Podcasts and Videos on ICD

The Center for Intercultural Dialogue serves as a clearinghouse in multiple ways; one is to provide links to sites that publish podcasts or videos on topics related to intercultural dialogue. A few examples are shown below – please email suggestions for others, providing links to websites.


My Bilingual Family is a podcast series with 7 episodes from SBS Australia. Join host Dr Elaine Laforteza to hear the stories of families struggling with passing on language, and get helpful advice and practical tips from experts including speech pathologists and linguists.


The Table is a podcast from Intercultural Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, intended to unpack questions regarding race, ethnicity, culture, norms, and current events.


Love Premam Kaadhal is a podcast about intercultural love, communication, and one couple’s journey to gain a better understanding of each other’s cultures.


Adichie, C.N. (2009). The danger of a single story. July 2009, TEDGlobal2009, Oxford.


UNESCO Crossings Institute for Conflict-Sensitive Reporting and Intercultural Dialogue, University of Oregon, brings together 2 different pursuits: intercultural and inter-religious dialogue and conflict-sensitive journalism to produce a series of podcasts.


Lisbon Forum 2021. Intercultural dialogue against misinformation and disinformation. Break Your Bubble. This episode answers the question, ‘How we can prompt innovative formats for intercultural dialogue online and offline to contain the spread of the infodemic?’
It looks at intercultural dialogue as a tool to combat mis- and disinformation online, as well as hate speech.


TV2 All that We Share (Denmark) A brief (3 minute) brilliant demonstration of how easy it can be to show people what they share with those they usually think of as Other.


Tales from a Multicultural Classroom. JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland. (Student prepared videos on intercultural communication topics.)


Kumar, Nish. (15 February 2018). The Mash Report, Series 1, Episode 5. (A funny but all too true section on immigration starts at 11:24 and ends at 16:32.)


Coffee and Cocktails: Podcast for Researchers, a project of ETE: Exploration Through Education, founded and edited by by Ann Wand of the University of Oxford, has several episodes related to intercultural dialogue:  Episode 3: Translanguaging in Senegal; Episode 5: The use of Camfranglais amongst the diaspora.


Ramsey, Francesca. (2018). Will multiracial kids end racism? MTV Decoded. (One of a series of podcasts addressing a wide range of questions having to do with race and other uncomfortable topics in a bright, cheerful, and clearly stated manner.)


Identibuzz. (“an inclusive activity in which different cultures can intermingle and experience the dynamics of a collaborative exercise, and can express themselves and get their opinions across, from their own points of view, creating a shared story about their reality and identities.”)


Lorenzo, Rocio. (2017). How diversity makes teams more innovative. Ted Talks. (A study of 171 companies showed that “more diverse companies are simply more innovative,” but only with 20% or more diverse employees.)


Migration Matters (Germany) produces “bite-sized video courses” on migration topics.


Lozada-Oliva, Melissa. (2015). My Spanish. Button Poetry. (Brilliant discussion of bilingualism, with a focus on heritage Spanish.)


Code Switch: Race in Your Face. National Public Radio. (“a team of journalists fascinated by the overlapping themes of race, ethnicity and culture, how they play out in our lives and communities, and how all of this is shifting”; provides thoughtful dialogues about race/ethnicity/otherness).


Baum, Noa. (2018). Beyond labels: Bridging differences through storytelling. (When Israeli-born Noa Baum moved to the U.S. and unexpectedly formed a friendship with a Palestinian woman, she realized the importance of listening to the story of the Other – even if that Other is the enemy.)


In Jerusalem, a chorus for peace. Great Big Story. (The YMCA Jerusalem Youth Chorus brings together Israeli and Palestinian teens to create music and promote dialogue.)


Black Violin. (2015). Stereotypes. VEVO. (A wonderful demonstration of how to destroy stereotypes by playing against typecasting.)


Absolutely Intercultural (Denmark and Germany based) podcast about all things intercultural with over 250 episodes so far.


Newton, T. (2011). Embracing otherness, embracing myself. July 2011, TEDGlobal2011.


Close Up: Empowering a community through Participatory Action Research (a Prezi from Uganda)


Bautista, Adrian. (2012). So where’s home? A film about third culture kid identity. Senior Thesis, Georgetown University.


Interculture TV (Germany) dedicated to topics on intercultural communication.


Fabrica (Italy) hosted the workshop “Peace and Intercultural Dialogue”, in 2010.


Lifeswap (New Zealand) documents differences between NZ and German cultural norms in a series of animated videos.


Near FM (Ireland) includes Culture Shots #61 Intercultural Dialogue through Community Media as well as a 10-part series on the same topic.


The Global Mom Show (USA) calls itself “The Podcast for Moms with Global Worldviews.”


Uncertainties & Epiphanies: Making Multiculturalism (Canada) is a film about people’s everyday intercultural encounters in Canada.


Zukar (Germany from the perspective of a Syrian refugee, Firas Alshater)

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