Index of Talks
Below are links to all recordings (plus any associated materials) archived during 2015
December
- Veronique Boisvert – A Tunnel to the Beginning of Time: experimental physics at the LHC
- Deleuzean Aftereffects: Interventions from Japan
- Jeffrey Knapp – Hamlet and the Sovereignty of Reasons
- Kaveh Bakhtiar – The British Mosque: fragments of an alternative architecture
- Jonathan Boyarin – Genealogies of the Future
- John Earle – British Vice-Consul and Local Hero: Nicholas Loney and a Sweeter Life on a 19th Century Philippine Island
- Slavoj Zizek – Hegel in Athens: what would Hegel have said about our predicament?
- Howard Caygill – Laertes’ Revolt and the Limits of Popular Sovereignty
- Thabet Abu Rass – Land, Power and Resistance in Israel: The Case of the Bedouins of the Negev
- Slavoj Zizek – What is reconciliation? Hegel against Schiller
- Slavoj Zizek – Against recognition: a critique of the liberal reading of Hegel (Pippin, Brandom)
- Fiona Woollard – Dimensions of Demandingness
- Popular Opera in Britain, Past and Present
- Jane Francis – Going to the ends of the Earth as a woman in Science
- Rethinking Kierkegaard
- Roger Luckhurst – Blood Fractions: the Octoroon and Other Fantasies
- Christopher Pye – King Lear, Sovereignty, and the Condition of Justice
- Artist and Empire: The Long Nineteenth Century
- Sonia Solicari – Money, Power, Politics: Curating London’s Square Mile
- Europe’s Migrant Crisis and the Populist Right
- One-day Workshop on Fanon and Philosophy
- Margherita Laera – Subverting the ‘Classics’: Adaptation and Resistance
- Gendered Inclusion: Debating the Concept and Understanding the Context
- Fighting for a Place in Parliament: An evening with Robert Dale
- Jerome Dokic – Aesthetic Experience as Metacognitive Feeling
- Ben Outhwaite – Lewis, Gibson and the Discovery of the Cairo Genizah
- Cathrine Bjørnholt Michaelsen – Solitudes
- The Crisis in the Greater Middle East: War, Geopolitics and the Challenge of ISIL
- Polly Toynbee in Conversation with Tony Wright
- What Can We Do With Non-Philosophy?
- Helen Graham – From ‘Lives at the Limit’: histories against the grain – an unfinished dialogue with David
- Gunnar Lehmann – Past and Politics in the Archaeology of Israel
- In Conversation with John McDonnell
- David Runciman – Jeremy Bentham as conspiracy theorist
- The Left and Jews in Britain Today
- Ben Sachs – Contractarianism as a Political Morality
- Lisa Hopkins – Athelstan the Virgin King
- Peregrine Horden – Periodization in Mediterranean History
- Richard Williams – Songs from behind the curtain: the influence of palace women on Hindustani music
- David Enoch – What’s Wrong with Paternalism: Autonomy, Belief and Action
- Sandra Harding – After Mr Nowhere: New Proper Scientific Subjects
- Dominique Goy-Blanquet/Stuart Hampton-Reeves/Heather Neill/Alex Waldmann – The Barton/Hall Wars of the Roses
- Shakespeare and Scandinavia: International Academic Conference
- Gary Taylor – Hamlet, Macbeth and Nordic History
- Janice Stargardt – The Adoption of Buddhism in Burma (Myanmar)
- Susan James – Freedom and Nature: A Spinozist Invitation
- Alison Findlay/Michael Hattaway/Graham Holderness – Shakespeare’s War of the Roses
- Peter Osborne – Is it Interesting? Judgments of the moderns from Schlegel to Judd and beyond
- “Dying Well”: Enacting Medical Ethics
- Fozia Bora – Did Salah al-Din destroy the Fatimids’ books? An historiographical enquiry.
- New Drug Seminars – The Psychoactive Substances Bill, Law Enforcement and NPS in Prison – Problems and Solutions
- The Carceral Archipelago: transnational circulations in global perspective, 1415-1960
- Blind Creations Conference
- London Critical Theory Summer School 2015 – Friday Debate II
- London Critical Theory Summer School 2015 – Friday Debate I
- Southern European Crisis and the Future of Europe
- New Drug Seminars – Psychopharmacology, Identity, and Human Enhancement
- Making Space for Art Symposium
- George Kam Wah Mak – The Annotation Question of the Chinese Protestant Bible in Late Qing China
- Angela Dalle Vacche – What Photographic Cinema Can Teach the Twenty-First Century
- Race, Equality and the Law
- Jack Straw – National Security and the Rule of Law; competing interests or complementary priorities?
- Susanna Siegel – Epistemic Charge
- Restless Futures Conference
- Andrew Gamble – Oakeshott and Totalitarianism
- Giles Pearson – What Are Sources Of Motivation?
- Shakespeare and Waste
- Desert Island Pics: Martin Barnes
- Developing a Career in the Arts – Collaboration & Transferability
- Alenka Zupančič – Power in the Closet (And Its Coming Out)
- Talking Mr Turner
- Historical Fictions
- Popular Art and Portuguese Identity. Anatomy of an Exhibition
- David Rechter – Trauma on the Eastern Front: European Jews and the First World War
- World Museums: Geographies and Genealogies
- Renaissance Ways of Seeing
- Globalization and Contemporary Culture
- Photographs of London
- Interpreting Shakespeare through Performance
- The Ex- of Experimental Cinema: the 1970s Films of Antoni Padrós
- Remembering in Ruins
- Found in Translation – The Man Booker International Prize
- Curiosity
- Environmental Futures: Oil, Ecology, Petrocultures
- Birkbeck Arts Week 2015
- Sacha Golob – Self-Knowledge, Agency and Self-Authorship
- Women, Gender and Political Leadership
- Eugene Rogan – The Dardanelles Campaign viewed from both sides of the trenches
- Simon Prosser – Why are Indexicals Essential?
- Who Will Win in 2015?
- Andrew Goffey – Guattari: Theories and Institutions
- Yossi Beilin – The Place of the Holocaust in the Life of the Post-war Generation in Israel
- Christoph Hoerl – Writing on the Page of Consciousness
- Sanity, Madness and the Family / Family Life: An Urgent Retrospective
- Tibetan in Digital Communication – II
- Peter Conradi – Shakespeare and Iris Murdoch
- Stella Sandford – The Long Passage: Sex and Race in the History of Philosophy
- Engineering Professors’ Council Congress 2015
- Rosie Llewellyn Jones – The Last King in India: Wajid Ali Shah
- Stuart Foster/Helen Hyde – Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust in School: Challenges and Issues for Contemporary Society
- Paul Morland – Demographic Engineering: Population Strategies in Ethnic Conflict
- New Drug Seminars – Supply and demand: drug markets in transition
- Peter Hallward – Re-educating the Educator
- Jenny Powell – Curating a static collection: Kettle’s Yard as a unique document of Modernism
- Margaret Bird – Inculcating an appreciation of time pressure in the young: the training of children for working life in 18th-century England
- Mark Gardner – Contemporary Antisemitism in Britain
- Postpolitics and Neoliberalism (London)
- Postpolitics and Neoliberalism (Canterbury)
- Claudia Olk – Beckett’s Shakespearean Echoes
- Greece and Europe: A First Account of a Radical Government
- Emily West – The dual exploitation of enslaved women in America, c.1815-1865
- Peter Hennessy – Meritocracy and the Establishment
- Aisa Martinez – Omani Costumes
- George Manginis – The Benaki Museum Chinese Art Collection Resurrected
- Barry Langford – Sex, Violence, Art: Framing the new American Cinema
- Equal Rights for All – A New Path for Israel-Palestine
- Stella Sandford – The Sex of Natural History
- Narcissism and Melancholia: Reflections on a Century
- Frances Guy – Coming Home: Reclaiming Hepworth for Wakefield
- Rosi Braidotti – Vectors of Affirmation
- Matthew Chrisman – Knowing What One Ought To Do
- Jan Kott Our Contemporary: Contexts, Legacies, New Perspectives
- Neil Corcoran – Eliot’s Shakespeare Revisited
- Ian Kinloch – Graphene: unexpected science in a pencil line
- Bruce Lincoln – The Werewolf, the Shaman, and the Historian: Rethinking the Case of “Old Thiess” after Carlo Ginzburg
- Sarah Ansari – At the Crossroads? Exploring Sindh’s Recent Past from a Spatial Perspective
- Antisemitism in Contemporary Europe: A Conversation between Deborah Lipstadt and Anthony Julius
- Peter Buse – Clowning and Power
- Lynne Frostick – Why do we need women scientists and engineers?
- Robin Osborne – Turning Art into History: the case of classical Athens
- Louise Richardson – Perceptual Activity and Bodily Awareness
- Ünver Rüstem – Justice, Conquest, and Victory: The Evolving Symbolism of Istanbul’s Nusretiye Mosque
- Linda Colley – Magna Carta in British History: Memory, Inventions and Forgetting
- Phiroze Vasunia – Sir William Jones and the Gods of Greece, Italy and India
- Etienne Balibar – The Idea of a Multiversum – Logics, Cosmology, Politics
- Patrick Leman – Inside Children’s Peer Interactions
- The Housing Disaster: Danny Dorling in Conversation with Paul Watt
- Tony Ageh – The BBC and a Digital Public Sphere
- Kiran Klaus Patel – The New Deal: A Global History
- Sophie Gibb – Defending Dualism
- Stephen Downes – On the Musically Sentimental: from Chopin to Barry Manilow
- More than Accessible: Theatre and Performance in the Age of the Spectator
- The Black Sea in the Socialist World
- Graham Holderness – Hamnet Shakespeare: A Joycean Life
- Andrew Sayer – Social Science, Critique and the Rich
- Mike Spagat – War Deaths: Knowledge, Pretense and Progress
- Tina Chanter – Politics of seeing – Freud, Ranciere and Art
- Dominic Gregory – Visual Content, Expectations, and the Outside World
- Desert Island Pics: Simon Roberts
- Martin Regal – Shakespeare and Modernist Theatre
- Catherine Malabou and Eric Laurent – Psychoanalysis and the Cognitive Sciences
- Industrielle Volksmusik for the Twenty-First Century: Kraftwerk and the Birth of Electronic Music in Germany
- Robert Priest – Renan, Religion, and the Republic: The Life of Jesus Controversy in Fin-de-Siècle France
- Santanu Das – British India and the First World War: Words, Objects and Images
- Howard Caygill – Philosophical Kafkas
- Michael Garnett – Autonomy and Indoctrination
- Lesley Chamberlain – Wagner’s “Reformation” Shakespeare
- Nik Wachsmann – After Liberation – Legacies of the Nazi Concentration Camps
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