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Welcome to Big Ideas, a podcast series to accompany Birkbeck’s free public lecture series, where academics bring their research out to local communities around London, sharing the exciting and innovative work that happens at Birkbeck, and opening up the world of research and universities. The series is organised by Birkbeck’s Access and Engagement team, who support underrepresented groups of people to apply and succeed in study here at Birkbeck, University of London. In this podcast we meet Natalie Lancer, PhD researcher at Birkbeck's Department of Psychological Sciences. She is looking to understand how students having one-to-one coaching grow at university and initially found that students developed their social skills and their confidence. Natalie’s talk will take place on Tuesday 21 May 2019 at City and Islington College‘s Centre for Lifelong Learning in Finsbury Park. Book your free place to attend her talk here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birkbecks-big-ideas-do-lifes-tensions-help-us-grow-how-we-

Episode 4 - Resilience and the job market: managing competition and perfectionism by Birkbeck, University of London

Episode 3 - Self-esteem and taking up your place at university by Birkbeck, University of London

Professor Julia Lovell from Birkbeck’s Department of History, Classics and Archaeology discusses the evolution and legacy of Maoism, both in China and internationally. Professor Lovell’s book, Maoism: A Global History, is published in March 2019, by The Bodley Head. Professor Lovell teaches on the following programmes - MA Global History http://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/2019/postgraduate/programmes/TMAGHESC_C/ - BA History programmes http://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/course_search?q=History&lvl=ug

Welcome to Big Ideas, a podcast series to accompany Birkbeck’s free public lecture series, where academics bring their research out to local communities around London, sharing the exciting and innovative work that happens at Birkbeck, and opening up the world of research and universities. The series is organised by Birkbeck’s Access and Engagement team, who support underrepresented groups of people to apply and succeed in study here at Birkbeck, University of London. In this podcast we meet Dr Szymon Manka,who discusses the fast-growing scientific field of epigenetics, and why we should care about it. Szymon's talk will take place on Tuesday 19 March at City and Islington College‘s Centre for Lifelong Learning in Finsbury Park. Book your free place to attend his talk here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birkbecks-big-ideas-beyond-genetics-how-is-everyone-unique-tickets-53913295117

Episode 1 – What to do if it’s all going wrong by Birkbeck, University of London

Episode 2 – Stress-Less by Birkbeck, University of London

On Wednesday 30 January, the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies welcomed Dr. Linda Freedman (UCL) to mark the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth with two papers that examined his reception in Victorian Britain. In his 1868 Essay on William Blake, Algernon Charles Swinburne closed with a comparison to Whitman in which he claimed: ‘The points of contact and sides of likeness between William Blake and Walt Whitman are so many and so grave, as to afford some ground of reason to those who preach the transition of souls or transfusion of spirits.’ For Swinburne, they were prophets of democracy and he, like many of the international avant-garde in London, put his faith in poetry, not politics, to herald a new dawn of republicanism in Britain. But when Swinburne championed Blake as a home-grown Whitman, America’s self-declared prophet of democracy was beginning to wonder whether he had been right to put his faith in poetry. The comparisons between Blake and Whitman were unequivocal and optimistic.

On Wednesday 30 January, the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies welcomed Prof. Michael Robertson (The College of New Jersey)to mark the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman's birth with two papers that examined his reception in Victorian Britain. During the 1890s, Whitmanite activity in Britain was centered, improbably, in the northern industrial town of Bolton, where a group of lower-middle-class men corresponded regularly with Whitman, made pilgrimages to his home in Camden, New Jersey, and were in frequent contact with every prominent Whitman apologist in Britain and North America. The men of the Eagle Street College, as they called themselves, integrated multiple approaches to Whitman’s poetry: religious, political, and most of all affectional. Contemporaries of early homosexual theorists Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, they were stirred by Whitman’s paeans to male love, but they had no interest in the emerging Continental discipline of sexology. Instead, they created a male world of

What to do if it’s all going wrong… by Birkbeck, University of London

Stress-Less by Birkbeck, University of London

Welcome to Big Ideas, a podcast series to accompany Birkbeck’s free public lecture series, where academics bring their research out to local communities around London, sharing the exciting and innovative work that happens at Birkbeck, and opening up the world of research and universities. The series is organised by Birkbeck’s Access and Engagement team, who support underrepresented groups of people to apply and succeed in study here at Birkbeck, University of London. In this podcast we meet PhD candidate Keith Jarrett, who discusses how his research into an overlooked segment of Caribbean Pentecostalism has led him to write an experimental novel. Keith’s Big Ideas talk will be on Tuesday 12 February at City and Islington College‘s Centre for Lifelong Learning in Finsbury Park. Book your free place to attend his talk here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birkbecks-big-ideas-writing-as-research-exploring-the-migration-of-caribbean-religion-and-identity-tickets-53994201109

Welcome to Big Ideas, a podcast series to accompany Birkbeck’s free public lecture series, where academics bring their research out to local communities around London, sharing the exciting and innovative work that happens at Birkbeck, and opening up the world of research and universities. The series is organised by Birkbeck’s Access and Engagement team, who support underrepresented groups of people to apply and succeed in study here at Birkbeck, University of London. In this podcast we meet Dr Mark Panton, whose research explores how stadium-led regeneration affects local communities. Mark’s Big Ideas talk will be on Tuesday 15 January at City and Islington College‘s Centre for Lifelong Learning in Finsbury Park. Book your free place to attend his talk here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birkbecks-big-ideas-does-stadium-led-regeneration-work-tickets-53538871205

Exam Relaxation by Birkbeck, University of London

A one-day symposium discussing the most important aspects of scholarly editing for those new to the field. To learn more about the event and the CHASE consortium visit: https://www.chase.ac.uk/scholarly-editing/

A one-day symposium discussing the most important aspects of scholarly editing for those new to the field. To learn more about the event and the CHASE consortium visit: https://www.chase.ac.uk/scholarly-editing/

A one-day symposium discussing the most important aspects of scholarly editing for those new to the field. To learn more about the event and the CHASE consortium visit: https://www.chase.ac.uk/scholarly-editing/

A one-day symposium discussing the most important aspects of scholarly editing for those new to the field. To learn more about the event and the CHASE consortium visit: https://www.chase.ac.uk/scholarly-editing/

Dr Alex Colás and Dr Jason Edwards travel between three London destinations to discuss the themes in their new book 'Food, Politics and Society: Social Theory and the Modern Food System'. They first visit the Princess Louise Pub in Holborn, where they discuss the politicisation of alcohol, such as how attitudes to drinking are shaped by class and gender; then to Pisqu, a Peruvian restaurant in Fitzrovia, where they explore the contemporary, capitalist food system and its origins in the Columbian exchange; and finally, Dr Colas meets Professor Sami Zubaida at Tottenham Court Road Food Market, to hear his insights into the relationships between food, globalisation and nationalism. Find out more at a launch event for the book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/food-politics-and-society-book-launch-tickets-52211191078 or buy a copy online: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520291959/food-politics-and-society

Find out more about the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/