The SCAS Talks Podcast

By scastalks Swedish collegium for advanced study

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SCAS, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study

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SCAS TALKS Episode 72 - Pasi Ihalainen & Paul Seaward: "Parliaments as Living Forums: Debate, Democracy and Change"
Jul 01, 2026
SCAS TALKS Episode 71 - Johan Elverskog: "Buddhism in World History"
Jun 02, 2026
SCAS TALKS Episode 70 - Mia Phillipson: "Healing Her: Immunity, Menstruation and Medical Breakthroughs"
Apr 27, 2026
SCAS TALKS Episode 69 - Elizabeth Jacqueline Marcus: "The University as a Global Microcosm"
Feb 16, 2026
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - "Academic Freedom" - part 2/2025
Dec 18, 2025
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - "Academic Freedom" - part 1/2025
Dec 18, 2025
SCAS TALKS Episode 68 - Emrah Yildiz: "Economic Sanctions, Aimed at Global Isolation, Generate Regional Connections"
Dec 08, 2025
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - "Transitions: Future Trajectories of Institutes for Advanced Study (IASs) in Academia" (SCAS Jubilee) - part 2
Nov 06, 2025
SCAS TALKS Episode 67 - Linda Wedlin: "A Governance Dimension of Academic Freedom"
Oct 17, 2025
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - "Transitions: Future Trajectories of Institutes for Advanced Study (IASs) in Academia" (SCAS Jubilee) - part 1
Oct 14, 2025
SCAS TALKS Episode 66 - Mathias Thaler: "Can Science Fiction Help Us Imagine New Ways of Acting Together in the Anthropocene?"
Aug 12, 2025
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - “Climate Policy in a Turbulent World: Complementary Perspectives”
Jul 03, 2025
SCAS TALKS Episode 65 – Axel Palmér: "Historical Linguistics: A Window into the Human Past"
Jun 11, 2025
SCAS TALKS Episode 64 – Johan Östling: "The University as a History of Knowledge"
Apr 23, 2025
SCAS TALKS Episode 63 – Mònica Ginés Blasi: "Exploiting Chinese Migrants in the 19th Century"
Mar 06, 2025
SCAS TALKS Episode 62 – Ayse Caglar: “City-making through the Lens of Displacement”
Jan 15, 2025
SCAS TALKS Episode 61 – Sari Nauman: "What Early Modern History Can Offer Refugee Studies"
Nov 29, 2024
SCAS TALKS Episode 60 – Iryna Mogilevkina: “Reproductive Health Always Matters”
Sep 03, 2024
SCAS TALKS Episode 59 – Stefan Enroth: "Self-sampling for Better Screening and Diagnosis of Gynecological Cancers"
May 29, 2024
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - "Sciences against Misinformation"
May 15, 2024
SCAS TALKS Episode 58 – Desiree Fields: "How Finance and Technology are Changing the Meaning of Housing"
Apr 26, 2024
SCAS TALKS Episode 57 – Anat Biegon: "Why Do Women Go to the Doctor Twice as Often as Men? Bias and Education about Women's Health"
Apr 19, 2024
SCAS TALKS Episode 56 – John Stinchcombe: "Evolution, Adaptation, and Resilience of Plants in the Anthropocene"
Apr 05, 2024
SCAS TALKS Episode 55 – Jennifer Mack: "Modernist Suburbs and Their Missing Stories"
Feb 29, 2024
SCAS TALKS Episode 54 – Carol Upadhya: "The Rise and Fall of the Amaravati Greenfield City Project”
Jan 26, 2024
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Academic Freedom”
Dec 13, 2023
SCAS TALKS Episode 53 – Anandi Hattiangadi: ”A Philosopher’s Reflections on the Emergence of Artificial General Intelligence”
Nov 20, 2023
SCAS TALKS Episode 52 – Jan Komorowski: ”Life Sciences in Silico: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning as Tools for New Discoveries”
Oct 03, 2023
SCAS TALKS Episode 51 – Jan Hennings: “Historic Encounters in Early Modern Diplomacy”
Sep 19, 2023
SCAS TALKS Episode 50 – Aaron M. Ellison: ”Decentering Ourselves from the Anthropocene”
Sep 01, 2023
SCAS TALKS Episode 49 – Eliel Camargo-Molina: ”When Technology Meets the Humanities: The Interdisciplinary World of AI”
Jun 26, 2023
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Indo-European Afterlife”
Jun 07, 2023
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - ”Efficient Light to Electric Power Conversion for a Renewable Energy Future”
Jun 02, 2023
SCAS TALKS Episode 48 – Gísli Pálsson: ”The Discovery of Extinction”
May 24, 2023
SCAS TALKS Episode 47 – Valbona Muzaka: ”Vaccines in Times of Financialisation”
May 10, 2023
SCAS TALKS Episode 46 – Hazem Kandil: ”War, Power, and History”
Apr 11, 2023
SCAS TALKS Episode 45 – Lisa Hellman: ”Captured by Russians, Enslaved by Dzungars: New Approaches to Global Diplomacy”
Mar 29, 2023
SCAS TALKS Episode 44 - Mikael Adolphson: ”Japan’s Medieval Monetization in a Historical Context”
Mar 10, 2023
SCAS TALKS Episode 43 – Jeffrey Paller: ”The Contentious Politics of African Urbanization”
Feb 01, 2023
SCAS TALKS Episode 42 – Racha Kirakosian: ”Researching Women’s Lives: The Story of Katarina of Württemberg”
Dec 16, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 41 – Philipp Lepenies: ”Development Aid - From Practitioner to Scholar”
Dec 07, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 40 – Jeremy Mumford: ”The Untold Story of Beatriz Coya - A Microhistory of a Marriage in Cuzco in 1565”
Nov 08, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 39 – Michael Watts: ”Oil and Its Afterlives: The Past and the Future of Oil in Nigeria”
Oct 06, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 38 – Sohini Ramachandran: ”The Human Genome as a Historical Text”
Sep 26, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 37 – Maria Ågren: ”Gender and Work”
Sep 16, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 36 – Michael Goodhart: “The Complexity and Contradictions of Human Rights”
Jul 11, 2022
SCAS TALKS Spotlight - “Opening the Ivory Tower Wide”
Jul 05, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 35 – Rebecca Earle: “How the Humble Potato Has Travelled the World and Shaped History”
Jun 16, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 34 – Janette Boughman & Maria Servedio: “New Insights into Speciation: Collaboration between a Mathematical Modeler and an Empirical Biologist”
Jun 09, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 33 – Helen Anne Curry: ”Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction”
Apr 28, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 32 – Karsten Paerregaard: ”Climate Change, Climate Perception and Water Management in Peru”
Apr 05, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 31 – Susan Pedersen: ”Balfours in Love and Trouble”
Mar 15, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 30 – Shalini Randeria: ”Looking at Citizens and State Relations in India through the Lens of Displacement”
Feb 14, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 29 – Susanne A. Wengle: “Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food”
Jan 27, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 28 - Barak Kushner: “What Do War Crimes Trials in East Asia Tell Us about the History of Justice?”
Jan 12, 2022
SCAS TALKS Episode 27 - Jessica Abbott: ”Evolution of Sex Chromosomes and (the Importance of) Science Communication”
Dec 20, 2021
SCAS TALKS Spotlight – “Beyond Advanced Studies: Interdisciplinary Theory and Research Careers” – part 2
Dec 16, 2021
SCAS TALKS Spotlight – “Beyond Advanced Studies: Interdisciplinary Theory and Research Careers” – part 1
Dec 16, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 26 – Ash Amin: ”Infrastructures, Habitats and Slum Lives”
Dec 03, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 25 – Troy Day: ”From Educated Guesses to Accurate Predictions: Modelling of the Pandemic”
Nov 24, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 24 – Michael J. Puett: ”Rethinking the World by Considering Chinese History”
Oct 20, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 23 – Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd: ”Banking before Banks: Credit and Debt in Preindustrial France”
Oct 05, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 22 - Ericka Johnson: ”A Cultural Biography of the Prostate”
Sep 08, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 21 – Rebekah Lee: "Death and Memory in Modern South Africa"
Jul 20, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 20 – Anna Neubeck: "Nickel - A Catalyst for Life on Earth and in Space"
Jul 16, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 19 – Nikolai Piskunov: "Using New Technology to Study Conditions for Life in Space"
Jul 14, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 18 – Stephanie Wynne-Jones: "Connecting Past and Present through Urban Ecologies on Zanzibar"
Jul 12, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 17 - Martin Sahlén: "The Big Picture: From Cosmic Origins to Life on Exoplanets"
Jun 29, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 16 – Terje Falck-Ytter: “Understanding Autism: What Can Infants Teach Us?”
Jun 18, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 15 – Jenny Andersson: “Neoliberalism in the Nordic Countries: Developing an Absent Research Theme”
Jun 01, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 14 – Andreas Eckert: "Where Have the Workers Gone? Labour in Postcolonial Africa"
May 17, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 13 – Dan Larhammar: “Fascinated by the Human Brain: Studies of Memory and the Phenomenon of Pseudoscience”
May 04, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 12 - Karin Jensen: “The Complexity of Pain and Placebo Effects”
Apr 19, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 11 – David Ciepley: “Constitutional Democracy and the Corporation”
Mar 30, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 10 – Bruce G. Carruthers: “Trust, Credit and Credit Ratings as the Basis of a Modern Economy”
Mar 09, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 9 – Benjamin Madley: "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe"
Jan 25, 2021
SCAS TALKS Episode 8 - Sofia Lodén: “Translations Create New Literary Traditions and Links between European Cultures”
Dec 11, 2020
SCAS TALKS Episode 7 - İnan Özdemir Taştan: “Threats on Media, Academic Freedom and Democracy in the Post-truth Era”
Dec 03, 2020
SCAS TALKS Episode 6 - Marianne Gullberg: "Our Capacity for Language Learning is Really Powerful - Also as Adults"
Nov 25, 2020
SCAS TALKS Episode 5 – Alisse Waterston: “In Search of Light in Dark Times” (Recorded 22 Oct, 2020)
Nov 05, 2020
SCAS TALKS Episode 4 – Jenny Larsson: “A Treasure Hunt to Find the Origin of the Indoeuropean Langauges”
Nov 04, 2020
SCAS TALKS Episode 3 - Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist: “Corona and the Forgotten Lessons from Historical Pandemics”
Jul 06, 2020
SCAS TALKS Episode 2 – Sverker Sörlin: “The Corona Crisis as a Moment of Expectation”
Jul 01, 2020
SCAS TALKS Episode 1 - Ulf Landegren: "I Have Dedicated My Whole Scientific Career to How to Measure Things"
Jul 01, 2020