WNSR reporter Julia Purcell covered the March 8 rally in Washington Square Park, and found that many different groups had empowerment in common.

Women Unite in New York City

My Uncle Paul was an extraordinary man. Only met him twice, but through the stories at his funeral from family members I developed a connection with a man who lead an amazing life.

Remembering Col. Paul Swanson

An investigation into people's relationship with nostalgia and how it has come to be affected by social media. I originally began with the idea that that I wanted to talk about nostalgia and the way we make memories. I sat down with some of my high school friends, as well as my mom and sister. After getting, several perspectives it became clear that there has been a shift in the way that memory making happens with the advent of social media. I reference Bo Burnham's 201 6 comedy special, "Make Happy" in which he goes into his relationship and experience with social media and his opinion on the internet generation.

On Nostalgia and Social Media

In recent years, drag culture has become widely recognized in the mainstream culture, being featured everywhere from television to makeup ad campaigns. The evolution of this wide appeal is explored as a once queer subculture emerges into more publicized conversations.

Drag Culture: Navigating Into the Mainstream

The Good Friday Pilgrimage: Episode 2

57 Years after the Good Friday Experiment gave 20 christian college students the mystical experience of their lives, one professor decides to pay homage to the site, as a place of sacred and religious significance.

Special thanks to Christopher "Doc" Kelley
Additional audio provided by: MAPS, from Psychedelic Science Conference, 2013

The Good Friday Pilgrimage: Episode 1

Examining diversity initiatives within archives and obituaries.

Overlooked & Under Documented

A young woman attempting to find her place and voice in the film industry.

Female Voices in Film

Traveling around Europe with your two best friends can be fun, if you know what you're doing. This is a story about the time I almost got lost in Italy four times.

Almost Lost Abroad

Street Harassment in NYC

Producer Ian Farmer hangs out at his neighborhood bodega, where a colorful crowd breakfasts every morning.

The Bodega

A meeting with a physic causes an unexpected recollection of the past with a young woman in her early 20s.

Produced By Kris Keene

Death, Physics, & MJ

Growing up immersed in both Latin American and American culture, one thing remained the same: the over the top portrayal of Latina women. Not limited to Latinas, American media has created stereotypes of Latinos that places us into one single narrative. (Melanie Valdez)

The Single Narrative

Diversity in representation after death can be found in both obituaries and archives, but it's not something that happens overnight, and it is not something that happens on it’s own. If death as an act is the only thing that transcends all else, then studying its representation in our society and who we choose to remember could be helpful to understanding our country’s long suppression of diversity. I reached out to an obituaries writer at The New York Times and an archive librarian at University of Santa Barbara’s Special Collection Library to learn about the diversity initiatives these two institutions have taken on.

Overlooked and Under Documented:  Examining Diversity Initiatives Within Obituaries and Archives

USA women's hockey is both an overlooked and underfunded sport, yet despite it's lack of recognition from the public, it has continued to be one of the most successful teams and consistent powerhouses in international tournaments. I spoke with several women's hockey players about their experience playing women's hockey, and also men's league, about the difference it makes to play with other women and the need for more support for the game.

Lighting The Lamp

Timon McPhearson, Director of New School's Urban Systems Lab, clues us in on what to expect from the USL during October's Centennial festival.

Music: The Flashbulb - In The Grass

Welcome To The Party - Urban Systems Lab

Learn about the critical paths paved by women at The New School during October's Centennial Festival.

Welcome To The Party - Women's Legacy At New School

Marissa Vassari, of the Rockefeller Foundation Archive Center & the Refugee Scholars Project, tells us about the organization's Centennial program---a modern-day take on a challenge faced by our school during WW2: the trolley problem of refugee asylum.

Music: The Flashbulb - Travelogue

Welcome To The Party - Refugee Scholars Project

What you’re about to hear is a sound story. A montage of sounds and voices, archival and recreated, that would have been heard, read or experienced at The New School during an important decade for its growth and development. You may hear the streets of Lower Manhattan, the construction of new buildings, the eager chatter of students in the hallway, the readings of pamphlets once distributed to all members of the school, the announcements of new possibilities, the speeches of old presidents, administration or faculty. This is the sounds of The New School. The sounds of change and learning and collaboration and New York City. This is just a sample, expect more to come.

Sound Scape Sample by Aja Simpson

Faculty members Zishan Ugurlu and Ulrich Lehmann are celebrating the school’s theatrical past through the work of the émigré director and producer Erwin Piscator.  Piscator worked with Bertholdt Brecht, and founded The Dramatic Workshop at the school in 1940.As part of the Centennial celebration, Urgula and Lehmann, along with 
Drew Lichtenberg and Lloyd Huber, are reviving a rare production of Piscator’s.  Ernst Toller’s highly charged political drama, Hoppla, We’re Alive.   Ugurlu and Lehmann talk about the project in this feature.

A Provocative Legacy: Erwin Piscator and the Dramatic Workshop

NONE OF THE MUSIC IN THIS SEGMENT BELONGS TO WNSR. See full (informal) credits below:
- Music: (1) The Original Memphis Five - Fireworks (1929), (2) Jim Europe’s 369th Infantry “Hellfighters” Band - Memphis Blues (1919), (3) Louis Armstrong - Chimes Blues (1923).
- Almost all ambient street noise found on The Roaring Twenties website, http://vectorsdev.usc.edu/NYCsound/777b.html, other sounds were recorded by myself or found on freesound.org.
- Horrace Callen giving a speech during Alvin Johnson’s birthday celebration in 1963. Provided by The New School Archives.
- Recorded reading of some sections in the first published “What is The New School?” pamphlet from 1925. Found in The New School Archives and Special Collections Digital Archive. Read by Aja Simpson and Ben Montoya.

Sound Scape Ep. 1 | The Opening of The New School (20's/30's)

NONE OF THE MUSIC IN THIS SEGMENT BELONGS TO WNSR. See full (informal) credits below:
- Music: (1) Found in the 1939 New York World’s Fair Newsreel, (2) Aaron Copland- Appalachian Spring (1944).
1939 New York World’s Fair “World of Tomorrow” Newsreel clip.
- Almost all ambient street noise found on The Roaring Twenties website, http://vectorsdev.usc.edu/NYCsound/777b.html, other sounds were recorded by myself or found on freesound.org.
- News broadcast of the beginning of WWII compiled by KCRW in Santa Monica - Compilation of World War II Radio Broadcasts. Provided by YouTube user Danieljbmitchell.
- Alvin Johnson speech on The University in Exile. Found in The New School Archives and Special Collections Digital Archive. Read by Ben Montoya.
- Arnold Brecht giving a speech during Alvin Johnson’s birthday celebration in 1963. Provided by The New School Archives.
- Reading of the course listings offered for Fall 1945 at The New School for Social Research. Found in The New School Archives and Special Collections Digital Archive. Read by Aja Simpson. 
- Reading of a George Freedly article in The New York Times from the 1940’s. Found in The New School Archives and Special Collections Digital Archive. Read by Ian Davis.

Sound Scape Ep. 2 | The University in Exile (40's/50's)

NONE OF THE MUSIC IN THIS SEGMENT BELONGS TO WNSR. See full (informal) credits below:
- Music: (1) Introduction music from the WMAF broadcast of the first American Race Crisis Lecture Series at The New School (1964), (2) Miles Davis Quintet - It Never Entered My Mind (1954), (3) Outro music from the WMAF broadcast of the first American Race Crisis Lecture Series at The New School (1964).
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s lecture “The Summer of Our Discontent” apart of the American Race Crisis Lecture Series at The New School (1964).
- Ambient noise: (1) Recordings of a conversation with members of the Institute for Retired Professionals originally for the podcast New Histories. Provided kindly by TNS Professor of History, Julia Foulkes. (2) “Diverse Voices” of TNS students. Provided kindly by Sarah Montague. (3) All other ambient sounds recorded by myself, or found on freesound.org.
- President Nixon’s Cambodia incursion address from April 30, 1970.
- Students protesting in Washington D.C. and NYC days after Nixon’s announcement (1970).
- Press release announcing the re-opening of the Parsons exhibition at the Graduate Faculty building. Students' Exhibition to Portray Dissent Thru Art. (1970). Found in The New School Archives and Special Collections Digital Archive. Read by Aja Simpson.

Sound Scape Ep. 3 | Parson's Merges with The New School (50's/60's)

NONE OF THE MUSIC IN THIS SEGMENT BELONGS TO WNSR. See full (informal) credits below:
- Music: (1) Roy Hargrove - Strasbourg St. Denis (2008), (2) Robert Glasper - So Beautiful (2015)
- All ambient noise recorded by me, or found at freesound.org.
- The New School 2019 Commencement Ceremony Speech by David Van Zandt.
- Lecture on “Integrating Technology to Improve Student Comprehension and Production” given at The New School. Published on The New School’s YouTube channel. (2013)
- Courses read from the Parsons 2012-2013 catalog, the Eugene Lang 2012 & 2018 Fall catalogs, The New School for Public Engagement 2008 catalog, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Course 2008-2009 catalog.
- Short clip from a recording of the lecture series “Gender Studies: What Histories Do We Want to Claim? Session 2: No Longer in Exile: The Legacy and Future of Gender Studies at the New School.” (2010) Found in The New School Archives and Special Collections Digital Archive.
- Short clip from footage of “Mobilization Protests and Forum at The New School.” Mark Schmidt collection of Mobilization materials. (1997) Found in The New School Archives and Special Collections Digital Archive.

Sound Scape Ep. 4 | The Centennial (21st Century)

Among the events being presented at The Festival of New are under the heading 400 Years of Inequality, and seek to link recognition of the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved African-Americans in Jamestown in 1619 with the New School's celebration of its social justice mission.  One of the organizers, faculty member Robert Sember, sees anniversaries as an opportunity to recalibrate our moral compass.  He talks about the thinking that led to 400 Years of Inequality.

The New School Centennial: 400 Years of Inequality

Reporting from Elizabeth Warren’s rally in Washington Square Park

Produced by Adina Karp, Jay Tobin, Layla Lari,  & Omer Soylemez

Warren’s Rallying Cry

This podcast discusses impeachment as an element in the constitution and current public opinion on impeachment. It features interviews with Lisa Huestis and Tony Peer.

Produced By Isabelle Rosa

Impeachment as a Constitutional Provision

Pickles and cultural preservation happenings on the Lower East Side.

Reported, Produced, & Mixed  by Adina Karp

Preserving & Pickling: The Lower East Side

I'm Kennedy Whitaker and I'm a fan of getting my nails done. Long, short, fat you name it I'm there, make me look pretty. This project highlights a few moments in today's media that have been showing off nail art and I get to introduce you, listeners, to my nail spot in Harlem. Let's get it going!

Nail Culture

After Dr. Derald Wing Sue, a professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, spoke at The New School on microaggressions in academia, three students shared their experiences with them.

Reported, Produced, & Mixed by Andrew Orellana

Micro-aggressions at The New School

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