Index of Talks
Below are links to all recordings (plus any associated materials) archived during 2017
December
- Becky Jinks – “Marks Hard to Erase”?: The rescue and repatriation of Armenian women survivors, 1919-1927
- David Leffman – William Mesny: How a British Adventurer Became a General in Qing-Dynasty China
- Bernhard and Erika Bart – Sumatran Songket Weaving
- Cosmopolitanism – Jewish and Postcolonial Perspectives
- Hegel’s Logic
- Glen Cowan – Using machine learning at the Large Hadron Collider
- Lisa Appignanesi – Losing the Dead – Before and After
- Marie Ulvang – “Farmerfication”, Housing and the Housework in Rural Sweden 1850-1910
- Housing and regeneration struggles in South London – Where do we go from here?
- Housing and regeneration struggles in South London – How to stay put?
- Putting Theory into Practice: Exploring the role of Practice-based Medical Humanities
- Elissa Bemporad – From Berdichev to Minsk and Onward to Moscow: Jewish Voices of the Russian Revolution
- Laurent Jaffro – Forgiveness and Weak Agency
- Elaine Wright – Lapis and Gold, Exploring Chester Beatty’s Ruzbihan Qur’an
- Todd Mei – Exploring an economic turn in phenomenology: Land as hypokeimenon
- Helen Mears – The James Henry Green Collection at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
- Nada Zecevic – MIGWEB from E. Sarajevo to Royal Holloway: perspectives and problems of studying medieval migration from and within the Balkan peninsula
- Duncan Kelly – John Maynard Keynes: Historian of political thought?
- RAS Collections Open Evening
- 100 Years After Balfour by Independent Jewish Voices
- Tamsyn Challenger – On Truth
- Elizabeth Ashford – The Infliction of Severe Poverty
- War and Art: A Visual History of Modern Conflict – Book Launch
- The New Nationalism: the rise of the populist right in the West
- Xavier Bray – To change or not to change the Wallace Collection?
- Alison Moore – Morbid Love in Late Nineteenth-Century France: Between Decadence and Degeneration
- Victoria Haskins – Stories my Great-Grandmother Didn’t Tell Me, Or, Family Histories and the Memories of Nations
- Jessica Benjamin, Beyond Doer and Done To (2017) – Public Panel Discussion
- John Gardner – Discrimination: The Good, the Bad, and the Wrongful
- Jocelyn Monroe – Dark Matter
- David Olusoga – 2000 Years of Black History
- Motherhood in Literature and Culture
- Introducing the New Edition of Ralph Russell’s Anthology of Urdu Literature A Thousand Yearnings
- Gendered Inclusion in Leadership and Managerial Roles
- Anna Munster – Deep Aesthetics
- Kate Cooper – Constantine’s Dream: Faith, Victory and the search for Roman Unity
- François Recanati – Fictional, Metafictional, Parafictional
- Capitalism: Concept & Idea
- Russell Harris – A Journal of Three Months’ Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne
- Protected: Sara Ahmed – The Institutional as Usual: Sexism, Racism and the Politics of Complaint
- Re-Reading the Revolution: Jean-Claude Milner in Conversation with Slavoj Žižek
- Slavoj Zizek – Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences – Masterclass 2
- Cristina Chimisso – Normal: Georges Canguilhem on the Medical and the Individual
- Slavoj Zizek – Transcendental Subjectivity, Sexual Difference, Brain Sciences – Masterclass 1
- John Maynard – The Political Influence of Garveyism on Aboriginal Australia
- Helen Beebee – Philosophical Scepticism
- Costas Douzinas – The Left in Power?
- Stephen Gibson – The Big Bang Experience! A brief history and future of the LHC
- Feminist Emergency – International Conference
- Gerard Coll-Planas – ‘We can’t live together like those faggots’. Cinematic Representation of Queer Migrants from Muslim-Majority Countries Living in Europe
- Shamik Dasgupta – Normative Non-Naturalism and the Problem of Authority
- Resisting the (internal) Border: a Conference for Academics, Activists and Advocates
- Annette Kuhn – Remembering Annie Hall
- Catherine Malabou – TeleologiⒶ
- Jean-Michel Rabaté – A Time to Laugh – Session 3
- Peter Frankopan – Asia and the Formation of Early Modern Europe
- Jean-Michel Rabaté – A Time to Laugh – Session 2
- Jean-Michel Rabaté – A Time to Laugh – Session 1
- Tracey Reynolds – Mapping the Role of ‘Transnational Family Habitus’ in the Lives and Identity of Black Minority Ethnic Young People
- Daniel Viehoff – Serving the Governed
- Publishing—Art—Communism: Symposium and Book Launch on the Materiality of Experimental Publishing
- Zionism and Antisemitism – International Conference
- Royal Asiatic Society: Opening the Collection
- Ursula Renz – Self-Knowledge as a Personal Achievement
- Jonathan Bloom – Silk Road or Paper Road?
- Welcome to a Life in the Theatre
- John Beverley – A new Orientalism
- Writing well and writing to get well: Nathan Filer and Agata Vitale in conversation
- America in Crisis
- The Sublime Real: painful excitements in eighteenth-century art and criticism
- Eyes, hands, hearts: Anatomy, aesthetics, and the organization of life in the Hunterian Museums
- Mr A moves in mysterious ways: artists from the Adamson Collection
- Speaking in Brogues
- Simondon on Technics: On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
- Slavoj Zizek – ‘You have to be stupid to see that’: Ideology in Daily Life 2
- Will 2017 be 1984? Rethinking Orwell’s dystopia
- The Poetics of Fragility, a film by Nicolas Grandi and Lata Mani
- Renaissance lives from the archives: grime, crime and a pirate
- Simon Layton – Piracy and Politics in the Indian Ocean World
- Law, Race and Brexit Britain – Launch Event for Birkbeck Centre for Research on Race and Law
- Slavoj Zizek – ‘You have to be stupid to see that’: Ideology in Daily Life 1
- Andy Smith – Dematerialising Theatre
- The Jo Spence Archive and Memorial Library: a workshop
- Birkbeck Arts Week 2017
- Helena Kennedy – Using the Law for Social Justice and other Utopian Ideals – Session 3
- Gerald Lang – What Follows from Defensive Non-Liability?
- Michael Kenny – E.P. Thompson – Last of the English Radicals?
- Helena Kennedy – Using the Law for Social Justice and other Utopian Ideals – Session 2
- Bruno de Nicola – Women in Mongol Iran
- Helena Kennedy – Using the Law for Social Justice and other Utopian Ideals – Session 1
- Anna Posazhennikova – Nobel Prize 2016: the rise of topology or what’s in a quantum vortex
- Tara Purnima – Tales of the Tribes: Connecting to Cultures through Animation
- Martin Bayly – Taming the Imperial Imagination: The Genesis of Colonial Knowledge on Afghanistan, 1808-1878
- Sur Analysis: Institutional Psychotherapy and Analysis
- ‘Landscapes of Abandonment’ Roundtable
- Éric Alliez – Capital’s Art of War
- The Holocaust and History: The Work and Legacy of David Cesarani
- David Feldman – Zionism and the Labour Party – The Last 100 Years
- Francospheres of Resistance and Revolution
- Rob Rozett – Synthesis as Catalyst: Some Comments on David Cesarani and His Writings
- Todd Endelman – Fighting Antisemitism with Numbers in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain
- Paul Mason – On Divine Chaos of Starry Things
- Mary and Bryan Talbot on The Red Virgin in conversation with Charles Forsdick
- Arno Paucker – Scholar and Friend
- Vicki Squire – Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Human Dignity and Biophysical Violence
- Shaul Bassi – The Ghetto Of Venice: Past, Present, Future
- Howard Caygill – Image and Accident in Kafka’s Novels – Session 3
- Wendy Kline – Psychedelic Birth: The Countercultural Politics of Pain
- Lisa Smith – Imagining the Hidden: Inexpressible Suffering in the Eighteenth Century
- Keith Wailoo – Pain with a ‘Psychogenic Overlay’: The Gendered Politics of Experience and Disability in US Society
- Gender and Pain in Modern History
- Edmund de Waal – On the Eve of Departure: Art and Exile
- Peter Hallward – Mass Sovereignty and the Eclipse of Representation
- Who Should Be Called to Account? – Margaret Hodge in debate with Philip Collins and Lucy Barnes
- Howard Caygill – Image and Accident in Kafka’s Novels – Session 2
- Stewart Boogert – Astronomy: a journey from amateur to (more) professional
- The Legacy of the Left and Israel: 1967-2017 – Roundtable Discussion
- Simone Gigliotti – “The real places!, the real people!, and the real story!”: Writing history with a camera in Meyer Levin’s The Illegals
- Ed Weech and Nancy Charley – Exploring the RAS Collections
- Howard Caygill – Image and Accident in Kafka’s Novels – Session 1
- Willow Verkerk – Friendship, Love and Women
- Roy Fischel – Sultans of Many Idioms: Kingship, Ideology, and Locality in Bijapur and Golkonda, ca. 1600
- Sheila Blair – Monumentalizing the Grave: Muslim-style Mausolea across Mongol Eurasia
- Geoffrey Hosking – The triumph of distrust: the Russian revolution and Soviet society
- Etienne Balibar – Towards a New Critique of Political Economy – Session 3
- Beate Roessler – Privacy as a Human Right
- Decolonising Witchcraft: Implications for Knowledge and Health
- T. J. Clark – What Can Art History Say About Giotto?
- Etienne Balibar – Towards a New Critique of Political Economy – Session 2
- The Populist Backlash in Western Politics
- Étienne Balibar – The Multiple and Shifting Borders of Europe
- Michael Rothberg – Inheritance Trouble: Migration and Transcultural Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Germany
- Jannet de Goede – For the Benefit and the Pleasure of the Community
- Richard Wolin – The French Front National and the challenge to Europe’s democracies
- Andrew Jotischky – Ethnic and Religious Categories in the Treatment of Jews and Muslims in the Crusader States
- Etienne Balibar – Towards a New Critique of Political Economy – Session 1
- Lea Ypi – Pragmatist Coherence as the Source of Truth and Reality
- Richard McClary – Studies the key monuments built for the Rum Seljuq sultans, 1170-1220
- The Searchlight Archives – Archives in the Classroom: Blended Learning Project Launch
- Arthur Dudney – The Literature of Decline Under the Late Mughals
- Dee Heddon – Walking Aesthetics and Performing Landscape
- David Feldman – The Meanings of Antisemitism
- Stéphane Pradines – The Swahili, a Muslim Culture of the Indian Ocean World: New Evidence from Archaeological Excavations
- Simon Morgan Wortham – Resistances of the Psycho-Political
- Genia Schönbaumsfeld – Beliefs-in-a-Vat
- Karen Harvey – Mary Toft’s Monstrous Births of 1726: Then and Now
- Allison Goudie – Home and Away: Exhibiting Australia’s Impressionists in London
- Michel Dreyfus – Two Lefts in France: Divisions over Zionism and Israel
- Stella Sandford – The Many Names of Sex
- Eimear McBride in Conversation with Jacqueline Rose
- Eleanor Knox – Novel Explanation and the Special Sciences: Lessons From Physics
- Dominic Janes – British Caricature and Queer Fashioning 1750-1900
- Peter Osborne – Crisis as Form
- Hasok Chang – Pragmatist Coherence as the Source of Truth and Reality
Index of talks