Travelling Concepts on Air: Youth (S2E9)

In this episode of the podcast series Travelling Concepts on Air, Dr. Tessa Diphoorn and Dr. Brianne McGonigle Leyh invite Dr. Thijs Schut and Isis Germano to discuss the concept of 'youth'.

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In this podcast series, Brianne McGonigle Leyh and Tessa Diphoorn explore the promise and ideal of interdisciplinarity by looking at travelling concepts: concepts that travel within and across disciplines. This month, and  discuss how the concept of ‘youth’ is used in different contexts and disciplines.

Thijs Schut is an (economic) anthropologist working at the ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Amsterdam. He works mainly in East Indonesia, focussing on youth and their educated subjectivities, rural-urban connections, (global) flows of people and goods, and commodity chains. He obtained his PhD from the ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Western Australia and has extensive fieldwork experience. Currently, he is studying fish commodity chains, food security and nutrition, and (young) entrepreneurs on Sumba. Before, he studied the so-called troubled education-to-work transitions of young people in central Flores, who had returned to their rural natal communities upon graduating from city-based universities.

Isis Freitas Vale Germano is a teacher, lecturer, and researcher in ArtEZ, and a freelance lecturer and advisor with a focus on storytelling focusing on visuality, embodied cognition, and diversity and inclusion. She worked as a teacher in Media and Culture for Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ between 2014 and 2019, where she was nominated for the Teaching Talent prize in 2016. She has worked for ArtEZ ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of the Arts since 2018. She has coordinated the Honours Programme, works as a researcher, writer, and lecturer for Studium Generale, mentors students in the Academy of Theatre and Dance in their research and works on decolonising and depatriarchalising the curriculum. As a freelancer, she works as an advisor for questions concerning diversity and inclusion, storytelling, and visual representation.

Listen to the episode to hear more about the discussion about 'youth':