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Conversations 4 Citizenship


Episode 43 | Universities as Bridge Actors for Climate Justice : Conversation with Prof. Tristan McCowan
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Dr. Kamille Beye [00:00:00] Hello, listeners, and welcome to Conversations4Citizenship Podcast. I'm your host, Kamille Beye. Today we are delighted to welcome Professor Tristan McCowan, whose work focuses on the connections between higher education as a public good, quality in higher education, the purpose of higher education outside of workforce development and social responsibility. His research exp
Stella Cheong
Aug 1930 min read


Episode 42 | Unlocking Minds: The Transformative Power of University-Prison Partnerships
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Kamille Beye 11:11 Hello, listeners, and welcome to the Conversations4Citizenship podcast. I'm your host Kamille Beye. Today we are delighted to welcome Dr. Magdalena Fellner, whose work focuses on the connections between education, educational institutions, and social inequality. Her research explores questions of equal opportunity and access to higher education, grounded in the idea that the ability
Stella Cheong
Aug 227 min read


Episode 41 | Unite Before You Ignite: Lessons from Nepal's Youth-Led Democracy
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Adam Peter Lang 00:02 Hello, listeners, and welcome back to Season Five of Conversations for Citizenship. I'm going to be your host today. I'm Dr. Adam Peter Lang from University College London, and Namaste. We have Adasha Tanuja and Narendra from Nepal. Thank you so much for joining us here on Conversations for Citizenship, our podcast today. We at our eclectic international mix of listeners and acad
Stella Cheong
Jul 1138 min read


Episode 40 | Beyond "I Agree": Data Sovereignty and the AI Black Box Featuring Ken Katayama
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Stella Micheong Cheong 00:01 Hello, listeners, and welcome back to Season 5 of Conversations4Citizenship! I’m your host, Stella Micheong Cheong, from Yonsei University. In this season five, we have chosen ‘The New World Order’ as the overarching theme for Season 5, and we are delighted to welcome Ken Katayama, a Digital Policy Evangelist from Japan in the first episode to kick off the new theme. Have
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Jul 1125 min read


Episode 08 | Season 4 Reflections and 2025 Year in Review with Dr. Kamille Beye
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Hello listeners! This is Kamille Beye, one of the co-hosts of C4C, recording from the Washington DC metro area. Every year brings change, but 2025 brought shifts that will continue to reverberate globally, particularly in how we understand civic engagement, education, and our responsibilities as citizens of the world. As an educator and former international development specialist, I watched with conce
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Jul 114 min read


Episode 07 | Rethinking History with Prof. Korostelina: Identity, Reconciliation and the Power of Memory in Peacebuilding
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Stella Micheong Cheong 00:16 Hello listeners and welcome to the Conversations4Citizenship podcast. I'm your host, Stella Micheong Cheong from Yonsei University. When you see the headlines from Gaza or the relentless war in Ukraine, it's easy to feel hopeless. These cycles of violence feel unbreakable, rooted in so much pain. It raises a huge question. How can we ever find a lasting peace? But what if
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Jul 1126 min read


Episode 06 | Global Higher Education in Crisis: 3 Hosts' Perspectives from the US, UK, and Korea
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT [00:16] Dr. Adam Peter Lang Hello everyone, and welcome to the Conversations for Citizenship podcast. Today, we're going to have a three-way discussion exploring a key theme that is coming up regularly in all our work—and I expect your work too—that being the important challenges, changes, and perhaps possible opportunities for higher education and universities in today's ever-changing world with all i
Stella Cheong
Jul 1125 min read


Episode 05 | Prof. Atherton's Vision on Widening Access: Fighting Inequality in Global Higher Education
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Adam Lang 00:00 Hey. Welcome to Conversations4citizenship podcast. I'm your host today. I'm Dr Adam Peter Lang from University College London, and today we're exploring some important challenges, changes, and indeed, opportunities for universities and higher education in today's global world, and examining the thorny issue of access. And in doing so, taking a close look at Ruskin College, Oxford. So w
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Jul 1129 min read


Episode 04 | Art as Advocacy : Literature and Human Rights Education in the Philippines
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Stella Micheong Cheong 00:02 Hello everyone, welcome to the Conversations4citizenship podcast. I am your host, Stella Cheong from Yonsei University. Today, we’re exploring the importance of social protests and the fight for worker and human rights in the Philippines. Rooted in democratic principles, community organizing, and social justice, Prof. Rommel Rodriguez is a leading voice on the power and im
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Jul 1130 min read


Episode 03 | The Virtuous Circle: A Conversation with Dr. Tara Bartlett on Youth Agency and School Participatory Budgeting
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Kamille Beye 03:14 Hello everyone, welcome to the Conversations4citizenship podcast. I am your host, Kamille Beye from University College London. Today, we are exploring how young people can exercise their agency by making budget recommendations through a process called School Participatory Budgeting (SPB). Rooted in democratic principles and community input, SPB brings students into decision-making at
Stella Cheong
Jul 1037 min read


Episode 02 | Rethinking Knowledge: Vygotsky, AI Ethics, and the Call for Epistemic Pluralism with Dr. Shone Surendran
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Adam Peter Lang (00:00)Well, hello everybody, and welcome to this episode of the fourth season of conversations for citizenship, our innovative podcast. I'm going to be your host today. I'm Dr. Adam Peter Lang from University College London, and I'm going to be working closely today with my colleague, Dr. Stella Michong Cheong from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. And I'm delighted to say today we've g
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Jul 1031 min read


Episode 01| Youth in Action : Democratic Resilience After Martial Law in South Korea
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Stella Micheong Cheong 00:15 Hello everyone, and welcome back to the season 4 of conversations4citizenship. I'm your host, Stella Micheong Cheong from Yonsei University, and I'm so excited to kick things off with you today, this season with diving head force into South Korea's ongoing political crisis, a moment that's shaking the nation to its core. On December 3, 2024, President Yoon Suk Yeol dropped
Stella Cheong
Jul 1026 min read


Season 3 Reflections and 2024 Year in Review with Dr. Adam Lang and Dr. Stella Cheong
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Adam Peter Lang 00:01 As we come to the end of 2024 and the end of season three of conversations4citizenship, I've been asked to give just a few reflections and thoughts on citizenship and the challenges to it, but also to its undoubted resilience. I'm Dr Adam Peter Lang from UCL, recording this in London, along with Dr Kamille Beye in the States and Dr Stella Cheong in Korea. I'm one of the creators
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Jul 107 min read


Episode11_Functional Coexistence and Mediative Practice: Sustaining Peace Amidst Global Conflicts and Perspectives from Prof. Tatsushi Arai
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Stella Micheong Cheong 00:04 Hello, listeners! and Welcome to today’s episode of the conversations4citizenship podcast. I am your host, Stella Mi-cheong Cheong from Yonsei University. Today, we are honored to have Dr. Tatsushi Arai, an Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Kent State University in the United States. Dr. Arai is a seasoned scholar and practitioner in the field of conflic
Stella Cheong
Jul 1026 min read


Episode 10_Cultivating Truthful Citizens in a populist era: Conversation with Prof. Sarah Stitzlein
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Kamille Beye 00:15 Hello, everyone. Welcome to the conversations4citizenship podcast. I'm your host. Kamille Beye from University College London, Institute of Education. Today, we are diving into some of the critical issues shaping our democratic societies, and I'm thrilled to be joined by Professor Sarah Stitzlein, a leading expert on civic education and democracy. Professor Stitzlein's latest book,
Stella Cheong
Jul 1030 min read


Episode 9_Bangladesh's Democratic Uprising: Insights from MP Rupa Huq and Ajmain Naklib on the Power of Youth Activism and Diaspora
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Stella Micheong Cheong 00:00 Hello everyone, welcome to the episode of Conversations4Citizenship! I am your host, Stella Micheong Cheong from Yonsei University. Today, we delve into the extraordinary events that have recently unfolded in Bangladesh. Over the past two weeks, the nation has experienced a seismic shift in its political landscape, culminating in the resignation of the Prime Minister, Shei
Stella Cheong
Jul 1032 min read


Episode 8_Navigating Neoliberal Education: Dr. Felipe Acuña on Teacher Subjectivity and Educational Change in Chile
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Stella Micheong Cheong 00:00 Hello, listeners! I am Stella Mi-cheong Cheong from Yonsei University. Welcome to the episode of Conversations4Citizenship. Today, we are thrilled to have Dr. Felipe Acuña, a researcher from the Research Center for Socio-Educational Transformation at Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez in Santiago, Chile. Dr. Acuña's work focuses on the intersection of education, socio
Stella Cheong
Jul 1026 min read


Episode 7: AI for Peace and Sustainability: A Conversation with Parishrut Jassal in India
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Stella Micheong Cheong 00:00 Hello, listeners! Welcome to the conversations for citizenship podcast. I'm your host Stella Micheong Cheong. Today on the podcast. We are talking about artificial intelligence potential to transform peace and sustainability and how is shaking things up. For better or worse, we will be talking about how AI can be used ethically and sustainably, especially when it comes to
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Jul 1024 min read


Episode 6_Campus Protests and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Student Perspective
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Stella Micheong Cheong 00:04 Hello listeners. Welcome to Conversations4citizenship podcast. I'm your host, Stella Micheong Cheong. Today we are discussing the pro-Palestinian protest sweeping US college campuses in response to ongoing slightly Palestinian conflict and humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Joining us are two students with firsthand perspectives, Subham Barua and Jayden Carmona from UC Riverside
Stella Cheong
Jul 1038 min read


Episode 5_Photovoice Reimagined: Dr. Nicole Brown's Approach to Social Change
Click the arrow (›) below to expand or collapse the transcript. TRANSCRIPT Stella Micheong Cheong 00:03 Hello, listeners! I am Stella Mi-cheong Cheong from Yonsei University, South Korea. Welcome to today's episode of Conversations4Citizenship, where we have the privilege of hosting Dr. Nicole Brown, a distinguished researcher and author. Dr. Brown's recent publication, "Photovoice Reimagined," has sparked significant interest in the field of qualitative research and social
Stella Cheong
Jul 1037 min read
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