Podkaster fra Universitetet i Stavanger
A podcast series from Centre for Gender Studies.
What does the futures of monster theory hold? And what stories can we tell about its origins? These are questions we asked for our Monsters of the Anthropocene Halloween symposium ‘Unruly Origins, Strange Futures’ (2021), aiming to explore the pasts Les mer …
What does the futures of monster theory hold? And what stories can we tell about its origins? These are questions we asked for our Monsters of the Anthropocene Halloween symposium ‘Unruly Origins, Strange Futures’ (2021), aiming to explore the pasts Les mer …
In this Halloween-episode of Monster Talks, we talk about fiction writer Becky Chambers’ novel The Galaxy and the Ground within. This is a rich novel that brings out questions of colonialism, power and vulnerability through a chance meeting of three Les mer …
Ghosts and monsters thrive in online storytelling – but why? What are the interconnections between digital media and the supernatural? And can you become cursed by listening to a podcast? Join Erika Kvistad and Line Henriksen in a discussion of their Les mer …
With whom do we write when we write? In this episode of Monster Talks, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen (University of Jyväskylä) and Line Henriksen (IT University of Copenhagen) talk about the people, thoughts, creatures, objects and events that keep us company when we write, Les mer …
The monstrous and the wondrous often co-exist in speculative fiction and science fiction – related genres and storytelling practices that allow for imagining otherwise. Working with the speculative, then, raises questions of what and how to imagine, and how things can Les mer …
What does it mean for the world to end? Does it end in the same way for all? And might it have already ended for some? During the summer and autumn of 2019 the art collective Superflex flooded Cisternerne, an Les mer …
Where do ideas come from? And how are certain ideas and stories reproduced and maintained, whereas other stories end up marginalized, untold or unheard, even monsterised? In this collective keynote speech given at the Symposium Monstrous Ontologies: Politics, Ethics, Materiality Les mer …
Why are stories important? And how can weird and speculative stories contribute to change how we perceive the world that we live in and surround ourselves by? This monster talk addresses storytelling practices as creative processes, but also as political, Les mer …
In 2018, we have seen worldwide celebrations Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, where the monster in many ways has become a symbol for the monstrous, the unwanted and the not-quite human. However, Christian Beyer from Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway, Dr. Les mer …