Welcome to Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere, a podcast sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at SUNY's Binghamton University. This podcast reflects a belief that scholarly work inevitably benefits from engagement with publics beyond university walls. In each episode, we explore projects by Binghamton University faculty and graduate students that seek to inform--and learn from--diverse publics in a variety of ways.
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In this episode, we are joined by Xinyuan Qui, PhD Candidate in the English Department at Binghamton University and a current Public Humanities Fellow sponsored by IASH and Humanities New York, to discuss her ongoing project tilted "Asian Cultures in Binghamton's Local History" that seeks to uncover the ways in which Asian cultures have been represented in the Binghamton area. She is collaborating with the Bundy Museum in downtown Binghamton to uncover the extent of Asian artifacts in its collec...
In this episode, we are joined by Shruti Jain, PhD Candidate in the English Department, and Le Li, PhD Candidate in the Translation Research and Instruction Program, at Binghamton University. The two of them host the podcast “Immigrants Wake America,” and released the first season last year, which allowed storytellers to share stories about migration and the centrality of immigrant women in their lives. We will discuss how they first came up with the idea for the project, their collaboration wit...
Welcome to "Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere," an IASH sponsored podcast where we discuss various public humanities projects on Binghamton University's campus and elsewhere. In this episode, we are joined by Anne Bailey, professor of history and director of the Harriet Tubman Center for Freedom and Equity, to discuss the range of community engaged projects the center is doing in order to rediscover and highlight the stories of Black Americans living in the Binghamton area. Bailey expl...
Welcome to "Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere," an IASH sponsored podcast where we discuss various public humanities projects on Binghamton University's campus and elsewhere. In this episode, we are joined by Tom McDonough, adjunct curator and professor of art history, to discuss the ongoing exhibit at the Binghamton art museum titled Ed Wilson: The Sculptor as Afro-Humanist . McDonough walks us through the incredible 45 year career of Ed Wilson, and we explore the process of creating ...
This episode delves into Binghamton University's 7th Annual Haudenosaunee Festival, a vibrant two-day event celebrating Upstate New York's Indigenous community. Dr. Brianna Langlie discusses the festival's growth, the significance of the Three Sisters Garden, and the powerful "Witness to Injustice" program that confronted centuries of colonial history. The episode highlights the university's deepening collaboration with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, aiming to integrate Indigenous knowledge and foster community engagement for future events.
Welcome to “ Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere”, an IASH sponsored podcast on public humanities. In this episode we are joined by Dr. Laurie Miroff, the Director of the Public Archaeology Facility. The PAF is an archaeology firm at Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY) organized in 1972 to provide cultural resource management (CRM) services to clients throughout the Northeastern United States, but with a focus on New York State and Pennsylvania. Dr. Miroff talks to us about the work t...
Welcome to “ Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere”, an IASH sponsored podcast on public humanities. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Bryan Kirschen, a professor of Spanish and Linguistics, and Dr. Dina Danon, a professor of Judaic Studies and History, at Binghamton University, who in addition to their various scholarly interests, also co-direct Binghamton University's Ladino collaborative or the Ladino Lab, which is an initiative that offers undergraduates, graduate students and facu...
Welcome to “ Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere”, an IASH sponsored podcast on public humanities. In this episode, Dr. Lisa Yun, Associate Professor, Department of English and Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, shares with us her unique and engaged approach to Public Humanities. She talks about the role that storytelling plays in a classroom as well as outside, in building communities by bringing people together .
Welcome to Confluence humanities in the public sphere, an IASH sponsored podcast that discusses various public humanities projects on the Binghamton University campus as well as outside. In this episode, we are joined by Colleen Watson, a PhD candidate in the philosophy department at Binghamton University. Along with her dissertation, Colleen is also working on a public humanities project titled, 'The Wisdom of the People'. In this episode, Coleen talks about her project, her dissertation and he...
Welcome to “ Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere”, an IASH sponsored podcast on public humanities. For our introductory episode today, we are joined by Dr. Wendy Wall, Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Director of the Institute for advance Studies in the Humanities or IASH. Professor Wall discusses what the public humanities are, the context for the emergence of public humanities and shares with us some astounding examples of public humanities projects on the Bingh...
