Latest Podcasts - Island Talks

Figure It – Episode 14: How big is the population of northern Cyprus? (6/9/2024)

In this 14th episode of Figure It, Sapienta Economics Director Fiona Mullen talks to Mete Hatay, Senior Research Consultant at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) Cyprus Centre, about the delicate question of the number of people who live in northern Cyprus. There has been no census since 2011, when the population (de jure) was counted as 286,257. The population has definitely grown a lot since then. But is it now 380,000, 550,000, 1 million or even 6 million? In 30 minutes Mete gives good reasons for citing one of those figures, and also explains why it is such a…

KaleidHERscope – Episode 31: Naw Angeline, a women human rights defender speaks about Myanmar, one of the ‘invisible’ conflicts (3/9/2024)

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Naw Angeline, a Women Human Rights Defender, an educator and a member of WASL speaks on kaleidHERscope about Myanmar, one of the ‘invisible’ global conflicts; what is happening in the country now, the lack of security, the internal displacement, the humanitarian needs, the role of the women and Gen Z and the message she wants to send to the international community.

Terra Nullius Cyprus – Episode 19: Childhood cancer researcher and innovator. Meet Dr Maria Kavallaris (31/8/2024)

In the 19th episode of Terra Nullius Cyprus, meet Dr Maria Kavallaris. Dr Kavallaris is a cancer researcher at NSW Uni Children's Cancer Institute. Born in Sydney, she went to primary school in Morphou, Cyprus, until war broke in 1974. Her family returned to Australia. At only 21 years old she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. This inspired her to compete a PhD in cancer research. During her studies her 30 year old brother passed away from pancreatic cancer. Today her research focuses on childhood cancer, using nanotechnology to develop cancer therapies, and to determine mechanisms which lead to anti-cancer drug resistance. In 2011 she established the Australian Centre for Nanomedicine and today heads the Translational Cancer Nanomedicine Theme at NSW Uni Children's Cancer Institute. In 2019 she was appointed a member of the Order of Australia, in 2020 she received the NSW Premier's Woman of the Year Award and in 2022 she received a Cyprus Presidential Medal for her life’s work.

Garip Zamanlar – Bölüm 51: Ferrante’yi küçümseyenler bizden değildir (18/8/2024)

Garip Zamanlar'ın bu bölümünde Evren İnançoğlu, Kemal Baykallı ve Sertaç Sonan; New York Times okuyucuları tarafından 21. yüzyılın en iyi kitabı seçilen L'amica Geniale'yi (Benim Olağanüstü Akıllı Arkadaşım), yazarı Napolili Elena Ferrante'yi, bu çağın ruhunu, değişimin hızını, Trump'a yapılan saldırının komplo teorileri çerçevesinde polarizasyonu nasıl artırdığını, pesketeryanlığı ve balık tutmayı konuştular.

KaleidHERscope – Episode 30: Phyllis Ellis, film-maker & former Olympian, discusses sport organizations, misogyny& disinformation (15/8/2024)

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Following the brutally public discussion and treatment of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting’s during the Paris Olympics especially online, on kaleidHERscope Magda Zenon speaks with Phyllis Ellis, film-maker and former Olympic field hockey player about gender and the focus on ‘what you look like’ rather than on performance, the 90-year history of sex testing and how sports organizations police only women’s bodies, and the toxic misinformation spread on-line, lead mainly by rich, uninformed, white people. Phyllis Ellis is director of the 2022 documentary Category: Woman about the heart-breaking stories of 4 women athletes from the Global South, torn from their sport,…

Terra Nullius Cyprus – Episode 18: Award-winning author who delves into the world of our mothers’ torment. Meet Helena Kidd (15/8/2024)

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In the 18th episode of Terra Nullius Cyprus, meet Helena Kidd. With family hailing from Skarinou in Larnaca and born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, she set out to share with the world the sufferings of her mother, and that of many mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of Cyprus and the world. Her brave book ‘When The Past Awakens’ received a Commendation at the Victorian Community History Awards in 2020 and she won the CYDIA Award for Literature at the 2024 Cyprus Diaspora Awards in Limassol. Helena has also written ‘When The Past is Left’ where she continues to inspire by further sharing the story of her family in the diaspora and their challenges and pathways. Her story, and that of her loved ones, is a story shared by so many.

KaleidHERscope – Episode 29: Cultural practitioner, writer, & researcher Myriam Dalal: stories of different groups of women that helped survival of communities (12/8/2024)

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Lebanese cultural practitioner, writer, and researcher, Myriam Dalal, speaks to Magda Zenon on KaleidHERscope from Luxembourg about being an artist and how forced migration disrupts, yet creates opportunities for new creative expression including a totally contemporary ‘love dance’, about Intangible Cultural Heritage and what it is, but mostly about the lesser-known stories of different groups of women that were fundamental to the survival of communities throughout history.

KaleidHERscope – Episode 28: Rosa Emilia Salamanca explains how peace is being built in Colombia (29/7/2024)

On kaleidHERscope this week from Bogota, Colombia, Rosa Emilia Salamanca, Director of CIASE (www.ciase.org), a Colombian peacebuilding organisation with a particular focus on women’s rights, and a member of WASL speaks about inclusive peacebuilding within a peace process in a very diverse Colombia, about breaking up the increasing binary thinking and learning to embrace our own paradoxes and about how, as a feminist, she knows that security needs to be redefined through the lens of care.

Terra Nullius Cyprus – Episode 17: Award-winning director on History & Discovery Channels. Meet Kay Pavlou (28/7/2024)

In the 17th episode of Terra Nullius Cyprus, meet Kay Pavlou. Born in Adelaide and now living in Sydney, she was the daughter of one of the earlier Cypriots from Rizokarpaso to migrate across the globe to Australia. This experience is part of her inspiration to film ‘Two Homelands - Documentary’ - an interview of six Cypriots of the diaspora in Australia and to delve into their experience of living double lives, one as Cypriots and another as Australians. Her successful productions have aired on the Discovery and History Channels globally, premiered at prestigious global film festivals and soon her latest film will be screened at K-cineplex Cyprus in September 2024. She’s an inspirational and emotional storyteller.

Garip Zamanlar – Bölüm 50: Kafka uyandığında woke kültürü başında bekliyordu (24/7/2024)

Kafka hep bir şeylere uyanıyor. Yeni bir gerçekliğe. Ya da gerçek olmayan bir gerçekliğe. Dünya da yeni değerlere uyanırken acaba dönüşüm çok hızlı mı oldu? Woke kültürü ne demek? Niye ilerlemek ve uyanmak kötü bir algıya sahip oldu? Avrupa Futbol Şampiyonası finalinde niye herkes İspanya'yı destekledi? Kafka Lefkoşa'da ne yapıyordu? Lefkoşa'dan podcastlayan Evren İnançoğlu, Kemal Baykallı ve Sertaç Sonan, Garip Zamanlar'ın bu bölümünde uyanışı tartıştılar.