ETHER Podcast Series

 

ETHER Podcast Episode 2
Encountering through Storytelling

Whose stories are told, who gets to tell them, and who listens? These conversations explore the ethical, aesthetic and political implications of representing diverse experiences. Many people’s stories have been historically excluded from different cultural, social and educational spaces. In the three parts of this episode, museum curators, educators, researchers, poets, artists, dancers, musicians and sign language interpreters discuss how they or those they work with are reclaiming mainstream narratives. Their counternarratives and practices challenge erasures of those on the margins and rewrite the default scripts which exclude them. Creative ways of representing research can similarly disrupt academic norms. These opportunities are growing and are exploited by many across these sectors. But the difficult questions linger. Who has the right to tell and what does the responsibility to listen entail? What kind of spaces enable encounters with different stories and help communities tell new histories, futures and possibilities? And, just as importantly, what does this mean for how we listen?

Part 1 Encountering through Storytelling: Whose Stories? 

ETHER Podcast Episode 2 Part 1 Transcript

Part 2 Encountering through Storytelling: Whose Tellings? 

ETHER Podcast Episode 2 Part 2 Transcript

Part 3 Encountering through Storytelling: Whose Listening? 

ETHER Podcast Episode 2 Part 3 Transcript

ETHER Podcast Episode 1
Curating Difference for Collective Action
What do we mean by ‘the Other’ when we speak about ‘encountering the Other’? More specifically, in this podcast we look at the role that social identity categories – like a person’s ethnicity, class, gender, religion, and disability, among others – play in meaningful encounters with difference. Can these categories help negotiate differences? To what extent does a “meaningful encounter with the Other” require going beyond such social categories?

ETHER Podcast Episode 1 Transcript

 

(NOTE: Helen Finch’s provocation draws on AHRC-funded research into German-Jewish writers and the Holocaust, which will be published in the monograph German-Jewish Life Writing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Beyond Testimony [Camden House, 2023])