"A Studio On The Atlantic" brings together two pioneering universities in creative writing on both sides of the Atlantic: Université Paris 8 in France and the University of Iowa in the US. During four years, student-writers from these three universities write and produce literary podcasts. After a first series in 2023 on the theme of "Sense of belonging", this season is focused on "Soulèvements/Uprising". A production by Frictions and R22 Tout-Monde, made possible with the support of L’École Universitaire de Recherche ArTeC, The Villa Albertine Foundation and the U.S. Embassy in France.
A Studio On The Atlantic
The Struggle of the Glaciers
An ever-racing pursuit of profit and the conquest of nature, some sought to build an additional cable car on a retreating glacier. In response, others mobilized, occupying the glacier for days—despite the hardship, the cold, and the repression. Paul tells their story.
Invisible Cities
Sarah uses the occasion of recent discoveries in the Upper Amazon to reflect on how we imagine "the wild," weaving together imperial, scientific, and indigenous histories to explore how the natural world can resist our attempts to silence it.
After the Sorbonne Nouvelle blockade, the awakening of the collective
In the current political climate and the urgent need to be mobilised, Adil looks back at his first experience of resistance: the blockade of the Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2018.
Motherhood
In a world where work shapes our lives and motherhood remains an invisible struggle, how do we decide when it’s time to give life? Through personal narratives and societal pressures, Jenny reflects on choices, sacrifices, and what truly shapes our desires.
Oleander
From Jaffa to Paris, Darya traverses landscapes and eras where the shadows of the past mingle with echoes of a childhood shaped by the sea and conflict.
The Usurped Struggle of the Farming World
They block highways, but who truly understands them? Farmers, caught between pastoral clichés and harsh realities, feed us while crying out that it’s killing them—their struggles erased by unions that fail to represent them. Aliosha, born on the Larzac plateau but now a city dweller, questions this distance, where the hum of tractors conceals what really matters.