https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/podcasts/ In this podcast mini-series, staff and students from the School for Cross-faculty Studies delve into some of the critical global challenges facing today's world. Each episode tackles a particular one of these challenges but selects an interdisciplinary lens through which to tackle this problem. en-GB (C) 2026 University of Warwick Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:06:42 GMT Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:26:26 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jess Brett webteam@warwick.ac.uk (ITS Web Team, University of Warwick) SiteBuilder 2, ITS Web Team, University of Warwick, http://go.warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder2 Global Sustainable Development GSD Liberal Arts podcast webteam@warwick.ac.uk Jess Brett Jess Brett no Global Sustainable Development, GSD, Liberal Arts, podcast Podcasts In this podcast mini-series, staff and students from the School for Cross-faculty Studies delve into some of the critical global challenges facing today's world. Each episode tackles a particular one of these challenges but selects an interdisciplinary lens through which to tackle this problem. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/podcasts/podcast_icon.gif -1 -1 https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/podcasts/episode_3_-_apocalypse.mp3 The end of the world as we know it? Apocalyptic language and visions seem to surround us on daily basis, from AI to Zombies. Why are we fascinated with such ideas? And how can interdisciplinary approaches help to design solutions in the event of a partial, or total, collapse of global civilisation. Dr Gavin Schwartz-Leeper (Deputy Head of School and Director of Student Experience, Liberal Arts) and Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins (Senior Teaching Fellow, Global Sustainable Development) discuss. Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:26:26 GMT Linus Pardoe https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/podcasts/?podcastItem=episode_3_-_apocalypse.mp3 Linus Pardoe no The end of the world as we know it? Apocalyptic language and visions seem to surround us on daily basis, from AI to Zombies. Why are we fascinated with such ideas? And how can interdisciplinary approaches help to design solutions in the event of a partial, or total, collapse of global civilisation. Dr Gavin Schwartz-Leeper (Deputy Head of School and Director of Student Experience, Liberal Arts) and Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins (Senior Teaching Fellow, Global Sustainable Development) discuss. The end of the world as we know it? Apocalyptic language and visions seem to surround us on daily basis, from AI to Zombies. Why are we fascinated with such ideas? And how can interdisciplinary approaches help to design solutions in the event of a partial, or total, collapse of global civilisation. Dr Gavin Schwartz-Leeper (Deputy Head of School and Director of Student Experience, Liberal Arts) and Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins (Senior Teaching Fellow, Global Sustainable Development) discuss. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/podcasts/episode_2_-_human_rights_2.1.mp3 How has the Caribbean and Latin America made a unique contribution to the development of universal human rights? Students on the GSD module "Human Rights and Social Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean" join Dr Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla (Global Sustainable Development) to discuss rights violations from the Cold War to the present day. Are human rights bankrupt? Or can they play a core role in achieving sustainable development? Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:59:52 GMT Linus Pardoe https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/podcasts/?podcastItem=episode_2_-_human_rights_2.1.mp3 Linus Pardoe no How has the Caribbean and Latin America made a unique contribution to the development of universal human rights? Students on the GSD module "Human Rights and Social Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean" join Dr Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla (Global Sustainable Development) to discuss rights violations from the Cold War to the present day. Are human rights bankrupt? Or can they play a core role in achieving sustainable development? How has the Caribbean and Latin America made a unique contribution to the development of universal human rights? Students on the GSD module "Human Rights and Social Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean" join Dr Stephanie Panichelli-Batalla (Global Sustainable Development) to discuss rights violations from the Cold War to the present day. Are human rights bankrupt? Or can they play a core role in achieving sustainable development? https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/podcasts/episode_1_-_sustainability.mp3 Is sustainability really a new idea? What do we mean by education for sustainable development? And how can we create a more sustainable world for all? Dr Bryan Brazeau (Senior Teaching Fellow, Liberal Arts) and Dr Alastair Smith (Senior Teaching Fellow, Global Sustainable Development) discuss the origins of the sustainability discourse, tracing its surprising history through to our current understanding of sustainable development. Tue, 11 Dec 2018 10:40:51 GMT Linus Pardoe https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/podcasts/?podcastItem=episode_1_-_sustainability.mp3 Linus Pardoe no Is sustainability really a new idea? What do we mean by education for sustainable development? And how can we create a more sustainable world for all? Dr Bryan Brazeau (Senior Teaching Fellow, Liberal Arts) and Dr Alastair Smith (Senior Teaching Fellow, Global Sustainable Development) discuss the origins of the sustainability discourse, tracing its surprising history through to our current understanding of sustainable development. Is sustainability really a new idea? What do we mean by education for sustainable development? And how can we create a more sustainable world for all? Dr Bryan Brazeau (Senior Teaching Fellow, Liberal Arts) and Dr Alastair Smith (Senior Teaching Fellow, Global Sustainable Development) discuss the origins of the sustainability discourse, tracing its surprising history through to our current understanding of sustainable development.