Goucher College Podcasts

Scholar Michael K. Dorsey shares his perspective and insights about the historic climate change conferences in Paris. The recording is from Goucher College's Spring 2016 Graduate Residency, for which he was a guest speaker. He also screened a documentary on the Paris climate talks titled Climate Deadline—Paris that he co-produced.

Social emotions like admiration and compassion shape how we think and act, who we become, and how we experience our own lives. Neuroscientist and human development psychologist with the University of Southern California Mary Helen Immordino-Yang will present her research on the neurobiology and psychology of emotional feelings, including their deep roots in the feeling and regulation of the body and consciousness, their propensity to heighten one’s own sense of self-awareness and purpose, and their connections to memory, cultural learning, and the development of interests and expertise. Her studies underscore the interdependence of emotion and cognition, and the necessity of understanding oneself to achieve academic excellence.

How did we end up with a world where when we ask each other how we are doing, the answer is usually: “I’m just so busy”? Why do we do this to ourselves? When did we forget that we are human beings, not human doings? And how do we start recovering peace in the heart, as we strive for peace in the world? Editor of Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism and director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center Omid Safi invites us to sit with these questions. Safi has a forthcoming volume from Princeton University Press on the famed mystic Rumi.

The Biennial Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence Program brings a competitively selected scholar to Goucher for a week to research the college’s Alberta H. and Henry G. Burke Papers and Jane Austen Research Collection. The chosen scholar also works with related undergraduate classes and presents a public lecture on an Austen-related topic. In her application for the program, Anderson proposed a lecture titled “Emma as Medieval Queen: Jane Austen’s Glorification of Female Hospitality,” which will focus on Austen’s allusion to medieval traditions and symbols in Emma. Dr. Anderson is a professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University and a specialist in 19th-century British literature. She is the author of Jane Austen’s Guide to Thrift and a number of scholarly and popular essays on Austen that have appeared in such publications as Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, Persuasions On-Line, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, European Romantic Review, Victorian Poetry, Sensibilities, and Renascence. Her nonfic

An oral history with Goucher faculty member Jeffrey Chappell conducted by students in HP 220 Documenting Historic Buildings. The assignment was to interview a Goucher faculty member who was teaching prior to the College becoming co-ed. The interview captures the faculty member's perspective on the decision to go co-ed, their memories of the transition, and thoughts on changes both in and out of the classroom.

Goucher College Professor Uta Larkey conducts a class that provides opportunities for students to interview Holocaust Survivors. This is one of the student interviews.

An oral history of Goucher professor Jean Baker conducted by students in HP 220 Documenting Historic Buildings. The assignment was to interview a Goucher faculty member who was teaching prior to the College becoming co-ed. The interview captures the faculty member's perspective on the decision to go co-ed, their memories of the transition, and thoughts on changes both in and out of the classroom.

A lecture by Michael Suarez, S.J., Director of Rare Book School, Professor of English, and Honorary Curator of Special Collections at the University of Virginia. In celebration of Professor Arnie Sanders’ long career at Goucher College, on his retirement. Sponsorship by the Goucher College Book Studies program, the Friends of the Goucher College Library, and The Baltimore Bibliophiles.

Gail Godwin, bestselling author, three-time National Book Award Finalist, Fall 2015 Visiting Author at Goucher College, read from her works. Three of Godwin’s novels, The Odd Woman, Violet Clay, and A Mother and Two Daughters, were National Book Award finalists and five of them (A Mother and Two Daughters, The Finishing School, A Southern Family, Father Melancholy’s Daughter, and Evensong) were New York Times best sellers. Godwin has lived in Woodstock, N.Y. since 1976 with her long time companion, the composer Robert Starer, who died in 2001. Together they wrote ten musical works, including the chamber opera The Other Voice: A Portrait of Hilda of Whitby, available from Selah Publishing Company: www.selahpub.com. Evenings at Five is a novella based on Godwin’s and Starer’s life together. Godwin received a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment grants, one for fiction and one for libretto writing. Her newest work is Publishing: A Writer’s Memoir, which details her long career as an author in a

Gillian Dow discusses the effect of quintessential "Englishness" on the translation of Austen's works into other languages and cultures. As associate professor and lecturer of English literature at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, Dow has extensively lectured and published about Austen and her works. Two of Dow's upcoming publishing projects concern Austen's writings in translation, how the author's language is constructed by her translators, and the global reception of her adapted works.

Marshall “Eddie” Conway was the minister of defense of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party. Conway spent 44 years behind bars in Maryland as a political prisoner and remains active with prison issues. Friend of a Friend, an organization Conway helped to found while he was incarcerated, works with young men to reduce institutional violence through conflict-resolution training.

Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator, legal scholar, and New York Times best-selling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, will speak about her observations on race and incarceration in America. A book signing will follow this presentation. This event is part of the Roszel C. Thomsen Lectureship series.

Dr. Gabrilove is the James F. Holland Professor of Medicine and Oncological Sciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City from which she also earned her medical degree. Dr. Gabrilove majored in chemistry at Goucher, and graduated in 1973. Dr. Gabrilove is a world-renowned expert on the role of blood cell growth factors and their role in treating blood cell disorders and leukemia and in combating the life-threatening side effects of chemotherapy. During her talk, Dr. Gabrilove will make the case that the field of medicine reflects an intersection between humanities and science and offers endless opportunities for personal fulfillment. She will outline why she was drawn to this discipline and will offer potential insights for those contemplating future directions, whether in medicine, science, or other health care fields. Dr. Gabrilove will use her decision to pursue a career in medicine to illustrate and underscore key attributes she believes contribute to meaningful outcomes, includi

Rochelle L. Millen, Wittenberg University Professor of Religion, speaks about the Creation story in Genesis and its implications for women — and men — across contemporary Western religious cultures.

Goucher College's Roxana Cannon Arsht '35 Center for Ethics and Leadership presents Harvard University Professor Michael Sandel.

James Rosen—chief Washington correspondent for Fox News and author of "The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate"—discusses public perception of the First Amendment and whether the right to free speech is under attack. Earlier this year, actions taken against Rosen by the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI as part of an investigation into an alleged leak of classified information placed him and Fox News at the center of a national debate over press freedom and government surveillance.

Author and award-winning journalist Judie Panneton discusses her book, Proud Americans: Growing Up as Children of Immigrants, in a conversation with Goucher President Sanford J. Ungar. The stories Panneton includes in Proud Americans are based on research and extensive interviews with more than 40 people of diverse origins who now live across the United States-from high-profile celebrities and a presidential cabinet member to people whose names may not be known, but whose stories will be relatable to many.

Goucher College’s 2013 summer reading assignment for first-year and transfer students was Colum McCann’s sweeping and radical social novel, Let the Great World Spin. Selected based on suggestions from faculty and staff, Let the Great World Spin sparked discussion among new students, staff, and professors during Goucher’s fall orientation session. McCann attended one of the discussions and later presented a free public reading and question-and-answer session.

Nicholas D. Kristof-- journalist, author, New York Times op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes-- spoke at Goucher College as the Spring 2013 Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Visiting Professor. His talk, “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” addresses the worldwide mistreatment, marginalization, and brutality toward women and will draw a compelling picture of the trials and triumphs of women struggling for opportunity and equality.

Rabbi Eugene Korn, the American director of the Center for Jewish-Christian Understanding and Cooperation in Israel, delivers the seventh annual Myra Berman Kurtz '66 Seminar presentation at Goucher College on Monday, April 30. Korn's seminar, titled "Law and Ethics in Biblical, Talmudic, and Later Rabbinic Tradition: Tensions and Opportunities," examines the relationship of Jewish law (halakhah) and ethics in Jewish thought, as well as outlines some ethical challenges that contemporary culture poses to Jewish law and tradition.