Welcome to “ Confluence: Humanities in the Public Sphere”, an IASH sponsored podcast on public humanities. For our introductory episode today, we are joined by Dr. Wendy Wall, Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Director of the Institute for advance Studies in the Humanities or IASH. Professor Wall discusses what the public humanities are, the context for the emergence of public humanities and shares with us some astounding examples of public humanities projects on the Binghamton University campus as well as elsewhere.