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In this episode, we discuss Annie Ernaux’s The Years alongside, an article by Prof. Lucy O’Brien entitled ‘Shameful Self-Consciousness’. Shame, according to this paper, is a feeling which arises when we become conscious of ourselves as diminished by another’s appraisal of our social value. Prof. O’Brien joins us in the studio to discuss Ernaux’s frequent portrayals of shame in The Years and to consider how well they fit the theory outlined in her paper.
 
Hosts: 
Scarlett Baron, Associate Professor of English at University College London.
Alice Harberd, PhD student in the Philosophy Department at University College London.
 
Guest: 
Lucy O’Brien, Richard Wollheim Chair of Philosophy at University College London.

Season 2, Episode 2 - The Shamed Self, with special guest Prof. Lucy O’Brien

In this episode, host Ethne James Souch is joined by Professor Sara Mole, Noël Caliste, and Dr Sinead Murphy to explore how UCL is fostering inclusion and equity through intersectional initiatives focused on protected characteristics, mental health, and institutional change. This conversation highlights the work of Grand Challenges-funded projects such as Safer Space Conversations and Heads Together, designed to address the experiences of staff and students related to gender, LGBTQ+ identity, disability, and mental health. The episode also touches on frameworks like Athena Swan and the Race Equality Charter and discusses how lived experience and co-production are shaping more thoughtful, resilient approaches to equity at UCL.

 Date of episode recording: 2025-08-05
 Duration: 00:27:55
 Language of episode: English
 Presenter: Ethne James Souch
 Guests: Sara Mole; Noel Caliste; Sinead Murphy
 Producer: Annabelle Buckland
 Podcast owner: Ethne James Souch; Daisy Harvey; Siobhan Morris; Annabelle Buckland

Intersectionality at UCL: Lived Experience and Institutional Change

In this episode, we discuss Annie Ernaux’s writing in The Years alongside a paper by Jenefer Robinson entitled ‘Style and Personality in the Literary Work’. We consider Robinson’s assertion that an author’s style expresses their personality, and set it in the context of influential views of style formulated by such modernists as Flaubert, Joyce, and T.S. Eliot, and by such literary theorists as Barthes, Bakhtin, and Kristeva. Ernaux’s own study of literature coincided with the heyday of literary theory in France. We use Robinson’s paper as a starting-point for reflection on the purposes and effects of the impersonal style Ernaux crafts in The Years.
 
Hosts: 
Scarlett Baron, Associate Professor of English at University College London
Alice Harberd, PhD student in the Philosophy Department at University College London.

Guests: 
Clare Carlisle, Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London.
Lucy O’Brien, Richard Wollheim Chair of Philosophy at University College London.
Emmanuel Campion-Dye, PhD student at University College London.

Transcript link here: https://share.transistor.fm/s/d080500d

Season 2, Episode 3 - Style and Personality: Jenefer Robinson

Disinformation is tearing through West Africa — shaping elections, fueling mistrust, and weakening democracy. In this first episode of InfoCheck, Francis Boniface talks with Jerry Sam, Executive Director of PenPlusBytes, about how false narratives spread and who’s behind them.

📍 Countries covered: Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso
🔹 Explore key findings from the Disinformation Index
🔹 Understand how disinformation threatens democracy
🔹 Learn what can be done to fight back

🎙️ InfoCheck is a WADR production in partnership with PenPlusBytes, powered by NED.
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Weaponizing Lies:  Disinformation and Democracy in West Africa | InfoCheck Ep.1

In this episode, we discuss the experience and the representation of the self in time. We consider philosophical approaches to the question of personal change, focusing on a paper by Marya Schechtman entitled ‘Glad it Happened: Personal Identity and Ethical Depth’. Is the self diachronic, extending over time? Or is it episodic, identical with itself only for short periods? 

For Schechtman, self-experience is multiperspectival, comprising both temporally extended and temporally local perspectives; we contain many selves and this fact is central to the complexity of our moral life. We look closely at pages 137-182 of Annie Ernaux’s The Years to see whether the author’s rendering of her own self in time reflects such multiperspectivalism.
 
Hosts: 
Scarlett Baron, Associate Professor of English at University College London.
Alice Harberd, PhD student in the Philosophy Department at University College London.

Season 2, Episode 4 – The Self in Time: Marya Schechtman

The Good Comes Out (2025)

 Date of episode recording: 2025-10-02
 Duration: 00:47:48
 Language of episode: English
 Presenter: Steve Fleming, Selina Wray
 Guests: Caswell Barry, Lucy Unwin
 Producer: Patrick Robinson


Episode 23- Jenny Lange on the gothic history of neuroscience, a Halloween special

In this episode, we discuss the powerful, magisterial closing pages of Annie Ernaux’s The Years (pp.182-225) alongside philosophical work in progress by Alice Harberd, one of our hosts. In this paper, Alice considers various ‘narrative’ theories of the self, and argues that, when it comes to the articulation of a sense of self, ‘narrativity is a choice’. We examine Ernaux’s intertwining of personal and sociological selves and ponder to what extent it embraces, or resists, narrative form. We are joined in the UCL Studio by Emmanuel Campion-Dye, a Philosophy PhD student and an ever spirited and probing member of our Philosophy and Literature Reading Group.
 
Hosts: 
Scarlett Baron, Associate Professor of English at University College London.
Alice Harberd, PhD student in the Philosophy Department at University College London.
 
Guest:
Emmanuel Campion-Dye, PhD student in the Philosophy Department at University College London.

Transcript Link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/e82414f3/transcript.txt

S2, Ep 5 The Narrative Self: Alice Harberd, with special guest Emmanuel Campion-Dye

［Unknown Pass］ is a sound art experiment and a conceptual art experiment based on Audio Filters by Lou NaiLi aka B6.
Filtering is to cut off certain frequencies in audio signals. In audio processing, there are three usual type of filtering which are Hi Pass, Low Pass and Brand Pass. These types of filters are to keep certain frequencies and delete the rest of signals. The project Unknown Pass designed to extract unexpected and unexplainable frequencies in 4D dimensions and those parallel dimensions, and use electronic music tools to make those energies as music.
Artist : Lou Nanli


Artist : Lou Nanli
Track Title : Unknown Pass (Live At Shan Lab, 11 Sept, 011)
Genre : Experimental

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