Goucher College Podcasts

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...

February 3, 2017 is the centennial of the College Day picket of women suffragists on the White House. To mark the occasion and to open the exhibit, Goucher alumnae and students will present their original research on Goucher’s involvement in the women’s suffrage movement, highlighting the role of notable alumnae and faculty.

A celebration of life for Professor Joe Morton was held Saturday June 18 at 1pm in the Athenaeum at Goucher College. Speakers were Jason Morton, Rebecca Morton, Nancy Magnuson, Katie Lautar, Sister Ardeth Platte, and Bart Houseman. Meredith Morton played the cello. The gathering music was performed by José Antonio Bowen. Dr. Morton was the founder of Goucher’s Peace Studies Program and professor e...

Marlene Trestman '78, former Goucher trustee, author, and former special assistant to the Maryland attorney general, takes us on a journey in her book, Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin. Trestman's book is about attorney and Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin. Margolin is described as "shaping modern American labor policy whi...

Scholar Michael K. Dorsey shares his perspective and insights about the historic climate change conferences in Paris. The recording is from Goucher College's Spring 2016 Graduate Residency, for which he was a guest speaker. He also screened a documentary on the Paris climate talks titled Climate Deadline—Paris that he co-produced.

Social emotions like admiration and compassion shape how we think and act, who we become, and how we experience our own lives. Neuroscientist and human development psychologist with the University of Southern California Mary Helen Immordino-Yang will present her research on the neurobiology and psychology of emotional feelings, including their deep roots in the feeling and regulation of the body a...

How did we end up with a world where when we ask each other how we are doing, the answer is usually: “I’m just so busy”? Why do we do this to ourselves? When did we forget that we are human beings, not human doings? And how do we start recovering peace in the heart, as we strive for peace in the world? Editor of Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism and director of the Duke Islami...

The Biennial Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence Program brings a competitively selected scholar to Goucher for a week to research the college’s Alberta H. and Henry G. Burke Papers and Jane Austen Research Collection. The chosen scholar also works with related undergraduate classes and presents a public lecture on an Austen-related topic. In her application for the program, Anderson proposed a lectu...

An oral history with Goucher faculty member Jeffrey Chappell conducted by students in HP 220 Documenting Historic Buildings. The assignment was to interview a Goucher faculty member who was teaching prior to the College becoming co-ed. The interview captures the faculty member's perspective on the decision to go co-ed, their memories of the transition, and thoughts on changes both in and out of th...

Goucher College Professor Uta Larkey conducts a class that provides opportunities for students to interview Holocaust Survivors. This is one of the student interviews.

An oral history of Goucher professor Jean Baker conducted by students in HP 220 Documenting Historic Buildings. The assignment was to interview a Goucher faculty member who was teaching prior to the College becoming co-ed. The interview captures the faculty member's perspective on the decision to go co-ed, their memories of the transition, and thoughts on changes both in and out of the classroom.

A lecture by Michael Suarez, S.J., Director of Rare Book School, Professor of English, and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia. In celebration of Professor Arnie Sanders’ long career at Goucher College, on his retirement. Sponsorship by the Goucher College Book Studies program, the Friends of the Goucher College Library, and The Baltimore Bibliophiles.

Gail Godwin, bestselling author, three-time National Book Award Finalist, Fall 2015 Visiting Author at Goucher College, read from her works. Three of Godwin’s novels, The Odd Woman, Violet Clay, and A Mother and Two Daughters, were National Book Award finalists and five of them (A Mother and Two Daughters, The Finishing School, A Southern Family, Father Melancholy’s Daughter, and Evensong) were Ne...

Gillian Dow discusses the effect of quintessential "Englishness" on the translation of Austen's works into other languages and cultures. As associate professor and lecturer of English literature at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, Dow has extensively lectured and published about Austen and her works. Two of Dow's upcoming publishing projects concern Austen's writings in transla...

Marshall “Eddie” Conway was the minister of defense of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party. Conway spent 44 years behind bars in Maryland as a political prisoner and remains active with prison issues. Friend of a Friend, an organization Conway helped to found while he was incarcerated, works with young men to reduce institutional violence through conflict-resolution training.

Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator, legal scholar, and New York Times best-selling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, will speak about her observations on race and incarceration in America. A book signing will follow this presentation. This event is part of the Roszel C. Thomsen Lectureship series.

Dr. Gabrilove is the James F. Holland Professor of Medicine and Oncological Sciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City from which she also earned her medical degree. Dr. Gabrilove majored in chemistry at Goucher, and graduated in 1973. Dr. Gabrilove is a world-renowned expert on the role of blood cell growth factors and their role in treating blood cell disorders and leuk...

Rochelle L. Millen, Wittenberg University Professor of Religion, speaks about the Creation story in Genesis and its implications for women — and men — across contemporary Western religious cultures.

Goucher College's Roxana Cannon Arsht '35 Center for Ethics and Leadership presents Harvard University Professor Michael Sandel.

James Rosen—chief Washington correspondent for Fox News and author of "The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate"—discusses public perception of the First Amendment and whether the right to free speech is under attack. Earlier this year, actions taken against Rosen by the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI as part of an investigation into an alleged leak of classified informat...

Author and award-winning journalist Judie Panneton discusses her book, Proud Americans: Growing Up as Children of Immigrants, in a conversation with Goucher President Sanford J. Ungar. The stories Panneton includes in Proud Americans are based on research and extensive interviews with more than 40 people of diverse origins who now live across the United States-from high-profile celebrities and a p...

Goucher College’s 2013 summer reading assignment for first-year and transfer students was Colum McCann’s sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin. Selected based on suggestions from faculty and staff, Let the Great World Spin sparked discussion among new students, staff, and professors during Goucher’s fall orientation session. McCann attended one of the discussions and later pr...

Nicholas D. Kristof-- journalist, author, New York Times op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes-- spoke at Goucher College as the Spring 2013 Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Visiting Professor. His talk, “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” addresses the worldwide mistreatment, marginalization, and brutality toward women and will draw a compelling pictur...

Rabbi Eugene Korn, the American director of the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation in Israel, delivers the seventh annual Myra Berman Kurtz '66 Seminar presentation at Goucher College on Monday, April 30. Korn's seminar, titled "Law and Ethics in Biblical, Talmudic, and Later Rabbinic Tradition: Tensions and Opportunities," examines the relationship of Jewish law (halakhah)...