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To conclude this years discourse programme, Elevate Festival welcomes Slavoj Žižek to Orpheum Graz. In his lecture “Only A Catastrophe Can Save Us” he asks, in view of global crises and swelling doomsday scenarios: What if the great catastrophe is … Continue reading → 

We talk about Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. His critique of the banking model of education. The importance of critical consciousness. His Existentialist influence. The dialectic between oppression and liberation. The problem-posing model of education. The role of dial ...  Afficher plus

Today we air a rerun from 2016. We'll be back next week with our end of year roundup. -- Social movements produce a huge amount of intellectual knowledge. Yet, in many academic circles, this knowledge is overlooked. Aziz Choudry spent most of his life working with social movement ...  Afficher plus

Today's episode is an interview with political scientist, author, essayist and scholar Germinal G. Van. Born and raised in Ivory Coast, Germinal is the author of 14 books, and has authored "The Economic Condition of Black America in the 20th Century", his most recent work. His ...

Marc Owen Jones Hamad bin Khalifa University  joins Marc Lynch on this week's podcast to discuss his new book, Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media. The book analyzes how social media has been weaponised by states and commercial ...  Afficher plus