Thank you for listening to PC: Problematic Conversations. We aim to have difficult, sometimes controversial conversations to expand our worldview and hopefully yours as well. We are college students, trying to have conversations about where we are, who we are, and what we think. We go to Bates College, so a lot of our conversations explore what it means to attend this institution.
Thank you for joining us for another episode of PC! Today we talk to Andrew Monteith about the little debate debacle and our relationship to authority and bureaucracy.
7 Feb 2024
We are Back, Changed, and Ready to Go
Hello, hello, hello! Welcome back to PC: Problematic Conversations. Welcome to Season 3. Bora is back from their time abroad and Sébastien is in the middle of writing his senior thesis. Join us as we talk about where we think we are (likewise) and how we think we have changed over the past few months. Above all, join us as we ramble and rant about the world and the spaces we occupy.
22 Oct 2023
Let's Talk About History: A Conversation with Carly
Hey Friends, welcome back to another episode of PC: Problematic Conversation. Today we are joined by Carly, a freshman at Bates from Denver, Colorado with two History Professors as parents and an inherited love of the discipline. Please join us as we discuss our personal relationships with History.
20 Sept 2023
A New Start: Meet Our New Co-Host
Hey friends and welcome back for a second season of PC: Problematic Conversations! This season we premiere our new co-host, the wonderful Rashad King (who you have met before in our episode on microaggressions and racism). Rashad will be taking over Bora's role as co-host for the next few months as Bora galavants across Europe.
I hope you enjoy this episode!
20 May 2023
Last Hurrahhhh!
Today we have our final episode of the season. Join both of us as we reflect on our process this season and show some love for our listeners and each other. Thank you so much for you ears and opinions.
15 May 2023
The Robots are Taking Over: A Conversation about Artificial Intelligence
This week we talk about Artificial Intelligence. This is a long-awaited episode on the way in which our generation will have to interact with the threat or benefits of the rise of AI. We are joined this week by a friend of the podcast George Aristides. Join us as we talk about the ways in which AI is changing our world, work, and daily interactions.
4 May 2023
From Head to Paper: A Conversation about Art and its Creation
Today, we talk about art, its creation, and its consumption. We ask the questions: why do we create, how do we create, when do we create? We discuss the responsibility of artists and audiences in making, sharing, and consuming art. We are joined by a good friend Sam Jean-François a beautiful poet, prose writer, and performer. Join us as we discuss what it means to create, share, and consume art.
19 Apr 2023
Oops I Got the Depression Flu: An Honest Conversation About Mental Health
Today we talk about mental health. We are in the middle of finals week, and everyone is grinding in all kinds of obscure locations on campus. It seems like the perfect time to ask what we are doing to take care of ourselves and the people around us. This conversation is an honest conversation about mental health and our mental struggles.
Trigger warning: the episode contains references to self-harm.
11 Apr 2023
I don't English: A Conversation about our Relationship with French
This week we talk about our relationship with the French language. Both Sebastien and I speak French and sometimes find our identities split by our inability to express ourselves fully in only one language. We are joined by a guest, Chloe Santucci, a first-generation American with French parents, to discuss our relationship with the French language. Join us as we pick our brains and talk about our relationship to the French language in almost exclusively English spaces.
31 Mar 2023
Canceled: A Conversation about Political and Social Discourse
Today we talk about political and social discourse on campus. As many of you know, we go to a Liberal Arts college. Liberal arts institutions aim to shape students into freethinkers, open communicators, knowledgeable citizens, and respectable people (Lyon College). We love a good citation! In our time here we have found that very few people are willing to engage in political/social discourse and we are wondering why. In an attempt to have a conversation about conversation, we are joined by Luis Orozco. This conversation will hopefully be the first of two parts to get opinions from different sides of the political spectrum.
13 Mar 2023
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, is that your hair?: A Conversation About Black Hair
Today we talk about Black hair. We talk about the experiences of Black and mixed folks and their relationship to hair. We discuss rituals and the meditative aspect of taking care of Black hair. We are joined by our good friend Emily Diaz to talk about hair. Emily is writing a thesis on Black Hair taking the angle of the film Pelo Malo.
16 Feb 2023
Bottoms Up: Newman Day and Other College Traditions
This week we made an episode in celebration of Newman Day. Newman Day is a tradition started at Bates College because of Paul Newman's saying "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case, coincidence? I think not!" On the Friday of the Winter Carnival, Bates students take up the challenge and try to drink 1 beer an hour for 24 hours. With walking microphones, we interviewed a couple of Bates students about their thoughts on the tradition.
8 Feb 2023
Oop, No You Didn't: Microaggressions, Racism, and Anti-Racism
This week we talk about microaggressions, racism, and anti-racism. We have just celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day and are about to celebrate Black History Month, in honor of these things we thought we would record an episode on race. Many institutions today aim to achieve anti-racism, what does that look like, what does it mean, and what kind of discrimination do BIPOC communities at these institutions face? Join us this week as we talk about race, with our guest and friend Rashad A. King.
Disclaimer: This Episode was recorded before Black History Month.
2 Feb 2023
Don't Get Dizzy: The World is Changing on Us
This week we talk about change. Both of us are digital natives, and the world is constantly changing around us, the internet, technology, and the climate. What have we seen change and how are we dealing with this change?
27 Jan 2023
A Couple of Third Culture Kids: Who We Are
Today we talk about who we are. We thought that it was important to give you some insight into who we are in order to talk about what we think. Listen to us talking about who we are, where we grew up, and what it means to be here and now.
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