Episode 3: Girls Are Also People of the Holy Qur’an, with Jun Akiba

01/10/20 • 10 min

Girls Are Also People of the Holy Qur’an
Jun Akiba, Associate Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, discusses Muslim girls’ education in Ottoman Istanbul during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Through the extensive use of archival and narrative sources, Akiba demonstrates, in his article published in the Brill journal Hawwa, that girls in pre-Tanzimat Istanbul enjoyed ample opportunities for elementary education. Listen to this podcast now!
Guest: Jun Akiba
Host: Emily Tamkin

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Episode 5: Global Governance “As It Was, Is and Ought to Be”, with Stephen Gill

Governing the world—A critical look at the current state of global governance

We live in a time of profound global crises. So, who exactly is responsible for identifying global solutions? Since there is no common world government, global issues are usually addressed by certain international institutions or organizations that develop laws, frameworks, and policies—a phenomenon called “global governance.” However, does this type of regulation actually work?

Prof Stephen Gill, FRSC, Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, discusses the current state of global governance and its role in resolving global issues, as documented in a new study in the journal Global Governance, published by Brill. Listen to this podcast now!
Guest: Prof Stephen Gill
Host: Emily Tamkin