Shows
The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Spotlight - "Transitions: Future Trajectories of Institutes for Advanced Study (IASs) in Academia" (SCAS Jubilee) - part 2A collection of voices from the jubilee symposium "Future Trajectories of Institutes for Advanced Study (IASs) in Academia".
Keywords: Institutes for Advanced Study, academic hospitality, academic diplomacy, early career researchers, intellectual exchange
2025-11-0635 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 67 - Linda Wedlin: "A Governance Dimension of Academic Freedom"Theme: Knowledge, Epistemes, Universities
Keywords: Academic freedom, democratic society, individual and institutional autonomy, knowledge, organizational dynamics
2025-10-1729 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Spotlight - "Transitions: Future Trajectories of Institutes for Advanced Study (IASs) in Academia" (SCAS Jubilee) - part 1A collection of voices from the jubilee symposium "Future Trajectories of Institutes for Advanced Study (IASs) in Academia".
Keywords: Institutes for Advanced Study, academic freedom, knowledge, intellectual curiosity, academic ecosystem
2025-10-1429 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 66 - Mathias Thaler: "Can Science Fiction Help Us Imagine New Ways of Acting Together in the Anthropocene?"Theme: The Anthropocene
Keywords: Anthropocene, science fiction, utopianism, political imagination, social theory
2025-08-1230 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Spotlight - “Climate Policy in a Turbulent World: Complementary Perspectives”A collection of voices from the symposium “Climate Policy in a Turbulent World: Complementary Perspectives”.
Keywords: climate policy, public-private partnerships, Agenda 2030, energy transition, anthropocene
2025-07-0340 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 65 – Axel Palmér: "Historical Linguistics: A Window into the Human Past"Theme: Languages
Keywords: Indo-European languages, Rigveda, agricultural vocabulary, Center for the Human Past, academic career
2025-06-1127 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 64 – Johan Östling: "The University as a History of Knowledge"Theme: Knowledge, Epistemes, Universities
Keywords: universities, history of knowledge, Europeanization, interdisciplinarity, Pro Futura Fellowship
2025-04-2329 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 63 – Mònica Ginés Blasi: "Exploiting Chinese Migrants in the 19th Century"Theme: Migration & Displacement
Keywords: Chinese migration, indentured labor migration, labor intermediaries, global history, migration patterns
2025-03-0629 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 62 – Ayse Caglar: “City-making through the Lens of Displacement”Theme: Migration & Displacement
Keywords: migration, displacement, city making, political economy, social anthropology
2025-01-1527 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 61 – Sari Nauman: "What Early Modern History Can Offer Refugee Studies"Theme: Migration & Displacement
Keywords: migration, displacement, internally displaced persons, early modern history, historical concepts
2024-11-2926 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 60 – Iryna Mogilevkina: “Reproductive Health Always Matters”Theme: Women and Medicine
Keywords: sexual health, reproductive rights, policy implementation, Ukraine
2024-09-0336 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 59 – Stefan Enroth: "Self-sampling for Better Screening and Diagnosis of Gynecological Cancers"Theme: Women and Medicine
Keywords: gynecological cancers, biomarkers, self-screening, diagnosis, healthcare system
2024-05-2929 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Spotlight - "Sciences against Misinformation"A collection of voices from the symposium "Sciences against Misinformation".
Keywords: misinformation, democracy, critical thinking, trust, post-truth era
2024-05-1544 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 58 – Desiree Fields: "How Finance and Technology are Changing the Meaning of Housing"Theme: Cities as Mega-Projects
Keywords: housing market, real estate investment, landlords, cities
2024-04-2635 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 57 – Anat Biegon: "Why Do Women Go to the Doctor Twice as Often as Men? Bias and Education about Women's Health"Theme: Women and Medicine
Keywords: women's health, gender-based medicine, bias, sex differences, clinical trials
2024-04-1935 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 56 – John Stinchcombe: "Evolution, Adaptation, and Resilience of Plants in the Anthropocene"Theme: The Anthropocene
Keywords: climate change, agriculture, herbicide resistance, genetic engineering, anthropocene
2024-04-0531 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 55 – Jennifer Mack: "Modernist Suburbs and Their Missing Stories"Theme: Cities as Mega-Projects
Keywords: million program, suburbs, urban planning, social transformation, architecture
2024-02-2937 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 54 – Carol Upadhya: "The Rise and Fall of the Amaravati Greenfield City Project”Theme: Cities as Mega-Projects
Keywords: Amaravati project, infrastructure, greenfield cities, urbanization
2024-01-2636 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Academic Freedom”A collection of voices from "A Week on Academic Freedom".
Keywords: academic freedom, collegiality, research, education, Ukraine
2023-12-1346 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 53 – Anandi Hattiangadi: ”A Philosopher’s Reflections on the Emergence of Artificial General Intelligence”Theme: AI
Keywords: artificial general intelligence, philosophy, language, large language models, interdisciplinary research
2023-11-2032 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 52 – Jan Komorowski: ”Life Sciences in Silico: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as Tools for New Discoveries”Theme: AI
Keywords: artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, life science, machine learning, scientific discovery
2023-10-0336 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 51 – Jan Hennings: “Historic Encounters in Early Modern Diplomacy”Theme: Diplomacy & International Relations
Keywords: diplomacy, international relations, Russia, ottoman empire, early modern history
2023-09-1932 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 50 – Aaron M. Ellison: ”Decentering Ourselves from the Anthropocene”Theme: The Anthropocene
Keywords: anthropocene, ecology, nature, landscape, photography
2023-09-0136 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 49 – Eliel Camargo-Molina: ”When Technology Meets the Humanities: The Interdisciplinary World of AI”Theme: AI
Keywords: artificial intelligence, large language models, chatGPT, interdisciplinary research, technology
2023-06-2636 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Indo-European Afterlife”A collection of voices from the symposium Indo-European Afterlife.
Keywords: Indo-european languages, afterlife, religion, archeology, LAMP project
2023-06-0738 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Efficient Light to Electric Power Conversion for a Renewable Energy Future”A collection of voices from the Nobel Symposium NS191: Efficient Light to Electric Power Conversion for a Renewable Energy Future
Keywords: solar energy, photovoltaics, renewable energy, Nobel prize, sustainability
2023-06-0236 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 48 – Gísli Pálsson: ”The Discovery of Extinction”Theme: The Anthropocene
Keywords: anthropocene, ecology, extinction, environmental humanities, rewilding
2023-05-2434 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 47 – Valbona Muzaka: ”Vaccines in Times of Financialisation”Theme: Global Governance
Keywords: global governance, vaccine, pharmaceutical industry, global health, covid-19
2023-05-1041 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 46 – Hazem Kandil: ”War, Power, and History”Theme: Diplomacy & International Relations
Keywords: diplomacy, international relations, Carl von Clausewitz, historical and political sociology, war
2023-04-1134 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 45 – Lisa Hellman: ”Captured by Russians, Enslaved by Dzungars: New Approaches to Global Diplomacy”Theme: Diplomacy & International Relations
Keywords: global diplomacy, global history, Russia, China, microhistory
2023-03-2940 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 44 - Mikael Adolphson: ”Japan’s Medieval Monetization in a Historical Context”Theme: Asia (Citizens and state relations)
Keywords: Asia, citizen and state relations, sino-japanese trade, medieval societas, historical narratives
2023-03-1036 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 43 – Jeffrey Paller: ”The Contentious Politics of African Urbanization”Theme: Africa
Keywords: Africa, urbanization, rural societies, post-colonial development, governance
2023-02-0136 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 42 – Racha Kirakosian: ”Researching Women’s Lives: The Story of Katarina of Württemberg”Theme: Gender
Keywords: gender, middle ages, Katharina von Württemberg, women’s history, female mystics
2022-12-1652 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 41 – Philipp Lepenies: ”Development Aid - From Practitioner to Scholar”Theme: Development Issues & Human Rights
Keywords: development aid, political science, GDP, sustainability, academic career
2022-12-071h 02The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 40 – Jeremy Mumford: ”The Untold Story of Beatriz Coya - A Microhistory of a Marriage in Cuzco in 1565”Theme: Latin America
Keywords: Latin America, microhistory, Inca kingdom, child marriage, Beatriz Coya
2022-11-0851 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 39 – Michael Watts: ”Oil and Its Afterlives: The Past and the Future of Oil in Nigeria”Theme: Development Issues & Human Rights
Keywords: human rights, development issues, oil industry, Nigeria, global south
2022-10-061h 06The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 38 – Sohini Ramachandran: ”The Human Genome as a Historical Text”Theme: Genetics & Evolution
Keywords: genomics, ancient DNA, human evolution, population genetics, diversity
2022-09-2656 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 37 – Maria Ågren: ”Gender and Work”Theme: Gender
Keywords: gender, work, economic history, verb-orientated method, open science, digital humanities
2022-09-1658 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 36 – Michael Goodhart: “The Complexity and Contradictions of Human Rights”Theme: Development Issues & Human Rights
Keywords: human rights, democracy, activism, emancipatory politics, justice
2022-07-111h 13The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Spotlight - “Opening the Ivory Tower Wide”A collection of voices from the symposium "Opening the Ivory Tower Wide"
Keywords: outreach, innovation, science and society, policy advice, academic freedom
2022-07-051h 13The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 35 – Rebecca Earle: “How the Humble Potato Has Travelled the World and Shaped History”Theme: Latin America
Keywords: Latin America, potato, food history, global history, plant domestication
2022-06-161h 01The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 34 – Janette Boughman & Maria Servedio: “New Insights into Speciation: Collaboration between a Mathematical Modeler and an Empirical Biologist”
Theme: Genetics & Evolution
Keywords: genetics, evolution, speciation, mathematical model, sexual selection
2022-06-0948 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 33 – Helen Anne Curry: ”Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction”Theme: Genetics & Evolution
Keywords: genetics, maize, agriculture, seed banks, conservation, plant breeding
2022-04-2851 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 32 – Karsten Paerregaard: ”Climate Change, Climate Perception and Water Management in Peru”Theme: Latin America
Keywords: Latin America, Andes, rituals, anthropocene, water management
2022-04-0558 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 31 – Susan Pedersen: ”Balfours in Love and Trouble”Theme: Gender
Keywords: gender, Frances Balfour, Suffragettes, political wife, woman politician
2022-03-151h 02The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 30 – Shalini Randeria: ”Looking at Citizens and State Relations in India through the Lens of Displacement”Theme: Asia (Citizens and state relations)
Keywords: India, citizen and state relations, displacement, internally displaced persons, Central European University
2022-02-1451 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 29 – Susanne A. Wengle: “Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food”Theme: Infrastructures
Keywords: infrastructure, agriculture, technopolitical history, Russia, bread
2022-01-2750 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 28 - Barak Kushner: “What Do War Crimes Trials in East Asia Tell Us about the History of Justice?”Theme: Asia (Citizens and state relations)
Keywords: Asia, sino-japanese interactions, citizen and state relations, war crime history, ramen
2022-01-121h 00The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 27 - Jessica Abbott: ”Evolution of Sex Chromosomes and (the Importance of) Science Communication”Theme: Life Sciences
Keywords: evolution, fruitflies, sex differences, science communication, Fråga Lund
2021-12-2047 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Spotlight – “Beyond Advanced Studies: Interdisciplinary Theory and Research Careers” – part 2(2/2)
Keywords: interdisciplinarity, research environment, institutes for advanced study, applied science, outreach
2021-12-1641 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Spotlight – “Beyond Advanced Studies: Interdisciplinary Theory and Research Careers” – part 1 (1/2)
Keywords: interdisciplinarity, academic career, research environment, institutes for advanced study, science and society
2021-12-161h 02The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 26 – Ash Amin: ”Infrastructures, Habitats and Slum Lives”Theme: Infrastructures
Keywords: India, global south, infrastructure, covid-19, mental health
2021-12-031h 04The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 25 – Troy Day: ”From Educated Guesses to Accurate Predictions: Modelling of the Pandemic”Theme: Life Sciences
Keywords: life science, covid-19, epidemiology, mathematical modeling, policy making
2021-11-2455 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 24 – Michael J. Puett: ”Rethinking the World by Considering Chinese History”Theme: Asia (Citizens and state relations)
Keywords: Asia, world view, Chinese history, historical narratives, imperialism
2021-10-201h 04The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 23 – Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd: ”Banking before Banks: Credit and Debt in Preindustrial France”Theme: Infrastructures
Keywords: infrastructures, banks, credit, financial markets, human economy
2021-10-0549 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 22 - Ericka Johnson: ”A Cultural Biography of the Prostate”Theme: Life Sciences
Keywords: life science, prostate, medical humanities, technology, masculinity
2021-09-0858 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 21 – Rebekah Lee: "Death and Memory in Modern South Africa"Theme: Africa
Keywords: South Africa, funeral practices, HIV/AIDS, memory, ethnographic studies
2021-07-2059 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 20 – Anna Neubeck: "Nickel - A Catalyst for Life on Earth and in Space"Theme: Life in Outer Space
Keywords: life in outer space, origin of life, biosignatures, nickel isotopes, biogeochemistry
2021-07-1652 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 19 – Nikolai Piskunov: "Using New Technology to Study Conditions for Life in Space"Theme: Life in Outer Space
Keywords: life in outer space, exoplanets, Kepler, telescopes, technology development
2021-07-1447 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 18 – Stephanie Wynne-Jones: "Connecting Past and Present through Urban Ecologies on Zanzibar"Theme: Africa
Keywords: Africa, Zanzibar, historical ecology, sustainability, Unguja Ukuu
2021-07-1258 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 17 - Martin Sahlén: "The Big Picture: From Cosmic Origins to Life on Exoplanets"Theme: Life in Outer Space
Keywords: life in outer space, exoplanets, astrophysics, galaxies, cosmobiology
2021-06-2949 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 16 – Terje Falck-Ytter: “Understanding Autism: What Can Infants Teach Us?”Theme: The Brain
Keywords: brain, autism spectrum disorders, psychology, ADHD, eye-tracking
2021-06-1852 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 15 – Jenny Andersson: “Neoliberalism in the Nordic Countries: Developing an Absent Research Theme”Theme: Global Governance
Keywords: global governance, neoliberalism, social life of ideas, Swedish society, new public management
2021-06-0157 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 14 – Andreas Eckert: "Where Have the Workers Gone? Labour in Postcolonial Africa"Theme: Africa
Keywords: Africa, labour market, work, covid-19, outreach
2021-05-1759 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 13 – Dan Larhammar: “Fascinated by the Human Brain: Studies of Memory and the Phenomenon of Pseudoscience”Theme: The Brain
Keywords: brain, consciousness, long term memory, pseudoscience, misinformation
2021-05-041h 02The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 12 - Karin Jensen: “The Complexity of Pain and Placebo Effects”Theme: The Brain
Keywords: brain, placebo effect, doctor-patient relationship, nocebo effect, chronic pain
2021-04-191h 04The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 11 – David Ciepley: “Constitutional Democracy and the Corporation”Theme: Global Governance
Keywords: global governance, democracy, corporation, charter, government
2021-03-301h 06The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 10 – Bruce G. Carruthers: “Trust, Credit and Credit Ratings as the Basis of a Modern Economy”Theme: Global Governance
Keywords: global governance, credit, credit rating, history, economic sociology
2021-03-091h 14The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 9 – Benjamin Madley: "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe"Theme: Diversity
Keywords: diversity, indigenous studies, genocide, native Americans, colonialism
2021-01-2558 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 8 - Sofia Lodén: “Translations Create New Literary Traditions and Links between European Cultures”Theme: Languages
Keywords: languages, medieval literature, translations, King Arthur, Astrid Lindgren
2020-12-1137 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 7 - İnan Özdemir Taştan: “Threats on Media, Academic Freedom and Democracy in the Post-truth Era”Theme: Diversity
Keywords: diversity, academic freedom, climate of fear, peace academics, Turkey
2020-12-0352 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 6 - Marianne Gullberg: "Our Capacity for Language Learning is Really Powerful - Also as Adults"Theme: Languages
Keywords: languages, learning, psycholinguistics, gestures, humanities lab
2020-11-2552 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 5 – Alisse Waterston: “In Search of Light in Dark Times” (Recorded 22 Oct, 2020)Theme: Diversity
Keywords: diversity, anthropology, outreach, US election, auto-ethnography
2020-11-051h 08The SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 4 – Jenny Larsson: “A Treasure Hunt to Find the Origin of the Indoeuropean Langauges”Theme: Languages
Keywords: Indo-european languages, LAMP project, ancient DNA, archeomythology, research environment
2020-11-0445 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 3 - Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist: “Corona and the Forgotten Lessons from Historical Pandemics”Theme: The Corona Pandemic
Keywords: covid-19, historic pandemics, paleoclimatology, infodemic, spread of disease
2020-07-0646 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 2 – Sverker Sörlin: “The Corona Crisis as a Moment of Expectation”Theme: The Corona Pandemic
Keywords: covid-19, environmental humanities, science and society, social change, new public management
2020-07-0148 minThe SCAS Talks PodcastSCAS TALKS Episode 1 - Ulf Landegren: "I Have Dedicated My Whole Scientific Career to How to Measure Things"Theme: The Corona Pandemic
Keywords: covid-19, covid test, molecular methods, measurable human, biomarkers
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