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A podcast series and multimedia blog from the Urban Humanities Initiative, meditating on the theme of the Portal.
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Mar 14, 2024
Mar 14, 2024
24 min
In this episode, Rebecca Smith shares about the experience of learning an indigenous Mexican language in the high deserts of Salt Lake City, Utah.
For more information about each episode, visit https://digitalsalonpodcast.org

Mar 7, 2024
Mar 7, 2024
19 min
In this episode, Doğa Tekin sonically illustrates the work of People of Color Fungi Community, including Mario Ceballos, Cristina Juarez, Magdalena Ramirez, Olympia Beltran, and other organizers and participants in reintroducing huitlacoche to their community.
For more information about each episode, visit https://digitalsalonpodcast.org

Feb 29, 2024
Feb 29, 2024
34 min
In this episode, Jason Araújo and Philip Salata explore the politics of memory and redevelopment in downtown San Diego.
For more information about each episode, visit https://digitalsalonpodcast.org/

Feb 22, 2024
Feb 22, 2024
28 min
In this episode, Dayquan Moeller explores gender dynamics in Southern California skating culture.
For more information about each episode, visit https://digitalsalonpodcast.org/

Feb 15, 2024
Feb 15, 2024
22 min
This is Part 2 of a two-part podcast focusing on the role of postcards as propaganda in Russia and Ukraine by Lena Pozdnyakova, Eldar Tagi, and a Russian historian who preferred to remain anonymous.
For more information about each episode, visit https://digitalsalonpodcast.org/

Feb 13, 2024
Feb 13, 2024
22 min
This is Part 1 of a two-part podcast focusing on the role of postcards as propaganda in Russia and Ukraine by Lena Pozdnyakova, Eldar Tagi, and a Russian historian who preferred to remain anonymous.
For more information about each episode, visit https://digitalsalonpodcast.org/
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Feb 9, 2024
Feb 9, 2024
5 min
After a few years of hiatus, we are back with Season 3 of the Digital Salon Podcast! Join us as we explore the theme of [dis/em/re/mis] placement across shifting places, times, subjectivities, and modalities. This season we especially engage with sonic methods, both analytically and creatively, to shape the stories shared in each podcast.
Episode 1 will be available Tuesday February 13th. All other episodes will be released every Thursday.
For more information about each episode, visit https://digitalsalonpodcast.org/

Jul 31, 2021
Jul 31, 2021
30 min
And for our 12th episode, Dr. Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, Assistant Professor of Public and Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona and a founding faculty of the UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative composes a sonic exploration of Asian American and diasporic collective identity through a chorus of sixteen different voices, recorded shortly after the Atlanta shootings of six Asian spa workers.

Jul 27, 2021
Jul 27, 2021
29 min
And for our 11th episode, UHI alumni and Urban Planning Master’s student Eliza Franklin explores the Black Matrix Collective, reimagining the ways in which Black Folx attain their higher self through internal and external healing.

Jul 24, 2021
Jul 24, 2021
27 min
And for our 10th episode, Bangkok-based interior architect, researcher and bread baker, Marta Kwiczała casts a collective of home bread-makers that emerged in the Covid-19 pandemic, in, as she calls it, a story of bread in three acts.
