OTOK Podcast

My guest today is Dr. Laurie Brinklow. Laurie is a poet, singer, intrepid traveler and the linchpin of the university of Prince Edward Island's Institute of Island Studies with their internationally renowned Masters of Island Studies program. We talked about her favourite subject - art and islands.

Hear my conversation with James Ellsmoor, the founder and managing director of Island Innovation.

An eight-generation Fogo islander, Zita Cobb decided to invest her capital into a different kind of venture - one that would help build her community up.

COVID-19 pandemic is impacting islands around the world. Francesco Sindico is the Co-Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He is leading a project on Islands and Covid-19 responses trying to understand what those response are, how they are similar and what is that islands can learn from each other.

A fascinating conversation with Adam Grydehøj about Greenland, colonialism, how China gets to be a global bogeyman, politics of language and island independence.

Ilan Kelman is a professor of disasters and health and an island scholar based at the Institute for risk and Disaster Reduction and the Institute of Global Health at the University College London in the UK.

Pam Hall is an artist, filmmaker, and scholar living and working on the island of Newfoundland whose work is deeply embedded in place.

Croatian islands were historically places of refuge, but what happens when those seeking refuge bring the enemy with them.

A conversation with Dr. Godfrey Baldacchino from the University of Malta.

A podcast for islanders about islands they call home. Everybody else is welcome, too. After all we all live on a island.