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.
Episodes
13 episodes
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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50:23
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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55:05
Radio Palestine episode 4: Sulaiman Khatib
“When I was 15, I participated in a hunger strike in prison for 16 days. That was my introduction to non-violence, and it was my first time experiencing a potent energy.” –Sulaiman Khatib, 2024.Breaking the cycle of violence requires pro...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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45:58
Radio Palestine episode 3: Oren Ziv
"I don't always have high hopes about changing the world through photography or journalism, but I wake up in the morning and drive a few hours because I think it's important to be there, to stand with these people, to document it." -Oren Ziv, 2...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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53:33
Radio Palestine episode 2: Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
"What kind of resistance leads to more loss of land, death, and destruction?” -Ahmed Fouad AlkhatibCould you imagine a voice from Gaza asking this provocative question? This week, we welcome Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Palestinian-American a...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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51:11
Radio Palestine episode 1: Avi Shlaim
“I was radicalized in the archives” - Prof. Avi Shlaim. Have you ever wondered how an Oxford Professor of International Relations, pioneering scholar of Israel/Palestine and member of the Israeli ‘New Historians’, developed his comp...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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55:58
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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12:26
Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 6: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
In this podcast episode, Sorcha Lanigan and Sophie Carr-Brulard discuss Saidia Hartman's book 'Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments' which is an exploration of the intimate lives of young Black women in Philadelphia and New York in early 20th c...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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11:48
Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 5: The Cry of Winnie Mandela
Njabuko S. Ndebele's 'The Cry of Winnie Mandela', discussed here by Meri Kajaia and Nina Hamann, is fictional narrative centred around the stories of several women, including Winnie Mandela. The novel is a meditation on what it is to be a woman...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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13:05
Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 4: The Shadow King
In this episode, Joël Kous and Jeroen Kreis review Maaza Mengiste's 'The Shadow King'. The novel is situated in the Second Italian-Ethiopian War, 1935-37 and highlights the role of women in this war.
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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11:52
Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 3: Wild Swans
Jung Chang’s 'Wild Swans' is a family history of three generation of women spread over a hundred years. The book, discussed here by Lin Monen and Hosoo Kim, examines the lives and struggles of Chinese women under different regimes.
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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14:58
Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 2: Americannah
In this podcast, Julia de Wit and Mauricio Mandujano Manriquez discuss Chimamanda Adhichie's 2013 novel 'Americannah'. Americannah is a Nigerian slang for Nigerians who live in America and through her characters Adhichie explores the questions ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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16:00
Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 1: Blonde Roots
Rüya Erdoğan and Mirjam Wolting discuss Bernardine Evaristo's 'Blonde Roots'. Evaristo’s 2008 novel reverses the roles in the narrative of slavery, placing Africans as masters and Europeans as slaves through a fictional story of Doris, a white ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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12:24