Panellist: Challenging Denial: from Slavery to the Holocaust
The Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College
Date: November 7, 2018
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Other talks (selected)
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.
What’s behind denialism?
BBC Ideas
Date: November 5, 2018
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Videos
Panellist: Free Speech in a Post Truth age
Edinburgh Radical Bookfair
Date: November 3, 2018
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity, Politics
Category: Other talks (selected)
Keith Kahn-Harris on Denialism
The Middle Way Society podcast
Date: September 25, 2018
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Podcasts
Denialism: What drives people to reject the truth
Guardian Long Reads Podcast
Date: September 3, 2018
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Other talks (selected), Podcasts
Why so many people practice ‘denialism’
CBC 'Sunday Edition'
Date: August 17, 2018
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Media appearances and Interviews
Living in Denial: A 21st-Century Story
The Tel Aviv Review podcast
Date: August 6, 2018
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Podcasts
Denialism, Post-Denialism and the Boundaries of the Speakable
University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Date: June 11, 2018
Theme: Denial, Ignorance and Stupidity
Category: Academic lectures and papers, Other talks (selected)
Kinder Egg Linguistics
BBC Boring Talks Podcast
Date: May 21, 2018
Theme: Language
Category: Podcasts
The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg: Big Fish in Small Communities with Keith Kahn-Harris
Intrepid Times
Date: June 19, 2017
Theme: Small worlds, The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Podcasts
Beyond transgression : breaking metal’s boundaries
Keynote at: ‘Boundaries and Ties: The Place of Metal Music in Communities’, University of Victoria
In his address, Dr. Harris attempts to reconsider the nature of metal’s transgression in a digitally abundant age, in which boundaries of the ‘sayable’ and the ‘doable’ are being continually challenged and transformed. His talk aims to question the role transgression plays in metal and its conceptual effectiveness when applying it to studies of metal music and its cultural practices.
Date: June 9, 2017
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Academic lectures and papers
Antisemitism and divisions over Israel in diaspora Jewish communities: The exploitation of Jewish difference
Lansdown Lecture, University of Victoria
Date: June 9, 2017
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Academic lectures and papers
The Contemporary Controversy over Left-Wing Antisemitism and the Problem of Power
Zionism and Antisemitism: An International Conference, at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College
Date: May 26, 2017
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Academic lectures and papers
Exploring New Frontiers in the Aesthetics of Metal
University of Southern Denmark, Invited lecture to the Performances of Everyday Living research group
An important theme in metal studies scholarship has been the examination and contestation of ‘capital’ within metal scenes and the hierarchies that derive from them. Gendered, heteronormative and race-based forms of capital in metal have been deconstructed by scholars rooted in metal scenes, forming part of a wider opening-up of metal to previously marginalised groups. While all this is to be welcomed, other forms of subcultural capital circulating in metal scenes have not been subject to the same degree of challenge. Competence, musical skill, innovation and knowledge - amongst other skills - are valorised in metal scenes in ways that create forms of subcultural capital ‘indigenous’ to them. As part of a wider project of rethinking metal aesthetics and metal scenes within the context of what I have termed a ‘crisis of abundance’, I have tried to imagine ways in which metal’s reliance on subcultural capital could be destabilised. In this lecture I will examine how a reconsideration of ‘incompetence’ and ‘mediocrity’ can open up new forms of metal pleasure as well as raising ironies, paradoxes and questions that help us rethink what metal might become in the future.
Date: September 23, 2015
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Other talks (selected)
Metal Evolution – Extreme Metal
Metal Evolution series
Includes interview.
Date: 2015
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Media appearances and Interviews
Interview with All About The Rock Podcast
All About The Rock
Date: 2015
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Podcasts
Panellist: ‘Debating Antisemitism: Why do Jews Disagree So Much?
Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck College
In this round-table discussion, Diana Pinto, intellectual historian and author who has written widely on Jewish identity in Europe, and Keith Kahn-Harris, writer and sociologist, whose recent book explores the debates over Israel among Jews in Britain, join David Feldman, Director of the Pears Institute, to explore the perennial, perplexing question – why do Jews disagree so much on the issue of antisemitism?
Date: June 26, 2014
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Other talks (selected)
Panelist: ‘How has religion been an agent for peace-building in conflict areas of the world?’
Westminster Faith Debates
Date: May 14, 2014
Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Religion
Category: Other talks (selected)