While all writing contains something of the writer, sometimes I like to write more explicitly personal pieces. In this theme I have include memoire and other personal essays, some of which explore my experiences as a person with a long-term chronic health condition.
Keith Kahn-Harris is haunted by a childhood humiliation as he experiences the 2023 live version of Pater Gabriel. All photographs by York Tillyer
Publication Date: June 21, 2023
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
Understandably, many Jews have reservations abut Poland. Today, baseball is helping change that, one game at a time
Publication Date: June 7, 2023
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Personal/Memoire, Small worlds
Category: Journalism and essays
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)
Workplace culture in a capitalist society constantly demands more of us. A new book suggests that most revolutionary response could be to just stop
Publication Date: December 8, 2022
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
Publication Date: October 12, 2022
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Date: September 8, 2022
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Podcasts
For 30 years, I tried to ‘fight’ it. In the end, I found relief in embracing my identity as a person with a disability
Publication Date: July 28, 2022
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Keith Kahn-Harris reviews Michael Hann’s Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and revisits his long-lost NWOBHM past
Publication Date: February 19, 2022
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Personal/Memoire
Category: Book reviews, Journalism and essays
In a celebration of linguistic diversity, author Keith Kahn-Harris used the lockdown to investigate the warning messages found inside Kinder Surprise Eggs
Publication Date: November 2021
Theme: Language, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Author and sociologist Keith Kahn-Harris had a lockdown project that cracked the joy of languages
Publication Date: November 24, 2021
Theme: Language, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
An extract from The Babel Message
Publication Date: November 16, 2021
Theme: Language, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Tough times for fun books.
Publication Date: November 8, 2021
Theme: Language, Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Publication Date: April 7, 2021
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Book reviews, Interviews
Publication Date: July 1, 2020
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
From Basque sports to military ration packs, Keith Kahn-Harris has been swept along by algorithms during the pandemic.
[Also available as audio]
Publication Date: June 2, 2020
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Publication Date: May 1, 2020
Theme: Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
On the wistful pleasure of turning a chance encounter into a minor obsession
Publication Date: April 15, 2020
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Keith Kahn-Harris on the modern anti-semitism game he doesn't want to join
Publication Date: June 11, 2019
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Jews, Judaism and Jewishness, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Silent rejection, argues one writer, which becomes a never-ending - and infuriating - act of waiting
Publication Date: December 2018
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Publication Date: November 2018
Theme: Music, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journal articles, Journalism and essays
Utopia and dystopia all in one evening
Publication Date: October 26, 2017
Theme: Best Of, Culture, Metal Music and Culture, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Publication Date: October 25, 2017
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
My first attempt at fiction! Based very very loosely on my PhD fieldwork on the Israeli metal scene.
Publication Date: June 24, 2017
Theme: Israel/Palestine, Metal Music and Culture, Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Publication Date: May 5, 2016
Theme: Antisemitism, Racism, Hate, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Adapted from a talk given at the British Sociological Association Sociologists Outside Academia Group’s 10th Anniversary Event. It was first published on The Sociological Imagination blog.
Publication Date: December 11, 2015
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Publication Date: December 16, 2014
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Music, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays, Music reviews
Reflections on the experience of watching the crowdfunding campaign for 'The Best Waterskier in Luxembourg' stall
Publication Date: August 25, 2012
Theme: Personal/Memoire, The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Journalism and essays
Publication Date: June 14, 2012
Theme: Best Of, Metal Music and Culture, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Date: November 5, 2011
Theme: Personal/Memoire, Small worlds, The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Other talks (selected)
Publication Date: September 6, 2011
Theme: Personal/Memoire, The Best Water Skier in Luxembourg
Category: Journalism and essays
A measured dose of self-hate helps transform us into better people
Publication Date: June 11, 2011
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Cuts heap anxiety on the already insecure lives of academics. Hopefully the post-cuts university world can resist casualisation
Publication Date: September 18, 2010
Theme: Miscellaneous, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
'The insecure scholar', one of THE's online columnists, calls for an academy that offers all scholars dignity and security
[This was the final column that I wrote in this anonymous series]
Publication Date: March 18, 2010
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Date: March 2, 2010
Theme: Jews and Metal, Personal/Memoire
Category: Other talks (selected)
From October 2009 to March 2010 I wrote an anonymous weekly column for Times Higher Education. In the column I discussed the joys and tribulations of insecure employment within academia. Since these columns were published my life has moved on and I don't necessarily think the same way about academia as I did then. However, I remain proud of the columns I wrote and anyone who is interested can find them compiled in a single pdf via the link before (or on the Times Higher Education website)
Publication Date: October 2009 - March 2010
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
The link is to an updated audio-visual essay, from 2015, of my original presentation at this event.
Publication Date: November 9, 2009
Theme: Metal Music and Culture, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
Academia needs to be more accommodating to those who cannot or choose not to work full time, argues Keith Kahn-Harris
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
Theme: Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
After a bout of glandular fever at university, Keith Kahn-Harris developed chronic fatigue syndrome, from which he still suffers. He explains how this debilitating and misunderstood illness has changed his life for ever
Publication Date: May 6, 2008
Theme: Best Of, Personal/Memoire
Category: Journalism and essays
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