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Podcast Series

These podcasts aim to highlight the work of island studies scholars and practitioners who make a significant contribution to islands’ research, arts and culture landscape. The podcasts come with curated transcripts and supporting resources.

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Podcast Curators: Evangelia Papoutsaki, Meng Qu and Eleni Gourgouleti

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Ben Biedermann

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Northern Ireland, Aruba, Curacau, Marshall Islands, ethnography, dependency vs autonomy, digital sovereignty

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Nino Soria de Veyra

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Leyte, Samar, Biliran, ecocriticism and ecoliterature, diaspora, Typhoon Haiyan, 2026 SICRI conference

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Jarcinda Stowers-Ama

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Cook Islands, Samoa, Aotearoa, arts as cultural knowledge, Te peu Kuki Airani, the Pacific Arts Center

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Priya Bahadoor

hosted by Dr Helen Dawson

Highlights: Mauritius, Indian Ocean island communities, social and cultural history, scholarly networks

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Sonjah Stanley Niaah

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Jamaica, dancehall as island cultural geography, African diaspora, UNESCO Slave Route Project, festivals

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Thais Franken

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Aruba, Bonaire, Suriname, civil society, organisations, Kingdom relations, carnival

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Dr Sean Dettman

hosted by Dr Helen Dawson

Highlights: Channel islands, island-focused academic provision, JICAS, UCJ, island ecosystems

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Helen Dawson

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Sicily, Jersey, Mediterranean islands, archaeology, island dynamic networks

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Glenda

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Philippines, Australia, Gender, archipelagic culture and feminist scholarship, post- disaster communities

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Veronika Kanem

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Papua New Guinea, hybrid identity, indigenous Papuans, empowerment movements, New Guinea as megafauna island

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Kirsten Gow

hosted by Jens Anderson

Highlights: Isle of Jura, marginality, "Remote / Far Away" installation, diaspora, sustainability, activism

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Jens Anderson

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Danish archipelago, hybridity, tourism and seasonal population shifts, Young and Emerging Island Scholars Network

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Maria Hnaraki

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Crete, music, dance, and cultural identity, island studiess pedagogy

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Laurie Brinklow

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Prince Edward Island, islandness as a teachable experience, island poetry, artists and scholars for island studies

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Helena Bennett

hosted by James Ellsmoor

Highlights: Saint Helena, heritage conservation, slave trade, Liberated African Advisory Committee

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James Ellsmoor

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: South Pacific, island innovation, climate change, marginality, islands as testbeds, sustainability

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Anaïs Duong-Pedica

hosted by Dr Vehia Wheeler

Highlights: Pacific islands, Okinawa, island activisms, the politics of knowledge, decolonialism, New Voices in Island Studies

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Prof Su Ping

hosted by Prof Adam Grydehøj

Highlights: Hong Kong, urbanism, islandness in literature, transnational communities and connection

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Prof Adam Grydehøj

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Reflection on other's islandness, Orkney, Shetlands,South China Sea islands urban islands, decolonialism, ethics in island studies

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Prof Marina Karides

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Island geneologies, Sappho's Legacy, Island Feminisms initiative, decolonialism

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Prof Elaine Stratford

hosted by Prof. Ilan Kelman

Highlights: Tasmania, Rethinking the Island book project, mobility of island life, human geography

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Dr Christian Fleury

hosted by Prof. Henry Johnson

Highlights: Concept of border islands, sea appropriation conflicts, SHIMA, Sicri conferences island trail

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Dr Benoit Raoulx

hosted by Prof. Henry Johnson

Highlights: Tatihou Island, island micro- societies, marginality, visuals and filmmaking, epistemology of island studies

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Dr Valérie Vezina

hosted by Dr Meghan Forsyth

Highlights: Isle-aux-Coudres, Newfoundland, Puerto Rico, political islandness, "island - like" provinces

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Dr Meghan Forsyth

hosted by Dr Solène Prince

Highlights: Prince Edward Island,

Shetlands, Newfoundland, instrumental music traditions, indigenous communities

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Prof. Ilan Kelman

hosted by Dr Jonathon Pugh

Highlights: Caribbean, island vulnerability, sustainability and resilience, Caribbean Conservation Association, UNPD

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Prof. Godfrey Baldacchino

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Malta and Gozo island, Island Studies Journal, ISISA, Unesco chair, small island states context

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Dr Jon Pugh

hosted by Prof. Philip Hayward

Highlights: Carribean, entangled island worlds, Anthropocene Islands initiative, multidisciplinary island studies

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Dr Solène Prince

hosted by Dr Meng Qu (Mo)

Highlights: Tourism on Nordic Islands, cultural protection over tourism growth, embodied experience of island culture, elderly communities

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Prof. Philip Hayward

hosted by Prof. Henry Johnson

Highlights: Founding Sicri, the aquapelago concept, Scilly Islands, Ogasawara Island, Norfolk Island, the future of island studies

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Prof. Henry Johnson

hosted by Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki

Highlights: Jersey Island, Sicri's formation, linguistic diversity, ethnomusicology, political complexity and island agency

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