National Humanities Center Podcast Institute
by National Humanities Center Podcast Institute
Coming soon… voices from the National Humanities Center’s virtual podcasting institute, run in partnership with the Digital Humanitie ...
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Season 1
Space Out
In this one-episode podcast, Space Out, transnational hosts Annie, Victoria, and Charlotte discuss the concept of space, their own experiences of particular spaces and places, and how space and place inform their academic and research interests. Through conversation, they share the impact of particular spaces on their lives; question and challenge the histories that constructed the spaces we experience today; and reflect on the mobility of those spaces which continue to influence and stay with them. These concepts allow them to address the question of “care,” positionality, belonging, or rejection. Space is therefore presented as a protean object, as an interaction that can enable us to rethink the boundaries between academic fields, and also communities. Host Lora, away from the microphone this week, also shares her perspectives and thoughts in writing, linked here.
Herding Cats: Motherhood in Academia
In this episode of Herding Cats, Mathilde Sauquet (Princeton) asks the other three hosts, Tori Hoover (Vanderbilt), Maya Delmond (University of Kansas), and Serena Bazemore (NC State/Duke) about the pros and cons of having children in grad school, and more broadly, in academia. Join us as we discuss motherhood in the academy through the lens of community, institutional policy and reproductive rights.
Novelty of Doom
The Novelty of Doom podcast considers the themes of performance, death and the body through four very different strands of the humanities. A historian (Bethany), a designer and performance studies scholar (Saloni), a literature scholar (Ben) and a sociologist (Anna) explore how our research speaks to these ideas. Through our conversations we ask who narratives belong to and whose stories we can tell. We grapple with our own responsibility as scholars and offer some words of hope in a dark time. Visuals by Saloni Mahajan. Music was provided by John Bartmann and gathered from other sources in Creative Commons.
Dark Legends Unveiled
Dark Legends Unveiled is the combined efforts of four graduate students, who all have a desire to explore the mysterious and macabre. This episode of DLU engages the monstrous feminine, focusing on mythical femmes who kill and who disregard social conventions. We explore the stories of la Lechuza, Medea, and la Llorona as we dive into the darkest and most subversive parts of the human psyche.
