Talking Texts: Recent Episodes
Bernadette Lieder
In this podcast, students from the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences speak about important texts from their degree programme. Each episode features a different team of hosts who present one text. The hosts say why and how those texts are important and give an introduction in order to help access and read the long and often complicated texts.
In this special episode, Jill (Writing Centre) and Bernadette (Language Centre & host) share practical ways the Writing Centre can support your academic writing.
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"From tea gifts to eating habits, join Manisha and Lina on a journey of cultural revelations!"
Manisha shares her journey from Sri Lanka to Germany, navigating cultural differences like gift-giving and direct communication. Lina adds insights into German behavior. They discuss punctuality, reservedness, and eating customs, offering perspectives on adapting to new cultural norms and experiencing reverse culture shock.
Hosts: Manisha Ukwatte and Lina Kirschbaum
Time cues
00:25 Ceylon tea
01:25 Culturally UNshocked
02:10 Behavioral observations
02:29 Cultural differences
02:21 Prejudices
02:31 Disclaimer
02:52 Direct communication style
02:54 Punctuality
02:56 Reserved behavior
02:58 Work culture
03:00 Bureaucracy and rules
09:26 Bekannte
10:15 Food and Customs
13:02 Cultural adaptation
14:21 Intercultural communication
15:31Reverse culture shock
Word lists - Translation Bekannte/r - Acquaintance
Word lists - Explanation
Ceylon Tea - Ceylon tea is both the brand of tea which is produced in Sri Lanka and a historic term describing tea from that land. Ceylon tea has been described as not only a geographical descriptor but also a pillar of Sri Lankan culture, heritage, and identity
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Jingle: Felix Spieß; Featuring: Valdas, Nabila, Javad, Lina, Manisha and Valdas' cat
Cover Art: Anna Mahendra
Join hosts Nabila and Valdas as they delve into the intriguing dynamics of Millennial and Gen Z working styles. In this episode, Nabila and Valdas explore the defining traits of each generation and how they shape modern business practices. From tech savvy to entrepreneurial spirit, the two hosts dissect the nuances that drive workplace culture. Stay tuned for insightful discussions and an exclusive interview, which provides valuable insights from a Gen Z perspective. Get ready to navigate the intersection of generations in today's professional landscape!
Hosts: Valdas Vaitkevicius and Nabila Israt Jahan
Resources
Dorsey, J. and Villa, D. (2020) Zconomy: How Gen Z Will Change the Future of Business – and What to Do About It. Harper Business.
Tuff, C. (2019) The Millennial Whisperer: The Practical, Profit-Focused Playbook for Working With and Motivating the World's Largest Generation. Morgan James Publishing.
Time Cues
00:00 – 01:25 Introduction
01:25 – 01:54 Millennials and Gen Z Year
01:54 – 02:42 Gen Z clusters
02:42 – 03:55 Millennials’ key characteristics
03:55 – 05:08 Gen Z’s key characteristics
05:08 – 13:30 Personal experiences
13:30 – 15:35 Interview Question 1
15:35 – 17:25 Interview Question 2
17:25 – 20:46 Interview Question 3
20:46 – 22:14 Interview Question 4
22:14 – 23:40 Closing remarks
Guests
Mariam Metwally; student of business psychology,
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Jingle: Felix Spieß Featuring: Valdas, Nabila, Javad, Lina, Manisha and Valdas' cat
Cover Art: Anna Mahendra
Everyone wishes to find true happiness. But what exactly does genuine happiness encompass? Is it attaining a dream job, embracing parenthood, or obtaining a university degree? In this episode, Javad shares how he started his quest for happiness at a very low point in his personal and professional life. He asks what happiness actually is and, in an interview with the philosopher Ali Tabeshnia, Javad discusses that to truly experience genuine happiness, individuals must discover contentment within themselves because true happiness is an internal state that can be chosen
Host: Javad Tabrizchi
Time cues
00:00 Intro
01:06 What is happiness
03:13 Introduction of Ali Tabeshnia
03:22 How to achieve happiness
03:59 Philosophy of truth and happiness
05:31 Brief introduction of philosophy of truth
07:02 My story: how I chose happiness
09:25 Thank you and good bye
Guests
ALI TABESHNIA
Ali Tabeshnia (@ali.tabeshnia67) • Instagram photos and videos
Links
https://talkingtexts.de/
https://positivepsychology.com/philosophy-of-happiness/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9963575/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/happiness/
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Jingle: Felix Spieß; Featuring: Valdas, Nabila, Javad, Lina, Manisha and Valdas' cat
Cover Art: Anna Mahendra
With climate change and Covid, times might look bleak but there is hope out there. According Murray Bookchin’s text The Ecology of Freedom the origin social and ecological problems are intertwined and cannot be solved by ignoring one party they are also equally rooted in the attempt to dominate everyone and everything. In this episode Bernadette and Tim will introduce you to the concept of Social Ecology, is it a possible solution to our problems or an outdated concept?
TextBookchin, M. (1982). The ecology of freedom (p. 232). New Dimensions Foundation
You can find an online version of the text here
Time cues00:09 Introduction
00:37 The Status Quo
01:19 Introduction to Social Ecology
02:56 Ecology vs. Environmentalism
03:52 The aims of Social Ecology
04:10 First Nature, Second Nature, Third Nature
05:07 What is “wholeness”?
06:24 Social Ecology, Nature and Hierarchies
10:43 Interview with Blair Taylor from the Institute for Social Ecology
16:38 Definition 1 (of Social Ecology)
17:43 Definition 2 (of Social Ecology)
18:58 The Relevance of Social Ecology today
20:25 Social Ecology in our everyday life
21:39 Farewell
22:12 Outro/Quote
GuestsBlair Taylor https://social-ecology.org/wp/author/blair-taylor/)
Links and ressourcesInstitute for social ecology https://social-ecology.org/wp
The Text https://libcom.org/files/Murray_Bookchin_The_Ecology_of_Freedom_1982.pdf
Democratic Confederalism Beyond the Frontlines – The Building of the democratic system in North and East Syria https://rojavainformationcenter.com/storage/2021/06/Beyond-the-frontlines-The-building-of-the-democratic-system-in-North-and-East-Syria-Report-Rojava-Information-Center-December-2019-Web-version.pdf
Solar Punk Explanation https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SolarPunk
Mutual Aid – A Factor of Evolution https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petrkropotkin-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolution
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Music: ZakharValaha https://pixabay.com/music/jingles-piano-cassical-brand-motive-logo-9997/
Felix Spieß
In episode 05-Introducing Multidimensional poverty Fabian Schmidl and Miriam El Agha talk about the multidimensional poverty index and the progress of countries, which have managed to reduce multidimensional poverty. The hosts address the following questions: When are households considered to be multidimensionally poor? Is there a threshold? What impact does Covid-19 have on multidimensional poverty? The text this episode is based on is “The global Multidimensional Poverty Index” in: Global MPI 2020 – Charting pathways out of multidimensional poverty: Achieving the SDGs. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).2-12.
Resources“The global Multidimensional Poverty Index” in: Global MPI 2020 – Charting pathways out of multidimensional poverty: Achieving the SDGs. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).2-12.
Time Cues00:06 –1:01 Self imposed poverty
1:04 –3:05 1.Introducing multidimensional poverty 2. Overview 3.Third semester 4.Poverty and inequality
3:06 – 05:38 1.Multidimensional poverty Index 2.Degree of deprivation 3.Dimensions 4. Indicators
05:39 –08:00 1.Multidimensional poverty reduction 2. Progress 3. SDG division 4. Multidimensional poverty
08:01 – 09:45 1.Sir Tony Atkinsons 2. A clearer picture of poverty 3. A different perspective
09:50 –12:46 1.Covid 19 influence 2. Restriction of school attendance 3. Exclusion 4.Malnourishment
Guests and Sound bites1. Anastasia (guest wants to stay anonymous)
- Jens Völksen
(Anastasia and Jens Völksen provided sound bites for the podcast. They expressed their opinion, explaining which of the following poverty dimensions they consider important for a good life: Poverty dimensions: 1. Health 2. Education 3. Standard of living).
Links and termsGlobal multidimensional poverty Index:
„The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is an international measure of acute multidimensional poverty covering over 100 developing countries. It complements traditional monetary poverty measures by capturing the acute deprivations in health, education, and living standards that a person faces simultaneously“(Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2018, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative).
Definition cited from this webpage: OPHI (2018) .https://ophi.org.uk/gmpi-2018/
https://www.h-brs.de/de/sv/podcast-talking-texts-1
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Music:
Fabian Schmidl
01:00 – 03:04 Welcome
03:05 – 09:48 Sorry Plight
09:51 – 14:57 Astonishment
Jingle: Felix Spieß
In episode 0-introducing Talking Texts season 02 you will hear about what topics are covered in this season why you should listen and what the hosts like so much about the episodes.
Time cues00:23.1 01:06.2 What is talking texts
01:06.2 02:8.7 The single episodes in the season
02:08.7 03:19.4 Question 1:What are the episodes
about?
03:19.4 05:06.1 Question 2: How will the listener
benefit?
05:06.1 07:01.8 Question 3: What do the hosts like
best about their episode?
07:01.8 08:40.1 Is there anything that needs to be
added?
08:40.1 09:08.2 0utro and jingle
Linkshttps://talkingtexts.de/the-podcast/
https://talkingtexts.de/episode-05/
https://talkingtexts.de/episode-06/
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Music: Felix Spieß
Ressourceshttps://talkingtexts.de/episode-0s02-introducing-season-02/
In this Interview Tim and Blair discuss Social Ecology, what it is and how it can help tackle the crieses of today. Blair talks about his background in environmental and social activism and provides examples where the concept has already been sucessfully applied and how it can give hope to everyone.
Time cues00:00.0 00:18.7 Preliminaries
00:18.7 03:50.0 Introduction
03:50.0 06:12.0 Why is Social Ecology still relevant today?
06:12.0 10:28.4 How does Social Ecology influence our everyday lives?
10:28.4 12:39.6 Which field of academia would profit the most from integrating Social Ecology?
12:39.6 18:49.2 Which role will Social Ecology play in the future?
18:49.2 20:02.0 Outro
LinksInstitute for social ecology https://social-ecology.org/wp
The Text https://libcom.org/files/Murray_Bookchin_The_Ecology_of_Freedom_1982.pdf
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Felix Spieß
In episode 4a of talking texts inferential statistics – mind the gap We, Karina and Bernadette,discuss the text: “Inference and error in surveys” in: Survey Methodology by Groves et al. We explain the meaning of the words inference and error, summarize the text and talk about why it is relevant. In addition, we talk about Sherlock Holmes and how statistics can make the world a better place.
Time cuesThese time cues will help you find the topics we discussed or resume where you stopped listening.
00:00:00 Introduction of hosts, topic and text
00.02.34 Part 1
00.02.34 What does inference mean?
00:03:58 What is error in statistics?
00:04.36 How seeing error from a statistician's point of view might improve our lives
00:05:43 Part 2 What is the text about and why does it matter?
00:05:59 Features of the text we found difficult
00:06:54 Summary of the text
00:08:50 Why is the text relevant
Links and resourceslink to episode page
http://talkingtexts.de/episode-4/?preview_id=131&preview_nonce=2021cc2346&preview=true
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Music Bela Bartok, Irene Damert, Felix Spieß
In episode 4b we, Karina and Bernadette, explain some of the notions of error and statistical concepts. We then discuss one of the tasks from the text and present our solutions .
Time cues episode 4b00:00:39 Part 3: different concepts in inferential statistics
00:01:09 Inferential and descriptive statistics
00:02:18 Error in studies
00:03:20 Errors of observation
00:04:58 Errors of non-observation
00:07:58 Part V: Discussion of Task from: Inference and Error in Surveys
00:08:26 Information before starting
00:09:19 What are the important parameters of the study?
00:10:37Discussion of task 1a)
00:11:24 Discussion of task 1b) and 1c)
00:15:49 Summary
Links and resourcesLiterature
GROVES, Robert M., et al. “Inference and error in surveys” in: Survey methodology. John Wiley & Sons, 2011. 39-67.
https://talkingtexts.de/episode-4/
This is the podcast Talking Texts: the podcast about important texts from your degree program. In episode 2 – Is abortion a crime? the hosts Marzia and Marlow will talk about the text “Abortion regimes of the OECD countries and their determining factors by comparison” by Edith Gindulis. This text deals with the issue of abortion and its criminalization. It also discusses which countries have questionable abortion rights.
Time cues00:01 introduction
01:24 opener
01:26 topic of the text
02:45 statistical background
05:28 conclusion
06:58 discussion
10:37 outro
Links and resourcesGindulis, Edith. Die Abtreibungsregime der OECD-Länder und ihre Bestimmungsfaktoren im Vergleich. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 2002, 31. Jg., Nr. 3, S. 315-336.
Link to the text: https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/6004
Link to website https://talkingtexts.de/episode-2/
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Music: Felix Spieß
In today's episode of Talking Texts, the hosts Christoph and Rick explain the economic use of Nudging in everyday live and how the number of organ donations can be increased using nudging techniques. While giving several examples of how Nudging can affect any of us, their episode is based on the award-winning bestseller book: “Nudge: Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness” from Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein.
Time cues00:00 Opener
00:51 Intro
01:08 What is Nudging? Examples.
05:32 Nudging and Organ Donation
10:18 Discussion
16:00 Outro
TermsVerhaltensökonomik is behavioural economics in English
Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA). This translates as federal center for health education. The task of this centre is to inform citizens about health and important measurements. For more information go to their webpage.
"REWE" is the name of a supermarket-chain in Germany. REWE is short for "Revisionsverband der Westkauf-Genossenschaften" (Audit union for Westkauf-Cooperatives).
Links and Resources German Version: Nudge. Wie man kluge Entscheidungen anstößt (übersetzt von Christoph Bausum). Econ, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-430-20081-3
Thaler, R. H., & Sunstein, C. R.. Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness. Penguin. 2009.
Link to website https://talkingtexts.de/episode-1/
Link to BZgA https://www.bzga.de/home/bzga/
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Music Bela Bartok, Irene Damert, Felix Spieß
This episode of talking texts introduces the hosts and single episodes of the first season. We will talk about the purpose and aim of the podcast as well as how it can help you with difficult texts from your degree program.
Here is the link to the webpage: https://talkingtexts.de
You’ll find the single episodes by clicking on the respective links:
Ep. 0 https://talkingtexts.de/episode-0/
Ep. 1 https://talkingtexts.de/episode-1/
Ep. 2 https://talkingtexts.de/episode-2/
Ep. 3 https://talkingtexts.de/episode-3/
Ep. 4 https://talkingtexts.de/episode-4/