Podcasts by IAS Talk Pieces

IAS Talk Pieces

Short talks reflecting on an aspect of our shared situation from different disciplinary and interdisciplinary angles: creative reflection, historical contextualization and comparison, philosophical and theoretical meditation, psychic and psychological exploration, ethnographic and experiential narrative, literary and aesthetic analysis. 


  • Produced and edited by Albert Brenchat-Aguilar
  • Communications by Patricia Mascarell Llombart
  • Executive Producer is Tamar Garb




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IAS Talk Pieces
Concepts for the 'New Normal'. #2 Implication from 2021-10-27T10:00:19

Welcome to this podcast on ‘Implication’.

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Speculation from 2021-01-07T15:03

The UK Health minister and businesses say that the media speculates, and this affects their speculations. Countries speculate against each other’s speculations. Timescales, vaccines, movements, ...

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Arts and 'Familiar Alien Threats' from 2020-08-12T09:23:01

Welcome to the fourteenth podcast in our series ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. Here Ama de-Graft Aikins, British Academy Global Professor in the Institute of Advanced Studies at UCL, and a s...

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Arts and 'Familiar Alien Threats' from 2020-08-12T09:23:01

Welcome to the fourteenth podcast in our series ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. Here Ama de-Graft Aikins, British Academy Global Professor in the Institute of Advanced Studies at UCL, and a s...

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Viral Racism from 2020-07-30T13:00:45

Welcome to the eleventh podcast in our series ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. Having been asked to speculate on the concepts of immunity and immunisation, Peg Rawes, Professor of Architecture...

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Immunology: Visualizing Uncertainty & Vulnerability from 2020-07-28T15:44:57

Welcome to the eleventh podcast in our series ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. Having been asked to speculate on the concepts of immunity and immunisation, Peg Rawes, Professor of Architecture...

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Immunology: Visualizing Uncertainty & Vulnerability from 2020-07-28T15:44:57

Welcome to the eleventh podcast in our series ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. Having been asked to speculate on the concepts of immunity and immunisation, Peg Rawes, Professor of Architecture...

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Immunity and Community from 2020-07-09T14:17:53

Welcome to the ninth podcast in our series ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. This episode, devoted to the concept of ‘immunity’, is longer than usual as we have gathered voices from different d...

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Unexpected Transformational Conjunctions from 2020-06-29T16:33:01

Welcome to the eighth podcast in our series ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. Ann Phoenix, Professor of Psychosocial Studies at UCL, explores five forms of inequity that the coronavirus has hei...

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On the Concept of 'Unprecedented' from 2020-06-25T10:49:27

Welcome to the seventh episode in our series ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. Here, Zoltán Boldizsár Simon takes up the word and the concept of ‘unprecedented’, repeated now to the point of al...

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Virtual Therapeutic Encounters from 2020-06-05T11:52:14

by Lionel Bailly.


Welcome to the sixth podcast in the IAS series 'Life in the Time of Coronavirus'. Here you can listen to Lionel Bailly, Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Psychoanalysi...

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Cells and Viruses from 2020-05-22T13:28:51

by Stephen Walker


Welcome to the fifth podcast in the IAS series 'Life in the Time of Coronavirus'. Here you can listen to Dr Stephen Walker, Head of Architecture at the University of ...

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Survival Infrastructures from 2020-05-11T18:15:59

by Ayona Datta

This is the fourth podcast in our series ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’ in which specialists from arts, humanities and social sciences, think about the questions that the...

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Sexuality and Stigma from 2020-04-24T17:27:57

by Philippa Hetherington


Welcome to the Institute of Advanced Studies' podcast series on ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. In this second episode we hear from Philippa Hetherington, L...

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Sexuality and Stigma from 2020-04-24T17:27:57

by Philippa Hetherington


Welcome to the Institute of Advanced Studies' podcast series on ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. In this second episode we hear from Philippa Hetherington, L...

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Sexuality and Stigma from 2020-04-24T17:27:57

by Philippa Hetherington


Welcome to the Institute of Advanced Studies' podcast series on ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’. In this second episode we hear from Philippa Hetherington, L...

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Underlying Conditions from 2020-04-09T17:29:52

'We’ve all become used to hearing this phrase ‘underlying conditions’ in the context of COVID 19. Our unfortunate newsreaders have to keep repeating it in the daily litany of statistics and part...

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