Concepts for the 'New Normal'. #2 Implication

Welcome to this podcast on ‘Implication’.

This new episode belongs to our series ‘Concepts for the New Normal’. The idea of these series is to bring together colleagues to explore a key concept of our times; offering a variety of perspectives from the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, on the ideas that are shaping our lives. Today’s concept is ‘implication’.

How might we be implicated in structural problems like racism, the decline of democracy, social discrimination, modern slavery, and sexual violence? What are the background conditions that allow structural violence and injustice to take place? When and how does implication become significant? And how can we transform our implicated positions into collective solidarity work?

By exploring the issue of implication in different contexts, the speakers in this podcast will address some of these questions. I am aware that there are many different forms and degrees of implication. This podcast does not aim to be comprehensive, but rather to open a conversation and invite all listeners to reflect on how they might be implicated in large-scale structures of violence and injustice. 

• Speakers: Professor Michael Rothberg (UCLA), Dr Brian Klaas (UCL), Dr Jennifer Ferng (IAS / University of Sidney),  Dr Maya Goodfellow (University of Sheffield) and Professor Alexis Shotwell (Carleton University).
• Music by Fuubutsishi, and Fingerspit.
• Artwork: Greet Van Autgaerden, Excursie #2 (2017) | 200 x 300 cm | oil on canvas
• Sound effects are by the BBC Sound Archive
• Producer and Host: Dr Stefano Bellin (IAS/ University of Warwick)
• Co-Producer: Albert Brenchat-Aguilar
• Co-Producer/Editor: Patricia Mascarell Llombart
• Executive Producer and Host: Professor Nicola Miller (IAS Director)

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