Love & Its Discontents

Author: Adnan Mahmutovic

Love & Its Discontents is a podcast on the topic of LOVE and LOVE STORIES. Starting with Jeffrey Eugenides's claim, in My Mistress Sparrow is Dead, Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name, the podcast will take you on a journey through literature from antiquity to contemporary stories, wrestling with notions such as romantic love and altruism, deep diving into ecstatic love and solidarity. It asks, Can love be examined like an object? What on earth is love? Where in the world is love? Are we born to love, born with a natural sense of certain things like goodness, and beauty? Is love, like Rumi said, perfect thirst? But most importantly it will follow the question: can there be love without love stories? The host, Adnan Mahmutovi is a Bosnian-Swedish writer and lecturer in English literature and creative writing at Stockholm University. If you have a particular story you want to talk about send us your pitch to: lovediscontents@gmail.com.
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Love & Diapers with Prof Sarah Cramsey
Episode 25
Monday, 19 May, 2025

"i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)" – e.e. cummings Welcome to this episode with the historian Prof. Dr. Sarah Cramsey where we talk about love as that invisible work that constitutes the bulk of human history. Prof. Dr. Sarah Cramsey is the Special Chair for Central European Studies at Leiden University, an Assistant Professor of Judaism & Diaspora Studies, and Director of the Austria Centre Leiden. From 2025-2030, she will be the Principal Investigator of “A Century of Care: Invisible Work and Early Childcare in Central and Eastern Europe, 1905–2004,” or CARECENTURY, a project funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant. She is a historian of central and eastern Europe, the global Jewish experience throughout historical time, and the significant Jewish diasporas unleased from the lands between Berlin and Moscow as a result of the Holocaust, World War II, and postwar events. Her second book is forthcoming with Indiana University Press and is called The Other Holocaust: Care, Children and the Jewish Catastrophe.