Heartland Podcast: Loretta Napoleoni & Jill Byrnit
This conversation that took place at Heartland in 2017. It’s called On War Tourism.The conversation is between Loretta Napoleoni and Jill Byrnit. Napoleoni is an Italian author and journalist and an expert on terrorism and how modern terrorist organisations are funded or financed. Jill Byrnit is a Danish primatologist which makes her an expert on (human) apes and an expert on evolutionary and anthropological psychology.War tourism means that people are paying a lot of money to be transported to dangerous places on earth; war zones, places of terror or places with political conflict. They do this without professional gain. In this talk the two participants discuss and explain the meaning of this type of tourism; the psychological aspects, how it works and the consequences of it.The talk is moderated by author, journalist and political advisor Jakob Sheikh. 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.