After the End

In this final episode of the podcast series After the End, Lukas Engelmann and Bobbie Farsides join Patricia Kingori for an exploration of ethics and endings in the context of public health. In this episode of the After the End podcast series, epidemiologist Lukas Engelmann from the University of Edinburgh and Bobbie Farsides, Emeritus Professor of the Brighton and Sussex Medical School find commo...

In this episode of the After the End podcast series, epidemiologist Lukas Engelmann from the University of Edinburgh asks ‘when can an epidemic be declared over?' In this episode of the After the End podcast series, we hear from epidemiologist Lukas Engelmann from the University of Edinburgh on infectious disease modelling, and when and if an epidemic or pandemic can be said to be ‘over’. We explo...

In this episode of the After the End podcast series, we explore through the context of the Infected Blood Inquiry, the possibility of public inquiries helping people to bring to an end trauma. In this episode of the After the End podcast series, Bobbie Farsides, Emeritus Professor of Clinical and Biomedical Ethics at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, shares her insights on ethics and endings in...

In this episode of the podcast series After the End, Patricia Kingori is joined by Riccardo Labianco and Patricia Daley for a discussion on endings in times of conflict. Patricia Kingori is in conversation with Riccardo Labianco from the Convention on Cluster Munitions and previously Mines Advisory Group and Patricia Daley, Professor of the Human Geography of Africa at the University of Oxford. Dr...

In this episode of the podcast series After the End, we hear from lawyer Riccardo Labianco on dealing with the explosive remnants of war. Riccardo Labianco from the Convention on Cluster Munitions and previously Mines Advisory Group explores with different examples and referencing the institutional and legal architecture of humanitarian disarmament, the reality of enduring risks and potential harm...

Patricia Kingori is with Danya Carroll and Alice Parrinello for an exploration of Indigenous and Western perspectives on time. In this episode of the After the End podcast series, sociologist Patricia Kingori is in conversation with Danya Carroll, Indigenous Scholar and Public Health Practitioner, and Alice Parrinello, University of Toronto, for an exploration of Indi...

Alice Parrinello traces the different attitudes towards endings and aftermaths in films and how this has shifted over time. In this episode of the podcast series After the End, we hear from Alice Parrinello at the University of Toronto on the treatment of endings in films related to climate change and the colonial era.  

Sylvia Kokunda shares the Batwa perspective on time and the challenges her people have faced in adapting to a very different culture since they were removed from their ancestral forest homes in the 1990s. In this episode of the podcast series After the End, we hear more about Indigenous perspectives on time from Sylvia Kokunda, Co-founder of the Action for Batwa Empowerment Group in Uganda. Sylvia...

Danya Carroll, indigenous scholar and public health practitioner, reflects on living with different world views, linear time and cyclical time and what we leave for future generations. In this episode of the podcast series After the End, we hear from Danya Carroll, a member of the Navajo and White Mountain Apache Tribes, and a post-doc in the School of Medicine and Public Health at Western Univers...

In this episode of the podcast series After the End, Patricia Kingori, Miranda Lowe, Felix Flicker and Martin O'Brien come together for a discussion on time, mortality and immortality. Sociologist Patricia Kingori brings together the ideas on time, mortality and immortality of museum curator and jellyfish fan Miranda Lowe, theoretical physicist Felix Flicker, and performance artist and zombie Mart...

What is it like to live in Zombie Time? Performance artist Martin O’Brien opens the conversation on living beyond predicted life expectancy in what he calls ‘zombie time’. In this episode of the podcast series After the End, we hear from performance artist Martin O’Brien from Queen Mary University, London on living a different temporal experience and the influence on his performance art.

Does time exist? Theoretical physicist Felix Flicker from the University of Bristol explores whether time exists and living after the end of the universe. In this episode of the podcast series After the End, Felix Flicker challenges our assumptions about time, exploring relativity, consciousness, and the possibility that we’re living after the end of the universe.

The Jellyfish that refuse to die. MIRANDA LOWE CBE, a principal curator in the Department of Life Sciences at the NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM in LONDON, introduces us to the extraordinary world of the immortal jellyfish. In this episode of the podcast series After the End, Miranda Lowe of the Natural History Museum explores the immortal jellyfish and what it teaches us about cyclical time, scientific l...

Who decides when it’s over? In this episode of the podcast series After the End, Professor Patricia Kingori introduces the project and sets the stage for what’s to come. As the opening episode of the series, this episode unveils an eight-year global research collaboration exploring the politics of endings and their aftermaths. From global health crises to cultural transitions, Prof Kingori asks: w...