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The Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Indigo Across Borders with Aarti Kawlra, Jody Benjamin, Min-Chin Chiang, and Jocelyne VokoumaThis episode features Aarti Kawlra, Academic Director of the Humanities Across Borders program at IIAS, hosting discussion about indigo with three colleagues, scholars, and educators. Jody Benjamin is an Associate Professor of History at Howard University. His recent book is The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850 (Ohio University Press, New African History Series, 2024), which explores questions of state-making, social hierarchy, and self-making across parts of Mali, Senegal, and Guinea through the lens of textiles and dress in a context shaped by an emergent global capitalism, slavery, and colonialism. Min-Chin Chiang is an Associate Prof...2025-05-291h 20The Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Curating the Africa-Asia ConFest with Laura Erber, Fatima Bintou Rassoul Sy, Chương-Đài Võ, and Fábio Baqueiro FigueiredoThis episode of the podcast is a special discussion connected to our upcoming event, Africa–Asia: A New Axis of Knowledge, which will take place in Dakar from June 11-14. Because not everyone will be able to join us in person, we thought it would be meaningful to bring you some of the conversations and ideas that have inspired this third edition of the event – previously held in Ghana (2015) and Tanzania (2018). In anticipation of the event, Laura Erber speaks with three guests about the Conference-Festival model and some of the key themes and ideas that inspire it. In different ways, each...2025-05-281h 39The Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Architectural Encounters in the Asia Pacific with Zhengfeng Wang, Amanda Achmadi, Paul Walker, and Soon-Tzu SpeechleyIn this episode, current IIAS Research Fellow Zhengfeng Wang hosts a conversation on transregional architectural history in the Asia-Pacific. She is joined by Amanda Achmadi, Paul Walker, and Soon-Tzu Speechley, all from the University of Melbourne. The three guests recently co-edited the volume Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific: Built Traces of Intercolonial Trade, Industry and Labour, 1800s-1950s, published by Bloomsbury in 2024).Amanda Achmadi is an Associate Professor in Architectural Design, specializing in Asian Architecture and Urbanism. Her work examines the intersections of architecture and identity politics across pre-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods, with a particular...2025-04-241h 03The Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Chiang Mai between Empire and Modern Thailand (Guest Episode: Southeast Asia Crossroads)On this episode of The Channel, we’re bringing you a full episode from our friends over at Southeast Asia Crossroads, a podcast from the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University. We at IIAS have frequently crossed paths with members of the team behind Southeast Asia Crossroads, and we’ve long wanted to do re-post one of their episodes on our feed. A perfect opportunity arose when an episode from last September featured Taylor Easum for a group discussion of his latest book, Chiang Mai between Empire and Modern Thailand: A City in the Colonial Margins. Easum is a...2025-03-2753 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Bangladeshi Masculinities with Mustahid HusainThis episode features a conversation with Mustahid Husain, who is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga. His work explores a variety of themes, from international development and global inequality to mental health and the Bangladeshi diaspora. He is the author of two new books. The first is a short academic monograph, Masculinity and Mental Health of Muslim Men of Colour: Diaspora and Intersectionality of Canadian Youth, published in 2024 as part of Palgrave’s New Directions in Islam series. The book explores the complex intersection of mental health, masculinity, and cultural identity amon...2025-02-2745 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Islam and Politics in Indonesia with Verena Meyer, Zainal Abidin, Saskia Schäfer, and Taufiq HanafiThis episode features a conversation about contemporary Indonesian politics, with a special focus on the role of Islam. In October 2024, Prabowo Subianto was sworn in as the president of Indonesia. In the Presidential election back in February 2024, he had quite handily defeated his two competitors, Anies Baswedan and Ganjar Pranowo, with 59% of the popular vote. This 2024 election was the third time that Prabowo tried to become president, after he lost in 2014 and 2019 against Joko "Jokowi" Widodo. The political competitions between Jokowi and Prabowo on occasion turned quite ugly. Not infrequently, it was accusations that the other was the "wrong...2025-01-3036 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Asian Bronze at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam with Anna Slaczka, Ching-Ling Wang, William Southworth, and Sara CreangeThis episode features a conversation with the team behind the exhibition Asian Bronze at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. The ambitious show celebrates 4000 years of bronze art and the central role of bronze in the traditions of Asia. Ranging from prehistoric objects to contemporary artworks, the exhibition includes pieces from India, China, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan, Nepal, and Korea. In this conversation, our four guests elaborate on the magnificence of this metal and its importance across widely different regions of the Asian continent. They discuss the complexities of planning and designing an exhibition of this scale and proportion, and they...2024-12-1951 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Brazil-Africa Connections with João José Reis and Fábio Baqueiro FigueiredoOn this episode, Laura Erber hosts a conversation with two distinguished historians from the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil: João José Reis and Fábio Baqueiro Figueiredo. These scholars represent two generations of researchers committed to reinterpreting and deepening our understanding of the complex relationships between Brazil and Africa.João José Reis is one of Brazil’s foremost historians and a globally recognized authority on 19th-century slavery. Born in Salvador, his extensive research has focused on urban slavery, resistance movements, and the lives of former slaves in Brazil. Reis earned his History degree from the Cath...2024-11-2857 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Airport Development in the Global South with Irit Ittner, Sneha Sharma, Hanna Geschewski, and Rose BridgerThis episode features a conversation about the debates and land disputes surrounding the development of airports in Asia and Africa. As airport construction projects proliferate across the Global South – often seen as a fast-track to development and modernization – new tensions frequently emerge, particularly when it comes to the huge tracts of land required for these new infrastructures. My guests today have a new edited volume on this topic, Contested Airport Land: Social-Spatial Transformation and Environmental Injustice in Asia and Africa, just published by Routledge. That book was co-edited by Irit Ittner, Sneha Sharma, Isaac Khambule, and Hanna Geschewski. Unfortunately, Isaac – a prof...2024-10-3152 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Muslim Universities in Post-Partition India with Laurence GautierIn this episode, Soheb Niazi interviews Laurence Gautier about the history of two Muslim educational institutions – Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia – and what these reveal about the politics of Muslim identity and the position of Muslims in post-Partition India. That topic is the subject of Gautier’s new book, Between Nation and ‘Community': Muslim Universities and Indian Politics after Partition, published earlier this year by Cambridge University Press. Soheb Niazi was formerly a Research Fellow here at IIAS, and he is currently a Gerda Henkel Postdoctoral Fellow at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Laurence Gautier is a researcher at the Centre de S...2024-09-261h 13
ISACA Germany Chapter - Innovation & TechTalk PodcastFolge 13 - ISACA | IIAS Fachtagung am 29. Januar 2024 in ZürichISACA Innovation & Tech Talk Podcast Series - Folge 13 - ISACA | IIAS Fachtagung am 29. Januar 2024 in Zürich - Sonderfolge in Zusammenarbeit mit dem ISACA Switzerland Chapter zur Vorstellung der ISACA | IIAS Fachtagung am 29. Januar 2024 in Zürich - Im Gespräch mit Andrea Tribelhorn, Präsidentin des ISACA Switzerland Chapters und Thomas Streckeisen, Vorstandsmitglied für Konferenzen beim ISACA Switzerland ChapterMehr Podcasts von ISACA Germany gibt es unter: https://www.isaca.de/podcastsAnregungen, Kritik oder Vorschläge für Themen bitte an: fg-innovation@isaca.de2024-09-2307 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Home and the World at Museum Van Loon with Thomas BerghuisThomas Berghuis is a curator and historian of Asian art based in The Netherlands. Berghuis recently curated the exhibition Home and the World in Museum Van Loon, an historical building in the canal district of Amsterdam. In this exhibition, fourteen contemporary artists from all over the world used different spaces of the Van Loon canal house to explore the intricate connections between colonialism and nationalism, past and present. In this episode, Berghuis elaborates on the themes of the exhibition, on its peculiar location, and on the importance of alternative perspectives on how to feel at home in a world beyond...2024-08-291h 30
WIT Love PodcastHelping Humanity Survive From Sea to Space with Dr. Shawna PandyaDr. Shawna Pandya is a physician, aquanaut, scientist-astronaut candidate with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS), skydiver, pilot-in-training, VP Immersive Medicine with Luxsonic Technologies, and Director of IIAS’ Space Medicine Group. She is also a Fellow of the Explorers’ Club and Associate Fellow of the Aerospace Medicine Association. In 2021, she was granted an Honorary Fellowship in Extreme and Wilderness Medicine and named to the Canadian Women’s Executive Network’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women. In 2022, Dr. Pandya was awarded the Explorers' Club's “50 Explorers Changing the World," and in 2023, named to SustainabilityX Magazine’s “Global 50 Women in Sustainability...2024-07-3129 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Radical Indian Thinkers with Nico Slate and Ole Birk LaursenThis episode brings together two historians who have recently published biographies of 20th-century Indian radicals. The first guest, Ole Birk Laursen is an historian whose work focuses on anarchism and anti-colonialism from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, with a focus on South Asian activists in exile. His first book, Anarchy or Chaos: M. P. T. Acharya and the Indian Struggle for Freedom, was published last year by Hurst & Co. He is currently a Researcher in the Department of History at Lund University, Sweden, where he is working on the history of anarchism and syndicalism in Scandinavia...2024-07-3043 min
Next Economy19/07/2024 | Next EconomyNEXT ECONOMY - gli ospiti della puntata del 19 Luglio 2024: Renato Decarolis, Trader e Formatore (Analisi operativa mercati e attualità economica) Anna Rea, Presidente ADOC (Studio Adoc sulle controtendenze nel turismo in Italia: sempre più viaggiatori scelgono viaggi green) Giorgio Donegani, Presidente IIAS (Rapporto di IIAS sul consumo di surgelati nel 2023) Francesco Giardina, Coldiretti (Biologico: leadership Italia minacciata da invasione dall’estero (+40%) Pasquale Febbraro con LE NOTIZIE BELLE DELLA GIORNATA RUBRICA "FUFFA UGUALE TRUFFA" Daniele Pistolesi, Presidente e Fondatore AFUE, ASSOCIAZIONE VITTIME DI TRUFFE FINANZIARIE Chiara Bartolini, Testimone di truffa Filippo Diodovich, Senior Strategist IG (La Bce lascia fermi i tassi al 4,25. A...2024-07-191h 42The Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Migrant Domestic Workers with Liberty Chee, Elsa Ramos Carbone, and Jec SernandeThis episode is guest hosted by Liberty Chee, who is currently a visiting researcher here at the International Institute for Asian Studies. While in Leiden, Liberty is working on a book manuscript that examines recruitment and employment agencies in Southeast Asia, their relations to other state and non-state actors, and how these structure the experiences of domestic migrant workers themselves. For this episode of The Channel, Liberty organized a conversation about the ILO Convention on Domestic Work (C189), which is a global norm-setting instrument that formalizes domestic work and serves as an important advocacy tool. To date, only one country...2024-06-271h 00The Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)The Ta-u and their Island Home with Syaman Lamuran and Syaman RaponganHere at IIAS, the upcoming edition of our flagship publication The Newsletter (June 2024, #98) comes out next month, just in time for the ICAS 13 conference in Surabaya, Indonesia. This edition of The Newsletter is meant to engage in various ways with the conference theme, “Crossways of Knowledge.” The special Focus section of this issue presents a collection of articles by authors from the Indigenous Ta-u community of Lanyu Island off the coast of Taiwan. Echoing the theme of maritime connections so central to this iteration of ICAS 13, the authors of The Focus reflect on multiple dimensions of Ta-u life, including tradi...2024-05-3010 min
The Core Report#294 India’s Rank In MSCI IncreasesOn Episode 294 of The Core Report, financial journalist Govindraj Ethiraj talks to Hetal Dalal, president and COO of Institutional Investor Advisory Services (IiAS).SHOW NOTES(00:00) Stories Of The Day(01:09) India’s rank in MSCI increases and why that will mean more flows(03:48) How foreign institutional investors are most pessimistic on India in over 12 years(06:13) Why oil prices could stay low this year thanks to soft global demand and mild weather in Europe(08:22) What should make more money, anonymous coding for global companies or selling your own brand of cars in global markets?(12:25) How Indian companies are no...2024-05-1624 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Resource Extraction and State-Owned Enterprises with Jewellord Nem Singh and Pietro ErberThis episode features a conversation about development, state-owned enterprises, and the political economy of resource extractivism, with a special focus on the case of Brazil. Jewellord “Jojo” Nem Singh is an Assistant Professor in International Development at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, part of Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2020, Jojo was awarded a grant from the European Research Council for the five-year project Green Industrial Policy in the Age of Rare Metals: A Trans-regional Comparison of Growth Strategies in Rare Earths Mining (GRIP-ARM), for which he is also affiliated with us here at IIAS. His new book is Busi...2024-04-251h 27The Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)The Prejudice and Politics of Food in Northeast India (Guest Episode: The Chicken-Neck Podcast)On this episode of The Channel, we’re bringing you a full episode from our friends over at The Chicken-Neck (TCN) Podcast. TCN is Northeast India's first policy-based podcast offering an informed take on culture, language, food, clothes, history, politics, law, policy, and much more. The particular episode we're re-posting features an interview with Aditya Kiran Kakati, who was formerly a Research Fellow here at the International Institute for Asian Studies. Aditya's primary research project concerns the global history of Indo-Myanmar borderlands during and after World War II. Beyond this, as you'll hear in the interview, Aditya has wide-ranging interests, includ...2024-03-2850 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Reckoning with Historical Sexual Violence with Kate McGregorCONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussion of trauma and sexual violence that some listeners may find difficult.On this episode, Kate McGregor joins for a discussion of so-called "comfort women" of Indonesia. McGregor's new book is Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory and Sexual Violence in Indonesia, published in 2023 as part of the Critical Human Rights series at the University of Wisconsin Press. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Japanese military imposed a system of prostitution across East and Southeast Asia. Since the 1990s, survivors of the system, euphemistically called “comfort women,” have sought recognition of and redress for...2024-02-2940 min
Happy & HumanDare to be FirstSend us a textLetting fear or the opinions of other people get in the way of your dreams and goals? This is the episode for you. Seema and Dinesh are welcoming guest Dr. Shawna Pandya who’s impressive career will remind you that just because nobody’s done it before doesn’t mean you can’t be the first. They have a conversation around the importance of having the bravery and confidence to be first and not letting limiting beliefs get in the way of your true potential. They’ll also talk about what to do when the n...2024-02-2029 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Political Geology in Java with Adam BobbetteThis episode features a conversation about political geology with Adam Bobbette, who serves as a Lecturer in Political Geology at the University of Glasgow. After studying architecture and landscape at the University of Toronto, Adam earned his PhD in geography from Cambridge. His research examines the intersections between politics and environmental and earth sciences, with a special regional focus on Indonesia. His new book is The Pulse of the Earth, which was published in 2023 by Duke University Press. As many listeners of this podcast already know, the next meeting of our flagship conference, the International Convention of Asia Scholars, or I...2024-01-2547 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Muslim Caste Associations in India with Soheb Niazi and Julien LevesqueIn this episode, Soheb Niazi and Julien Levesque discuss Muslim caste organizations in India. Soheb Niazi is an historian who specializes in the social and economic history of modern India. He is particularly interested in studying the history of non-elite (non-ashrāf) Muslim actors in South Asia to understand the formation of caste and class relations among them. Soheb is currently a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS). During his stay here in Leiden, he is working on his book manuscript, tentatively titled “Contesting Genealogies: Hierarch and Social Mobility among Muslim Occupational Classes in Colonial North Ind...2023-12-211h 24The Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)ICAS Book Prize 2023 with Victoria Lee and John LieAs listeners may know, this year marked the 10th edition of the ICAS Book Prize (IBP). The prize was established in 2003 by our flagship conference, the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), to recognize outstanding publications in the field of Asian Studies. The award brings wider visibility to the latest and most impressive books, and it has become one of the most prestigious book prizes in the discipline. Since its inception, the IBP competition has expanded in many ways. It now includes various editions in multiple languages, including French, Chinese, German, Spanish and Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean. Beyond books...2023-11-3026 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Bonus Episode: Cultural Healing with Cha-Hsuan Liu, Aditya Kiran Kakati, Marian Markelo, Fatima Gay Molina, and An-Bang YuThis bonus episode is guest hosted by Cha-Hsuan Liu, an Affiliated Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies and the editor of the online collection "Global Health Matters" on IIAS' The Blog. To explore the topic of cultural healing and humanistic approaches to health and wellbeing, Cha-Hsuan is joined by four guests: Aditya Kiran Kakati, An-Bang Yu, Marian Markelo, and Fatima Gay Molina. Aditya is a political historian and anthropologist from India. Beyond his scholarship, he is also a practitioner of Pranic Healing, which is a part of the culture in the region where he grew up. Marian Markelo...2023-11-0354 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Swahili Poetry of Ustadh Mahmoud Mau with Clarissa Vierke and Annachiara RaiaThis episode features a conversation about poetic traditions in East Africa. Earlier this year, Brill published In This Fragile World: Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau. Ustadh Mau is a spiritual leader and popular poet from Lamu, Kenya. When he visited the Netherlands in May 2023, a local bookshop in Leiden hosted a reading to launch this new collection of English translations. In this episode, we will be playing some recordings from that event to give listeners a sense of the poems in their original Swahili (see also the audio recordings that supplement the book itself). To guide us...2023-10-261h 03
Life as a..EP96_From Earth to the Stars: Navigating a Career in Astronautical Sciences-Life as an Astronautical Sciences Professional-
In this captivating career conversation, Dr. Jason Reimuller, the founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences (IIAS), takes you on an inspiring journey through his mission-driven work in space science and education.
Dr. Reimuller's passion for space has led to the creation of outreach programs that empower underrepresented groups, including young women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and emerging space nations.
Through IIAS, he has fostered a global community of space enthusiasts and facilitated commercial human-tended research spaceflight.
Drawing from his extensive NASA and...2023-10-0354 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Perspectives on Asian Studies with Lena Scheen, Terence Chong, Ilhong Ko, Edwin Jurriëns, and Cathy HarperOn October 13, 2023, the International Institute of Asian Studies celebrates its 30th anniversary, and The Newsletter will be releasing a special issue as part of this celebration. More than just a three-decade retrospective, the issue is meant to reflect on the contemporary state of Asian Studies and the role of institutions like IIAS in the discipline's future. As regular readers will know, every edition of The Newsletter includes a special section entitled "The Region," in which partner institutions submit curated collections of short articles meant to highlight ongoing Asian Studies research from different parts of the world. In this episode of...2023-09-281h 17
T-Minus Space DailyHi, Bob. Sign me up for Mars.Germany’s Ramstein Air Base will be the headquarters of a new US Space Force service component for Europe and Africa. The UK Space Agency has awarded Scotland-based AstroAgency and UAE based AzurX, 75,000 pounds each to develop advanced space technologies to tackle natural disasters and reduce greenhouse emissions in the Gulf. EutelSat says its HOTBIRD 13F and HOTBIRD 13G satellites have now entered into full commercial service.Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app.Miss an episode? Sign-up for our weekly intelligence roundup, Signals and Space, and you’ll n...2023-09-1426 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Women in East Asian Religions with Jingjing Li and Yingruo ShowThis episode features two colleagues having a discussion about gender in East Asian Religions. The first guest, Jingjing Li, is a University Lecturer in Chinese and Comparative Philosophy at Leiden University. Her primary work examines theories of mind and consciousness across East Asian and Continental traditions, particularly Chinese Wei Shi philosophy and Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology, respectively. The second guest, Yingruo Show, was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore and now serves as Research Coordinator with the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre (SCCC). She specializes in the intersection of gender and Chinese Buddhist prac...2023-08-2432 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Indian Identity in Malaysia with Paul GnanaselvamThis episode features a conversation between Sally Anne Param and Paul Gnanaselvam. Sally, who serves as the guest host, is a sociologist who has conducted research about the Indian community in Malaysia. Paul Gnanaselvam is an Ipoh-born writer and poet whose work often focuses on the experiences, issues, and identity conflicts of those in the Indian diaspora. His latest collection, The Elephant Trophy and Other Stories was published by Penguin Random House SEA in 2021. Sally recently wrote a review of the collection for the IIAS book reviews platform, which led her to contact Paul himself, who graciously agreed to an...2023-07-271h 04The Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Moral Economic Transitions with Hedwig WatersHedwig Waters is a cultural and economic anthropologist with research interests in topics of debt, wildlife, and moral economic transitions in Mongolia. She currently works as a Horizon Europe ERA Postdoctoral Fellow at Palacky University in the Czech Republic. Earlier this month, her first book – Moral Economic Transitions in the Mongolian Borderlands: A Proportional Share – was published by University College London Press as part of their series “Economic Exposures in Asia.” Since the 1990s, Mongolia's transition to a market democracy has shifted the economic, political, and cultural landscape of the country. The book examines "Magtaal," a pseudonym for the rural township...2023-06-291h 04
Where Work Meets Life™ with Dr. LauraFrom Sea to Space: The Quest to Help Humanity Survive and ThriveDr. Laura is joined by the brilliant Dr. Shawna Pandya - a Canadian physician, aquanaut, scientist-astronaut candidate with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences, VP of Immersive Medicine with Luxsonic Technologies, and Director of IIAS’ Space Medicine Group. Dr. Pandya talks about the many facets of her career and what drives her to success and continued exploration.It is tempting to simply call Dr. Shawna Pandya superhuman and assume she is on a level of her own, but Dr. Laura delves into the very human side of what inspired Dr. Pandya to pursue space medicine, and what co...2023-05-2835 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Textiles and Artisans with Daan van Dartel, Lipika Bansal, and Kirit ChitaraThis episode features a conversation hosted by Aarti Kawlra, the Academic Director of the Humanities Across Borders program here at IIAS, in which she speaks with three guests: Daan van Dartel, Curator of Popular Culture and Fashion at the National Museum of World Cultures in the Netherlands; Lipika Bansal, a researcher, social designer, and the founder of Textiel Factorij in Amsterdam; and, finally, Kirit Chitara, an artist based in India. In September 2022, IIAS and Humanities Across Borders hosted an In Situ Graduate School entitled Textiles and Dyes as Transnational, Global Knowledge. As Aarti and others collaborated on this event with...2023-05-2543 min
The Whimper PodcastAn Astronaut's Journey with Rodrigo SantiagoRodrigo Carvalho Santiago, a native of Volta Redonda, Brazil, was selected by IIAS to join the Astronaut Scientist Candidate Class of 2018 and reported for duty in 2019. He has a background in space research and has performed two high altitude flights in space environment conditions. Rodrigo was also a researcher and advisor for the MIT/T.E.S.S DATA ANALYSIS TESS GI Program lead by Padi Boyd at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. During quarantine, he contributed to the Folding at Home team that created a supercomputer through peer-to-peer networking. Additionally, he joined a team...2023-05-021h 03The Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)A Muslim Hub in Western India with Sanderien VerstappenSanderien Verstappen is Assistant Professor of anthropology at the University of Vienna. In addition to her writing, she is also a filmmaker and the founding director of the Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab. Sanderien’s latest book is New Lives in Anand: Building a Muslim Hub in Western India, published last year by University of Washington Press. In 2002, when widespread anti-Muslim violence broke out across Gujarat, India, the town of Anand was perceived as something of a safe haven. Against this historical backdrop, the book ethnographically explores contemporary Anand. In the decades since 2002, the town became a hub for Muslims at mu...2023-04-2735 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)CinemAsia Film Festival with Jia Zhao and Darunee TerdtoontaveedejToday on the podcast, we welcome Jia Zhao and Darunee Terdtoontaveedej, both of whom are on the team that organizes the CinemAsia Film Festival. Jia is the Artistic Director for the festival, and Darunee is a Film Programmer for CinemAsia and helps organize special events, particularly focusing on LGBTQ programming. CinemAsia is one of the largest and longest-running Asian film festivals in Europe. For nearly two decades, CinemAsia has sought to bring greater attention to Asian cinema and Asian filmmakers. This year’s festival took place from March 7 through March 12 in Amsterdam, and Jia and Darunee took some time during th...2023-03-1636 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)The Trauma of Caste (Guest Episode: SASSpod)On this episode of The Channel, we’re bringing you a full episode from our friends over at the Center for South Asia at Stanford University. SASSpod is hosted by Lalita du Perron and features a regular stream of excellent, in-depth discussions. According to the show’s website, “The podcasts feature a wide range of topics, ranging from poetry to politics, from manuscript collecting to music, from business to Bollywood. Every podcast consists of an informal and infative conversation about South Asia and its meaning in the world, in our lives, and at Stanford.” We recommend that all of our listeners t...2023-02-1654 min
FormaRadioLes chantiers de la formation, Jean-Marie PerettiAFFEN&Co 281
AFFEN&Co 281, la Collegiale de l'AFFENJean-Marie PERETTI, Président d'honneur de l'IIAS, Institut International de l'Audi Sociale.
BiographiePrésident d'honneur de l'Association francophone de gestion des ressources humaines (AGRH) dont il a été président de 2001 à 2004,Il est l'auteur de nombreux ouvrages sur les ressources humaines, l'audit social et les rémunérations.Parution en 2022, de son ouvrage Ressources humaines, 18ème édition, plus de 80 000 exemplaires vendus, un best seller.Depuis octobre 2005, il organise avec Jacques Orsoni, Soufyane Frimousse et l'association « Rencontres internationales de la diversité », un colloque qui est devenu le rendez-vous où la diversité dans l’entreprise et la société est...2023-01-3050 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Hooligan Sparrow (Guest Episode: East Asia for All)For our first episode of 2023, we’re bringing you a full episode from our friends over at East Asia for All, a podcast dedicated to all things East Asian pop culture. East Asia for All is hosted by Melissa Brzycki and Stephanie Montgomery, and according to the show’s website, “As pop culture nerds who also have a decade of experience living and traveling in East Asia, they have personally seen how people from outside of the region are engaging with its popular culture with increasing intensity and richness, but also how differences in language and culture often result in a limit...2023-01-1945 min
Physician Empowerment10 - The Intersection of Space and Medicine with. Dr. Shawna PandyaDr. Kevin Mailo welcomes Dr. Shawna Pandya - Physician, Aquanaut, Explorer, Director of IIAS Space Medicine Group, Space Medicine and Austere Environment Researcher - to the show to talk about her amazing career. But more than that, Shawna speaks about dreams and how to make them reality.Shawna Pandya is an explorer, an aquanaut, she’s lived in a Mars simulation in the Utah desert, and she’s lived in an underwater habitat for five days. She works for a company focussed on immersive technologies and a company trying to put the world’s first rotating partial gravit...2022-12-3022 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Political Transformation in Southeast Asia with Nhu Truong, Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Maggie Shum, and Megan RyanOn this episode, we welcome four guests to discuss democratic backsliding and rising authoritarianism in Southeast Asia, and also grassroots mobilizations in response to such phenomena. The first iteration of this group came together as a roundtable at the conference of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies in 2021. The convenor and chair of that roundtable was Nhu Truong. Nhu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Affairs at Denison University. She was joined by two more of our guests: Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Director of the Institute for the Study of International Development and Associate Professor o...2022-12-201h 32The Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Acoustic Atmospheres in Palau with Birgit AbelsBirgit Abels is professor of cultural musicology at the University of Göttingen. She has conducted ethnographic and ethnomusicological research in multiple sites across Asia, and she is the Principal Investoigor on the European Research Council project Sound Knowledge: Alternative Epistemologies of Music in the Western Pacific Island World. Today we are talking about Birgit’s new book, Music Worlding in Palau: Chanting, Atmospheres and Meaningfulness. The book was released in 2022 as part of the Global Asia series published by IIAS and Amsterdam University Press. Chanting holds a special place in Palau. In this conversation, Birgit discusses the theoretical dimension of her...2022-11-1741 min
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In the case of Satya's work among the Riverines in Brazil, this includes...2022-08-0117 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)River Cities #3: Cartographies with Satya PatchineelamThis episode is the third in a four-part mini-series on River Cities as Method (RCM), a new project under the umbrella of Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA) at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS). The goal of River Cities as Method is to promote ecologically and socially inclusive revitalizations of rivers and the cities/neighborhoods that coexist with them. In this episode, Satya Patchineelam, PhD candidate at Erasmus University and academic advisor for the RCM project, turns to the overtly spatial dimensions of her work with the Riverines of Brazil. This includes discussions of traditional territories, infrastructural projects...2022-07-2827 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)River Cities #2: Biographies with Satya PatchineelamThis episode is the second in a four-part mini-series on River Cities as Method (RCM), a new project under the umbrella of Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA) at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS). The goal of River Cities as Method is to promote ecologically and socially inclusive revitalizations of rivers and the cities/neighborhoods that coexist with them. In this episode, Satya Patchineelam, PhD candidate at Erasmus University and academic advisor for the RCM project, delves deeper into the history and life ways of the Riverine community in Brazil. This research also serves as the pilot project...2022-07-2521 minThe Channel: A Podcast from the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)River Cities #1: Introduction with Satya PatchineelamThis episode is the first in a four-part mini-series on River Cities as Method (RCM), a new project under the umbrella of Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA) at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS). The goal of River Cities as Method is to promote ecologically and socially inclusive revitalizations of rivers and the cities/neighborhoods that coexist with them. In this introductory episode, Satya Patchineelam, PhD candidate at Erasmus University and academic advisor for the RCM project, introduces her own ethnographic work among the Riverine community in Brazil. This work serves as the pilot project for RCM, so...2022-07-2124 min
The QTS ExperienceThe Citizen Astronaut with Shawna PandyaI recently heard Dr Shawna Pandya start a conversation by saying “I am an absolute disgrace" - a remarkable claim since she is a trained Neurosurgeon, Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, Martial Arts expert and citizen Astronaut. She joins me this week to talk about success, failure, shame, and resilience on the next QTS Experience.
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TechnoViewsTechnoViews #1 'The Craft of Anthropology. Doing Fieldwork with Artisans in Thailand and Greece in Times of Change' | Michael Herzfeld (Harvard)Michael HERZFELD, interviewed by Gonçalo SANTOS on March 6, 2018, Hong Kong.FEATURED AUTHORMichael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is also the former and founding Director (2014-18) of the Thai Studies Program, Asia Center, Harvard University; Senior Advisor on Critical Heritage Studies to the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, and Visiting Professor at Leiden University. He is also Chiang Jang Scholar and Visiting Professor at Shanghai International University, and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Arts, Melbourne University. H...2021-01-0637 min
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New Books in South Asian StudiesNarrating Africa in South AsiaNarrating Africa in South Asia (Special Journal Issue: South Asian History and Culture, Volume 11, Issue 4, 2020) explores the multifaceted and longue durée history of the African diaspora in South Asia. The themes of the articles cover many grounds, such as race, religion, social and intellectual history, space and place, social networks and globality, memory studies, and identity politics, among others. Narrating Africa in South Asia situates the African diaspora in the South Asian subcontinent against the broader backdrop of global mobilizations against systemic racism, economic inequality, inaccessible justice, and colonial educational system, among others.Mahmood Kooria is an As...2020-12-311h 41
New Books in African StudiesNarrating Africa in South AsiaNarrating Africa in South Asia (Special Journal Issue: South Asian History and Culture, Volume 11, Issue 4, 2020) explores the multifaceted and longue durée history of the African diaspora in South Asia. The themes of the articles cover many grounds, such as race, religion, social and intellectual history, space and place, social networks and globality, memory studies, and identity politics, among others. Narrating Africa in South Asia situates the African diaspora in the South Asian subcontinent against the broader backdrop of global mobilizations against systemic racism, economic inequality, inaccessible justice, and colonial educational system, among others.Mahmood Kooria is an As...2020-12-311h 41New Books in South Asian StudiesSienna R. Craig, "The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives Between Nepal and New York" (U Washington Press, 2020)In The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York (University of Washington Press, 2020), anthropologist Sienna Craig examines the inter-generational shifts that increasingly transform the Mustang region of northern Nepal, particularly in the face of increased migration. Historically a community engaged in traditional trading and agricultural practices, Mustang and its communities have been radically altered since the 1990s by new modes of life, transnationalism, and (dis)connection. Drawing on 25 years of ethnographic engagement with Mustang and its far-flung diasporic outpost in New York City, the book charts the multiple forces that led to these changes and attends...2020-12-211h 21
All GritHetal Dalal (IiAS/Ex-CRISIL/NMIMS) highlights best practices in Corporate Governance | All Grit E08Hetal Dalal takes us through her early days of becoming a Chartered Accountant while pursuing her MBA from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS); leading up to her current role as the President and COO at Institutional Investors Advisory Services (IiAS) being at the helm of governance research and overall business execution.
In the eighth episode of All Grit, we explore the benefits of taking risks and embracing uncertainty, while adjusting with the continually evolving and growing markets, and how gender diversity has a vital role to play in good corporate governance.
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金貓純愛組 Kananeko Junai Gumi#EP4：日本打工記（番外篇）：濃縮咖啡阿法奇朵星冰樂®#金貓留學顧問 #打工篇 一個風和日麗的週日下午，筑波iias購物廣場中，人潮熙熙攘攘。一樓星巴克收銀櫃台後，Hyon又按錯了POS機、算錯了錢。 「都進來幾個月了還這麼不小心！要是客人不再光顧誰要負責？.......」店經理霹哩啪啦地斥責著Hyon。 這是第幾次被這樣罵了呢？Hyon已經數不清了。除了再次痛下決心要擺正態度好好打工外，他其實已經聽膩店經理的那些說教，為了渡過這煎熬的時間，他只好心裡默念著那如咒語般的品名：「エスプレッソ アフォガート フラペチーノ，エスプレッソ アフォガート フラペチーノ，エスプレッソ アフォガート フラペチーノ～」 Kia從軍當大頭兵，還有Miro陪著你！日本星巴克的面試秘辛、特別的人氣品項、外國人打工仔的甘苦談，快按下播放鍵，讓特別來賓——Hyon全都告訴你～ P.S 本集因為錄音設備及場地的關係，音質在調整後還是有些瑕疵，請大家多多包涵🙏 Powered by Firstory Hosting2020-09-2320 min
Yarn | A Story PodcastBlak Bisnis[A true crime documentary]
Modern piracy and the hijacking of the Petro Ranger. - You probably don’t think of pirates as wearing expensive suits and working in high rise office buildings. In the 90’s the biggest pirates of South East Asia were impossible to tell apart from high powered business people. It was hard to tell them apart because they could be both. This is the true story of one of the most sophisticated pirate syndicates in South East Asia and its mythic leader Mister Wong.
The syndicate was run like a business. They had as...2019-07-1948 min
留学声（第1季）美国大学刘可：留学美国四年，我终于明白自己想要什么，不想要什么，自己想成为什么人主讲人刘可：留美四年，于美国完成本硕学业。2014-15年间于华盛顿特区攻读全美专业排名前三十的美利坚大学传播学院。读研时期师从普利策奖获奖者、ICIJ 创始人，曾先后在华盛顿邮报、今日美国等主流媒体实习并发表个人文章。毕业后先后与SMG北美新闻中心、新浪网新闻中心供职，现为VICE中国制片经理。
主持人杨洁怡：毕业于重庆大学，曾在哥伦比亚大学历史与科学学院的Making and Knowing Lab和荷兰莱顿大学国际东亚研究院（IIAS) 实习，担任过TEDx策展人
主讲人刘可最后点题：
我在美国留学的经历，让我能更清楚自己想要什么，不想要什么，自己想成为什么样的人，自己的底线在哪儿，然后自己以自己为标杆去看自己的成长，而不是说要去跟别人比，去获得别人的夸奖，而是更求之于内，在理性思考之后觉得自己做得对，觉得自己成长了，就OK。
主持人杨洁怡总结陈词：
虽然前面大篇幅的在说留学申请、求职什么的，但我想这并不是教育的本质，教育的本质是让受教育者认知自我，心里有杆秤，自己想成为怎样的人，最后成为一个自信的人。我相信这远比教你怎样去申请这些细节的东西有更长远的意义，因为这是最后的...2018-09-1816 min
留学声（第1季）美国大学刘可：新闻学子留学请三思，毕业后你将面临进退两难的境地主讲人刘可：留美四年，于美国完成本硕学业。2014-15年间于华盛顿特区攻读全美专业排名前三十的美利坚大学传播学院。读研时期师从普利策奖获奖者、ICIJ 创始人，曾先后在华盛顿邮报、今日美国等主流媒体实习并发表个人文章。毕业后先后与SMG北美新闻中心、新浪网新闻中心供职，现为VICE中国制片经理。
主持人杨洁怡：毕业于重庆大学，曾在哥伦比亚大学历史与科学学院的Making and Knowing Lab和荷兰莱顿大学国际东亚研究院（IIAS) 实习，担任过TEDx策展人2018-09-1814 min
留学声（第1季）美国大学刘可：在美国读新闻研究生学到的最重要一课——任何细小失误都是不可挽回的主讲人刘可：留美四年，于美国完成本硕学业。2014-15年间于华盛顿特区攻读全美专业排名前三十的美利坚大学传播学院。读研时期师从普利策奖获奖者、ICIJ 创始人，曾先后在华盛顿邮报、今日美国等主流媒体实习并发表个人文章。毕业后先后与SMG北美新闻中心、新浪网新闻中心供职，现为VICE中国制片经理。
主持人杨洁怡：毕业于重庆大学，曾在哥伦比亚大学历史与科学学院的Making and Knowing Lab和荷兰莱顿大学国际东亚研究院（IIAS) 实习，担任过TEDx策展人
节目中刘可提到对她影响至深的那句话是：
“You're a journalist. You don't THINK, you KNOW. ”2018-09-1808 min
留学声（第1季）美国大学刘可：在华邮、今日美国等实习期间，我创了该媒体史上的一个先河主讲人刘可：留美四年，于美国完成本硕学业。2014-15年间于华盛顿特区攻读全美专业排名前三十的美利坚大学传播学院。读研时期师从普利策奖获奖者、ICIJ 创始人，曾先后在华盛顿邮报、今日美国等主流媒体实习并发表个人文章。毕业后先后与SMG北美新闻中心、新浪网新闻中心供职，现为VICE中国制片经理。
主持人杨洁怡：毕业于重庆大学，曾在哥伦比亚大学历史与科学学院的Making and Knowing Lab和荷兰莱顿大学国际东亚研究院（IIAS) 实习，担任过TEDx策展人
节目中提到的作品网址：
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ke-amber-liu-7115a064
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2016/03/05/probable-cause/?utm_term=.08fc1822b2e32018-09-1810 min