The SCAS Talks Podcast

SCAS TALKS Episode 63 – Mònica Ginés Blasi: "Exploiting Chinese Migrants in the 19th Century"

Theme: Migration & Displacement

Keywords: Chinese migration, indentured labor migration, labor intermediaries, global history, migration patterns

SCAS TALKS Episode 62 – Ayse Caglar: “City-making through the Lens of Displacement”

Theme: Migration & Displacement

Keywords: migration, displacement, city making, political economy, social anthropology

 

SCAS TALKS Episode 61 – Sari Nauman: "What Early Modern History Can Offer Refugee Studies"

Theme: Migration & Displacement

Keywords: migration, displacement, internally displaced persons, early modern history, historical concepts

SCAS TALKS Episode 60 – Iryna Mogilevkina: “Reproductive Health Always Matters”

Theme: Women and Medicine

Keywords: sexual health, reproductive rights, policy implementation, Ukraine

SCAS TALKS Episode 59 – Stefan Enroth: "Self-sampling for Better Screening and Diagnosis of Gynecological Cancers"

Theme: Women and Medicine

Keywords: gynecological cancers, biomarkers, self-screening, diagnosis, healthcare system

SCAS TALKS Spotlight - "Sciences against Misinformation"

A collection of voices from the symposium "Sciences against Misinformation".

Keywords: misinformation, democracy, critical thinking, trust, post-truth era

SCAS TALKS Episode 58 – Desiree Fields: "How Finance and Technology are Changing the Meaning of Housing"

Theme: Cities as Mega-Projects

Keywords: housing market, real estate investment, landlords, cities

SCAS TALKS Episode 57 – Anat Biegon: "Why Do Women Go to the Doctor Twice as Often as Men? Bias and Education about Women's Health"

Theme: Women and Medicine

Keywords: women's health, gender-based medicine, bias, sex differences, clinical trials

SCAS TALKS Episode 56 – John Stinchcombe: "Evolution, Adaptation, and Resilience of Plants in the Anthropocene"

Theme: The Anthropocene

Keywords: climate change, agriculture, herbicide resistance, genetic engineering, anthropocene

SCAS TALKS Episode 55 – Jennifer Mack: "Modernist Suburbs and Their Missing Stories"

Theme: Cities as Mega-Projects

Keywords: million program, suburbs, urban planning, social transformation, architecture

SCAS TALKS Episode 54 – Carol Upadhya: "The Rise and Fall of the Amaravati Greenfield City Project”

Theme: Cities as Mega-Projects

Keywords: Amaravati project, infrastructure, greenfield cities, urbanization

SCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Academic Freedom”

A collection of voices from "A Week on Academic Freedom".

Keywords: academic freedom, collegiality, research, education, Ukraine

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

Theme: AI

Keywords: artificial general intelligence, philosophy, language, large language models, interdisciplinary research

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

Theme: AI

Keywords: artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, life science, machine learning, scientific discovery

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

Theme: Diplomacy & International Relations

Keywords: diplomacy, international relations, Russia, ottoman empire, early modern history

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

Theme: The Anthropocene

Keywords: anthropocene, ecology, nature, landscape, photography

SCAS TALKS Episode 49 – Eliel Camargo-Molina: ”When Technology Meets the Humanities: The Interdisciplinary World of AI”

Theme: AI
Keywords: artificial intelligence, large language models, chatGPT, interdisciplinary research, technology

SCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Indo-European Afterlife”

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

Keywords: Indo-european languages, afterlife, religion, archeology, LAMP project

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

Keywords: solar energy, photovoltaics, renewable energy, Nobel prize, sustainability

SCAS TALKS Episode 48 – Gísli Pálsson: ”The Discovery of Extinction”

Theme: The Anthropocene

Keywords: anthropocene, ecology, extinction, environmental humanities, rewilding

SCAS TALKS Episode 47 – Valbona Muzaka: ”Vaccines in Times of Financialisation”

Theme: Global Governance

Keywords: global governance, vaccine, pharmaceutical industry, global health, covid-19

SCAS TALKS Episode 46 – Hazem Kandil: ”War, Power, and History”

Theme: Diplomacy & International Relations

Keywords: diplomacy, international relations, Carl von Clausewitz, historical and political sociology, war

SCAS TALKS Episode 45 – Lisa Hellman: ”Captured by Russians, Enslaved by Dzungars: New Approaches to Global Diplomacy”

Theme: Diplomacy & International Relations

Keywords: global diplomacy, global history, Russia, China, microhistory

SCAS TALKS Episode 44 - Mikael Adolphson: ”Japan’s Medieval Monetization in a Historical Context”

Theme: Asia (Citizens and state relations)

Keywords: Asia, citizen and state relations, sino-japanese trade, medieval societas, historical narratives

SCAS TALKS Episode 43 – Jeffrey Paller: ”The Contentious Politics of African Urbanization”

Theme: Africa

Keywords: Africa, urbanization, rural societies, post-colonial development, governance

SCAS TALKS Episode 42 – Racha Kirakosian: ”Researching Women’s Lives: The Story of Katarina of Württemberg”

Theme: Gender

Keywords: gender, middle ages, Katharina von Württemberg, women’s history, female mystics

SCAS TALKS Episode 41 – Philipp Lepenies: ”Development Aid - From Practitioner to Scholar”

Theme: Development Issues & Human Rights

Keywords: development aid, political science, GDP, sustainability, academic career

SCAS TALKS Episode 40 – Jeremy Mumford: ”The Untold Story of Beatriz Coya - A Microhistory of a Marriage in Cuzco in 1565”

Theme: Latin America

Keywords: Latin America, microhistory, Inca kingdom, child marriage, Beatriz Coya

SCAS TALKS Episode 39 – Michael Watts: ”Oil and Its Afterlives: The Past and the Future of Oil in Nigeria”

Theme: Development Issues & Human Rights

Keywords: human rights, development issues, oil industry, Nigeria, global south

SCAS TALKS Episode 38 – Sohini Ramachandran: ”The Human Genome as a Historical Text”

Theme: Genetics & Evolution

Keywords: genomics, ancient DNA, human evolution, population genetics, diversity

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

Theme: Gender

Keywords: gender, work, economic history, verb-orientated method, open science, digital humanities

SCAS TALKS Episode 36 – Michael Goodhart: “The Complexity and Contradictions of Human Rights”

Theme: Development Issues & Human Rights

Keywords: human rights, democracy, activism, emancipatory politics, justice

SCAS TALKS Spotlight - “Opening the Ivory Tower Wide”

A collection of voices from the symposium "Opening the Ivory Tower Wide"

Keywords: outreach, innovation, science and society, policy advice, academic freedom

SCAS TALKS Episode 35 – Rebecca Earle: “How the Humble Potato Has Travelled the World and Shaped History”

Theme: Latin America

Keywords: Latin America, potato, food history, global history, plant domestication

SCAS TALKS Episode 34 – Janette Boughman & Maria Servedio: “New Insights into Speciation: Collaboration between a Mathematical Modeler and an Empirical Biologist”

Theme: Genetics & Evolution

Keywords: genetics, evolution, speciation, mathematical model, sexual selection

SCAS TALKS Episode 33 – Helen Anne Curry: ”Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction”

Theme: Genetics & Evolution

Keywords: genetics, maize, agriculture, seed banks, conservation, plant breeding

SCAS TALKS Episode 32 – Karsten Paerregaard: ”Climate Change, Climate Perception and Water Management in Peru”

Theme: Latin America

Keywords: Latin America, Andes, rituals, anthropocene, water management

SCAS TALKS Episode 31 – Susan Pedersen: ”Balfours in Love and Trouble”

Theme: Gender

Keywords: gender, Frances Balfour, Suffragettes, political wife, woman politician

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)

Keywords: India, citizen and state relations, displacement, internally displaced persons, Central European University

SCAS TALKS Episode 29 – Susanne A. Wengle: “Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food”

Theme: Infrastructures

Keywords: infrastructure, agriculture, technopolitical history, Russia, bread

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)

Keywords: Asia, sino-japanese interactions, citizen and state relations, war crime history, ramen

SCAS TALKS Episode 27 - Jessica Abbott: ”Evolution of Sex Chromosomes and (the Importance of) Science Communication”

Theme: Life Sciences

Keywords: evolution, fruitflies, sex differences, science communication, Fråga Lund

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

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Keywords: interdisciplinarity, research environment, institutes for advanced study, applied science, outreach

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

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Keywords: interdisciplinarity, academic career, research environment, institutes for advanced study, science and society

SCAS TALKS Episode 26 – Ash Amin: ”Infrastructures, Habitats and Slum Lives”

Theme: Infrastructures

Keywords: India, global south, infrastructure, covid-19, mental health

SCAS TALKS Episode 25 – Troy Day: ”From Educated Guesses to Accurate Predictions: Modelling of the Pandemic”

Theme: Life Sciences

Keywords: life science, covid-19, epidemiology, mathematical modeling, policy making

SCAS TALKS Episode 24 – Michael J. Puett: ”Rethinking the World by Considering Chinese History”

Theme: Asia (Citizens and state relations)

Keywords: Asia, world view, Chinese history, historical narratives, imperialism

SCAS TALKS Episode 23 – Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd: ”Banking before Banks: Credit and Debt in Preindustrial France”

Theme: Infrastructures

Keywords: infrastructures, banks, credit, financial markets, human economy

SCAS TALKS Episode 22 - Ericka Johnson: ”A Cultural Biography of the Prostate”

Theme: Life Sciences

Keywords: life science, prostate, medical humanities, technology, masculinity

SCAS TALKS Episode 21 – Rebekah Lee: "Death and Memory in Modern South Africa"

Theme: Africa

Keywords: South Africa, funeral practices, HIV/AIDS, memory, ethnographic studies