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.
West Texas on Film: A Conversation with Dr. Daryl Meador
On this episode, the Humanities Center's 2024-2025 Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities, film scholar Dr. Daryl Meador, sits down with Michael Borshuk to speak about her research on West Texas in American cinema. Annotating five notable films that depict the region onscreen, Dr. Meador comments on settler colonialism, silent movies, John Wayne, Paul Newman, Larry McMurtry, New Hollywood, and the Coen Brothers, among other figures and contexts. Some supplementary resources from this episode'...
14 Mar 2025
Celebrating Indigenous Resilience
On this episode, we’re exploring the Humanities Center’s year-long programming theme, “Celebrating Indigenous Resilience: Commemorating the Red River War and Honoring the Vibrancy of Native American History and Culture on the Southern Plains.” Dr. John William Nelson from TTU's Department of History gives us some vital context for thinking about the Red River War and its relationship to Indigenous history and culture. Then we survey some of the highpoints of our programming from the fal...
1 Nov 2024
On Shakespeare, Monkeys, and the Divine: A Conversation with Heather Warren-Crow and T.J. Geiger II
Could a gaggle of monkeys randomly typing produce a literary classic? Could they by chance produce the complete works of Shakespeare, as many have speculated in an ongoing thought experiment for over a century now.These questions are the starting point for a post-script conversation to our 2023-2024 Value/Values programming. On this episode, Michael Borshuk chats with TTU faculty members Dr. Heather Warren-Crow, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, and Dr. TJ Geiger II, Associate Pr...
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