What We Brought with Us is an exhibit featuring photographs of the things that Academy in Exile fellows took with them when fleeing, and most recently traveled to University of Cincinnati’s Philip M. Meyers Jr. Memorial Gallery.
Ideas from Africa • Episode 2
Jazz Migrations
In this second episode of Ideas from Africa Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, producers and hosts of To the Best of Our Knowledge, explore an alternate history of jazz, its origins, and global travels.
Life/Lines
Craig Eley talks with Jean Allman, director of the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, about "Life/Lines," a project that gave participants a daily poetry prompt.
Music and the Remaking of the World: An Interview with Valmont Layne
In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Layne sat down with journalists Steve Paulson and Anne Strainchamps (hosts of To The Best of Our Knowledge) at a CHCI-sponsored institute on the Humanities throughout Africa. In the conversation that follows, Layne discusses growing up under apartheid, the role of music in activism against that regime, and the poignant histories of jazz, goema, and carnival.