Podcast appearances and mentions of ann braude

Each year the HDS Women's Studies in Religion Program brings scholars in gender from around the country to enrich the experience of HDS students. 2024 Orientation offered students the opportunity to hear from the 2024–25 WSRP visiting faculty, who shared their thoughts on the ethical responsibility of scholars to be engaged in the study of gender. Speakers: S. Zahra Moballegh, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Islam Wendy Mallette, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Theology Ashley L. Bacchi, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Jewish History Ghazal Asif Farrukhi, Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Anthropology Erminia Ardissino, Visiting Associate Professor Emerita of Women's Studies and Literature Moderated by Ann Braude, Director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program Full transcript forthcoming.

Shannon Taggart's book Seance is a landmark in art photography and the history of psychical research. Taggart spent years photographing practitioners of spiritualism in the U.S. and Europe in an effort to capture the mysteries of mediumship, ectoplasm, and spirit photography. In this episode, she joins JF and Phil for a conversation on the often-misunderstood tradition of spiritualism, the investigation of the paranormal, and the real magic of photography. If the technological medium is the message, then perhaps the spiritual medium is the messenger. Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies): Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) Buy the Weird Studies soundtrack (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) **REFERENCES *Shannon Taggart, Séance * Read the introduction to the book here (https://www.academia.edu/45352485/Introduction_to_S%C3%89ANCE) Visual companion page for this episode (https://www.shannontaggart.com/weird-studies) Weird Studies, Episode 24 with Lionel Snell (https://www.weirdstudies.com/24) Lionel Snell, “The Charlatan and the Magus” (http://the-philosophers-stone.com/articles/charlatn/magus.htm) George P. Hansen, The Trickster and the Paranormal (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9781401000820) Diane Arbus (http://www.artnet.com/artists/diane-arbus/), American photographer Warner Herzog (dir.), Cave of Forgotten Dreams (https://imdb.com/title/tt1664894/) Jeffrey Mishlove, Interview with James Tunney on Francis Bacon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2tlUmbT9I) Eva C, (https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/marthe-b%C3%A9raud-eva-c#Experiments_by_Albert_von_Schrenck-Notzing) French medium Andrew Jackson Davis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Davis), American spiritualist Henry Alcott (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Steel_Olcott), American Theosophist For further reading on women, spiritualism, and the art of the invisible: Ann Braude, Radical Spirits (https://bookshop.org/a/18799/9780253215024) Guggenheim, Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future (https://www.guggenheim.org/publication/hilma-af-klint-paintings-for-the-future) Special Guest: Shannon Taggart.

Hilma af Klint was a Swedish painter born in 1862 who painted big, bold canvases suffused with rich, strange colors denoting masculine and feminine, the gush of life and the serenity of cosmic order. She found inspiration in unorthodox places, including the spirit realm. And she had a vision: that her work would one day be displayed in a spiral temple. For decades after her death, her work was hidden away — at first by her request, and then because it couldn't find an audience. Now that it's on display in a building like the one she imagined, her work is a sensation that has invited a radical re-imagining of the history of abstract art. In 2019, Brooke walked through the exhibit with senior curator Tracey Bashkoff, who brought af Klint's work to the Guggenheim after discovering it in a catalogue. Next, Brooke explores Spiritualism — a movement that shaped af Klint's life and work. Broadly defined as a religious movement based on the idea that the living can communicate with spirits dwelling in the afterlife — that we can talk to the dead — Spiritualism grew quickly. After all, the telegraph was allowing people to communicate across time and space; why not spiritual realms? At the time, the ideal spirit medium was thought to be an adolescent girl, unencumbered by education and thoughts of her own. But a curious thing happened as women started speaking as spirit mediums: they became accustomed to speaking in public, and others became accustomed to hearing them. And on top of that, the spirits had some radically progressive ideas about individual self-sovereignty, abolition and women's rights. Brooke speaks with Ann Braude, director of the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School and author of Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, about this curious moment in American history, and how it helped bring women — and reformist ideas — into the public sphere.

This episode explores the links between poltergeist activity at a Rochester New York home and the spark that ignited the social movement for women's suffrage. Bonus: Poltergeist activity as a path to enlightenment and when God tells you go on a diet.Books if you want to learn more: Radical Spirits by Ann Braude, Ghosts of Futures Past by Molly McGarry, and Other Powers by Barbara GoldsmithSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/shitgetsweird)

Our interview with Ann Braude, Senior Lecturer on American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School. Her book, Radical Spirits, was a guiding light for our exploration of the role of spiritualism in American life. 

Between 1970 and 1985, HDS changed from an almost exclusively male institution into a school with a majority of women students and a commitment to gender analysis. Panelists who propelled the women’s studies revolution follow its reverberations into the twenty-first century. The panel was introduced by Ann Braude, director of the HDS Women's Studies in Religion Program. It was moderated by Margaret R. Miles, Bussey Professor of Theology at HDS, 1978–1996. The panelists were Katie Geneva Cannon, Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics, Union Presbyterian Seminar, Karen L. King, HDS Hollis Professor of Divinity, and Ping Yao, Professor of History and director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Program, California State University, Los Angeles. The panel was part of HDS's bicentennial celebration on April 28, 2017. Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.

Part of the Religions and the Practice of Peace Colloquium Dinner Series, this event was held on October 6, 2016, and featured 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights advocate. The conversation was moderated by David N. Hempton, Dean of Harvard Divinity School and Ann Braude, director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program at HDS. Co-sponsored by the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School. With generous support from the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities at Harvard University, the Susan Shallcross Swartz Endowment for Christian Studies, and the El-Hibri Foundation. Learn more about Harvard Divinity School and its mission to illuminate, engage, and serve at http://hds.harvard.edu/.

Ann Braude, senior lecturer on American religious history and director of the women’s studies in the religion program at Harvard Divinity School, interviews her friend and colleague Harvey Cox, Hollis research professor of divinity at the Harvard Divinity School. Cox reflects on his friendship and collaborations with the late famed artist and activist Corita Kent, who was also known as Sister Mary Corita.