(Originally published by Sebastian Garcia on February 16th, 2023) The Department of History’s Sebastian Garcia talked with Dr. Julian Chambliss, a Professor of English with an appointment in History and the Val Berryman Curator of History at the MSU Museum at Michigan State University. He is also the Conference Curator of the 2020-2024 ZORA! Festival Academic Conference Cycle. This podcast focuses explicitly on the 2023 ZORA! Festival Academic Conference, which took place at the end of January. From his role in curating the conference, its direct connections and ties to Afrofuturism and Zora Neale Hurston, to podcasting and comic book studies, this episode of Knights Historycast covers all the incredible, dynamic, and transformative work Dr. Chambliss has done during his career.
Down below are the links to his website and the podcast shows that he produced and is currently producing that were talked about during the episode:
- His website: https://www.julianchambliss.com/
- Link to all his former and current history podcast shows: https://www.julianchambliss.com/podcasts
Here is a link to Dr. Robert Cassanello’s podcast that Dr. Chambliss was referring to: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/ahistoryofcentralfloridapodcast/
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