Breaking Silos

Breaking Silos

Breaking Silos is a podcast that engages in deep discussions about guests’ scholarship and the ways that scholarship may help teach or assess language and communication in college classrooms.

Episodes

  1. Episode 4 with Henry A. Giroux: Youth and Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability

    03/13/2024

    Episode 4 with Henry A. Giroux: Youth and Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability

    In this episode, Asao and Shane talk with Henry A. Giroux, who holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, about his essay, “Youth and Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability: Connecting the Personal and the Political.” Their conversation focuses on personal, political, and historical elements shaping identities, empowering young people, corporate power and greed, bearing witness, and more just and sustainable educational futures.

    57 min
  2. Episode 3 with Frank B. Wilderson III: Afropessimism

    01/15/2024

    Episode 3 with Frank B. Wilderson III: Afropessimism

    In this episode, Asao and Shane talk with Frank B. Wilderson III, Chancellor’s Professor at UC Irvine where he teaches in the African American Studies Department and the Culture & Theory Doctoral Program, about his book, Afropessimism. Their conversation focuses on Blackness as a lens of interpretation, theories of liberation, Black suffering, violence, and teaching writing.

    1h 26m
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Breaking Silos is a podcast that engages in deep discussions about guests’ scholarship and the ways that scholarship may help teach or assess language and communication in college classrooms.

Information

  • Creator
    Breaking Silos
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
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