This is it: After three seasons we wrap up Bariscope with our last episode. In these 15 minutes we look back on how our initial idea turned out, share our thoughts on international relations and academia and call out to all of you listening to launch critical and curious initiatives. And of course we answer our last question: sharing one tip that we would give our 20 year old selves. But most importantly we want to thank you, our listeners, and everyone else that has supported us during the last...
Dec 01, 2022•17 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Hello everyone! In this second last episode of Bariscope we sit down and talk all things creating your own podcast: how the idea crystallised, the questions you need to ask yourself before you embark on the journey of podcasting, why preparation is key, the equipment we used, how to find and reach out to potential guests and of course we share our learnings from these two years of podcasting. This episode is for all of you that are curious about starting their own podcast and all others that are...
Nov 15, 2022•20 min•Season 3Ep. 4
**timestamps below** For the final episode of this three-part series we have the great pleasure to welcome Anna-Lina Müller, Co-Director of foraus (the leading grass root think tank on Swiss foreign policy) since Spring 2022. After starting medicine at the University of Zurich and realising that it simply wasn’t for her, she switched to political science and history. During her bachelor studies Anna-Lina co-founded DiscussIt, an association that organizes political podiums in over 40 partner sch...
Oct 12, 2022•48 min•Season 3Ep. 3
We are looking forward to sharing with you this conversation with Raquel Herzog (it's been a long time coming!). Raquel is the founder of SAO association, a Swiss NGO that supports displaced women in Greece since 2015. We actually had the pleasure to welcome Raquel Herzog at the University of Geneva during an event both of us co-organized with foraus (an organization working on swiss foreign policy) back in September 2020. We've received many positive feedbacks on that event and the situation of...
Sep 14, 2022•48 min•Season 3Ep. 2
*timestamps below* Bariscope is back with three great episodes! It’s an honour and pleasure to have a very special guest to kick off this third season: Belkis Wille, Senior researcher in the crisis and conflict division at Human Rights Watch. She has been reporting in Ukraine on the killings, torture and enforced disappearances in areas around Kyiv and Chernihiv as well as the siege of Mariupol in March 2022. We will talk about the horrible first months of the war in Ukraine, how human rights wa...
Aug 31, 2022•46 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Welcome to the final episode for this semester with Dr. Sandra Penic, senior researcher at the Departement of Political Science and International Relations as well as the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences at the University of Geneva. In this conversation we’re diving into all things emotions: anger, hope, fear, empathy, hate and solidarity – and how and why we can experience them collectively. Emotions have been underlying many of our conversations here on the podcast, especially when talking ...
Jan 19, 2022•58 min•Season 2Ep. 12
In the second part of our conversation with Oliver Braunschweig we will apply the more general input on Plural Economics from the first episode to concepts of International Relations. We will have a critical discussion on economic growth, trade, climate change and social justice to see how plural economics can offer new input on these concepts that are often used but rarely put into perspective in IR. Economic ideas and considerations are crucial in International relations, however they are ofte...
Jan 05, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Economics is a crucial component of International Relations. Concepts such as trade, growth and GDP are popular and largely applied without discussions regarding potential shortcomings and how they emerged. In fact, universities almost exclusively teach what is called "neoclassical" economics, a mathematics and market-based theory of economics. This rigid and uniform approach to how economics thaught, defined and looked at is disputed, predominantly by students that want to make room for discuss...
Dec 17, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Today we are welcoming the brilliant Coline Rapneau on Bariscope - our first guest from outside academia with extensive experience as a humanitarian worker at the International Committee of the Red Cross. Before joining the ICRC Coline Rapneau completed her Master's Degree in international relations with a major in International Law at the Graduate institute here in Geneva, then worked as a humanitarian officer at the French permanent mission to the UN and spent three years as a legal assistant ...
Nov 17, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 9
*(Timestamps below)* We are welcoming Dr. Elena Cima on Bariscope to finally discuss a climate-related subject on our podcast. Having studied International Law at Yale Law school and Tsinghua University before completing her Ph.D. at the Graduate institute in Geneva and joining the University of Geneva as a research and teaching fellow, Dr. Cima presents an impressive academic record focusing principally on international energy governance as well as on the role international trade, investment an...
Nov 04, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Season two of ' Bariscope - critically curious conversations ' is starting off with a stellar guest : Professor Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, international history scholar and Chair of the 'International History and Politics Department' at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies here in Geneva. An expert in transnational terrorism and democratization in Africa and the Middle East, Prof. Mohamedou has spent many years in the US at Harvard University, the City University ...
Oct 20, 2021•59 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome back to season 2 of Bariscope! We are both looking very forward to sharing the upcoming episodes with you, which will be centred around topics which we feel like weren't sufficiently addressed in our lectures, such as terrorism and the post 9/11 world, climate change and international energy governance, plural economics, sexual violence in armed conflicts, the decolonization of humanitarian work and collective resilience and solidarity in the aftermath of crises (e.g. the Covid pandemic)...
Oct 20, 2021•3 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Before Bariscope takes a summer break we conclude our first season with a special episode! We welcome Dr. Youngshik Bong who is currently a research fellow at Yonsei University’s institute for North Korean studies in Seoul. An expert on Korean domestic and international politics, Dr. Bong has been publishing on the interplay between nationalism and globalization in East Asia as well as current security challenges in the region. On Bariscope he will provide first-hand insight on North and South K...
Jul 19, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 7
It is an honour and pleasure to welcome for today’s episode professor Simone Dietrich! Since 2017 she is an associate professor at the faculty of sciences de la société at the University of Geneva, specialised in foreign aid and international development. We will be talking to her about how domestic politics and civil society shape foreign aid allocation, the differences between the different development actors (NGOs, International Organisations, Public Private Partnerships), what effect a left-...
Jul 12, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 6
This week we welcome Professor Didier Péclard on Bariscope. He directs the Master in African Studies and holds several lectures on the topic of African politics for both Bachelor and Master students at the University of Geneva. Primarily focusing on Africa, Professor Péclard is an expert on Angola with his research revolving around questions of religion and politics, conflict and state-formation as well as peacebuilding and development. Tune in to hear professor Péclard’s take on the role of Wes...
Jul 05, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 5
It is a pleasure to welcome Professor Sandra Lavenex on the fourth episode of Bariscope! She is the director of the department of political science and international relations at the University of Geneva as well as a board member of the GSI. Her award-winning research focuses on European and International politics, with special regards on migration, European integration, global governance and power transitions . All of these issues will be treated in today’s conversation so tune in to find out w...
Jun 28, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 4
*en français* On se réjouit beaucoup de vous présenter notre troisième invitée : Pamela Ohene-Nyako, assistante-doctorante dans l’Unité d’histoire contemporaine à l’Université de Genève, alumna du BARI, qui enseigne entre autres le séminaire "Multilatéralisme et organisations internationales". Aujourd’hui, on va parler du féminisme intersectionnel, du racisme comme force structurante dans les relations internationales, de mouvements transnationaux féministes et anti-racistes entre autre Black Li...
May 31, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 3
It is a great honour and pleasure to welcome for this second episode Prof. Jonas Pontusson who is since 2010 professor of comparative politics at the faculty of Sciences de la Société here at the University of Geneva. He has written extensively on Swedish social democracy, inequality, redistribution, capitalism, trade unions and is currently directing a five year research project on unequal democracies. Alongside Unequal Democracies, Jonas Pontusson is engaged in a project on post-Fordist growth...
May 24, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 2
*en français* Pour notre première épisode nous avons le grand plaisir et honneur d'accueillir la professeure Armelle Choplin, qui est depuis 2019 directrice de l’Institut GEDT (gouvernance de l'environnement et développement territorial) à l’Université de Genève ! Cette conversation est dédiée à des questions liées à l'urbanisation, l'effet de la pandémie sur notre mobilité, en quoi les villes sont les nouveaux acteurs internationaux, en quoi tout est lié (relations entre local et global) et ...
May 17, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Welcome to Bariscope! Tune in if you are interested by critical and curious questions related to world politics and academia. This intro explains what our podcast is all about, as well as who we are and what our motivation is to launch Bariscope. We hope you'll be back soon for one of our episodes! Lea & Lukas
May 08, 2021•4 min
