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Podcasting the Humanities: Creating Digital Stories for the Public
in partnership with the Digital Humanities Center, San Diego State University
National Humanities Center Virtual Institute for Graduate Students
June 15–19, 2020
Working in cross-disciplinary and intra-university teams, participants will learn how to storyboard an idea, to create and collect audio content, and to edit their narrative into an entertaining, powerful podcast. All equipment will be provided, and technical support will be given throughout the week.
Goals
The program seeks to:
- Advance the democratic commitments of the professional humanities by inculcating in emerging humanities scholars a sense of responsibility to the human experience of diverse American publics.
- Foster new models of expertise that are responsive both to the traditional authority-based credentialing systems of the professional humanities and to the emerging concerns of university-based and public constituencies.
- Grow capacity for collaborative—team, interdisciplinary, cross-university—scholarship.
- Extend the potential of the professional humanities to curate archives of human experience in a way that adds depth and understanding to contemporary public affairs and cultural conversations.
Participants will:
- Forge new intellectual connections between public life, humanities research, and responsive, digital media.
- Deepen collaborative inquiry and project management skills.
- Hone their ability to communicate humanities expertise in accessible and publicly-responsive formats.
- Acquire conceptual and technical skills to create, revise, and publish broadcast-ready podcasts.
- Develop skills and networks valuable within and beyond the university.
Keynote Speaker
Barry Lam, associate professor of philosophy at Vassar College and creator of the popular, award-winning podcast series Hi Phi Nation, will frame the week by sharing his journey from research to podcast.
Participants
Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres
Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
Megan Cole
English, University of California, Irvine
Lauren Burrell Cox
English, University of Florida
Viona Deconinck
Visual Arts, University of California, Davis
Karem Lissette Delgado
Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Irvine
Rose Smucker Dwyer
Music, University of California, Davis
Marlit Hayslett
Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs, University of Virginia
Wujun Ke
Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Beshara Kehdi
Cultural Studies, University of California, Davis
H. JiMin Kwon
Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
Julia Lewandoski
History and Humanities in a Digital World Program, University of Southern California
Rennie Mapp
Vice President for IT, University of Virginia
Patricia Martins Marcos
History and Science Studies, University of California, Davis
Christine Mugnolo
Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Cinthya Ammerman Muñoz
Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
Yao Pei
German Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ivana Polic
History, University of California, San Diego
Michelle Robertson
English, University of California, Irvine
Paul N. Roth
Music–Integrative Studies, University of California, San Diego
Juan Manuel Rubio
History, University of California, Irvine
Sergio Manuel Silva
Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia
David Tamez
Philosophy, University of Kansas
Ashley Teodorson
Performance Studies, University of California, Davis
Darby Cameron Vickers
Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
Mirna Wasef
History, University of California, San Diego
Ka Lee Wong
East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California
Kevin Woram
History, University of Virginia