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In this two-part episode of the EUTERPE Podcast, doctoral candidate Uthara Geetha (University of Oviedo) speaks with Professor Birgit Kaiser (Utrecht University) about her second monograph "Hélène Cixous's Poetics of Voice: Echo - Subjectivity – Diffraction."

Prof. Kaiser reveals how Hélène Cixous’s poetic fictions perform a radical, anti-essentialist model of subjectivity as “voice”– one that emerges not from a closed individual but from a ceaseless echo of other beings, places, and times. Kaiser introduces the concept of “echology” (ecology with a silent *h*) to reframe Cixous’s much-debated “feminine writing” as a material, relational, and deeply situated mode of becoming that includes the dead, the non-human, and the absent. Through a diffractive reading that thinks with Cixous rather than merely about her, this podcast shows how her work offers a timely, decolonial, and eco-logical path for reimagining selfhood, solidarity, and critique in the twenty-first century.

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https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/h%C3%A9l%C3%A8ne-cixous%2C-echo%2C-subjectivity%2C-diffraction-(part-1)%3A-a-conversation-with-professor-birgit-kaiser-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1FzWwCVNFk

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In this episode of the EUTERPE podcast library, host Tamara Cvetković engages in a wide-ranging conversation with Olja Alvir, a multifaceted literary scholar, writer, translator, and journalist who examines the complexities of identity and migration.

Born in Yugoslavia before moving to Austria in 1992, Alvir discusses her academic "excavation" of early Yugoslav partisan films to reveal their artistic value. She reflects on her position as a writer in exile whose homeland no longer exists, and the linguistic friction of navigating between German, English, and Serbo-Croatian (BCMS). Alvir candidly recounts the challenges of being a working-class woman in the male-dominated field of physics—a "heartbreak" that eventually led her toward a career in journalism, poetry, and fiction, where she now uses scientific concepts as raw material for her writing.

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https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/sparkly-pearls-in-the-dustbin-of-literature-%E2%80%93-in-conversation-with-olja-alvir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJRSf_3Wcu4

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In this podcast, doctoral candidate Evangeline Scarpulla (Eva Scarpulla) speaks with translator Marta Olivi (Marta Olivi). During the conversation we discuss Marta’s four major English to Italian translation projects: "Canta Ancora, Ragazza" (2022), a translation of Jacqueline Roy’s "The Fat Lady Sings" (2000); "L’Antropocene Inconscio" (2022), a translation of Mark Bould’s "The Anthropocene Unconscious" (2021); "Paradiso Terrestre" (2024), a translation of Laura Vandenberg’s "State of Paradise" (2024); and selected poems from Molly Brodak's "The Cipher" (2020). Olivi also talks about her approach to translation work, the intersections between translation and academic research, and the importance of translation in today's transnational literary landscape. We hope that you enjoy listening to this podcast.

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https://www.euterpeproject.eu/podcast-library-1/a-conversation-with-marta-olivi-on-translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj-SlByyJCk&t=371s