The University of Essex Podcast

Masters student Robert Struthers has been speaking to Dr Tom Quinn and Professor Paul Whiteley about the EU Referendum result and consequences for British politics. As well as the campaign and the result, the podcast covers the Labour leadership election, the future of the Conservatives under Theresa May, UKIP's electoral prospects, and the prospect of Scottish independence.

This seminar by Dr Katie Dow analyses how the contemporary British media represented this event, focusing on Louise’s parents, Lesley and John Brown, a working-class married couple in their thirties.

It will describe and analyse how the contemporary British media represented Lesley and John Brown, who came to be seen as deserving parents of the world’s first IVF baby and to stand as ciphers for a presumed universal, natural desire to have a child ‘of one’s own’.

This CISC Seminar explores the notion of ‘media-bodies’ and shows how Kim Kardashian-West’s vulva discursively and corporally demonstrates a cultural compulsion wherein skin must ‘speak’ its owner’s beauty, and where the appearances of bodies on screens are equally if not more important than their capacities as feeling, touching, mobile objects.

The CISC Seminar entitled ‘Sex in the village: Undisciplined daughters, subversive sexualities and intimate life in Sri Lanka’, by Dr Sandya Hewamanne took place on 14 October 2015. Showing how political and economic changes initiate struggles over meanings on intimacy, love, sex and marriage, the seminar discussed how desire, intimacy, sex and pleasure are locally specific, classed and are fluid over a person’s life trajectory.

Experts and artists came together in London to explore the relationship between freedom and art. Organised by Dr Shohini Chaudhuri and Professor Sanja Bahun of our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, with Director of the Essex Book Festival Ros Green, the event was headlined by exiled Uzbek novelist Hamid Ismailov.

Experts and artists came together in London to explore the relationship between freedom and art. Organised by Dr Shohini Chaudhuri and Professor Sanja Bahun of our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, with Director of the Essex Book Festival Ros Green, the event was headlined by exiled Uzbek novelist Hamid Ismailov.

Experts and artists came together in London to explore the relationship between freedom and art. Organised by Dr Shohini Chaudhuri and Professor Sanja Bahun of our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, with Director of the Essex Book Festival Ros Green, the event was headlined by exiled Uzbek novelist Hamid Ismailov.

Lorna McGregor, Director of our Human Rights Centre explains what students can expect from the 2015 Human Rights Summer School, a unique opportunity to be taught by leading academics and international practitioners. Find out more at: http://bit.ly/1udizxT

Professor Rainer Schulze discusses '70 years after the liberation of the camps' - the latest volume of the international journal The Holocaust in History and Memory. Professor Schulze, from the University of Essex, is founder and general editor of the journal. More information here: www.essex.ac.uk/history/journal_thhm/

Professor Sabine Michalowski explains why we must discuss the economic and social dimensions of transitional justice and what human rights experts can expect from the module on the subject at the 2015 Human Rights Summer School. http://www.essex.ac.uk/hrc/summerschool/default.aspx