Shows
Reimagine LawThe role of a Barristers’ ClerkIn this special episode we are joined by three guests. William Harris, who was a barristers’ clerk for 35 years, with 25 years of those being as a Senior Clerk at a London set of chambers. Also, Poppy Maddison and Kazia Myrie, who are both Assistant Practice Managers at 15 New Bridge Street Chambers – a barristers set in London working in the area of criminal law. Our guests begin by outlining what the role of a barristers’ clerk is, and the varied roles and responsibilities. The need to be able to manage a complex series of relationships, both externall...2023-09-0130 minReimagine LawEnvironmental law: finding your “voice” to create positive changeFlora Curtis, barrister and member of the UK “Legal Voices for the Future” initiative. Camila Bustos, Assistant Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University (NY), and co-founder of the US body “Law Students for Climate Accountability”. In this special episode we are joined by two guests. Flora Curtis, a London-based barrister specialising in environmental law, and a member of “Legal Voices for the Future” (LVF), a learning forum acting as a voice for positive change about climate-related issues for the next generation of lawyers. Professor Camila Bustos teaches on environment and climate justice and co-fo...2023-08-0928 minReimagine LawDevelopment Hacks: personal developmentThis is the first episode in our mini-series to give listeners tips and ideas for how people can best develop themselves. A key point is about personal responsibility – it’s down to you to guide your career. Also, we discuss the importance of understanding your strengths and building on them. What gives you energy, and what does your best or favourite day look like? Finally, keep your learning fresh. It’s not (just) about “going on a course”. There are so many other ways to develop yourself, building the broader skill sets to set you up to succeed in...2021-07-2711 min
Sisters In ConversationS2E4 - Lethabo Sithole, International trade & investment law: Legal consultant and researcherLethabo Sithole is an independent legal consultant and researcher in the international trade law and investment law areas of practice. She has a combination of private sector and policy experience. In recent years, she has worked closely with trade finance institutions and development organisations on strategies to enhance intra-African trade and investment flows and during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lethabo has been involved in a series of roundtables involving key negotiators and decision-makers on how to leverage Southern-Africa and Africa-Middle East trade relations post-COVID. Lethabo holds a Master of Laws in International Business Law from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL...2021-04-2656 min
Show & TellShow & Tell #11 - Inspiring Mini Talks at QMUL - Wilson on Directing / Miah Personal Trainer / Kassim on Writing / Shahwar on IdentiyHosted and produced by Saramarie Harvey, this episode features: Sumaya Kassim Writer and Researcher; Zahin Miah Personal Trainer and QM Student; David Wilson Artist and Director (David Guetta's "Titanium") and Durre Shahwar Writer and Editor.
Show and Tell is a series of talks hosted by the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London.
Featuring short and engaging talks from academic researchers, broadcasters, creative writers, and theatre practitioners. Show and Tell is a celebration of arts and humanities education and the creative industries for those interested in studying or working...2021-03-2955 min
Show & TellShow & Tell #10 - Inspiring Mini Talks at QMUL - Connolly on Immersive Theatre / Ajai-Ajagbe Daley on Drama / Bakkar on Writing Muslim Experiences / Kimberly on Queer History / Taylor on PerformingThis episode features: Elliott Ajai-Ajagbe Daley: Storyteller and theatre maker; Nafisa Bakkar: CEO at Amaliah and Halal Gems; Neil Connolly: Artistic Director, The Crystal Maze Live Experience/Perfomer; Mzz Kimberley: Actress and singer and Moj Taylor: a professional actor, comedian running ComedyClub4Kids and Executive at PushTalks
Show and Tell is a series of inspiring talks hosted by the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London.
Featuring short and engaging talks from academic researchers, broadcasters, creative writers, and theatre practitioners. Show and Tell is a celebration of arts and...2021-03-291h 45
Show & TellShow and Tell #9g - Author Gabriel Krauze at All Points East: In the NeighbourhoodGabriel Krauze: QMUL English graduate and ‘estate-noir’ author Gabriel Krauze (Vice) has just signed with publisher 4th Estate publish his first novel ‘Who They Was’. Gabriel Krauze grew up in London in a Polish family and was drawn to a life of crime and gangs from an early age. Now in his thirties he has left that world behind and is recapturing his life through writing.
This Show & Tell mini was recorded at All Points East: In the Neighbourhood. Edited by Daniella Harrison.2021-03-2805 min
Show & TellShow and Tell #9a - Chef Nathalie Coleman at All Points East: In the NeighbourhoodNatalie Coleman: Natalie Coleman was winner of MasterChef in 2013. Since winning MasterChef Natalie Coleman has worked with some of the UK’s best restaurants including Le Gavroche (Michel Roux Jr) and is currently the head chef at immersive dining concept in Waterloo, Hello Darling.
This Show & Tell mini was recorded at All Points East: In the Neighbourhood. Edited by Daniella Harrison.2021-03-2809 min
Show & TellShow and Tell #9b - Aamir Ayyub at All Points East: In the NeighbourhoodThis Show & Tell mini was recorded at All Points East: In the Neighbourhood. Edited by Daniella Harrison.2021-03-2806 min
Show & TellShow & Tell #9c - Literary Historian Nadia Valman at All Points East: In the NeighbourhoodNadia Valman: Dr Nadia Valman is a literary historian at Queen Mary University of London who has led various public projects including on the history of Jewish people in the East End, The Royal London Hospital and Brick Lane.
This Show & Tell mini was recorded at All Points East: In the Neighbourhood. Edited by Daniella Harrison.2021-03-2806 minShow & TellShow and Tell #9d - Blanka Douglas at All Points East: In the NeighbourhoodThis Show & Tell mini was recorded at All Points East: In the Neighbourhood. Edited by Daniella Harrison.2021-03-2805 minShow & TellShow and Tell #9e - Saramarie Harvey at All Points East: In the NeighbourhoodThis Show & Tell mini was recorded at All Points East: In the Neighbourhood. Edited by Daniella Harrison.2021-03-2806 min
Show & TellShow and Tell #9f - Alain English at All Points East: In the NeighbourhoodAlain English: Scottish actor, writer, autism advocate and performance poet.
This Show & Tell mini was recorded at All Points East: In the Neighbourhood. Edited by Daniella Harrison.2021-03-2810 min
Show & TellShow and Tell #9h - Comedian Ahir Shah at All Points East: In the NeighbourhoodAhir Shah: Ahir Shah (BBC Three, Live at the Apollo) is a stand-up comedian and writer based in London. He has been twice nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, in 2017 and 2018.
This Show & Tell mini was recorded at All Points East: In the Neighbourhood. Edited by Daniella Harrison.2021-03-2805 min
Show & TellShow & Tell #8 - Inspiring Mini Talks at QMUL - Brotton on Elizabethans & Islam / Islam on Mile End Community Project / Ramayya on Poetry / Igoe-Ewer on Community ArtsThis episode features: Professor Jerry Brotton Professor of Renaissance Studies and author of ‘This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World’. Moa Johansson (UK/SWE) is a performance artist whose work occupies the space between performance installation, live art, and dance. Her practice investigates theories concerning the body, space, subjectivity and communication in the context of an intersectional, ecofeminist and queer reading. www.mojocompany.org. Nurull Islam is one of the Co-Founders of Mile End Community Project (MCP) a multi-award winning film and media organization with a commitment to helping young people recognise their potential. MCP engages young peop...2021-02-041h 08
Show & TellShow & Tell #7 - Inspiring Mini Talks at QMUL - Redstone on being a Trans Artist / Walters on Queer Fun / Bob on Comedy / Lopes Ramos on Immersive / Welton on Movement ResearchThis episode features: Kit Redstone: Award winning writer (Testosterone). Artistic director of Vacuum Theatre and hot tempered, belligerent short-arse trans man who wears a lot of jewellery. Ben Walters: Writer, producer, programmer, critic and activist living in London. Ben is a PhD student at Queen Mary interested in queer fun, cabaret and homemade mutant hope machines — or how participatory performance practices can materialise better worlds for marginalised people. Kemah Bob (BBC3, The Guilty Feminist) a stand-up comedian, writer, improviser, and drag king from Texas now based in London. Jorge Lopes Ramos: London-based artist, cu...2021-02-041h 14
Show & TellShow & Tell #6 - Inspiring Mini Talks at QMUL - Ahmed on Books / Salmi on Postcolonial Literature / Oldziejewska on Feminist Library / Vallance on Community Arts / Oshodi + Mendl on TheatreThis episode features: Sufiya Ahmed: Sufiya has worked in advertising and in the House of Commons, but is now a full-time author. In 2010 Sufiya set up the BIBI Foundation, a non-profit organisation, to arrange visits to the Houses of Parliament for diverse and underprivileged school children. Charlotta Salmi: Lecturer in Postcolonial and Global Literature at Queen Mary, she works on contemporary literature from around the world, but specifically comics and graphic narratives and how they're used by different social movements. Magda Oldziejewska: Activist, independent researcher and blogger, as well as fundraising coordinator and management collective member at the Feminist...2021-02-041h 10
Show & TellShow & Tell #5 - Inspiring Mini Talks at QMUL - MacQuarrie on Stand Up / Ryan on Venues / Casalini on Art / Dinkin on Comedy and CommsThis episode of our inspiring mini talks series features:
Kayla MacQuarrie: Stand-up comedian who recently performed her award-winning show Traumatised at Soho Theatre.
Matti Ryan: Matti Ryan is a performance artist, impresario and the manager of Overlock, a new mixed-arts venue in Hackney.
Giulia Casaliniis an independent curator and producer based in London. Since 2012 she is the co-director of the non-profit arts organization CUNTemporary, and artistic director of “Deep Trash” a performance-cum-exhibition club night.
Charlotte Dinkin:Stand-up comedian, director, and creative communications consultant. She recently directed Olga Koch’s Edinburgh show Fight, for which Olga was nominated for be...2021-02-041h 04
The Telling ItselfI'm Just An Animal Looking For A HomeSOJOURNS IN THE PARALLEL WORLD
We live our lives of human passions,
cruelties, dreams, concepts,
crimes and the exercise of virtue
in and beside a world devoid
of our preoccupations, free
from apprehension—though affected,
certainly, by our actions. A world
parallel to our own though overlapping.
We call it “Nature”; only reluctantly
admitting ourselves to be “Nature” too.
Whenever we lose track of our own obsessions,
our self-concerns, because we drift for a minute,
an hour even, of pure (almost pure)
response to that insou...2020-10-2114 min
Show & TellShow And Tell #4 - Inspiring Mini Talks at QMUL - Boswood / McGee / French / Lamont / HarvieShow and Tell is a series of TED-talk style events where speakers from the arts, humanities and creative industries tell their stories at Queen Mary University of London. Find out more: bit.ly/showandtellqm. This episode features alternative performance producer Ema Boswood, English researchers Zoë McGee and Jade French, BAFTA-winning TV writer James Lamont and contemporary theatre professor Jen Harvie.
Introduction by Lois Weaver.
Hosts
Rupert Dannreuther is responsible for marketing within Queen Mary’s School of English and Drama. He has worked for numerous organisations including Cineworld, Hackney Emp...2020-05-011h 06
Show & TellShow And Tell #3 - Inspiring Mini Talks at QMUL - Bari / Adebayo / Likorish Quinn / BarrettShow and Tell is a series of TED-talk style events where speakers from the arts, humanities and creative industries tell their stories at Queen Mary University of London. Find out more: bit.ly/showandtellqm. This episode features broadcaster Shahidha Bari, theatre artist Mojisola Adebayo, lecturer and writer Karina Likorish Quinn and theatre director Billy Barrett. Introduction by Jonathan Boffey.
Host
Rupert Dannreuther
Rupert is responsible for marketing within Queen Mary’s School of English and Drama. He has worked for numerous organisations including Cineworld, Hackney Empire, The Yard Theatre an...2020-04-011h 16
Show & TellShow and Tell #2 - Inspiring Mini Talks at QMUL - Nasta / Howes / Rafiq / Shapiro / EdmundsonShow and Tell is a series of TED-talk style events where speakers from the arts, humanities and creative industries tell their stories at Queen Mary University of London. Find out more: bit.ly/showandtellqm. This episode features Wasafiri magazine editor Susheila Nasta, Medieval broadcaster Hetta Howes, podcaster Raifa Rafiq, researcher Emma Shapiro and puppeteer Edie Edmundson. Full biogs below.
The show is introduced by Beverley Stewart and hosted by Charlie Pullen from the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary.
Charlie Pullen
Charlie Pullen is a PhD...2020-03-011h 15
Show & TellShow and Tell #1 - Inspiring Mini Talks at QMUL - Sarah Garnham / Bridget Minamore / Alex WhitleyShow and Tell is a series of TED-talk style events where speakers from the arts, humanities and creative industries tell their stories at Queen Mary University of London. Find out more: https://bit.ly/showandtell20. This episode features publishing wizz Sarah Garnham, poet Bridget Minamore and dance artistic director Alex Whitley. Full biogs below.
The show is introduced by Patricia Hamilton, Charlie Pullen and features Rupert Dannreuther from School of English and Drama at Queen Mary.
Rupert Dannreuther
Rupert is responsible for marketing within Queen Mary’s School of En...2020-02-011h 20
Queen Mary History of EmotionsThe Sound of Anger: 1. What is it?In this opening episode of a new podcast series about anger from the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions, historian of emotions Thomas Dixon sets out to discover what anger really is. He meets experts including psychologists and historians, and confronts his own furious demons, in an attempt to find an answer. Is there a "basic emotion" of anger or only a range of loosely related furious feelings? What can science tell us? Does anything hold together all the varieties of rage, wrath and revenge? Contributors include Lore Lixenberg, Matthew Dodd, Jo Anne Nadler, Sarah Garfinkel, Charlotte...2019-09-1227 min
Performance NetworkCIPN - 9 May 2016 - Politics, Memory and PerformanceDr Paul Connerton (University of Cambridge)
Dr Mischa Twitchin (Queen Mary University of London)
Anthropologist Dr Paul Connerton and theatre researcher and practitioner Dr Mischa Twitchin will explore how politics, collective memory and performance intersect. To what extent is ‘making memory’ grounded in the theatrical? What can concepts in performance tell about the struggles over memory?
Paul Connerton is the author of How Societies Remember (Cambridge University Press, 1989), How Modernity Forgets (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and The Spirit of Mourning (Cambridge University Press, 2011). His talk is taken from his upcoming book On the Nature of Relic.
Mischa Twitchin is a British Acad...2016-06-1313 min