Episode 7: Faizah Zakaria, Postdoctoral Fellow, Nanyang Technological University - a podcast by The Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University

In episode 7 of the podcast, Michael and Astara Light interview Faizah Zakaria, who presented a Gatty talk titled, "The Toba Super Catastrophe as the History of a Future." In her lecture, Faizah examines the origins and development of the super catastrophe theory, offering both a synthesis of Toba's prehistory as pieced together through science as well as a meta-narrative of how knowledge about this event was shaped by contemporary concerns about the future of humanity. To Sumatra!  

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