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As usual there are spoilers ahead! You can follow the podcast on social media: Instagram, Threads and BlueSky.You can support the podcast and get ad-free episodes on Patreon.Please be aware that we touch upon sexual assault in this episode due to the content of the film.DescriptionUSA in 1959 was on the brink of a decade that would see major changes in the country in terms of race. But never without opposition. It was also the year in which Harry Belafonte, at the peak of his fame, would star in The World, the Flesh and the Devil.The film centres Belafonte's character, Ralph Burton, as the last man on earth. A Black man at a time when the country was wrangling with desegregation. Ralph is joined by Sarah and Ben: White survivors who enter what was for a while his world. This episode focuses on race and racism and I am so lucky to have two amazing guests to help us put the plot and frustrations into context.Mark Bould is a professor of Film and Literature at the University of West England, Bristol. He has written/edited extensively about science fiction cinema. Stéphanie Larrieux is the associate director of the Centre for the study of Race and Ethnicity at Brown University. She wrote about the World, The Flesh and the Devil as part of her PhD. Chapters (times may vary slightly due to advertising!) 00:00 Introduction01:07 Why is this film largely unknown?03:10 Source material10:05 Harry Belafonte16:25 An empty Manhattan18:53 The last man on earth23:12 Double sight and racial panopticism24:26 Cultured and capable28:03 Sarah's unnerving feet31:31 The frustrations of this film35:26 Free, white and 21: Ralph and Sarah's relationship39:25 The hair cutting scene41:42 Ben comes to town: Mel Ferrer45:31 The ending47:09 Inger Stevens48:29 Ben's “idealism”49:47 The title50:28 Black protagonists in science fiction53:36 Legacy NEXT EPISODE!Next episode we will be talking about On The Beach (1959) starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins.You can visit Just Watch in your region to find out where you can watch this film although it seems to be easily available to rent or buy online. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You can find the podcast on Threads, Instagram and Bluesky. The Worst Film of All Time by The Worst Director of All Time. So claimed the 1980 book The Golden Turkey Awards by Michael and Harry Medved regarding the film Plan 9 from Outer Space and director Edward Wood Jr AKA Ed Wood. But this very title is one of the reasons behind the revival of the film and of Ed Wood. The film has issues with continuity, set design, dialogue and a coherent ‘Plan 9' but something about the film appeals to a subset of film lovers. Perhaps it's the flashes of style, the joy in its failings or perhaps it's a recognition of something beyond the traditional and often formulaic nature of mainstream narrative filmmaking. Today I speak with two wonderful film academics and fans of the film. The Experts Mark Bould is a professor of Film and Literature at the University of West England, Bristol. He has written/edited extensively about science fiction cinema. Rodney F Hill is a Professor of Film at the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication at Hofstra University and has written extensively about film. If you are interested in finding out how you can help the Prince Charles Cinema you can visit this page here.Chapters 00:00 Introduction 01:28 Ed Wood: Hollywood, Kubrick and Corman 05:04 Glen or Glenda, the production code and censorship 12:39 Plan 9 and the Baptist Church 14:33 Bela Lugosi and the rest of Ed Wood's crew 20:35 The Amazing Criswell 23:23 Plan 9: An unconventional classic 25:50 Why my guests love the film 34:04 Bad science 35:46 The more traditional aspects Plan 9 37:22 The Worst Film of All Time and The Worst Director of All Time 39:57 Ed Wood the outsider and the Church of Ed Wood 43:14 Comparison to mainstream films 45:21 The Legacy 48:08 Recommendations 50:37 Save the Prince Charles Cinema NEXT EPISODE! The next episode we will be discussing The Blob (1958) which is available to rent and buy online in many places. You can also watch the film on the Just Watch website which was quite unexpected! (And remember folks, Steve McQueen is supposed to be 17 years old in this film!)

As usual there are spoilers ahead!For the full show notes with no character limits you can visit the website. DescriptionCreature from the Black Lagoon released in 1954 is in many ways the epitome of 1950s science fiction cinema. Jack Arnold (director), William Alland (producer) and Richard Carlson (the leading man) were all people who has become associated with the increasingly popular genre. It also has a beautiful and stylish Julie Adams as the heroine, scientists on a mission and of course the monster. But there are no themes of nuclear radiation, Russian invasion or small town shenanigans here. The film was filmed in 3D although the peak of 3D popularity had faded and most viewers saw this film in 2D. Two absolute heavyweights of sci-fi research join me to enlighten us.The Experts Jay Telotte is a Professor Emeritus of film and media studies at Georgia Tech. He has written/edited numerous books and articles about science fiction film. Mark Bould is a professor of Film and Literature at the University of West England, Bristol. He has also written/edited extensively about science fiction cinema.You can take a look at the Forbidden Planet poster mentioned amongst others that have the same trope by viewing my instagram post here. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to the film and guests 02:16 Little Jay goes to the cinema 03:19 Universal monsters and comebacks 06:20 The mythical origin of the story 10:03 The monster, its maker and dangerous desires 21:37 Human invaders and Jack Arnold 23:22 Everybody loves Kay 28:59 Man, nature, science and the environment 29:12 Evolution: The Scopes Monkey Trial 33:32 1950s sci-fi: Space opera to the dangers of the depths 38:55 The Legacy: Sequels 45:00 Legacy cont: The Shape of Water 53:10 Recommendations for listenersNEXT EPISODE! Next episode we will be taking a closer look at Them! (1953). You can check Just Watch to see where it can be found in your region and the film is available to buy or rent at many outlets including Apple TV. 

As with all episodes of this podcast there are spoilers ahead!For full detailed shownotes (without character limits) you can choose the episode on the watch page here.If you would like to watch the Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers film serials they are available on YouTube. (Warning: the serials are repetitive and there are three Flash Gordon serials and one Buck Rogers!) The 1980 Mike Hodges Flash Gordon film is available to rent or buy at an array of outlets including Apple TV. Although it was Buck Rogers that triggered an array of copies after the comic strip was published in 1929, it is Flash Gordon  (one of those copies) that went on to have a film serial made with a lavish budget by Universal Pictures in 1936. Buck Rogers has had a significant impact in popular culture but the trajectory of Flash Gordon has eclipsed it in many ways.This week's experts bring you all their knowledge about how this came to be.The ExpertsJay Telotte is Professor Emeritus of film and media studies at Georgia Tech. He has written/edited numerous books and articles about science fiction film.Mark Bould is a professor of Film and Literature at the University of West England, Bristol. He has also written/edited many books on science fiction cinema.Chapters00:00 Introduction to show and guests01:39 Why a Flash Gordon film serial?09:58 The full bill cinema experience in 193611:55 The origins of the misaligned Space Opera14:29 Star Wars, George Lucas and his 1930s influences16:08 Post Star Wars Space Opera19:55 Pushing beyond a space adventure to social commentary 21:48 Flash Gordon: The damsel, the hero and the good scientist27:34 Ming the Merciless: Asian stereotypes, representation and racism32:42 Aliens, post code reshoots and the sexual current37:25 The 1980 Flash Gordon: Mark gushes while Jay waits42:45 Jay's reaction45:06 The legacy49:45 Recommendations NEXT EPISODE!The next episode will be covering an array of films about ‘Mad Scientists' from the 1930s and early 40s. I will share some of the titles here but it will be a topical discussion. Boris Karloff who came to fame for playing the monster in Frankenstein (1931) plays the role of the mad scientist in multiple films during this period, many that stray away from the science fiction genre or have a strong crossover with horror film. Some of these are: The Man Who Changed his Mind (1936), The Invisible Ray (1936), Black Friday (1940) and The Man with Nine Lives (1940).Aside from those we also have the film Frankenstein (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), The Island of Lost Souls(1932) and both Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde films (1931 and 1941). Metropolis (1927) has the scientist Rotwang who is an excellent earlier example of this trope.You can check JustWatch to find where these films are available to buy, rent or stream in your region. I have found many on Apple TV and some are available on YouTube.  

This bonus episode is a Blue Light Leavers Live Session that that we ran with Dominic McVeigh. Dom is a former cop and is now a lecturer with the University of West England. The university starts is new course in September 2024 'The BSc(Hons) Applied Criminal Justice Top-Up degree' It is specifically designed to offer you the chance to gain academic recognition alongside your invaluable on-the-job experience. It would allow you to complete a three-year degree in one year (when taken as a full-time course)! In this episode Dom explains what the course is, how it works and how to sign-up! If you are interested in signing up, you have until (Sunday) 30th June to do so for this year's course! Click on the link below to find out more about the course. https://bit.ly/UWEAppliedCriminalJusticeTopUp  Or you can email Dom on Dominic2.Mcveigh@uwe.ac.uk  If you like what you've heard, then please leave a review, and share it with friends and let people know that this podcast is out there. There's a lot of people looking at the moment, a lot of people struggling and so if there's a particular episode that resonates with you then just share it via WhatsApp or text and just let people know that it's there and please leave a review. If you go to the website ⁠⁠https://www.bluelightleavers.com/ ⁠⁠there's loads of information there about some of the amazing partnerships that we've got, CV writing services and LinkedIn and interview prep, and loads of other things as well, and tonnes of free stuff both within the Facebook group and on the website as well. We also advertise dozens of amazing jobs, every week in the private Facebook Group!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/bluelightleavers/  If you've no idea where to start, you're feeling overwhelmed and stuck, and just not sure what career you think would be best suited for you or what steps you need to take to make it happen, then you can book a career clarity coaching call through the website.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ This is 1:1 time via Zoom with a Blue Light Leavers Coach, to help you get complete clarity and identify the roles and courses that are best suited to you, create an action plan and overcome any blockers you may have. Not sure what roles you can do after the police, check out the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠'What jobs can I do after the Police?' Scorecard (scoreapp.com) through the website.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bluelightleavers/message

As with all episodes of this podcast there are spoilers ahead! For full detailed shownotes (without character limits) you can choose the episode on the watch page here. I would love for you to join in by watching the film King Kong here.Description:In early March 1933 the US welcomed Franklin D Roosevelt as their 32nd president. The longest lasting presidency in US history. That same weekend the original King Kong opened in theatres in New York. The huge ape was a big success and continues to wow audiences almost a century later. Although I have many dear friends and family members who adore this creature I have never been enraptured by him. I wanted to find two experts who really had love of this film as well as the knowledge and insight that would put the movie into context. The ExpertsMark Bould is a professor of Film and Literature at the University of West England, Bristol. He has written/edited multiple books on science fiction and the 1933 King Kong is one of his favourite films.Peter Conolly Smith is an Associate Professor of History at Queens College, CUNY. He specialises in American studies and also considers King Kong as one of his favourite films. Chapters00:00 My reading plans, a big thank you intro00:46 Introduction02:00 Why Mark loves the film03:40 Why Peter loves the film06:57 The meaning and relevance of pre-code films09:25 The great travelling filmmaking adventurers13:06 The Depression Era as King Kong19:28 Racism: inherent and the allegory27:32 The Scottsboro Boys trial30:28 Beauty and the Beast: the contamination of civilization36:08 Boyish adventure!39:04 Groundbreaking special effects41:53 The humanisation of Kong43:26 The legacy: Kong, Kaiju and Jurassic Park50:39 Conclusions51:10 Recommendations for listenersNEXT EPISODE!The next film we'll be speaking about it The Invisible Man. You can watch it here.Send me a text message.

A special welcome to Dan Wood today on the podcast. Dan is the Chief People Officer for the University of West England. The vesatile and diverse range of skills that Dan has brought to his role over the years have improved the performance, culture and impact of large and complex organisations, brought transformation to businesses, developed effective leaders and promoted social justice. // SHOUTOUT FOR TODAY'S GUEST Want to find out more about the great work Dan does? Check him out here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danrichardwood/?originalSubdomain=uk _______________________________ // FOLLOW US Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/core3uk/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/core3uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/core3 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/core3-uk/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRnUjt5R-Ad2LNETZfpsH6A Website: https://core3.co.uk/ _______________________________ //FOLLOW OUR HOST LEO LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/leohewett _______________________________ // LISTEN ON Apple Podcast: https: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-conscious-finance-podcast/id1655836849 Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-conscious-finance-pod7 Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/search/conscious%20finance%20podcast Amazon Podcast: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/148197e6-d350-4bf6-9bf8-d535d5716a6f/the-conscious-finance-podcast _______________________________

DTS: 04-12-2023 Join Rana Ata-ul-Rehman & Imran Akram for Monday's show from 4-6pm where we will be discussing: ‘Charity Week' and 'Silent Genocides' Charity Week UK Charity Week is designed to raise awareness for charities, at a time when people are statistically at their most giving. Join us today as we discuss the importance of giving and financial sacrifice. Silent Genocides Sadly, genocides have occurred throughout history, and continue to do so. Whilst some have received coverage, others are less known. Join us as we discuss this situation in Congo, Armenia & Sudan, and raise our voices to bring an end to all forms of such injustices. Guests: Kaleem Edwards (Charity worker for Humanity First) Anita Khachaturova (PhD student at Science Po, Free University of Brussels, researching the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict) Professor Phil Clark (Professor of International Politics, specialising in conflict & post-conflict issues at SOAS) Dr. Martin Crook (Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University of West England, PhD in examining the nexus between genocide and ecological destruction) Producers Sabiha Tariq and Fezia Haq

Chris and Alex are joined once more by Mark Bould, Professor of Film and Literature at the University of West England, for this Footnote episode that explores the origins and definitions of science-fiction storytelling. Expect turns to genre theory and the evolution of generic cycles, including the shifting ways that science fiction gets defined (and by whom); how science fiction moved from print magazines and paperback publishing to movie serials and the international and U.S. blockbuster; and the multimedia expansion of the genre that sits alongside the intensification of the study of science fiction into an academic discipline. **Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**

The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998) meets They Live (John Carpenter, 1988) in Shawn Levy's science-fiction comedy Free Guy (2021), which marks the director's first collaboration with charming Canadian Ryan Reynolds and is a film that confronts head-on contemporary anxieties around technology, choice, security, and artificial intelligence. Joining Chris and Alex to separate out their NPCs from their AI engines is Mark Bould, Professor of Film and Literature at the University of West England, and author of a number of books on the aesthetics, politics and philosophy of science-fiction storytelling. The focus of this episode of the podcast is on Free Guy's engagement with the spectacle and industry of videogames, as well as questions of sentience, play, and hyper-distracted spectatorship; its representation of the internet, digital culture, and communications technologies; repetitious acts and the labour of gaming; and what the smartness of Levy's film has to say about incremental freedom and better social relations via nods to the absurd normalising of gun culture in the U.S. and the damaging effects of toxic masculinity. **Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**

Topic discuss: "Holocaust Day reminds us to prevent further genocide" and "Family Feuds" Presenter: Raza Ahmad Danial Zia Holocaust Day reminds us to prevent further genocide: As we remember the awful events that took place during the Second World War, let us use Holocaust Day as a reminder to never let this repeat. Join us as we reflect on the lessons learnt from these tragedies, to address current genocides and prevent future ones. Family Feuds: What is the key to having a happy family? How can we stop minor matters from ruining a family's peace? Join us for today's show as we look at the important factors that lead to a happy family and what can be done to maintain a good relationship between family members. Guests: Professor Phil Clark – Professor of International Politics at SOAS University, Specialist in conflict and post-conflict issues. Dr. Martin Crook – Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of West England. Convener of BSA Sociology of Rights Group, Associate Editor of the Internation Journal of Human Rights Nasrin Begum – Qualified and UKCP Registered Family and Systemic Psychotherapist for East London Relationship Therapy (ELRT). Jane Robey – CEO of National Family Mediation Dr. Nihara Krause – Founder and CEO stem4 Producers: Fezia Haq and Sabiha Tariq

This programme is dedicated to the memory of Maddy Lawrence. Maddy lived in Sheet, attended Churcher's College and then the University of West England in Bristol. She lost her life in March 2022, aged just 20. Maddy sustained an injury playing rugby for her university team. Despite a courageous fight in hospital, Maddy died of sepsis two weeks later. Her parents established the Maddy's Mark charity in her memory.Eight months on, Shine Radio's Noni Needs hears from some of those who knew her best. Leyli Cowell, Abbie Jones, Krish Dheir, Hazel Joel and Will Clark share their personal memories of Maddy along with some of her favourite music.Shine Radio will continue to support the Maddy's Mark charity throughout 2023 and you can find out more about it, and hear other reports about its fundraising, at https://shineradio.uk/maddysmark/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of the Japan Station podcast, printmaker Wuon-Gean Ho joins us to talk about her time living and studying in Japan, printmaking, ukiyoe and more. About Wuon-Gean Ho Wuon-Gean Ho is an accomplished printmaker and is currently a Research Associate at the University of the West England's Center for Print Research. Topics Discussed About spending time in Kagoshima as part of the JET Programme Studying veterinary medicine Getting the Monbukagakusho Scholarship and studying in Japan Studying under printmaker Akira Kurosaki About making prints inspired by Wuon-Gean Ho's time studying verinarian medicine Learning how to make woodblock prints in Japan About learning Japanese while in Japan About the process of making a woodblock print About tacit knowledge as it relates to woodblock printmaking About the gomazuri technique in printmaking Documenting printmaking techniques About the bokashi effect in woodblock printmaking About some of Wuon-Gean Ho's favorite ukiyo-e woodblock print artists About the Honolulu Museum of Art's woodblcok print collection About Wuon-Gean Ho's printmaking workshops and general work And much more! Support on Patreon & Ko-fi If you enjoy Japan Station and want to ensure that we're able to produce more episodes, then please consider becoming a patron on Patreon.com. For a minimum pledge of $1 a month you'll get early access to all JapanKyo podcasts, bonus content, and more. And for $3 a month, you'll get access to Japanese Plus Alpha, a podcast produced by me (Tony Vega) that focuses on the Japanese language and all of its fascinating quirks. Also, all pledges get a shout-out on the show and my undying gratitude. Thank you in advance! Support Japan Station on Patreon You can also do a one time donation via Ko-fi. Support us on Ko-fi Links, Videos, Etc. For more on Wuon-Gean Ho's work: Wuon-Gean Ho Website Twitter Instagram Don't forget to check out the latest episode of Ichimon Japan. What's better:JET or Eikaiwa (Good & Bad of English Teaching in Japan) | Ichimon Japan 65 Follow Japankyo on Social Media Facebook (@JapankyoNews) Twitter (@JapankyoNews) Instagram (@JapanKyoNews) Full Show Notes Get the full version of show notes at https://www.japankyo.com/category/podcasts/japanstation/

This month Mark speaks with Professor Andrew Spicer about his book; Sean Connery Acting, Stardom and National Identity, and the upcoming season at Watershed, Sean Connery: Beyond Bond.Andrew is a Proffessor of Cultural Production at University of West England in Bristol and will also be giving an illustrated talk and Q&A before the showing of The Hill. For more information visit: watershed.co.uk

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On this episode of The Unfinished Print it is with honour, and great pleasure that I am able to present to you, my interview, with British  artist Rebecca Salter. We speak on her mokuhanga, her own work and work produced together with the Satō woodblock workshop in Kyōto. We discuss where Rebecca believes mokuhanga has gone since writing her book, Japanese Woodblock Printing (2001), a book which constantly inspires me in my own work. This book helps me to understand, what has felt at times to be such an esoteric and complicated art form, just a little bit more.  Please follow The Unfinished Print and my own mokuhanga work on Instagram @andrezadoroznyprints Twitter @unfinishedprint, or email me at theunfinishedprint@gmail.com Notes: may contain a hyperlink. Simply click on the highlighted word or phrase. Rebecca Salter - website, interviews with Royal Academy, 1 and 2. University of West England - once called Bristol Polytechnic, is a public research University located in Bristol, England. British Museum - is a public museum, located in London, England, and is focused on human history, arts and culture. It was established in 1753.  Kyoto City University of Arts - is a public university of the arts located in Kyōto, Japan, and was established in 1880. lithography - is a printing process which requires a stone or aluminum plate, and was invented in the 18th Century. More info, here from the Tate.  screen printing - also called, serigraphy, is a method of printing by using stencils and forcing the ink through a screen onto paper, or other fabric. More info, here. Akira Kurosaki 黒崎彰 (1937-2019) - one of the most influential woodblock print artists of the modern era. His work, while seemingly abstract, moved people with its vibrant colour and powerful composition. He was a teacher and invented the “Disc Baren,” which is a great baren to begin your mokuhanga journey with. At the 2021 Mokuhanga Conference in Nara, Japan there was a tribute exhibit of his life works. Azusa Gallery has a nice selection of his work, here. intaglio printmaking - is a style of printmaking, the opposite of relief printmaking, where scratches are made with a burin on the plate (copper, zinc, aluminum) and then dipped in acid. Ink and pigment is rubbed on with a brayer, brushes, etc. More info can be found, here.    scrolls - called kakemono 掛物 or emakimono 絵巻物  in Japanese. These scrolls contain many different types of themes and subjects. More info can be found, here. monoprint - is a print made from a re-printable block, such as wood, or an etched plate. It is usually a one and done type of printing with only one print being made. blue and white Japanese ceramics - are ceramics made for the Japanese market. Originally imported into Japan in the 17th Century from China, local Japanese ceramists from northern and southern Japan began locally producing ceramics. As trading with the Dutch escalated more porcelain wares were being imported from Europe into the Japanese port of Imari. Imari became the word to describe these types of blue and white ceramics.  Genji Monogatari emaki - is an elaborate scroll produced in 12th Century, Japan. It is based on the famous Tale of Genji, a tale written in the 11th Century and is attributed to Murasaki Shikibu (around 973-1014). You can find images of this scroll, here.  Edo Culture - the Edo Period of Japan (1603-1868) was a period of peace and prosperity for the Japanese military government, or bakufu. Led by the Tokugawa family, Edo period culture flourished in theatre, literature, and the arts. For a fantastic book on the subject please seek out, Edo Culture: Daily Life and Diversions of Urban Japan by Kazuo Nishiyama (trans. Gerald Groemer) and Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Ghost by Satoko Shimazaki.  Edo v. Kyōto Kabuki - kabuki theatre is a bombastic and powerful theatre from Japan. In its long history it has been generally attributed to both  Edo (Tōkyō) and Kyōto.  Edo kabuki is called aragoto kabuki and Kyōto kabuki is called wagoto kabuki. Aragoto kabuki is generally very loud and external, whereas Kyōto kabuki is more understated and gentle.  Satō woodblock workshop - is a traditional Japanese woodblock production house based in Kyōto, Japan. Here is an article from The Journal of Modern Craft with Rebecca Salter regarding this workshop.  Japanese woodblock of the 1950's and 1960's - post-war Japan was growing at an exponential rate, and this was true for the Japanese woodblock print. As the sōsaku-hanga movement began to out last the shin-hanga of the 1920's in terms of production, where most people could produce prints on their own,  American scholars , Oliver Statler (1915-2000), and James Michener (1907-1997), helped catalogue and document the burgeoning Japanese woodblock print movement through their books, The Floating World (1954), by Michener, and Modern Japanese Prints: An Art Reborn (1956) by Statler, for a Western audience. Along with the Western art scene and the 1951 São Paulo Art Biennial, Japanese woodblock prints began to be respected as a stand alone piece of fine art.  kozo paper -  is paper made from mulberry bark and is commonly used in woodblock printmaking, and cloth.  Echizen, Fukui - is a city located tin the prefecture of Fukui. The paper produced from this region is kozo, mitsumata, and gampi.  More information can be found from the website of Echizen Washi Village. Mosquito net technique - is a technique in ukiyo-e, and can of course be reproduced by the modern mokuhanga practitioner, where very fine lines are carved on two wood blocks and, when printed together, create the image of slight, thin netting. Rebecca Salter details this technique in her book, Japanese Woodblock Printing (2001)   Yale Center for British Art - located in New Haven, Connecticut, the YCBA is dedicated to British art of all types.  Louise Caan - is a British architect and teacher based in Oxford where she teaches architecture at the Oxford Brookes School of Architecture.  urushi zuri - is a technique which is used in traditional Japanese woodblock and mokuhanga, where pigment is mixed with nikawa (animal glue), and printed to enhance the enjoyment of the print. Usually seen in black hair, or garments represented in the print.  Japanese museums dedicated to Japanese woodblock -  if you are visiting Japan and are interested in the Japanese woodblock print you are spoiled for choice. This list is definitely not complete so I would advise doing some research for local museums which may be open in different parts of Japan you may be visiting. This list is a mix of museums dedicated specifically to the woodblock print, or museums dedicated to woodblock print artisans.  Finally, check online for larger art museums , galleries, and department stores, in the area that you're visiting to see whether they are having any shows dedicated to woodblock print artists, genres, etc. while you're there. I've added hyper-links. The Japan Ukiyo-e Museum  - Matsumoto, Nagano Sumida Hokusai Museum - Ryogoku, Tōkyō Ōta Memorial Museum of Art -  Harajukiu/Omotesando, Tōkyō Tokaidō Hiroshige Museum - Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Hokusai Museum - Obuse, Nagano Kamigata Ukiyo-e Museum -  Ōsaka CIty, Ōsaka Nakagawa Batō Hiroshige Museum - Nakagawa, Tōchigi Kawanabe Kyōsai Museum - Warabi, Saitama Naoko Matsubara - is a Japanese/Canadian contemporary artist, and sculptor, who lives and works in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.  She has focused much of her artistic life on making mokuhanga and has gained critical acclaim for it. My interview with Naoko Matsubara can be found, here.  Katsutoshi Yuasa - is a Japanese contemporary artist, and sculptor, who works predominantly in mokuhanga. He has  produced an incredible mount of work. My interview with Katsu can be found, here.  Brook Andrew - is an Australian contemporary artist who has shown internationally.  Ukiyo-e Censorship - the military Tokugawa government (bakufu) was not happy about being criticized. Ukiyo-e prints often lampooned authority with their imagery. Other artistic pursuits in Japan at the time, such as kabuki theatre, did the same. In ukiyo-e and Tokugawa history there were “reforms” which the bakufu created in order to stem this type of criticism. The Ehon Taikōki of 1804, which focused on woodblock prints and poetry, and The Tempo Reforms of 1841/42 that focused on actor prints, the manufacturing of woodblock prints,  and their price, to name just a few reasons.  William Evertson - is an American woodblock printmaker and sculptor based in Connecticut, USA, who's themes focus on the politics and process of The United States.   Annie Bissett - is an American mokuhanga printmaker based in Rhode Island, USA. She explores American life, past and present,  sexuality, and the esoteric through her prints. My interview with Annie Bissett can be found, here.  Paul Binnie - is a Scottish mokuhanga printmaker and painter, based in San Diego, USA. Having lived and worked in Japan in the 1990's, studying at the Yoshida atelier while there, Paul has successfully continued to make mokuhanga and his paintings.  Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition - is a summer exhibition held at the Royal Academy in London, England. It is an open submission, one which started in 1769, showcasing all types of artistic mediums.  余韻 - (yoin) - is a Japanese word which means “lingering memory.” The Lake District - is an area in North West of England which has numerous mountains, lakes, and a National Park. It has been an inspiration for many artists, writers, and actors for years. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  © Popular Wheat Productions opening and closing credit music - Cut/Copy - Rendevous from the album, I Thought of Numbers (2001) logo designed and produced by Douglas Batchelor and André Zadorozny  Disclaimer: Please do not reproduce or use anything from this podcast without shooting me an email and getting my express written or verbal consent. I'm friendly :) Слава Україну If you find any issue with something in the show notes please let me know. ***The opinions expressed by guests in The Unfinished Print podcast are not necessarily those of André Zadorozny and of Popular Wheat Productions.***      

Congratulations to Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II on her Platinum Jubilee! The Channel 5 documentary “Are You Being Served? Secrets and Scandals” - we can't wait to see it. Which do you love more: the original AYBS or AYBS-Again/Grace & Favour? Our poll shows an even split! Joanne Heywood, who played Miss. Lovelock, is unanimous in her choice of “Are You Being Served Again” / “Grace & Favour”. Professor Jeff defines “skeuomorph” thanks to a Unanimous Superman's tip. A live #1 hit with George Michael and Elton John. What would happen if an AI listened to every AYBS episode and wrote a new script? @KeatonPatti on twitter did this with Hallmark Christmas movies and we read a hilarious example. Mr. Brandon uncontrollably giggles again. Our “Moment of Butch”. What exactly -is- Mrs. Slocombe's foundation? And she wants to know exactly where that pub is… Jukeboxes. Air quality in the UK and the disaster in the 1952 called “The Great Smog”. A walking billboard for Reebok running gear. Mr. Humphries finds that 4 inches is more than acceptable. What does “ship shape and Bristol fashion” mean? A surprising slavery connection to a West England port city. Fun with non-sequiturs. “He really gets on my wick” = Cockney rhyming slang. Why can Mr. Humphries handle the Goblin vacuum? The political stunt from Boris Johnson to revert the UK away from the metric system to the old fashioned Imperial measurement system. Pulling a date/pulling a customer. The Benny Hill-like scene with Captain Peacock and the lawn mower. Mr. Humphries and Mavis cry together over cutting onions. A random Paul Lynde impression! Check out graceandfavour.net! Teseling the dirty sheets! Wendy Richard almost breaks character and laughs at the kitchen table. Lots of call backs to the original AYBS series in this episode! Cleg-Hampton, played by Maggie Holland, is past it. Mr. Volpone, played by Gorgon Peters, was in the original AYBS episode, who is amazing at playing an off-balanced British Rail waiter. The 3 new roles in AYBSA/Grace & Favour really added a lot to the new series- a tribute to Joanne Heywood, Fleur Bennett, and Billy Burden! Are there any clips of John Inman around from his PBS promotional tour in from the 1990s? Treat yourself to some That Does Suit Madame merch at our Bargain Basement podcast shop at imfree.threadless.com for t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, and more! Leave the show a voicemail at the Peacock Hotline: (662)-PEACOCK (662-732-2625) and find us on Twitter @DoesSuitMadame and #AYBS #AreYouBeingServed #ImFree #Britcom #comedy #MrHumphries #ThatDoesSuitMadame #GraceBros #podcast #LGBT #BlackLivesMatter #BBC #AreYouBeingServedAgain #GraceAndFavour #GraceAndFavor

Going overseas, heading off-grid, birdseye, and transferring .gpx files onto a Garmin GPS watch. In this month's podcast As many of us are venturing overseas again we look at - Overseas mapping - Official or TOPO Active/ OSMWe then will discuss going off grid – and using the - inReach mini/ inReach mini 2 We discuss the - End or Garmin's Birdseye VouchersWe will look at some training videos we have put together for those wanting to do a long-distance trail, whilst using a Garmin watch, either an Instinct or Fenix, to navigate with – Concentrating on the planning process you will need to go through.And then finally we have - Andy's top tips So, without a further a do let's get on with this month's GPS Training Podcast 1. Overseas mappingIt's nice to be back on this subject after the last two years – Garmin unitsOSM – Open Street/ Open-sourced maps – £19.99 - £29.99- Very much like Garmin's Topo Active maps - more here about TOPO ACTIVE maps v OS maps - Great if overlaying a .gpx file, as walking a long-distance trail etc Official maps - £73.99 - £138.99 - Garmin's ‘official' maps for each of the countries - We usually get then in around 7 – 14 days SatMap units – we are currently struggling to get overseas maps, but hopefully we will get a solution to this in the next few weeks, fingers crossed. To find out more about the new GPS Store > Maps 2. Going off grid – and using the - inReach mini/ inReach mini 2  What are the inReach mini's Not just a SOS button Already got a GPS device unit – what benefits does the inReach mini it give you To find out more about the range of Garmin inReach mini devices please go to our website – GPSTraining.co.uk > GPS Store and then – Two-way satellite communication 3. The next thing on this month's GPS Training Podcast - End or Garmin's Birdseye Vouchers 4. The next thing we are going to look at on this months Podcast is how we can plan a long-distance walk and get the info onto your GPS watch This subject and solution has come about after plenty of discussions in the GPS training office. The problem, if you are walking a long distance trail and you want to download a .gpx file and edit it into your day sections what's the best way to do this. What is a .gpx file? If you are using a handheld unit with OS maps how would you do this? Why can't you do this if you are a watch user? 1.5 hours to load the Fenix TOPO Active maps in BaseCampCan't edit in the online version of ConnectCan't edit in the online version of Explore So, the solution – BaseCamp with open-sourced maps on Export .gpx file into Connect To find out more and see the solution we have created some videos in the online resource – our online training platform. Please just go to gpstraining.co.uk > Click on Online resource, on the top menu bar. When you are on the online resource click on – Courses > GPX Library 5. The next thing on this month's GPS Training Podcast is Andy's top tips - Units with Topo Active Maps – + you have OS mapsView maps in GB Maybe cycling or in city etcSetup – Map – Configure Maps make sure any worldwide dem, Topo Active all enabled – touch screen, 66s coloured tab, disable any maps on micro card eg topo pro 1:50k, North Scotland, South Scotland, West England, East England North England Etrex22/32 – Setup – Map – Map information With Digital Maps Change Detail – Advanced Setup – Detail from Normal to higher level NB If you are updating Topo Active Maps on etrex22/32/Touch, Montana 700i or 750i you will need a separate 16gb Card they can take several hours make sure computer sleep modes off To find more top tips please do sign up for the GPS Training online resource, this is packed full of video top tips. Go to our website – gpstraining.co.uk and click on the – Online resource – on the top menu bar And Finally Jon leads Many thanks for listening to this month's Podcast.

Going overseas, heading off-grid, birdseye, and transferring .gpx files onto a Garmin GPS watch. In this month's podcast As many of us are venturing overseas again we look at - Overseas mapping - Official or TOPO Active/ OSMWe then will discuss going off grid – and using the - inReach mini/ inReach mini 2 We discuss the - End or Garmin's Birdseye VouchersWe will look at some training videos we have put together for those wanting to do a long-distance trail, whilst using a Garmin watch, either an Instinct or Fenix, to navigate with – Concentrating on the planning process you will need to go through.And then finally we have - Andy's top tips So, without a further a do let's get on with this month's GPS Training Podcast 1. Overseas mappingIt's nice to be back on this subject after the last two years – Garmin unitsOSM – Open Street/ Open-sourced maps – £19.99 - £29.99- Very much like Garmin's Topo Active maps - more here about TOPO ACTIVE maps v OS maps - Great if overlaying a .gpx file, as walking a long-distance trail etc Official maps - £73.99 - £138.99 - Garmin's ‘official' maps for each of the countries - We usually get then in around 7 – 14 days SatMap units – we are currently struggling to get overseas maps, but hopefully we will get a solution to this in the next few weeks, fingers crossed. To find out more about the new GPS Store > Maps 2. Going off grid – and using the - inReach mini/ inReach mini 2  What are the inReach mini's Not just a SOS button Already got a GPS device unit – what benefits does the inReach mini it give you To find out more about the range of Garmin inReach mini devices please go to our website – GPSTraining.co.uk > GPS Store and then – Two-way satellite communication 3. The next thing on this month's GPS Training Podcast - End or Garmin's Birdseye Vouchers 4. The next thing we are going to look at on this months Podcast is how we can plan a long-distance walk and get the info onto your GPS watch This subject and solution has come about after plenty of discussions in the GPS training office. The problem, if you are walking a long distance trail and you want to download a .gpx file and edit it into your day sections what's the best way to do this. What is a .gpx file? If you are using a handheld unit with OS maps how would you do this? Why can't you do this if you are a watch user? 1.5 hours to load the Fenix TOPO Active maps in BaseCampCan't edit in the online version of ConnectCan't edit in the online version of Explore So, the solution – BaseCamp with open-sourced maps on Export .gpx file into Connect To find out more and see the solution we have created some videos in the online resource – our online training platform. Please just go to gpstraining.co.uk > Click on Online resource, on the top menu bar. When you are on the online resource click on – Courses > GPX Library 5. The next thing on this month's GPS Training Podcast is Andy's top tips - Units with Topo Active Maps – + you have OS mapsView maps in GB Maybe cycling or in city etcSetup – Map – Configure Maps make sure any worldwide dem, Topo Active all enabled – touch screen, 66s coloured tab, disable any maps on micro card eg topo pro 1:50k, North Scotland, South Scotland, West England, East England North England Etrex22/32 – Setup – Map – Map information With Digital Maps Change Detail – Advanced Setup – Detail from Normal to higher level NB If you are updating Topo Active Maps on etrex22/32/Touch, Montana 700i or 750i you will need a separate 16gb Card they can take several hours make sure computer sleep modes off To find more top tips please do sign up for the GPS Training online resource, this is packed full of video top tips. Go to our website – gpstraining.co.uk and click on the – Online resource – on the top menu bar And Finally Jon leads Many thanks for listening to this month's Podcast.

In this episode, we speak with Fleur Hughes from Calgary Alberta. Fleur discusses her humanistic approach to Music Therapy using Improvisation with children along with inspiring advice for new music therapists based on her clinical career. Here is a little more about Fleur: Fleur Hughes completed her Music Therapy Master's degree at the University of West England in 2015 and is working towards a PHD focusing on improvisation, mental health and well-being. Fleur's therapeutic approach is rooted in a person-centered, humanistic perspective - she is currently working as a certified music therapist (MTA) in a special education school with elementary aged children diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders. Fleur also serves as the ethics director for the MTAA and received the 2020 Advocacy Award from the CAMT.

Oliver is joined by Wuon-Gean Ho, printmaker and research associate at the University of West England's Centre for Print Research, to discuss the place of mokuhanga, or woodblock printmaking, in the global spread of traditional crafts. Wuon-Gean Ho walks us through her path to mokuhanga, her experience learning from a master printmaker in Japan and how learning these traditional methods have shaped her growth as an artist. Watch Wuon-Gean's V&A film Download the full transcript here (PDF) IMAGE AND AUDIO CREDITS Intro-outro music: jasonszklarek / MotionElements.com [L] Lockdown Chop by Wuon-Gean Ho. [R] No Lake View, No Cake by Wuon-Gean Ho. Copyright © 2022 Oliver Moxham, ℗ 2022 Oliver Moxham. May be freely distributed for education purposes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beyond-japan/message

A bird's eye view of how the market-driven society has evolved into a potent catalyst for "disinformation" and conspiracy theories. This week's guest is Marcus Gilroy-Ware, senior lecturer in digital journalism at the University of West England and the author of 2017's 'Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism & Social Media' and 2020's ‘After The Fact: The Truth About Fake News'. ↓↓↓↓ SUBSCRIBE FOR $5 A MONTH SO YOU DON'T MISS THE SECOND WEEKLY EPISODE ↓↓↓↓ https://www.patreon.com/QAnonAnonymous Follow Marcus Gilroy-Ware & find his book 'After the Fact': http://www.mjgw.net Follow Liv Agar and find her podcast: http://www.livagar.com Our first QAA records release: 'Hikikomori Lake' by Nick Sena is available to listen for free at http://qaarecords.bandcamp.com (12 original tracks) QAA Merch / Join the Discord Community / Find the Lost Episodes / Etc: https://qanonanonymous.com Episode music by Pontus Berghe, editing by Corey Klotz.

When inspiration struck Robert McCrum to write a book about the Bard, it came while watching one of the playwright's plays in Central Park, New York. Here, McCrum realized that we, today, are undoubtedly living in Shakespearean times. Joe Krulder, a British Historian, interviews Robert about his latest book, Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption (Pegasus Books, 2021) Current events such as the Covid-19 Pandemic, the election and then four years of Donald Trump's presidency, and this twenty-first-century obsession with conspiracy theories, mirror London's many plagues from 1592 to 1603, Shakespeare's Caesar and Richard III, and of course our post-modern social media outlets are simply riddled with conspiracies. Shakespearean, indeed. What Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption accomplishes is to place the reader in William Shakespeare's London. There is danger at Bishops Gate, the neighborhood the Bard chose to reside in; danger appeared both from below and above. Sword fights, punch ups, and stabbings demarcate a rough “from below” existence while political intrigues from the execution of the Earl of Essex to the Gun Powder Plot of 1605 imperilled all of London's theatre productions if not William Shakespeare himself. Robert McCrum is the author of dozens of works, fiction as well as non-fiction, plus he's an Emmy Award-winning documentarian. A long-time editor for Faber and Faber and The Observer, McCrum career continues on despite a stroke. His recovery gave him time to read and Shakespeare, once again, filled his gaze. Joe Krulder is the author of The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain (Routledge 2021) teaching college History in Northern California. Joe earned his doctorate at the University of Bristol in West England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When inspiration struck Robert McCrum to write a book about the Bard, it came while watching one of the playwright's plays in Central Park, New York. Here, McCrum realized that we, today, are undoubtedly living in Shakespearean times. Joe Krulder, a British Historian, interviews Robert about his latest book, Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption (Pegasus Books, 2021) Current events such as the Covid-19 Pandemic, the election and then four years of Donald Trump's presidency, and this twenty-first-century obsession with conspiracy theories, mirror London's many plagues from 1592 to 1603, Shakespeare's Caesar and Richard III, and of course our post-modern social media outlets are simply riddled with conspiracies. Shakespearean, indeed. What Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption accomplishes is to place the reader in William Shakespeare's London. There is danger at Bishops Gate, the neighborhood the Bard chose to reside in; danger appeared both from below and above. Sword fights, punch ups, and stabbings demarcate a rough “from below” existence while political intrigues from the execution of the Earl of Essex to the Gun Powder Plot of 1605 imperilled all of London's theatre productions if not William Shakespeare himself. Robert McCrum is the author of dozens of works, fiction as well as non-fiction, plus he's an Emmy Award-winning documentarian. A long-time editor for Faber and Faber and The Observer, McCrum career continues on despite a stroke. His recovery gave him time to read and Shakespeare, once again, filled his gaze. Joe Krulder is the author of The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain (Routledge 2021) teaching college History in Northern California. Joe earned his doctorate at the University of Bristol in West England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

When inspiration struck Robert McCrum to write a book about the Bard, it came while watching one of the playwright's plays in Central Park, New York. Here, McCrum realized that we, today, are undoubtedly living in Shakespearean times. Joe Krulder, a British Historian, interviews Robert about his latest book, Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption (Pegasus Books, 2021) Current events such as the Covid-19 Pandemic, the election and then four years of Donald Trump's presidency, and this twenty-first-century obsession with conspiracy theories, mirror London's many plagues from 1592 to 1603, Shakespeare's Caesar and Richard III, and of course our post-modern social media outlets are simply riddled with conspiracies. Shakespearean, indeed. What Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption accomplishes is to place the reader in William Shakespeare's London. There is danger at Bishops Gate, the neighborhood the Bard chose to reside in; danger appeared both from below and above. Sword fights, punch ups, and stabbings demarcate a rough “from below” existence while political intrigues from the execution of the Earl of Essex to the Gun Powder Plot of 1605 imperilled all of London's theatre productions if not William Shakespeare himself. Robert McCrum is the author of dozens of works, fiction as well as non-fiction, plus he's an Emmy Award-winning documentarian. A long-time editor for Faber and Faber and The Observer, McCrum career continues on despite a stroke. His recovery gave him time to read and Shakespeare, once again, filled his gaze. Joe Krulder is the author of The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain (Routledge 2021) teaching college History in Northern California. Joe earned his doctorate at the University of Bristol in West England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

When inspiration struck Robert McCrum to write a book about the Bard, it came while watching one of the playwright's plays in Central Park, New York. Here, McCrum realized that we, today, are undoubtedly living in Shakespearean times. Joe Krulder, a British Historian, interviews Robert about his latest book, Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption (Pegasus Books, 2021) Current events such as the Covid-19 Pandemic, the election and then four years of Donald Trump's presidency, and this twenty-first-century obsession with conspiracy theories, mirror London's many plagues from 1592 to 1603, Shakespeare's Caesar and Richard III, and of course our post-modern social media outlets are simply riddled with conspiracies. Shakespearean, indeed. What Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption accomplishes is to place the reader in William Shakespeare's London. There is danger at Bishops Gate, the neighborhood the Bard chose to reside in; danger appeared both from below and above. Sword fights, punch ups, and stabbings demarcate a rough “from below” existence while political intrigues from the execution of the Earl of Essex to the Gun Powder Plot of 1605 imperilled all of London's theatre productions if not William Shakespeare himself. Robert McCrum is the author of dozens of works, fiction as well as non-fiction, plus he's an Emmy Award-winning documentarian. A long-time editor for Faber and Faber and The Observer, McCrum career continues on despite a stroke. His recovery gave him time to read and Shakespeare, once again, filled his gaze. Joe Krulder is the author of The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain (Routledge 2021) teaching college History in Northern California. Joe earned his doctorate at the University of Bristol in West England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

When inspiration struck Robert McCrum to write a book about the Bard, it came while watching one of the playwright's plays in Central Park, New York. Here, McCrum realized that we, today, are undoubtedly living in Shakespearean times. Joe Krulder, a British Historian, interviews Robert about his latest book, Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption (Pegasus Books, 2021) Current events such as the Covid-19 Pandemic, the election and then four years of Donald Trump's presidency, and this twenty-first-century obsession with conspiracy theories, mirror London's many plagues from 1592 to 1603, Shakespeare's Caesar and Richard III, and of course our post-modern social media outlets are simply riddled with conspiracies. Shakespearean, indeed. What Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption accomplishes is to place the reader in William Shakespeare's London. There is danger at Bishops Gate, the neighborhood the Bard chose to reside in; danger appeared both from below and above. Sword fights, punch ups, and stabbings demarcate a rough “from below” existence while political intrigues from the execution of the Earl of Essex to the Gun Powder Plot of 1605 imperilled all of London's theatre productions if not William Shakespeare himself. Robert McCrum is the author of dozens of works, fiction as well as non-fiction, plus he's an Emmy Award-winning documentarian. A long-time editor for Faber and Faber and The Observer, McCrum career continues on despite a stroke. His recovery gave him time to read and Shakespeare, once again, filled his gaze. Joe Krulder is the author of The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain (Routledge 2021) teaching college History in Northern California. Joe earned his doctorate at the University of Bristol in West England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

When inspiration struck Robert McCrum to write a book about the Bard, it came while watching one of the playwright's plays in Central Park, New York. Here, McCrum realized that we, today, are undoubtedly living in Shakespearean times. Joe Krulder, a British Historian, interviews Robert about his latest book, Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption (Pegasus Books, 2021) Current events such as the Covid-19 Pandemic, the election and then four years of Donald Trump's presidency, and this twenty-first-century obsession with conspiracy theories, mirror London's many plagues from 1592 to 1603, Shakespeare's Caesar and Richard III, and of course our post-modern social media outlets are simply riddled with conspiracies. Shakespearean, indeed. What Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption accomplishes is to place the reader in William Shakespeare's London. There is danger at Bishops Gate, the neighborhood the Bard chose to reside in; danger appeared both from below and above. Sword fights, punch ups, and stabbings demarcate a rough “from below” existence while political intrigues from the execution of the Earl of Essex to the Gun Powder Plot of 1605 imperilled all of London's theatre productions if not William Shakespeare himself. Robert McCrum is the author of dozens of works, fiction as well as non-fiction, plus he's an Emmy Award-winning documentarian. A long-time editor for Faber and Faber and The Observer, McCrum career continues on despite a stroke. His recovery gave him time to read and Shakespeare, once again, filled his gaze. Joe Krulder is the author of The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain (Routledge 2021) teaching college History in Northern California. Joe earned his doctorate at the University of Bristol in West England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

When inspiration struck Robert McCrum to write a book about the Bard, it came while watching one of the playwright's plays in Central Park, New York. Here, McCrum realized that we, today, are undoubtedly living in Shakespearean times. Joe Krulder, a British Historian, interviews Robert about his latest book, Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption (Pegasus Books, 2021) Current events such as the Covid-19 Pandemic, the election and then four years of Donald Trump's presidency, and this twenty-first-century obsession with conspiracy theories, mirror London's many plagues from 1592 to 1603, Shakespeare's Caesar and Richard III, and of course our post-modern social media outlets are simply riddled with conspiracies. Shakespearean, indeed. What Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption accomplishes is to place the reader in William Shakespeare's London. There is danger at Bishops Gate, the neighborhood the Bard chose to reside in; danger appeared both from below and above. Sword fights, punch ups, and stabbings demarcate a rough “from below” existence while political intrigues from the execution of the Earl of Essex to the Gun Powder Plot of 1605 imperilled all of London's theatre productions if not William Shakespeare himself. Robert McCrum is the author of dozens of works, fiction as well as non-fiction, plus he's an Emmy Award-winning documentarian. A long-time editor for Faber and Faber and The Observer, McCrum career continues on despite a stroke. His recovery gave him time to read and Shakespeare, once again, filled his gaze. Joe Krulder is the author of The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain (Routledge 2021) teaching college History in Northern California. Joe earned his doctorate at the University of Bristol in West England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

When inspiration struck Robert McCrum to write a book about the Bard, it came while watching one of the playwright's plays in Central Park, New York. Here, McCrum realized that we, today, are undoubtedly living in Shakespearean times. Joe Krulder, a British Historian, interviews Robert about his latest book, Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption (Pegasus Books, 2021) Current events such as the Covid-19 Pandemic, the election and then four years of Donald Trump's presidency, and this twenty-first-century obsession with conspiracy theories, mirror London's many plagues from 1592 to 1603, Shakespeare's Caesar and Richard III, and of course our post-modern social media outlets are simply riddled with conspiracies. Shakespearean, indeed. What Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption accomplishes is to place the reader in William Shakespeare's London. There is danger at Bishops Gate, the neighborhood the Bard chose to reside in; danger appeared both from below and above. Sword fights, punch ups, and stabbings demarcate a rough “from below” existence while political intrigues from the execution of the Earl of Essex to the Gun Powder Plot of 1605 imperilled all of London's theatre productions if not William Shakespeare himself. Robert McCrum is the author of dozens of works, fiction as well as non-fiction, plus he's an Emmy Award-winning documentarian. A long-time editor for Faber and Faber and The Observer, McCrum career continues on despite a stroke. His recovery gave him time to read and Shakespeare, once again, filled his gaze. Joe Krulder is the author of The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain (Routledge 2021) teaching college History in Northern California. Joe earned his doctorate at the University of Bristol in West England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

When inspiration struck Robert McCrum to write a book about the Bard, it came while watching one of the playwright's plays in Central Park, New York. Here, McCrum realized that we, today, are undoubtedly living in Shakespearean times. Joe Krulder, a British Historian, interviews Robert about his latest book, Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption (Pegasus Books, 2021) Current events such as the Covid-19 Pandemic, the election and then four years of Donald Trump's presidency, and this twenty-first-century obsession with conspiracy theories, mirror London's many plagues from 1592 to 1603, Shakespeare's Caesar and Richard III, and of course our post-modern social media outlets are simply riddled with conspiracies. Shakespearean, indeed. What Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption accomplishes is to place the reader in William Shakespeare's London. There is danger at Bishops Gate, the neighborhood the Bard chose to reside in; danger appeared both from below and above. Sword fights, punch ups, and stabbings demarcate a rough “from below” existence while political intrigues from the execution of the Earl of Essex to the Gun Powder Plot of 1605 imperilled all of London's theatre productions if not William Shakespeare himself. Robert McCrum is the author of dozens of works, fiction as well as non-fiction, plus he's an Emmy Award-winning documentarian. A long-time editor for Faber and Faber and The Observer, McCrum career continues on despite a stroke. His recovery gave him time to read and Shakespeare, once again, filled his gaze. Joe Krulder is the author of The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain (Routledge 2021) teaching college History in Northern California. Joe earned his doctorate at the University of Bristol in West England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts

Roger Griffith, a Black British Social Entrepreneur and faculty member at the University of West England spoke to us from Britain. He shared the dichotomy of being Black and being called "British Boy". Roger expressed frustration about the unhealthy obsession towards Black men, yet he conveyed his optimism as he salutes the Windrush generation with a well articulated poem."I've always knew there is good and bad in every race, and that's pretty much how I've judged my life. One of the books that changed my life was the work of Malcolm X, and he referred to white people as devils and the like. I had to go through some kind of reckoning because I just couldn't see that as possible. My friends weren't devils...." - Roger Griffith

Hey Kittens! We've got a 2 hour episode for you this week, and you're so very welcome! SEVERE TRIGGER WARNING FOR GRAPHIC CONTENT. In this story, we discuss incest, rape and murder. This story is by far the worst we've covered to date. I'd say grab your Capri Sun and your Dunkaroos, but you won't have much of an appetite after hearing this. 

Hey Kings & Queens, it was such an honour to be asked to speak at the University of West England's Sexpression event where they held a 16 day campaign dedicated to raising awareness of domestic violence and abuse. As many of you know, I was in an abusive relationship only a few years ago and and I'm extremely passionate about raising awareness about the types of things that unfortunately many of us have experienced. I really hope in sharing my story it helps those of you being abused, to understand that it IS abuse and to ask for help, and those of you supporting someone you love through this type of trauma, you're able to help them through the process of finding their inner strength to leave. you are not alone! I know it's so difficult, so draining and so isolating. but you are not alone, and there really is a way out. UK National Domestic Abuse Hotline: 0808 2000 247 https://www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk USA National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1−800−799−7233 https://www.thehotline.org AUS National Domestic Violence Helpline: 1800 737 732 https://www.1800respect.org.au Thank you so much for all of your support, it means the world ❤️ Love Xana

The pandemic has forced millions out of work. Many of whom have turned to temporary or independent employment alternatives. In HRchat episode 237, we look at the sharp rise in the size of the gig workforce as a result of the pandemic and the challenges and opportunities it brings for HR. Bill's guest is Dr. Rochelle Haynes, Senior Lecturer at the University of West England and Founder at Crowd Potential. As a consultant lecturer at UWE, and keynote speaker, Rochelle has delivered specialist online and offline interactive workshops across different regions including Europe, Latin America, and Asia, on topics including career enhancement, performance management, digital transformation, leadership development, and changing work practices. She also volunteers with the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) as an employability mentor.Rochelle specializes in the emerging field of ‘gig HR’, a term she coined to describe using HRM to help companies enhance their working relationships with contract or ‘gig workers’, ‘digital nomads’ and other offsite stakeholders, whose physical contact with organizations is limited or non-existent. She has published work on managing the blended workforce and performance management in the gig economy was recently invited to speak at the annual CIPD Festival of Work conference on the impact of COVID-19 in the gig economy.Listen to the episode to get Rochelle's answers to such questions as:What benefits and responsibilities do gig workers want? How can HR manage gig workers?How has the gig economy been shaped by the pandemic?What is 'GigHR' and why did you create this framework?What are the challenges and priorities for business when managing in the current context? This podcast episode is supported by Virgin Pulse. Learn more about how the employee well-being solution helps employees create habits that matter so they can be their best at work and at home.We do our best to ensure editorial objectivity. The views and ideas shared in this episode are entirely independent of our show sponsors. There is no relationship between the guest and companies advertising within the podcasts published by The HR Gazette or our partners.

Engineering Success interviews Georgia Thompson a Civil Engineer at BAM Nuttall and the Co-Founder of D-VERS-TY Georgia is passionate about personal leadership and an advocate for changing cultures in diversity, inclusion and innovation. Currently a Design Delivery Coordinator at BAM Nuttall, Georgia is responsible for the pre-construction delivery of railway bridge renewals and refurbishments in the South East on behalf of Network Rail as well as innovation lead for the Rail South team in Sevenoaks. Georgia is the Co-Founder of D-VERS-TY a social enterprise dedicated to challenging the habit of identifying differences before recognising attributes and talents in Engineering and Technology fields. D-VERS-TY are currently running their mentorship scheme between students at the University of West England and graduates at Rolls Royce, aimed to develop inclusive leaders. Georgia is the communications officer for the Railway Civil Engineering Association, promoting the benefits of railway civil engineering and an advisory board member for I Dare 2 inspire, a social enterprise designed to empower and raise the aspirations of under-represented young people.

Dr Jane Meyrick is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at the University of West England, Bristol. She is qualified as a Chartered Health Psychologist and is a Public Health Specialist. She has worked at policy and service levels on sexual health for the last 20 years and leads on sexual health, sexual and reproductive rights/violence. She also co-leads the research on sexual abuse/violence at UWE, Bristol. In this conversation, Jane shared her forthcoming research on the prevalence of sexual abuse at universities and experiences of survivors with reporting procedures at universities. She explained the various ways universities can 'earn' disclosures from survivors.

Check out this video and get the best insights to why you should choose to study abroad at UWE in Bristol.

Welcome fellow travelers!  Your hosts Jamie and Skander talk with Keston Perry, lecturer and political economist at the University of West England. We discuss his theory of the disproportionate effect that climate change has on low-income countries, and in what ways this is rooted in historical colonialism. We talk about why high-income countries should offer reparations to low-income countries, to help them conduct projects and build the infrastructure to better resist the effects of climate change. Let us know your thoughts at risingwiththetide@gmail.com as well as what you'd like us to talk about next!   Song: "Quicksand" by Jointpop

Daniela Gabor is a professor of economics and macrofinance at the University of West England at Bristol, where she works on shadow banking, capital markets, and transnational banking. Daniela is also a returning guest to the podcast, and she has a new paper out on the burgeoning field of critical macrofinance and how it sheds light on the past great financial crisis (2007-2009) and the present COVID-19 crisis. She re-joins Macro Musings to discuss this paper and how it can offer important insight into the current global economic environment.   Transcript for the episode can be found here: https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/tags/macro-musings   Daniela’s Twitter: @DanielaGabor Daniela’s UWE Bristol profile: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/DanielaGabor   Related Links:   *Critical Macro-Finance: A Theoretical Lens* by Daniela Gabor http://financeandsociety.ed.ac.uk/article/view/4408   *The Role of Time-Critical Liquidity in Financial Markets* by David Marshall and Robert Steigerwald https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/economic-perspectives/2013/2q-marshall-steigerwald   *The Growth of Financial Banking* by Anna Youngman https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/251239?mobileUi=0&   *Daniela Gabor on Safe Assets and Shadow Banking* https://macromusings.libsyn.com/103-daniela-gabor-on-safe-assets-and-shadow-banking   David’s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth

UK film policy is almost entirely geared towards fiction, while the unique challenges facing the documentary sector are overlooked. It’s high-time the UK had a bespoke policy framework to support its documentary makers. What kinds of interventions are needed? How should they be developed? This session invites panelists and audience members alike to collectively brainstorm demands to better meet the needs of theatrical docs. The session is part of ‘UK Feature Docs’, an AHRC-funded study of the UK’s feature-length film industry being undertaken at the University of West England, and led by Dr Steve Presence, who chairs the discussion. Findings of this study will be published on 11 June 2020. 

Ruramiso Mashumba farms in eastern Zimbabwe. She grows indigenous organic grains including maize, whole brown rice, sorghum, millet and gumtrees. She also grows peas for export and breeds cattle. Ruramiso holds an Agriculture Business Management degree from the University of West England and University of Iowa. She has 10 years’ experience in agriculture and has served in leadership roles as well as winning many awards and fellowships. She is passionate about empowering women in Africa to combat poverty and malnutrition by empowering and equipping them with skills and knowledge in agriculture. SHOW NOTES: www.femalefarmerproject.org/the-podcast/2020/2/22/empowering-female-farmers-in-africa-with-ruramiso-mashumba LETS CONNECT!! twitter.com/femalefarmers www.instagram.com/rootedinthevalley/ www.facebook.com/FemaleFarmerProject/ www.femalefarmerproject.org

This is part two of Tricia's conversation with Fleur. In this episode, Fleur and Tricia discuss the importance of receiving supervision as a Music Therapist, as well as advice for being a supervisor yourself. Fleur completed a Master's in Music Therapy degree at the University of West England in 2015. […]

This is part two of Tricia’s conversation with Fleur. In this episode, Fleur and Tricia discuss the importance of receiving supervision as a Music Therapist, as well as advice for being a supervisor yourself. Fleur completed a Master’s in Music Therapy degree at the University of West England in 2015. Since then she has worked […]

Aristeidis Lappas (Athens, 1993) lives and work in Athens. He studies for a BA in the University of West England, Bristol, UK during which time he did an exchange program with Academia De Belle Arti, Bologna, Italy. He has exhibited his work in exhibitions such as, Athens and it’s Periphery in Regards to Contemporary Painting (Curated by Hugo Wheeler) at The Breeder, Athens, Greece (2017); Mine, Yours and Others – Curated by Eleni Papazoglou at We Are Bud, Athens Greece (2017), Interceptions – curated by Eleonora Cantini at La micro, Barcelona, Spain (2016), as well as the solo show Laughing to the Joke of the Sour Oranges (2017) – curated by Hugo Wheeler at Zoodochou Pigis 91, Athens, Greece.

This week on the pod Laura’s chatting to Dr Amy Slater, body image researcher at University of West England.  In this episode they discuss: ✨ Thin ideal internalisation + its  physical and psychological consequences  ✨ How social media holds certain body types up as the ideal + can leave us feeling dissatisfied ✨ The fact that labelling images as digitally altered is not actually helpful in reducing comparison + dissatisfaction and can actually backfire ✨ How advertising in traditional media + social media can impact body image  ✨ That even positive feedback about appearance impacts negatively on our body image  ✨ What social comparison is + how this has changed with social media ✨ The consequences of viewing fitspiration + self-objectification on Instagram  ✨ How we can curate a social media feed that's supportive of positive body image Show Notes {SIGN UP TO OUR JUST EAT IT ONLINE COURSE!} {BUY MY BOOK!! on Amazon | Waterstones | Foyles – I’ll share international links when they become available!} {Amy on Twitter | UWE website} {My Brilliant Friend book} {This Girl Can campaign} {Celeste Barber on Instagram} {Who The Hell Is Hamish? podcast} {Bon Appetit on YouTube} {Social Media + Body Image - Appearance Matters Podcast} {SIGN UP TO OUR RAISING INTUITIVE EATERS ONLINE COURSE} {Leave a review for Just Eat It on Amazon} {Sign up for our newsletter} {Book in for Discovery Call w/ Jess or Camilla at the London Centre for Intuitive Eating} {Follow us on Insta!}

Dane Hopkins is the Dairy Director at Lynher Dairies, the lauded cheese producer in West England, Cornwall. Lynher Dairies makes the cheese that was Supreme Champion at the World Cheese Awards in 2017, an alpine-style cheese called Kern. Another cheese they make is Cornish Yarg (wrapped in nettle leaves!!), which is also a multiple award-winning product and is a beloved representation of their special corner of the world. They also make a great cheese called Stithians.Lynher Dairies is a farmhouse cheese and their Supreme Champion Kern is a 'nutty and savory farmhouse cheese with sweet endnotes' (quoting my Food52 article that accompanies the video I hosted for them, linked below)...so what IS farmhouse cheese, anyway?! I set out to answer that question for you in this Keep It Quirky mini episode, with the help of not only Dane Hopkins, but also Gareth Hewer, who works in the maturation team at London's preeminent cheese shop, Neal's Yard Dairy.Dane and I also talk about how he develops recipes for new cheeses, what it's like being a specialist cheesemaker making handmade cheeses, and the entrepreneur spirit behind his work. I hope you enjoy this episode!Show notes:Here's the video I did for Food52 at Lynher Dairies -- https://food52.com/blog/23506-worlds-best-cheese-british-cornish-kern-- Lynher Dairies --Twitter // @cornishyargWebsite // www.lynherdairies.co.uk-- Neal’s Yard Dairy --Instagram // @neals_yard_dairyTwitter // @nealsyarddairyWebsite // www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk--Keep It Quirky--Instagram // @keepitquirkypodcastKatie Quinn on Insta & Twitter // @qkatiewww.youtube.com/TheQKatiewww.facebook.com/TheQKatieDon’t forget to sign up for my e-newsletter! Go here: http://eepurl.com/dNtAx2 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Daniela Gabor is a professor of economics and finance at the University of West England at Bristol and a monetary economist. She specializes in shadow banking, capital markets, and transnational banking. Today, she joins the show to discuss her new paper, *Chasing Unicorns: The European Single Safe Asset Project*. David and Daniela also discuss merits of equity-based banking, elements of the shadow banking system, and Europe’s quest for a safe asset. David’s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth Daniela’s Twitter: @DanielaGabor Daniela’s UWE Bristol profile: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/DanielaGabor Related Links: *Chasing Unicorns: The European Single Safe Asset Project* by Daniela Gabor http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1024529418759638 *Inside Safe Assets* by Anna Gelpern and Erik Gerding https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1831/ *The Growth of Financial Banking* by Anna Youngman https://www.jstor.org/stable/1817326?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents *The Repo and Reverse Markets* by Marcia Stigum https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Repo_and_Reverse_Markets.html?id=wJ6OZlHFYDoC *The New York Money Market: Origins and Development* and *The New York Money Market: Uses of Funds* by Margaret Myers et al. https://books.google.com/books/about/The_New_York_Money_Market_Origins_and_de.html?id=InFaAAAAYAAJ https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_New_York_Money_Market_Uses_of_funds.html?id=cXVaAAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y

Wildlife trafficking is thought to be the third largest illegal trade after drugs and weapons. As a global hot spot for this illicit trade, Indonesia is not only a source country for the rapidly growing international market, but it is also home to a huge domestic market, especially for songbirds. In recent years, the volume in trafficking has risen dramatically and for many of the archipelago’s endangered species, poaching is now as big a threat as habitat loss. Why has wildlife trafficking reached such enormous proportions in Indonesia? Who and what are the main drivers of the trade? And what initiatives exist to combat wildlife trafficking and enhance conservation efforts? In this week’s Talking Indonesia podcast, Dr Dirk Tomsa discusses these issues with Eleanor Paish, a zoologist and filmmaker from the University of West England, and Adam Miller, executive director and founder of Planet Indonesia, an NGO working on conservation issues in Indonesia. Talking Indonesia, co-hosted in 2017 by Dr Dave McRae, Dr Jemma Purdey, Dr Charlotte Setijadi and Dr Dirk Tomsa, presents extended interviews each fortnight with experts on Indonesian politics, foreign policy, culture, language and more. Find all the Talking Indonesia episodes and more at the Indonesia at Melbourne blog. Photo credit: Eleanor Paish

Check your local public television station for this new Rick Steves' Europe episode! The quintessence of charming England is the “West Country”: quaint Cotswold villages with their fine churches, manor homes, and gastropubs; Wells, England's smallest cathedral town; and the New Age capital of Glastonbury, with its legends of the Holy Grail and King Arthur. We'll finish by pondering the dramatic prehistoric stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury. At http://www.ricksteves.com, you'll find money-saving travel tips, small-group tours, guidebooks, TV shows, radio programs, podcasts, and more on this destination.

Check your local public television station for this new Rick Steves’ Europe episode! The quintessence of charming England is the “West Country”: quaint Cotswold villages with their fine churches, manor homes, and gastropubs; Wells, England’s smallest cathedral town; and the New Age capital of Glastonbury, with its legends of the Holy Grail and King Arthur. We'll finish by pondering the dramatic prehistoric stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury. At http://www.ricksteves.com, you'll find money-saving travel tips, small-group tours, guidebooks, TV shows, radio programs, podcasts, and more on this destination.

Click Here Or On Above Image To Reach Our ExpertsSecurity Expert Says, "We Can Now Spy On Human Emotions" Emotional surveillance has an undeniably dystopian vibe, like George Orwell's 1984, but it's not science fiction. Banks are already signing up for services that incorporate it into their analysis of behavior. A startup founded by MIT graduates called Humanyze has created a sensor-laden badge that transmits data on speech, activity, and stress patterns.One of these days, the walls may know when you're happy, sad, stressed or angry by using an experimental device unveiled Tuesday by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that uses wireless signals to recognize emotions through subtle changes in breathing and heartbeat.Computer scientist Dina Katabi and her colleagues at the university's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab developed a radar system for vital signs that uses reflected radio signals to track movements, moods and behavior, with potential applications for smart homes, offices and hospitals.They posted their new research online Tuesday and plan to present their test results next month at a mobile-computing conference in New York.These wireless signals—a thousand times less powerful than conventional Wi-Fi—are designed to bounce off anyone within range, capturing variations in vital signs that can be analyzed quickly by a computer algorithm able to detect emotional states, the researchers said. To distinguish one mood from another, their system measures patterns of respiration, cardiac rhythms, and minute variations in the length of each individual heartbeat.“All of us share so much in how our emotions affect our vital signs,” said Dr. Katabi. “We get an accuracy that is so high that we can look at individual heartbeats at the order of milliseconds.”The system, which they call EQ-Radio, is 87% accurate at detecting whether a person is joyful, angry, sad or content, they said.By providing an accurate readout of moods, the system promises to loop people more directly into wireless sensor networks, the researchers said. While still experimental, the system could one day give buildings the capacity to respond automatically to changes in vital signs among the people living or working in them, without a need for explicit commands or a direct link to a body sensor, the researchers said.A hospital emergency room might automatically monitor patients awaiting treatment. An amusement park might modulate special effects by monitoring the involuntary reactions of people on an exhilarating ride. A house might one day react to a family's stress by playing pleasant music.PRO-DTECH II FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)“We have explored this idea of allowing a home to recognize someone's emotions and adapt to it,” said project researcher Fadel Adib. “The idea is to enable you to seamlessly interact with your home.”The team is already testing an earlier version of the system that tracks movements and behavior in about 15 homes in the Boston area, including that of Dr. Katabi. She uses it to monitor her sleep patterns and eating habits. It can track movements even if the person is in another room.“I would really like future homes to be more health aware,” she said.In the research made public Tuesday, Dr. Katabi and her colleagues tested the wireless system on 10 women and 20 men, between 19 and 77 years old, while in a standard office setting, which contained desks, chairs, couches and computers.CELLPHONE DETECTOR (PROFESSIONAL)(Buy/Rent/Layaway)During the tests, the volunteers sat from three to 10 feet away from the wireless sensors while attempting to evoke specific emotions by recalling emotion-rich memories. As a control, their vital signs during the experiment were also monitored using conventional electrocardiography and a video-based emotion recognition system that homes in on facial expressions.PRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)All told, the researchers collected measurements of 130,000 individual heartbeats. To classify the mood changes, the computer employed a machine learning algorithm to match the waveforms within each heartbeat.PRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)When they compared results, they found that the experimental system was almost as accurate in recognizing changes in emotion as the electrocardiograms. It was about twice as accurate as the facial cues recorded by the video system, they said.“We use the wireless signal to obtain the changes in the vital signs and then run a machine learning algorithm to get to emotions,” she said. “The algorithm can immediately recognize the emotions of someone new.”PRO-DTECH III FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Wall Street Uses Technology To Spy On Traders Emotional StateThe trader was in deep trouble. A millennial who had only recently been allowed to set foot on a Wall Street floor, he made bad bets, and in a panic to recoup his losses, he'd blown through risk limits, losing $4.9 million in a single afternoon.WIRELESS/WIRED HIDDENCAMERA FINDER III(Buy/Rent/Layaway)It wasn't a career-ending day. The trader was taking part in a simulation run by Andrew Lo, an MIT finance professor. The goal: find out if top performers can be identified based on how they respond to market volatility. Lo had been invited into the New York-based global investment bank—he wouldn't say which one—after giving a talk to its executives. So in 2014, unknown to the outside world, he rigged a conference room with monitors to create a lab where 57 stock and bond traders lent their bodies to science.PRO-DTECH IV FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Banks have already set up big-data teams to harvest insights from the terabytes of customer information they possess. Now they're looking inward to see whether they can improve operations and limit losses in their biggest cost center: employees. Companies including JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America have had discussions with tech companies about systems that monitor worker emotions to boost performance and compliance, according to executives at the banks who didn't want to be identified speaking about the matter.As machines encroach on humans' role in the markets, technology offers a way to even the fight. The devices Lo used—wristwatch sensors that measure pulse and perspiration—could warn traders to step away from their desks when their emotions run wild. They could also be used to screen hires to find those whose physiology is best suited to risk-taking—what interested the bank that allowed the MIT study.Wireless Camera Finder(Buy/Rent/Layaway)The most promising application, and the one with the most profound privacy issues, would be for keeping tabs on employees, Lo says. Risk managers could use it to spot problems brewing on a specific desk, such as unauthorized trading, before too much damage is done. “Imagine if all your traders were required to wear wristwatches that monitor their physiology, and you had a dashboard that tells you in real time who is freaking out,” Lo says. “The technology exists, as does the motivation—one bad trade can cost $100 million—but you're talking about a significant privacy intrusion.”MAGNETIC, ELECTRIC, RADIO ANDMICROWAVE DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Emotional surveillance has an undeniably dystopian vibe, like a finance version of George Orwell's 1984, but it's not science fiction. Banks are already signing up for services that incorporate it into their analysis of behavior. A startup founded by MIT graduates called Humanyze has created a sensor-laden badge that transmits data on speech, activity, and stress patterns.COUNTERSURVEILLANCE PROBE / MONITOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Microphones and proximity sensors on the gadgets help employers understand what high-performing teams are doing differently from laggards. The Boston-based company is close to announcing a deal with a bank that's moving some employees to new offices, according to Chief Executive Officer Ben Waber. The bank wants to use Humanyze badges to determine seating locations for traders, asset managers, and support staff to improve productivity, he says.Another startup, Behavox, uses machine-learning programs to scan employee communications and trading records. Emotional analysis of telephone conversations is a part of a worker's overall behavioral picture, according to founder Erkin Adylov, a former Goldman Sachs research analyst. When a worker deviates from established patterns—shouting at someone he's trading with when previous conversations were calm—it could be a sign further scrutiny is warranted. “Emotion recognition and mapping in phone calls is increasingly something that banks really want from us,” says Adylov, whose company is based in London. “All the things you do as a human are driven by emotions.”Emotions are reflexes that developed to drive behavior, scientists say, improving our prospects of seizing opportunity and surviving risk. They're accompanied by measurable physiological changes such as increased blood pressure, sweating, and a pounding heart. Their role in investing has been established since at least the time of economist Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing. More recently, John Coates, a University of Cambridge neuroscientist and former derivatives trader, has studied how financial risk takers' decisions are influenced by biology. His experiments, chronicled in a 2012 book, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf, show that hormones such as testosterone and cortisol play a part in exacerbating booms and busts.The volunteers in Lo's study were given a $3 million risk limit and told to make money in markets including oil, gold, stocks, currencies, and Treasuries. They came from across the bank's fixed-income and equity desks and ranged from junior employees to veterans with 15 years of experience. Top traders have a signature response to volatility, says Lo, who plans to publish his findings by next year. Rather than being devoid of feeling, they are emotional athletes. Their bodies swiftly respond to stressful situations and relax when calm returns, leaving them primed for the next challenge. The top performer made $1.1 million in a couple of hours of trading.Those who fared less well, like the trader who lost almost $5 million, were hounded by their mistakes and remained emotionally charged, as measured by their heart rate and other markers such as cortisol levels, even after the volatility subsided. Lo's findings suggest there's a sweet spot for emotional engagement: too much, and you're overly aggressive or fearful; too little, and you aren't involved enough to care. Veteran traders had more controlled responses, suggesting that training and experience count.There are other ways to infer emotional states. Researchers led by Kellogg School of Management professor Brian Uzzi pored over 1.2 million instant messages sent by day traders over a two-year period. They found that, as in Lo's study, having too much or too little emotion made for poor trades. Uzzi, whose study was published this year, says he's working with two hedge funds to design a product based on the research.As younger traders accustomed to biometric devices like the Fitbit enter the industry, applications designed to boost performance and monitor employees will become commonplace, says Lo, who expects it to be widespread in less than 10 years. “The more data we have, the more we're able to characterize the emotional state of the individual,” he says. “Everybody will have to have these kinds of analytics.”PRO-DTECH FREQUENCY DETECTOR(Buy/Rent/Layaway)Detecting Emotions In Thin AirOne of the most writerly things a person can do is to characterize air as thick, or emotions as tangible. Sadness lingers in the air. The best dinner parties are powered by palpable tension. The practice suggests that you are keenly attuned to your surroundings. Beyond observant, you use your senses in ways others had not thought possible. That is why people want to have sex with writers.But if you told me that the air is actually transmitting chemical signals that influence emotions between humans, I would add you to a list that I keep in my head. It's not a bad list, per se, but it is titled “Chumps.”One person who would not be on that list is Jonathan Williams. An atmospheric chemist, he describes himself as “one of those wandering scientific souls,” but not in an annoying way. He maintains a jovial British lilt after moving to Colorado to work at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and then to Germany for a job with the Max Planck Institute (which describes itself as “Germany's most successful research organization”). There Williams and his colleagues study air.They focus on gases that come from vegetation in the tropics, as well as carbon industry. In doing so, the chemists use finely calibrated machines that sense the slightest changes in the contents of air. Taking measurements in the field, Williams and his colleagues always noticed that when they themselves got too close to the machines, everything went haywire.That made sense, in that humans are bags of gas. As breathing people know, we tend to emit carbon dioxide. (Though each exhalation still contains about four times as much oxygen as carbon dioxide.) And there are many subtler ingredients in the concoctions we breathe out. So Williams began to wonder, are these gases “significant on a global scale”? Could they be, even, contributing to climate change? Especially as the number of humans on Earth rockets toward 8 billion?The answer was no. Just a clear, simple no. By measuring gases in soccer stadiums, the Planck chemists found no consequence of human breath. There might be some effect at a global scale, but it's just nothing compared to the air-ravaging effects of transportation and agriculture.But Williams didn't come away from the stadium empty handed. As he sat and watched the fluctuating readings on the air sensors, he got an idea. In the manner of a typical European soccer crowd, the people went through fits of elation and anger,  joy and sorrow. So Williams began to wonder, as he later put it to me, “Do people emit gases as a function of their emotions?”If we do, it wouldn't be unprecedented. Tear some leaves off of a tree, for example, and it will emit chemical signals that may be part of a system of communication between trees. The behavior for bees and ants is clearly chemically dominated.“We're not like that—not like robots following chemicals,” Williams explained. “But it could be possible that we are influenced by chemicals emitted by other humans.”The idea of airborne pheromones—chemicals that specifically influence mating behaviors— has been a source of much fascination, but the actual evidence is weak. Some small studies have suggested an effect when people put cotton balls under their armpits, and then other people smell the balls—but in minor, unreliable ways.“I don't know why so many previous researchers have been so into armpits,” said Williams. “A much better way to communicate would be through your breath. Because you can direct your breath, and your breath is at roughly the same height as the person you're trying to communicate to, silently. In the dark, maybe, in your cave.” And if these behavior-modifying volatile chemicals exist (volatile meaning anything that goes into the air), then why would they be limited to sex? Why shouldn't we be able to signal fear or anxiety? It is true that birds seem to know that I'm afraid of them.Williams was so intrigued by the idea of gases and emotion that he designed another experiment—something more predictable than a German soccer game. This time he used a movie theater. Unlike the open-air stadium, the theater presented fewer variables. “You've got this box, the cinema, and you spool through air from outside at a continuous rate, and you have 250 people sitting there, not moving. And you show them all, simultaneously, something that should make them frightened or anxious or sad, or whatever.”The changes in any one person's breath might be minuscule, but a crowd of breathers could be enough to overcome the rest of the background signals. And more importantly, unlike a soccer match, the experiment could be done with the same film again and again. This could test the reproducibility of findings, which is critical to science.Rigging a mass spectrometer into the outflow vent of the theater, the Kino Cinestar in Mainz, Williams had a sense that the experiment as something of a lark. “I thought, we're probably just going to get a big mixture of popcorn and perfume,” he said. But, nonetheless, to measure relationships between scenes and gases, his team meticulously mapped out and labeled every scene in 16 films—from beginning to end. In 30 second increments, the team labeled each by its quality (kiss, pet, injury), as well as its emotional elements using a finite set of descriptors.

Dr Havi Carel (Philosophy, University of the West England), 'Subjective Wellbeing and Objective Health'. Keynote lecture at the Health and Welfare Group Annual Symposium at CRASSH (16 June 2010).