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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
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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
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Jul 1026 min read
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