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Podcasting for Humanities Faculty and Staff: Storytelling for a Modern Audience
National Humanities Center Virtual Institute for University Faculty and Staff
June 10–14, 2024
Podcasting has become a common form of storytelling and scholarly communication in the digital age. This five-day virtual institute will provide hands-on, immersive training for faculty and staff in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to translate research, commentary, and community-engaged narratives into podcast episodes.
This institute will be held over Zoom and Slack. The week features a mix of synchronous sessions and asynchronous work, largely taking place between 8am and 5pm Pacific Time, with additional podcast production work expected. Participants are strongly encouraged to participate from a time zone in North America.
Goals
- Encourage humanists to embrace a sense of responsibility for sharing stories of the human experience with 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.
- Expand humanities professionals’ capabilities for curating humanities materials in a way that adds depth and understanding to contemporary public affairs and cultural conversations.
- 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.
Speakers and Facilitators
Joanna Brooks
Associate Vice President of Faculty Advancement, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University
Pamella Lach
Digital Humanities Librarian and Digital Humanities Center Director, San Diego State University
Barry Lam
Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside; creator of Hi-Phi Nation
Hannah MacGregor
Associate Professor of Publishing, Simon Fraser University
Registration
All college or university faculty and staff are eligible to participate. Tuition for each participant is $975 and includes all equipment (microphone, headphones, windscreen) and materials.
Professional Development
By completing this institute, all participants will receive 40 professional development hours.
Cancellations
If you need to withdraw from the institute, please contact our Professional Development team. Participants who cancel at least one month ahead of the first day of the institute will receive a full refund. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations after that date.
Institute Scholarship Program
We are offering up to four scholarships for faculty, instructors, librarians, digital humanities staff, and independent scholars who are interested in attending the institute, but do not have financial support from their institutions or cannot afford to attend. Those who receive a scholarship will receive free tuition and all equipment.
Applicants should submit a CV and one-page response explaining what they are interested in learning and how they plan to use their new podcasting and public storytelling expertise. Applications are due April 19, 2024. Please submit all application materials as PDFs to our Professional Development team.