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To celebrate this year’s STAIR awards around the International Studies Association annual conference in Nashville in March 2022, we are inviting our awardees to speak on our podcast.

Asees Puri and Pedro Dos Santos Maia (Graduate Institute, Geneva) have received our very first Best Graduate Paper award for their co-authored paper "Diagrams of Ruination: Beheadings, Prisons, and the Un/Making of Violent Remains", presented at the ISA conference in 2021. They talk about their moves from Deleuze through actor-network theory and to Ann Laura Stoler's postcolonial concept of "duress"; the challenges of engaging with violent visual material; and the joyful mess of co-authoring papers as PhD students.

Pedro Maia can be emailed at pedro.dos@graduateinstitute.ch and be joined on Twitter at  @pdsmaia. Asees Puri's email address is asees.puri@graduateinstitute.ch and her Twitter handle is @AseesPuri.

Host: Vic Castro (University of Copenhagen)
Music: Keertana Ramachandran, veena version of "Māmavatu shrī Sarasvatī" composed by Mysore Vāsudēvācārya (1865-1961).  

In advance of the celebration of this year’s STAIR awards at the International Studies Association annual conference in Nashville later this March, we are inviting our awardees to speak on our podcast.
Professor Olufunmilayo (Funmi) Arewa (Temple University) has received our 2022 Best Book award for Disrupting Africa: Technology, Law, and Development, published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press. A law scholar with a background in anthropology and legal experience with Silicon Valley startups, she explains in her book how the colonial legacy shaped the legal systems and economies of Nigeria and other African countries, and what this means for the rise of digital technologies in these regions.
Olufunmilayo Arewa can be reached by email at oarewa@temple.edu and on Twitter at @funmiarewa.

Original publication date:  1 March 2022
Host: Vic Castro (University of Copenhagen)
Music: Funmi Arewa, singing "Jesus my All" :-)

In advance of the celebration of this year's STAIR awards at the International Studies Association annual conference in Nashville later this March, we are interviewing our awardees.
Professor Marianne Franklin (Goldsmiths, University of London) is our 2022 Distinguished Scholar, and in this episode, she discusses her career studying Internet governance and the politics of music – with insights from Marxism, feminist technoscience, and postcoloniality. She is the author of books  such as Postcolonial politics, the internet and everyday life: Pacific traversals online (2004); Digital dilemmas: Power, resistance, and the Internet (2013); and more recently Sampling politics: Music and the geocultural (2021). She has also edited the book Resounding International Relations: On music, culture, and politics (2005). 
Marianne Franklin can be reached on Twitter at @GloComm and by email at m.i.franklin@gold.ac.uk.
 Original publication date: 15 February 2022
Host: Vic Castro (University of Copenhagen)
Music: Keertana Ramachandran, veena version of "Māmavatu shrī Sarasvatī" composed by Mysore Vāsudēvācārya (1865-1961).  

How can one research counter-terrorism financing trials while following the various forms of expertise, as well as the colonial and gendered dynamics in the courtroom? This third episode of the STAIR podcast invites Tasniem Anwar, assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, to talk about her recently-finished PhD dissertation at the University of Amsterdam. She points to the usefulness of postcolonial science and technology studies to make sense of the field.
Tasniem Anwar can be reached at [@]AnwarTasniem on Twitter and at t.anwar2@vu.nl.

Original publication date: 5 February 2022
Host: Vic Castro (University of Copenhagen)
Music: Keertana Ramachandran, veena version of "Māmavatu shrī Sarasvatī" composed by Mysore Vāsudēvācārya (1865-1961). 

State actors put cybersecurity on top of their agendas, but do they have an idea of what "cybersecurity" is supposed to mean? And how strategically do they disagree about it? This second episode of the STAIR podcast invites Clare Stevens, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Portsmouth, to talk about her PhD dissertation defended in the summer of 2021 at the University of Bristol. She highlights the contribution that "boundary work", a concept from science & technology studies, can make to International Relations.
Clare Stevens can be reached at [@]ClareStevens86 on Twitter and at clare.stevens@port.ac.uk.
Original publication date: 9 December 2021
Host: Vic Castro (University of Copenhagen)
Music: Keertana Ramachandran, veena version of "Māmavatu shrī Sarasvatī" composed by Mysore Vāsudēvācārya (1865-1961). 

In this pilot episode of the STAIR Podcast, we welcome Yevgeniy Golovchenko, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, to discuss the topic of the PhD thesis that he defended in 2020: pro-Kremlin disinformation on social media. What is digital disinformation, how can it be measured, and can talking about it actually make it worse?

Original publication date: 30 August 2021
Host: Vic Castro (University of Copenhagen)
Music: Keertana Ramachandran, veena version of "Māmavatu shrī Sarasvatī" composed by Mysore Vāsudēvācārya (1865-1961).