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March 24, 2015, Volume 61, No. 27 |
Podcasts are quickly becoming one of the go-to sources of information and entertainment for a tech-savvy audience.
Below are some podcasts produced periodically at the University of Pennsylvania covering a variety of topics.
Case in Point
Penn’s newest podcast series, Case in Point, is produced by the Law School and convenes scholars from Penn Law with newsmakers, practitioners and journalists from around the US and the world. The series delivers smart, accessible conversations that bring experts’ knowledge to bear on major issues of law, policy, business and culture. The first episode was posted on February 24.
“Through Case in Point, listeners will gain insights into topics where the law significantly intersects with their day-to-day lives, from their health insurance coverage, to finance, to the schools their children attend,” said Wendell Pritchett, interim dean of Penn Law and Presidential Professor. “This podcast is an opportunity for us to bring the engaged work of Penn Law and other leading experts directly into listeners’ earbuds, anywhere in the world.”
“Case in Point transforms the connection between the latest scholarship in the law and solutions to the key issues in our society,” said Paul G. Haaga, Jr., L’74, WG’74, a member of NPR’s board of directors who served as NPR’s interim CEO from 2013 to 2014. “Through its innovative format, the series has created a lively venue where audiences can access an array of experts addressing topics that impact all of us.”
Topics include challenges facing higher education, new threats to digital privacy and cybersecurity, novel approaches to preventing errors and unintended outcomes in America’s criminal justice system, the future of America’s healthcare exchanges, recent advances in neuroscience and the law, and the role of fiction in culture. The first season will have 20 episodes, and new episodes will be released every two weeks.
Episodes are available in both video and audio-only formats on iTunes, SoundCloud and via caseinpoint.org |
The Psychology Podcast
The Psychology Podcast (www.thepsychologypodcast.com), which began last fall, offers insights into the mind, brain, behavior and creativity. These podcasts are available on iTunes and on Stitcher.
Each episode features a guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others and the world we live in, said Scott Barry Kaufman, scientific director of The Imagination Institute at Penn’s Positive Psychology Center. One recent episode deals with how to change habits, while another deals with raising happily productive kids.
“Hopefully, we’ll also provide a glimpse into human possibility,” added Dr. Kaufman who investigates the development and measurement of intelligence, creativity and personality and researches imagination, creativity and play. |
Knowledge@Wharton and Knowledge in Five
Launched in 1999, Knowledge@Wharton has grown into a network of sites that includes a global edition in English and regional editions in Spanish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, Indian and Arabic as well as a site for high school students and educators. The Knowledge@Wharton podcast (knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/category/podcasts) shares what CEOs, Wharton faculty and other commentators have to say about the latest business trends, breaking news and market research in their own words. Knowledge@Wharton has published approximately 1200 podcasts and had 1.34 million downloads in 2014.
With the addition of the Wharton channel on SiriusXM, Knowledge@Wharton has also begun to create podcasts from segments that air on its weekday SiriusXM show. Soon after came the idea for Knowledge in Five (knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/category/knowledge-in-5/), a new series of five-minute podcasts that offer “quick deep dives” into interesting topics in an accessible way.
“Just one from our previous slate of podcasts would easily fill a 30-minute commute,” said Rachel Kipp, associate director for Knowledge@Wharton. “This is for people who want something thought-provoking to listen to while taking a quick walk to the corner store, or who want an interesting short anecdote to share at their next networking event.”
All Knowledge@Wharton podcasts are also available on iTunes. |
3620 Podcast
3620 Podcast (podcast.asc.upenn.edu), the Annenberg School for Communication’s PhD student-run podcast of and about communication scholarship, examines journal articles, books, interviews and day-to-day events and delves into the producers’ own research. Having morphed from a purely extracurricular activity into one through which original research is conducted and communicated, the series seeks to reimagine the boundaries of an academic culture focused on producing printed pieces of scholarly work.
“Creating sound as scholarship is not just a cheeky way to have fun in media,” said Kevin Gotkin, a fourth-year doctoral student in communication who launched the podcast in 2012. “It’s really quite revolutionary as we learn how to communicate beyond paper and written text with a medium that is only now being considered as a vector for scholarship.” |
Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
Selections from the vast collection of podcasts produced by Penn’s Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing:
The PennSound podcasts (writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/podcasts.php) were created to accompany PennSound, the largest archive of recorded poetry in the world. English Professors Charles Bernstein and Al Filreis launched PennSound in January 2005 (Almanac February 1, 2005). PennSound offers a variety of recordings, mostly as song-length singles. The poetry sound files are retrievable both from a library catalog by authors’ names and via web search engines. PennSound combines aspects of a library archive and a web music-download site. Basic bibliographic information is incorporated in each file so that a user downloads not only the sound but also key facts about the recording, including author, title, place and date of the recording, series, and copyright information.
Into the Field (jacket2.org/podcasts/into-the-field) is a series of interviews with poets and poetry people: critics, teachers, publishers, organizers and fans.
PoemTalk (jacket2.org/content/poem-talk) is a collaborative podcast series hosted jointly by the Kelly Writers House and PennSound with the Poetry Foundation.
Close Listening (writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Close-Listening.php) is a long-running series of interviews hosted by Charles Bernstein and recorded at Clocktower Radio in New York and at Penn. |
Kelly Writers House
Kelly Writers House Podcasts (writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/podcasts/ ) offer recordings of selected House events. Every Kelly Writers House event is streamed live and then becomes part of an archive of audio and video recordings, which includes dozens of sessions featuring Buzz Bizzinger, Helen Davies, Greg Manning and Judith Rodin, among others (writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar). The Writers House also offers Medialinks (writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/medialinks/), a master archive of event and other recordings. All sessions are produced by Al Filreis and Mark Lindsay and hosted by Al Filreis. The KWH pocasts are available using iTunes or other programs.
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