{"id":1573,"date":"2021-11-13T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/ccs\/?p=1573"},"modified":"2021-11-17T09:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T16:21:26","slug":"the-nau-plague-project-featured-in-the-podcast-making-meaning-why-the-humanities-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/the-nau-plague-project-featured-in-the-podcast-making-meaning-why-the-humanities-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"The NAU Plague Project Featured in the Podcast &#8220;Making Meaning: Why the Humanities Matter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In fall 2020, CCS Professor of Humanities Dr. Gioia Woods embarked on an ambitious initiative, <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/cal\/events-overview-and-ticketing\/plague\/\">the NAU Plague Project<\/a>, to bring students, faculty, and community together to read Albert Camus&#8217; 1947 novel <em>The Plague<\/em> and to participate in a wide variety of events, including panel presentations with local health professionals, collaborative reading and discussion between university students and area high schools, an interfaith panel discussion, and a workshop on how to collect pandemic stories to record and express life during quarantine and COVID-19. Dr. Woods incorporated these activities also into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jackcentral.org\/features\/covid-19-curriculum-makes-an-impact-at-nau\/article_b3aa3a80-08e2-11eb-97dc-6b65a4524c43.html\">HUM 382 Pandemic Stories,<\/a> an upper-division course offered by the department of Comparative Cultural Studies and co-taught by Dr. Woods, Professor of English Nicole Walker, and Professor of English Dr. Donelle Ruwe. The course also featured invited guest speakers from the community and faculty across campus.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the Plague Project reached a national audience in the first episode of the podcast &#8220;Making Meaning: Why the Humanities Matter,&#8221; produced by the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statehumanities.org\/\"> Federation of State Humanities Councils<\/a>.\u00a0 In the episode, &#8220;The Humanities in Times of Crisis,&#8221; physician, poet, and writer Dr. Rafael Campo reflects on how the humanities can heal us and reads his poem &#8220;The Doctor&#8217;s Song&#8221; and Dr. Woods discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/azarchivesonline.org\/xtf\/view?docId=ead\/nau\/pandemic_stories_oral_history.xml&amp;doc.view=content&amp;brand=default&amp;anchor.id=0;query=nau.oh*\">the Pandemic Stories<\/a> part of the Plague Project. Listen to the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/making-meaning.simplecast.com\/episodes\/the-humanities-in-times-of-crisis-Y0_m3na2\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-uncropped-large wp-image-1349\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/plague_cover-768x512-1-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/plague_cover-768x512-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/plague_cover-768x512-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/333\/plague_cover-768x512-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fall 2020, CCS Professor of Humanities Dr. Gioia Woods embarked on an ambitious initiative, the NAU Plague Project, to bring students, faculty, and community together to read Albert Camus&#8217; 1947 novel The Plague and to participate in a wide variety of events, including panel presentations with local health professionals, collaborative reading and discussion between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-humanities","tag-ccs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-comparative-cultural-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}