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Public Work is a public humanities podcast created by students and staff at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage (Brown University). Produced by Amelia Golcheski and Jim McGrath in 2017-2018. Listen to our twelve-episode series of interviews and conversations with curators, scholars, students, artists, and more.
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Episode 12: Liza Yeager, Amelia Golcheski, and Jim McGrath on Podcasts
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Welcome to the season finale of Public Work! This week's episode begins with a conversation between Amelia and Jim on the secret origins of Public Work, the ubiquity of podcasts, and what they've learned from working on this project. Then Jim talks to Liza Yeager, an audio producer and storyteller (and a Brown University alum!) who has worked on a …
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Episode 11: Julian Saporiti and Erin Aoyama on Folk Music, Asian American History, and No-No Boy
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How can music call attention to America's traumatic past and reveal what we can learn from these histories in the present? This week we talk to Julian Saporiti and Erin Aoyama, the musicians and scholars behind No-No Boy. The No-No Boy project tells stories about the Asian American experience through folk music, highlighting histories of Japanese I…
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Episode 10: Angela Yuanyuan Feng, Julieanne Fontana, and Diane O'Donoghue on Providence's Chinatown
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What happened to Providence's Chinatown? In this week's episode we talk to Angela Yuanyuan Feng and Julieanne Fontana, two Master's Students in Public Humanities at Brown University who have created an exhibit and walking tour in downtown Providence to consider this question. Angela and Julieanne discuss their work with community partners, scholars…
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Episode 09: John Kannenberg on The Museum of Portable Sound
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Every museum has its own unique soundtrack. This week on Public Work, Ruby Thiagarajan, a first-year Master's Student in Public Humanities at Brown University, talks to John Kannenberg, a multimedia artist and the Director and Chief Curator of The Museum of Portable Sound. Ruby and John discuss why John decide to create a museum that's the size of …
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Episode 08: Rica Maestas and Julia Renaud on moonhaus
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What is moonhaus? Find out in our conversation with Rica Maestas and Julia Renaud, the hosts behind a recent installation and event series that invited attendees to explore ideas of astrology and witch culture. Rica and Julia talk about what moonhaus borrows from theater and installation art, what kind of work goes into creating meaningful interact…
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Episode 07: Maggie Unverzagt Goddard and Mika Matsuno on BAD ART
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What is Bad Art? Where do our ideas about aesthetics come from and how do those ideas change over time? Have you ever taken a still life class where the model was a dog? What does Enya have to do with all of this? Find out in our conversation with Maggie Unverzagt Goddard and Mika Matsuno, the Brown University students behind a crowdsourced exhibit…
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Episode 06: Emily Hilliard on Folklore, West Virginia, and Documenting Contemporary Labor Movements
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What role does folklore play in modern life? What is folklore, anyway? In this episode, Amelia Golcheski interviews West Virginia state folklorist Emily Hilliard to learn why folklore is more than just myths and legends. It can also be about labor movements, local histories, and even the "right" way to eat a hot dog. Amelia and Emily also discuss t…
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Episode 05: Kate Duffy on Phantom Archives
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How are artists and performers finding creative uses for archival materials? On our latest episode we're joined by Kate Duffy, a doctoral candidate in American Studies at Brown who is also one of the creators of The Phantom Archive. Kate describes her interest in creating dreamlike spaces around archival materials, explains what she's learned from …
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Episode 04: Zhuohan Jiang and Susan Smulyan on Shanghai and Museums
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Learn about museums in Shanghai from our latest episode, which features a conversation between Public Humanities graduate student Zhuohan Jiang and Susan Smulyan, Director of Brown University's John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. Zhuohan and Susan discuss why they think museums are particularly popular destinatio…
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Episode 03: Hannah Mooney and Molly Pailet on Monuments and Memory
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Hannah Mooney and Molly Pailet stopped by Public Work to talk about "Monument Worthy," an exhibition they curated on the topic of "personal memory markers." Hear Hannah and Molly talk with Jim and Amelia about the monuments and debates informing their work, the forms of monuments to personal memory that were revealed in their exhibition, and the wa…
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Episode 02: Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko on Small Museums
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Maddie Mott, a first-year Master's Student in Public Humanities at Brown University, interviews Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, President and CEO of the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine. Catlin describes how she came to work at the Abbe, what small museums offer employees and audiences, and what it means to "decolonize" museums.Public Work is produced and…
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Episode 01: Ideas of Interpretation at The Smart Museum of Art
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Welcome to Public Work! In our first episode, Bryn Pernot, a second year Master’s in Public Humanities student at Brown University, speaks to Michael Christiano, Deputy Director for Audience Engagement and Public Practice at the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. Their conversation touches on some of the most pressing topics in the museum field: the c…
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