In Conversation

About In Conversation

In Conversation is a podcast that features faculty from Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, talking with Dean Michael Horswell, Ph.D., about research and creative activity that spans the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Each episode spotlights a professor whose scholarly work is affecting the world in a significant way. Listeners will not only learn of the latest developments in the many academic disciplines of the college, but will gain insight into the creative and critical processes our scholars and artists brings to their projects. In Conversation is a production of Dr. Kevin Petrich and journalism students in FAU’s School of Communication and Multimedia Studies.

Publisher

Dean Michael Horswell, Ph.D.

Category

arts · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Jul 2019

Latest episode

1 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

84 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Mar 2026

   In Conversation w/Nuria Godón: “Counterhegemonic voices: Dulce Dueño by Emilia Pardo Bazán and beyond”

   In this episode, Dean Horswell chats with Dr. Nuria Godón about her most recent co-edited book, Dulce Dueño [Sweet Master] (Stockcero, 2025), and the importance of offering an accessible, critical, and annotated Spanish edition of the last novel by Spanish-Galician writer Emilia Pardo Bazán. The conversation highlights the novel's interpretation as a female Bildungsroman, moving beyond Pardo Bazán’s traditional naturalism toward modernist aesthetics. Co-edited with Dr. Carmen Pereira-Muro (Te...

2. 

   21 Jan 2026

   In Conversation w/Rachel Harris: Beyond the Battlefield

   In this episode, Dean Horswell chats with Rachel Harris about her recent research on the IDF archive and the early formation of Israeli film culture. Their conversation moves beyond the finished article to the process itself: what it means to actually undertake archival research, to work inside military and state archives, and to piece together a history from fragmentary, uneven, and sometimes resistant sources. They discuss the intellectual and methodological stakes of reading institutional ...

3. 

   12 Dec 2025

   In Conversation: The Power of Chatbots to Control Human Knowledge

   In this episode, Dean Horswell chats with Susan Schneider, as they discuss her book, Artificial You: AI And The Future of Your Mind and the subject of Alien Intelligence and A.I. Dr. Susan Schneider is a philosopher and cognitive scientist whose work focuses on AI consciousness, the simulation hypothesis, and the future of intelligence. Her recent research spans questions such as whether advanced AI systems could be conscious, what it would mean if we live in a computer simulation, how consci...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

2,325,777

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

1.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 45 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

28

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

67