Think Pieces Podcast

Welcome to the tenth podcast in our series ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’ in which Pushpa Arabindoo, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at UCL, explores the moral, social and pragmatic implications of lockdown. She looks, especially, to the specific case of the Koyambedu market complex in Chennai, dependent on crowds for its functioning but also thought to be the hotspot of a third of Covid infections in the regional state of Tamil Nadu. What happens, she asks, when we juxtapose the moral authority of the lockdown with the moral economy of the crowd?

• Cover image: Koyambedu, Chennai, during Lockdown by Sai Sudharsan. Courtesy of Live from Worktown
• Music by Smallhaus and the BBC Sound Archive.
• Speaker: Pushpa Arabindoo (UCL)
• Produced and edited by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar
• Communications by Patricia Mascarell Llombart
• Executive Producer: Tamar Garb

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Welcome to the seventh episode in our series ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. Here, Zoltán Boldizsár Simon takes up the word and the concept of ‘unprecedented’, repeated now to the point of almost meaninglessness. What, Simon asks, makes something qualify as unprecedented? How is the word use? What are its temporal dimensions? And how does it create a notion of the preevental and the postevental? What, he asks, is the future of the unprecedented and can we know it before it is already happened?

Simon is research fellow at Bielefeld University and assistant professor at Leiden University. He's the author of History in Times of Unprecedented Change: A Theory for the 21st Century and The Epochal Event: Transformations in the Entangled Human, Technological, and Natural Worlds.

Music by Arctic Sounds and the BBC Sound Archive. ​​​​​​​

Speaker: Zoltán Boldizsár Simon (Bielefeld and Leiden)

Produced and edited by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar

Communications by Patricia Mascarell Llombart

Executive Producer: Tamar Garb

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This is the third podcast in the IAS series on ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. Here we listen to Haim Yacobi, Professor of Development Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Michelle Pace, Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark discuss the potential impact of Covid 19 in Gaza. Their analysis forms part of a wider Welcome Trust funded research project on the interconnections of power, violence and health in contemporary conflict zones.

We hope you will find this piece informative.

• Music by Small Haus, Best of feelings and from the BBC Sound Archive. ​​​​​​​
• Produced and edited by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar
• Communications by Patricia Mascarell Llombart
• Executive Producer is Tamar Garb

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by Philippa Hetherington

Welcome to the Institute of Advanced Studies' podcast series on ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. In this second episode we hear from Philippa Hetherington, Lecturer in Modern Eurasian History in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. Philippa is a scholar of international legal history, biopolitics and feminist theory, particularly in the context of empire and under socialism.

Here she reflects on the virus in relation to historical debates on sexuality and the stigmatisation of sex workers. Historians are well placed to think about previous incarnations of disease and spread so that we work out what is and what isn't unprecedented.

We hope you enjoy this piece.

• Music is by Best of Feelings and BBC Sound Archive
• Image: The Silence = Death Project by ACT-UP, The AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power. Colour lithograph, 1987.
• Produced and edited by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar and Catherine Stokes
• Communications by Patricia Mascarell Llombart
• Executive Producer is Tamar garb

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Welcome to this podcast on ‘Implication’.

This new episode belongs to our series ‘Concepts for the New Normal’. The idea of these series is to bring together colleagues to explore a key concept of our times; offering a variety of perspectives from the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, on the ideas that are shaping our lives. Today’s concept is ‘implication’.

How might we be implicated in structural problems like racism, the decline of democracy, social discrimination, modern slavery, and sexual violence? What are the background conditions that allow structural violence and injustice to take place? When and how does implication become significant? And how can we transform our implicated positions into collective solidarity work?

By exploring the issue of implication in different contexts, the speakers in this podcast will address some of these questions. I am aware that there are many different forms and degrees of implication. This podcast does not aim to be comprehensive, but rather to open a conversation and invite all listeners to reflect on how they might be implicated in large-scale structures of violence and injustice.

• Speakers: Professor Michael Rothberg (UCLA), Dr Brian Klaas (UCL), Dr Jennifer Ferng (IAS / University of Sidney), Dr Maya Goodfellow (University of Sheffield) and Professor Alexis Shotwell (Carleton University).
• Music by Fuubutsishi, and Fingerspit.
• Artwork: Greet Van Autgaerden, Excursie #2 (2017) | 200 x 300 cm | oil on canvas
• Sound effects are by the BBC Sound Archive
• Producer and Host: Dr Stefano Bellin (IAS/ University of Warwick)
• Co-Producer: Albert Brenchat-Aguilar
• Co-Producer/Editor: Patricia Mascarell Llombart
• Executive Producer and Host: Professor Nicola Miller (IAS Director)

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