The HBS hosts sit down with Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr. to talk about whose history is (and isn’t) being taught. Following on the heels of a recent and very contentious political debate over the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools, we invited Dr. Charles McKinney, Jr. (Neville Frierson Bryan Chair of Africana Studies and Associate Professor…
Read MoreMy Hotel Bar Sessions podcast cohosts (Dr. Charles Peterson and Dr. Rick Lee) and I have just wrapped up the second season of the podcast. We’ll be taking a short (3-week) break to gather our thoughts before returning with a full slate of new episodes for Season 3 on November 8! Throughout Season 2,…
Read MoreThe HBS hosts discuss how robots and intelligent machines are upending our social, moral, legal, and philosophical categories. For this last episode of Season 2, the HBS hosts interview Dr. David Gunkel (author of Robot Rights and How To Survive A Robot Invasion) about his work on emergent technologies, intelligent machines, and robots. Following the…
Read MoreThe HBS hosts present their best defense of humanities-based education and, in doing so, try to justify their existences. As higher education has become more corporatized and STEM-focused, areas of study are often “pitched” to students on the basis of their future income-earning potential. However, college students now are entering a workforce where more…
Read MoreThe HBS hosts discuss whether or not generational tags– “Boomer,” “GenX,” “Millennial,” and “Gen Z”– are useful descriptions or just gerrymandered groups. Are you Gen Z, a Boomer, Gen X? We don’t know either but in this episode Dr. Rick Lee leads a discussion to try to figure out whether these generational designations have…
Read MoreThe HBS hosts discuss scams, cons, gig work, and what drives us to live and work at full speed. In the immortal words of Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. (aka, T.I.) “If you don’t respect nothing else, you will respect the hustle.” In this episode, Dr. Leigh M. Johnson takes the lead in an analysis…
Read MoreThe HBS hosts talk about music, mathematics, groove, and “altar calls.” Dr. Charles Peterson takes the lead in this week’s discussion of the power of music in our lives. After a quick run-down of each co-host’s own musical likes and dislikes, the HBS gang jumps right into a consideration of the effect that music…
Read MoreThe HBS hosts try to figure out why there are 150 guns for every 100 Americans. In the midst of a pandemic, as COVID-related deaths creep close towards 1 million, it’s easy to forget to the other public health epidemic plaguing the United States, namely, gun violence. Nearly 10,000 people have already been killed…
Read MoreThe HBS hosts discuss academic specializations and how to make the humanities more inclusive. Over the last several decades, there has been a long-overdue push for professors in the humanities to diversify their curricula to include more women, BIPOC, queer, disabled, and other under-represented thinkers and texts. Yet, theh “add diversity and stir” model…
Read MoreThe HBS hosts discuss the role of superheroes in culture and popular media. In American graphic fiction and contemporary film, the superhero stands at the center of many popular narratives. Superhero stories published by DC Comics and Marvel are a multi-million dollar per year industry and, in 2019 alone, superhero movies grossed 3.19 billion dollars…
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