Political Empathy Lab Summer 2024
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<p>Introducing a special series of The PARK podcast called “Political Empathy Lab Summer 2024: 10 weeks, 5 trips, 1 election. </p><br><p>For 10 weeks this summer, Dr. Lia Howard and seven Penn undergraduates will travel throughout the state, across at least 57 counties conversing with Pennsylvanians, putting skills and dispositions of political empathy into direct practice. </p><p> </p><p>They will be doing so connecting with people not by polling or canvasing, but simply engaging in face to face conversations listening to people from different parts of the state -rural, suburban, urban -who hold different values and demographic and political identities. They will be engaging in participant observation, interviews and other ethnographic methodologies to guide their travels. </p><p> </p><p>In short, Political Empathy Lab endeavors to better understand our fellow Pennsylvanians through better conversations with them. Perhaps there are larger lessons to be learned that can be applied to other conversations throughout the nation. </p><p> </p><p>We invite you to travel with us and follow the project. Six episodes of the podcast will drop over the course of the summer with tools that you can try when you encounter folks you don’t know at the grocery store or at a public park. </p><p> </p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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May 3, 2026
Political Empathy Lab Podcast
<p>Welcome to Season 2 of the Political Empathy Podcast hosted by Noah Kocher, PEL research team member and undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. In this series of interviews Noah sits down with students who joined the lab for its second phase, a one-week research trip around Pennsylvania last summer (2025), to talk about their experiences of listening deeply to people across the state. We hope our conversations will give you a sense of what we heard from our fellow Pennsylvanians, how we practice our empathetic listening, and what you can learn from our experience.</p><br><p>The Political Empathy Lab is directed by Dr. Lia Howard, a political scientist and Fellows Director, SNF Paideia Program. Season 2 has been recorded in the Wexler Recording Studio at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania. Our producers are Jill Katz, Communications Director, SNF Paideia Program, and Noah Kocher, PEL Research Team Member Phase I + II, and SNF Paideia Fellow. Political Empathy Lab gratefully acknowledges our funding from the Office of the Provost at the University of Pennsylvania and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program at Penn.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
February 25, 2026
Political Empathy Lab Phase II
<p>Welcome to Season 2 of the Political Empathy Podcast hosted by Noah Kocher, PEL research team member and undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. In this series of interviews Noah sits down with students who joined the lab for its second phase, a one-week research trip around Pennsylvania last summer (2025), to talk about their experiences of listening deeply to people across the state. We hope our conversations will give you a sense of what we heard from our fellow Pennsylvanians, how we practice our empathetic listening, and what you can learn from our experience.</p><br><p>The Political Empathy Lab is directed by Dr. Lia Howard, a political scientist and Fellows Director, SNF Paideia Program. Season 2 has been recorded in the Wexler Recording Studio at Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania. Our producers are Jill Katz, Communications Director, SNF Paideia Program, and Noah Kocher, PEL Research Team Member Phase I + II, and SNF Paideia Fellow. Political Empathy Lab gratefully acknowledges our funding from the Office of the Provost at the University of Pennsylvania and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program at Penn.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 1, 2025
Episode 5: Final Thoughts on Summer 2024
<p>In the fifth and final episode in the series, Final Thoughts on Summer 2024, Dr. Lia Howard reflects on how the summer of 2024 was a profound one for the Political Empathy Lab. While traveling 2,500 miles around Pennsylvania as political sea changes were happening week to week, they had to be both aware of their own emotional reactions to changes in geography, people and the political narratives they were hearing and rearticulating while being attuned to the emotional reactions of others.</p><br><p>“It was exhausting. It was exhilarating. And at the end of the day it taught us about ourselves as it taught us about the people and places of Pennsylvania; while giving us additional understanding of national trends. And in all humility, we fully recognize that we still have much to learn about it all.”</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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<p>Introducing a special series of The PARK podcast called “Political Empathy Lab Summer 2024: 10 weeks, 5 trips, 1 election. </p><br><p>For 10 weeks this summer, Dr. Lia Howard and seven Penn undergraduates will travel throughout the state, across at least 57 counties conversing with Pennsylvanians, putting skills and dispositions of political empathy into direct practice. </p><p> </p><p>They will be doing so connecting with people not by polling or canvasing, but simply engaging in face to face conversations listening to people from different parts of the state -rural, suburban, urban -who hold different values and demographic and political identities. They will be engaging in participant observation, interviews and other ethnographic methodologies to guide their travels. </p><p> </p><p>In short, Political Empathy Lab endeavors to better understand our fellow Pennsylvanians through better conversations with them. Perhaps there are larger lessons to be learned that can be applied to other conversations throughout the nation. </p><p> </p><p>We invite you to travel with us and follow the project. Six episodes of the podcast will drop over the course of the summer with tools that you can try when you encounter folks you don’t know at the grocery store or at a public park. </p><p> </p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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