Thalia Goldstein (S01E01)
Thalia has a book on theatre education, available for pre-order now, and released officially July 26th.
It is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the Teacher's College Press website.
The book website - TheatreEdMatters.com - will be live in late March/ Early April.
Kathryn Francis (S01E02)
Kathryn is a psychologist and advocate for interdisciplinary research. She is a lecturer at Keele University where she lectures on social/moral psychology and research methods/statistics. Her research interests span topics across moral and social psychology and she is always looking for opportunities to collaborate.
She has considerable experience disseminating her research for both academic and public audiences, and welcomes the opportunity to deliver lectures, talks, and seminars on social, cognitive, and moral psychology.
https://www.kathrynfrancis.com/home
Ethan Landes (S01E02)
Ethan is a SNF postdoc at the University of Zürich on the project "Dual-Character Concepts: Bridging the Descriptive and the Normative" under Kevin Reuter.
His main areas of research are philosophy of language, conceptual engineering, and epistemology. He is currently working on a project exploring experimental conceptual engineering, and a project exploring the methodological underpinnings of the dual character concept literature.
Marc Andersen (S01E03)
Marc Andersen is an Associate Professor at Aarhus University.
Marc’s university profile can be found here: https://www.au.dk/vis/person/mana@cas.au.dk
Marc is co-director of the Recreational Fear Lab: https://cc.au.dk/en/recreational-fear-lab
Tomas Hampejs (S01E04)
Tomas Hampjes is a postdoc at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. He is interested in questions relating to religious cognition and belief, as well as the use of formally modelling of historic questions.
Edgar Dubourg (S01E05)
Edgar Dubourg is doing his PhD in cognitive science at the Département d’études cognitives of the Ecole normale supérieure (ENS-PSL). He is interested in how cognitive adaptations and adaptive sources of variability impact both the universality and the variability of preferences for fictional stories.
Find out more here: https://www.edgardubourg.fr/
Valentin Thouzeau (S01E05)
Valentin is a postdoctoral researcher in the Département d’Études Cognitives, CNRS, Ecole Normale Superieure, PSL Research University.
He studies biological and cultural evolution, with a particular focus on the following themes:
– Languages and genes evolution;
– Psychology of fictions;
– Machine learning and computational statistics;
– Epistemology of interdisciplinary work.
Kellynn Wee (S01E06)
Kellynn Wee is a PhD student in Anthropology at University College London. Her research focuses on play cultures in tabletop role-playing games in Singapore, asking both how and why adults spend so much time making up stories together. Her work examines transmedia storytelling, play materialities and atmospheres, and the moral consequentiality found in play. Part of her work involved making a Southeast Asian climate futures TTRPG called Move Quietly and Tend Things. Her website is here, and her Twitter/X handle is @KellynnWee.
Sean Roberts (S01E07)
Sean is an evolutionary psycholinguist with a multidisciplinary background in linguistics, artificial intelligence, evolution and cognition, and with expertise in both quantitative and qualitative methods. He researches the origins and continuing evolution of languages, and how they adapt to individual cognition, interaction and their wider ecology.
(Links forthcoming)
Tim Knowlton (S01E07)
Tim is an anthropologist interested in cultural aspects of communication, religion and the sciences. As a teacher, he’s passionate about empowering the students in my classes by mentoring them in how to conduct their own original social science research. His research has been with the Maya peoples of southern Mexico and Guatemala. He’s interested in discovering what it is about Maya ideas of communication, the natural world, and the human body that makes verbal chants an essential component of Maya healing alongside the plant remedies they use as treatments
Oliver Morin (S01E08)
Most of Olivier Morin's publications are accessible in open access through his webpage, https://www.oliviermorin.net/
His latest big paper, "the puzzle of ideography", was published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences in 2023 (open access version: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/7pd5m ; paywalled: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/puzzle-of-ideography/26037AC2BA6BDD2703092584E16919BE
Oleg Sobchuck (S01E08)
Oleg is a researcher studying the cultural evolution of arts. He discovers and explains long-term patterns in the history of books, movies, songs, video games, and other art forms. His goal is to help building a theory-driven quantitative history of culture. For this, he analyzes large digital libraries and artistic datasets (such as IMDb or Spotify), use statistical models and text mining.