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Conversations with expats and locals in Brussels on their stories and ideas about the world. We discuss politics, global issues, AI, business, technology, society, ethics, religion, communication, marketing, psychology, self-discovery and more, to understand the world beyond…
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#47: China's Innovation Playbook; Bottom-Up Tech; Directed Autonomy; Going Global (opens the original)
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In this conversation, sinologist and keynote speaker PascalCoppens discusses his book China’sNext Miracle and argues that most Western coveragefocuses too much on top-down politics while missing bottom-up forcesshaping China’s innovation. Pascal gives a detailed explanation ofhow China is engineering its way out of problems like the real-estatebubble, why technology is viewed as a positive societal upgrade, andhow “digitally enhanced directed autonomy” enables decentralizedexperimentation in gov
#46: “South Woman” in North Korea: being undocumented US childhood to North Korea work. (opens the original)
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Sun shares how she was born in the US andkept moving frequently as the child of undocumented parents. Once she was detained in Maryland, separated from her parents and placed with a foster family, then deported to Seoul at age eight. She describes adapting to Korea’s communalculture, the intense education-and-work ethos of the 1980s -90s, and later returning to the US for Rutgers and graduate school before working as a translator/interpreter and adjunct professor. A 2011–12 Associated Press assi
#45: Political Persuasion; Social Change; Cognitive Dissonance; Changing Minds (opens the original)
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Don’t Talk About Politics (Just Yet): Building Real Political Agency In this episode of Beyond the Bubble, Andras Baneth speaks with author and public intellectual Sarah Stein Lubrano (https://www.sarahsteinlubrano.com/) about her book Don’t Talk About Politics and why political opinions rarely change through words, debates, or exposure to ideas alone. Drawing on her background in Washington, DC, her work at The School of Life, and a PhD on cognitive dissonance, she argues politics is rooted in
#44: Acting; Authenticity; Storytelling; Psychology; The Human Connection (opens the original)
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In this episode of Beyond the Bubble, Andras welcomes Edward McMillan, founder of the Brussels Shakespeare Society, actor, director, and theatre producer, for a conversation about storytelling, performance, psychology, and the role theatre plays in helping us better understand ourselves and one another. Edward begins by sharing the journey of building an English-language theatre community in Brussels from the ground up,reflecting on the challenges of creating a cultural institution, attracting a
#43: Why Holocaust Education Matters; Truth Distortion; Yad Vashem; Memory & Preservation (opens the original)
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In this episode of Beyond the Bubble , Andras welcomes Dani Dayan , Chairman of Yad Vashem , Israel’s World Holocaust Remembrance Center, for a thoughtful conversation about Holocaust remembrance, historical truth, education, and the growing challenge of preserving history in the 21st centuryand post-7 October 2023 world. Dani explains why Yad Vashem is far more than a museum, serving as one of the world’s leading institutions for Holocaustresearch, education, preservation, and documentation. He
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