Real Issues. Real Conversations. An Ohio Humanities Podcast.: Recent Episodes
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A podcast of real conversations about real issues that are important to all Ohioans. We offer a humanities perspective on what's going on in the world. Ohio Humanities is the state based partner of the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Host Rachel Hopkin is joined by musicians Floco Torres of Akron and Sebastian Arze of Asunción, Paraguay.
Torres is a hip hop artist based in Akron and one half of the duo Free Black!,which he formedin 2018 with producer/drummer HR3. For more information about Floco and his music, visit flocotorres7.bandcamp.com and nobodycaresnews.com.
Arze lives in Asunción, where he is a member of the reggae-grunge band Deficiente. To learn more about the group, visit linktr.ee/Deficiente.
Covid Conversationsis a podcast series from the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University in which artists and humanities professionals from Ohio and their counterparts elsewhere in the world discuss how their lives and work have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.
The series is funded by anOSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant and distributed by Ohio Humanities. It is produced and presented by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin and mastered by Paul Kotheimer at OSU.
Music for this podcast is provided by Pixabay.
For more about the Center for Folklore Studies, where the full recordings of each episode will be archived along with contextual information about each episode, please visit cfs.osu.edu.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit ohiohumanities.org.
Host Rachel Hopkin is joined by visual artists Cat Sheridan of Columbus and Gabriel Amza of Timișoara, Romania.
Sheridan uses many different media in her artistic work, with a special focus on ceramics. She is the director of the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery in downtown Columbus.
Amza is a Romanian photographer, curator, and community organizer. His work usually takes the form of long-term documentary projects and installations, often with themes relating to social justice and the environment.
Covid Conversationsis a podcast series from the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University in which artists and humanities professionals from Ohio and their counterparts elsewhere in the world discuss how their lives and work have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.
The series is funded by anOSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant and distributed by Ohio Humanities. It is produced and presented by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin and mastered by Paul Kotheimer at OSU.
Music for this podcast is provided by Pixabay.
For more about the Center for Folklore Studies, where the full recordings of each episode will be archived along with contextual information about each episode, please visit cfs.osu.edu.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit ohiohumanities.org.
Host Rachel Hopkin is joined by authors Natalie Richards of Columbus and Fatima Sharafeddine of Beirut, Lebanon.
Richards is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books for young adults.
Sharafeddine is an award-winning writer and translator of books for children and young adults. She is also a writing tutor.
Covid Conversations is a podcast series from the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University in which artists and humanities professionals from Ohio and their counterparts elsewhere in the world discuss how their lives and work have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.
The series is funded by an OSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant and distributed by Ohio Humanities. It is produced and presented by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin and mastered by Paul Kotheimer at OSU.
Music for this podcast is provided by Pixabay.
For more about the Center for Folklore Studies, where the full recordings of each episode will be archived along with contextual information about each episode, please visit cfs.osu.edu.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit ohiohumanities.org.
Host Rachel Hopkin moderates a conversation between Dublin, Ohio-based Smitha Magal and Priya Murle of Chennai, India. Both women are dancers and teachers of one of India’s oldest classical dance traditions, Bharatanatyam, and senior disciples of renowned dancer Sudharani Raghupathy.
After some years teaching in her native India, Smitha Magal formed her own dance school SILAMBAM in 1992 after moving to Dublin, Ohio. Smitha is originally from Chennai in India, where she met and studied alongside Priya Murle, her long-time friend and colleague. Murle was a senior teacher at Shree Bharatalaya prior to founding the Shri Silambam Academy of Fine Arts in 2012 in Chennai.
Covid Conversationsis a podcast series from the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University in which artists and humanities professionals from Ohio and their counterparts elsewhere in the world discuss how their lives and work have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.
The series is funded by anOSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant and distributed by Ohio Humanities. It is produced and presented by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin and mastered by Paul Kotheimer at OSU.
Music for this podcast is provided by Pixabay.
For more about the Center for Folklore Studies, where the full recordings of each episode will be archived along with contextual information about each episode, please visit cfs.osu.edu.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit ohiohumanities.org.
Host Rachel Hopkin is joined by ethnographers Dr. Lucy Long, a folklorist and ethnomusicologist who teaches at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros, an anthropologist with the Institute of Heritage Sciences at the Spanish National Research Council in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Dr. Long is the founder and director of The Center for Food and Culture. An online exhibition of her Covid-related foodways research is available at https://comfortfoodwaysexhibit.wordpress.com.
Dr. Sánchez-Fuarros is an anthropologist with the Institute of Heritage Sciences at the Spanish National Research Council. He is also the Principal Investigator of the Sounding Out the Tourist City project based in Lisbon, Portugal, which has been documenting the soundscape of the city both prior to and during the pandemic.
Covid Conversationsis a podcast series from the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University in which artists and humanities professionals from Ohio and their counterparts elsewhere in the world discuss how their lives and work have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.
The series is funded by anOSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant and distributed by Ohio Humanities. It is produced and presented by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin and mastered by Paul Kotheimer at OSU.
Music for this podcast is provided by Pixabay.
For more about the Center for Folklore Studies, where the full recordings of each episode will be archived along with contextual information about each episode, please visit cfs.osu.edu.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit ohiohumanities.org.
Host Rachel Hopkin is joined by Mark Kosower, Principal Cello with the Cleveland Orchestra, and Matthew Hunter, violist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to playing with their respective orchestras, both Mark and Matthew perform as soloists and chamber ensemble players and are teachers.
Kosower is Principal Cello with the Cleveland Orchestra. He has been with the orchestra since 2010. Learn more about Kosower at https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/discover/meet-the-musicians/cellos/kosower-mark/, and listen to some of his online performances, on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiTBAKeujunlSKDdRIyfbHw and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008328842166.
Hunter is a violist with the Berlin Philharmonic. He has lived in Germany for 25 years, but he was born in Ohio and spent some years working in the state after growing up in Massachusetts. Learn more about Hunter at https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/orchestra/musician/matthew-hunter/.
For more information about the Cleveland and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras, including their online concert programming, please visit https://www.clevelandorchestra.com and https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/.
Covid Conversationsis a podcast series from the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University in which artists and humanities professionals from Ohio and their counterparts elsewhere in the world discuss how their lives and work have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.
The series is funded by anOSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant and distributed by Ohio Humanities. It is produced and presented by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin and mastered by Paul Kotheimer at OSU.
Music for this podcast is provided by Pixabay.
For more about the Center for Folklore Studies, where the full recordings of each episode will be archived along with contextual information about each episode, please visit cfs.osu.edu.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit ohiohumanities.org.
Host Rachel Hopkin moderates a conversation between West Chester, Ohio-based quilter and scholar Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi and quilter Felicity Khan of South Africa.
Dr. Mazloomi is a quilter, quilt scholar, curator, and founder of the Women of Color Quilters Network. In 2014, Mazloomi was named a National Heritage Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest award given in the United States for traditional arts. She is also an aerospace engineer. For more information, visit her website at www.carolynlmazloomi.com.
Khan is based close to Cape Town in South Africa. She has been sewing all her life, has formed several patchwork and quilting groups, and teaches her crafts to others. She was formerly a board member of the Good Hope Quilters Guild, the western cape of South Africa’s patchwork and quilting umbrella body, and served as its Outreach Liaison.
More information about the Unmask Your Creativity competition discussed in the podcast can be found at www.wcqn.org/unmask-your-creativity-contest.
Covid Conversationsis a podcast series from the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University in which artists and humanities professionals from Ohio and their counterparts elsewhere in the world discuss how their lives and work have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.
The series is funded by anOSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant and distributed by Ohio Humanities. It is produced and presented by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin and mastered by Paul Kotheimer at OSU.
Music for this podcast is provided by Pixabay.
For more about the Center for Folklore Studies, where the full recordings of each episode will be archived along with contextual information about each episode, please visit cfs.osu.edu.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit ohiohumanities.org.
Host Rachel Hopkin moderates a conversation between Dayton-based dancer and psychotherapist Jessica Tupa and dancer and scholar Monica Maria Fumagalli of Milan, Italy.
Tupa is a psychotherapist with a background as a dancer and educator. An alumna of the Ohio State University Department of Dance, she started dancing Argentine tango several years ago. Before Covid, she traveled extensively with her partner for tango within the U.S. and Europe. Jessica uses her movement background to support wholistic well-being both in her psychotherapy practice and in her own life. During Covid, Jessica has spent some of her time teaching her Tupaco Tango Barre method online. For more information, visit her website at www.tupaco.com/meet-your-instructor.
Fumagalli studied many forms of dance before taking up Argentine tango in 1990. She has taught and performed the dance internationally, including in the U.S., and established a tango school in her native Milan. Monica is also an accomplished scholar who has published and presented widely on the history and culture of Argentine tango. You can read more about Fumagalli—and watch some of her performances—at www.monicamaria.net.
Covid Conversationsis a podcast series from the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University in which artists and humanities professionals from Ohio and their counterparts elsewhere in the world discuss how their lives and work have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.
The series is funded by anOSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant and distributed by Ohio Humanities. It is produced and presented by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin and mastered by Paul Kotheimer at OSU.
Music for this podcast is provided by Pixabay.
For more about the Center for Folklore Studies, where the full recordings of each episode will be archived along with contextual information about each episode, please visit cfs.osu.edu.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit ohiohumanities.org.
In this episode, we discuss ideas and political divisions in American politics with Dr. Kevin Mattson. Dr. Mattson received his B.A. from the New School for Social Research and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. His research focuses on intellectual history and political culture in the United States. He is the author of numerous books, including We’re Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan and the Real Culture War of 1980s America and What the Heck Are you Up To, Mr. President?: Jimmy Carter, America’s Malaise, and the Speech that Should Have Changed the Country.
Perfecting Democracy explores the topic of civic and electoral participation using history and jurisprudence to illuminate contemporary issues. This series offers a humanities perspective on electoral engagement in Ohio and America’s multivocal democracy. In each episode, experts from around the state share thought-provoking insights on how best to understand our democracy and why it matters. This program was funded by the ‘Why It Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation’ initiative, administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1994, he graduated from Morehouse College with a BA in history and, in 2002, he earned his Ph.D. from Duke University. Dr. Jeffries’ academic background and award-winning research on the origins of the Black Power Movement in Alabama has allowed him to develop excellent insights on race and electoral participation in the United States. In this episode, we ask Dr. Jeffries about what lessons can we learn from how people viewed the Civil Rights Movement as it was unfolding and why understanding slavery is essential to grasping American democracy.
This episode is part of "Perfecting Democracy," a series exploring the topic of civic and electoral participation using history and jurisprudence to illuminate contemporary issues. The series offers a humanities perspective on electoral engagement in Ohio and America’s multivocal democracy. In each episode, experts from around the state share thought-provoking insights on how best to understand our democracy and why it matters. Perfecting Democracy is made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Federation of State Humanities Councils.
For this first episode of Covid Conversations, host Rachel Hopkin is joined by Omopé Carter-Daboiku and Alinah Azadeh.
Carter-Daboiku is a storyteller who grew up rural southern Ohio. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of place, identity and belonging, and the experience of growing up a “mixed-race, colored child” of Nigerian heritage in the Appalachian landscape. To find out more about Carter-Daboiku, visitartslearning.ohioartscouncil.org/directory/name/omope-carter-daboiku/.
Azadeh is a UK-based writer, artist, performer and social activist of British-Iranian heritage. Her work can be found at www.alinahazadeh.com.
Both Omopé and Alinah are storytellers and textile artists for whom the concept of connection to land and the way in which that forms identity are important themes. They are also – to use Omopé’s phrase – “history keepers” who teach and facilitate the creativity of others.
Covid Conversationsis a podcast series from the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University in which artists and humanities professionals from Ohio and their counterparts elsewhere in the world discuss how their lives and work have been affected by the Coronavirus pandemic.
The series is funded by anOSU Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant and distributed by Ohio Humanities. It is produced and presented by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin and mastered by Paul Kotheimer at OSU.
Music for this podcast is provided by Pixabay.
For more about the Center for Folklore Studies, where the full recordings of each episode will be archived along with contextual information about each episode, please visit cfs.osu.edu.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit ohiohumanities.org.
In this episode, we discuss the 1872 presidential campaign of Victoria Woodhull and the challenges women have faced in becoming elected officials in the United States with Dr. Barbara Palmer. Dr. Palmer earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. She is an expert on congressional elections and the position of women in electoral politics. Dr. Palmer has over twenty years of teaching experience and is a recipient of the Baldwin Wallace Student Senate Faculty Excellence Award.
Perfecting Democracy explores the topic of civic and electoral participation using history and jurisprudence to illuminate contemporary issues. This series offers a humanities perspective on electoral engagement in Ohio and America’s multivocal democracy. In each episode, experts from around the state share thought-provoking insights on how best to understand our democracy and why it matters. This program was funded by the 'Why It Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation' initiative, administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
In this Episode, broadcast journalist Ron Bryant discusses disputed elections with Christie Weininger and Dr. Dustin McLochlin. Christie is the Executive Director of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, and Dustin is a historian and curator at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. Together, they lend their expertise on arguably the most contested presidential election in American history, the Hayes v. Tilden election of 1876.
Perfecting Democracy explores the topic of civic and electoral participation using history and jurisprudence to illuminate contemporary issues. This series offers a humanities perspective on electoral engagement in Ohio and America’s multivocal democracy. In each episode, experts from around the state share thought-provoking insights on how best to understand our democracy and why it matters. This program was funded by the 'Why It Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation' initiative, administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
In this series, we explore Democracy and the Informed Citizen.
Our guest in this episode is Cara Owsley who is Director of Photography at the Cincinnati Enquirer and a national award-winning visual journalist, including as photojournalist and photo editor for the Enquirer’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize winning "Seven Days of Heroin" project. Cara is also on the board of the Visual Task Force with the National Association of Black Journalists.
To see some of Cara’s recent work, visit https://www.cincinnati.com/staff/2648072001/cara-owsley/
Real Issues: Real Conversations is produced and presented by Rachel Hopkin.
Real Issues: Real Conversations is a production of Ohio Humanities, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The views expressed in the podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment.
This program is part of “Democracy and the Informed Citizen,” an initiative administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils. The project seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of the vital connections between democracy, the humanities, journalism, and an informed citizenry.
Many thanks to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their generous support of this initiative and the Pulitzer Prizes for their partnership.
The podcast’s opening and closing music is provided by Sokolovsky Music.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit www.ohiohumanities.org.
In this episode, broadcast journalist Ron Bryant discusses American democracy and the Electoral College with Dr. La Trice Washington. Dr. Washington is an Associate Professor of American Government at Otterbein University and the author of Political Scandals: The Consequences of Temporary Gratification. Dr. Washington lends her expertise to help us understand why the founders created the Electoral College, how it affects our elections, and the college's future in our democracy.
Perfecting Democracy explores the topic of civic and electoral participation using history and jurisprudence to illuminate contemporary issues. This series offers a humanities perspective on electoral engagement in Ohio and America’s multivocal democracy. In each episode, experts from around the state share thought-provoking insights on how best to understand our democracy and why it matters. This program was funded by the 'Why It Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation' initiative, administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
In this series, we explore Democracy and the Informed Citizen.
Our guests in this episode are Destiniee Jaram and Jack Boden. Both are undergraduate students in the journalism program at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and they share their perspective on the profession for which they are preparing themselves.
Here are some links to stories reported by today’s guests:
https://www.athensnews.com/news/campus/shawnee-chief-speaks-about-her-people-s-history-legacy/article_8dbb84a0-58cf-11ea-b6e7-b3cb267672d8.html
https://www.athensnews.com/news/local/food-pantry-puts-burrows-words-into-action/article_98417aea-42c4-11ea-996f-0b4f77c03067.html
https://www.athensnews.com/news/campus/faculty-and-allies-hold-silent-protest-as-ou-trustees-meet/article_bf91f65a-3a32-11ea-9807-13ec995b57d7.html
Real Issues: Real Conversations is hosted and produced by Rachel Hopkin.
Real Issues: Real Conversations is a production of Ohio Humanities, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The views expressed in the podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment.
This program is part of “Democracy and the Informed Citizen,” an initiative administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils. The project seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of the vital connections between democracy, the humanities, journalism, and an informed citizenry.
Many thanks to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their generous support of this initiative and the Pulitzer Prizes for their partnership.
The podcast’s opening and closing music is provided by Sokolovsky Music.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit www.ohiohumanities.org.
Perfecting Democracy—Why it Matters” explores the history of civic engagement in the United States. In this episode, we bring together award-winning broadcast journalist Ron Bryant, and Akron based journalist and author of Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America, David Giffels. Together they discuss how Ohio’s unique past and regional identities have shaped electoral engagement across the state.
Perfecting Democracy explores the topic of civic and electoral participation using history and jurisprudence to illuminate contemporary issues. This series offers a humanities perspective on electoral engagement in Ohio and America’s multivocal democracy. In each episode, experts from around the state share thought-provoking insights on how best to understand our democracy and why it matters. This program was funded by the 'Why It Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation' initiative, administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Our guest for this episode – in which our focus is racial equity in media reporting - is Mark Curnutte (http://www.miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/sociology-gerontology/about/faculty-staff/mark-curnutte/index.html).
Mark Curnutte has been on the faculty of Miami University in Oxford Ohio for the past several years where he teaches courses on journalism and social justice. He is also a multi-award-winning career newspaper journalist who has reported extensively on social issues of race, class, poverty, homelessness, and immigration, including for the Cincinnati Enquirer where he worked 25 years. Over 80 of the articles he wrote for the Enquirer are reproduced in his most recent book: “Across the Color Line: Reporting 25 Years in Black Cincinnati" (https://ucincinnatipress.uc.edu/9781947602014/across-the-color-line/)
The following video, from the Columbus Metropolitan Club on the subject of “How Media Perpetuates Bias,” is mentioned during the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJmrAVs3B9A
Real Issues: Real Conversations is hosted and produced by Rachel Hopkin.
Real Issues: Real Conversations is a production of Ohio Humanities, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The views expressed in the podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment.
This program is part of “Democracy and the Informed Citizen,” an initiative administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils. The project seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of the vital connections between democracy, the humanities, journalism, and an informed citizenry.
Many thanks to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their generous support of this initiative and the Pulitzer Prizes for their partnership.
The podcast’s opening and closing music is provided by Sokolovsky Music.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit www.ohiohumanities.org.
This episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is about Report for America. In it, we hear from some of the project’s 2020-2021 Ohio-based corps members who all began their new jobs during June of 2020.
The guests interviewed are Seyma Bayram, who is reporting on minority and immigrant issues for The Akron Beacon Journal, H.L. Comeriato, who is focusing on Public Health also in Akron for The Devil Strip, and Conor Morris, who’s covering poverty-related issues in Cleveland - such as housing, health and education – for the Northeast Ohio Journalism Collaborative.
ncidentally, a fourth corps member - Pete Grieve, whose beat is covering public health for Spectrum in Columbus OH – was supposed to be part of this conversation but unfortunately, technical issues prevented his participation.
The story by M. Sophie Franchi about addiction recovery which was published in The Devil Strip is available at https://thedevilstrip.com/together-and-alone-nine-years-since-i-kicked-my-heroin-addiction/
And here are some links to pieces by the reporters featured in this program:
https://thedevilstrip.com/east-akron-public-schools-segregation-bell-board-education/
Real Issues: Real Conversations is hosted and produced by Rachel Hopkin.
Real Issues: Real Conversations is a production of Ohio Humanities, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The views expressed in the podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment.
This program is part of “Democracy and the Informed Citizen,” an initiative administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils. The project seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of the vital connections between democracy, the humanities, journalism, and an informed citizenry.
Many thanks to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their generous support of this initiative and the Pulitzer Prizes for their partnership.
The podcast’s opening and closing music is provided by Sokolovsky Music.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit www.ohiohumanities.org.
This episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified in August of 1920.
Our guest in this episode is Jen Miller who is the Executive Director of the League of Women Voters of Ohio which is also 100 years old this year. Jen discusses the history and current work of the League and also reflects on what suffrage means today
Real Issues: Real Conversations is hosted and produced by Rachel Hopkin.
Real Issues: Real Conversations is a production of Ohio Humanities, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The views expressed in the podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment.
This program is part of “Democracy and the Informed Citizen,” an initiative administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils. The project seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of the vital connections between democracy, the humanities, journalism, and an informed citizenry.
Many thanks to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their generous support of this initiative and the Pulitzer Prizes for their partnership.
The podcast’s opening and closing music is provided by Sokolovsky Music.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit www.ohiohumanities.org.
This episode’s guest is writer and reporter, Tim Feran, talks about the landscape of local newspapers in Ohio.
You can find out more about Tim at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-feran-1b0944a/ and here are some links to his work:
The Poynter article about Gannett, the Ithaca Journal, and ghost newsrooms mentioned in the interview can be found at https://www.poynter.org/locally/2020/at-gannetts-ithaca-journal-local-news-staffing-is-down-to-one-reporter/
The name of the journalist whom Tim talks about in the interview who is doing investigative reporting in Youngstown for ProPublica and the Youngstown Business Journal is Dan O’Brien. Here is a link to one of his articles: https://www.propublica.org/article/gm-closed-the-lordstown-auto-plant-now-ohio-may-force-a-60-million-repayment
Real Issues: Real Conversations is hosted and producedby Rachel Hopkin.
Real Issues: Real Conversations is a production of Ohio Humanities, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The views expressed in the podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment.
This program is part of “Democracy and the Informed Citizen,” an initiative administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils. The project seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of the vital connections between democracy, the humanities, journalism, and an informed citizenry.
Many thanks to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their generous support of this initiative and the Pulitzer Prizes for their partnership.
The podcast’s opening and closing music is provided by Sokolovsky Music.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit www.ohiohumanities.org.
This episode features Neenah Ellis and Luke Dennis of WYSO - https://www.wyso.org - which is the Greater Dayton area’s only NPR News station. Luke Dennis, who has a background in arts and music administration, is WYSO’s General Manager. Neenah Ellis, who was Luke’s predecessor in that role, is a multi-award-winning radio documentary maker of several decades standing. She is also the President of Miami Valley Public Media - the recently formed community owned non-profit organization behind WYSO. Amongst other subjects, they talk about the value of local reporting, about a project specifically designed to support that which is called Report for America, and about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ellis and Dennis are interviewed by folklorist and radio producer Rachel Hopkin.
The interview was recorded on May 12, 2020.
Real Issues: Real Conversations is a production of Ohio Humanities, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The views expressed in the podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment. This program is part of “Democracy and the Informed Citizen,” an initiative administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils. The project seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of the vital connections between democracy, the humanities, journalism, and an informed citizenry. Many thanks to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their generous support of this initiative and the Pulitzer Prizes for their partnership.
The podcast’s opening and closing music is provided by Sokolovsky Music.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit www.ohiohumanities.org.
This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified in August of 1920.
In this episode, Dr Treva Lindsey discusses the role that women of color have played in the struggle for the right to vote both before the 19th Amendment was passed and since. Dr Lindsey is an Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University and author of Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
In an initiative developed by League of Women Voters of Ohio and supported by Ohio Humanities, Dr Lindsey has collaborated to create a “Woman Suffrage All-Ages Reading List” and a discussion guide titled “The Complicated Struggle For Woman Suffrage.”Both can be accessed via the Suffrage Centennial page of the League of Women Voters of Ohio website.
Dr Lindsey is interviewed by folklorist and radio producer Rachel Hopkin.
Ladies First: A Century of Women’s Innovations in Comics and Cartoon Art
This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of 1920.
The guests in this episode of the podcast are Caitlin McGurk, Associate Curator of Outreach & Engagement and Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum and Library, and Columbus OH-based writer, editor, and scholar Rachel Miller. McGurk and Miller are joint curators of a Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum exhibit called Ladies First which celebrates “A Century of Women’s Innovations in Comics and Cartoon Art.” Ladies First was to be on show until May 2020. However, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, please check the Museum’s website for the latest information.
McGurk and Miller are interviewed by folklorist and radio producer Rachel Hopkin.
Real Issues: Real Conversations is a production of Ohio Humanities, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The views expressed in the podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment. This program is part of “Democracy and the Informed Citizen,” an initiative administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils. The project seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of the vital connections between democracy, the humanities, journalism, and an informed citizenry. Many thanks to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their generous support of this initiative and the Pulitzer Prizes for their partnership.
The podcast’s opening and closing music is provided by Sokolovsky Music.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit www.ohiohumanities.org.
This episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified in August of 1920.
Our guest in this episode is historian Dr Kimberly Hamlin who talks about the history of the suffrage movement, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and about ongoing issues concerning voting rights today.
Dr Hamlin is an award-winning historian and the author of the book Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener. She is based at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
For more information about Dr Hamlin and her work, please visit http://www.kimberlyhamlin.com/author/ and
https://miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/gic/about/faculty/hamlin-k/index.html
Dr Hamlin is interviewed by radio producer and folklorist Rachel Hopkin.
Real Issues: Real Conversations is a production of Ohio Humanities, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The views expressed in the podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment. This program is part of “Democracy and the Informed Citizen,” an initiative administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils. The project seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of the vital connections between democracy, the humanities, journalism, and an informed citizenry. Many thanks to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their generous support of this initiative and the Pulitzer Prizes for their partnership.
The podcast’s opening and closing music is provided by Sokolovsky Music.
To learn more about Ohio Humanities podcasts and other projects and programs, please visit www.ohiohumanities.org.
Today, the podcast’s guest is Patricia Gallagher Newberry - https://www.miamioh.edu/cas/academics/departments/mjf/about/faculty-staff/newberry-patricia/ - who is the current President of the Society of Professional Journalists - https://www.spj.org – and who runs the Journalism Program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
In this episode – which was recorded in late March, 2020 - Gallagher Newberry discusses the fluctuating and sometimes fraught relationship between U.S. Presidents past and present and the press. She also addresses issues concerning fake news and offers tips on developing discernment with regard the value of media output.
Gallagher Newberry is interviewed by folklorist and radio producer Rachel Hopkin.
In this episode of the Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast revisits Kent State University 50 years on from the May 4th 1970 shootings by members of the National Guard of four unarmed students on the campus. The episode includes an interview with poet and playwright David Hassler who discusses his play “May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970” which is based on the university’s oral history archive. It also features Mindy Farmer, who is Director of the May 4 Visitor’s Center on the Kent State campus.
A film of the student production of Hassler’s play is available on YouTube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-gOyP9TAmo
A one hour radio special of the play is available on PRX and on the web at: https://may4voices.org/
Other useful links include:
https://www.kent.edu/wick/staff
https://omeka.library.kent.edu/special-collections/kent-state-shootings-oral-histories
https://www.kent.edu/may4visitorscenter
https://www.kent.edu/lgbtq/profile/mindy-farmer
This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of 1920.
Susan Trollinger - professor of rhetoric and writing at the University of Dayton, Ohio - is the guest on this podcast, in which she discusses some of the rhetorical devices deployed by women fighting for the right to vote.
Susan Trollinger is interviewed by folklorist/radio producer Rachel Hopkin. The podcast’s opening and closing music is provided by Sokolovsky Music.
Real Issues: Real Conversations is a production of Ohio Humanities, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The views expressed in this podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment. This podcast is also made possible, in part, through the support of The Ohio State University’s Humanities Institute.
This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of 1920.
This episode’s guest is Barbara Palmer - a professor of political science at Baldwin Wallace University – and she is talking about the history of women running for public office both specifically in the state of Ohio and more generally. The interview was recorded on October 11th, 2019.
During the interview, Palmer refers to Running Start, the organization which she helped found and which helps equip young women with the skills necessary to run for political office. Running Start’s website address is https://runningstart.org.
Barbara Palmer is interviewed by folklorist/radio producer Rachel Hopkin.
The podcast’s opening and closing music is provided by Sokolovsky Music.
Real Issues: Real Conversations is a production of Ohio Humanities, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The views expressed in this podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment. This podcast is also made possible, in part, through the support of The Ohio State University’s Humanities Institute.
Join a conversation between Ohio Humanities Executive Director Pat Williamsen and Ohio University professors Daniel Skinner and Berkeley Franz as they discuss their new book Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio.
With support from Ohio Humanities, Ohio University medical school professors Daniel Skinner and Berkeley Franz have launched a website that provides resources for facilitating community conversations and reducing stigma around the issue of opioid abuse. The website is hosted at www.NotFarFromMe.org
The site is a companion to Skinner and Franz’s co-edited book, Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio, which features more than 50 first-person accounts of the opioid crisis in Ohio. The book’s contributors include educators, medical professionals, sports coaches, teachers, community leaders, family members, and recovering opioid users. Former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland wrote the book’s forward. Of the book, the award-winning author of Dreamland, Sam Quinones, said: “As a journalist and storyteller, I’m convinced that only through stories of real people will the stigma surrounding addiction fade. Which is what makes projects like Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio so important and worth reading. We hear from them all: doctors, addicts, poets, mothers, librarians, nurses, pastors, inmates and football coaches. Even though this volume is about one state, and only a few people from that state, together they tell one of the crucial stories of America today.
This episode of Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast is one of a number of special episodes that Ohio Humanities is publishing during 2020 to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in the United States. The 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, was ratified on the 18th of August of 1920.
Stephanie Hinnershitz - professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Cleveland State University - is the guest on this podcast, in which she discusses the history of the Equal Rights Amendment, including Phyllis Schlafly’s very effective campaign against its ratification during the 1970s.
Stephanie Hinnershitz is interviewed by folklorist/radio producer Rachel Hopkin. The podcast’s opening and closing music is provided by Sokolovsky Music.
Real Issues: Real Conversations is a production of Ohio Humanities, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The views expressed in this podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment. This podcast is also made possible, in part, through the support of The Ohio State University’s Humanities Institute.
In this episode of Ohio Humanities’ Real Issues: Real Conversations podcast, Ohio author Mindy McGinnis talks about her latest YA novel Heroine(Harper Collins, 2019).
Mindy McGinnis is an Ohio-born-and-bred ninth generation farmer and an award-winning author of YA fiction. Mindy’s latest book, Heroine, has been described as “captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis—the deadliest drug epidemic in American history—through the eyes of a college-bound softball star” and a “visceral and necessary novel about addiction, family, friendship, and hope.”
Beside authoring YA fiction, Mindy also blogs and podcasts about writers and the writing process under the title of Writer, Writer Pants On Fire.
Mindy McGinnis is interviewed by folklorist/radio producer Rachel Hopkin
The podcast’s opening and closing music is provided by Sokolovsky Music
Real Issues: Real Conversations is a production of Ohio Humanities, the state-based partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The views expressed in this podcast do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment. This podcast is also made possible, in part, with support from The Ohio State University’s Humanities Institute.