Ohio Humans

Jul 25 2023 48 ep. 34 mins 3
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A podcast that shares stories to spark conversations and inspire ideas.

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Human Powered: Odyssey Beyond Bars

Jul 25 2023 40 mins  
This week, we’re thrilled to share a special first look at the second season of Human Powered, a podcast from our friends at Wisconsin Humanities!This episode visits with some of the key players behind the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s first credit-bearing course inside any state prison since 1917. We will learn what makes Odyssey Beyond Bars storytelling workshops so meani

Human Powered: The Power of Indigenous Knowledge

Jul 18 2023 30 mins  
This week, we’re thrilled to share “The Power of Indigenous Knowledge,” an episode from the first season of Human Powered, a podcast from our friends at Wisconsin Humanities. This episode starts with a meal around a fire, in a place where people have been cooking and eating for more than 5,000 years. Hosts Marvin Defoe and Edwina Buffalo-Reyes, members of the Red Cliff band o

We Are Here Episode 6: The Lenape Come Home to Pennsylvania

Jul 11 2023 33 mins  
We Are Here, a collaboration between our neighbors at PA Humanities and Keystone Edge, is a podcast about Pennsylvanians making their mark. This week, we’re thrilled to share the series’ sixth episode, “The Lenape Come Home to Pennsylvania.”For thousands of years before the arrival of European settlers, the Lenape thrived in the Delaware Valley. Centuries of displacement fo

Amended Episode 6: Walking in Two Worlds

Jun 27 2023 45 mins  
Amended, a podcast from our friends at Humanities New York, asks how we tell the story of the (unfinished) struggle for women’s voting rights. Who gave us the dominant suffrage narrative? And who gets left out?When the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, a large number of Native American women still could not vote. The U.S. government did not recognize them as citizens. And if h

Augmented Humanity: Indigenous A.I.

Jun 20 2023 59 mins  
Augmented Humanity, a podcast from our friends at New Mexico Humanities, features modern explorers working at the intersection of technology and the humanities who help us to understand ourselves and the worlds we create in this digital age. They are thinkers, creators, makers, and academics, all working in diverse fields. Augmented Humanity is produced in partnership with KUNM FM,

Page Count Live: Turning Points in a Writing Career

Jun 14 2023 36 mins  
Page Count, an interview-format podcast presented by Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library, celebrates authors, librarians, booksellers, illustrators, publishing professionals, and literary advocates in and from the state of Ohio. Guests range from internationally recognized and bestselling authors to professionals working on a grassroots level to improve access to b

County Lines: The Rural-Urban Divide

Jun 06 2023 14 mins  
County Lines is WYSO's series focusing on small towns and rural communities in the greater Dayton area. Funded by a grant from Ohio Humanities, Community Voices producer Renee Wilde travels down the highways and back roads to tell stories of country life that go beyond the stereotypes. This week, hear three short stories from County Lines about Ohio’s rural-urban divide and the s

More Human with Rebecca Brown Asmo

May 30 2023 39 mins  
Inspired by Socrates’s famous dictum that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” More Human, the official podcast of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Humanities Center at Cuyahoga Community College, features conversations with scholars and students in the humanities. Each episode explores how engaging with literature, philosophy, history, and art enables us to live deep

The Landscape of Local Newspapers in Ohio with Tim Feran

May 23 2023 31 mins  
This week on Ohio Humans, we're revisiting Rachel Hopkin's 2020 conversation with journalist Tim Feran about the changing landscape of local newspapers in Ohio.This episode is part of the Federation of State Humanities Councils' “Democracy and the Informed Citizen” initiative, which seeks to deepen our knowledge and appreciation of the vital connections between democracy, the h

Social Distances: The Miner’s Canary

May 16 2023 16 mins  
Social distance…it means more than just six feet apart. What other kinds of distances did we encounter during 2020 and beyond? With support from Ohio Humanities, each episode of Toledo-based media thinkhub Midstory’s “Social Distances” podcast looks at a different cross section of society that has been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis—unpacking topics ranging from the envi