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IIS Podcasts

3 December 2020

The Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies normally organizes a ‘Brown Bag Lunch’ every six weeks, where knowledge is shared about education, from within and outside the UvA. Topics can vary from experimenting with a new educational tool, to setting up a new study programme. In times where we are working from home, this format has been transformed into an online version; the ‘Brown Bag Lunch Podcast’. The podcast lasts around 30 minutes, the ideal length for an afternoon walk.

The first two episodes are now available. 

Episode 1 

Topic: Online education 

Many have now gained experience with online teaching the past couple of months. Podcast hosts Julia and Lina spoke to two teachers from the IIS who have thrown themselves into this unavoidable new form of education with great enthusiasm and drive for innovation. 

Listen to this podcast here (in Dutch) 

Guests: Vincent Tijms and Esther Quaedackers 

  • Vincent Tijms is programme coordinator of the Research Master Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He organized a hybrid introduction day for the new first-year students. His biggest challenge? Realizing social interaction in an online setting. 
  • Esther Quaedackers teaches the courses Big History and Local Big History and this year she developed the new elective course Pandemic. She talks about how she developed the latter knowing beforehand that it would be taught online, how she keeps students engaged, and how the possibilities of online education can help her with future ambitions. 

Tools discussed 

Episode 2 

Topic: Urban development 

Guests: Nanke Verloo, Luca Bertolini and Katusha Sol 

  • Nanke Verloo and Luca Bertolini talk about their book ‘Seeing the City’. This volume embraces a variety of perspectives on the urban and provides an essential collection of methodologies for studying the city from multiple, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary perspectives. 
  • Katusha Sol is the founder of the Placemakers agency. Groups of students follow the Placemaking method to carry out urban development projects for actual clients. Students Thomas Schuurman Hess and Eva Leenders explain how they developed a plan for this course to make Roeterseiland nature inclusive. Read more about their project Plan Bee.  

Hosts: Julia Conemans and Lina Dokter 

Listen to this podcast here (in Dutch) 

 

Listen to these podcasts during an afternoon walk!