LOL My Praxis

Episode Notes With more fans than Grumpy Cat (RIP), we're joined by the chronically online Dr Idil Galip, queen of memes and founder of the Meme Studies Research Network. Here to sort the evergreen content from the cancelled - repilcate to disseminate xoxo

Episode Notes THIS IS NOT A DRILL. WE ARE BACK. WE HAVEN'T FOSSILISED. YET. But our guest, Professor David Farrier, is about to tell us about our bleak, trashy, fossilised futures via the temporalities of Cher, chicken-sized horses and horse-sized chickens and doing deep time in different voices. David is the author of 'Footprints' (2020) and 'Anthropocene Poetics' (2019), a publication timeline that makes us feel deeply inadequate. Shantih shantih shantih.

Episode Notes Did you miss us? We were observing the UCU industrial action. This is the only reason for our lateness. Promise. This week we're joined by New Generation Flake, Dr Joan Passey (or is it Passé?) and her creepy haunted cavern...Joan is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol, the editor of the British Library short story collection 'Cornish Horrors' and is a 2022 New Generation Thinker. She is salty AF.

Episode Notes We’re back and this week we're getting spooky and ECTOGASMIC with Dr Emma Merkling. Emma is an Art Historian at the Courtauld specialising in in late C19th history of art, science and occultism. Emma is “Just a creepy weirdo who lik es creepy weird stuff”. In this episode we chat about racist ghosts, squirting spiritualists, and what it’s like to be a Spooky Terrifying Ect oplasm Mama (aka a woman in STEM). We consider the production of ectoplasm and/as the female orgasm, discuss the pros and cons of automatic writing for REF submissions, and question whether or not x-rays can be used for upskirting? Also as women in SHAPE we consider why orbs are so important for mediums. You can check out the podcast Emma co-hosts with LOL My Praxis superfan, Dr Christine Slobogin, here https://drawingbloodpod.wordpress.com/ or follow her @EmmaMerkling. If you fancy playing with stereographs you can come along to Emma’s event at the Courtauld on November 14th https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/science-in-the-seance-room-stereographs-medical-men-and-the-testing-of-margery-crandons-extraordinary-body-c-1925/

This episode we're talking about shiny dead things. Not Edward Cullen the Sparkle Vamp, but the intersections of jewellery and death with the world's first forensic jeweller Dr Maria Maclennan. Maria is the most tattooed academic we know and can often be found on BBC Crimewatch. We'll leave that one there. You can follow her @ForensicJewelery.