Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere

In this episode, we are joined by Xinyuan Qui, PhD Candidate in the English Department at Binghamton University and a current Public Humanities Fellow sponsored by IASH and Humanities New York, to discuss her ongoing project tilted "Asian Cultures in Binghamton's Local History" that seeks to uncover the ways in which Asian cultures have been represented in the Binghamton area. She i...

In this episode, we are joined by Shruti Jain, PhD Candidate in the English Department, and Le Li, PhD Candidate in the Translation Research and Instruction Program, at Binghamton University. The two of them host the podcast “Immigrants Wake America,” and released the first season last year, which allowed storytellers to share stories about migration and the centrality of immigrant women in their...

Welcome to "Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere," an IASH sponsored podcast where we discuss various public humanities projects on Binghamton University's campus and elsewhere.  In this episode, we are joined by Anne Bailey, professor of history and director of the Harriet Tubman Center for Freedom and Equity, to discuss the range of community engaged projects the center is...

Welcome to "Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere," an IASH sponsored podcast where we discuss various public humanities projects on Binghamton University's campus and elsewhere.  In this episode, we are joined by Tom McDonough, adjunct curator and professor of art history, to discuss the ongoing exhibit at the Binghamton art museum titled Ed Wilson: The Sculptor as Afro-Human...

Welcome to "Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere," an IASH sponsored podcast where we discuss various public humanities projects on Binghamton University's campus and elsewhere.  In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Brianna Langlie, associate professor of anthropology, to discuss the seventh annual Haudenosaunee Festival that was hosted on Binghamton University's campus...

Welcome to “ Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere”, an IASH sponsored podcast on public humanities. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Bryan Kirschen,  a professor of Spanish and Linguistics, and Dr. Dina Danon, a professor of Judaic Studies and History, at Binghamton University, who in addition to their various scholarly interests, also co-direct Binghamton University's Ladino coll...

Welcome to “ Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere”, an IASH sponsored podcast on public humanities. In this episode we are joined by Dr. Laurie Miroff, the Director of the Public Archaeology Facility. The PAF is an archaeology firm at Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY) organized in 1972 to provide cultural resource management (CRM) services to clients throughout the Northeastern United...

Welcome to “ Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere”, an IASH sponsored podcast on public humanities. In this episode, Dr. Lisa Yun, Associate Professor, Department of English and Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, shares with us her unique and engaged approach to Public Humanities. She talks about the role that storytelling plays in a classroom as well as outside, in building co...

Welcome to Confluence humanities in the public sphere, an IASH sponsored podcast that discusses various public humanities projects on the Binghamton University campus as well as outside. In this episode, we are joined by Colleen Watson, a PhD candidate in the philosophy department at Binghamton University. Along with her dissertation, Colleen is also working on a public humanities project titled,...

Welcome to “ Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere”, an IASH sponsored podcast on public humanities. For our introductory episode today, we are joined by Dr. Wendy Wall, Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Director of the Institute for advance Studies in the Humanities or IASH. Professor Wall discusses what the public humanities are, the context for the emergence of publ...