Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) is an interdisciplinary graduate center at Yale University that engages broadly with sacred music, worship, and the arts in diverse religious traditions and in civic life. The ISM podcast series focuses on different disciplines and perspectives that touch upon these subjects.
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Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) is an interdisciplinary graduate center at Yale University that engages broadly with sacred music, worship, and the arts in diverse religious traditions and in civic life. The ISM podcast series focuses on different disciplines and perspectives that touch upon these subjects.
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Recent Episodes
April 20, 2026
‘What We Are Called to Remember’: Dr. Katie Anania in Conversation with the ISM on Feminist Agriculture, Queer Art-Making, and Sacred Collaboration
<p>Visiting ISM Fellow Katie Anania discusses her work as an art historian with ISM student Remi Recchia. Dr. Anania covers her latest monograph in progress, Devour Everything: Feminist Art After Agriculture, explores expressions of feminism in art-making spaces, and highlights her upcoming April 10 ISM conference, “Plant Lives: Sacred Interdependencies in the Arts of the Americas.”</p>
April 1, 2026
Payam Yousefi and the Multifaceted Dimensions of the Music of Iran
<p>In this episode, Dr. Payam Yousefi discusses with Sindy Yang (MAR ’26) his background as a musical performer and scholar. In particular, he shares how his personal experiences as a musician were deeply embedded in social and political movements in Iran, which served as the impetus for his graduate research. Diving into classical Persian and Sufi poetry, Yousefi shows how music in Iran bears moral, political, and even theological dimensions critical to its understanding. Yousefi also discusses the duality of being a performer-scholar, showing how musical practice and scholarly study are symbiotic with each other.</p>
July 24, 2025
Between Art and Science: An Exploration into the Musical Acoustics of Sacred Spaces
<p>In this episode, Elliot Canfield-Dafilou talks about his interest in the architectural acoustics of sacred spaces. He begins by recounting his background in musical training and technology, eventually combining the two to find his interdisciplinary home in musical acoustics. With a particular emphasis on sacred spaces, Canfield-Dafilou explores in his research the unique liturgical contexts within which musical acoustics unravels itself.</p>
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