Studium: An Arts and Humanities Podcast

Arts and Humanities Collaborative | Albertus Magnus College
Studium: An Arts and Humanities Podcast

Studium hosts long-form conversations with practitioners and thought leaders trained in the arts and humanities. Our question: what are the arts and humanities good for? Our guests have used their training to build careers in a variety of fields - politics, technology, drama, art, museums, academia, and more. Visit the Collaborative's YouTube channel to view the video version of Studium, along with short clips from all episodes.The podcast is an initiative of Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, CT. It is presented by Dr. Jon Sozek, Director of Arts and Humanities Collaborative at the College, and hosted by himself and other members of the College's faculty.

Episodes

  1. Episode 6 - A Life in the Liberal Arts: Interpretation, Dialogue, and Insight

    05/11/2023

    Episode 6 - A Life in the Liberal Arts: Interpretation, Dialogue, and Insight

    In this final episode of our first season, we’re pleased to bring you another conversation hosted by Dr. Matt Waggoner, Professor of Philosophy here at Albertus Magnus College. Matt will be speaking with our longtime Vice President for Academic Affairs at the College, Dr. Sean O’Connell, who is also a Professor of Philosophy. This summer, Sean will retire from his role as VPAA after more than thirty-five years of service to the college.In his time at Albertus, Sean has done much to shape the ...

    1h 26m
  2. Episode 5 - Relational Communication and Poetic Inquiry

    05/10/2023

    Episode 5 - Relational Communication and Poetic Inquiry

    In this episode, we feature a conversation between our own Dr. Tarishi Verma, Assistant Professor of Communications here at Albertus Magnus College, and Dr. Sandra Faulkner, Professor of Communication at Bowling Green State University.We’re very glad to welcome Dr. Faulkner to Studium. In her work, Dr. Faulkner has built bridges between the social sciences and the arts. Maybe most notably, she’s done much to advance “poetic inquiry” as a method in the social sciences. Her students use poetry,...

    42 min
  3. Episode 4 - Philosophy, Climate Change, and Real Politics

    02/24/2023

    Episode 4 - Philosophy, Climate Change, and Real Politics

    In this extended episode, we feature a special conversation between our own Dr. Matt Waggoner, Professor of Philosophy at Albertus Magnus College, and Mr. David Roberts, writer and host of Volts: a podcast about the technology, politics, and climate change. For twenty years, David has been a nationally recognized voice on climate change, clean energy and the politics of both - and in doing so, he has put into action his training in the humanities: English literature and philosophy. Matt and D...

    1h 52m
  4. Episode 3 - Humanities at the Barnum Museum

    11/10/2022

    Episode 3 - Humanities at the Barnum Museum

    How have curators and other professionals working in museum and galleries made use of the internet and social media to reach people, as so much of our lives has moved online? And how can training in the humanities inform this creative work? In this episode, Jon Sozek speaks with two people well-positioned to address these questions: Kathy Maher, Executive Director at the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, CT, and Ariana Williams, a senior BA degree candidate in the humanities at Albertus Magnus Col...

    50 min
  5. Episode 2 - Politics and the love of wisdom

    10/05/2022

    Episode 2 - Politics and the love of wisdom

    What has politics to do with philosophy? In this episode, Jon Sozek interviews Devin Avshalom-Smith, Alder of Newhallville (Ward 20) in the City of New Haven, Connecticut. Devin shares about how his own practice of philosophy informs his work to serve the community of Newhallville. Philosophy, he reminds us, is a verb - not just a topic or field of study! We learn about Devin's published work on W.E.B. DuBois and how phenomenology and existentialism -- especially the work of Franz Fanon -- ha...

    48 min
  6. Episode 1 - Why the arts and humanities?

    09/07/2022

    Episode 1 - Why the arts and humanities?

    In this first episode, Matt Waggoner (Professor of Philosophy) interviews Jon Sozek (Director of the Arts and Humanities Collaborative) to explore what this new podcast is all about. And what is the Arts and Humanities Collaborative? Jon shares about some elements of his own background relevant to these new initiatives and discusses some themes from a recent article he's published, related to the liberal arts and the work of Jacques Maritain. The episode concludes by looking ahead to the plan...

    44 min
  • 6 Episodes

Ratings & Reviews

4.3
out of 5
6 Ratings

About

Studium hosts long-form conversations with practitioners and thought leaders trained in the arts and humanities. Our question: what are the arts and humanities good for? Our guests have used their training to build careers in a variety of fields - politics, technology, drama, art, museums, academia, and more. Visit the Collaborative's YouTube channel to view the video version of Studium, along with short clips from all episodes.The podcast is an initiative of Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, CT. It is presented by Dr. Jon Sozek, Director of Arts and Humanities Collaborative at the College, and hosted by himself and other members of the College's faculty.

Information

  • Creator
    Arts and Humanities Collaborative | Albertus Magnus College
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2023
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2023 Albertus Magnus College
  • Show Website
    Studium: An Arts and Humanities Podcast

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