Ethan Zuckerman and José van Dijck share the idea that another internet is possible, and necessary. In this two-part GDS podcast they engage in an intriguing and highly informative conversation, moderated by assistant-professor Karin van Es (Utrecht University). Ethan and José sketch the problem of the current situation with great insight, and they also do not shy away from ‘reimagining’ the internet, offering pathways to concrete alternatives. 

Ethan Zuckerman is an associate professor of public policy, communication, and information, as well as director of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, at the University of Massachusetts. His research focuses on the use of media as a tool for social change, the use of new media technologies by activists and alternative business and governance models for the internet. He is the author of Mistrust: How Losing Trust in Institutions Provides Tools to Transform Them (2021) and Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection (2013).

José van Dijck is a Distinguished Professor of Media and Digital Society at Utrecht University and recent recipient of the prestigious Spinoza prize – the highest scientific distinction in the Netherlands. She has published widely on media technology and platformization, and is the (co-)author of The Culture of Connectivity and The Platform Society.

An internet for the common good (part 1)

Bas Altena kijkt via satellieten naar de ontwikkeling van gletsjers. Wat zeggen de modellen en data over de toekomst?

Atomen enzo - Aflevering 5 met gletsjer onderzoeker Bas Altena

In this episode, Dr. Rachel Gillett is joined by Dr. Agnes Andeweg and students Maren Smith and Amanda Annemans to discuss One Book, One Campus - an annual reading event at Utrecht University which aims to broaden our understanding of the world, our communities, and ourselves through sharing a good book. This conversation delves into how One Book, One Campus was started, and what the process of selecting a book each year looks like. A large focus in this conversation is this year’s selection: We Slaves of Suriname, the 1934 book by Anton de Kom, providing a scathing history of three centuries of Dutch colonial rule.

Dr. Agnes Andeweg is an associate professor of literature at University College Utrecht, as well as the project leader for One Book, One Campus. She specializes in modern Dutch literature, gothic fiction (1800-present), Dutch cultural history and memory, with a focus on gender, sexuality and national identity.

If you want to continue learning more about topics covered in today’s conversation, we’d recommend checking out: 
-	The official One Book, One Campus resource guide: https://www.uu.nl/sites/default/files/Resource%20Guide%20-%20We%20Slaves%20of%20Suriname%20-%20DEF.pdf 
-	“Anton de Kom and the Formative Phase of Surinamese Decolonization” (2009) by Peter Meel https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/83/3-4/article-p249_3.xml 
-	“Citizenship Violence and the Afterlives of Dutch Colonialism: Rereading Anton de Kom” (2023) by Guno Jones https://read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/article-abstract/27/1%20(70)/100/355161/Citizenship-Violence-and-the-Afterlives-of-Dutch
-	“Appropriating Anton de Kom Today: Canonization, Translation, Celebration” (2023) by Karwan Fatah-Black https://read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/article-abstract/27/1%20(70)/78/355159/Appropriating-Anton-de-Kom-TodayCanonization 

Check out these upcoming events!
-	February 29: workshop for teachers on decolonial knowledge making with the Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning and Anton de Kom University of Suriname
-	March 18: Studium Generale Cover to Cover event with Dr. Guno Jones 
-	March 27: event with the Dutch Poet Laureate Babs Gons and writer Karin Amatmoekrim in the Neude Library 

Get your own copy of We Slaves of Suriname here: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/equality-diversity-inclusion/edi-for-you/activities/one-book-one-campus 

ABOUT  
Brought to you by the UGlobe Decolonisation Group  
Hosted by Dr. Rachel Gillett, Maren Smith and Amanda Annemans
Sound by Maren Smith
Music by CarlosCarty (CC-BY-3.0)  
Special thanks to our guest Dr. Agnes Andeweg

Unsettling Knowledge #21: Exploring the Life of Anton de Kom Through One Book, One Campus

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In this episode, Dr. Rachel Gillett is joined by Dr. Grace Leksana and artist Elia Nurvista. They discuss Elia Nurvista's artwork, now on display at the Wereldmuseum in Amsterdam, and ask how it shows the impact of colonialism. The conversation, like the artwork, explores themes of food, gender, and artistic techniques. Elia's work invites us to think about how and why certain things of colonial and post-colonial Indonesia are remembered (or not.) This episode, brings Elia's art into conversation with Grace Leksana's research, and their rich discussion opened up insights into how colonialism has been remembered in Indonesia.

Dr. Grace Leksana is an Assistant Professor in Indonesian history in the Cultural History section of Utrecht University. Trained as an Indonesian social historian with interdisciplinary background, her works involved memory studies, (epistemic) violence & genocide, histories of the Left, decolonization, and specific approach of micro history. Her most recent publication is: Memory culture of the anti Leftist violence in Indonesia: Embedded Remembering (Amsterdam University Press, 2023).

You can find her book here: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463723565/memory-culture-of-the-anti-leftist-violence-in-indonesia

Elia Nurvista is an artist who explores a wide range of art mediums with an interdisciplinary approach and often intersects with politics of food. Through food, she intends to scrutinize power, social, and economic inequality in this world. Using several mediums from workshop, study group, publication, site specific, performance, video and art installations, she explores the social implications of the food system to critically address the wider issues such as ecology, gender, class and geopolitics.

You can check out her art at the website here: https://elianurvista.com/

Also, her art at the exhibition at the Wereldmuseum: https://amsterdam.wereldmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/imprints

If you are interested in this subject, we recommend you check out: 12. What is the Black Atlantic? By Rachel Gillett (youtube.com)
- Re-presenting Europe

ABOUT:
Brought to you by the UGlobe Decolonisation Group
Hosted by Dr. Rachel Gillet
Co-hosted by Libby Davis
Sound by Libby Davis
Special thanks to our guests Dr. Grace Leksana and Elia Nurvista

Unsettling Knowledge #22: Imprints

In this episode of ‘SHN: The Podcast’ Assistant Professor Ozan Ozavci discusses with Dr. Ilkay Yilmaz the security culture of the Ottoman Empire in the Hamidian Era (1876-1909). They discuss topics such as what anarchism meant in the Ottoman Empire, the function of the passport system in the empire and how the Ottoman government dealt with threats. 

‘Security History Network: The Podcast,’ a series of podcast episodes produced by the Security History Network in collaboration with Utrecht University. The series exists of conversations between experts in the field of Security History from the nineteenth century and beyond. Security analysts, historians and social scientists from around the world are interviewed by the core members of the network with the aim of exploring connections across disciplines from area studies tot social psychology, and from medicine to digital humanities. More episodes can be found on securityhistorynetwork.com/podcasts/ . With special thanks to our guests and Annegreet Silvius for the creation of the jingle.

Security History Network #EP6: Ottoman Passports with Ilkay Yilmaz and Ozan Ozavci

In this Microcast, Dr. Grace Leksana and Elia Nurvista discuss the artwork of Elia Nurvista, which explores themes of food, gender, and artistic techniques, now on display at the Wereldmuseum in Amsterdam. This episode is part of our series of Microcasts, where we revisit the key points of the episode in another language. To listen to the full conversation about Elia's artwork, listen to Episode 22: Imprints.

Unsettling Knowledge Microcast #4: Imprints

Fruitvliegen, ze zijn er weer. Overwinteren ze in je woonkamer of komen ze mee met de laatste tros bananen uit de supermarkt? Zijn ze te weren uit je huis en hoe dan? Bioloog Jelle Zandveld vertelt over zijn evolutieonderzoek en de testpopulatie die hij ervoor gebruikt, het merkwaardige beestje: de fruitvlieg.

Atomen enzo - Aflevering 6 met evolutiebioloog Jelle Zandveld over de fruitvlieg

In this episode, TPV editor Beatrice de Graaf interviews Daniel Byman about his book Spreading Hate: The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism (Oxford University Press). Daniel Byman is a Director and Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies and a senior fellow at the Centre for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He is a world-leading scholar in research about terrorism, counterterrorism, and the Middle East. Since a couple of years, he focused his research on right-wing terrorism. His latest book The Global Rise of White Supremacists Terrorism is a sweeping and in-depth account of the history and evolution of the white supremacist movement. How has the white supremacist terrorism threat changed over time? What are their ideas? And how do they influence politics today?  

Terrorism and Political Violence is a podcast series produced by the Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence (TPV) in collaboration with Utrecht University. This podcast is comprised of two types of episodes. In Issues up close, editors of the TPV journal will discuss a range of subjects from prominent issues covered by the journal such as the history of terrorism, its causes and consequences, questions concerning political violence and major global trends and threats. In our Book Talks episodes, editors will host conversations with experts from across the field to discuss their current work. More information about this series, and other episodes, can be found on www.uu.nl/tpv. With special thanks to Pieter Veen for the soundtrack.

An internet for the common good (part 1)

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