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I denne udsendelse kan du møde filosof og filosofihistoriker Sabrina Ebbersmeyer. Sabrina er lektor på Københavns Universitet, hvor hun forsker og underviser. Hun har publiceret en lang række artikler, bogkapitler og bøger om forskellige filosofiske spørgsmål - heriblandt renæssancens filosofi, naturforståelse,  kvindelige filosoffers plads i filosofihistorien og forholdet mellem emotioner og rationalitet. 

I dette interview giver Sabrina en introduktion til flere filosofiske diskussioner. Hun giver et overblik over renæssanc ens syn på sjælen, herunder den italienske filosof Telesios teori om emotioner. Derudover taler vi om den danske adelskvinde og filosof Birgitte Thotts oversættelse af Seneca. Slutteligt fortæller Sabrina om et nyt og stort anlagt forskningsprojekt, der skal udforske kvindelige filosoffers rolle i Nordens oplysningstid. Hun har netop modtaget midler til det projekt fra det meget prestigefyldte European Research Council (ECR). 

Jeg nød virkelig at tale med Sabrina. Hendes forskning og perspektiver på filosofi er enormt berigende og utrolig interessante. Jeg vil anbefale alle, der har interesse for filosofi, at følge hendes arbejde.

God fornøjelse. 

Klipning: Sidsel Marie 

Musik og vært: Victor Lange 

I denne udsendelse kan du møde Hans Jørgen Brøndum. Hans Jørgen drev trykkeriet og forlaget Brøndum i næsten 40 år, i Nansensgade 41 i København. Brøndum opsatte, trykte og udgav nogle af de fineste udgivelser, vi har på dansk. Det gjaldt danske og udenlandske forfattere og kunstnere såsom Inger Christensen, Henrik Nordbrandt, Per Kirkeby, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett og Fernando Pessoa. 

Hans Jørgen giver i nærværende udsendelse en række erindringer omkring sit virke. Han fortæller om sine unge år som studerende på kunstakademiet i København, om sit første møde med blandt andet digteren Ole Sarvig, om de tidlige år med trykkeriet og om de mange forskellige mennesker, der kom på Nansensgade 41. Du kan høre om, hvordan Hans Jørgen arbejdede sammen med Inger Christensen i forbindelse med udgivelsen af Sommerfugledalen, eller hvordan han indledte sit årelange venskab og virke med Henrik Nordbrandt og Per Kirkeby.

Jeg vil anbefale, at man anskaffer sig Hans Jørgens erindringer, I en kælder sort som kul. Den er enormt velskrevet og indeholder virkelig interessante betragtninger omkring litteratur, kunst og livet i det hele taget. Den kan købes i butikken på Nansensgade 41.

God fornøjelse.

Welcome to Regnfang’s co-publication of the Anthropology on Air podcast. A podcast created and published in collaboration with the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. Each episode features interviews with social sciences researchers on topics related to the ways in which our human mind and life is entangled with the communities of ideas and beings with whom we live.

In this episode, you will meet Matthew Carey who is associate professor at the Department of Anthropology at Copenhagen University. Matthew’s main field site is in the Moroccan High Atlas where he has done recurring fieldwork since 2002. His work here has, among other things, focused on mistrust, complicity, egalitarianism, sincerity, subjectivity, medical pluralism, and anarchism. Apart from that, Matthew has written on issues related to apocalyptic discourses, conspiracy, lying, and bureaucracy.

 In this conversation, we talk with Matthew about his book ‘Mistrust: An ethnographic theory’ before delving into the subject of infant mortality and parental grief among Tachelhit-Berber speaking communities in Southern Morocco. In trying to explain the radical difference here between showcase and claimed experience of grief when small compared to older children passed away, Matthew provides an anthropological analysis of different forms of emotional attachment and relational bonding.

 The podcast was recorded in early May 2023 when Matthew was in Bergen to give a presentation at the Bergen Social Anthropology Seminar (BSAS).

Host and production: Sidsel Marie

Music: Victor Lange

Welcome to Regnfang’s co-publication of the Anthropology on Air podcast. A podcast created and published in collaboration with the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. Each episode features interviews with social sciences researchers on topics related to the ways in which our human mind and life is entangled with the communities of ideas and beings with whom we live.

In this episode you will meet Veronica Strang, who is a professor of anthropology currently affiliated with Oxford University. Her research focuses on human-environmental relations, and in particular, societies’ engagements with water, encompassing conflicts over ownership and governance; cultural beliefs and values; human and non-human rights; and people´s sensory and cognitive interactions with water. Veronica’s main ethnographic research has been conducted in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, and apart from publishing an impressive number of academic books and articles on the topic of water, she has consulted and worked with people from the water industry, the UN, and UNESCO, just to mention a few. 

We talk with Veronica about her more recent work on water beings. After describing what a water being is, Veronica unfolds how thinking with and through these creatures can illuminate culturally specific and historically changing human-environmental relations. We talk about how water beings can be used as a narrative device for criticising a sharp nature/culture divide and how they can provide alternative models for relating to nature and responding to the current environmental crisis. Finally, Veronica touches upon the comparative and co-authoring nature of anthropology.

The podcast was recorded in late May 2023 when Veronica was in Bergen to give a presentation at the Bergen Social Anthropology Seminar (BSAS).

Books referred to in the podcast:

-       Water Beings: From Nature Worship to the Environmental crisis (Reaktion Books, 2023)

-       The Meaning of Water (Routledge, 2004)

-       Gardening the world: agency, identity, and the ownership of water (Berghahn Books, 2009)

Host and production: Sidsel Marie

Music: Victor Lange

Welcome to Regnfang’s co-publication of the Anthropology on Air podcast. A podcast created and published in collaboration with the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. Each episode features interviews with social sciences researchers on topics related to the ways in which our human mind and life is entangled with the communities of ideas and beings with whom we live.

This episode’s guest, George Paul Meiu, is professor of anthropology and chair of the institute of social anthropology at the University of Basel and associate in the departments of anthropology and African and African American studies at Harvard University.

George’s research and teaching focus on sexuality, gender, and kinship; ethnicity, belonging and citizenship; mobility, memory, and materiality; and the political economy of East Africa and Eastern Europe. He is the author of the prize-winning book Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2017), and his new book, currently in press, is titled Queer Objects to the Rescue: Intimacy and Citizenship in Kenya (University of Chicago Press, 2023). In addition, George is our companion in the attempt of getting anthropology on air, he is the host and producer of the combined video-podcast platform, Ethnographic Imagination Basel, which we really recommend checking out!

In this podcast, we talk with George about ways to understand the contemporary homophobic violence and sentiment in Kenya. Instead of imposing perspectives from queer liberalism, George suggests situating the phenomenon in its own social, material, and historical context in order to grasp its local grammar and conditions of reproduction. George then offers an analytical strategy to do this through a focus on what he calls ‘queer objects’. We talk about how objects such as plastic and diapers can be used to grasp the moral panic over homosexuality in Kenya and how this relates to notions of intimate citizenship. Finally, George describes how the queer potentiality of objects has been used in artivism and activism and how we might use it for thinking critically, imagining, and creating new worlds.

The podcast was recorded in early June 2023 when George was in Bergen to give a presentation at the Bergen Social Anthropology Seminar (BSAS).

Resources:
-       If you want to learn more about George’s work, we recommend listening to this New Books Network podcast episode, where he talks about his prize-winning book Ethno-erotic Economies: Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya

Host and production: Sidsel Marie

Music: Victor Lange

In this podcast, we talk with philosopher and cognitive scientist, Ophelia Deroy. Ophelia is professor at the Ludwig Maxmillian University in Munich where she directs the interdisciplinary research group Cognition, Value, and Behaviour. Her research concerns a wide range of topics including decision-making, social cognition, perception, and the interaction between humans and artificial intelligence. She has done research in both philosophy and cognitive science, involving publication of many academic books and numerous articles in research journals. Related, Ophelia has also collaborated with museums such as the Tate Museum in London. The present interview touches upon multiple topics. We begin with Ophelia’s own research background before moving into a discussion of the scientific research on sensing. Following this, the interview addresses the topic of metacognition and closes with Ophelia’s broader perspectives on science communication. I hope you enjoy the interview as much as I did. I find Ophelia’s perspectives on these matters deeply engaging and exciting.

I highly recommend checking out Ophelia’s website where you can dive into her work (www.opheliaderoy.com). 

We hope that you will enjoy the conversation!

Production: Heine Volder

Music: Victor Lange

Welcome to Regnfang’s new podcast series on natural wine. For those listeners who are already familiar with the Regnfang podcast, this theme might be a bit puzzling. After all, our podcasts normally tap into the topic of the human mind by interviewing scientists, authors, and artists. What does natural wine have to do with this topic?

For us, natural wine has everything to do with the human mind—ranging from the work in the fields, the vinification, and the drinking of it. We are personally deep admirers; fascinated by the people who make it and the profound experiences these wines offer.

Throughout the years, one question has returned to us again and again: is natural wine an art form, or is it merely an agricultural product? This is an intriguing question, and we pose it to producers and importers of natural wine in the present series. This will take you on a journey around Europe, between cities like those of Paris and Munich, to the countryside of Southern France. 

In this episode, you will meet the winemakers Anders Frederik Steen and Anne Bruun Blauert. Even though they are both Danish, Anders and Anne live and make wine in the small and old village of Valvignères in Ardèche, in Southern France. We completely fell in love, not only with Anders’ and Anne’s bottles, but also with their approach and mentality about wine making. It was a great pleasure to visit their beautiful home in Valvignères where they live with their daughter, son, and sweet dog. Their wines are really amazing and very distinct–personally, some of the best we have had in our lives. We cannot recommend them enough.  

We hope you enjoy the interview as much as we did! 

Website: https://www.andersfrederiksteen.com/ 

Also, check out Anders’ inspiring book on wine-making and wine-drinking: https://www.apartamentomagazine.com/product/poetry-is-growing-in-our-garden-anders-frederik-steen/ 

Welcome to Regnfang’s new podcast series on natural wine. For those listeners who are already familiar with the Regnfang podcast, this theme might be a bit puzzling. After all, our podcasts normally tap into the topic of the human mind by interviewing scientists, authors, and artists. What does natural wine have to do with this topic?

For us, natural wine has everything to do with the human mind—ranging from the work in the fields, the vinification, and the drinking of it. We are personally deep admirers; fascinated by the people who make it and the profound experiences these wines offer.

Throughout the years, one question has returned to us again and again: is natural wine an art form, or is it merely an agricultural product? This is an intriguing question. The best answer might be that it is both. Natural wine is clearly an agricultural product. It is produced through the cultivation of the natural environment, through methods such as pruning, plowing, and harvesting. Yet, it also seems to be an artistic product, an art form. Natural wine represents a place, it expresses the spirit of the winemaker, and it offers a deep and multi-modal experience of both perceptual and reflective aspects. That is, natural wine seems to be a unique artistic medium—among other things, because it draws so much on taste and smell, compared to other genres such as music and literature.

In this episode, you will meet Nathaniel Ratapu. Nathan runs the wine- and book shop Rerenga Wines in the 10th arrondissement in Paris. The shop is truly fascinating, packed with a wide assortment of inspiring bottles and edgy literature. We highly recommend visiting it if you are around. We talk with Nathan about entering the world of natural wine and how it relates to current political issues on inequality, cultural identity, and the natural environment. Of course, we also ask Nathan whether natural wine is to be understood purely as an agricultural product or also an art form - a question that opens multiple lines of thought. 

Check out Rerenga Wines on the following: https://www.rerengawines.com/ 

We hope you enjoy the interview as much as we did! 

Welcome to Regnfang’s new podcast series on natural wine. For those listeners who are already familiar with the Regnfang podcast, this theme might be a bit puzzling. After all, our podcasts normally tap into the topic of the human mind by interviewing scientists, authors, and artists. What does natural wine have to do with this topic?

For us, natural wine has everything to do with the human mind—ranging from the work in the fields, the vinification, and the drinking of it. We are personally deep admirers; fascinated by the people who make it and the profound experiences these wines offer.

Throughout the years, one question has returned to us again and again: is natural wine an art form, or is it merely an agricultural product? This is an intriguing question. The best answer might be that it is both. Natural wine is clearly an agricultural product. It is produced through the cultivation of the natural environment, through methods such as pruning, plowing, and harvesting. Yet, it also seems to be an artistic product, an art form. Natural wine represents a place, it expresses the spirit of the winemaker, and it offers a deep and multi-modal experience of both perceptual and reflective aspects. That is, natural wine seems to be a unique artistic medium—among other things, because it draws so much on taste and smell, compared to other genres such as music and literature.

In this episode, you will meet winemaker François Blanchard. François makes truly wonderful wine. He works in Le Perron in the village of Lémeré, in Loire. We met Francois at the wine fair La GoulAyance in Paris—a fair he actually arranged together with some of his fellow wine makers. This explains the background noise, and why there is a man yelling in a megaphone towards the end of the interview (the fair was closing and everyone had to stop serving and drinking wine).

As already mentioned, François’ wines are extraordinary. Check out his website and find out how you get a hand on some of his bottles. You find the link in the description for this episode.

Website: http://www.francois-blanchard.com/

We hope you enjoy the interview as much as we did!

Welcome to Regnfang’s new podcast series on natural wine. For those listeners who are already familiar with the Regnfang podcast, this theme might be a bit puzzling. After all, our podcasts normally tap into the topic of the human mind by interviewing scientists, authors, and artists. What does natural wine have to do with this topic?

For us, natural wine has everything to do with the human mind—ranging from the work in the fields, the vinification, and the drinking of it. We are personally deep admirers; fascinated by the people who make it and the profound experiences these wines offer.

Throughout the years, one question has returned to us again and again: is natural wine an art form, or is it merely an agricultural product? This is an intriguing question. The best answer might be that it is both. Natural wine is clearly an agricultural product. It is produced through the cultivation of the natural environment, through methods such as pruning, plowing, and harvesting. Yet, it also seems to be an artistic product, an art form. Natural wine represents a place, it expresses the spirit of the winemaker, and it offers a deep and multi-modal experience of both perceptual and reflective aspects. That is, natural wine seems to be a unique artistic medium—among other things, because it draws so much on taste and smell, compared to other genres such as music and literature.

In this episode, you will meet George from the house Gelovani Cellar. Gelovani Cellar makes wine in Georgia. Their wines are astonishing, really rich and generous. We highly recommend trying out their wine, so check out their social media in the description for this podcast

Gelovain Cellar: https://en-gb.facebook.com/Gelovani.cellar/ 

We met with George at the wonderful restaurant Supra in Belleville, Paris. The interview was recorded in the kitchen of the restaurant, which explains some of the background noise.

We hope you enjoy the interview as much as we did!