Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures

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• The Greek Herbalist with Maria Christodoulou 27.05.2026 27мин

  In this episode Jason König interviews Maria Christodoulou about her work as a herbalist and about the mountain plants of Greece. Maria is a clinical herbalist. She runs ancient herbal medicine courses and herbal tours around Greece. Her book Herbs of Greece: Four Seasons of Ancient Plants for Modern Health is forthcoming with Timber Press in 2027. You can see more about Maria's work at her website. We talk first about Maria's experience of moving to Greece as an adult, encountering a landsca...
• Under the Forest with Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou 20.05.2026 33мин

  In this episode Jason König interviews Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou about his work as a landscape archaeologist in the mountainous region of Zagori in northwest Greece. Faidon is Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher in the Computational Archaeology Research Group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, working on a project entitled ‘Under the Forest’. His 2022 book, The Early Modern Zagori of Northwest Greece offers a very wide-ranging reassessment of the landscape archaeology of the region i...
• Lifelines with Julian Hoffman 13.05.2026 1ч

  In this episode Jason König interviews Julian Hoffman about living in the mountainous region of Prespa in northern Greece, and about his latest project on the Aoos river. Julian is the prize-winning author of The Small Heart of Things (2012), Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save our Wild Places(2019), and most recently Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece (2025), which tells the story of his move to Prespa, where he has lived for the last two decades. We start by talking...
• Boundary stones of Mt Taygetos with Socrates Koursoumis 22.04.2026 29мин

  In this episode Jason König interviews Socrates Koursoumis about his archaeological work in the mountains of Greece, especially on Mount Taygetos. Socrates is an archaeologist of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. He has been a staff member of the Central Department of the Ministry, as well as the Ephorates of Lesbos, Attica, Elia, Messenia and the Corinthia. He has undertaken several excavations in Attica, the Peloponnese, the Aegean islands, and Crete, and carried out three surveys at Lavreo...
• History of the Pindus with Molly Greene 15.04.2026 32мин

  In this episode Jason König interviews Molly Greene about her research on the history of the Pindus mountains in Ottoman Greece, from 1400-1821. Molly is Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. Her research has focused on many different aspects of the history of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire, and the Greek world. Her interests include the social and economic history of the Ottoman Empire, the experience of Greeks under Ottoman rule and the early modern...
• Paths of Greece with Fivos Tsaravopoulos 08.04.2026 28мин

  In this episode Jason König interviews Fivos Tsaravopoulos, founder and manager of Paths of Greece. This is the first episode in our new Mountains of Greece series within the Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures podcast project. Paths of Greece was founded in 2010 as a social co-operative enterprise, and has played a leading role over the last fifteen years in developing new hiking routes across Greece. We talk first about Fivos' childhood spent on archaeological sites around Greece, and then h...
• somewhere nowhere with Harriet and Rob Fraser 25.03.2026 1ч 3мин

  In this episode, Jason König and Jonathan Pitches interview Harriet and Rob Fraser, collectively known as somewhere nowhere, an environmental art and research practice undertaken collaboratively using their skills as a writer and photographer respectively. Harriet and Rob use photography, poetry and other art forms, along with walking and research to focus on what they identify as sensitive environments and cultures. They work alongside scientists, farmers and analysts as well as public organ...
• Peak Pursuits with Caroline Schaumann 11.03.2026 40мин

  In this episode, Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Caroline Schaumann about her work on the history of mountaineering. Caroline is Professor of German Studies at Emory University. She combines an interest in ecocriticism and the environmental humanities with expertise in the history of exploration and mountaineering. Her 2020 book Peak Pursuits: The Emergence of Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century (Yale University Press) offers a reassessment of the history of explor...
• Summit Positions with Peter Hansen 25.02.2026 41мин

  In this episode, Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Peter Hansen about his research on mountain history in the Alps and the Himalayas. Peter Hansen is Professor of History and Director of International and Global Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. He has been a leading figure in the recent expansion of interest in mountaineering history. His 2013 book The Summits of Modern Man: Mountaineering after the Enlightenment explored the idea of the summit position—i...
• Why Everest? with Lachlan Fleetwood 11.02.2026 45мин

  In this episode, Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Lachlan Fleetwood about his research on Himalayan history. Lachlan is a historian of science, empire, geography and environment. He completed his PhD in History at the University of Cambridge in 2020, and has subsequently held research fellowships at University College Dublin, Yale and Munich. His first book, Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya, was published by Cambridge University Press in May...
• Into the Mountain with Simone Kenyon 28.01.2026 50мин

  In this episode Jonathan Pitches and Jason König interview Simone Kenyon about her work as a practice researcher, performer, artist and producer. We focus especially on her work as the choreographer and artistic creator of the place-sensitive performance piece Into the Mountain, inspired and informed by the lyrical and embodied prose of Nan Shepherd’s 1974 book, The Living Mountain. Building on six years of preparatory work Into the Mountain drew on the input of nearly 100 women, many o...
• Xenophobic Mountains with Alexandra Cotofana 16.12.2025 49мин

  In this episode, Jason König and Jonathan Westaway interview Alexandra Cotofana about her work on the mountains of Romania. Alexandra is a cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi. She is the author of Xenophobic Mountains. Landscape sentience reconsidered in the Romanian Carpathians, (2022), and co-editor of Sentient Ecologies: Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape (2022). The episode begins with a discussion of Alexandra’s experience of growing in...