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Researching (with) Difficult Feelings: A CHASE-funded training event with follow-up resources and activities This workshop took place on 14-15/12/2017 and was hosted by Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, School of Arts, Birkbeck College. This recording is of Jennifer Doyle giving the keynote.

Researching (with) Difficult Feelings: A CHASE-funded training event with follow-up resources and activities This workshop took place on 14-15/12/2017 and was hosted by Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, School of Arts, Birkbeck College. This is a recording of the Artists Panel,

Researching (with) Difficult Feelings: A CHASE-funded training event with follow-up resources and activities This workshop took place on 14-15/12/2017 and was hosted by Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, School of Arts, Birkbeck College. In this recording we have Shane Boyle on 'Customer Relations' and Molly Flynn-My Nikolaevka on 'Notes from the field with Ukraine's Theatre of Displaced People'.

Researching (with) Difficult Feelings: A CHASE-funded training event with follow-up resources and activities This workshop took place on 14-15/12/2017 and was hosted by Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, School of Arts, Birkbeck College. In this recording we have Broderick Chow on 'Willful Things: Bodies, Equipment, and Potentialities' and Jennifer Parker-Starbuck-on 'How to deal with the (dead) Elephant in the room and other problems of the non-human'.

Researching (with) Difficult Feelings: A CHASE-funded training event with follow-up resources and activities This workshop took place on 14-15/12/2017 and was hosted by Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, School of Arts, Birkbeck College. In this recording we have David Harradine on 'How Do You Feel When Men and Girls Dance?' and Emma Cox on 'Ethics, embodiment and the long vantage'.

Researching (with) Difficult Feelings: A CHASE-funded training event with follow-up resources and activities This workshop took place on 14-15/12/2017 and was hosted by Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, School of Arts, Birkbeck College. In this recording we have Anna Harpin on 'Difficult Company: Research and Emotional Distress' and Clare Finburgh on 'The Greatest Possible Tact’: Writing about Torture'.

In this episode of Birkbeck Voices, we're joined by Dr David Brydan, Lecturer in Modern European History, to discuss his latest article examining leprosy and rebellion in Spanish colonial Africa during the 1940s and 50s. The article is available on open access: https://academic.oup.com/shm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/shm/hkx094/4590150 Dr Brydan is a member of the Reluctant Internationalists research group, based in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck. Find out more about the project: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/reluctantinternationalists Dr Brydan is also a member of the Centre for the Study of Internationalism - https://centreforthestudyofinternationalism.wordpress.com Birkbeck Voices, the podcast series from Birkbeck, University of London, brings you interviews with our academics, students, alumni and wider community. We cover the latest research and inspiring events taking place at the College and find out more about the people who make Birkbeck the place that it is. Listen to t

Catherine Heard, Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR) at Birkbeck, introduces the speakers at a recent panel event, looking at the causes and consequences of the rising female prison population. The featured speakers were: Lady Edwina Grosvenor, prison philanthropist; Roy Walmsley from the World Prison Brief; Olivia Rope from Penal Reform International; Marie Nougier from the International Drug Policy Consortium; Teresa Njoroge from Clean Start Kenya; Madhurima Dhanuka from the Commonwealth Human Rights Institute in India; and Jo Peden from Public Health England. Read more on the #BBKblog - http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/events/2017/12/14/female-imprisonment-worldwide Find out more about the ICPR: http://www.icpr.org.uk .

Cohn examines temporal dislocations in realist depictions of environmental crisis, emphasizing that novelists expand what narratologists call “narrating time” by shifting among these modalities in parallel and embedded clauses, suggesting that dilation and expansion are the “mental procedures” that substantialize seemingly inaccessible scales of experience. With this narratological method, she considers two realist accounts of flood, where conditions much exacerbated by human intervention render long-term crises as immediate emergencies in which the “narrating” moment becomes especially protracted: George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004). Though written at very different moments in the history of climate crisis, these novels similarly showcase realism’s capacity to make diffuse crisis perceptible in the expanded present by inhabiting, dislocating, and reflecting upon multiple points of view—without disavowing a shared sense of history, or giving up on the hope of

Dr Gabriele Finaldi, Director of the National Gallery, London: How to form a national collection. The Prado Museum and the National Gallery, London The lecture is named in honour of Peter Murray, who founded Birkbeck’s Department of History of Art in 1967 and is part of Opening Up Art History: 50 Years at Birkbeck, a series of events celebrating the Department’s 50th anniversary.

In Times of Love and Hate is a new podcast series from Birkbeck Voices. In this episode, Professor of History Joanna Bourke discusses the worldwide conversation on sexual harassment in the wake of recent high-profile allegations, and whether it has the momentum to produce a cultural shift. The episodes in this series are brought to you by academics from Birkbeck’s MA Public Histories, MA History of Medicine: Minds, Bodies and Cultures, MSc War and Humanitarianism, BA Human Geography, BA Archaeology and Geography, and BA Intercultural Communication and Language. They will explore with you how the turbulent times we live in can be better understood, lived and survived using the tools of investigation and critical enquiry that students and academics alike employ through study and research at Birkbeck. If you would like to apply for one of the studentships mentioned in this podcast, please visit the website: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/prospective-students/phd-mphil/research-funding

In this episode of Birkbeck Voices, we're joined by Sarah Childs, Professor of Politics and Gender at Birkbeck. Professor Childs discusses the benefits of equal gender opportunity in parliament, the current system of quotas for women in politics and a report she recently put forward that recommends a change to the law on job-sharing for MPs. She has worked extensively on representation theory and policies surrounding gender politics and currently advises the new Commons Reference Group on Representation and Inclusion(http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/other-committees/reference-group-representation-inclusion/). Find out more about studying politics at Birkbeck: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/2018/undergraduate/programmes/UUBAPOLT_C Birkbeck Voices, the podcast series from Birkbeck, University of London, brings you interviews with our academics, students, alumni and wider community. We cover the latest research and inspiring events taking place at the College and find out more about t

In the winter of 2019-20 Tate Britain will be staging a major survey exhibition of the art of William Blake (1757-1827). It will be the latest in a succession of exhibitions which have presented Blake to the general public, including the Tate’s own shows in 2001 and 1978, and seminal earlier projects in 1876, 1927 and 1947. Blake himself was an exhibitor, most importantly with his one-man show of 1809, but also contributing to mixed exhibitions at a number of points in his career, lastly in 1812. Tate curator Martin Myrone reflects on this history of exhibition, as a way of thinking about Blake’s shifting status and reputation among the public, as an engine of change in curatorial and scholarly thinking, and as a decisive influence on the artist’s place in the cultural canon. He also sets out the thinking behind the forthcoming show, which will seek engage with this history of exhibition as well as presenting a comprehensive view of this much-loved and much-scrutinized artist.

Dr Stefan Engels from Birkbeck's Department of Geography discusses his field of palaeoclimatology, focussing on abrupt climate change during and following the last ice age as seen through the eyes of insects. He will discuss this further at a free public lecture on 12 December at City and Islington College as part of Birkbeck's Big Ideas series. Book your free place here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birkbecks-big-ideas-insects-and-ice-ages-how-and-why-we-reconstruct-past-climate-change-finsbury-tickets-39181416672 Birkbeck Voices, the podcast series from Birkbeck, University of London, brings you interviews with our academics, students, alumni and wider community. We cover the latest research and inspiring events taking place at the College and find out more about the people who make Birkbeck the place that it is. Listen to the #BirkbeckVoices SoundCloud playlist - soundcloud.com/birkbeck-podcasts/sets/birkbeck-voices

Naureen Abubacker from the Widening Access team at Birkbeck discusses leading the development of the Compass Project, a ground-breaking initiative that is driven to improving access to higher education for forced migrants, and also funds places for 20 asylum seekers to begin their studies in the UK. One of the students, Gifty from Zimbabwe, also joins us to chat about her experiences with the programme and how she has settled into life in London. Read more about the #BBKCompass Project: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/news/new-birkbeck-initiative-provides-life-changing-education-opportunities-for-asylum-seekers Birkbeck Voices, the podcast series from Birkbeck, University of London, brings you interviews with our academics, students, alumni and wider community. We cover the latest research and inspiring events taking place at the College and find out more about the people who make Birkbeck the place that it is. Listen to the #BirkbeckVoices SoundCloud playlist - soundcloud.com/birkbeck-podcasts/sets/birkbeck-voices

In Times of Love and Hate is a new podcast series from Birkbeck Voices. In this episode, Antoine Bousquet discusses whether war can ever be humanitarian, the effects of changing technology on combat and the humanity that wartime can bring. The episodes in this series are brought to you by academics from Birkbeck’s MA Public Histories, MSc War and Humanitarianism, BA Human Geography, BA Archaeology and Geography, and BA Intercultural Communication and Language. They will explore with you how the turbulent times we live in can be better understood, lived and survived using the tools of investigation and critical enquiry that students and academics alike employ through study and research at Birkbeck.

Theatres of Contagion: Infectious Performance: On Thursday 11 and Friday 12 May, we hosted an international conference exploring themes of contagion and infection in performance and across disciplines, asking: how have theatre and performance represented, examined or been implicated in the transmission and circulation of medical and psychological conditions? How has our understanding of these relationships and phenomena changed over time, across cultures, including via developments in interdisciplinary practice and inquiry? Scholars and artists from across the world gave presentations addressing contexts from the medieval period to the contemporary, and keynote lectures and performances were given by Bridget Escolme (QMUL), Dickie Beau, David Slater and Entelechy Arts, Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck), Richard P. Mann (Leeds), Emily Senior (Birkbeck) Matthew Weait (Portsmouth), and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (Oxford). Download abstracts and biographies here.

Theatres of Contagion: Infectious Performance: On Thursday 11 and Friday 12 May, we hosted an international conference exploring themes of contagion and infection in performance and across disciplines, asking: how have theatre and performance represented, examined or been implicated in the transmission and circulation of medical and psychological conditions? How has our understanding of these relationships and phenomena changed over time, across cultures, including via developments in interdisciplinary practice and inquiry? Scholars and artists from across the world gave presentations addressing contexts from the medieval period to the contemporary, and keynote lectures and performances were given by Bridget Escolme (QMUL), Dickie Beau, David Slater and Entelechy Arts, Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck), Richard P. Mann (Leeds), Emily Senior (Birkbeck) Matthew Weait (Portsmouth), and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (Oxford). Download abstracts and biographies here.

Theatre Conversation: Approaching socially engaged practice (Tuesday 10 May 2016) creative producer and Centre Fellow Elizabeth Lynch convened a discussion on how artists are approaching the creation of socially engaged practice now. The event asked: as the 2010s unfold, who are the new allies in making socially engaged practice? How do artists know what they are doing is working? What is shifting or changing as a result of artists’ interventions, and what has to be disrupted? Participants included Omar Elerian (Bush Theatre), Alinah Azadeh (artist), Miriam Nelken (Creative Barking & Dagenham) and Simon Poulter (Close & Remote).

 Theatres of Contagion: Infectious Performance: On Thursday 11 and Friday 12 May, we hosted an international conference exploring themes of contagion and infection in performance and across disciplines, asking: how have theatre and performance represented, examined or been implicated in the transmission and circulation of medical and psychological conditions? How has our understanding of these relationships and phenomena changed over time, across cultures, including via developments in interdisciplinary practice and inquiry? Scholars and artists from across the world gave presentations addressing contexts from the medieval period to the contemporary, and keynote lectures and performances were given by Bridget Escolme (QMUL), Dickie Beau, David Slater and Entelechy Arts, Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck), Richard P. Mann (Leeds), Emily Senior (Birkbeck) Matthew Weait (Portsmouth), and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (Oxford).