DM...
Aug 16, 2020•51 min
This week we are joined by Aida Al-Kaisy to speak about Landscapes of Journalistic Practice in the Middle East. Aida is a Media Reform Advisor and has worked extensively on media development projects across the MENA region including in Iraq, Palestine and Jordan. She is currently working on a number of projects, focusing on issues related to youth engagement in media, media in conflict, social cohesion and the media and the development of independent media platforms in MENA amongst other things....
Aug 13, 2020•32 min
Bollo Speaks is a collaboration between the Widening Participation department and community partner Bollo Brook Youth Centre. Each episode is created entirely by the young people, with conversations around Identity, perception and more, soundtracked by their own music, recorded at Bollo Brook's in-house studio.
Aug 13, 2020•30 min
Episode 4 of Panjab In My Eye, old school panjabi sound therapy and investigating the raw Panjabiyat in new school modes of music making & mixing. Featuring Superj4tt, Bally Sagoo and the Hunterz @msb._____ #Panjabinmyeye
Jul 21, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Miia Laine speaks to Stephen Chan about occupying the US consulate, being involved with booking Led Zeppelin, learning how to observe an election and his academic career. Learn more about Stephen: http://www.stephen-chan.com/
Jul 16, 2020•45 min
Welcome back! On today's episode, Noah's brothers (who are internet bangouts) update his terminology book. There are many new terms and phrases which our generation utilise in explaining new shifts in culture, and today we decided to focus on terms used in Gender, Sexuality and a few others you might find interesting. Disclaimer: This hasn't been created to alienate or offend. We only deal with love over here. Song of the Week: Nissi- Judi (Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/38gOyZatCJM3Sxqh...
Jul 07, 2020•44 min
Panjab In My Eye // Episode 3 by SOAS Radio
Jul 04, 2020•52 min
Reflect, Relax and Regenerate. A journey of soothing beats to uplift your spirit and reenergise your week. Featuring artists such as Mansur Brown, Afta-1 and La Soülchyld amongst others. @ msb._____
Jul 01, 2020•48 min
Bollo Speaks is a collaboration between the Widening Participation department and community partner Bollo Brook Youth Centre. Each episode is created entirely by the young people, with conversations around Identity, perception and more, soundtracked by their own music, recorded at Bollo Brook's in-house studio. In episode 2, the young people discuss inequality and mental wellbeing.
Jun 25, 2020•30 min
Dr J Simon Rofe & Sean Cottrell (lawinsport) in conversation concerning the legal implications of COVID19 for Sport, Lex Sportiva and Sports Law.
Jun 08, 2020•58 min
The borders between genres such as ambient, drone, musique concrète, electro-acoustic and experimental music are blurry. Compositions sonically weave together soundscapes from natural and urban environments, recordings of instruments, voice, with synthesizers and electronics, creating immersive listening experiences which transcend linear narratives and instead invite us to discover novel notions of space and time. Join the usual sonic culprits Emily Sarsam, Yamen Makdad and Christina Hazboun in...
Jun 05, 2020•1 hr 29 min
CISD Afghanistan Strategic And Geopolitical Perspectives 12 March 2019 by SOAS Radio
Jun 03, 2020•51 min
Manvir is back with this weeks mix of alt Panjabi hits
May 30, 2020•50 min
Bollo Speaks is a collaboration between the SOAS Access, Participation and Student Success team, and community partner Bollo Brook Youth Centre. Each episode is created entirely by the young people, with conversations around Identity, perception and more, soundtracked by their own music, recorded at Bollo Brook's in-house studio.
May 20, 2020•30 min
In this follow-up episode on the space theme, we explore music evoking contemplative spaciousness. Expect spiritual jazz from the 70s, sheets of sound and Afrofuturism.
May 18, 2020•1 hr 7 min
As we carry on face to face, even thru screens and windows, here are some sounds that calm and suppress. From artists who are always looking for new futures, creating sonic worlds where tactile instruments sound plastic, where machines mimic and replicate environmental fluidity and frailty. First 30 bubbles up gently, with contemporary artists Yu Su, D.K, DJ Wave dancing between conceptions of left-field and groove. Moving into a steady groove the sweet UK translation of street soul bangs agains...
May 13, 2020•2 hr
Prepare to kick back with our new show Dj'd by the ever-talented Manvivr Brar. This week he brings you the best beats in R&b and Hip-Hop
May 11, 2020•1 hr 11 min
To escape the boredom at home during the lockdown, Paolo invites you to a musical journey through the cosmos. Expect an eclectic mix of genres and spontaneous poetry.
May 08, 2020•52 min
Expanding on our first part of Ep. 13 Resistance and Solidarity, we carry on the path to explore intersectional and multifaceted forms of resistance to social injustice, wars, gender inequality and more. In this episode we immerse ourselves in music from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Armenia, Sudan, Tunisia and more. The music we explore is outside the usual media framing and we detangle the circumstances surrounding the songs of our revered musicians.
May 07, 2020•1 hr 40 min
In this unique episode, expect new releases interspersed by conversation with a guest musician on creating music during lockdown -features some hot takes on the current status of the gig economy.
May 01, 2020•55 min
In an attepmt to prove that it's not all doom and gloom, Matt takes you through some hot new releases. Expect a range of rhythms and references to the pandemic.
Apr 22, 2020•35 min
Graphic Details explores the world of graphic novels and comics from Asia and Africa. In this first episode Indigo, Ayesha and Gaia will be discussing Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. They will look at the historical and political context and how that has shaped the story, as well as its literary and artistic styles.
Apr 20, 2020•18 min
An up-tempo mix of pop melodies and blissed-out, fuzzy earworms to accompany and sooth during this saga. A collection of personal favourite pick-me-ups filled with Joyful, bubbling synths and skittering drum patterns. For a moment when all our lives feel like one long Jim Jarmusch mood poem. Featuring 90s acid nostalgia from Andras, fourth-world infused tech-trance from Richard H. Kirk, and the best Bjork song you've never heard. 'I've been to the doctor, he says I'm alright'.
Apr 16, 2020•1 hr
A podcast focused on the provocative movie Film Festival Film with its co-directors Mpumelelo Mcata and Perivi Katjavivi, as well as film producer Anna Teeman, in conversation with Lindiwe Dovey and Caspar Melville (SOAS Centre for Creative Industries, Media, and Screen Studies). https://twitter.com/oldlocationfilm https://twitter.com/BLK_JKS https://twitter.com/AnnaTeeman https://twitter.com/screenworlds1 https://twitter.com/lindiwedovey https://twitter.com/CasparMelville
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Episode 2 is here! In this episode, Zaynab takes us through some of the more contemporary renditions of Qawwali from popular Pakistani Dramas to the grooves of Nescafe Basement. For more of Sami Yusuf check Out his performances in the Dubai Opera House here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcd3gQz6UIU
Apr 04, 2020•28 min
In this episode, Saskia examines an often overlooked side of languages. British Sign Language is the first language of many deaf and hard of hearing people, and their children across the UK, and yet misconceptions and myths about sign languages are pervasive and most Linguistics courses do not include modules on them. This podcast explores some of those myths, looking at some areas of linguistic interest, in BSL and around the world. Diane Stoianov, a PhD student, and Bencie Woll, head of UCL’s ...
Apr 01, 2020•34 min
