Arts and Culture – Pod Academy: Recent Episodes
Arts and Culture – Pod Academy
2020 had many cultural institutions racing to develop their virtual collections and tours. In the digital environment, the museum can take on a new role, less a place of authority, more an agora of ideas. But we have to think outside the box to solve curatorial issues.
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The death of writer and activist Nawal el Saadawi has just been announced. In 2011 Tess Woodcraft interviewed her at a conference organised by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Right Organisation for Pod Academy.
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18th century Scottish Laird, James Bruce, becomes Lord of the Bedchamber in the Abyssinian/Ethiopian court and finds the source of the Nile.
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Who is allowed to make things up? What does fiction writing have to do with life? Is a novel a document? The second lecture in the series, Thinking Between the Lines: truth, lies and fiction in an age of populismexplores writing by women.
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A children’s story raises the profound questions of female oppression and sexism
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A radical vision for arts policy should be at the heart of any progressive government argue Professor Rod Stoneman and Adam Stoneman.
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Why and how should we interpret visual art?
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Can a melody resist oppression? Can music be a weapon for change?
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What inspires the creation of new music? The sublime choral piece ‘I Will Pour Out My Spirit’ came out of 9th century Iberian liturgy. This podcast takes you through the composition process.
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Academic theories on international relations are sometimes best explained through science fiction says Stephen Dyson – illustrating his thesis with Game of Thrones, Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica.
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Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea, Portland, Faroes, German Bight. The BBC’s nightly Shipping Forecast lulls the nation to sleep. Nocturne is a podcast about music and its relationship with the night- inspired by the Shipping Forecast.
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‘Originality’ does not mean creation from nothingness, argues law professor and musician, Olufunmilayo Arewa. Even Handel borrowed music from others.
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Masculinity is the issue at the heart of films about the Vietnam War.
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‘A spindly shit coppice, with ghosts of plastic bags rustling in its branches.’ An artist’s evocation, in sound, of a rubbish dump under the M11 motorway.
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Dench, moist, punk, galivanting! All languages, at all times in history, have had slang – words that are new, controversial, exotic, that mark out the insider from the outsider.
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‘When two personalities meet, an emotional storm is created’, said Wilfred Bion, one of the fathers of psychoanalysis. So can psychotherapy only ever ‘make the best of a bad job’ by turning that storm between the two people in the room to good account?
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Unravelling a consumption conundrum – was it changing tastes and fashion that drove increased consumption during the industrial revolution or was it falling prices?
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A sweep across Gramsci, Ruskin, Althusser, Lukács, Hoggart to explore, as Stuart Hall said, how cultural studies within a Marxist tradition enables us “to understand culture – cultural discourse – the place and relationship of the ideological.”
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Sound is in the air. There is an explosion in the number of artists and architects experimenting with sound and objects at the Royal College of Art Sound Lab, exploring how we will hear and listen in the future.
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This podcast is a fascinating exploration of our urban smellscapes. It is part of our Feast for the Senses series.
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The hauntingly beautiful music of the BayAka people, and their deep and abiding relationship to the rainforest in the Central African Republic.
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On Friday 7th November 2014, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Centre for the Study of Football and its Communities hosted a conference entitled ‘Football and Culture 2014.’ The event aimed to explore the relationship and interaction between football and wider…
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It is the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas, “a popular poet who is complex… who shows you can deal with big troubling philosophical issues and make beauty out of the strangest things”.
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A conversation about comics as a scurrilous gutter medium, about Milo Minara’s Spiderwoman, about Judge Dredd and Watchmen, how the work of Hogarth and Gilray speaks across the centuries – and much more…
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“Gracefully stitching one’s own traditions onto the fabric of the national and / or culturally dominant cloth and by doing so highlighting one’s previous omission, makes it impossible for anyone to ever look again at the source material in quite the same way again” says author Caryl Phillips in this presentation on the Star Spangled Banner.
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Wai Chee Dimock‘s radical new reading of William Faulkner, at the Rupture, Crisis, Transformation conference on the future of American Studies held at Birkbeck in November 2014.
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What will the future archeologist and the future historian make of American in the 21st Century? The post Future Readers: Narrative Knowledge in the Anthropocene appeared first on Pod Academy.
This is a fun piece, and a tragic piece, about the energy unconscious in US studies.
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What is the role of technology in contemporary geopolitics at the end of the ‘American Century’? Is technology pushing us too fast? Do we need time to catch up?
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Susan Sontag said smelling ‘gives one a sensation of knowledge rinsed clean of thought’. The effect of smell is powerful, but rarely articulated and therefore rarely recorded. So how does an historian of smell go about his work?
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This podcast was presented and produced by Jo Barratt This year marks 25 years since the publication of Geoff Dyer’s first novel, The Colour of Memory. Geoff is a multi-award winning writer who has written 4 novels and is also…
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Boris Vian is one of France’s most widely read authors, but he has never won the international recognition gained by his friends Sartre and Camus. Now the filmMood Indigo, based on his novel L’Ecume des Jours, brings his work to a wider audience.
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Hari Kunzru has cemented his role as one of Britain’s most acute observers of modern life and its intricacies with his novels The Impressionist, Transmission and Gods Without Men – a roller-coaster ride of surrealism, dystopia and satirical humour.
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These days we are used to hearing about the power of banks, GDP percentages, hedge funds, shareholders, stock market reports, house prices, the business cycle, deficits, debts, surpluses – but has it always been this way? Has money and finance always been such a prominent focal point for the popular consciousness? And if so, how has the representation of money changed and what does this tell us about our society?
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Have you ever stepped off a plane and been aware of a different smell in the air – the smell of a country, a city, a terrain? This podcast explores our urban smellscapes – how we live and navigate using our noses.
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Biographical films like Selma, Diana, 12 Years a Slaveand Lincolnclaim to be based on real life events. But what makes a good or a bad biopic? And as fashions change in biography, what do we want from the biopic genre?
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Coming of age rites of passage, solstice gatherings, baby naming ceremonies, funerals and wakes – rituals are universal. So is the need for ritual hard-wired in human beings?
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Newspapers are dying. There may be a brighter digital future ahead – but is the industry capable of realising it?
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Ethnomusicology is the study of musicin culture, and musicas culture. Whether it is gamelan, techno, Bollywood or English folk ethnomusicologists want to understand the music – and the society that made it.
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We know images can be deceptive, but we live and work in constant denial of this knowledge. In a media saturated world, we act as if we are immune to their effects.
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The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford has hours of music from thousands of cultures all over the world. Ethnomusicologist Noel Lobley explains how the music, some recorded on silver foil 100 years ago, is being curated.
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Drama, as an academic course outside of English, took some time to be accepted. But can playwriting really be taught?
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Year-in, year-out the circus comes to town. But in 2013 circuses are in trouble. Seen by many as entertainment from a bygone age and facing Government action to ban circuses with wild animals, what is it that keeps circuses on…
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The Cinema Memories Project: British cinema-going in the 1960s and the nature of cultural memory.
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Audio-visual art is familiar, but the audio-olfactory is surprising. Oswaldo Maciá explains why he uses sound and smell to construct knowledge in his exhibition The Library of Cynicism at CHELSEA space until July 20th.
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Can art produce a space where people can create change, make change or at the very least be heard?
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Anosmia is to smelling what blindness is to sight, or deafness is to hearing. It is living with no sense of smell. This podcast is based on a lecture at Birkbeck by photojournalist, Eléonore de Bonneval, who has been documenting the lives of people with anosmia.
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If you find Shakespeare's language difficult, help is at hand.
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UK composer Graham Fitkin's pieces responding to the Iraq War and Guantanamo, Chain of Command and No Doubt, bring together words and music in uncompromising ways.
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A musical journey from Bach to Dappy, looking at pitch, auditory illusions, 'perfect pitch', musical synysthesia and why cash machines use the tritone!
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In this 4th Huston lecture, British film theorist Laura Mulvey analyses the relationship between stillness and the moving image in cinema, drawing on Rossellini's Journey to Italy.
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Lord Leveson's inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of the British press will report on 29 November. Angela Phillips looks at what motivated the tabloids to get stories by hacking phones and considers the options for reform. …
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A portrait of French film-maker, Jean-Luc Godard - director of Breathless and Weekend, writer for Cahiers du Cinema and one of the creators of the French New Wave.
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Musician, DJ and radio producer, Chris Berrow, discusses live music and what the word "live" actually means.
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Shakespeare in the Arab world, from a production off the coast of Yemen within Shakespeare's lifetime to an early Egyptian Hamlet that is a musical with a happy ending.
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Dr. Hilary Rose considers the promise of interdisciplinarity, and explains her concerns about what she thinks might be the dulling of criticality through such endeavours.
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Think tourism is just for out-of-towners? Think again. Alex Bingham takes a stroll and encounters some of London’s walking guides. She finds out about University of Westminster's guiding course and a lot more about London.
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Hollywood screenwriter, Howard A Rodman, talks about how to write a compelling film scene, and says that a formulaic approach to screenwriting has lead to movies that are all the same.
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The remarkable life of A.L Lloyd: folk collector, writer, activist, broadcaster and an influential figure in the British folk revival …
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Irish feminist filmmaker Pat Murphy talks about the people, ideas, events and contexts that have influenced her work, including Brecht, the Troubles and the long shadow of James Joyce.
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Sujatha Fernandes discusses the power of hip hop in political movements around the world.
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The death of writer and activist Nawal el Saadawi has just been announced. In 2015 I interviewed her at a conference organised by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Right Organisation for Pod Academy. Typically, and at 84 years old, she had stopped off at the Occupy encampment around St Paul’s Cathedral on her way from the airport, before coming on to the conference.
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Charles Dickens was a francophile who had a little known passion for the French language, life and culture. A Tale of Two Cities, set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, is only part of the story. Much of his journalism was also about France.
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We are all familiar with Dickens, James Joyce, Henry James. But what about those authors who achieved huge commercial success when first published, wrote real literary gems, but 50 years later are forgotten?
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Left-handedness is certainly an everyday phenomenon. We all probably know somebody who writes with their left hand or possibly do so ourselves. But how often do we pause to think about what might be the cause of such a preference…
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The invention and reception of change ringing in seventeenth-century England…
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Speakers explore the merits, practicality and value of maintaining a multiplicity of languages at the University of Reading.
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The Researchers' Night is a Europe-wide event bringing together the public and academic researchers. The aim is to showcase university research, exploring its relevance and importance for all of us.
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