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I am currently volunteering for Zethnopod the podcast of the Anthropological Association of Zürich regarding conceptualization, interviewing and post-production.
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When Relationships End — Stories from the Museum of Broken Relationships
What happens to the gifts, letters, and everyday objects that outlive a relationship? How do choices to keep, discard, or donate these once cherished objects reflect social values? And how does their meaning change as they move from private memory into public storytelling? In this Zethnopod episode we speak with Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić, founders of the Museum of Broken Relationships, about how intimate objects become part of a public archive of love, loss, and memory. Together with anthropologist Adam Drazin, we explore what these items reveal about material culture, emotional attachment, and the shifting meanings of things.
«Wenn Endometriose eine Männerkrankheit wäre…» Lynn Kohli über genderbasierte Diskriminierung in der westlichen Medizin
In Lynn Kohli’s Kurzfilm «Chronisch Unsichtbar» erzählen Männer die Erfahrungsberichte von Frauen* mit Endometriose, als wären es ihre eigenen Geschichten. Durch die Inszenierung von Endometriose als Männerkrankheit wird die genderbasierte Diskriminierung in der Medizin deutlich. Mit Lynn sprechen wir über die Unterfinanzierung von Forschung zu Krankheiten von denen mehrheitlich Frauen* betroffen sind, darüber dass Endometriosebetroffenen oft nicht geglaubt wird und was das alles mit genderbasierter Diskriminierung zu tun hat.
“Haven’t I heard that before?” Chris McGuinness discussing authorship in music production
A charismatic voice featured in several pop songs, its singer unknown – or is he? In this Zethnopod episode ethnomusicologist Chris McGuinness traces a vocal snippet back to the sample library it was initially recorded for and follows the mysterious voice all the way to a village in Punjab, India. Thereby, he speaks about differing understandings of authorship in music production, global power dynamics and deceased voices having “their say” in music creation today.
InBetween - An anecdotal audio collage
InBetween was an audio experiment between 2019-2022 somewhere
between Zürich, Switzerland and Delhi, India.
It was a personal podcast documenting my life between Zürich and Delhi in colorful audio collages narrating the little stories, events and thoughts I encountered in between.
It partly was an anthropological podcast documenting the beginning of my PhD project, especially the initial search for a topic. It aimed to render anthropological thought and work more accessible (and understandable) to listeners without academic background. It tried to illustrate, transparently, the joys, struggles, and insecurities of research – components of academic work that all too often are left unmentioned in the polished books and smooth articles produced.
Towards the end, it was an interview podcast featuring conversations about the phenomenon of “feeling in between” by different people, permitting insight into their lives and thoughts.
In short, inBetween was a love story between one person, two continents, everything in between and the medium audio, told anecdote by anecdote. Episodes are available in German and English.
02 Episode - Observing change - English
How exactly do we remember places, storing them in our memory by what? Is it simply the way locations look? Or do we remember them by the feelings and memories we experienced there? Or is it actually small little details – present or absent – but forgotten till the very moment of noticing change? This episode talks about revisiting places, the “reliving” of memories and the creation of new experiences at a familiar places.
02 Episode - Observing change - Deutsch
Wie genau erinnern wir uns an Orte? Ist es schlicht die Art und Weise wie eine Lokalität aussieht? Entsinnen wir uns der Gefühle und Erlebnisse, die wir mit diesem Ort verbinden? Oder sind es schliesslich doch die kleinen Dinge – präsent oder absent – schlicht vergessen bis zu dem Moment in dem wir Veränderung wahrnehmen? In dieser Episode geht es darum Orte wieder zu besuchen, Erinnerungen wieder zu erleben und neue Erfahrungen in altbekannten Orten zu machen.
01 Episode - Arriving and settling in - English
Coming back to a place, a second home so to speak after having been away for one year is a very special experience accompanied by many emotions and observations. Are things still the same? Did one fall into the trap of romanticizing the place one used to live in? What does the concept of ‘home’ mean and how easily can one switch cultural patterns?
01 Episode - Arriving and settling in - Deutsch
Nach einem Jahr an einen Ort zurückzukehren, der sich wie ein zweites Zuhause anfühlt, ist eine besondere Erfahrung, begleitet von vielen Emotionen und Beobachtungen. Ist alles noch so wie damals? Was wenn man in der Zwischenzeit den Ort romantisiert hat? Was genau ist ein Zuhause und was macht es aus? Wie schnell kann man kulturelle Verhaltensweisen annehmen, ablegen oder wechseln?