More Human Podcast

More Human is a podcast inspired by the conviction that when Socrates said that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” he was right.

To live a truly human life, Socrates believed, is to cultivate our minds. We live well when we live thoughtfully, when we engage our intellects, when we challenge ourselves, when we resist the pull of the shallow and the superficial and pursue instead the true and the beautiful and the good.

As the official podcast of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Humanities Center at Cuyahoga Community College, More Human explores how engaging with literature, philosophy, history and art enables us to live deeper, richer, fuller and more human lives.

Episodes feature conversations with students, faculty and other scholars working in the humanities at Tri-C and throughout Northeast Ohio.

Podcast Schedule

Here is a sampling of some of the More Human podcasts:

Episode	Topic	Guests	Drop Date
14	Literature and Walking	Amanda Adams, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, Muskingum University	July 6
15	Ethics, Ethical Leadership and the Humanities	Beth Trecasa, M.A., Associate Director, Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, Case Western Reserve University	July 20
16	Liberal Arts, Leadership and Bluegrass Music	David P. Haney, Ph.D., President, Hiram College	August 1
17	Disinformation	John Kerezy, M.A., Associate Professor of Media and Journalism Studies	August 16
18	English Class, Environmentalism and the Future We Choose	Casey Sweeney, M.A., Associate Professor of English, Cuyahoga Community College	August 30
19	"Women Religious" and the Value of Studying History	Elizabeth Lehfeldt, Ph.D., Professor of History, Cleveland State University	September 13
20	Conflict Resolution, Making Meaning and That Time Ty Olson Confronted a Drug Lord	Tyler Olson, Ph.D., Program Manager, Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies, Cuyahoga Community College	September 27
21	Intellectual Virtue, Humanities for High Schoolers and the Jack, Joesph and Morton Mandel Youth Humanities Academy	David Busch, Ph.D., Program Manager, Mandel Youth Humanities Academy, Cuyahoga Community College: with Harry Anderson and Desire Goodwin, alumni, Mandel Youth Humanities Academy	October 11
22	What Are the Classics, and Why Should You Care?	Anika Prather, Ph.D., Director of High Quality Curriculum and Instruction, Johns Hopkins University	October 25
23	Truth, Justice and the Humanities Way	Dr. Anika Prather's plenary address at the 2022 Community College Humanities Association national conference	October 25
24	"How do you say 'Herodotus'?" and Other Very Important Questions	Brian Johnson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Humanities, Cuyahoga Community College	November 8
25	Humanities Education and Workforce Development	Michael Baston, Ed.D, J.D., President, Cuyahoga Community College	November 22

Future topics will include discussions of citizenship, baseball, urban farming, misinformation and much more.

More Human is available on iTunes, Spotify and other podcast platforms.