Podcasts

Whether you're a student thirsting for knowledge, a professional seeking new perspectives or simply curious and eager to learn, our podcasts offer you privileged access to the collective intelligence of Sciences Po. Each episode is an invitation to reflect, question and broaden your horizons, because at Sciences Po, critical thinking and innovation are our watchwords.

So fasten your headphones, get ready to be inspired, and dive into a collection of podcasts that challenge the boundaries of thought. Get ready to discover the ideas that will change the world, because at Sciences Po, the voice of knowledge resonates loud and clear across the airwaves. Welcome to our sound universe where thought comes to life and ideas shape the future! 

What keeps you up at night?

What goes on in the heads of leaders faced with the world's major challenges? What keeps them up at night? How do they fall asleep when they have so much responsibility? How do they get to sleep when there is so much at stake? What gives them insomnia?  

International leaders and decision makers are invited into the studios of the Sciences Po School of Journalism. We believe that students will be able to hear their voice and be inspired now and in the future.

The podcast is available on Spotify, Podcast Addict, Deezer and Amazon Music.

DebtTalks

How do countries incur in debt? And why does debt become unsustainable? How debt crises are triggered, and how a small nation managed to bring the Euro area on the edge of collapse? I am Paola Subacchi, and this is DebtTalks, the podcast of Sciences Po Chair in Sovereign Debt and Finance. With my guests I’ll be discussing the economics and politics of debt, exploring past and current episodes of debt distress, examining legal controversies, and much more. Join us for the latest insights and stay tuned on DebtTalks.

The podcast is available on Spotify, Podcast Addict and Deezer.

Conversations with Sergei Guriev

Do you want to understand better the change that is happening in our societies and to our societies? The environmental transformation, the digital transformation, the challenges to our democracies coming from populism and authoritarian leaders, the rise of inequalities discrimination, globalisation,  the return of History in geopolitics? Sciences Po faculty is conducting frontier research on these issues. This is why we start this podcast on Sciences Po Research where Sergei Guriev Provost of Sciences Po will talk to our researchers.

The podcast is available on Apple Podcast, Podcast Addict.  

Sans transition (in French)

A podcast about ecological transformation. 

How do you grow up, find your place and look to the future when the planet is burning? How can you find your place when you are aware of the climate crisis? Young students about to enter the job market are faced with these questions. This is what prompted Sciences Po to create an "Ecological Culture" course, an intensive week to give students the keys to thinking, deciding and moving the situation forward.

The podcast is available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Podcast Addict and Deezer.

Les grandes conférences (in French), Sciences Po is the place to speak

Sciences Po offers everyone easy access to its world of research, ideas and debates.

In this podcast, you can listen to the great voices that speak and have spoken at Sciences Po during the hundreds of events (conferences, inaugural lectures, master classes, etc.) organised each year, and find the keys to understanding the issues that are shaking our societies.

The podcast is available on Apple Podcast, Podcast Addict.

Dans l’atelier des historiens (in French)

The Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po invites you to enter In the historians' workshop, a podcast that shares the research produced at the CHSP.

During their investigations and research, historians may have a special encounter with a source that irrevocably marks a “before” and “after”. This source may be a written, audio or visual document, but also an oral testimony, an event or even a human encounter. Whatever its format and nature, it is or has been decisive in the research trajectory of our guest.

The podcast is available on Spotify, Deezer and Podcast Addict

Genre, ETC. (in French), our gender studies podcast

Genre et cetera is the podcast of PRESAGE, Sciences Po’s Gender Studies programme. In short episodes, the microphone is turned over to researchers in the fields of humanities and social sciences.

The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podcast Addict and Deezer.

Objets Trouvés (in French), How an object of research is created

In this podcast from the Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (Sciences Po / CNRS), find out about the work carried out by our sociologists, political scientists and historians, who will tell you about their research objects, i.e. the questions they have sought to answer in order to gain a better understanding of the society in which we live.

The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podcast Addict and Deezer.

Sciences Po & l’Afrique (in French), All about Sciences Po and Africa

Chut! The podcast that makes noise in the library (in French)

30 minutes long, Chut! The podcast that makes noise in the library takes the form of a magazine: hosted by 2 librarians, Myriam and Sophie, each episode is based on a discussion between students and guests on a topic that concerns and interests you, with student recommendations via a microtrottoir and a portrait of a librarian.  

The podcast is available on Spotify, Soundcloud, Podcast Addict, Deezer, Amazon Music and Apple

En mode impact (in French)

Created by Sciences Po's Impact Studio, the En mode impact podcast highlights a generation in search of meaning, which goes beyond the urgent situation and acts for a fairer and more sustainable world.

In each episode, a Sciences Po student trained at the School of Management and Impact talks to a guest, entrepreneur, researcher, leader or committed expert. Together, they explore a major challenge of our time — ecological transition, sustainable canteens, social innovation, gender equality, eco-responsible events, defending democracy — and the concrete solutions that respond to them.

What motivated them to get involved? What solutions are they implementing? How do they overcome contradictions? And above all: how can we measure this famous ‘impact’?

The podcast is available on Spotify, Podcast Addict, Deezer, Amazon Music and Apple