International Podcasting day is September 30. The Libraries are celebrating the day by highlighting the podcasts being made on and around campus. Celebrate with us by taking a listen to the podcasts listed below.
The Digital Scholarship Team will be hosting a pop-up event in the Bartle Library Lobby featuring the below podcasts as well as information about and the chance to try out the equipment from the Libraries Recording Studio. Stop by to learn more about the podcasts below and how you could make your own!
Over the Hedge
Broadcasting from: Harpur Edge
Podcast Host: Jacob Ober
Over the Hedge is a podcast that dives into the exploration of different career paths, designed for students and young professionals navigating the uncertain terrain of career choices. Hosted by a student who has not declared a major yet, the podcast features candid conversations, interviews with professionals and insightful discussions on a variety of industries. Whether you’re undecided about your future or just curious about what lies ahead, Over the Hedge offers a unique perspective on the journey of career discovery, providing valuable advice and inspiration along the way.
Check out their most recent episode: Over the Hedge Podcast #3: Dan Black to try it out!
Listen to the rest of the podcast here
Becoming A Bearcat
Broadcasting from: New Student Programs
Podcast Hosts: Emily Ziemba and Aaron Mickulas-Mesco
The Becoming A Bearcat Podcast Series was developed to provide incoming students and families with informative tips and resources to give them a successful start at Binghamton University. Topics for each episode cover major themes and experiences college students encounter at Binghamton from preparing to step foot on campus through their first days and months as a new student. The podcast series provides a new modality for busy students and families to hear helpful information on the go!
Season 1 focuses on campus resources related to broad categories such as student wellness, success and exploration. Taking a similar approach in Season 2, episodes highlight more specific services and even feature a live music component to expose listeners to local musicians and culture. Season 3 switches gears focusing more on the student experience as the commentators shared personal stories and success tips based on their own college transition. Season 4 focuses on families of our incoming students, with content related to how they can best support their students through the college transition.
Becoming a Bearcat won the NODA Region IX Innovative Program Award through NODA: The Association of Orientation, Transition, and Retention in Higher Education in March 2023.
Listen to the podcast, see descriptions for episodes and submit questions you have at the Becoming a Bearcat website.
Teaching Takes
Broadcasting from: Center for Learning and Teaching
Podcast Host: Cherie van Putten
Teaching Takes is a podcast in which Binghamton University instructors give their take on teaching and discuss some of the ways they are bringing new ideas into the classroom.
Listen to former episodes at Teaching Take’s page on Binghamton’s Institutional Repository the ORB.
Immigrants Wake America- Hidden Heroes in a Small Town
Podcast made possible by support from: Action Grant, Humanities New York, IASH, English, Asian and Asian American Studies, Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas
Podcast Hosts: Lisa Yun, Shruti Jain, Le Li and Maria del Carmen Rodriguez
Periodically in history, immigrant women have been the target of dehumanizing anti-immigrant rhetoric and violence. In response, Immigrants Wake America was created and features storytellers speaking about migration, family, work, and often, about the centrality of immigrant women in their lives. Storytelling allows everyone to find similarities and differences between ourselves and others, thus offering a humanizing counterpart to harmful narratives. This podcast is a growing archive of stories that have not been heard before with the hope it will inspire listeners to have conversations about their own family’s history of migration, whether from recent history or from long ago. Inspired by the “Your Story Our Story” digital archive at the Tenement Museum (NYC), this podcast is also supported by grants from Humanities New York. Supported by an Action Grant from Humanities New York, “Hidden Heroes in a Small Town” is the upcoming podcast season (2023-24) about caseworkers at the American Civic Association in upstate New York who assist refugees and immigrants. The season will be accompanied by a community resource guide that will be made available to the public on the website, for teaching, research and community programs.
Listen to the first episode from season 2: Hidden Heroes: Hussein Adams which shares the story of Hussein Adams, director of the American Civic Association in Binghamton, NY. Hussein gives an overview of the breadth of critical work that immigration caseworkers do for the local community and for new immigrants and refugees. He also narrates his personal journey of migration as a Muslim man through the Caribbean and North America, and especially, the impact of post 9/11 on him and his family. As a community leader and as a father, Hussein’s story touches on the complexity and richness of becoming American today.
Read more about Immigrants Wake America and listen to more episodes on their website.
Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere
Broadcasting From: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH)
Podcast Hosts: Joshua Kluever and Shruti Jain
Confluence 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.
Listen to the following episodes to learn more about the podcast:
Thinking Democracy Together: The Wisdom of the People where host Shruti Jain is joined by Colleen Watson, a PhD candidate in the philosophy department at Binghamton University. Along with her dissertation, Colleen works on a public humanities project titled, ‘The Wisdom of the People’. In the episode, Coleen talks about her project, her dissertation and her public facing attempt at doing philosophy together in a democratic society.
Haudenosaunee Festival: A Celebration of Upstate New York’s Indigenous Community where host Joshua Kluever is joined by Dr. Brianna Langlie, associate professor of anthropology, to discuss the seventh annual Haudenosaunee Festival that was hosted on Binghamton University’s campus from September 29th and 30th, 2023. The festival welcomed members of New York State’s indigenous community and featured indigenous speakers, food, music, storytelling and so much more. Podcast hosts also discuss the joys and challenges of planning such an important event and explore plans for the future as the university looks to build deeper collaboration with the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
Follow the podcast and learn more at Confluence’s Spotify page.
Broadcasting World Literature
Formerly Broadcast as a Live Show at WHRW
Podcast Hosts: Daimys García and Harper Sherwood-Reid
Broadcasting World Literature provides an opportunity to look at, think about, discuss and listen to new perspectives on the world that listeners may not know about. The show is a way to share stories and ask questions of and about power, purpose, beauty and resistance. In every episode, hosts discuss a new facet of what World Literature is, how it is organized, who it serves and why it is important in the first place. Sometimes hosts read and enjoy powerful poetry while other times they discuss the politics of writing–the possibilities are endless! The goal of this podcast is to make connections between people, places, ideas and listeners!
Listen to former episodes at Broadcasting World Literature’s page on Binghamton’s Institutional Repository the ORB.
Smaller Narratives for a larger World
Podcast Hosts: Cole Depuy, Gillian Kenah, Alan Palacios and Lauren M. Pearce
Smaller Narratives for a Larger World is an interdisciplinary public humanities and social sciences podcast organized by graduate students and faculty members at Binghamton University with hosts from Comparative Literature, English, Creative Writing and Anthropology with funding support from IASH.
SNLW investigates how the human story, the myths of humanity, have shaped who society believes we are as a species. Through different academic lenses, the podcast explores solutions to today’s problems by seeking to understand how the stories we tell about each other may create the very social problems we seek to solve. (taken from the website for Smaller Narratives for Larger Worlds).
Listen to past episodes and read more about the podcast on the Smaller Narratives for Larger Worlds website.
How it Came to Be
Podcast Hosts: Sarah Bull and Hannah Ledford
How it Came to Be answers questions like: Did you ever wonder when the U.S. started marketing toilet paper or why the Coca Cola logo is in that wavy cursive script? Are you a trivia nerd who loves fun facts and silly histories? Join the hosts, two goofy, passionate best friends, to learn the origin story of everything, from everyday objects to major corporations to fascinating theories.
Follow the podcast and learn more on How it Came to Be’s Spotify site
If you are interested in creating your own podcast or if you have a podcast project that you would like to put on the Libraries Institutional Repository, contact the Libraries’ Digital Scholarship team by emailing dscenter@binghamton.edu for a consultation or more information.