Imagine Otherwise podcast

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Imagine Otherwise is a podcast about bridging art, activism, and academia to build more just futures.

Created and hosted by Cathy Hannabach and produced by Ideas on Fire, Imagine Otherwise features interviews with scholars, cultural producers, dancers, editors, artists, and activists who are building new worlds.

Cathy created the show in 2016 to both demonstrate the vibrant public voice that interdisciplinary scholars can have beyond the academy as well as to inspire new generations of thinkers.

Over the past 9 years, episodes have been taught in a wide array of university classrooms, been featured in international art exhibits, and taken Cathy to live tapings at venues as diverse as feminist circus art performances, scholarly conferences, and a culture lab on convergence.

The show’s programming partners have included the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, the Cultural Studies Association, the Association for Asian American Studies, and more.

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Episodes

Imagine Otherwise: Manuela Lavinas Picq on Indigenous Futures

Imagine Otherwise: Manuela Lavinas Picq on Indigenous Futures

In the newest episode of Imagine Otherwise, I had a fabulous conversation with activist and scholar Manuela Lavinas Picq about the powerful ways Indigenous Ecuadorian women are forging new models for international politics; the personal, professional, and...

Imagine Otherwise: Francesca T. Royster on Writing Courageously

Imagine Otherwise: Francesca T. Royster on Writing Courageously

The newest episode of the Imagine Otherwise podcast is live! I chat with memoirist, novelist, and scholar Francesca T. Royster about about the queer afterlives of soul music, Francesca’s powerful family histories of women forging intellectual and familial...

Imagine Otherwise: Stacie Williams on Radical Librarianship

Imagine Otherwise: Stacie Williams on Radical Librarianship

The newest episode of the Imagine Otherwise podcast is live! I interview librarian and archivist Stacie Williams about how knowledge and information gathering has always been deeply racialized and gendered, the radical work librarians and archivists are doing to...

Imagine Otherwise: Gayatri Gopinath on Queer Diasporic Aesthetics

Imagine Otherwise: Gayatri Gopinath on Queer Diasporic Aesthetics

The latest episode of the Imagine Otherwise podcast is live! I interview queer diaspora studies scholar Gayatri Gopinath about how visual culture allows us to draw alternative cartographies and see things queerly, how diasporic communities are using art to...

Podcasting for Public Intellectuals: A How-To Guide

Podcasting for Public Intellectuals: A How-To Guide

Podcasting allows hosts, scholars, audiences, activists, teachers, students, and broader communities to connect scholarly research to public conversations and contribute to new worlds. Learn how grad students, staff, and faculty can use podcasts for public intellectual work; the process of producing your own podcast; and the cultural politics of podcasting as independent, networked media.

Teaching with Podcasts: Podcast Assignments, Scholarship, & Pedagogy

Teaching with Podcasts: Podcast Assignments, Scholarship, & Pedagogy

Podcasts can help your students engage with course themes in new and more complex ways. Here are some ways you can integrate podcasts into your classroom as both scholarship and production assignments, as well as tips on how to ensure a great learning experience for everyone.