Students of Humanities is a series designed to highlight the podcasts our students have made as part of their BA and MA programmes.
In "Gender and Race in Historical International Relations" students of the eponymous course (part of the Global Order specialisation of the MA International Relations programme) discuss books related to issues of gender and race.
Moving Europe: Literary Interventions - Episode 4: Goodbye to Europe: Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter (2022)
In this episode, Ksenia Kwiecińska (rMA Comparative Literary Studies at UU) and Toby Kommeren (rMA Arts, Media, and Literature at LU) discuss Georgi Gospodinov’s Booker Prize-winning novel Time Shelter (2020). If, as Gospodinov proposes, writing can be a cure for nightmares, what nightmare is Time Shelter reenacting and what kind of cure does it offer? Written in the aftermath of Brexit, the narrative reconciles with political consequences of personal nostalgia by staging a not-so-dista...
11 Jun 2026
Moving Europe: Literary Interventions - Episode 3: Irony in Non-Ironic Times: Nell Zink’s Sister Europe (2025)
In this episode, Franek Dziduch (rMA Cultural Analysis at UvA) and Ollie Köhn-Haskins (rMA Comparative Literary Studies at UU) discuss the strengths and shortcomings of satirizing European cultural elites. How does one effectively criticize Europe’s narratives of Otherness, identity, and class? To search for an answer, Dziduch and Köhn-Haskins delve into Sister Europe (2025) by Nell Zink, examining how stylistic devices centered on distance rather than identification, illustrate Europe’s fail...
In this episode, Maura Martens and Sterre Schols, both students of the Research Master “Arts, Literature and Media” at Leiden University, delve into the marginalized stories of Europe through the lens of Critical Heritage Studies. Who is included and who is left out of Europe’s cultural narratives? Through a close-reading of the novel Soul Tourists (2005) by British author Bernardine Evaristo, Maura and Sterre explore the critical role of art in the cultural archive of Europe, especially in r...
7 Mar 2025
Moving Europe: Literary Interventions - Episode 1: The limits of empathy in Erpenback's Go, Went, Gone (2015)
This episode is hosted by Anna Loi and Ymke van Doorn, both students of the Research Master “Arts, Literature and Media” at Leiden University. The focus is on Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone (2015), a novel about the encounters of Richard, a retired professor, with a group of refugees in Berlin (Germany). How do literary narratives, such as these, shape our perceptions of migration and of refugees? Can literature evoke empathy and is there a limit to this? Through an analysis of the novel, A...
13 Feb 2025
Radio Palestine episode 4: Sulaiman Khatib
“When I was 15, I participated in a hunger strike in prison for 16 days. That was my introduction to non-violence, and it was my first time experiencing a potent energy.” –Sulaiman Khatib, 2024. Breaking the cycle of violence requires profound transformation. For Sulaiman Khatib, this transformation unfolded in an Israeli prison, where he spent a decade after being arrested for resisting oppression. Despite enduring torture, he emerged with a powerful idea: the principle of non-violent resist...
6 Feb 2025
Radio Palestine episode 3: Oren Ziv
"I don't always have high hopes about changing the world through photography or journalism, but I wake up in the morning and drive a few hours because I think it's important to be there, to stand with these people, to document it." -Oren Ziv, 2024. In this episode, we sit down with Israeli photojournalist Oren Ziv, a pioneer in conflict reporting who has spent nearly two decades capturing the realities of life in Palestine and Israel. As one of the first journalists on the scene of the ...
30 Jan 2025
Radio Palestine episode 2: Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
"What kind of resistance leads to more loss of land, death, and destruction?” -Ahmed Fouad AlkhatibCould you imagine a voice from Gaza asking this provocative question? This week, we welcome Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Palestinian-American activist and political analyst daring to propose pragmatic solutions to the Israel/Palestine conflict. In a landscape often defined by entrenched positions, Alkhatib is not afraid to break taboos: he offers a hand to anyone willing to seek peace, while challeng...
23 Jan 2025
Radio Palestine episode 1: Avi Shlaim
“I was radicalized in the archives” - Prof. Avi Shlaim. Have you ever wondered how an Oxford Professor of International Relations, pioneering scholar of Israel/Palestine and member of the Israeli ‘New Historians’, developed his complex political voice? In this episode, we explore the remarkable journey of Avi Shlaim, author of the seminal work The Iron Wall.We delve into Avi's identity as an Arab-Jew—born to a Jewish family in Iraq and later immigrating to Israel—and his groundbreaking c...
6 Apr 2023
Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 7: The Unwomanly Face of War
Sveltana Alexievich's ' 'The Unwomanly Face of War' documents the experiences of Soviet women who participated in the second world war – both at the front lines and at home. This episode by Milou Makaske, Betty Kincová and Annemijn de Vries considers the book and its themes.
6 Apr 2023
Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 4: The Shadow King
In this episode, Joël Kous and Jeroen Kreis review Maaza Mengiste's 'The Shadow King'. The novel is situated in the Second Italian-Ethiopian War, 1935-37 and highlights the role of women in this war.
6 Apr 2023
Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 5: The Cry of Winnie Mandela
Njabuko S. Ndebele's 'The Cry of Winnie Mandela', discussed here by Meri Kajaia and Nina Hamann, is fictional narrative centred around the stories of several women, including Winnie Mandela. The novel is a meditation on what it is to be a woman in the struggle – on waiting, longing, catharsis, and redemption.
6 Apr 2023
Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 6: Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
In this podcast episode, Sorcha Lanigan and Sophie Carr-Brulard discuss Saidia Hartman's book 'Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments' which is an exploration of the intimate lives of young Black women in Philadelphia and New York in early 20th century.
6 Apr 2023
Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 3: Wild Swans
Jung Chang’s 'Wild Swans' is a family history of three generation of women spread over a hundred years. The book, discussed here by Lin Monen and Hosoo Kim, examines the lives and struggles of Chinese women under different regimes.
6 Apr 2023
Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 2: Americannah
In this podcast, Julia de Wit and Mauricio Mandujano Manriquez discuss Chimamanda Adhichie's 2013 novel 'Americannah'. Americannah is a Nigerian slang for Nigerians who live in America and through her characters Adhichie explores the questions of migration, race and belonging.
6 Apr 2023
Gender and Race in Historical International Relations episode 1: Blonde Roots
Rüya Erdoğan and Mirjam Wolting discuss Bernardine Evaristo's 'Blonde Roots'. Evaristo’s 2008 novel reverses the roles in the narrative of slavery, placing Africans as masters and Europeans as slaves through a fictional story of Doris, a white girl from England who is abducted and shipped to the fictional United Kingdom of Great Ambossa.
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