The Humanities Pod Archive

Season 1: 2020-21

1. Indigenous Dispossession and the Founding of Cornell: Part 1 with Jon Parmenter
   Cornell associate professor of history Jon Parmenter's new research adds to the emerging conversations on America’s land-grant universities to tell the early story of Cornell University and Ezra Cornell’s acquisition of land grant scrips.
    
2. Indigenous Dispossession and the Founding of Cornell: Part 2 with Michael Witgen

   Michael Witgen, professor of History and American Culture and twice former director of Native American Studies at the University of Michigan, provides insight into how non-removal treaties incrementally restricted traditional lands and life-ways for Anishinaabe while benefiting white settlers throughout the 19th century. Beyond his academic work, Michael also shares personal insights on generations of Native resilience in the Great Lakes from his position as a direct lineal descendant of a key Ojibwe signatory to the 1842 treaty that soon became one of the financial engines for establishing Cornell University. 

3. Shaping Emotions in Late Ancient Christianity with Georgia Frank
   Georgia Frank, 2020-21 Society Fellow and Charles A. Dana Professor of Religion at Colgate University, takes us back to the first 600 years of Christianity to explore the power of song and participatory performances in reenacting and fabricating emotions. Georgia shares insights from her research on bodily experience in ancient Mediterranean religions, including methods and metaphors by which early Christians shaped a collective identity.

4. Sartorial Self-Fashioning and the Legacies of Enslavement with Kimberly Kay Lamm
   In this latest episode, Kimberly Kay Lamm, 2020-21 Society Fellow and associate professor of gender, sexuality and feminist studies at Duke University, introduces us to writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance and their impact on Black women's cultural representation today.