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Unlocking the SDGs - India ep
The SDGs and India (special edition episode with UCL partners in India – Professor P V Madhusudhan Rao (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi) and Professor Sumit Malhotra (All India Institute of Medical Sciences Delhi (AIIMS).
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11/19/2024
Prosperity beyond sport: empowering post-athletic career growth
What happens when a career you've dedicated your whole life to suddenly comes to an end? In this episode of Life of PIE, Onya sits down with Xuecong Wang, an alum from the Prosperity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship programme, and Aditi Mutatkar, a former athlete and founder of the Simply Sport Foundation, an organisation dedicated to addressing the challenges faced by athletes when they retire from professional sports, offering them the necessary tools and guidance for a successful career transition. Together, they explore the challenges athletes face when transitioning out of their sports careers. Drawing from Xuecong’s research and Aditi’s grassroots work supporting athletes, they discuss the impact of balancing sports with academia, the lack of infrastructure for athlete career support, and the vital need for career transition assistance programs. Hear how the right preparation can help athletes transition successfully beyond their playing years.
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11/12/2024
How does it feel to survive an earthquake?
‘After an interval that can only be measured in terms of eternity, we found ourselves back in the more familiar dimensions of space and time’ - Jean Kingdon-Ward ('My Hill so Strong', London, 1952) In August 1950, Jean and her husband, botanist Francis Kingdon-Ward, experienced an earthquake whilst visiting the Lohit Valley on the India–Tibet borderlands. Using their recollections of the event as a case study, Dr Dan Haines, Lecturer in Disaster and Crisis Response and Programme Leader for the UCL Risk, Disaster and Resilience MSc, explores how time is perceived by people who experience earthquakes and how this impacts future response to emergencies. The themes he discusses in this video are based on his article 'Timescapes, subjectivity and emotions after the India–Tibet earthquake, 1950', available here: https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtad025 Find out more about the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) on our website.
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3/4/2024
Takhayyul Podcast: Women, Life, and Freedom: Iran Uprising and Its International Impact
The first episode was led by Dr Fatemeh Sadeghi, a research fellow of the UCL's and Institute for Global Prosperity's ERC Project Takhayyul. She is a political scientist who is an expert on Iran. This episode discussed how the uprisings in Iran were received in different parts of the world, specifically in China, Pakistan, India, Bahrain, Turkey, and the UK. The guests were Dr Sumrin Kalia from Takhayyul, Dr Yuan He (IGP), Dr Alaa Shehabi, a UCL scholar and a former member of the IGP, Rumeysa Camdereli, a Muslim feminist intellectual and activist, and an anonymous scholar (pseudonym HS) and activist from India. The episode was chaired by the Primary Investigator of Takhayyul, Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu (Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Prosperity, IGP) with technical support by Hazal Aydin, the research assistant of the project from Koc University, Turkey; and Meryem Zisan Koker, the assistant to Dr Sehlikoglu.
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11/11/2022
Asian Enlightenment across the British Indian Ocean, 1860-1920: The Utopianism of Distant Communication
Plenary lecture by Dr. Mark R. Frost, Associate Professor of Public History, UCL as part of the 'Distant Communications' conference, 21st-22nd July 2021
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7/13/2021
Student presentations for TISS/UCL event
Students gave presentations on various ways of building a more sustainable Mumbai during the TISS/UCL event.
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6/1/2021
Dr Rahul Rao: The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality (EISPS Global Politics Remix 2021: Decolonial, Black and Queer Perspectives)
Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer rights. The law attracted attention for the draconian nature of its provisions and for the involvement of US evangelical Christian activists who were said to have lobbied for its passage. Focusing on the Ugandan case, this book seeks to understand the encounters and entanglements across geopolitical divides that produce and contest contemporary queerphobias. It investigates the impact and memory of the colonial encounter on the politics of sexuality, the politics of religiosity of different Christian denominations, and the political economy of contemporary homophobic moral panics.
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4/29/2021
Sustainable development virtual programme
This video highlights the sustainable development virtual programme which took place between UCL and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).
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3/31/2021
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