Humanities Now
Humanities Now is the official podcast of the Humanities Center at Texas Tech. We feature conversations with members of the humanities community at Texas Tech University. With every episode, these varied voices help us realize the Center’s mission: asking out loud, “What does it mean to be human?” and demonstrating how can we answer that question from so many different perspectives.
Humanities Now
Alumni College Fellows I: New Perspectives on History and Society
As we come back from winter break, we begin a new sequence of episodes featuring the research of our 2020-2021 Alumni College Fellows. Between now and May, we have arranged our twelve scholars into four audio panels, all speaking under the broad banner “New Perspectives on…” For our February installment, the topic is “New Perspectives on History and Society,” and we hear from historian Richard Lutjens on "ordinary crime" in Nazi Germany, sociologist Ori Swed on drone technology and violent non-state actors, and musicologist Virginia E. Whealton on nineteenth-century musical culture in Norfolk, Virginia.