Best Unsw Media Podcasts (2024)

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Leadership in ACTion with Lieutenant General Natasha Fox AO CSC 58:13

2M ago58:13

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Leadership in ACTion presented by UNSW Canberra aims to provide a platform for discussion around the topic of leadership. This year Lieutenant General Natasha Fox AO CSC joined moderator Jenna Price to explore her journey in leading people while balancing the need to honour tradition and embrace change. This audio was captured on the 11th of June 2…

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A981913601 - Interview Recording For Library Exhibition Mixdown 14:19

2y ago14:19

14:19

Third-year student James Sampson interviews senior lecturer Dr Richard Dunley about Peter Weir’s film, Gallipoli (1981).By UNSW Canberra

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Spotlight: Maddie Hichens 28:10

2y ago28:10

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In this spotlight episode of the Media Futures Podcast, Maddie Hichens joins Associate Professor Tanja Dreher to discuss her PhD research on social media’s digital anxieties. This episode is part of a six week series of short interviews spotlighting the work of Media Futures Hub researchers. Based at UNSW Sydney on unceded Bedegal Country, the Medi…

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Spotlight: Diana Kreemers 21:52

2y ago21:52

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In this spotlight episode of the Media Futures Podcast, Diana Kreemers joins Dr Andrew Brooks to discuss her PhD research on the politics of listening to refugee voices. This episode is part of a six week series of short interviews spotlighting the work of Media Futures Hub researchers.Based at UNSW Sydney on unceded Bedegal Country, the Media Futu…

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Spotlight: Kevin Witzenberger 22:23

2y ago22:23

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In this spotlight episode of the Media Futures Podcast, Kevin Witzenberger joins Associate Professor Michael Richardson to discuss his PhD research on predictive technologies in education. This episode is part of a six week series of short interviews spotlighting the work of Media Futures Hub researchers.Based at UNSW Sydney on unceded Bedegal Coun…

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Spotlight: Danielle Hynes 23:03

2y ago23:03

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In this spotlight episode of the Media Futures Podcast, Daniel Hynes joins Dr Astrid Lorange to discuss her PhD research on smart cities and social housing. This episode is part of a six week series of short interviews spotlighting the work of Media Futures Hub researchers.Based at UNSW Sydney on unceded Bedegal Country, the Media Futures Hub works…

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Spotlight: Simon Taylor 27:44

2y ago27:44

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In this spotlight episode of the Media Futures Podcast, Simon Taylor joins Associate Professor Tanja Dreher to discuss his PhD research on histories of artificial intelligence and much more. This episode is part of a six week series of short interviews spotlighting the work of Media Futures Hub researchers.Based at UNSW Sydney on unceded Bedegal Co…

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Spotlight: Astrid Lorange 31:57

2y ago31:57

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In this spotlight episode of the Media Futures Podcast, Dr Astrid Lorange joins Associate Professor Michael Richardson to discuss her new work on the documentary poetics of witnessing state violence. This episode is part of a six week series of short interviews spotlighting the work of Media Futures Hub researchers.Based at UNSW Sydney on unceded B…

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Abolition Futures, presented by Infrastructural Inequalities 40:36

2y ago40:36

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‘Abolition Futures’ is a standalone podcast episode made by Andrew Brooks, Liam Grealy, and Astrid Lorange, co-facilitators of the Infrastructural Inequalities research network. Infrastructural Inequalities examines the unjust distribution of resources, amenities, and opportunities that shape our society and asks how we might intervene in the repro…

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Howard Library Policy Perspectives – In Conversation with Sir Anthony Seldon 33:18

2y ago33:18

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In this special edition of 'Policy Perspectives', Andrew Blyth, Group Manager, John Howard Prime Ministerial Library, UNSW Canberra, sits down with Sir Anthony Seldon, historian, educator and prolific political biographer. Andrew and Sir Anthony explore several current political issues facing Westminster and their relevance to Australia: the declin…

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In Conversation with Troy Bramston and Michelle Grattan 1:01:43

2+ y ago1:01:43

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The John Howard Prime Ministerial Library and Museum of Australian Democracy held ‘In Conversation with Troy Bramston and Michelle Grattan’ on Tuesday, 1 June 2022 at Old Parliament House. Bramston discussed his new book, Bob Hawke: Demons and Destiny, the definitive full-life biography of Australia's 23rd prime minister; the only one that Hawke co…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S2E09 - Gender And Water Governance In Mainland Southeast Asia 18:34

3y ago18:34

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Rivers nurture some of the world’s most environmentally, socially and economically vital ecosystems. The mighty Mekong River is a prominent example, often referred to as Southeast Asia’s ‘lifeblood’. In this podcast, Dr Pichamon Yeophantong and Professor Anthony Burke discuss the impacts that social and environmental change has on women and communi…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S2E08 - Media In Urban Warfighting 37:18

3y ago37:18

37:18

Warfare will increasingly be urban and occur amongst populations, Dr Christina Spittel and Dr Charles Knight discuss in this episode. The trends towards both greater humanitarian suffering and military difficulty are undeniable. These factors will make urban conflict a theatre of competing narratives as much as competing armies. The evidence is tha…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S2E07 - John Company's Armies: The Military Forces of British India 31:38

3y ago31:38

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Two centuries ago, the military forces of the East India Company were the British empire’s largest armies. Rightly regarded as ‘an extraordinary phenomenon’, they comprised a huge multi-ethnic force, the largest disciplined army in Asia and arguably the key element in Britain’s conquest of the Indian sub-continent. In 1857 the mutiny-rebellion utte…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S2E06 - COVID - 19, India And The Quad 32:50

3y ago32:50

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In this episode, Dr Pichamon Yeophantong and Dr Ashok Sharma will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on geopolitics, as evidenced by the escalation of the simmering strategic rivalry between the United States and China, as well as major flashpoints such as the violent clash between China and India and the re-emergence of the Quad partnership between th…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S2E05 - In Search Of Strategic Resilience with Vice Admiral Peter Jones 24:09

3y ago24:09

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As Australia continues to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s heavy reliance on imports for essentials such as medicines, manufactured items and petroleum has been brought to greater public attention. In this episode, hosted by Dr Pichamon Yeophantong, Vice Admiral Peter Jones (ret'd) argues the need for Australia to have greater strategi…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S2E04 - Living In Harmony With Nature 27:40

3y ago27:40

27:40

The wonders of the natural world are threatened like never before. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is the overarching global legal instrument for biodiversity. We sit on the brink of the possible realisation of a significant shift in the operation of the Convention. From 11-15 October 2021, during Part One of the CBD's 15th Conference …

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Navigating Uncertainty - S2E03 - Special Episode - The AUKUS Agreement 48:55

3y ago48:55

48:55

On 15 September 2021 the leaders of Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom jointly announced a new trilateral security pact, ‘AUKUS'. Under the agreement, the United States and the United Kingdom agreed to help Australia to develop and deploy nuclear-powered submarines that add to the Western military presence in the Pacific region. Th…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S2E02 - Fighting Afghanistan's Drug War 24:56

3y ago24:56

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President Biden's decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in September marks the end of a 20-year conflict for the US and many of its NATO allies. Reflecting on the challenges faced during this conflict, Gareth Rice explains his research on the lesser-known drug war that intersected with the counterinsurgency campaign.With Afghanistan providin…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S2E01 - Australia And The ANZUS Treaty 41:34

3y ago41:34

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70 years ago, on 1 September 1951, Australia, the United States and New Zealand signed the Australia, NZ, US Security (ANZUS) Treaty. Although New Zealand was suspended from the treaty in 1986, the ANZUS Treaty has been the bedrock of Australian security for seven decades. In this episode of Navigating Uncertainty, Associate Professor David Lee tal…

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Howard Library Policy Perspectives - Nipping & Tucking 36:51

3y ago36:51

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Policy Perspectives is a series of occasional papers published by the Howard Library, which aims to critically reflect on policy decisions of the Howard Government. In this accompanying interview series, the papers' authors discuss some of their key findings. Visiting Fellow Shane Carney discusses industry policy under the Howard Government in the …

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Drone Futures BONUS: Caren Kaplan Q&A 28:13

3+ y ago28:13

28:13

This bonus episodes features the live Q&A from the keynote lecture of the Drone Cultures Symposium by Caren Kaplan, Professor Emirata of American Studies at the UC Davis. Caren is in conversation with Michael Richardson, with questions asked via live chat on YouTube. If you haven't already, check out Caren's talk, along with an opening interview, i…

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Drones Futures E7: Caren Kaplan 1:23:37

3+ y ago1:23:37

1:23:37

On this episode, Michael is joined by Caren Kaplan, Professor Emirata of American Studies at UC Davis. She is the author of numerous books, most recently Aerial Aftermath: Wartime from Above. You can follow her at https://twitter.com/cajakapDrone Futures is hosted by Michael Richardson, Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, w…

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Drone Futures E6: Mahwish Chishty 46:08

4y ago46:08

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On this episode, Michael is joined by Mahwish Chishty, a multimedia artist who initially trained as a miniature painter in Pakistan. Her work combines traditional artistic practice with her interest in contemporary politics, particularly the relationship between the US and Pakistan and the impact of drones on life and culture.Drone Futures is hoste…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S01E12 - Why Biodiversity Loss Is A Growing Risk For Business 36:43

4y ago36:43

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It should come as no surprise that for the second consecutive decade, the world has failed to meet any targets agreed to by the United Nations to conserve biodiversity. While big business has historically been at odds with the environment, is there room to hope now that they are waking up to serious financial risks that come with biodiversity loss?…

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Drone Futures E5: Thomas Stubblefield 1:03:06

4y ago1:03:06

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On this episode, Michael is joined by Thomas Stubblefield, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History and Media Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Thomas is the author of the new book Drone Art: The Everywhere War as Medium (2020). More info on the book can be found at https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520339620/drone-artDro…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S01E11 - Australia’s Earliest Great War Novels 35:06

4y ago35:06

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Australia’s earliest Great War novels were more than just first drafts of the Anzac legend, argues UNSW Canberra’s Dr Christina Spittel. Reading and writing were part of the war effort, and these very early books, brittle and virtually forgotten now, offered themselves as companions through what they openly acknowledged to be difficult, trying, unc…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S01E10 - Multiculturalism Without Minority Rights 28:48

4y ago28:48

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Religious and cultural minorities struggle to be accommodated in diverse societies because our institutions commonly favour the majority way of life. So for minorities to practice their ways of life, they may seem to need minority rights. Multiculturalists, for example, argue that male Sikhs should have exemptions from compulsory headwear requireme…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S01E09 - Armageddon & OKRA: Australian air power in the Middle East 32:36

4y ago32:36

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Armageddon and OKRA: Australian air power in the Middle East a century apart  In 1918, Australian led air power helped defeat an Ottoman army during the Battle of Armageddon in Palestine. One hundred years later, Australian air power was again operating in the Middle East during Operation OKRA.  A century seems a long time in the contemporary world…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S01E08 - A Conversation On Cyber Security And Future Warfare 32:58

4y ago32:58

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In this episode on Navigating Uncertainty, members of the Future of Operations Research Group; Katja Theodorakis, Karine Pontbriand and Rhiannon Neilsen, discuss the impact of cyberspace on the future of warfare, introducing their most recent research project on the role of the military in protecting critical infrastructure from cyberattacks.…

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Drone Futures BONUS: Q&A with J.D. Schnepf 27:52

4y ago27:52

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This bonus episodes features the live Q&A from a talk given at the Media Futures Hub by Dr J.D. Schnepf, Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Jen is in conversation with Michael Richardson, with questions asked via live chat on YouTube. If you haven't already, check out Jen's talk, along with an…

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Drones Futures E4: J.D. Schnepf 1:02:14

4y ago1:02:14

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On this episode, Michael is joined by Dr J.D. Schnepf, Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of the US security state, surveillance technologies, extractive infrastructures, and the War on Terror. You can follow her at https://twitter.com/jd_schn…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S01E07 - Can We Phase Out Coal, With An International Treaty 31:01

4y ago31:01

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Is the Paris agreement on climate change likely to fail? And can new treaty concepts help support it to prevent catastrophic climate change? Professor Anthony Burke talks with Professor Shirley Scott about a new proposal for a Coal Elimination Treaty.By UNSW Canberra

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Navigating Uncertainty - S01E06 - Navigating the Fog of Truth 32:59

4y ago32:59

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In this episode of Navigating Uncertainty, Professor Dave Kilcullen and PhD candidate Katja Theodorakis continue their discussion and predictions for the future of conflict. Discussing the 'Fog of Truth' - Unpacking Information Warfare, the panel explores the mental models that underpin our thinking about future conflict and examines propaganda, re…

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Drone Futures BONUS: Q&A with Katherine Chandler 33:08

4y ago33:08

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This bonus episodes features the live Q&A from a talk given by Dr Katherine Chandler, a media studies scholar and author of Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare, at the Media Futures Hub. Kate is in conversation with Michael Richardson, with questions asked via live chat on YouTube. If you haven't already, check out Kate'…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S01E05 - Imagining The Future 31:26

4y ago31:26

31:26

How will COVID-19 change the way we respond to future threats?Join Professor David Kilcullen and Katja Theodorakis, a Higher Degree by Research scholar, for this first part of a two-part conversation about how we navigate the future of conflict, technology and the ‘human element’  through the COVID-19 paradigm. These two episodes are sponsored by t…

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Drone Futures E3: Katherine Chandler 1:05:18

4y ago1:05:18

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On this episode, Michael Richardson is joined by Dr Katherine Chandler, a media studies scholar and author of Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare. First Michael interviews Kate about her work, then you’ll hear Kate deliver a talk based on her book. This is the third in a six-part series called Drone Futures, based on a v…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S01E04 - Corporate Power In Australia's Democracy 26:41

4y ago26:41

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Australian’s trust in our democracy has halved over the last decade, in part due to growing concerns about corporate influence.  In a new study, Dr Lindy Edwards of UNSW Canberra sets out to examine whether Australia’s ten most powerful companies get what they want when they engage with government, and if so, why?…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S01E03 - The Case for a Post-Military Defence Force 31:54

4y ago31:54

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A post-military defence institution is one that performs the core functions currently entrusted to armed forces—including national defence against external aggression—but that relies on an assortment of non-violent means and methods. Recent research suggests that this can be a viable alternative to the military, in the sense of being comparably eff…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S01E02 - The Santal Rebellion of 1855 32:12

4y ago32:12

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In this, the second podcast in the Navigating Uncertainty series, Professor Peter Stanley of UNSW Canberra explores the challenges of understanding the Santal Rebellion of 1855, a small war distant in time, space and culture.Few outside India have heard of the Santal rebellion of 1855, but it was the second-largest uprising against the rule of the …

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Drone Futurers BONUS: Live Q&A with Antoine Bousquet + Jairus Grove 33:18

4y ago33:18

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This bonus episodes features the live Q&A from a talk given by Dr Ronak K. Kapadia, a cultural theorist and author of Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War, at the Media Futures Hub. Ronak is in conversation with Michael Richardson, with questions asked via live chat on YouTube. If you haven't already, check out Ronak…

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Navigating Uncertainty - S01E01 - Is The International Criminal Court Broken? 39:11

4y ago39:11

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Seventeen years ago, the International Criminal Court swore in its first Prosecutor, but since then it has spent more than 1.5 billion euros and convicted only four people of international crimes.Is the ICC broken - and can it be fixed?In the first episode of 'Navigating Uncertainty', Douglas Guilfoyle, Associate Professor of International and Secu…

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Drone Futures E2: Antoine Bousquet + Jairus Grove 1:02:32

4y ago1:02:32

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On this episode, Michael Richardson is joined by Antoine Bousquet and Jairus Grove, two of the most fascinating thinkers in international relations and critical security studies today. First, Michael interviews Antoine and Jairus about their work, then you'll hear our two guests in dialogue on "Martial Autonomies: Rise of the War Machines".This is …

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Drone Futures BONUS: Live Q&A with Ronak K. Kapadia 31:07

4y ago31:07

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This bonus episodes features the live Q&A from a talk given by Dr Ronak K. Kapadia, a cultural theorist and author of Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War, at the Media Futures Hub. Ronak is in conversation with Michael Richardson, with questions asked via live chat on YouTube. If you haven't already, check out Ronak…

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Drone Futures E1: Ronak K. Kapadia 1:03:51

4y ago1:03:51

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On this episode, Michael Richardson is joined by Dr Ronak K. Kapadia, a cultural theorist and author of Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War, to talk about art and the human terrain of drone warfare. First Michael interviews Ronak about his work, then you’ll hear Ronak deliver a talk based on his book. This is the fi…

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Politics of Listening E4: Listening Interventions with Justine Lloyd, Cate Thill, Tanja Dreher 37:27

4+ y ago37:27

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This episode features Justine Lloyd (Macquarie), Cate Thill (Notre Dame) and Tanja Dreher (UNSW) on the key achievements and future directions for research on the ethics, practices and politics of listening, and marks 10 years since The Listening Project (2008 – 2010), funded by the Australian Research Council’s Cultural Research Network and co-con…

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Politics Of Listening E3: Leah Bassel - Keynote Address 47:34

4+ y ago47:34

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In this episode, Leah Bassel considers fleeting moments of political equality that become possible when listening is practiced as a form of solidarity. Such moments can coalesce around the ‘refugee crisis’, anti-austerity activism by and with women of colour across Europe, and in migrant justice movements which centre Indigenous sovereignties.Leah …

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Politics of Listening E2: First Nations media - Lorena Allam & Summer May Findlay 41:37

4+ y ago41:37

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Episode 2 of the Politics of Listening miniseries - ‘First Nations media and the politics of listening’ features First Nations media producers Lorena Allam and Summer May Finlay . Allam and Finlay reflect on the politics of listening in their work, including at The Guardian, the ABC, #IHMayDay Indigenous Health MayDay and #JustJustice. Lorena speak…

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Politics Of Listening E1: Professor Megan Davis 47:41

4+ y ago47:41

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The Politics of Listening is a series of four podcasts from the Media Futures Hub inspired by the recent ‘turn to listening’ in media studies, cultural studies and political theory. The series was recorded at The Politics of Listening 2018 conference at the University of New South Wales. This interdisciplinary conference brought together scholars, …

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Data Futures E4: Data Justice 1:04:30

4+ y ago1:04:30

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Data Futures is a series of four podcasts from Media Futures about the future of data. The series was recorded at the Data Futures Symposium at the University of New South Wales, hosted by the Media Futures Hub at the School of the Arts and Media and our friends at the Socio-Tech Futures Lab at the University of Sydney.This episode on Data Justice …

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