EXPeditions - The living library of knowlegde
The EXPeditions podcasts take you into the worlds of leading thinkers, scholars and scientists. Lively, accessible, reliable, these audio journeys guide you through key terrain in science and society, history, art and all the humanities.
Episodes
The realm of DNA-based materials combines the way DNA is manipulated and handled inside our cells with innovative ways of thinking about material science outside, for industrial purposes.
About Davide Michieletto "I am a Professor of Biomaterials at the University of Edinburgh working on Topological Problems in Soft Matter and Biology. I am a 2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. I am the group leader of the Topological Active Poly...
DNA topology, more specifically, is the study of the topological properties of DNA. And it's really fascinating.
About Davide Michieletto "I am a Professor of Biomaterials at the University of Edinburgh working on Topological Problems in Soft Matter and Biology. I am a 2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. I am the group leader of the Topological Active Polymers Lab. We aim to discover new DNA-based topological soft materials and c...
DNA is the blueprint of life. It contains all the genetic information required for complex organisms to be alive and to sustain life.
About Davide Michieletto "I am a Professor of Biomaterials at the University of Edinburgh working on Topological Problems in Soft Matter and Biology. I am a 2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. I am the group leader of the Topological Active Polymers Lab. We aim to discover new DNA-based topological...
Trust is absolutely essential for our ability to cooperate with other people, to get anything done, to move around in the world at all.
About Tiffany Watt Smith I am an author and historian of emotions. I write about the cultural and historical forces that shape our most intimate worlds. I have won multiple awards for my research and writing, including grants from Wellcome Trust, the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Rese...
Female friendship is a powerful, evolving force that has long been overlooked, yet reveals deep emotional, cultural, and social significance across history
About Tiffany Watt Smith I am an author and historian of emotions. I write about the cultural and historical forces that shape our most intimate worlds. I have won multiple awards for my research and writing, including grants from Wellcome Trust, the British Academy and the Arts...
It's sometimes counterintuitive to think that emotions might have a history, because surely everyone across the world and everyone across time has always felt fear and anger and sorrow and joy in the same kind of way.
About Tiffany Watt Smith I am an author and historian of emotions. I write about the cultural and historical forces that shape our most intimate worlds. I have won multiple awards for my research and writing, includin...
Foucault thinks that territory was much more of a focus of politics in the medieval period, but this has been supplanted by this interest of government over population in a more modern period. Shakespeare also offers a lot of material that can help us to think about those kinds of questions.
About Stuart Elden "I’m a Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick. My research is at the intersection of poli...
Greetings and partings are mini rituals that frame every encounter and condense emotional intensity into gestures and words.
About David Hillman "I lecture on Shakespeare and Renaissance culture at the University of Cambridge and direct studies at King’s College in Cambridge.
I'm the author of Shakespeare's Entrails, which is my first monograph. I've also written about Shakespeare and Freud; the history of the body in relation to S...
Islam Issa, Professor of Literature and History at Birmingham City University, looks at the influence of Shakespeare in popular culture.
About Islam Issa "I am a professor of Literature and History at Birmingham City University.
I’m most interested in cultural history and literary criticism, but particularly reception studies: how and why we read literature, and why that matters."
Key Points
• Education systems and cultural hierarc...
My life in relation to Shakespeare has always been torn between the stage and the page, thinking about Shakespeare as a literary text that one can pore over.
About David Hillman "I lecture on Shakespeare and Renaissance culture at the University of Cambridge and direct studies at King’s College in Cambridge.
I'm the author of Shakespeare's Entrails, which is my first monograph. I've also written about Shakespeare and Freud; the his...
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, Professor of International Politics of Africa at the University of Oxford, examines the extractive industries in Africa.
About Ricardo Soares de Oliveira "I’m a Professor of International Politics of Africa at the University of Oxford, and co-editor of the journal African Affairs.
My research interests include the workings of the extractive industries (oil, gas and mining) in sub-Saharan Africa; the rela...
Eugene Rogan, Director of St. Antony’s College Middle East Centre, examines recent Muslim movements throughout the Arab world.
About Eugene Rogan "I am Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at Oxford, and Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College.
My field is the modern history of the Arab world. I focus primarily on the 19th and 20th centuries, and my real interests have always been in the end of the Ottoman E...
Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History at the University of Oxford, discusses the rise of global Islam.
About Faisal Devji "I’m Professor of Indian History at the University of Oxford.
My interest is in the intellectual history of India and Pakistan, as well as in political thought, specifically the political thought of modern Islam."
Key Points
• Islam historically referred to a set of actions and attitudes, not faith. Today, t...
Charles Tripp, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, discusses Middle Eastern and North African revolutions.
About Charles Tripp "I'm Professor Emeritus of Politics of Middle East and North Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
My work has been mainly in the area of the examination of power and the abuses of power across the Middle East and North Africa: ...
Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, discusses race and the global economy.
About Kehinde Andrews "I am Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University and the Chair of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity.
My research focuses on understanding race and racism and, really importantly, on how the community is mobilised to combat the problems that we face."
Key Points
• The West is ri...
Catherine Hall, Emeritus Professor at University College London, argues that the legacy of slavery is more relevant than ever.
About Catherine Hall "I'm the chair of the Center for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership and Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London.
My research has been concerned with questions of Britain and its Empire. In particular, I focused on bo...
Decolonisation, as a process, has more or less run its course, but not entirely. There is a small number of colonies that exist.
About Philippe Sands "I’m Professor of Law at University College London, Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals in the Faculty, and a key member of staff in the Centre for Law and the Environment. I am a Barrister at Matrix Chambers and a writer.
Everything that I do – teaching, rese...
In Shakespeare’s work, the relationship between acknowledgment of the other and knowledge of the other often plays out through the body.
About David Hillman
"I lecture on Shakespeare and Renaissance culture at the University of Cambridge and direct studies at King’s College in Cambridge.
I'm the author of Shakespeare's Entrails, which is my first monograph. I've also written about Shakespeare and Freud; the history of the body in r...
In my discipline, we tend to look at body-based problems as being expressions of psychological distress.
About Susie Orbach
"I am a psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and writer, and the co-founder of the Women’s Therapy Centre in London and New York.
I look at how the issues of society are structured into the individual, and constitute how we become who we are, but holding on to the notion that we live in a society and that every rela...
The commercialisation of the body hides the amount of work that we put into producing our bodies.
About Susie Orbach
"I am a psychoanalyst, psychotherapist and writer, and the co-founder of the Women’s Therapy Centre in London and New York.
I look at how the issues of society are structured into the individual, and constitute how we become who we are, but holding on to the notion that we live in a society and that every relation th...
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