Episodes
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Bringing Science Closer: Trust, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Engagement
The Collaboration Code is a podcast that explores engaged research and collaborative projects between academic and civil actors. In this second episode, together with Gabi Gőbl, we explore how engaged research can be done together with vulnerable groups in an ethical and non-intrusive way. We…
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Restory – Recovering Cultural Roots of Small Communities
Adinel Dincă is Associate Professor at Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) in Cluj-Napoca. In this interview he talks about his major research project “Restory – Recovering Past Stories for the Future: A Synergistic Approach to Textual and Oral Heritage of Small Communities”. While this project focuses...
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From Theory to Action: What's the Real Duty of Social Science?
The Collaboration Code is a podcast that explores engaged research and collaborative projects between academic and civil actors. The first guest of the series is Yuki Seidler, manager of CEU's Science for Society Hub. The episode deals with the changing role of universities and engaged research…
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Introduction of The Collaboration Code
The Collaboration Code is a podcast that explores the collaborative projects between academic and civil actors. The series deals with engaged research, the questions of a changing academia and the future pathways for social sciences.
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The Persistence of Jewish Otherness among the New Christians of Spalato – Integration, Persecution and Trade
In this interview, Lena Sadovski talks about her current research into the community of New Christian merchants trading between Apulia in southern Italy, and Spalato, modern day Split, in Dalmatia in the 15th and 16th century.Lena explains who the New Christians were, and why they moved between...
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Navigating Academic Risk: Perspectives from the Romanian Periphery
In this episode, Elena Trifan, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Erfurt, delves into her research on at-risk academics within the Romanian higher education system. With a background in anthropology and sociology, Elena offers a unique lens shaped by her academic journey and personal...
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Gendered Insecurities: (Im)possibilities for Solidarity against the Precarization of Academia
In this episode, we will pick up where we left off with Elif Birced and discuss how government becomes a source of insecurity for academic labour. Elif will also talk about the possibilities of solidarity against the precarization of academia.Back in the 10th episode, Elif revealed different ways...
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Shipping
Urban Arena is a podcast about creating just and sustainable cities. In this fourth episode, we discuss shipping. We were lucky to speak with Elisabeth Schober, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. She is the Principle Investigator within the...
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"Dutiful Daughters" and Transnationalism: Return Migration as a Resistance to Turkish Diasporic Patriarchy in Germany
In this episode, we will pick up where we left off with Nilay Kılınç and discuss women’s experiences of return migration from Germany to Turkey. Nilay will make a compelling case to consider return migration as resistance to patriarchy in the diaspora.Back in the 11th episode, Nilay talked about...
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Where to Call Home and Where to Return as a Second Generation Turkish-German?: Gendered Experiences of Return Migration
In this episode, I am hosting Nilay Kılınç. We will discuss the transnational phenomenon of ‘return migration’ and further complicate it by adding onto a gender dimension. In Nilay’s research, the term return migration refers to the second generation Turkish-Germans migrating back to Turkey from...
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Intersectional Resistance under British Colonialism and Turkish Occupation: Sexuality and Gender in Cyprus
In this episode, I am hosting Tegiye Birey.We will discuss the effects of the British colonization on sexuality and gender in Cyprus. We will also talk about how the current occupation of Northern Cyprus by Turkey has shaped not just sexuality and gender but also feminist and queer…
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Seasons in the Sun: Ukrainian and Bulgarian Workers in Bulgarian All-Inclusive Tourism
This episode is a journey to an all-inclusive resort on the Bulgarian coast where Bulgarians and Ukrainians find seasonal work. You will get to know which factors influence the workers' perceptions of their work.
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Health Workers and Firefighters
• Please beware that this episode may contain disturbing content •In this second episode, two professionals and long-term London residents, a public health practitioner and a fire fighter, share how night shift work impacts on their circadian rhythms, and the challenges that each face according…
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Happiness goes through the Stomach
The last episode of the Five Senses of Austerity deals with the rationing of food in late Romanian socialism. It tells the story of the 1987 worker's revolt from the city of Brasov, which marked the beginning of the end of the regime, and then goes on to explore the final moments of Romanian...
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Surviving Winter
Austerity takes different forms. This episode of the Five Senses of Austerity explores one of the ways in which it was felt strongest in late Romanian socialism. This is the story of the fuel scarcity, which led to a lack of heating during winter and regular power blackouts.
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Dollars in my pockets
Money! You either have it, or you don't. Socialist Romania did not. Therefore, it had to borrow money from abroad in order to meet its ambitious development goals. This episode explores socialist Romania's failed crusade on the sea of global high finance starting from the late 1960s up until the...
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Seeing Ruins
In 1977 Romania was hit by one of the most powerful earthquakes in its history. Episode two of the Five Senses of Austerity engages with the way in which the state dealt with the aftermath. On the one hand, the state saw the natural disaster as an opportunity for a particular kind of…
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London, the Glocturnal City's 'Other Workers'
In this episode, Julius-Cezar introduces the listeners to a world of work that is invisible to the diurnal eye and inaudible to the nocturnal sleeper. Ger Duijzings, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Regensburg, joins the host to talk about his Nightlaboratory project.Two…
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Transsiberian Blind
The most unusual expedition to Transsiberian railway was organised by British anthropologist Maurice Fitzmaurice in the 1920s: a daring scientific campaign, which had a disastrous end and mysterious consequences. Keen to capture the unique soundscape of the newly built gargantuan railroad from...
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