Goucher College Podcasts

Jane Austen is, foremost, a social commentator. Dress is a nuanced social marker, and her novels use clothing and needlework to pinpoint niceties of character. Austen’s letters reveal a lively interest in clothes, alongside her concerns about how to dress well on limited income. During the author’s short life, unprecedented and accelerated change saw Britain’s turbulent entry into the modern age. Clothing reflected these transitions on local and global scales, and exploring the dress experiences of people who lived through Austen’s age goes a long way to understanding her work, her time, and its histories. In this talk, dress historian Hilary Davidson explores the lives and dress of the middle-class British gentry during the ‘long’ Regency (1795-1823) through the lens of Jane Austen’s life and writing, drawing on five years of research for her ground-breaking 2019 book, Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion.

Jane Austen lived in the cottage at Chawton from 1809 until shortly before her death in 1817, and it was in that house that she completed all her novels. Jane Austen Memorial Trustee Martyn Dell provides an insider’s view of "the most treasured Austen site in the world."

The translation of any poem from one language to another is a process of detail and feeling. Translating Kiriu Minashita’s “Sonic Peace” message in Japanese to English required deeply understanding a densely beautiful message in Japanese and creating the same emotions in English readers, without losing the message. Editors, Eric E. Hyett and Spencer Thurlow will discuss the intricacies involved in moving between the two languages. Eric E. Hyett is a poet, writer and translator from Boston, MA. His professional home has been Busybusyworld, LLC recently. He has contributed writings to Cleaver Magazine, Harvard Review Online, and Antioch Review among others. Spencer Thurlow lives in Boston, MA and has recently been elected to be the Poet Laureate of his hometown, West Tisbury, MA. Spencer’s work has appeared in The Worcester Review, Comstock, The Aurorean, and others.

The Dr. Myra Berman Kurtz ’66 Seminar guest speaker is Dr. Victoria Niklas ‘82 (Vice President of Innovation and Communication Prolacta Bioscience).

Arnold Sanders, professor emeritus of English, presented a history of the Berners Hours, a 15th-century illuminated manuscript prayer book, and its owners. The manuscript was donated in 2017 by Sanders and his wife, Laura Provan, in honor of their parents and Nancy Magnuson, college librarian emerita.

How an author/illustrator and an orthodontist created a book on disability and bullying: The Elephant with a Knot in His Trunk by Nancy Patz and Stuart Sheer, illustrated by Nancy Patz.

This was a conversation about the removal of Stephen Towns’ paintings inspired by Nat Turner's insurrection from Rosenberg Gallery. With moderation by Rob Ferrell, the panel and Goucher community collectively discussed the boundaries of freedom of expression, the role of art on Goucher's campus, and the role of the institution in facilitating discourse about enslavement and racism, in the past and present. Goucher's relationship to the Black body was examined through Stephen's artwork. Featured guests and speakers included the artist, Stephen Towns; Myrtis Bedolla, curator of Gallery Myrtis; Zoë Charlton, chair of American University's art department; Nyasha Grayman Simpson, professor of psychology; Ailish Hopper, associate professor of peace studies; Graham Eng-Wilmot, visiting professor of communication and media studies; and Rob Ferrell, photographer and organizer.

To help broaden perspectives of the untold and overlooked stories of Black students at Goucher College, Goucher College Archives & Special Collections, led by Yabsera Faris ’17, is collecting oral histories of early Black students at the College. The purpose of this oral history project is to create an in-depth account of personal experiences and reflections of Black alumnae during the first decades of their admittance. These personal histories will become part of the permanent cultural record of the College.

To help broaden perspectives of the untold and overlooked stories of Black students at Goucher College, Goucher College Archives & Special Collections, led by Yabsera Faris ’17, is collecting oral histories of early Black students at the College. The purpose of this oral history project is to create an in-depth account of personal experiences and reflections of Black alumnae during the first decades of their admittance. These personal histories will become part of the permanent cultural record of the College.

To help broaden perspectives of the untold and overlooked stories of Black students at Goucher College, Goucher College Archives & Special Collections, led by Yabsera Faris ’17, is collecting oral histories of early Black students at the College. The purpose of this oral history project is to create an in-depth account of personal experiences and reflections of Black alumnae during the first decades of their admittance. These personal histories will become part of the permanent cultural record of the College.

To help broaden perspectives of the untold and overlooked stories of Black students at Goucher College, Goucher College Archives & Special Collections, led by Yabsera Faris ’17, is collecting oral histories of early Black students at the College. The purpose of this oral history project is to create an in-depth account of personal experiences and reflections of Black alumnae during the first decades of their admittance. These personal histories will become part of the permanent cultural record of the College.

To help broaden perspectives of the untold and overlooked stories of Black students at Goucher College, Goucher College Archives & Special Collections, led by Yabsera Faris ’17, is collecting oral histories of early Black students at the College. The purpose of this oral history project is to create an in-depth account of personal experiences and reflections of Black alumnae during the first decades of their admittance. These personal histories will become part of the permanent cultural record of the College.

Storyteller Queen Nur http://queennur.com/ presented an evening performance on February 27, 2017 as part of the Storytelling Theme Semester. Queen Nur is a an alumna of Goucher's Master's in Cultural Sustainability program and currently President of the National Association of Black Storytellers. Queen sees stories as a central means of sustaining cultures and the people who participate in them, and building bridges of understanding across lines of difference.

Goucher College President José Antonio Bowen spoke with WBAL NewsRadio regarding his philosophy on maximizing classroom time and his new book, “Teaching Naked Techniques.” In an environment of increased content competition, Dr. Bowen advocates for reviewing content out of the classroom, so that during class a dialogue takes place amongst professors and students to increase learning opportunities.

To help broaden perspectives of the untold and overlooked stories of Black students at Goucher College, Goucher College Archives & Special Collections, led by Yabsera Faris ’17, is collecting oral histories of early Black students at the College. The purpose of this oral history project is to create an in-depth account of personal experiences and reflections of Black alumnae during the first decades of their admittance. These personal histories will become part of the permanent cultural record of the College.

To help broaden perspectives of the untold and overlooked stories of Black students at Goucher College, Goucher College Archives & Special Collections, led by Yabsera Faris ’17, is collecting oral histories of early Black students at the College. The purpose of this oral history project is to create an in-depth account of personal experiences and reflections of Black alumnae during the first decades of their admittance. These personal histories will become part of the permanent cultural record of the College.

To help broaden perspectives of the untold and overlooked stories of Black students at Goucher College, Goucher College Archives & Special Collections, led by Yabsera Faris ’17, is collecting oral histories of early Black students at the College. The purpose of this oral history project is to create an in-depth account of personal experiences and reflections of Black alumnae during the first decades of their admittance. These personal histories will become part of the permanent cultural record of the College.

February 3, 2017 is the centennial of the College Day picket of women suffragists on the White House. To mark the occasion and to open the exhibit, Goucher alumnae and students will present their original research on Goucher’s involvement in the women’s suffrage movement, highlighting the role of notable alumnae and faculty.

A celebration of life for Professor Joe Morton was held Saturday June 18 at 1pm in the Athenaeum at Goucher College. Speakers were Jason Morton, Rebecca Morton, Nancy Magnuson, Katie Lautar, Sister Ardeth Platte, and Bart Houseman. Meredith Morton played the cello. The gathering music was performed by José Antonio Bowen. Dr. Morton was the founder of Goucher’s Peace Studies Program and professor emeritus of philosophy and peace studies. Dr. Morton learned the necessity of reconciliation at an early age. Born in Hungary, he came to the United States as a child with his parents and sister to escape the Holocaust. Dr. Morton received his bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and his doctorate in philosophy from the Johns Hopkins University. He came to Goucher in 1963, chaired the Philosophy Department from 1978 to 1988, and founded the Peace Studies Program in 1991, one of the few programs in the country of its kind at that time. He served Goucher faithfully until his retirement in 2000 and remained an active

Marlene Trestman '78, former Goucher trustee, author, and former special assistant to the Maryland attorney general, takes us on a journey in her book, Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin. Trestman's book is about attorney and Supreme Court advocate Bessie Margolin. Margolin is described as "shaping modern American labor policy while creating a place for female lawyers in the nation's highest courts."