Inner States

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Inner States is a weekly podcast and public radio show about art, culture, and how it all feels, in the Midwest and beyond.

Inner States is a weekly podcast and public radio show about art, culture, and how it all feels, in the Midwest and beyond.

The show uses conversations with unconventional artists, thinkers, and doers from the Midwest and beyond as jumping-off points to explore big ideas about place, politics, work, ecology, and memory, among others. We dig into the art, culture, stories, and sounds of the southern Midwest, from the rolling hills to Reddit, from comedians to country dances, getting to know the people, the ideas, and the landscapes that make us who we are. We ask big questions, get caught up in stories, and slow down for sounds.

Inner States is produced and hosted by Alex Chambers, a writer, cultural studies scholar, and long-time bread baker. Alex is the producer of How to Survive the Future, a podcast with Indiana Humanities. He produced the Hoosier Young Farmer Podcast and is a former associate producer on WFIU’s Earth Eats.

Web page: https://indianapublicmedia.org/innerstates/index.php

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Inner States is a weekly podcast and public radio show about art, culture, and how it all feels, in the Midwest and beyond.The show uses conversations with unconventional artists, thinkers, and doers from the Midwest and beyond as jumping-off points to explore big ideas about place, politics, work, ecology, and memory, among others. We dig into the art, culture, stories, and sounds of the southern Midwest, from the rolling hills to Reddit, from comedians to country dances, getting to know the people, the ideas, and the landscapes that make us who we are. We ask big questions, get caught up in stories, and slow down for sounds.Inner States is produced and hosted by Alex Chambers, a writer, cultural studies scholar, and long-time bread baker. Alex is the producer of How to Survive the... Show full description


32 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
Caption: The Wells Metz Carillon at night (Alex Chambers)
What it took to turn Anne Frank’s diary into a mainstage opera; a new album from Witness Protection; and mysterious music coming into the radio sta...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
Caption: Susan Neiman (Courtesy of the Indiana University Patten Foundation)
Philosopher Susan Neiman on why the left should be wary of wokeness, how Germany’s reckoning with its past has become more complicated, and why the...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 52:30
Caption: Activist and scholar Micol Seigel (Micol Seigel)
We think of the foster care system as being about care. Micol Seigel says within the system people do care for each other. But it’s primarily about...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
Caption: Seigen taught Jack about the variety of sassafras leaves (Kit Boulding)
Jack was studying vocal performance when he met Seigen at the local Zen center. They became good friends. They took walks, stopping to look at ever...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 52:31
Caption: Jacobs School of Music Dean Abra Bush (Courtesy of the Jacobs School of Music)
Abra Bush, the new dean of the Jacobs School of Music, says conservatories are going to have to go beyond the Western canon to stay relevant to up-...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 52:30
Caption: Writer Michael Martone outside the Bama Theatre in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (Jeremy Butler)
Writer and teacher Michael Martone on fiction without narrative, teaching without grades, and writing about Indiana beyond corn, basketball, and su...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 52:02
Caption: Ms. Flinora Frazier (nee Meyers) meeting Langston Hughes (Courtesy of Flinora Frazier)
Three stories. One about the challenges of accessing books in prison. One about how overlooking a neighborhood’s history has affected the place. On...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
Caption: Novelist Jacinda Townsend (Courtesy of the author)
A conversation with novelist Jacinda Townsend about her new novel, which tackles the subject of motherhood from two perspectives on different sides...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
Caption: Indiana Dunes looking east to Michigan City (Ava Tomasula y Garcia)
Scholar and writer Ava Tomasula y Garcia tells the story of the Calumet Region, how the gas boom started with a bang, brought major industry and ne...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 52:29
Caption: Anthropologist Ilana Gershon (Courtesy of Ilana Gershon)
A lot of people who’ve quit jobs lately thought they were sticking it to the man. But their employers - and coworkers - apparently didn’t realize. ...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 52:31
Caption: Salil and Yousuf, from the Just Married podcast (Yousuf Ali)
It was a summer day when Nancy and Kim found out they could get married. They both had other plans for lunch, so they waited till 3. Stories of lov...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2023
  • Length: 52:32
Caption: NPR TV Critic and Media Analyst Eric Deggans (Courtesy of Eric Deggans)
Critic Eric Deggans says TV offers him a wide canvas for engaging with culture, and comedian Sara Schaefer decides Twitter isn’t the best place to ...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 51:59