Matters of Humanities
Within the podcast series Matters of Humanities, we showcase the voices of researchers at the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University.
Serie 1: History of Islam in Europe
Arabist Maurits Berger talks about the history of the Islam in Europe: going back to the first Muslim who set foot in Europe, and seeing what kind of interactions have taken place between Muslims and Europeans since then.
Serie 2: Scandal and Controversy in Russian literature
Senior lecturer Otto Boele examines eight notorious texts in Russian literature, paying particular attention to the commotion that they created.
Serie 3: Name that Language
Dr. Kate Bellamy and Dr. Andrew Wigman host the pilot podcast ‘Name That Language’, the podcast in which, with the help of an expert from the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), they explore the ins, outs, ups, and downs of one of the world’s 7000 or so languages. The catch? You won't hear the name of the language until the very end of the interview.
Serie 4: Muslim Futures
In this first ever podcast from LUCIS, hosts Yasmin Ismail & Sara Bolghiran explore what it means to imagine Muslim futures. Over 6 episodes we explore questions around what it means to imagine, the politics of imagination and what it would mean to engage with Muslims from the perspective of futures.
Matters of Humanities
Muslim Futures - Episode 3: Technology and the Muslim Future
This episode takes on the dominance of technology-driven futures. We talk to James McGrail PhD candidate at Leiden’s Anthropology department whose work lies at the intersection of AI and Muslim futures in Singapore. We also dive in transhumanism, ethical AI and what all this means for Muslim imaginaries.
Some resources:
- Huxley, Julian (1968). Transhumanism. Journal of Humanistic Psychology 8 (1): 73 - 76.
- Hejazi, Sara (2020). ‘Humankind. The Best of Molds’—Islam Confronting Transhumanism. Sophia 58 (4): 677 - 688.
- Revolutionary mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and the Logic of Capitalism – Justin Joque (2022)
- Raquib, A., Channa, B., Zubair, T. et al. Islamic virtue-based ethics for artificial intelligence. Discov Artif Intell 2, 11 (2022)