Podcasting for Faculty and Staff

Welcome to the National Humanities Center Summer Podcasting Institute

Held in partnership with the Digital Humanities Center at San Diego State University Library

June 10-14, 2024

Podcasting has become a common form of storytelling and scholarly communication in the digital age. This five-day virtual institute provides hands-on, immersive training for faculty and staff in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to translate research, commentary, and community-engaged narratives into podcast episodes.

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.

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.

Conveners

• Joanna Brooks, Associate Vice President for Faculty Advancement and Student Success; Co-Founder, SDSU Digital Humanities Initiative

• Pamella Lach, Digital Humanities Librarian and Director of the Digital Humanities Center; Co-Director, SDSU Digital Humanities Initiative

• Mike Williams, Director of Education Programs, National Humanities Center