Goucher College Podcasts

Black students at Goucher College organized a Blackout protest in the fall of 2018 in response to a hate crime on campus. The Blackout demanded that Goucher’s administration address this crime with urgency, something the students felt was lacking in response to past hate crimes. This collection of oral histories allows Black students at Goucher who were involved in the protest a space where they c...

Black students at Goucher College organized a Blackout protest in the fall of 2018 in response to a hate crime on campus. The Blackout demanded that Goucher’s administration address this crime with urgency, something the students felt was lacking in response to past hate crimes. This collection of oral histories allows Black students at Goucher who were involved in the protest a space where they c...

Black students at Goucher College organized a Blackout protest in the fall of 2018 in response to a hate crime on campus. The Blackout demanded that Goucher’s administration address this crime with urgency, something the students felt was lacking in response to past hate crimes. This collection of oral histories allows Black students at Goucher who were involved in the protest a space where they c...

Black students at Goucher College organized a Blackout protest in the fall of 2018 in response to a hate crime on campus. The Blackout demanded that Goucher’s administration address this crime with urgency, something the students felt was lacking in response to past hate crimes. This collection of oral histories allows Black students at Goucher who were involved in the protest a space where they c...

Black students at Goucher College organized a Blackout protest in the fall of 2018 in response to a hate crime on campus. The Blackout demanded that Goucher’s administration address this crime with urgency, something the students felt was lacking in response to past hate crimes. This collection of oral histories allows Black students at Goucher who were involved in the protest a space where they c...

The Oral History of Religious Minority Collection preserves Goucher College's history of religious diversity and inclusion. Inspired by the growing diversity on campus and concerned with the intensifying social divides outside its walls, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life began collecting stories of Goucher alumnae/i in 2019. These oral histories, conducted by current Goucher students, are...

The Oral History of Religious Minority Collection preserves Goucher College's history of religious diversity and inclusion. Inspired by the growing diversity on campus and concerned with the intensifying social divides outside its walls, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life began collecting stories of Goucher alumnae/i in 2019. These oral histories, conducted by current Goucher students, are...

The Oral History of Religious Minority Collection preserves Goucher College's history of religious diversity and inclusion. Inspired by the growing diversity on campus and concerned with the intensifying social divides outside its walls, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life began collecting stories of Goucher alumnae/i in 2019. These oral histories, conducted by current Goucher students,...

The Oral History of Religious Minority Collection preserves Goucher College's history of religious diversity and inclusion. Inspired by the growing diversity on campus and concerned with the intensifying social divides outside its walls, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life began collecting stories of Goucher alumnae/i in 2019. These oral histories, conducted by current Goucher students, are...

Jane Austen is, foremost, a social commentator. Dress is a nuanced social marker, and her novels use clothing and needlework to pinpoint niceties of character. Austen’s letters reveal a lively interest in clothes, alongside her concerns about how to dress well on limited income. During the author’s short life, unprecedented and accelerated change saw Britain’s turbulent entry into the modern age....

Jane Austen is, foremost, a social commentator. Dress is a nuanced social marker, and her novels use clothing and needlework to pinpoint niceties of character. Austen’s letters reveal a lively interest in clothes, alongside her concerns about how to dress well on limited income. During the author’s short life, unprecedented and accelerated change saw Britain’s turbulent entry into the modern age....

Jane Austen lived in the cottage at Chawton from 1809 until shortly before her death in 1817, and it was in that house that she completed all her novels. Jane Austen Memorial Trustee Martyn Dell provides an insider’s view of "the most treasured Austen site in the world."

The translation of any poem from one language to another is a process of detail and feeling. Translating Kiriu Minashita’s “Sonic Peace” message in Japanese to English required deeply understanding a densely beautiful message in Japanese and creating the same emotions in English readers, without losing the message. Editors, Eric E. Hyett and Spencer Thurlow will discuss the intricacies involved in...

The Dr. Myra Berman Kurtz ’66 Seminar guest speaker is Dr. Victoria Niklas ‘82 (Vice President of Innovation and Communication Prolacta Bioscience).

Arnold Sanders, professor emeritus of English, presented a history of the Berners Hours, a 15th-century illuminated manuscript prayer book, and its owners. The manuscript was donated in 2017 by Sanders and his wife, Laura Provan, in honor of their parents and Nancy Magnuson, college librarian emerita.

How an author/illustrator and an orthodontist created a book on disability and bullying: The Elephant with a Knot in His Trunk by Nancy Patz and Stuart Sheer, illustrated by Nancy Patz.

This was a conversation about the removal of Stephen Towns’ paintings inspired by Nat Turner's insurrection from Rosenberg Gallery. With moderation by Rob Ferrell, the panel and Goucher community collectively discussed the boundaries of freedom of expression, the role of art on Goucher's campus, and the role of the institution in facilitating discourse about enslavement and racism, in the past and...

To help broaden perspectives of the untold and overlooked stories of Black students at Goucher College, Goucher College Archives & Special Collections, led by Yabsera Faris ’17, is collecting oral histories of early Black students at the College. The purpose of this oral history project is to create an in-depth account of personal experiences and reflections of Black alumnae during the first decad...

To help broaden perspectives of the untold and overlooked stories of Black students at Goucher College, Goucher College Archives & Special Collections, led by Yabsera Faris ’17, is collecting oral histories of early Black students at the College. The purpose of this oral history project is to create an in-depth account of personal experiences and reflections of Black alumnae during the first decad...

To help broaden perspectives of the untold and overlooked stories of Black students at Goucher College, Goucher College Archives & Special Collections, led by Yabsera Faris ’17, is collecting oral histories of early Black students at the College. The purpose of this oral history project is to create an in-depth account of personal experiences and reflections of Black alumnae during the first decad...

To help broaden perspectives of the untold and overlooked stories of Black students at Goucher College, Goucher College Archives & Special Collections, led by Yabsera Faris ’17, is collecting oral histories of early Black students at the College. The purpose of this oral history project is to create an in-depth account of personal experiences and reflections of Black alumnae during the first decad...

To help broaden perspectives of the untold and overlooked stories of Black students at Goucher College, Goucher College Archives & Special Collections, led by Yabsera Faris ’17, is collecting oral histories of early Black students at the College. The purpose of this oral history project is to create an in-depth account of personal experiences and reflections of Black alumnae during the first decad...

Storyteller Queen Nur http://queennur.com/ presented an evening performance on February 27, 2017 as part of the Storytelling Theme Semester. Queen Nur is a an alumna of Goucher's Master's in Cultural Sustainability program and currently President of the National Association of Black Storytellers. Queen sees stories as a central means of sustaining cultures and the people who participate in them, a...

Goucher College President José Antonio Bowen spoke with WBAL NewsRadio regarding his philosophy on maximizing classroom time and his new book, “Teaching Naked Techniques.” In an environment of increased content competition, Dr. Bowen advocates for reviewing content out of the classroom, so that during class a dialogue takes place amongst professors and students to increase learning opportunities.

To help broaden perspectives of the untold and overlooked stories of Black students at Goucher College, Goucher College Archives & Special Collections, led by Yabsera Faris ’17, is collecting oral histories of early Black students at the College. The purpose of this oral history project is to create an in-depth account of personal experiences and reflections of Black alumnae during the first decad...