Random Humanities Podcasts

Do you have a curious mind? Do you sometimes daydream about having a PhD in literature, science, or history? Go inside the minds of PhDs at Harvard University with the Veritalk podcast. Veritalk is produced at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In each three-episode miniseries of Veritalk, you’ll hear how PhD students from different fields are trying to answer really big questions about the world.

Categories: Education, Science, Society & Culture

Tags: Arts, college, Curiosity, design, Discovery, harvard, higher education, History, Humanities, Innovation, Literature, PhD, research, science, university

With the challenges the world is facing today, the humanities and social sciences are needed and more relevant than ever to help us understand what it means to ‘lead a good life’. The authors and editors, with whom Brill collaborates, dedicate their academic life to asking critical questions on globalization, the rise and fall of societies, migration, the functioning of our democracies, the history of conflicts and international relations, inequality, water security or climate change, to name just a few. In this year’s article we let our authors and editors explain – from their personal perspectives – why it is crucial for society to continue investing in research in the humanities and social sciences. They give us a glance into their field of research, individual work, methodologies and motivation, and they demonstrate why the humanities have been and will remain a vital pillar of academia and society.

Categories: Arts, News, Science

Tags: diplomacy, History, Humanities, international relations, linguistics, policy, religion, Social Sciences

Works That Shaped The World is back for 2020. This year we mark the 250th anniversary of the year 1770, a year of remarkable change on the cusp of the modern world. Works The Shaped The World explores humankind’s great achievements and astonishing creations. Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing in 1969, the inaugural 2019 series explored the moon through topics ranging from Shakespeare and cinema, to environmental humanities and Pythagoras.

Categories: Science, Society & Culture, TV & Film

Tags: aborginal lore, anu, apollo, Apollo 11, astronomy, australia, australian national university, brian schmidt, buzz aldrin, Canberra, cinema, Discovery, environment, environmental humanities, giant leap, History, honeysuckle creek, Humanities, indigenous australians, lunar, moon, NASA, neil armstrong, pythagoras, science, Shakespeare, Social Sciences, Space, space exploration, space race, the dish, the moon, Universe

The Story Behind tells the extraordinary history of the ordinary. Everyday objects are more closely examined, from their ancient beginnings through the present—all within 5-10 minutes.

Categories: Education, History

Tags: #funfacts, art, drinks, Food, History, Humanities, inventions, Medicine, people, presidents, random, science, Stories, things, toys, trivia, war

Award-winning show bringing knowledge to the digital community! At the Edge discusses ideas, crossing cultural boundaries to expand ideas about art, writing, knowledge, publishing, and production, while contending with challenges about access, virtual space, political context/challenges, and incursion of cyber cultures. http://afrofuturismscholar.com

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: academia, african diaspora, Afrofuturism, cherie ann turpin, Culture, gender, higher education, Humanities, poetry, udc

Design Tomorrow is a podcast about design, technology, and being human with a special emphasis on growing our awareness that what we do and think today can create a better tomorrow.

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Categories: Arts, Technology

Tags: design, Humanities, Technology, the future

The arts and humanities audio program that’s all about beauty, truth, and goodness.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: art, Arts, beauty, design, goodness, Humanities, Literature, Philosophy, poetry, Psychology, religion, science, theology, Truth

The world’s leading professors explain the latest thinking in the humanities and social sciences in just 10 minutes.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: academics, economics, History, history of art, Humanities, law, Philosophy, Politics, professors, Psychology, Social Sciences, sociology

Learn more about Bard College’s academic life, student life and admissions process directly from students, faculty and staff. www.bard.edu

Categories: Arts, Education, Society & Culture

Tags: admission, Arts, Bard, college, Human, Humanities, liberal, music, rights, science, SPorts, writing

Being Human aims to create conversations between the humanities and other disciplines — conversations that let humanists and scholars in other fields learn from each other and create new forms of understanding as the 21st century unfolds.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: highereducation, Humanities, Literature, pitt

Shelf Life is a podcast from the Newberry Library about the humanities and the humans behind them. Each episode features a new conversation with librarians, curators, and researchers about anything from the history of the Chicago city grid to the secret lives of famous American authors.

Categories: Arts, History

Tags: archives, History, Humanities, Literature, Podcast, research

This podcast covers history, philosophy, anthropology, literature, and film. It has three concurrent series: 1. A series of discussions that focus on one book or film. 2. A shorter series in which authors discuss their three favorite books. 3. A series of audio essays. The first one focuses on walking. For the related blog, see http://www.eclecticintellection.com. Note: All opinions expressed by the founder of this podcast are solely his own opinions and do not express the views or opinions of any other individual, institution, or entity. The views expressed by the guests on this podcast are their own and the guests’ appearance on this channel and podcast does not imply any form of endorsement of them, their views, or any entity they represent.

Categories: Arts, History, Society & Culture

Tags: academia, Arts, Books, classics, History, Humanities, Languages, Literature, personal, Philosophy, travel

Each week, members of MAC’s staff host The Mississippi Arts Hour, a radio program broadcast on Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s FM and digital radio networks. The show features interviews with Mississippi artists, musicians, craftspeople, and others involved in arts and culture from around the state.

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Categories: Arts

Tags: artist, Arts, Authors, craft, dance, Humanities, interpretive, Literature, Mississippi, Musical, musician, painter, theatre, Writer

In this subject we examine some of the central problems that have captivated philosophers throughout millennia, as well as those that scientific advances and cultural changes have only recently brought to our attention. These might include: where did the universe come from? Might a machine think? Is time travel possible? Is it morally acceptable to eat meat, or to design children genetically? Does the world suggest the existence of a designer, a God? Students will focus on examining the merits of the various arguments on these issues, dealing with each philosophical problem for a week. Students will be introduced to most of the major philosophical areas, including epistemology (what can we know?), metaphysics (what is the nature of reality?), ethics, personal identity, and philosophy of mind.

Categories: Education

Tags: andrew brennan, Humanities, jack reynolds, La Trobe, Philosophy, Social Sciences, time-travel, university

Cultural Technologies features conversations with scholars, artists and scientists on current topics in media, art, science and technology. It is hosted by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan, a researcher in media and cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. For more information visit www.bernardg.com.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: art, computers, critical, cultural, Culture, digital, Humanities, media, new, science, Studies, Technology, theory, visual

Launching in September 2020, Covid Conversations: Life in a Time of Corona is a 12-part monthly podcast series from the Center for Folklore Studies at The Ohio State University. Produced and presented by the British-born and Columbus-based folklorist and radio producer Rachel Hopkin, each Covid Conversations episode features two guests – one from Ohio and one from a different part of the world – who share a distinct arts- and/or humanities-related professional or personal identity. Over the course of their conversation, the paired participants discuss and compare how their parallel involvements in the arts and humanities have informed their experience of life during the Coronavirus pandemic in their respective homes. Covid Conversations: Life in a Time of Corona is funded by an OSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery grant.

Categories: Education

Tags: 2020, 2021, artists, Arts, buckeyes, conversation, coping strategies, coronavirus, covid-19, creativity, dancers, first-person narrative, folklore, global, historians, Humanities, international, interview, musicians, narrative, ohio, Ohio State, Ohio State University, OSU, pandemic, professors, resilience, storytelling, struggle, teachers, The Ohio State University, writers

Exploring the meaning of Science today, with hosts Amelia Doran and Susan O’Flynn

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Categories: History, Science, Society & Culture

Tags: History of Science, Humanities, science, science communication

Money on the Left is a monthly, interdisciplinary podcast that reclaims money’s public powers for intersectional politics. Staging critical conversations with leading historians, theorists, organizers, and activists, the show draws upon Modern Monetary Theory and constitutional approaches to money to advance new forms of left critique and practice. It is hosted by William Saas and Scott Ferguson and presented in partnership with Monthly Review magazine. Check out our website: https://moneyontheleft.org Follow us on Twitter & Facebook at @moneyontheleft

Categories: Society & Culture, TV & Film

Tags: Arts, civil rights, Critical Theory, Heterodox Economics, Humanities, Job Guarantee, Left Politics, MMT, Modern Monetary Theory, Political Economy, social history