Real Issues. Real Conversations. An Ohio Humanities Podcast.

This episode of Covid Conversations, a podcast series from the OSU Center of Folklore Studies, features two musicians and songwriters.

This episode of Covid Conversations, a podcast series from the OSU Center of Folklore Studies, features two visual artists and curators.

This episode of Covid Conversations, a podcast series from the OSU Center of Folklore Studies, features two writers of young adult fiction.

This episode of Covid Conversations, a podcast series from the OSU Center of Folklore Studies, features two dancers and teachers of Bharatanatyam, one of India’s oldest classical dance traditions—one based in Dublin, Ohio, and the other in Chennai, India.

This episode of Covid Conversations, a podcast series from the OSU Center of Folklore Studies, features two scholars who specialize in ethnographic fieldwork methods and who have undertaken ethnographic fieldwork since the pandemic began in early 2020.

This episode of Covid Conversations, a podcast series from the OSU Center of Folklore Studies, features two world-class musicians from two of the world’s greatest orchestras about their approaches to live-streamed performances and concerns regarding hand sanitizer with respect to their musicianship and instruments.

This episode of Covid Conversations, a podcast series from the OSU Center of Folklore Studies, features a discussion between two quilters and quilting group organizers--one based in Southwest Ohio and the other outside Cape Town in South Africa.

This episode of Covid Conversations, a podcast series from the OSU Center of Folklore Studies, features a discussion between two dancers and teachers of Argentine tango about the impact of the pandemic on the performance and teaching of Argentine tango, a dance in which closeness—of dance partners, students, and audiences—is a necessary feature.

On this week’s episode of Perfecting Democracy, Ron Bryant interviews Dr. Kevin Mattson about political divisions and culture wars in America. Dr. Mattson is a professor of contemporary history at Ohio University. He has made numerous media appearances, including The Colbert Report, NPR, C-SPAN, and Fox News.

In this week’s episode, Ron Bryant interviews award-winning author and historian Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries. Dr. Jeffries is an Associate Professor of History at Ohio State University and the author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt. Alongside Ron Bryant, Dr. Jeffries discusses how race and racism influence voting in the United States.