This Is Centenary
"This Is Centenary" is an eclectic mix of science, art, music, literature, history, current events, and more, drawing on the talents of our students, faculty, staff, alumni, and distinguished visitors, and reflecting the very best of the liberal arts tradition at the nearly 200-year old Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana.
- Update frequency
- every 30 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 21
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2022
Episode 21: This Is Centenary : War in Ukraine : Episode 21
This episode of This Is Centenary features a discussion on the war in Ukraine hosted by and Centenary president Dr. Christopher Holoman and assistant professor of political science Dr. Amanda Donahoe…
01:03:10 |
Fri 13 May 2022
Episode 20: This Is Centenary : Founders' Day 2022 : Episode 20
This episode of This Is Centenary features retiring English professor Dr. Steve Shelburne’s address at the annual Founders’ Day Convocation, held in Centenary’s Brown Chapel on February 17, 2022. Dur…
00:20:54 |
Mon 21 Mar 2022
Episode 19: This Is Centenary : COVID-19 Vaccines : Episode 19
This episode of This Is Centenary addresses a crucial and timely issue: COVID-19 vaccines. On January 27, Centenary hosted a virtual Q&A with local medical and scientific experts to discuss COVID-19 …
01:00:02 |
Fri 05 Mar 2021
This Is Centenary : Elizabeth DiSavino : Episode 18
This episode of This Is Centenary features a recent virtual convocation presented by Elizabeth DiSavino, associate professor of music at Berea College in Kentucky. DiSavino joined the Centenary commu…
01:06:47 |
Wed 11 Nov 2020
This Is Centenary : Meadows Museum Spotlight : Episode 17
In this episode of This Is Centenary – the first Centenary podcast produced via Zoom! – artist Michelle Burdine discusses her interdisciplinary work and highlights her current exhibition, “And Time P…
01:02:00 |
Tue 06 Oct 2020
This Is Centenary : Easter Sunrise Services 2014 : Episode 16
This bonus episode of This Is Centenary highlights one of the College’s most beloved traditions, the Easter Sunrise Service presented by the Centenary College Choir. This archival recording, made in …
00:56:39 |
Tue 07 Apr 2020
This Is Centenary : Jonathan Ferrell : Episode 15
his month’s episode of This Is Centenary features a celebration of two Centenary alumni from different generations who will now be forever linked. In a ceremony that was alternately funny, moving, an…
00:51:27 |
Thu 02 Apr 2020
This Is Centenary : Eileen Sanchez : Episode 14
Retired educator Eileen Sanchez visited Centenary last month to discuss her new novel, Freedom Lessons. Freedom Lessons draws heavily on Sanchez’s own experiences as a young, white teacher in the Jim…
00:58:12 |
Wed 11 Mar 2020
This Is Centenary : Les Bagatelles : Episode 13
In this episode of This is Centenary, two accomplished Centenary graduates visit their alma mater to celebrate the culmination of a unique project that began more than ten years ago. Dr. Aleksandra K…
00:35:41 |
Thu 06 Feb 2020
This Is Centenary : Dr. C.O. Simpkins : Episode 12
This episode of This is Centenary features remarks from Shreveport civil rights pioneer Dr. C.O. Simpkins, who passed away in December 2019, at the age of 94. Simpkins, a founding member of the South…
00:20:16 |
Thu 09 Jan 2020
This Is Centenary : Jim Warren : Episode 11
In this episode of This is Centenary, we drop in on the monthly Colloquium sponsored by the Department of English. In November 2019, the department invited Jim Warren, founding artistic director of t…
00:43:26 |
Wed 04 Dec 2019
This Is Centenary : Jericho Brown : Episode 10
This episode of This is Centenary features a conversation between Dr. Jefferson Hendricks and Dr. Emily Leithauser, from Centenary's English Department, and award-winning poet and Shreveport native J…
01:00:25 |
Wed 06 Nov 2019
This Is Centenary : Doug Fine : Episode 09
This episode of This is Centenary reaches back into the archives to a 2009 campus visit by journalist and author Doug Fine, whose accounts of high-adventure travel and living off the grid gained wide…
01:01:46 |
Wed 02 Oct 2019
This Is Centenary : Plessy & Ferguson : Episode 08
In this episode of This is Centenary, we hear from Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the namesakes of the famous 1896 Supreme Court case that established the doctrine of separate-but-e…
00:30:25 |
Wed 04 Sep 2019
This Is Centenary : 2018 English Colloquium : Episode 07
This episode of This is Centenary takes us back to the inaugural English Department Colloquium of the 2018-2019 academic year, when English professors David Havird, Jeff Hendricks, and Jeanne Hamming…
00:27:46 |
Thu 01 Aug 2019
This Is Centenary : Nicolas Torres : Episode 06
In this episode of This is Centenary, Nicolas Torres, Attaché of Cooperation for French at the Consulate General of France in New Orleans, delivers a bi-lingual presentation on Francophone language a…
00:51:26 |
Sun 30 Jun 2019
This Is Centenary : Joan Hall : Episode 05
In this episode of This is Centenary, artist Joan Hall discusses her exhibit Global Contamination: A Gulf Project, which was presented at the College’s Meadows Museum of Art from January through Marc…
00:34:38 |
Wed 05 Jun 2019
This Is Centenary : Faculty Reflections : Episode 04
In this episode of This is Centenary, provost and dean of the College, Dr. Jenifer K. Ward, sits down for a conversation with several Centenary faculty members who are completing their first year at …
00:51:11 |
Thu 09 May 2019
This Is Centenary : Rose Van Thyn : Episode 03
In this episode of This is Centenary, we reach back into the archives to hear the voice of a beloved friend of the College, Rose Van Thyn. Rose and her husband Louis were both survivors of the Holoca…
00:56:42 |
Wed 03 Apr 2019
This Is Centenary : Elaine McArdle : Episode 02
In this episode of This is Centenary, 1979 Centenary graduate Elaine McArdle discusses and reads from her critically-acclaimed book, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, co-authored with neuroscient…
01:00:24 |
Tue 05 Mar 2019
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