Talking Europe: The UCL European Institute podcast

Professor Derek Hill, UCL Centre for Medical Image Computing

Would the UK benefit from becoming an independent regulator on medical devices after Brexit?

In conversation with the European Institute’s Clément Leroy, Derek Hill discusses how medical devices are currently regulated at international level and what impact Brexit might have on this highly innovative, fast-moving policy area. As fears of a no-deal scenario grow, Derek argues that Brexit could be a catalyst for getting the UK research and business community to work better with regulators. This could help drive forward innovative thinking on how medical products get to the patients that need them, while ensuring they are safe and effective.

The podcast is part of our new Brexit and Beyond series.

This conversation explores the highly charged relationship between Greece and Germany at the height of the Eurozone Crisis, 2009-15. Claudia Sternberg (UCL), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (Oxford) and Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni (LSE) are in conversation with the European Institute’s Uta Staiger to discuss the many ways in which Greeks and Germans represented and often insulted one another in the media, how their self-understanding shifted in the process, and how this in turn affected their respective appraisal of the EU - and that which divides us or keeps us together as Europeans.

The conversation takes its departure from the eponymous book, which the three authors brought out with Palgrave in early 2018.

https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137547507

In this first podcast of a new series on EU policy beyond Brexit, Dr Nathan Lea, Senior Research Associate at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics, discusses the significance of the new European regulation protecting personal data.

He shares a very positive view of the GDPR, which manages to strike a subtle balance between the need to harmonise different national frameworks, the necessity to tackle misuses of personal data and a certain degree of flexibility to enable innovation. A true European success story that emulates similar legislations to be passed throughout the world.

In the fifth edition of our 'Talking Europe' podcast series, Miriam Leonard, Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception at UCL Classics, talks revolution, freedom and the role of Greek philosophy and tragedy in Hannah Arendt's thought.

The conversation, with the European Institute's Dr Uta Staiger, takes its point of departure from a Special Issue on Hannah Arendt and the Ancients in the Journal of Classical Philology (Jan 2018), which was edited by Prof. Leonard.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cp/2018/113/1

In the fourth edition of our 'Talking Europe' podcast, Dr Mererid Puw Davies, in conversation Dr Tim Beasley-Murray, explores the West-German anti-authoritarian protest movement of the 1960s. Focusing on the protests of 1967 and 1968 - nearly fifty years on from that pivotal year - the podcast delves in to the novel and creative forms and methods of protest adopted by the movement, from graffiti to agit-prop poetry, and what it tells us about similar social movements today.

Mererid Puw Davies is a Senior Lecturer in German at UCL. Her book, 'Writing and the West German Protest Movements: Textual Liberation' is available here: https://www.sas.ac.uk/support-research/publications/writing-and-west-german-protest-movements-textual-revolution

In the third of our 'Talking Europe' series of podcasts, Dr Rachel Morley, charts the changing representations of femininity in pre-revolutionary Russian cinema, in conversation with Dr Tim Beasley-Murray. Rachel is Lecturer in Russian Cinema and Culture at the UCL School of Slavonic Studies.

In the second European Institute podcast, Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL SSEES) interviews Philippe Sands (UCL Laws) about his award-winning book, East West Street. Professor Sands narrates the development of international criminal law through the experiences of the Nuremberg prosecutors and his own family members, weaving together intellectual history and personal biography. The book has been awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and the JQ Wingate Literary Prize, and it is the Waterstones 'Book of the Month' for April.

Tim Beasley-Murray talks wine and politics with Andrew WM Smith, in the first of the European Institute's new series of podcasts.

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