The third annual Humanities Podcast Network Symposium, “Staying Local,” took place on Friday, October 27th, 2023.
It was organised by the HPN working group of Milan Terlunen, Kim Adams and Rebecca Barry.
We held Zoom discussions on the following topics:
- Podcasting as scholarship – producing knowledge in your area
- Podcasting pedagogies – soundscapes in the classroom
- The craft of podcasts – making, distributing, listening
- Podcasts in the world – communities, industries, social justice
You can watch the recordings in this playlist on our YouTube channel.
We also held local meetups at all the places on this list.
Scholars, teachers and audio professionals from across the globe joined together for free virtual discussions, and attended in-person meetups in their hometowns!
This year, we focused on how local contexts matter for humanities podcasting. At first glance, podcasts can seem like a placeless medium. Podcast creators routinely remove ambient noise or edit together audio recorded at different times and places. Podcast listeners can consume podcasts anywhere and everywhere.
Yet podcasts are also local in ways both obvious (shows for and about specific places, communities or institutions) and subtle (audio that to the attentive ear bears the traces of the environment in which it was recorded). What do we gain by thinking about podcasts, and communities of podcasters, locally? How do the podcasts we make connect to the places we live? How do the podcasts we assign in class connect to where our students are coming from?
About the Annual HPN Symposium
Each year, the Symposium brings together scholars, teachers and audio professionals from across the globe who take part in a series of free virtual discussions.
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