culture. education. literary studies.
In this instalment of my monthly listening tips, Iโd like to share a few podcasts and radio programmes on the subject of Norse mythology. If you donโt know much about it, some of them will serve as a good introduction to the topic, while others go deeper into very specific aspects of the Norse culture.
In this blog post Iโll present several English-language podcast series on an often discussed but much-misunderstood topic: autism. (As a bonus, Iโve also included a few podcasts in German.) To say that autism is often misunderstood is a major understatement: diagnostic criteria constantly shift and evolve, as does the terminology around ASD (the autism spectrum …
Neurodiversity is a relatively new term, used to refer to diversity in cognitive functioning. As with other aspects of human experience, it was long assumed that there is such a thing as โnormalโ within a given culture; everything outside the norm was (in many places still is), met with stigmatisation and intolerance. Neurodivergent people have …
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