In today's episode, I will be joined by Anna Gvelesiani to discuss her new article: *Mothers, Daughters and Language*. As a Georgian immigrant in Germany, the author explores her relationship with her language in parallel with her relationship to her mother. The article also deals with questions of assimilation and cultural identity.

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In today's episode I will be reading my own article: Snakes and ladders. This article is the introduction to our ongoing Nostalgia in the periphery series. This is a series of articles we launched at the start of the decade to investigate whether it could be possible to construct a collective peripheral memory. Every article in the series questions the relationship between identity and memory and what it means to feel nostalgic in the peripheral world. We are also very much interested in hearing from our readers about their own experiences nostalgia.

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In today's episode we will be joined by one of our regular contributors Robin Asbury, to talk about her recent article *Where are the Ati in the Ati-Atihan?* In this article, Robin introduces a yearly festival in the Aklan province of the Philippines called Ati-Atihan. The article interrogates the tradition of blackface involved in the celebration of the festival and sets it against multiple backdrops of global histories of anti-blackness.

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In today's episode we will be joined by Sharanya Deepak to talk about her article: Delhi's Kebabs: The Taste of Memory. In this article Sharanya explores the modesty of kebabs and sets it against the backdrop of Delhi's narrative of itself. In doing so she pulls the centre-periphery relationship that defines her native city.

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In today's episode we will be joined by Anna Gvelesiani to talk about her article, A Family Matter: Charlie Hebdo and French Fantasies of Collective Trauma. Although Anna wrote the article over a year ago, the issue has gained new significance recently by the magazine's decision to republish the offending Mohammed Cartoon from 2015. In today's discussion we will examine whether the "Je Suis Charlie" movement has lost steam. We will also question narratives which seek to defend racist humour by placing it within a specialised context of French satirical history.

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In today's episode, we will be joined by N. Azavedo to discuss her article *The Circulation of Objects: Exploitation in the Digital Age*. Where she explores the political problems of heritage preservation in online environments. Since our subject is heritage we will inevitably touch on local problems in heritage-related controversies. Particularly within the context of Babri Masjid in India and Hagia Sophia in Turkey.

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In this episode of our podcast in cooperation with Root radio we are joined with Joey Ayoub to talk about his upcoming article for Mangal Media about the harbour explosion in Beirut.

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In this episode we are joined by Sarah Shamim to talk about her two recent articles Is Kareena Kapoor More Iconic than Rachel McAdams and Never Have I Ever Seen so Much Representation.

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We are joined with Elia Rathore to talk about her article Fading Sweetness a Farsi Story in Pakistan.

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ROOT ile ortak hazırladığımız programımızda, Pınar Üzeltüzenci ile Ekofaşizm’i konuşuyoruz.

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Mangal Medya'nın Root Radio üzerinden yaptığı bu ilk yayında, konuğumuz Zeynep Beler ile, hüzün kelimesini, Orhan Pamuğu ve "Ankara tipi rafları" değerlendiriyoruz. Zeynep Beler’in A Case for Ten Turkish Words More Captivating than Hüzün isimli yazısını sayfamızdan okuyabilirsiniz.

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