Latest Podcasts - Island Talks

Garip Zamanlar – Bölüm 61: Avrupa’yı savunacağız (Avrupa’ya rağmen) (28/5/2025)

Garip Zamanlar'ın bu bölümünde Evren İnançoğlu, Kemal Baykallı ve Sertaç Sonan, Avrupa seyahatlerini, Kemal'ın fotoğraf kamerası aşkını, Polonya'nın ekonomik ve siyasal gelişimini, Japonya'nın yaşlanan nüfusunu, pirinç rekoltesini, Kubrick'in The Shining filmini, Sertaç'ın yaklaşmakta olan Fransa seyahatini, Orban'ın trene binmeyişini, kaçınılmaz robotik devrimi, yapay zekayı ve daha niye mevzuları masaya yatırdılar. Avrupa'ya rağmen, Avrupa'yı savundular. Bu arada So Kolektif'in "İlişkiler" temalı Kıssa II'nin son gösterimi 1 Haziran 2025'te Lefkoşa Naci Talat Vakfı'nda, kaçırmayın!

KaleidHERscope – Episode 48: Award-winning Palestinian theatre maker, Iman Aoun speaks about her inspiring professional career (22/5/2025)

Read more about the article KaleidHERscope – Episode 48: Award-winning Palestinian theatre maker, Iman Aoun speaks about her inspiring professional career (22/5/2025)

Award-winning Palestinian theatre maker, Iman Aoun speaks on kaleidHERscope about her inspiring professional career that focuses on grassroots, indigenous, youth, and women empowerment, gender disparity and resistance to the occupation, including The Gaza Monologues, ASHTAR International Youth Theatre Festival, The Syrian Monologues and Letters to Gaza in 2024, a solidarity response to the genocide in Gaza.

Garip Zamanlar – Bölüm 60: Beyaz duman! (16/5/2025)

Garip Zamanlar'ın bu bölümünde Evren İnançoğlu, Kemal Baykallı ve Sertaç Sonan, papalık seçimlerini, Katolik dünyasındaki eğilimleri, en çok içerik üretilen podcast kategorilerini, En iyi Japon yazarları, tüm dünyayı saran otokratikleşmeyi, otoriter yönetimlerin yapay zekayı nasıl kullandıklarını, Trump'a duyulan tepkinin dünyadaki seçimlere yansımalarını, Sertaç'ın Mersin'de yediklerini ve içtiklerini konuştular.

Figure It – Episode 19: Cypriots are more pro-solution than you think (6/5/2025)

Cypriots are far more in favour of a federal solution of the Cyprus problem than we might think: yes, even when you get quite specific with the questions. In this episode Sapienta Economics Director, Fiona Mullen, talks to University of Cyprus Professor of Social Development and Psychology, Charis Psaltis, about the survey methodology and why attitudes towards a bizonal bicommunal federation are becoming more positive. You can find the conjoint survey paper mentioned in the podcast here. You can find Charis’ new Substack newsletter on surveys here. And you can find the full Infogram in the episode image here.

KaleidHERscope – Episode 47: Both oppressed and completely free: S.African poet Phillippa Yaa de Villiers talks about her identity journey (6/5/2025)

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South African poet and performance artist Dr. Phillippa Yaa de Villiers discusses her identity journey with Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope, reflecting on her experience as a mixed-race African and adoptee raised by a white family in apartheid South Africa; a journey that placed her in the paradoxical position of being both oppressed and completely free.

Figure It – Episode 18: US tariffs might hurt Cyprus in unexpected ways (25/4/2025)

In this episode of Figure It, economic historian Dr Alexander Apostolides of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance talks to Sapienta Economics Director Fiona Mullen about how US tariffs could affect Cyprus in ways that policymakers might not be expecting. He also gives some advice on what policymakers could be doing to ensure resilience in these uncertain times.

Garip Zamanlar – Bölüm 59: En son Facebook’tan pilaki gönderiyorduk, biz ne ara… (18/4/2025)

Garip Zamanlar ekibi modaya uydu ve yapay zekaya karikatürlerini yaptırdı. Evren İnançoğlu, Kemal Baykallı ve Sertaç Sonan'ın hazırlayıp sunduğu Garip Zamanlar'ın bu bölümünde enfes bir muhabbet yapıldı: Yapay zekanın en yeni halleri, gelmiş geçmiş en iyi diziler, Sertaç'ın Chicago ziyareti, pek sayın Musk ve Trump beyefendiler, Warren Buffet'in fello gibi hep su yüzünde kalması, Bill Gates'in gelecek tahmini, global ekonomideki son gelişmeler, tekmili yine bu programda...

KaleidHERscope – Episode 46: Producer and director Nefin Dinç speaks about her documentaries (15/4/2025)

Producer and director Nefin Dinç speaks to Magda Zenon on kaleidHERscope about her documentaries including Wine Dark Sea that narrates the profound changes brought about by global warming in the Mediterranean, and The Other Town, a documentary about the Other and how natives of a Greek and Turkish town insist on keeping myths built on enmity alive, about what inspires her and also why stepping back and reevaluating is necessary at this stage in her journey.

Sesta – Episode 15 (final): On Love and Grief with Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss (10/4/2025)

Sesta-embracing the colours of culture! In this fifteenth and final episode of Sesta, Meltem Burak hosts Victoria Harwood Butler-Sloss. Victoria is an actress, voice over artist, filmmaker and writer. Above all, she is a storyteller. Throughout the podcast, Victoria elaborates on the instrinsic relationship between love and grief, and how this relationship has been inspiring her work such as her documentary Cyprus Summer 1974, her first book The Seamstress of Urfa, and her upcoming book Love in Aleppo. More about Victoria on http://www.planetvix.com/about.html .

Terra Nullius Cyprus – Episode 28: Cultural heritage activist, media professional, diaspora personality & mother of 3 boys. Meet Elly Symons (10/4/2025)

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In the 28th episode of Terra Nullius Cyprus, meet Elly Symons, vice president of the Australian Parthenon Committee, co-founder Acropolis Research Group, cultural heritage activist, former model, media professional, businesswoman and public speaker - and a mother of three boys. With roots from Agros in Pitsilia, Troodos, she is a well-known member of the Cypriot diaspora in Melbourne, Australia.