Students of Humanities
Students of Humanities is a series designed to highlight the podcasts our students have made as part of their BA and MA programmes.
In "Gender and Race in Historical International Relations" students of the eponymous course (part of the Global Order specialisation of the MA International Relations programme) discuss books related to issues of gender and race.
Students of Humanities
Latest Episodes
Moving Europe: Literary Interventions - Episode 4: Goodbye to Europe: Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter (2022)
In this episode, Ksenia Kwiecińska (rMA Comparative Literary Studies at UU) and Toby Kommeren (rMA Arts, Media, and Literature at LU) discuss Georgi Gospodinov’s Booker Prize-winning novel Time Shelter (2020). If, as Gospodinov p...
Moving Europe: Literary Interventions - Episode 3: Irony in Non-Ironic Times: Nell Zink’s Sister Europe (2025)
In this episode, Franek Dziduch (rMA Cultural Analysis at UvA) and Ollie Köhn-Haskins (rMA Comparative Literary Studies at UU) discuss the strengths and shortcomings of satirizing European cultural elites. How does one effectively criticize Eur...
Moving Europe: Literary Interventions - Episode 2: Ghostly encounters in Evaristo’s Soul Tourists (2005)
In this episode, Maura Martens and Sterre Schols, both students of the Research Master “Arts, Literature and Media” at Leiden University, delve into the marginalized stories of Europe through the lens of Critical Heritage Studies. Who is includ...
Moving Europe: Literary Interventions - Episode 1: The limits of empathy in Erpenback's Go, Went, Gone (2015)
This episode is hosted by Anna Loi and Ymke van Doorn, both students of the Research Master “Arts, Literature and Media” at Leiden University. The focus is on Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone (2015), a novel about the encounters of Ric...
Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 7: The Unwomanly Face of War
Sveltana Alexievich's ' 'The Unwomanly Face of War' documents the experiences of Soviet women who participated in the second world war – both at the front lines and at home. This episode by Milou Makaske, Betty Kincová and Annemijn de Vries con...