Season 2 (2021)

In the Foreground is available on iTunes, Spotify, and anywhere else you may listen to podcasts.

February 9: “How to Look with Soft Eyes”: Darby English on Description as Method

February 16: “Unpacking My Identity”: Genevieve Gaignard on Race in America and the Impossibility of Home

February 23: “A Gesture of Reciprocity”: Souleymane Bachir Diagne on Translation and Restitution

March 2: “A Database is an Argument”: Anne Helmreich on Digital Humanities and Art History

March 9: “When is This?”: Brian Michael Murphy on Media Archaeology and Preservation

March 16: “The Sound Can Touch You Directly”: Christina Kubisch on Electronic Sound Art

March 23: “Perception is a Form of Sampling“: Christoph Cox on Materialities of Sound

March 30: “Sound is a Dimension of Reality”: Robin James on Theorizing Sound, Race, and Gender

April 13: “Moving Across the Threshold”: Alisa LaGamma on Curating the Arts of Africa

April 27: “Where the Impossible is Possible”: Saundra Weddle and Lisa Pon on Collaboration and Renaissance Studies

May 4: “‘Others’ of Various Kinds”: J. Vanessa Lyon on Intersectionality as an Early Modern Scholar