The SCAS Talks Podcast

SCAS TALKS Episode 53 – Anandi Hattiangadi: ”A Philosopher’s Reflections on the Emergence of Artificial General Intelligence”

Theme: AI

SCAS TALKS Episode 52 – Jan Komorowski: ”Life Sciences in Silico: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as Tools for New Discoveries”

Theme: AI

SCAS TALKS Episode 51 – Jan Hennings: “Historic Encounters in Early Modern Diplomacy”

Theme: Diplomacy & International Relations

SCAS TALKS Episode 50 – Aaron M. Ellison: ”Decentering ourselves from the Anthropocene”

Theme: The Anthropocene

SCAS TALKS Episode 49 – Eliel Camargo-Molina: ”When technology meets the humanities: The interdisciplinary world of AI”

Theme: AI

SCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Indo-European Afterlife”

A collection of voices from the symposium Indo-European Afterlife.

SCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Efficient Light to Electric Power Conversion for a Renewable Energy Future”

A collection of voices from the Nobel Symposium NS191: Efficient Light to Electric Power Conversion for a Renewable Energy Future

SCAS TALKS Episode 48 – Gísli Pálsson: ”The discovery of extinction”

Theme: The Anthropocene

SCAS TALKS Episode 47 – Valbona Muzaka: ”Vaccines in times of financialisation”

Theme: Global Governance

SCAS TALKS Episode 46 – Hazem Kandil: ”War, power, and history”

Theme: Diplomacy & International Relations

SCAS TALKS Episode 45 – Lisa Hellman: ”Captured by Russians, enslaved by Dzungars: new approaches to global diplomacy”

Theme: Diplomacy & International Relations

SCAS TALKS Episode 44 - Mikael Adolphson: ”Japan’s medieval monetization in a historical context”

Theme: Asia (Citizens and state relations)

SCAS TALKS Episode 43 – Jeffrey Paller: ”The contentious politics of African urbanization”

Theme: Africa

SCAS TALKS Episode 42 – Racha Kirakosian: ”Researching women’s lives: The story of Katarina of Württemberg”

Theme: Gender

SCAS TALKS Episode 41 – Philipp Lepenies: ”Development aid - from practitioner to scholar”

Theme: Development Issues & Human Rights

SCAS TALKS Episode 40 – Jeremy Mumford: ”The untold story of Beatriz Coya - a microhistory of a marriage in Cuzco in 1565”

Theme: Latin America

SCAS TALKS Episode 39 – Michael Watts: ”Oil and its afterlives: the past and the future of oil in Nigeria”

Theme: Development Issues & Human Rights

SCAS TALKS Episode 38 – Sohini Ramachandran: ”The human genome as a historical text”

Theme: Genetics & Evolution

SCAS TALKS Episode 37 – Maria Ågren: ”Gender and work”

Theme: Gender

SCAS TALKS Episode 36 – Michael Goodhart: “The complexity and contradictions of human rights”

Theme: Development Issues & Human Rights

SCAS TALKS Spotlight - “Opening the Ivory Tower Wide”

SCAS TALKS Episode 35 – Rebecca Earle: “How the humble potato has travelled the world and shaped history”

Theme: Latin America

SCAS TALKS Episode 34 – Janette Boughman & Maria Servedio: “New insights into speciation: collaboration between a mathematical modeler and an empirical biologist”

Theme: Genetics & Evolution

SCAS TALKS Episode 33 – Helen Anne Curry: ”Endangered maize: industrial agriculture and the crisis of extinction”

Theme: Genetics & Evolution

SCAS TALKS Episode 32 – Karsten Paerregaard: ”Climate change, climate perception and water management in Peru”

Theme: Latin America

SCAS TALKS Episode 31 – Susan Pedersen: ”Balfours in love and trouble”

Theme: Gender

SCAS TALKS Episode 30 – Shalini Randeria: ”Looking at citizens and state relations in India through the lens of displacement”

Theme: Asia (Citizens and state relations)

SCAS TALKS Episode 29 – Susanne A. Wengle: “Black earth, white bread: a technopolitical history of Russian agriculture and food”

Theme: Infrastructures

SCAS TALKS Episode 28 - Barak Kushner: “What do war crimes trials in East Asia tell us about the history of justice?”

Theme: Asia (Citizens and state relations)

SCAS TALKS Episode 27 - Jessica Abbott: ”Evolution of sex chromosomes and (the importance of) science communication”

Theme: Life Sciences

SCAS TALKS Spotlight – “Beyond Advanced Studies: Interdisciplinary Theory and Research Careers” – part 2

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SCAS TALKS Spotlight – “Beyond Advanced Studies: Interdisciplinary Theory and Research Careers” – part 1

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SCAS TALKS Episode 26 – Ash Amin: ”Infrastructures, habitats and slum lives”

Theme: Infrastructures

SCAS TALKS Episode 25 – Troy Day: ”From educated guesses to accurate predictions: modelling of the pandemic”

Theme: Life Sciences

SCAS TALKS Episode 24 – Michael J. Puett: ”Rethinking the world by considering Chinese history”

Theme: Asia (Citizens and state relations)

SCAS TALKS Episode 23 – Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd: ”Banking before banks: credit and debt in preindustrial France”

Theme: Infrastructures

SCAS TALKS Episode 22 - Ericka Johnson: ”A cultural biography of the prostate”

Theme: Life Sciences

SCAS TALKS Episode 21 – Rebekah Lee: "Death and memory in modern South Africa"

Theme: Africa

SCAS TALKS Episode 20 – Anna Neubeck: "Nickel - a catalyst for life on earth and in space"

Theme: Life in Outer Space

SCAS TALKS Episode 19 – Nikolai Piskunov: "Using new technology to study conditions for life in space"

Theme: Life in Outer Space

SCAS TALKS Episode 18 – Stephanie Wynne-Jones: "Connecting past and present through urban ecologies on Zanzibar"

Theme: Africa

SCAS TALKS Episode 17 - Martin Sahlén: "The big picture: From cosmic origins to life on exoplanets"

Theme: Life in Outer Space

SCAS TALKS Episode 16 – Terje Falck-Ytter: “Understanding autism: what can infants teach us?”

Theme: The Brain

SCAS TALKS Episode 15 – Jenny Andersson: “Neoliberalism in the Nordic countries: Developing an absent research theme”

Theme: Global Governance

SCAS TALKS Episode 14 – Andreas Eckert: "Where have the workers gone? Labour in postcolonial Africa"

Theme: Africa

SCAS TALKS Episode 13 – Dan Larhammar: “Fascinated by the human brain: Studies of memory and the phenomenon of pseudoscience”

Theme: The Brain

SCAS TALKS Episode 12 - Karin Jensen: “The complexity of pain and placebo effects”

Theme: The Brain

SCAS TALKS Episode 11 – David Ciepley: “Constitutional democracy and the corporation”

Theme: Global Governance

SCAS TALKS Episode 10 – Bruce G. Carruthers: “Trust, credit and credit ratings as the basis of a modern economy”

Theme: Global Governance

SCAS TALKS Episode 9 – Benjamin Madley: "An American genocide: The United States and the California Indian catastrophe"

Theme: Diversity