Dr. Greg Beaman recently successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at Georgetown University. He is an historian of Atlantic Slavery and has written about urban development, built environment, and spatiality in 18th and 19th century New Orleans.

Eduardo Prado Cardoso is a PhD student at Catolica Lisboa. He was a scriptwriter in Brazil and studied cinema. Eduardo is interested in how news and visual storytelling creates a narrative of crimes, especially violent crimes, and how this representation can be sensationalized. We spoke to him as the second interview in a two-part live session at Curious Monkey Cultural Association in Lisbon, Portugal. Originally published Apr 2023

Linda Koncz is a PhD student at Catolica Lisboa, and turned in her thesis literally the day she spoke with us live at Curious Monkey Cultural Association in Lisbon, Portugal.

Linda has always been obsessed with dreams. She originally studied cinema, and started interviewing people about their dreams when she got her first camera.

Originally published Apr 2023

Kim Albrecht is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Potsdam in the field of media theory. As a knowledge designer and aesthetic researcher, Kim explores the boundaries of visual knowledge in the post-digital age. We’ll be talking about his research and its implications, and ask him why you’d call him if somebody said, “Somebody Call a Doctor!”
Kim’s Website:
https://kimalbrecht.com/
Twitter: kimay
Instagram: kimfalbrecht
Projects we talked about:
Cosmic Web
Structure of Local Governments
Critical Reflections of the Machine:
Artificial Senses

Distinction Machine
Books to Read:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/all-data-are-local
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/data-feminism

Farhan Hasan is a PhD student at New Mexico State University, where his research focuses on how galaxies form and evolve, and what it means for us here on earth. We’ll be talking about his research and its implications, and ask him why you’d call him if somebody said, “Somebody Call a Doctor!”

More Information on Farhan available at his website: http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/farhasan/

Sadie Menicanin is PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, where her research focuses on historical musicology and the intersection of music and visual culture, and how music can create metaphorical spaces in opera and other mediums.

We’ll be talking about her research and its implications, and ask her why you’d call her if somebody said, “Somebody Call a Doctor!”

Originally published Jul 2019

Dr. Seim is postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, where she collaborates with Allison Okamura and Maarten Lansberg. She received her PhD in Computing from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where her dissertation focused on wearable computing and motor skill training. She has been recognized for her work by the National Science Foundation, Microsoft Research and Google. Her research interests include technology-based treatments for motor disabilities, haptic training to enhance skill acquisition, brain-computer interfaces and the next generation of human-integrated electronics.

We’ll be talking about her research and its implications, and ask her why you’d call her if somebody said, “Somebody Call a Doctor!”

Originally published Jun 2019

Rob Christensen is a PhD candidate in History at Georgetown. His research focuses on studying indigenous people in South America and understanding how the environment and man-made conflict impacted the socioeconomic order in their communities. We’ll be talking about his research and its implications, and ask him why you’d call him if somebody said, “Somebody Call a Doctor!”

*Please note that Rob mentions the date of independence for Argentina as 1806, but meant to say 1808.

Originally published Apr 2019