Latest Literary festival Podcast Episodes
#UWRF23 Festival Highlights | Exploring Queerness in Poetry
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - April 01, 2024 05:18 - 52 minutesFor our 2023 Festival Highlights finale, listen to unexpected stories of pride and resilience from four incredible queer poets and writers. Hear from Virginia Helzainka, Chris Tse, Norman Erikson Pasaribu, and Broede Carmody as they discuss their journeys of self-discovery, and the rich diversit...
#UWRF23 Festival Highlights | Bernardine Evaristo's Writing Journey
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - March 22, 2024 08:45 - 55 minutesThis week, get inspired by our in-depth conversation with 2019 Booker Prize–winning author Bernardine Evaristo, who discusses her radically honest memoir, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up, serving as an inspiring guide for how to be persistent in your craft, career, and life, with the Director of t...
#UWRF23 Festival Highlights | Reviving Bali: A Path to Net Zero by 2045
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - March 18, 2024 02:23 - 1 hourFor our next live-recorded highlight session from our 2023 Festival, listen to urban experts in sustainable development and local Balinese figures Cok Putra, I Nyoman Satya Kumara, Putu Yindy Kurniawan, and Gungtik Rismayanti, and Dian Tri Irawaty as they discuss opportunities, challenges, local...
#UWRF23 Festival Highlights | Unsettling Colonial Structures
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - March 13, 2024 04:14 - 1 hourRevisit our 2023 Festival highlight conversation recorded live at Indus Restaurant. Listen as Professors Aaron Corn, Marcia Langton, and Todung Mulya Lubis join Katie Carr to discuss their personal approaches on how indigenous traditions and laws can drive innovation and how we can initiate a di...
#UWRF23 Festival Highlights | High Tea Book Club
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - March 04, 2024 06:59 - 1 hourOn this week's 2023 highlight conversation program, watch the Festival High Tea Book Club recorded live at Ubud's most iconic hotel Amandari with host Laksmi DeNeefe Suardana and dazzling female guests Tracey Lien, Claudia Bellante, Megan Nolan, and Dias Novita Wuri, who are talking about books ...
#UWRF23 Festival Highlights | Geetanjali Shree's Literary Reflections
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - February 16, 2024 11:04 - 1 hourIn an extraordinary conversation, eminent Indian author and Hindi language novelist Geetanjali Shree takes the stage to reflect on her literary journey. Winner of the International Booker Prize for her recently translated Tomb of Sand, she has written fiction novels, short stories, and essays, e...
#UWRF23 Festival Highlights | Exploring Islam with Muhammad Quraish Shihab: Insights into Diversity
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - February 09, 2024 04:00 - 56 minutesDengan kebijaksanaan dan kejujuran yang mengagumkan, penulis, cendekiawan akademis, dan mantan Menteri Agama Indonesia di Kabinet Pembangunan Keempat pada 1998 silam, M. Quraish Shihab yang memimpin Pusat Studi Al-Qur'an membagikan penafsirannya yang melimpah, tentang seluk-beluk masyarakat, dan...
#UWRF23 Festival Highlights | Geraldine Brooks – Horse
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - February 02, 2024 07:12 - 59 minutesFor our next 2023 Festival Live-Recorded highlight conversation, listen to Geraldine Brooks, an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, as she discusses her recent novel 'Horse' with Australian journalist Leigh Sales. Casting fresh light on America's past, her latest novel explores the story o...
#UWRF23 Festival Highlights | Journey to Freedom
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - January 26, 2024 00:27 - 59 minutesIn a compassionate conversation, Cuban American artist Edel Rodriguez, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani, and Indonesian artist Agus Nur Amal (PM Toh) speak of their personal experience as refugees. Appearing in our short clip, Edel Rodriguez talks about hearing Donald Trump in 2015, a...
#UWRF23 Festival Highlights | Women Shaping Indonesian Literature
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - January 19, 2024 06:41 - 58 minutesListen to another of the highlight conversation recorded live from the 2023 Festival featuring Intan Paramaditha, Dee Lestari, and Lala Bohang. These three Indonesian literary powerhouses spearhead the Indonesian literary era, breaking barriers, and paving new paths for future writers. With powe...
#UWRF23 Festival Highlights | Vandana Shiva and 50 Years of Environmental Justice
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - January 12, 2024 07:21 - 1 hourFor our upcoming 2023 Festival live-recorded highlight sessions, hear the highly regarded Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva discuss her five-decade-long fight for environmental justice in India. In conversation with Indonesian forest conservationist Farwiza Farhan, she shares her tireless ef...
#UWRF23 Festival Highlights | Unveiling 'Tri Samaya': Exploring the Essence of Time
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - January 05, 2024 06:32 - 42 minutesThis week, listen to Dr. Ravinjay Kuckreja, Darma Putra, and Sugi Lanus in an extraordinary conversation as they reflect on the 2023 Festival theme. The theme draws inspiration from the profound Balinese concept of ‘Tri Semaya,’ a philosophical view of time as non-linear, circular, and collectiv...
#UWRF23 Festival Highlights | Clashes and Hope: Unpacking the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - December 21, 2023 07:24 - 1 hourJoin us for our second highlighted conversation recorded live from our 20th Anniversary, where our speakers provide an analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Hear from Middle East experts Michael Vatikiotis and Antony Loewenstein as they shed light on a relentless and deadly conflict that...
#UWRF23 Festival Highlights | 20 Years of UWRF: A Reflective Celebration
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - December 15, 2023 05:02 - 1 hourThe time has come, and we'll be bringing you conversations recorded live from our 20th Anniversary. Start your highlight program journey with Festival Founder and Director Janet DeNeefe and some old Festival friends - Toni Pollard, Kadek Purnami, and Festival Manager Dwi Ermayanthi - as they r...
#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | Climate Change in the Austral-Asian Region
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - April 21, 2023 09:01 - 1 hourTo celebrate the birthday of female Indonesian heroine, Raden Adjeng Kartini (1879-1904), who fought for gender equality and the right to education for all, our #UWRF22 Highlight Session will bring you a panel discussion on Women in Fiction. Women throughout history, and even now, face discrimi...
#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | The Causes and Consequences of Disinformation and Misinformation
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - April 14, 2023 02:16 - 59 minutesIt is no secret that politicians wield disinformation as a political tool, to drive people apart and control them. For example, the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar was partly incited by Facebook posts. There were even conspiracy theorists who denied that the COVID-19 pandemic existed, which led to ...
#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | In Conversation with Michael Vatikiotis
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - April 06, 2023 07:19 - 58 minutesEnjoy another one of our #UWRF22 highlight episode sessions with one of the finest Southeast Asian correspondents and private diplomats of our time, Michael Vatikiotis. In a conversation moderated by Janet Steele, Vatikiotis will talk about his new book, Lives Between the Lines: A Journey In Sea...
#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | From Book to Screen
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - March 30, 2023 03:35 - 51 minutesToday, Indonesia celebrates its National Film Day. On March 30, 1950, legendary Indonesian filmmaker Usmar Ismail directed the country’s first full-length feature film produced by a national company. To mark this special occasion, this week’s #UWRF22 Highlight Session will bring you our Main Pr...
#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | Connecting Life With Words: The Women Powering Poetry
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - March 20, 2023 09:37 - 1 hourIn this week’s #UWRF22 Highlight Sessions episode, indulge yourself in an emotional journey alongside three international female poets who share their stories about their creative lives with a celebrated Balinese poet. In the conversation is the female Balinese poet, Kadek Sonia Piscayanti, with...
#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | Speculative Fiction: Exploring Our Future
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - March 16, 2023 01:30 - 51 minutesSpeculative fiction immerses us in a vision of the world that could become true from a plethora of latent possibilities. Speculative fiction uses storytelling as a tool to educate and influence people's perspectives by creating a world that expands on contemporary society. Renowned authors Laura...
#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | Representing Women in Cinema and Popular Culture
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - March 08, 2023 01:36 - 1 hourThis week’s #UWRF22Highlights episode seeks to mark International Women’s Day by featuring a discussion on Women Representation in Cinema and Popular Culture. You can listen to Indonesia’s two prominent female film directors, Nia Dinata and Kamila Andini, as well as female Indonesian visual arti...
#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | Where is Indonesian Art Going
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - March 02, 2023 09:00 - 58 minutesIn the week’s #UWRF22 highlight episode, the Indonesian artist, Saras Dewi, and the Director of Museum MACAN, Aaron Seeto, come together to discuss the journey in tracing the development of contemporary art in Indonesia. Join the Social Affairs Editor, Jewel Topsfield, who is asking questions on...
#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | Combatting Racism through Creative Practice
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - February 23, 2023 10:08 - 1 hourIn this #UWRF22Highlights episode, join Miles Merrill in an important and critical conversation with the Australian Poetry Slam Champion, Huda Fadlelmawla, as well as West Timor-based writer, Felix K. Nesi, and the broadcaster/comedian, Sami Shah. The participants give their unique perspectives ...
#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | Rekindling Dormant Languages
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - February 16, 2023 10:30 - 58 minutesThe 21st of February is International #MotherLanguageDay! To celebrate the power of mother languages, we are presenting another #UWRF22 highlight session. This time, featuring Irish Novelist, Audrey Magee, who’s ‘The Colony’ novel got shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022. As well as the cele...
#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | Music That Defines Us
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - February 09, 2023 09:48 - 59 minutesJoin music editor Lauren Ziegler for a special in-conversation with Meita Kasim, Sally Breen, and Gede Robi. It’ll be a powerful and accessible exploration about music, and its key role in social activism and human rights movements. In this special episode, the three guests share how music has i...
#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | Intellectual Journeys with Brigid Delaney and Eric Weiner
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - February 09, 2023 09:22 - 55 minutesThe third highlight episode features Australian author and columnist, Brigid Delaney, as well as American former foreign correspondent and travel writer, Eric Weiner. In this special meeting of minds, the duo discusses with Gill Westaway their latest works. They also share their perspectives in ...
#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | The Two Sides of the Wellness Industry
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - February 09, 2023 09:14 - 55 minutesListen to an engaging conversation with Huda Fadlelmawla, Bandana Tewari, and Fariha Roisin who share their unique perspectives with Eva Fernandes, on the wellness industry—which has become a multi-billion-dollar business that claims to improve our health, happiness, and longevity! You can list...
#UWRF22 Festival Highlights | In Conversation with Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - February 09, 2023 09:00 - 59 minutesIn this session, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, a scholar of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, who shares her incredible story of survival after being accused of espionage and sentenced to an Iranian jail for 804 days. You can listen to this #UWRF2022 session on Spotify, or watch it on YouTube 👉 http:/...
UWRF21 Podcast | Cities of the People
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - February 16, 2022 02:01 - 59 minutesPassionate about sustainable development, urban spaces and the well-being of his community, Ridwan Kamil is one of Indonesia’s most visionary Governors. With a background in architecture, he believes that cities are for the people to enjoy. Ridwan Kamil talks to Janet DeNeefe about his community ...
UWRF21 Podcast | The Mind of the Children
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast - February 16, 2022 01:58 - 1 hourCyntha Hariadi’s Kokokan Mencari Arumbawangi and Ziggy Zezsyazeoviennazabrizkie’s Di Tanah Lada both focus on the behaviour and thoughts of children. However, they actually touch on a wider issues, including the chaotic relationship between humans and the exploitation of our natural resources. To...
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