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The Chemical Sensitivity PodcastAutobiography & MCS: Sofia VarinoEpisode 36 of The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast is available now!https://www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/ It’s called “Autobiography and MCS.” It features a conversation with Sofia Varino, Ph.D. Sofia is a professor at the University of Potsdam in Germany. They specialize in gender studies, cultural studies and the environment.You’ll hear Sofia explore how two writers, Aurora Levins Morales and Peggy Munson, as well as singer and filmmaker Susan Abod document their personal experiences with the illness. Thank you for listening! Please share your feedback with us. We love hearin...2023-11-281h 05
Plastisphere: A podcast on plastic pollution in the environmentListening Session with Baldeep KaurBaldeep Kaur is a doctoral fellow at the University of Potsdam, studying the afterlives of discarded colonial technologies. Last November, they invited Plastisphere creator Anja Krieger to a live listening session at the Minor Cosmopolitan Assembly, an event organized by the research training group with the same name. Together with the audience, Baldeep and Anja listened to and discussed short excerpts from the podcast's episodes, each highlighting a different dimension of human relationships with plastics at various stages of their life-cycles. Hear more about the production process and behind-the-scenes research stories from both sides, that of the podcast producer and...2023-03-1732 min
Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and PandemicEncounters with Viral Objects: Tracing the Genealogies of the COVID-19 PandemicIn this episode, LAC member Merve Tabur has a conversation with Dr. Sofia Varino on her "Viral Objects" project which brings together biomedical, ecological, and popular science discourses on the COVID-19 Pandemic. As defined by Dr. Varino, "Viral Objects" are biomedical objects such as masks, vaccines, COVID-19 tests, and Vitamin D supplements that serve a preventative function and invite us to "think ecologically" about the pandemic. Dr. Varino also introduces the "Minor Cosmopolitanisms" framework that informs her scholarship and discusses how issues such as disability rights, environmental justice, and racial justice are central to understanding the different genealogies of the...2021-03-1851 min