Media
Talking Europe
This series, hosted by Department of Politics' Dr Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos, seeks to provide easily accessible expert commentary on key political, social, economic and other events and processes that are currently unfolding in Europe. In doing so, it seeks to showcase the Europe-related research that Birkbeck-based academics are currently conducting.
Participants are based in a broad range of Birkbeck's academic departments including Politics, History, Classics and Archaeology, Psychosocial Studies, Law, Economics, Geography, as well as Birkbeck’s Centre for the Study of Internationalism. So, although this series operates under the auspices of Birkbeck’s MSc programme in European Politics and Policy, it is very much a collective effort. It will take the form of regular podcasts or short vlogs focusing on major events or processes (including Brexit, EU-level developments, elections in major European countries, as well as new academic publications etc.) or video clips from the several Europe-related events organised at Birkbeck.
Episodes
- Professor Michelle Everson, Professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London, gives a resume of the recent controversial ruling of the German Federal Constitutional Court.
- Dr Ali Burak Güven details the reasons why Turkey's admittance to the European Union has stalled since it first applied in 1987. Dr Güven touches upon the structural, cultural and political reasons why Turkeys accession may never come to fruition.
- Matt Bevington, PhD candidate in Politics, discusses what the next steps are in the Brexit negotiations and lays out the possible timeline of events for the next year.
- Dr Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos discusses the depoliticisation of Greece's Public Revenue Administration.
- Dr Ben Gidley (Department of Psychosocial Studies) on the five features of the Far Right.
- Dr Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos talks about what's happening in the European Parliament.
- Dr Kate Maclean (Department of Geography) on Brexit and the Family.
- Dr Ben Gidley (Department of Psychosocial Studies) on the Rise of the Far Right.
- Dr Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos on why the European elections are so important.
- Dr Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos on Brexit and the crises facing the UK.
Westminster Watch
In this podcast series, members of Birkbeck's Department of Politics discuss current issues in British politics. It is aimed at those with an interest in British politics in general and students on Birkbeck's BA Politics module, Contemporary British Politics, in particular.
You can hear the latest podcasts and find past casts on the Department of Politics' Soundcloud channel.
London Philosophy Talk
This series, hosted by Department of Philosophy's Dr Florian Steinberger, is directed at the philosophically curious, students, as well as fellow academics, and aims to have informal philosophical discussions with experts in a range of different topics. Among them are the philosophy of fiction, the status of moral intuitions, as well as questions surrounding reference in the philosophy of language and whether many of us are too incompetent to deserve a right to vote, and much more.
Episodes
- Episode 1: Imaginative Resistance - Dr Florian Steinberger and Dr Stacie Friend discuss the issue of “imaginative resistance” in the philosophy of fiction.