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Genealogy | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/genealogy27 Jul 2024: Genealogy is all the rage. The TV series "Who Do You Think You Are?" indulges the curiosity of celebrities about their roots and is a big hit. -
Aliya Ali | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/people/aliya-ali28 Jul 2024: 279/892) who authored the famous Futūḥ al-Buldān (Book of Conquests) and Ansāb al-Ashrāf (Genealogies of the Nobles).1 Another two important reference pieces are al-Zubayrī and Ibn -
Languages of Legitimation in the Middle East | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/blog/languages-of-legitimation-in-the-middle-east28 Jul 2024: The organisers and panellists (Credit: Will Ryle-Hodgers). Tying some of these broad themes together was historian Yossef Rapoport's keynote address, titled 'Tribalisation, Conversion and Tribal Genealogy as a 'Language ... His argument, that Coptic -
Sex | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/sex28 Jul 2024: What does mainstream religion make of the Kama Sutra? To read the KAMA SUTRA or the SONG OF SONGS you might feel religion is obsessed with sex. Yet so often the discussion of sex has been a problem in Churches, Temples, Synagogues and Mosques. The -
A Conversation on 'Istanbul 1940 and Global… | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/blog/a-conversation-on-istanbul-1940-and-global-modernity28 Jul 2024: Critics often observe that he wrote histories of mentalities, what they mean is that Auerbach drafted an intellectual history of our present, of the modern subject – a genealogy of the mental -
Hate | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/hate28 Jul 2024: Hatred is a powerful human emotion. It can motivate individuals and nations, sometimes with tragic consequences. Hatred is something most people feel some of the time but how should it be controlled? Certainly not by giving free rein to social media -
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https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/assets/file-downloads/Jeremy-Tan-Essay.pdf16 Feb 2022: The Straits. Times. 7 Asad’s “Formations of the Secular” highlights the genealogy of secularism as a concept in the pain and. -
QAnon | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/qanon28 Jul 2024: There’s a pizza joint in Washington DC where a cabal of satanic child abusers meets to brag about their exploits. There’s a pizza joint in Washington DC where a cabal of satanic child abusers meets to brag about their exploits. During his -
By Whose Standards? Religious Fundamentalism | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/blog/by-whose-standards-religious-fundamentalism-gender-equality-and-cross-cultural-differences28 Jul 2024: Africa.'. [4] See, for example Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (London: Fontana Press, 1993); Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion, Discipline and Reason of Power in Christianity and Islam (London and -
Sanctuary | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/sanctuary28 Jul 2024: Many families in the UK open their homes to provide refuge for fleeing Ukrainians. What is the history and the future of sanctuary? The idea of sanctuary for the oppressed individual or for groups of people fleeing persecution or war is an ancient -
Suicide | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/suicide27 Jul 2024: Irish writer Rose Doyle talks to Ed Kessler about her son’s suicide. Suicide is more common than we might think: no one is immune from suicidal thoughts and there are more than 5,000 actual deaths by suicide in the UK each year. Rose Doyle tells -
Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/quantum27 Jul 2024: Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics -
i How to define and tackle Islamist extremism in ...
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/assets/imported/Elahi-and-Hargreaves-Final.pdf27 Dec 2022: See, Matthew Wilkinson, Genealogy of Terror: How to Distinguish between Islam, Islamism and Islamist Extremism (London: Routledge, 2018). -
Diaspora | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/diaspora27 Jul 2024: Is diaspora community just a posh phrase for immigrant community? Diasporas are often born of misfortune, the experience of homelands left willingly because of lack of opportunity, or fled because of war. In the age after Empire, many subject -
Whose genes are they anyway? | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/genes28 Jul 2024: Whose genes are they anyway? -
Racism | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/racism28 Jul 2024: Are we reaching a tipping point in our attitudes towards racial inequality? When George Floyd’s brutal killing was captured on video, Black Lives Matter protests quickly spread across the world. In England, the statue of the 17th century slave -
Good Luck | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/good-luck27 Jul 2024: A light- hearted discussion about positive thinking in bad times. Can positive thinking create its own momentum, or to put it another way, does negativity reap its own bad harvest? Esther-Miriam Wagner and Robert Tombs read the runes. Woolf -
Genocides | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/genocides27 Jul 2024: Genocides, and why we as a species are capable of such things. The twentieth century was littered with genocides. Those in Armenia, Nazi Germany, Rwanda and Bosnia are the most notorious … Meryem Kalayci and James Smith discuss this most -
Woolf Institute 2022/23 Annual Publication Celebrating 25 years 1998…
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/assets/file-downloads/Woolf-Institute-Annual-Publication-2022-23.pdf3 Oct 2022: Woolf Institute 2022/23 Annual Publication. Celebrating 25 years 1998 - 2023. Woolf Institute Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0UB. 44 (0)1223 761984. enquiries@woolf.cam.ac.uk l www.woolf.cam.ac.ukCharity No: 1069589 l Company No: 3540878. Woolf -
The F Word | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/the-f-word28 Jul 2024: Is there a science of forgiveness? "Without forgiveness there is no future." So said the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. But do we have it in us to forgive the most egregious sins? Some think that is in God's realm. Kitty O'Lone and -
Good Grief | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/good-grief27 Jul 2024: Immortality is a fantasy so we better get real about death and dying. How should we prepare for death? How can we cope when those we love die? Medical advances mean life can be prolonged as never before but is this the right way to go? Joining Ed -
Magic Thinking | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/magic-thinking28 Jul 2024: Magic Thinking -
Group Think | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/group-think27 Jul 2024: What makes for good collaborative thinking? "Group think" implies lazy, complacent decision making. But what about group thinking? That could imply collaboration, people getting together and coming up with a collective idea that’s better than the -
Reconciliation | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/reconciliation28 Jul 2024: Reconciliation -
Fortress Europe | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/fortress-europe28 Jul 2024: Fortress Europe -
Living Together | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/living-together28 Jul 2024: Living Together -
Freedom | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/freedom27 Jul 2024: What does it mean to be free? When the Berlin Wall came down in 1991, the writer Alan Bennet quipped mordantly about ‘the freedom to shop’. Of course there was much more to it than that. Esther-Miriam Wagner and Alexander Massmann join Ed -
Musical Networks | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/musical-networks28 Jul 2024: Musical Networks -
Religious Relics | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/religious-relics28 Jul 2024: Religious Relics -
Space Oddity | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/space-oddity27 Jul 2024: Could space be where the next arms race plays out? The night sky has been a source of wonder for humanity. We may still look at the stars with awe but we also think of space as a potential military asset. And we are filling it with junk. Gerry -
Hope and Fear | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/hope-and-fear28 Jul 2024: Hope and Fear -
Talk the Talk | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/talk-the-talk28 Jul 2024: Talk the Talk -
Betrayal | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/betrayal27 Jul 2024: Have you been betrayed before? Betrayal is a harsh, even melodramatic word. And yet most people feel that they’ve experienced it at some point in their lives or worry that they might have been guilty of betraying someone else. An act of betrayal -
Antisemitism | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/antisemitism-127 Jul 2024: There’s a disturbing amount of antisemitic material on social media, and hate postings in general are rife. Following an increase in antisemitic postings on social media, the Antisemitism Policy Trust looked into it and asked the Woolf Institute -
Get Rich Quick! | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/get-rich-quick28 Jul 2024: Get Rich Quick! -
Modern Slavery | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/modern-slavery27 Jul 2024: Modern Slavery -
Forgiving | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/forgiving27 Jul 2024: Can we really forgive and forget? What benefits are there to forgiving others? Forgiving others is a serious matter but can it come from nowhere? Or is an apology needed first from the perpetrator of the misdeed in question? And when does an apology -
Glass half full | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/glass-half-full28 Jul 2024: Glass half full -
Loneliness | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/loneliness27 Jul 2024: What is it that makes us feel lonely? Most of us feel lonely some of the time, but some of us feel lonely most of the time. To be alone, however, is not to be lonely, and sometimes being part of a crowd can feel very lonely indeed. Kitty O’Lone -
Evolution: Past, Present and Future | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/evolution27 Jul 2024: Evolution: Past, Present and Future -
Gut Feeling | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/gut-feeling27 Jul 2024: Should we really go with our guts? There’s a wide spectrum of gut feeling. It can lead to wise judgements that rise above conflicting arguments, or it can disguise a stubborn refusal to listen to evidence. Joining Ed Kessler to unpack gut feelings -
What makes a good leader? | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/a-good-leader27 Jul 2024: What makes a good leader? -
Sick Planet | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/sick-planet27 Jul 2024: How do we keep ourselves accountable when the planet is growing sicker in front of our eyes? The last time the plight of our planet featured on NAKED REFLECTIONS we began with a clip about fires in the Amazon. Since then, there have been reports -
Reflecting on Voting | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/voting-behaviours27 Jul 2024: Reflecting on Voting -
High Anxiety | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/high-anxiety27 Jul 2024: How can we tell the difference between stress and anxiety? High anxiety is when a stimulating challenge suddenly turns into a huge problem or when shyness and apprehension become crippling. These experiences are as old as humanity and are being -
Homelessness | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/homelessness27 Jul 2024: A home is something everyone deserves. A home is something everyone deserves. By the same token, homelessness is surely something no one should have to endure. But homelessness is rife in our towns and cities – or it was until the COVID crisis. -
Love the Other | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/love-the-other27 Jul 2024: Love the Other -
Resolving Conflict | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/resolving-conflict27 Jul 2024: Resolving Conflict -
Blessed Algorithms | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/blessed-algorithms27 Jul 2024: Blessed Algorithms -
Alpha Females | The Woolf Institute
https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/alpha-females27 Jul 2024: Alpha Females
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