Interview with Ewan MacKenna’s ‘Voices from Gaza’ podcast
Date: August 28, 2025
Theme: Israel/Palestine
Category: Podcasts
Talks, videos and podcasts
Here you can find a record of my recorded lectures, talks, podcasts and interviews, listed with the most recent first. I have not generally included talks that were not recorded so in most cases there is either a streamable or downloadable sound file or a link to one. You can search by category (podcasts, talks and lectures etc), by theme and by keyword.
Interview with All Else Is Commentary podcast about my book Everyday Jews
Date: March 3, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Podcasts
October 7th and its Aftermath: the war over there and the war over here (with Ben Gidley)
Leo Baeck College
Date: May 29, 2024
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Israel/Palestine
Category: Videos
What does a Jew look like? (recording of event with Rob Stothard at the Bradford Literature Festival)
Bradford Literature Festival
Date: March 26, 2024
Theme: What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Podcasts
Metal and the Limits of the Body: Disability as Transgression
Keynote lecture at 'Metal and Transgression: Scenes, Politics, and Religion' Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia 6-7 September 2023
Date: September 6, 2023
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Academic lectures and papers
The Marvels of Translation: Interview with Keith Kahn-Harris
Word for Granted podcast
Date: July 8, 2023
Theme: Language
Category: Podcasts
Antisemitism and Jewish Diversity: When Celebration Becomes Dangerous
The Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (co-organised with Marquette University)
Date: March 2, 2003
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Academic lectures and papers
Assessing the Significance of Left-Wing Antisemitism: Intimacy, Disappointment and Obsession
Lecture at Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: March 1, 2023
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Academic lectures and papers, Videos
Panelist: Contemporary Antisemitism: What it is and how to counter it?
Westminster Talks, University of Westminster
Date: February 16, 2023
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Other talks (selected), Videos
My troubled relationship with Jewish youth culture
5 x 15 Stories / Writer's Mosaic event on Jews and multiculturalism
Probably the most personal talk I've ever done and discusses a deeply traumatic episode that I experience as an adolescent. I also discuss how and why things got better!
Date: February 1, 2023
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Other talks (selected)
Letting Go of Hope Might Be a Good Thing – My Conversation with Keith Kahn Harris
Precarious Podcast
Date: September 8, 2022
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Podcasts
Languages: Do They Divide Us?
Morocco Bound Bookshop/Review
Date: May 25, 2022
Theme: Language
Category: Videos
The dilemmas of diversity: How do we show what a Jew looks like?
Milim
Date: May 17, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Other talks (selected), Videos
Keith Kahn-Harris: the surprising journey spurred by Kinder eggs
Radio New Zealand, Saturday Morning with Kim Hill
Date: April 16, 2022
Theme: Language
Category: Media appearances and Interviews
Launch event for What Does a Jew Look Like? with Keith Kahn-Harris, Rob Stothard, Fiona Shields and Frank Dabba Smith
JW3 London
To discuss the issues raised by the book, Keith Kahn-Harris and Rob Stothard were joined by Fiona Shields, Head of Photography at the Guardian and Rabbi Frank Dabba Smith, who has worked as a professional photographer for The Economist as well as publishing books and exhibitions of his photographs. Some of the subjects of the book also speak about their involvement in the project.
Date: April 13, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Videos
Interview with The Allusionist
The Allusionist
'"Warning: read and keep," says the piece of paper inside Kinder Surprise Eggs, in 34 languages; yet most people do neither thing. But sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris did read and keep it, and study what the egg is trying to tell us: about Kinder Egg toy safety, yes, but also about multilingualism, about an object that says 'yes!' but the warning says 'no!', about the signs of human idiosyncracy that show themselves even in a mandatory corporate message.'
Date: March 5, 2022
Theme: Language
Category: Podcasts
Interview with Steve Cross
The Podern Prometheus
'I'm joined by writer, sociologist, Dad, Jew and metal fan Keith Kahn-Harris who has written a wonderful book that uses the warning messages in Kinder Surprise eggs as the start of a journey through language around the world. I didn't let him talk about his book and instead made him sample every Kinder, Nutella and Ferrero product I could find.'
Date: February 11, 2022
Theme: Language
Category: Podcasts
Interview: Sacred Languages and Judaism
Religion Off The Beaten Track
Date: February 5, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Language, Religion
Category: Podcasts