Podcasts

Birkbeck Institute for Social Research organises various lectures, workshops, and symposia over the course of the year to stimulate research, public debate and collaboration among academics and the wider community.

In order to share our events with the greatest possible audience, we record many of these events as podcasts. You can access these for free at any time.

Birkbeck Institute for Social Research podcasts

2018-19

• Palestinian Childhoods: Human Rights, Mental Health and Resistance
• Feminist Flashpoints: Sexual Harassment in the Academy

2017-18

• Enduring and Broken Time

2016-17

• Feminist Emergency - International Conference
• Is caring in crisis? Humanitarian crises, public engagement and NGOs
• Mapping the Role of ‘Transnational Family Habitus’ in the Lives and Identity of Black Minority Ethnic Young People
• Dame Joan Ruddock in Conversation with Rosie Campbell
• At the Borders of Flesh: A Secret History of Race and Technology
• Black Scholars in Critical Dialogue: Confronting Racism in the Academy - Re-imagining the Disciplines
  • Welcome and Panel 1: Religion: Re-Visioning the Landscape
  • Panel 2: History: Looking Back to Look Forward
  • Panel 3: Education: Re-imagining the Disciplines
  • Panel 4: Next Steps
• A World in Crisis: Climate Change, Violence, Demography and the Global Economy

2014-15

• The Worlding in a Sense of Place
• Playing Like a State: Imagining Progressive Governance through Conservative Christian Refusal
• 'Au Pairing After the Au Pair Scheme': ESCR Research Project Dissemination Event
• Journalism, Whistleblowing and the Security State

2012-13

• The Persistence of Segregation in the 21st Century American Metropolis

2011-12

• Reacting to Reality Television

2010-11

• Food and Public Space in a Global City
• The Political Economy of Social Reproduction across the Lifecourse: Global Perspectives
• Capital Realism - Mark Fisher in conversation with Amber Jacobs

2009-10

• Diagnosing the Contemporary: Crises and Conjunctures
• Diagnosing the Contemporary: Working the Spaces of Power

Home and Exile Working Group podcasts

2016-17

• Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Human Dignity and Biophysical Violence

2013-14

• The Vicissitudes of Postcolonial Citizenship and Belonging in Late Liberalism
• Movement Away and To Home: Criticism as a Mode of Belonging
• Caring in Crisis? Communications and Public Reactions to Humanitarian Crises and International Development Causes

Population, Environment and Resources Working Group podcasts

2018-19

• Subterranean Urban Politics: Insurgency, Sanctuary, Exploration and Tourism

2017-18

• The New Nationalism: The Rise of the Populist Right in the West

2016-17

• Revolutions in a Warming World: Lessons from Syria
• On the Demographic Basis of Democratization

2015-16

• The Challenge of Climate Change: What Can and Can’t Be Fixed?
• Architecture in Time: The Temporal Conditions of Design
  • Introduction
  • Paper 1: The Stuff of Time: How Heritage Practice Works from the Past
  • Paper 2: Architecture after People: Emergence, Emergency and Unexpected Buildings
  • Paper 3: Endless: Topography, Temporality, Architecture
  • Paper 4: Slowing Down: Temporality in Building Renovation and the Escape from Perspective
  • Paper 5: Buildings within Time: Inhabitation as a Part of Design Practice
  • Paper 6: Revivalism and Meaning in Architecture: Three Case Studies
  • Reflections on Future Connections

2014-15

• Beyond the Skyline: Addressing London's Housing Crisis
  • Panel Session 1: Explaining the Causes of London’s Housing Crisis
  • Panel Session 3: The Politics of London’s Housing Crisis
• Our Kind of Town? Citizen Social Science, Participatory Mapping and the Struggle for a Just City
• Population: The Elephant in the Room is Our Friend
• Launch event for the Department's new MSc in Population, Migration and Ecology
• The Housing Disaster: Danny Dorling in Conversation with Paul Watt

2012-13

• Street Art and the Contemporary City
• The Politics of Population Change
• Surplus: Wealth, Waste and Excess

2011-12

• Celebration Capitalism: the London Olympics and Its Discontents

Psychoanalysis Working Group podcasts

2017-18

• Jessica Benjamin, Beyond Doer and Done To

2016-17

• Jessica Benjamin in Conversation with Lynne Segal

2015-16

• When the Heart Can't Contain What the Mind Can See: Psychosocial Research on Human Engagement with Climate Change (currently no link available for this)

2013-14

• The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times - Discussing the Issues

2012-13

• Psychoanalysis as Epistemology: Psycho-Social Methods Since 'Doing Qualitative Research Differently'
• Interrogating "the Social Unconscious" 

2010-11

• Mobile Lives, Digital Emotions

2009-10

• Sites of Conflict: Psycho-Political Resistance in Israel-Palestine

PhD students: Training and methodologies podcasts

2015-16

• Developing Your Research Career: Cultivating Research Impact through Social Media
• Developing Your Research Career: Influencing Parliament and the Policy Process: An Insider's Guide
  • Part 1a: Alasdair Mackenzie
  • Select Committees Film (YouTube)
  • Part 1b: Alasdair Mackenzie
  • Part 2: David Hough
  • 'Parliament and Research' PowerPoint Presentation

2014-15

• Developing Your Research Career: Uncovering the Wellcome Library
• Narrative Networks: Storied Approaches in a Digital Age
• Social Science, Critique and the Rich
• Reflections on Social Change: Metamorphosis or Transformation? Birkbeck Institute Graduate Conference 2015
  • Keynote 1: Unpacking "Common Sense" for Social Transformation
  • Keynote 2: Violence against Women and Girls: Using Knowledge in the Service of Social Justice
  • Keynote 3: On Crowds and Atmosphere
• A Tribute to Horace Ové (all links currently broken)
  • Introduction
  • Panel 1: Horace Ové: An Overview / Documentary Filmmaker
  • Panel 2: Horace Ové and Television
  • Panel 3: The Cultural Politics of Horace Ové’s Work
  • Closing Discussion

2013-14

• Brown Moses: Investigating Conflict Zones through Social Media

2012-13

• Developing Your Research Career: How to Write Successful Grant Proposals
• Blogging to Help Develop Your Research Career
• Using Narratives to Study Social Change
• Living Apart Together: A Multi-Method Analysis

2011-12

• Developing Your Research Career: Research Grants (PP presentation we need to sort)
• Developing Your Research Career: Publishing Journal Articles
• Developing Your Research Career: Publishing a Book
• Multimodal Methods for Researching Digital Data

2009-10

• Burning Memories: Sacrifice and the Unconscious in History