The Inside Story

The Inside Story is a podcast about building an institute for empathic and immersive narrative, supported by an American Council of Learned Societies Digital Justice Seed Grant. In this episode, Wallace Lages, Eric Lyon, and Tyechia Thompson think through the role of empathy, access, and narrative in immersive technologies in conversation with our entire advisory board.

The Inside Story is a podcast about building an institute for empathic and immersive narrative, supported by an American Council of Learned Societies Digital Justice Seed Grant. In this episode, Wallace Lages, Eric Lyon, and Tyechia Thompson think through the role of empathy, access, and narrative in immersive technologies in conversation with advisory board member Al Evangelista, a multidisciplin...

In this episode, Wallace, Eric, and Tyechia will be thinking through the role of empathy, access, and narrative in immersive technologies in conversation with our advisory board member Dr. Bryan Carter, an Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Director of the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Arizona. Dr. Bryan Carter received his Ph. D. at the University of Missouri-Columbi...

In this episode, Wallace, Eric, and Tyechia will be thinking through the role of empathy, access, and narrative in immersive technologies in conversation with our advisory board member, Dr. Riham Alieldin, a physician, a medical educator at the University of Rochester's Warner School of Education.

In this episode, Co-PIs for the ACLS  Building an Institute for Empathic Immersive Narrative  grant, Wallace Lages, Eric Lyon, and Tyechia Thompson will be thinking through the role of empathy, access, and narrative in immersive technologies in conversation with advisory board member Ashley Shew, an Associate Professor in the department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.

In this episode, Co-PIs for the ACLS Building an Institute for Empathic Immersive Narrative grant, Wallace Lages, Eric Lyon, and Tyechia Thompson will be thinking through the role of empathy, access, and narrative in immersive technologies in conversation with advisory board member Damon Davis who is an award-winning multi-media American artist, musician and filmmaker based in St. Louis, Missouri.

In the first episode of The Inside Story, Tyechia, Eric, and Wallace begin their project of creating an institute for empathic, immersive narrative by hosting the entire five-member advisory board on the Blacksburg campus of Virginia Tech for Cube Fest 2022, an annual spacial music festival held in August of that year.  During the event, our co-PIs recorded an open dialogue with the entire gr...

Building an Institute for Empathic, Immersive Narrative