The Humanities for Social Healing

Essay episodes

Page last updated: December 13, 2024

The Sweet Medicine podcast offers a harvest of insights on belonging, self-recovery, and community transformation from Nigerian researchers working in the humanities.

For the fourteen conversation episodes, visit here.

Available wherever you listen to podcasts.

Chapter 0
October 22, 2024

Why Social Healing?
transcript

Chapter 1
October 29, 2024

Why the Humanities and Social Sciences when people are starving? transcript

Chapter 2
November 5, 2024

What do we do with History and with the past? transcript

Chapter 3
November 12, 2024

Nigerian Nervous Conditions transcript

Chapter 4
November 26, 2024

Nigeria, the family transcript

Chapter 5
December 3, 2024

Guns & Spirits: Why Nigeria in the first place? transcript

Chapter 6 & 7
December 13, 2024

Why take ownership? What are our bodies good for? transcript

How about worlds where

we are deeply attentive to our needs as individuals and communities,
we value the pursuit of knowledge as integral to meeting those needs,
and we cherish the values of understanding, compassion and responsibility as they guide us towards resilience, and true belonging.

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^{“To heal is to touch with love that which was previously touched by fear.” - Stephen Levine}

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