Birks After Dark

Birks After Dark episodes

June 14, 2025 Have you ever tried Italian?
The garlic-eaters are a bit suspicious, you have to admit.
5 min
October 29, 2024 Modern Selves, burial practices, and division
A conversation with Hary Widyantoro on modern selves, gender, burial practices, and deeply divided nations.
1 hr 24 min
July 03, 2024 Stories, Verandahs, and Heritage
A conversation with Fawaz Abdul Salam about text, people, space, the past, and modernity.
2 hr 3 min
April 19, 2024 Islay
Herr Smith and the waves of the ocean.
45 min
April 19, 2024 Swearing, Metaphor, and Satan
A conversation with Matheus de Carvalho on swearing, metaphor, and enemies.
1 hr 36 min
November 28, 2023 Dead People, Belief, and Elitism
A conversation with Amanda Rosini.
1 hr 54 min
May 17, 2023 Good People, Passion, and Poetry
A conversation with Sabeena Shaikh and Swati Chauhan on the privileges, passions, and poetics of (grad) life.
1 hr 28 min
April 10, 2023 Pigeon blood, Tenure brain, and Hope
Do we eat the pigeon or are we just killing it? Can you taste the terroir? A conversation with Katie Chandler.
1 hr 43 min
April 10, 2023 Symbolic Logic, Personality, and Reason
Are some ideas unreasonable? Why can't we all just talk about our disagreements? Should we all be the same? A conversation with Tyler Journeax.
2 hr 43 min
February 21, 2023 Travelling through the Diaspora
Who are we? What language do we speak? How much money do we have? How does this impact the way the State treats us? A conversation with Roy Shukrun.
1 hr 20 min

From the publisher's feed

Recordings of conversations overheard in the Birks basement between graduate students in Montreal. Be ware: some ideas may bite back.