STUDY HALL FEATURING NEIL BARDHAN & LINDSEY PASSENGER WIECK
Recorded Live via Zoom on June 13th, 2020
We talk about the protests taking place all over the world in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, Neil Bardhan (Bardhan Consulting) lectures on linguistics, and Lindsey Passenger Wieck (St. Mary’s University) teaches us about Bleach Man and his role in AIDS education.
ABOUT NEIL BARDHAN: Neil Bardhan earned a Ph.D. in Brain & Cognitive Sciences from the University of Rochester. Neil was later a research scientist in the Adaptive Listening group at the Max Planck Institute for Pyscholinguistics. During that time, he also taught through the Institute of English Languages and Literatures at the University of Tuebingen in Germany. Since 2013, Neil has become the Director of Applied Storytelling at First Person Arts and the Executive Director of Broad Street Review. He offers technical communication training as Bardhan Consulting. Neil’s performance experience includes stand-up at Caveat and improv acts Bad Kitten, The N Crowd, and Motel. He has appeared on WHYY’s Commonspace and The Pulse, as well as onstage with Story Collider, Nerd Nite Baltimore, Ignite Philly, and “Awkward… and The City.”
ABOUT LINDSEY PASSENGER WIECK:Lindsey Passenger Wieck is the Director of Public History and an Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. She’s spending her summer writing about Latinx Activists in the Mission District of San Antonio, wondering why no one ever *forgets* the Alamo, and celebrating when her kids finally go to bed each day.
CAST: Fred Brown, Sarah Clemency, Keane Cobb, Marcely Jean-Pierre, James Knight, Lora Magaldi, Mike Marbach, and Robert O’Neill.
