Interview with Heavy Metal and Philosophy Podcast
Heavy Metal and Philosophy Podcast
Date: July 21, 2026
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
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 The Spoken Metal Show
The Spoken Metal Show podcast
Date: July 18, 2026
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Podcasts
How Jews and Heavy Metal Taught Me the Value of Being Boring
Ken Talks
Date: June 7, 2026
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Other talks (selected), Videos
Rethinking Importance in an Age of Jewish Significance
ANU Educators' Webinar
Date: March 24, 2026
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Other talks (selected), Videos
Interview with The Jew Function podcast
Date: October 1, 2025
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Podcasts, Videos
Interview with Ewan MacKenna’s ‘Voices from Gaza’ podcast
Date: August 28, 2025
Theme: Israel/Palestine
Category: Podcasts
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