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Humanities Conversations

Humanities Conversations

By: Wyoming Institute For Humanitites Research
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 Conversations by humanities faculty, researchers, and practitioners on a range of topics. Located at the University of Wyoming, the Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research strives to be an engine for producing interdisciplinary research in the humanities; a community for faculty, students, and the public; and a model of democratic education fit for our land-grant university.Wyoming Institute For Humanitites Research
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  • H. L. Hix & Stephen Dillon on Hix's book American Outrage

    H. L. Hix & Stephen Dillon on Hix's book American Outrage
    Mar 26 2025
    In this episode, you’ll hear a conversation between Professors Harvey Hix and Stephen Dillon about Hix’s book American Outrage: A Testamentary, a work of poetry that is also a compendium of extensive research about gun violence in the United States. It memorializes the lives lost, while also representing the data, concepts, and ideas through which we attempt to make sense of the problem. The conversation reflects the breadth and depth of the book under discussion, covering Hix’s motivation for writing American Outrage, the book’s unique structure, the challenges of comprehending gun violence, inequities in how human lives are valued and recorded, and much more.If you'd like to read passages from the book before listening, you can find scans of pages read during the podcast here. To help us continue developing humanities content like this, please consider making a financial contribution. You can do so here. We greatly appreciate your support!---(00:00) Intro reading: Excerpt of p. 61(01:13) Episode overview(02:38) Speaker introductions(03:25) Motivations for writing the book(07:52) Process: Deciding how to respect individual lives(10:35) Modes of writing in the book(11:37) Reading of p. 41(13:43) Process: Organizing and representing the research(20:19) The challenge of quantifying violence(23:23) Factors affecting evaluations of human lives(29:50) The episodic vs. the systemic(37:11) The need to redefine violence(41:21) Solutions to gun violence?(49:55) Reading from p. 121(51:18) Confronting the limitations of evidence(55:52) The possibilities of form(1:03:21) "What is your protective gear?"(1:11:40) Outro reading: p. 61---Harvey Hix, who publishes as H. L. Hix, is a professor of Philosophy and Creative Writing at the University of Wyoming. His book American Outrage was published by BlazeVox [books]. Learn more about his work by visiting his website.Stephen Dillon is director of the School of Culture, Gender, and Social Justice at the University of Wyoming. His book Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State was published by Duke University Press. Check out some of his other work here.---References (in order of mention)* Beloved by Toni Morrison* No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity by Sarah Haley* Ruth Wilson Gilmore on guilt and innocence: see “The Problem with Innocence"* Dean Spade on social movements redefining violence: see Mutual Aid and his website* The Lancet journal article* Ten Arguments for Deleting your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier* The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner* Saidiya Hartman: see Wayward Lives, Lose Your Mother, and “Venus in Two Acts”---Music: 'The Spaces Between' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0, www.scottbuckley.com.au.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • Margo Guernsey, Director & Producer of The Philadelphia Eleven

    Margo Guernsey, Director & Producer of The Philadelphia Eleven
    Feb 25 2025

    Margo Guernsey’s documentary The Philadelphia Eleven tells the story of eleven women were ordained to the Episcopal priesthood in 1974 in violation of church policy, transforming an institution despite threats to their personal safety and risk of rejection from the church they loved. “It is about how to break down barriers with grace,” according to Guernsey, “and be true to oneself in the process.”

    In this episode, you’ll hear the discussion with Margo Guernsey which followed the screening of The Philadelphia Eleven hosted on the University of Wyoming campus last semester. If you would like to watch the film before listening, it can be accessed here by all UW students, faculty, and staff. Members of the public should visit https://www.philadelphiaelevenfilm.com/watch.html.

    The screening and discussion were sponsored by UW Philosophy & Religious Studies, UW Libraries, Canterbury Fellowship in Laramie, and the Wyoming Institute for Humanities Research.

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    Music: 'Solecism' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au.

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    50 mins
  • Dr. Allison Caine, 2024 Sandeen Lecturer in the Humanities

    Dr. Allison Caine, 2024 Sandeen Lecturer in the Humanities
    Dec 3 2024

    Ahead of her Sandeen Lecture on Dec. 9, "The Herder's Laboratory: Indigenous Climate Science in the Peruvian Andes," Dr. Allison Caine was interviewed by Dr. Kayla Burd. Listen in to learn more about her background, the research she conducted in Peru, and her ongoing work.

    Dr. Caine is a cultural anthropologist with a research focus on the environment, climate change, rural health, and well-being. She works primarily with Quechua alpaca herders in Peru, with ties to sheep ranching in Wyoming. Her research in Peru takes a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to understanding contemporary environmental problems.

    To help us continue developing humanities content like this, please consider making a financial contribution. You can do so ⁠⁠here⁠⁠. We greatly appreciate your support!

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    Music: 'The Spaces Between' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0, www.scottbuckley.com.au.
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    20 mins

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