Global Research Bytes Podcast

Global Research Bytes Podcast

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Staggered headshots of Allison Bigelow and Rafael Alvarado
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Discover how UVA professors Allison Bigelow and Rafael Alvarado are partnering with Mayan scholars and communities to preserve and revitalize K’iche and Yukatek languages. Through innovative digital tools, including text encoding and hand-drawn animations, their project bridges a centuries-old narrative with modern technology. Learn about the principles of data sovereignty, the challenges of cultural preservation, and how community-led efforts are shaping the future of Mesoamerican language and literature.

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Katy Quissell, professor of public health, discusses her research project on moral social movements and policy change in Latin America. The project, co-designed with students, explores how activism in Latin America has led to policy changes in reproductive rights, contrasting with the U.S. context.

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Doctor of Juridical Science Candidate Jeronimo Lau Alberdi discusses the sharing of global legal knowledge and techniques among in Latin American legal systems, including the roles of Supreme and constitutional courts and international human rights education.

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Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures Edith Clowes speaks about the Black Sea Symposium, her own research in the Black Sea region, and about revisioning its productive futures.

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Phoebe Crisman, Professor in the School of Architecture and Director of the Global Studies program, speaks about a longstanding collaboration between UVA and the Lake Traverse Reservation in South Dakota and their most recent work on youth education and tallgrass prairie resilience.

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Yafrainy Familia in a gallery next to a painting of a woman lying down
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Yafrainy Familia is a PhD student in Spanish at UVA. She spoke about her project where she analyzes the work of a series of contemporary Caribbean artists through the lenses of colonial resistance, gender, and race.

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Volya Vysotskaia, Srdja Popovic, and Steve Parks
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Belarusian human rights activist Volya Vysotskaia, Karsh Institute Practitioner Fellow and Serbian political activist Srdja Popovic, and UVA English professor and activist Steve Parks are trying to build a connection between activism and academia. They discuss their recent works and plans for the future.

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UVA PhD student Beatriz Silva Da Costa talks about procurements and corruption in Brazil.

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Molly Joyce performing
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UVA Music PhD student Molly Joyce chats with us about her multimedia project "Left and Right: exploring myths of the left side through dance, music, and disability" and her plans for the future.

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UVA Psychology Professor Hudson Golino discusses his recent collaborative project with Professor Mariana Teles "New Tools to Study and Prevent Online Mass Manipulation."

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UVA English professor Steve Parks talks to UVA Global about how his interaction with activists and advocates has changed his academic work and what he and UVA's Democratic Futures Project plan to do next to support and promote advocates for democracy.

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people in protest, sign held by one of the persons in the picture reads: “I support the redskin struggle. We do not want the system of life of the ‘whites’ any longer” in Spanish
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UVA PhD Candidate Josué Godoy talks with UVA Global's Emily Mellen about his project on Indigenous activism in Colombia during the 1970s.

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Jack Chen & Dan Willingham headshots
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UVA Professors Jack Chen and Daniel Willingham recently presented about their CGII funded research in early October and spoke to UVA Global's Emily Mellen for a podcast about their work on reading.

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UVA Global Podcast Charles Bradley and Abigail Bradford graphic with headshots
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CGII grant recipients Charles Bradley and Abigail Bradford talk about their projects in Greece. Bradford will be researching "Aulos and Audience in the Ancient Greek Musicscape" while Bradley will be working on "Understanding Early Childhood Development in Emergencies: An Inhabited Institutionalist Analysis of Humanitarian Programming for Young Children and Caregivers."

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CGII Brown Bag Lunch Series: Aswin Punathambekar & Eli Carter Global Media Cultures Collaboratory Friday 11/12 12-1:30pm Hotel A poster with headshots of Punathambekar and Carter
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In this episode, Aswin Punathambekar and Eli Carter from University of Virginia talk about the Global Media Cultures Collaboratory. They hope to bring together scholars with a shared interest in the rise of digital and mobile media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of media practice and use that are reconfiguring socio-cultural, political, and economic terrains across the Global South.

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A conversation with Professor Nomi Dave about her CGII G-Pod funded Sound Justice Lab which explores everyday understandings of the law, through audio, text, and film. She is also co-writing and co-producing a short film on women’s voices and gender activism in Guinea. The film emerges from a collaborative research project with a feminist collective in Guinea.

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In this episode, Howard Epstein, Professor in Department of Environmental Sciences, talks about the UVA Arctic Research Center and its collaboration with other universities, their NSF grant and how their team are addressing the rapidly changing natural, built, and social environments across the Arctic that demand a response in order to preserve the sustainability of northern cities.

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Ren Capucao is a nurse, nurse historian, and PhD candidate and talks about his dissertation study "Pressed into Starched Whites: Nursing Identity in Filipino American History.

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Tayyab Safdar Headshot While Speaking
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In this episode, M. Tayyab Safdar talks to Emily Mellen about his research on South South Cooperation and UVA's multifaceted BRI project which includes a bibliography project, a speaker series and research.