Reading Simone de Beauvoir — with Ellie Anderson

Over the past 4 years, Below the Radar has grown to be the lively platform for sharing knowledge that it is now, with our 200th episode coming up next week. As we reach this milestone, we are also looking to move to a new seasonal release format, consisting of two 15-episode seasons per calendar year—one in the Spring and one in the Fall. In this short trailer, listen to our host, Am Johal, talk about the Spring season of Below the Radar, as well as a preview of some of our upcoming guests. From all of us at Below the Radar, we would like to thank you for listening and engaging with the vibrant ideas and voices we’ve had on the show. We look forward to continuing to share the work of artists, activists, community members, and researchers across disciplines, and we’re excited for the conversations that are yet to come. Thanks again for listening, and we’ll catch you next time on Below the Radar. Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/2023-0.html

Below the Radar is returning from our summer break, bringing you 15 new conversations from an eclectic range of guests. We have invited local and international academics and artists to speak on topics ranging from continuing and emergent forms of fascism, and expressions of diasporic narratives and experiences in literary, visual, and moving image arts, to citizen journalism in Africa and shifting dynamics of labour in an increasingly casualized economy here in BC. We’re also delighted to bring to you a new series created by 3 members of our team: Program Manager Julia Aoki, Program Assistant Samantha Walters, and Research Assistant/Editor Kathy Feng. Together, they feature the work of local arts collectives and organizations, highlighting conversations about creation, spacemaking, accessibility, and self-determination within the framework of Vancouver’s cityscape. The season kicks off on September 5, 2023, with new episodes every Tuesday. Thank you so much for tuning in to Below the Radar, and we’re excited to share these conversations (and more!) with you. Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/btr-trailer-fall-2023.html

This is the second edition of our Below the Radar Conversations. In this episode, Am Johal speaks with Paul Rogers on COVID-19 and how it impacts geopolitics and climate change. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/pandemic-conversations/46-paul-rogers.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/46-paul-rogers.html Paul Rogers is professor emeritus in the department of peace studies at Bradford University in the UK. He is openDemocracy's international security adviser, and has been writing a weekly column on global security since 2001; he also writes a monthly briefing for the Oxford Research Group. You can read more of his work and writing on openDemocracy here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/paul-rogers/. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “Pandemic Conversations: COVID-19, Geopolitics and Climate Change — with Paul Rogers.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, May 5, 2020. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/pandemic-conversations/46-paul-rogers.html.

In the summer of 2021, Megaphone Magazine piloted its first podcast mentorship series, inspired by the writings and themes of the 2021 edition of the Voices of The Street anthology, “INSIDE we are all the same.” This special episode of Below the Radar is a live recording of a conversation between our teammate Paige Smith, Megaphone Magazine’s Julia Aoki, and Megaphone vendor and storyteller Yvonne Mark, as they discuss the creation of the Voices of the Street podcast, which was featured on Below the Radar the previous year. Julia, Yvonne and Paige discuss the goals of the podcasting project, the power of auditory community storytelling, and how podcasting can be an accessible form of knowledge sharing. This is a recording from their presentation at SFU’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative’s academic conference: Horizons: Crisis and Social Transformation in Community-Engaged Research, which was recorded live and in-person on May 28, 2022. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/199-vots-live.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/199-vots-live.html Resources: CERi Horizons Conference: https://www.sfu.ca/ceri/horizons-conference.html Voices of The Street podcast: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/voices-of-the-street.html Voices of the Street: Without Prejudice: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/series/voices-of-the-street/162-yvonne-mark-dennis-gates.html CBC Voices of The Street radio interview: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-46-on-the-coast/clip/15899429-voices-street-podcast-series CBC Voices of The Street article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/new-podcast-downtown-eastside-1.6363824 Megaphone Magazine: https://www.megaphonemagazine.com/ Megaphone Speakers Bureau: https://speakersbureau.megaphonemagazine.com/ Helena Krobath: https://krobath.ca/ Cite this episode: Chicago Style Aoki, Julia, Yvonne Mark, Paige Smith. “Live Recording: VoTS Podcast at Horizons.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, January 17, 2023. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/199-vots-live.html.