Unlocking Academia

Welcome to Unlocking Academia. A Clavis Aurea podcast that explores research in the humanities and social sciences through conversations with the scholars behind recently published books. In each episode, we speak with an author about their work, the ideas that shaped it, and the broader debates their research contributes to. Through these conversations, Unlocking Academia opens the door to academic scholarship and invites listeners to engage with the ideas, research, and intellectual discussions shaping fields such as history, literature, culture, politics, and the social sciences.

Unlocking Academia is a arts podcast hosted by Clavis Aurea, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #3

  Lambros Fatsis, 'Policing the Beats: Black music, racism and criminal injustice', (Manchester University Press, 2026)

  Apr 29, 20261h 3mS2

  <p>In this episode of Unlocking Academia, host Tarin Ahmed is joined by Dr. Lambros Fatsis, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at City St George’s and author of 'Policing the Beats: Black music, racism and criminal injustice', (Manchester University Press, 2026). Drawing on cultural criminology, Black radical thought and the study of music, Dr. Fatsis’ work examines how Black musical expression has been surveilled, regulated and criminalised from the era of empire to the present day.</p><p>The conversation explores the book’s engagement with the colonial origins of British policing, the entanglements between policing and capitalism, and the long histor...

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  Episode #2

  Victor Kattan and Amit Ranjan, "The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition" (Manchester University Press 2023)

  Mar 30, 202652 minS2

  <p>In the latest episode of Unlocking Academia, host Tarin Ahmed is joined by legal scholar Victor Kattan and researcher Amit Ranjan to discuss their co-edited volume The Breakup of India and Palestine (Manchester University Press). Bringing together a range of contributors, the book examines how two major political ruptures of the twentieth century, the partition of British India and the proposed partition of Palestine in 1947, can be understood not as isolated or parallel events, but as part of a wider set of imperial strategies, legal frameworks and political transformations shaped by the end of empire.</p><p>Kattan and...

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  Episode #1

  Introducing Unlocking Academia with Tarin Ahmed

  Mar 19, 20261 minS2

  <p>Welcome to Unlocking Academia, a podcast from Clavis Aurea Podcasts. Unlocking Academia opens the door to the world of scholarship, inviting listeners to engage with the research and ideas driving today's intellectual conversations.</p><p>In this upcoming season, we explore the latest research in the humanities and social sciences through conversations with the scholars behind recently published books. Each episode will bring you inside the ideas, inspirations, and debates that shape contemporary academic scholarship.</p><p>Produced by the team at Clavis Aurea in the historic publishing city of Leiden, the podcast connects listeners with scholars and research...

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  Episode #12

  Mikkel Krause Frantzen, "The Birth of the Financial Thriller" (Edinburgh University Press, 2025)

  Feb 11, 202659 minS1

  <p>In the latest episode of Unlocking Academia, host Tarin Ahmed is joined by historian and cultural critic Mikkel Frantzen to explore his new book The Birth of a Financial Thriller: Making a Killing in the 1970s (Edinburgh University Press, 2025). Together they explore how the financial thriller genre emerged in the tumultuous economic climate of the 1970s and why its narrative strategies still shape how we imagine markets, risk and the drama of capital today.<br> <br> Frantzen guides us through the historical forces that gave rise to the genre, from the breakdown of Bretton Woods and oil crises to...

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  Episode #11

  Hind Elhinnawy, "Secular Muslim Feminism: An Alternative Voice in the War of Ideas" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)

  Dec 5, 202547 minS1

  <p>In the latest episode of Unlocking Academia, your host, Tarin Ahmed, is joined by guest Dr Hind Elhinnawy, a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University and co-director of the Critical Criminology and Social Justice Research Group. Discussing her book, Secular Muslim Feminism: An Alternative Voice in the War of Ideas (Bloomsbury 2024), they unpack the intellectual and personal motivations behind this work, tracing how over two decades of feminist activism and scholarship across the Middle East and Europe have informed Elhinnawy’s thinking. </p><p> </p><p>Secular Muslim Feminism explores how simplistic narratives of oppression and empowerment obsc...

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