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This week on the War Studies podcast, we have two interviews: one with Dr Catherine Charrett from the University of Chicester on her solo performance of "Politics in Drag: Sipping Toffee with Hamas in Brussels" in the War Studies department, and also with Professor Michael L'Estrange, Professor of National Security at Australian National University and also Australia's former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2005-2009.

Professor Michael L'Estrange full lecture - https://soundcloud.com/warstudies/the-role-of-diplomacy-in-a-changing-international-order?in=warstudies/sets/events

Presented by Bradley Murray and Xenia Zubova, who also provide details of the events on next week in lieu of Jayne Peake.

DISCLAIMER: Any information, statements or opinions contained in this podcast are those of the individual speakers. They do not represent the opinions of the Department of War Studies or King's College London.



EU and Hamas Drag Performance / Role of Diplomacy in a Changing International Order

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the intellectual and ideological nature of the art and culture produced between October 1917 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 remained hotly debated and, at times, poorly understood. Here, Juliet Jacques welcomes writer/critics Maria Chehonadskih, Owen Hatherley (author of Militant Modernism (2009), Landscapes of Communism (2015) and The Chaplin Machine (2016)) and Ilia Rogatchevski to discuss the cultural legacy of the Soviet period and challenge Western preconceptions about the relationship between art and politics in the former USSR, from the Constructivist energy of the 1920s and imposition of Socialist Realism under Stalin, all the way through to the underground art movements of the 1980s.

WORKS REFERENCED:

Maria Chehonadskih on Pussy Riot – https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/what-is-pussy-riots-idea
Adam Curtis on Vladislav Surkov - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od4MWs7qTr8

SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, Aleksandr Nevsky (1938)
SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, Ivan the Terrible (Parts I & II) (1944-1958)
SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, October (Ten Days That Shook the World) (1928)
EVALD ILYENKOV (Soviet theorist) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/ilyenkov/
ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV (Moscow Conceptual School) - https://ilya-emilia-kabakov.com/
VITALI KOMAR (Sots Art founder) - http://www.komarandmelamid.org/
MIKHAIL LIFSHITZ(Soviet philosopher) - https://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/12/15/art-is-dead-long-live-art-mikhail-lifshitz-on-karl-marxs-philosophy-of-art/
EDUARD LIMONOV (National Bolshevik Party)
CHRIS MARKER, The Last Bolshevik (1993) - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-happiness-is-making-a-bolshevik-laugh-1459870.html
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, '150,000,000' (1919-1920) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/150_000_000
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, The Bathhouse (1929) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bathhouse
VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, The Bedbug (1928) - http://snoowilson.co.uk/The%20Bedbug.pdf
ALEKSANDR MEDVEDKIN (Soviet filmmaker) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Medvedkin
Deimantas Narkevičius (Lithuanian filmmaker/artist)
YURI OLESHA, Envy (1927) - https://godsavethetsar.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/dont-laugh-andrei-petrovich-yuri-oleshas-envy/
VIKTOR PELEVIN (Russian author)
BORIS PILNYAK, The Naked Year (1928) - http://www.overlookpress.com/ardis/naked-year-1.html
ANDREI PLATONOV, The Foundation Pit (1930) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Pit
ABRAM ROOM, Bed and Sofa (1927) - http://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/1339/film-club-sofa-and-bed-abram-room
VLADIMIR SOROKIN (Russian author)
VLADIMIR TATLIN, Letatlin – http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-birdlike-soviet-flying-machine-that-never-quite-took-off
VLADIMIR TATLIN, 'Monument to the Third International' (1919-1920, unbuilt)
DZIGA VERTOV, The Eleventh Year (1928) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSve8HNjZ4Y
DZIGA VERTOV, Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass (1930) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUInm2dC6Ug
DZIGA VERTOV, Kino-Pravda (1920s) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0SJyLX9MgQ
DZIGA VERTOV, Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
DZIGA VERTOV, Stride, Soviet! (1926) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILG1_ceQCzE
DZIGA VERTOV, Three Songs of Lenin (1934) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66SYdygrpE
VOINA, phallus on Liteiny Bridge, St. Petersburg - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/apr/12/voina-art-terrorism

Memories of the Future: The cultural legacy of the Russian Revolution

Jonathan Ashworth MP, Lynne Segal, Rebecca Winson, Keir Milburn, Rick Burgess

There’s a 30% chance you will suffer from severe mental distress at some point in your lifetime. We are in the midst of a mental health crisis, exacerbated by cuts to health and social services. The causes of mental distress are varied: relationships, poverty, trauma, to name a few. Yet we rarely discuss the impact of the system we live in: neoliberal capitalism. Have changes in the way we work and live caused an epidemic of anxiety and depression? What role can Labour play in alleviating mental distress? And could socialism be the best antidepressant of all?

TWT2018

Lets Talk About Mental Health...and Capitalism

Joni Cohen, Toby Sinbad Walker, Dr Chamindra Weerawardhana, Evren BH

This session will raise consciousness about transgender liberation, situating issues affecting trans people today within the changing historical relationships between gender and capitalism. What should be the role of trans liberation within the broader movement for socialism? What opportunities would a radical Labour government offer for trans liberation, and what would be its limitations? How can we address issues affecting trans people now - in work, housing, healthcare, sex work, prisons, and migrant detention centres?

Fighting for Trans Liberation

Natalie Sharples, Satoko Kishimoto, Heidi Chow, Jean Ross, Dr Youssef El-Gingihy

Each year governments are diverting vast amounts of resources away from citizens towards big companies. From cuts to the NHS to the denial of healthcare in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the struggle for decent, accessible public services is global. From public partnerships to global social protection funds there are many ideas for how to realise rights including health, education social protection. Join us to debate how a Labour government can redefine priorities and support access to public services for people across the world.

Session organised by Global Justice Now & Health Poverty Action

A Global NHS? Public Services Across Borders

NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green sits down with Dr. Kelly Fast, a planetary astronomer to discuss planetary defense and Oumuamua.

Planetary Defense and Oumuamua with Kelly Fast

We have a report on right-wing 'radicalisation' on platforms like 4chan with insights from our colleague Dr Thomas Colley. We also talk to Sanjana Balu, the department's student experience and outreach officer. Adam caught up with two students and asked them about adapting to study from home. Presented by Adam Beswick, Dr Peter Busch and Sally Horspool.

Podcast: student experience / report on 4chan and 'radicalisation'

In this episode of our War Studies 'at home' series we talk to IR student Aanvi who organised a visit to the EU and January (see also her blogpost: https://kingsthinktank.com/2020/02/07/eu-brussels-visit/#more-2951
Dr Matt Moran, co-director of the Department's Centre for Science and Security talks about his research on Open Source Intelligence and Big Data (his article: with C Hobbs and C Eldridge: ‘Fusing algorithms and analysts’: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02684527.2017.1406677
And Adam tells us more about his Instagram story (the department on Instagram: kcl_warstudies). Presented by Adam Beswick, Peter Busch, Sally Horspool

Podcast: OSINT analysts and algorithms /DWS students at EU Brexit vote/ DWS on Instagram

Dr Rudra Chaudhuri, Director of Carnegie India and Senior Lecturer in the department joins us from Delhi and gives his insights on the COVID-19 crisis in India. Find out more on https://carnegieindia.org
And third-year students Kleber and Cassy talk about a student trip to Second World War battlefields in Italy earlier this year. Presented by Adam Beswick, Peter Busch and Sally Horspool.

Podcast: India and COVID-19 / student trip to WW2 battlefields

This is the part 1 of a 2 part special podcast series produced by BA IR students Julia Thommessen and Adam Beswick. In these podcasts King's students discuss different perspectives on COVID-19 and share their experiences. And as an Easter bonus: Sally shares her blueberry muffin recipe. Hosted by Adam Beswick, Peter Busch and Sally Horspool.

Podcast: Perspectives on COVID-19 (part one)

This is the part 2 of a 2 part special podcast series produced by BA IR students Julia Thommessen and Adam Beswick. In these podcasts King's students discuss different perspectives on COVID-19 and share their experiences. And as an Easter bonus: Sally shares her blueberry muffin recipe. Hosted by Adam Beswick, Peter Busch and Sally Horspool.

Podcast: Perspectives on COVID-19 (part two)

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