Goucher College Podcasts

Eliot Cutler discuss how political hyper-partisanship has bred bitter division and legislative paralysis in Washington and why it is a good thing fewer and fewer Americans consider themselves either Democrats or Republicans.

David Brooks--New York Times op-ed columnist, political and social analyist, and author-- gives a talk titled "What Is an American?" This is part of the Spring 2012 Meyerhoff Professor Lecture Series.

Author and Goucher College History Professor Jean H. Baker discusses her new book with college president Sanford J. Ungar. The biography explores the life and controversy of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, one of the loudest voices in favor of sex education and contraception in the 20th century.

Juliette Wells, Goucher College's Burke Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence for 2009-2010, discusses why present-day Austen fans so often choose to feature the author in their fiction and nonfiction writing.

Joe Janes, Associate Professor and MLIS Program Chair at the University of Washington's iSchool, is a columnist for American Libraries and has recently launched a podcast on historically significant documents, "Documents that Changed the World." Joe discusses the "story of information" and its role in the world and in making us human. This talk is part of the Athenaeum Library Series, and sponsore...

Melissa R. Klapper '95, professor of history and director of women's and gender studies at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, speeks at Goucher College in an event sponsored by the Friends of the Goucher College Library; the Peace Studies Program; the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department; the History Department; and Goucher Hillel. Melissa discusses her most recent book, Ballots, Babies...

David E. Sanger, the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times,speaks on "New Threats and New Revolutions: Obama Confronts the World." Sanger was the 2011 Visiting Scholar of the Roxana Cannon Arsht Center for Ethics and Leadership.

A symposium in celebration of the opening of Goucher's new library held in the Hyman Forum of the Athenaeum on Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Symposium speakers featured are Carla Hayden, CEO of Pratt Library and Goucher College Board of Trustees; Kathryn Allamong Jacob, Curator of Manuscripts at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies,...

Goucher College presented a conversation with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female head of state. Read more: http://www.goucher.edu/news-and-events/ellen-johnson-sirleaf

Dr. Scott's discussion on March 13, 2006 in Goucher College's Kelley Lecture Hall covered the scientific evidence supporting evolution, the legal and educational rationale for teaching it as science, religious points of view, and predictions for the future of the intelligent design debate. A former university professor, Eugenie Scott earned her Ph. D. in biological anthropology at the University o...

Juliette Wells, Goucher College’s Burke Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence for 2009-2010, gave a lecture titled "For the Love of Jane Austen" on Wednesday, February 17, at 7 p.m. in the Batza Room of the Athenaeum. Wells discussed why present-day Austen fans so often choose to feature the author in their fiction and nonfiction writing. Wells is a prominent Jane Austen scholar and associate professor...

With mounting worries about the economy, growing bitterness over health care reform, and a looming battle over illegal immigration, this year's highly charged midterm election is likely to result in a Congress that will be very different from the one elected in November 2008. Judy Woodruff, a co-anchor and senior correspondent for PBS NewsHour, will discuss these issues in a lecture titled "Upside...

Goucher College celebrates Constitution Day with a lecture by Senator Benjamin L. Cardin.

Goucher College celebrated national Constitution Day on September 19, 2011, with a lecture by David S. Ferriero, the archivist of the United States, titled "Secrecy and Democracy." More info at: http://www.goucher.edu/news-and-events/constitution-day-2011

In today’s globalized marketplace, with ubiquity across designed products, individuals in diverse cultures around the globe may be found carrying the same iPhones and wearing the same Nike sneakers. Tonya Sweet—artist, designer, and lecturer in the Department of Design at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand—will address this pervasion in her talk “Culturally Reflective Design: Strategie...

Kelly Brown Douglas, professor and chair of the religion department, spoke Feb. 25, 2013 at Goucher’s Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute.

Gershom Gorenberg—the compelling Middle Eastern political expert and historian and Jerusalem-based journalist—discussed “Messianism and Its Discontents” at Goucher College on February 11, 2009. The lecture focused on messianism, an important force in the world’s religions and modern politics that some believe is essential to progress—and specifically to the Jews’ return to their land. Gorenberg di...