Black students at Goucher College organized a Blackout protest in the fall of 2018 in response to a hate crime on campus. The Blackout demanded that Goucher’s administration address this crime with urgency, something the students felt was lacking in response to past hate crimes. This collection of oral histories allows Black students at Goucher who were involved in the protest a space where they can memorialize their thoughts on the Blackout and the hate crime that sparked it.

Restorative Action - Oral History of Tajne Jefferies, 2020

Restorative Action - Oral History of Kai Miller, 2020

Gershom Gorenberg—the compelling Middle Eastern political expert and historian and Jerusalem-based journalist—discussed “Messianism and Its Discontents” at Goucher College on February 11, 2009. 

The lecture focused on messianism, an important force in the world’s religions and modern politics that some believe is essential to progress—and specifically to the Jews’ return to their land. Gorenberg discussed the power of messianism and how it has fueled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Read more at: http://www.goucher.edu/news-and-events/gorenberg

Gershom Gorenberg - "Messianism and Its Discontents"

The United States has become one of the countries with the largest growing number of international students. Students from all around the world come here for a variety of reasons, some to pursue education, some to flee war-ridden areas or some just want to have a different experience. Regardless of the reasons, their experiences are a kaleidoscope of laughter, self-reflection and challenges. Each international student coming to the United States, whether an Indian exchange student studying biochemistry or an inspiring Chinese writer in the Creative Arts, has left a great impression on the lives they touched and impacted the way education is viewed, not just in the United States but also globally. This project is a way for Goucher College to celebrate the multifaceted way that the international student community has shaped the history of the institution and how international students have shaped the immigration system as well as the education system of the United States.

Nabiya Imran - International Student Oral History, 2021

Elmira David - Oral History, 2021

James Rosen—chief Washington correspondent for Fox News and author of "The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate"—discusses public perception of the First Amendment and whether the right to free speech is under attack. Earlier this year, actions taken against Rosen by the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI as part of an investigation into an alleged leak of classified information placed him and Fox News at the center of a national debate over press freedom and government surveillance.

James Rosen: Constitution Day Speaker, 2013

Goucher College's Roxana Cannon Arsht '35 Center for Ethics and Leadership presents Harvard University Professor Michael Sandel.

Michael Sandel- "What Money Can't Buy," 2012

Composer and Professor of Music, Kendall Kennison, talks about his upcoming concert, his composing process, and the arc of his teaching and composing career. More info at: https://www.goucher.edu/faculty/kendall-kennison

Art Reach at Goucher - Episode 1: Kendall Kennison

Assistant Professor and Poet Edgar Kunz talks about what inspired his upcoming book of poetry, his writing process, and the joys of teaching poetry.  More info at: https://www.goucher.edu/faculty/edgar-kunz

Art Reach at Goucher - Episode 2: Edgar Kunz

Assistant Professor of Communications, Sonja Bozic, talks about her work in film and New Media. In particular she talks about her internationally recognized project-in-development, Chocolate Milk, a virtual reality experience that will bring its audience into the lived experience of her autistic co-creator.

Art Reach at Goucher - Episode 4: Sonja Bozic

John Thomas, Goucher’s Live Events Presenter, talks about the full calendar of events coming to Goucher in the fall of 2023. Monthly Sunday Peabody Conservatory concerts, author Janine Capo Crucet, and many more. View upcoming events at https://events.goucher.edu

Art Reach at Goucher - Episode 5: John Thomas

Mike Semancik, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of the Goucher Choral Society and Orchestra, talks about the joy of ensemble musicianship, and the challenges of conducting during the pandemic.

Art Reach at Goucher - Episode 7: Mike Semancik

Paying For It 
by Thomas Peterson

This is a play about paying for climate action or paying for climate inaction; a play about who pays, and how.

Producer - Allison Campbell

Cast:
Someone - Sam Rose 
Someone Else - James Mullooly

More info at https://www.goucher.edu/theatre

Goucher Radio Theater Listens to the Environment - Episode 1: Paying For It by Thomas Peterson

Book of G 
by Nelson Diaz-Marcano

Z is struggling with their chapter of the Book of Generations and seeks Mother’s guidance and support. 

Playwright’s Statement: What inspired me to write this play was the question of how I would envision a world in which the Green New Deal would exist. I couldn’t see it. As a person obsessed with sci-fi and magic, the Green New Deal sounds too much like a deus ex machina device, a too-good-to-be-true solution to tie up loose ends. The only way I could make sense of the last four years and the Green New Deal was to see it as a narrative series made to entertain those who do not have to live it. And most importantly, to see what happens when your values and your art have to coexist.
 
Producer	- Kristen Wheeler

Cast:
Mother - Gracie Flippen
Z - Jadyn Straigis

More info at https://www.goucher.edu/theatre

Goucher Radio Theater Listens to the Environment - Episode 2: Book Of G by Nelson Diaz-Marcano

Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)was a Civil Rights activist from Mississippi. She worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) that fought racial segregation and injustice in the South, as well as championing voter registration among African Americans. In 1964, she helped found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.   This is a talk she gave at Goucher College in 1970.

Fannie Lou Hamer, 1970

Daryn Carter Oral History Interview

Yabsera Faris '17 Oral History Interview

Felicia Graves-Baker '13 Oral History Interview

Pierre Jones Oral History Interview

Declan Watkins '24 Oral History Interview

Dr. Aarika Camp Oral History Interview

Ethan Pratt '24 Oral History Interview

Leila Malone '24 Oral History Interview

Rabbi Josh Snyder Oral History Interview

Ramieka Robinson interview

SaraCitroni Interview

Shayla McLish '23 Oral History Interview

Xavier Rivers '25 Oral History Interview

Marshall “Eddie” Conway was the minister of defense of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party. Conway spent 44 years behind bars in Maryland as a political prisoner and remains active with prison issues. Friend of a Friend, an organization Conway helped to found while he was incarcerated, works with young men to reduce institutional violence through conflict-resolution training.

Marshall "Eddie" Conway- A Panther’s Perspective on Black Power and Incarceration, 2015

Gail Godwin, bestselling author, three-time National Book Award Finalist, Fall 2015 Visiting Author at Goucher College, read from her works.  Three of Godwin’s novels, The Odd Woman, Violet Clay, and A Mother and Two Daughters, were National Book Award finalists and five of them (A Mother and Two Daughters, The Finishing School, A Southern Family, Father Melancholy’s Daughter, and Evensong) were New York Times best sellers.  Godwin has lived in Woodstock, N.Y. since 1976 with her long time companion, the composer Robert Starer, who died in 2001.  Together they wrote ten musical works, including the chamber opera The Other Voice: A Portrait of Hilda of Whitby, available from Selah Publishing Company: www.selahpub.com.  Evenings at Five is a novella based on Godwin’s and Starer’s life together.  Godwin received a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment grants, one for fiction and one for libretto writing.  Her newest work is Publishing: A Writer’s Memoir, which details her long career as an author in a changing publishing industry.

Gail Godwin- Reading at Goucher College, 2015

A lecture by Michael Suarez, S.J., Director of Rare Book School, Professor of English, and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia.  In celebration of Professor Arnie Sanders’ long career at Goucher College, on his retirement.  Sponsorship by the Goucher College Book Studies program, the Friends of the Goucher College Library, and The Baltimore Bibliophiles.
 

Michael Suarez- From Bibliography to Book Studies, 2015

Jane Austen lived in the cottage at Chawton from 1809 until shortly before her death in 1817, and it was in that house that she completed all her novels. Jane Austen Memorial Trustee Martyn Dell provides an insider’s view of "the most treasured Austen site in the world."

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A Year in the Life of Jane Austen’s House- Martyn Dell, 2019

Jane Austen is, foremost, a social commentator. Dress is a nuanced social marker, and her novels use clothing and needlework to pinpoint niceties of character. Austen’s letters reveal a lively interest in clothes, alongside her concerns about how to dress well on limited income. During the author’s short life, unprecedented and accelerated change saw Britain’s turbulent entry into the modern age. Clothing reflected these transitions on local and global scales, and exploring the dress experiences of people who lived through Austen’s age goes a long way to understanding her work, her time, and its histories. In this talk, dress historian Hilary Davidson explores the lives and dress of the middle-class British gentry during the ‘long’ Regency (1795-1823) through the lens of Jane Austen’s life and writing, drawing on five years of research for her ground-breaking 2019 book, Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion.

Dress in the Age of Jane Austin

Hilary Davidson- "Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion," 2020

Goucher College is a selective, private, coed, liberal arts college dedicated to providing a multidisciplinary, international education. Founded in 1885, it was the first college in the nation to require undergraduate study abroad.  Located in Baltimore, Maryland, Goucher enrolls approximately 1,500 undergraduates and 700 students in graduate degree programs and has more than 15,000 alumnae and alumni. The Goucher SoundCloud page is an archive of podcasts from lectures, events, and interviews on campus. Learn more at https://www.goucher.edu

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