News – 6 February 2012
February 2012 Newsletter
We’re getting to the very busy part of the academic year again, and we have plenty of new entries now in our archive from January.
The Aristotelian Society with two talks:
Dudley Knowles – Good Samaritans and Good Government and
Seth Yalcin – Bayesian Expressivism
The Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon also two:
Tobias Döring - Beginning to spell: Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella and the Crux of Protestant Poetics and
Alison Shell – Conversion in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
And one from the Royal Asiatic Society:
Ming Wilson – Dressed to Rule: The Chinese Emperor’s Wardrobe
The Birkbeck Institute for Social Research is continuing their ‘Developing your Research Career’ series and we have their latest offering here: Getting Journal Articles Published. And while we’re on the topic of academic journals, the Institute of Philosophy in London brought together a number of Philosophy Journal editors and asked them how they viewed future philosophical research. This very insightful, day-long workshop can be listened to here: The Editor’s Cut – A view of philosophical research from journal editors.
Another contribution from the Birkbeck Institute of Social Research was a talk given by Cindy Katz (CUNY) entitled Superman, Tiger Mother: Aspiration Management and the Child as Waste, examining modern child-rearing.
We started recording a series of talks at the School of Modern Languages at Royal Holloway University of London, ‘The Flâneur’, which are part of their Research Seminars in Comparative Literature and Culture. This series of talks looks at the eponymous figure of the 19th century dandy, the (Parisian) Flâneur. First of our recordings there was Hannah Thompson – Two Parisian re-writings of the Flâneur: the failure and the planner.
Also from Royal Holloway, this time the History Department: David Abulafia – The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean; and from the Royal Holloway Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC), a discussion around the Turkish-German film Almanya – Welcome to Germany.
27 January was Holocaust Memorial Day, and we recorded a couple of events for this occasion: Holocaust Memorial Day 2012 at the University of Northampton with a superb keynote lecture by Dan Stone Why we need to think about Holocaust Perpetrators. The Pears Institute for the study of Anti-Semitism and the Institute of Historical Research commemorated the day with a round-table discussion on Jan Karski: The Memoirs and Memory of Jan Karski.
Last but not least, the honours: Catherine Malabou celebrated her professorship with her inaugural lecture Continental Philosophy and the Brain: Towards a Critical Neuroscience at Kingston University.
You will notice that some of our recent contributions have become more than just audio podcasts: Many have powerpoint presentations, some have video clips, handout downloads, and a variety of additional features. A very fine example of imaginative use of recorded audio material is Sophie Hope’s audio essay 1984, where the Birkbeck Media and Cultural Studies lecturer invited a number of artists who were active in London in 1984 for dinner and we recorded their conversation. The resulting ‘audio essay’ is a fascinating recounting and analysis of London’s engagement in the arts in the 1980s, which can be viewed and listened to here.
We also invite academics and academic departments to consider bidding for a variety of ‘Impact Analysis’ grants with us, which are being offered by JISC and other funding organisations. While the exact terminology around the ‘Impact’ issue is still relatively unclear, it can be taken for granted that dissemination of research through h podcasts are valued as ‘Public Engagement’ and we can provide you with the necessary statistics.
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Yours,
René
