Index of Talks
Below are links to all recordings (plus any associated materials) archived during 2018
December
- Ian Gow – The Scottish Sinologist Alexander Wylie 1815-1887: Missionary, Man of Letters, Mathemetician
- Ruth Oren – ‘Coming back to History’ –The Jewish Image in Landscape Photographs of ‘Eretz-Israel’, 1898-1961
- Carlo Ginzburg – Unintended Convergences: Ernesto de Martino and Aby Warburg
- ‘Where do we fit in?’ Black and Asian British History on the Curriculum
- 1938 in Retrospect
- Elguja Khintibidze and Henry Sanford – Britain-Georgia Connection through Personalities & Arts; Rustaveli and Shakespeare
- Stephen Neale – Means Means Means
- Reflections on Mantegna and Bellini
- Are Human Rights Neoliberal?
- Jacob Ghazarian – The Ancient Silk Road: Its enduring impact on China and renewed objectives
- Catherine Grant – Screen studies as device?: Working through the video essay
- Words on the Move 3 – Oh Lord! Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
- Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities
- Moin Mir – The Prince Who Beat the Empire: How an Indian Ruler took on the might of the East India Company
- Mnemonic Waves – Postgraduate Symposium
- Alan Finlayson – The Changing Rhetorical Culture of British Politics: From Parliament and PEBs to Twitter and Youtube
- Celebrating, Commemorating, Centenaries Of Suffrage
- Rae Langton – Empathy and First Personal Imagining
- Antonia Birnbaum – Radical Equality: The Material Reason of Emancipation
- Challenging Denial: from Slavery to the Holocaust
- Slavoj Žižek – Sex and the Failed Absolute – Masterclass II
- Omar Khan – Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj
- In Conversation with Jacqui Smith: Editor of The Honourable Ladies
- Agon Hamza, Frank Ruda, and Slavoj Žižek – Reading Marx
- Slavoj Žižek – Sex and the Failed Absolute – Masterclass I
- George Michell and Helen Philon in conversation – The Islamic Architecture of the Deccan
- Katrin Kogman-Appel – A Jewish Look on World Politics: The Catalan Mappamundi (1375)
- Songs of Suffrage – music & readings 1900-1930, with the Berkeley Ensemble
- Jhumpa Lahiri and Bill Sherman – A Conversation About Risk and Bob Dylan
- Fabienne Peter – Normative Facts and Reasons
- Peter Adamson – Why Should Historians of Philosophy Care about Astrology?
- Kate Cooper – History and fiction in the age of “fake news”
- Peter Hibbard – More than a Stuffed Bird Show: The RAS Legacy in Shanghai
- After Multiculturalism? Conversations between History and Sociology
- Julia Christ – The Concept of Domination and the Forgetting of the Defeated
- Mercedes Kemp/Helen Graham – A Death in Zamora: the murder of Amparo Barayón and the Francoist treatment of women
- Fintan O’Toole – The Nightmare of History
- Sarah Fine – Refugees, Safety and a Decent Human Life
- Mehreen Chida-Razvi – The Mughal Madonna: Representations of the Virgin in Jahangiri-era Architecture
- Rebecca Spang – The Money Of The Poor: Financial Inclusion In Historical Perspective
- Joe Walding – Diary of a WIMPy Kid: Using Light to Search the Dark
- Guest Concert: Chalpasah
- Rosie Llewellyn-Jones – ‘My Dear Schomberg’: Letters from Sir Aurel Stein
- Gordon Finlayson – Solidarity in Adorno’s Negative Dialectics
- Jonathan Wolff – Equality and Hierarchy
- Naomi Standen – Colouring outside the lines: Eastern Eurasia without borders, from the Türks to the Mongols
- Steve Edwards – Photography as Social Research
- Open Government in Australia and the UK: a discussion
- Carole Hillenbrand – Saladin’s Spin Doctors
- 2018 London Critical Theory Summer School – Public Debate II
- Judith Butler and Lisa Baraitser – Enduring and Broken Time
- The Social Life of Time: Power, Discrimination and Transformation
- The Church & Societal Challenges in Contemporary Britain
- 2018 London Critical Theory Summer School – Public Debate I
- Jaco Barnard-Naudé – ‘She Reigns and He Does Not Govern’: The Discourse of the Anxious Hysteric in post-apartheid South Africa
- Guido Beltramini – Architecture without Architects. Early Cinquecento Veneto literati as “directors” of the Refashioning of their own Houses
- Derek Hook – Fanon’s Lacan
- Is Sexuality Compatible with Human Rights? Jean-Claude Milner in Conversation with Slavoj Žižek
- Therese Martin – Re-opening the Treasury: Meaning in Materials at San Isidoro de León
- Lewis Gordon – Jews of Colour: Race and Afro-Jewishness
- Andrew Casey – Pushing the frontiers of Physics
- Historical Knowledge and Public History
- Joris van Gastel – The Bernini Workshop (Re)visited
- Timothy Garton Ash – What went wrong with liberalism? And what should liberals do about it?
- Victoria McGeer – Intelligent Capacities
- John de Lucy/Frances Wood – The Contribution of the Chinese Labour Corps in the First World War
- Laura Greene – The Dark Energy of Quantum Materials
- Umberto Bongianino – Like Sweet Smelling Blooms: Arabic Calligraphy in the Islamic West
- Race, Mental Health and State Violence
- Holly Lawford-Smith – Collective Culpability and Collective Punishment
- Gendered Inclusion in ‘traditional’ and ‘creative’ sector organisations and industries
- Elizabeth Sears – The Courtauld and the Warburg: Complementarities
- Susan Whitfield – Silk, Slaves and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road
- Grey/Polychrome: Cy Twombly, Modernity, Classicism, and the History of Art
- Joan M Schwartz – Lives and afterlives: The photographic lens and legacy of Frederick Dally
- Lisa Shapiro – Assuming Epistemic Authority
- Kalwant Bhopal – BME experiences in HE: social justice, inclusion, and white privilege
- Renegade: Austin Collings
- Stephen Graham – Subterranean urban politics: Insurgency, sanctuary, exploration and tourism’
- In conversation: Philippe Sands and Katrin Himmler
- Landscapes of culture: Raymond Williams 30 years on
- Creative writing as research
- Landscape storytelling: the story of an ‘enemy alien’ set designer
- Marilyn Monroe: an unlikely feminist
- Deniz Tuerker – The Yildiz Kiosk and the Queen Mothers of the Tanzimat Era: Gender, Landscape, and Visibility
- Paper peepshow: peep into the rabbit hole
- Gaelic hardship: Flann O’Brien’s ‘The Poor Mouth’
- Curating sound for difficult histories
- Hannah Dawson – Fighting for my Mind: Feminist Logic at the Edge of Enlightenment
- Birkbeck Arts Week 2018
- Plantae Amazonicae: art, ethnobotany and biocultural artefacts
- Lynn Abrams – Pursuing autonomy: self-help and self fashioning amongst women in post-war Britain
- Charles Melville – The Illustration of Mirkhwand’s Raudat al-safa in RAS Ms. P.38
- Attitudes Toward Immigration Round-table
- Ben Thomas – Curating Raphael: Invention and Eloquence
- Mothers by Jacqueline Rose: Book launch and discussion
- Global ’68: Solidarity in Alliance and Global History
- Exemplarity, Authority, Universalizability: How is a Geopolitics of Philosophy to be conceptualised?
- Anthony Stockwell – Plunder and Restitution: Britain and the Mandalay Regalia
- Crime and Global Justice: Book launch and discussion
- ‘Yo soy Fidel!’: Post-Castro Cuba and the Cult of Personality
- Shijia Yu – Discovering the Little-Known: An Interview with Jonathan Gestetner
- Ethan Katz – Jews, Muslims, Frenchmen: The Promises and Perils of Fraternity
- Gary Younge – All That Is Solid Melts Into Air – The politics of hope in a time of fragility
- Alex McKay – The View from the Palace: The Sikkim Royal Archives
- Alison Hills – Moral and Aesthetic Virtue
- John Falconer – ‘A Glorious Galaxy of Monuments.’ Photography and Archaeology in India in the 19th Century
- Martin Doerry – Lifting a Taboo: The Story of a Holocaust victim which has never been told before
- Omniya Abd al-Barr – K.A.C. Creswell’s Photographic Archive at the V and A Museum
- Festschrift for Professor Peter Robb (SOAS)
- Brexit and Literature: a year from Article 50
- Alternative Work Arrangements? Gendered Inclusion in the Field of Entrepreneurship
- Ayse Yuva – The European Boundaries of Philosophy in the 19th Century: shaping cultural identity through the history of philosophy
- Martin Saar – What is Social Philosophy?
- The Original Writer: Reading Alan Moore
- Phil Meeson – Quantum engineering, leading the way to a new technological era
- Slavoj Žižek – Like a Thief in the Night
- Peter Webb – Arab Origins: Identity, History and Islam
- Atina Grossmann – Trauma, Privilege and Adventure in the “Orient”: A Refugee Family Archive
- Does Justice Policy Listen to Criminological Research?
- Mercedes Volait – The Domestic Collecting of Islamic Artefacts in 19th Century Cairo: The Meymar Objects at the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Sarah Moss – Moral Encroachment
- Philippa Levine – The Empire has no Clothes: Nudity and the Imperial Imagination
- Thomas Harding – “You’re doing what?” – My family’s response to my trying to save the house stolen by the Nazis
- Michaela Ott – Dividuations: Theories of participation
- Fake News and Alternative Facts
- Amy Matthewson – Mr Punch and Chinamania: Blue Willow China and Consumer Consumption in ‘Punch’ Magazine, 1874-1880
- Vladimir Antonov – Terahertz radiation: from Big Bang to nanotechnology
- Amy Tooth Murphy – The Continuous Thread of Revelation: Queer Theory’s Challenge to Oral History
- Alex Voorhoeve – Epicurus on Pleasure, the Complete Life, and Death: A Partial Defence
- John Bercow – Parliament as Pathfinder: Changing the culture of an ancient institution
- Annabel Gallop – The Great Seal of Aceh
- Benjamin Madley – An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
- Craig French – Naïve Realism and Diaphaneity
- Herman Siemens – Nietzsche, Kant and the question of constructive conflict
- Ulrike Weckel – Shaming with Images: German Responses to Atrocity Films, 1945-46
- T.J. Clark – Cézanne and the Fetishism of Commodities Session 2
- T.J. Clark – Cézanne and the Fetishism of Commodities Session 1
- Co-Presents to the Holocaust: The British in Auschwitz and Belsen
- Seduced and Betrayed: Exposing the Contemporary Microfinance Phenomenon
- Alban von Stockhausen – Images and (Post)colonial Encounters: A History of the Visual Representation of the Nagas of Northeast India
- Sarah Sawyer – The Importance of Concepts
- Mark Condos – Anarchists, Revolutionaries, and Franco-British Imperial Policing in French Chandernagore, 1905-1930
- Emmanuel Alloa – Transparentism: The end of critique
- Angela Dimitrakaki – Situated Struggles: Sex Workers, Art Workers and the Politics of Freedom from Work
- Robert Priest – “A Rabbi’s impressions of the Passion Play”: Joseph Krauskopf, Antisemitism, and the Limits of the Transnational Jewish Public around 1900
- Dramaturgies of change in Greek theatre: institutions, practices and publics
- Christopher Fuller – European Science and Colonial Anthropology in British India, c. 1871-1911
- Tim Cole – ‘Please mind the gap’: integrated histories and geographies of the Holocaust and Holocaust memory
- The Will of the People? Revolutionary Legacies, Reactionary Manipulations
Index of talks