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What are your superpowers?Each of us have a unique profile of character strengths — values and traits that come naturally to us. When you know what they are and how to use them, you can rise to be an upstander — setting off incredible ripples of change in yourself and the world around you. In partnership with the VIA Institute on Character, and hosted by character strengths expert Dr. Jillian Coppley, this special series of short podcast episodes will explore the science behind standing up. We’ll unpack the world of insights this character strengths framework can provide for all of us...

The Memory of Negro Fort Podcast tells the story of how and why Americans have remembered and erased the largest autonomous community of runaway enslaved people and Native Americans in the history of the United States. The Memory of Negro Fort Podcast is produced by UCF graduate history students Sebastian Garcia and John Lancaster and hosted by the UCF Center for Humanities and Digital Research, with additional support from a gift that was made as an extension of the American Historical Association’s Sinclair Workshops for Historical Podcasting.

CHAT DHC is the podcast that talks about happenings in the Digital Humanities Center at San Diego State University Library. Episodes include live events at the DHC as well as conversations among Digital Humanities Team and friends.

Community Talkies is the official podcast of the Manipal Centre for Humanities located in coastal Karnataka, India. Community Talkies is the coming together of artists, scholars, explorers, who want to be in conversation with the latest in the world of ideas. These conversations are designed to be accessible, intelligible, invigorating and fun for anyone interested in the humanities and social sciences. Listen in!

Welcome to Going Public, a podcast dedicated to exploring public scholarship and publicly-engaged teaching in the humanities. Since 2015, two successive Andrew W. Mellon funded grant initiatives under the name "Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics: Catalyzing Collaboration" have supported public scholars at the University of Washington. The episodes of Going Public consist of interviews with Mellon-supported public scholars after they have launched their projects or taught their public-facing seminars. Explore the seminars and projects at: www.simpsoncenter.org/goingpublic

Humanities Now is the official podcast of the Humanities Center at Texas Tech. We feature conversations with members of the humanities community at Texas Tech University. With every episode, these varied voices help us realize the Center’s mission: asking out loud, “What does it mean to be human?” and demonstrating how can we answer that question from so many different perspectives.

Vox Humanities is a podcast from the Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech. Our focus is on the advancement of human centered knowledge, pursued in conversation with experts whose work enhances public understanding of a complex world to which humanistic inquiry has never been more important. Throughout this series, we return to the theme of "Tech for Humanity," a university-wide initiative guiding research, curriculum, and engagement across many disciplines at Virginia Tech. The host, Sylvester Johnson, is the director of the Center for Humanities and leads the Tech for Humanity initiative.

Since its formation in 2012, the BYU Humanities Center’s mission has been to promote innovative scholarship in areas pertaining to the language, literature, thought, culture, and history of the human conversation. This podcast is a continuation of that mission. During each episode, our listeners will be able to hear conversations with distinguished scholars across many disciplines about their current work and its exploration into these diverse areas of the human experience. We hope that you, in listening to this podcast, find additional ways to Think Clearly, Act Well, and Appreciate Life. ...

The Faith and Imagination podcast hosts rich ecumenical conversations with scholars, theologians, and artists about our experience at the heart of spiritual, intellectual, and religious life. Sponsored by the BYU Humanities Center.

The Upstander Ripple Effect is a podcast featuring stories of how one act of standing up for justice can have an infinite impact. It’s where stories of courage and resilience during the Holocaust—one of the darkest chapters in human history— come alive to inspire a new generation of upstanders today. Come for a dose of motivation to activate your own unique character strengths to become an upstander right now, and stay for a fresh look at today’s headlines that will leave you feeling hopeful and empowered to start your own ripples of positive change. The Upstander Ripple Effect – ...

Coming soon… voices from the National Humanities Center’s virtual podcasting institute, run in partnership with the Digital Humanities Center at San Diego State University Library.Our weeklong institute trains graduate students, faculty, librarians, and academic workers in care-based and generous public-facing digital storytelling.Each episode is created by an interdisciplinary and cross-institutional learning cohort who come together to explore new modalities of humanistic inquiry and, in the process, imagine new possibilities for their scholarly praxis.

Named after our seminar room, The Virtual Jewel Box hosts conversations at the Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. We share research, commentary, interviews, dialogue, and storytelling from across humanities disciplines. Views expressed on The Virtual Jewel Box do not represent the official views of the Center or University.