Practising Dark Pedagogy with Chiara Li Mandri

Jonas A. Lysgaard and Stefan Bengtsson in dialogue with Chiara Li Mandri, University of Palermo, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiara-li-mandri-5b49431a5/?locale=it ). In this episode we talk with Chiara Li Mandri about her work on Dark Pedagogy, the philosopher Giacomo Leopardi and how this inspires new ways of working with children in schools. Chiara is, among many things, co-founder of the AIRE research collective in Galway (https://airecollective.org/). Our new jingle is the work of Katharsis - Enimsa 2000: https://soundcloud.com/katharsislabel/sets/enimsa-the-death-of-the-nymph 

Education at the End of Time Stefan Bengtsson, Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard & Dylan McGarry (Emerald Publishing, 2025) What does it mean to educate in a time when the very coordinates of the future feel uncertain — or altogether lost? This book takes that question seriously, drawing on dark pedagogy, posthumanist theory, and speculativethought to rethink what education can be when optimism is no longer enough. In this episode Professor Marcia McKenzie (University of Melbourne) and Joanne Peers (University of the Witwatersrand) discuss our newest book and the messy process of trying out something new in academia.  More on the book here: https://bookstore.emerald.com/education-at-the-end-of-time-hb-9781837532896.htmlOur new jingle is the work of Katharsis - Enimsa 2000:https://soundcloud.com/katharsislabel/sets/enimsa-the-death-of-the-nymph

Jonas A. Lysgaard and Stefan Bengtsson in dialogue with Juliette Bertoldo, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (https://www.juliettecbertoldo.com/).In this episode we talk with Juliette Bertoldo about her work on the role of Death in Education. Juliette has worked with the educational significance of multispecies death and dying in the context of a rapidly and unevenly changing planet. Juliette is working on an upcoming book on the theme: Death Pedagogy: Posthuman Educational Philosophy in the AnthropoceneOur newjingle is the work of Katharsis - Enimsa 2000:https://soundcloud.com/katharsislabel/sets/enimsa-the-death-of-the-nymph 

Jonas A. Lysgaard and Stefan Bengtsson in dialogue with Ramsey Affifi, University of Edinburgh (https://ramseyaffifi.org/). In this reboot of The Dark Pedagogy Podcast series ww discuss Affifi's work on a range of concepts in education spanning love, loss, ecologies, aesthetics. Our new jingle is the work of Katharsis - Enimsa 2000: https://soundcloud.com/katharsislabel/sets/enimsa-the-death-of-the-nymph

Jonas A. Lysgaard and Stefan Bengtsson in dialogue with Antti Saarihttps:(https://www.tuni.fi/en/antti-saari), Tampere University Finland, on alienation, strange loops, Flying Paris, Finnish Rust and the overlapping and ongoing endeavors of developing Dunkel pedagogic and Dark education.” Music: "Up all night" by Lee Rosevere From the Free Music Archive CC BY-NC 2.5 CA freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rose…-_Up_All_Night

Jonas A. Lysgaard and Stefan Bengtsson in dialogue with Gry Worre Hallberg  from Sisters hope (http://sistershope.dk/) on the links and overlaps between Dark Pedagogy and the Sisters Hope perspectives on sensuous and poetic modes of being and education. Music: "Up all night" by Lee Rosevere From the Free Music Archive CC BY-NC 2.5 CA freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rose…-_Up_All_Night

Jonas A. Lysgaard and Stefan Bengtsson in dialogue with Katarina Froebus on her book on the Undead in Pedagogy (Das Untote in der Pädagogik - 2019) and links and overlaps with the Dark Pedagogy project. Music: "Up all night" by Lee Rosevere From the Free Music Archive CC BY-NC 2.5 CA freemusicarchive.org/music/Lee_Rose…-_Up_All_Night