Podcasts

Professor James Raven (University of Cambridge) ‘How Can There Be A History of the Book? Pasts, Boundaries, Translations and Typologies.’

This podcast features a lecture recorded at the second SouthHem Seminar Series in September 2017. This series is concerned with questions of taste, value and cultural capital.

James Raven is Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex and Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is the author of, among other works, Bookscape: Geographies of Printing and Publishing in London Before 1800 (2014); Books Between Europe and the Americas: Connections and Communities 1620-1860 (2011); The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850 (2007); and London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society 1748-1811 (2002).His research interests include book history; the history of the organization of knowledge; historical bibliography; and colonial cultural history.

 

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Professor Heather K. Love (UPenn) “The Last Extremists”

This podcast features a lecture recorded at the second SouthHem Seminar Series in October 2017. This series is concerned with questions of taste, value and cultural capital.

The rise of transgender icons from Laverne Cox to Chelsea Manning to Caitlyn Jenner, the runaway success of award-winning shows like Transparent (2014-) and Orange Is the New Black (2013–), and the popularity of books such as Janet Mock’s Redefining Realness (2014) and Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts (2015) have resulted in what the critic Susan Stryker has called an “utterly transformed” media landscape. Over the course of a decade, formerly minor representations have achieved both popularity and acclaim. In this podcast, Prof. Love considers how recent transgender and genderqueer representations are shaped by new conditions of production and reception, with special attention to dilemmas of legibility.

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Professor James Belich (University of Oxford) ‘Connectivity, Globalisation and Divergence: The Five Millennia Approach to Global History’.

This podcast features a lecture recorded at the 2017 SouthHem Seminar Series. The theme of the series was Methodologies Across Borders. The final lecture in the series was given by James Belich, Beit Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford.

Professor Belich’s lecture ‘Globalisation and Divergence over 5000 years’ took place at the UCD Humanities Institute on the 18th of May 2017. Professor Belich was introduced by Dr William Mulligan from the UCD School of History.

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