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The SCAS Talks Podcast

Science EN ↓ 84 episodes

SCAS, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study

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scastalks Swedish collegium for advanced study

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SCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Academic Freedom” 13.12.2023 46:21

A collection of voices from "A Week on Academic Freedom". Keywords: academic freedom, collegiality, research, education, Ukraine

SCAS TALKS Episode 53 – Anandi Hattiangadi: ”A Philosopher’s Reflections on the Emergence of Artificial General Intelligence” 20.11.2023 32:01

Theme: AI Keywords: artificial general intelligence, philosophy, language, large language models, interdisciplinary research

SCAS TALKS Episode 52 – Jan Komorowski: ”Life Sciences in Silico: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as Tools for New Discoveries” 03.10.2023 36:49

Theme: AI Keywords: artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, life science, machine learning, scientific discovery

SCAS TALKS Episode 51 – Jan Hennings: “Historic Encounters in Early Modern Diplomacy” 19.09.2023 32:15

Theme: Diplomacy & International Relations Keywords: diplomacy, international relations, Russia, ottoman empire, early modern history

SCAS TALKS Episode 50 – Aaron M. Ellison: ”Decentering Ourselves from the Anthropocene” 01.09.2023 36:35

Theme: The Anthropocene Keywords: anthropocene, ecology, nature, landscape, photography

SCAS TALKS Episode 49 – Eliel Camargo-Molina: ”When Technology Meets the Humanities: The Interdisciplinary World of AI” 26.06.2023 36:25

Theme: AI Keywords: artificial intelligence, large language models, chatGPT, interdisciplinary research, technology

SCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Indo-European Afterlife” 07.06.2023 38:43

A collection of voices from the symposium Indo-European Afterlife. Keywords: Indo-european languages, afterlife, religion, archeology, LAMP project

SCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Efficient Light to Electric Power Conversion for a Renewable Energy Future” 02.06.2023 36:53

A collection of voices from the Nobel Symposium NS191: Efficient Light to Electric Power Conversion for a Renewable Energy Future Keywords: solar energy, photovoltaics, renewable energy, Nobel prize, sustainability

SCAS TALKS Episode 48 – Gísli Pálsson: ”The Discovery of Extinction” 24.05.2023 34:52

Theme: The Anthropocene Keywords: anthropocene, ecology, extinction, environmental humanities, rewilding

SCAS TALKS Episode 47 – Valbona Muzaka: ”Vaccines in Times of Financialisation” 10.05.2023 41:33

Theme: Global Governance Keywords: global governance, vaccine, pharmaceutical industry, global health, covid-19

SCAS TALKS Episode 46 – Hazem Kandil: ”War, Power, and History” 11.04.2023 34:28

Theme: Diplomacy & International Relations Keywords: diplomacy, international relations, Carl von Clausewitz, historical and political sociology, war

SCAS TALKS Episode 45 – Lisa Hellman: ”Captured by Russians, Enslaved by Dzungars: New Approaches to Global Diplomacy” 29.03.2023 40:14

Theme: Diplomacy & International Relations Keywords: global diplomacy, global history, Russia, China, microhistory

SCAS TALKS Episode 44 - Mikael Adolphson: ”Japan’s Medieval Monetization in a Historical Context” 10.03.2023 36:39

Theme: Asia (Citizens and state relations) Keywords: Asia, citizen and state relations, sino-japanese trade, medieval societas, historical narratives

SCAS TALKS Episode 43 – Jeffrey Paller: ”The Contentious Politics of African Urbanization” 01.02.2023 36:59

Theme: Africa Keywords: Africa, urbanization, rural societies, post-colonial development, governance

SCAS TALKS Episode 42 – Racha Kirakosian: ”Researching Women’s Lives: The Story of Katarina of Württemberg” 16.12.2022 52:35

Theme: Gender Keywords: gender, middle ages, Katharina von Württemberg, women’s history, female mystics

SCAS TALKS Episode 41 – Philipp Lepenies: ”Development Aid - From Practitioner to Scholar” 07.12.2022 1:02:35

Theme: Development Issues & Human Rights Keywords: development aid, political science, GDP, sustainability, academic career

SCAS TALKS Episode 40 – Jeremy Mumford: ”The Untold Story of Beatriz Coya - A Microhistory of a Marriage in Cuzco in 1565” 08.11.2022 51:19

Theme: Latin America Keywords: Latin America, microhistory, Inca kingdom, child marriage, Beatriz Coya

SCAS TALKS Episode 39 – Michael Watts: ”Oil and Its Afterlives: The Past and the Future of Oil in Nigeria” 06.10.2022 1:06:23

Theme: Development Issues & Human Rights Keywords: human rights, development issues, oil industry, Nigeria, global south

SCAS TALKS Episode 38 – Sohini Ramachandran: ”The Human Genome as a Historical Text” 26.09.2022 56:18

Theme: Genetics & Evolution Keywords: genomics, ancient DNA, human evolution, population genetics, diversity

SCAS TALKS Episode 37 – Maria Ågren: ”Gender and Work” 16.09.2022 58:09

Theme: Gender Keywords: gender, work, economic history, verb-orientated method, open science, digital humanities

SCAS TALKS Episode 36 – Michael Goodhart: “The Complexity and Contradictions of Human Rights” 11.07.2022 1:13:02

Theme: Development Issues & Human Rights Keywords: human rights, democracy, activism, emancipatory politics, justice

SCAS TALKS Spotlight - “Opening the Ivory Tower Wide” 05.07.2022 1:13:59

A collection of voices from the symposium "Opening the Ivory Tower Wide" Keywords: outreach, innovation, science and society, policy advice, academic freedom

SCAS TALKS Episode 35 – Rebecca Earle: “How the Humble Potato Has Travelled the World and Shaped History” 16.06.2022 1:01:30

Theme: Latin America Keywords: Latin America, potato, food history, global history, plant domestication

SCAS TALKS Episode 34 – Janette Boughman & Maria Servedio: “New Insights into Speciation: Collaboration between a Mathematical Modeler and an Empirical Biologist” 09.06.2022 48:21

Theme: Genetics & Evolution Keywords: genetics, evolution, speciation, mathematical model, sexual selection

SCAS TALKS Episode 33 – Helen Anne Curry: ”Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction” 28.04.2022 51:08

Theme: Genetics & Evolution Keywords: genetics, maize, agriculture, seed banks, conservation, plant breeding