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Love & Its DiscontentsLove & Diapers with Prof Sarah Cramsey"i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)" – e.e. cummings Welcome to this episode with the historian Prof. Dr. Sarah Cramsey where we talk about love as that invisible work that constitutes the bulk of human history. Prof. Dr. Sarah Cramsey is the Special Chair for Central European Studies at Leiden University, an Assistant Professor of Judaism & Diaspora Studies, and Director of the Austria Centre Leiden. From 2025-2030, she will be the Principal Investigator of “A Century of Care: Invisible Work and Early Childcare in Central and Eastern Euro...
2025-05-191h 18
Love & Its DiscontentsLove & AI with Yusuf JonesToday I'm joined by Yusuf Jones. We're digging into the way Artificial Intelligence is changing the way we love.Yusuf Jones is a visionary AI Prompt Engineer/Architect and Technology Integrationist at the forefront of the AI revolution in mental health, community development, and spiritual technology.Facebook: @yusuf.journeyman.jones Instagram: @yusuf.is.just.dust
2024-08-161h 29
KoranpoddenAdnan Mahmutovic | Hajj blev min livsresaHajj-resan (pilgrimsfärden) är islams femte pelare. I detta samtalet delar Adnan Mahmutovic med sig av sina erfarenheter. Detta blir säsongens sista avsnitt. Vi är tillbaka med säsong den 5 augusti 2024 inshAllah.Min hajj-resa av Adnan M.Engelsk översättning av Adnans hajj-reseskildringBosnisk översättning av Adnans hajj-reseskildringDiskutera avsnittet med andra på Koranpodden Chatt.Besök gärna vår hemsida: www.koranpodden.se.Stöd KoranpoddenOm du finner någon glädje eller värde i vad jag gör, snälla överväg att donera ett valfritt belopp. Alla...
2024-06-161h 33
Love & Its DiscontentsLove in ShōgunIn this episode, we explore love in the new adaptation of James Clavell's Shōgun with John Austin. John Austin is an interactive designer, independent researcher, author, filmmaker, cultural critic, and entrepreneur. For over fifteen years, he has worked in augmented reality/virtual reality. Between 2007 and 2009 he divided his time living between the US and Japan where he helped found Autism Family Network. Austin founded Fresh Pulp Magazine, dedicated to "theoretical" science fiction from marginalized communities.He leads Dark Matters, a weekly podcast discussing the latest Sci-fi series through a critical race lens. A...
2024-05-211h 34
Love & Its DiscontentsLove & Genocide with Joy ManesiotisJoin me for a deep conversation on love in times and aftermath of traumatic historical events. How do our history and heritage make us and how do they shape the way we love? Focusing on the unique work of poetic theater, A Short History of Anger, about the genocide in Smyrna and the massive movements of peoples across borders of modern Turkey and Greece, we dig into things that help us live meaningful lives, overcome traumas and define love in ways that are healing. Joy Manesiotis is the author of three collections of poems, A Short History...
2024-01-261h 21
Love & Its DiscontentsLove Spells & Potions with Dr. Amila ButurovićJoin me in this unique conversation on love spells and potions with Dr. Amila Buturovic. Buturovic was born in Sarajevo. She works at the Dept of Humanities and Religious Studies at York University. Her interest lies in the cultural history of Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans, specifically Bosnia. Her major works are Stone Speaker: Bosnian Tombstones, Landscape and Identity in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar (2002), Carved in Stone, Etched in Memory: Tombstones and Commemoration in Bosnian Islam (2016). She is a co-editor with Irvin Schick of Women in the Ottoman Balkans (2008). Her most recent project focuses on...
2023-12-231h 48
Love & Its DiscontentsLove in Toni Morrison with Dr. Alice SundmanIn this episode, we delve into the amazing worlds of the African-American Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. We go in-depth on her masterpiece Beloved but also trace the theme of love throughout her oeuvre. Alice Sundman is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English, at Stockholm University. Her book Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place (Routledge, 2022) explores the creation and presentation of Toni Morrison’s literary places. Her research interests include Toni Morrison, ecocriticism, place and space studies, genetic criticism, phenomenology, and the intersections between literature and philosophy.
2023-11-091h 02
KoranpoddenAdnan Mahmutovic | Suror som pulserande galaxer i universumAdnan Mahmutovic är inte bara en författare utan även en docent inom engelsk litteratur. I detta avsnitt delar Adnan med sig av sin omsorgsfullt vävda insikt i Koranen, betraktad genom linsen av litteraturvetenskap. Hur kan vi närma oss den här odödliga texten med en ny frisk blick? If Suras Were Pulsating Galaxies: A Macro Reading of The Qur’anBlack Moses MattersLove & Its DiscontentsDiskutera avsnittet tillsammans med andra på Koranpodden Chatt.Besök gärna vår hemsida: www.koranpodden.se.Stöd KoranpoddenOm du finner någ...
2023-09-171h 02
Love & Its DiscontentsLoving Yusuf with Professor Mieke BalJoin me for a truly unique and rewarding conversation with Professor Mieke Bal about one of the most captivating stories of all time, the story of Joseph and Potiphar's Wife. Bal is a Dutch cultural theorist, video artist, and Professor Emerita in Literary Theory at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of more than 40 books, many films, and video installations. Her work is often course literature in a wide range of disciplines. Her "Narratology# is a must for all students of narrative.
2023-09-161h 04
Love & Its DiscontentsLove & Money: Mohsin HamidConversation with Mohsin Hamid the globally loved author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Exit West, and many more novels.
2023-08-041h 06
Love & Its DiscontentsLove in Shakespeare with Dr. Ishrat LindbladIn this special episode, I interview my old teacher and mentor Ishrat Lindblad, an expert on Shakespearean drama. But we also get personal on the way love shaped us.
2023-07-161h 12
Love & Its DiscontentsOthelloShakespeare's Othello is one of the most tragic heroes, famous for his excessive jealousy. And yet, he thought of himself as not easily jealous? In this episode, we find out how split he was and what ruined love for him.
2023-07-1607 min
Love & Its DiscontentsOthelloShakespeare's Othello is one of the most tragic heroes, famous for his excessive jealousy. And yet, he thought of himself as not easily jealous? In this episode, we find out how split he was and what ruined love for him.
2023-06-2407 min
Love & Its DiscontentsDirty DancingCan romantic love and friendship exist at the same time? Find out in this reflection on this classical romantic drama that shaped us as teenagers.
2023-06-0407 min
Love & Its DiscontentsFrankenstein with Dr. Paul JaussenJoin me and Dr. Paul Jaussen as we dig into Mary Shelley's classic Frankenstein, one the most influential stories of all time. Let us see what it says about love.
2023-05-121h 12
Love & Its Discontents"I am Your Adam" Mary Shelley's FrankensteinEveryone knows the story of Frankenstein and his Creation, the Wretch, the Monster. But do they? Let's dig into it from a different angle. What if it is, ultimately, a love story?
2023-04-2907 min
Love & Its DiscontentsSufi Love with Filip Almansour HolmLet's follow the Sufi path to discover what love is in Islamic mysticism and what diverse expressions it found in some of the key figures that defined it. Our guest is Filip Almansour Holm the host of the erudite and fun podcast Let's Talk Religion (https://www.youtube.com/ @LetsTalkReligion )
2023-04-151h 36
Love & Its DiscontentsLove in The Qur'an with Dr. Celine IbrahimIslam is one of the biggest religions in the world and at its core is The Holy Qur'an. What does it say about love? In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Celine Ibrahime on a journey through the holy text of Islam to explore the multitude of ways in which it evokes, defines, and prescribes love.
2023-03-311h 20
Love & Its DiscontentsGroundhog DayWhat if there was no tomorrow? What would that do to love? Is love eternal? Find out in this fun episode on the classic romantic comedy "Groundhog Day."
2023-03-1806 min
Love & Its DiscontentsWide Sargasso Sea with Dr. Nagihan HalilogluJoin me as I dig into Jean Rhys' amazing novel Wide Sargasso Sea and explore the relationship between love and madness and the harms of colonialism.
2023-03-0459 min
Love & Its DiscontentsI Will Write My Name in Fire Red (Wide Sargasso Sea)In this episode, we introduce the burning love and the debilitating madness of Bertha a.k.a. "madwoman in the attic." Jean Rhy's prequel to the classic Jane Eyre takes us all the way to the Caribbean and explores how he came to marry a creole woman who would later come to go crazy, be locked up in his attic, and eventually burn down his estate.
2023-02-1809 min
Love & Its DiscontentsJane Eyre with Dr. Lisa Ann RobertsonJoin us for an in-depth conversation on love, marriage, and the constraints of the Victorian age in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre with Dr. Lisa Ann Robertson.Dr. Robertson is an Associate Professor in Nineteenth-Century British Literature with expertise in Romanticism and eighteenth-century literature and culture at the University of South Dakota.
2023-02-0448 min
Love & Its Discontents"Reader, I Married him." Brontë's Jane EyreJane Eyre, the classical Bildungsroman, established some of the key definitions of love and marriage that still affect the way we think about modern Western love. In this episode, we lay some grounds for future interviews on rebellious love in the Victorian period.
2023-01-2111 min
Love & Its DiscontentsGreek Love (with prof. Peter Adamson)In this episode, we are joined by Prof. Peter Adamson, from the podcast History of Philosophy without any Gaps, to discuss the philosophy of love in presocratic, Platonic, and Aristotelian thought.
2023-01-071h 01
Love & Its DiscontentsPlatonic LoveWhat was love for the father of Western philosophy, Plato? Why do we think of "platonic love" as divorced from erotic feelings?
2022-12-2412 min
Love & Its DiscontentsPerforated Sheet: Rushdie's Midnight's ChildrenHow does a sheet with a small hole make people fall in love? Is it a blessed or a cursed sheet and how long does the magic last? Find out in this episode on Salman Rushdie's magical realist novel Midnight's Children.
2022-12-0906 min
Love & Its DiscontentsWhat We Talk About When We Talk About LoveHow do we define love? Is love that which kicks in after that initial chemistry has faded? Is love that which happens between the extremes of spirituality and materiality?Join us in a conversation with Dr. Lucy Durneen from the University of Cambridge as we discuss these issues using Raymond Carver's short story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."
2022-11-2454 min
Love & Its DiscontentsBirdsong“Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.”In this episode, we dig into the story of the Latin poet Catullus and his beloved Lesbia and the mysterious sparrow which stood between them. The sparrow is an obstacle, but when the bird dies, its ghostly presence remains to haunt Catullus' desire. Jeffrey Eugenides uses this to claim that a love story is defined by the presence of an obstacle to a character’s desire. What is more, love itself depends on there being some discontent, something that makes it out of reach, not fully posses...
2022-11-1009 min
Love & Its DiscontentsLove & Its Discontents IntroductionLove & Its Discontents is a podcast on the topic of LOVE and LOVE STORIES.Host: Adnan Mahmutović is Bosnian-Swedish writer and lecturer in English literature and creative writing at Stockholm University.The podcast is based on his university module in which students travel through literature from the Bible and the ancient Greeks to contemporary stories, wrestling with notions such as romantic love and altruism, deep diving into ecstatic love and solidarity, asking, Can love be examined like an object? What on earth is love? Where in the world is love?This podcast will a...
2022-10-0707 min
IslamEDU PodcastPODCAST S02E09: Dr. Adnan Mahmutović – Identitet i duh kretanjaS dr. Adnanom Mahmutovićem, rođenim Banjalučaninom, profesorom na Univerzitetu u Stockholmu (Švedska), razgovarali smo o pripadnostima/ identitetu, književnosti, ali i temama kao što je pozicija religije u književnosti.
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2021-12-0446 minIslamEDU PodcastPODCAST S02E09: Dr. Adnan Mahmutović – Identitet i duh kretanjaS dr. Adnanom Mahmutovićem, rođenim Banjalučaninom, profesorom na Univerzitetu u Stockholmu (Švedska), razgovarali smo o pripadnostima/ identitetu, književnosti, ali i temama kao što je pozicija religije u književnosti.Pogledajte video podcast na našem kanalu.Doniraj putem PayPal-a ili postani naš sponzor putem Patreona-a.
2021-12-0446 min
Mangal Media PodcastNostalgia all over Baščaršija
Here at Mangal Media, we are working on a new print project based on our Nostalgia in the Periphery article series. This new volume will include original stories and artwork from regular and new contributors and will be available in our online shop. In today's podcast I will be joined by Adnan Mahmutovic to talk about his contribution for this upcoming publication. Adnan's piece titled Nostalgia All Over Bascarsija is a comic book drawn by Esmir Prlja, explaining the author's complicated relationship with nostalgia.
2021-10-0300 min
Most of Mosa PodcastMost of Mosa #11 - Adnan MahmutovicIn this podcast we talk about, Life during the Bosnian Genocide, integrating as a refugee, publishing the first book, challenges in writing, black Moses, representation in art and literature and much moreInstagram: @mahmutovic.official
2021-05-081h 26Mangal Media PodcastEpisode 12- Black Moses Matters
In today's episode we will be joined by Adnan Mahmutovic to discuss his recent article: Black Moses Matters. In this article, Adnan investigates the location of Bosnians within the contemporary racial hierarchy. Key to his investigation is the assertion that Moses was black. Today, we will talk about the writing process that went into the essay and discuss the importance of a writer's relationship with their audience.
2020-10-0200 min