Podcasts by Future Self

Future Self - Episode 3: Different and proud of it from 2023-12-12T21:13:02.054418

Whether you're starting out in your career, or figuring out what to do with your life, it can help so much to have a mentor. Someone who's been there and worked through it, someone who supports ...

Future Self - Episode 4: A career in K-Pop from 2023-12-12T21:13:02.048520

ANU music student Rachel Warren's dream is to work as a topliner in K-Pop. In this episode, she speaks to Grammy-nominated US music producer Mike Daley, who has produced and mixed the records of...

Future Self - Episode 6: The story of us from 2023-12-12T21:13:02.040681

Museums are storehouses of collective memory, places that enshrine particular narratives and preserve objects that help us to tell important stories – about individuals, a locality, a nation. Listen

Future Self - Episode 10: Behind the camera from 2021-08-31T04:19:54

Film directors often have a high level of control over their films, in translating the vision that they have onto the screen. But when the stories you're putting onscreen are from a culture that...

Future Self - Episode 9: How to invent the future from 2021-08-24T05:20:12

There are those who predict the future, and those who create it. 

Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell went from being an anthropologist at Stanford University to applying her anthropolo...

Future Self - Episode 8: To save and protect from 2021-08-17T04:52:56

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is engaged in the work of saving lives, protecting rights, and building a better future for refugees, internally displaced communities and stateless people. And as ...

Future Self - Episode 7: Working at Google from 2021-08-10T06:51:59

Pierre Shasha has always wanted to work at Google. Perhaps unsurprisingly - it's a dream workplace for many people.

So what's it really like working there? 

We connected Pierre with ...

Future Self - Episode 3: Lauren and Liz from 2021-05-15T01:34:36.058087

Whether you're starting out in your career, or figuring out what to do with your life, it can help so much to have a mentor. Someone who's been there and worked through it, someone who supports ...

Future Self - Episode 4: Rachel and Mike from 2021-05-15T01:34:36.057222

ANU music student Rachel Warren's dream is to work as a topliner in K-Pop. In this episode, she speaks to Grammy-nominated US music producer Mike Daley, who has produced and mixed the records of...

Future Self - Episode 5: Sachini and Jessie from 2020-12-16T03:13:56

This year, Sachini Poogoda has been fulfilling her dream of writing a novel over the course of her Honours in English Literature. Now that the draft is complete, the next steps await: polishing ...

Future Self - Episode 5: Writing the change we wish to see from 2020-12-16T03:13:56

This year, Sachini Poogoda has been fulfilling her dream of writing a novel over the course of her Honours in English Literature. Now that the draft is complete, the next steps await: polishing ...

Future Self - Episode 2: Jonathon and Ezra from 2020-11-25T08:41:45

In this episode of Future Self, Jonathon Zalakos interviews accomplished jewellery designer Ezra Satok-Wolman of Atelier Hg.

They h...

Future Self - Episode 2: Fashioning a life in jewellery design from 2020-11-25T08:41:45

In this episode of Future Self, Jonathon Zalakos interviews accomplished jewellery designer Ezra Satok-Wolman of Atelier Hg.

They h...

Future Self - Episode 1: Max and Kristin from 2020-11-18T05:29:42

Third year student Maximilian Lechner-Scott is the host of the very first episode of Future Self!

Max is studying a Bachelor of International Relations and a Bachelor of Arts at the Austra...

Future Self - Episode 1: Identity and research in the Middle East from 2020-11-18T05:29:42

Third year student Maximilian Lechner-Scott is the host of the very first episode of Future Self!

Max is studying a Bachelor of International Relations and a Bachelor of Arts at the Austra...

Future Self - Trailer from 2020-11-16T07:48:12

What if you could talk to someone who is where you want to be in two years, five years, ten years’ time? Someone whose books you've read, work you've admired, music you've loved?

And ...

Blue Poles - Episode 3: Into Colour Again from 2020-06-18T07:48:37

In the third episode of this three-part series, CASS Masters student Simone Penkethman looks at mental illness, publicly owned art, and music composition through the lens of Blue Poles.

Blue Poles - Episode 2: Art Annoys the Public from 2020-06-18T07:35:21

In the second episode of this three-part series, CASS Masters student Simone Penkethman examines the media scandal around the purchase of Blue Poles, Jackson Pollock's highly physical technique, an...

Blue Poles - Episode 1: Disclose the Price from 2020-06-18T07:26

In the first episode of this three-part series, CASS Masters student Simone Penkethman explores why the purchase of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles by the National Gallery of Australia was a defining ...