Sesta-embracing the colours of culture! In this third episode of Sesta, Meltem Burak talks to the ethnographer and poet Dr Nafia Akdeniz. Nafia is currently working as a senior instructor at Eastern Mediterranean University, as a post-doctoral researcher with Professor Rebecca Bryant who is based in Utrecht University, and she is working on her poetry collection Yarım İnşaat (Under Construction) which will be published in Turkish in March 2022. Throughout the podcast, Nafia elaborates on the politics of poetry; rootlessness and home-seeking; displacement and emplacement, and nostalgia for future. She emphasises the universality of poetry, and the relationship between empathy and poetry, by connecting the enforced displacements in Cyprus with the current humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. More about Dr Nafia Akdeniz on Twitter https://twitter.com/nafiaakdeniz – Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nafia.akdeniz/