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S1E9 Episode 9: Us? Them!: Constructing Identities and Subverting Otherness in a Drag Show in Kyoto
Diamonds Are Forever is not only the title of a James Bond film, but also the name of a drag show in Kyoto.In today's episode, Marco Del Din, PhD candidate at Heidelberg University and Ca' Foscari…
S1E8 Episode 8: Child Protection, Social Work and Cultural Difference (Interview with Florence Wieder-Kinne (Heidelberg University))
In child protection, "Us and Them" manifests itself in different ways: Social workers and families often encounter each other with different expectations, shaped by institutional structures,…
S1E7 Episode 7: Group Cohesion, Digital Education and AI Literacy: Bridging the Gap Between ‘Us and Them’ in the Digital Age (Interview with Alberto Carballo Soca (University of Havana))
Timeline00:00 Intro02:36 Exploring Group Cohesion and Educational Inclusion17:20 Challanges in the Context of Digital Education27:22 AI Literacy in the Framework of 'Us and Them'37:27 Effects of…
Episode 6: America’s Enemy Images – The Socio-Cognitive Framing of National Identity and Exclusion on Social Media (Interview with Isabella Gomez-O'Keefe (University of Cambridge))
Polarization in the United States did not start when Donald Trump was elected President for the second time in 2024 – but it might be more visible now than ever, largely due to social media: the…
S1E5 Episode 5: Magical Urbanism: Thresholds, Hybridity, and the Transformative Power of 'Us and Them' in Woolf, Lispector, and Lahiri (Interview with Tetyana Kasima (University of Tartu))
As human beings, we are all embedded in time and space—but how does the space we inhabit shape our perspectives and experiences?Drawing on her research into Clarice Lispector’s The Besieged City and…
S1E4 Episode 4: Antigypsyism in German Popular Culture & the Other in Ancient and Medieval Visual Arts (Interview with Dr. Pavel Brunssen & Dr. Tatiana Tereshchenko)
What do ancient and medieval visual arts have in common with modern Antigypsyism in German pop culture? At first glance, these topics seem entirely unrelated — one rooted in the distant past, and the…
S1E3 Episode 3: The Role of War Posters in the Russo-Ukrainian War: Constructing ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ (Interview with Dr. Liudmyla Pidkuimukha)
When Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022, the world was left in shock. In times of war, the dichotomy between ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ becomes clearer than ever; and one specific medium in which this is…
S1E2 Episode 2: Saving Strangers – The ‘False Promise’ of Responsibility to Protect (Interview with Professor Richard Caplan (University of Oxford))
In the second episode, we welcome Richard Caplan, Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford.Sinan from HGGS interviews Professor Caplan, who reflects on the question: Has the…
S1E1 Episode 1: The Trauma Hero in Films about the War on Terror (Interview with Laura Herges (Heidelberg University))
Our first episode introduces our theme “Us and Them” and opens the series with an interview between Sinan and PhD candidate Laura Herges (Heidelberg University): The traumatized war hero has become a…
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