Voicebox: Podcasts and other audio and video downloads from Goucher College

Goucher's campus is always alive with the voices of interesting people.

Guest speakers and artists present provocative lectures and performances on a range of timely topics. Students, faculty, and other members of the Goucher community speak out about the things that matter most to them.

And you can check out the latest -- and an archive of the best and brightest from the past -- right here.

Latest Episodes

"Goucher and the Future of Liberal Arts Education" A special community conversation which took place on Thursday, September 10, at 7:30 p.m., in the Hyman Forum of the Athenaeum, discussing how to preserve and protect the universal values embodied in the uniquely American concept of a liberal arts education, particularly at a time of economic and political crisis and in the context of pressure for more “practical” and “relevant” forms of study. [listen now]

“The College Library in a Changing World” A symposium in celebration of the opening of Goucher's new library held in the Hyman Forum of the Athenaeum on Wednesday, September 9, 2009. [listen now]

President Sanford J. Ungar's Opening Remarks Commencement 2009 President Ungar welcomes the graduating class, their families, and distinguished guests to Commencement 2009. [listen now]

Author Azar Nafisi at Commencement 2009 Commencement 2009 Azar Nafisi, award-winning author of the acclaimed memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran, delivered the keynote address at Goucher College’s 118th Commencement on Friday, May 22, 2009. Read more. [listen now]

Margaret Vidler at Commencement 2009 Commencement 2009 Student Commencement speaker, Margaret Vidler, addresses her fellow classmates in the graduating class of 2009. [listen now]

A Conversation With Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Goucher Presents a Conversation With Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Goucher College presented a conversation with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female head of state, on Thursday, April 16, at 7 p.m. in Kraushaar Auditorium. [listen now] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu

“Messianism and Its Discontents" An Evening with Gershom Gorenberg Gershom Gorenberg—the compelling Middle Eastern political expert and historian and Jerusalem-based journalist—discussed “Messianism and Its Discontents” at Goucher College on Wednesday, February 11, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. in Buchner Hall of the Alumnae/i House. [listen now] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu

Spring 2009 Meyerhoff Visiting Professor: Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai—the Kenyan environmental and political activist who, in 2004, became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize—presented a lecture in Goucher College’s Kraushaar Auditorium on February 9, 2009. [listen now] For more information: Kristen Keener, kristen.keener@goucher.edu