Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere
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.
Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere
Introductory Episode with Dr. Wendy Wall
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IASH
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 Binghamton University campus as well as elsewhere.