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Send us a textIn this episode of Causes or Cures, Dr. Eeks sits down with international infectious disease expert Dr. Eskild Petersen to discuss the current bird flu outbreak. Dr. Petersen provides an overview of the history of influenza and the origins of avian influenza (bird flu), shedding light on the ongoing outbreak in animals and its unexpected detection in cows. He explores the science behind the receptors bird flu binds to, explains the differences in these receptors between humans and animals, and highlights how they play a crucial role in determining the severity of infections and the potential for human-to-human transmission. (As of now, there is no evidence of human-to-human transmission.) Finally, he outlines actionable steps for prevention, early treatment strategies, and shares his perspective on the current level of concern. Dr. Petersen is a Professor Emeritus of infectious diseases, Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Science, Aarhus University, Denmark, and is a member of the PandemiX Center of Excellence at Roskilde University, Denmark. He served as chair of the European Society of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Emerging Infections Task Force, Basel, Switzerland and is internationally renowned for his contributions to global health, travel medicine and emerging infections. He worked at the Danish national public health institute, Statens Serum Institut, from 1989 to 2003 after which he returned to clinical work in hospitals and treating patients with infectious disease. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases from 2012 to 2022 and is now Editor-in-Chief of IJID Regions. Professor Petersen has authored several textbooks, including “Infectious Disease: a Geographic Guide” now published by Routlege in its 3rd edition.You can contact Dr. Eeks at bloomingwellness.com.Follow Eeks on Instagram here.Or Facebook here.Or X.On Youtube.Or TikTok.SUBSCRIBE to her monthly newsletter here.Support the show

FreshEd is on holidays. We'll be back with new episodes in February. In the meantime, we are replaying some of our favourite episodes from our archive, which now totals over 380 episodes. The best way for you to explore our archive is on our website, freshedpodcast.com. You'll find hand-picked playlists, transcripts, and even accompanying educational resources. And while you're there, please consider becoming a member of FreshEd for as little as $10/month. Members receive exclusive benefits. -- Today Steve Carney joins me to talk about his new co-written book with Ulla Ambrosius Madsen entitled “Education in Radical Uncertainty: Transgression in Theory and Method.” The book offers a major critique of the field of comparative education and asks us to dwell in experience rather than make value judgements. This is a powerful book in both form and content and demands to be read by anyone working in the field of comparative and international education. Steve Carney is a Professor of Educational Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. freshedpodcast.com/carney/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/suport

Today's guest, Tina Øllgaard Bentzen, a researcher at Roskilde University in Denmark, explores the nuanced relationship between trust and control. Specializing in trust-based management, Tina challenges the assumption that control erodes trust. Instead, she explains how thoughtfully designed control systems can coexist with trust, fostering innovation, collaboration, and accountability. Drawing on Scandinavian public organizations, Tina highlights how trust-based management shifts the focus from rigid oversight to empowering employees through autonomy and intrinsic motivation. Tina describes trust as a "magic concept"—a powerful yet abstract idea driving organizational change. By using trust as a framework to critically evaluate and reshape control systems, organizations across Denmark and Scandinavia have developed approaches that enhance trust rather than erode it. For instance, Danish municipalities have replaced rigid purchaser-provider models with collaborative frameworks that engage employees and improve outcomes. A central theme of the conversation is whether granting more autonomy weakens control or strengthens trust. Tina argues that autonomy, when paired with accountability and co-created control systems, can reinforce trust. However, she acknowledges the challenges, particularly for employees unaccustomed to navigating greater freedom. Leaders must actively address trust breaches and provide support to create an environment where trust and control complement one another. Looking to the future, Tina discusses how global challenges like fiscal pressures and workforce retention are shaping trust-based reforms. She highlights examples from the COVID-19 crisis, where granting trust during uncertainty spurred innovative solutions, such as Denmark's outdoor teaching and online schooling.

When Bashar al Assad's government fell just a couple of days ago, after a two week whirlwind campaign by opposition forces which surprised the entire world, it signalled the end of more than 54 years of rule by the Assad family and it's the so called Ba'th-party. While it has been no secret that Syria under Assad was a repressive and violent state, the images and stories of the prisoners released after decades in it's notorious Sednaya prison as have raised awareness global to the plight of the Syrian people. But what was this peculiar beast we called the Assad-regime? How did the Assad family come to power, and manage stay in power for so long? And what does it's sudden collapse signal, for Syrians suddenly freed from its yoke, as well as for the future of the Middle East in general? With us today to answer these questions is Sune Haugbølle, professor of Global Political Sociology at Roskilde University, and author of numerous books and articles on The Middle East and Syria. He has spent years living and traveling in the country and studied it's regime, writing amongst other things on its infamous prison system and secret services. If you enjoy Kalam Podcast and want to support the show, there is an excellent way to do so - by signing up to our Patreon. For just $3/month you'll gain access to full length interviews with all our guests and lots of bonus material - including our series Kalam Shorts: 10-15 explainers of concepts like Zionism and Orientalism. Join at patreon.com/kalampodcastFor continuous updates on the podcast and content about Palestine and the Middle East, follow us on Instagram @kalampodcast Please subscribe to Kalam Podcast in whatever podcast application you're listening to right now - and give us a rating. It helps other people find out about us.

Rebekka Klubien graduated from Roskilde University in 2021 and started working at the public broadcast tv station TV2 in 2022. Currently, she holds the position as a TV producer in the investigative journalism department. In 2023, Rebekka went undercover as a groom to see firsthand the daily operations at the Danish base of Helgstrand Dressage, which also has locations in Germany and Florida. Inside the barn, Rebekka found horses with welts from whips, mouth sores that were not given time to heal, and spur marks that were disguised with shoe polish when customers visited. She also filmed Helgstrand riders riding aggressively in training sessions with tight draw reins and the use of rollkur. Later that year, the documentary “The Secrets of the Horse Billionaire” aired on Danish national televisions station TV2, resulting in the indefinite suspension of owner Andreas Helgstrand from the Danish National Dressage Team. These stories are becoming all too common, and is a very important topic of discussion within the industry. On this episode, we chat with Rebekka about her experience, the welfare issues within the industry, the future of the sport, and her advice on speaking up. Connect with Rebekka: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebekkaklubien/ TV2 Article: https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2023-11-20-operation-x-afsloerer-voldsom-behandling-af-heste-hos-milliardaer “The Secrets of the Horse Billionaire” Documentary: https://play.tv2.dk/serie/operation-x-tv2/hestemilliardaerens-hemmeligheder-del-1-32b5280a-8f89-4052-b653-6eb52b230f1d

This event, as part of the LSE Middle East Centre's Kurdish Studies Series, was the launch of Mustafa Kemal Topal's latest book 'Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement: Transforming Gender Politics and the PKK' published by I.B. Tauris. This book examines how the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has become a platform for shifts in gender politics through its women fighters. Based on fieldwork undertaken in Iraq, Syria and Europe - including in-depth interviews and participant observation within women's camps - the book examines Kurdish women fighters' motivations to join the PKK, as well as their personal life stories and views on gender, patriarchy, and ethnic minority experiences. This is the largest ethnographic study on the PKK to date and the book argues that in addition to seeking their nation's struggle for survival and a democratic society, Kurdish women fighters are driven by the prospect of improving conditions for themselves and for women across the entire region. Meet the speaker Mustafa Kemal Topal is Assistant Professor at the Roskilde University in Denmark, where he also received his PhD. He is a fellow at the Bergen University in Norway, having been awarded the Independent Research Fund Denmark International's Postdoctoral Grant for his new project ‘Kurdish Women's Democratic Experiment in Post-Conflict Northern Syria'. This event was moderated by Robert Lowe. Robert Lowe is Deputy Director of the LSE Middle East Center and Co-Editor of the LSE Middle East Centre's Kurdish Studies Series published by I.B. Tauris. His main research interest is Kurdish politics, with particular focus on the Kurdish movements in Syria.

By Jared Samuelson Dr. Peter Bogason joins the program to discuss the evolutions of NATO’s force posture and command-and-control arrangements in the Baltic Approaches. Peter is Professor Emeritus at Roskilde University and Royal Danish Defence College, Denmark. Download Sea Control 519 – NATO and the Baltic Approaches with Dr. Peter Bogason Links 1.  “NATO and … Continue reading Sea Control 519 – NATO and the Baltic Approaches with Dr. Peter Bogason →

Today I'm talking to Cecilie Monrad, Art Health Manager at Frederiksberg Museums in Copenhagen. We're talking about See Listen Talk, a unique slow looking programme that helps young psychiatric service users in their recovery.See Listen Talk is a 15-week long programme with weekly meetings taking place outside of the museum's visiting hours. Participants were young psychiatric users aged 18 to 29. Some were still hospitalised during the course but were able to attend the museum sessions. The project had a co-therapist attached, who was both the participants' contact person and motivator.Listen to today's episode to hear:insights into the programme's framework and philosophy, discussing why slow looking was chosen as an approach and how it works in practice. what a typical session might involve and the methods and approaches that are used. how the programme creates connections within the group and how they create a ‘safe space and brave space' for the participants through a broad trauma-sensitive framework. about the feedback the project has received so far and the positive impacts that the programme has had on the participants both inside and outside of the museum. the potential application and expansion of See, Listen, Talk, and the recent recognition of Cecilie's work in the intersection of health and culture, including a recent visit to the Parliament for an open hearing. This research by Kasper Levin at Roskilde University is ongoing and results are anticipated in March 2024. Links:https://frederiksbergmuseerne.dk/en/https://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilie-monrad-b43729269/https://journals.uio.no/museolog/article/view/6662 - in Danish [The museum as a catalyst for loneliness prevention in the elderly]Upcoming article (in Danish) in https://www.magasinetmuseum.dk/ ”Museer som trivselsrum: Slow Looking og Visible Thinking / ”Museums as spaces for wellbeing: Slow Looking and Visible ThinkingEpisode 24 Using art and objects to learn wellbeing skills and improve mental health with Louise ThompsonSuggest a guest or ask a question for the show - get in touch hereDownload my free Slow Art GuideDownload the Ultimate Thinking Routine ListSupport the ShowJoin the Slow Looking Club Community on FacebookFree guide - how to look at art (slowly)Curated newsletter by Claire Bown

Plastics pollution is a very visible, global environmental and health challenge, and last year the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) launched a process to draft a global treaty aimed at solving the problem. Earlier this week, delegations from all over the world met in Nairobi to work on the first full draft of a treaty that could set binding rules that would affect the production, use and disposal of plastics. To get a readout of what happened there, and what might happen next, we hear from Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership, a multistakeholder group looking at solutions to the plastics issue, under the auspices of the World Economic Forum. Guests and links: Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Bethanie Carney-Almroth, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Kristian Syberg, Roskilde University and Eline Leising, Regional Program Manager, , Global Public Affairs Lead - Packaging & Sustainability Nestlé João Ribeiro-Bidaoui, Global Affairs Special Envoy, Le Ngọc Tuan, delegate to INC-3 from Ministry of Environment of Viet Nam Podcast links: Related episodes: Check out all our podcasts on : - - - - Join the Join the

Plastics pollution is a very visible, global environmental and health challenge, and last year the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) launched a process to draft a global treaty aimed at solving the problem. Earlier this week, delegations from all over the world met in Nairobi to work on the first full draft of a treaty that could set binding rules that would affect the production, use and disposal of plastics. To get a readout of what happened there, and what might happen next, we hear from Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership, a multistakeholder group looking at solutions to the plastics issue, under the auspices of the World Economic Forum. Guests and links: Kwame Asamoa Mensa-Yawson, head of the Ghana National Plastic Action Partnership Bethanie Carney-Almroth, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty Kristian Syberg, Roskilde University and Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty Eline Leising, Regional Program Manager, Enviu Jodie Roussell, Global Public Affairs Lead - Packaging & Sustainability Nestlé João Ribeiro-Bidaoui, Global Affairs Special Envoy, The Ocean Cleanup Le Ngọc Tuan, delegate to INC-3 from Ministry of Environment of Viet Nam Podcast links: Related episodes: A Paris Agreement for plastics Check out all our podcasts on wef.ch/podcasts: Radio Davos - subscribe Meet the Leader - subscribe World Economic Forum Book Club Podcast - subscribe Agenda Dialogues - subscribe Join the World Economic Forum Podcast Club Join the World Economic Forum Book Club

Invité: Felix Bühlmann. Les dirigeants mondiaux sortent tous du même moule. La plupart passent par les mêmes vingt multinationales - dont deux banques suisses - qui leur servent de tremplin pour leur carrière au sein de lʹélite économique mondiale. Cʹest ce qui ressort dʹune une étude menée par une équipe de lʹUniversité de Lausanne, de la Copenhagen Business School et de la Roskilde University au Danemark. Tribu reçoit Felix Bühlmann, professeur de sociologie à lʹUniversité de Lausanne et coauteur de lʹétude.

In Delhi, former street children guide visiting tourists around the streets that they used to inhabit and show how the NGO they work for tries to resocialise the current street children. What social, cultural and economic structures are in the backdrop of slum tourism in Delhi? Why are emotions and personal stories important to understand in slum tours? In this episode, Dosol Nissi Lee is joined by Dr. Tore Holst to discuss slum tourism and affective economies in Delhi, focusing particularly on the emotional labour of the former street children and the ethical position of tourists. Dr. Tore Holst is a Lecturer at the Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen and the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. His intellectual works; including his latest article “The Emotional Labor of Former Street Children Working as Tour Guides in Delhi” in 2019, provide insightful discussions of post-humanitarianism, tourism and human migration. Dosol Nissi Lee is a Master's Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and a Master's Student at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She researches human security and human mobility by testing out her theoretically vigorous and methodologically innovative ideas on research topics such as refugee sur place, intercountry adoption and floating city. 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: https://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-... 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

In Delhi, former street children guide visiting tourists around the streets that they used to inhabit and show how the NGO they work for tries to resocialise the current street children. What social, cultural and economic structures are in the backdrop of slum tourism in Delhi? Why are emotions and personal stories important to understand in slum tours? In this episode, Dosol Nissi Lee is joined by Dr. Tore Holst to discuss slum tourism and affective economies in Delhi, focusing particularly on the emotional labour of the former street children and the ethical position of tourists. Dr. Tore Holst is a Lecturer at the Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen and the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. His intellectual works; including his latest article “The Emotional Labor of Former Street Children Working as Tour Guides in Delhi” in 2019, provide insightful discussions of post-humanitarianism, tourism and human migration. Dosol Nissi Lee is a Master's Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and a Master's Student at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She researches human security and human mobility by testing out her theoretically vigorous and methodologically innovative ideas on research topics such as refugee sur place, intercountry adoption and floating city. 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: https://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

In Delhi, former street children guide visiting tourists around the streets that they used to inhabit and show how the NGO they work for tries to resocialise the current street children. What social, cultural and economic structures are in the backdrop of slum tourism in Delhi? Why are emotions and personal stories important to understand in slum tours? In this episode, Dosol Nissi Lee is joined by Dr. Tore Holst to discuss slum tourism and affective economies in Delhi, focusing particularly on the emotional labour of the former street children and the ethical position of tourists. Dr. Tore Holst is a Lecturer at the Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen and the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. His intellectual works; including his latest article “The Emotional Labor of Former Street Children Working as Tour Guides in Delhi” in 2019, provide insightful discussions of post-humanitarianism, tourism and human migration. Dosol Nissi Lee is a Master's Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and a Master's Student at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She researches human security and human mobility by testing out her theoretically vigorous and methodologically innovative ideas on research topics such as refugee sur place, intercountry adoption and floating city. 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: https://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

In Delhi, former street children guide visiting tourists around the streets that they used to inhabit and show how the NGO they work for tries to resocialise the current street children. What social, cultural and economic structures are in the backdrop of slum tourism in Delhi? Why are emotions and personal stories important to understand in slum tours? In this episode, Dosol Nissi Lee is joined by Dr. Tore Holst to discuss slum tourism and affective economies in Delhi, focusing particularly on the emotional labour of the former street children and the ethical position of tourists. Dr. Tore Holst is a Lecturer at the Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen and the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. His intellectual works; including his latest article “The Emotional Labor of Former Street Children Working as Tour Guides in Delhi” in 2019, provide insightful discussions of post-humanitarianism, tourism and human migration. Dosol Nissi Lee is a Master's Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and a Master's Student at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She researches human security and human mobility by testing out her theoretically vigorous and methodologically innovative ideas on research topics such as refugee sur place, intercountry adoption and floating city. 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: https://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

In Delhi, former street children guide visiting tourists around the streets that they used to inhabit and show how the NGO they work for tries to resocialise the current street children. What social, cultural and economic structures are in the backdrop of slum tourism in Delhi? Why are emotions and personal stories important to understand in slum tours? In this episode, Dosol Nissi Lee is joined by Dr. Tore Holst to discuss slum tourism and affective economies in Delhi, focusing particularly on the emotional labour of the former street children and the ethical position of tourists. Dr. Tore Holst is a Lecturer at the Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen and the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. His intellectual works; including his latest article “The Emotional Labor of Former Street Children Working as Tour Guides in Delhi” in 2019, provide insightful discussions of post-humanitarianism, tourism and human migration. Dosol Nissi Lee is a Master's Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and a Master's Student at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She researches human security and human mobility by testing out her theoretically vigorous and methodologically innovative ideas on research topics such as refugee sur place, intercountry adoption and floating city. 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: https://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-...

In Delhi, former street children guide visiting tourists around the streets that they used to inhabit and show how the NGO they work for tries to resocialise the current street children. What social, cultural and economic structures are in the backdrop of slum tourism in Delhi? Why are emotions and personal stories important to understand in slum tours? In this episode, Dosol Nissi Lee is joined by Dr. Tore Holst to discuss slum tourism and affective economies in Delhi, focusing particularly on the emotional labour of the former street children and the ethical position of tourists. Dr. Tore Holst is a Lecturer at the Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen and the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. His intellectual works; including his latest article “The Emotional Labor of Former Street Children Working as Tour Guides in Delhi” in 2019, provide insightful discussions of post-humanitarianism, tourism and human migration. Dosol Nissi Lee is a Master's Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and a Master's Student at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies at the University of Copenhagen. She researches human security and human mobility by testing out her theoretically vigorous and methodologically innovative ideas on research topics such as refugee sur place, intercountry adoption and floating city. 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: https://www.nias.ku.dk/nordic-... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Links from the show:* Knowledge production in higher education: Between Europe and the Middle East* Rate the showAbout my guests:Jan Völkel held teaching and research positions at the Universities of Freiburg and Salzburg, the European University Institute in Florence, Cairo University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Besides, he was visiting researcher at Université de Montréal, Dundee University, Bahçesehir Üniversity (Istanbul) and Southern Denmark University (Odense). He participated in various international research activities and won the prestigious Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship from the European Union for a research project on "Parliaments in the Arab Transformation Processes". He got various stipends and scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and has been member of some DAAD selection committees. Since 2008, he has been working as MENA Regional Coordinator at Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI, www.bti-project.org).Michelle Pace is Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. A political scientist by training, her research focuses on the intersection between European Studies, Middle East Studies, Critical Migration Studies, Democratization Studies and Conflict Studies. She is the Danish Lead partner of the Horizon Europe project SHAPEDEM-EU which investigates the EU's practices within its neighbourhoods in a set of policy fields (including migration, as crucial entangled policy areas) to seek out their impact on the effectiveness of its democracy support. She is the Denmark representative on the Management Committee of a COST ACTION network on migration and religious diversity, with a focus on tolerance in today's societies, and alternative epistemologies in the quest for knowledge equity. She has been/is the Principal and/or Co-Investigator on a number of large project grants funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, and the Wellcome Trust in the UK, and in Denmark on projects funded by the EU's H2020 as well as the Erasmus+ Programme, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Carlsberg Foundation. She is currently writing a monograph on Denmark's strict immigration policies, which is funded by a Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship. Get full access to Dispatches from the War Room at dispatchesfromthewarroom.substack.com/subscribe

How can we imagine liberation under colonial rule? In this episode, we speak with Dr. Somdeep Sen, a post-colonial studies professor at Roskilde University. His book, "Decolonizing Palestine," draws on his ethnographic research in the region to study how Israeli occupation shapes life and politics in the Palestinian territories. He documents how liberation is not a single moment in history but instead a complicated process that begins before and continues long after the colonizer loses power. We talk about how settler-colonialism is embedded at heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict and what the struggle for liberation can look like around the world.Learn more about “Decolonizing Palestine:” https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501752742/decolonizing-palestine/This podcast is produced in partnership with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. For more information, please visit their website at www.thepearsoninstitute.orgAccess the transcript here: https://thepearsoninstitute.org/news-and-media/podcast

Kerstin Carlson is a professor of international law in Denmark at Roskilde University, as well as The American University of Paris. In this podcast she addresses a number of vital questions for the future of international criminal law. Can international criminal justice institutions remain broadly apolitical bodies? How does one reconcile a paradox at the center of the practice of international criminal law between the concepts of “progress” and “justice,” with the latter concept rooted on the idea that international law promises the end of impunity and a more just world? What is the importance of national discourse and cultural norms regarding the effectiveness of international criminal tribunals?  And what role can specialized courts, such as a possible International Anti-Corruption Court, play in advancing international justice?Learn more on GlobalGovernanceForum.org

How did Chinese tourism grow from almost non-existent to being the largest outbound travel source market in the world over a couple of decades? Is the word “weaponization” a fair description of how Beijing uses tourism strategically in their foreign policy? And will the Chinese tourists ever travel internationally again after several years of pandemic? In this episode, Philip Kyhl is joined by Dr. Matias Thuen Jørgensen to discuss his and co-author Anders Ellemann Kristensen's contribution to the recently published book Chinese Outbound Tourist Behaviour (Routledge, 2022). The chapter explores the evolution of the Chinese outbound tourism industry, the behaviour of Chinese tourists abroad and how the industry is continuously affected by regulations and policy-making. Dr. Matias Thuen Jørgensen is Associate Professor and head of the Centre for Tourism Research (cftr.ruc.dk) at Roskilde University, Denmark. Matias aims to publish research that introduces novel conceptual and theoretical ideas and perspectives, but also resonate in practice. His research interests include tourism development, distribution, sustainability, entrepreneurship and experience. Empirically, his work has focused on the Chinese market and destinations in the Nordics. His work has been published in journals such as Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, Tourist Studies and International Journal of Tourism Research. You can contact Matias directly for a free copy of the specific chapter in the book on matiastj@ruc.dk Philip Kyhl is the assistant Director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen. Philip has worked with Chinese Outbound tourism for more than a decade and experienced the rise and development of the Chinese tourism industry from several years living and working in China and later as an advisor for European companies. 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-a... 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 did Chinese tourism grow from almost non-existent to being the largest outbound travel source market in the world over a couple of decades? Is the word “weaponization” a fair description of how Beijing uses tourism strategically in their foreign policy? And will the Chinese tourists ever travel internationally again after several years of pandemic? In this episode, Philip Kyhl is joined by Dr. Matias Thuen Jørgensen to discuss his and co-author Anders Ellemann Kristensen's contribution to the recently published book Chinese Outbound Tourist Behaviour (Routledge, 2022). The chapter explores the evolution of the Chinese outbound tourism industry, the behaviour of Chinese tourists abroad and how the industry is continuously affected by regulations and policy-making. Dr. Matias Thuen Jørgensen is Associate Professor and head of the Centre for Tourism Research (cftr.ruc.dk) at Roskilde University, Denmark. Matias aims to publish research that introduces novel conceptual and theoretical ideas and perspectives, but also resonate in practice. His research interests include tourism development, distribution, sustainability, entrepreneurship and experience. Empirically, his work has focused on the Chinese market and destinations in the Nordics. His work has been published in journals such as Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, Tourist Studies and International Journal of Tourism Research. You can contact Matias directly for a free copy of the specific chapter in the book on matiastj@ruc.dk Philip Kyhl is the assistant Director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen. Philip has worked with Chinese Outbound tourism for more than a decade and experienced the rise and development of the Chinese tourism industry from several years living and working in China and later as an advisor for European companies. 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-a... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies

How did Chinese tourism grow from almost non-existent to being the largest outbound travel source market in the world over a couple of decades? Is the word “weaponization” a fair description of how Beijing uses tourism strategically in their foreign policy? And will the Chinese tourists ever travel internationally again after several years of pandemic? In this episode, Philip Kyhl is joined by Dr. Matias Thuen Jørgensen to discuss his and co-author Anders Ellemann Kristensen's contribution to the recently published book Chinese Outbound Tourist Behaviour (Routledge, 2022). The chapter explores the evolution of the Chinese outbound tourism industry, the behaviour of Chinese tourists abroad and how the industry is continuously affected by regulations and policy-making. Dr. Matias Thuen Jørgensen is Associate Professor and head of the Centre for Tourism Research (cftr.ruc.dk) at Roskilde University, Denmark. Matias aims to publish research that introduces novel conceptual and theoretical ideas and perspectives, but also resonate in practice. His research interests include tourism development, distribution, sustainability, entrepreneurship and experience. Empirically, his work has focused on the Chinese market and destinations in the Nordics. His work has been published in journals such as Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, Tourist Studies and International Journal of Tourism Research. You can contact Matias directly for a free copy of the specific chapter in the book on matiastj@ruc.dk Philip Kyhl is the assistant Director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen. Philip has worked with Chinese Outbound tourism for more than a decade and experienced the rise and development of the Chinese tourism industry from several years living and working in China and later as an advisor for European companies. 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-a... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

How did Chinese tourism grow from almost non-existent to being the largest outbound travel source market in the world over a couple of decades? Is the word “weaponization” a fair description of how Beijing uses tourism strategically in their foreign policy? And will the Chinese tourists ever travel internationally again after several years of pandemic? In this episode, Philip Kyhl is joined by Dr. Matias Thuen Jørgensen to discuss his and co-author Anders Ellemann Kristensen's contribution to the recently published book Chinese Outbound Tourist Behaviour (Routledge, 2022). The chapter explores the evolution of the Chinese outbound tourism industry, the behaviour of Chinese tourists abroad and how the industry is continuously affected by regulations and policy-making. Dr. Matias Thuen Jørgensen is Associate Professor and head of the Centre for Tourism Research (cftr.ruc.dk) at Roskilde University, Denmark. Matias aims to publish research that introduces novel conceptual and theoretical ideas and perspectives, but also resonate in practice. His research interests include tourism development, distribution, sustainability, entrepreneurship and experience. Empirically, his work has focused on the Chinese market and destinations in the Nordics. His work has been published in journals such as Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, Tourist Studies and International Journal of Tourism Research. You can contact Matias directly for a free copy of the specific chapter in the book on matiastj@ruc.dk Philip Kyhl is the assistant Director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen. Philip has worked with Chinese Outbound tourism for more than a decade and experienced the rise and development of the Chinese tourism industry from several years living and working in China and later as an advisor for European companies. 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-a... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies

How did Chinese tourism grow from almost non-existent to being the largest outbound travel source market in the world over a couple of decades? Is the word “weaponization” a fair description of how Beijing uses tourism strategically in their foreign policy? And will the Chinese tourists ever travel internationally again after several years of pandemic? In this episode, Philip Kyhl is joined by Dr. Matias Thuen Jørgensen to discuss his and co-author Anders Ellemann Kristensen's contribution to the recently published book Chinese Outbound Tourist Behaviour (Routledge, 2022). The chapter explores the evolution of the Chinese outbound tourism industry, the behaviour of Chinese tourists abroad and how the industry is continuously affected by regulations and policy-making. Dr. Matias Thuen Jørgensen is Associate Professor and head of the Centre for Tourism Research (cftr.ruc.dk) at Roskilde University, Denmark. Matias aims to publish research that introduces novel conceptual and theoretical ideas and perspectives, but also resonate in practice. His research interests include tourism development, distribution, sustainability, entrepreneurship and experience. Empirically, his work has focused on the Chinese market and destinations in the Nordics. His work has been published in journals such as Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, Tourist Studies and International Journal of Tourism Research. You can contact Matias directly for a free copy of the specific chapter in the book on matiastj@ruc.dk Philip Kyhl is the assistant Director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen. Philip has worked with Chinese Outbound tourism for more than a decade and experienced the rise and development of the Chinese tourism industry from several years living and working in China and later as an advisor for European companies. 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-a... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/national-security

How did Chinese tourism grow from almost non-existent to being the largest outbound travel source market in the world over a couple of decades? Is the word “weaponization” a fair description of how Beijing uses tourism strategically in their foreign policy? And will the Chinese tourists ever travel internationally again after several years of pandemic? In this episode, Philip Kyhl is joined by Dr. Matias Thuen Jørgensen to discuss his and co-author Anders Ellemann Kristensen's contribution to the recently published book Chinese Outbound Tourist Behaviour (Routledge, 2022). The chapter explores the evolution of the Chinese outbound tourism industry, the behaviour of Chinese tourists abroad and how the industry is continuously affected by regulations and policy-making. Dr. Matias Thuen Jørgensen is Associate Professor and head of the Centre for Tourism Research (cftr.ruc.dk) at Roskilde University, Denmark. Matias aims to publish research that introduces novel conceptual and theoretical ideas and perspectives, but also resonate in practice. His research interests include tourism development, distribution, sustainability, entrepreneurship and experience. Empirically, his work has focused on the Chinese market and destinations in the Nordics. His work has been published in journals such as Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing, Tourist Studies and International Journal of Tourism Research. You can contact Matias directly for a free copy of the specific chapter in the book on matiastj@ruc.dk Philip Kyhl is the assistant Director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen. Philip has worked with Chinese Outbound tourism for more than a decade and experienced the rise and development of the Chinese tourism industry from several years living and working in China and later as an advisor for European companies. 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-a...

QUOTE OF THE DAY: Because we are so interconnected, and because we really are all the same, if we do harm to nature we do harm to us.  - Malene Falch Colotla In this episode of “Dream it! Dare it! Do it! Live the Life You Want!” I am speaking with Change Coach, Malene Colotla, who is deeply passionate about our home, planet Earth. We discuss the interconnectedness of everything; she finds that as our understanding of how we are all connected grows, so does the felt experience of oneness Malene is fascinated with exploring how our thinking is shaping the world we live in – both on an individual and societal level. She is deeply passionate about our home, planet Earth, and exploring the interconnectedness of everything. She finds that as our understanding of how we are all connected grows, so does the felt experience of oneness. As we fall into the oneness, we naturally expand our intellectual understanding to include a felt and experiential. When Malene is not coaching, she works for Common Earth, an environmental organization. She facilitates their courses which include our human experience (3P), systems thinking, and the journey of our universe and our place in it. Before becoming a Change Coach she had a successful career in Human Resources. She holds a Master of Arts (MA - Psychology and Business Studies) from Roskilde University, Denmark. For more information on Malene Falch Colotla please visit:  www.reimaginext.com & www.CommonEarth.com #DreamItDareItDoIt #LiveTheLifeYouWant #MakeitHappen #EpisodeDropped -- It's time for you to shine! I've worked with solopreneurs, entrepreneurs, business owners, and high-performers for over two decades. Let me show you how simple things really are, with these 4 steps. As I like to say: let's get COGI with it! It means: Get CLEAR. Get ORGANIZED. Get GOING. Get INSPIRED. I offer a rare combination of coaching & business talk, technical & artistic experience, and practical & creative skills. Please don't sweat the technical stuff. I've got your back. If this speaks to you, let's chat, no strings: https://go.jasmyne.coach/chat --- #theinspiress #solopreneurinspiration #livethelifeyouwant❤️ #liveinthenow #liveinthemoment #bepresentnow #happiness #wisdom #inspirationalquotes #solopreneur #entrepreneurinspiration #solopreneurs #solopreneurlife #solopreneurcoaching #coachjasmynesays #transformativecoachjasmyne #BringYourBusinesstoLife #GetInspiredNow

On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Somdeep Sen, Associate Professor of International Development Studies at Roskilde University. Somdeep is the author of the fabulous Decolonizing Palestine (Cornell University Press 2020). He is on twitter @ssen03. On this episode Simon and Somdeep speak about Som's wonderful new book, the journey from India to Denmark via the US, the process of doing research in Gaza, settler colonialism, the broader intellectual environment and much more.

Meet Rasmus Hougaard:Rasmus Hougaard is the Founder and Managing Partner of the Potential Project. He is the author of “The Mind of the Leader,” “One Second Ahead,” and recently published “Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way.” Rasmus is also a contributor for the Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Business Insider. He received a Master's degree in Organization and Behavior Studies from Roskilde University.Key Insights:Rasmus Hougaard is on a mission to create a more human world of work.Behind the Why. While working for a large corporation, Rasmus realized that many of his coworkers were burned out, drained of creativity, and not living up to their potential. Armed with meditation and other practices he learned from Buddhist traditions, Rasmus set out to found the Potential Project and change the working world. (1:02)Rethinking the Great Resignation. An unprecedented number of employees are quitting, or considering quitting. Rasmus reframes this as an opportunity for leaders to be compassionate to their existing employees, and a chance to attract new talent. (19:32) Get Enough Sleep. Get enough sleep and make time for yourself. Self-compassion is fundamental to resiliency. Before you can take care of others, and the world, you need to take care of yourself. (25:30)This episode is hosted by Gary Bisbee, Ph.D. He is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Think Medium.Relevant Links:Learn more about the Potential ProjectCheck out Rasmus' book “Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way”Read Rasmus' contributions to Forbes on Leadership Strategy

Meet Rasmus Hougaard:Rasmus Hougaard is the Founder and Managing Partner of the Potential Project. He is the author of “The Mind of the Leader,” “One Second Ahead,” and recently published “Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way.” Rasmus is also a contributor for the Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Business Insider. He received a Master's degree in Organization and Behavior Studies from Roskilde University.Key Insights:Rasmus Hougaard is on a mission to create a more human world of work.Rethinking Leadership. The idea of a leader single-handedly saving a company is outdated. Rasmus shares that leadership today is about motivating teams of people behind a shared vision. Leadership is through influence and communication, rather than commands and mandates. (14:05)Wise Compassion. Rasmus' research found that the most effective leaders combined a caring attitude with business acumen and the courage to do difficult things. Good leaders can do hard things in a human way. (19:38)Relearning Being Human. Leadership in the 21st century is about unlearning management and relearning being human. Leaders should enter conversations with vulnerability and honesty. They should put aside traditional prescriptions for leadership, and rather focus on the individual, unique employee in front of them. (23:12)Relevant Links: Learn more about the Potential ProjectCheck out Rasmus' book “Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way”Read Rasmus' contributions to Forbes on Leadership Strategy

This episode unpacks current debates on the meanings, roles, and futures of alternative news. Guests include David Dowling, Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa in the U.S., who talks about activist journalism through the case of the Unicorn Riot website coverage of social justice protests in the U.S. Jannie Møller Hartley is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University in Denmark and talks about tensions between “objective” and activist – or alternative – coverage of #MeToo in Denmark and Sweden. And, Marcus Funk, Associate Professor of Mass Communication at Sam Houston State University in the U.S., identifies forms of alternative journalism – in this case about climate change – that could be adopted by mainstream media to connect better with audiences.Text Featured in this Episode:Møller Hartley, J., & Askanius, T. (2021). Activist-journalism and the Norm of Objectivity: Role Performance in the Reporting of the# MeToo Movement in Denmark and Sweden. Journalism Practice, 15(6), 860-877.Funk, M. (2021). Calm During the Storm: Micro-Assemblage, Meteorology and Community Building on a Local Independent Weather Blog During Hurricane Harvey. Journalism Practice, 1-17.Dowling, D. O. (2021). Alternative Media on the Front Lines: Unicorn Riot and Activist Journalism's New Urgency. Journalism Practice, 1-20.  Produced and hosted by Robert (Ted) Gutsche, Jr.Give feedback to the podcast on Twitter @JournPractice or email jwordpodcast@gmail.com

From Roskilde: Danish society is distinguished by a high level of social trust in others and in institutions, which has facilitated the transitions through the pandemic. A constitutional monarchy, a large public sector and close cooperation between government and the private sector characterize the economic system. State-owned investment funds, such as the Innovation Fund Denmark and the Green Growth Fund, are supporting the transition into renewable energy sources. Increasingly, population diversity and migration are new influences on a country that combines a strong social welfare state and liberal capitalism in the Nordic tradition. Guest: Dr. Thomas Paster is a political economist and assistant professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University in Denmark. His expertise is on business interest groups and welfare state reforms. Providing a comparative perspective on Denmark, he emphasizes how the country is using its competitive edge.

¡Ya disponible el cuarto episodio de la segunda temporada de Ludens! Esta vez hablamos con Susana Tosca sobre videojuegos y metodologías innovadoras en el ámbito de las humanidades. A primera vista las charlas metodológicas parecen áridas, pero en esta conversación podrás comprobar cómo hay todo tipo de posibilidades que quizá ni te habías planteado.- [Web] Perfil de Susana Tosca en Roskilde University - https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/stosca- [Artículo] Susana Tosca, Replaying the Endless Loop - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077800420960143- [Artículo] Susana Tosca, Utopian Social Media - https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2019.1612761- [Libro] Adrienne L. Massanari, Participatory Culture, Community and Play- [Videojuego] Yakuza: Like a Dragon - https://likeadragon.sega.com/- [Videojuego] Persona 5 - https://atlus.com/p5r/

This week Denmark became the first country in the European Union to lift all its Covid-19 restrictions - including the wearing of face masks. Despite a rise in case numbers, the Scandinavian country is now relying on its high rate of vaccination to cope with the Omicron variant. More than 80% of the population over the age of five have had two vaccinations. Denmark, which is home to about six million people, attempted to lift restrictions back in October, but two months later did an about-turn after infection rates started to soar. Lone Simonsen is an epidemiologist and professor of population health sciences at Roskilde University. She joins the show to discuss why it will be different this time around.

This RVI podcast discusses Governance in Somalia in the context of rapid urbanisation. It looks at cities where both opportunities and challenges for Somalia's development and prosperity are most acutely felt. The experts debate how to manage and reduce the risks Somali cities face so that they can increase their potential to provide livelihoods and deliver services in a way that is more inclusive and accessible for all. In this first episode of two, Horn of Africa Programme Manager at the Rift Valley Institute- Hannah Stogdon talks to Horn of Africa expert Tobias Hagmann who is the Director of Public Culture Lab Ltd in Switzerland and an associate professor in development studies at Roskilde University in Denmarks. He was the Lead Researcher for the RVI study on Urbanisation in 7 Somali cities that contributed to the World Bank's Urbanisation Review.

In this podcast, Tina Persson interviews Bärbel Tress. Bärbel is a Research Career Expert & Advisor. Her main expertise is to advise young researchers how to successfully conduct and complete their PhD studies, how to apply for academic jobs, and how to improve research performance and efficiency. Bärbel has a PhD in Landscape Ecology from Roskilde University, Denmark.  She worked in academia for more than a decade, as postdoc, researcher and lecturer at universities in several European countries. She co-founded TRESS ACADEMIC in 2007 together with her partner. The company helps researchers acquire the complementary skills they need to succeed in academia. Bärbel also co-founded the SMART ACADEMICS Blog which helps young researchers with PhD completion, getting published, and career tips.    Different time points in the PhD journey are discussed in this interview together with the required actions. What to do and what to think about from the first day of signing the contract, at half-way through, the last year of the PhD, when 6 months are left, when one month is left and lastly the D-day: the defense day.    Bärbel finally closes the interview sharing five valuable tips that help PhDs to successfully complete their PhD studies.  1- Enjoy the ride 2- Keep the end in mind 3- Define your objectives early on 4- Start writing early on 5- Work on the relationship with supervisors Listen to this episode for valuable advices from two career coaches with a lot of expertise in accompanying PhDs along their PhD journey.

Today Steve Carney joins me to talk about his new co-written book with Ulla Ambrosius Madsen entitled “Education in Radical Uncertainty: Transgression in Theory and Method.” The book offers a major critique of the field of comparative education and asks us to dwell in experience rather than make value judgements. This is a powerful book in both form and content and demands to be read by anyone working in the field of comparative and international education. Steve Carney is a Professor of Educational Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. freshedpodcast.com/carney/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: info@freshedpodcast.com Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/donate

This episode of Across The Margin: The Podcast presents an interview with Dr. Fabian Holt, associate professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. He is the author of Genre in Popular Music and of Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions, the focus of this episode. For decades, millions of music fans have gathered every summer in parks and fields to hear their favorite bands at such renowned festivals as Lollapalooza, Coachella, and Glastonbury. How did these and countless other festivals across the globe evolve into glamorous pop culture events, and how are they changing our relationship to music, leisure, and public culture? In Everyone Loves Live Music, Dr. Holt looks beyond the marketing hype to show how festivals and other institutions of musical performance have evolved in recent decades, as these once meaningful sources of community and culture are increasingly consumed by corporate giants. Examining a diverse range of cases across Europe and the United States, Dr. Holt upends commonly-held ideas of live music and introduces a pioneering theory of performance institutions. He explores the fascinating history of the club and the festival experience both in San Francisco and New York, as well as a number of European cities. This book also surveys the social forces shaping live music as small, independent venues become corporatized and as festivals transform to promote consumerist trappings. Dr. Holt's book further provides insight into the broader relationship between culture and community in the twenty-first century. Everyone Loves Live Music reveals how our contemporary enthusiasm for live music is more fraught than we would like to think. In this episode host Michael Shields and Dr. Fabian Holt explore the ins-and-outs of Everyone Loves Music, discussing the history of music festivals, the joys and community they can offer in the most ideal of form, while dissecting in depth how popular music festivals have been developed into mass-market commodities by a cultural industry and capitalistic societies. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode...Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham answers the question "What is the role of the social sciences in the response to COVID-19?" with Professor Olivier Rubin who is a professor of Global Studies at Roskilde University. This is Part II of a two part episode. Thank you for listening! If you liked the episode, please give us a five-star rating and review. Buy a Coffee for Monday Science Episode image credit: www.unsplash.com Subscribe, follow, comment, leave a review and get in touch ! Submit your questions or send your voice note questions (up to 30 seconds) here . https://www.mondaysciencepodcast.com/ e. info@mondaysciencepodcast.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mondayscience/message

In this episode...Dr Bahijja Raimi-Abraham answers the question "What is the role of the social sciences in the response to COVID-19?" with Professor Olivier Rubin who is a professor of Global Studies at Roskilde University. This is Part I of a two part episode. Episode image credit: www.unsplash.com Additional Information Episode 23 - Garbage in, garbage out - https://www.mondaysciencepodcast.com/listen/episode/ebe79583/episode-23-garbage-in-garbage-out-conversation-with-dr-david-leslie-on-ai-ethics-and-safety Monday Science Person of the week paper: Daiyu Ito, Sayaka Wakayama, Rina Emura, Masatoshi Ooga, Teruhiko Wakayama. Mailing viable mouse freeze-dried spermatozoa on postcards. iScience, 2021; 102815 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102815 - summary provided by Science Daily - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210805115440.htm Subscribe, follow, comment and get in touch! Submit your questions or send your voice note questions (up to 30 seconds) here (https://anchor.fm/mondayscience/message) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mondayscience/message

Professor Kerstin Carlson joins Tocqueville 21 for a discussion on human rights, social justice, and Bill Cosby. Kerstin Bree Carlson is Associate Professor teaching international law and human rights related topics at Roskilde University in Denmark and The American University of Paris. She received her BA from The Johns Hopkins University, and her JD and PhD from University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, the first to Croatia and the second to UNESCO in Paris. She speaks French, Spanish, Danish, Russian and Serbo-Croatian. Kerstin has published several academic books, book chapters and articles on international criminal law and transitional justice, including Model(ing) Justice: Perfecting the Promise of International Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press 2018) and The President on Trial: Prosecuting Hissène Habré (Oxford University Press 2020). Her first book for a general audience, The Justice Laboratory: Internationalizing Law in Africa (Chatham House/Brookings), which examines how international criminal law fails to support the rule of law in Africa, is forthcoming in fall 2021. She is also a frequent contributor to the blog The Conversation. Her current research focuses on bias in international and domestic criminal law.

After the US government released its long-awaited report on unidentified aerial phenomena, we explore the cultural history and scientific taboo around UFOs. And three months after rebels killed the president of Chad in central Africa, we talk to experts about the balance of power there. Welcome to The Conversation Weekly. In the end, when it finally dropped on June 25, the US government's report on unidentified aerial phenomena didn't mention the word extraterrestrial once. And nobody had expected it to. We talk to Chris Impey, university distinguished professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, about what it did actually say and why doing serious research into UFOs has been such a taboo for scientists. And Greg Eghigian, professor of history at Penn State University, gives us a cultural history of UFOs and how what started as an American obsession spread around the world. And in our second story, we head to Chad in central Africa where the country's long-serving president, Idriss Déby was killed suddenly by rebels in April. Line Engbo Gissel, associate professor of global political sociology at Roskilde University in Denmark and Troels Burchall Henningsen, assistant professor at the Royal Danish Defence College, talk us about Chad's 'gatekeeper politics' and why its legacy will live on beyond Déby. And Naomi Joseph, arts and culture editor at The Conversation in London, gives us some recommended reading. The Conversation Weekly is produced by Mend Mariwany and Gemma Ware, with sound design by Eloise Stevens. Our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. You can find us on Twitter @TC_Audio, on Instagram at theconversationdotcom or via email on podcast@theconversation.com. You can also sign up to The Conversation's free daily email here. Full credits for this article available here. Further readingPentagon UFO report: No aliens, but government transparency and desire for better data might bring science to the UFO world, by Chris Impey, University of ArizonaThe truth is still out there: why the current UFO craze may be a problem of intelligence failings, by Kyle Cunliffe, University of SalfordPentagon report says UFOs can't be explained, and this admission is a big deal , by Adam Dodd, The University of QueenslandUFOs: how to calculate the odds that an alien spaceship has been spotted, by Anders Sandberg, University of OxfordLegacy of Chad's gatekeeper politics lives on beyond Déby – and carries grave risks, by Line Engbo Gissel, Roskilde University and Troels Burchall Henningsen, Royal Danish Defence CollegeFrance's decision to pull troops out of the Sahel invites a less military approach, by Folahanmi Aina, King's College LondonChina is using mythology and sci-fi to sell its space programme to the world, by Molly Silk, University of ManchesterWhy this Rodin scholar would gladly see the back of The Thinker, by Natasha Ruiz-Gómez, University of Essex See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Rikke Andreassen is a professor at Roskilde University, where she researches different questions related to equality. Providing a historical overview of how perceived categories of difference have been understood and developed over time, Rikke questions our understanding of "the Other" and contemplates potential directions for the future. In considering interspecies relations, Rikke highlights the importance of listening. She shifts the question from how we can communicate with other species to what we can learn from each other if we set aside our assumptions of knowledge. In this way, Rikke encourages us to give greater consideration to the perspectives of those who have been marginalised.

In this first episode of this podcast on mediated intimacies, I talk with Susana Tosca, associate professor at Roskilde University in Denmark. We talk about otome games, Japanese video games in which women can date a pool of handsome men. What are otome games exactly, and why do we play them, and how can we study them in the field of game studies? You'll find Susana's answers in this episode! Games: Angelique (Ruby Party, 1994) Hakuoki (Idea Factory, 2008) Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly (Idea Factory, 2018) Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (Chunsoft, 2010) Shall We Date? series Books and articles: Reading the Romance (Radway, 1984) Transmedial worlds in everyday life (Tosca and Klastrup, 2019) Appropriating the Shinsengumi: Hakuoki Fan Fiction as Transmedial/Transcultural Exploration (Tosca, 2021) Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (Mulvey, 1975) --on the male gaze in cinema

Somdeep Sen of Roskilde University talks about his latest book, Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast. The book considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation from its settler colonial condition as a complex psychological and empirical mix of the colonial and the postcolonial. (Starts at 27:13). Lisel Hintz of Johns Hopkins University discusses her new article, "The empire’s opposition strikes back: popular culture as creative resistance tool under Turkey’s AKP," published in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. (Starts at 0:54). Also, Michaelle Browers joins the podcast to discuss her article "Beginnings, Continuities and Revivals: An Inventory of the New Arab Left and an Ongoing Arab Left Tradition," published in Middle East Critique. (Starts at 14:50). Music for this season's podcast was created by Feras Arrabi. You can find more of his work on his Facebook and Instagram page. You can listen to this week’s podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or SoundCloud

This week, Kristian Ruby, the Secretary-General of Eurelectric since 2017, will be joining us for a conversation. Eurelectric is a pan-European organisation with the aim of representing the common interests of the electricity industry. He was also once part of the Danish government in the Ministries of Climate and Energy as well as Environment. Bio Kristian Ruby has been the Secretary-General of Eurelectric, a pan-European organisation with the aim of representing the common interests of the electricity industry since 2017. Prior to this role, Kristian was Chief Policy Officer at WindEurope between 2015 and 2016. This involved producing political strategies as well as leading the political advocacy work. From 2014 to 2015, he was Chief Advisor/Manager at Operate A/S who work closely with corporations, ministries, and government agencies with PR campaigns concerning climate and the environment. Kristian has political experience as well. Between 2010 and 2014 he was working as an assistant to Connie Hedegaard, the EU Commissioner for Climate Action in the European. Prior to this, Kristian held several roles in the Danish Ministry of Climate and Energy including speechwriter, head of press, and special adviser. He was also acting head of press for Minister for Climate and Energy, Lykke Friis during COP15 in Copenhagen. In the earlier years, Kristian had a career in journalism working as a freelancer as well as for Danmarks Radio for 5 years. He attended Roskilde University where he completed his BA in International Development and his MA in History and Development Studies. Links Official Bio https://be.linkedin.com/in/kristian-ruby-143685 Europe’s vehicle fleets to boast 10.5m EVs by 2030 (February, 2021) https://www.energylivenews.com/2021/02/03/europes-vehicle-fleets-to-boast-10-5m-evs-by-2030/ ‘Not fit for purpose’: Europe’s distribution grids ‘need up to €425bn of investment to enable energy transition’ (January, 2021) https://www.rechargenews.com/transition/-not-fit-for-purpose-europe-s-distribution-grids-need-up-to-425bn-of-investment-to-enable-energy-transition-/2-1-944581 Leaders of our industry: Kristian Ruby of Eurelectric (November, 2020) https://www.pveurope.eu/markets-money/leaders-our-industry-kristian-ruby-eurelectric Bringing utilities on side in the climate fight (September, 2020) https://energymonitor.ai/technology/electrification/bringing-utilities-on-side-in-the-climate-fight Eurelectric boss: ‘The gas system has to be more focused on what makes it really unique’ (February, 2019) https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/interview/eurelectric-boss-the-gas-system-has-to-be-more-focused-on-what-makes-it-really-unique/ About Cleaning Up: Once a week Michael Liebreich has a conversation (and a drink) with a leader in clean energy, mobility, climate finance, or sustainable development. Each episode covers the technical ground on some aspect of the low-carbon transition – but it also delves into the nature of leadership in the climate transition: whether to be optimistic or pessimistic; how to communicate in order to inspire change; personal credos; and so on. And it should be fun – most of the guests are Michael’s friends. Follow Cleaning Up on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLCleaningUp​​​​ Follow Cleaning Up on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clea...​ Follow Cleaning Up on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MLCleaningUp​​​​ Links to other Podcast Platforms: https://www.cleaningup.live​​​​

Christian Groes Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University in Denmark joined Sean on the show.

In Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions (University of Chicago Press), Fabian In Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions (University of Chicago Press), Fabian Holt shows how festivals and other institutions of musical performance have evolved in recent decades. Adopting a critical approach, Holt upends commonly-held ideas of live music and introduces a theory of performance institutions. The two central institutions of popular music—the club and the festival—are analyzed within the broader history of music and cultural life in modernity, shedding new light on organized cultural life in capitalism, urban media cultures, and the role of festive events in society. Everyone Loves Live Music argues that while live music provides exciting experiences for many people, it also promotes a new ideology of music in neoliberal capitalism. Dr. Fabian Holt is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. He is also the author of the book Genre in Popular Music, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Emily Ruth Allen (@emmyru91) is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at Florida State University. She is currently working on a dissertation about parade musics in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival celebrations. Adopting a critical approach, Holt upends commonly-held ideas of live music and introduces a theory of performance institutions. The two central institutions of popular music—the club and the festival—are analyzed within the broader history of music and cultural life in modernity, shedding new light on organized cultural life in capitalism, urban media cultures, and the role of festive events in society. Everyone Loves Live Music argues that while live music provides exciting experiences for many people, it also promotes a new ideology of music in neoliberal capitalism. Dr. Fabian Holt is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. He is also the author of the book Genre in Popular Music, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Emily Ruth Allen (@emmyru91) is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at Florida State University. She is currently working on a dissertation about parade musics in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival celebrations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions (University of Chicago Press), Fabian In Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions (University of Chicago Press), Fabian Holt shows how festivals and other institutions of musical performance have evolved in recent decades. Adopting a critical approach, Holt upends commonly-held ideas of live music and introduces a theory of performance institutions. The two central institutions of popular music—the club and the festival—are analyzed within the broader history of music and cultural life in modernity, shedding new light on organized cultural life in capitalism, urban media cultures, and the role of festive events in society. Everyone Loves Live Music argues that while live music provides exciting experiences for many people, it also promotes a new ideology of music in neoliberal capitalism. Dr. Fabian Holt is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. He is also the author of the book Genre in Popular Music, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Emily Ruth Allen (@emmyru91) is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at Florida State University. She is currently working on a dissertation about parade musics in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival celebrations. Adopting a critical approach, Holt upends commonly-held ideas of live music and introduces a theory of performance institutions. The two central institutions of popular music—the club and the festival—are analyzed within the broader history of music and cultural life in modernity, shedding new light on organized cultural life in capitalism, urban media cultures, and the role of festive events in society. Everyone Loves Live Music argues that while live music provides exciting experiences for many people, it also promotes a new ideology of music in neoliberal capitalism. Dr. Fabian Holt is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. He is also the author of the book Genre in Popular Music, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Emily Ruth Allen (@emmyru91) is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at Florida State University. She is currently working on a dissertation about parade musics in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival celebrations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions (University of Chicago Press), Fabian In Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions (University of Chicago Press), Fabian Holt shows how festivals and other institutions of musical performance have evolved in recent decades. Adopting a critical approach, Holt upends commonly-held ideas of live music and introduces a theory of performance institutions. The two central institutions of popular music—the club and the festival—are analyzed within the broader history of music and cultural life in modernity, shedding new light on organized cultural life in capitalism, urban media cultures, and the role of festive events in society. Everyone Loves Live Music argues that while live music provides exciting experiences for many people, it also promotes a new ideology of music in neoliberal capitalism. Dr. Fabian Holt is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. He is also the author of the book Genre in Popular Music, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Emily Ruth Allen (@emmyru91) is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at Florida State University. She is currently working on a dissertation about parade musics in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival celebrations. Adopting a critical approach, Holt upends commonly-held ideas of live music and introduces a theory of performance institutions. The two central institutions of popular music—the club and the festival—are analyzed within the broader history of music and cultural life in modernity, shedding new light on organized cultural life in capitalism, urban media cultures, and the role of festive events in society. Everyone Loves Live Music argues that while live music provides exciting experiences for many people, it also promotes a new ideology of music in neoliberal capitalism. Dr. Fabian Holt is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. He is also the author of the book Genre in Popular Music, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Emily Ruth Allen (@emmyru91) is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at Florida State University. She is currently working on a dissertation about parade musics in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival celebrations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions (University of Chicago Press), Fabian In Everyone Loves Live Music: A Theory of Performance Institutions (University of Chicago Press), Fabian Holt shows how festivals and other institutions of musical performance have evolved in recent decades. Adopting a critical approach, Holt upends commonly-held ideas of live music and introduces a theory of performance institutions. The two central institutions of popular music—the club and the festival—are analyzed within the broader history of music and cultural life in modernity, shedding new light on organized cultural life in capitalism, urban media cultures, and the role of festive events in society. Everyone Loves Live Music argues that while live music provides exciting experiences for many people, it also promotes a new ideology of music in neoliberal capitalism. Dr. Fabian Holt is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. He is also the author of the book Genre in Popular Music, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Emily Ruth Allen (@emmyru91) is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at Florida State University. She is currently working on a dissertation about parade musics in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival celebrations. Adopting a critical approach, Holt upends commonly-held ideas of live music and introduces a theory of performance institutions. The two central institutions of popular music—the club and the festival—are analyzed within the broader history of music and cultural life in modernity, shedding new light on organized cultural life in capitalism, urban media cultures, and the role of festive events in society. Everyone Loves Live Music argues that while live music provides exciting experiences for many people, it also promotes a new ideology of music in neoliberal capitalism. Dr. Fabian Holt is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University. He is also the author of the book Genre in Popular Music, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Emily Ruth Allen (@emmyru91) is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at Florida State University. She is currently working on a dissertation about parade musics in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival celebrations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephanie's father-in-law, a Danish citizen, is currently moving into assisted living just outside of Copenhagen. His flat is only $1,000 per month, and the home help and rehabilitation he'll receive is totally free of charge. We wondered about the differences between the U.S. and Denmark's longterm care system, so we invited a special guest to join this episode: Jon Kvist, a professor at Roskilde University and expert on Danish social welfare systems. We talk about how the Danish longterm care system works and contrast it to what is covered under Medicare and Medicaid here in the United States. Show Notes Depending on the state, anywhere from 40% to 60% (or more) of coronavirus deaths in the United States are taking place in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes [note: Ben incorrectly said 50 to 60% on the podcast]. This is due, in part, to our terrible system of long-term care (at least as bad as our medical care system!). Stephanie's father-in-law is being transitioned to an assisted living facility. Fortunately, he's Danish, where long-term care is covered as a right - just like healthcare. His only expense will be roughly $1,000 per month for rent of his new apartment. We introduce a special guest to the program: Jon Kvist, a professor at Roskilde University, and an expert on the long-term care system in Denmark. First things first: What is long-term care (or LTC)? "Long-term care generally refers to non-medical care (ie, custodial care) for patients who need assistance with basic daily activities such as dressing, bathing and using the bathroom. Long-term care may be provided at home or in facilities that include nursing homes and assisted living." Who gets access to long-term care? Here in the United States, almost no one. Medicare - our public healthcare program for seniors and some people with disabilities - incredibly does not cover long-term care! Most people have to get LTC through Medicaid - which means making yourself poor. Professor Kvist tells us that Denmark has a universal system for long-term care. If you can demonstrate a need for long-term care, it will be covered largely for free - so it is purely needs-based. LTC in Denmark is run at the local level, so it varies somewhat by "municipality" - although the richer municipalities redistribute their funds to the poorer municipalities. By European standards, the Danish government spends a lot on LTC - almost 3% of their total economic spending. But as Professor Kvist points out, if you don't cover LTC publicly, a lot of care will be paid for privately OR provided informally by family members - particularly women are forced into this role. American couples are supposed to save over $240,000 for long-term care and medical costs alone if they want to retire by age 65. How much does the average Dane have to save for retirement? "Close to $0" says Professor Kvist. When you retire in Denmark, you will be taken care of, with the understanding that you will pay into the system when you are healthy and working. The good news for Americans? Ben is only $240,000 short of his retirement savings goals! Ben asks about Danish refugee status for Americans who can't afford to get older in the U.S. - and Professor Kvist says that we're welcome! Another problematic feature of the American long-term care system is what's called "institutional bias": in many states, Medicaid is required to cover institutional LTC (meaning LTC at nursing homes, or assisted living facilities), but does not cover LTC provided in people's own homes, which is cheaper, provides a better quality of life, and doesn't create a public health nightmare during pandemics! What about in Denmark? Both institutional and home-based care are covered equally, and starting in 1987, Denmark has made a major push to de-institutionalize LTC, with the slogan that people should be allowed to stay in their own home as long as possible. In the past few years,

This is the second of 3 episodes about social enterprise from a research perspective. In this episode we focus on three industries which are key to the development of sustainable societies and which social enterprise is stirring up. Those industries are: 1) health and social services; 2) integration of migrants and refugees; 3) culture and the arts. Featured in this episode: Nicole Göler von Ravensburg, professor of Socio-economics at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences; Alexander Tränkmann, gastronomy manager in Mainz, Germany, and a spokesperson for the Embrace Hotels Cooperative; Leila Giannetto, researcher at FIERI (International and European Forum on Migration Research); Rob Trimble, Chief Executive of the Bromley by Bow Centre (London, UK); Linda Lundgaard Andersen, professor at the Department of People and Technology at Roskilde University in Denmark; Jonas Hedegaard, PhD student at Roskilde University in Denmark.

Hello, Fully Automated friends! For your coronavirus lockdown listening pleasure, we are today releasing a really special episode. Our guest is Dr. Magnus Paulsen Hansen, who is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, at Roskilde University. Magnus researches the role of ideas and evaluation in the legitimation of welfare state transformations. But he is also a bit of a Foucault ninja. And he is joining us today to discuss a question that has vexed me for a long time: was Foucault a neoliberal? Veteran listeners may recall the last time we discussed this issue, when we had Mark GE Kelly on the show, all the way back in Episode 2! But I wanted to get Magnus on the show to go a little deeper into some of these arguments, as its a debate that doesn’t seem to be going away. In 2015, Magnus published an article in the journal Foucault Studies, entitled Foucault’s Flirt? Neoliberalism, the Left and the Welfare State; a Commentary on La dernière leçon de Michel Foucault and Critiquer Foucault. For me, it stands as one of the most exhaustively researched and argued rebuttals of the contention, by Daniel Zamora, and other fellow travelers (see also here), that Foucault bears some kind of intellectual responsibility for the rise of neoliberal thought. Honestly, I’ve always been a little alarmed by the argument that Foucault was a neoliberal. Its not so much the idea itself that offends me, as the slipshod nature of the way the argument is made. With a strong tendency towards ad hominem argumentation, and little consideration for Foucault’s core teachings on power, the argument appears to be quite ideologically driven. Often, it seems to boil down simply to the argument that Foucault was some sort of intellectual magpie, and all too easily distracted by shiny objects. Zamora and his fellow travelers claim that Foucault was “seduced” by the basic model of freedom offered by neoliberal thought, and that he was thus blinded to its more disciplinary tendencies. Given Foucault’s prestige and influence among the left, this was an abdication from his intellectual duty, weakening the left just at the moment of Reagan and Thatcher’s arrival. In this interview, we discuss the danger of looking for “hidden” or “unconscious” intentions in an author, and the idea that such intentions might relate to any conclusion about an author’s politics. We discuss the “best case” defense of the claim that Foucault was somehow seduced by neoliberal thought, and the way this argument often gets linked in an under-nuanced way to Foucault’s critique of the post-war welfare state. We also explore the various ways in which Foucault, while often categorized as a libertarian, with anti-state proclivities, was equally opposed to anarchist theoretics of the state, going even so far as to refer to them as a form of “state phobia” — something that is especially interesting think about today, in light of Agamben’s recent interventions on Coronavirus measures as amplifying permanent state of exception (I discussed this at length in the intro to our last episode, with Garnet Kindervater). In the face of such weak evidence, we should note that Foucault in no way accepted or endorsed the idea that he was himself a neoliberal. To the contrary, as Magnus notes, there is a strong cautionary voice in Foucault’s writings on neoliberalism. Indeed, he appears to argue that it foreshadows the dawn of a new and sinister mode of political power; at the moment of neoliberalism’s birth, Foucault was warning that neoliberal theory imagines itself installing a “permanent economic tribunal” and becoming a hegemonic “model of social relations and of existence itself.” Certainly, this is not to say Foucault’s work has no blind spots when it comes to the question of what neoliberal theory would later become. One common objection to Foucault in this sense is his failure to anticipate the disciplinary aspects of contemporary neolibera...

ABOUT OLE, BIGGER PICTURE & VISUAL COLLABORATION   In November 2019 Ole, co-author Loa Baastrup and illustrator Sofie Lind Mesterton released the book “Visual Collaboration”. It is the culmination of the last 20 years of work in the field of facilitation, visualization, adult- and organizational learning and presents a method with which individuals and teams can cultivate a more visual way of working: The Five Building Blocks of Visual Collaboration. It is a book for people working with strategy, innovation and learning. Visual Collaboration has received a bronze medal in the Axiom Business Book, reached No. 1 on Amazon bestseller list in Communication, No. 3 in Entrepreneurship and presentation guru Nancy Duarte gave it following review: “Need to collaborate and bring consensus? This book is written and visualized so clearly, I bought one for each of my leaders.” Ole holds a master’s degree in Learning and Business Studies from Roskilde University and a degree from the creative entrepreneurship education Kaospilots.dk   ABOUT THIS PODCAST   In this podcast Ole shares insights, exercises and tips from Visual Collaboration. Together with the listeners, we embark on an exercise visualising how to deal with the current corona crisis. Based on Ole’s experience helping organizations like IKEA, Maersk, IDEO, Kraft and the UNFCC, we discuss challenges and opportunities visual thinkers face. See the overview and timings in the list below.   FREE CHAPTER AND TOOLS FROM VISUAL COLLABORATION   Read about the why and how of the book + download free chapter and 9 visual tools   -> www.visualcollaboration.site   COUPON   Use the coupon code “Yurirocks” and get 50% off “Visual Collaboration Crash Course”. Learn about the method and tools of the book and practice to draw the 7 elements. NB: 100 coupons + offer expires on May 31, 2020.   -> https://academy.biggerpicture.dk/course?courseid=visual-collaboration-crash-course   BOOKLET WITH 200 ICONS   Get Bigger Pictures e-booklet with more than 200 icons for working visually.   -> Send Ole an email ole [at] biggerpicture.dk   NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP   Sign up to Bigger Picture’s newsletter and get notified about upcoming launches of webinars, online courses, and other visual collaboration content.   -> https://www.biggerpicture.dk/   HOW TO GET HOLD OF OLE & BIGGER PICTURE   -> email ole [at] biggerpicture.dk   -> Connect via LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/ole-qvist-s%C3%B8rensen-18b39/    SUPPORT THE PODCAST   This show is brought to you by the Visual Thinking and Sketchnoting Boot Camp online course. This unique and highly practical signature course will teach you all the necessary elements that you need to employ visual thinking for your profession.   With the help of the course, you will boost your thinking and communication skills as well as improve your productivity and effectiveness.   Find more information at https://www.udemy.com/course/visual-thinking-and-sketchnoting-boot-camp/?referralCode=D0574A03FF3E6CADC63F   Subscribe to Yuri's newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gWi_if

Professor Poul Holm is an expert voice on the Viking settlements in Ireland. He is Professor of Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. He is a Danish native and before moving to Dublin he was Rector of Roskilde University in Denmark. He is the Director of the Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, a member of the Royal Irish Academy’s Standing Committee for Archaeology, and Vice-Chair of the Humanities class of Academia Europea. In this audio conversation with producer Helen Shaw Poul gives an insight into the Norwegian Viking raids, and settlements, in Ireland from 790s and across the 9th and 10th centuries and how the Norse and Gaelic people became intermixed. He gives a sense of the market for people, for slaves, throughout this time and how by the late 9th Century the Norse Vikings took gaelic men and women, mostly slaves, to forge their settlement in Iceland. He draws on the famous story of Melkorka from the Icelandic Sagas, the slave Irish Princess, who mothers a future leader of the new Icelandic world, and a character, and story, who has inspired our 'Mother's Blood, Sister Songs' project. Find out more about the project on www.mothersbloodsistersongs.com And Professor Poul Holm www.tcd.ie/history/staff/holmp.php The music is Numarimur by Linda Buckley using Icelandic language and inspired by the landscape and soundscape of Iceland.

In this season finale, Giuseppe Porcaro looks back at the experiment of Europarama together with a stellar line-up of contributors that join in to explore the value of science fiction as a method to dive into Europe's futures. Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books. Srećko Horvat Born in Croatia, he is a philosopher and and activist. Srećko is regarded as one of the central figures of the new left in post-Yugoslavia. He has authored more than ten books, including What Does Europe Want?, The Radicality of Love, and Poetry from the Future. Niels Daalgard is a danish academic and science fiction critic whose PhD research into Danish science fiction is the first on such a topic to be funded by the Danish Research Council for the Humanities. Dalgaard is science fiction reviewer for the newspaper Politiken and editor of the critical journal Proxima (since 1981). Laura Horn is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business of the Roskilde University in Denmark. Her main research area is Global Political Economy, with particular attention to the regional manifestation of these structures and processes in the context of European integration. Ian Manners is professor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Copenhagen.works at the nexus of critical social theory and the study of the European Union in planetary politics. His current research interest looks at the EU and planetary politics at the intersections of global society, economy, environment, conflict, and politics. Marije Martens is one of the co-founders of Are We Europe, a collective of European journalist and content creators. She’s the lead designer of the magazine and has always had an interest in the interplay between design, storytelling, nationalism and Europe. She also loves podcasts and stories. Mick ter Reehorst is the managing director and co-founder of Are We Europe. Mick has studied journalism and European studies in Amsterdam and Paris, so it all makes sense, even though he’s mostly occupied with the entrepreneurial side of things. Also, he thinks that Europe needs a new narrative, because this is not where things are supposed to be headed. Oh, and he loves podcasts. ...and yours, faithfully, Giuseppe Porcaro author of DISCO SOUR, creator and producer of Europarama, head of communications of Bruegel, lover, and dreamer.

In our last episode for Season One of The Kids Are Alright, reporter Savannah Jenkins meets up with China expert David Schlesinger to discuss Beijing's One Belt One Road initiative in light of trade frictions with the United States. While a shaky trade truce may now be in place, the relationship between China and the United States is under strain. “I don't think China knows what to expect from the United States, but they certainly can't rely on the U.S. as they have been able to in the past,” says Savannah. After speaking with Schlesinger about One Belt One Road, Savannah turned to friend and former colleague Marco De Nobili. A recent graduate of Roskilde University, Marco completed his thesis on how the One Belt One Road initiative reflects domestic support in China for globalization. Savannah asks Marco if an increase in populist and protectionist sentiment in Western countries may encourage China to launch other such initiatives.

We like to entertain the notion that we are in control — our decisions are ours, deliberately made. Yet, much of our behavior is governed by processes beyond our conscious reasoning. We are constantly influenced by our context, and others’ small and large decisions.Nudging is the art of making subtle changes to our behavior. What sets it apart from other methodologies is its base on the scientific method. At its purest, nudging follows a careful setup: a randomized controlled trial allows the impact of the nudge to be carefully evaluated.We had an in-depth discussion with behavioral scientist Pelle Hansen who is engaged both in the scientific community in Roskilde University, and iNudgeYou, applied behavioral science group. We reflect how they affected the design of the Copenhagen airport, Kastrup, and Denmark’s largest supermarket chain Coop. Finally, we hear what — if anything — affects student drinking behavior.Recommendations:Pelle: Owning a dogMaria: Bathing in the unique Yrjönkadun uimahalli in HelsinkiLauri: Trekking especially the first two days of the Mahlerweg trailPodcast RSS Twitter: @Palmu_Finland & #palmunallaInstagram: Palmu_FinlandFacebook: PalmuFinlandPalmun alla is a podcast by Palmu, a Finnish service design company. The program is produced by Lauri Lukka, Maria Niemi ja Henry Jalonen. Theme music by Juha Vaaraniemi.

This program is the 3rd in the program seria 'Staying with the trouble's of privileges in common spaces' where we discuss problematics and strategies in working together across privilege in activist and social groups. In this program we invited Julia Suárez-Krabbe to discuss decolonial strategies of working together across privilege. Julia Suárez-Krabbe is lecture at Roskilde University and has written the book; ‘Race, Rights and Rebels; Alternatives to Human Rights and Development from the Global South'. She is also part of the Freedom of Movements in Copenhagen who have supported self-organized migrant struggles in Denmark.

Camelia Elias holds a PhD and DPhil and spent the last twenty years as a professor of literature, most recently at Roskilde University in Denmark. Recently, she escaped academia to start an online school, Aradia Academy, where she teaches cartomancy (card reading); that is, how to read—yourself, someone else, books, pictures, films, the situation, the problem, or anything else—without belief, emotion, preconceptions or other obscurations getting in the way.   She recently said, "Why is reading cards fascinating? Because their visual language allows us to bypass everything we know or think we know."   Boiling our conversation down to the keywords, we talk about: interesting—curiosity—dullness—belief—vastness—strategy—one cut—the present circumstances—"and yet"—concrete—psychomagic—Jodorowsky—Freud—Boom! (L to R) Dr. Camelia Elias, Freya  

In 2007 when China's Exim Bank unveiled a massive $6 billion mining deal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it completely rocked the normally-staid world of international development finance. The agreement, known as "The China Deal" or Sicomines, was among the first of these huge Chinese infrastructure-for-resources deals that are now commonplace across Africa.   Ten years ago, though, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were pretty much the only players that threw around that kind of cash in countries like the DRC. So when the Chinese came along with the Sicomines deal, many observers saw it as a direct challenge to the IMF's once unrivaled dominance of international development finance in places like the Congo.   While a feared Chinese-IMF rivalry did not ultimately materialize, "The China Deal" did create a lot of problems. The IMF responded defensively, according to new research from Sino-Congolese scholar Dr. Johanna Malm at Roskilde University in Denmark. Fearing they might be pushed aside by the Chinese, the IMF opted to make it easier for the Congolese government to borrow yet more money, adding to Kinshasa's already dangerously-high debt load.   Dr. Malm joins Eric & Cobus to discuss "The China Deal" and why the IMF's missteps in the Congo produced costly-consequences for an already financially-distressed government.

The Sicomines deal is one of China's largest "minerals for infrastructure" deals in Africa as well as one of its least understood. China Exim Bank extended $6 billion worth of credit to a Chinese consortium, called Sicomines, that would have mineral rights to Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, the deal was initially worth $9 billion and required a renegotiation as the International Monetary Fund argued that a Congolese debt-reduction plan could not include Sicomines due to the structure of the loans. Dr. Johanna Malm just earned her PhD from Roskilde University and joins us again on Cowries and Rice to discuss Sicomines - except that her dissertation argues that the IMF portrayed the $ 3 billion infrastructure loan within this particular agreement as a cheaper concessional loan, whilst in fact it was a significantly more expensive commercial loan. This was to ensure that the DRC could continue the debt relief process that was blocked by Sicomines - “For political reasons, the IMF also needed to downplay the challenge posed by the Chinese loan to the organisation’s debt limits framework."

On this week's POMEPS Conversation Podcast, Marc Lynch speaks with Sune Haugbølle. Haugbølle is an associate professor at Roskilde University, and much of his research focuses on Leftist movements in the Middle East. "Before the Arab uprisings, I had a sense for a long time that there's a real gap in the historiography of the modern Middle East. Leftists groups,"Haugbølle says, "Have really been understudied. There's a lot we don't know about them— and I think that lack of knowledge came from the notion that somehow the left had ceased to be important." "I'm trying to see what the historical memory of failures and trasitions of the Left in the last couple of decades means today for the Leftist activitists, militants, intellectuals today," says Haugbølle. "The history of the Arab Left is global." In today's world, Haugbølle argues, "The new Left is a fragmented field of smaller movements. It's by definition a vast array of influences." "Obviously the Middle East is not in the throes of the American homogeneity that it used to be years ago. And they're trying to find their feet in that." The Left must question of imperialism, especially with the conflict in Syria, says Haugbølle. "We re-conceptualize the struggle in this confused, post-revolutionary period that we're in. That comes for the fore in the question of: Syria. Do you see the Russian intervention as a sort of protection of a popular regime with legitimacy, a people's army that needs to be protected from America's attempt to smash it? Or do you see that equally as imperialism? Most of the international socialists have taken the line that the Russian intervention is also a form of imperialism. You get splits over that." "There's an intellectual history and a political history. There's so much we don't know. There's so many achieves people haven't looked at. Journals people haven't read yet," says Haugbølle.

On this week's POMEPS Conversation Podcast, Marc Lynch speaks with Sune Haugbølle. Haugbølle is an associate professor at Roskilde University, and much of his research focuses on Leftist movements in the Middle East. "Before the Arab uprisings, I had a sense for a long time that there's a real gap in the historiography of the modern Middle East. Leftists groups,"Haugbølle says, "Have really been understudied. There's a lot we don't know about them— and I think that lack of knowledge came from the notion that somehow the left had ceased to be important." "I'm trying to see what the historical memory of failures and trasitions of the Left in the last couple of decades means today for the Leftist activitists, militants, intellectuals today," says Haugbølle. "The history of the Arab Left is global." In today's world, Haugbølle argues, "The new Left is a fragmented field of smaller movements. It's by definition a vast array of influences." "Obviously the Middle East is not in the throes of the American homogeneity that it used to be years ago. And they're trying to find their feet in that." The Left must question of imperialism, especially with the conflict in Syria, says Haugbølle. "We re-conceptualize the struggle in this confused, post-revolutionary period that we're in. That comes for the fore in the question of: Syria. Do you see the Russian intervention as a sort of protection of a popular regime with legitimacy, a people's army that needs to be protected from America's attempt to smash it? Or do you see that equally as imperialism? Most of the international socialists have taken the line that the Russian intervention is also a form of imperialism. You get splits over that." "There's an intellectual history and a political history. There's so much we don't know. There's so many achieves people haven't looked at. Journals people haven't read yet," says Haugbølle.

Continuing in their mad attempt to talk about one country for a whole month, hosts Winslow Robertson and Dr. Nkemjika Kalu continue their discussion about the Democratic Republic of the Congo, this time focusing on the famous Sicomines deal between two large Chinese companies and the Congolese government. They have recruited Ms. Johanna Jansson, a PhD candidate at Roskilde University and the most knowledgable researcher about Sicomines, to talk on the show and share her considerable knowledge. Listen as she effortlessly parries Winslow's feeble attempts to get her into a debate! What a scholar! What a pro!

David Pinder (Lecturer in Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London) Abstract Cities are profoundly mobile. Yet they are also in many ways fixed, solid and enduring. Movement and flow typically require fixed infrastructures to enable them, while processes of deterritorialisation are accompanied by those of reterritorialisation. This presentation addresses the long-standing tension in urban writings between movement and settlement, and between flow and fixity, by addressing attempts to re-imagine and re-conceptualise urban mobilities through contested visions of circulation. The focus is on selected architectural and urban projects developed within modernist and avant-garde circles, especially in western Europe during the 1960s. What might be made of experimental designs and proposals for cities to become mobile and nomadic themselves? How to approach these visions today, at a time when mobilities and nomad thought are high on urban agendas? How might reconsidering them enable insights into the politics of mobility, and hence into debates about possible mobility futures? David Pinder is Reader in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. His research focuses on utopianism and cities, with particular reference to modernist and avant-garde movements in twentieth-century Europe; and on art, spatial practices and urban politics. He is author of Visions of the City: Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth-Century Urbanism (2005) and guest editor of a theme issue of Cultural Geographies on ‘Arts of urban exploration’ (2005). He was a Velux Visiting Professor at Roskilde University, Denmark, in 2011-12.

Audio[audio:http://archive.org/download/hotinhere/itshotinhere23mar2009.mp3] Join us as Gina G, Shannon B and OR Johns heat things up with two exxxtra special guests. Lisa Anne Richey Associate Professor of Development Studies in the Department of Society and Globalisation (yes,  that’s Globalization with an S) at Roskilde University in Denmark and author of Population Politics and Development: From the Policies […]