CHCI Podcast Roundup, May 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 May 2022.
Race and Representation
Creighton University has a new podcast that focuses on equity, diversity and inclusion titled, Threads of Equality. The first episode features an interview with Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat. The episode, “Edwidge Danticat“ was conducted in conjunction with Danticat’s lecture at Creighton University this spring, co-hosted by the Kingfisher Institute for the Liberal Arts and Professions. In the episode Danticat discusses the importance of representation, Black immigrant experience, and storytelling.
Ben Franklin’s World Podcast published the latest episode entitled, “328 Warren Milteer Jr., Free People of Color in Early America”. The episode includes Warren Milteer Jr., Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, detailing the lives of free people of color prior to the American Civil War. Milteer Jr. details the diverse range of people that have been identified as free people of color, the laws implemented addressing free people of color, and the lived experiences of these communities.
Off the Shelf: Revolutionary Readings in Times of Crisis podcast of the Humanities Research Institute of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released the May episode, “S2, Episode 5: Alonzo Ward on the Hidden History of Black Labor in Illinois”. The episode includes Alonzo Ward, Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University, discussing the history of Black labor in Illinois. Ward details his current book project tentatively titled Relegated to the Bottom: Illinois African American Workers and their Struggle against Systematic Oppression during the Early Jim Crow Era.
UO Today podcast hosted by the Oregon Humanities Center of the University of Oregon released, “Charles Chavis Jr.: “Hidden in Full View: A Story of Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation”. Guest Dr. Charles Chavis, Jr. is the founding Director of the John Mitchell, Jr. Program for History, Justice, and Race at George Mason University’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, and an Assistant Professor of Conflict Analysis and Resolution and History. Chavis, Jr. discusses writing his new book "The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State" and his research on the history of racial violence and civil rights activism.
The Realities of War
With Good Reason , the podcast of Virgina Humanities published the May episode, “Legacies Of WWII”. The episode includes four scholars and their work analyzing experiences from a range of communities during World War II. Emma Ito, Virgina Humanities, discusses the internment of Japanese Americans through an east coast perspective. John Schmitz, Northern Virginia Community College, notes the incarceration of German and Italian immigrants during WWII. Richard Freund, Christopher Newport University, utilizes less invasive archaeological methods to uncover Jewish resistance. Donald Sunnen, Virginia Military Institute, notes the diverse methods of resistance Germans employed against the Nazi regime.
The Shakespeare Unlimited podcast of the Folger Shakespeare Library released the May episode, “ Shakespeare and Ukraine, with Irena Makaryk“. The episode features Dr. Irena Makaryk a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. Makaryk discusses Ukrainian culture and theater and the ways in which the plays of Shakespeare helped to bolster a sense of national identity in response to Russian repression.
The Democracy in Question? Podcast of Central European University and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy in Geneva published the May episode, “Perspectives on Putin and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine” Guest Stephen Holmes, the Walter E. Mayer Professor of Law and co-director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University, discusses the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its effects on the relationship between the United States and Europe.
Arts in the 21st Century
The Vault podcast of the New York Institute for the Humanities released its latest episode “ Fair Use and Documentary Film”. The Institute held a symposium about copyright and intellectual property, titled Comedies of Fair Use. This episode is a recording of the panel about documentary film, and was moderated by Duke professor law James Boyle. The panel includes: Amy Sewell (director of the 2005 documentary Mad Hot Ballroom), Charles Sims (copyright and first amendment expert at the law firm of Proskauer Rose), Pat Aufderheide (professor at American University), and Hugh Hanson (professor at Fordham University School of Law).
The Tallinn University Podcastpublished by Tallinn University released, “2.9 Estonia's Funding for the Arts: Tallinn Music Week Special Episode”. The episode features guests Helen Slidna, Shiftworks CEO and Tallinn Music Week Founder, and Monika Tomingas, Project Manager at the Estonian Folklore Council and Lecturer at the Baltic Film, Media, and Arts School at Tallinn University. They discuss arts in Estonian culture and the history of Tallinn Music Week.
The Trinity Long Room Hub podcast of Trinity College Dublin published “ TLRH | Ageing and Cinema”. The episode is a seminar by Amir Cohen-Shalev, University of Haifa, as part of the Medical and Health Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Cohen-Shalev posits questions about the use of film in the study of aging and humanities as elder cinema has increased in popularity over time.
Perspectives on Academia
The Humanities Now podcast of the Humanities Center at Texas Tech Universitypublished the May episode,“Happy Anniversary to Women's and Gender Studies: Elissa Zellinger and Julie Willett in Conversation”. The episode features Texas Tech University Women’s and Gender Studies affiliated faculty, Dr. Elissa Zellinger from the Department of English, and Dr. Julie Willett from the Department of History. Dr. Zellinger discusses her work on nineteenth century poetry and Dr. Willett discusses her research on the trope of the male chauvinist pig.
Under Review the podcast of the University of California Humanities Research Institute and the University of Florida Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere released, “Under Review Episode 2: It’s Not Working (UCHRI X UF CHPS)”. The episode includes Sourav Chatterjee, a PhD student at the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies program at Columbia, and Dr. Nick Mitchell, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Graduate Feminist Director at UC Santa Cruz. They detail graduate student strikes, the job crisis, and academic labor concerns.