Academy Vibe Podcast

About Academy Vibe Podcast

As close as we can get to the academic tea-spilling podcast without making it professionally irresponsible for our gests to participate. Hosted by T.X. Watson, a Communication PhD student and philosophy TikToker, and Astrid Lundberg, a paleontologist, paleontology content creator, and musician. Find T.X. on TikTok at @txwatson (https://www.tiktok.com/@txwatson) and BlueSky at @txwatson.com (https://bsky.app/profile/txwatson.com). Find Astrid on TikTok at @oddpride (https://www.tiktok.com/@oddpride) and Instagram at @astrid_lundberg. (https://www.instagram.com/astrid_lundberg/) If you'd like to support the Academy Vibe Podcast, you can do so at patreon.com/txwatson (https://www.patreon.com/txwatson).

Publisher

T.X. Watson

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Jun 2025

Latest episode

11 Aug 2025

Latest episodes

3 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Aug 2025

   Medieval History with Mireille J. Pardon

   SHOWNOTES COMING SOON: I've got to fact check them/get all the links right and this episode is already So Late I want to get it up T.X. Watson: patreon.com/txwatson (http://patreon.com/txwatson) BlueSky @ (https://bsky.app/profile/txwatson.com)txwatson.com (http://txwatson.com) TikTok @txwatson (https://www.tiktok.com/@txwatson) Astrid Lundberg: patreon.com/oddpride (http://patreon.com/oddpride) IG/Threads Astrid_Lundberg (https://www.instagram.com/astrid_lundberg/) BlueSky @ (https://bsky.app/profile/oddpride.com)oddpride.com (http://oddpride.com) TikTok @oddpride (https://www.tiktok.com/@oddpride)

2. 

   7 Jul 2025

   Media Studies with Briana Barner

   Academy Vibes 01-02: Media Studies with Briana Barner Email us at academyvibepodcast@gmail.com Major conference: Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (SCMS) Historically Black colleges and universities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities) Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Classification_of_Institutions_of_Higher_Education (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Classification_of_Institutions_of_Higher_Education) (The Carnegie Classification system was most recently revised in 2025, so the description in this episode is not highly up-to-date.) Foundational texts: Stuart Hall, "What is this ‘black’ in black popular culture?." In Stuart Hall, pp. 479-489. Routledge, 2006. Patricia Hill Collins, Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. routledge, 2022. Joan Morgan, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down. Simon and Schuster, 2000. Robin DG Kelley, Freedom dreams: The black radical imagination. Beacon Press, 2002. Postmodern theorists and works Watson mentioned: Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard (The Postmodern Condition), Fredric Jameson (Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism) Good speakers: Alfred L. Martin, Jr. https://www.alfredmartin.com/ (https://www.alfredmartin.com/) Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, Finding God in All the Black Places: Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture. Rutgers University Press, 11 October 2024. [OPEN ACCESS: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/finding-god-in-all-the-black-places/9781978839779/ (https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/finding-god-in-all-the-black-places/9781978839779/)] Brian Eno, A year with swollen appendices: Brian Eno's Diary. Faber & Faber, 1996. What Song is Your Field: Livin' on a Prayer, Bon Jovi Guests Briana recommends: Alfred Martin, Media Studies Shatavia Wynn, Religious Studies XKCD, "Average Familiarity" (the feldspar comic): https://xkcd.com/2501/ (https://xkcd.com/2501/) T.X. Watson: patreon.com/txwatson (http://patreon.com/txwatson) BlueSky @ (https://bsky.app/profile/txwatson.com)txwatson.com (http://txwatson.com) TikTok @txwatson (https://www.tiktok.com/@txwatson) Astrid Lundberg: patreon.com/oddpride (http://patreon.com/oddpride) IG/Threads Astrid_Lundberg (https://www.instagram.com/astrid_lundberg/) BlueSky @ (https://bsky.app/profile/oddpride.com)oddpride.com (http://oddpride.com) TikTok @oddpride (https://www.tiktok.com/@oddpride)

3. 

   23 Jun 2025

   Sociology with Corey J. Miles

   Academy Vibes 01-01: Sociology with Corey J. Miles Email us at academyvibepodcast@gmail.com Corey J. Miles, Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South. 2023. https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/V/Vibe (https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/V/Vibe) Kiese Laymon, "My Head Is a Part of My Body and My Middle Name Is Makeba," theroot.com (http://theroot.com), 13 August 2020. https://www.theroot.com/my-head-is-part-of-my-body-and-my-middle-name-is-makeba-1844716563 (https://www.theroot.com/my-head-is-part-of-my-body-and-my-middle-name-is-makeba-1844716563) Rahsaan Mahadeo, Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and Black. 2024. "When movements have been unable to clear the clouds, it has been the poets … who have succeeded in imagining the color of the sky, in rendering the kinds of dreams and futures social movements are capable of producing. Knowing the color of the sky is far more important than counting clouds. … the most radical art is not protest art but works that take us to another place, envision a different way of seeing, perhaps a different way of feeling." Robin D.G. Kelley, "'When History Sleeps': A Beginning," Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. 2002. Works and scholars mentioned in the "Foundational Works" question: Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois. Journals: American Sociological Review Social Forces Social Problems Du Bois Review Places to get into the cutting edge of sociology: Tressie McMillan Cottom (https://tressiemc.com/), Contexts magazine (https://contexts.org/) Good speakers: Saida Grundy (Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man. 2022), Rahsaan Mahadeo. If your field were a song: "Never Scared" by Bone Crusher, ft. Killer Mike, T.I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIjCkw3Jfg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryIjCkw3Jfg) Who else we should have on: Jennifer C. Nash (Author, Black Feminism Reimagined), Brandi Thompson Summers (Author, Black in Place), Joshua Myers (Author, Of Black Study) T.X. Watson: patreon.com/txwatson (http://patreon.com/txwatson) BlueSky @txwatson.com (https://bsky.app/profile/txwatson.com) TikTok @txwatson (https://www.tiktok.com/@txwatson) Astrid Lundberg: patreon.com/oddpride (http://patreon.com/oddpride) IG/Threads Astrid_Lundberg (https://www.instagram.com/astrid_lundberg/) BlueSky @oddpride.com (https://bsky.app/profile/oddpride.com) TikTok @oddpride (https://www.tiktok.com/@oddpride)

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