Event overview
Speakers: Zoha Zokaei, Agata Lisiak, Saba Zavarei & Sabrina Etherington. Discussants/Chair: Ros Gill and Nirmal Puwar
Zoha Zokaei - Podcasting-as-Care, diasporic digital media activism
My talk explores the methodological approach developed through the podcast series 'Price of Secrecy', a fictionalized account of the silence of child sexual abuse (CSA) in Iran. I bring notions of feminist care and listening into a close conversation framed through the intimacy and accessibility of podcasting. I explore the synergy between feminist care and listening as: the enactment of the responsibility of “listening out”; as the labor of care (Lacey, 2023) for stories that are absent in the public domain of discourse; demanding the right to listen to these stories through the “creation and resourcing of a caring infrastructure” (Chatzidakis et al., 2020).
Podcast Links: https://ro.uow.edu.au/rdr/vol9/iss1/2/
Price of Secrecy podcast: http://price-of-secrecy.com/
Agata Lisiak - The Feminist Delights of Podcasting: Reflections on Community and Care in Academia
Whilst podcasting is becoming ever more popular among academics, it is worth critically considering its possibilities and limitations. In this talk, I will reflect on how community and care can be practised in academia despite its hostile and discouraging structures that promote individual success. More specifically, I will look into forms of intellectual engagement that actively support collegiality, kindness, and care, and, as such, are key to our survival in academia. Doreen Massey, the geographer who inspired my podcast Spatial Delight, emphasised the importance of "having ample time to talk to colleagues, and not just in formal structures such as seminars". I will discuss what I learned from her and from my many collaborators on this project.
Podcast Link: https://thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/spatial-delight/
Saba Zavarei – Songs of disobedience: podcasting the feminist intervention in Iran
I established Radio Khiaban as a podcast on gender and space in Iran, which was recently published as a book in Farsi. This is an online platform and podcast dedicated to women in Iran reclaiming public spaces, through feminist interventions of singing, and other transgressive acts in public spaces.
Podcast link: https://www.sabazavarei.com/radio-khiaban
Sabrina Etherington The F Less Travelled… Tracing Feminist Pathways
My presentation will reflect on a podcast I developed with Amelia Donkor, as students on the MA Gender, Media & Culture degree at Goldsmiths, with support from the Centre for Feminist Research, the Centre for Urban and Community Research and the Methods Lab. We invite guests to share three books, two songs and one feminist object to discover feminisms we find and make every day.
Podcast link: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-f-less-travelled/id1569632403
Image credit: Price of Secrecy Podcast logo - By Hamid Beiki- 2019
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 26 Feb 2025 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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