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Producer
Sebastian Garcia
Description
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/
Narrator
Sebastian Garcia
Interviewer
Sebastian Garcia
Interviewee
Dr. Julian Chambliss
Date Created
2-16-2023
Keywords
History, UCF, University of Central Florida, history podcast, UCF history podcast, Knights Historycast, podcasting, Dr. Julian Chambliss, Michigan State University, Rollins College, ZORA! Festival, Afrofuturism, Academic Conference, Curator, 2020-2024 ZORA Festival Academic Conference Cycle, Spirit of Afrofuturism, liberation, technology, culture, speculating, African, diaspora, theme, Zora Neale Hurston, black culture, arts, humanities, Black Panther, epistemology, sound, vision, spirit, space, thematic subjects, aesthetics, gender, cosmology, science, community, black people, imagination, freedom, science fiction, Octavia Butler, Samuel Delaney, 19th century, canon, slave, revolt, legacy, Eatonville, cultural heritage, knowledge, decolonizing, Western context, slavery, black stories, black spaces, black perspective, theorist, literary figure, Alice Walker, practice, 1994, Black to the Future, historical analogy, the black experience, alien, abduction, stories, African-American themes, philosophy, black diaspora modernity, subjectivity, modern era, alienation, academic conversation, comics, cultural movement, recovery, spirituality, time, space, religion, reality, expansive, Central Florida, redemptive, transformative, moral, space, Dr. Scot French, moral capitalism, the American experience, social and political policy, shared, agreements, customs, mechanism, healthier, safer, world, thought movement, equitable society, utopian, Star Trek, society, Americans, fundamental, oppressive, choices, alienated, system, extractive, relationships, imperialism, colonialism, operates, humanized, society, action, educate, economics, town, incorporate, black town, speculation, exercise, believe, in the vision, motivate, today, present context, Afrofantastic, American comics, Beyond the Black Panther, MSU Museum, gentrification, development, internal space, internal place, Sun Ra, future black towns, physical space, vouge, sustainability, agrarian futurism, Afrofuturists, placemaking, Miami, environmental, historically, Black, Hispanic, spaces, land, academy, activists, BIPOC, African futurism, Africans, Lagos, Chicago, similar, differences, concerns, solutions, dreams, Every Tongue Got To Confess, Reframing History, podcast, Dr. Robert Cassanello, Holly Baker, historian, toolbox, democratizes information, documentary, people, public, dichotomy, process, digital project, digital humanities, review, RICHES, Graphics Possibilities Podcast, comic books, superheroes, American construct, characters, embodies, American values, aspirations, Superman, immigrant story, bombastic, Batman, fears, anxiety, urban environment, homogenous population to, a heterogeneous population, Iron Man, Daredevil, Avengers, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU, Captain America: Winter Soldier, favorite, moment, 2008 Iron Man, film, practical, tactile, American techno-culture, UCF History Program
Subjects
History, UCF, University of Central Florida, history podcast, UCF history podcast, Knights Historycast, podcasting, Dr. Julian Chambliss, Michigan State University, Rollins College, ZORA! Festival, Afrofuturism, Academic Conference, Curator, 2020-2024 ZORA Festival Academic Conference Cycle, Spirit of Afrofuturism, liberation, technology, culture, speculating, African, diaspora, theme, Zora Neale Hurston, black culture, arts, humanities, Black Panther, epistemology, sound, vision, spirit, space, thematic subjects, aesthetics, gender, cosmology, science, community, black people, imagination, freedom, science fiction, Octavia Butler, Samuel Delaney, 19th century, canon, slave, revolt, legacy, Eatonville, cultural heritage, knowledge, decolonizing, Western context, slavery, black stories, black spaces, black perspective, theorist, literary figure, Alice Walker, practice, 1994, Black to the Future, historical analogy, the black experience, alien, abduction, stories, African-American themes, philosophy, black diaspora modernity, subjectivity, modern era, alienation, academic conversation, comics, cultural movement, recovery, spirituality, time, space, religion, reality, expansive, Central Florida, redemptive, transformative, moral, space, Dr. Scot French, moral capitalism, the American experience, social and political policy, shared, agreements, customs, mechanism, healthier, safer, world, thought movement, equitable society, utopian, Star Trek, society, Americans, fundamental, oppressive, choices, alienated, system, extractive, relationships, imperialism, colonialism, operates, humanized, society, action, educate, economics, town, incorporate, black town, speculation, exercise, believe, in the vision, motivate, today, present context, Afrofantastic, American comics, Beyond the Black Panther, MSU Museum, gentrification, development, internal space, internal place, Sun Ra, future black towns, physical space, vouge, sustainability, agrarian futurism, Afrofuturists, placemaking, Miami, environmental, historically, Black, Hispanic, spaces, land, academy, activists, BIPOC, African futurism, Africans, Lagos, Chicago, similar, differences, concerns, solutions, dreams, Every Tongue Got To Confess, Reframing History, podcast, Dr. Robert Cassanello, Holly Baker, historian, toolbox, democratizes information, documentary, people, public, dichotomy, process, digital project, digital humanities, review, RICHES, Graphics Possibilities Podcast, comic books, superheroes, American construct, characters, embodies, American values, aspirations, Superman, immigrant story, bombastic, Batman, fears, anxiety, urban environment, homogenous population to, a heterogeneous population, Iron Man, Daredevil, Avengers, Marvel Cinematic Universe, MCU, Captain America: Winter Soldier, favorite, moment, 2008 Iron Man, film, practical, tactile, American techno-culture, UCF History Program
Length of Episode
1:27:58
Recommended Citation
“Episode 30: Dr. Julian Chambliss and the 2023 ZORA! Festival Academic Conference. Plus, His Work on Afrofuturism, History Podcasting, and Comic Book Studies,” Knights Historycast Podcast, 2023, [https://stars.library.ucf.edu/knightshistorycast/30]