SOAS Radio

WE'RE BACK WITH OUR 10TH EPISODE!!!

This week, we welcome Dr. Dounia Mahlouly to speak about Digital Strategies for Counter Narratives. Dr. Mahlouly is lecturing at SOAS Centre for Global Media and Communications. She conducted her PhD research at the University of Glasgow, in partnership with the American University in Cairo and worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at King's College London, as part of the European consortium VOX-Pol. Her research interests are in the area of Media Studies and Political Communication. Her work focuses on the interplay between state and non-state actors' communication strategies in post-2011 North Africa. She is about to publish an ethnography of research in 'violent online political extremism', which is designed as a contribution to the current academic debates in critical terrorism studies.

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Dr Clark talks about the need for justice to be done in accessible, community spaces and how his book takes lessons learned from Rwanda and uses this to critique the broader workings of the International Criminal Court. We discuss the civil society space in Rwanda that and Dr Clark explains why it is a difficult space to operate in and how academic research by Rwandans can help to break this space open.

In this episode, Laura talks with Marc Ghazali, the organiser of Layers of a Ghost City, a walking tour of Downtown Beirut.

Marc tells us about the reconstruction of Downtown Beirut after the Civil War and its impact on the urban and social fabric of the area.

With the participation of Arjun Banerjee.

This week, we welcome Dr. Yenn Lee, to speak about Molka & Online Violations of Women in South Korea. Yenn is an active researcher in the field of digital culture and politics, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. At SOAS she also designs and delivers an institution-wide training programme for doctoral researchers. In addition to providing courses and workshops on research methods and skills, both online and offline, she is responsible for a range of other tasks to enhance postgraduate research experience.

Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-9-molka-in-south-korea

Listen to Saffa talk about her experience growing up in Holland as a Sudanese.

Taken from the LIVE SOAS Series

Born in Shiraz, Iran, Peyman Heydarian (پیمان حیدریان) is an award-winning santur (Iranian hammer dulcimer) virtuoso, computer scientist and musicologist. Over the years, he has adopted innovative tuning systems and performance techniques to play a multi-ethnic repertoire on santur and developed computer algorithms for the analysis of Persian musical signals. In addition to teaching at various London universities, Peyman has toured the world with his multi-ethnic programme ‘The Voice of Santur’ since 2010.

Urban Echoes Episode 2

In this episode, Mr B. tells us about being a teacher in London and the difficulties that schools and students are facing in the current socio-political landscape. Helped by a bottle of whisky, Mr B. navigates through the memories of his childhood and school life in India.

Interviewer: Laura Siegler

This week, we welcome Angad Chowdhry and Anurag Banerjee, the co-founders of Quilt.ai, the company using big data to understand people better. We speak to them about AI for Social Good.

Dr Angad Chowdhry completed his PhD from SOAS, the University of London. His academic specialization is anthropology and media studies. He has conducted big data / big culture research in over 70 countries across clients and industries. At Quilt.ai he is working on integrating the latest advances in cognitive computing with the exponentially increasing human data that is being openly generated to conduct anthropology at scale.

For almost a decade, Anurag Banerjee ran a 800 person team for global business development at American Express. He built a fee based Travel Big Data business to $1BB before starting on his entrepreneurial journey. He was employee number one at Jana Mobile (invested in by Publicis and Verizon ventures with $100MM raised). Post exiting Jana, he raised $150MM across multiple ventures he has backed / advised. SocialCops is his venture prior to Quilt.ai was funded by Ratan Tata & work for India’s Prime Minister Modi.

Discover more on our website: https://www.soascodingclub.com/soas-radio-episode-8-ai-for-social-good

This is episode 4 of SOAS Radio’s 10-part series Consent Vent.

This week we talk to Ella and Nana, co-founders of Black Fly, a sexual health zine for people of colour. We discussed the experiences that led them to create the zine, how they put it together and how it has led them to the work they are doing now. It was a lot of fun to record as well as very informative. Enjoy!

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