Ideas Matter: Checking in with the Public Humanities 2013-2016
This short weekly radio segment on WAMC’s morning program, The Roundtable, showcased public humanities programming in the Northeast. The project was a collaborative initiative with the state humanities councils of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont) and WAMC Northeast Public Radio (Albany, NY). Topics ranged widely, including conversations featuring documentary films about James Baldwin and popular romance literature; reading, film literacy, and philosophical programs for children; and the freedom riders and their choices. [Concept and realization by Pleun Bouricius]
Ideas Matter: Reading Frederick Douglass 2014. With David Harris, Managing Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Equality at Harvard Law School, and Mass Humanities’ Pleun Bouricius, Joe Donahue discusses communal readings of Frederick Douglas’ 1852 Fourth of July antislavery speech — in which the orator holds Americans accountable for the ideals expounded in the Declaration of Independence. Audio:
Ideas Matter: The Search for General Tso. Joe Donahue in conversation with filmmaker Ian Cheney and Mass Humanities’ Pleun Bouricius, about Cheney’s quest to understand the food we eat and how it got to our table. Audio: