{"id":18935,"date":"2021-12-21T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/?page_id=18935"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:32:45","slug":"podcast","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/media\/podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BUCH Podcast brought students, scholars, and authors together to connect personal experience to larger questions facing society. It ran for five seasons, and every episode is still available below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Season Five: The Order of Things<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/humanities\/files\/2024\/10\/Podcast-S4-150x150.png\" alt=\"Season Five cover art\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\" \/>BU alumni and scholars talk about studying and disrupting systems of order in their own work, from the role of beauty in programming to twentieth-century artists who unsettled religious norms.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Episode One:<\/strong> Managing Director <a href=\"\/humanities\/profiles\/kurt-cavender\/\">Kurt Cavender<\/a> talks with data architect and BU alumnus Glenn Street about moving from philosophy to data science, the evolution of AI, and beauty in mathematics and programming.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Two:<\/strong> Roni Lakin (&#8217;25) talks with Associate Professor of Religion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/faculty\/anthony-petro\/\">Anthony Petro<\/a> about his book <em>Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, and the Culture Wars<\/em>, completed during his Jeffrey Henderson Senior Research Fellowship.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Three:<\/strong> Kurt Cavender talks with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/profile\/nick-bates-director-howard-thurman-center\/\">Nick Bates<\/a>, Director of the Howard Thurman Center, about Thurman&#8217;s legacy and why it matters today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/humanities\/media\/podcast\/season-five-the-order-of-things\/\"><strong>Listen to Season Five<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Season Four: Building Bridges<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/humanities\/files\/2021\/12\/Podcast-Cover-Square-150x150.png\" alt=\"Season Four cover art\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\" \/>Students and scholars working in the digital humanities talk about bringing new tools and methods into humanistic research.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Episode One:<\/strong> Roni Lakin (&#8217;25) talks with Elizabeth Kostina (&#8217;24), co-founder of BU&#8217;s <em>Armchair Journal<\/em>, about AI in scholarship and expanding the art history canon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Two:<\/strong> Associate Director <a href=\"\/humanities\/profiles\/margarita-guillory\/\">Margarita Guillory<\/a> talks with MIT postdoc Adrienne Vancura and BU Classics PhD student Silvia Miotti about connecting ideas across disciplines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/humanities\/podcast\/season-four\/\"><strong>Listen to Season Four<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Season Three: Inspiring Stories from BU Humanities<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/humanities\/files\/2023\/05\/podcastlogo3-150x150.png\" alt=\"Season Three cover art\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\" \/>A BU undergraduate and a BU professor talk about the ideas and mentors that drew them into university life, and their ambitions as scholars, teachers, and reformers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Episode One:<\/strong> Roni Lakin (&#8217;25) talks with Neva\u00e8h Calliste (&#8217;26), founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sawarriors.org\/\">Survivor&#8217;s Awareness<\/a>, about her transition to college and her service work.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Two:<\/strong> Then-Director Susan Mizruchi talks with <a href=\"\/humanities\/profiles\/margarita-guillory\/\">Margarita Guillory<\/a>, Associate Professor of Religion and African American &amp; Black Diaspora Studies, about her path from STEM to the humanities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/humanities\/podcast\/season-three\/\"><strong>Listen to Season Three<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Season Two: Migration Memoirs in the Global Age<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/humanities\/files\/2021\/12\/Podcast-Cover-Square-150x150.png\" alt=\"Season Two cover art\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\" \/>Three authors talk about their memoirs of migrating from the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia, and of becoming American.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Episode One:<\/strong> Junot D\u00edaz talks with Dan-el Padilla Peralta about <em>Undocumented: A Dominican Boy&#8217;s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Two:<\/strong> Claire Messud talks with Roya Hakakian about <em>A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Three:<\/strong> Sianne Ngai talks with poet Cathy Park Hong about <em>Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/humanities\/podcast\/season-two\/\"><strong>Listen to Season Two<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Season One: Black Memoirs in the Global Age<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/humanities\/files\/2020\/11\/Jacket-Cover-Acast-150x150.png\" alt=\"Season One cover art\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\" \/>Three authors talk about their memoirs and the experience of being both Black and diasporic in the United States today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Episode One:<\/strong> Sandro Galea talks with Bassey Ikpi about <em>I&#8217;m Telling the Truth, but I&#8217;m Lying<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Two:<\/strong> Patricia Williams talks with Orlando Patterson about <em>The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Episode Three:<\/strong> Caryl Phillips talks with Louis Chude-Sokei about <em>Floating in a Most Peculiar Way: A Memoir<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/humanities\/podcast\/season-one\/\"><strong>Listen to Season One<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BUCH Podcast brought students, scholars, and authors together to connect personal experience to larger questions facing society. It ran for five seasons, and every episode is still available below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16661,"featured_media":0,"parent":20934,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18935"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26359,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18935\/revisions\/26359"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}