Social Cohesion: What holds us together? What keeps us apart?
Over the course of a year, academics, journalists, philosophers, and artists from around the world came together to explore the question of social cohesion: what it means, how we can achieve it, and whether it is possible or even desirable. In a four-part podcast series, members of the Humboldt Residency Programme discuss how aspects of diversity, nationalism and populism, technology, and the power of arts and culture contribute to the (un)making of communities.
This podcast series was produced and hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s 2022 Residency Programme.
The Humboldt Residency Programme:
Headed by annually changing hosts, the Humboldt Residency Programme seeks to bring together Humboldtians and other researchers with actors in civil society, journalists, entrepreneurs and artists to work on a common topic. In virtual meetings and a residency period in Berlin, members of the programme explore novel ways of communicating pressing issues of our time.
The 2022 Residency cohort focused on the topic of social cohesion, which included current trends in social division but also new forms of (digital) communality from the perspective of research, journalism and art.
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Social Cohesion: What holds us together? What keeps us apart?
Over the course of a year, academics, journalists, philosophers, and artists from around the world came together to explore the question of social cohesion: what it means, how we can achieve it, and whether it is possible or even desirable. In a four-part podcast series, members of the Humboldt Residency Programme discuss how aspects of diversity, nationalism and populism, technology, and the power of arts and culture contribute to the (un)making of communities.
This podcast series was produced and hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s 2022 Residency Programme.
The Humboldt Residency Programme:
Headed by annually changing hosts, the Humboldt Residency Programme seeks to bring together Humboldtians and other researchers with actors in civil society, journalists, entrepreneurs and artists to work on a common topic. In virtual meetings and a residency period in Berlin, members of the programme explore novel ways of communicating pressing issues of our time.
The 2022 Residency cohort focused on the topic of social cohesion, which included current trends in social division but also new forms of (digital) communality from the perspective of research, journalism and art.
Episode 3: How can art and culture help us imagine a truly cohesive society?
Humboldt Residency Podcast
38 minutes 14 seconds
2 years ago
Episode 3: How can art and culture help us imagine a truly cohesive society?
Four members of the Humboldt Residency Programme reflect on the power of art and culture to foster relationships within communities. How do the form and content of artistic expression help people to forge individual and group identities? And how can art give voice to those facing social and political repression? Listen to a conversation between
Amina Atiq, Yemeni-Scouse poet and performance artist, Liverpool
Lea Kuhar, philosopher and sociologist, Ljubljana/Berlin
Mala Pandurang, Professor of English and Principal of BMN College, Mumbai
Cynthia-Miller Idriss, creative lead of the 2022 cohort of the Humboldt Residency Programme and Director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL), American University, Washington, D.C.
Moderator: Cynthia-Miller Idriss, Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University (Washington, D.C.)
The podcast episode is part of a four-part series produced and hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s 2022 Residency Programme.
Humboldt Residency Podcast
Social Cohesion: What holds us together? What keeps us apart?
Over the course of a year, academics, journalists, philosophers, and artists from around the world came together to explore the question of social cohesion: what it means, how we can achieve it, and whether it is possible or even desirable. In a four-part podcast series, members of the Humboldt Residency Programme discuss how aspects of diversity, nationalism and populism, technology, and the power of arts and culture contribute to the (un)making of communities.
This podcast series was produced and hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s 2022 Residency Programme.
The Humboldt Residency Programme:
Headed by annually changing hosts, the Humboldt Residency Programme seeks to bring together Humboldtians and other researchers with actors in civil society, journalists, entrepreneurs and artists to work on a common topic. In virtual meetings and a residency period in Berlin, members of the programme explore novel ways of communicating pressing issues of our time.
The 2022 Residency cohort focused on the topic of social cohesion, which included current trends in social division but also new forms of (digital) communality from the perspective of research, journalism and art.
