Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Podcast
If you missed a moment of enlightenment or entertainment at this year’s Anniversary Festival, we’ve got you covered. Our 2023 festival highlights program brings a collection of captivating conversations by local and international Festival guests directly to your home. With lively talks and reflections aimed at understanding the past, our present, and how our words and actions shape the future.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 140
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
UWRF21 Podcast | Indonesian Women Storytellers
Muna Masyari, Ramayda Akmal, and Tias Yuliana present the dark reality of women in traditional customs and modern utopias. Their novels show the multiple layers of female characters as well as their …
01:00:00 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Sustainable Design
Popo Danes is a Balinese architect, who creates distinctive tropical resorts harmonious with nature and reflect Balinese aesthetics. Anneke van Waesberghe creates sustainable luxury tented villas tha…
00:59:24 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Can the Komodo Dragon Survive?
Indonesia’s Komodo dragon, the world’s largest lizard, is facing extinction. Global warming, rising sea levels and human activity have shrunk their habitat on the island of Flores, making them geneti…
00:53:30 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | What It Means to Be a Refugee
The Committed is Viet Thanh Nguyen’s much-anticipated follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning, The Sympathizer. It shows the United States of America and France through the eyes of a Vietnamese refug…
00:51:40 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment
In Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment, Ahmet T. Kuru argues that Muslims were philosophically and socioeconomically more developed than Western Europeans between the 9th to twelfth centuri…
00:45:56 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Back to Ubud
Since the pre-colonial era, Ubud has been an oasis of rich artistic expression and creativity. The Covid-19 pandemic continues to bring changes to various aspects of local life. At a time when Ubud i…
00:59:44 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Bringing History to Today
History often becomes the inspiration for multiple literary works. Interpretation of events, along with mixing facts and fiction to compose new stories, become a challenging playroom for writers. Lis…
00:59:13 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | It's Alright to Not Be Alright
Mental health issues do not get the same attention and understanding as other health issues. They are often considered as individual problems, and not a cultural and social effect. Those who struggle…
01:00:14 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Writing in a Time of Conflict
“Life here is poetry blown into pieces and scattered all over the place.” Join Mohammed Moussa as he speaks about life in Gaza, his motivation for founding the Gaza Poets Society and his debut poetry…
00:49:52 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | The Carrying
In The Carrying, Ada Limón “does not ignore the world’s cruelties but tries not to be held hostage by them,” according to the Guardian. The collection of poems captures ambiguous moments between the …
00:44:12 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | The Silent Singing from Toili
From Toili, an area in Banggai Regency, Central Sulawesi, Eva Bande echoed the call for environmental concern and welfare of farmers as they were increasingly being eroded by the exploitative interes…
00:44:44 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | A Portrait of Islam in Java
George Quinn’s Wali Berandal Tanah Jawa presents a stunning portrait of Islam in Java; a phenomenon that often gone unnoticed by journalists, scientists, and tourists. Join him as he dives deep benea…
00:43:42 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Islands of Abandonment
What happens to wildlife when humans have retreated to certain places because of conflict or disaster? Cal Flyn’s Islands on Abandonment brings together some of the most desolate ghost towns and excl…
00:45:10 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Mulat Sarira: Self Reflection
Mulat Sarira is a Balinese philosophy that invites us to reflect on various aspects of ourselves and broader humanity, such as our relationship with the environment, society and the spiritual. It bec…
00:57:22 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Chiribiquete of the Colombian Amazon. A world in one world
In his recent book “Chiribiquete: The Cosmic Maloka of the Jaguar Men”, Carlos Castano-Uribe shares his research of more than 30 years of the Chiribiquete National Park, a biodiversity hotspot and si…
01:00:28 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | The Many Faces of Gender in Literature
The freedom of gender expression and fluidity continues to face challenges throughout times. Art and literature is widely considered as moderate fluid spaces that create spaces for openness to the is…
01:03:19 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Bamboo Visionaries
Elora Hardy is the creative genius behind IBUKU, an architectural company that constructs breath-taking bamboo structures. Arief Rabik is the force behind Indonesia’s Environmental Bamboo Foundation …
01:01:01 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | The Animals in That Country
Described as a unique, brave piece of work that speaks to our world at this time, Laura Jean Mackay’s award-winning novel, The Animals in That Country, takes us on an extraordinary journey of specula…
00:44:28 |
Tue 15 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Our Final Warning
In Our Final Warning, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set for Earth over the next century and beyond. He delivers a vital account of the likely consequences of global heating and the ensuing c…
00:45:54 |
Tue 15 Feb 2022
UWRF21 Podcast | Ethical Tourism Post Pandemic
As one of the most fearless defenders of Balinese culture and people, designer Niluh Djelantik is on a mission to build better tourism in the island post-pandemic. She has been actively supporting sm…
01:19:00 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
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