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Podcasting for Humanities Graduate Students: Storytelling for a Modern Audience
National Humanities Center Virtual Institute for Graduate Students
January 8–12, 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 PhD students 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 emerging humanities scholars 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
Meredith Graham
Associate Director of Education Programs and Digital Projects, National Humanities Center
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
Reserve seats for your students here. All PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences are eligible to participate. Tuition for each participant is $975 and includes all equipment (microphone, headphones, windscreen) and materials. For more information, contact Meredith Graham, associate director of Education Programs and Digital Projects.
Cancellations
If you need to withdraw from the institute, please contact Meredith Graham. 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.