Standard Time: No foreign body

vom 09.02.2025

How can we talk about Gaza when we don't want to talk about Gaza? Many Europeans are vary of discussing the conflict of Israel and Palestine, and in this episode we look at one of the factors that make this conversation so toxic: anti-Muslim racism has been seadily rising in Europe in the past few decades.

Sender:

OKTO

Sendedatum:

09.02.2025

Länge:

51 min

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Weitere Folgen

47 min

Standard Time: Nursery crimes

03.04.2025 | OKTO

Why are we running out of babies? And what if we don't want them? In this new episode of Standard Time for International Women's Day 2025, we discuss pronatalist policies, pensions and parental leave, and whether having fewer than 8 billion people would be a disaster.

43 min

Standard Time: The tyranny of the shush

27.03.2025 | OKTO

They invented the internet and now it devours them! How does digitization change libraries and archives? We have three amazing guests to discuss this with: Ulla Leinikka is the communication manager of the Helsinki Central Library Oodi Monika Bargmann is a Data Stewardess at the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at University of Vienna Tamás Miszler is the director of the Csorba Gyozo Library, Baranya county in Hungary.

45 min

Standard Time: 3-Year Blitzkrieg

20.03.2025 | OKTO

Donald Trump is the first openly Russian-aligned American president since WWII, and has put incredible pressure on Ukraine. How will Ukraine cope, what do they hope for and how do they keep their spirits up? We decided to sit down with 3 experts to look back and discuss if we, as Europe, should have acted sooner, where Ukraine stands now and what the future might hold. Our guests: Kateryna Botanova, a Ukrainian curator, writer and cultural critic Maksym Kyiak, chief scientist at the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies (Kyiv, Ukraine) Adam Reichardt, the editor of the Kraków-based specialist publication, New Eastern Europe

37 min

Standard Time: How social media affects our kids

13.03.2025 | OKTO

Are you a social media addict? Are you offended by the question? Either way, this episode is for you! Today we will sit down with 4 experts from different parts of Europe to tell us why there are so many peoples faces glued to their screen and how it is affecting the youth but also the parents!

36 min

Standard Time: Immigrant blues

12.12.2024 | OKTO

Migration has shaped humanity since the dawn of time. But in today’s Europe, integration remains a challenge amidst economic crises and the rise of the far-right. In Standard Time S2E07, host Réka Kinga Papp dives into: The history and myths of migration Challenges faced by second-generation migrants The impact of outmigration on Eastern Europe Featuring guests Merve Akyel, Ioana Pelehatai, and Daniela Univazo, we explore why these issues matter and how we can build a better future together. Episode was recorded in the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw.

37 min

Standard Time: Does AI make us dumb?

28.11.2024 | OKTO

Hello, and welcome back to another Episode of the Standard Time Talk show, this time we are talking about Journalism and AI! Disclaimer: this text was written by humans! Somebody used their brain for this! This time we went to the beautiful city of #Warsaw, #Poland to sit down with 3 very interesting experts: Mustafa Ünlü, Miriam Rasch and Luka Lisjak Gabrijecic to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly of AI in Journalism. Venue: Austrian Cultural Forum Warsaw

32 min

Standard Time: European Pavilion

08.11.2024 | OKTO

Naomi Russell, lead curator of the European Pavilion 2024. Marija Balubdžic, is a Belgrade-based musician, alias Umbra. Viktor Vejvoda, Artist.

45 min

Standard Time: Mass tourism suffocating Europe

24.10.2024 | OKTO

In this episode we talk about Mass Tourism: when consumers swarm like cicadas all over Europe, mostly in summer, to experience life in places that their presence makes unliveable. Our guests are: Júlia Isern, lawyer and EU Climate Pact Ambassador from Mallorca. Bálint Kádár, architect, curator and urbanism scholar from Budapest. Alan Godsave, member of the UK Chartered Institute of Marketing, and is the Programme Director at the International Business School in Budapest. 00:00 Contect 06:54 The situation in Mallorca 10:14 Define overtourism 16:24 Tourism and housing market 24:38 Carrying capacity and uran design, agriculture 32:28 Culture of tourism 35:58 Regenarive tourism 39:55 Guest's recommendations

39 min

Standard Time: Forest Fires

20.10.2024 | OKTO

Across much of Europe, forest fires are intensifying year upon year. We want to know who started the fire and what we can do to avoid fanning the flames! #fire #autumn #forestfire #climatechange #europe Our guests are: Lieutenant Colonel László Barta-Vámos Head of Department for Fire Protection Hungary Mariangela Paone, Journalist Gabor Gremsberger, CEO/Founder of Climate Action Ltd 00:00 Context 05:34 Volume, causes, EU ERCC 08:45 The scope of wildfire problem in EU 11:47 Forest restoration 14:10 Prevention, extinction, power of local communities 18:37 New technologies 28:20 Firefighter - how it's made 34:24 Special rescue mindset Find more info: https://www.eurozine.com/burning-down-the-house/

51 min

Standard Time: Where has all the Money gone?

27.09.2024 | OKTO

Daniel Freund is a German politician, member of the European Parliament. Sabrina Pignedoli, journalist and member of the European Parliament representing Italy. Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield French politician member of the European Parliament. The venue of recording is: Multimedia studios in The European Parliament, Brussels.

37 min

Standard Time: Exiled voices: identity & literature Standard Time talk show

11.07.2024 | OKTO

Behrouz Boochani is an award-winning Kurdish writer, journalist, cultural advocate, and filmmaker. His memoir No Friend But the Mountains (Pan Macmillan 2018, trans. Omid Tofighian). Ibtisam Azem is a Palestinian novelist, short story writer, and journalist based in New York. Her second novel “The Book of Disappearance” was translated into English, Italian and German. Bilgin Ayata is professor of southeastern European studies at the University of Graz (Austria) and is leading the project Elastic Borders: Rethinking the Borders of the 21st Century.

36 min

Standard Time: Let's make cabbage great again!

04.07.2024 | OKTO

Guest: Tendai Ganduri, a Zimbabwean scholar from the University of Witwaterstand in Johannesburg, South Africa; Maciej Jakubowiak, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Dwutygodnik magazine; and our Writer/Editor Salma Shaka, who’s a multi-media artist and researcher raised between Palestine, Cyprus, and the United Arab Emirates.

34 min

Standard Time: Standard Time

13.06.2024 | OKTO

Standard Time

37 min

Standard Time: Grave matters

30.05.2024 | OKTO

#Death plays a key role in most religions, moral systems, and legal constructs. The great equalizer reminds us of the passing nature of life. Although a heavy topic, talking about it is all the more important to process the grief that it causes. Guests: Anastasia Smirnova Architect, University of Applied Arts Vienna, working on her project Circumitus. Stefan Dinges is a theologian and medical ethicist at the Institute for Ethics and Law in Medicine at the University of Vienna,Letzte Hilfe Österreich. Yvonno Leeb is an undertaker at Tamo Burials Vienna and lecturer of process-oriented burials, Kultur:Trauer e.V. Berlin. Noémi Ambrózy is a certified grief educator at Napfogyatkozás Egyesület and an instructor of Hand in Hand Parenting.

32 min

Standard Time: What’s buzzin?

23.05.2024 | OKTO

Contrary to popular belief, not all #bees make honey. Wild bees, facing real threats of extinction, are essential pollinators too. And as we rush to #SaveTheBees, keeping beehives isn’t necessarily the answer. So, what is a benevolent and responsible bee enthusiast to do? Réka Kinga Papp is having this important conversation with Sarah Waring, senior editor at Eurozine, Harald Kicker, a beekeeper from the Sonnwendgarten in Vienna and Gergely Simon is an environmental chemist and a regional toxic expert at Greenpeace CEE.

37 min

Standard Time: Getting that bread

02.05.2024 | OKTO

Every year, the entire world witnesses protests for #LabourDay, and like every year, #work conditions aren’t getting any better. Guests: Réka Kinga Papp is having this important conversation with Maryna Tverdostup economist, Petra Hlavácková cultural theorist and curator and Péter Csunderlik historian. Venue: IWM Library Vienna

30 min

Standard Time: Landfills on sale

25.04.2024 | OKTO

#thrifting and #upcycling are becoming more #trendy amongst #fashion lovers. Are we finally heading towards more conscious consumption? It doesn’t seem like it! Guests are: Gertrude Klaffenboeck, the coordinator for the Clean Clothes Campaign Austria, which aims to improve labor rights in the global clothing industry. Laura Stefanut, the founder of haine CURATE, which provides legal assistance to garment workers in Romania and informs them about their rights. Meha Jhajharia, a Kolkata-Vienna-based multimedia visual artist currently doing their Master’s in biomathematics at the University of Vienna. Venue: Die Alte Schmiede Kunstverein

36 min

Standard Time: Europe is soaked in poop

18.04.2024 | OKTO

From the English Channel to the Sea of Marmara, Europe’s seas are soaked in sewage. Although polite conversation shies away from the topic, managing human waste is the single most important urban necessity. GUESTS: Éva Tessza Udvarhelyi is an anthropologist and environmental psychologist. Attila György Bodnár is an architect, entrepreneur, and executive vice president of Organica Water. Vince Bakos is a biochemical engineer and assistant professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

34 min

Standard Time: Warehousing children

11.04.2024 | OKTO

Among a myriad of forms and institutions, early childhood education can be heaven on earth when it works well, or a hellscape when it is dysfunctional - kindergartens on this week’s episode of Standard Time. GUESTS: Viktória Szücs is the president of the Democratic Trade Union of Crèche Employees in Hungary, Member of the European Commission Early Childhood Education and Care Working Group. Maria Roth is the director of the Montessori Adult Education Center in Munich with 50 years of experience, specializing in the developmental age of 3 to 6 years Flóra Bacsó is a mediator, restorative facilitator, trainer, and project manager at the Partners Hungary Foundation, invested in the integration of Roma pupils into education systems.