Voices
Voices from the Global Humanities
Voices from the Global Humanities
VOICES allow us to speak with each other. Some technologies may make the world feel small, but, on a human scale, the earth is still aweing in its immensity and complex diversity. With CHCI members, projects, and events spanning the globe’s continents and communities, the ability to hear each other’s voices can help to connect our vibrant community by keeping us up to date with one another’s thoughts, challenges, and efforts to explore and to enrich the humanities everywhere.
The audio programs included in these series have been created for everyone as an invitation to think about some of the most substantial questions present in the world today. For its inaugural series, CHCI has partnered with the radio show and podcast To the Best of Our Knowledge in order to connect you with conversations from all around the world.
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.
Ideas from Africa • Episode 1
Urban Africa
In this inaugural episode of the series “Ideas from Africa,” journalists Steve Paulson and Anne Strainchamps, producers and hosts of To the Best of our Knowledge, guide listeners through the humming streets and intersecting conceptualizations of urban life on the continent.