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.
Date: May 26, 2017
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate
Category: Academic lectures and papers
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)
Includes interview.
Date: 2015
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Media appearances and Interviews
Date: 2015
Theme: Metal Music and Culture
Category: Podcasts
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)
Date: May 14, 2014
Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Religion
Category: Other talks (selected)
Date: March 3, 2014
Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Israel/Palestine, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Podcasts
Date: 2014
Theme: Small worlds, The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Podcasts
Date: October 27, 2012
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Podcasts
In praise of small worlds.
Date: September 21, 2012
Theme: Best Of, Small worlds, The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Other talks (selected), Videos
This was the pitch video for the - ultimately unsuccessful - campaign to crowdfund the second part of the book 'The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg: Tales of Big Fish in Small Ponds' with the publisher Unbound.
Date: July 5, 2012
Theme: The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Videos
Keith Kahn Harris reports back on the research trip for the first chapter of his book - The Best Waterskier In Luxembourg at Unbound Live.
Date: May 25, 2012
Theme: The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Other talks (selected), Videos
Joining Jason Solomons in the studio are award-winning photographer Judah Passow and writer Keith Kahn-Harris.
To engage or to exclude: we'll discuss the growing row dividing Britain's Jews over how best to relate to British Muslims and ask whether an institution that has hosted speakers with antisemitic views should always be shunned.
Date: February 3, 2012
Theme: Conflict Resolution, Civility and Dialogue, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Podcasts
Date: November 5, 2011
Theme: Personal/Memoire, Small worlds, The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Other talks (selected)
Includes interview with me about 'The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg'
Date: November 4, 2011
Theme: The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Media appearances and Interviews
This was the pitch video for the - ultimately successful - campaign to crowdfund the first chapter of the book 'The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg: Tales of Big Fish in Small Ponds' with the publisher Unbound.
Date: September 16, 2011
Theme: The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Videos
Panellists included Ben Gidley, Melanie Phillips and myself. Chaired by Martin Bright. Other details mislaid!
Date: 2011
Theme: Community, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness
Category: Other talks (selected)
Date: March 2, 2010
Theme: Jews and Metal, Personal/Memoire
Category: Other talks (selected)
