#53 Heartland Podcast: Rasmus Boserup & Natasha Lindstaedt

At Heartland 2019, Rasmus Boserup met with Natasha Lindstaedt to discuss the future of democracies and autocracies. In front of a live audience in the festival’s Future Talks tent the two participants present how they view the status of world in terms of separation of power.Rasmus Boserup is the executive director of EuroMed Rights – an organization that represent 80 human rights organizations that focus on strengthening human rights and democracy reforms in Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa.Natascha Lindstaedt is a professor of the University of Essex and is an expert on authoritarian regimes, international development and third world politics.  In this conversation the participants discuss how many places in the world is moving further and further away from democracy and towards a centralization of power.The conversation is a part of Heartland’s Future Talks which are created to invite scientists and theorists into the public conversation and make us all care and take interest in the future.The conversation is moderated by Danish journalist and tv host Clement Kjersgaard.Future Talks was supported by Lundbeckfonden.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Om Podcasten

The Heartland podcast primarily features live conversations from the festival’s talks program and is an initiative created to focus on the future that we already live in. Heartland’s ambition is to engage its guests in the world by creating a contemporary cultural platform where people can gain new perspectives on the transformation and development of our world.Heartland’s talks program has established itself as one of the most esteemed stages for live conversations in Northern Europe and has hosted some of the world’s greatest minds and artists since its start in 2016. Among others, Sir Salman Rushdie, Angela Davis, Marina Abramović, Brian Eno, Margaret Atwood, Slavoj Žižek, Werner Herzog, PJ Harvey, Michael Stipe, Tracey Emin, Jonathan Franzen, Vivienne Westwood, Judith Butler, Douglas Coupland, David Shrigley, Kim Gordon, Joshua Oppenheimer, Bjarke Ingels, and Olafur Eliasson have been a part of the talks program. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.