Index of Talks
Below are links to all recordings (plus any associated materials) archived during 2013
December
- John Wood – Plant Hunting in the 21st century
- Religion, Conflict, and Digital Communication in the Greater Muslim World
- Temporal Vertigo: The Paradoxes of Ageing
- Craig J. Thompson – Marketplace Performativities and the Naturalization of Gender Transgression
- Ernst Bloch London Symposium
- Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History
- Jack Halberstam – The Wild: Humans, Animals, Anarchy
- State Surveillance, Counter-Terror Powers and Global Securitisation Strategies
- Racialization and Religion
- Francesco Berto – On Conceiving The Inconsistent
- Slavoj Žižek – Struggle: Towards a New Master
- Slavoj Žižek – Ideology: The Terror of Permissive Biopolitics
- Cécile Bishop – The Truth about Amin: History and Fiction in Filmic Portrayals of Idi Amin
- Slavoj Žižek – Economy: The Vicious Cycle of Capitalist Reproduction
- Ben O’Loughlin – Has the Image Killed the Imagination?
- Jan Voelker – On Public Reason and Emancipation
- Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary
- Jonathan Lear – Integrating The Non-Rational Soul
- Monica Grady – Life Beyond Earth
- Christoph Baumer – The Bronze Age Culture of Ayala Mazar-Xiaohe: Taklaman Desert, China
- Adam Ganz – The Gestapo Minutes
- Baroness Helena Kennedy QC – What Does the Rule of Law Really Mean?
- David Herd – The View from Dover
- Rt. Hon. Margaret Hodge MP in conversation with Tony Wright
- Alternative Cultures of Diplomacy
- A Symposium on Resistance
- Howard Morphy – The Displaced Local: multiple agency in the building of ethnographic collections
- Heide Gerstenberger – The Market, Violence and Consumers
- Shaun McCarthy – London 2012 – Sustainable Legacy
- Philip Spencer – The Recurrence of Genocide Since the Holocaust
- ‘Older Women’, Policy and Politics – Panel Discussion and Debate
- Tim Mulgan – Ethics For Possible Futures
- Kristallnacht Remembrance Event
- Paul de Man – The Messenger Lectures (1983)
- Wang Hui – The Decline of Representation
- Wang Hui – How to interpret ‘China’ and Its ‘Modernity’
- Carrie Hamilton – Politics and Generosity: History and the Work of David Vilaseca
- Gil Anidjar – On the Christian Question (Marx, Nietzsche, Freud)
- Angela Davis – Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Closures and Continuities
- Beyond Male Rolemodels? Gender Identities and Work with Young Men
- Melanie Sehgal – Whitehead’s Metaphysics as Situated Metaphysics
- Giorgio Riello – Spaces of Global Interactions: The Material Landscapes of Global History
- Robert Kane – Of One’s Free Will: New Perspectives On An Ancient Philosophical Problem
- Thinking in the Severe Style
- Peter M Boenisch – Reclaiming Regietheater: The Dialectics of Directing
- Charles Schencking – The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan
- Media After Kittler
- Anindya Raychaudhuri – All trains stop there: Trains and Railway Lines in Narratives of the 1947 India/Pakistan Partition
- David Papineau – Sensory Experience & Representational Properties
- A Feeling for Things: A Conversation around the work of Jane Bennett
- Knox Peden – The Politics of Disenchantment
- Sander L Gilman – Cosmopolitanism and the Jews
- Desert Island Pics: Mishka Henner
- The Public Life of Private Law: Religion, Self-Government & Private Law
- Clive Gamble – The Anthropology of Deep-History
- Death and the Contemporary: Death, Aesthetics and Representation
- Writing Jews in Contemporary Britain
- Robert Bernasconi – Kant and the Hottentots
- London Critical Theory Summer School 2013 – Friday Debate II
- Queer Muslim Women Today
- Anna De Fina – Latin Americans in the U.S.: Processes of identity negotiation in transnational space
- Clare Mar-Molinero – Returning ‘home’: Language and identity issues for returning Mexican migrants
- London Critical Theory Summer School 2013 – Friday Debate I
- Fascist Ideologues Past and Present
- Coding and Creativity: Programming, Computational Thinking and the Arts in Schools
- Paul H. Strohm – Chaucer on Thames Street
- The British Far Right in Transition
- Jean-Marc Dewaele – Multilingual swearing
- Jay Winter – René Cassin, the Holocaust, and the Universal Declaration for Human Rights
- Becky Briant – The River Thames
- Researching violence
- Itinerancy, Dislocation, Nomadic Subjects: Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami,1997)
- David Harvey – Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
- Orlando Figes – Love in the Russian Gulag
- Sasha Roseneil – Transforming Intimate Citizenship: social movements, policy, everyday life
- Coastal matters
- Spaces of Diplomacy
- Surplus: A Symposium on Wealth, Waste and Excess
- Dream a Little Dream of Law
- Mike Benton – Exploring Adaptive Radiations
- Legal Education, Discrimination and the Legal Profession
- New Foundations: Re-designing the Academic Stage of Legal Training
- Legal Education: Socialist Survivors
- Bertrand Ramcharan – The UN Quest for the Protection of Human Rights
- Griselda Pollock – The Nameless Artist in the Theatre of Memory
- Law on Trial 2013: Legal Utopias: The Future of Law and Legal Education
- The Utopian Law School and the Fate of the University
- Norbert Peabody – On the Origins of Indian Nationalism
- Integration, Disadvantage and Extremism
- John Logan – The Persistence of Segregation in the 21st Century American Metropolis
- Queer Homes
- Itinerancy, Dislocation, Nomadic Subjects: Vagabond (Agnes Varda,1985)
- LIDC Bi-Annual Conference
- Simon Critchley – Hamlet, Nietzsche, Joyce – tragedy, lethargy and disgust
- Simon Critchley – Hamlet, Schmitt, Benjamin – politics, sovereignty and espionage
- TJ Clark – Was Picasso a Woman?: Reflections on Nude, Green Leaves and Bust
- The Future of Feminism
- Belinda Mandelbaum – Psychoanalysis and Social Context in Latin America: Repetition and Creation
- Richard Wolin – Apocalypse Now: Walter Benjamin and the Legacy of Jewish Political Messianism
- Mrinalini Greedharry – Making Postcolonial People
- François Laruelle – In-the-Last-Humanity: On the “Speculative” Ecology of Man, Animal and Plant
- Oliver Pooley – Relativity, the Open Future, and the Passage of Time
- Peter Hallward – Vitalism or Voluntarism?
- The Art of the Impossible: Culture, Philosophy and Dissent from Havel to the Present
- Lucy Delap – Maids, au pairs and treasures
- Costas Douzinas – Is there a right to disobedience and resistance?
- Scott Wilson – Lars von Trier and the Fear of Philosophy
- Leonard Barkan – Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures: A book and some afterthoughts
- Patricia I. Vieira – Messianism and social struggle: Representations of Canudos in Brazilian Cinema
- James Shapiro interviews Colin Teevan
- Film maker Mark Lewis in conversation with writer David Campany
- Science and writing symposium
- Birkbeck Arts Week 2013
- Clayton Littlejohn – The Russellian Retreat
- Spinoza and Nietzsche in Dialogue – 2 day conference
- Brian Klug – Dealing with Difference: Jews, Muslims and the British Left Today
- Éric Alliez – Duchamp à Calcutta
- Maureen Mackintosh – Health care commercialisation: a core development issue
- Crisis, Creativity and the Self, 1550–1700
- Gary Watson – Psychopathy and Prudential Deficits
- Alain Badiou on Beckett – Alberto Toscano & Nina Power
- The Actuality of the Absolute: Hegel, Our Untimely Contemporary
- Sanctioned Laughter: Humour, War and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Europe
- Max Deeg – Between Cultures – The Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim Records
- Ken Gemes – Nietzsche on The Value of Truth
- Ken Gemes – Nietzsche on Nihilism and the Death of God
- Slavoj Zizek – The Event: Politics, Art, Ontology
- Molly Andrews – Using Narratives to Study Social Change
- Romantic Transdisciplinarity: Art and the New
- After, Beyond the Fragments?
- Catherine Malabou – Whither Materialism? Althusser/Darwin
- Research, Creativity & Business 2: Making the Extraordinary
- Lynne Segal – Thatcher’s Legacy: Thinking Psychosocially, across the Decades
- Fabian Freyenhagen – Ethical (Self-)Critique
- Living Apart Together: A Multi-Method Analysis
- Unruly Creatures 3
- Ian Phillips – Perceiving the Passing of Time
- Peter Osborne – The Postconceptual Condition: A Report on Art
- European Funding for Research – Opportunities, Case-Studies and Information-sharing
- Engineering Professors’ Council Congress 2013 – Engineering in Higher Education: investing for impact
- Shihan de Silva – African Soldiers, Governors, Nawabs and Cultural Brokers in South Asia
- Catherine Malabou – From the Overman to the Posthuman: How Many Ends?
- Richard Clogg – Xeniteia: the Greek diaspora in modern times
- The Public Life of Private Law: Private Law and the Subject of Human Rights
- Stella Sandford – A Critical Theory of Sex
- Disability and Culture: Whose Tragedy?
- After the Election: Alternatives in Higher Education Policy
- Aren Aizura – Beyond Queering the Chain of Care: Affective Feminizations, Biological Investments
- A public talk by Alexis Tsipras (SYRIZA)
- Debt – a half-day symposium
- Ben Murtagh – Gender and Sexuality in Indonesian Cinema: New Order constructions of gay, lesbi and waria indentities on screen
- Jonathan Waterlow – No Laughing Matter? Popular humour and Soviet society in Stalin’s 1930s
- David Fraser – Quite Contrary to the Principles of British Justice: The Jews of the Channel Islands 1940-1945
- British Fascism, Anti-Fascism and Jewish Defence
- Simon Morgan Wortham – Auto-immune Narcissism
- Dale Purves – How Vision Succeeds in an Unknown World
- Maggie O’Neill – Women’s lives, well-being and community: arts based biographical methods
- Richard Kagan – The Plaza and the Square: Perspectives on Cities in the Early Modern Atlantic World
- Hanna Meretoja – Trauma, History and the Ethics of Storytelling
- Rowan Cruft – Why is it Disrespectful to Violate Rights?
- Daniel Beer – Rebellion, Betrayal and Martyrdom in the Mines of Eastern Siberia: the Fabrication of the Zerentui Conspiracy of 1828
- Slavoj Zizek – A reply to my critics
- Within the Limits of Scarcity: Rethinking Space, City and Practices
- Knowledge and Intuitions
- Étienne Balibar – A Thought of/from the Outside: Foucault’s Uses of Blanchot
- Translating Diplomatic Culture
- Henk Vynckier – Men who loved books – The literary legacy of Robert Hart and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service
- John Carriero – Epistemology Past and Present
- Stuart Laing – Unshook till the End of Time: Relations between Britain and Oman, 1650-1975
- Salvador Soto Faraco – Multisensory integration under the yoke of attention
- Literature, Immigration and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act
- Jeffrey C. Alexander – Backlash Against Multiculturalism in Europe: Struggling Over the Mode of Incorporation
- The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities celebrates Laura Mulvey
- Sam Weber – The Singularity of Literary Cognition
- Robert Gordon – Cultural Responses to the Holocaust in Italy
- Creativeworks London 1st Annual Creative Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Scheme Information Event
- Harun Yilmaz – Red Batyrs of Kazakh Steppe: Nation-building under Stalin
- Josh Parsons – Presupposition, Disagreement and Predicates of Taste
- Ten Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts
- Howard Caygill – Philosophy and The Black Panthers
- Alison Young – Street Art and the Contemporary City
- Helen Vassallo – The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing: Gender, War and Trauma
- Jan Tomasz Gross – On the Periphery of the Holocaust in Poland: Killings and Plunder of Jews by their Neighbours
- Dan Stone – The Cheese and the Wurst: Nazism and the Holocaust in Contemporary Culture
- Dreams & Dreaming: Disciplinary Perspectives & Interdisciplinary Dialogue
- Interrogating the Social Unconscious
- Critical Legal Scholarship and Education: Its Past and Future
- Rescue: Memory, Myth and Morality
- The Magna Carta in the 21st Century
- Tom Stern – Nietzsche, Amor Fati and the Gay Science
- The Public Life of Private Law: Theories and Strategies
- Vincent Hayward – A World of Tactile illusions And What We Can Do With Them
- Sanjoy Bhattacharya – Bhutan’s Smallpox Eradication Programme: International Health and the Limits of Global Influence
- Clare Chambers – The Marriage-Free State
Index of talks