Heart Openings (Renee Lynn Ford)

Welcome to the Interacting Minds Podcast. We are an Aarhus University based podcast focusing on making interdisciplinary science more accessible and approachable for the wider audience. Our guest for this episode is Andrew James Latham and we focus on his research about indirect compatibilism and free will.Andrew James Latham is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Aarhus University in the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas. He works mainly on topics at the intersection between metaphysics, cognitive science, and ethics. His most recent work has appeared in, among other places, Noûs, The Journal of Philosophy, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. He is the author of Indirect Freedom (Routledge, 2025), which advances a new kind of compatibilist account of free will. In addition to a PhD in Philosophy, he has a research background in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience.Produced by Kirsi TilkMusic by Simon Karg Find show notes and more information at https://interactingminds.au.dk/podcastSponsored by the Interacting Minds Center

Welcome to the Interacting Minds Podcast. We are an Aarhus University based podcast focusing on making interdisciplinary science more accessible and approachable for the wider audience. In the second episode of the 5th season, we will discuss multimorbidity and decision-making under clinical uncertainty.  Our guest today to shed light onto her research, is a medical anthropologist Anna Louise Skovgaard.------Anna Louise Skovgaard is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University, Silkeborg Regional Hospital and University of Southern Denmark. She holds a BA and MA in anthropology from University of Copenhagen and a PhD in medical anthropology from Aarhus University. She also holds a BA in nursing with several years of clinical experience in the field of acute cardiology and thoracic surgery. Her research centers on conceptual and empirical investigations of chronic illness, multimorbidity, musculoskeletal pain, decision-making and healthcare encounters. In her work, she draws on various academic fields with a focus on the bridging and translation of clinical, anthropological and philosophical concepts and methods in interdisciplinary studies of health and illness. Produced by Kirsi TilkMusic by Simon Karg Find show notes and more information at https://interactingminds.au.dk/podcastSponsored by the Interacting Minds Center

The 5th season of the Interacting Minds Podcast brings 4 new episodes from clinical anthropology to philosophy. In this episode we have anthropologist Marie Rask Bjerre Odgaard as the first guest for this season. We’ll be diving into her research at the intersection of art and activism in Jordan, how can a researcher be a friend and what challenges do we face when trying to create playful and queer spaces for healing.-----------Marie R. B. Odgaard is a social anthropologist who has spent the past decade focusing on artists and activists in Amman, Jordan. Her research explores gender and sexuality, ethics and morality within what she calls the “arts of living queerly,” the ethical dimensions of anthropology, and, more recently, playfulness and world openings in both artistic practice and academic writing. Her forthcoming book is an ethnography of the arts of living queerly in Amman. Odgaard (Ph.D., Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark) was until recently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Anthropology and WGSI at the University of Toronto, supported by a Carlsberg Foundation Internationalization Fellowship. She is currently an affiliate at the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University among many other things.Produced by Kirsi TilkMusic by Simon Karg Find show notes and more information at interactingminds.au.dk/podcast Sponsored by the Interacting Minds Center 

The 4th season of the Interacting Minds Podcast introduces 3 research projects chosen for the 2024 IMC Postdoc Training Programme. The participants introduce what they worked on, the outcome of the projects, and possible benefits for the future. In this episode we take a look at how capitalist development, hereunder infrastructure, changes our environment and poses a threat to the local ecological balance. The three main locations for this research are Botswana, Canada and Spain.Pierre du Plessis is an environmental anthropologist and multispecies ethnographer whose research has focused on practices of tracking and gathering as methods and analytics for understanding landscape change. His current research tracks how industrial beef production transforms landscapes in southern Africa and Europe. Zachary Caple is an environmental anthropologist at Aarhus University, Denmark and a 2023/24 ACLS Fellow. His forthcoming book The Human Asteroid Strikes Florida: The Mining Landscapes and Anthrobiogeochemistry of Phosphorus investigates the human-altered phosphorus cycle as an agent of multispecies landscape change in Florida.Produced by Kirsi TilkMusic by Simon Karg Find more information at interactingminds.au.dk/podcast 

The 4th season of the Interacting Minds Podcast introduces 3 research projects chosen for the 2024 IMC Postdoc Training Programme. The participants present what they worked on, the outcome of the projects, and possible benefits for the future. In this episode we take a closer look at migrant health and healthcare both in China and Denmark. Amongst other questions, we explore if the public health care systems support and help migrants and if there is any room for development. Guests today are Bio- Qiuyu (Choo) Jiang and Abir Mohamad IsmailBio- Qiuyu (Choo) Jiang earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from McGill University.Her research explores themes of transnational migration, state-society relations, qualitative health, digitalization and sustainable data management.Abir Mohamad Ismail is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the VELUX-funded project Fællesskaber på Tværs at Aarhus University's Department of the Study of Religion.  holds a PhD in Anthropology and a master’s degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the same institution. Her research explores care, aging, family and intergenerational relations, gender dynamics, and the experiences of Muslims in Western societies. She also examines religious individualization, secularization, and the intersections of religion, politics, and society.Produced by Kirsi TilkMusic by Simon Karg Find more information at interactingminds.au.dk/podcastv

The 4th season of the Interacting Minds Podcast introduces 3 research projects chosen for the 2024 IMC Postdoc Training Programme. The participants present what they worked on, the outcome of the projects, and possible benefits for the future. The first episode in this season discusses the problems that arise from the overpopulation of house crows in coastal Tanzania, how people dealt with it in the past and what can be done about it in the future. Our guest today is Samwel Moses Ntapanta. He is an ethnographer specializing in contemporary urbanism along the western Indian Ocean coast, particularly focusing on East Africa. Produced by Kirsi TilkMusic by Simon Karg Find more information at interactingminds.au.dk/podcast

In the episode of this season we will discuss how religion, devotion and love can be intertwined. Postdoctoral Fellow Renée L. Ford shares her expertise in Tibetan Buddhism and how can love and devotion manifest itself.Produced by Kirsi TilkMusic by Simon Karg Find more information at interactingminds.au.dk/podcast

In this episode we will dig deep into cave art, early human behavior, meaning making and what can we find looking back to these primordial times.  Here to guide us are Izzy Wisher and Kristian Tylén from the eSYMb project. Produced by Kirsi TilkMusic by Simon Karg Find more information at interactingminds.au.dk/podcast

In the fourth episode of the season, we will discuss what is joint action, non-verbal communication and also what comes out of a collaboration between science and art.The expert on the show is an associate professor in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Semiotics from Aarhus University, Cordula Vesper.Produced by Kirsi Tilk Music by Simon Karg Find more information at interactingminds.au.dk/podcast

In this episode we will discuss what role music played in peoples lives during COVID19 pandemic. The co-creator of MUSICOVID, Niels Christian Hansen, shares his research about peoples listening habits, new trends that emerged and coping methods for musicians. Produced by Kirsi Tilk  Music by Simon Karg Find more information at interactingminds.au.dk/podcast