We discuss the aftermath of the Turkey/Syria Earthquakes and the politics of global precarities in catastrophes with Dr. Aslı Zengin, Dr. Omar Al-Gazzi and Dr. Sumrin Kalia. We talk about what has been done, and what should be done in response to catastrophic events such as the earthquakes that occurred in Turkey and Syria on February 6th, 2023. (To support the earthquake relief efforts in Turkey, you can follow @afeticinfeminstdayanışma and you can direct your inquiries to the provided email address: [email protected] to learn about specific forms of support you can provide. They are a grassroots feminist organization coordinating relief efforts). 

For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/igp/podcasts/takhayyul-nativeness-and-emergent-issues-podcast

Date of episode recording: 2023-03-13
Duration: 53.47
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoğlu
Guests: Dr. Aslı Zengin; Dr. Omar Al-Ghazzi; Dr. Sumrin Kalia
Producer: Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Meryem Zişan Köker, Hazal Aydın 
Editor: Meryem Zişan Köker.

On this episode, we are hosting three figures, Nazan Üstündağ; Özlem Göner and Sardar Saadi, about four Kurdish regions and the rising violence in them. Please join us to understand the current issues in the regions.

For more information and to access the transcript: 

Date of episode recording: 2022-12-16
Duration: 56:10
Language of episode: English
Presenter:Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoğlu
Guests: Nazan Üstündağ; Özlem Göner; Sardar Saadi
Producer: Sertaç Sehlikoğlu

Climate change is leading to environmental crises and human calamity. In September this year, Pakistan was hit with extreme flooding due to rapidly melting glaciers. With 95,000 square meters of land submerged under water, and 33 million directly affected, the country is literally, and not only metaphorically ‘in deep waters’. The rescue and rehabilitation work post-floods is a mammoth task. In this podcast bring together grass roots civil society activists from the areas, most affected by the floods, to tell us about the impact of the floods and the challenges on the ground. Please join in to understand the impact of climate change related crisis and how they affect people’s lives.

For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/igp/podcasts/takhayyul-nativess-and-emergent-issues-podcast/transcript-climate-and-care-during-pakistani 

Date of episode recording: 2022-11-13
Duration: 01:22:50
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Dr. Sumrin Kalia
Guests: Quratulain Bakhteari; Balach Khan Khoso; Ali Anwar Qureshi; Habib Mazari; Mahwish Chaudry.
Producer: Meryem Zişan Köker, Hazal Aydın, Sertaç Sehlikoglu. Editor: Meryem Zişan Köker, Hazal Aydın

Our first episode is led by Dr Fatemeh Sadeghi, a research fellow of the UCL's and Institute for Global Prosperity's ERC Project Takhayyul. Fatemah is a political scientist who is an expert on Iran. 

This episode discussed how the uprisings in Iran were received in different parts of the world, specifically in China, Pakistan, India, Bahrain, Turkey, and the UK. The guests were Dr Sumrin Kalia from Takhayyul, Dr Yuan He (IGP), Dr Alaa Shehabi, a UCL scholar and a former member of the IGP, Rumeysa Camdereli, a Muslim feminist intellectual and activist, and an anonymous scholar (pseudonym HS) and activist from India. The episode was chaired by the Primary Investigator of Takhayyul, Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu (Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Prosperity, IGP) with technical support by Hazal Aydin, the research assistant of the project from Koc University, Turkey; and Meryem Zisan Koker, the assistant to Dr Sehlikoglu. 

For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/igp/transcript-women-life-freedom-iran-uprising-its-international-impact 

Date of episode recording: 2022-10-07
Duration: 01:21:39
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Fatemeh Sadeghi
Guests: Sumrin Kalia, Alaa Shehabi, Yuan He, Rumeysa Cambdereli, Hazal Aydin, Meryem Zisan Koker
Producer: Sertaç Sehlikoglu