CMR Podcast

The Centre for Minorites Research Podcast is a student-led initiative, that reflects the CMR’s core values of promoting dialogue between disciplines on all aspects of minority research. Students from Social Anthropology, Film Studies, International Relations, Modern Languages, German Studies, and more will engage with leading figures in academia, civil society, and social activism to discuss minority issues in unique and provocative ways. The podcast series provides a space for students to creatively explore their interests alongside experts from a range of fields and disciplines to co-produce collaborative knowledge for the contemporary age.

If you are interested in collaborating with us please address all correspondence to

Series producer and editor Camila Ferreira Marinelli ([email protected]).

  • Season 3 / Episode 6

    Season 3 / Episode 6

    In our final episode of season 3, Michelle Alm Engvall, social researcher, MA in Anthropology and Humanitarian Action; Megan Denise Smith, Protection and Gender Specialist, Independent Consultant and PhD candidate in Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra; and Esther Neira, PhD candidate in Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast, discuss the intersections between transactional…

  • Season 3 / Episode 5

    Season 3 / Episode 5

    In this episode, Natalie Smith, a PhD candidate in the School of History, examines an anthropological account of the Roma written by the priest Cristfried Ganander in 1780, which marks the earliest study of the Roma people in Sweden. This text explored the history, culture and language of the Romani in Sweden-Finland. This episode uses…

  • Season 3 / Episode 4

    Season 3 / Episode 4

    CMR’s fourth episode of season 3 is out! In this podcast, we have Yichi Zhang, a PhD student in Social Anthropology, talk to her research interlocutor, Shannon Chen-See Nehemiah. They talk about Shannon’s life experiences growing up as a fourth-generation Chinese Jamaican and an active poet and artist. They ruminate upon the commonality of minority experiences, which relates…

  • Season 3 / Episode 3

    Season 3 / Episode 3

    In our third episode of season 3, Tilly Lyons, a PhD student in Italian and History, briefly overviews the history of Africans in Italy between 1922 and 1945. In this episode, she contextualises the discursive landscape in which they found themselves in a colonial time where anti-Black propaganda was rife and discusses two case studies…