Professor Pat Parker (Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities) interview Claire McCaskill on her career in politics and her thoughts on the current political and cultural climate of the United States.

Episode 118: Senator Claire McCaskill

In February of 2018, Former IAH Director Mark Katz interviews astrophysicist and College of Arts and Sciences Dean Chris Clemens about his research of the stars, as well as his self-identified conservatism on a college campus, where liberalism is the dominant language.  He discusses why different views on campus are fundamental to a higher educational experience, highlighting the UNC-Duke Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program, co-directed by Philosophy Professor and Associate Professors Program Director Geoff Sayre-McCord.

Episode 60: Chris Clemens Professor Of Physics And Astronomy

Assistant Professor Gwendolyn Schwinke and Artist Maya Gurantz discuss their latest collaboration, The Endurance Project.

A Work-In-Progress showing of The Endurance Project will be open to the public on Saturday, Feb. 26 from 5:00-6:30 p.m. in the Joan Gillings Center for Dramatic Arts, Room 102, UNC-Chapel Hill campus. People are invited to arrive as early as 4:30 to listen to the audio installation.

Episode 119: The Endurance Project with Gwendolyn Schwinke and Maya Gurantz

After the 2022 Reckford Lecture, speaker Magdalena Zaborowska joins Patricia Parker and Sharon Holland for a deeper dive into themes from her remarks, including questions about belonging and identity in James Baldwin’s philosophy of Black queer humanism. She also discusses her interdisciplinary research methodologies and provides a glimpse into her future Baldwin-inspired projects.

Episode 121: Interview with 2022 Reckford Speaker Magdalena J. Zaborowska

History professor John Wood Sweet joins the podcast to talk about his new book, The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America, published by Henry Holt and Company. He talks about the experiences of researching and publishing this book, his IAH Faculty Fellowship in 2020, and why he started telling the stories of people who aren’t widely known.

Episode 122: Recovering stories from the past: The Sewing Girl's Tale

Oswaldo Estrada, professor of Romance studies, discusses the Faculty Fellowship Program. After receiving a fellowship three times, Estrada returned as its program director in 2021. As he enters the second year in the role, we talk about the program, the way that it enhances faculty research, his past experiences as a Fellow, and what he's looking forward to learning from this year's cohorts.

Episode 123: Oswaldo Estrada on the Faculty Fellowship Program

Assistant professor of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, Ron Williams joins The Institute to discuss his latest book project, an institutional history of the US based foreign policy organization, "Trans Africa."

Episode 112: The History of Trans-Africa/Ron Williams

Viji Sathy, the IAH's Tyson Academic Leadership Program Director, talks about how the program helps faculty across the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, her experiences in leadership development, and the way she brings her work in inclusive teaching into the ALP seminars. (Recorded in Summer 2022.)

Episode 124: Viji Sathy on the Academic Leadership Program

Institute for the Arts and Humanities Director Patricia Parker reflects on her first year leading the IAH, and how her experiences and work in engaged scholarship prepared her for the role.

Episode 125: Leadership and Engaged Humanities Scholarship with Patricia Parker - Part 1

Institute for the Arts and Humanities Patricia Parker talks about the impact of public humanities engagement. She also shares her recent interdisciplinary collaborations with other UNC faculty and international partners.

Ep 126: Public Humanities Engagement and Interdisciplinary Collaborations with Patricia Parker

Recorded in February 2023, Director Patricia Parker talks with 2023 Reckford Lecture speaker and historian Ana Lucia Araujo about her research.

Watch the 2023 Reckford Lecture on the IAH website: https://iah.unc.edu/araujo-2023-reckford-lecture/

Episode 127: Slavery as History and Memory with 2023 Reckford Lecturer Ana Lucia Araujo

African, African American and diaspora studies professor Kenneth Janken received the 2022 George H. Johnson Prize for Distinguished Achievement by an IAH Fellow. On March 23, 2023, he received the award and delivered a lecture, "Bringing the Wilmington Ten to the Public's Attention: One Historian's Experience in Public Humanities.” Before his lecture, he sat down to talk about his research, public reaction to the case, and his Fellowship experiences.

Episode 128: Kenneth Janken on Bringing the Wilmington Ten to the Public's Attention

Recorded in spring 2023, Courtney Rivard, a 2023 fellow in the Tyson Academic Leadership Program, discusses her work as Director of the digital literacy and communications lab at UNC-Chapel Hill. She also shares recent projects in digital humanities, gaming studies, and a book that she worked on during her spring 2022 Faculty Fellowship.

Episode 129: Digital Humanities, Game Studies, and International Collaborations with Courtney Rivard

Actor and playwright Samuel Ray Gates (FFP ’22) talks about his Faculty Fellowship experience, where he continued his work on his one-person show, When the Swelling Goes Down. Gates shares the themes of the show, the writing process, and the ways comedy can be used to explore and heal through difficult issues.
Recorded in spring 2023.

Episode 130: When the Swelling Goes Down with Actor, Playwright Samuel Ray Gates

Historian Katherine Turk (FFP ’21) discusses her new book, The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed America (The Macmillan Group). She shares the history of the National Organization for Women, and on three leaders who helped shape the organization.

Episode 131: The Women of NOW with historian Katherine Turk

Andrea Bohlman is an associate professor of music who received a 2023 Summer International Collaborative Research Grant from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Part of Bohlman’s research examined the consent and politics of sound and sound-recordings, and she collaborated with colleagues at Polish universities. In the podcast, she talks about her research and the impact of the $20,000 grant.

International Collaborative Research with Associate Professor Andrea Bohlman

Assistant professor of religious studies Hugo Mendez (FFP '22) discusses his research in his recent book projects: one exploring the role of St. Stephen in early Christian communities, and the most recent examining the biblical books of John. He also describes his fellowship experiences – at the IAH and at the National Humanities Center – and how they provided the needed time and interdisciplinary connections to work on his current book.

Episode 133: Examining Biblical Texts with Assistant Professor Hugo Mendez

In advance of the 2024 Weil Lecture on March 25, Director Patricia Parker conducts a phone interview with speaker Judy Woodruff. During her lecture, Woodruff will speak on her reporting project, Judy Woodruff Presents: America at a Crossroads.

In this podcast, Director Parker asks Woodruff about her distinguished career in journalism, the inspirations for the project, and the divisions and conversations she witnesses throughout it. 
Attend the Weil Lecture for American Citizenship, hosted by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, on the UNC campus on March 25. RSVP at go.unc.edu/Kd9z6

More information: https://iah.unc.edu/event/weil-lecture-2324/

Episode 134: Weil Speaker Judy Woodruff on ‘America at the Crossroads’

Professor Sam Amago talks with us on his current research on trash, aesthetics and Spanish film of the post-Franco era.

Episode 49: Sam Amago On The Aesthetics Of Garbage In Spanish Film

We speak with award-winning author Zia Haider Rahman ("In the Light of What We Know") on the writing process and the cultural implications of Brexit.

Episode 62: Zia Haider Rahman

Associate Professor Kia Caldwell (African, African American, and Diaspora Studies) talks about the life and death of Marielle Franco. She discusses Franco's work as an activist and the circumstances that led to her assassination on March 14, 2018

Read the statement at Black Scholars: https://bit.ly/2JShmep 
Follow Kia Caldwell on Twitter: @KiaLCaldwell
Follow IAH on Twitter: @iah_unc

Episode 65: On Marielle Franco With Kia Caldwell

We sit down with Senior Associate Dean Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld and Associate Professor of Geography Javier Arce-Nazario about their collaboration on the Geo-visualization of North Carolina mill towns. Their work together is made possible by the IAH's New Faculty Collaboration grant.

Episode 72: NC Mill Town Geo-visualization with Javier Arce Nazario And Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld

Associate Professor David Pier talks about his current research on Ugandan music. 

We also talk about the music of Black Panther (2017) and the synthesis of distinct musical traditions. Prof. Pier also compares the music of Black Panther to Tim Burton's Batman (1989). 

Follow Prof. Pier on Twitter: @davepierunc
Follow IAH on Twitter: @iah_unc
Follow Philip Hollingsworth: @pchollingsworth

Episode 73: Music Of Black Panther And The Ugandan Guitar With David Pier

Assistant Professor, Art Historian Maggie Cao discusses her work on 19th century landscapes and her latest book project on artistic creation in the maritime world of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Here's her latest book The End of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century America: www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520291423

RE-POST: Episode 86: Maritime Artistic Creation With Maggie Cao

Michael Gutierrez (English & Comp. Lit, novelist) and Caela O'Connell (Anthropology) discuss human response to climate change and natural disasters in relation to O'Connell's anthropological studies and Gutierrez's current novel project.

Episode 97: Human Response To Climate Change with Michael Gutierrez and Caela O'Connell

Music Professor Michael Figueroa talks about the music of Arab America as a key component to post-9/11 racial identity formation. 

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Episode 105: Music Of Arab America Post 9/11 With Michael Figueroa

Assistant Professor of Italian Maggie Fritz-Morkin speaks with us about her work in Medieval Studies!

Episode 106: Italian Medieval Lit With Maggie Fritz-Morkin

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Rebecka Rutledge Fisher discusses her decades-long research on the work of prolific author W.E.B. Du Bois.

Episode 109: The Poetry Of W.E.B. Du Bois With Rebecka Rutledge Fisher

Associate Professor Priscilla Layne talks about her latest research on Afro-German Afrofuturism in literature and theater.

Episode 110: Afro-German Afrofuturism With Priscilla Layne

Helga Davis, musician, artist, Carolina Performing Arts artist in residence speaks with us on the life of an interdisciplinary artist!

Episode 113: Helga Davis

The Institute for the Arts and Humanities serves as UNC-Chapel Hill’s faculty home for interdisciplinary conversation and collaboration. The IAH supports its mission through its commitment to three interrelated areas of faculty life: scholarship, leadership, and fellowship. The IAH podcast features in-depth conversations with Fellows. The owl tops Hyde Hall, our Franklin Street home.

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