Podcasts about critical studies program

Yuan Fang (b. 1996, Shenzhen, China) is an artist who lives and works in New York. She graduated from the Visual and Critical Studies Program at the School of Visual Arts in 2019 and received Rhodes Family Award for Outstanding Achievement and several scholarships. She received her MFA from the same institution in 2022.  Her works have been acquired by museums, institutions, and collections around the world, including ICA Miami, Lafayette Anticipations, The Flag Art Foundation, Long Museum, Pond Society, Green Family Art Foundation, He Art Museum, Asymmetry Art Foundation, Song Art Museum, Green Rapids Art Museum, Mint Museum, Inima de Paula Museum, and Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. She is having a solo show at the Long Museum in Shanghai as the youngest artist ever who holds a show there until March 24th, and will open her first solo exhibition in the UK at Skarstedt Gallery during London Gallery Weekend this May.

Brian Evenson is the author more than a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell. His collection Song for the Unraveling of the World (2019) won the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times' Ray Bradbury Prize. His novel Last Days won the American Library Association's RUSA award for Best Horror Novel of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. His 2003 collection The Wavering Knife won the International Horror Guild Award for best story collection.Evenson is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and a Guggenheim Award. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.

Brian Evenson is the author of eleven novels, eight short fiction collections, and dozens of short stories, essays, chapbooks, and translations. He has won three O. Henry Prizes, an International Horror Guild Award, a Shirley Jackson Award, a World Fantasy Award, and an ALA/RUSA prize. His work has also been a finalist for an Edgar Award, and he has been awarded NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. His fiction has been translated into several languages, including Czech, French, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, and Turkish among others. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts Link: Song for the Unraveling of the World from Coffee House Press: https://coffeehousepress.org/products/song-for-the-unraveling-of-the-world

In this episode, guest interviewer Paul B. Jaskot (Duke University) speaks with Jacqueline Francis, a scholar of contemporary art and chair of the Graduate Visual and Critical Studies Program at the California College of the Arts, and Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, a specialist of the arts of Africa and associate professor of art history at Emory University, on the topic of collaboration and interdisciplinary in art history and digital humanities. They articulate a shared experience of “falling into” collaborative, digital practices out of necessity, led by the kinds of questions they wanted to answer. Throughout the discussion, all three speakers return to the idea of shifting away from paradigms of hierarchy and authority, whether through partnering with students and colleagues outside the academy, rethinking what is recognized as “scholarly” within the humanities and academic publishing, making visible the intellectual exchanges and collaborative labor that makes research projects, artworks, and museum exhibitions possible, and how these attitudes might fundamentally change how we approach the canon of art history. This fourth season of In the Foreground is a special series of five roundtable conversations dedicated to “the Grand Challenges” – a phrase frequently adopted in the sciences to refer to the great unanswered questions that represent promising frontiers – of bringing together digital and computational methods and the social history of art. This series grows out of a colloquium on this topic convened by Anne Helmreich (Associate Director of the Getty Foundation) and Paul B. Jaskot (Professor of Art History at Duke University) at the Clark's Research and Academic Program in April 2019. Anne and Paul serve as the guest interviewers for this podcast series, for which they have invited back colloquium participants to reflect further on how digital art history might help us explore social history of art's future, and which digital methods might be effective at analyzing large scale structural issues and modes of visual expression. 

"The Watermelon Body," by Vi Khi Nao, from her collection A Brief Alphabet of Torture, published by FC2 in 2017. Read by Madeleine Lambert. In the second part of the program, Vi is joined by writer Brian Evenson. Vi Khi Nao is the author of four poetry collections: Human Tetris (11:11 Press, 2019), Sheep Machine (Black Sun Lit, 2018), Umbilical Hospital (Press 1913, 2017), and The Old Philosopher (winner of the Nightboat Prize for 2014), and of the short stories collection A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize) and the novel Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016). Her work includes poetry, fiction, film and cross-genre collaboration. She was the Fall 2019 fellow at the Black Mountain Institute Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collections Song for the Unraveling of the World and A Collapse of Horses and the novella The Warren. He has also recently published Windeye and Immobility, both of which were finalists for a Shirley Jackson Award. His novel Last Days won the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property, and Altmann's Tongue. He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frémon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, Manuela Draeger, and David B. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship. His work has been translated into Czech, French, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Persian, Russia, Spanish, Slovenian, and Turkish. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.

How are women shaking up the global hip hop graffiti scene? What does social justice curation look like? How does feminist graffiti offer vibrant insights into more creative and just worlds? In episode 82 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews performance studies scholar and arts activist Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón about how women graffiti writers perform feminism on the global stage; who is excluded from the “respectable” street art model espoused by large creative cities; what a feminist approach to arts curating looks like on the ground; and why building feminist, queer, and decolonial bonds across the Puerto Rican diaspora is key to how Jessica imagines otherwise. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/82-jessica-nydia-pabon-colon/ This episode is sponsored by the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. The goal of the MA in Critical Studies is to produce creative critical thinkers prepared to address pressing contemporary issues at the intersection of cultural production and critical theory. For more information visit pnca.edu/criticalstudies

What is the link between global trade policies and the food on our plates? How can scholars of globalization and migration translate their work so as to shape more just and sustainable policies? Why should scholars bring their whole selves to their work and what impact can that have on broader political, economic, and cultural processes? In episode 81 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews cultural and medical anthropologist Alyshia Gálvez about how NAFTA has changed the food practices and health outcomes for Mexican and Mexican American populations, advice for scholars seeking to translate their research into documentary films and other formats, why we all need to be public-facing scholars these days, and why dreaming big and bringing her full self to her work is how Alyshia imagines otherwise. TRANSCRIPT & SHOW NOTES: https://ideasonfire.net/81-alyshia-galvez This episode is sponsored by the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. The goal of the MA in Critical Studies is to produce creative critical thinkers prepared to address pressing contemporary issues at the intersection of cultural production and critical theory. For more information visit pnca.edu/criticalstudies

How can independent media amplify Indigenous politics? What do the politics of land, gender, and sexuality tell us about the paradox of Hawaiian sovereignty? What might a decolonial Indigenous futurity look like? In episode 80 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach chats with Indigenous studies professor and radio host J. Kēhaulani Kauanui about the histories and futures of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, why independent media is uniquely suited to telling Indigenous stories, the solidarities between anarchist and Indigenous movements, and how putting consent politics front and center is key to how Kēhaulani imagines otherwise. TRANSCRIPT & SHOW NOTES: https://ideasonfire.net/80-j-kehaulani-kauanui/  This episode is sponsored by the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. The goal of the MA in Critical Studies is to produce creative critical thinkers prepared to address pressing contemporary issues at the intersection of cultural production and critical theory. For more information visit pnca.edu/criticalstudies

What does Indigenous language revitalization look like in our contemporary digital age? How might language learning and capacity building work outside of traditional academic spaces? What would it mean to reframe language revitalization as a process of repairing and reweaving? In episode 79 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews linguistic anthropologist and Indigenous studies scholar Jenny L. Davis about the vibrant world of Chickasaw language revitalization; how Indigenous language activism is interwoven with documentary film, dance, ethnobotany, and other cultural productions; the importance of transnational skill sharing and capacity sharing; and why building a world where all Indigenous people get to eventually be elders is how Jenny imagines otherwise. TRANSCRIPT AND SHOW NOTES: https://ideasonfire.net/79-jenny-l-davis/ This episode is sponsored by the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. The goal of the MA in Critical Studies is to produce creative critical thinkers prepared to address pressing contemporary issues at the intersection of cultural production and critical theory. For more information visit pnca.edu/criticalstudies

How can a transnational, trans of color aesthetics remake the world? How has transgender studies changed what academic publishing looks like in the digital age? And what might our social justice movements look like if we prioritized small-scale, emergent strategies as much as large-scale, revolutionary ones? In episode 78 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews trans studies scholar Jian Neo Chen about why collaborations between artists, activists, and academics are so vital to transgender studies; how academic journals born in the digital age are reimagining what scholarship looks and reads like; and the revolutionary, worldmaking power of small-scale, community-based change for trans of color communities. Transcript & show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/78-jian-neo-chen/ Big thanks to our episode sponsor: the Pacific Northwest College of Art's Masters in Critical Studies Program.

(Hey it's a bonus ep! Witch Month returns next week!) In episode 104, we talk to Dr. Z Nicolazzo about her research on trans* students in higher education. We talk the methodology behind ethnographic work, the importance of affirmative and resilience-based frameworks, and how Z does trans killjoy. Z also talks about hir upcoming workshop, "Teaching While Marginalized: What Our Bodies Teach Us About Critical Pedagogy" at the Pacific Northwest College of Art's Graduate Symposium series on October 13th at 11:45am. Find Z on Twitter @trans_killjoy. Learn more about the PNCA series at https://pnca.edu/news/grad/cs/z-nicolazzo-lecture/. *** Time stamps: Chit chat: 00:00-12:40 Interview with Dr. Z Nicolazzo: 12:45-51:50 RWL: 51:15-58:15 *** All original music by Emily Jane Powers. *** Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review! Follow us on Instagram! And Facebook! And Twitter! Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on Spotify! Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. And of course, feel free to email us 2004 at fkj.phd@gmail.com *** This episode is sponsored by the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Because we need to interrogate, intervene, and reimagine like never before. For more information or to apply visit pnca.edu/criticalstudies *** WITCH MONTH RETURNS NEXT WEEK!

On today's episode I talk to author Brian Evenson. Based in Los Angels, Brian teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts and is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses and the novella The Warren. Brian's work has garnered many nominations and awards. Two of his recent books, Windeye and Immobility, were both finalists for a Shirley Jackson Award. His novel Last Days won the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009, and his novel The Open Curtain was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. Other books of his include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property, and Altmann's Tongue. Additionally, Brian is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship.  This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow me on Twitter.

Raechel and Melody discuss the controversy surrounding the new Roseanne re-boot, but first contextualize Roseanne as a working-class icon and the history of working-class representation in television. We unpack racial codings of white and non-white representations, the intersection of gender in class representation, and of course revisit Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding. *** Time stamps: OO:00-06:20 chit-chat 06:21-22:00 history of working-class on TV 22:01-23:58 social plug 24:00-53:00 Roseanne discussion 53:01 RWLs *** Intro: "Top Floor" GRRRL PRTY Middle twinkle: "Fairy Dust" by Soundfx Outro: "Fake Like" POLICA *** Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review! Follow us on Instagram! And Facebook! And Twitter! Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on Spotify! Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. And of course, feel free to email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com *** This episode is sponsored by the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Because we need to interrogate, intervene, and reimagine like never before. For more information or to apply visit pnca.edu/criticalstudies ***

Rachael and Jaylee sit down with Raechel to talk about reclaiming wellness spaces for black and brown communities. They share their experiences of being black yogis in predominately white yoga spaces, building a black/brown-centered wellness organization from scratch, the importance of knowing your neighbors, and what white wellness spaces can do better to be more inclusive of people of color. They also stick around for RWLs! Please follow and like You Good, Sis? on Facebook and Instagram (@yougoodsis) and follow Jaylee @jayleetheyogi and Rachael @rachaeldoesyoga *** Time stamps: Chit-chat through about 13 minutes Interview ~13-end of show *** Intro: "Top Floor" GRRRL PRTY Outro: "The Kids Are Alright" Chloe x Halle *** Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review! Follow us on Instagram! And Facebook! And Twitter! Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on Spotify! Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. And of course, feel free to email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com *** This episode is sponsored by the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Because we need to interrogate, intervene, and reimagine like never before. For more information or to apply visit pnca.edu/criticalstudies *** NOTE ON SOUND QUALITY: We recorded in an open space with three people, which meant our usual sound buffers were not in place. Forgive the differing levels, we hope it's not distracting!

In this episode, we talk social movements and youth protests with scholar Dawson Barrett. Dawson is an assistant professor of US History at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is the author of two books: Teenage Rebels: Successful High School Activism, from the Little Rock Nine to the Class of Tomorrow and The Defiant: Protest Movements in Post-Liberal America (due out in May from New York University Press). *** Intro: "Top Floor" GRRRL PRTY Spliced in: "You're Wrong" NOFX Outro: "Resisting Tyrannical Government" Propaghandi *** Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review! Follow us on Instagram! And Facebook! And Twitter! Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on Spotify! Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. And of course, feel free to email us 2004 at fkj.phd@gmail.com *** This episode is sponsored by the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Because we need to interrogate, intervene, and reimagine like never before. For more information or to apply visit pnca.edu/criticalstudies *** WTF POWER!

Content Note: Discussion of car accident-related death of a student Tech Note: We are working on the echo thing that's happening! echo-free audio coming asap! Today we discuss the complex definition of working-class and our own complex experiences with class-transitioning. We discuss historical understandings of class, how neoliberalism has shifted that, ways that the system keeps the poor poor and the rich rich, and much more. We share a lot of personal stories, so it's a pretty vulnerable episode, and we appreciate you all for being a community that makes us feel safe to share our truths. In addition, Melody shares a story about losing a student to a car accident, so do note that discussion in the time stamp if you think it might be difficult. *** Check-ins through 9:20 Discussion of death of a student from 9:30 to 20 min Class discussion 20 - 62 min *** Intro: "Top Floor" GRRRL PRTY Outro: "9 to 5" Dolly Parton (short clip) *** Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review! Follow us on Instagram! And Facebook! And Twitter! Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on Spotify! Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. And of course, feel free to email us at fkj.phd@gmail.com *** This episode is sponsored by the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Because we need to interrogate, intervene, and reimagine like never before. For more information or to apply visit pnca.edu/criticalstudies *** WTF POWER!

In our final installment of Sex & Love month, we discuss research about LGBTQA+ advice columns and offer up some queer advice of our own (cribbing from existing columns, for fun). *** Intro: "Top Floor" GRRRL PRTY Spliced in: "Gold Mine Gutted" Bright Eyes Outro: "Gas Light" Sister Species Live on Radio K *** Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review! Follow us on Instagram! And Facebook! And Twitter! Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on Spotify! Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. And of course, feel free to email us 2004 at fkj.phd@gmail.com *** This episode is sponsored by the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Because we need to interrogate, intervene, and reimagine like never before. For more information or to apply visit pnca.edu/criticalstudies *** WTF POWER!

**Second upload of this episode--the original got taken down by Soundcloud. Apologies for the clutter on your feed!** Molly Woodstock (host, Gender Reveal) joins us to talk about asexuality and the ace spectrum. They talk different kind of attractions (platonic, aesthetic, romantic, sexual), myths about asexual people, and more! Plus, they join us for RWLs. *** Intro: "Top Floor" GRRRL PRTY Tiny sample of SZA & Kendrick "All the Stars" *** Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review! Follow us on Instagram! And Facebook! And Twitter! Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on Spotify! Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. And of course, feel free to email us 2004 at fkj.phd@gmail.com *** This episode is sponsored by the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Because we need to interrogate, intervene, and reimagine like never before. For more information or to apply visit pnca.edu/criticalstudies ***

For our second episode of Sex & Love month, Melody and Raechel talk about the essay "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality" by Gayle Rubin. Topics of discussion include marginalized sex, children and sexuality, and obscenity law. Listener discretion is advised (particularly in regards to children and sex, which happens towards the end of our discussion). *** Time stamps: Chit-chat through about 7 minutes Discussion 10-47minutes RWLs 54-end *** Intro: "Top Floor" GRRRL PRTY Spliced in: "Careless Whisper" George Michael Outro: "Carry You" Novo Amor *** Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review! Follow us on Instagram! And Facebook! And Twitter! Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on Spotify! Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. And of course, feel free to email us 2004 at fkj.phd@gmail.com *** This episode is sponsored by the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Because we need to interrogate, intervene, and reimagine like never before. For more information or to apply visit pnca.edu/criticalstudies ***

For our first episode of Sex & Love month, Melody and Raechel talk to sex worker Zea Kenall about doing BDSM work as a queer, black woman. We address the politics of kink, the freedom of sex work labor, how Zea sometimes demands her subs to read Audre Lorde, and much more! *** Time stamps: Chit-chat through about 10 minutes Interview ~10-47minutes RWLs 47-end *** Intro: "Top Floor" GRRRL PRTY Outro: "Let's Talk About Sex" Salt n' Pepa *** Subscribe on iTunes & leave a review! Follow us on Instagram! And Facebook! And Twitter! Check out our Feminist Killjoys, PhD Mixtape on Spotify! Have some extra dollars and want to support feminist media-makers? Consider donating to our Patreon or as a one-time thing at our website. And of course, feel free to email us 2004 at fkj.phd@gmail.com *** This episode is sponsored by the MA in Critical Studies Program at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Because we need to interrogate, intervene, and reimagine like never before. For more information or to apply visit pnca.edu/criticalstudies *** NOTE ON SOUND QUALITY: We had a rough patch with recording this week, we know there's a bit of echo at some parts. We're on it!