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Bardsley, Julia
Action Lectures: Dickie Beau
02/12/2015
Julia Bardsley hosted and chaired an event with Dickie Beau as part of the new Action Lectures: Artists on Performance series initiated by Dominic Johnson at QMUL (12 February 2015).
In person
Testament
04/06/2014
Julia Bardsley acted as chair/interviewer for a post-show discussion of Testament, part of LIFT at the Barbican (4 June 2014).
Inside Medea's Lab
05/08/2014
Julia Bardsley ran Inside Medea’s Lab: a salon for Pacitti Company Think Tank, Ipswich (8 May 2014).
Ridout, Nicholas
I can't go on: What's behind stage fright?
08/03/2015
Nicholas Ridout was cited in Joan Acocella's New Yorker article on stage fright.
Monks, Aoife
Freshwater
05/15/2012
Aoife Monks directed a rehearsed reading of Virgnia Woolf's Freshwater for Birkbeck Arts Week (15 May 2012)
Boucicault
01/01/2013
Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault for the Irish Literary Society, London (2013).
Pre-Show Debate: 'The Damnation of Faust'
05/20/2011
Aoife Monks joined David Cairns (writer / Berlioz' biographer) and Leah Hausman (Associate Director) at the English National Opera to discuss Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (May 2011)
Pre-Show Debate: 'La Traviata'
02/13/2015
Aoife Monks joined Christina McGlynn, Head of Costume at the English National Opera to discuss La Traviata (February 2015)
Interview with Fiona Shaw
09/28/2013
Aoife Monks interviewed actor and director Fiona Shaw for the Dublin Theatre Festival (28 September 2013)
Monks
Speaker on Boucicault
04/01/2014
Aoife Monks spoke on Boucicault at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, as part of a symposium accompanying their production of Boucicault's The School for Scheming (April 2014).
How do I feel about my research? It’s complicated
05/05/2015
Aoife Monks wrote in the Times Higher Education about some of the feelings and emotions that are associated with academic work (5 May 2015).
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Theatre Blog: Virginia Woolf's 'Freshwater'
05/23/2012
Aoife Monks wrote an article for The Guardian on performing Virginia Woolf's play Freshwater, which is "pretty terrible" but reveals the Bloomsbury Group's "silly side" (23 May 2012).
Video in Performance
08/16/2013
Julia Bardsley featured as a presenter and a panel speaker at Performance & Technology Symposium: Video in Performance, World Stage Design Festival, Cardiff (16 August 2013).
Performing from Myth
03/18/2013
Julia Bardsley led an artists' seminar on Performing from Myth: Sites of Instigation/Points of Departure, hosted by the Performance Research Group at King’s College London (18 March 2013).
Davids, Nadia
Writing Home
07/19/2015
Nadia Davids was in conversation with renowned publisher and writer Margaret Busby for Writing Home, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).
In Person
Out of Time & Place
Nadia Davids talked with Yvette Christianse and Zoe Wicomb for Out of Time & Place, part of the Mandela Weekend at the Southbank Centre (19 July 2015).
Writing a New South Africa
02/26/2015
Nadia Davids was interviewed by Thabiso Mohare for his BBC Radio 4 programme on South African writers (26 February 2015).
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Radio Interview
12/01/2014
Nadia Davids was interviewed by Nancy Richards on SAFM about her book, An Imperfect Blessing (December 2014).
11/01/2014
Nadia Davids was interviewed by Jenny Crwys Williams on Talk Radio 702 about her debut novel, An Imperfect Blessing (Nov 2014).
South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar
05/13/2014
Nadia Davids was in conversation Imraan Coovadia at University of the Western Cape The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar (13 May 2014).
Harvie, Jen
Ai Weiwei Roundtable Series at the Royal Academy of Arts
10/17/2015
Jen Harvie chaired the discussion Performance of the Artist as part of a special events around the major Ai Weiwei retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts (17 October 2015).
New Books in Critical Theory
02/09/2015
Jen Harvie discussed her book, Fair Play: Art, Performance, and Neoliberalism for the New Books in Critical Theory podcast (9 February 2015).
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On Publicness
09/29/2014
Jen Harvie chairs On Publicness in Tate Modern’s BMW Tate Live Talks series, with speakers Chantal Mouffe, Santiago Sierra, Claire Tancons, and Catherine Wood (29 September 2014).
Harvie, Jen and Johnson, Dominic
15 Minutes with...
09/01/2014
Jen Harvie and Dominic Johnson discuss publishing and Live Art in the Live Art Development Agency’s series 15 Minutes with... (1 September 2014).
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Bari, Shahidha sedmiddle
BBC Proms: Oscar Wilde in 1895
Shahidha Bari appeared at a special event celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Proms, which debuted in 1895. 1895 was also a tumultuous year for Oscar Wilde, in which two of his most famous plays were first performed, and he underwent three trials in the High Court (3 August 2015).
On Air
Saturday Review: Scandalous Lady W
08/15/2015
Shahidha Bari reviews BBC2's Scandalous Lady W on Saturday Review (15 August 2015).
Front Row: Yves Saint Laurent
07/10/2015
Shahidha Bari reviews Yves Saint Laurent: Style is Eternal, a retrospective of the haute couture of Yves Saint Laurent at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (10 July 2015).
Perfectly Imperfect: University Interviews
10/30/2014
Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education commenting on the university interview: "Do we even know to what ends we ask the questions we do?" (30 October 2014).
Knit Your Own Revolution
07/31/2014
Shahidha Bari contributed a piece to Times Higher Education reviewing the 'Disobedient Objects' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and exhibition which contains "lightness alongside its serious intent" (31 July 2014).
Front Row
10/14/2014
Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Here Lies Love at the National Theatre. Here Lies Love tells the story of Imela Marcos through the medium of disco (14 October 2014).
Season of Academic Fruitfulness
09/18/2014
Shahidha Bari contributed an article in the Times Higher Ed about the pleasures and pains of the summer period for academics: "All things seem possible and impossible at once" (18 September 2014).
Review of 'The Culinary Imagination
09/11/2014
Shahidha Bari reviewed Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity in the Times Higher Education. The book, which explores different cultures relationship with food, is described by Shahidha as "one of those curious books where you can happily pursue the exciting lines of enquiry set forth without being entirely sure of the ends to which you are heading" (11 September 2014).
08/29/2014
Shahidha Bari review new film Obvious Child, about a comedienne who faces some challenging realities when she discovers she's pregnant, on Radio 4's Front Row (29 August 2014).
Rubery, Matt sedmiddle sedmodern
From shell shock to Shellac
07/01/2014
Matt Rubery writes about the role of the Great War in the birth of the talking book for BookBrunch (1 July 2014).
Ahmed, Rehana sedmodern
Literary Controversies Since the Rushdie Affair
09/20/2012
Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies since the fatwa placed on Salman Rushdie. The second in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).
Muslims Protest Against H. G. Wells Book in 1930s Britain
09/19/2012
Rehana Ahmed co-wrote an article for the Huffington Post on literary controversies and religious protests. The first in this pair of posts can be read here (20 September 2012).
Shelagh Fogarty on BBC Radio 5
05/21/2014
Matt Rubery appeared on Shelagh Fogarty's BBC Radio 5 show to discuss Braille, starting at 1.56 (21 May 2014).
McAvinchey, Caoimhe
'Artful Measures: The Expert Fruitcake Workshop'
07/03/2015
Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator with Bobby Baker and Emma Cahill from Daily Life Ltd at Love Arts festival and symposium about arts and mental health, York St John's University (3 July 2015).
'Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of Arts'
10/14/2015
Caoimhe McAvinchey was a guest speaker at Our Country's Good: The Transformative Power of the Arts, a symposium organised by the National Theatre and the National Association for the Arts and Criminal Justice, National Theatre, London (3 July 2015).
Magic Me Collaboration
01/01/2015
Caoimhe McAvinchey, in collaboration with Magic Me, developed and delivered CPD training about intergenerational arts practice for artists and staff working in cultural contexts (British Museum, Horniman, National Archives, Geffrye Museum, Museum of London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, National Trust, South Bank Centre, Hackney Museum) (2015).
Women, The Criminal Justice System & The Arts
03/4/2015
Caoimhe McAvinchey joins Selina Busby, Marie Hutton, and Laura Caulfield to discuss female art projects within the criminal justice system (15 January 2015).
Does the Digital Age Spell the End of Braille?
05/20/2014
Matt Rubery was interviewed in the Independent newspaper on the future of Braille and other technologies used to help the blind read (20 May 2014).
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Whitehouse, Tessa sedmiddle
Five Hundred Years of Friendship
03/28/2014
Tessa Whitehouse discussed her research on letters of friendship on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 47:55. (28 March 2014).
Brotton, Jerry sedearly
The Venice Ghetto
03/06/2016
Jerry Brotton presented a programme on BBC Radio 3 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Venice Ghetto. Jerry finds that rather than living in isolation, the Jewish community of Venice was open to cultural exchange with Christian neighbours. It became a place of refuge and attracted Jewish migrants from other parts of Europe to live on the island in the city (6 March 2016).
The Greatest Maps in History, Collected in One Fantastic Book
10/13/2014
Jerry Brotton was interviewed by Nick Stockton about the significance of maps and his book Great Maps (13 October 2014).
Doce mapas que cambiaron el mundo
10/8/2014
Jerry Brotton's article on important maps was translated into Spanish and printed in El Mundo (8 October 2014).
My Shakespeare: Othello
10/20/2014
Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: Othello. The programme saw actor David Harewood exploring the significance of the play and the character of Othello (20 October 2014).
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In the Footsteps of St Peter
04/05/2015
Jerry Brotton was a guest expert in the second episode of David Suchet's documentary tracing the life of the man we know today as Saint Peter (5 April 2015).
My Shakespeare: King Lear
10/27/2014
Jerry Brotton appeared on Sky Arts 1's My Shakespeare: King Lear. The programme saw actor Christopher Plummer exploring the significance of the play, including interviews with Ian McKellen and others on playing the king (27 October 2014).
Shakespeare and Islam
03/12/2014
Jerry Brotton gave a lecture on 'Shakespeare and Islam' at Utrecht University. The talk explores the performance of Islam in the work of Shakespeare – in the form of allusions to the Moor, and the less familiar Turk (12 March 2014).
Original or Authentic? The Emergence, Formulation and Realisation of Ideas
02/21/2014
Jerry Brotton joined Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe and Simon Schaffer for an interdisciplinary presentation given due to Adam Lowe’s appointment as a visiting professor at Central Saint Martins (21 February 2014).
Boutcher, Warren sedmodern
Video Interview
02/16/2014
Warren Boutcher describes his recent research on the application of Alfred Gell's anthropological theory of art and agency to literature (February 2014).
Warren Boutcher on his research
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Taylor, Barbara sedmiddle
Book of the Week
02/17/2014
Barbara Taylor's The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times was picked as book of the week, on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week (February 2014).
Stephen Nolan
02/15/2014
Barbara Taylor discussed the place of the mental asylum and the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on BBC Radio 5 live's Stephen Nolan programme (February 2014).
Today
02/12/2014
Barbara Taylor debates the purpose of the mental asylum with Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, on BBC Radio 4's Today (February 2014).
Robert Elms Show
02/05/2014
Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times with Robert Elms, on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show (February 2014).
Barbara Taylor discussed the first meeting of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin on BBC Radio 4's Five Hundred Years of Friendship. Skip to 51:35. (28 March 2014).
Moncrieff
Barbara Taylor discussed the release of her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in our Times, on NewsTalk's Moncrieff. Skip to 07:48. (February 2014).
Newshour
02/09/2014
Barbara Taylor talked about the realities of Victorian Mental Asylums with James Coomarasamy, on The BBC World Service's Newshour. Skip to 40:45. (February 2014).
Woman's Hour
02/06/2014
Barbara Taylor discussed the experiences recounted in her book The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times with Jenni Murray, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Skip to 35:25. (February 2014).
Bill Schwarz sedmiddle sedmodern
Stuart Hall Obituary
02/10/2014
Bill Schwarz wrote an obituary for Stuart Hall with David Morley in The Guardian (10 February 2014).
Weaver, Lois
15 Minutes With...
1/29/2014
Lois Weaver joined Lois Keidan of LADA to discuss platforms and support structures for young artists (January 2014).
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Q&A with Newspaper Researchers
01/08/2014
Matt Rubery took part in a short interview for Europeana Newspapers discussing old newspapers and modern reseatch techniques (8 January 2014).
Preston, Claire sedearly
A Brief History of Cider
06/10/2012
Claire Preston explored the history of cider at the 2012 Hay Festival. Slides accompanying the talk can be downloaded here [PPT 7,068KB] (10 June 2012).
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Late Night Live
08/06/2013
Claire Preston joined Phillip Adams to discuss the significant role bees have played in the art, politics and social thought of human cultures, on ABC Radio National’s Late night Live (6 August 2013).
The Century that Wrote Itself: The Rewritten Universe
04/17/2013
Claire Preston joined Adam Nicolson to explore the 17th Century’s conflicting attitudes towards the nature of reality on BBC4’s The Century that Wrote Itself (17 April 2013).
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Night Waves
01/13/2009
Barbara Taylor discusses the concept of kindness with Philip Dodd and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (January 2009).
Interview
03/01/2009
Barbara Taylor had an interview with BBC Radio Leeds (March 2009).
04/01/2009
Barbara Taylor was interviewed on Norwegian radio station NRK (March 2009).
In Our Time
12/31/2009
Barbara Taylor joins Melvyn Bragg and guests John Mullan and Karen O'Brien to discuss the life and ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time (December 2009).
03/10/2011
Barbara Taylor discusses Mary Wollstonecraft's early life with Jenni Murray and Roberta Wedge, on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour (March 2011).
Ahnert, Ruth and Tamara Atkin sedearly
The Radio 4 Psalter
08/06/2014
Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin contributed to a Radio 4 documentary, The Radio 4 Psalter, in which Michael Symmons Roberts describes the beauty of Psalters and sets out to make his own for radio (6 August 2014).
Psalms Podcast
09/20/2013
Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss the enduring legacy of the book of Psalms into the present day (September 2013).
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Ruth Ahnert and Tamara Atkin discuss their recent conference, 'Psalm Culture and the Politics of Translation' (September 2013).
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Ahnert, Ruth sedearly
Ruth Ahnert discussed her book The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century for Faculti Media. Her book argues that the English Reformation established the prison as an influential literary sphere (September 2013).
Watt Smith, Tiffany
The Human Copying Machine
Tiffany Watt Smith appeared at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage, Gateshead explore our practices of imitation. The talk was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 3rd November (1 November 2014).
Powerful Emotions
06/01/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed in Psychologies Magazine about 'Powerful Emotions', and why history can help us understand them. (June 2015).
In print
From 'basorexia' to 'cyberchondria'
01/17/2016
Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for a Daily Mail Australia article on 'the bizarre words that sum up your most indescribable and commonly felt emotions' (17 January 2016).
How Language Influences Emotion
12/17/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for The Atlantic about her Book of Human Emotions (17 December 2015).
Why We Need to Feel A Range of Emotions
01/11/2016
Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Pool about "emodiversity": the benefits of feeling a range of emotions (11 January 2016).
How To Let It All Out
10/02/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith wrote for The Big Issue on how increasing our emotional vocabulary can illuminate quieter passions and open up new feelings to enjoy (2 October 2015).
Buzz words : How Language Creates Your Emotions
09/16/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for The New Statesman exploring how the ways in which we speak about our feelings might influence how we feel them (16 September 2015).
The Human ‘copying machine’: Mimicry, Medicine and Theatricality
01/01/2012
Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a piece for Wellcome History on mimicry and theatricality (2012).
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The Science of Baby Laughter
11/15/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith wrote a presented a Sunday Feature on BBC Radio 3 exploring the science of baby laughter (15 November 2015).
The Book of Human Emotions
09/21/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour about her Book of Human Emotions (21 September 2016).
The History of Emotions
09/16/15
Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on the history of emotions for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (16 September 2015).
Touch and Emotion
07/01/15
Tiffany Watt Smith took part in a panel discussion on touch and emotion for BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking (1 July 2015).
11/03/2014
Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay to discuss her research on the human copying machine (3 November 2014).
On mimicking
09/22/13
Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Australia ABC's The Body Sphere to discuss the history of mimicking (22 September 2013).
On air
09/14/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith discussed her Book of Human Emotions on Newstalk's Moncrieff (14 September 2015).
From Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions
09/11/2015
Tiffany Watt Smith had extracts of her Book of Human Emotions serialised in the Guardian (11 September 2015).
The words that describe your indescribable feelings
01/25/2016
Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 5 Live to discuss her new book, The Book of Human Emotions (25 January 2016).
Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?
01/27/2016
Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed for the Irish Times on her research into human emotions (26 January 2016).
BBC News Magazine - The Human Copying Machine
11/02/2014
Tiffany Watt Smith contributed an extended article to BBC News Magazine exploring the history of mirror responses in science and art (2 November 2014).
War Neuroses and Shell Shock
07/03/2014
Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to comment on War Neuroses, a celebrated cinematic account of shell shock and its treatment (3 July 2014).
Boredom
04/07/2014
Tiffany Watt Smith was interviewed about the history of boredom on BBC World Service programme The Why Factor (7 April 2014).
In the Interest of Boredom
01/05/2014
Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on Radio 4's Something Understood to discuss the concept of bordeom (5 January 2014).
The Body Sphere - ABC Radio
09/22/2013
Tiffany Watt Smith appeared on The Body Sphere on Australia's ABC radio to discuss the cultural history of mimicking (22 September 2013).
Proms Plus Literary
08/11/2014
Shahidha Bari presented a show on BBC Radio 3 on the centenary of Dylan Thomas in which the current National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, and the painter, Peter Blake, discuss Thomas's life and work (11 August 2014).
Saturday Review
08/16/2014
Shahidha Bari appeared on Saturday Review to review Joseph O'Neill's new book, The Dog (16 August 2014).
06/17/2014
Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Making Colour, a new exhibition at the National Gallery analysing the variety of raw materials used by artists across the centuries to provide colour in paintings and other works of art (17 June 2014).
04/23/2014
Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review the Joanna Hogg film Exhibition (23 April 2014).
From Our Own Correspondent
03/22/2014
Shahidha Bari discussed sultry camels and desert wifi in the UAE for From Our Own Correspondent (22 March 2014).
Poetry Idol
03/29/2014
Shahidha Bari explored poetry in the Middle East, and visited Abu Dhabi to join the audience of 'Million's Poet', a massive televised competition to find the best poet in the Middle East (29 March 2014).
The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives
02/23/2016
Shahidha Bari wrote an article in the Financial Times reviewing ‘The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives’, by Lynn Knight, which traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity to sexual liberation in the sixties. (23 February 2016).
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Sew What?
Shahidha Bari wrote an article about the Great British Sewing Bee for iai news (23 April 2014).
The Hamlet Doctrine
10/21/2013
Shahidha Bari joined Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster at the London Review Bookshop to explore the relevance of Shakespeare's Hamlet in the modern world (21 October 2013).
11/06/2013
Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review 'nut', the new play by Olivier award-winning playwright Debbie Tucker green (06 November 2013).
09/26/2013
Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review a new film by Margarethe von Trotta exploring Hannah Arendt's experience of covering Adolf Eichmann's war crimes trial for the New Yorker (26 September 2013).
07/19/2013
Shahidha Bari appeared on Front Row to review Wadjda, the first film from Saudi Arabia to be directed by a woman, Haifaa Al Mansour (19 July 2013).
Magic and Mischief from Africa
07/18/2013
Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education reviewing exhibitions by Ibrahim El-Salahi and Meschac Gaba at the Tate Modern (18 July 2013).
Grains of Truth
03/06/2014
Shahidha Bari talks about deserts and academia in the Times Higher Education (6 March 2014).
Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in
5/26/2013
Shahidha Bari gave a talk, 'Fashion after Freud (or, Dressing up Descartes): The Clothes we Love and Live in', at the How the Light Gets in Philosophy and Music Festival. The talk investigated the philosophical signifiance of the clothes we live in (26 May 2013).
Participation Rates: Now we are 50
7/25/2013
Shahidha Bari contributed to an article in the Times Higher Education on university participation rates (25 July 2013).
7/1/2013
Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review a new exhibition at the Tate Modern by Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi (1 July 2013).
4/16/2013
Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review Saloua Raouda Choucair's new exhibition at Tate Modern (16 April 2013).
5/9/2013
Shahidha Bari appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to review The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a new film starring Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson. The film, an adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel, explores how society's responses to Changez, a young Pakistani man, change following 9/11 (9 May 2013).
Maxwell, Catherine sedmiddle
Scents and Sensibility
04/06/2013
Catherine Maxwell gave a public lecture, 'Scents and Sensibility: The Fragrance of Decadence' at the Dimbola Museum and Art Galleries on the Isle of Wight (6 April 2013).
Sea Without Shore
05/03/2015
Catherine Maxwell was part of a Q&A panel following the screening of Sea Without Shore (dir. André Semenza and Fernanda Lippi), at the Barbican. The focus was on the use of poetry in the film (5 March 2015).
Public Engagement: 'Difficulty is what academics deal in'
5/28/2013
Shahidha Bari writes for The Guardian about the pleasures and pitfalls of being a 'media academic' (28 May 2013).
Saloua Raouda Choucair
Shahidha Bari contributed an article to Times Higher Education on Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair who, at 97, has got her first major museum exhibition at the Tate Modern (9 May 2013).
Front Row: Utopias in Fiction
01/21/2016
Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 4's Front Row to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia (21 January 2016).
Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?
11/11/2013
Jerry Brotton joined Rana Mitter and Dr Vanessa Lawrence to dicuss the power and ownership of maps from ancient atlases to satnav on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (11 November 2013).
09/05/2013
Jerry Brotton reviewed Christopher Marlowe's Edward II on BBC Radio 4's Front Row (05 September 2013).
The Secret, Contentious History of Maps
11/30/2013
Jerry Brotton's A History of the World in 12 Maps is reviewed in The Daily Beast by Kevin Canfield (30 November 2013).
A History of the World in Twelve Maps
11/15/2013
Jerry Brotton wrote an article discussing twelve maps from the age of Ptolemy to Google Earth, for TIME: Ideas (15 November 2013).
The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay
06/01/2014
Jerry Brotton discussed Shakespeare on The Town That Loves Books: BBC Arts at Hay on BBC Four (1 June 2014).
Perpetually Watch Again
06/02/2014
Jerry Brotton appeared on Perpetually Watch Again on BBC Arabic TV (audio in Arabic) (2 June 2014).
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Branching Out: Mapping Human Imagination, Exploration and Innovation
03/14/2013
Jerry Brotton joined Mike Parker to discuss maps and mapping at the LSE literary festival (14 March 2013).
Jerry Brotton
05/04/2013
Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his research in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).
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'History of the World in 12 Maps' & Irish Cartography
05/07/2013
Jerry Brotton delivered a public lecture, 'History of the World in 12 Maps and Irish Cartography', at the Mercator Museum, Sint-Niklaas (7 May 2013).
A History of the World in 12 Maps
11/21/2012
Jerry Brotton gave a public talk about his book, 'A History of the World in 12 Maps at Stanfords Bookshop in Covent Garden (21 November 2012).
Literary and Cultural Festivals 2013
Jerry Brotton gave talks, interviews, and lectures at a range of literary and cultural festivals in 2013, including Stony Brook Festival, LSE Literary Festival (28/02/2013), Bath Literary Festival (03/03/2013), Hay Festival (01/06/2013), York Festival of Ideas (17/06/2013), Chalke Valley History Festival (24/06/2013), Warwick Book Festival (15/06/2013), and the Edinburgh International Book Festival (22/08/2013).
Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest
07/03/2012
Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Shakespeare Uncovered: The Tempest, in which Trevor Nunn explored the magical and mysterious world created in Shakespeare's last complete play (03 July 2012).
Jerry Brotton discusses maps and his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, in a video interview by Faculti Media (04 May 2013).
Mapping Ulster
04/29/2013
Jerry Brotton presented a 60 minute document on BBC One Northern Ireland on 'Mapping Ulster'. The programme explored the history of Northern Ireland through surviving maps (29 April 2013).
Price, Katy sedmodern
Einstein's Fridge
02/03/2016
Katy Price appeared on BBC Radio 4's Science Stories to talk about Einstein's fridge (3 February 2016).
Loving Faster Than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein’s Universe
01/09/2013
Katy Price appeared on the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast to discuss her book, Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe (9 January 2013).
Victorian Science Spectacular
09/01/2012
Katy Price took part in a Victorian Science Spectacular, demonstrating a phonograph and reading a magic lantern lecture (September 2012).
05/27/2013
Katy Price discusses her research and a recent article, 'William Empson, Ants and Aliens' in this video interview (27 May 2013).
Katy Price on her Research
Howarth, Peter sedmodern
The Rise and Rise of Performance Poetry
Peter Howarth contributed an article to the Independent for National Poetry Day. The article explored the continuing success of performance poetry (7 October 2015).
On Nicholas Moore
09/24/2015
Peter Howarth wrote an article for The London Review of Books on the poet, Nicholas Moore (26 September 2015).
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Both Sides of the Footlights
09/09/2015
Peter Howarth blogged for Stylus on the Poets' Theatre, a small Harvard drama group (9 September 2015).
Electroplated Fish Knife
05/31/2015
Peter Howarth wrote an article reviewing the Selected Poems of Robert Graves for the London Review of Books (31 May 2015).
Holy Apple Pie!
05/15/2014
Peter Howarth reviewed the Cambridge Edition of D H Lawrence’s Collected Poems for the London Review of Books (15 May 2014).
05/21/2013
Katy Price discusses her research and her book Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe in this video interview (21 May 2013).
Royal Society Public Lecture
04/26/2013
Katy Price delivered a public lecture at the Royal Society on 'The Popular Reception of Relativity in Britain'. The lecture explored responses of journalists, science writers, and popular fiction writers to the theory of relativity (26 April 2013).
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National Theatre
4/23/2013
Michael McKinnie contributed to a short video for the National Theatre on Positioning The Shed. The video examines the position of, and inspiration behind, The Shed, a new temporary theatre space on the South Bank in front of the National Theatre building (23 April 2013).
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Public Seminar: Research Henry Crabb Robinson
4/17/2013
James Vigus gave a paper within the public Seminar in Dissenting Studies series held at Dr Williams’s Library, London, on 17 April 2013: ‘Researching Henry Crabb Robinson: What Became of his Early Interest in German Thought?’ (17 April 2013).
Poet in the City: Coleridge
3/25/2013
Shahidha Bari and James Vigus contributed to a special Poet in the City event at King's Place, discussing the life and writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25 March 2013).
Times Higher Education Podcast
4/3/2013
Shahidha Bari appeared on the Times Higher Education's first books podcast to discuss her current and future writing plans (3 April 2013).
Weekend Woman's Hour
01/02/2016
Shahidha Bari joined a roundtable on Weekend's Woman's Hour to discuss the power of public nudity (2 January 2016).
11/13/2012
Shahidha Bari discussed the new V&A exhibition ‘Light from the Middle East’ on Front Row with Mark Lawson, BBC Radio 4 (13 November 2012).
06/02/2008
Jerry Brotton appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves to give his verdict on 'The Lure of the East', a new exhibition at Tate Britain (2 June 2008).
The Forum: Maps and Mapmaking
12/15/2012
Jerry Brotton joined others on The Forum to discuss where the urge to make maps comes from and what they mean to us (15 December 2012).
Spark Radio, Radio-Canada
12/07/2012
Jerry Brotton appeared on Spark Radio, a programme on Canada's public broadcasting radio station, to discuss his History of the World in 12 Maps (7 December 2012).
Baroque in Britain
03/11/2013
Jerry Brotton appeared as a guest on Tim Marlow's five-part Baroque in Britain series for BBC Radio 4 (11 March 2013).
02/22/2012
Jerry Brotton, John Wilson, and Dr Susan Foister visited the National Gallery to explore the first solo exhibition of the Flemish painter, Jan Gossaert, for over 40 years (22 February 2012).
08/23/2009
Jerry Brotton and John Wilson discussed a new exhibition displaying 40-50 full scale, half-scale and smaller interactive models of machines Leonardi da Vinci invented for flight, engineering and motion. The modules were created over ten years by a team of Italian artisans and historians, using Leonardo's own notebooks and utilising only materials and techniques known in Renaissance Italy (23 August 2009).
10/09/2008
Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost, starring David Tennant, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (09 October 2008).
NPR: Talk of the Nation
11/22/2012
Jerry Brotton appeared on Talk of the Nation broadcast on NPR in the US to discuss his book A History of the World in Twelve Maps (22 November 2012).
02/16/2009
Jerry Brotton discussed the cultural impact of Van Dyck, the principal painter at the court of King Charles I, for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (16 February 2009).
12/11/2008
Jerry Brotton and Kirsty Lang review reviewed Michael Grandage's new production of Twelfth Night, which stars Derek Jacobi as Malvolio for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (11 December 2008).
08/06/2008
Jerry Brotton reviewed the RSC's new production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant for BBC Radio 4's Front Row (06 August 2008).
Wired Magazine
08/05/2013
Jerry Brotton was quoted extensively in 'Uncharted Territory: Amateur Cartographers Fight to Put their Communities on the Map', an article on maps and mapmaking in Wired (5 August 2013).
The Guardian
10/23/2012
Jerry Brotton contributed to a podcast on ‘Maps from Ptolemy to Google’ for the Guardian website (23 October 2012).
Hay Festival
06/01/2013
Jerry Brotton, along with Adam Lowe, unveiled a new 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi at the Hay Festival. A report from Hay can be read on the Daily Telegraph's site (1 June 2013).
Let's take maps back from Google
Jerry Brotton contributed an article to the Daily Telegraph exploring digital mapping and discussing the creation of a 3D reproduction of the Mappa Mundi (1 June 2013).
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Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library
09/17/2009
Julia Boffey delivered a public lecture in the Historic Reading Room of the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, titled ‘Note all old English Mss are very valuable: scrutinizing the Middle English manuscripts in the John Rylands Library’ (17 September 2009).
10/18/2012
Julia Boffey appeared on In Our Time on BBC Radio 4 to discuss William Caxton and the Printing Press (18 October 2012).
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Poetry Performance
06/28/2014
Andrea Brady performed poetry at the RichMix Cultural Centre in London (28 June 2014)
‘The Exponential Horn’
06/06/2014
Andrea Brady took part in The Exponential Horn, a one-hour live broadcast from the Science Museum and on Resonance 104.4 FM (6 June 2014)
Podcast
10/08/2012
Andrea Brady recorded a podcast about poetry, constraint, and conceptualism, in conversation with dance critic David Jays and the director of Arts Admin, Judith Knight, for Chris Goode and Company (8 October 2012). Listen now using the player below, or visit the site.
09/03/2012
Jerry Brotton discussed the commercialisation of maps on the Today programme (3 September 2012).
05/03/2011
Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to consider the significance of flowers in Renaissance art (03 May 2011).
04/19/2010
Jerry Brotton appeared on Night Waves to discuss maps and mapping (19 April 2010).
Meet the Author
08/24/2012
Jerry Brotton discussed his book, A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on ‘Meet the Author’ on BBC News 24 (24 August 2012).
05/16/2012
Shahidha Bari discussed The Rest Is Silence, an immersive interpretation of Hamlet, and Vanessa Redgrave’s contribution to the Brighton Festival on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves (16 May 2012).
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Radical and Inspiring Women of East London
04/04/2014
Nadia Valman was featured on a podcast talking about the Match Girls' Strike, Angela Burdett Coutts and the Suffrage Movement in East London (4 April 2014).
Roundtable Discussion
02/17/2011
Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Interpreting Imaginary Jews' at the Pears Institute. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (17 February 2011).
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Walking Tour: Victorian Shoreditch - In Search of Arthur Morrison's 'Jago'
10/22/2013
Nadia Valman led a walking tour as part of the Inside-Out Festival, exploring Victorian Shoreditch as seen by the realist novelist Arthur Morrison (22 October 2013).
In Conversation
05/30/2013
Nadia Valman was in conversation with artists Sarah Lightman and Rachel Garfield, discussing Judaism and women artists at Occupy My Time gallery, Deptford (30 May 2013).
Victorian Journalists in London's East End
05/19/2012
Nadia Valman gave a talk on >Victorian journalists in London’s East End at Rich Mix arts centre, Bethnal Green, London (19 May 2012).
SW11 Literary Festival
09/20/2010
Nadia Valman appeared on a panel on literature and migration at the SW11 Literary Festival (20 September 2010).
Walking Tour: Victorian History of QM
03/05/2012
Nadia Valman led a walking tour on the Victorian history of Queen Mary's Mile End campus (5 March 2012).
Audio Guide to the East End
Nadia Valman contributed to an audio guide to the East End. The tour starts at Liverpool Street Station and finishes at Stepney Green Underground Station (2012).
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Fighting for a Better Past
10/10/2011
Nadia Valman took part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of 'Fighting for a Better Past: the Story of Cable Street' at the Jewish Museum, London. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen again (10 October 2011).
Amy Levy: The Woman who Dared
05/27/2011
Nadia Valman, along with Christine Pullen and Emma Francis, explored the life and work of Amy Levy at the Bishopsgate Institute (27 May 2011).
The One Show
12/20/2011
Nadia Valman appeared on BBC1's The One Show to discuss Olive Malvery, one of the pioneers of undercover journalism (20 December 2011).
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Who Do You Think You Are?
03/02/2009
Markman Ellis was a guest expert on BBC One's Who Do You Think You Are? tracing the genealogy of actor, Kevin Whately (2 March 2009).
London Coffee Houses in Johnson's Day
10/14/2006
Markman Ellis delivered a lecture to the Johnson Society on ‘London Coffee Houses in Johnson’s Day’ (14 October 2006).
News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century
10/29/2008
Markman Ellis delivered a public lecture in the Garret of Dr Samuel Johnson’s house on ‘News, Business and Conversation: London Coffee-Houses of the Eighteenth Century’ (29 October 2008).
Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London
10/07/2008
Markman Ellis gave a public lecture at the Bishopsgate Institute on ‘Syrup of Soot at the Devil’s Ordinary: Coffee and London’. The talk explored how coffee became the most successful of the habit-forming drugs to invade London in the 17th century (7 October 2008).
Coffee, Please
01/01/2010
Markman Ellis contributed to Coffee, Please a documentary exploring the history and cultural importamce of coffee. The film was broadcast in France, Italy, and Denmark (2010).
La Belle Juive
05/01/2007
Nadia Valman contributed an article to Jewish Quarterly exploring the enduring fascination with the Jewess in nineteenth-century British culture (Spring 2007).
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Press TV
10/09/2011
Nadia Valman appeared on Press TV to discuss the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).
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Making History
10/04/2011
Nadia Valman appeared on BBC Radio 4's Making History to discuss the legacy of the 1936 Battle of Cable Street (4 October 2011).
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The National Theatre
04/01/2012
Markman Ellis and Nadia Valman discussed monsters for the National Theatre (April 2012).
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Other Room
03/01/2012
Andrea Brady interviewed and recorded performing at the Other Room, Manchester (March 2012).
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The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes
01/17/2012
Shahidha Bari explored the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded by literary critic Edward Said and musician Daniel Barenboim on BBC Radio 3's The Essay: Parallels and Paradoxes (17 January 2012).
Thinking Allowed
12/14/2011
Shahidha Bari joined others in discussing the idea of the Tipping Point and what it might tell us about ourselves and our environment on BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed: Tipping Points (14 December 2011).
Free Thinking Festival Debate
12/05/2011
Shahidha Bari discussed the true value of education on BBC Radio 3's ‘Free Thinking Festival Debate: What Are Schools For?’ (5 December 2011).
Resonance FM
11/02/2011
Katy Price’s ‘Kippered (Edison) Herring’, a performance of a poem recorded onto wax cylinder as part of Aleksander Kolkowski’s phonographies project, was broadcast on Resonance FM (2 November 2011).
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Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair
04/16/2010
Andrew van der Vlies wrote an article for the Independent, 'Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair', exploring recent South African literature (16 April 2010).
Writing the Now
09/01/2010
Andrew van der Vlies contributed an article to Art South Africa entitled 'Writing the Now'. The article explored South African writers' focus on the contemporary moment.
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Open Book
09/11/2011
Andrew van der Vlies participated in a discussion of South African literature with Mariella Frostrup and author Christopher Hope on Open Book, BBC Radio 4 (11 September 2011).
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02/12/2013
Bill Schwarz took part in a round table discussion on the topic of 'Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin de Siècle England: A Cultural History of the 1905 Aliens Act'. A podcast of the discussion is available to listen to now (12 February 2013).
07/13/2011
Shahidha Bari discussed the significance of the Arabian Nights stories to the Romantic poets on BBC Radio 3 Nightwaves (13 July 2011).
The British “Way of Tea”, Culture and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain
12/09/2015
Markman Ellis appeared at the Isle of Wight Historial Association to talk tea (9 December 2015).
The Kangaroo from Sydney Cove to London in the Late Eighteenth Century
03/27/2015
Markman Ellis talked about kangaroos at the National Maritime Museum's study day on 'Exotic Anatomies: Stubbs, Banks and the cultures of natural history' (27 March 2015).
Tea and the Tea Ceremony in Georgian England
06/05/2014
Markman Ellis appeared as part of Chelsea Fringe at the Geffrye Museum to talk tea (5 June 2014).
Why Does the World Love Drinking Tea?
Markman Ellis appeared on BBC World Service's 'The Why Factor with Mike Williams' to discuss how tea became the second most consumed drink after water in the world (21 September 2015).
How Britain Fell in Love with Tea
Markman Ellis appeared on 'World Update with Dan Damon' to discuss the enduring legacy of tea (June 2015).
10/25/2010
Markman Ellis participated in a podcast on London Coffee-Houses for the Guardian, produced by Matt Green (25 October 2010).
Audiobooks before Audiobooks
08/19/2013
Matt Rubery interviewed Barbara Holdridge for the LA Review of Books. The interview explored Caedmon Records, which Holdridge co-founded, and the history of audiobooks more generally (19 August 2013).
Free Thinking: The History of the Audiobook
04/07/2015
Matt Rubery appeared on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss the history of the audiobook (7 April 2015).
12/15/2011
Matt Rubery contributed to a podcast, 'On Harvard Vocarium Founder Frederick C. Packard', as part of the 'Oral History Initiative' of the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard (15 December 2011).
Great Expectations
11/01/2010
Matt Rubery filmed a documentary video for Deepbook Productions’ electronic book edition of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (November 2010).
Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession
05/01/2010
Jerry Brotton presented a three-part series on ‘Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession’ for BBC4, broadcast in May 2010.
02/01/2010
Markman Ellis was interviewed by Laurie Taylor about his research on the cultural history of tea in eighteenth century Britain, in 'Tea Tables', Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 (February 2010).
Babble Machine
11/29/2012
Katy Price’s collaborative sound installation, Babble Machine, was displayed at the Science Museum (29 November – 1 December 2012)
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Inside Out Festival
10/26/2012
Tamara Atkin led a walking tour around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to explore London's Lost Playing Spaces as part of the Inside Out Festival (26 October 2012).
Walking Tours
10/26/2015
Tamara Atkin has led various walking tours showcasing London’s lost theatrical past as part of a series of events organised by The Cultural Capital Exchange.
05/13/2015
Tamara Atkin reviewed the National Theatre’s recent production of Everyman for the Times Literary Supplement (13 May 2015).
Andrea Brady participated in a discussion of ‘Death and the Contemporary’ as part of the Inside-Out Festival, at Somerset House (23 October 2012).
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Discussion
10/05/2012
David Colclough participated in a discussion on St Paul’s connection to public discourse and direct democracy (5 October 2012).
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Taunton Literary Festival
09/28/2012
Jerry Brotton has appeared at the Taunton Literary Festival (28 September 2012) and the Ilkley Literary Festival (6 October 2012), and has also spoken at literary festivals in Sheffield, Bath, Hay, and several others in 2012-13.
Ilkley Literary Festival
10/06/2012
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Cape Town's Open Book Festival
09/21/2012
Andrew van der Vlies appeared at Cape Town’s Open Book Festival, on a panel entitled 'Exploring the Power and Politics of Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa' (21 September 2012).
HowTheLightGetsIn
06/07/2012
Andrea Brady joined a discussion of Poetry and Science with Lavinia Greenlaw, Peter Atkins, and Hilary Lawson at HowTheLightGetsIn, the Hay-on-Wye philosophy and literature festival (7 June 2012), and performed at the Hay Poetry Jamboree.
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Keynote Lecture
04/04/2013
Isabel Rivers delivered a keynote lecture, 'The Study of Religious Writing and Religious Education from the Perspective of a Literary and Intellectual Historian', at a conference on 'Religion and the Idea of a University Conference'. The paper is available to download [PDF 155KB] (4 April 2013).
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Joseph Williams and his Journal
09/25/2004
Isabel Rivers delivered the United Reformed Church Historical Society Lecture on 'Joseph Williams and his Journal' at Mansfield College, Oxford (25 September 2004).
Vanity Fair and the Celestial City
05/23/2007
Isabel Rivers delivered her inaugural lecture at Queen Mary University on 'Vanity Fair and the Celestial City' (23 May 2007).
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John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford
05/01/2012
Isabel Rivers gave the annual John Wesley lecture at Lincoln College, Oxford, on 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist Editor, Biographer, and Tutor' (May 2012).
LSE Literary Festival
03/02/2012
Andrew van der Vlies appeared on a panel at the LSE Literary Festival, entitled 'Relating the Divided City in South Africa', alongside authors Denis Hirson and Kopano Matlwa, London School of Political and Economic Science (2 March 2012).
The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival
11/21/2011
Isabel Rivers gave a lecture entitled ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress in the Evangelical Revival’ at the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History (21 November 2011).
The End of Empire and the English Novel
Bill Schwarz, Suzanne Hobson, and Rachael Gilmour were joined by Patrick Parrinder of the University of Reading for a discussion on ‘The End of Empire and the English Novel’ co-sponsored by the British Academy, at the Royal Society (2 November 2011).
03/28/2010
Jerry Brotton contributed to a three-part Radio 4 documentary on The Secrets of the Art and the Artist: Caravaggio, presented by Roger Law (March 2010).
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Cultures of Journalism
08/28/2004
Joad Raymond was interviewed for ABC's Lifelong Learning on 'Cultures of Journalism' (28 Aug 2004).
01/06/2006
Joad Raymond contributed to In Our Time on 'Seventheenth Century Print Culture' along with Kevin Sharpe and Ann Hughes (26 Jan 2006).
Word of Mouth
12/24/2005
Joad Raymond appeared on BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth to discuss angels (24 Dec 2005).
Blood on Our Hands
02/01/2005
Joad Raymond appeared on Mentorn TV's Blood on Our Hands (February 2005).
Killer Wave
04/01/2005
Joad Raymond appeared on the BBC Timewatch programme, 'Killer Wave', to discuss the flood of 1607 (Spring 2005).
Radio Scotland - Angels
01/01/2004
Joad Raymond was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland discussing popular beliefs in angels (2004).
The Shock of the Old
07/23/2013
Joad Raymond contributed a blog post to Hefnet.com, the official website of the band Hefner and songwriter Darren Hayman. The post explored some of the reasons why the 17th century remains so interesting (23 July 2013).
Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls
05/22/2012
Joad Raymond appeared on Lucy Worsley's documentary, Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History for Girls broadcast on BBC Four (22 May 2012).
From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality
08/18/2011
Shahidha Bari led a philosophical conversation ‘From Reynolds to Richter: Portraiture, Privacy and Personality’ at the National Portrait Gallery: a discussion about how Romantic portraiture sets up contemporary ideas about presentation, privacy and personality, moving from Reynolds to Richter. In partnership with London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange (LCACE) (18 August 2011).
The Humanities and Money
06/16/2011
Shahidha Bari spoke at a special event on ‘The Humanities and Money’, held at the London Capital Club and organised by Universities UK and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, where she made the case not only for the academic value of the arts and humanities but for the social benefits they bring to the nation and their significant contribution to our economy (16 June 2011).
Triggered
06/13/2011
‘Triggered’, a dance and digital music collaboration featuring glyph paintings by Katy Price, was performed at King’s Place in London (13 June 2011).
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11/07/2013
Peggy Reynolds joined Jenni Murray and Samantha Spiro on Woman's Hour to discuss flirting in Shakespeare (07 November 2013).
Faulks on Fiction
06/24/2011
Peggy Reynolds was one of a number of notable critics and cultural commentators contributing to Faulks on Fiction, a major four part BBC2 series on the brilliance of the British novel and its characters, presented by Sebastian Faulks (June-July 2011).
Robert Browning and the Pied Piper
04/16/2012
Peggy Reynolds joined other invited speakers at King’s Place, London, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Browning and his iconic poem The Pied Piper. The event was a collaboration between Poet in the City and the Browning Society (16 April 2012).
04/15/2008
Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, the show that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them (15 April 2008).
08/19/2008
Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the world of language guardians and the battles raging on the internet blogs that have superseded the letters once written to newspapers (19 August 2008).
The Essay: Sappho
06/03/2008
Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 3's The Essay , and explored Sappho's sexuality and her erotic poetry - both apparently heterosexual and homosexual (3 June 2008).
08/12/2008
Peggy Reynolds presented Word of Mouth, exploring the significance of vocal pitch (12 August 2008).
A Portrait of Ethel Smyth
03/29/2008
Peggy Reynolds reviewed the life and career of Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and friend to figures such as Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Virginia Woolf (29 March 2008).
Sibelius: A Symphony That Burned
07/10/2012
Peggy Reynolds presented the story of Jean Sibelius's infamous Eighth Symphony - with extracts from new musical fragments discovered last year, performed exclusively for the programme Ethel Smyth (10 July 2012).
Le Nozze di Figaro
07/10/2013
Peggy Reynolds wrote an article on Le Nozze di Figaro for the 2013 Glastonbury programme. The article was reproduced in the Guardian (11 July 2013).
Woman's Hour: Stella Gibbons
08/02/2011
Peggy Reynolds and Lynne Truss appeared on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour to discuss the novels of Stella Gibbons (2 August 2011).
Interpreting Sappho
08/17/2010
Peggy Reynolds appeared on the Romona Koval Bookshow on ABC Australia to discuss Sappho (17 August 2010).
Today Programme: George Orwell
01/21/2013
Peggy Reynolds appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship Today programme to discuss George Orwell (21 January 2013).
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The Literary Life of the Cello
07/20/2011
Peggy Reynolds was joined by a cellist from the BBC Symphony Orchestra to explore the cello's literary life across the ages - and to perform its literary incarnations (20 July 2011).
Great Lives: Sappho
08/10/2010
Peggy Reynolds appeared on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Great Lives profiling Sappho (10 August 2010).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ravel Double Bill'
05/20/2012
Peggy Reynolds gives an introduction to two of the early twentieth century’s most intriguing operas, Maurice Ravel’s L’heure Espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortileges (20 May 2012).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Fairy Queen'
Peggy Reynolds presents a guide to the theatrical and musical history of one of the earliest English operas, Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (20 May 2012).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La bohème'
Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to one of the world’s most loved and performed operas – Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème (20 May 2012).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'La Cenerentola'
Peggy Reynolds provides an introduction to Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola. She sets the opera in historical context and explores some of the themes and stories behind Rossini's great work (20 May 2012).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'The Cunning Little Vixen'
Peggy Reynolds explores some of the themes and stories behind Leoš Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (20 May 2012).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Ariadne auf Naxos'
05/18/2013
Peggy Reynolds provides an historical and musical introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos, an ambitious, witty and intricately crafted collaboration between Richard Strauss and his librettist, the poet and playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal (18 May 2013).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Le nozze di Figaro'
06/08/2013
Peggy Reynolds explores the historical context of Le nozze di Figaro, the politics behind its humour, and Mozart's sublime music of rage and forgiveness (6 June 2013).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Falstaff'
05/19/2013
Peggy Reynolds explores Giuseppe Verdi’s last, great work: the comic opera Falstaff (19 May 2013).
Glyndebourne Podcast: 'Hippolyte et Aricie'
06/29/2013
Peggy Reynolds provides a historical and musical introduction to one of the great works of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie (29 June 2013).
Twenty Minutes
05/24/2013
Margaret Reynolds presented a programme for BBC Radio 3's Twenty Minutes exploring the song Freres Jacques. The programme takes us on a journey through the lavish lifestyle of snoozy Dominican friars at Matins, the blood and gore of the surgeon's table, and the religious persecutions and migrations of the 17th century (24 May 2013).
Margaret Reynolds contributed to a Guardian article on Michael Gove's new curriculum (12 February 2013).
Revealing Anne Lister
06/09/2010
Margaret Reynolds contributed to Revealing Anne Lister, a documentary for BBC2 fronted by Sue Perkins that explored the life of Anne Lister, polymath, autodidact and traveller, whose diaries held a surprising secret (9 June 2010).
Adventures in Poetry
04/28/2012
Margaret Reynolds has presented Adventures in Poetry on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Across twelve series, Professor Reynolds has explored the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems (Latest episode: 28 April 2012).
02/15/2011
Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to discuss the world of 3D opera ahead of the cinema release of Carmen (15 February 2011).
06/16/2009
Margaret Reynolds appeared on Night Waves on BBC Radio 3 to explore the question of whether the establishment had finally reconciled itself to gay identity, and if the term means anything any more? (16 June 2009).
Off the Page
05/29/2008
Margaret Reynolds appeared on Off the Page on BBC Radio 4 to discuss the word 'Luvvies' (29 May 2008).
05/16/2013
Jerry Brotton penned a comment article for the Guardian on Google's futile attempts to produce the perfect map (16 May 2013).
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Brave New World
04/09/2009
Michèle Barrett appeared on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to talk about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (9 April 2009).
Casualty Figures: How Five Men Survived the First World War
10/23/2008
To mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Michèle Barrett took part in a public discussion at the Bishopsgate Institute about her book, Casualty Figures, a unique investigation into the impact of the First World War on those who survived it (23 October 2008).
Degree of Famousness etc.
03/21/2011
Peter Howarth reviewed Don Paterson's Selected Poems in ‘Degree of Famousness etc’, London Review of Books (21 March 2013).
In Print
Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor
01/10/2011
Peter Howarth gave a public talk on ‘Edward Marsh and the Modern Editor’ at the 2011 Malvern festival. His talk explored Eddie Marsh’s role as editor and confidant to the Dymock Poets (1 October 2011).
Mapping the Globe: From the Greeks to Google Earth
09/27/2010
Jerry Brotton delivered a lecture at the Royal Geographical Society, exploring how different cultures have attempted to project the globe onto a flat map, and ultimately asking what it means to map the earth accurately. (27 September 2010).
Maps will always have mileage
04/14/2010
Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Independent titled 'Maps will always have mileage'. The article explored the significance of maps in a technological world (14 April 2010).
Ordnance Survey Blog
09/25/2012
Jerry Brotton contributed a guest blogpost about A History of the World in 12 Maps to the Ordnance Survey site (25 September 2012).
Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian commenting on Senate House's potential sale of Shakespeare folios. The piece explores archives' responsibility to maintian paper and digital copies of key resources (5 September 2013).
12/19/2012
Jerry Brotton contributed a comment article to the Guardian on 'Queen Elizabeth Land: A retro piece of neo-imperialism for Her Majesty' (19 December 2012).
The Canton Tea Company Blog
07/06/2011
Markman Ellis contributed six guest blogs on tea in the eighteenth century, to the Canton Tea Company Blog (6 July 2011).
Rubery, Matt sedmiddle
01/22/2013
Matt Rubery discussed audiobooks with children’s author Michael Rosen on Word of Mouth, BBC Radio 4 (22 January 2013).
A Few Don'ts
12/02/2012
Andrea Brady contributed to a project on Ezra Pound’s critical essay ‘A Few Don’ts’, hosted by Lavinia Greenlaw and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (2 December 2012).
Great Texts Lecture Series: Writing and Performing Cape Town
04/16/2014
Nadia Davids gave a public lecture on led a discussion on 'Writing and Performing Cape Town'. The lecture reflected on writing and performing contemporary and historical Cape Town, and included a reading from Nadia's book, An Imperfect Blessing. The lecture is available to watch or download as an audio file (16 April 2014).
Memory Unchained: Nadia Davids Reviews Gabeba Baderoon’s Regarding Muslims
08/18/2014
Nadia Davids reviewed the "rich and ambitious" Regarding Muslims by Gabeba Baderoon for the South African Sunday Times (18 August 2014).
11/25/2009
Andrea Brady performed her work at the first Openned night of the Openned reading series at the Foundry (25 November 2009).
Linus Slug & Andrea Brady, 25th November 2009 from openned on Vimeo
Poetry Performance (Saw Fit)
9/8/2007
Andrea Brady performed her work at Miami University (8 September 2007).
Andrea Brady Watch/Listen/Read Now In Person
5/1/2007
Andrea Brady performed her work at the University of Chicago (1 May 2007).
Annual Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture
6/1/2006
Isabel Rivers delivered the 2008 Manchester Wesley Research Centre Lecture on 'John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, with a focus on Wesley's edition of Edwards' The Life of David Brainerd' (June 2008).
Sunday Feature: Courting the East
7/22/2007
Jerry Brotton discussed on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature a web of intrigue and alliance between the Ottomans, the Moroccans and Queen Elizabeth I, which provided the context for Shakespeare's Othello (22 July 2007).
Ece Temelkuran in Conversation with Nadia Davids: The Writer and the Journalist
Nadia Davids led a conversation with Ece Temelkuran as part of the 2013 London Book Fair. Temelkuran, one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators, is also a bestselling novelist, and the conversation explored how her work as a journalist has informed her novel writing (17 April 2013).
Performance Pod 211
08/09/2013
Jen Harvie discusses immersive theatre with Campbell Edinborough as part of the Hull Drama - Performance Pods (9 August 2013).
Online Lecture
02/25/2011
Jen Harvie was invited to speak at Cambridge University where she made a contribution to the CRASSH Special Event: The Arts and Humanities: Endangered Species? (25 February 2011).
Jen Harvie Watch/Listen/Read Now In Person
The Pleasures, Perils, and Future of Immersive Theatre
04/05/2013
Jen Harvie spoke on 'The Pleasures, Perils and Future of Immersive Theatre' in Untitled Projects' The Salon Project at the Barbican Centre, London (5 April 2013).
Heritage, Paul
Jornal da Globo
12/22/2008
A production directed by Paul Heritage at the Young Vic theatre and combining Brazilian and British cultural forms was discussed in Jornal da Globo (22 December 2008).
Start the Week
12/01/2008
Paul Heritage joined Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week to argue the effectiveness of theatre as a vehicle for cultural change in Britain and Brazil, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (01 December 2008).
Johnson, Dominic
Mehmet Sander in conversation with Dominic Johnson
09/20/2014
Dominic Johnson interview Mehmet Sander at the Tate Modern as part of the Tate Talks series (20 September 2014).
Explosiv Magazin
05/08/2009
Dominic Johnson appeared on a special edition of Croatia's RTL 5 Televizija's Explosiv Magazin exploring his performance of Transmission at Queer Zagreb (8 May 2009).
HRT News
05/17/2009
Croatia's HRT News broadcast a feature on Dominic Johnson's Transmission performed at Queer Zagreb (17 May 2009).
Weekend
10/27/2012
Dominic Johnson appeared on BBC World Service's Weekend programme to review the week (27 October 2012).
Transmission
01/01/2009
Dominic Johnson performed Transmission, a piece that has been performed nearly twenty times in eight countries, in the Great Hall, People's Palace, Queen Mary, University of London (1 January 2012).
Dominic Johnson Watch/Listen/Read Now In Person
WGXC Afternoon Show
Nadia Davids and Ayobami Adebayo, residents at the Writers OMI International Writers Residency at the Ledig House in Ghent, read and discussed their work on the WGXC Afternoon Show (1 May 2012).
Escolme, Bridget
A Tarde
02/01/2013
Bridget Escolme featured on the front cover of the cultural section of A Tarde (Bahia's main newspaper), and was interviewed on her research into the relationship between audience and performances of Shakespeare (February 2013).
'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?'
Bridget Escolme contributed an article titled 'Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain?' to the Guardian's Comment is Free site (19 May 2012).
'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?'
10/17/2012
Dominic Johnson wrote an article for the Independent exploring 'How can a tattoo be seen as a work of art?' (17 October 2012).
Silverstone, Catherine
So you want to study acting?
09/13/2008
Catherine Silverstone contributed to an article in the Guardian about Queen Mary's MA and about the advantages of studying for a masters in drama (13 September 2008).
Review of Ngākau Toa’s 'A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira' ('Troilus and Cressida')
04/23/2012
Catherine Silverstone contributed a review of Ngākau Toa’s A Toroihi rāua ko Kāhira (an adaptation of Troilus and Cressida in te reo Māori) to the Shakespeare's Globe Blog (23-24 April 2012).
South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence
03/02/2010
Nadia Davids participated in a post-show panel, 'South African Theatre and its Enduring Worldwide Influence', at the Oval Theatre in London, along with Oladipo Agboluaje, Jenny Reznek and Faniswa Yisa (2 March 2010).
Imagining South Africa
As part of the London Book Fair, Nadia Davids contributed to a panel discussion on 'Imagining South Africa', with Damon Galgut and Henrietta Rose-Innes (19 April 2010).
Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team
04/21/2010
Nadia Davids joined Henrietta Rose-Innes, Zukiswa Wanner, and Njubalo Ndebele at the Southbank Centre to discuss 'Goal! Match! Victory! Freedom! What the 2010 World Cup means to the home team' (21 April 2010).
Welton, Martin
Flow
03/09/2015
Martin Welton delivered a presentation about dance and global flows for Water Week, Herstmonceux Castle (9 March 2015).
No Lander
10/28/2015
Martin Welton chaired a post-show discussion for No Lander by Riccardo Buscarini, The Place (28 October 2015).
Elixir Project Blog
Martin Welton blogged his observations of rehearsals for Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion’s The Elders Project (August-September 2014)
Uncommon Perspectives
Martin Welton contributed to an article for Community Dance Magazine which analysed Rosemary Lee's Common Dance from three contrasting viewpoints (Spring 2010)
Read Now (Registered Subscribers) Watch/Listen/Read Now In Print
'Setting the Scene'
10/06/2015
Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Richard II (6 October 2015).
08/1/2009
Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture as part of 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe. The lecture was to audience members about to watch a performance of Troilus and Cressida (2009).
08/1/2013
Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of All's Well that Ends Well (2013).
07/1/2012
Bridget Escolme gave a public lecture on 'Setting the Scene' at Shakespeare's Globe to audience members about to watch a performance of Taming of the Shrew (July 2012).
Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation
Jen Harvie was in conversation with Lois Weaver for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012).
Chico Mendes Today: Environmental activism and the role of the arts
01/13/2008
Paul Heritage mediated a debated on the legacy of Chico Mendes, with contributions from Elenira Mendes [daughter of murdered Brazilian environmentalist activist Chico Mendes and President of the Institute of Chico Mendes], Jonathon Dove [composer], Charlie Kronick [Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace] and Vivienne Westwood [fashion designer and activist] (13 January 2008).
Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change
11/04/2009
Paul Heritage joined Grayson Perry (Turner Prize-winning artist), Natalie Haynes (broadcaster), and Benjamin Barber (author and political theorist) to discuss 'Patrimony, Autonomy or Subversion? The role of the arts in democratic change' at the Barbican Centre as part of the 75th Anniversary of the British Council (4 November 2009).
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Ben Barber: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Change - Panel discussion from British Council on Vimeo.
Catherine Silverstone was in conversation with Rubén Szuchmacher for the Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation series, part of Queen Mary's Olympic Programme (May 2012). Read the published interview here.
“Victim Art”: Plague, Performance and Metaphor’
06/01/2010
Catherine Silverstone facilitated a discussion with Ron Athey and Martin O’Brien (QMUL, London, June 2010).
‘F(l)ights of Fancy’, LGBT History and Archives Annual Conference
12/01/2009
Catherine Silverstone gave a paper on ‘Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and Community’ (London Metropolitan Archives, December 2009).
Private Romeo
10/01/2011
Catherine Silverstone facilitated a Q&A with the director of Private Romeo hosted by Queer@King’s/London Shakespeare Centre (October 2011).
Unrestrained Indulgence
12/04/2010
Dominic Johnson provided a critical introduction to a series of films screened as part of the 'Unrestrained Indulgence' strand of the Fashion Film Festival at Tate Modern (4 December 2010).
Discussion with Liz Rosenfeld
11/05/2010
Dominic Johnson took part in a post-screening discussion with Liz Rosenfeld as part of the 'Afterimage: Engagements with the Cinematic' programme, INIVA, London (5 November 2010).
Discussion with Marisa Carnesky
10/29/2010
Dominic Johnson took part in a post-show discussion with Marisa Carnesky as part of the 'Sacred' festival at the Chelsea Theatre (29 October 2010).
Discussions with Mark Ravenhill
2/13/2010
Dominic Johnson took part in two after-show discussions with Mark Ravenhill, after his 'A Life in Three Acts' at the Soho Theatre (13 February 2010).