Podcast
Faculty Instructor: Amy Chazkel
Librarian: Michelle Wilson
humanrightspodcast.sandbox.library.columbia.edu
This podcast was developed in conjunction with a course offered in the Fall 2020 semester through the History Department. The course explored housing, and its legal, social and political meanings, as a concept that can only be fully understood as a historical phenomenon. Using examples from cities around the world, these episodes feature archival and oral history research as they delve into stories that get to the bigger picture about how, throughout the world, the provision of shelter for urban populations has been at the center of urban crises and conflicts, as well as their solutions.
https://embed.podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/just-housing/id1552759875
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Podcast
Faculty Instructor: Lisa Hollibaugh
Librarian: Michelle Wilson
lithum14.sandbox.library.columbia.edu
All first year students at Columbia College participate in the Core Curriculum, including the year-long class Literature Humanities. Literature Humanities is been devoted to thinking about the power of different types of literature—in the ways that it can reflect ideas and emotions and behaviors that are part of our experience as humans (i.e., its content), and in the ways it can be shaped and expressed so that thestory moves us, persuades us, delights us, incites us, and/or inspires us (i.e., its form). And we’ve doneso by considering the works of authors who are themselves readers of literature and who are reflectingthe influence of the content and form of literature on their thinking and their writing. These works have been chosen by a group of faculty who regularly review and debate the syllabus of Literature Humanities, and your instructor has also made a few individual choices of her own. In a podcast, the LitHum students were...
Podcast
Faculty Instructors: Ariella Lang and Karen Murphy
Librarian: Michelle Wilson
humanrightspodcast.sandbox.library.columbia.edu
This podcast was developed in conjunction with a course offered in the Summer 2021 semester through the Institute for the Study of Human Rights. The course examined the ways in which societies have addressed the questions of accountability and the challenge of “dealing with the past” in the aftermath of political transition and violent conflict that have marked the last half century. In particular, the course examined the discourse around “historical wrongs,” and attempts—international, national, local—to address such wrongs.
The podcast format challenged students to hone their writing and communication skills, asking them to distill complex and sensitive topics, as well as academic research, for a public audience. In addition to providing an introduction to the work of public historians and activists, students felt invited to connect with the subject of their coursework. By speaking in their own voices and publishing that work to a public audience, students also said they felt empowerment and...
