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In this critical Dispatch episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by Abdullah Shehadeh from al-Feda'i Media (formerly known as al-Falastineyeh) and Matteo Capasso (whom you will remember from our episode on the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) to discuss the assassinations by the Zionist entity of Ismail Haniyeh (political leader of Hamas) and Fuad Shukr (military commander of Hezbollah), as well as what we might expect from the Axis of Resistance going forward.  This is a very timely discussion, and one which we hope helps you analyze the situation as it continues to unfold. References made in the episode were to the documentary Defiance, Sarah Jilani's book Subjectivity and Decolonization in the Post-Independence Novel and Film, and the Middle East Critique video lecture series hosted by Matteo.  Click on the hyperlinks to check them out! al-Fida'i Media is an independent, viewer supported media network amplifying Palestinian voices for resistance, liberation, and return to a free Palestine.  Be sure to check out their work on their website alfidai.org, and follow them on social media, where their handle on Twitter and Instagram is @fidaimedia Matteo Capasso is the editor of the invaluable journal Middle East Critique (on twitter @MidEastCritique), and his work pertains to political economy and international relations.  He is a Marie Curie Fellow between the University of Venice and Columbia University.  In addition to picking up his book, you can follow him on twitter @capassomat. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

  Walaa Alqaisiya (@walqaisiya) is a Palestinian academic born and raised in Hebron in the West Bank. She is a Marie Curie Fellow based at the University of Venice, Italy. Walaa's work draws on anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, and feminist approaches to highlight the deeply gendered and ecocidal nature of Zionist settler colonialism and US-led imperialism. Madonna Thunder Hawk is a Lakota activist best known as a member and leader in the American Indian Movement (AIM), co-founding Women of All Red Nations (WARN) and the Black Hills Alliance,and as an organizer against the Dakota Access Pipeline. She established the Wasagiya Najin Grandmothers' Group on the Cheyenne River to help build kinship networks while also developing Simply Smiles Children Village. She also serves as the Director of Grassroots Organizing for the Red Road Institute. Thunderhawk has spoken around the world as a delegate to the United Nations and is currently the Lakota People's Law Project principal and Tribal liaison. She was an international Indian Treaty Council delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva and a delegate to the U.N. Decade of Women Conference in Mexico City.   Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Valentina Gentile è una ricercatrice (Tenure Track) della Luiss dove insegna Filosofia Politica e CSR & Sustainable Business. E' stata Guest Professor all'Università di Anversa (Belgio). In precedenza, è stata Post-doc alla Luiss Guido Carli, Visiting Researcher presso l'Università di Anversa (Belgio), Honorary Research Associate presso la School of Government dell'University College di Londra (Regno Unito) e Marie Curie Fellow presso l'Università di Utrecht (Paesi Bassi). I suoi principali interessi di ricerca: teoria politica normativa, teoria liberale, rapporto tra religione e politica, ideale di civiltà, CSR e Business Ethics.Siti, app, libri e link utiliSito Università Luiss Guido CarliCorsoCasi in Business Ethics and Sustainable Business Enciclopedia di Business EthicsReport di sostenibilità GlobalreportingReport di sostenibilità SustainalyticsI libri da scegliereLa formazione in corporate social responsability and sustainable businessLa CSR e il Business Sostenibile (SB) descrivono le relazioni tra le imprese, intese come maggiori attori economici, e la società in generale, alla luce dei principi generali di giustizia, uguaglianza, responsabilità e reciprocità. Il mio corso, in particolare, offre agli studenti gli strumenti analitici per cogliere, valutare le implicazioni e fornire soluzioni alle questioni etiche più pressanti che le imprese si trovano a dover affrontare. Questo percorso passa inevitabilmente attraverso lo studio delle principali teorie e dei paradigmi emergenti nell'etica d'impresa. Il corso introduce la relazione tra business ethics, CSR e teoria degli stakeholder, con un'enfasi sulla visione più olistica dell'idea di sostenibilità d'impresa. Uno spazio importante poi è dedicato alle pratiche e gli strumenti attuali di monitoraggio della sostenibilità e l'approccio fondato su ESG.

In this terrific episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on our comrade and friend Matteo Capasso to discuss his fantastic book Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, a work based on oral histories and "provides a unique and vivid look into the political dynamics that characterized the everyday lives of Libyans, offering a compelling counterargument to those who insist on framing the history of the country as a stateless, authoritarian, and rogue state".  Really great conversation and a really important book, we already have plans for Matteo to come back on in a coming miniseries set to drop this summer! Matteo Capasso is the editor of the invaluable journal Middle East Critique (on twitter @MidEastCritique), and his work pertains to political economy and international relations.  He is a Marie Curie Fellow between the University of Venice and Columbia University.  In addition to picking up his book, you can follow him on twitter @capassomat. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory 

Ultima uscita del 2023 su AffarInternazionali dei podcast sulla politica estera italiana. In questa quarta puntata, proponiamo un approfondimento sulle prospettive italiane nei confronti dell'Indo-pacifico attraverso l'analisi della strategia informale e delle azioni di policy messe in campo dai governi italiani negli ultimi anni. Il podcast è curato da Leo Goretti, responsabile del programma Politica estera dell'Italia dell'Istituto Affari Internazionali e direttore di The International Spectator, con il supporto di Filippo Simonelli, Junior Researcher del programma Politica estera dell'Italia, in dialogo con Gabriele Abbondanza, Marie Curie Fellow alla Università Complutense di Madrid, Associate Researcher all'Università di Sydney e Associate Fellow allo IAI.

We discussed a few things including:1. Their career journeys  2. How James founded AI for Good3. Lacey's unique path to social entrepreneurship4. TechAid Vision5. AI trends, opportunities + forecastsAs CEO of the AI for Good Foundation, James Hodson is responsible for building economic and community resilience through technology. Since 2015, the AI for Good Foundation has worked with national and municipal governments, the UN, OECD, and many others to design, develop, and deploy tech-enabled policies/solutions for social, economic, and institutional transformation.  AI for Good works extensively in Ukraine with more than 40 staff on the ground and strategic partnerships with Ukraine's Presidential Administration, Ministry for Digital Transformation, Ministry of Culture, and every regional government, providing sanctions recommendations, infrastructure resilience, deployed technology expertise, and real-time aid intermediation for regions covering more than 8M civilians.  Hodson completed doctoral studies in Artificial Intelligence as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, holds undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Philosophy from Princeton University, and previously founded and led the AI Research Group at Bloomberg in New York from 2012-2015. His academic work spans complex network analysis, natural language processing, labour economics, corporate finance, and accounting, as well as holding multiple AI patents and being an active angel investor in the "tech for good" space.----Lacey is the CEO and Co-Founder of TechAid, an application that enables a data-driven approach to humanitarian aid, reconstruction and local economic resilience.  Lacey believes dignified access to proper nutrition, medicine, hygiene and shelter are fundamental human rights for families everywhere, that should not be dictated by the arbitrary nature of one's birthplace or gender. She is passionate about the potential of combining existing technologies to facilitate the connection of food supply with demand, and turning the tide of the escalating global hunger crisis.  Previously, Lacey led Finance and Strategy as a Co-Founder at Proxi.co, a Techstars ‘21 interactive mapping software startup that she joined after 5 years at Amazon as a Principal Product Manager and Finance Manager leading multinational teams in Customer Loyalty, Operations, WW Prime and Hardlines. Her other work in the private sector includes Category Finance at Starbucks, leading Espresso & Brewed North America, as well as working her way up from a rotational Financial Analyst to Vice President/Relationship Manager during the first eight years of her career at Wells Fargo, where her lending experience spanned verticals including: SaaS, hospitality, gaming, restaurants, healthcare and commercial real estate.  #podcast #AFewThingsPodcast

Neil Koenig, former BBC Series Producer, now ideaXme board advisor and interviewer, in conversation with Dr Jan Goetz, Co-founder IQM at The St Gallen Symposium. Proponents of quantum computing claim that the technology has much to offer, saying that it promises to revolutionise many aspects of our lives such as scientific research, finance, healthcare and much more. So far, the field has been dominated by US-based giants like IBM, but now a new wave of start-ups is emerging in Europe. One of these is IQM Quantum Computers, based in Finland. At the recent Symposium at the University of St Gallen in Switzerland, I caught up with IQM's CEO, Dr. Jan Goetz. In this interview with me for ideaXme, Jan Goetz talks how he first became in quantum computing, the incredible benefits he believes that the field can offer, and how best to navigate the risks and challenges that lie ahead.  JAN GOETZ - BIOGRAPHY  Jan Goetz is a quantum physicist and co-founding CEO of IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), building next-generation quantum computers. He is on the Board of the European Innovation Council (EIC), the European Quantum Industry Consortium QuIC, a member of the German Federal Economic Senate (Bundeswirtschaftssenat), and a Digital Leader and Global Innovator at the WEF. In 2020, Capital magazine selected him as one of 40 under 40 in Germany, and he received the prestigious entrepreneurship award from the KAUTE Foundation. Mr. Goetz holds a PhD from TU Munich, where he did his doctorate on superconducting quantum circuits, and worked as a Marie-Curie Fellow in Helsinki at Aalto University, where he holds the title of docent. IMAGE CREDITS: Portrait of Jan Goetz: courtesy of IQM Quantum Computers. Jan Goetz: https://fi.linkedin.com/in/jan-goetz/en https://twitter.com/jangoetz6?lang=en https://twitter.com/meetIQM?ref_src=t... www.meetiqm.com Interview credits, Neil Koenig:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilkoenig/ https://twitter.com/neilkoenig?lang=en ideaXme links: ideaXme https://radioideaxme.com ideaXme founder: Andrea Macdonald https://uk.linkedin.com/in/andrea-mac... ideaXme is a global network - podcast on 12 platforms, 40 countries, mentor programme and creator series. Mission: To share knowledge of the future. Our passion: Rich Connectedness™!

This is the third episode in our special series in association with the Irish Society for Women in Economics (ISWE). I am joined by Kate Laffan to discuss the environment and wellbeing. Kate is an Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics. Prior to that, Kate was a Marie Curie Fellow at UCD. Kate has done much work on the environment and how it impacts our welfare and general wellbeing. This is a very interesting conversation that took place some time ago as we were emerging from lockdown, so hopefully none of the lockdown fatigue comes through! I hope you enjoy the discussion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do farmers struggle for land and democracy in Myanmar's hybrid political system? How might a feminist approach to this question look like and enable novel findings? In which ways can researchers make the most of ethnographic methods to understand ordinary people's survival strategies? And do experiences from rural Myanmar reflect the wider changing landscape of development in the Global South? In this episode, Dr. Hilary Faxon, a Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, joins Dr. Mai Van Tran, a postdoc at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, to discuss her upcoming book on grassroots struggles over land, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Myanmar. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-asia-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

How do farmers struggle for land and democracy in Myanmar's hybrid political system? How might a feminist approach to this question look like and enable novel findings? In which ways can researchers make the most of ethnographic methods to understand ordinary people's survival strategies? And do experiences from rural Myanmar reflect the wider changing landscape of development in the Global South? In this episode, Dr. Hilary Faxon, a Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, joins Dr. Mai Van Tran, a postdoc at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, to discuss her upcoming book on grassroots struggles over land, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Myanmar. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-asia-podcast Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/southeast-asian-studies

How do farmers struggle for land and democracy in Myanmar's hybrid political system? How might a feminist approach to this question look like and enable novel findings? In which ways can researchers make the most of ethnographic methods to understand ordinary people's survival strategies? And do experiences from rural Myanmar reflect the wider changing landscape of development in the Global South? In this episode, Dr. Hilary Faxon, a Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, joins Dr. Mai Van Tran, a postdoc at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, to discuss her upcoming book on grassroots struggles over land, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Myanmar. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-asia-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

How do farmers struggle for land and democracy in Myanmar's hybrid political system? How might a feminist approach to this question look like and enable novel findings? In which ways can researchers make the most of ethnographic methods to understand ordinary people's survival strategies? And do experiences from rural Myanmar reflect the wider changing landscape of development in the Global South? In this episode, Dr. Hilary Faxon, a Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, joins Dr. Mai Van Tran, a postdoc at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, to discuss her upcoming book on grassroots struggles over land, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Myanmar. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-asia-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/food

How do farmers struggle for land and democracy in Myanmar's hybrid political system? How might a feminist approach to this question look like and enable novel findings? In which ways can researchers make the most of ethnographic methods to understand ordinary people's survival strategies? And do experiences from rural Myanmar reflect the wider changing landscape of development in the Global South? In this episode, Dr. Hilary Faxon, a Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, joins Dr. Mai Van Tran, a postdoc at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, to discuss her upcoming book on grassroots struggles over land, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Myanmar. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-asia-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

How do farmers struggle for land and democracy in Myanmar's hybrid political system? How might a feminist approach to this question look like and enable novel findings? In which ways can researchers make the most of ethnographic methods to understand ordinary people's survival strategies? And do experiences from rural Myanmar reflect the wider changing landscape of development in the Global South? In this episode, Dr. Hilary Faxon, a Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen, joins Dr. Mai Van Tran, a postdoc at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, to discuss her upcoming book on grassroots struggles over land, based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Myanmar. The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration sharing expertise on Asia across the Nordic region, brought to you by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, along with our academic partners: the Centre for East Asian Studies at the University of Turku, and Asianettverket at the University of Oslo. We aim to produce timely, topical and well-edited discussions of new research and developments about Asia. About NIAS: www.nias.ku.dk Transcripts of the Nordic Asia Podcasts: http://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-asia-podcast

Gediminas Lesutis works at the intersection of global politics, human geography, and critical theory. In 2018, he completed a PhD in Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. This was followed by a 3.5-year research fellowship in Geography at the University of Cambridge and Darwin College, Cambridge, UK. He is currently a Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Geography, Urban Planning, and International Development Studies, at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. A note from Lev:I am a high school teacher of history and economics at a public high school in NYC, and began the podcast to help demystify economics for teachers.  The podcast is now within the top 2.5% of podcasts worldwide in terms of listeners (per Listen Notes) and individual episodes are frequently listed by The Syllabus (the-syllabus.com) as among the 10 best political economy podcasts of a particular week.  The podcast is reaching thousands of listeners each month.  The podcast seeks to provide a substantive alternative to mainstream economics media; to communicate information and ideas that contribute to equitable and peaceful solutions to political and economic issues; and to improve the teaching of high school and university political economy. I am looking to be able to raise money in order to improve the technical quality of the podcast and website and to further expand the audience through professionally designed social media outreach. I am also hoping to hire an editor. Best, LevDONATE TODAY

GettyImages Big infrastructure projects should be based on the needs of people and communities. Often, they are criticised for benefiting the wealthy only. These projects reflect specific agendas of political and economic elites who are able to advance their interests through the developments. They interplay with existing inequalities and almost inevitably have highly uneven effects. An example is Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway, a massive infrastructure project that connects the port city of Mombasa to the capital, Nairobi. So how can these projects be made beneficial to more people? Civil society groups are crucial to ensuring equity. They have the power to reach marginalised groups and can educate them about projects and about their rights. It is also important to make sure projects don't become a political tool. In today's episode of Pasha, Gediminas Lesutis, a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam, talks about making massive infrastructure projects work for communities. Read more: Kenya's mega-railway project leaves society more unequal than before Photo: “Children walk by the rails at an elevated section of the new Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya” By Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images Music “Happy African Village” by John Bartmann, found on FreeMusicArchive.org licensed under CC0 1. “African Moon” by John Bartmann, found on FreeMusicArchive.org licensed under CC0 1.

#neuromodulator #neurotech #bluebrainproject COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE & NEUROMODULATORS Dr. Srikanth Ramaswamy is a Computational Neuroscientist, Principal Investigator at Newcastle University a Marie Curie Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, and Senior Scientist in the Cells & Circuits Section of the Simulation Neuroscience Division. Dr. Ramaswamy leads the effort to model synaptic transmission and neuromodulation in the Blue Brain Project's flagship simulations of neocortical tissue, under the direction of Prof. Henry Markram, and in close collaboration with Dr. Eilif Muller, Prof. Idan Segev, and Prof. Javier DeFelipe. Dr. Ramaswamy joined the Blue Brain Project in 2006, as one of its first scientific team members and completed his PhD. under the supervision of Prof. Henry Markram in 2011. He then did a brief postdoc at the EPFL and the CHUV until his appointment as a Senior Scientist at the Blue Brain Project in 2014. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ramaswamysrikanth https://twitter.com/srikipedia Kindly Subscribe to CHANGE- I M POSSIBLE - youtube channel www.youtube.com/ctipodcast

This month we are joined by Gediminas Lesutis, a Marie Curie Fellow at University of Amsterdam. This rich and wide-ranging conversation starts with how Gedis got started in fieldwork driven research in Sub-Saharan Africa, and especially in Mozambique. We discussed land-grabbing, precarity, and the destructive, real-life impacts of dispossession in the epicenter of the extractive boom in contemporary Mozambique. Specifically, we got insights into the on the ground experience of being with people who are so intimately affected by the actions of extractive expansion. Recently, Gedis also joined EXALT to launch his newly published book, The Politics of Precarity: Spaces of Extractivism, Violence, and Suffering. If you would like to check out that great launch, it is available on the EXALT YouTube channel. If you would like to connect with Gedis and stay up to date on his research, please find him on Twitter @GediminasLe. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/exalt-initiative/message

#nanotech #nanovaccines #cancertherapy CANCER NAN0 MEDICINES, TARGETED DRUG DELIVERY, NANOTECH CANCER NANOVACCINES Dr. Nanasaheb Thorat, MSc, PhD, is currently working as Marie Curie Fellow, Standard European Incoming Fellow in the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health Dr. Thorat completed his graduation B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Physics) with first-class from the Shivaji University, Kolhapur, and Ph.D. in Physics (nanobiotechnology) with a gold medal from the D.Y.Patil University, Kolhapur investigating the magnetic nanosystem for cancer hyperthermia treatment. Dr. Thorat is the recipient of various prestigious international fellowships including Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship in the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship in Japan (2017), PBC-Outstanding Fellowship, Israel (2016) and also worked as Senior Research Fellow at Samsung Biomedical Research Institute, South Korea (2014-2015). He has published 3 books (Elsevier & IOP), ~50 peer-reviewed journal articles and 7 book chapters, submitted one European patent, and 2 innovations in the EU innovation radar project. He has been deeply engaged in collaborative work with many eminent scientists from Japan, USA, Germany, Korea, Ireland, India, Poland, Saudi Arabia, and Australia. His current research work involves designing new nanomedicine therapy and Raman imaging techniques for brain cancer of pediatric patients. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/dr-nanasaheb-thorat-8a958424 https://twitter.com/thoratnd Kindly Subscribe to CHANGE- I M POSSIBLE - youtube channel www.youtube.com/ctipodcast

An online book launch hosted by the Central Asia Program at George Washington University on February 11, 2022. This book joins the discussion on foreign aid triggered by the rise of multiplicity of emerging donors in international development and explores the transformation of Kazakhstan from a recipient country to a development aid provider. Drawing on fieldwork in Nur-Sultan and Almaty (Kazakhstan) between 2016 and 2019, this research evaluates the philosophy and core features of Kazakhstan's chosen development aid model and explains the factors that account for the construction of aid patterns of Kazakh donorship. Speakers Nafissa Insebayeva, Author Nafissa Insebayeva specializes in Kazakhstan's foreign policy, international development politics, foreign aid, and South-South cooperation. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba (Japan) as a MEXT scholar, and currently serves as a Researcher at the Nippon Foundation Central Asia-Japan Human Resource Development Project (NipCA). Nafissa has previously held the position of a Central Asia-Azerbaijan Fellow at the Central Asia Program (CAP). Her studies have been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Eurasian Studies and Europe-Asia Studies. Sofya du Boulay, Discussant Sofya du Boulay is a Marie Curie Fellow and PhD candidate in Political Science at Oxford Brookes University. Her main research interests are related to the study of authoritarian regimes, including their political stability and legitimation in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Her research has been published in Problems of Post-Communism and Theorizing Central Asian Politics: The State, Ideology and Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Syinat Sultanalieva, Discussant Dr. Syinat Sultanalieva is a researcher at Human Rights Watch, focusing on Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. She received her PhD from the Special Program in Japanese and Eurasian Studies at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of gender studies and critical postcolonial theories. Previously Syinat has worked extensively on LGBTI and women's rights in Central Asia, helping in the establishment of several initiatives in the region. Sebastien Peyrouse, Moderator Sebastien Peyrouse, PhD, is a Research Professor at the Central Asia Program in the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (George Washington University) and a Senior Fellow with the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China relations. His main areas of expertise are political systems in Central Asia, economic and social issues, Islam and religious minorities, and Central Asia's geopolitical positioning toward China, India and South Asia.

Dr. Deirdre Kilbane is Head of Division of the Emerging Network Laboratory (ENL) in Walton Institute at Waterford Institute of Technology, and an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Physics in University College Dublin. Deirdre received a BSc in Experimental Physics along with a PGD in Education from University College Dublin (UCD). She was awarded a PhD in Mathematical Physics from the National University of Ireland Maynooth for her thesis ‘Searches for signatures of quantum chaos'. From 2014-2016 she was a Marie Curie Fellow of ultrafast surface science in the Aeschlimann Laboratory, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. She joined the TSSG in 2018 and is coordinator and principal investigator of the EU Horizon2020 FETOpen project PRIME. The aim of this multidisciplinary project is to develop a living brain implant that can sense and suppress epilepsy seizures before they happen. The vision of ENL is to develop innovative technologies for 5G/6G wireless, and quantum communication networks. The team's background is in information communication science, and they have a wide range of expertise in beyond 5g wireless communications, Internet of Things (IoT), network security and knowledge defined networks. The main research interests of Dr. Deirdre Kilbane centre around developing implantable medical devices to enable personalised medicine via the internet of bio-nano-things with a particular focus on neurodegenerative disorders and epilepsy. She is also interested in quantum technologies for quantum communication, sensing and imaging. Her research combines nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, quantum physics and molecular communications to develop innovative technologies for Agriculture, Healthcare and ICT. Dr. Kilbane is a member of three SFI Research Centres, Future Neuro (for neurodegenerative disorders), CONNECT (for communication networks) and VistaMilk (for digitalizing dairy). Walton Institute is a cornerstone of ICT research and development activity in Ireland since 1996. Based Waterford Institute of Technology's West Campus at Carriganore, Walton Institute undertakes cutting edge research blending fundamental science with real world commercial applications. The aim of the Institute is to investigate futuristic next-generation technologies, to verify their capabilities and applicability for today's society, and to work in collaboration with industry to ensure their commercialisation. The Walton Institute encourages inter-disciplinary research with prominent national and international reputation and competitiveness firmly positioning Waterford as Ireland's Innovation Capital ™. Walton Institute is named after the renowned physicist and Nobel laureate, Dr Ernest Walton, who was born in Co Waterford and awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1951 for being the first to split the atom. Walton's specialist areas include:  Precision Agriculture  Future Health  Intelligent Transport Systems  Smart Energy  Cybersecurity and Privacy  The Brain Initiative

The Quantum AI Series features exclusive interviews of the global innovators shaping the future of quantum computing. In Episode 5 of Season 2, Maëva Ghonda, the founder and chair of the Quantum AI Institute, interviews Dr. Jan Goetz, CEO of IQM. IQM is focusing on a co-design approach where hardware and software are developed hand-in-hand. The resulting application-specific quantum computing stack can be seamlessly integrated into an HPC infrastructure, such that the quantum processor is utilized in an accelerator approach. Dr. Jan Goetz is a quantum physicist and the CEO of IQM. IQM is a company based in Finland that is building next-generation quantum computers. IQM has assembled an exceptional team of international quantum computing experts developing on-premise systems for high-performance computing (HPC) and special applications. IQM has raised more than EUR 71 million in funding, including the largest seed investment round in Finnish history. Jan did his doctorate on superconducting quantum circuits at the Technical University (TU) of Munich. He also worked as a Marie-Curie Fellow in Helsinki at Aalto University, where he holds the title of Lecturer. In 2020, Capital magazine selected him as one of 40 under 40 in Germany and he received the prestigious entrepreneurship award from the KAUTE Foundation. Jan is on the Board of the European Innovation Council (EIC), the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), and he is a member of the German Federal Economic Senate (Bundeswirtschaftssenat). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/quantumaiinstitute/message

William Hynes is a Senior Advisor to the Secretary General and the Head of the New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) Unit which provides a space to question traditional economic ideas and offer new economic narratives, new tools, methods and policy approaches.He previously worked as a Senior Economist at NAEC, Advisor in the Sherpa and Global Governance Unit, a policy analyst in the Development Co-operation Directorate and an Economic Affairs Officer at the World Trade Organisation.William is an Associate Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, has a doctorate from Oxford University and was a Marie Curie Fellow at the London School of Economics.https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-hynes-b794527/Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/selenab)

Kate Laffan, Marie Curie Fellow at University College Dublin, explains why we struggle to reach the goals we set for ourselves: the intention-behaviour gap. One of the ways this gap manifests is in our environmentally-conscious behaviour. We can work personally and collectively to better align our behaviours to our intentions, and make the world a little better off by doing so. This podcast delves deep into changes we can bring about on an individual and organizational level to benefit the environment, including topics such as: Key behaviours that we can change, such as meat consumption, air travel, and our housing Reducing intention-behaviour gaps on the organizational level, through strategies that include prosocial incentives, green defaults, and decision aids Creating change on an individual level through implementation intentions, monitoring, and reflection Using COVID-19 induced changes in work environments as opportunities for behavioural change

Episode 117: Daniela Vicherat-Mattar (PhD European University Institute) convenes the Culture, History and Society major. Prior to joining LUC she was Marie-Curie Fellow at the School of History in Edinburgh University. Her research focuses on cities, citizenship and, more recently, care. She's interested in exploring how dominant ideas about belonging translate in urban forms (like walls, public squares, markets, museums and third spaces) and through urban aesthetics (graffiti and street art). Studying the politics of belonging has led her to an interest in borders, particularly in relation to counter-hegemonic ideas and practices of citizenship and care. Her portfolio at LUC is to expand the inter- and cross- disciplinary aspects of the programme. In relation to this, she is drawn to thinking about the limits of disciplinary forms of knowledge and teaching in the search for a more socially and environmentally just university. Recently she has been awarded a Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) grant for an inter-faculty project titled The many faces of food markets during COVID-19: Stories of solidarity and change through and with food. https://lucthehague.academia.edu/dvicherat - Valeria Mazzucato The Value of Everything https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-value-of-everything - Karl Marx Thesis on Feuerbach https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm - David Graeber On Bullshit Jobs https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/ - Kae Tempest On Connection https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/25/on-connection-by-kae-tempest-review-persuasive-and-profound David's post: Keynes on productivity and leisure https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=992

As Donald Trump's presidency draws to a close, his opponents give thanks that he never developed a strategy or learned to use his powers and agencies efficiently. If he had, like Hungary's four-term prime minister Viktor Orbán, Trump could have created an "illiberal democracy" - a country with democratic trappings but with a charismatic, nationalist leader in charge of a hegemonic party, politicised institutions, and facing a divided and hobbled opposition. “For two decades after the fall of socialism, Hungary was heralded as a champion of liberal reforms”, says Gábor Scheiring. "The country turned from a laboratory of neoliberalism into a laboratory of illiberalism”. Orbán is a skilful politician, he argues, but his success is built on fundamental economic and political mistakes made by governments of the left in the early days of the transition. The prime minister and his party used this environment to launch a "pre-meditated, systematic and aggressive” campaign to court national rather than transnational capital and replace the socialists as the representatives of "left-behind" working class communities. This is a formidable coalition. Today I talked to Scheiring about his book The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary (Palgrave, 2020). Scheiring is a sociologist and economist, a former Green member of the Hungarian parliament from 2010-2014, and is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at Bocconi University in Milan.  *His own book recommendation is Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton (Princeton University Press, 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Donald Trump's presidency draws to a close, his opponents give thanks that he never developed a strategy or learned to use his powers and agencies efficiently. If he had, like Hungary's four-term prime minister Viktor Orbán, Trump could have created an "illiberal democracy" - a country with democratic trappings but with a charismatic, nationalist leader in charge of a hegemonic party, politicised institutions, and facing a divided and hobbled opposition. “For two decades after the fall of socialism, Hungary was heralded as a champion of liberal reforms”, says Gábor Scheiring. "The country turned from a laboratory of neoliberalism into a laboratory of illiberalism”. Orbán is a skilful politician, he argues, but his success is built on fundamental economic and political mistakes made by governments of the left in the early days of the transition. The prime minister and his party used this environment to launch a "pre-meditated, systematic and aggressive” campaign to court national rather than transnational capital and replace the socialists as the representatives of "left-behind" working class communities. This is a formidable coalition. Today I talked to Scheiring about his book The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary (Palgrave, 2020). Scheiring is a sociologist and economist, a former Green member of the Hungarian parliament from 2010-2014, and is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at Bocconi University in Milan.  *His own book recommendation is Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton (Princeton University Press, 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Donald Trump's presidency draws to a close, his opponents give thanks that he never developed a strategy or learned to use his powers and agencies efficiently. If he had, like Hungary's four-term prime minister Viktor Orbán, Trump could have created an "illiberal democracy" - a country with democratic trappings but with a charismatic, nationalist leader in charge of a hegemonic party, politicised institutions, and facing a divided and hobbled opposition. “For two decades after the fall of socialism, Hungary was heralded as a champion of liberal reforms”, says Gábor Scheiring. "The country turned from a laboratory of neoliberalism into a laboratory of illiberalism”. Orbán is a skilful politician, he argues, but his success is built on fundamental economic and political mistakes made by governments of the left in the early days of the transition. The prime minister and his party used this environment to launch a "pre-meditated, systematic and aggressive” campaign to court national rather than transnational capital and replace the socialists as the representatives of "left-behind" working class communities. This is a formidable coalition. Today I talked to Scheiring about his book The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary (Palgrave, 2020). Scheiring is a sociologist and economist, a former Green member of the Hungarian parliament from 2010-2014, and is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at Bocconi University in Milan.  *His own book recommendation is Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton (Princeton University Press, 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Donald Trump's presidency draws to a close, his opponents give thanks that he never developed a strategy or learned to use his powers and agencies efficiently. If he had, like Hungary's four-term prime minister Viktor Orbán, Trump could have created an "illiberal democracy" - a country with democratic trappings but with a charismatic, nationalist leader in charge of a hegemonic party, politicised institutions, and facing a divided and hobbled opposition. “For two decades after the fall of socialism, Hungary was heralded as a champion of liberal reforms”, says Gábor Scheiring. "The country turned from a laboratory of neoliberalism into a laboratory of illiberalism”. Orbán is a skilful politician, he argues, but his success is built on fundamental economic and political mistakes made by governments of the left in the early days of the transition. The prime minister and his party used this environment to launch a "pre-meditated, systematic and aggressive” campaign to court national rather than transnational capital and replace the socialists as the representatives of "left-behind" working class communities. This is a formidable coalition. Today I talked to Scheiring about his book The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary (Palgrave, 2020). Scheiring is a sociologist and economist, a former Green member of the Hungarian parliament from 2010-2014, and is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at Bocconi University in Milan.  *His own book recommendation is Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton (Princeton University Press, 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Donald Trump's presidency draws to a close, his opponents give thanks that he never developed a strategy or learned to use his powers and agencies efficiently. If he had, like Hungary's four-term prime minister Viktor Orbán, Trump could have created an "illiberal democracy" - a country with democratic trappings but with a charismatic, nationalist leader in charge of a hegemonic party, politicised institutions, and facing a divided and hobbled opposition. “For two decades after the fall of socialism, Hungary was heralded as a champion of liberal reforms”, says Gábor Scheiring. "The country turned from a laboratory of neoliberalism into a laboratory of illiberalism”. Orbán is a skilful politician, he argues, but his success is built on fundamental economic and political mistakes made by governments of the left in the early days of the transition. The prime minister and his party used this environment to launch a "pre-meditated, systematic and aggressive” campaign to court national rather than transnational capital and replace the socialists as the representatives of "left-behind" working class communities. This is a formidable coalition. Today I talked to Scheiring about his book The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary (Palgrave, 2020). Scheiring is a sociologist and economist, a former Green member of the Hungarian parliament from 2010-2014, and is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at Bocconi University in Milan.  *His own book recommendation is Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton (Princeton University Press, 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Dr. Giuseppe Orlando joins Monica Westley to discuss his interest in type 1 diabetes and strategies for pancreas transplantation. Dr. Orlando is a kidney and pancreas transplant surgeon at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Dr. Orlando- "The problem of using the whole pancreas as a scaffold actually entails the same problems that full organ bioengineering puts us in front of. Which is that we can't replicate the vasculature of an organ. Research is shifting towards to a different approach, you still decellularize the whole organ but then you chop the organ and convert the extracellular matrix into a hydrogel."

Dr. Ayse Turak is Associate Professor and Associate Undergraduate Chair of the Department of Engineering Physics at McMaster University. Ayse develops and studies plastic-based electronic materials, such as solar cells and light-emitting diodes. Her goal is to create affordable, sustainable, and ubiquitous plastic materials to provide power and light for people around the world. In her free time, Ayse loves to travel, visit new places, see new things, explore new cultures, and seek adventure. She also enjoys theatre, writing, and volunteering with various social justice organizations. Ayse received her B.Sc. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Queens's University and her PhD from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto, where she was a Canada Graduate Scholar. Afterwards, Ayse conducted research as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research and subsequently worked as a visiting professor at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey before joining the faculty at McMaster University. Ayse has received numerous awards and honors throughout her career, including the Early Researcher Award, the Petro-Canada Young Innovators Award, and a Leadership in Teaching and Learning Fellowship from McMaster University. In addition, she was recently nominated as a Full member at Sigma Xi, and she is the co-chair of the Canadian Chapter of the Society of Information Display. In our interview, Ayse shares more about her life and research.

Marie Curie Fellow and Associate Professor, Dr Sorcha MacLeod critically assesses the role of private military and security companies during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the serious human rights challenges posed by their use.

Brasileira é a única representante das Américas agraciada com o prêmio Marie Curie Fellow. Capes oferece 66 mil novas vagas para formação de professores. Informações: capes.gov.br/educacao-basica

"Gli interventi di rigenerazione, sono molto contestuali, dipendono dal luogo, dal genius loci."Elena Ostanel, è Marie Curie Fellow, coordinatrice del Master U-RISE, Rigenerazione Urbana e Innovazione Sociale (Iuav). Quindi ricercatrice, ma anche praticante di rigenerazione urbana, in ambito italiano ed internazionale: "un ibrido tra ricerca ed azione".Autrice del libro "Spazi fuori dal Comune", che ha un sottotitolo che racconta il filo rosso della nostra conversazione : rigenerare, includere, innovare. E una particolare attenzione al ruolo giocato dal Pubblico, fondamentale in questi processi.La conversazione con Elena è nell'ambito della partnership Innovazione2020 - Lama Luogo Comune (http://luogocomune.agenzialama.eu/)

Pandemic emergency responses often lead to limitations of fundamental human rights in favour of the safety of public health. How do we justify lawful limitations on human rights?  QUB Researcher and Marie Curie Fellow, Dr Dabrowska,  joins LawPod to discuss her research on the judicial approaches to emergency preparedness and what this means for the future. Within the episode, the team considers the case of Kaci Hickox and the court's decision, a recent widely publicised Ebola case when quarantine procedures were legally questioned. For information on Dr Dabrowska's current research and her contact information: THEMIS ‘Protecting Human Rights and Public Health in Global Pandemics: A Map of the Standards Applied by EU and US Courts' This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 746014 ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3581-3226 http://law.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLaw/Research/projects/themis-project/ https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/patrycja-dabrowskaklosinska(c4fc82e3-3c8c-4216-8909-3b3c83b40cf0).html For more information on the subject and episode citations: Annas, G. J. and Mariner, W. K. (2016) ‘(Public) Health and Human Rights in Practice', Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law, 41(1), pp. 129–139. doi: 10.1215/03616878-3445659. Hickox, K. (2015) ‘Caught between Civil Liberties and Public Safety Fears: Personal Reflections from a Healthcare Provider Treating Ebola [article]', Journal of Health & Biomedical Law, (Issue 1), p. 9. You can follow the contributors to this week's episode on Twitter: @qublawpod

00:00:39 A decade ago, the Great Southern Reef stretched for 8,000km off the coast of Western Australia. Now, a long-term study shows how decades of ocean warming combined with a marine heatwave has devastated the kelp forest. We caught up with Dr Scott Bennett from the Spanish National Research Council, one of the primary investigators on the study. 00:20:04 A new study has found that capuchin monkeys in Brazil have been using stones as tools to prepare their cashew feasts for more than 700 years. 00:24:49 Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have made a major discovery that could determine whether a patient has a bacterial infection or a viral infection by through a simple blood test. 00:31:26 The European Space Agency has announced an ambitious plan to catch a derelict satellite in a net, and burn it up in Earth's atmosphere.   Dr. Scott Bennett is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), and Research Associate in Marine Ecology at Curtin University.   This episode contains traces of Paul Barry on Media Watch investigating The Australian's Great Barrier Reef coverage.  

Dr. Chiara Mingarelli (@gravitate_to_me), a Marie Curie Fellow in gravitational wave astrophysics at Caltech, joins the proceedings to talk about low-frequency gravitational waves, pulsar timings arrays and black hole binary systems with masses that are billions of times that of the Sun. This episode was recorded before LIGO's recent announcements confirming the detection of gravitational waves.

Dr. Chiara Mingarelli, Marie Curie Fellow in Theoretical Astrophysics at Caltech, gives Cara a primer on gravitational waves. She talks about using pulsar timing arrays to detect and analyze gravitational waves, and she throws in some black hole physics for good measure! Follow Chiara: @gravitate_to_me.

Dr. Chiara Mingarelli, Marie Curie Fellow in Theoretical Astrophysics at Caltech, gives Cara a primer on gravitational waves. She talks about using pulsar timing arrays to detect and analyze gravitational waves, and she throws in some black hole physics for good measure! Follow Chiara: @gravitate_to_me.

Dr. Chris Rowan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology at Kent State University. He received his Masters Degree in Earth Science from the University of Cambridge and his PhD in Geology from the National Oceanography Centre of the University of Southampton. Afterward, Chris worked as a Research Technician at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton. He then served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Johannesburg, a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago before joining the faculty at Kent State. Chris is here with us today to tell us all about his journey through life and science.

A look at the different experiences of service leave during the First World War (in French). Dr Emmanuelle Cronier, Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham, examines this key war-time experience and the vital role it played in social cohesion during the conflict.

A look at the different experiences of service leave during the First World War (in French). Dr Emmanuelle Cronier, Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham, examines this key war-time experience and the vital role it played in social cohesion during the conflict.

A look at the different experiences of service leave during the First World War. Dr Emmanuelle Cronier, a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham, examines the experiences of service leave during the First World War and the vital role it played in social cohesion during the conflict.

A look at the different experiences of service leave during the First World War. Dr Emmanuelle Cronier, a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham, examines the experiences of service leave during the First World War and the vital role it played in social cohesion during the conflict.

A look at the different experiences of service leave during the First World War (in French). Dr Emmanuelle Cronier, Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham, examines this key war-time experience and the vital role it played in social cohesion during the conflict.

A look at the different experiences of service leave during the First World War (in French). Dr Emmanuelle Cronier, Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham, examines this key war-time experience and the vital role it played in social cohesion during the conflict.

A look at the different experiences of service leave during the First World War. Dr Emmanuelle Cronier, a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham, examines the experiences of service leave during the First World War and the vital role it played in social cohesion during the conflict.

A look at the different experiences of service leave during the First World War. Dr Emmanuelle Cronier, a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham, examines the experiences of service leave during the First World War and the vital role it played in social cohesion during the conflict.

Myths and Mistakes. How a well known photograph and an infamous lunch break have shaped our memory of the Sarajevo assassination. Dr Paul Miller is a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Associate Professor of History at McDaniel College (US). In this short talk, he contests the tension between history and memory, and explores how what we think we see shapes what we think about the past. He uses the notorious photograph of the arrest of Gavrilo Princip, the incident that is viewed as triggering the outbreak of World War One, as a starting point for this discussion.

Myths and Mistakes. How a well known photograph and an infamous lunch break have shaped our memory of the Sarajevo assassination. Dr Paul Miller is a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Associate Professor of History at McDaniel College (US). In this short talk, he contests the tension between history and memory, and explores how what we think we see shapes what we think about the past. He uses the notorious photograph of the arrest of Gavrilo Princip, the incident that is viewed as triggering the outbreak of World War One, as a starting point for this discussion.

Abstract: This lecture explores the steel, brick and ferro-concrete Cambridge built in the late 50s and 60s: the almost invisible ‘Other Cambridge’, that today is not part of the identity of the city. Cambridge as a city, indeed as a University, is commonly linked to a more reassuring model in the English tradition, compressed between the noble stereotype of King’s chapel and the view from The Backs. Arcadian visions that communicate calm in the name of the arts and scholarly pursuits. But what of innovation? The aim of this talk is to stimulate a debate regarding a controversial period of architecture that is undergoing a suppression of memory and to open up to the wider public the ‘other side’ of Cambridge, often unknown and misjudged. Apart from Stirling’s Faculty of History there are many interesting buildings unknown to the general public as well as to the international scholarly community. The cues for this task are contained in the splendid images preserved in the RIBA British Architectural Library Photographs Collection that will be analysed during this seminar, which complements the exhibition Cambridge in Concrete. Biography: Marco Iuliano is a Senior Research Associate of DIGIS (Digital Studio for Research in Design, Visualisation and Communication) and a Marie Curie Fellow in the Department of Architecture at Cambridge. His research focuses on the intersections between architecture and the visual arts. He is the recipient of several grants and awards, including the Italian CNR Fellowship (2005), the J.B. Harley Fellowship (British Library, 2008) and the Paul Mellon Centre Grant for Studies in British Art (2012). His many publications include a contribution to the History of Cartography (University of Chicago Press) and he is UK correspondent for Il Giornale dell'Architettura. Dr Iuliano has co-authored three books: the most recent, Melchior Lorck, was selected as 2010 Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement. He has taught Contemporary Architectural History since 2005 and is curator of the 2012 exhibition Cambridge in Concrete.

ABSTRACT: This presentation will critically explore Israel’s past involvement (1956-1973) in Africa, with a special focus on the involvement of three architects in planning and design of public buildings, housing projects as well as master-plans in Africa. Through this discussion, the contradiction in the Israeli imagination of Africa will be exposed; unlike former colonial powers, Israel sees itself both aligned with Africa on ideological terms (i.e. a young de-colonised and developing nation), but at the same time in full contrast to Africa (i.e. Israel as a modern, Western society). BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Haim, Yacobi is a senior lecturer at the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University and a Marie-Curie Fellow at Cambridge University. As an architect and planner who specialized in geography, his academic work focuses on the urban as a political, social and cultural entity. The main issues that stand in the centre of his research interests in relation to the urban space are social justice, the politics of identity, migration, globalisation and planning. His book, The Jewish-Arab City: Spatio-Politics in a Mixed Community was published recently (Routledge, London). In 1999 he formulated the idea of establishing “Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights” (NGO) and was its co-founder.