Podcasts
Explore a sampling of the podcasts our participants created this week!
Cohorts who choose to make their podcasts public are featured here.
Lost in Transcription
Cohort 01: Brynn Fitzsimmons, Mylène Freeman, Rebecca Marcolina, Steven Patrick Rodriguez
Generating a transcript of your podcast? Lost in Transcription takes a deeper look at the things we might lose track of when we share our work. Hosts Rebecca Marcolina and Mylène Freeman invite PhD candidates and public scholars Brynn Fitzsimmons (University of Kansas) and Steven Rodriguez (Vanderbilt University) to talk about the biases and power relations inherent in the process of transcription. In the first half, Brynn discusses accessibility as a practice and how we can apply this idea as we design our podcasts. Later, Steven offers a historical perspective on transcription by discussing some of the issues around the transcriptions of the Slave Narrative Collection.
Tantear: Teaching During the Pandemic
Cohort 04: Upali Bhattacharya, Jerome Clarke, Sabrina Gonzalez, Krista Mitchell
As the pandemic affected every single aspect of our lives, educators around the world were forced to adapt their classes to an online classroom. This episode reflects the possibilities and limitations of online teaching. Testimonies collected from graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty at U.S. institutions reflect about the pedagogical experimentations practiced in the last two years along with the struggles they faced in their daily lives as educators. In retrospect, many saw the pandemic as an opportunity to explore new class material and assignments, to engage students in a more active learning, and to challenge traditional ways of teaching and learning. Others recognized that the virtual classroom did not allow the same type of engagement with the students; a lack of physical closeness that became a gap hard to overcome between instructors and students. Regardless of the more negative or positive view around online teaching there is no doubt that we are in a crucial moment in history to rethink how we teach, what stories we introduce in our classrooms, how we make room for different forms of participation that engage students. In other words, how we, educators from the humanities, transform the classroom in a space open for new ideas committed to social justice in an increasingly unjust world.
Dispatches from Dystopia: A Near-Future Broadcast
Cohort 06: Lizet Gonzalez, Amy Renée Haines, Brenna Ritzert, Rami Toubia Stucky
In a dystopian, near-distant future, four correspondents connect via shortwave radio as they desperately broadcast conditions from their locations around the world. These snippets of communication reveal a terrifying future brimming with the ravages of climate change, the consequences of unregulated natural resource extraction, the faceless nature of corporate replication, and the bizarre surgeries necessary for social compliance. Join us as we encounter Dispatches from Dystopia.
Guiltless Pleasures
Cohort 07: Olivia M Hagedorn, Alessandra Jacobo, James Speake, Marta Eugenia Zavaleta Lemus
Guiltless Pleasures, a podcast about the joy of clicking “next episode,” celebrates the ability for anyone looking for a break to delve into the television/video streaming desires. In the midst of the high demands of graduate school, combined with the experience of surviving a pandemic, JR, Sandra, Eugenia and Olivia discuss the thrill of choosing (and not choosing) what to watch or stream on their TVs and laptops. Take a load off and join in on the conversations of reality drama, classic TV shows, video game streaming and the benefits of escapism.
Pull up a Seat! Food and the Pandemic
Cohort 10: Silvia Escanilla Huerta, Allison Mashell Mitchell, Konstantine Vlasis, Wayne CF Yeung
Eat to live, not live to eat. This piece of proverbial wisdom has since been shaken up by the pandemic: sometimes when living is hard, eating is life. Or, life is about eating as well. This podcast episode explores how we relate to food during the pandemic. Four grad students sat down around a table and had a chat about food delivery, workers’ strikes and protests, family recipes, and that baking show you definitely binge-watched. Can good vibes be had over a raging pandemic? Pull up a seat, and please pass the wine.
The Great Grand Guide to Grad School
Cohort 11: Jonah Greene, Anneke Rautenbach, Nidia Mariana Reyes Payán, Camila Ring
In “The Great Grand Guide to Grad School” podcast, humanities PhD students Jonah Greene, Cammy Ring, Anneke Rautenbach, and Mariana Reyes offer up entertaining and heartfelt snapshots of their own triumphs, trials, and tribulations in academia. You’ll hear the tale of a “straight-througher” tasked with teaching undergrads nearly his age; some poking fun at the peculiarities of “grad school speak”; the chronicling of a somewhat harrowing experience with, and escape from, a “helicopter advisor”; and some vulnerability on the topic of imposter syndrome, support groups, and resilience.
home made
Cohort 14: Asri Nurul Qodri, Nicholas Petry, Kirin Agustin Rajagopalan, Alexandra Sundarsingh
Food is more than just sustenance, or ingredients cooked together and put on a plate; it is intimately connected with history, politics, culture, and complex feelings and memories of home and family. home made is a podcast that explores the dishes that connect us to and and remind us of home. Each episode we invite guests to reflect on a dish that they associate with home, and all of the beauty, memories, and elusiveness that comes with it. home made invites you to fix yourself a plate, pull up a chair, and join us at our table as we savor the flavors that bring us home.
Cohort 15: Daniel Castaneda, Carina Saiidi Padilla, Heather Ann Ringo, Maria Carolina Sintura
In this first episode of the “Root U: Blossoming at the University” podcast, Carina, Daniel, Maria Carolina and Heather, all doctoral students with non-traditional backgrounds, reflect on their experiences in academia and how staying true to their roots has helped them thrive. They share anecdotes of their past and present challenges and how they found the strength and motivation to continue to make space in institutions that have historically left out individuals like themselves. Whether it is through political activism, community engagement, or powerful literary research, these 4 students have found fertile ground to grow their roots and make space for others.
UC and Tea
Cohort 16: Humberto Flores, Anny L. Mogollón, Talitha Angelica Trazo, Serkan Ogul Tuna
Four students from four UC campuses sit down to share their academic journeys, migration stories, & graduate life amidst protests, fires, and so much more. Join Angel, Anny, Humberto, and Ogul as the personal becomes political becomes academic in this short episode that is for real for real not your personal statement. But seriously, where is the boba?
Hear and Tell
Cohort 18: Nicole Ackman, Andrew Rivard Hill, Jason Michálek, Jennifer Saunders
On He(a)r and Tell, four scholars from different disciplines discuss artifacts themed around a specific topic for each episode. They ponder what those objects can tell us about the culture that they come from and how they are connected. On this episode, the scholars look at objects related to pregnancy and medical authority traveling from medieval France to 19th century Paris to the modern United States.
Cohort 21: Amy Laboe, Matthew Slaats, Kader Smail, Cameron Lee Winter
Cityzen is a podcast dedicated to a place and its people in flux. Between people and place, Cityzen focuses on the city as our theme, we investigate the history, the people, and the stories of the urban across time and territory. Drawing from our hosts' expertise and connections, we bring you interviews, conversations, and debates on issues facing our cities in the past, present, and future.