BG Ideas, from the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society at Bowling Green State University, brings innovative, interdisciplinary research to the public.
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In this episode of BG Ideas, we welcome Rosemarie Poiarkov, Max Kade Writer in Residence in Fall 2025 at Bowling Green State University, where she was also featured in the Prout Chapel Reading Series. Throughout the episode we discuss how literature affects imagination and listening throughout society. Follow along, as she discusses the importance of listening in literature and the way that…
In this episode of BG Ideas, we welcome Rebekah Monroe, a current Clinical Psychology PhD student at Bowling Green State University and recipient of the 2023-2024 Graduate Teacher of the Year Award. Throughout this episode, we explore the various ways religious trauma shapes identity, often producing both positive and negative effects. Listen as Rebekah discusses different forms of religious…
This week, Claudia Salazar, an award-winning Peruvian Writer, literary critic, and scholar, joins us on BG Ideas . She has a PhD in Latin American Literature from New York University and is recognized internationally for her contributions both as a novelist and as a cultural critic. In this episode , we discuss how emotion can provoke a different way of understanding, conversations surrounding…
We welcome Haley Shipley on this week's episode of BG Ideas . Haley is a Doctoral Student in American Culture Studies at BGSU, Co-President of the Ray Brown Association, and a Graduate Student Supervisor at the Browne Popular Culture Library. In this episode we discuss how the Browne Popular Culture Library earned its name, what materials you can find in the archive, and what makes this archive…
In this episode of BG Ideas , Dr. Kristine Ketel joins us to discuss the relationship between humans and robots. Kristine recently earned her PhD in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University in the Spring of 2025. Based on her research on the cultural and ethical implications of artificial intelligence and human robot interaction, she argues that robots aren’t all bad. She…
In this episode of BG Ideas, we are joined by two guests, Joe Macdonald and Garrett Scherff. Joe Macdonald is a Popular Culture Graduate Student at BGSU studying counterculture, the goth subculture, and the capacity of fandoms to evolve into spaces of cultural resistance. Garrett Scherff is an instructor in the Department of Popular Culture within the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at…
In this episode of BG Ideas, Dr. Clayton Rosati, Associate Professor in the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University and ICS Fall 2025 Faculty Fellow, discusses how the raise of artificial intelligence (AI) impacts our landscapes, communities and resources. Specifically, he focuses on the growing infrastructure that is being built around the country, from Virginia, the…
In this episode of BG Ideas , Dr. Rachel Walsh, Associate Teaching Professor of English and International Studies at Bowling Green State University and ICS Faculty Fellow in the fall of 2025, discusses Pat Heartly and Dick Fontaine's recently restored documentary on James Baldwin, I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982) and how it foreshadows the current backlash to diversity, equity and…
In this vibrant episode of BG Ideas, Arigon Starr, award-winning Kickapoo artist and performer, joins us for a powerful conversation on Native storytelling as an avenue of resistance and healing through music, theatre, and comics. In our conversion, Arigon conveys the importance of using art to illuminate, respond to, and challenge injustices, emphasizing the transformational effect of balancing…
In this exciting new episode of BG Ideas, we sit down with Dr. Clayton Rosati, Associate Professor of Media Studies at Bowling Green State University and Claire Cromly, an undergraduate student who took Dr. Rosati’s course about media, place, and power through the works of James Baldwin. During this conversation, our guests navigate the construction of social environments, the values within them,…
