Introducing New Generation Thinkers 2021
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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From clues in paintings to colonial trade to letters sent between Australia and England; the links between a Durham based poet and India to the female singers and dancers from Latin America who were contemporaries of Picasso and Josephine Baker; the significance of the Cyrillic alphabet in building nations to why we should pay attention to brackets, commas and colons: African film and ideas about empire to depictions of Iran in nineteenth century French literature and art; how activism affects our view of art to law and the transatlantic slave trade: New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen talks to the ten academics whose ideas will become programmes for BBC Radio 3 as we introduce the 2021 New Generation Thinkers on the scheme run in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Dr Julia Hartley, University of Warwick Dr Florence Hazrat, University of Sheffield Dr Mirela Ivanova, University of Oxford Sarah Jilani, University of Cambridge Dr Jake Morris-Campbell, Newcastle University Adjoa Osei, University of Liverpool Dr Jake Richards, London School of Economics Dr Fariha Shaikh, University of Birmingham Dr Vid Simoniti, University of Liverpool Dr Lauren Working, University of Oxford
Producer: Ruth Watts
You can find a playlist featuring discussions, essays and features made by the hundred New Generation Thinkers over ten years of the scheme on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08zhs35
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that is some level of genius. It also helps |
| 0:21.2 | it. It's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream |
| 0:26.1 | van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds. Hello, I'm Lisa |
| 0:32.8 | Mullen and in this episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast, I can promise you some new thinking. |
| 0:38.0 | What has solar lighting got to do with jazz? |
| 0:41.0 | What's the link between Senegalese cinema, French archaeology and a lump of coal? |
| 0:46.2 | These are some of the surprising connections you get when you bring together ten of the most exciting new scholars in the country. |
| 0:52.1 | New Generation Thinkers is an annual scheme run by BBC Radio |
| 0:55.7 | 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select 10 researchers to translate their ideas into |
| 1:01.3 | radio. All the researchers we're meeting today have found original perspectives on how culture and |
| 1:06.3 | history are intertwined, whether they're unearthing lost stories of migration or contemplating the intricacies |
| 1:12.3 | of a 17th century rough. And none of our guests have turned up empty-handed, each will be showing |
| 1:17.4 | us a single object that will unfold magically into a whole set of ideas and insights. |
| 1:22.4 | Julia Hartley from the University of Warwick, you're bringing us a photograph of a very |
| 1:26.4 | determined-looking young woman. |
| 1:28.1 | Can you describe this image for us? So it's a black and white photograph, typical of the 19th century |
| 1:33.9 | portrait photography, so very formal, very staged. And when you look at the photograph, it does |
| 1:39.6 | seem to be a young man. This person is wearing a suit and a cravat and they have very short hair |
| 1:45.1 | and are looking very confident in this look. And this is in fact Jane Dulafouard, who was an |
| 1:51.3 | archaeologist and prolific writer who devoted her career to getting 19th century French people |
| 1:56.6 | excited about Iranian culture. And she's very striking for really finding a place in a male |
| 2:02.5 | dominated world and very much looking apart. And she's bringing an exceptionally strong fringe game |
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