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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.

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 narratives into entertaining, powerful podcasts. Participants will hear from leading scholarly podcasting experts, learn the technical components of recording and editing audio, and explore ways to incorporate podcasting into their pedagogy. Audio equipment, including a professional microphone, will be mailed to participants.
Please visit our 2023 Podcasting the Humanities: Creating Digital Stories for the Public page to listen to sample podcasts from previous institute participants.

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

The program seeks to:

  • 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.
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.

Speakers and Facilitators

  • Podcasting

    Joanna Brooks

    Associate Vice President of Faculty Advancement, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University

  • Podcasting

    Meredith Graham

    Associate Director of Education Programs and Digital Projects, National Humanities Center

  • Podcasting

    Pamella Lach

    Digital Humanities Librarian and Digital Humanities Center Director, San Diego State University

  • Podcasting

    Barry Lam

    Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside; creator of Hi-Phi Nation

  • Podcasting

    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.