Public Work: a public humanities Podcast
1) Episode 12: Liza Yeager, Amelia Golcheski, and Jim McGrath on Podcasts
Welcome to the season finale of Public Work! This week's episode begins with a conversation between Amelia and Jim on the secret origins of Public Work, the ubiquity of podcasts, and what they've lear...Show More
2) Episode 11: Julian Saporiti and Erin Aoyama on Folk Music, Asian American History, and No-No Boy
How can music call attention to America's traumatic past and reveal what we can learn from these histories in the present? This week we talk to Julian Saporiti and Erin Aoyama, the musicians and schol...Show More
3) Episode 10: Angela Yuanyuan Feng, Julieanne Fontana, and Diane O'Donoghue on Providence's Chinatown
What happened to Providence's Chinatown? In this week's episode we talk to Angela Yuanyuan Feng and Julieanne Fontana, two Master's Students in Public Humanities at Brown University who have created a...Show More
4) Episode 09: John Kannenberg on The Museum of Portable Sound
Every museum has its own unique soundtrack. This week on Public Work, Ruby Thiagarajan, a first-year Master's Student in Public Humanities at Brown University, talks to John Kannenberg, a multimedia a...Show More
5) Episode 08: Rica Maestas and Julia Renaud on moonhaus
What is moonhaus? Find out in our conversation with Rica Maestas and Julia Renaud, the hosts behind a recent installation and event series that invited attendees to explore ideas of astrology and witc...Show More
6) Episode 07: Maggie Unverzagt Goddard and Mika Matsuno on BAD ART
What is Bad Art? Where do our ideas about aesthetics come from and how do those ideas change over time? Have you ever taken a still life class where the model was a dog? What does Enya have to do with...Show More
7) Episode 06: Emily Hilliard on Folklore, West Virginia, and Documenting Contemporary Labor Movements
What role does folklore play in modern life? What is folklore, anyway? In this episode, Amelia Golcheski interviews West Virginia state folklorist Emily Hilliard to learn why folklore is more than jus...Show More
8) Episode 05: Kate Duffy on Phantom Archives
How are artists and performers finding creative uses for archival materials? On our latest episode we're joined by Kate Duffy, a doctoral candidate in American Studies at Brown who is also one of the ...Show More
9) Episode 04: Zhuohan Jiang and Susan Smulyan on Shanghai and Museums
Learn about museums in Shanghai from our latest episode, which features a conversation between Public Humanities graduate student Zhuohan Jiang and Susan Smulyan, Director of Brown University's John N...Show More
10) Episode 03: Hannah Mooney and Molly Pailet on Monuments and Memory
Hannah Mooney and Molly Pailet stopped by Public Work to talk about "Monument Worthy," an exhibition they curated on the topic of "personal memory markers." Hear Hannah and Molly talk with Jim and Ame...Show More