Connections: Humanizing the Humanities

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Everything is connected. Everyone is connected. What, then, do we mean by “humanity” and, more specifically, “the humanities”? What are the humanities, anyway? And what are they for? Why might we need them today in an especially acute and practical way? Who thinks like this, and why? These are some of the questions we seek to explore through “Connections: Humanizing the Humanities” — a podcast produced by the Rice University School of Humanities and hosted by Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Studies, and author of “The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge.”

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    • Sep 26, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 54m AVG DURATION
    • 5 EPISODES


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    Episode 5: A Conversation with Timothy Morton

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2022 65:57


    Timothy Morton, the Rita Shea Guffey Professor of English in the School of Humanities at Rice University, is one of the world's leading environmental philosophers and a popular lecturer with a rising international profile."Connections: Humanizing the Humanities" is a podcast series produced by the Rice University School of Humanities and hosted by Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Professor in Philosophy and Religious Thought and Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Studies.

    Episode 4: A conversation with Lisa Balabanlilar

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2021 48:30


    Lisa Balabanlilar is chair of the Department of Transnational Asian Studies, director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies and associate professor of history at Rice University."Connections: Humanizing the Humanities" is a podcast produced by the Rice University School of Humanities and hosted by Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Studies, and author of The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge.

    Episode 3: A conversation with Niki Kasumi Clements

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2021 49:20


    Niki Kasumi Clements is the Watt J. and Lilly G. Jackson Assistant Professor of Religion and the Allison Sarofim Assistant Professor of Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities at Rice University."Connections: Humanizing the Humanities" is a podcast produced by the Rice University School of Humanities and hosted by Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Studies, and author of The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge.

    Episode 2: A conversation with Anthony B. Pinn

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2021 49:58


    Anthony B. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion at Rice University, founding director of the university's Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning and the inaugural director of the Center for African and African American Studies, a collaboration of the School of Humanities and the School of Social Sciences."Connections: Humanizing the Humanities" is a podcast produced by the Rice University School of Humanities and hosted by Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Studies, and author of The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge.

    Episode 1: A conversation with W. Caleb McDaniel

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2020 58:34


    W. Caleb McDaniel is a Rice University professor and the incoming chair of the Department of History, who won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History for Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America. The book recounts the previously little-known story of Henrietta Wood, who survived enslavement twice and, 30 years after she was first free, won the largest known financial settlement awarded by a U.S. court in restitution for slavery.Connections: Humanizing the Humanities is a podcast produced by the Rice University School of Humanities and hosted by Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Associate Dean of Faculty and Graduate Studies, and author of The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge.

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