Podcasts for Whitsun
Fancy listening to a podcast over the long Whitsun weekend? Over the past few months, some excellent work has once again been produced at the faculty.
African Vibes – Nancy Kula, Priscilla Lam en Djibrila Tetereou
African Vibes explores the diversity of African languages and their significant contribution to understanding how language works. The makers consider language from a broad perspective and discuss the ways in which language in Africa interacts with a wide range of domains, and its central role in our lives and society.
African Vibes is available on Spotify.
Breuklijn Oost-Azië – Casper Wits en Remco Breuker
Breuklijn Oost-Azië is the definitive geopolitical podcast on East Asia, featuring Casper Wits and Remco Breuker, and exploring perception and reality in the geopolitics of China, Japan, Taiwan, and North and South Korea. It has been produced in collaboration with the Hague Institute GeopolitiekNu and Leiden University.
Breuklijn Oost-Azië is available (in Dutch) on Spotify.
Listening to Silences – Gerlov van Engelenhoven
Listening to Silences is a ten-part podcast series linked to the Veni project by Cultural Studies scholar Gerlov van Engelenhoven. Half of the episodes are in Dutch and the other half in English. In each episode, Van Engelenhoven talks to decolonial artists and activists about their active use of silence in their work.
Listening to silences is available on Spotify.
Peace Histories Podcast – team Peace Movement & Decolonization
The Peace Movements & Decolonisation research team at the Institute for History created the Peace Histories Podcast. Through this podcast, they share inspiring stories about peace movements and the thinkers and activists behind them, featuring a fantastic line-up of guests. The podcast also explores the history of peace movements in the decolonising world.
Peace Histories Podcast is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
Tjipcast: How do you shape philosophy of life and a sense of purpose in a society undergoing secularisation? – Markus Davidsen
Religion and philosophy of life have not disappeared from society, but have changed form. Precisely because of this, the question of how schools help young people to give meaning to what they experience, encounter and explore becomes all the more urgent. Philosophy of life is not a residual category for the formation of free opinion, but a field of knowledge with its own perspectives, language and teaching methods. In a secularised and diverse society, this creates not fewer, but rather more reasons to rethink this subject: as a place where knowledge, guidance and dialogue come together.
Tjipcast is available in Dutch on Spotify.
Utopie en prikkeldraad (Utopia and barbed wire) – Dorine Schellens, Marika Keblusek and Maura Martens
Utopie en prikkeldraad is a podcast about a country that no longer exists: the German Democratic Republic, or the GDR. But that country still lives on in people’s memories – the memories of those who grew up there, who believed in it and who left it. In this podcast, we discuss contemporary literature, art and films that shape these memories, whilst also exploring the culture of the GDR era itself.
Utopie en prikkeldraad is available in Dutch on Spotify.