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King's College London is one of the top 10 UK universities in the world (QS World University Rankings, 2018/19) and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 31,000 students (including more than 12,800 postgraduates) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 8,500 staff.
King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs.
Since our foundation, King’s students and staff have dedicated themselves in the service of society. King’s will continue to focus on world-leading education, research and service, and will have an increasingly proactive role to play in a more interconnected, complex world. Visit our website to find out more about Vision 2029, King’s strategic vision for the next 12 years to 2029, which will be the 200th anniversary of the founding of the university.
World-changing ideas. Life-changing impact: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/headlines.aspx
King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs.
Since our foundation, King’s students and staff have dedicated themselves in the service of society. King’s will continue to focus on world-leading education, research and service, and will have an increasingly proactive role to play in a more interconnected, complex world. Visit our website to find out more about Vision 2029, King’s strategic vision for the next 12 years to 2029, which will be the 200th anniversary of the founding of the university.
World-changing ideas. Life-changing impact: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/headlines.aspx
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Dr Cat Moir (University of Sydney)in conversation with Dr Sebastian Truskolaski (King's College London) about his new book, Adorno and the Ban on Images (Bloomsbury, 2021). Part of King's College London's Comparative Literature Department's research seminar series, 3 March 2021.
In the first episode of this podcast series, we’re talking about moving geographies. We will be discussing the very different ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has been narrated across the world with 12 languages represented by our ambassadors.
In episode two, we’re talking about the discourse differences between Coronavirus vs. COVID-19 in Italian, Russian, French, Arabic and German.
Want to hear a bit more on 20th Century music? Join Dr Heather Wiebe on our podcast! If you'd like to find out more, you can catch Heather in this talk she did for the BBC proms in 2016: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8d8gw
Music in a global context: Dr Katherine Schofield talks to us about classical music from India and how Hindustani music has been so influential. Discover more as part of your ethnomusicology modules on your BMus.
The 18th Century saw the emergence of musical culture as we know it. It was the era of the ‘Big 5’ – Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart and Heiden Professor Matthew Head gives us more information on the 18th century music we teach here at King’s and why we think this period is so important.
Latin American music is diverse – from traditional to popular. Dr Fred Moehn talks to Dr Flora Willson about the Latin American music we teach at King's and his favourite modules that you might explore as part of your ethnomusicology modules on your BMus.
What do we need to know about music from 900 years ago? Why does it still matter today? Discover fascinating medieval music and how you'll learn about it on your degree with Professor Emma Dillon.
Hear about the performance element of your degree – what is new about studying performance as part of a degree? Director of Performance, Dr Joe Fort talks us through this exciting element of your BMus – including our partnership with Royal Academy of Music.
What is composition such an important part of a music degree? Hear how composition fits into your BMus and how it will be taught as part of your degree, here at King’s College London.
So, what is Ethnomusicology? We explain what it is, how you'll study it and why it's important in this micro podcast with Dr Flora Willson.
On the BMus you'll be learning about musicology. Sounds great, right? But why and how do we study it? And what exactly is it? We hear more about how you will explore musicology with Dr Flora Willson, Professor Emma Dillon, Dr Ditlev Rindom and two current BMus students, Shadi and Zack.
Laurie McNeill on ‘Remediation, Repurposing, and Preservation: Networked Archives of Digital Lives’; keynote lecture, 8 June 2017, at IABA Europe Conference; considers social media sites as new forms of archive, exemplifying new forms of curatorship.
The Politics of Digital Life’: the first of three ‘thematic discussions’ in Ego Media’s International Network of leading life writing scholars meeting in September 2015.
Time and Space Online: Liveness, Authenticity, Locality’: the second of three ‘thematic discussions’ in Ego Media’s International Network of leading life writing scholars meeting in September 2015.
Laurie McNeill on ‘Remediation, Repurposing, and Preservation: Networked Archives of Digital Lives’; keynote lecture, 8 June 2017, at IABA Europe Conference; considers social media sites as new forms of archive, exemplifying new forms of curatorship
John David Zuern on ‘New Algorithms of the Soul: Internet Celebrity Memoirs and the Programmed Life’; keynote lecture, 9 June 2017, at IABA Europe Conference; analyses print memoirs by internet celebrities, which often combine the genres of memoir and self-help manual, but remediate the print memoir in the guise of Instagram and YouTube
'How I was forced to write a novel on forced migration and forced the novel to migrate’ – novelist, essayist, poet and translator Ulrike Draesner speaks (9 June 2017) about life writing on forced migration, and reads from her novel Sieben Sprünge vom Rand der Welt (Never Try This at Home; 2014)
Routine Quantification: Habit, Affect and Health’: the third of three ‘thematic discussions’ in Ego Media’s International Network of leading life writing scholars meeting in September 2015.
Author Laurence Scott in conversation with Max Saunders, 27 January 2016. Discussion of and readings from Scott’s The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World (London: Heinemann, 2015).
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