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Researcher RevealedResearcher Revealed Podcast Bonus EpisodeI travelled to Lisbon, Portugal for the European Society of Cardiology’s annual Heart Failure Association World Congress to present my research. While there I thought that I took advantage of many researchers being in one place and caught as many as I could to ask "why they do heart failure research?" Who I caught0:37 Prof Izabella Uchmanowicz (Nurse) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Izabella-Uchmanowicz2:56 Prof Girerd Nicolas (Cardiologist) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicolas-Girerd4:52 Linn Hoog (Nurse) https://esc365.escardio.org/person/11035527:56.11 Dr Loreena Hill (Nurse) https://ww...
2024-05-2730 min
Dead Ladies Show PodcastDoreen MasseyIn this episode, we encounter the show's very first featured geographer. UK-born Doreen Massey was a pioneer in her field. She challenged existing ideas about space, place and power, was compassionate, politically active, and hopeful. She worked in academia and as a public intellectual, including at British early-morning TV fans' beloved Open University – teaching students who didn't have access to a traditional university education – and also in Nicaragua, Venezuela and South Africa. That work focused on economic geography and the geography of gender, and she spoke eloquently about place or space as "a pincushion of a million storie...
2023-08-1728 min
Spatial DelightTime to ThinkOver the course of this series, we’ve talked about the importance of education beyond the university. We've taken you to a public park, a cathedral, an art gallery, a library, a living room, a laundromat and to the streets. But universities do matter, as institutions and as places. In our final episode, we visit two – Goldsmiths, University of London, and Bard College Berlin – and listen to conversations taking place in- and outside their lecture halls. First, host Agata Lisiak travels to Goldsmith’s Centre for Urban and Community Research to take part in an event with sociologi...
2023-05-2636 min
Spatial DelightInvasión EspacialGeografes como Doreen Massey argumentan que el espacio es producido socialmente. En este episodio hablamos de la producción del espacio por cuerpas migrantes y escuchamos del carnaval cómo una perfecta invasión espacial.Bose Sarmiento, artista feminista, nos transporta a las calles de Berlín durante el 8 de Marzo. El día en que las protestas del día internacional de la mujer toman la ciudad. En el caos de las demostraciones, se deja llevar por la música para encontrar a la Marea Abya Yala. Lo que guía este episodio es la curiosidad acerca d...
2023-04-2826 min
Spatial DelightPolitical EngagementDoreen Massey was a geographer and public scholar concerned with how political action takes place not only on the level of policy, but also on the level of activism and everyday discourse. Host Agata Lisiak speaks about Massey’s political engagement with Jo Littler, Professor of Social Analysis and Cultural Politics at City, University of London. Jo is part of the editorial collective of Soundings, the journal of politics and culture Massey co-founded in 1995.Jo and Agata meet with James Marriott from Platform, a London-based collective of artists, activists and researchers working on social and environmental justice is...
2023-04-2829 min
Spatial DelightVisual DelightSome of our listeners – especially the lucky ones who got hold of our postcards – have asked us about the beautiful illustration accompanying Spatial Delight. What exactly does the colourful image depict? How does it connect to Doreen Massey’s work? And, last but not least, who made it? This bonus episode features a conversation between host Adèle Martin and Bose Sarmiento, the artist who designed the illustrations for Spatial Delight. Bose discusses the main themes and symbols in her work, and how they connect to Massey’s work, revealing the process behind her aesthetic choices. Episo...
2023-03-3106 min
Spatial DelightGeographical ImaginationsHost Agata Lisiak meets with artist and academic Heba Y. Amin at the Zilberman Gallery in Berlin. Professor Amin gives us a tour of her exhibition, When I See the Future, I Close My Eyes, and discusses how colonial and imperialist violence continues to shape our present. Her art demonstrates that technologies – even, or perhaps especially, those that appear to be “objective” – are inherently biased in favour of some populations and actually violent against others. Her art practice involves meticulous research and rigorous, subversive engagement with archives. She uses simulation, appropriation, restaging and humour to contest and disrupt dominant geographi...
2023-03-3131 min
Spatial DelightGeometrías del PoderEl paisaje físico y político de un país es un reflejo de las relaciones de poder en la sociedad. ¿Es posible hacer que estas relaciones sean más igualitarias? ¿Es posible cambiar significativamente lo que Doreen Massey llamó "geometrías del poder" y crear espacios sociales que representen los intereses de los sectores históricamente excluidos de la sociedad? Doreen Massey vio en Venezuela un intento prometedor de generar una nueva geometría del poder, más justa y democrática. En este episodio, el escritor venezolano Erick Moreno Superlano evalúa el éxito de esta iniciat...
2023-02-2429 min
Spatial DelightSpace InvadersThough she was a life-long Liverpool FC fan, Doreen Massey felt like a “space invader” whenever she attended matches, as she’d often be one of the few women on football terraces. Inspired by Massey’s usage of the term, sociologist Nirmal Puwar developed it into a sociological concept to understand “what happens when women and racialized minorities take up ‘privileged’ positions which have not been ‘reserved’ for them”. What kind of bodies are the somatic norm? What are the conditions of inclusion? Spatial Delight host Agata Lisiak speaks with Nirmal Puwar about her book Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodi...
2023-02-2431 min
Spatial DelightCities for the Many Not the FewFor Doreen Massey, every place poses a challenge, “the challenge of negotiating a here-and-now” – or what she called throwntogetherness. In this episode, we hear about different struggles to make cities more liveable – and more just – for the many, not the few. We discuss various limitations of the dominant political structures and why it is crucial to put continuous pressure on those who hold power.Agata Lisiak and her co-host for this episode, Anna Richter, speak to geographer Ash Amin about urban commons and social empowerment. Urban scholar Carmel Christy K J tells us about the intersections of social and...
2023-01-2732 min
Uncommon SenseListening, with Les BackWhat does it mean to really listen in a society obsessed with spectacle? What’s hidden when powerful people claim to “hear” or “give voice” to others? And what’s at stake if we think that using fancy recording devices helps us to neatly capture “truth”?Les Back – author of “The Art of Listening” – tells Alexis and Rosie why listening to society is crucial, but cautions that there’s nothing inherently superior about the hearing sense. Rather, we must “re-tune our ears to society” and listen responsibly, with care, and in doubt.Plus: why should we think critically before acc...
2023-01-2045 min
Spatial DelightWorld CityDoreen Massey once wrote that “it is (or ought to be) impossible even to begin thinking about Kilburn High Road without bringing into play half the world and a considerable amount of British imperialist history.” In this episode, urban sociologist Emma Jackson joins us to unpack London’s entanglements with places elsewhere. London’s imperialist and colonialist legacies are evident not only on the city’s streets, but also reach behind closed doors: into our classrooms, living rooms, offices, shops, and hospital wards. We speak to sociologist Yasmin Gunaratnam to discuss these lasting bonds. In her book Wor...
2022-12-3033 min
Dead Ladies Show PodcastRuth AsawaEpisode 58 — Ruth Asawa It's our final podcast of 2022! DLS co-founders Florian Duijsens and Katy Derbyshire join producer Susan Stone to toast the holiday season, chat about this year's good news in Dead Ladies, and to introduce our featured Dead Lady, artist Ruth Asawa. Born to Japanese parents on a farm in California, Ruth Asawa first developed her artistic tendencies tracing shapes in the dirt. When her family was interned during World War II by the US government (along with thousands of US citizens with Japanese heritage, following the bombing of US military base Pearl Harbor by t...
2022-12-1439 min
Spatial DelightGeography Matters!Much of our world – how we imagine it, how we inhabit it – continues to be shaped by various forms of imperialism and colonialism. In this episode, we discuss how geography can help us understand the many entanglements of the global and the local. Doreen Massey thought geographically about everything. She rejected the neat, linear ideas of spatial difference that have long shaped western geographical imaginations. Massey challenged western scientists, including herself, to stop pretending their position was in any way universal, and to provincialise their questions and theories instead. What has shaped your geographical imagination? What –...
2022-11-2524 min
Spatial DelightFull of PowerIn this first episode, you will learn who Doreen Massey was and get a sneak peek at her politics. We’ll hear from Massey’s former collaborators, friends and colleagues. And from Massey herself.For nearly three decades, Massey was a professor at The Open University and “loved every minute of it”. The OU’s aim has been to literally open up access to higher education for a wider variety of people. Our approach with this podcast is similar: you don’t need to come prepared – and you certainly don’t need an academic degree to listen to it.
2022-10-2829 min
Spatial DelightIntroducing Spatial DelightSpatial Delight is a podcast about the politics of space inspired by the life and work of British geographer Doreen Massey. Over the course of ten episodes (eight in English, two in Spanish), we engage with Massey’s enduring concepts – a global sense of place, geometries of power, space invaders, geographies of responsibility, and more – to challenge the way we think about the world today. As we travel from a London laundromat to a public park in Berlin, and invite listeners to take a closer look at a contested waterfront in Kochi and the Egyptian desert, we learn that “the way w...
2022-09-2101 min
Dead Ladies Show PodcastRosa LuxemburgEpisode 51 - Rosa Luxemburg The world is a troubling place, but we hope you can still find some inspiration out there, and in honor of International Women's Day, we wanted to bring you the story of a woman who fought, loved, and sacrificed, in troubling times of her own — the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Rosa was a Polish-born Jewish intellectual, socialist, Marxist philosopher, and anti-war activist, whose evocative writing contributed to her legacy. Her story comes via educator and writer Agata Lisiak, who is currently working on a book about Rosa Luxemburg.
2022-03-0834 min
Who Belongs?EP 12 - Prof. Agata Lisiak on Migration and Gentrification in EuropeIn this episode of Who Belongs? Sara Grossman speaks with Agata Lisiak, a professor of migration studies at Bard College Berlin, about her work on Eastern European migration to the Western Europe, the experiences of migrant mothers in particular, and the relationship between gentrification and language in European cities. For a transcript of this interview visit: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/podcast-prof-agata-lisiak-migration-and-gentrification-europe
2019-06-1839 min
Dead Ladies Show PodcastMarie CurieThe Dead Ladies Show is a series of entertaining and inspiring talks about women who achieved amazing things against all odds, presented live in Berlin. This podcast is based on that series.
Because women's history is everyone's history. In this episode, the first of DLSP Season Two: Agata Lisiak teaches us all about the world's most famous physicist, Marie Skłodowska Curie. The double Nobel Prize winner was the first and only woman in most situations she encountered. Also, writer David Wagner introduces the pioneering doctor Anna Fischer-Dückelmann, whose best-selling 1901 book taught women about contraception, vegetarian diets, and the...
2018-10-1835 min