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Fred chats with Dr John Parker, lecturer in African history. He shares how Blues music informed his research interest in death and dying.

When public office opened up for women among the states of the early 20th century, there were generally two exceptions: women were not allowed to join the military or diplomacy. Not until the past two decades have a growing number of women entered diplomacy. What does the encounter between women and diplomacy – which was male-dominated for over a century – look like? In what ways are diplomatic practices gendered? How do women diplomats experience and navigate the gendered terrain of diplomacy? What theoretical insights might a study of gender and diplomacy bring to diplomatic studies and its recent turn to practices?

Marissa Conway, CFFP Co-Founder and UK Director is joined by Professor Ann Towns - PI of the Gender and Diplomacy (GenDip) Program in political science at the University of Gothenburg, who will address these questions in a talk on her new book project.

This week, we welcome Ronan Lee to speak about The Rohingya Crisis and the Role of Media in Conflict.

Ronan is an Irish-Australian political advisor and completed his PhD at Deakin University researching Rohingya history and identity. Ronan has travelled extensively in Myanmar, first visiting the country to witness the political changes associated with its transition from direct military rule to a quasi-civilian government. He witnessed Myanmar’s 2010 general election and met with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi shortly after her release from house arrest. Ronan has provided comment for the BBC, Al Jazeera, TIME, and the Guardian and has written widely about Myanmar.

Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-12-rohingya-crisis

This is episode 8 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent.

This is episode 9 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent.

In this episode, we talk to Fez from SWARM, the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement about the he work that they have been doing towards the decriminalisation of sex work and their views on the notion of consent in sex work. We will also hear a testimony from a former sex worker.

Produced by Laura Siegler

SWARM website: https://www.swarmcollective.org/

Professor Playlist is a new podcast series on SOAS Radio, which invites SOAS academics into the studio to share their personal journeys in research, interspersed with five of their favourite pieces of music. Frederik Molin and Almira Farid are the hosts of this first season, taking listeners through the first five guests of the series.

In this episode, Almira is joined by Dr Mulaika Hijjas, lecturer in the Southeast Asian Studies Department. She talks about her journey into the Jawi language and the Malay Manuscript Tradition, and what it means to her to teach Southeast Asia from afar.

This is the final episode of Consent Vent, in which Sonja discusses the outcome of this series, and the potential risk of consent becoming a buzzword.

This is episode 7 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent.

In this episode we hear an anonymous testimony from a SOAS Student as well as from Carlos of Maricumbia.

This is episode 6 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent.

In this episode our producer Celine spoke to students about exoticisation & fetishisation and how it relates to consent.

Enough good jobs are vital to social cohesion. But people can't get and keep good jobs without skills. Mushtaq Khan and Jess Sinclair Taylor look into a highly funded development sector, skills training, and ask what could be done to combat corruption in the skills sector, using Mushtaq's work in Bangladesh as an example. The results have some far wider implications than you might imagine.