BG Ideas

Alli Hoag, a Spring 2022 ICS Faculty Fellow and full-time instructor of glasswork and Glass Area Head at BGSU, discusses her research on creating sustainable structures with innovative glass blocks. Hoag discusses new ways to utilize glass as an architectural material in alignment with the natural world and human biorhythms. Hoag describes her custom design for an octahedron glass block as well as...

BGSU student Sam Farabaugh and faculty mentor Dr. Karen Sirum discuss Sam's creative research project to develop an illustrated children's book, which was supported by the Center for Undergraduate Student Research (CURS). Sam’s children’s book educated students about coral reefs in an effort to foster a sense of environmental appreciation and responsibility in young readers. Listeners can keep up...

This episode features Michaela Goade, illustrator of children’s book We Are Water Protectors, and Amanda Rzicznek, BGSU teaching professor of courses in University Writing, graphic narratives, and literature for children and young adults at BGSU. Our guests discuss the importance and purpose of illustration in children’s literature, and how artistic choices shape readers' experiences. Listeners ca...

This episode features guests Carole Lindstrom, author of children’s books Gift of the Great Buffalo and We Are Water Protectors, and Joe Prince, a curriculum and outreach educator for the BGSU Library's Curriculum Resource Center. Lindstrom and Prince discuss how children’s literature develops a child’s sense of social and environmental responsibility and address diversity in children’s literature...

As both creators and educators, Seth Thomas Sutton and Lucas Ostrowski discuss the use of film as a tool for creative expression and activism. Sutton is a Métis artist, scholar, author, and activist, and is a professor and chair of the Arts and Humanities Department of Montcalm Community College. Ostrowski is an associate professor for the Department of Theatre and Film at BGSU and an indepen...

Academy Award winning screenwriter, director and producer, Dustin Lance Black, alongside Dr. Lesa Lockford, chair of the Department of Theatre and Film at BGSU, discuss authenticity in performance and storytelling. Our guests touch on the relationship between storytelling and creating meaningful dialogue about social issues. Listeners can keep up with ICS happenings by following us on Twitter and...

BGSU student Courtney Foerg and her faculty mentor Dr. Jordan Wilfong bring awareness to the issue of period poverty and inadequate access to menstruation products. Foerg’s research project, Period Poverty in the United States: Achieving Menstrual Equity in Bowling Green, Ohio, was funded by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship (CURS). Listeners can keep up with ICS happenings by...

In the season 6 premiere of BG Ideas , Dr. Amy Acton and Jim Watkins walk listeners through what it was like as public health officials at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Acton served as director of the Ohio Department of Health from 2019 to 2020, leading the state’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Watkins is the health commissioner at the Williams County Health Department,...

This special bonus episode is the first episode of Archival Encounters, an occasional series from the Center for Archival Collections (CAC ) a t Bowling Green State University. This episode features an oral history interview recorded in the 1980s with Toledo pharmacist and civil rights activist Ella P. Stewart. CAC archivist Nick Pavlik also speaks with Dr. Shirley Green, BGSU alum and adjunct ins...

Jolie speaks with art curator Dr. Michael Harris and exhibit advisor Dr. Rebecca Skinner Green about representations of Black subjects in visual art in relation to “Visible Man: Art and Black Male Subjectivity”, which was exhibited on BGSU’s campus in Fall 2021. Dr. Harris is a BGSU alum and Associate Professor Emeritus of Art History and African American Studies at Emory University, and Dr. Skinn...

In this week's episode, Jolie speaks with Emily Schmitz and Jordon Egbert, undergraduate students in BGSU’s dietetics program, about their work to bridge the food insecurity gap in Luckey, Ohio. They discuss the role of the Luckey Community Garden and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food insecurity. Their project was supported by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship at BGSU...

In this week's episode, Jolie speaks with Dr. Michaela Walsh, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at BGSU, and Beatriz Maya, director of La Conexion, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the rights of the growing Latino/a/x population in Northwest Ohio. They discuss campus-community partnerships to support the Latino/a/x community. You can keep up with ICS happenings by following us o...

In this week's episode, Jolie speaks with Dr. Bruce Collet and Dr. Luis Fernando Macías about how sanctuary churches and school districts use sanctuary policies to resist anti-immigrant laws and rhetoric. Dr. Collet is a BGSU professor in the School of Educational Foundations, Leadership, and Policy and a Fall 2021 ICS Faculty Fellow; Dr. Macías is an assistant professor in the Chicano and Latin A...

In this week's episode, Jolie speaks with Dr. Christopher Witulski about the role of music within Arab American communities as a tool of tradition and change. Dr. Witulski is an assistant teaching professor of Ethnomusicology at BGSU and a Fall 2021 ICS Faculty Fellow. You can keep up with other ICS happenings by following us on Twitter and Instagram @icsbgsu and on our Facebook page. You can list...

In this week's episode, Jolie speaks with BGSU Political Science Professor Dr. Melissa K. Miller and undergraduate student Lydia Applin about their research project and documentary film on early female politicians in Ohio. The project was supported by a grant from the Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship at BGSU.  You can keep up with ICS happenings by following us on Twitter and...

Jolie speaks with Dr. William Easterly about reimagining global aid and humanitarian efforts. Dr. Easterly is a former World Bank economist, a professor of economics at NYU, and author of The White Man’s Burden, The Elusive Quest for Growth, and The Tyranny of Experts. You can keep up with ICS happenings by following us on Twitter and Instagram @icsbgsu, and on our Facebook page. You can listen to...

This bonus episode features the conversation held by Jolie and Dr. Timothy Messer-Kruse, Dr. Nicole Jackson and Gloria Wu at ICS's "Politics of Teaching History" roundtable discussion. Jolie and guests discuss the debate generated by both the 1619 Project and the 1776 Commission and explore the difficulty and necessity of teaching U.S. history honestly, sensitively, and culturally responsively.  A...

In this episode, Jolie speaks with David Bixler, a composer, musician, and Director of Jazz Studies, about demystifying the process of music creation, composing through the pandemic, and the many hats he wears in the jazz scene.  Announcer:From Bowling Green State University and the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society. This is BG ideas. Musical Intro:I'm going to show you this with a wo...

In this episode, guest host Kari Hanlin talks with Professor Abigail Cloud, editor of the Mid-American Review, and literary and visual artist Paula J. Lambert. They discuss creative processes in the pandemic, writing as an interdisciplinary practice, and the need for greater diversity in publishing practices.  Announcer: From Bowling Green State University and the Institute for the Study of Cultur...

In this episode, Jolie speaks with Academy Award-nominated Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante and associate professor of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literature, Film, and Trans-Atlantic studies Dr. Pedro Porbén. They discuss the role that films have historically played in political and social revolutions and explore the cultural significance and societal symbolism of legends and f...

In this episode, guest host Stevie Scheurich speaks with Dr. Angela Ahlgren, professor of theatre and film at BGSU, and Dr. Kareem Khubchandani, professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Tufts University, about how their lives as performers and professors inform each other. Angela and Kareem discuss their research as both performers and performance studies scholars exploring how polit...

In collaboration with LGBTQ+ Programs and Womxn’s History Month, this special episode features guest host Gray Strain, Assistant Director for Diversity and Belonging at BGSU, and Dr. Lady J, who was keynote speaker of the 2021 Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Research Symposium at BGSU. The pair discuss drag scholarship, community activism, the untold history of the artform, and the integral...

In this special episode of the BG Ideas podcast, we present a roundtable discussion about the significance of Kamala Harris's appointment to Vice President, brought to us by the Center for Women and Gender Equity and the Division of Diversity and Belonging. Titled “Being the First but Making Sure You Are Not the Last.” This panel was moderated by CWGE director Dr. Kacee Ferrell Snyder and features...

In this episode, Jolie speaks with Nicole Robinson, keynote speaker at the 2021 Black Issues Conference, and Ana Brown, the Director for the Office of Multicultural Affairs at BGSU. They discuss how to ensure equity and accessibility for marginalized groups through their work in digital marketing and academic administration respectively. Announcer:From Bowling Green State University and the Instit...

In this episode, Jolie talks with Dr. Vivian Miller, assistant professor of social work and Director of the Optimal Aging Institute, and Dr. Nancy Kusmaul, an associate professor in the Baccalaureate Social Work program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. They discuss how COVID impacted older adults and what the pandemic exposed about the need for social connectivity practices in long-...