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
Civic duties are essentially the ways in which citizens agree to abide by the rules and to contribute to the life of a national society.
About Simon Reid-Henry "I am a research professor at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, an honorary professor of historical and political geography at Queen Mary, University of London, a civil society advocate and a writer. I am a 2011 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. My research applies an interd...
I think prejudice is best conceptualized as a phenomenon that can be supported by a whole range of mental states that will include beliefs, habits, emotions, and also attentional dispositions.
About Jessie Munton "I'm an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. I'm also a fellow at St John's College, and Director of Studies for Philosophy there. My core areas of research are philosophy of mind, epistemolo...
The world today is overburdened with challenges that supersede the boundaries of nation states, and therefore of national governments, to address on their own.
About Simon Reid-Henry "I am a research professor at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, an honorary professor of historical and political geography at Queen Mary, University of London, a civil society advocate and a writer. I am a 2011 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. My res...
I'm interested in the beliefs that we're not forming, the evidence that we're not attending to or using, the belief states that perhaps we form. What I think of as negative epistemology is the project of coming up with resources that let us say a bit more about that.
About Jessie Munton "I'm an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. I'm also a fellow at St John's College, and Director of Studies for Phi...
"How do we understand, as it were, our era of democracy, which I argue began really as recently as the 1970s from previous eras, and what is it that is fundamentally at the core of the democracy we live in today?"
About Simon Reid-Henry "I am a research professor at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, an honorary professor of historical and political geography at Queen Mary, University of London, a civil society advocate and a writ...
On the one hand, we have that sense of really close identification with our minds. On the other hand, we're often surprised at the ways in which they operate.
About Jessie Munton "I'm an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. I'm also a fellow at St John's College, and Director of Studies for Philosophy there. My core areas of research are philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of psychology. ...
We don't really understand how life got going on this planet. There are various candidates for where the first molecules of life might have evolved, and some of those candidates are deeply volcanic.
About Tamsin Mather "I am a professor of Volcanology. My work brings together expertise in volcanology/magmatism, atmospheric chemistry and paleoclimatology/stratigraphy. This combination allows me to tackle problems ranging from acute ...
We in the modern West still look back to ancient Greece as our imagined origin. We're still obsessed with ancient Greece.
About Naoise Mac Sweeney "I'm Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Vienna. My research focuses on the construction of identity and cultural interaction. I am especially interested in the making of communities – not only their physical formation through landscape and architecture but also their so...
There is a sense of looking to volcanoes and their power and recognising our own power as well, and with that power comes a great sense of responsibility.
About Tamsin Mather "I am a professor of Volcanology. My work brings together expertise in volcanology/magmatism, atmospheric chemistry and paleoclimatology/stratigraphy. This combination allows me to tackle problems ranging from acute volcanic hazards and air pollution events in...
How Greekness could coexist alongside and be interconnected with other types of identities and other kinds of cultural traits is a central question.
About Naoise Mac Sweeney "I'm Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Vienna. My research focuses on the construction of identity and cultural interaction. I am especially interested in the making of communities – not only their physical formation through landscape and arc...
Understanding volcanoes has been woven together with our understanding of the structure of the Earth.
About Tamsin Mather "I am a professor of Volcanology. My work brings together expertise in volcanology/magmatism, atmospheric chemistry and paleoclimatology/stratigraphy. This combination allows me to tackle problems ranging from acute volcanic hazards and air pollution events in the present-day to the role of volcanism in the long...
Migration is a crucial part of what made the ancient Greek world. It must have been crucial in the way this world came together, but it also must have been crucial in keeping this world linked and connected.
About Naoise Mac Sweeney "I'm Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Vienna. My research focuses on the construction of identity and cultural interaction. I am especially interested in the making of communities – ...
Astronomers have long thought that other stars likely had their own planets around them, but they just didn't know whether they were there, because planets are incredibly hard to see.
About Jo Dunkley "I am the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. I am a 2015 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. My research is in cosmology, studying the origins and evolution of the Universe. My ma...
The witch comes out of a deeply misogynistic, deeply anti-feminist ideology of the Middle Ages and is very much connected to violence against women and the erasure of women.
About Anthony Bale "I am Professor of Medieval & Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. I research later medieval English literature and culture. Throughout my work I've been concerned with the relationship between margins and peripheries in me...
If dark matter is a new kind of particle, it can travel through our body, through anything. It doesn't interact with the regular atoms we know of. It does obey the law of gravity.
About Jo Dunkley "I am the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. I am a 2015 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. My research is in cosmology, studying the origins and evolution of the Universe. My major ...
The story of a 15th century bourgeois woman opens an absolutely unique window onto the medieval past, onto details of everyday life – domesticity, embarrassment, caring for one's husband, food – these really important parts of being alive.
About Anthony Bale "I am Professor of Medieval & Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. I research later medieval English literature and culture. Throughout my work I've been con...
If we're to go back to the Big Bang, or as close to that as we can get, we think we would find ourselves at a moment a fraction of a second after the beginning of time.
About Jo Dunkley "I am the Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. I am a 2015 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. My research is in cosmology, studying the origins and evolution of the Universe. My major projects ar...
With the 1480 Siege of Rhodes, we start to see the first use of the word ‘news’ in English to mean reports of recent events. You can reconstruct in quite a lot of detail who has the interest in the news, who has the means to produce the news, and you can locate that in particular moments in time, in cities, in political contexts.
About Anthony Bale "I am Professor of Medieval & Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge...
I started my research on science fiction in the early 20th century in China, Japan and the Soviet Union because I was interested in why their stories were so different. How do we explain this difference of attitude towards the future?
About Aaron William Moore "I am the Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations at the University of Edinburgh and a modern historian of China and Japan. I also work in modern literature. I am a 2014 Ph...
The best reason to turn our attention to civilians when studying World War II is that, quite frankly, they are the ones who are most like ourselves.
About Aaron William Moore "I am the Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations at the University of Edinburgh and a modern historian of China and Japan. I also work in modern literature. I am a 2014 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner. I am a comparative and transnational historian working w...
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