Episode 17: COVID series Part II: Addressing Mental Health (and poor working conditions)

‘The ghost of care in education and academia at the moment thrives on the intimate, fundamentally personal experience of these struggles, which often leads us to assume our own, isolated responsibility for causing and curing our problems – obscuring the burdens heaved by sexism, racism, elitism, etc. which converge with the current demands of education…

New Episode: Addressing Mental Health- coming soon!

The C&C Team is gearing up for it's newest episode on addressing mental health issues with cultural historian, Dr Katy Layton-Jones, and former Male Welfare Officer at the University of Oxford, Joseph Uhlar. Stay tuned! *Like the topics we’re discussing? Consider becoming a Patreon member for as little as £1 per month to help finance our team…

Episode 16: COVID series Part I: Educating the Roma

“I feel that if you’re on the margins, the strange thing is that you have more power. If you are not within a structure, you’ve got nothing to lose, then in a strange kind of way you gain everything.” - Dr Julia Bolton Holloway (taken from: https://citydesert.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/julia-bolton-holloway/) Dr Ann Wand had the pleasure of sitting…

COVID series: Starting June 6th!

We're finally getting back into the rhythm of things starting with our COVID series, Saturday June 6th. We're kicking it off with religious sister, Professor Emerita, and custodian of the English cemetery in Florence, Italy, Dr Julia Bolton Holloway. She'll be telling us about her incredible work educating Italy's Roma community. *Like the topics we’re…

Episode 14: Diversity in academia

‘Coffee & Cocktails’ has just released a new episode focusing on diversity (or the lack thereof) in academia. Our guest speakers include Dr Alia Amir of Uppsala University, Dr Manali Kumar of the National University of Singapore and Amir Massoumian of SOAS. https://soundcloud.com/coffeeandcocktails/episode-14-diversity-in-academia Please feel free to subscribe to our show, as well as follow…

Looking for guest-speakers for next month’s podcast: Women and people of color in academia

If you would like to participate in what will undoubtedly be a very insightful and fruitful discussion on the importance of diversity in academia (both in terms of the role of diversity in literature and in the academy), please feel free to contact the host, Dr Ann Wand. *Like the topics we’re discussing? Consider becoming…

Episode 12: How to have impact inside and outside of academia

C&C has just released its newest episode on 'How to have impact inside and outside of academia'. Our guest-speakers were Dr Markus J. Prutsch of the European Parliament and Heidelberg University and Dr Alix Green of the University of Essex, both of whom provided an interesting account on the role that academics can play in…

Facebook and Conversation Analysis: The Structure and Organization of Comment Threads (Book abstract)

This book, written by Dr Matteo Farina, explores how people communicate on Facebook. It addresses questions like: is there a clear organisation that characterises conversations that take place on Facebook or do Facebook conversations consist of messages that randomly follow one after the other? If so, what is this organisation? Facebook and Conversation Analysis: The…

Episode 10: Ethnography as Creative Writing

Dr Ann Wand discusses with Dr Kayla Rush, Ellen Wiles and Dr Alfonso Del Percio the importance of ethnography as an academic form of writing and the benefits 'creative writing' can add to the academic discipline. https://soundcloud.com/coffeeandcocktails/ethnography-as-creative-writing *Like the topics we’re discussing? Consider becoming a Patreon member for as little as £1 per month to help finance…

Encouraging academia to engage with the public: The C&C host offers her thoughts

Working in academia can be a rather isolating experience, especially for those individuals, like myself, who thrive on personal communication. I deliberately chose to pursue a career in Anthropology due to my passion for human interaction, but found that during the course of my doctorate I was anything but ‘interactive’. Many countless hours were spent…