Women, Life, Freedom: Iran Uprising

Our first episode is led by Dr Fatemeh Sadeghi, a research fellow of the UCL's and Institute for Global Prosperity's ERC Project Takhayyul. Fatemah is a political scientist who is an expert on Iran. 

This episode discussed how the uprisings in Iran were received in different parts of the world, specifically in China, Pakistan, India, Bahrain, Turkey, and the UK. The guests were Dr Sumrin Kalia from Takhayyul, Dr Yuan He (IGP), Dr Alaa Shehabi, a UCL scholar and a former member of the IGP, Rumeysa Camdereli, a Muslim feminist intellectual and activist, and an anonymous scholar (pseudonym HS) and activist from India. The episode was chaired by the Primary Investigator of Takhayyul, Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu (Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Prosperity, IGP) with technical support by Hazal Aydin, the research assistant of the project from Koc University, Turkey; and Meryem Zisan Koker, the assistant to Dr Sehlikoglu. 

For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/igp/transcript-women-life-freedom-iran-uprising-its-international-impact 

Date of episode recording: 2022-10-07
Duration: 01:21:39
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Fatemeh Sadeghi
Guests: Sumrin Kalia, Alaa Shehabi, Yuan He, Rumeysa Cambdereli, Hazal Aydin, Meryem Zisan Koker
Producer: Sertaç Sehlikoglu

What is Takhayyul Nativeness and Emergent Issues Podcast Series?

The Institute for Global Prosperity's ERC Project Takhayyul is carried out in eleven different countries in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia, often included in the concept of the Global South, where people are more vulnerable to global changes and crises - as we have seen in the flood catastrophe in Pakistan. Many members of our team are scholars who have expertise in the geographies they grew up in. This series has been emerged due to the pressing issues that have been taking place in the contexts we work on and care about. The urgent need to create a platform where we can address the emergent issues as they happen, to channel our intellectual and academic expertise, combined with the deep care to the events taking place has prompted this podcast series.