15 Podcasts
This selection of podcasts related to International Relations affairs presents a broad overview of the various types of productions at IHEID published in 2022.
Four main categories have been defined:
RESEARCH ORIENTED PODCASTs
The Women In International Justice podcast revolves around diversity on the international bench and delves into the experiences of prominent women from the international judiciary. Together we will explore the complexity of the system as well as women’s places within it. Building on the public lecture series titled “Women’s Voices in the International Judiciary”, organized by professors Neus Torbisco Casals and Andrew Clapham, each episode will focus on the guest's individual career and opinions. Listen, as women share their stories and uncover the inner workings of the international judiciary system. Podcast
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The Transimperial History Podcast. History may be grounded in the past, but it is always evolving and changing as new perspectives, research, and discoveries emerge. Events are never set in stone, and as time passes, historians continually re-evaluate and re-interpret the past, shedding new light on events that were once shrouded in mystery. While history is rooted in the past, it is also forward-looking, providing valuable insights into how we can navigate the present and future.
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Research in Progress / Laura Nowzohour. Investments in environmental projects are, at least in part, affected by policies and regulations within the field. In this latest podcast episode of “Research in Progress” we enter this crucial topic along with PhD candidate Laura Minu Nowzohour from the CIES.
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Lethal Autonomous Weapons: 10 things we want to know is a podcast series produced as part of the LAWS and War Crimes research project, based at the International Law department of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The podcast is hosted by the members of the research team: Paola Gaeta (the project lead), Marta Bo, Abhimanyu George Jain, and Alessandra Spadaro. Over the course of ten episodes, they will interview experts in various disciplines (science, law, ethics, etc.) who have studied and written about lethal autonomous weapon systems or LAWS. This podcast offers a multidisciplinary introduction concerning the challenges and problems raised by LAWS (or LAWS 1.0) to all those who have an academic interest in this topic.
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EXPERTISES
Climate Emergency: What Role for International Geneva? In Conversation With is a podcast series that features renowned experts and thought-leaders to address pressing global issues with Geneva Graduate Institute faculty members. Here an example with this episode features a conversation between Michel Jarraud, Secretary General Emeritus at the World Meteorological Organization, Maria Neira, Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at the World Health Organization, Marek Harsdorff, Economist in the Green Jobs Programme at the International Labour Organization, and Joëlle Noailly, Head of Research of the Centre for International Environmental Studies and Lecturer in the Department of International Economics at the Geneva Graduate Institute
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The Universality of Human Rights. Human rights currently face criticism from many sides. One of the most persistent criticisms maintains that the human rights regime is Eurocentric and overtly focused on individual rights. Huaru Kang, Visiting fellow at the International Law Department, and Assistant professor at Zhengzhou University in China explains why this criticism is validated to a certain degree, in the frame of Global Challenges n° 11 (The Uncertain Future of Human Rights). With Dominic Eggel and Marc Galvin (Research Office - Geneva Graduate Institute).
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Iran Protests: A revolution in the making? In this episode of What Matters Today, we look at why the current protests in Iran have mobilized so many. We also examine who is actually participating in these protests and the role students are playing as well. Will these protests end up changing Iran? How will all of this end? Will the current regime fall?
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What Matters Today is a podcast series from the Geneva Graduate Institute in which we ask faculty members to comment on current issues impacting, economics, politics, health, and society.
Student and doctoral studies
Ex-combatants and Peacebuilding in Colombia. In this episode of ABD stories, Mia Schöb talks about reintegration practices through which ex-combatants challenge and effectively transform traditional gender roles and labor division in Colombia, especially in their family. She evoques as well the difficulty to organise research in a post war period.
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Some fifty doctoral students graduate each year from the Graduate Institute. If pursuing doctoral studies always implies strategic choices with regards to the research topics, the path towards a thesis also remains a journey bespeckled with experiences and encounters. Because each path towards a PhD is unique, this podcast series ABD Stories is dedicated to the vagaries of doctoral students’ lives in Geneva.
Humanitarian Work and the Need to Help. Research by Students is a series dedicated to audio or video work by students as part of their academic activities. In this podcast, we share the story of Jason Erazo, a humanitarian doctor from Honduras. The interview examines Jason’s main motivations for continuing his work in this field, in spite of the many difficulties he continuously encounters. Jason tells us about his experience of working for the Red Cross when Honduras was hit by the ETA and IOTA hurricanes. We learn about his passion for helping people, but also about the challenges he faced and his feeling of helplessness. The podcast compares Jason’s experience with the ones of Finnish Red Cross workers documented by Liisa Malkki in her book “The Need to Help”, as well as the one of Sea Watch captain Pia Klemp presented in her 2019 Berlin Ted talk.
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Unite for Ukraine. This podcast aims to call for unity in response to the dramatic events that have been caused by the invasion of Ukrainian territory by the Russian Federation from the 24th of February onwards. The series of episodes shed light on the influence of the war on young Ukrainians who are studying in Geneva. Please hear the live voices of youths whose mother country is under war (Valeria, Alina, and Maksym). Each episode is independent. There are also several guests who help us expand our scope on each topic like "relation between Ukrainians and Russians" and "Racism in Ukraine". By Maya SHINODA
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OTHER
Mobile Banking and the Poor in India. In India, the possibility to provide banking services through mobile networks has largely helped the government in its objective to equip more households in rural areas with a bank account. But how does the use of mobile phones concretely help poor families to better manage their money? Lore Vandewalle, economist at the Graduate Institute, shares with us her research and findings.
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Focusing on research fieldwork, the podcast series Fields seeks to provide insights into the daily life of researchers, including not only their academic activity, but also their emotions, intimate stories, anecdotes, and lived experiences.
#2: Inventer le sauvage. Au XIXe siècle et jusqu’au milieu du XXe siècle, les zoos humains ont contribué à diffuser le racisme en Europe en donnant aux visiteurs européens l'impression que leur société était supérieure à toutes les autres : africaines, asiatiques, etc. Une mise en scène qui légitimait les violences de la colonisation et justifiait les discours des scientifiques européens autour d’un « ordre racial ». Parallèlement, apparaissent dans les villes européennes des monuments dressés à la gloire de figures liées au commerce triangulaire ou au colonialisme.
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Cuba in Conversation. Cuba has experienced a myriad of reforms in the past years. Although the country has seen ups and downs, recent years have shown a transformation in Cuba’s policies. Opening itself to cooperation with new partners such as the European Union. These partners are vital in the dynamic change operating in the country and region. With this podcast we will delve into the global, institutional, and economical developments in Cuba and potential future paths for the country. This podcast is made possible by the Jean Monnet Network Europe-Cuba Forum and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy
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Great Roofs for a Greater Geneva. The Ecologist Podcast welcomes two new co-hosts: Laure Driessen and Bo Mun! Alongside them, brand-new EC President Camille Darby also joins the chat with Diane Henny. Diane, the co-founder and director of local NGO Terrasses Sans Frontières, shares with us the benefits and challenges of promoting the use of green roofs right here in Geneva. She explains the intricacies of the organization’s operations, from convincing the canton about the advantages of green roofs to the continued maintenance of finished projects.
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