Random Humanities Podcasts

In Conversation is a podcast that features faculty from Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, talking with Dean Michael Horswell, Ph.D., about research and creative activity that spans the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Each episode spotlights a professor whose scholarly work is affecting the world in a significant way. Listeners will not only learn of the latest developments in the many academic disciplines of the college, but will gain insight into the creative and critical processes our scholars and artists brings to their projects. In Conversation is a production of Dr. Kevin Petrich and journalism students in FAU’s School of Communication and Multimedia Studies.

Categories: Arts, Education, Society & Culture

Tags: Arts, College of Arts and Letters, creative industries, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Education, Florida Atlantic University, Horswell, Humanities, research, Social Sciences

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

Hosted by the MIT Alumni Association, the Slice of MIT podcast offers a taste of Institute life—amazing discoveries, fascinating alumni, interesting research—for alumni and listeners interested in MIT. Read more at http://alum.mit.edu/slice.

Categories: Education, Society & Culture, Technology

Tags: 791903, alumni, architecture, Arts, Authors, Boston, Cambridge, engineering, Humanities, institute, Management, Massachusetts, MIT, planning, research, SAP, school, science, scientists, Slice, Sloan, social, Technology

How do we understand the places we visit (and even the places we’ve never been)? As a shorthand, we use agreed-upon touchstones – famous places, famous people famous foods, and, of course, dreams. Dreamed-up people and dreamed-up places and dreamed-up things. This podcast looks at a culture’s icons – real and imagined – to see what they say about the culture itself, as well as the outsiders who’ve elevated those icons above all others.

Categories: History, Society & Culture, TV & Film

Tags: adaptation, england, film, History, Humanities, icon, iconic, monument, New England, statue, symbol

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

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

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

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

Sound Waves on behalf of Life. All is a Temple. May you create. May you be free.

Categories: Arts, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

Tags: art, astrology, channeling, creative, creativity, Culture, dance, embodiment, energy, holistic, Humanities, intuition, intuitive, magic, meditation, Mysticism, poems, poetry, spirituality

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hosted by educator and photographer Zack Smith “The Frame: A Louisiana Photograph Podcast” is a bi-monthly series that showcases the work, backgrounds, and creative philosophies of Louisiana photographers. These hour-long conversations are recorded live at the Louisiana Humanities Center in New Orleans.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: Humanities, louisiana, photography, zacksmith

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

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