King's College London: Recent Episodes
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Christopher le Brun and Tim Marlow consider the cultural inheritance of Christianity, recent interest in the sacred in contemporary art, le Brun’s commissions for Liverpool Cathedral, and the embarrassment and ambiguity that can appear in attitudes to both art and spiritual matters.
Stephen Farthing and Tim Marlow consider the legacy of Christianity in modern and post-modern art, the nature of the miraculous, and the suspension of disbelief in the face of intense faith.
Rebecca Salter and Tim Marlow discuss the influence of her childhood as an Anglican vicar’s daughter on her appreciation of sacred space, and her explorations of Japanese aesthetics and abstract expressions of time and space.
In July 2018 Dr Rowan Williams and Sir Antony Gormley RA discussed the relationship of modern and contemporary visual art and Christian tradition, in a conversation chaired by Tim Marlow, hosted at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Dr Cat Moir (University of Sydney)in conversation with Dr Sebastian Truskolaski (King's College London) about his new book, Adorno and the Ban on Images (Bloomsbury, 2021). Part of King's College London's Comparative Literature Department's research seminar series, 3 March 2021.
In the first episode of this podcast series, we’re talking about moving geographies. We will be discussing the very different ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has been narrated across the world with 12 languages represented by our ambassadors.
In episode two, we’re talking about the discourse differences between Coronavirus vs. COVID-19 in Italian, Russian, French, Arabic and German.
In the third episode of the series, we’re talking about propaganda and combat narratives in Hebrew, Japanese, Russian, French and Spanish.
In the final episode of the series, we’re talking about future and morality in the global narrative of COVID-19. The languages covered in this episode are English, Spanish and Italian.
Want to hear a bit more on 20th Century music? Join Dr Heather Wiebe on our podcast! If you'd like to find out more, you can catch Heather in this talk she did for the BBC proms in 2016: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8d8gw
Music in a global context: Dr Katherine Schofield talks to us about classical music from India and how Hindustani music has been so influential. Discover more as part of your ethnomusicology modules on your BMus.
The 18th Century saw the emergence of musical culture as we know it. It was the era of the ‘Big 5’ – Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart and Heiden Professor Matthew Head gives us more information on the 18th century music we teach here at King’s and why we think this period is so important.
Latin American music is diverse – from traditional to popular. Dr Fred Moehn talks to Dr Flora Willson about the Latin American music we teach at King's and his favourite modules that you might explore as part of your ethnomusicology modules on your BMus.
What do we need to know about music from 900 years ago? Why does it still matter today? Discover fascinating medieval music and how you'll learn about it on your degree with Professor Emma Dillon.
Hear about the performance element of your degree – what is new about studying performance as part of a degree? Director of Performance, Dr Joe Fort talks us through this exciting element of your BMus – including our partnership with Royal Academy of Music.
What is composition such an important part of a music degree? Hear how composition fits into your BMus and how it will be taught as part of your degree, here at King’s College London.
So, what is Ethnomusicology? We explain what it is, how you'll study it and why it's important in this micro podcast with Dr Flora Willson.
On the BMus you'll be learning about musicology. Sounds great, right? But why and how do we study it? And what exactly is it? We hear more about how you will explore musicology with Dr Flora Willson, Professor Emma Dillon, Dr Ditlev Rindom and two current BMus students, Shadi and Zack.
Laurie McNeill on ‘Remediation, Repurposing, and Preservation: Networked Archives of Digital Lives’; keynote lecture, 8 June 2017, at IABA Europe Conference; considers social media sites as new forms of archive, exemplifying new forms of curatorship.
The Politics of Digital Life’: the first of three ‘thematic discussions’ in Ego Media’s International Network of leading life writing scholars meeting in September 2015.
Time and Space Online: Liveness, Authenticity, Locality’: the second of three ‘thematic discussions’ in Ego Media’s International Network of leading life writing scholars meeting in September 2015.
Laurie McNeill on ‘Remediation, Repurposing, and Preservation: Networked Archives of Digital Lives’; keynote lecture, 8 June 2017, at IABA Europe Conference; considers social media sites as new forms of archive, exemplifying new forms of curatorship
John David Zuern on ‘New Algorithms of the Soul: Internet Celebrity Memoirs and the Programmed Life’; keynote lecture, 9 June 2017, at IABA Europe Conference; analyses print memoirs by internet celebrities, which often combine the genres of memoir and self-help manual, but remediate the print memoir in the guise of Instagram and YouTube
'How I was forced to write a novel on forced migration and forced the novel to migrate’ – novelist, essayist, poet and translator Ulrike Draesner speaks (9 June 2017) about life writing on forced migration, and reads from her novel Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt (Never Try This at Home; 2014)
Routine Quantification: Habit, Affect and Health’: the third of three ‘thematic discussions’ in Ego Media’s International Network of leading life writing scholars meeting in September 2015.
Author Laurence Scott in conversation with Max Saunders, 27 January 2016. Discussion of and readings from Scott’s The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World (London: Heinemann, 2015).
Annette Markham speaking on auto-phenomenology, remix, and other methods of ‘Curating Future Memories in a Digital Era’, 4 April 2016.
Joanna Zylinska discusses the concept of machinic ‘Nonhuman Vision’ in her Ego-Media talk ‘The Liberation of the I/Eye’, 23 March 2016.
Novelist and cultural critic Will Self in conversation with Max Saunders, 4th November 2015. On technology and the digital environment and their impact on the contemporary individual; the self and the psyche in culture, literature and our increasingly digitally-adapted psychogeographic environments.
In ‘Careering: reflexivity, play and a life in media’, post-punk musician and former Rector of Glasgow University Pat Kane presents his own experience as a case-study of what he called a ‘media-ego’ – someone living their life in the eye of the media; 7 November 2016
‘Time and Space Online: Liveness, Authenticity, Locality’: the second of three ‘thematic discussions’ in Ego Media’s International Network of leading life writing scholars meeting in September 2015.
An Archive of Tingles explores the mysterious phenomenon of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response with YouTubers WhispersRed ASMR and Muted Vocal. It was created in collaboration with the Arts & Culture Unit and originally broadcast on Resonance FM.
Dr. Medhin Selamu in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in conversation with Caroline Smart and Dr. Sridhar Venkatapuram. Dr. Medhin has been working with KCL-partnered research projects since 2012, with expertise integrating mental health into primary care and health systems strengthening. Dr. Medhin tells us how COVID-19 has been impacting daily life in Addis Ababa. We explore some of the challenges faced in a populated metropolis with an emerging economy, where people must weigh the competing demands of gainful wage labour and public health. We also discuss health ethics and equity in regards to the new world we are all living in post-corona.
EDGI: Largest ever study of eating disorders launches in England by King's College London
A panel lecture with Mrs Justice Geraldine Andrews, Mrs Justice Bobbie Chemma-Grubb, Mrs Justice Laura Cox and Karon Monaghan QC, chaired by Professor Kate Malleson – focusing on women in the judiciary. The panel addresses whether progress towards gender equality within the Judiciary has stalled, and if it still matters.
Discussion with Vincent Hiribarren about her academic research on gender and her role as the publishing director of Cassava Republic Press. Bibi Bakare-Yusuf also discusses the need to build a stronger publishing infrastructure in Africa and elaborated on her idea for Africans to build their own archive.
What are the challenges arising from population ageing? How can we overcome the need to provide health and social care, ensure adequate incomes and prevent ageism? How will we enhance safety, digital inclusion and the promotion of independent living?
Listen to Professor Andrew Steptoe at this year’s David Hobman Lecture, where he discusses these challenges in the context of large-scale population research and explores the ways in which the experience of ageing might be enhanced.
Professor Andrew Steptoe is Professor of Psychology and Epidemiology, as well as Head of the Department of Behavioural Science and Health at University College London and Director of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). His work focuses on understanding the psychosocial aspects of ageing, with links between mental and physical health, and health behaviour change.
In each episode, academics from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London will discuss what the relevance of their discipline is in the modern world and what the future holds for their fields of study.
This week, Dr Alice Rio and Dr David Brydan from the Department of History look at what the field of History can teach us about diversity and Britain’s relationship with Europe but why looking back can't help us predict what the future holds.
In each episode, academics from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London will discuss what the relevance of their discipline is in the modern world and what the future holds for their fields of study.
In this episode, Dr Siobhán McIlvanney and Dr Emily Butterworth discuss the field of French Studies. They explore the hugely diverse field of study, observing how studying in this area goes beyond learning the language and explores francophone culture, literature, media and more.
In each episode, academics from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London will discuss what the relevance of their discipline is in the modern world and what the future holds for their fields of study.
In this episode Professor Edith Hall, Dr Lindsay Allen and Dr Will Wootton from the Department of Classics discuss how educators can make Classical Studies more accessible and why ancient culture is still captivating the modern imagination today.
In each episode, academics from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London will discuss what the relevance of their discipline is in the modern world and what the future holds for their fields of study.
In this episode, academics from King’s Language Acts and Worldmaking project explore the meaning of the term ‘Worldmaking’ and discuss how to people from all backgrounds can become more engaged in languages and cultural exchange.
For more information on the Language Acts and Worldmaking project, check out: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/laaw/index
In each episode, academics from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London will discuss what the relevance of their discipline is in the modern world and what the future holds for their fields of study.
In this episode, Dr Caroline Laurent & PhD Candidate Haya Alfarhan discuss the interdisciplinary field of Comparative Literature. Focusing on the area of sequential novels, and particularly graphic novels, Caroline and Haya highlight how this form of visual literature enables writers and readers to approach and explore challenging global issues relating to war, international relations, mental health, sexual identity and more.
- How are technology and the online world affecting our relationships? What are the benefits of dating in the digital age, and what do we need to be cautious of?
- What are the upsides of using technology to find and build connections?
- What are some of the privacy concerns that need to be considered when using apps and technology that collect our data?
The digital world has had a profound impact on how we date, find love and build connections. Although technology and the online world tends to get a bad rap when it comes to building healthy relationships, in this podcast Dr Kate Devlin discusses how technology has shaped our experiences of love, sex and intimacy for the better. She discusses that whilst dating apps are altering our expectations of relationships, they are also helping us to finding like-minded people and form communities.
What would you pay to save a loved one who had been kidnapped? What is the price of a life?
Millions of people work, live, and travel in high-risk countries; very few are kidnapped and, of those that are, almost all come home safely - how can this be? Dr Anja Shortland, Reader in Political Economy at King's College London, discusses her new book Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business.
Dr Gary Fuller is an air pollution scientist at King’s College London. this podcast explores his new book, The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution and How We Can Fight Back, which is out now.
In this podcast, Dr Russell Foster, in the Department of European and International Studies at King’s College London, explores ‘Public Atheism’, and how the “collective belief of no belief” attempts to eradicate religion from society, with some arguing that this causes as much violence and fear as extremists.
In an age of political turbulence, terror and extremism; fear and blame are terms regularly used to describe feeling within society.
Religion has been blamed for a number of violent incidences in recent years, but how much can a collective group of people who worship a particular faith be blamed over the extreme views of an individual?