Breaking Silence is back! with podcast episodes on Spotify, Anchor, and YouTube
A team of eight students at the Department of American Studies interested in furthering the conversation about racism, anti-racism, and allyship in Austria and beyond is continuing the project, which was originally founded by students in the spring of 2021. The project started with a two-week Instagram challenge and a public outreach project (see the project’s Instagram account and a blog on Medium) to help the public have difficult conversations and learn more about privilege and discrimination in our daily lives.
In the winter semester of 2021, a new team continues to “break the silence” in the form of podcast episodes, now available via Spotify, Anchor, and YouTube. Students produced a total of six podcast episodes, some in English and some in German. The guests on the podcast include Laís Clemente and Antonia Pohlmann who are representing the previous Breaking Silence group, activist Chantal Bamgbala, writer Susmita Paul, Mag. Pauline Riesel Soumaré from the Antidiskriminierungsstelle Steiermark, and Dagmar Nöst from the Begegnungszentrum Graz-Süd (BeGS).
The students' enthusiasm about these important social topics originated during a university course taught by Dr. Simone Adams entitled “Topics in American Cultural Studies (How to Study Race, Racism, and (White) Privilege: Concepts and Contributions of American Studies)”. The project was generously supported by the Department of American Studies, die Anti-Bias Zirkel, and the Studienrichtungsvertretung Anglistik/Amerikanistik at the University of Graz.
Written by Christina Brenn and Corina Meitz, pruned by Lisa Scheer
