Podcasts

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

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

Birkbeck Institute for Social Research podcasts

• Enduring and Broken Time
• Feminist Emergency - International Conference
• Is caring in crisis? Humanitarian crises, public engagement and NGOs
• Mapping the Role of ‘Transnational Family Habitus’ in the Lives and Identity of Black Minority Ethnic Young People
• Dame Joan Ruddock in Conversation with Rosie Campbell
• At the Borders of Flesh: A Secret History of Race and Technology
• A World in Crisis: Climate Change, Violence, Demography and the Global Economy
• The Worlding in a Sense of Place
• Journalism, Whistleblowing and the Security State
• The Persistence of Segregation in the 21st Century American Metropolis
• Reacting to Reality Television
• Food and Public Space in a Global City
• The Political Economy of Social Reproduction across the Lifecourse: Global Perspectives
• Diagnosing the Contemporary: Crises and Conjunctures
• Diagnosing the Contemporary: Working the Spaces of Power

Home and Exile Working Group podcasts

• Crossing the Mediterranean Sea by Boat: Human Dignity and Biophysical Violence
• The Vicissitudes of Postcolonial Citizenship and Belonging in Late Liberalism

Population, Environment and Resources Working Group podcasts

• Subterranean Urban Politics: Insurgency, Sanctuary, Exploration and Tourism
• Revolutions in a Warming World: Lessons from Syria
• The Challenge of Climate Change: What Can and Can’t Be Fixed?
• Architecture in Time: The Temporal Conditions of Design
  • Introduction
  • Paper 1: The Stuff of Time: How Heritage Practice Works from the Past
  • Paper 2: Architecture after People: Emergence, Emergency and Unexpected Buildings
  • Paper 3: Endless: Topography, Temporality, Architecture
  • Paper 4: Slowing Down: Temporality in Building Renovation and the Escape from Perspective
  • Paper 5: Buildings within Time: Inhabitation as a Part of Design Practice
  • Paper 6: Revivalism and Meaning in Architecture: Three Case Studies
• Our Kind of Town? Citizen Social Science, Participatory Mapping and the Struggle for a Just City
• Population: The Elephant in the Room is Our Friend
• Launch event for the Department's new MSc in Population, Migration and Ecology
• The Housing Disaster: Danny Dorling in Conversation with Paul Watt
• Street Art and the Contemporary City
• The Politics of Population Change
• Celebration Capitalism: the London Olympics and Its Discontents

Psychoanalysis Working Group podcasts

• Jessica Benjamin, Beyond Doer and Done To
• Jessica Benjamin in Conversation with Lynne Segal
• The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times - Discussing the Issues
• Psychoanalysis as Epistemology: Psycho-Social Methods Since 'Doing Qualitative Research Differently'
• Interrogating "the Social Unconscious"
• Mobile Lives, Digital Emotions
• Sites of Conflict: Psycho-Political Resistance in Israel-Palestine

PhD students: Training and methodologies podcasts

• Developing Your Research Career: Uncovering the Wellcome Library
• Narrative Networks: Storied Approaches in a Digital Age
• Social Science, Critique and the Rich
• Reflections on Social Change: Metamorphosis or Transformation? Birkbeck Institute Graduate Conference 2015
  • Keynote 1: Unpacking "Common Sense" for Social Transformation
  • Keynote 2: Violence against Women and Girls: Using Knowledge in the Service of Social Justice
  • Keynote 3: On Crowds and Atmosphere
• Brown Moses: Investigating Conflict Zones through Social Media
• Developing Your Research Career: How to Write Successful Grant Proposals
• Blogging to Help Develop Your Research Career
• Using Narratives to Study Social Change
• Living Apart Together: A Multi-Method Analysis
• Developing Your Research Career: Research Grants
• Developing Your Research Career: Publishing Journal Articles
• Developing Your Research Career: Publishing a Book
• Multimodal Methods for Researching Digital Data
• Burning Memories: Sacrifice and the Unconscious in History