Index of Talks
Below are links to all recordings (plus any associated materials) archived during 2016
December
- Andrew Benjamin – On Drawing
- Andrew Casey – The coldest place in the Universe
- Christina Späti – The German-speaking Left and Israel: Legacies and Developments since 1948
- Arthur Millner – Damascus tiles: some enduring questions
- Jordan Goodman – Pictures, Texts and Plants: Joseph Banks and China, 1780-1820
- Mein Kampf Today: Ideology, Memory and the Question of Censorship – Panel Discussion
- Catherine Malabou – Spinoza and Symbolic Necessity
- Charles Forsdick – Exoticism as Keyword
- James Baldwin – Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo
- James Studd – Generality, Extensibility, and Paradox
- Brian Klug – Denouncing Israel: Anti-colonialism or Antisemitism on the British Left?
- Asher Kaboth – Catching ghost particles
- Nikolas Kompridis – Agency: Human and Non-Human
- Drucilla Cornell – The Spirit of Revolution: Beyond the Dead Ends of Man
- A World in Crisis: Climate Change, Violence, Demography and the Global Economy
- Howard Caygill – Aesthetics and Madness
- Robert Dale – How to Be a Parliamentary Researcher
- Alberto Mira – Queer uses of cinephilia in Moix’ memoirs
- Karoline Cook – Forbidden Passages: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America
- Beth Lord – Disagreement in the Political Philosophy of Spinoza and Rancière
- Andreas Malm – Revolutions in a Warming World: Lessons from Syria
- Jessica Benjamin in Conversation with Lynne Segal
- Dame Joan Ruddock in Conversation with Rosie Campbell
- Lisa Leff – The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust
- Tim Dyson – On the Demographic Basis of Democratization
- Bowie at Birkbeck
- Mark Watson – The Early Years of Natural History Exploration and the Role of Learned Societies
- Slavoj Žižek – Masterclass 3: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
- Slavoj Žižek – Masterclass 2: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
- Elizabeth Cripps – Justice, Integrity and Moral Community
- Slavoj Žižek – Masterclass 1: Between Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
- Whither Labour?: Stewart Wood on the Future of the Left in Britain
- Audio Description: the Art of Access
- John Perivolaris – Shoreditch Bridge Portraits
- Francis Robinson/Marion Molteno – The Famous Ghalib: The Sound of My Moving Pen
- Christopher Daly – Persistent Philosophical Disagreement
- The Politics of Change in the MENA Region
- Louis Chude-Sokei – At the Borders of Flesh: A Secret History of Race and Technology
- Yuk Hui – Object and relation: An approach to the study of Digital Objects
- Tim Crane – The Unity of Unconsciousness
- Peter Dews – Theory Construction and Existential Description in Schelling’s Treatise on Freedom
- Rose Kerr – Zhenwu, the Dark Warrior: Daoist Beliefs and Imagery in China
- The Politics of Collaboration – European Currents
- Walter Benjamin’s The Storyteller: Fiction & Form
- Rethinking Capitalism: Mariana Mazzucato and Michael Jacobs in conversation with Will Hutton
- The 2016 US Presidential Election: Can Trump Win?
- New Drugs Seminars: New Drugs Mini-Conference
- Yfaat Weiss – Political Sovereignty and Cultural Property: The Mount Scopus Enclave in Jerusalem
- London Critical Theory Summer School 2016 – Friday Debate II
- Brexit: What Now for the UK and EU?
- The Trouble With Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis
- London Critical Theory Summer School 2016 – Friday Debate I
- Anna Posazhennikova – The Mysteries of Quantum Collective Behaviour
- Daniel Beer – The Crucible: Revolution and Repression in Siberia’s Prisons, 1905-1914
- Liam Byrne MP on the History of British Capitalism
- Helen Graham – Crossing Borders:The Spanish Civil War and transnational mobilisation
- Feminism and Radical Utopianism, Past and Present
- Ilker Evrim Binbas – Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran
- Protecting and Offending Jews: Speech, Law and Policy
- The Challenge of Climate Change: What Can and Can’t Be Fixed?
- Hillel Kieval – Blood Inscriptions: Science, Modernity, and Ritual Murder in Fin de Siècle Europe
- Michael Loewe – Problems of Han Administration
- Placeless People: What can History tell us about today’s Refugee Crises?
- Dorothea Debus – Shaping Our Mental Lives
- Researching Gendered Inclusion: Interdisciplinary Methodologies
- Jerry Brotton – This Orient Isle: The Cultural Geography of Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
- Sexual Difference and the Symbolic: What Future?
- Konrad Hirschler – Medieval Damascus: Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic Library
- David Anderson – Terrorism and Tolerance
- Clive Scott – Imagining a Philosophy of Literary Translation
- Sarah Ansari – India at War: the Bombay Presidency’s ‘Home Front’, 1914-1918
- The EU Referendum: Will it be In or Out?
- Laurence Grove – Creating Comic Invention
- Hilary Greaves – Cluelessness
- T. J. Clark Masterclass – Heaven and Earth According to Bruegel
- Precarious Citizenship: Young People Who are Undocumented, Separated and Settled in the UK
- William Lubenow – West to East/East to West
- Celia Washington – The Kathmandu Contemporary Arts Centre
- George Manginis – Mount Sinai
- Todd Endelman – The Emotional Toll of Antisemitism and its Consequences
- Queer Conversation with Dennis Altman
- Dominic Scott – From Painters to Poets: Method in Plato, Republic X
- Theatre Conversation: The Complete Deaths
- You must Mutate: Toby Litt and Caroline Edwards Discuss the Future of Fiction
- Lewis Gordon – O, Kanthropology: Moving on, Fanthropologically, in Africana Philosophy
- Eric Laurent – Contemporary Symptoms
- Mark Crinson – Brutalism: from New to Neo
- Stella Sandford – Reception is Everything: Kant, Race and Disciplinary Bad Faith
- Max Porter – Grief is the Thing with Feathers
- Cam Sharp Jones – Indian Tribal Ethnography in the 19th century
- The Radical Politics of Birkbeck’s Past
- Birkbeck Arts Week 2016
- Nicholas Sims-Williams – The Bactrian archives: Reconstructing the lost history of Ancient Afghanistan
- Digital Subjects
- Peter Poellner – Phenomenology and the Perceptual Model of Emotion
- New Drug Seminars: Treatment, Community Interventions and Harm Reduction
- ‘Crisis’ in Excess: Performing Europe Today
- Indian Shakespeare on Screen
- Fat Activism is Dangerous
- Mary Leng – Naturalism and Placement
- Charles Nicholl – Counterfeit Presentments: Portraits of Shakespeare and the messages they send
- Slavoj Žižek – Masterclass 2: Surplus-Value, Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Knowledge
- Childhood and Nation in World Cinema: Borders and Encounters since 1980
- Slavoj Žižek – Masterclass 1: Surplus-Value, Surplus-Enjoyment, Surplus-Knowledge
- Richard Bessel – The Violence of Care
- Jonathan Metzl – Bringing Weapons of Harm to Institutions of Care: Guns in Schools, Guns in Hospitals, and the Societal Implications of an ‘Open Carry’ Society in the US
- Paolo Diego Bubbio – The ‘I’, World History, and Collective Consciousness in Hegel
- Bruno Haas – The Encyclopedia’s § 548
- Myriam Bienenstock – On the Use and Abuse of Teleology in History
- Allan Young – Trauma and Harm
- George di Giovanni – Reason in History: on how Kojève Misled his Readers
- Stefania Achella – A Hegelian Contribution to the Question of Civil Religion
- Francois Kervégan – ‘Philosophy of History’: Kant vs Hegel
- Hegel and the Concept of World History
- Cultures of Harm in Institutions of Care: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives
- Wendy Pullan – In the Shadow of the Wall: Icon and Identity in Jerusalem’s Separation Barrier
- Jenny Balfour-Paul – Journeys in the Footsteps of Thomas Machell, forgotten explorer
- Isabella Tree – The Living Goddess
- Francois Laroque – These late Eclipses: Shakespeare’s Uncanny Stars
- Thomas Bell – Kathmandu
- Crusading: A Roundtable
- John Whelpton – Jang Bahadur in Europe
- Jodi Dean – Crowds and Party
- Alexandre Stevens – Unlimited Enjoyments
- Narender Ramnani – Learning in the cerebellum: an ‘autopilot’ system in the human brain
- Sonja Fielitz – Duke of Dark Corners: Shakespeare and the Catholic Uncanny
- Colin Koopman – Toward a Genealogy of the Informational Person
- Homonationalisms and Criminalized Queers: A Panel Discussion about Global Sexual Politics
- Gavin Barwell – Winning and Governing in Difficult Times
- Noreen O’Connor – Self-identity? Listen and Hear Exiles Speaking
- Alice Strang – Curating Women Artists: Modern Scottish Women Painters and Sculptors 1885-1965
- Nicholas Reese – Thieves, Cut throats and Vagabonds – European Mercenaries in Eighteenth Century India
- Joe Walding – Seeing in the dark: exploring the universe from DEAP underground
- Yasmin Khan – Women and War in the British Empire
- Bad Feelings: Launch & Panel Discussion
- Theorising Gendered Inclusion: Contemporary Gender Roles, Identities and Expectations at Work
- Sander L. Gilman – Circumcision: An Index of Difference and/or the Health Exception
- Jessica Leech – The Mereology of Representation
- Sharma/Casey/Dines/Jordan – Talks on ‘Gender without Borders’
- Tara Atluri – Centre Stages of Development: Performance, Public Art, and Sexual Politics
- William C Jordan – The Jews and the First Crusade: Conversion and Martyrdom
- Simon Ryle – Bre()ch: Macbeth and the Language of Terror
- Bruno de Halleux – Sexuality Today
- Michael Löwy – Masterclass 2: Marxism and Romanticism, from Karl Marx to Jose Carlos Mariategui
- Mary Lynne Ellis – Mourning’s Dissonance
- Elizabeth Williams – Reflections on Black British solidarity
- Michael Löwy – Masterclass 1: Marxism and Romanticism, from Karl Marx to Jose Carlos Mariategui
- Nick Hardwick – The ‘good prison’ redefined
- Public History and Fiction
- Anti-Fascism: Changing Meanings and Perspectives
- Benedict Leigh – C R Ashbee’s vision of Jerusalem, the English Arts and Crafts Movement in the Middle East
- Tobias Rosefeldt – Closing the Gap
- The renegotiation of the UK’s terms of EU membership
- Vicente Palomera – The Real and the Body
- The State of British Democracy
- Charities Regulation Under Scrutiny
- David Willetts in Conversation with Tony Wright
- Half-day Workshop on Reading Capital
- Jim Mallinson – A History of Yoga and Yoga Scholarship
- Shannon Winnubst – An Ethics of Opacity: Fearing Difference in the 21st Century
- Arthur Bradley – Untimely Ripp’d: Macbeth’s Children
- Anne Phillips – ‘Are we not both human beings?’
- Laurie Nevay – How to build a Particle Accelerator
- Dan Stone – Race Theory, Anthropology and the Jewish Connection
- Craig Bennett – What is progress? How are we doing, and where next?
- Jules Holroyd – What do We Want from a Model of Implicit Cognition?
- New Drug Seminars – New Drugs and Risk
- ‘Pink slave’ or the Modern Young Woman? Au Pairing in the UK from the 19th Century to the Present
- Marie-Helene Brousse – The Symbolic and the Body
- Miguel de Beistegui – The Government of Desire: a Genealogical Perspective
- Nicola Mai – Assembling Samira & Travel: queering sexual humanitarianism through experimental ethnographic filmmaking
- Sara Upstone – Beyond the Bedroom: the violence of motherhood in EL James’ 50 Shades of Grey trilogy
- David Johnson – Beauty and the Blind: There’s far more to seeing than enters the eyeball
- Paul Salmons – Why do we continue to ignore the Holocaust?
- James Wilson – Internal and External Validity in Thought Experiments
- Desert Island Pics: Olivia Arthur
- Pierre-Gilles Gueguen – The Body and the Imaginary: The Case of Francis Bacon
- Nicholas Royle – Shakespeare’s Foreplay
- Helen Palmer – Diffractive Pedagogies
- Women in Photography
- Refugees and Migrants in Europe – now and then: Twentieth and twenty-first century perspectives
- Federica Gigante – Collecting Islamic Art in seventeenth-century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Medici Court and the Ottoman World
- Stella Sandford – Simone de Beauvoir: Existentialism and Politics
- Gabriela Basterra – Unconditionality: Kant’s Subject of Freedom
- Tim Bayne – Gist!
Index of talks