Opening Up: A Conflict Transformation Podcast
31 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsOpening Up is a podcast series that features faculty, staff, students, and community members engaged in the Conflict Transformation (CT) Collaborative at Middlebury. Learn more at our website: https://www.middlebury.edu/conflict-transformation
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Episodes
Restoring Justice, Cultivating Hope: A Scholar Practitioner Conversation
March 12, 2024 19:57 - 43 minutes - 59.7 MBRestorative justice, transnational activism, and communication across cultures are all spaces in which conflict transformation can inform the long work of social change. In this episode, restorative justice leader sujatha baliga and civil society scholar Sarah Stroup discuss the foundations of their work and its connection to the CT Collaborative at Middlebury. The conversation, held at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey in September 2023, was moderated by Netta Av...
A Pioneering Vision: Lederach on Conflict Transformation
March 04, 2024 19:17 - 37 minutes - 85.7 MBThis episode features selections from a September 2022 talk at Middlebury by John Paul Lederach, with an introduction from Middlebury president Laurie Patton. John Paul Lederach is globally recognized for his pioneering theory and practice in the field of conflict transformation (CT). Lederach is senior fellow at Humanity United and professor emeritus of international peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame. He is also the co-founder and first director of the Eastern Mennonite Unive...
Leadership and Learning in South Africa: the diiVe experience
February 07, 2024 18:57 - 35 minutes - 80.8 MBIn this episode, we speak with Elspeth Boynton, the founder and CEO of diiVe, a South Africa-based organization that offers high-impact internships to college students. The in-person and remote global internships integrate leadership development, purpose coaching, data science skills, and cultural immersions. diiVe has brought conflict transformation approaches into their curriculum, with interesting lessons for responding to conflict in the workplace and in cross-cultural experiences. Boy...
Persuasion and Listening in an Era of Polarization
December 20, 2023 14:51 - 40 minutes - 93.6 MBAddressing social and political conflicts seems particularly challenging in an era of high polarization. Yet under certain conditions, perspective taking and story telling may shift exclusionary attitudes and policy preferences. In this episode of our podcast, we are sharing audio from a campus talk in October 2023 on persuasion by Professor Joshua Kalla of Yale University. Kalla's research explores political persuasion, prejudice reduction, and decision-making among voters and political e...
Flowing toward Peace: Transforming Water Conflicts
December 04, 2023 19:36 - 29 minutes - 67.8 MBWater shortages in the USA and dozens of other countries have highlighted our tenuous relationship with the world’s most important resource. In this podcast episode, we share audio from a TED-style talk from MIIS Environmental Policy and Management Professor Dr. Jeff Langholz. Langholz shares a vision for the future of water that transforms the way we collect and distribute water resources. Dr. Langholz is a recipient of a 2023 Faculty Research Grant from the CT Collaborative. Learn more a...
Joseph Kaifala: Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone
November 28, 2023 21:21 - 26 minutes - 60.8 MB VideoIn this episode, Joseph Kaifala recounts his experiences growing up in civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, and lays out a vision for peacebuilding that requires first dealing with the legacies of mass atrocities. Kaifala is the inaugural recipient of the Projects for Peace Alumni Award. The newly created award, supported by the CT Collaborative, grants up to $50,000 in support of the ongoing peacebuilding efforts of a past Projects for Peace recipient who demonstrates innovation and p...
Movement Matters: Global Body in Conflict
November 03, 2023 22:29 - 40 minutes - 92.9 MBIn this episode, dance professor Lida Winfield is interviewed by Middlebury College senior and CT intern Joe Hanlon. They discuss the importance of transformation and growth and the role of the arts in facilitating communication, relationship-building, and social change. Lida Winfield plays several important roles in the CT Collaborative. She is a facilitator in the Engaged Listening Project, leading professional development in structured dialogue, and also has advanced training in restora...
Strategic Empathy and Strategic Weapons
October 23, 2023 09:44 - 34 minutes - 78.4 MBStrategic empathy is the sincere effort to identify and assess patterns of behavior and the underlying drivers and constraints that shape those patterns. In a CT Collaborative-funded research project, a team from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at MIIS explored the utility of this concept for understanding the acquisition, threat, and use of strategic weapons. In this episode, we offer selections from a 2023 webinar describing the project's insights. Through case stud...
Storytelling and Creativity in Transforming Conflict
October 02, 2023 22:32 - 31 minutes - 71.9 MBIn this episode, we talk with Beyond the Page (BtP), a Middlebury program of professional teaching artists who use theater techniques in college classrooms to foster creativity and storytelling. Conflict Transformation Collaborative and BtP have been exploring ways to shift conflict dynamics through community building, playful exploration, and seeing our relationships and structures in new ways. CT Director Sarah Stroup speaks with Craig Maravich, BtP program director and visiting assista...
Indigenous Perspectives on Conflict within the Amazon Basin
September 25, 2023 16:54 - 34 minutes - 47.2 MBDylan Moglen and Alex Christodolou are two recent MIIS graduates. In 2022, they participated in a research project that fundamentally reexamined the definition of conflict, resolution, and transformation, focusing on communities that occupy a unique yet powerful space in the global imaginary: Indigenous communities living in the Amazon basin. In total this project engaged in dialogues with leaders and thinkers from over 9 different ethnicities in communities surrounding Leticia, Colombia,...
Conflict Transformation 2: Pillars
September 01, 2023 17:38 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MBWelcome to the Opening Up podcast series, a new effort from the Conflict Transformation (CT) Collaborative at Middlebury! The Conflict Transformation (CT) Collaborative at Middlebury is a major new initiative that seeks to expand our work on critical self-awareness, conflict analysis, intercultural communication, dialogue, restorative justice, and beyond. Our first two episodes are hosted by Sarah Stroup, director of the CT Collaborative and a political science professor at Middlebury. ...
Conflict Transformation 1: Introduction
September 01, 2023 17:36 - 19 minutes - 26.7 MBWelcome to the Opening Up podcast series, a new effort from the Conflict Transformation (CT) Collaborative at Middlebury! Many people hear the word conflict and pull away, because they think of the harm that can come from destructive conflict. Yet conflict is part of the human experience, and constructive conflict can enrich our relationships and communities. This lens on conflict informs the field of "conflict transformation," and helps us understand the value of engaging across our diff...
The Opening Up Podcast: Feminism at Middlebury, Part 4
September 04, 2021 05:04 - 25 minutes - 47.5 MBThis is the final episode in our four-part series exploring feminism at Middlebury. Join Sarah Fagan as she interviews alumni and professors about key events in Middlebury's recent history that influenced the development of feminism on campus.
The Opening Up Podcast: Feminism at Middlebury, Part 3
June 25, 2021 08:19 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBThis is the third episode in our four-part series exploring feminism at Middlebury. In this episode, Julia Price interviews four women who experienced second wave feminism at Middlebury in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Music Attribution: Thinking Music by Incompetech “Return to the Black Star” by Deep Space Destructors. From the Free Music Archive, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Link to music:https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Deep_Space_Destructors/Psychedeology. License:https://creativecomm...
The Opening Up Podcast: Feminism at Middlebury, Part 2
June 12, 2021 12:34 - 18 minutes - 34.6 MBThis is the second episode of our four-part series examining feminism in our community. Today, reporter Cali Kapp examines the early history of women at Middlebury. Speaking with Matt Jennings, Editorial Director of the Middlebury Magazine, and Professor David Stameshkin, we dive into the roots of why women were first admitted to Middlebury and the struggles they have faced over the years.
The Opening Up Podcast: Feminism at Middlebury, Part 1
May 15, 2021 18:13 - 10 minutes - 19.7 MBThis is the first of our four-part series examining feminism in our community. Wanting to capture the student perspective, our team asked students around campus what feminism means to them and what it feels like to be a woman at Middlebury. Feminism plays an important role in uplifting voices at Middlebury, but we still have a long way to go in terms of equality and inclusivity on campus. Over the next two episodes, we will be examining the history of feminism at Middlebury and what it mea...
The Off-Campus Project: Episode 12, Return to Campus
August 24, 2020 18:21 - 12 minutes - 12.9 MBMiddlebury Campus reporter Caroline King speaks her friend Natalie on her recent return to the campus of the University of Miami while under COVID-19 social distancing protocols.
TV in the Age of Covid
August 07, 2020 19:36 - 39 minutes - 37.6 MBIn this week’s episode, Professor Jason Mittell from the Film and Media Department at Middlebury join Sadie and Caroline to talk about television in the age of Covid-19. They discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has changed TV production (from reality TV to sports) and affected the way we consume media (from broadcast to streaming services to TikTok and Quibi!).
The Off-Campus Project: Episode 11, TV in the Age of Covid
August 07, 2020 19:36 - 39 minutes - 37.6 MBIn this week’s episode, Professor Jason Mittell from the Film and Media Department at Middlebury join Sadie and Caroline to talk about television in the age of Covid-19. They discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has changed TV production (from reality TV to sports) and affected the way we consume media (from broadcast to streaming services to TikTok and Quibi!).
The Off-Campus Project: Episode 10, Studying in the U.S. as a Foreign National
July 23, 2020 10:12 - 30 minutes - 28.6 MBIn this episode, we hear from two international students about considering the return to study in the United States amidst a global pandemic. In light of ICE's recent policy directive (and subsequent reversal) aimed to prevent F-1 and M-1 visa holders taking online-only classes from staying in the U.S., we wanted to hear how students were feeling.
The Off-Campus Project: Episode 9, Film and Antiracism
July 17, 2020 01:15 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBSadie Housberg and Caroline King speak with filmmaker and film Professor Natasha Ngaiza on what it means to be critical in watching films during the Black Lives Matter Movement.
The Off-Campus Project: Episode 8, White Supremacy at Middlebury, Part 2
July 09, 2020 10:58 - 29 minutes - 29.7 MBThis week, Caroline King and Sadie Housberg sit down with Professor J Finley, who teaches in the American Studies, GSFS, and Black Studies departments at Middlebury. A follow-up to Episode 6, this episode takes a contemporary look at white supremacy at Middlebury, and delves into topics such as anti-racist education and student activism at an institution like Middlebury.
Episode 7: Optimism & Uncertainty
July 02, 2020 12:10 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBIn this episode of the Off-Campus Podcast, Caroline King and Sadie Housberg speak with Middlebury students to find out how they’re grappling with the choice to return to campus in the fall, or not. You can find the link to the document mentioned at the bottom of this episode here: http://go.middlebury.edu/fall2020.
The Off-Campus Project: Episode 7, Optimism & Uncertainty
July 02, 2020 12:10 - 19 minutes - 18.9 MBIn this episode of the Off-Campus Podcast, Caroline King and Sadie Housberg speak with Middlebury students to find out how they’re grappling with the choice to return to campus in the fall, or not. You can find the link to the document mentioned at the bottom of this episode here: http://go.middlebury.edu/fall2020.
The Off-Campus Project: Episode 6, History of White Supremacy at Middlebury
June 22, 2020 13:57 - 18 minutes - 18.2 MBCaroline King speaks with the Middlebury Campus' newest reporter Sadie Housberg on the history of white supremacy at Middlebury College.
The Off-Campus Project: Episode 5, BLM Protests in Atlanta
June 18, 2020 12:22 - 5 minutes - 6.11 MBThe Middlebury Campus' Caroline King attends a Black Lives Matter protest in Atlanta and shares her thoughts.
The Off-Campus Project: Episode 4, The Middlebury Sound
May 28, 2020 01:42 - 16 minutes - 16.5 MBIs there a "Middlebury Sound?" Caroline King talks with WRMC Music Director Elle Simmons about hot music on campus.
The Off-Campus Project: Episode 3, Snapshots of Lives in Quarantine
May 22, 2020 15:58 - 9 minutes - 9.94 MBMiddlebury Campus reporter Caroline King curates a collection of ambient audio snapshots sent in my Midd students and faculty, followed by an interview with Middlebury student and musician Tom Gause.
The Off-Campus Project: Episode 2, Musicians in Isolation with Sarah King
May 08, 2020 15:44 - 14 minutes - 15.9 MBMiddlebury Campus reporter Jeremy Navarro, with special guest Sarah King, discusses how Vermont musicians are dealing with isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Introducing the Off-Campus Project
May 04, 2020 18:46 - 17 minutes - 16.9 MBA collaboration between Middlebury College's Engaged Listening Project and the Middlebury Campus student newspaper to publish audio stories about academic life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Opening Up: Lessons from a Speaker Shutdown
August 28, 2019 17:29 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBA controversial speaker came to Middlebury in 2017. Two years later, the national media story largely excludes student voices. In this episode, Middlebury College students describe what happened, the lessons they learned, and ideas about how to encourage honest dialogue on college campuses. Narrated by Sarah Stroup, Middlebury College professor. This episode is part of a podcast series, Opening Up. Opening Up invites listening and dialogue about different issues in higher education by ...