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The Human Show: Innovation through Social Science
by Paul Spain
If you want to understand how social scientists’ study human behaviour, how industry innovates or want to know more about how they can successfully work together and enhance each other, then you have come to the right place!Join our hosts as they engage with anthropologists, other researchers and industry specialists from all over the world. The discussions will be about their specific work in understanding people and how they apply that understanding to advance industry, scholarship and/or larger societal goals.Whether you are a professional working in business and/or academia, still doing your studies or just simply interested in this topic, thank you for being here, and we hope you enjoy it!
Episodes
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Safa Mirror: on letting go and letting come and the pursuit of a life lived in artistic service
Safa Mirror is a trans-disciplinary artist, researcher, and Tarotière, delving in the intersections of art, magick, and mysticism. Her research focuses on analyzing, deconstructing, and contextualizing Middle-Eastern mystical traditions, alongside Western esoteric practices. As a performer, she...
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Ginie Servant-Miklos: on the art of messy dreams, how to realize them, and the journey of making and unmaking oneself in the process
Ginie Servant-Miklos is an engaged environmental educator with fifteen years of experience in education practice, research, and advocacy. She currently holds an Assistant Professorship in behavioural sciences at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences in Rotterdam, The Netherlands....
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Francesco Bravin: on radical imagination, learning interventions and the cultivation of the non-judgemental mind
Francesco Bravin is a cultural anthropologist and the president and founding member of the Cultural Association Antropolis in Milan. He has a Bachelor's degree in Intercultural Communication at the University of Turin, a Master's degree in Anthropology at the University of Milan Bicocca and a PhD...
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The Arcana of Inquiry: Navigating Ethnography through Tarot as a Playful, Disruptive, and Subversive Practice
The Ethnographic Tarot Project intertwines the magic and mystery of tarot with the depth of anthropological inquiry. This initiative seeks to develop a distinctive tarot deck infused with ethnographic and anthropological themes, serving not only as a medium for reflection and divination but also…
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Dace Dzenovska: Social Anthropologist & Speaker at The Why the World needs Anthropologists, The Power of Isolation, 27-29th October 2023, Croatia
Dace Dzenovskais Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Migration at the University of Oxford and the Principal Investigator of the EMPTINESS project. She holds doctoral and master’s degrees in Social Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, as well as an...
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Heli Rantavuo:Applied Cultural Studies and Social Sciences Researcher & Speaker at The Why the World needs Anthropologists, The Power of Isolation, 27-29th October 2023, Croatia
Heli Rantavuo is an applied cultural studies and social sciences researcher based in Helsinki. For the past 15 years, she has worked in the technology industry in London, Stockholm and Helsinki, contributing and leading research in product and market strategy at Spotify, eBay, Microsoft and…
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Rafram Chaddad: Visual Artist & Speaker at The Why the World needs Anthropologists, The Power of Isolation, 27-29th October 2023, Croatia
We are happy to have Rafram with us speaking to his background as a visual artist and his experience and thoughts on isolation. In 2010, Rafram found himself imprisoned in Lybia. He spent 6 months by himself in an extreme isolation unit, not knowing whether he would live or die. In this...
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Erin B. Taylor & Melanie T. Uy: Anthropologists & Authors of Better Research, Better Design
Erin B. Taylor & Melanie T. Uy: Anthropologists & Authors of Better Research, Better Design: How to Align Teams and Build a Human-Centric Company Culture. Dr. Erin B. Taylor has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Sydney and is the founder of Finthropology, a company specializing in...
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Amina & Gabriela: Love letter to David Graeber
Amina Alaoui Soulimani is a doctoral research fellow at HUMA, the Institute for Humanities in Africa. Amina holds an MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics. Her current anthropological doctoral work at the University of Cape Town focuses on the ethics of care, AI, and the...
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David Prendergast: Head of the Department of Anthropology, Professor of Science & speaker at the Why the World needs Anthropologists, Re|Generation 23-25 Sept 2022 Berlin
David Prendergast is Head of the Department of Anthropology and Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Maynooth University in Ireland. Previously David worked at Intel where he was a principal investigator at the ‘Technology Research for Independent Living Centre’ and co-founder of the...
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Katia Dumont: Speaker- Why the World needs Anthropologists, Re|Generation 23-25 Sept 2022 Berlin
Katia Dumont: Anthropologist, regional network organiser for SE Europe, BMW foundation & speaker at the Why the World needs Anthropologists, Re|Generation 23-25 Sept 2022 Berlin Katia Dumont is a Regional Network Organizer for Southwestern Europe for the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt. Prior to...
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Sophie Strand: writer and academic cross-contaminator
Sophie Strand: writer and academic cross-contaminator: on the ways we can improvise in academia and beyond. Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a...
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Rebecca Price: Designer and Teacher: On Mentorship, Resilience and the Importance of keeping Fundamental Drives in Focus
Rebecca Price is a researcher and assistant professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology where she investigates how design can advance sectors and industries through multi-leveled and networked innovation. Educated and practiced as an industrial...
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Pavel Cenkl, Head of Schumacher College: On Ecological Approaches and Embodied Learning Practices in Higher Education
Pavel Cenkl is currently the Head of Schumacher College and Director of Learning at Dartington Trust, Devon, England and previously he held the position of Professor of Environmental Humanities and Associate Dean at Sterling College, Vermont. Pavel holds a Ph.D. in English and is the author of…
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Vito Laterza, Anthropologist and Political Analyst: on the importance to foster analogue forms of life in an age of Pervasive Digitalization
Vito Laterza is an anthropologist, development scholar and political analyst. He holds a MPhil in Social Anthropological Research and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Vito is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development and Planning,...
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Désirée Driesenaar, Connector of Dots: on Regeneration and Nature Based Innovations
Désirée Driesenaar is an innovation activist, blue economy specialist, storyteller as well as external expert for the European Commission. After years of working in the corporate world as a commercial manager and B2B marketer, in 2014 Desirée went for a holistic shift and became an entrepreneur…
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Kathleen Asjes, UX researcher: Democratizing Research
Kathleen leads Research & Insights at Dreams, a Fintech company built on behavioral science that boosts financial wellbeing. She is a Dutch national currently based in Stockholm and has worked with UX research for over a decade. Her main interests are innovation and technology with social impact,...
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Eric Garza, Scholar, Hunter, Carpenter & Community Server: On Ways to Connect, Navigate and Integrate Plural Worlds
Eric Garza is the founder and primary instructor at Quillwood Academy, an online institution of higher learning dedicated to helping people throughout the English-speaking world learn to navigate the changing world in which we all live. His background is diverse, spanning ecology and evolution,...
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Angelina Kussy: Engaged Scholar, Activist & Speaker at 'Why the World Needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the Planet'
Angelina Kussy is an economic anthropologist from Warsaw and activist with Barcelona en Comú, the citizen platform governing Barcelona, working for municipalism and Fearless Cities. We are happy to have Angelina with us speaking to her background and current work. Angelina shares her views and...
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya: Sociologist, scholar & keynote speaker at the Why the World needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the Planet
We are happy to have Cristina with us speaking to her background and current work. Cristina shares her views and relationship to activism and, as a scholar, the importance of balancing sympathy with a critical, analytical and self-reflexive research lens. What can an ethnographic perspective…
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Julienne Weegels: Anthropologist, Political Scholar & Speaker at the Why the World needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the Planet 10-12 Sept 2021
Julienne Weegels is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Amsterdam’s Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA). Her research interests include violence, (in)security, memory-making, and criminalization. For this ethnographic project, she carried…
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Alex Khasnabish: Scholar Activist & Speaker, Why the World needs Anthropologists
Alex Khasnabish is a writer, researcher, and teacher committed to collective liberation living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on unceded and unsurrendered Mi’kmaw territory. He is a Professor in Sociology & Anthropology at Mount Saint Vincent University. His research focuses on radical...
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Marcus Düwell, Simone Abram & Gunter Bombaerts: An Ethicist, an Anthropologist and an Engineer
Today’s episode is an experiment to stretch out disciplinary boundaries by paring up academic debates of philosophy & engineering (& of course anthropology). We are delighted to have with us academics & practitioners representing those different disciplines. What are the personal definitions of...
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Mark Vacher and Tom O’Dell: Ethnologists and Epistemic Educational Partners :
Mark Vacher is an associate professor of ethnology at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Tom O’Dell is a professor of ethnology at Lund University, Sweden, whose own research has primarily focused upon the cultural economy, the significance of mobility and transnational…
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Dr. Ferne Edwards: Cultural Anthropologist and An Activist Scholar
We are pleased to have Ferne with us talking about anthropology of food – a field that has been at the core of her research and professional focus for the last 17 years. How did food become Ferne’s topic? What were the drivers that moved her anthropological research from food, to sustainable city...
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Min’enhle Ncube & Amina Alaoui Soulimani, HUMA: speakers at the Response-ability Summit 2021
We are happy to have Amina and Min’enhle with us sharing their research insights and pursuits as well as motivation to be part of the Reponse-ability Summit this May. They share the questions currently at the centre of their research. What does context mean for data mining and machine learning?…
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Mariliis Öeren, Behavioral Scientist & Speaker at the Response-ability Summit 2021
Mariliis Öeren is the Chief Scientific Officer at Method X Studios, a company focused on democratising good mental health and ending the mental health poverty gap. Previously she has worked for the National Institute of Health Development in Estonia implementing public health programs. Mariliis...
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Agnethe Kirstine Grøn, Senior Design Anthropologist and Speaker at the Response-ability Summit 2021
Agnethe Kirstine Grøn is a senior design anthropologist at Alexandra Instituttet in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is engaged in many aspects of user involvement and user-driven innovation and combines anthropological methodology and design processes to gain a deep understanding of end users and...
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Malé Luján Escalante & Luke Moffat, speakers at the Response-ability summit 2021: Ethics through Design
In light of the upcoming Response-ability Summit this May 20th-21st , we are excited to be talking to two of its amazing speakers – Malé and Luke – and find out what will they be bringing to the conference space and what expectations do they share. We discuss how to use creative ways to form a...
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Karen Boswall, filmmaker and visual anthropologist: on representation and agentive power of the camera lens
Karen Boswall is a filmmaker, ethnomusicologist, and visual anthropologist. Her audio-visual output includes individually authored and collaborative productions carried out in Nicaragua (1984), the United Kingdom (1986), Iraq (1993), Cuba (1995), Mozambique (1997-2018), Jordan (2014), Nepal…
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Tiffany Tivasuradej talks to Sawyer J. Lahr: Revolutionizing Research Through Digital Tech – New Perspectives from Asia
In today’s episode hosted by Tiffany, Sawyer shares his experience as a UX researcher working in Thailand and applying anthropological frameworks and practices for design and innovation projects. Digital technology is a new reality for both the researcher and the research participant, so how does...
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Tiffany Tivasuradej talks to Dr. Nicholas Teo & Oshin Siao Bhatt: on anthropological mindset and ethnographic practices in Asian context
We are excited to have Tiffany hosting the episode today and sharing her experience of conducting ethnography outside of academia in the Asian context together with Nicholas and Oshin. As a colonial discipline in its origins, anthropology inevitably carries the Western gaze, something of which to...
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Jennifer Cearns: On Unique Combinations of Skills and Ways to Reach Balance
In today’s episode we explore Jennifer’s multiple and equally strong yet seemingly unrelated careers. We ask how she balances the different skills needed and how she makes spaces for them inside herself? As a soprano, Jennifer is used to being in the spotlight, so we are curious how she manages…
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Wendy Gunn: on Research as a Future Making Practice
Wendy is a researcher in the field of design anthropology whose written work, research and design practices have contributed to the foundation of what we now perceive as design anthropology. She holds an MA and a PhD in Social Anthropology both at the University of Manchester. She taught at...
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Mikko Koria; A Curious Person who Wears Many Hats: about Design, Interdisciplinarity and ways to reach Joint Meanings
Mikko Koria; a curious person who wears many hats: about design, interdisciplinarity and ways to reach joint meanings. Mikko Koria is; the Professor in Design Innovation and the Director of the Institute for Design Innovation at Loughborough University London, and Visiting Professor at Aalto...
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Simone Abram: Ethnography, Ethics in Energy Governance and Sustainability Challenges
Simone Abram is a professor of anthropology at Durham University where she is also a Director of the Durham Energy Institute, and is the current Chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists in the UK. She holds a BSc/MEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, an MSt and DPhil in Social...
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Mary L. Gray & Elizabeth J Chin: On the concept of fellowship, collective dreaming and ability to transform a conflict into a conversation
In today’s episode, we reflect on the concepts of community and fellowship in the world of those practicing anthropology. We ask Mary and Elizabeth about the relationship that they have with their discipline and the community of practitioners within it. What do they feel they need from…
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Annemiek van Boeijen: Good Design comes from acknowledging Diversity in all its facets
Today we are talking to Annemiek about her experience with multidisciplinary. How did it happen that a designer with an engineering background started weaving anthropological perspectives into her approach to design? What ignited her turn towards a culture sensitive design? What does it take to...
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Mary L. Gray: Senior Principle Researcher at Microsoft Research: The role of a knowledge translator through anthropological perspectives
Mary L. Gray is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research as well as an E.J. Safra Center for Ethics Fellow and Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society Faculty Affiliate at Harvard University. Mary also maintains a faculty position in the School of Informatics, Computing, and...
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Lisa Talia Moretti: Digital Sociologist - Anthropology+Technology Conference 2020, Smart Cities Stream
Lisa Talia Moretti is an award-winning digital sociologist, strategist and tech ethics activist based in London. She currently holds the position of Head Of User Research at Methods. For more than a decade, she’s studied and written about the relationship between technology, information and...
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Rachel O’Dwyer and Erin B. Taylor: On Art & Money, Surveillance Capitalism and the Ideal Research Centre
Rachel O’Dwyer is a lecturer in Digital Cultures in the School of Visual Culture in the National College of Art & Design, (NCAD) Dublin. Among other things she coordinates modules on Economies of Culture and Digital Cultures and teach electives on topics such as Art and Money, Tactical Media and...
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Nani Jansen Reventlow: Human Rights Lawyer & Keynote Speaker Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020
Nani Jansen Reventlow is a human rights lawyer who specializes in freedom of expression and strategic litigation. She is also the founding Director of the Digital Freedom Fund, which supports partners in Europe to advance digital rights through strategic litigation. Nani is a Lecturer in Law at...
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Rasmus Thomsen: Partner and Design Director of IS IT A BIRD & speaker at Anthropology+Technology Conference 2020, Smart Cities stream
Rasmus Thomsen is Partner and Design Director of IS IT A BIRD - a strategic innovation agency that combines methods from social science, behavioral economics and design thinking. Rasmus has a foot in both social science and design. He is an innovation geek, with a mind tuned to design thinking.…
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Rosalie Post in conversation with Dan Wu: On ethical AI, inclusive governance and ideal future cities
Dan Wu is the CEO and lead innovation advisor of Joyful Ventures, empowering social impact executives to create financially sustainable, high-growth ventures. With a unique blend of Silicon Valley expertise and Harvard-level insights, he has successfully led product teams at mission-driven...
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Susan Halford: on multidisciplinarity, the making of socio-digital futures, their challenges and opportunities
Susan Halford is Professor of Sociology and co-Director of Bristol University’s new Digital Futures Institute, which aims to use social science expertise and methods to analyse and understand digital technology futures in the making and use insights to help shape these futures in a way that is...
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A glimpse into the process: the making of long-term projects with anthropologist Sarita Fae Jarmack
Sarita Fae Jarmack is an anthropologist currently exploring the politics of access, expression, and knowledge within the postcolonial art scene of South Africa for her PhD at the University of Amsterdam. We are talking to Sarita about the making of her PhD and get a glimpse into all the processes...
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Kadija Ferryman & Laura Sobola - HealthTech Stream: on multidisciplinary collaboration and AI and Machine Learning in Health
In today’s episode, Laura leads the discussion with a number of questions for Kadija about AI, machine learning, ethical decisions, fair health and the complexities that underline it all. Kadija’s research tackles health disparities through data and aims to make it is more inclusive and ethical.…
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Chui Chui Tan: Cultural Strategist and UX Consultant: Innovation grounded in culture, historical context and a holistic approach
Chui Chui Tan is a cultural expert with more than 15 years of experience in UX (user experience). Her experiences range from defining business strategies to building a UX team within the organisation to implementation (research and design) and continuous consultancy support as well as training…
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Diana Finch and Erin B. Taylor, Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020, FinTech stream
Diana Finch has been Managing Director of Bristol Pound since July 2018. Prior to that, she spent most of the last 20 years working in senior leadership positions in the non-profit sector, in areas including the environment, adult social care and psychotherapy training. Her earlier career was in...
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Capsule Episode Conference: Dawn Walter, Anthropology + Technology Conference 2020
The Anthropology + Technology Conference brings together 22 leading international experts from the social sciences and technology to champion and promote the benefits of responsible AI, and to highlight the value that the social sciences bring to tech and business. There are three streams for…
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If you want to understand how social scientists’ study human behaviour, how industry innovates or want to know more about how they can successfully work together and enhance each other, then you have come to the right place!Join our hosts as they engage with anthropologists, other researchers and industry specialists from all over the world. The discussions will be about their specific work in understanding people and how they apply that understanding to advance industry, scholarship and/or larger societal goals.Whether you are a professional working in business and/or academia, still doing your studies or just simply interested in this topic, thank you for being here, and we hope you enjoy it!
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