Podcast Intellectuals Podcast Panel #1 with Benjamen Walker and Fanny Gribenski

About this episode

The episode features a panel discussion on the intersection of podcasting and scholarship, highlighting the works of Benjamen Walker and Fanny Gribenski.

This is a special edition of the New York Institute for the Humanities’ Vault podcast. On October 10, 2025, NYU’s Journalism Institute hosted a day-long conference titled Podcast Intellectuals: Producing Original Scholarship with Audio. Over the course of three panels, scholars, podcasters, and journalists discuss how academics might employ the techniques of narrative audio as part of their research. In the first panel, podcaster Benjamen Walker discusses his work with NYU media studies professor Mara Mills as they produce Tuning Time, a podcast about the politics of time stretching technology. Professor Mills is an interdisciplinary scholar in the fields of disability studies, Science and Technology Studies, and sound studies. She teaches in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and is Director of the NYU Center for Disability Studies. Her work on “disability and media” spans disability arts and technoscience, with a focus on the history, politics, and cultures of electronics and digital media. Benjamen Walker is a radio writer and producer. He is one of the co-founders of the podcast network Radiotopia from PRX, and for a decade hosted and produced his award…

People in this episode

Guests: Benjamen Walker, Fanny Gribenski

Topics covered

• podcasting
• scholarship
• narrative audio
• disability studies
• musicology
• technology

Keywords

• podcast
• scholarship
• audio narrative
• disability studies
• music ecology
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Institute for the Humanities, NYU, Radiotopia

Books & works: Tuning Time, Benjamen Walker’s Theory of Everything, The Elephant in the Piano: Music, Ecology, Empire

Places: New York

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