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
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.
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
Interview about The Babel Message with Nathan Abrams
New Books Network
Date: January 7, 2022
Theme: Language
Category: Podcasts
What does a Jew look like? A portrait of British Jews [with Rob Stothard]
Limmud 2021
Date: December 29, 2021
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, What Does A Jew Look Like?
Category: Other talks (selected)
The Babel Message – online book launch
Five Leaves Bookshop
Featuring Lily Kahn, Mark Sanchez, Nicholas Al-Jeloo, Damian Le Bas, Sulev Iva and Fernando López-Menchero Díez
Date: November 27, 2021
Theme: Language
Category: Other talks (selected), Videos
The anti-Rosetta Stone: A journey round the multilingual warning messages inside Kinder Surprise Eggs
Nerd Nite London
Date: November 26, 2021
Theme: Language
Category: Other talks (selected)
Interview with the Monocle Daily about the Babel Message
Monocle Radio
Date: November 23, 2021
Theme: Language
Category: Media appearances and Interviews
Interview with the Robert Elms show on the Babel Message
BBC Radio London
Date: November 12, 2021
Theme: Language
Category: Media appearances and Interviews
Llanito dialect explored in new book about diversity of language
GBC (Gibraltar)
Date: November 3, 2021
Theme: Language
Category: Media appearances and Interviews
Jews and the Left – Why antisemitism isn’t over
The Bunker
Antisemitism remains one of the Labour Party’s most painful problems. It’s an issue with deep roots, dragged up by Corbyn, and left to Starmer to deal with. Trade unionist Daniel Randall, author of Confronting Antisemitism on the Left, and sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris, join Dorian Lynskey to discuss what distinguishes left from right wing anti-Jewish racism, and what can be done about i
Date: October 7, 2021
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Podcasts
Disenchanted Episode 8
Repeater Radio
Date: August 10, 2021
Theme: Disenchanted
Category: Podcasts
Interview on Leonard Lopate at Large, WBAI Radio, New York
Date: July 26, 2021
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Podcasts
Interview with Radio Free Humanity on denialism and post-denialism
Date: July 23, 2021
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Podcasts
Disenchanted Episode 7
Repeater Radio
With special guest Owen Coggins
Date: June 23, 2021
Theme: Disenchanted, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Podcasts
Disenchanted Episode 6
Repeater Radio
With special guest Ella Kahn-Harris
Date: June 7, 2021
Theme: Disenchanted, Metal Music and Culture
Category: Podcasts