CHCI Podcast Roundup, April 2022
On the last Friday of each month, we review the podcast episodes released by CHCI Member Organizations and highlight new podcasts as they arise.
This month, we will look at episodes posted in April 2022.
Technology and Access to Information
Tallinn University hosts the Tallinn University Podcast their April episode, “ 2.8 Social Media and Human Rights” features Dr. Mart Susi, founder of the Digital Human Rights Network and Professor of Human Rights Law at TLU. Dr. Susi discusses the future of social media and its role in creating information bubbles for users. Social media is used to document crimes against humanity as well as reinforce conspiracy theories complicating conceptions of freedom of expression.
UNTREF a la carta is a Spanish language podcast of Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. The latest episode, “Crónicas Transkoalas - Ep.3 Dataísmo” includes Flavia Costa, a COINET researcher interested in the intersection of technology and culture. Dr. Costa explores big data, the dangerous aspects of corporations, institutional power, and the information they can easily access.
University College Dublin hosts UCD Humanities Institute Podcast their latest episode is, “ Caroline Bassett. The Light Under the Door - Technologies and the End of Worlds”. The episode includes Professor Caroline Bassett's keynote entitled, “Thresholds. Contexts of Rupture, Change and Adaptation”, at the 2022 UCD Humanities Institute PhD Conference. Professor Bassett argues that humanists are vital in critical discussions of technological progress.
The Burned by Books podcast published the episode, “Jennifer Egan, "The Candy House" (Scribner, 2022)” featuring Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winning author and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Egan details her latest book titled The Candy House. The highly anticipated book, a follow-up but not a sequel to A Visit from the Goon Squad, conceptualizes a machine that is able to capture and share memories. Egan’s constructed future is predicated on her interest in how technology has impacted our relationship to space.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Humanities Without Walls hosts the podcast PhD Futures Now based at the Humanities Research Institute at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The April episode, “ Episode 12 | Campus Leaders on Higher Education Reform” features Dr. Assata Zerai, Vice President for Equity and Inclusion at the University of New Mexico, and Dr. Doug Woods, Dean of the Graduate School at Marquette University. They discuss career diversity, the transferable skills humanities education provides, underrepresented student groups, and the importance of interdisciplinarity.
Vox Humanities, the podcast of the Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech published the episode, “Laura Belmonte and Shaila Mehra“ featuring Laura Belmonte, Dean of Virginia Tech’s College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, and Shaila Mehra, Virginia Tech’s Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. They discuss Laura Belamonte’s book The International LGBT Rights Movement: A History (2020) and the significance of analyzing LGBTQ rights through a global framework as an inherently transnational movement.
Under Review is a UCHRI Podcast supported by the University of California Humanities Research Institute and the University of Florida Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere. Under Review is a podcast hosted by June Ke and Lauren Burrell Cox, two PhD students who pose questions about humanities graduate education. The first episode, “Under Review Episode 1: Rethinking Prestige (UCHRI X UF CHPS)”. includes Dr. Rachel Arteaga, Assistant Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. Dr. Arteaga details the creation of partnerships with community college faculty to mentor graduate students and deconstructing the concept of “prestige” in higher education.
Deconstructing the legacies of colonialism
The Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research hosts the Humanities Conversations podcast. The April episode, “ Think & Drink: Consuming Ivory Author Discussion with Dr. Alexandra Kelly” features Dr. Alexandra Kelly, Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Wyoming, discussing her new book Consuming Ivory: Mercantile Legacies of East Africa & New England. The episode also includes Dr. Adam Blackler, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wyoming, and Dr. Melissa Morris, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wyoming. The panel questions the way the ivory trade and Africa has been represented through Anglo-American narratives.
TLR Hub the podcast of Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute of Trinity College Dublin published, “TLRH | The Aidan Clarke Annual Lecture in Early Modern History | Swift against Empire”. The episode is a lecture by Ian McBride, Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford, focusing on Jonathan Swift’s viewpoints on empire.
The Democracy in Question? Podcast of Central European University and The Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva published an April episode entitled “Myanmar’s Struggle for Democratization”. The episode features Marzuki Darusman former attorney general of Indonesia and human rights lawyer, to discuss the ongoing crisis in Myanmar following the Rohingya genocide. Darusman notes the history of democratic movements, military rule, and British colonialism impacts the ideological construct of nationhood in the country.
Careers in the Public Humanities podcast highlights the diverse career paths for humanities scholars produced by students from the University of Rhode Island and Humanities at Large funded by National Endowment for the Humanities’ Next Generation PhD initiative. The latest episode released, “Episode 12: Rhiannon Sorrell, Instruction and Digital Services Librarian at Diné College” including Rhiannon Sorrell, Instruction and Digital Services Librarian at Diné College on the Navajo Nation. Sorrell details the obstacles faced in working to preserve indigenous knowledge and tribesourcing to provide and correct narration in archival films.
Migration and Displacement
The Institute Podcast of the Institute for the Arts & Humanities of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill released a new episode, “Episode 120 Performance And The US-Mexico Border With China Medel” featuring Fall 2021 Faculty Fellow China Medel, Assistant Professor of Communication of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Medel discusses teaching about gender and Latinx representation in film and her research analyzing alternative media depicting migrant death at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The UO Today podcast of the Oregon Humanities Center at the University of Oregon published, “Erich Gruen: “Displaced in Diaspora? Jewish Communities in the Greco-Roman World” featuring Erich Gruen the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. The lecture is sponsored by Sherl K. Coleman-Margaret E. Guitteau Professorship in the Humanities from the Oregon Humanities Center and is part of the Spring 2022 Ancient Jewish Art and Architecture Lecture Series. Gruen notes the Jewish Diaspora is defined through a narrative of displacement without noting the role of voluntary migration.