Itinera Podcast
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this podcast, I, Scott Lepisto, interview classicists from all walks of life to discover how they became interested in the Greco-Roman world, who influenced them, and how their careers evolved.
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Episodes
Bonus Episode: Endless Knot at SoundEdu19
November 19, 2019 20:06 - 52 minutes - 35.6 MBEnjoy this bonus episode of the Endless Knot with Aven McMaster and Mark Sundaram recorded at Sound Education 2019! Endless Knot: http://www.alliterative.net, https://twitter.com/AllEndlessKnot Aven McMaster: https://twitter.com/AvenSarah Mark Sundaram: https://twitter.com/Alliterative Sound Education: https://www.soundeducation.fm, https://twitter.com/sound_edu Scott Lepisto: https://scottlepisto.com https://twitter.com/ScottLepisto Itinera: https://twitter.com/itinerapod
Episode 22 - Donna Zuckerberg
June 03, 2019 11:00 - 59 minutes - 67.8 MBDonna Zuckerberg (https://twitter.com/donnazuck), Editor in Chief of Eidolon (https://eidolon.pub) and author of Not All Dead White Men (https://amzn.to/2WcS57P) sits down with me on the finale of season 2 of Itinera to discuss the creation and evolution of Eidolon, the reception of classics in Red Pill communities, and how she conceives of her role as an ally. Recorded at the Annual Conference of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in 2018. You can keep up with what is ...
Episode 21 - Lisl Walsh Part 2
May 20, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBLisl Walsh (https://twitter.com/lislanna), Associate Professor of Classics at Beloit College, on Homeric and Senecan bodies, corporeal discord, and how performance venue informs the meaning of drama. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2019. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod
Episode 20 - Lisl Walsh Part 1
May 06, 2019 11:00 - 57 minutes - 55.6 MBLisl Walsh (https://twitter.com/lislanna), Associate Professor of Classics at Beloit College, on forging personal connections with students, her unusual path into the field, and how her disability informs her teaching. Recorded at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod
Episode 19 - Rebecca Futo Kennedy
April 22, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 98.8 MBRebecca Futo Kennedy (@kataplexis, https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com) of Denison University on identity in the ancient world, her working class background, and the Taleb/Beard feud. Recorded at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod If you are interested in learning more about the ethnic diversity of Roman Britain, you can read about it here: https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/ne...
Episode 18 - Stamatia Dova
April 08, 2019 11:00 - 52 minutes - 58.4 MBStamatia Dova, Professor of Classics at Hellenic College Holy Cross, on reading Greek in Greece, respecting the text, and her "door half open" approach to advising. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2018. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod
Episode 17 - Joel Christensen Part 2
March 25, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 78.5 MBJoel Christensen of Brandeis University and Sententiae Antiquae (https://twitter.com/sentantiq,https://t.co/LtyNIUHkAB) goes deep on the power of narrative. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod
Episode 16 - Joel Christensen Part 1
March 11, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 84.2 MBJoel Christensen of Brandeis University and Sententiae Antiquae (https://twitter.com/sentantiq, https://t.co/LtyNIUHkAB) on his early interest in Classics, the appeal of Homeric poetry, and the power of narrative. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2018. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod
Episode 15 - Sonya Wurster
February 25, 2019 12:00 - 51 minutes - 59.7 MBSonya Wurster on Philodemus, her approach to writing, and how teaching Greek and Roman literature prepared her to teach the classics of China and India. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in 2018. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod
Episode 14 - Ariane Schwartz
February 11, 2019 12:00 - 47 minutes - 56.4 MBAriane Schwartz on the development of the Online Public Classics Archive (http://opca.paideiainstitute.org/articles), the reception of Horace, and life as a classicist in the private sector. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2018. You can donate to the podcast here: https://www.paypal.me/itinerapod
Episode 13 - Emily Hauser
January 28, 2019 12:00 - 42 minutes - 47.7 MBEmily Hauser on the relationship between her historical fiction and her scholarship, how she approaches creative writing, and the most interesting receptions of classical literature by contemporary women writers. Recorded at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in 2018. Emily’s website: https://www.emilyhauser.com You can donate to Itinera here: paypal.me/itinerapod
Episode 12 - Jackie Murray
January 10, 2019 02:42 - 3 hours - 286 MBJackie Murray, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky, on her groundbreaking research on Apollonius, the difficult path she walked from graduate student to professor, African-American and Afro-Caribbean receptions of classical literature, and racism within the field of Classics. Jackie’s portraits:http://bit.ly/JackiePhotos Video of Jackie reading the Jamaican Patois translation of the Iliad: https://vimeo.com/39396391
Season 2 Teaser
January 05, 2019 18:15 - 1 minute - 1.61 MBThe teaser episode for season 2 of Itinera.
Episode 11 - Ryan Stitt
December 18, 2017 12:00 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBOn the season finale of season 1 of Itinera, Ryan Stitt (@greekhistorypod) of the History of Ancient Greece Podcast and I discuss classics podcasting. http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com See you in 2018! If you enjoyed season 1 of Itinera and would like to show your appreciation, please consider rating and reviewing the podcast in iTunes. It improves Itinera's ranking, which helps others discover the podcast.
Episode 10 - Amy Richlin
December 11, 2017 13:45 - 2 hours - 169 MBAmy Richlin, Professor of Classics at UCLA, reflects on how she became a feminist, her winding road to a tenure-track job, her favorite subject to teach, and her (hilarious) approach to advising.
Episode 9 - Amy Pistone
December 04, 2017 12:07 - 1 hour - 94.3 MBAmy Pistone (@apistone), Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, on inebriation in classical antiquity, applying classics to the contemporary world, and prophecy in ancient Greece.
Episode 8 - Christine Wong
November 27, 2017 12:04 - 46 minutes - 63.5 MBAspiring classicist and graduate student at San Diego State University, Christine Wong (@c_ycwong), on the relationship between magic, medicine, and religion in classical antiquity.
Episode 7 - Hannah Čulík-Baird
November 20, 2017 12:00 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBHannah Čulík-Baird (@opietasanimi), Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University, on Classics Twitter, the SCS, and her research on Cicero.
Episode 6 - Ichiro Taida
November 13, 2017 12:00 - 42 minutes - 59.1 MBIchiro Taida, Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Japanese at I-Shou University, on his history as a classicist and the place of classics in Japan and Taiwan.
Episode 5 - Christelle Fischer-Bovet
November 06, 2017 12:00 - 45 minutes - 62.9 MBChristelle Fischer-Bovet, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Southern California, on the state of classics in Switzerland, American and continental approaches, and her work on Hellenistic Egypt.
Episode 4 - Helen Morales
October 30, 2017 10:56 - 57 minutes - 79.6 MBMy interview with Helen Morales, Professor of Classics at UC Santa Barbara, on writing for a general audience, Pilgrimage to Dollywood, and feminist theory.
Episode 3 - Alexis Whalen
October 23, 2017 11:31 - 1 hour - 89.2 MBMy interview with LA-based high school teacher, Alexis Whalen, on living Latin, Latin pedagogy, and combining research with teaching at the high school level.
Episode 2 - Ellen Finkelpearl
October 16, 2017 11:52 - 1 hour - 108 MBMy interview with Ellen Finkelpearl, Professor of Classics at Scripps College, on zoomusicology, Apuleius, and teaching at a liberal arts women's college.
Episode 1 - Alex Purves
October 09, 2017 12:06 - 52 minutes - 71.5 MBMy interview with Alex Purves, Professor of Classics at UCLA, on her research process, approach to mentoring, and scholarship on Homer.