Goucher College Podcasts

Eliot Cutler discuss how political hyper-partisanship has bred bitter division and legislative paralysis in Washington and why it is a good thing fewer and fewer Americans consider themselves either Democrats or Republicans.

David Brooks--New York Times op-ed columnist, political and social analyist, and author-- gives a talk titled "What Is an American?" This is part of the Spring 2012 Meyerhoff Professor Lecture Series.

Author and Goucher College History Professor Jean H. Baker discusses her new book with college president Sanford J. Ungar. The biography explores the life and controversy of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, one of the loudest voices in favor of sex education and contraception in the 20th century.

Juliette Wells, Goucher College's Burke Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence for 2009-2010, discusses why present-day Austen fans so often choose to feature the author in their fiction and nonfiction writing.

Joe Janes, Associate Professor and MLIS Program Chair at the University of Washington's iSchool, is a columnist for American Libraries and has recently launched a podcast on historically significant documents, "Documents that Changed the World." Joe discusses the "story of information" and its role in the world and in making us human. This talk is part of the Athenaeum Library Series, and sponsored by Friends of the Goucher College Library, Katharine Parker Scholl Library Fund, and Laura Graham Cooper Lecture Fund.

Melissa R. Klapper '95, professor of history and director of women's and gender studies at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, speeks at Goucher College in an event sponsored by the Friends of the Goucher College Library; the Peace Studies Program; the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department; the History Department; and Goucher Hillel. Melissa discusses her most recent book, Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women's Activism, 1890-1940, and traces the role of Jewish women in birth control, suffrage, and peace movements in the United States.

David E. Sanger, the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times,speaks on "New Threats and New Revolutions: Obama Confronts the World." Sanger was the 2011 Visiting Scholar of the Roxana Cannon Arsht Center for Ethics and Leadership.

A symposium in celebration of the opening of Goucher's new library held in the Hyman Forum of the Athenaeum on Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Symposium speakers featured are Carla Hayden, CEO of Pratt Library and Goucher College Board of Trustees; Kathryn Allamong Jacob, Curator of Manuscripts at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University; James Neal, VP of Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia Univeristy; Joseph Rizzo, Principal and Library Specialist for the RMJM Athenaeum project; and Roberta Stevens, the outreach projects and partnerships officer at the Library of Congress and the project manager for the National Book Festival.

Goucher College presented a conversation with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female head of state. Read more: http://www.goucher.edu/news-and-events/ellen-johnson-sirleaf

Dr. Scott's discussion on March 13, 2006 in Goucher College's Kelley Lecture Hall covered the scientific evidence supporting evolution, the legal and educational rationale for teaching it as science, religious points of view, and predictions for the future of the intelligent design debate. A former university professor, Eugenie Scott earned her Ph.D. in biological anthropology at the University of Missouri. Since 1987, she has served as the executive director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a nonprofit organization providing information and resources for schools, parents, and concerned citizens working to keep evolution in public-school science education. A national proponent of church-state separation, Scott serves on the National Advisory Council of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. She is also the author of Creationism vs. Evolution: An Introduction, and the co-editor of Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design is Wrong for our Schools. Read more at: http://ww

Juliette Wells, Goucher College’s Burke Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence for 2009-2010, gave a lecture titled "For the Love of Jane Austen" on Wednesday, February 17, at 7 p.m. in the Batza Room of the Athenaeum. Wells discussed why present-day Austen fans so often choose to feature the author in their fiction and nonfiction writing. Wells is a prominent Jane Austen scholar and associate professor of English literature at Manhattanville College. She has written many scholarly articles about Austen, which have been published in The Oprah Affect: Critical Essays on Oprah’s Book Club, A Breath of Fresh Eyre: Intertextual and Intermedial Reworkings of Jane Eyre, Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction, and other books. Read more at: http://www.goucher.edu/news-and-events/2010-austen-scholar

With mounting worries about the economy, growing bitterness over health care reform, and a looming battle over illegal immigration, this year's highly charged midterm election is likely to result in a Congress that will be very different from the one elected in November 2008. Judy Woodruff, a co-anchor and senior correspondent for PBS NewsHour, will discuss these issues in a lecture titled "Upside Down and Inside Out: The 2010 Midterm Election" on Friday, October 8, at 8:30 p.m. in the Hyman Forum of Goucher College's Athenaeum. Read more at: http://www.goucher.edu/news-and-events/judy-woodruff

Goucher College celebrates Constitution Day with a lecture by Senator Benjamin L. Cardin.

Goucher College celebrated national Constitution Day on September 19, 2011, with a lecture by David S. Ferriero, the archivist of the United States, titled "Secrecy and Democracy." More info at: http://www.goucher.edu/news-and-events/constitution-day-2011

In today’s globalized marketplace, with ubiquity across designed products, individuals in diverse cultures around the globe may be found carrying the same iPhones and wearing the same Nike sneakers. Tonya Sweet—artist, designer, and lecturer in the Department of Design at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand—will address this pervasion in her talk “Culturally Reflective Design: Strategies for the Development of Culture-Specific Products.” To view the corresponding slideshow, visit http://blogs.goucher.edu/culturalsustainability/2013/04/26/tonya_sweet/

Kelly Brown Douglas, professor and chair of the religion department, spoke Feb. 25, 2013 at Goucher’s Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute.

Gershom Gorenberg—the compelling Middle Eastern political expert and historian and Jerusalem-based journalist—discussed “Messianism and Its Discontents” at Goucher College on February 11, 2009. The lecture focused on messianism, an important force in the world’s religions and modern politics that some believe is essential to progress—and specifically to the Jews’ return to their land. Gorenberg discussed the power of messianism and how it has fueled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read more at: http://www.goucher.edu/news-and-events/gorenberg