In this month’s bonus episode, Dr Banu Karaca, talks about the darker side of the art world through the eyes of its hidden figures: gallerists, art collectors, and corporate sponsors (sometimes referred to as neo-liberalists) in Istanbul (Turkey) and Berlin (Germany). With the history of art steeped in state violence, Karaca’s anthropological approach to understanding the art world provides us with an inward glimpse of the gatekeepers who possess and mediate how the public sees (and gains access to) art.

In the words of Karaca, ‘to know about art is to know about power.’

*If you want to learn more about Dr Karaca’s work, make sure to listen to Episode 28: Nazism, art, and questioning free speech.

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What are the differences (if any) between cancel versus call-out culture? And what sort of effects can cancel culture have on an individual through the lens of social media? In this one- hour episode, Dr Wand sits down with consulting anthropologist and founder of Culture Contact, Helidth Ravenholm, to discuss the multi-layered consequences of online bullying through social venues like Twitter and Reddit. ‘The road to hell’ so it is said, ‘is paved with good intentions.’ Could the same be said of social media and its support of cancel culture?

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When serial entrepreneur, Brady Simpson, made the decision to start up and found his own businesses (Simtek and Peanut), he took his years of experience working at Facebook and LinkedIn to discover what it really takes to succeed in the tech industry. In this one-hour interview he sits down with Dr Ann Wand to discuss the ins and outs of the tech industry and how researchers and academics can transition into the entrepreneurial field through their passions, problem solving skills, and impact driven interests.

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Alessandra Pino (aka: Allie) is the co-author of ‘A Gothic Cookbook’ and in this episode we explore the hidden world of the Gothic Victorian era. While her book focuses on the ‘relationship between food and the supernatural’, there are other elements to Gothic literature that connect food to violence, the oppressed roles of women, historical suppression, and servitude.

With the Halloween season almost in swing, her work would be a wonderful addition to creepy-crawly type literature, from Frankenstein to Dracula, alongside Anne Rice’s ‘Interview with a Vampire’…

*We apologise for some of the sound quality in places. It must have been ghosts interfering with our technology 😉

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In this bonus episode, Dr Ritu Jain dives deeper into her work on disability awareness by discussing her concerns regarding Singapore’s legal interpretations of ‘disabled’ versus ‘abled’ people. In addition, she describes the continued stigma, prejudice, discrimination, and taboo associations that exist for marginalised health communities, including those living with HIV.

If you haven’t checked out her previous talk, then we highly suggest you listen to Episode 27: Inspiring Women: Dr Ritu Jain and disability awareness.

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Every-so-often I do an episode that is very near and dear to my heart. This episode is no exception. In this month’s show for our ‘Controversies and Contraband’ series I talk with historian and Senior Researcher, Dr Hannes Obermair about the history of South Tyrol, Italy’s secret catacomb schools, originally designed with the intent to protect Italy’s German-speaking ethnicity from Italian fascist occupation.

Almost 100 years later and South Tyrol now practices legalised segregated education with politicians taking great strides to keep the minority groups divided despite community desires to bring them all together.

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*photo by Luca Lorenzi, 2009 (see: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suedtirol_ist_nicht_Italien_-_Brennero.JPG)

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Many thanks to Palestinian Entrepreneur, Majd Mashharawi for her very raw and candid talk about the difficulties she and other women have faced trying to find work and start their own businesses in occupied Gaza. The statistics will shock you, but should hopefully provide a bit of insight (and hope) to an historical region that is very poorly discussed in the Western world.

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Our newest episode in the ‘Controversies and Contraband’ series talks about the history of British witchcraft, or more precisely British witches’ understanding of their contemporary history. While not seemingly controversial on the surface, western societal interpretations of the ‘witch’ are deeply rooted in taboo, where modern-day witches can sometimes be viewed as ‘irrational’, embarrassing, or even child-like.

Anthropologist, Dr Helen Cornish tries to rectify this reasoning by breaking down the complexities of what it means to be a ‘witch’ in modern British society, and that terms like ‘pagan’, ‘druid’, ‘witchcraft’ and ‘wicca’ come with their own definitions and layered fascinations.

Whether you’re a practitioner, or have a genuine curiosity for the less advertised of western religions, this deep dive into British witches’ understanding of their history will leave you wanting to learn more about them!

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What does it mean to ‘censor’ or ‘ban’ forbidden Nazi symbols, art, and books like Mein Kampf in present-day Germany? And more to the point, is this even possible? In this first episode of our new series, ‘Controversies & Contraband’, Dr Banu Karaca explains the hidden impact of Hitler’s Nazi dictatorship on censorship laws in Germany, and whether freedom of expression and/or free speech in the art world is only limited to certain topics that are labelled ‘inherently good’ according to Germany’s liberal democracy.

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In this final episode of our 'Inspiring Women' series I talk with Dr Ritu Jain, President of DEBRA (Singapore) and rare disease policy advocate for the Asia Pacific. In this episode we cover the differences between 'invisible' and 'visible' disabilities, and 'orphan' diseases, and what we can do as individuals in order to promote and encourage better disability awareness and inclusivity in the work environment and within society. I also disclose my own journey with an invisible condition and what it has meant for me as I navigate my identity and who I choose to tell (or not tell) about my experiences living with epilepsy.

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