Holding History Podcast

The Holding History Podcast presents fast-paced, bookish conversations about the fascinating and, sometimes puzzling, ways we record, share, and preserve cultural knowledge. In each episode, we and our book-loving guests tell new stories about old media.

Holding History Podcast is a history podcast hosted by Holding History, with 14 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #12

  AI and the Human

  Oct 14, 202533 minS0

  <p >In this episode, we speak with acclaimed essayist Meghan O’Gieblyn about the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and the human imagination. Meghan is the author of God Human Animal Machine and the essay collection Interior States, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. She writes essays and criticism for Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, WIRED, The New York Review of Books, n+1, The Point, The Baffler, and Bookforum. </p> <p ></p> <p >Relying on Meghan’s research and background in Western history and philosophy, religion, and technology, the conversation grapples with what it means to be human in this specif...

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  Episode #11

  AI, Commonplace Books, and Information Management

  Sep 30, 202547 minS0

  <p >In this episode, we reunited with Holding History alum and commonplace book enthusiast Ethan Kay to talk about how to leverage AI for personal knowledge management (PKM) systems. Ethan is currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI where he focuses on AI-native search and answer experiences in ChatGPT. </p> <p ></p> <p >The conversation winds between how different technologies augment and create our personal archives. As Ethan shares his own practices and advice for how to utilize LLMs to enhance learning or store knowledge, a question is prompted: what will happen to physical, material media like books? The a...

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  Episode #10

  AI, Accessibility, and Library Archives

  Sep 16, 202540 minS0

  <p >In this first episode of our third season, we talk to software engineers and old-book-enthusiasts Ben Brumfield and Sara Carlstead Brumfield, the power-couple duo who founded From the Page, a crowdsourcing platform for archives and libraries where volunteers transcribe, index, and describe historic documents. </p> <p >We spoke with them about the idiosyncrasies of working with archival documents, the technological challenges of making metadata accessible while staving off poorly behaved bots that crash library sites in their quest for more training data, how technology changes the ways we interact with and engage archival work, and how AI can increase...

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  Episode #3

  How can the archives inspire a multimedia atlas?

  Oct 26, 202330 minS2

  For this episode, we were joined by University of Hawai'i at Manoa Associate Professor Christina Gerhardt. Christina stopped by to discuss her latest project, a multimedia atlas titled Sea Change, which was recently named one of the Best Science Books of 2023 by New Scientist.   A transcript of this episode can be accessed here.   <p>⇹</p> <p>Wherever you find the Holding History Podcast, please like, subscribe, and provide feedback. Use the comment section below, or contact us at holdinghistory@wisc.edu with questions or suggestions. Thanks for listening!</p>

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  Episode #2

  How can the archives inspire historical fiction?

  Aug 8, 202330 minS2

  <p>This episode features a conversation with New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini. We spent time with Jennifer discussing her newly released novel, Canary Girls, her research process, and how historical fiction can fill in historical gaps. </p> <p>A transcript of this episode can be accessed here. </p> <p>⇹</p> <p>Wherever you find the Holding History Podcast, please like, subscribe, and provide feedback. Use the comment section below, or contact us at holdinghistory@wisc.edu with questions or suggestions. Thanks for listening!</p>

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