Audio and Video Podcasts

ISM Fellow and religious ethicist Ryan Darr pulls no punches in talking global climate crisis.

Katie Dimmery’s work focuses on the ways in which communities and identities are shaped by artistic ritual in the southwest region of China.

Dr. Peter Boudreau sheds light on time in Byzantium through his work on Byzantine calendar icons.

Nadia Kizenko joins Ariana Hones (MDiv ‘25) in conversation to discuss Kizenko’s research on Orthodox liturgy in Ukraine.

Cory Hunter speaks with Sindy Yang (MAR ‘25) about his research on gospel music.

Samantha Slaubaugh offers insights into her work on Douceline of Digne as a rare paradigm of liturgical practice among the Beguines of Marseilles.

“Toward Freedom: The Power of Art Inside Prison Walls”, a conversation about the transformational power of Dante’s Divine Comedies inside prisons.

ISM Fellow and art historian Catalina Ospina investigates the oral production of resin-glossed mopa mopa objects by indigenous colonial Andean artists

ISM Fellow Dr. Melanie R. Hill, grew up attuned to the rhythms and cadences of African American preaching.

Dr. Christopher-Rasheem McMillan talks about Christianity, dance, gender, color and queerness in 2021 is like putting on a new pair of shades.

Dr. Fitzgerald’s project at The ISM is entitled “No Pure Lands: The Contemporary Buddhism of Tibetan Lay Women.”

Bongani Ndodana-Breen explores his latest composition.

In the spiralling connections of Haitian culture, Rebecca Dirksen notes that the “spaces of Carnival often become political spaces.”

Dr. Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina was riding the train into Paris as a university student when she had a scholarly and spiritual revelation.

Dr. Carla Neuss is an ISM Fellow with a Ph.D. in theatre & performance studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2021.

As a pianist and singer growing up in Kenyan Pentecostalism, Dr. Jean Ngoya Kidula absorbed a multi-layered musical and religious landscape.

David Hill talks to ISM faculty members Markus Rathey and Jimmy Taylor about Robert Schumann’s little-known arrangement of Bach’s St. John Passion.

Originally scheduled for April, 2020, and cancelled due to Covid-19, Marilynne Robinson has revised and Zoom-recorded two lectures for us now.

Conductor David Hill talks with composers Roderick Williams and Reena Esmail about their commissioned works for Yale Schola Cantorum.

ISM Director Martin Jean and Professor Markus Rathey discuss Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and more.

Prof. Vasileios Marinis shows what a mosaic from the Greek monastery of Hosios Loukas can tell us about Easter in the Orthodox Christian tradition.