Humboldt Residency Podcast

Social Cohesion: What holds us together? What keeps us apart?

Over the course of a year, academics, journalists, philosophers, and artists from around the world came together to explore the question of social cohesion: what it means, how we can achieve it, and whether it is possible or even desirable. In a four-part podcast series, members of the Humboldt Residency Programme discuss how aspects of diversity, nationalism and populism, technology, and the power of arts and culture contribute to the (un)making of communities.

This podcast series was produced and hosted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s 2022 Residency Programme.

The Humboldt Residency Programme:

Headed by annually changing hosts, the Humboldt Residency Programme seeks to bring together Humboldtians and other researchers with actors in civil society, journalists, entrepreneurs and artists to work on a common topic. In virtual meetings and a residency period in Berlin, members of the programme explore novel ways of communicating pressing issues of our time.

The 2022 Residency cohort focused on the topic of social cohesion, which included current trends in social division but also new forms of (digital) communality from the perspective of research, journalism and art.