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Humanitarian Hub Podcast - Episode 4, Dr. Claudia Seymour
February 06, 2020 12:53 - 28 minutes - 64.1 MBIn the fourth episode of the SOAS Humanitarian Hub Podcast, Jake Tacchi talks with Dr. Claudia Seymour about her book: 'The Myth of International Protection, War and Survival in the Congo'. Dr. Seymour's book presents a highly engaging, and very readable, amalgamation of her own experiences working within the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)as a child protection adviser, alongside her subsequent PhD research. We discussed many themes that arose from the book, as well as the difficultie...
Humanitarian Hub Podcast - Episode 3, Professor Steve Hopgood
February 06, 2020 12:52 - 31 minutes - 71.4 MBIn the third episode of the SOAS Humanitarian Hub Podcast, Jake Tacchi talks with SOAS's Professor Steve Hopgood about his latest article: 'When the Music Stops, Humanitarianism in a Post Liberal World Order'. Amidst a shifting away from a liberal world order, most notably exemplified by the rise of China over the last 30 years, Professor Hopgood argues that humanitarianism and human rights as we know them are likely to suffer. He argues that, because such concepts are underpinned by the val...
Humanitarian Hub Podcast - Episode 2, Amy Joce
February 06, 2020 12:50 - 13 minutes - 31.2 MBIn the second episode of the SOAS Humanitarian Hub Podcast, Jake Tacchi talks with Amy Joce, a 3rd year undergraduate student at SOAS. Amy, who read Development Studies, has just completed a dissertation exploring sexual exploitation within humanitarian settings. In the backdrop of the #metoo movement, alongside highly publicised scandals, such as those including Oxfam, Amy has provided a relevant and topical piece of research that looks to better understand the role of the humanitarian. We ...
Humanitarian Hub Podcast - Episode 1, Dr. Suda Perera
February 06, 2020 12:49 - 26 minutes - 61.2 MBIn the first episode of the SOAS Humanitarian Hub Podcast, Jake Tacchi talks with Dr Suda Perera, Senior Teaching Fellow in Conflict and Migration at SOAS, about her recent article: ‘To Boldly Know: Knowledge, Peacekeeping and Remote Data-Gathering in Conflict Affected States’. Dr Perera’s article covers the growth of remote technologies as a tool for data gathering in conflict affected areas. Using her own experience of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Dr Perera discusses how the...
Professor Playlist: Meera Sabaratnam
February 05, 2020 16:32 - 43 minutes - 101 MBAlmira speaks to Meera Sabaratnam as she shares 5 tracks and speaks on community organisation, decolonisation and her academic career.
Sound & Colour EP 1.5: Breakfast in Red
January 31, 2020 14:36 - 29 minutes - 41 MBA fast paced mixtape of confidence: A continuation of episode 1, crimison watermelons.
Sound & Colour Ep 1.5: Breakfast in Red
January 31, 2020 14:36 - 29 minutes - 41 MBA fast paced mixtape of confidence: A continuation of episode 1, crimison watermelons.
Sound & Colour Ep1: Crimson Watermelons
January 27, 2020 12:53 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBLoosely based on synesthesia, this new show explores music’s relationship to the colours of our daily lives through varying lens’ of emotion. Dress code: Casual. The Sound & Colour journey begins with confidence and crimson watermelons. In this first episode, expect some empowering artists serving you a variety bag of sweet tunes.
Sound & Colour Ep1. Crimson Watermelons
January 27, 2020 12:53 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBLoosely based on synesthesia, this new show explores music’s relationship to the colours of our daily lives through varying lens’ of emotion. Dress code: Casual. The Sound & Colour journey begins with confidence and crimson watermelons. In this first episode, expect some empowering artists serving you a variety bag of sweet tunes.
Global Sports Conversations - Episode with Matthew Barrett
January 25, 2020 17:11 - 12 minutes - 29.2 MBJoin us for a revealing conversation between Dr J Simon Rofe (CISD, SOAS) and Mr Matt Barrett, of Goal Click https://www.goal-click.com/ - a fascinating account of an organisation that operates globally 'helps people understand one another through football'.
Global Sports Conversations - Episode with Herwig Demschar
January 14, 2020 18:11 - 19 minutes - 4.58 MBIn this episode of Global Sport Conversations, Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff speaks with POWDR SVP of International Business Development and former alpine coach for the Austrian and US ski teams Herwig Demschar.
Intro: Who is Mr inner Voices?
January 13, 2020 10:37 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBCheck out one of SOAS's very own Noah Adeoye's Podcast 'Our Inner Voices'. He will be dropping episodes on SOAS radio from time to time. If you'd like to suggest ideas, speak with him about topics, join him on an episode please email at [email protected]. You can also follow him on Instagram at @MrInnerVoices. Love.
DanDana SPECIAL Ep. 10 | Nuri, Tunis, Afro-futurism and the Underground
December 23, 2019 15:10 - 42 minutes - 49.9 MBIn the last episode of 2019 co-host and producer Christina Hazboun interviews Tunisian producer and musician Nuri during his London visit to Shubbak Festival. Throughout the episode we play songs that evolved around Nuri’s musical journey, mirroring the social events happening on the ground at each given moment in Tunis. Come ride the soundwaves with us!
SOAS World Languages Institute Podcast: What Is Multilingualism?
December 18, 2019 12:23 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBJoin Leo and Frazer, as they take you on a whistle-stop tour around the world via interviews with speakers of a variety of languages in an attempt to answer the above questions. They explore what it means to speak more than one language, whether fluency is all that important, the darker side of multilingualism, language ideologies and policies, how they affect us all, and a whole lot more in between. Thanks to all the interviewees who shared their stories! This podcast was recorded at SOAS Ra...
Global Sports Conversations - Episode With David Lasday
December 17, 2019 14:27 - 23 minutes - 54.5 MBIn our next episode of Global Sport Conversations, Dr Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff speaks with David Lasday, the Chief Operating Officer of the Israel Lacrosse Association. Lasday explains how the interest in lacrosse is steadily growing around the world with Israel at the forefront of its expansion. Furthermore, he highlights how Lacrosse in Israel has helped build relations on both the local and global scale
SOAS World Languages Institute Podcast: What is Indigenous?
December 12, 2019 13:38 - 30 minutes - 69.2 MBAre you indigenous? What makes a person indigenous? What does being indigenous really mean? Join Francesca, Clare and Kúnmi on a big discussion on what it means to be ‘indigenous’, the differences between indigenous and endangered languages, and the rate at which indigenous and endangered languages are disappearing. With flash interviews from linguists and SOASians, and a conversation with SOAS World Languages Institute director Mandana Seyfeddinipur, we disentangle the different meanings an...
Urban Echoes: Episode 5 - Changing Tides
December 09, 2019 16:25 - 58 minutes - 79.6 MBJee has recently raised a complaint against the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland for homophobic, racist and transphobic abuse. In this episode, they reflect on a journey of resisting a white institution, and how this intersects with their family's living under an authoritarian government back in Singapore. Laura Siegler Song : Faye Wong - You're Happy, so I'm Happy
Scrap Podcast: Scrap It Up
November 27, 2019 14:39 - 14 minutes - 32.7 MBSOAS Radio's Jean Kostrzewski in conversation with SCRAP's project coordinator Dr. Olamide Samuel about how young people can get involved in an exciting disarmament campaign! This discussion of youth involvement comes in the context of a recent development on the 21st of October this year, when the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on Youth, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. We discuss whether this resolution gives young people a meaningful platform to engage in Disarm...
Women in Diplomacy - 2019 Bertha Lutz Prize Interview with Sylvia Bashevkin & Jennifer A. Cassidy
November 08, 2019 13:12 - 48 minutes - 111 MB2019 Bertha Lutz Prize winner Professor Sylvia Bashevkin questions what we know about women's participation in political executive roles with Dr Jennifer Cassidy and Marissa Conway. Sylvia Bashevkin is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her primary research focus is gender and politics, notably women’s impact as public leaders. Jennifer A. Cassidy is a Departmental Lecturer in Global Governance and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford Her gaine...
SOAS Spirit Chats: The Big Launch 19/20
October 31, 2019 13:26 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBIts the new academic year which means a new year for the SOAS Spirit! This year's addition is gonna be extra spooky not only because it comes out on Halloween but also because Valerie Amos's controversial departure is front page. In collaboration with SOAS Radio the managing team behind the Spirit (Syraat, Hana, and Malhia) sat down to tell us what is in store for this very special edition.
Global Sports Conversations - Gavin Price and Rosa Bickerton
October 25, 2019 13:13 - 17 minutes - 39.1 MBDiscussing the use of sports diplomacy to broaden the international engagement of a small country like Wales with Gavin Price, (co-project lead British Council Wales), Rosa Bickerton (British Council Wales), hosted by Dr J Simon Rofe.
Global Sports Conversations - Akira Shimazu
October 08, 2019 11:48 - 12 minutes - 22 MBGlobal Sports Conversations - Akira Shimazu by SOAS Radio
Global Sports Conversations - Episode with Kely Nascimento-DeLuca
September 23, 2019 08:00 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MBIn our next episode of Global Sport Conversations, Dr Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff speaks with Kely Nascimento-DeLuca, a storyteller, advocate, and Global Goals World Cup Ambassador to learn about the Women Warriors of Football movement, how she’s experienced the power of sport, how family informed her love of the global game and more. Learn more about Kely’s work here: https://warriorwomenoffootball.com Follow Kely on Twitter: https://twitter.com/casakely _________________ About the Global Spor...
Global Sports Conversations - Episode with Pops Mensah-Bonsu
September 16, 2019 08:00 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBIn today’s episode of the Global Sport Conversations podcast, Dr Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff exchanges with General Manager of the Capitol City Go-Go and former Team Great Britain and professional basketball player Pops Mensah-Bonsu about his career and being at the front lines of the intersection of basketball and diplomacy. Key questions they explore include: how was Pops inspired to a career in the game? In what ways did the people-to-people knowledge exchanges involved in basketball diplomacy ...
Global Sports Conversations - Episode with Syra Sylla
September 10, 2019 08:00 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBIn our next episode of Global Sport Conversations, Dr Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff speaks with Syra Sylla, a journalist and self-proclaimed basketball junkie on the hoops scene in France, why she started the Lady Hoop website, how she’s engaged in basketball diplomacy in Senegal, the challenges encountered as a black woman of color in sports, and more. Learn more about Syra’s work here: https://ladyhoop.com https://fr.linkedin.com/in/syrasylla Follow Syra on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ladyh...
Global Sports Conversations - Chris Dial
September 03, 2019 08:00 - 24 minutes - 56.4 MBWelcome back for another episode of the Global Sport Conversations podcast. Today host Dr Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff is joined by FIBA coach and founding president of The Basketball Embassy Chris Dial to discuss the ways basketball has taken him around the world, the importance of basketball diplomacy, what it was like building the first Kosovar national basketball team and more. __________________ About the Global Sport Conversations Podcast Sport is a key driver of globalization focusing att...
Urban Echoes: Episode 4 - Put Your Price Up
August 27, 2019 18:51 - 38 minutes - 87.7 MBIn this episode, we meet with Emily, a former sex worker in London. Emily shares her experience of the profession, and invites us to look beyond what both the demonising and the glamourising aspects of popular media want us to believe. Songs: Kokoroko - Abusay Junction/We Out Here Blondie - Call Me Producer & Interviewer: Laura Siegler
Global Sports Conversations - Joe Favorito
August 27, 2019 08:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBWelcome back to the Global Sport Conversations podcast. This season begins with an wide-ranging look at storytelling and communicating within the global sports world as our host, Dr Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, exchanges with storytelling expert extraordinaire Joe Favorito. Joe has over 30 years of strategic communications / marketing, business development and public relations expertise in sports, entertainment, brand building, media training, television, athletic administration and business. Lea...
DanDana Episode 08 | Sheikh Imam and Egypt Part 1
August 26, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBDanDana hosts Christina Hazboun and Yamen Mekdad chat with music historian Hazem Jamjoum. Travelling back in history to Egypt in 1918 we explore the life and music of Sheikh Imam Issa, one of the most prominent revolutionary artists of the twentieth century Arab world. We discuss the political turmoil and historic events that Sheikh Imam engaged in his music, especially since he joined his efforts with those of street poet Ahmed Fouad Negm. In part I, we discuss the singer and poet’s lives an...
DanDana Ep. 08 | Sheikh Imam and Egypt Part 1
August 26, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBDanDana hosts Christina Hazboun and Yamen Mekdad chat with music historian Hazem Jamjoum. Travelling back in history to Egypt in 1918 we explore the life and music of Sheikh Imam Issa, one of the most prominent revolutionary artists of the twentieth century Arab world. We discuss the political turmoil and historic events that Sheikh Imam engaged in his music, especially since he joined his efforts with those of street poet Ahmed Fouad Negm. In part I, we discuss the singer and poet’s lives an...
That Show About South African Music
August 23, 2019 15:33 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBPredictably, this is is a show about South African Music. The host, Dela Gwala, takes us on a journey of music and memory - speaking through what she misses about being home.
Global Digital Futures: Dynamic Solutions for Healthcare in the Global South
August 22, 2019 14:24 - 26 minutes - 60.8 MBThis week we are joined by Dr. Rainer Tan to speak about Dynamic Solutions for Healthcare in the Global South. Rainer is Swiss, Malaysian and Canadian. He grew up in Canada and finished med school at the university of Lausanne, Switzerland in 2014. He was the Field Coordinator in Tanzania for the NGO Canada Africa Community Health Alliance, and is now in residency training for a specialisation in Tropical Medicine, while completing a Clinical Research Fellowship for a PhD in Clinical Epidemi...
Global Digital Futures: Navigating Online & Offline: Social Activism in China
August 03, 2019 13:55 - 41 minutes - 94.3 MBThis week, we welcome Zhang Leilei to speak about Navigating Online & Offline: Social Activism in China. The media and information landscapes in China present unique challenges for social activism. Zhang Leilei is a Chinese feminist activist whose strategic campaigns have effected profound change, but not without considerable difficulty and threat to her livelihood. Leilei is the founder of Chinese group F Feminists in Guangzhou and she is the principle organiser and participator of the Chine...
Interview with Yanis Varoufakis (International Social Forum 2019)
July 18, 2019 16:07 - 20 minutes - 45.9 MBOn 13th and 14th July, SOAS hosted the International Social Forum organised by the Labour party and the SOAS Department of Economics. This was an opportunity for Labour to bring together politicians, economists and social movement leaders from across the world in an effort to discuss ideas and open a dialogue on ways to reform International Institutions to tackle climate change and growing inequality. Laura Siegler chatted with Yanis Varoufakis about the European environmental agenda and hi...
Global Digital Futures: Media for Development in Bangladesh
July 16, 2019 17:45 - 36 minutes - 82.9 MBThis week we are speaking with BBC Media Action Bangladesh about Media for Development in Bangladesh. Joining us is Richard Lace, the Country Director in Bangladesh. Richard has worked in media and development for 15 years, in Europe and Africa as well as Bangladesh. He has been leading the BBC Media Action office in Bangladesh since early 2014, and leads a team of 80 staff to deliver media and communications projects that aim to improve family health, enable people hold their leaders accou...
Professor Playlist: John Parker
July 11, 2019 14:42 - 37 minutes - 85 MBFred chats with Dr John Parker, lecturer in African history. He shares how Blues music informed his research interest in death and dying.
CISD Annual Law Lecture Interview - Professor Ann Towns
July 08, 2019 17:39 - 39 minutes - 90.2 MBWhen public office opened up for women among the states of the early 20th century, there were generally two exceptions: women were not allowed to join the military or diplomacy. Not until the past two decades have a growing number of women entered diplomacy. What does the encounter between women and diplomacy – which was male-dominated for over a century – look like? In what ways are diplomatic practices gendered? How do women diplomats experience and navigate the gendered terrain of diplomac...
Global Digital Futures: The Rohingya Crisis and the Role of Media in Conflict
June 25, 2019 16:01 - 28 minutes - 65.5 MBThis week, we welcome Ronan Lee to speak about The Rohingya Crisis and the Role of Media in Conflict. Ronan is an Irish-Australian political advisor and completed his PhD at Deakin University researching Rohingya history and identity. Ronan has travelled extensively in Myanmar, first visiting the country to witness the political changes associated with its transition from direct military rule to a quasi-civilian government. He witnessed Myanmar’s 2010 general election and met with opposi...
Consent Vent - Episode 8- Consent in Queer Spaces (2/2)
June 25, 2019 09:43 - 29 minutes - 66.7 MBThis is episode 8 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent.
Consent Vent - Episode 9 - Who holds consent for sex workers?
June 19, 2019 09:20 - 44 minutes - 102 MBThis is episode 9 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent. In this episode, we talk to Fez from SWARM, the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement about the he work that they have been doing towards the decriminalisation of sex work and their views on the notion of consent in sex work. We will also hear a testimony from a former sex worker. Produced by Laura Siegler SWARM website: https://www.swarmcollective.org/
Professor Playlist: Mulaika Hijjas
June 17, 2019 07:48 - 29 minutes - 66.9 MBProfessor Playlist is a new podcast series on SOAS Radio, which invites SOAS academics into the studio to share their personal journeys in research, interspersed with five of their favourite pieces of music. Frederik Molin and Almira Farid are the hosts of this first season, taking listeners through the first five guests of the series. In this episode, Almira is joined by Dr Mulaika Hijjas, lecturer in the Southeast Asian Studies Department. She talks about her journey into the Jawi language...
Consent Vent - Episode 10 - Is consent becoming a buzzword?
June 14, 2019 14:00 - 3 minutes - 6.93 MBThis is the final episode of Consent Vent, in which Sonja discusses the outcome of this series, and the potential risk of consent becoming a buzzword.
Consent Vent - Episode 7 - Consent In Queer Spaces (1/2)
June 14, 2019 13:57 - 28 minutes - 42.1 MBThis is episode 7 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent. In this episode we hear an anonymous testimony from a SOAS Student as well as from Carlos of Maricumbia.
Consent Vent - Episode 6 - How Does Exoticisation & Fetishisation Affect Consent?
June 14, 2019 13:30 - 22 minutes - 51 MBThis is episode 6 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent. In this episode our producer Celine spoke to students about exoticisation & fetishisation and how it relates to consent.
Jobs, corruption and major development donors - applying the ACE approach to a thorny problem
June 10, 2019 10:36 - 20 minutes - 46.1 MBEnough good jobs are vital to social cohesion. But people can't get and keep good jobs without skills. Mushtaq Khan and Jess Sinclair Taylor look into a highly funded development sector, skills training, and ask what could be done to combat corruption in the skills sector, using Mushtaq's work in Bangladesh as an example. The results have some far wider implications than you might imagine.
Professor Playlist: Benjamin Dix
June 10, 2019 10:10 - 50 minutes - 116 MBProfessor Playlist is a new podcast series on SOAS Radio, which invites SOAS academics into the studio to share their personal journeys in research, interspersed with five of their favourite pieces of music. Frederik Molin and Almira Farid are the hosts of this first season, taking listeners through the first five guests of the series. In this episode, Fred talks to SOAS alumnus Dr Benjamin Dix, as he shares the story which led him to found Positive Negatives - a nonprofit organisation that ...
Global Digital Futures: Mobile Phones & Educating the Girl Child in Kenya
June 07, 2019 18:06 - 30 minutes - 68.7 MBThis week, we welcome Professor Ronda Zelezny-Green to speak about Mobile Phones & Educating the Girl Child in Kenya. Ronda is a mobile technologist, educator, and researcher, whose professional experience spans the public, private, and civil society sectors. She specialises in educational technology (especially mobile learning), gender, teaching and training, and policy advice. Ronda regularly publishes in academic forums, and is globally recognised as the world’s foremost expert in gender...
Violence To Voice
June 06, 2019 13:07 - 19 minutes - 27.4 MBWelcome on an exploration of the power of singing and performance to give people voice where words alone fail. Paige Annelize takes us behind the scenes into two creative communities, the Everyday People choir and Borderline theatre ensemble, finding out how their refugee and asylum seeker members engage in expression, resistance and healing.
Professor Playlist: Angela Impey
June 04, 2019 13:39 - 30 minutes - 70.3 MBProfessor Playlist is a new podcast series on SOAS Radio, which invites SOAS academics into the studio to share their personal journeys in research, interspersed with five of their favourite pieces of music. Frederik Molin and Almira Farid are the hosts of this first season, taking listeners through the first five guests of the series. In this episode, Almira speaks with Dr Angela Impey, reader of Ethnomusicology and convener of the MA Music in Development. She introduces her latest book - '...
Why are anti-corruption efforts failing? In conversation with Mushtaq Khan
May 31, 2019 09:54 - 16 minutes - 37 MBIn a first podcast from the SOAS Anti-Corruption Evidence research consortium, Mushtaq Khan joins Jessica Sinclair Taylor to explain why standard, off-the-shelf approaches to anti-corruption in developing countries are failing. So what's to be done? Mushtaq unpacks the ACE approach to corruption and tells us why he thinks it can provide some solutions.