Podcasts about Tilburg University

Throughout the world, migration has become the issue on which elections are decided. Why? And what does that tell us about ourselves? With Hiroshi Motomura, Matthew Longo, Wafa Al Ali, Nanda Oudejans en Martijn Stronks.While the EU continually breaks human rights to stop migrants from reaching Europe, the US is plunging itself into a constitutional crisis over a wrongfully deported migrant that is now detained in a Salvadorian prison.Migration is such a loaded subject, that it is difficult to see what an ethical migration policy could and should actually look like. Tonight, we discuss migration and migration policy, national borders and nationalist politics, and the toxic stranglehold they have on each other.About the speakers:Hiroshi Motomura is world renowned migration scholar, working at the UCLA School of Law. In his new book Borders and belonging, he offers a nuanced take on the very complex issue of migration. Starting with the national border as a concept, Motomura asks fundamental questions about the root causes of migration and offers realistic proposals towards fair migration policy.Matthew Longo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Leiden University, where he teaches political theory. His work focuses on problems of borders and migration, with a thematic interest in questions of sovereignty, authority and freedom. He wrote the award winning books The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain and The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11.Nanda Oudejans is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Law and Director of the College of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam. Prior to joining the University of Amsterdam, she held academic positions at Utrecht University, VU Amsterdam, and Tilburg University. From 2012 to 2014, she served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Advisory Committee on Migration Affairs at the Ministry of Justice and Security in The Hague.Wafa Al Ali is a legal affairs journalist at the political desk of newspaper NRC, with a specific focus on asylum. For NRC, she also created the podcast series Generatie 9/11, about how Islamic and/or Arab youths experienced the aftermath of the attacks in the Netherlands. Al Ali chose journalism in 2020, after working in the NGO sector for several years.Martijn Stronks studied law and philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Cape Town University, South Africa. After his studies he became Editor-in-Chief of the migration law journal Migrantenrecht and its successor Asiel&Migrantenrecht. Between 1 september 2012 and 31 augustus 2016 he wrote a legal and philosophical dissertation on the role of time in European migration law. Since September 2016 he works at the Amsterdam Centre of Migration and Refugee Law (ACMRL) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Since 2025 he is head of ACMRL.Programme editor and moderator: Veronica BaasIn collaboration with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam---Want to know more about Forum on European Culture? Here you can find more information.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Een speciale jubileumaflevering #250 – met misschien wel ons beste óf slechtste idee ooit. Een debat tussen twee prominente professoren, twee filosofische en theologische zwaargewichten. Over een urgente én gewichtige kwestie: had Augustinus een baard? Het begon allemaal tijdens een eerdere jubileumaflevering (namelijk aflevering 200 (https://www.nporadio1.nl/podcasts/de-ongelooflijke-podcast/109619/200-de-grote-augustinus-show-met-paul-van-geest-beatrice-de-graaf-en-stefan-paas)). Daarin beweerde Augustinuskenner Paul van Geest dat Augustinus waarschijnlijk géén baard had. Dit zorgde voor veel opschudding - niet alleen bij ons (op ons logo prijkt toch echt een baarddragende Augustinus) - maar we kregen ook meerdere mails en op LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rik-peels-33a6967a_paul-van-geest-nav-ons-gesprekje-gisteren-activity-7275088920458006529-pJ9h/?originalSubdomain=nl) ontstond een fel debat. Daar riep filosoof Rik Peels Paul van Geest ter verantwoording, vanwege – zo stelde hij – 'het algemene morele, culturele en politieke belang van de zaak'. En nu, voor het eerst, kruisen ze de degens. Rik Peels, hoogleraar godsdienstfilosofie aan de VU in Amsterdam, neemt het op tegen Paul van Geest, hoogleraar kerkgeschiedenis aan Tilburg University én de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. En mocht je denken: ik vind dit alsnog te weinig expertise voor deze grote vraag, dan is het goed om te weten dat vaste gast theoloog Stefan Paas uiteraard ook van de partij is. Hij is hoogleraar aan de VU Amsterdam en de Theologische Universiteit Utrecht, en kijkt als theologisch scheidsrechter mee vanaf de zijlijn. Of pakt hij zelf nog de bal? Wie heeft er gelijk? Laat het ons weten! Op onze Instagrampagina (https://www.instagram.com/deongelooflijke/) kun je na afloop van het debat je stem uitbrengen. Want democratie is een groot goed! Op deze instagrampagina (https://www.nporadio1.nl/podcasts/de-ongelooflijke-podcast/124989/250-bonus-het-grote-debat-had-augustinus-een-baard-paul-van-geest-vs-rik-peels) zie je ook de fresco die ter sprake kwam én gezichtsbeharing van beide debaters, en de fenomenale snor van Stefan.

Goede Vrijdag staat symbool voor de kruisiging van Jezus. Maar waarom werd Jezus veroordeeld... en waarom was zijn uiteindelijke straf kruisiging? Na de aflevering over 'Romeinse kruisiging' neemt dr. Ruben van Wingerden van de Tilburg University, werkzaam aan de Tilburg School of Catholic Theology, ons deze keer uitgebreid mee naar de bronnen die we hebben over de kruisiging van Jezus en naar de aanloop en betekenis van die zo wrede executie.Let op: in deze aflevering worden details besproken die als heftig ervaren kunnen worden.Shownotes

Het is Goede Vrijdag en we staan aan de vooravond van het Paasweekend. Een perfect moment om je af te vragen waarom je God in de kunst zo vaak ziet als een oude man met een (lange) grijze baard.  Het verlossende antwoord krijg je van Dr. Frank Bosman, cultuurtheoloog aan de Tilburg University. 

Dr. Ruben van Wingerden van de Tilburg University, werkzaam aan de Tilburg School of Catholic Theology, neemt ons in deze aflevering mee naar een zeer wrede vorm van executie binnen de Romeinse wereld: kruisiging. Bij kruisiging wordt uiteraard vaak gedacht aan Jezus, maar hij was in de Oudheid lang niet de enige die een vreselijk dood stierf aan het kruis. Wie werden er gekruisigd? Door wie werd dat gedaan? Hoe werkte dat eigenlijk in de praktijk... toen en misschien ook wel nu?Let op: in deze aflevering worden details besproken die als heftig ervaren kunnen worden.Shownotes

Het kabinet gaat bezuinigen op wetenschappelijk onderwijs. Voor veel universiteiten een ramp. De private instelling TIAS doet het in de regel zonder overheidsgeld. Al betalen studenten daar ook aanzienlijk meer een studie, cursus of programma te mogen volgen. In ‘De top van Nederland’ heeft presentator Thomas van Zijl een uitgebreid gesprek met Jenke ter Horst, decaan en bestuurder van TIAS. Over TIAS TIAS School for Business and Society is een Nederlandse businessschool met een aanbod van economie- en managementopleidingen. TIAS is opgericht in 2006 en is onder andere gelieerd aan de Tilburg University en de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Over Thomas van Zijl Thomas van Zijl is financieel journalist en presentator bij BNR. Hij presenteert dagelijks ‘BNR Zakendoen’, het Nederlandse radioprogramma voor economisch nieuws en zakelijk inzicht, waar 'De top van Nederland’ onderdeel van is. Ook is hij een van de makers van de podcast ‘Onder curatoren’. Abonneer je op de podcast Ga naar ‘De top van Nederland’ en abonneer je op de podcast, ook te beluisteren via Apple Podcast en Spotify. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The founder and managing director of 123Carbon explains carbon insetting, SAF certificates, and SAF registries. In the news, we look at the Safer Skies Act of 2025, KC-135 Stratotanker service life, Airbus future single-aisle technologies and design, and injuries after a mid-air TCAS alarm sounds. Also, the first COMAC 909 delivery outside China, ATC privatization around the world, security theater, and introducing women to aviation. Guest Jeroen van Heiningen is the founder and managing director of 123Carbon. The company works with fuel suppliers and carriers to issue transparent and externally verified environmental attribute certificates, including SAF certificates, used by airlines and cargo operators to reduce their transport-related Scope 3 emissions. Jeroen discusses the sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) market, focusing on carbon insetting, the role of SAF registries, and the importance of transparency and standardization in the industry. He explains how carbon insetting differs from carbon offsetting, emphasizing the need for companies to invest in their value chain de-carbonization. The discussion also covers the digital certificate process, the collaboration between 123Carbon and IATA, and future trends in the SAF market. 123Carbon's registry is integrated with other IT systems and allows an airline to upload documents and manage its inventory of digital certificates online. It's a multi-modal agnostic platform that can be branded. With the use of sustainable bio-fuel growing in the land and sea modes of transportation, the accounting needs to be integrated with air. 123Carbon recently introduced Carboninsets.com, a free service for forwarders and cargo owners that connects them with issuers on the registry. Jeroen set-up and led Accenture's Sustainability Services Benelux and wrote the CDP NL 50 report in 2010. He has 15 years of experience with multi-modal carbon insetting programs, covering both Air (KLM corporate biofuels Program) and Marine (the GoodShipping Program). He holds a master's in business administration from Tilburg University. Takeaways: Carbon insetting is a more effective long-term approach than offsetting. Companies are increasingly linked to net-zero targets managed by SBTi. (Science Based Targets initiative) Standardization in the SAF market is crucial for transparency. Digital certificates are essential for tracking SAF transactions. Collaboration between registries helps prevent double counting of SAF. The SAF market is evolving with a focus on multimodal transportation. Demand and supply must be connected to stabilize SAF prices. New services like CarbonInsets.com facilitate connections between issuers and buyers. The aviation industry is leading in SAF adoption compared to other transport modes. Future initiatives will focus on integrating various transportation modalities. Resources: ICAO Global Framework for SAF: Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF)  IATA SAF Handbook [PDF] Developing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). IATA estimates that Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) could contribute around 65% of the reduction in emissions needed by aviation to reach net zero CO2 emissions by 2050. IATA and 123Carbon to Collaborate on Interoperability for SAF Registries. A strategic collaboration to develop interoperability between their respective SAF focusing on three key elements: A unique identifier and alignment of the relevant data points to exchange between registries. A process for the exchange of information to avoid any potential double issuance. A dispute resolution process.  IATA SAF Registry. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that it will establish the SAF Registry to accelerate the uptake of SAF by authoritatively accounting and reporting emissions reductions from SAF. SAFc Registry. Sustainable aviation fuel certificates (SAFc) can help drive demand for sustainable avi...

We often do not realize that deep down economics is a battleground of competing anthropologies: implicit or explicit theories of human nature, selfhood and subjectivity, quiet beliefs about how we understand ourselves and our place in the world. In this podcast we bring together researchers from different disciplines that study economic phenomena, systems, agency and behavior, ranging from historians and political philosophers to economic anthropologists and development economists, to scrutinize the protagonist of their discipline: who is the Real Homo Economicus? What kinds of creature are they? What drives their choices and behavior? Are we still talking about the same creature? To get the conversation started we use an experimental method: the Mythlab method. We use stories as a probe into economic thinking and quiet beliefs about the underlying anthropologies. In each episode we give our guest a story and see how they respond to it, and explore assumptions and associations in a playful way. In this fourth and final episode we play with fables, short moralistic tales, often featuring animals, but always addressing a deeper human truth. We talk about The Dog and the Piece of Meat, The Wolf and the Crane, The Hawk and the Nightingale, The Hen with the Golden Eggs, The Cricket and the Ant. What is the moral of these stories? What can animal stories tell us about human nature? And what kind of world is the world of the fable? I try to make sense of these fables with Huub Brouwer. Dr. Huub Brouwer is assistant professor of ethics and political philosophy at Tilburg University. His research is on theories of distributive justice, particularly on desert, responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism, and taxation. Huub is currently carrying out a 4-year research project on philosophy of taxation, funded by the Netherlands Research Council. (https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/nl/medewerkers/h-m-brouwer) Hosted by Dr. Tazuko van Berkel [https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/tazuko-van-berkel#tab-1] and Connor McMullen. Edited and mixed by Connor McMullen. Mythlab team: Dr. Erik Bähre, Dr. Aiste Celkyte, Prof. dr. Lisa Herzog, Connor McMullen, Dr. Sara Polak The Mythlab-project is funded by the Dutch Young Academy.   The Dutch Young Academy (https://www.dejongeakademie.nl/en/default.aspx) is a platform of fifty inspired academics who conduct research, advise, share knowledge and bring people together, and who do all this while taking a special interest in young scientists and scholars. .player5176 .plyr__controls, .player5176 .StampAudioPlayerSkin{ border-radius: 10px; overflow: hidden; } .player5176{ margin: 0 auto; } .player5176 .plyr__controls .plyr__controls { border-radius: none; overflow: visible; } .skin_default .player5176 .plyr__controls { overflow: visible; } Your browser does not support the audio element.   References: The fables of this episode are taken from ancient fable collections attributed to Aesop, Babrius and Phaedrus.

Sociale media hebben een groot probleem: desinformatie over gezondheid en voeding weten zich steeds gemakkelijker te verspreiden. Maar wat is de beste remedie? Wegblijven van onbetrouwbare algoritmes of de strijd aangaan met wetenschap en witte jassen? In deze uitzending van BNR Beter spreekt Nina van den Dungen over de goede en slechte invloed van zorginfluencers. Want naast de grote hoeveelheid onzin die door zogenoemde influencers op sociale media gedeeld wordt, zijn er ook zorgprofessionals die juist een positieve impact op de zorg hebben via sociale media. Zo is Heleen Lameijer als arts op de spoedeisende hulp van het Medisch Centrum Leeuwarden, ook een deel van haar week bezig met het delen van kennis en ervaringen op Instagram en LinkedIn. Ze deelt feitjes, bestrijd fabels en geeft een kijkje in de keuken van het werk als arts. Daarnaast verkoopt ze reanimatiecursussen en schrijft ze boeken. Ook social media-deskundige Joey Scheufler helpt artsen hun kennis te delen via TikTok en Instagram. Hij zette het account Dokters Vandaag op, waar een groep artsen met verschillende specialismen medische vragen beantwoorden. Het account bereikt al een grote groep mensen, omdat volgens Scheufler het publiek graag de informatie tot zich neem. Redacteur Stijn Goossens sprak met communicatiewetenschapper Emmelyn Croes van de Tilburg University. Zij legde uit wat de kracht van influencermarketing is en waarom mensen zo gemakkelijk informatie van influencers aannemen. Maar wat mag wel en niet op sociale media? En wat kan er worden gedaan om de verspreiding van desinformatie tegen te gaan? Denk aan video's over de werking van zonnebrandcrème, de gevaren van anticonceptie of het nut van supplementen en voeding. Moeten we de arts als influencer inzetten?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Het jaarverslag van DNB is gepubliceerd. De boodschap is duidelijk: De wereld wordt steeds onzekerder en het kabinet moet gaan werken aan een robuuste Nederlandse economie. Ondertussen kampt Nederland nog altijd met starre inflatie, die maar liefst anderhalf procent hoger ligt dan de Europese norm. Hoe krijgen we de inflatie onder controle? En: hoe maken we Nederland schokbestendig? Gesprek met Jan-Maarten de Vries, topman van Webfleet Ben je werkzaam in de transportsector? Of rij je ‘een auto van de zaak’? Dan is de kans aanwezig dat de software van Webfleet nauwkeurig in de gaten houdt hoeveel je uitstoot, waar je laadt en welke route je aflegt. Door wetgeving is die data steeds belangrijker en moet het ons uiteindelijk op de meest effectieve manier van A naar B brengen. Maar hoe werkt dat nou precies? Macro met Mujagić Elke dag een intrigerende gedachtewisseling over de stand van de macro-economie. Op maandag en vrijdag gaat presentator Thomas van Zijl in gesprek met econoom Arnoud Boot, de rest van de week praat Van Zijl met econoom Edin Mujagić. Boardroompanel Unilever ontslaat Ben & Jerry's topman David Stever wegens ‘politiek activisme’. En: Hoe moeten het Duitse miljardenconcern REWE en Prijsvrij-oprichter Marc van Deursen hun strijd over de verkoop van het reisbureau tot een goed einde brengen? Dat en meer bespreken we in het boardroompanel met: Tanja Nagel, onder andere voorzitter van de raad van toezicht van DSI en ook voorzitter van de raad van toezicht van het Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen. En Hugo Reumkens, partner en advocaat bij van Doorne, en voorzitter raad van toezicht van de Tilburg University. Luister l Boardroompanel Contact & Abonneren BNR Zakendoen zendt elke werkdag live uit van 11:00 tot 13:30 uur. Je kunt de redactie bereiken via e-mail. Abonneren op de podcast van BNR Zakendoen kan via bnr.nl/zakendoen, of via Apple Podcast en Spotify. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We zien van alles veranderen in de wereld en politiek, maar hoe veranderen mensen eigenlijk zélf in hun opvattingen en ideeën? Dat onderzoekt socioloog Quita Muis, die telkens in de media verschijnt met interessante onderzoeken, zoals: * Jongeren worden – tegen alle verwachtingen in – steeds conservatiever. * Jongeren staan steeds meer open voor autoritaire leiders, zeg maar dictators. * Hogeropgeleiden zitten meer in een bubbel dan lageropgeleiden. * En... we zijn veel minder gepolariseerd dan we denken! Hoe zit dat allemaal? Wat zijn de verklaringen? En worden jongeren – naast conservatiever – ook religieuzer? Dat vragen we aan Quita Muis dus, ze is onderzoeker en docent bij Tilburg University. David Boogerd sprak haar uiteraard samen met vaste gast theoloog Stefan Paas, hoogleraar aan de VU in Amsterdam en de Theologische Universiteit Utrecht. We gaan weer live met De Ongelooflijke! Donderdagavond woensdagavond 26 juni staan we live in de Nieuwe Buitensociëteit in Zwolle. Kaarten zijn te boeken via eo.nl/ongelooflijke (https://meer.eo.nl/de-ongelooflijke-podcast).

Sinds Donald Trump opnieuw aantrad als president van Amerika lijkt de wereld op z'n kop te staan. Veel van wat hij doet, wordt gezien als ondemocratisch. Is dat zo? Is Donald Trump inderdaad bezig de democratie kapot te maken? Zelf claimt hij juist dat hij de ware democratie terugbrengt. Hoe zit het nou? Je hoort het in deze aflevering van cultuurwetenschapper Ico Maly van Tilburg University.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Zo'n 10 tot 20% van de mensen die op het randje van de dood hebben gelegen, spreekt over een bijna-doodervaring. Ze treden buiten hun lichaam, zweven door een tunnel met wit licht aan het einde, of spreken met overleden dierbaren. Bestaat dit echt? Is dit een teken dat de geest los kan bestaan van het lichaam?De wetenschap zoekt naar antwoorden. Wij spraken met wetenschapsfilosoof Herman de Regt van Tilburg University, die onderzoek over bijna dood ervaringen kritisch onder de loep neemt.Wil je meer horen over bijna dood ervaringen, luister hier naar de podcast die onze Vlaamse collega's hierover maakten.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

De snelle opkomst van kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) biedt zowel kansen als uitdagingen voor fiscalisten. In het artikel ‘Kunstmatige intelligentie', geschreven voor de vereniging van hogere ambtenaren – ook al eens te gast geweest in de RB Podcast – benadrukt Prof. mr. dr. Diana van Hout van de Tilburg University dat AI steeds beter is in het analyseren van complexe datasets en het voorspellen van juridische uitkomsten, maar dat het menselijke inzicht, de ethische afweging en de contextuele interpretatie onvervangbaar blijven. Dus: terwijl rule-based algoritmes routinewerk kunnen overnemen, ligt de toekomst van fiscalisten in specialisaties zoals compliance, ethiek en rechtsvinding. Vandaar de oproep richting fiscalisten om basiskennis van AI te verwerven en zich te richten op een kritische, flexibele en menselijke beroepshouding. Want AI is niet alleen een dreiging, maar ook een kans om efficiënter en kwalitatief sterker te werken. Luister in deze RB Podcast naar Diana van Hout zelf. In gesprek met Sylvester Schenk, directeur fiscale zaken van het RB en de vaste host van de RB Podcast.Regelmatige luisteraar van de RB Podcast? Laat ons weten wat je er van vindt én stuur ons suggesties voor nieuwe afleveringen

This episode features Moyke Versluis (Research and Development, Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL), Utrecht, The Netherlands Graduate school of Social and behavioral sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands).   What is already known about the topic? Patients who are aware of their limited prognosis are more likely to be actively involved in advance care planning. Many patients with advanced cancer are unaware of their limited prognosis.   What this paper adds? More patients with advanced cancer become aware of their limited prognosis during their last year of life. Some patients do not want to know their prognosis, and their wish to not know their prognosis is persistent during their last year of life.   Implications for practice, theory, or policy It is important for physicians to recognise that the patients' perception of prognosis may change as the disease progresses and to invite patients to discuss their needs and wishes regularly. Although some patients may prefer not to know their prognosis, it remains important to respectfully explore their preferences and wishes for end-of-life care.   Full paper available from:     https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02692163241301220   If you would like to record a podcast about your published (or accepted) Palliative Medicine paper, please contact Dr Amara Nwosu: a.nwosu@lancaster.ac.uk

On this episode of Virtual Sentiments, host Kristen Collins chats with Roos Slegers on the uncanny valley, Freud, and cyborg science fiction. They explore the uncanny valley and Freud's concept of the uncanny, connecting them to ETA Hoffmann's “The Sandman”, Donna Haraway's “Cyborg Manifesto”, and contemporary AI debates. While Mori's uncanny valley describes discomfort with almost-human robots, Freud links the uncanny to repressed fears, particularly around gender and sexuality. Roos critiques Freud's reading of “The Sandman”, highlighting its deeper commentary on romantic ideals and the preference for submissive, artificial women—paralleling modern AI assistants like those in the American sci-fi film, Her. Haraway's cyborg offers an alternative, challenging rigid binaries and embracing technology's potential for transgression and liberation. They critique how today's AI and transhumanist movements reinforce traditional hierarchies rather than dismantling them, urging a more critical and playful engagement with technology's role in shaping human identity.Dr. Roos Slegers is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.Read more work from Kristen Collins.Notes: Masahiro Mori, 1970, “The Uncanny Valley"Sigmund Freud, 1919, “The Uncanny"Donna Haraway, 1985, “Cyborg Manifesto”ETA Hoffman, 1817, “The Sandman” Meghan O'Gieblyn, God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning, 2021If you like the show, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and tell others about the show! We're available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and wherever you get your podcasts.Follow the Hayek Program on Twitter: @HayekProgramLearn more about Academic & Student ProgramsFollow the Mercatus Center on Twitter: @mercatus

Segment 1 with Josh Drean starts at 0:00.Since COVID 19, we have seen a drastic redefinition of how people define work and employment - and a redefinition of how they want to make a living.  As my first guest says in the title of his book – Is employment dead?Josh Drean is cofounder of the Work3 Institute. He is also a Web3 and Workforce Advisor at the Harvard Innovation Labs and cofounder of DreanMedia. Josh is an HR transformation expert who connects emerging technologies with workplace strategies. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Fast Company, and MIT Technology Review, and his YouTube channel has garnered millions of views. His new book declares "Employment is Dead". Segment 2 with Mijntje Luckerath starts at 20:22.What is the role of a board of directors and do most of them lack a moral compass?Mijntje Lückerath-Rovers is a full Professor in Corporate Governance at TIAS Business School, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. She holds a PhD in financial economics and is also a labour and organisational psychologist.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-small-business-radio-show--3306444/support.

Polarisatie was in 2024 Woord van het Jaar. Mensen lijken steeds vaker lijnrecht tegenover elkaar te staan en de roep om minder polarisatie klinkt steeds luider. Maar deze paniek over polarisatie is onterecht, zegt socioloog Quita Muis.Afgelopen jaar promoveerde zij aan Tilburg University op een onderzoek naar polarisatie, waarin ze vooral heeft gekeken naar de rol van opleidingsniveaus en sociale identificatie. Haar conclusie: er is geen sprake van daadwerkelijke polarisatie tussen hoger- en lageropgeleiden, maar binnen deze groepen hebben met name hoger opgeleiden het gevóel sterk gepolariseerd te zijn. Dat komt omdat ze zich gaan gedragen zoals ze zich op basis van hun sociale groep denken te moeten gedragen. Wat is polarisatie precies? Wanneer is het nuttig voor de democratie en wanneer wordt het schadelijk? Welke rol speelt opleidingsniveau bij polarisatie, wat is de rol van de politiek en wat is er nodig om de ervaren polarisatie verminderen? Deze vragen bespreken Daniël Schut en Suzanne van den Eynden met Quita Muis.   

Ester Barendregt gaat met Otto Raspe in gesprek over zijn recent gehouden oratie aan Tilburg University. Wat houdt de bijzondere rol van Professor of Practice in en welke inhoudelijke invulling geeft hij hieraan? Vanuit het vertrekpunt dat we verder moeten kijken dan economische groei om welvaart goed te duiden - ook wel de ‘beyond GDP'-discussie genoemd - gaat Raspe in op 'brede welvaart'. Waarbij economische groei niet het doel is, maar eerder een middel. De economie loopt momenteel tegen haar grenzen aan en zal dus van richting moeten veranderen. Een nieuwe koers moeten kiezen.

Anyone who has ever done a long car journey with kids will be familiar with the idea of being bored to death – but can this feeling really be fatal? Hannah and Dara hear about a club where members count roundabouts and collect milk bottle tops, but boredom expert Wijnand van Tilburg explains these dull-sounding hobbies might actually have mental health benefits. He explains that science and comedy are stereotypically both seen as exciting subjects but warns them their chat about Venn diagrams might tip the balance the other way. Mind-wandering specialist Mike Esterman reveals why we're rubbish at staying on task when there are more rewarding things to do, and sets the pair a challenge to play a computer game that distracts them with pictures of cute babies and fluffy animals.Contributors:Dr Wijnand van Tilburg: University of Essex Dr Mike Esterman: Boston Attention and Learning LabProducer: Marijke Peters Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem A BBC Studios Audio Production

A seasoned diplomat with over three decades of international experience, Jan Waltmans reflects on his postings in conflict zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, sharing stories of resilience and collaboration amidst challenging circumstances. From navigating political turbulence to fostering reconciliation among divided communities, Jan's insights highlight the power of diplomacy, listening, and grassroots efforts to create meaningful change. He also shares a deeply personal moment about the passing of his wife. He honors her strength and shares his decision to continue living with purpose: "I don't want to be a very sad person day and night for the next 20, 30 years." His resilience and hope inspire us all. His recount of the liberation of Mosul, and his engagement with youth to bridge divides in Lebanon, provide important lessons for anyone invested in building a more just and peaceful world.   Jan Waltmans has dedicated his career to international diplomacy, serving as the Ambassador of the Netherlands in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lebanon, and Iraq, among other roles. Currently, he is a strategic advisor to the Director General for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands. A Tilburg University graduate with a Master's in Law, Jan's passion for bridging cultural and political divides has taken him to some of the world's most volatile regions. His unwavering belief in the importance of connection, learning from others, and fostering hope shines through in both his professional achievements and his reflections during this conversation.   Listener Engagement: Discover more about Jan Waltmans his employer, via their website. And this is the link to the NGO in Lebanon that is mentioned by Jan during this episode: March Share your thoughts on this episode at innovationhub@cwsglobal.org. Your feedback is invaluable to us. Explore the songs selected by Jan and other guests on our #walktalklisten playlist here. Follow Us: Support the Walk Talk Listen podcast and Maurice by liking and following Maurice on Blue Sky, Facebook and Instagram. Visit our website at 100mile.org for more episodes and information about our initiatives. Check out the special WTL series "Enough for All," featuring Church World Service (CWS) and the work of the Joint Learning Initiative (JLI).

Ons economisch beleid is te veel gericht op groei en daarom is een bredere blik op welvaart nodig. Dat stellen verschillende economen die vinden dat we voorbij het begrip ‘bruto nationaal product' moeten kijken. Waarom? En wat voor indicatoren neem je dan mee in je analyse? Otto Raspe, professor of Practice Brede welvaart en regionale economie aan de Tilburg University, is te gast in BNR Zakendoen.  Macro met Boot   Elke dag een intrigerende gedachtewisseling over de stand van de macro-economie. Op maandag en vrijdag gaat presentator Thomas van Zijl in gesprek met econoom Arnoud Boot, de rest van de week praat Van Zijl met econoom Edin Mujagić.  Ondernemerspanel  Eén op de drie kleine ondernemers denkt eraan om te stoppen, blijkt uit de Kleinbedrijf Index, gebaseerd op onderzoek van de Hogeschool Utrecht, microfinancier Qredits en Ondernemend Nederland.  Maar 4.4 procent van de respondenten gaat ook daadwerkelijk stoppen in de komende zes maanden, zeggen ze. Wat hebben ondernemers dan precies aan dit onderzoek? En: De topman van het failliete Big Bazar wordt aansprakelijk gesteld voor het faillissementstekort door de curatoren. Dat en meer bespreken we om 11.10 in het ondernemerspanel, met:  Joyce Knappe, directeur van Pro Parents  Erik Peekel, eigenaar van Aaaaha! Bureau voor live communicatie  Pitches  Elke vrijdag is het weer tijd voor jonge ondernemingen om zichzelf op de kaart te zetten. Dat doen zij via een pitch en het doorstaan van een vragenvuur. Vandaag is het de beurt aan Marguerite Mensonides-Harsema van Amplio Pharma en Lorenzo Engelen van Qarry. Ook aangeschoven Johan van Mil, mede-oprichter van Peak Capital. Hij zal de startups beoordelen en van advies voorzien.  Contact & Abonneren  BNR Zakendoen zendt elke werkdag live uit van 11:00 tot 13:30 uur. Je kunt de redactie bereiken via e-mail.   Abonneren op de podcast van BNR Zakendoen kan via bnr.nl/zakendoen, of via Apple Podcast en Spotify. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Het Europese continent wordt afgeschilderd als het museum van de wereld. Leuk voor vakantie maar zakelijk niet interessant. Wat moet Europa doen om de concurrentiestrijd aan te kunnen gaan met de Verenigde Staten en China? En waar ligt de meeste potentie voor het ontwikkelen van Europese "kampioenen”?  Barbara Baarsma, hoogleraar toegepaste economie en hoofdeconoom bij PwC is te gast bij de Big Five van de Europese economie. Gasten in BNR's Big Five van de Europese economie: -Ingrid Thijssen, voorzitter van werkgeversvereniging VNO-NCW. -Harald Benink, hoogleraar Banking & finance aan de Tilburg University. -Bert Colijn, hoofdeconoom Nederland van ING, -Barbara Baarsma, hoogleraar toegepaste economie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en hoofd econoom bij PwC -Martin Visser, econoom, oud-Brussel-correspondent voor het FD, en chef van de Financiële Telegraaf.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Willen we in Europa méér integratie op economisch gebied, of niet? Wat is economisch het meest verstandig? En in hoeverre willen de nationale overheden daarin meebewegen? Te gast is Bert Colijn, hoofdeconoom Nederland van ING, in BNR's Big Five over de toekomst van de Europese economie.  Gasten in BNR's Big Five van de Europese economie: -Ingrid Thijssen, voorzitter van werkgeversvereniging VNO-NCW. -Harald Benink, hoogleraar Banking & finance aan de Tilburg University. -Bert Colijn, hoofdeconoom Nederland van ING, -Barbara Baarsma, hoogleraar toegepaste economie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en hoofd econoom bij PwC -Martin Visser, econoom, oud-Brussel-correspondent voor het FD, en chef van de Financiële Telegraaf.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

De Europese Unie moét werken aan gezamenlijke investeringsagenda als het de economische uitdagingen waar zij voor staat het hoofd wil bieden. Maar: hoe moet die agenda gefinancierd worden? Te gast is Harald Benink, hoogleraar Banking & Finance aan de Tilburg University. Gasten in BNR's Big Five van de Europese economie: -Ingrid Thijssen, voorzitter van werkgeversvereniging VNO-NCW. -Harald Benink, hoogleraar Banking & finance aan de Tilburg University. -Bert Colijn, hoofdeconoom Nederland van ING, -Barbara Baarsma, hoogleraar toegepaste economie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en hoofd econoom bij PwC -Martin Visser, econoom, oud-Brussel correspondent voor het FD, en chef van de Financiële Telegraaf. Schrijf je nu in voor de BNR Nieuwsbrief voor je dagelijkse dosis nieuws en podcasttips. Iedere ochtend en/of middag in je mailbox zodat je altijd op de hoogte bent. Blijf Scherp.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

De Europese economie moet op de schop als het aan Mario Draghi ligt. Maar hoe dan precies? En is er wel de politieke wil in Europa om het Europese concurrentievermogen drastisch te verbeteren?  Te gast is Ingrid Thijssen, voorzitter van werkgeversvereniging VNO-NCW.  Gasten in BNR's Big Five van de Europese economie: -Ingrid Thijssen, voorzitter van werkgeversvereniging VNO-NCW.  -Harald Benink, hoogleraar Banking & finance aan de Tilburg University.  -Bert Colijn, hoofdeconoom Nederland van ING, -Barbara Baarsma, hoogleraar toegepaste economie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en hoofd econoom bij PwC -Martin Visser, econoom, oud-Brussel correspondent voor het FD, en chef van de Financiële Telegraaf.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Directeuren van bedrijven kijken met steeds meer belangstelling naar energiebesparingen op kantoor. Maar hoe staat de verduurzaming van gebouwen er werkelijk voor? Wieger Droogh, topman van Equans Nederland, is te gast in BNR Zakendoen. Boardroompanel  Wat betekent de verkiezingsoverwinning van Trump voor grote multinationals?. En: waarom zag de directie van Blokker geen andere keuze dan uitstel van betaling? Dat en meer bespreken we in het boardroompanel met: Hugo Reumkens, partner en advocaat bij van Doorne en voorzitter van de raad van toezicht van de Tilburg University, en Jeroen Vercauteren, specialist op het gebied van fusies en overnames en verbonden aan Factor & Ros   Geniaal Of Onzinnig   Welk bedrijf droomt er niet van: het introduceren van een geniaal product of een briljante dienst. Maar wat in de ogen van het bedrijf in kwestie geweldig is, kan zo maar onzinnig zijn.    Om de echte pareltjes te vinden én nonsens te ontmaskeren, gaat Thomas van Zijl iedere donderdag in gesprek met een ondernemer die een product of dienst onder de aandacht wil brengen. Deze week is het de beurt aan Klazien Visser, mede-oprichter en topvrouw van Soapoli-online  Contact & Abonneren  BNR Zakendoen zendt elke werkdag live uit van 11:00 tot 13:30 uur. Je kunt de redactie bereiken via e-mail.   Abonneren op de podcast van BNR Zakendoen kan via bnr.nl/zakendoen, of via Apple Podcast en Spotify. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Forbes Riley as she chats with Nathan Wildman to Dive into the intersection of philosophy, technology, and gaming with Nathan Wildman, Assistant Professor at Tilburg University. Explore how video games, virtual reality, and digital aesthetics shape our understanding of fiction, truth, and interactivity.

In this episode of DISINFORMATION WARS, host Ilan Berman speaks with Ammar Maleki, the founder and director of the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran, or GAMAAN, regarding what innovative polls tell us about how Iranians think about their own government, and the rest of the world.   BIO: Ammar Maleki is the founder and director of the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran, GAMAAN (www.gamaan.org). He is also an Assistant Professor at Tilburg University in The Netherlands. He is a board member of the NGO Iran Human Rights, based in Oslo, Norway.

We're in the countdown to the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting, in Seattle, Washington, October 20-23, when more than 6,000 INFORMS members, students, prospective employers and employees, and academic and industry experts will share the ways O.R. and analytics are fueling Smarter Decisions for a Better World.  Joining me to give a sneak peek of this year's meeting is Koen Peters, head of optimization for the World Food Programme's Supply Chain Planning & Optimization branch. For the last decade he has been leading initiatives in the area of optimization and analytics, including tools that are now used to inform the design of food baskets, sourcing strategies, and delivery networks. These user-friendly solutions ensure that WFP can reach as many people in need as possible with available resources, and were awarded with the 2021 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research and Management Science. Koen holds a Master of science degree in operations research and management science from Tilburg University, and is pursuing a PhD in humanitarian analytics at Tilburg University's Zero Hunger Lab.

Het kabinet wil een noodwet om asiel in te perken, waarbij het parlement buitenspel wordt gezet. Op welke manier vormen dit soort politieke praktijken een gevaar voor de rechtsstaat? Te gast is Ingrid Leijten, hoogleraar Nederlands en Europees constitutioneel recht aan Tilburg University, in BNR's Big Five van het regeerprogramma Gasten in BNR's Big Five over het regeerprogramma: -Julia Wouters, politicoloog en voormalig politiek adviseur van Lodewijk Asscher -Hero Brinkman, oud-Kamerlid namens de PVV -Ingrid Leijten, hoogleraar Nederlands en Europees constitutioneel recht aan Tilburg University -Henk Kamp, VVD-prominent en oud-minister -Ingrid Thijssen, voorzitter van VNO-NCW Schrijf je nu in voor de BNR Nieuwsbrief voor je dagelijkse dosis nieuws en podcasttips. Iedere ochtend en/of middag in je mailbox zodat je altijd op de hoogte bent. Blijf Scherp.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Universiteit van Nederland komt naar Carré! Op 28 oktober vieren we onze 10 verjaardag met een speciale voorstelling: Wat als de tijd stopt? Tickets: https://carre.nl/voorstelling/universiteit-van-nederland Boomers, zoomers, millennials en xennials. We vinden het heerlijk om elkaar in te delen in generaties. Maar zegt de generatie waartoe je behoort echt iets over je identiteit? En bestaan deze labeltjes volgens de wetenschap eigenlijk wel? We vragen het gen-x'er Bram Peper. Socioloog aan Tilburg University.Tijdcodes00:00 Welke generaties zijn er?00:45 Wat verbindt een generatie? 02:23 Bestaan generaties echt?03:22 Het verschil tussen Gen-Z en andere generaties06:02 Waarom plakken we labels op generaties? Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Universiteit van Nederland komt naar Carré! Op 28 oktober vieren we onze 10 verjaardag met een speciale voorstelling: Wat als de tijd stopt? Tickets: https://carre.nl/voorstelling/universiteit-van-nederland Het aantal cosmetische ingrepen groeit razendsnel. In de laatste tien jaar gingen we van zo'n 14 miljoen naar 35 miljoen behandelingen, meer dan een verdubbeling. Sociaal wetenschapper Anne-Mette Hermans van de Tilburg University onderzoekt welke invloed deze toename heeft op jongeren. Zij groeien nu op met een redelijk 'genormaliseerd' beeld van cosmetische ingrepen. Zijn lipfillers en botox voor hen straks net zo normaal als een bezoek aan de kapper? Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Rusland lijkt een nieuwe fase in de oorlog in Oekraïne te zijn gestart met grootschalige luchtaanvallen door het hele land. Wat Eric van der Burg, voormalig staatssecretaris en huidig buitenlandwoordvoerder voor de VVD in de Tweede Kamer, betreft staat het buiten kijf dat Oekraïne onze wapens in Rusland mag inzetten. Maar hij plaatst wel een kanttekening. 'Oekraïne moet altijd strategisch blijven handelen'. Bernard Hammelburg spreekt hem. Luister ook | 'Rusland is in oorlog met ons, maar wij denken dat we een oorlog kunnen vermijden' In het Midden-Oosten blijven Israël en Hamas ruziën over de Philadelphi-corridor op de grens van Gaza met Egypte. Israël wil eraan vasthouden en Hamas wil dat Israël er vertrekt. Als het niet tot een deal komt over een staakt-het-vuren voorziet Van der Burg mogelijk een rol voor Blauwhelmen van de VN, maar plaatst ook daar een kanttekening bij. 'In Libanon gaf dat Israël uiteindelijk geen veilig gevoel. Misschien dat landen uit de Abraham-akkoorden erbij betrokken moeten worden.' Lees ook | Defensie koopt extra F-35's, onderzeebootjagers en helikopters, maar 2,4 miljard is niet genoeg De Defensienota in Europees perspectief Minister van Defensie Ruben Brekelmans heeft de Defensienota gepresenteerd. Daaruit blijkt dat Nederland fors meer gaat investeren in onder meer tanks, F-35's en onderzeebootjagers. Europa-verslaggever Michal van der Toorn legt uit wat er nog meer in staat en hoe zich dat verhoudt tot de andere landen in Europa en de NAVO. Lees ook | VS kondigt sancties aan tegen Israëlische kolonisten op de Westelijke Jordaanoever Het vierde front op de Westoever Alle inspanningen ten spijt. De oorlog in het Midden-Oosten escaleert alleen maar verder. Na Gaza, Hezbollah en de Houthi-rebellen is er nu sprake van een vierde front op de Westoever. Arabist Jan Jaap de Ruiter van de Tilburg University legt uit hoe daar in de omringende landen naar wordt gekeken en wat die landen op de achtergrond doen.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's a group of far right influencers lurking on your social media feeds. They post organic recipes, millennial mom advice, and #glowups. And they're using this content to promote white supremacist ideas. This week, Dr. Eviane Leidig joins us to discuss who these women are and how they're spreading hate on social media. Dr. Eviane Leidig is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Tilburg University. Her research specializes in the global far-right, gender, and online radicalization, recruitment, and propaganda. Her latest book, The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization, is published by Columbia University Press. You can follow Dr. Leidig on Twitter @evianeleidig, and at www.evianeleidig.com. Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our senior producer is Chris McClure. Our editor & engineer is Nathanael McClure. Production support from Julie Carrillo, Anne Currie, and Chad Hall. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Unser heutiger Gast hat eine beeindruckende Reise hinter sich, die ihn von Gambia nach Deutschland und schließlich in die Führungsriege eines der weltweit führenden Markt- und Meinungsforschungsinstitute geführt hat. Geboren in Gambia, zog er im Alter von 15 Jahren nach Deutschland. Neben seiner akademischen Ausbildung in International Economics and Finance an der Tilburg University in den Niederlanden, verfolgte er eine sportliche Karriere und spielte Basketball in der Bundesliga bei den Telekom Baskets Bonn. Seit mittlerweile 16 Jahren ist er bei Gallup tätig, einem Unternehmen, dass sich seit Jahrzehnten weltweit für die Verbesserung von Arbeit einsetzt. Er hat dort eine bemerkenswerte Karriere gemacht. Er begann als Associate Consultant und stieg über verschiedene Positionen kontinuierlich auf. Seit fast drei Jahren ist er als Managing Partner für die Region EMEA (Europa, Naher Osten und Afrika) verantwortlich. Zuvor war er Managing Partner für Europa und Country Manager für Deutschland. Seine Rolle bei Gallup erlaubt es ihm, auf globaler Ebene Einfluss zu nehmen und die Richtung des Unternehmens entscheidend mitzugestalten. Seit mehr als 7 Jahren haben wir uns in nun schon 445 Folgen mit weit mehr als 500 Menschen darüber unterhalten, was sich für sie beim Thema Arbeit geändert hat und was sich weiter ändern muss. Wir sind uns ganz sicher, dass es gerade jetzt wichtig ist. Denn die Idee von “New Work” wurde während einer echten Krise entwickelt. Wie können die CliftonStrengths34 dabei helfen, die individuellen Stärken zu erkennen und optimal zu nutzen? Welche Rolle spielen Stärken in der heutigen Arbeitswelt, und wie können sie dazu beitragen, Teams erfolgreicher zu machen? Welche praktischen Tipps hat unser Gast für Menschen, die ihre eigenen Stärken besser verstehen und einsetzen möchten? Wir suchen nach Methoden, Vorbildern, Erfahrungen, Tools und Ideen, die uns dem Kern von New Work näher bringen! Darüber hinaus beschäftigt uns von Anfang an die Frage, ob wirklich alle Menschen das finden und leben können, was sie im Innersten wirklich, wirklich wollen. Ihr seid bei "On the Way to New Work" - heute bereist zum zweiten Mal mit Pa M.K. Sinyan. [Hier](https://linktr.ee/onthewaytonewwork) findet ihr alle Links zum Podcast und unseren aktuellen Werbepartnern #NewWork #onthewaytonewwork #blackboat #newworkmasterskills #Gallup #CliftonStrengths34

Accurate reporting in psychological science is vital for ensuring reliable results. Are there statistical inconsistencies in scientific articles?     In this episode, APS's Özge Gürcanlı Fischer Baum speaks with Michele Nuijten from Tilburg University to examine how overlooked errors in statistical reporting can undermine the credibility of research findings. Together, they discuss Nuijten's research published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science and examine practical strategies to enhance the quality of psychological research.    If you're interested in learning more about this research, visit psychologicalscience.org.    Send us your thoughts and questions at underthecortex@psychologicalscience.org.

On this episode, my guest is Sean P. Smith, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Much of his research has focused on the relationship between social media and tourism, and how colonial histories shape today's ideologies and visual cultures of travel. The inequalities that result from many forms of tourism development, he argues, are intimately linked with how tourists create content for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, and the ways tourists frame themselves in landscapes and alongside local residents often replay colonial hierarchies.Show Notes: Why Study Instagram?The Pre-tour Narrative (Edward Bruner, Raul Salazar)The Habitus of Tourism (or How We Got Here)The Promontory Witness (or that photo)The Logic of InfluenceEmptying the Landscape (John Urry)The Techno-Generational DivideMedia EcologyOther Horizons in OmanHomework:Sean P. Smith - Tilburg UniversitySean P. Smith: Twitter / X | Instagram | Google Scholar (Articles)Transcript:Chris: [00:00:00] Welcome, Sean, to the pod. Thank you so much for being willing to join us to speak about your work. Sean: Thanks very much for having me. Chris: My pleasure. I'm curious, Sean where you're speaking from today and, and how the world is, how the world might be housing you there. Sean: Well, it's very rainy and dark. I'm in the Southern Netherlands, an area called North Brebant, where I just moved less than a month ago.So, in many places of moving around, if so, getting used to this one. Chris: Sean, I found out about your work from one of the pod's listeners who sent in a link to one of your academic articles entitled, Instagram Abroad, Performance, Consumption, and Colonial Narrative in Tourism. Now, I've been ruminating on the effect that social media has on tourism, spectacle, surveillance, and cultures of disposability for a long time now.So I'm really excited to speak with you today. And [00:01:00] likewise parts of the podcast are shared via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, so there's always this sense of kind of feeding the machine. unaware and perhaps more aware each time. And so first then, I'm curious why focus on Instagram in the context of critical tourism studies? What makes it different from say Facebook or Twitter?Sean: Yeah, that's a really good question Chris. I think with Instagram, in many contexts around the world, certainly not universally, but it's the social media platform that is most readily identified with not just tourism, but the way that people represent themselves engaging in tourism. It's very image driven.Of course, people do write captions, they do engage in other forms of storytelling, but nowadays it's mostly pictures and especially reels, arguably in the last few years. And for a long time, this [00:02:00] has been could almost say the dream work of tourism going back 200, maybe longer years. So even though today, I think you can find forms of tourism well represented TikTok to varying degrees on Facebook.Instagram, at least in many of the places where I've conducted research, is the place that one goes to both learn about places to travel and also to show how oneself travels.Chris: And I'm kind of imagining that we're more or less in the same age range, but I'm curious if on your travels, you mentioned just briefly that you had also spent time backpacking as a younger person and I'm curious if Instagram existed at the time and also if this dream work was evident to you in your travels.Sean: It was. I think I was relatively young when I got my first [00:03:00] smartphone, but certainly not as young as people nowadays. I must have been maybe 22 or 23. So I did have some years of traveling before I think Instagram really reshaped the way that tourism is done, not just for people that actually use this app, but regardless of whether or not anyone's ever downloaded it on their phone, I think Instagram has had a significant impact on the way that tourism is done. So when I first got a smartphone, I was in a period of my life where I was able to travel quite frequently and that was something that I was really pursuing at the time. And Instagram was a way that I was able to engage in a long running interest in photography, but also kind of a diary of where I had been, but certainly one that was legible and sort of visible to other people.And it was through that, you could say "performance" of travel that began to think a bit more critically about this app and other social media [00:04:00] platforms as well. And the way that it was reshaping tourism destinations. Chris: Mm. Mm. Yeah, you mention in your work this notion of the pre tour narrative.And I'm wondering if we could unpack that a little bit for our listeners and what part Instagram plays in this pre tour narrative. Sean: Yeah, I'm very happy to point that out, because I think this is, this is an important way to think about tourism, and that particular phrase I'm drawing on the work of Edward Bruner, who was an American anthropologist.And that's also been picked up in other realms to be identified as what other people have called tourism imaginaries, such as in the work of Raúl Salazar. So what this concept of the pre-tour narrative describes is that before people travel to a particular destination, they are exposed to [00:05:00] various forms of representation.And oftentimes this is very image based or narrative based. So we would see this maybe thinking back in the era before social media, images encountered in magazines and films, perhaps novels, other forms of storytelling, such as just talking with people who have been to places that one wants to travel.However, in social media, as it's become more integral to the way that people conduct their everyday lives, let alone traveling. It's become the dominant engine for the way that the pre tour narrative is formed. Many people who use Instagram as a space to learn about places to travel, they will encounter images of these of these places on this app or and not just sort of the way that it's portrayed, but what people do in these spaces, the people that live [00:06:00] in the places they're going to visit. So, this process of the formation of a pre tour narrative has really always been a part of tourism. But I think it perhaps it's if not accelerated, then certainly taken a bit of a different form with the advent of social media.Chris: So on some level, it's not just the question of what you're going to go see, but also how you're going to see it, how you're going to stand in front of that tower or restaurant and see, experience, what's there. Sean: Yeah, that's a really good way to put it. Chris: And I know it's a little early in the interview, but I'd like to jump into the heart of the matter and your critiques, if we can. You know, you wrote this incredible article Landscapes for Likes, capitalizing on travel with Instagram. And, in that article, you wrote that, deep breath, "Instagram's networked architecture and affordances produce three [00:07:00] outcomes that circulate and magnify utterances about travel to a degree impossible in pre-networked media.One, a mediated travel habitus hegemonically informs prevailing aesthetic norms. Two, the scalability of embodied performances entrench the motif's narrative underpinnings. And three, the monetizable market of Instagram encourages neoliberal notions of the branded self." Now that's a beautiful mouthful. And so I'm wondering, if you might be willing and able to flesh out these three outcomes for our listeners. Sean: No, that's brilliant. And it's nice to talk about these things, perhaps when they're written that can be quite a bit denser.So maybe we can start with the first idea, this mediated travel habitus. And with the word habitus, I'm trying on the work of [00:08:00] the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who theorizes he's talking about class and culture and ways that people display their belonging within a particular class.And the reason that I'm looking to Bordeaux here is tourism and travel, really, it's important to look at this as a practice that has been connected to what Bordeaux might call the pursuit of distinction, to the search for an acquisition of cultural goods. You know, we might think of cultural goods as being a painting or a taste and a particular kind of music, clothes, certain way of speaking even. And when one amasses certain, certain cultural goods, and they're recognized as being part of the upper classes, being marks of somebody who is [00:09:00] sophisticated, somebody who is typically from a fairly privileged financial background, these cultural goods are desirable.So, this background I think is important because tourism from its modern beginnings in the 18th century has been obtaining these experiences and often physical artifacts that can be a way of claiming a certain social status. So, maybe you've discussed this in other podcasts already, but, when the Grand Tour began in the 1600s, but really took off in the 1700s there was this process in which the aristocratic men, young men, were sent on a tour around Europe, and they would go to capitals like Paris, later Vienna, and then especially places like Rome, and, where they could encounter the remnants of the Roman Empire and classical learning. [00:10:00] And this was meant to do a few things in the first sense. It was meant to introduce them other parts of the world, to certain historical understandings. They could refine their Latin. They could get better at French and then they could go home and be recognized as a sophisticated member of the aristocracy. And this practice really became quite popular up until about the turn of the 19th century, when it stopped briefly because of wars on the European continent, and then after the Napoleonic Wars ended, it basically exploded. So when we think about over tourism now in 2023, this was, you know, 1815, 1820s, and this was a period where all of a sudden there were more tourists than ever before.And what that meant is this practice, which had only been done [00:11:00] by the wealthiest classes, was now something that the middle classes could engage in and that produced a kind of anxiety, where how was one able to become a distinguished or sophisticated traveller. How was one able to obtain the cultural goods provided by travel if everyone was doing it?So, the habitus of tourism, the kind of implicitly learned practices and sensibilities that developed during the Grand Tour experienced this period of challenge where people had to look for a way to find distinction by other means. And I think this beginning led to this friction where now you see people who are trying to go places that no other tourists go, trying to take pictures that no other tourists have taken, trying to be the only person in a picture of a [00:12:00] famous place. So this way of understanding how to be a tourist has become enshrined in the kinds of images that we see in a space like, like Instagram to the extent where I think these images are circulating the ideologies of tourism. The scalability refers to, in social media studies, the way in which a single image can achieve a degree of circulation that is not really possible in pre-networked media. So, by networked media, we can think of platforms like Instagram. We can think of Twitter, anything where the possibility of likes and retweets or reposts achieves a degree of visibility what we might call going viral.So what I was writing about in that article was this particular composition called the "promontory witness" where you have typically one [00:13:00] person who's standing on a promontory or we can say the edge of a cliff the top of a building, in front of a waterfall and they're looking really, really small as compared to the vast scale of nature.And people see these images and they understand through the mediation, the widespread circulation of these images, that this means something important about travel. This is what I mean by the mediated habitus of travel, that taking an image like this and being a person in a promontory witness image has a particular value. It is a way of claiming distinction, again, in Rodrigo's terms. And by taking a promontory witness image, one is able to circulate that image on Instagram in a very different way than before the social media platform existed. So, you know, we think about images circulated in tourism before Instagram.It would either be, say, in a family photo album. That people used to have projectors. [00:14:00] People used to maybe send holiday pictures to family and friends, basically whoever they could, you know, show it to, but this is a really, really small circulation, unless somebody was able to get an image in a magazine or some sort of formal publication. But what really shifts with scalable social media is that somebody can take an image and there really is the potential to go viral.I think in Instagram, the potential to have an image seen by a really significant number of people is less than on a platform like Tik Tok. But there remains the possibility if I post a promontory witness image and I put a geo tag in a place that is particularly trendy at this, at this moment and I put the right hashtags that thousands of people can witness this image and because of that possibility, I think there's a degree of enlistment, a degree of interest in [00:15:00] participating in this trend because taking a promontory witness picture is going to have much more possibility of going viral of leveraging these architectures, these scalable architectures.Much more so than if it just take, if I take another image that isn't so popular on a platform like Instagram. Chris: Thank you. Thank you, Sean. Yeah. So there's, there's a lot in there I'm going to come back to in just a little bit. But I wanted to just finish off this one last part because you kind of, you know, mentioned it a little bit.The monetizable market of Instagram that encourages neoliberal notions of the brand itself. And, you know, I pulled this, this other sentence from one of your articles where you write that "as a banal mediator of travel and tourism, Instagram can encourage tourists to imagine themselves as a capital generating brand." Sean: It's really a comment on the attention economy structure of social media platforms, [00:16:00] where I want people to see my pictures and I want to get likes.And I say that very much as being somebody who continues to study social media and tourism from a critical angle. When I post something I'm always aware of how it's going to be received. Some part of me, even when I'm very aware of the issues with thinking this way potentially is I always want it to gain more visibility.If I post something and it has less likes than something I posted previously, this will likely incur some degree of thinking, what did I do wrong? What could I have done differently? You know, maybe I'm just produced such interesting content. And what I think is really taking place there is that we're constantly thinking about ways to achieve visibility in a way that is not dissimilar to the kind of negotiation that celebrities and [00:17:00] other public figures have to go through when managing their, what we might in today's terms, call their brand, where because there is always this metric of how popular one is or how visible one is in the form of likes or in the form of reposts or retweets or what have you it's means that we develop a way of always orienting towards this possible public. We're always thinking about the people that are going to see whatever kind of thing we say online, and we, I think much of the time, are hoping that it's going to be received.If not, you know, people are going to like it, if it is going to maybe change the way that people think about something, if it's going to influence them in some way. And Instagram, of course, is like other social media platforms, is monetizable in the sense that when one gets a lot of followers, you know, if I continually create fantastic travel content and I get tens of thousands or more followers, then [00:18:00] that means that I am able to start making money from it. I'm going to be paid by different companies to come and stay at a resort or go on some sort of guided tour and take an image or make a reel of this experience and post it on Instagram, talk about how great it was, and then tag the company.And that's a way of them bringing in business. This is how advertising works. So, people become advertisers. But even before that influencer level, I think those of us who are not influencers, and I am certainly not, there's a degree to which we are participating in this logic because even if we don't have any designs of becoming influencers, we still want our posts to be liked and this ultimately influences not just posts we make, but the kind of traveling we do and the kind of relationship we have with the places to which we travel.Hmm. Chris: Well [00:19:00] contentious at the very least. But thank you for that, Sean, for being able to flesh that out for us. And I'd like to return back to this notion of the promontory witness, and you know, because even before Instagram I remember seeing in my backpacking years, these same photos, right?The photo of the person, of their back to the camera facing the open horizon, you know, whether it be a cliff face or a desert or whatever it is, and spreading their hands or arms and, just this kind of emanating freedom, I guess.But you also mentioned that this kind of perspective, if you want to call it that, manufactures emptiness because there's nobody else in the photo, and this is so much a part of the kind of sometimes they're Instagram reels, or sometimes they're photos of people, what it looks like when people are at tourist destinations, actually taking the [00:20:00] photo in front of the Eiffel Tower, or the Great Wall, or the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or whatever, and there's actually hundreds.And thousands of people taking the same photo or trying to, and everyone wants to have that photo without anyone else in it. And so, just a little preamble to the question again, in Landscapes for Likes, you write that "this manufacturing of emptiness privileges tourists as the sole consumers of a landscape, and with its residents hidden from view, a landscape is voided of its human and temporal context. Thus abstracted, place is relevant as little but a visual commodity." And then just another quote that I think brings a little something else to the picture is that "the promontory witness motif scrubs the landscape of the tourist destination of any sign of human habitation, but that of the tourist, singularly pictured in a position of mastery that confers [00:21:00] possession over the destination." And so there seems to be a kind of shared understanding in critical tourism studies that modern and especially social media based travel photography emphasizes empty spaces, of course, minus the Instagram user, the person photographing question. And so I'm curious, why is identifying the emptying of the landscape so important for our understanding?What does it do to us as photo viewers? Sean: Yeah, that's an excellent question and I think I'm very, I'm very interested in this composition, which the lone tourist and the landscape, which, mean, other people before me have pointed to, and at least John Urry.And I think there are two things happening here. For one, it's the kind of picture that's due to the mediation of what we can think of as a travel habitus, due to the way that [00:22:00] people have learned about how to do tourism and to represent themselves doing tourism and the most sophisticated way or in the way that is the most likely to gain them social distinction. They take these images because they've seen these images before and they're attractive images as well. Maybe they're attractive because we have, through seeing so many pictures like them, we've been taught or sort of subconsciously imbibed the aesthetics as being something that we value and are attracted to.One degree of what's of what's taking place. And to another extent, when it comes to this notion of possessing something of being the only person that that goes there, this kind of image of the tourist being the only person in a landscape or in front of some sort of cultural monument is , a way of [00:23:00] claiming a symbolic status, which links back to this ideology of getting off the beaten track. So, I imagine if you're experience backpacking and my own there's a real interest in getting off the beaten path, of going to places that aren't touristy, of being a traveler and not a tourist. And part of the way that the success in getting off the beaten track is signified is being the only person in a photograph.You know, we as backpackers or tourists don't want to be associated with other tourists. And there's very little better way to represent not being another tourist than being the only person in a particular image.Chris: Yeah, it [00:24:00] makes you wonder. And putting together the research for this episode, I came to this, this kind of possibility, question, consternation, And it arose in this way. And so the, the next question, which kind of relates to the last one is, do you think there might be, or is a connection here between the emptying of the photo of humans or locals and the emptying of places of humans and locals, and that is in the context of the gentrification of local people and culture in tourist destinations. Sean: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It's a very good point. I think especially because gentrification is aesthetically produced through a kind of emptiness or a kind of minimalism. And this gentrified neighborhood is not something that is crowded. It is not some place that there are a lot of wayward signs, [00:25:00] wayward, quote unquote.It is a space which is typically designed according to what might be understood as a globalized regime of clean lines and interesting fonts and a lot of white space. So thinking about the way that that works and everything from upmarket coffee shops to designing neighborhoods that are meant to attract capital on upper middle class consumers and residents.I think that does link quite persuasively with this desire to be the only person within this landscape. I mean, what ultimately is taking place in both processes is that, no matter where somebody is going and taking a promontory witness picture, there are people who live there. There's people who've always lived there and been a part, in many ways, of the land that is being made into a landscape.And by not including [00:26:00] them, within these pictures or in processes of gentrification, actually through state-sanctioned programs or other forms of state-sanctioned investment, local residents are being pushed out to make way for different people, the tourist in this case. There is a process of erasure and, and often what can be conceived as really a very colonial process of taking over, taking over a space and privileging the owners of capital, who in this case, typically are tourists.And of course, it's a little bit different when you're taking a picture versus when you're taking a picture in a place that is not considered part of the Global North. But tourists typically have a lot more privilege and financial resources than local residents.And when they're not in these images, but the places in which they are are included, then at least when we're seeing pictures of it, how [00:27:00] do we imagine who, who controls the space? How do we imagine who has a right to this space? It would be the person in the photograph, the tourist, rather than the people who actually live, work, and, and shape these landscapes.Okay. Chris: Since Instagram tends to be the go to medium for these images and for images in general, as far as social media is concerned, do you think that Instagram then is a tool and driver of gentrification? Could we say that with a sense of coherence? Sean: I think it's as much a tool as, as many other tools and it is very easily leveraged to that end by actors who are seeking to mobilize processes of gentrification. And then I think this is pretty well documented for instance, in Yoo Jung oh's article Instagaze, Aesthetic Representation and Contested Transformation of Woljeong, South Korea.Well, she was [00:28:00] writing about Jeju Island in South Korea, and how once tourists started to take particular forms of images often of being one person in a beach, then different interests were able to move in and realize the value of this image and find ways to capitalize on all of the tourists that wanted to come and take that same image. So what that led to was the beach front where, this is largely a fishing community and other sort of small scale, more artisanal economies, was remade into cafes and restaurants and guest houses in a process that.I think it can be widely recognized in tourism development around the world. But what the author, Yu Jung Oh, is saying, is showing there, is that this was largely motivated by the ability to take this image, that [00:29:00] a tourist could go and purchase a coffee or something, and they would be able to take that image for their Instagram. So there's a really clear linkage there and I think that linkage can be made in many other places as well. But I think in that sense, Instagram and social media is, is can be leveraged for gentrification as, as many other tools can be and are being.Chris: Thank you, Sean. And so, know, for the rest of our time together, I'd like to kind of lean on you a little bit for your personal opinion. I know that sometimes working in and living in academic worlds that's kind of something to be left the doorstep before you walk in. But you know, you mentioned this notion of networked media and pre networked media and kind of social media falling into this wider term of networked media and since these mediums have only come to exist, in terms of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, [00:30:00] we're talking 15 years at the most, and then the extension or prototypes of those existing in the previous 10. So about 25 years, maybe. And I'm curious in this regard you know, I imagine that you're about my age, maybe a little bit younger so I'm curious if you have a lived memory of how things were before social media and perhaps even before the internet, what do you think we might be losing by virtue of not being able to remember the world without social media Sean: yeah, great question. Definitely. Yeah. Yeah, very good question. Very, of course, fraught. So I guess for context, I was born in 1988. And. So I, got a cell phone at 16, and again, I got a smartphone and Instagram and WhatsApp. So I'm really in two minds about this. And in the first sense, I think it's important to be aware of [00:31:00] how with any new technology there's a great deal of anxiety and resistance and what might be called panic. And this isn't just social media or it's not just television, but we can go all the way back to radio, to novels.People were worried about that, to the written word back in the ancient Greek era. People were concerned that when we start writing things down, this is going to make it very difficult to remember things, and we're going to be less successful orators and our reasoning will be diluted because we start writing things down.So there's always this kind of fear of new technology, and part of me wants to recognize that this is just another one of those periods in which some sort of transformative technology comes along and many of [00:32:00] the generation who can remember what it was like beforehand is going to feel varying degrees of nostalgia for that period.That said, it's also difficult to not, at the same time, say that something really significant has, has, has happened, to not feel, I mean, honestly, I do certainly feel nostalgia for periods before social media. Some of the things which I think have been changed is the interest in finding ways to represent oneself, traveling. And this isn't to say that whenever one goes somewhere, one is always sort of seeing it as if from the viewfinder or, well, it wouldn't really be a viewfinder of a camera so much as, you know, one's phone screen.But that leads to. In being very interested in taking images that would be successful within the attention economies of a platform like Instagram, it can be difficult to [00:33:00] not see the world as if from the perspective of what would make a good picture for Instagram. There's a lot of different people who've come up with critiques of this process.I mean, if you think about it in terms of spectacle, you know, like Guy DuBord's idea that we're no longer, and he was writing in the 60s, you know, that we are seeing relationships, not between people, but between people and images. And so some sort of fundamental human connection is being lost because all we're doing is just relating to images and using images to relate to other people.I'm not so sure about universalizing that idea, but the ubiquity of social media and the Challenges to not somehow be on one of these platforms, in some even practical way does mean, I think, that there are significant influences in tourism as much as anything. Chris: Yeah, my my phone died the other day, abruptly. [00:34:00] And you know, I still have this computer that thankfully allows me to have this interview with you. And I can still access Facebook and Twitter, but for whatever reason, I can't access Instagram. And you know, it's been a few days and I'm really loving it.And then this morning I realized that I had planned to upload a post for the podcast. And then I was just like, okay, well, my best recourse of action is to just stay calm and wait, right? Yeah, and it's a big question, and I think it's something that, I wonder if young people, say people born, you know, 2000 or after would be able to answer with, with any, without having lived in a time without social media, for example. And so this kind of like brings us a little bit towards the towards theme of media ecology, which, you know, we talked about just very briefly before we started our interview here and I had taken Andrew McLuhan's Understanding Media [00:35:00] Intensive last year.He was also on the pod in the, in season three and just generally speaking for our listeners media ecology, within media ecology, the focus is on the medium and not just the message. It's a way of taking to task the context of our technology and not just the content.And so this manufacturing of emptiness of people and places as brands and I'm curious, isn't this to a large extent, also contingent on our tools, on the limits and architecture of the camera, for example? You know, do we stop with Instagram or do we look at all social media and later all tools? Because these media exist within each other, right?Instagram is a medium within the internet, I suppose, and then the internet is a medium within the phone. Maybe you could make that argument. It's not to say, if we didn't have these things, if we didn't have Instagram, if we didn't have [00:36:00] social media, would the promontory witness just disappear? I don't think it's as easy as that. But Would it be as intensely magnified in our time? Sean: So yes, I think the question of magnification is really what sits at the heart of social media because if we're looking at the medium of Instagram, then we have to think about photography and which was invented in the 1840s.And then if we think about photography, we have to think about painting the way that landscape has been represented in many different cultures, both in painting in the Western, Chinese and many other traditions, but then also in poetry and literature. So with all of these things, there's a precedent.And I think if you look at something like the Promontory Witness, this composition and this the visual formation of having one person immersed within a landscape or standing at some edge of a cliff, that's been around for [00:37:00] 200 years at least. You can see some in the later 1700s that look like this, but then the desire to be the only person in a particular place to have gotten off of the beaten track and be the distinguished traveler, that's also been around for, for a very long time. So that's why I think I'm hesitant to sort of pin the blame on Instagram.And I think my thinking around this has taken a bit of it, not exactly a turn, but it's changed a bit. So I think there's a real tendency to look at platforms like Instagram as only being spaces in which processes of gentrification can gain momentum, or only be spaces where one is almost disciplined into being a neoliberal subject who, is working sort of subconsciously thinking about how to brand oneself all the time, specifically in places of tourism, you know, that it's a way that people [00:38:00] only think about the pictures. They only want to go take a picture in these places. They don't actually want to have any experiences in this place or relationships with the people there. And I think that really exists. That is absolutely one dimension of what takes place with social media platforms. But as many people I've spoken to say, social media is a double edged sword. And where that's really been driven home to me has been where I've been conducting research for the past almost two years now. Sometimes they're in person, other times digitally, in Oman, a country in the Arabian peninsula where I was interested initially because it was becoming more popular as an international tourism destination. So, I went there after the pandemic expecting to meet all these people who were experiencing the problematics of international tourism as we know well, I think from your podcast among other, among other spaces.And there's some of that, absolutely. But what I also found was that, in the past few [00:39:00] years, people who are living in Oman, and this is both Omanis, people who have citizenship and then also residents, so there's about 40 percent of the country is made up of people who don't have citizenship in Oman, like many other Gulf countries.And in the past few years, I mean, we're talking five years, maximum ten years, there's been this surge of interest in nature, or we can say is the non human or even the more than human environment and what's can be understood as domestic nature tourism, I think, like many places around the world, domestic nature tourism in Oman became was very popularized during the pandemic when people could not travel abroad. But what this meant is that people saw these images on Instagram and Instagram is really most popular app in Oman, next to WhatsApp, and that introduced them to parts of the country that they'd never [00:40:00] interacted with before.And Oman is this incredibly various and fascinating environment where there's mountains that are, you know, over 3, 000 meters higher, what is that 10, 000 feet you know, all of this coastline and with coral reefs and these waddies or slot canyons. And people began to engage with the environments in a very different way to go on hiking trips, to go on canyoning trips and social media was this massive part of that. You know, this is where people learned about this possibility, this is where people met people to introduce them, to take them safely into these spaces. They'd never been on a hike before. You know, Instagram is where they're going to meet somebody to go out into nature with.And it's not to say that this doesn't have problems associated with it, and everything I suppose related with tourism does, but I think it also represents a case where Instagram, in this sense, was a way that people are actively connecting to nature, and in a place [00:41:00] where, you know, Instagram existed and was widely used before nature tourism was a thing.And I think this kind of flips the narrative a bit where in Western Europe, where I'm sitting right now, for instance, there's been this long time practice of nature tourism, you know, going back to, again, the 1900s. You know, people started climbing Alps in the 1850s and so forth. And then Instagram comes along and everybody's saying, oh, people just want to climb the mountain to take a picture. you know, they don't actually care about nature. Well, in Oman, people weren't really, not that many people were climbing mountains, before the ability to take a picture existed. So, there's a bit of a different trajectory in which people began to relate to a particular space and to the kinds of experiences that one can have engaging in nature tourism.So in that sense to go back to your to your question about what do we essentially do with this platform? [00:42:00] And how do we address the problematics? I don't think that I mean, I think that Instagram will not be the most popular platform forever, certainly, but social media, or this kind of connected media, barring some kind of unforeseen complication. I mean, looking at you, AI. But this sort of communication is here to stay probably. So, can we find ways in which this space is can be generative of community could be generative of care and ethical forms of travel? What might that look like? And what kind of imagery might be associated with it?Chris: I'm curious in that regard, Oman to me is someone who's never been and probably, you know extremely ignorant to any of the nation's culture or history. I imagine modernity to be something of a recent arrival in that place, relatively speaking, correct me if I'm wrong, of course. And I guess what I'm curious about in the context of your research and most [00:43:00] recent research is if you've seen the conflicts that might arise in terms of traditional hospitality? What it means to be in a place, as opposed to a landscape, what it means to be a host, as opposed to, I guess a landlord, in the Airbnb sense of the word and perhaps also what it means to be a traveler as opposed to a tourist within the context of these new economic dynamics in Oman and if Instagram has anything to do with that? Sean: No, that's, that's a wonderful question. It's one I really appreciate as I continue to work there and spend time with people who've been incredibly generous showing me around and introducing me to what their life is like as people who participate in tourism. I mean, the first thing I would say is the Oman, the Arabian peninsula and really Arabic speaking cultures generally is hospitality is one of the most fundamentally [00:44:00] important things in social relationships. In what it means to be a part of this culture, one is hospitable to guests, to friends, to family members. It's almost difficult to understate how integral this is. I mean, it is, in many cultures, hospitality is big, but it's very big in this space.And so I think it's a particularly well suited question to, you know, how is tourism and how is social media impacting this code of conduct and, you know this really wonderful practice that I think, you know, the rest of the world can stand to learn a lot from.So, to your question about sort of where my mind sits in this span of development. Oil was discovered in the 1960s and kind of transformative effect as it has everywhere. And in this time, there was a great degree of urbanization. People could get services rather than relying on culture, trading, which comes from a pre oil economy.[00:45:00] Now, you see, I think, a couple things. For one thing, cultures of hospitality, I think, were already being disturbed by the way that neoliberal capitalism tends to work, not just in Oman, but anywhere around the world. It encourages people to find ways to profit themselves and to think as individual agents rather than as being part of a community, having responsibilities to the humans, but also nonhumans to the land as well as to one's family.So that process is already in it's already taking place before tourism began to take root. And I think there are some spaces in which tourism is developing in such a way that it's very profit oriented. And where people are incentivized to privilege [00:46:00] their own gains over those of others.However, there are other ways I think in which people who, say we're living in the city, are meeting people who live in fairly remote areas, under the auspices of tourism. Because they're engaging in tourism, they're meeting people who are living in these spaces and often chatting with them or sharing a meal or sharing coffee or something like this.Sometimes these people who are living in places that are becoming tourism destinations are part of the industry and sometimes people are not, but as it stands now, it seems as very much a preservation of hospitality within this, this particular context. As with anything, I think the question of tourism is to what extent this will become commodified or not, like how do we make money off of this culture of hospitality?How do we turn it into a tourist product? You know, we can sell Oman as being it's hospitable, come meet the locals. But in the way that people continue [00:47:00] to practice it, both people who are living in Oman and being domestic tourists and also people who are seeing tourists come to where they live in ways that they haven't before. To me, it still seems like it's very robustly in place.Chris: Good to hear. And I very much look forward to the publication of your research. Hopefully it'll see the light of day soon, perhaps. Sean: I hope so. Yeah. Things are in process for sure. Chris: Okay. Well, I'd like to thank you, Sean, on behalf of our listeners for joining us today. And you know, this leads me of course, to the question of how might they be able to get in touch with you or follow your work. And if that includes an Instagram handle. Sean: Yeah, that's, that's fine. So I I recently started another Instagram account. I had my own account and stopped posting about 2019.And then I got interested in it again. I opened a new account, which is sort of more research facing. So yeah, if people wanna check that [00:48:00] out, it's @SPSMITHS, so S-P-S-M-I-T-H-S or email spSmith@tilburguniversity.edu. So always pleased to hear ideas and of course things that I've missed because of course I have so much to learn in this space.So I would really look forward to feedback and ideas. Hmm. Chris: Well, I'll make sure all of that's on the End of Tourism website and the podcast page when the interview launches and as well as the other authors, researchers and works that you mentioned earlier on. So once again, it's been amazing, Sean, thank you so much for being able to really flesh these complex ideas out for us and we'll see what happens, right?Sean: Absolutely. Thanks very much for the invitation. And as always, I'll look forward to continue listening. This is such an excellent project. Chris: Thank you, Sean.This episode and others like it are created and made possible by the generosity of Substack subcribers like yourself. Similarly, I have subsidized the work of the pod with my own time and money. This is a labour of love and lineage that requires the support of others. 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Al sinds het begin van 2023 geven wereldwijde recruitmentbureaus winstwaarschuwingen af. Hoe kan dat, in tijden waar personeelstekorten in zo'n beetje alle sectoren om zich heen grijpen? Jose Bokhorst, topvrouw van Robert Walters in Nederland, is te gast in BNR Zakendoen.  Macro met Mujagić   Elke dag een intrigerende gedachtewisseling over de stand van de macro-economie. Op maandag en vrijdag gaat presentator Thomas van Zijl in gesprek met econoom Arnoud Boot, de rest van de week praat Van Zijl met econoom Edin Mujagić.  Boardroompanel  Door intern gesteggel bij het Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) staat de geloofwaardigheid van de organisatie die klimaatplannen van bedrijven doorrekent op het spel. En: is het beloningsmodel voor advocaten ouderwets? Dat en meer bespreken we om 11.10 in het boardroompanel met: -Rob van Eijbergen, Hoogleraar integriteit aan de Universiteit voor Humanistiek in Utrecht en organisatieadviseur, en: - Hugo Reumkens, Partner en advocaat bij van Doorne, voorzitter raad van toezicht van de Tilburg University  Contact & Abonneren  BNR Zakendoen zendt elke werkdag live uit van 11:00 tot 13:30 uur. Je kunt de redactie bereiken via e-mail.   Abonneren op de podcast van BNR Zakendoen kan via bnr.nl/zakendoen, of via Apple Podcast en Spotify. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Softwarebouwer AFAS is het eerste Nederlandse bedrijf dat de vierdaagse werkweek introduceert, oftewel 4 dagen werken voor 5 dagen loon. Is dat wel wenselijk nu werkgeversorganisaties en de overheid juist wil dat we meer gaan werken? Bas van der Veldt, topman van softwarebouwer AFAS is te gast in BNR Zakendoen.  Macro met Mujagić  Elke dag een intrigerende gedachtewisseling over de stand van de macro-economie. Op maandag en vrijdag gaat presentator Thomas van Zijl in gesprek met econoom Arnoud Boot, de rest van de week praat Van Zijl met econoom Edin Mujagić.  Boardroompanel  Shell legt de bouw van een grote biobrandstoffabriek tijdelijk stil, het bedrijf lijkt zich met de nieuwe strategie meer te gaan focussen op de kortere termijn. En: Bestuurders klagen steeds meer over de toenemende bemoeizucht van commissarissen, hoe ziet de ideale samenwerking tussen bestuur en toezicht eruit? Dat en meer bespreken we om 11:10 in het Boardroompanel met:  Leen Paape, emeritus hoogleraar corporate governance aan Nyenrode, commissaris en toezichthouder bij diverse organisaties  Hugo Reumkens, Partner en advocaat bij van Doorne, voorzitter raad van toezicht van de Tilburg University.    Future business leaders  Wie zijn de ondernemers van de toekomst? Welke hordes willen ze nemen, hoe willen ze groeien en wat voor soort leider willen zij zijn? Dat onderzoeken we in gesprekken met Future Business Leaders. Thomas van Zijl vraagt jonge ondernemers naar hun successen, maar ook naar hun missers.  Te gast is Elske Schouten, operationeel directeur van MRC Holland en voormalig adjunct hoofdredacteur bij NRC.  Contact & Abonneren  BNR Zakendoen zendt elke werkdag live uit van 11:00 tot 13:30 uur. Je kunt de redactie bereiken via e-mail.   Abonneren op de podcast van BNR Zakendoen kan via bnr.nl/zakendoen, of via Apple Podcast en Spotify.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hans Janssen ging met de mobiele podcast studio naar Tilburg University. En vroeg Margriet het hemd van het lijf over het brein:Waarom is neuroplasticiteit de basis onder talentontwikkeling en persoonlijk leiderschapWaarom heb je bij -bijna- alles wat je doet als leider en ondernemer kennis nodig over de werking van de hersenenHoe ga je om met een overbelast brein in een VUCA wereldHoe train je je brein in wilskracht en hoe maak je het jezelf makkelijker om doelen te stellen en die te behalen.In de slipstream leren we nog over “Cruel Optimism” én geeft Margriet een ontluisterend simpele tip waarmee ze zichzelf behoedt voor het aannemen van teveel werk. 

We kunnen miljoenen, zelfs miljarden besparen als we stoppen met onnodige behandelingen. Minder CT-scans, minder medicijnen, minder operaties en minder bezoekjes aan het ziekenhuis. Heupoperaties In het Sint Antonius Ziekenhuis krijg je met een gebroken heup niet meer automatisch een operatie. Trauma geriatrische chirurg Detlef van der Velde vertelt waarom hij niet meer iedereen opereert aan een gebroken heup. 'In veel gevallen is het een teken van een naderende dood.'  Samen beslissen Maar ja, vertel dát de familieleden maar eens. Toch lukt het Van der Velde. Familieleden en patiënten zelf zien vaker in dat een operatie overbodig is dan we vooraf misschien denken.  Dat gesprek is helemaal niet moeilijk, vindt ook Arthur Schellekens, directeur van de Patiënten Federatie. Artsen en patiënten moeten een gelijkwaardig gesprek met elkaar voeren. Als je het patiënten zelf vraagt, zegt 41 procent dat ze afgelopen twee jaar te maken hebben gehad met onnodige zorg. 'Ons doel is niet om minder zorg te leveren, maar als je patiënten zelf vraagt wat ze willen, is het antwoord vaak wel minder zorg.'    Medicijn gebruik is schieten met hagel Peter van der Voort, hoogleraar intensive care bij de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen en hoogleraar gezondheidszorg bij TIAS, de business school van Tilburg University, ziet nog meer mogelijkheden. Vooral het medicijngebruik zou véél efficiënter kunnen. Nu schieten we met hagel. Twintig patiënten moeten een medicijn vijf jaar slikken om één hartinfarct te voorkomen.   'We hebben de data om die groep veel gerichter te maken!' zegt van der Voort.    Over BNR Beter   In BNR Beter – over de zorg van morgen laten we zien welke oplossingen er bedacht worden. Hoe deze in de praktijk uitpakken en hoe patiënten en zorgprofessionals hiermee geholpen worden.   Nina van den Dungen interviewt de uitvinders van de nieuwste zorginnovaties en ze spreekt specialisten en verpleegkundigen wiens werk verlicht worden door deze innovaties. Nina gaat samen met redacteur Sterre ten Houte de Lange op reportage naar de ziekenhuizen, UMC's, zorginstellingen en laboratoria en testruimten waar deze nieuwe technieken worden ontworpen of voor het eerst worden ingezet in de patiëntenzorg.   De vraag die we ons elke aflevering stellen: wat is het probleem waar de zorgprofessionals en patiënten tegenaan lopen? Wat is de oplossing die bedacht is? Is deze oplossing efficiënter, effectiever en goedkoper? Hoe kijken de behandelend artsen naar deze ontwikkelingen? Lukt het om de innovaties te implementeren? Welke obstakels komen de wetenschappers, uitvinders.   Presentatie door Nina van den Dungen. Nina is journalist en presentator bij BNR Nieuwsradio. Redactie door zorgjournalist Sterre ten Houte de Lange. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's an EmMajority Report Thursday! Today she speaks with Dr. Eviane Leidig, postdoctoral fellow at the Tilburg University, to discuss her recent book The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization. Then, she speaks with Kate Wagner, architecture critic at The Nation, to discuss her recent piece entitled "Luxury Brands Are Buying Our Cities."  First, Emma runs through updates on Israel's seizure and closing of the Egypt-Gaza border, continuing backlash to Biden's support for Israel, Trump's legal woes and cabinet promises, NATO-Russia tensions, Alito's corruption, Boeing safety problems, Hong Kong's crackdown on pro-Democracy activists, elections in South Africa and Mexico, and India's major heatwave, before diving deeper into the recent resignations from the Biden Administration, and touching on Trump rallying the cronies as his Hush Money trial reaches the jury deliberation phase. Dr. Eviane Leidig then joins, parsing through what makes the Alt-Right distinct from the generically xenophobic and white supremacist Republican Party, how they used the rise of Internet forums and social media to recruit the chronically online alienated youth, and the major roles played by Gamergate and January 6th in their rise and fall, respectively. Next, Dr. Leidig looks to the ecosystem of the women of the Alt-Right, and how their strategic presentation allows their fascist propaganda to largely float under the radar, tackling the common career trajectory that found many women commentators on the Alt-Right shifting to lifestyle-influencing in the wake of the January 6th collapse of the Alt-Right and the rise of COVID, presenting trad-wife-eque content for their largely-male audience and working alongside the Christian and Manosphere influencers under the banner of anti-feminism. After expanding on the central role anti-feminism plays in the Alt-Right's current trajectory, Dr. Leidig wraps up by touching on the particulars of the Alt-Right's recruitment of young women and the major role interpersonal intervention plays in escaping the pipeline. Kate Wagner then walks Emma through this ongoing problem of the corporate “Disney-fication” of our cities, with an increasing trend of corporations buying up entire neighborhoods for glorified (and extremely exclusive) publicity stunts. Tackling the examples of Bilbao's Guggenheim and the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Wager explores how these monstrosities exploit loopholes to essentially get the public to pay for the enclosure of their commons, before she and Emma wrap up with the central role that Private Equity and commercial real estate have played in promoting this process. And in the Fun Half: Emma is joined by Brandon Sutton and Matt Binder as they talk with Keister from Florida about the value of progressive infighting, watch Dave Rubin promote Hungary's wildly homophobic regime, and listen to Rep. Moskowitz explain why justice for war crimes is a fantasy. They also cover the continuing arrests by Israeli police over social media engagement, Fiora from Minnesota on the importance of independent coverage of Palestine, and discuss electoral strategy come November, plus, your calls and IMs! Check out Eviane's book here: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-women-of-the-far-right/9780231558303 Check out Kate's piece here: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/lvmh-real-estate-branding-urban/ Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Find our Rumble stream here!: https://rumble.com/user/majorityreport Join Sam on the Nation Magazine Cruise! 7 days in December 2024!!: https://nationcruise.com/mr/ Check out the "Repair Gaza" campaign courtesy of the Glia Project here: https://www.launchgood.com/campaign/rebuild_gaza_help_repair_and_rebuild_the_lives_and_work_of_our_glia_team#!/ Check out StrikeAid here!; https://strikeaid.com/ Gift a Majority Report subscription here: https://fans.fm/majority/gift Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: http://majority.fm/app Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattLech @BradKAlsop Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/

The Middle East is popping off! Is it random chaos or strategically organized. A “leaked” document says Russia might attack Nato Countries one by one, but can only be stopped with the ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. Trump Steamrolls through New Hampshire. China and Russia have a plan for the world and Uncle Sam doesn’t like it. Another poorly name operation is kicking off to deal with the Heli-houthis. Women are pushing White Nationalism by making their family dinner and having children. Biden meets a black person and Oklahoma Furries are being discriminated against? All that and more in this nonstop thrill ride! Fiat Fun Coupon Donos: HempressEmilyM, Tradwife and Herbalist Sam S. of Bourblandia, Slayer of Marketing ART: Dirty Jersey Whore wins and created a bio for his art! See Bottom of show notes Think you can beat him: Send your art to dan@mmo.show & john@mmo.show This Weeks Boosters: •dirty_jersey_whore | 19,760 | BAG DADDY BOOSTER! •boolysteed         | 8,888 •billybon3s         | 3,438 •sheep              | 3,333 •kattykit           | 1,000 •thepresidents  | 1,000 •mrh               | 1,000 •sandesingh    | 300 •jasper89       | 111   TITLES: Predatory Capitalism Aircraft Carrier Language The Face of Africa GayI Fat & Retarded Comradetator Hitlerista Down With The Swirl Anti-Furry Legislation Shownotes:                         Yemen                                     US Options in Middle East - CBS                                     Poseidon Archer Are Strikes Working - Biden                         New Hampshire                                     Joe Biden Off Ballot                         AI                                     TikTok Biden Phone Call                         White Nationalism                                     Tradwife Influencers Researcher Eviane Leidig, postdoctoral research fellow at Tilburg University in the Netherlands AND research fellow at the counter-terrorism research center at the Hague                                     Phyllis Schlafly                         Davos                                     Javier Milei at WEF                           Drugs                                     Xylazine Drug Problem in Philadelphia                                                 US Treasury Sanctions                                                 Pawn Stars Rick Harrison’s Son Dies from Fentynyl Overdose                         Shoplifting                                     NZ MP Shoplifting                                     Analysis of Shoplifting Reports in 24 Cities                           Podcasts                                     Spotify Family Plan                           LGBTQ                                     OK Furries   Letter from Dirty Jersey Whore about his art: Name: Comrade Tatter Appearance: Comrade Tatter is an anthropomorphic potato with a robust and round shape, exuding a rustic charm. His skin is a warm, earthy brown, textured to reflect the real surface of a potato, complete with small eyes (the buds on a potato) and occasional dirt specks to emphasize his agricultural roots. Outfit: True to his name, Comrade Tatter sports a simplistic yet iconic outfit. He wears a small cap, reminiscent of the communist-era headwear, adorned with a red star at the front. The cap sits jauntily atop his head. His outfit is otherwise minimal, focusing on the potato's natural appearance, but he might have a red bandana around his neck or a small, simple vest. Expression: Comrade Tatter has a jovial and friendly demeanor. His eyes are bright and welcoming, with a slight twinkle that suggests a playful personality. His smile is wide and inviting, showing a row of cartoonish, simple teeth, if potatoes had teeth! Pose: Standing upright on two little legs that sprout from his lower body, Comrade Tatter's arms (also small sprouts) are either resting on his hips or raised in an animated gesture, as if he is about to deliver an amusing anecdote or lead a cheerful rally. Background: He exists against a simple, abstract backdrop. The background is deliberately neutral and non-specific, avoiding any direct political symbols or slogans, to keep the focus on the character's light-hearted nature. Personality: Comrade Tatter is envisioned as a charismatic and approachable character. He's a storyteller at heart, often seen engaging with other vegetable characters in tales of farm life and solidarity. His humor is earthy and wholesome, and he often serves as a unifying figure in the vegetable community. Usage: Comrade Tatter would be an ideal character for children's books, educational materials about agriculture, or as a fun mascot for farm produce or a vegetable brand. His design and personality are crafted to be endearing and family-friendly, making him a delightful addition to any context that requires a touch of humor and whimsy.

Dr. Eviane Leidig, Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at Tilburg University, discusses her book "The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization." We break down the role of social media for the alt-right movement, and how platforms like Instagram and YouTube work to mainstream extremist views. These insights come from Dr. Leidig's research conducting digital ethnography on women influencers prominent on the American Right. 

There are a lot of things to consider when you make a product video, or a promotional video for your company. Do we make it look polished? Or go with the amateur look popular on TikTok? Do we focus the viewer's attention? Or employ the one-cut-every-second technique? Well, add one more to the list: Whether you should show your products being used in slow motion.Anika Shtuppy is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Tilburg University. She and her colleagues recently published some research looking at that very question, and she joined Tod for an extended discussion.We're looking for a writer and production assistant! LEARN MORE HERE.

Today's episode features Samuel Stäbler, an assistant professor of marketing at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and Alexander Edeling, an associate professor of marketing at KU Leuven in Belgium. They've investigated the effects of layoff announcements on consumer brand perception. Together they discuss the multifaceted relationship between layoffs, brand perception, and corporate communication strategies. By understanding the nuances of consumer behavior and the role of communication in shaping brand perception, companies can navigate layoffs more effectively while safeguarding their brand reputation in the long run.

When you think about the far right, you probably picture groups of young, white men carrying images of swastikas or torches. But the face of the far right is changing, at least on social media. In this episode, we hear about new research into a cohort of women influencers pushing far right ideology on mainstream platforms like Instagram and YouTube. The Conversation's Avery Anapol speak to Eviane Leidig, a postdoctoral research fellow at Tilburg University in the Netherlands who focuses on far right ideology, gender and the internet.This episode was written and produced by Mend Mariwany with production assistance from Katie Flood. Eloise Stevens does our sound design, and our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. The executive producer is Gemma Ware. Full credits available here. A transcript will be available shortly. Sign up to a free daily newsletter from The Conversation.Further reading:Far-right ‘tradwives' see feminism as evil. Their lifestyles push back against ‘the lie of equality'Jan. 6 was an example of networked incitement − a media and disinformation expert explains the danger of political violence orchestrated over social media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our very last episode of the year analyses what makes us human beings happy. Aldo speaks to Dr. Michael Vlerick, our most listened to guest of 2023, about his new book ‘Why We Are Not Happier' and what makes us tick in an era of negative news clickbait and social media depression. We explore terms like ‘hedonic adaptation' and 'negativity bias' all carefully explained by this great philosopher who explains his reasons to publish his third book.  Michael is an assistant professor in philosophy of science at Tilburg University and authored two previous books "De tweede vervreemding" and "Critical and Scientific Thinking”. He gives talks on topics such as global cooperation, critical thinking and happiness.  For more on Michael you can go here: https://www.michaelvlerick.com/ You can purchase his latest book (in Dutch) here: https://www.bol.com/be/nl/f/waarom-we-niet-gelukkiger-zijn/9300000148166225/ You can purchase the eBook version of his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Waarom-niet-gelukkiger-zijn-Dutch-ebook/dp/B0C8RPTKSV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1HK71L23R5ZXY&keywords=waarom+we+niet+gelukkiger+zijn&qid=1702384163&sprefix=waarom+we+niet+gelukkiger+zijn%2Caps%2C174&sr=8-1

There's a group of far right influencers lurking on your social media feeds. They post organic recipes, millennial mom advice, and #glowups. And they're using this content to promote white supremacist ideas. This week, Dr. Eviane Leidig joins us to discuss who these women are and how they're spreading hate on social media. Dr. Eviane Leidig is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Tilburg University. Her research specializes in the global far-right, gender, and online radicalization, recruitment, and propaganda. Her latest book, The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization, is published by Columbia University Press. You can follow Dr. Leidig on Twitter @evianeleidig, and at www.evianeleidig.com. Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our producer is Chris McClure. Our associate producer is Allison Weiss. Our engineer is Nathanael McClure. Production support from Julie Carrillo, Anne Currie, and Chad Hall. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices