LSE Professor of Human Rights Law tells LSE Review of Books about the books that inspired him into academia

Academic Inspiration: Conor Gearty

Senior archivist at the Wellcome Library, Lesley Hall, talks to us about her book on the early 20th century reproductive rights campaigner Stella Browne and how her activism influences today’s feminist movements. Melanie Williams, Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, tells us how film and gender studies make natural companions. We also hear from LSE Centennial Professor Mary Evans on the books that inspired her into social theory and gender studies and why Scandinavian crime novels make for an exciting escape from the quiet academic life.

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LSE Review of Books Podcast: Gender and Feminisim

Architectural Advisor to the 2012 Olympic Games and LSE Cities Professor Ricky Burdett talks about the primacy of Olympic legacy and the regeneration of East London. Author of Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project, Iain Sinclair, takes us on a tour of London Fields in Hackney, a host borough for the Olympic Games, to talk us through what he sees as a negative acceleration of change brought about by the Olympic project. Dr. Suzi Hall, urban ethnographer and lecturer from LSE Cities, leafs through the beautiful architecture books that inspired her interests in the design of cities and urban multiculture. 

Presented by Amy Mollet. Other Contributors: Cheryl Brumley, Ricky Burdett, Iain Sinclair, Suzi Hall. Produced by Cheryl Brumley. Music and sound came courtesy of the following users at freesound.org: bebeto (Intro music); Harri (Hypno1 and Hypno5) ERH (Swell pad); Tube mash-up: acclivity (mind the gap and stand clear),wim (London underground train arriving 6 and 13), Jerry F (tube train interior), ERH (underground announcement). Published 27th July 2012.


Episode 4: London 2012 Olympics: What happens when global meets local?

The Podcast Guy LSE Review of Books Podcast

In this Editor's Column Extra, I speak to Senior Philosophy Lecturer at the Open University, Nigel Warburton, about his first podcast venture, Philosophy Bites, which has received over 16 million listens worldwide since it first premiered in 2007. Nigel discusses why podcasting is more of a joy than a burden and how a smile helps your recording voice, but first Nigel answers the simple question: 'Why podcast?'.

LSERB Editor's Column Extra: Nigel Warburton

In this special edition LSE Review of Books podcast, hear Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law, reading from Kafka's The Trial; Mary Evans, Centennial Professor at the Gender Institute, reading from Louisa Alcott's Little Women; and Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology at the Department of Media and Communications, reading from Anthony Trollope's The Warden.

Favourite Fiction I: LSE Literary Festival/Academic Inspiration

From 26th February to 2nd March 2013, The London School of Economics will hold its 5th Annual ‘Space for Thought’ Literary Festival. The LSE Review of Books podcast has paired up with the team behind the festival to bring you a taster of some of the events -- Pulitzer Prize winner and LSE’s current Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs, Anne Applebaum, talks to us about her talk ‘Narrative Memory and the Mind’ and how personal histories have played a role in her books on the Soviet Union. Nigel Warburton, Senior Philosophy Lecturer at the Open University and host of the Philosophy Bites podcast, speaks about philosophy in the 21st century and why the podcast may rejuvenate the Socratic method. But first we hear from Literary Festival organiser Louise Gaskell about the aims of the 5 day Festival and the host of events available to the public. 

Presented by Amy Mollett. Produced by Cheryl Brumley. Contributors: Anne Applebaum, Nigel Warburton, Louise Gaskell, Music came courtesy of the following contributor at the FreeMusicArchive.org: Dumbo Gets Mad ("Radical Leap" - CC-BY-NC-SA).

Events Preview: LSE Literary Festival 2013

In this Editor’s Column Extra, Digital Editor Cheryl Brumley speaks to Senior Philosophy Lecturer at the Open University, Nigel Warburton, about the importance of editing your academic podcast and other tips. LSEReviewofBooks.com

LSERB Editor's Column Extra II: Nigel Warburton

The annual LSE Literary Festival offers a space for thought, discussion, and analysis, and encourages interaction between authors and academics. With this in mind, the LSE Review of Books team asked LSE faculty to read from their favourite books.

In this second edition of the ongoing Favourite Works of Fiction Podcast series, we hear from Director of LSE IDEAS, Professor Odd Arne Westad, reading from Knut Hamsun’s Sult, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance, Professor John Van Reenen, reading from the non-fiction essay The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx, Research Fellow at POLIS Dr Fatima El Issawi, reading from The Messenger With Her Hair Long to the Springs by Lebanese poet Ounsi el-Hajj, and Reader in European Philosophy and Director of the Forum for European Philosophy, Dr Simon Glendinning, from Franz Kafka’s short story Before the Law.

Favourite Fiction II: LSE Literary Festival/Academic Inspiration

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