AKC Podcast

S06 E03: Choosing to follow radical religions 07.02.2022 47:33 ↓

Professor Eileen Barker discusses radical religions and cults

S06 E02: Culture Wars in the UK 31.01.2022 46:15 ↓

Professor Bobby Duffy discusses research from the KCL Policy Institute on Culture Wars in the UK

S06 E01: Radical Religion: Re-thinking ‘Radicalisation’ 18.01.2022 45:21 ↓

Dr Daniel DeHanas introduces this semester's lecture series and discusses theories of radicalisation and 'radical religion'

S05 E09: Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter 06.12.2021 31:28 ↓

The Very Revd Dr Kelly Brown Douglas, Dean of Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary shares a lecture based on her 2021 book, 'Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter'.

S05 E08: The making of gay Muslim bodies 29.11.2021 47:37 ↓

Dr Shanon Shah discusses Islamic law and sexuality

S05 E07: Buddhism and the case of the disappearing body 22.11.2021 51:29 ↓

Professor Kate Crosby discusses the role of the body in Buddhism

S05 E06: The Resurrection Body 15.11.2021 44:45 ↓

Daniel Hayter discusses differing views on the resurrection of the body within Jewish and early Christian thought

S05 E05: Maori Tatou: A conversation 08.11.2021 48:10 ↓

Maori tattoo artist Moko Smith, in conversation with Prof Joan Taylor, discusses the history and practice of Maori tatou (moko), its history and significance within the Maori culture and beyond.

S05 E03: Jewish touch 18.10.2021 50:31 ↓

Dr Ruth Sheldon explores issues of Jewishness, embodiment, integration and otherness

S05 E02: Muslim Women’s Bodies: Self and Spirituality on Instagram 11.10.2021 31:25 ↓

Renasha Khan discusses the role and impact of social media on the construction of muslim female identity

S05 E01: What did Jesus look like? 04.10.2021 49:52 ↓

Professor Joan Taylor discusses past and present concepts of Jesus of Nazareth's physical appearance and asks: what did the real body of Christ look like?

S04 E08: Political Leadership 15.03.2021 43:06 ↓

Professor Vernon Bogdanor discusses political leadership in the 20th century

S04 E06: Protesting Putin 01.03.2021 42:09 ↓

Professor Sam Greene discusses Putin's hold on power in contemporary Russia

S04 E04: Women in Political Leadership 08.02.2021 28:59 ↓

Professor Rosie Campbell

S04 E05: The Complex Contexts of Epidemic Responses 03.02.2021 51:22 ↓

Dr Hayley MacGregor discusses the role of context in governmental responses to epidemics past and present

S04 E02: Religious Leadership: Learning from the Desert Elders 02.02.2021 41:28 ↓

Revd Dr Ellen Clark-King, Dean of King's College London, talks about what good spiritual leadership looks like, drawing on wisdom from early Christianity

S04 E03: The Civic University 01.02.2021 44:32 ↓

Baroness Deborah Bull, Vice President & Vice-Principal (London) at King's College London, discusses the civic university

S04 E01: Leadership in Troubled Times 18.01.2021 51:53 ↓

Dr Daniel DeHanas introduces this semester's lecture series and discusses some different lenses through which we can view leaders past and present

S03 E09: Saying More Than We Have To Say: Poetry and the Procreative Mind 07.12.2020 41:06 ↓

The Reverend Canon Mark Oakley from the University of Cambridge discusses the power of poetry

S03 E08: Mindfulness Meditation: Secular Therapy or Religious Movement? 30.11.2020 51:24 ↓

Dr Matthew Drage from the Warburg Institute discusses the emergence and development of the contemporary mindfulness movement.

S03 E06: Plato’s Tyrant: the Unhealthy Soul and Interpersonal Relationships 16.11.2020 47:15 ↓

Dr Margaret Hampson from Trinity College Dublin discusses Plato's Tyrant

S03 E05: Mental Health Within Holistic Medicine: A History of Alternatives 09.11.2020 52:20 ↓

Dr Ayesha Nathoo explores the history of alternative approaches to mental health within the 20th century anglo-American context.

S03 E04: Addiction: Thoughts, Emotions and Behaviours 26.10.2020 37:21 ↓

Professor John Marsden discusses mental and emotional triggers relating to cocaine addiction

S03 E03: “Inner Lives” – Learning from Literature about Mental Health 19.10.2020 54:28 ↓

Professor Neil Vickers discusses the emerging concept of selfhood and understandings of mental health in the nineteenth century

S03 E02: How is Mental Health Understood in Different Countries and Cultures? 12.10.2020 34:33 ↓

Autumn 2020 Lecture Series: The Life of the Mind: What is Mental Health? Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft discusses the differing global approaches to mental health issues, treatment gaps, and the problem of stigma