Scott Saul, Chapter & Verse-Podcasting the Digital Public Humanities

Scott Saul, professor of English at University of California-Berkeley, will discuss the development of Chapter & Verse, a books-and-arts podcast he hosts. The podcast is sponsored by UC-Berkeley’s Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. It probes the cultural imagination—what Joan Didion once called the stories we tell ourselves to live—by delving into novels, nonfiction, poems, music, film, and other touchstones of our culture, with an eye to the spells they cast and the questions they raise. In this informal listening session and conversation, Scott will trace how the podcast developed, the challenges of pursuing public humanities scholarship effectively in the audio podcasting medium, and the great potential of the podcasting format for sharing valuable humanities research and perspectives with broader communities. Lunch served.