FOI Rishi Batra (Texas Tech) is kind enough to give us the key take-away information from a panel at the ABA DR Section Spring Conference last week discussing various podcasts that intersect w/ our field. Enjoy and thanks Rishi.
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Thank you to those of you who came to our panel Heard Not Seen: Internet Radio for the ADR Minded, where we discussed podcasts that are of interest to those in the dispute resolution profession. I want to thank my fellow co-panelists, Jean Sternlight (UNLV), Richard Reuben (Missouri), and Erin Archerd (Detroit Mercy), as well as our active audience for making this a great panel.
First off, here are some suggested podcast apps for listening to podcasts on your phone. As the links below show, you can listen to all of these sources online too. The nice thing about a podcast app is that it will update every time a new episode of one of your podcasts is released.
- Podcast Applications
As educators, all four of us drew on material that we believed exposed ourselves – and our students – to a better understanding of others’ experiences. Below, you will find a list of links to podcasts and other resources that we discussed or that were mentioned by audience members as well as additional podcasts and resources we did not have time to get to. These are broadly categorized by topic, but some podcasts could fit in multiple topics. Feel free to suggest additional ones in the comments below.
- Podcasts on Psychology and Economics
- Hidden Brain (Unconscious patterns in human behavior)
- Freakonomics Radio (Economics in popular culture)
- Episode of Interest: When Willpower isn’t Enough
- Crime / Innocence Podcasts
- Serial Season 1 (Possible wrongful conviction case)
- Serial Undisclosed (More information about the case from a friend of the accused)
- Truth and Justice Podcast (Other innocence cases)
- Podcasts on Empathy and Understanding
- This American Life (Stories on a theme)
- Episode of Interest: Anatomy of a Doubt
- Snap Judgment (Narrative nonfiction on a common theme)
- Episode of interest: Simpatico
- RadioLab (Science, philosophy, the human experience)
- Episode of Interest: 23 Weeks, 6 Days
- Fresh Air (Intimate interviews with celebrities)
- The Moth (True stories told live on stage)
- Ted Talks (Influential talks from expert speakers in their field)
- Episode of Interest: Monica Lewinski, The Price of Shame
- Ted Radio Hour (In depth discussion of Ted Talks, often with the speaker)
- This American Life (Stories on a theme)
- Podcasts about Managing Relationships
- Modern Love (Exploration of modern relationships)
- StoryCorps Podcast (Short conversational interviews from all walks of life)
- Car Talk (Two brothers take questions on car repair and life)
- Judge John Hodgman (Fake internet judge rules on real problems between people)
- Episode of Interest: Rewind is a Sometimes Command
- Podcasts on Politics and News
- Whistlestop (Anecdotes of historical presidential campaigns)
- Slate’s Political Gabfest (Current topics in politics)
- Vox’s The Weeds (In depth analysis of policy issues, including research papers)
- Podcasts on Teaching ADR and Pedagogy Generally
- Slate’s Negotiation Academy (10 episode negotiation workshop)
- Listen Current (Podcasts with teaching materials like questions and assessments)
- Podcasts on Meditation and Mindfulness
- UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (30 minute guided mediations)
- DharmaSeed (Western Buddhist teachings)
I love the StoryCorps podcast, which is a collection of clips of oral history interviews of everyday people, typically conducted by their friends and relatives. Often, the interviews are conducted by kids and grandkids asking their parents and grandparents to tell about their lives.
Episode 466 is adapted from a new StoryCorps book and CD entitled, Callings: The Purpose and Passions of Work. We often think of callings as professions relying on sophisticated education, such as law and medicine. But this episode features stories of sanitation workers, a bricklayer, a teacher, and a bridge-tender, illustrating how people can get great meaning and fulfillment from almost any type of work.
Episode 467 features a touching interview of a nurse in a cancer ward who was interviewed by her remarkably articulate and sensitive 10 year-old daughter.
Listening to these stories made me appreciate how dispute resolution (particularly education and scholarship about it) has been my calling, just as it probably is for the people reading this blog and most others in our field. It provides great satisfaction as a way to help others grapple with difficult problems.
The NPR TED Radio Hour just released a podcast entitled, “Beyond Tolerance,” which is relevant to Ohio State’s Divided Community Project (which Sarah has written about), and Oregon’s Implicit Bias series (which Jen has written about). It deals with highly polarized conflicts in US politics generally, race, abortion, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.