Is boxing just about violence and aggression? Could fighting possibly be a way for us to get closer to each other? That’s the topic of “The Closeness of Boxing,” a recently released episode of The Human Angle podcast, hosted and produced by PWR Lecturer Angela Becerra Vidergar.
In this audio piece and accompanying mini-documentary video, Stanford literary scholars join forces with an East Palo Alto community gym to learn more about the push and pull of closeness and intimacy in our human experience. The East Palo Alto Boxing Club is a vibrant community program that provides discipline, support and often a second family for local youth and a great variety of other community members (including Stanford affiliates). It’s the fifth installment of The Human Angle, created by Angela as a vehicle for communicating humanities research to a general audience and showcasing the vital, fascinating ways humanities scholarship addresses issues pertinent to our everyday lives. Listen to the episode and then watch the video on the show website, http://humanangle.org. You can subscribe to the show on iTunes, SoundCloud, iTunesU and Stitcher.
Angela has a passion for increasing the avenues for humanities communication and teaching both students and established scholars how to better open up their research to the world outside the academy. She is currently thinking through new possibilities for the show, so reach out to her at becerra@stanford.edu if you have questions, ideas or would like to get involved.
