Speaker
Ramtin Arablouei
Host & Producer of "Throughline" from NPR
Ramtin Arablouei is co-host and co-producer of NPR’s podcast “Throughline,” a show that explores history through creative, immersive storytelling designed to reintroduce history to new audiences. Arablouei got his start at NPR in 2015 with a three-week contract to produce a pilot for “How I Built This with Guy Raz,” and now produces, reports, mixes, and writes music for such top-rated podcasts as “TED Radio Hour,” “Hidden Brain,” “Embedded,” “Invisibilia,” “The Indicator,” “Code Switch,” “Radio Ambulante,” and the Center for Investigative Reporting’s “Reveal.” Born in Iran, Arablouei emigrated to the U.S. with his family as a child. He graduated from St. Mary’s College of Maryland with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and history.
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Public History Project Reception
After day one of the Diversity Forum concludes, a limited number of attendees will have the opportunity to attend a special reception for the UW–Madison Public History Project’s public exhibit: Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance.
You must have pre-registered to attend this reception because space is limited. The free reception will be from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Chazen Museum (750 University Ave.). Food and beverages will be provided. Transportation will be available between Union South and the Chazen Museum. Please email events@cdo.wisc.edu with any questions or accommodation requests for this special event.
The Sifting & Reckoning exhibit takes a thematic approach to UW–Madison’s history, allowing visitors to see the multifaceted ways that racism and exclusion permeated campus life, and how the community responded, organized and resisted. Visitors can engage with objects from the UW Archives that are rarely displayed and oral-history interviews with people who fought exclusion on campus, allowing visitors a vivid, intimate account of the university’s history.
Discussion with ‘Throughline’ Podcast Co-Creators
During the reception, the Public History Project will host a special conversation from 5 to 6 p.m. with the co-hosts of NPR’s popular “Throughline” podcast: Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei as part of their campus visit as UW’s Journalists in Residence. Kacie Lucchini Butcher, the director of UW’s Public History Project, will join them in the conversation about how we understand and tell our shared history and what we can learn about ourselves and our futures from looking at our past. Professor Christy Clark-Pujara will moderate the panel discussion.