All Episodes
The SCAS Talks Podcast — 82 episodes
SCAS TALKS Episode 70 - Mia Phillipson: "Healing Her: Immunity, Menstruation and Medical Breakthroughs"
SCAS TALKS Episode 69 - Elizabeth Jacqueline Marcus: "The University as a Global Microcosm"
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - "Academic Freedom" - part 2/2025
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - "Academic Freedom" - part 1/2025
SCAS TALKS Episode 68 - Emrah Yildiz: "Economic Sanctions, Aimed at Global Isolation, Generate Regional Connections"
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - "Transitions: Future Trajectories of Institutes for Advanced Study (IASs) in Academia" (SCAS Jubilee) - part 2
SCAS TALKS Episode 67 - Linda Wedlin: "A Governance Dimension of Academic Freedom"
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - "Transitions: Future Trajectories of Institutes for Advanced Study (IASs) in Academia" (SCAS Jubilee) - part 1
SCAS TALKS Episode 66 - Mathias Thaler: "Can Science Fiction Help Us Imagine New Ways of Acting Together in the Anthropocene?"
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - “Climate Policy in a Turbulent World: Complementary Perspectives”
SCAS TALKS Episode 65 – Axel Palmér: "Historical Linguistics: A Window into the Human Past"
SCAS TALKS Episode 64 – Johan Östling: "The University as a History of Knowledge"
SCAS TALKS Episode 63 – Mònica Ginés Blasi: "Exploiting Chinese Migrants in the 19th Century"
SCAS TALKS Episode 62 – Ayse Caglar: “City-making through the Lens of Displacement”
SCAS TALKS Episode 61 – Sari Nauman: "What Early Modern History Can Offer Refugee Studies"
SCAS TALKS Episode 60 – Iryna Mogilevkina: “Reproductive Health Always Matters”
SCAS TALKS Episode 59 – Stefan Enroth: "Self-sampling for Better Screening and Diagnosis of Gynecological Cancers"
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - "Sciences against Misinformation"
SCAS TALKS Episode 58 – Desiree Fields: "How Finance and Technology are Changing the Meaning of Housing"
SCAS TALKS Episode 57 – Anat Biegon: "Why Do Women Go to the Doctor Twice as Often as Men? Bias and Education about Women's Health"
SCAS TALKS Episode 56 – John Stinchcombe: "Evolution, Adaptation, and Resilience of Plants in the Anthropocene"
SCAS TALKS Episode 55 – Jennifer Mack: "Modernist Suburbs and Their Missing Stories"
SCAS TALKS Episode 54 – Carol Upadhya: "The Rise and Fall of the Amaravati Greenfield City Project”
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Academic Freedom”
SCAS TALKS Episode 53 – Anandi Hattiangadi: ”A Philosopher’s Reflections on the Emergence of Artificial General Intelligence”
SCAS TALKS Episode 52 – Jan Komorowski: ”Life Sciences in Silico: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as Tools for New Discoveries”
SCAS TALKS Episode 51 – Jan Hennings: “Historic Encounters in Early Modern Diplomacy”
SCAS TALKS Episode 50 – Aaron M. Ellison: ”Decentering Ourselves from the Anthropocene”
SCAS TALKS Episode 49 – Eliel Camargo-Molina: ”When Technology Meets the Humanities: The Interdisciplinary World of AI”
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Indo-European Afterlife”
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Efficient Light to Electric Power Conversion for a Renewable Energy Future”
SCAS TALKS Episode 48 – Gísli Pálsson: ”The Discovery of Extinction”
SCAS TALKS Episode 47 – Valbona Muzaka: ”Vaccines in Times of Financialisation”
SCAS TALKS Episode 46 – Hazem Kandil: ”War, Power, and History”
SCAS TALKS Episode 45 – Lisa Hellman: ”Captured by Russians, Enslaved by Dzungars: New Approaches to Global Diplomacy”
SCAS TALKS Episode 44 - Mikael Adolphson: ”Japan’s Medieval Monetization in a Historical Context”
SCAS TALKS Episode 43 – Jeffrey Paller: ”The Contentious Politics of African Urbanization”
SCAS TALKS Episode 42 – Racha Kirakosian: ”Researching Women’s Lives: The Story of Katarina of Württemberg”
SCAS TALKS Episode 41 – Philipp Lepenies: ”Development Aid - From Practitioner to Scholar”
SCAS TALKS Episode 40 – Jeremy Mumford: ”The Untold Story of Beatriz Coya - A Microhistory of a Marriage in Cuzco in 1565”
SCAS TALKS Episode 39 – Michael Watts: ”Oil and Its Afterlives: The Past and the Future of Oil in Nigeria”
SCAS TALKS Episode 38 – Sohini Ramachandran: ”The Human Genome as a Historical Text”
SCAS TALKS Episode 37 – Maria Ågren: ”Gender and Work”
SCAS TALKS Episode 36 – Michael Goodhart: “The Complexity and Contradictions of Human Rights”
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - “Opening the Ivory Tower Wide”
SCAS TALKS Episode 35 – Rebecca Earle: “How the Humble Potato Has Travelled the World and Shaped History”
SCAS TALKS Episode 34 – Janette Boughman & Maria Servedio: “New Insights into Speciation: Collaboration between a Mathematical Modeler and an Empirical Biologist”
SCAS TALKS Episode 33 – Helen Anne Curry: ”Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction”
SCAS TALKS Episode 32 – Karsten Paerregaard: ”Climate Change, Climate Perception and Water Management in Peru”
SCAS TALKS Episode 31 – Susan Pedersen: ”Balfours in Love and Trouble”
SCAS TALKS Episode 30 – Shalini Randeria: ”Looking at Citizens and State Relations in India through the Lens of Displacement”
SCAS TALKS Episode 29 – Susanne A. Wengle: “Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food”
SCAS TALKS Episode 28 - Barak Kushner: “What Do War Crimes Trials in East Asia Tell Us about the History of Justice?”
SCAS TALKS Episode 27 - Jessica Abbott: ”Evolution of Sex Chromosomes and (the Importance of) Science Communication”
SCAS TALKS Spotlight – “Beyond Advanced Studies: Interdisciplinary Theory and Research Careers” – part 2
SCAS TALKS Spotlight – “Beyond Advanced Studies: Interdisciplinary Theory and Research Careers” – part 1
SCAS TALKS Episode 26 – Ash Amin: ”Infrastructures, Habitats and Slum Lives”
SCAS TALKS Episode 25 – Troy Day: ”From Educated Guesses to Accurate Predictions: Modelling of the Pandemic”
SCAS TALKS Episode 24 – Michael J. Puett: ”Rethinking the World by Considering Chinese History”
SCAS TALKS Episode 23 – Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd: ”Banking before Banks: Credit and Debt in Preindustrial France”
SCAS TALKS Episode 22 - Ericka Johnson: ”A Cultural Biography of the Prostate”
SCAS TALKS Episode 21 – Rebekah Lee: "Death and Memory in Modern South Africa"
SCAS TALKS Episode 20 – Anna Neubeck: "Nickel - A Catalyst for Life on Earth and in Space"
SCAS TALKS Episode 19 – Nikolai Piskunov: "Using New Technology to Study Conditions for Life in Space"
SCAS TALKS Episode 18 – Stephanie Wynne-Jones: "Connecting Past and Present through Urban Ecologies on Zanzibar"
SCAS TALKS Episode 17 - Martin Sahlén: "The Big Picture: From Cosmic Origins to Life on Exoplanets"
SCAS TALKS Episode 16 – Terje Falck-Ytter: “Understanding Autism: What Can Infants Teach Us?”
SCAS TALKS Episode 15 – Jenny Andersson: “Neoliberalism in the Nordic Countries: Developing an Absent Research Theme”
SCAS TALKS Episode 14 – Andreas Eckert: "Where Have the Workers Gone? Labour in Postcolonial Africa"
SCAS TALKS Episode 13 – Dan Larhammar: “Fascinated by the Human Brain: Studies of Memory and the Phenomenon of Pseudoscience”
SCAS TALKS Episode 12 - Karin Jensen: “The Complexity of Pain and Placebo Effects”
SCAS TALKS Episode 11 – David Ciepley: “Constitutional Democracy and the Corporation”
SCAS TALKS Episode 10 – Bruce G. Carruthers: “Trust, Credit and Credit Ratings as the Basis of a Modern Economy”
SCAS TALKS Episode 9 – Benjamin Madley: "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe"
SCAS TALKS Episode 8 - Sofia Lodén: “Translations Create New Literary Traditions and Links between European Cultures”
SCAS TALKS Episode 7 - İnan Özdemir Taştan: “Threats on Media, Academic Freedom and Democracy in the Post-truth Era”
SCAS TALKS Episode 6 - Marianne Gullberg: "Our Capacity for Language Learning is Really Powerful - Also as Adults"
SCAS TALKS Episode 5 – Alisse Waterston: “In Search of Light in Dark Times” (Recorded 22 Oct, 2020)
SCAS TALKS Episode 4 – Jenny Larsson: “A Treasure Hunt to Find the Origin of the Indoeuropean Langauges”
SCAS TALKS Episode 3 - Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist: “Corona and the Forgotten Lessons from Historical Pandemics”
SCAS TALKS Episode 2 – Sverker Sörlin: “The Corona Crisis as a Moment of Expectation”
SCAS TALKS Episode 1 - Ulf Landegren: "I Have Dedicated My Whole Scientific Career to How to Measure Things"