The Institute Podcast

Episode 13: Oswaldo Estrada On The Love Of Teaching And Spanish American Literature

Associate Professor of Spanish discusses his love of literature and teaching as well as the challenges of the writing process!

Episode 12: Glenn Hinson On Horace Williams And African American Vernacular Poetics

We speak with Glenn Hinson, Associate Professor of Folklore and Anthropology, on the life and poetry of Horace Williams. Dr. Hinson retells a transformative moment in which Mr. Williams recites a poem on his witnessing a public lynching as a child in the 1930s.

Episode 11: Rob Kramer On Mindfulness In Leadership

Episode 11: Rob Kramer On Mindfulness In Leadership by Institute for the Arts and Humanities (UNC-CH)

Episode 10: Nichola Lowe On The Latino Labor Force

Nichola Lowe, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning and a recipient of the 2016-2017 Academic Excellence Award, discusses her research on skill and labor practices, especially regarding the Latino workforce. She also speaks to her renewed passion for novels and her foray into alternative sleep patterns.

Episode 9: Stephanie Schrader On The Depiction Of Asia In European Art

Stephanie Schrader, PhD, delivers the 22nd Mary Stevens Reckford Memorial Lecture in European Studies entitled Appropriating Asia: The Depiction of the Exotic in European Art. In this special episode, she reveals the inspiration for this lecture and gives a preview of what appropriation and exotification might mean in the historical context of trade and religion in Europe and Asia. In telling this story of art, Dr. Schrader uses four artworks in the Getty Museum collection to survey the appropriation of Asian culture by European artists from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.
She also said she looks forward to visiting the North Carolina Museum of Art while she is in the area.
The lecture will be held Tuesday, Feb. 25, at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit us here or on Facebook. Live tweeting of the lecture will follow #Reckford2016.

Episode 8: Misha Becker And Kristen Lindquist On Childhood Development And Identifying Emotions

Misha Becker, Associate Professor of Linguistics, and Kristen Lindquist, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, speak with us on being the first recipients of the FIRE grant. They speak to their collaborative research on childhood development regarding their understanding of emotions. Dr. Lindquist also gives us a psychologist's view on the representation of emotions in the Disney Pixar film Inside Out (2015).

Episode 7: Mark Schoenfisch On Encouraging Students To Make And Learn From Mistakes

Professor of Chemistry Mark Schoenfisch speaks with us on how his research on Nitric Oxide (NO) can save lives and the way in which he engages his chemistry students by allowing them to make mistakes.

Episode 6: Susan Harbage Page On Creating The Anti-Archive Of The US-Mexico Border

Susan Harbage Page, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, speaks with Philip on her photography project inspired by found objects on the US-Mexico Border. She also describes her role in her academic department and her experience as a Fall 2015 IAH Faculty Fellow.

Episode 5: Jennifer Ho On The Best Moments In The Classroom

In part 2 of our conversation with Associate Professor Jennifer Ho, we learn about Professor Ho's most inspiring moments in her classroom. She speaks to her methods for creating an open and honest classroom culture and offers a great book recommendation.

Episode 4: Jennifer Ho on Her New Role at the IAH

In this episode, we speak with Jennifer Ho, Associate Professor of English and new Associate Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. She speaks about her career path that led to her new appointment as well as the role of mentors for university faculty and her goals as the Associate Director of the IAH.