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This week for our Conflicted Community members, we return to Yemen for an interview with, Dr Elisabeth Kendall, an academic whose work has covered so many varied manifestations of the country's culture, politics, and the conflict that has engulfed it for the past decade. Elisabeth is a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Cambridge, where she is also the Mistress of Girton College. Her research explores how militant jihad groups use 'soft' culture (poetry, literature, song) and harness local grievances, to recruit and win toleration in the broader community, and she has spent significant time in Yemen, carrying out research, while also following the ongoing war. Thomas and Elisabeth discuss her journey into the field, and the complexities of Yemeni politics, particularly during the Arab Spring, emphasising the importance of primary sources in understanding jihadism and critiques the international community's role in Yemen's political landscape. They discuss the complex dynamics of the Yemeni conflict, exploring the roles of various international and regional actors, the evolution of the Houthis, and the challenges of achieving peace. And to end, they have a fascinating discussion on the significance of poetry in jihadist culture, illustrating how it serves as a tool for propaganda and emotional engagement. To listen to the full episode, you'll need to subscribe to the Conflicted Community. And don't forget, subscribers can also join our Conflicted Community chatroom, where you can interact with fellow dearest listeners, discuss episodes past and future, get exclusive messages from Thomas and Aimen, ask future Q&A questions and so much more. All the information you need to sign up is on this link: https://conflicted.supportingcast.fm/ Conflicted is proudly made by Message Heard, a full-stack podcast production agency which uses its extensive expertise to make its own shows such as Conflicted, shows for commissioners such as the BBC, Spotify and Al Jazeera, and powerfully effective podcasts for other companies too. If you'd like to find out how we can help get your organisation's message heard, visit messageheard.com or drop an email to hello@messageheard.com! Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MHconflicted And Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MHconflicted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss a story that circulated widely in the middle ages about a highly learned woman who lived in the ninth century, dressed as a man, travelled to Rome, and was elected Pope.Her papacy came to a dramatic end when it was revealed that she was a woman, a discovery that is said to have occurred when she gave birth in the street. The story became a popular cautionary tale directed at women who attempted to transgress traditional roles, and it famously blurred the boundary between fact and fiction. The story lives on as the subject of recent novels, plays and films.With:Katherine Lewis, Honorary Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lincoln and Research Associate at the University of YorkLaura Kalas, Senior Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Swansea UniversityAnd Anthony Bale, Professor of Medieval & Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Girton College.Producer: Eliane GlaserReading list:Alain Boureau (trans. Lydia G. Cochrane), The Myth of Pope Joan (University of Chicago Press, 2001)Stephen Harris and Bryon L. Grisby (eds.), Misconceptions about the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2008), especially 'The Medieval Popess' by Vincent DiMarcoValerie R. Hotchkiss, Clothes Make the Man: Female Cross Dressing in Medieval Europe (Routledge, 1996)Jacques Le Goff, Heroes and Marvels of the Middle Ages (Reaktion, 2020), especially the chapter ‘Pope Joan'Marina Montesano, Cross-dressing in the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2024)Joan Morris, Pope John VIII - An English Woman: Alias Pope Joan (Vrai, 1985)Thomas F. X. Noble, ‘Why Pope Joan?' (Catholic Historical Review, vol. 99, no.2, 2013)Craig M. Rustici, The Afterlife of Pope Joan: Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England (University of Michigan Press, 2006)In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio production
Our guests today come from very different walks of life and have been following widely different paths, which have both led them here to Cambridge and the Cavendish. More than just location, it's clear that our guests have a lot in common and a lot to share. Ugandan contemporary artist, dancer and researcher, Robert Ssempijja, is the third Cavendish Arts Science Fellow at Girton College, a programme that creates collective encounters between art and science, that explores the world, our humanity and our place in the world. His work explores things that spoken language cannot always explain, and that are too difficult to talk about out loud. Harry Cliff is a particle physicist working on the LHCb experiment, a huge particle detector buried 100 metres underground at CERN in Switzerland, to study the basic building blocks of our universe, in search of answers to some of the biggest questions in modern physics.He is also a recognised author of popular science books, and a former curator at the Science Museum in London. Ssempijja and Harry have met in Cambridge as part of Ssempijja's fellowship, and have instantly recognised a common curiosity, and a desire to continuously question the world around them. So it's very logical that we are welcoming them both today to the podcast, to expand upon their journeys with us, and discuss their shared questions and approaches between art and physics.Useful linksExplore Ssempijja's work: Robert Ssempijja – Dance, Life and Philosophy Harry Cliff's website has details about his books, research and outreach works.The annual Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship is delivered in partnership with Girton College, thanks to the vision and generous support of Una Ryan. Cavendish Arts Science will soon announce their new Fellow for 2024/25, stay tuned!Learn more about Robert B. Laughlin's book "A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down"Share and join the conversationHelp us get better by taking our quick survey. Your feedback will help us understand how we can improve in the future. Thank you!If you like this episode don't forget to rate it and leave a review on your favourite podcast app. It really helps others to find us.Any comment about the podcast or question you would like to ask our physicists, email us at podcast@phy.cam.ac.uk or join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #PeopleDoingPhysics.Episode creditsHosts: Charlie Walker and Vanessa BismuthRecording and Editing: Chris BrockThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
Dolphins call each other by name, wolves have accents — researchers are discovering all sorts of fascinating facts about animal communication. Arik Kershenbaum is a zoologist, college lecturer and fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what we're learning about how animals talk to one another, how that understanding also sheds light on human language, and how we might come to better understand animal identities and emotions. His book is “Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication.”
Should you get a second opinion? A lot of people faced with a medical diagnosis often wonder about that. Will they offend the original doctor if they ask for a second opinion? Is it really necessary? Is it worth the trouble? Listen as I explain the value of a second opinion. https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/second-opinions We know animals communicate – but what are they communicating? When a wolf howls or a dolphin clicks, or a cricket chirps – what is it saying? Is it a language that can be translated or is it just noise to say, “Here I am!” Or is it something else entirely? And here is something interesting – we can teach our language to chimps and parrots – and they are able to use it. But they don't use it when they are with another chimp or parrot who can also speak our language. Why not? Here to explain the science of animal communication is Arik Kirschebaum. He is a zoologist, college lecturer and fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge and he has done extensive fieldwork on animal communication. He is author of the book Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication (https://amzn.to/3LN4fwe) It's easy to think that loneliness and lack of social connections is a 21st century thing – but it's not. Research going back decades shows that people have long felt they didn't have enough friends and connections. Given that we are social creatures who crave connection, why is it so hard to make real friends? Maybe it isn't. Maybe we just think it is. That's what David Robson is here to discuss. He says that once we understand the barriers to connecting to other people, they are easy to overcome. David is an award-winning science writer and the author of the book The Laws of Connection: The Scientific Secrets of Building a Strong Social Network (https://amzn.to/3ynUTDZ). Have you ever struggled with how to end an email? “Sincerely” sounds a bit formal. “Cheers” may be a little too informal. So, what's best – and worst? Listen as I explain some popular email sign offs that you might want to avoid. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/how-to-end-an-email/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Philip Ball assesses the anxiety about AI - and provides some reassurance; and Jane Robinson on Emily Davies, the woman who founded Girton College, Cambridge.'Moral AI: And how we get there', by Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Vincent Conitzer'The AI Mirror: How to reclaim our humanity in an age of machine thinking', by Shannon Vallor'Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to our humanity in an age of social robots', by Eve Herold'The Atomic Human: Understanding ourselves in the Age of AI', by Neil D. Lawrence'Emily Davies and the Mid-Victorian Women's Movement', by John HendryProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Faculty of Law holds an annual Open Day for undergraduate students, at which members of the Faculty discuss the Faculty, the Cambridge admissions system, and the benefits studying Law at Cambridge, The Open Day gives potential students, and their parents and teachers, a chance to look around the Faculty and the Squire Law Library, meet members of Faculty staff, and ask any questions they might have.In this lecture on 3 July 2024, Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson (Brenda Hale Fellow in Law, Girton College) discusses process of applying to study Law at Cambridge.You can download the slides from this presentation from:https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/open_day/open_day_2024_applying_to_cambridge.pdfThe general talks given at this Open Day are available to listen to in this podcast, or can be watched on YouTube.The Open Day programme:Welcome to the Faculty: Professor Mark ElliottLaw at Cambridge: Dr Christina AngelopoulosWithout Lawful Excuse: Professor Findlay StarkLegal Problems: Professor Janet O'Sullivan & Professor Graham VirgoApplying to Cambridge Law: Dr Tom Hawker-DawsonFor more information about the Undergraduate BA Law Tripos Degree please refer to:http://ba.law.cam.ac.uk
The Faculty of Law holds an annual Open Day for undergraduate students, at which members of the Faculty discuss the Faculty, the Cambridge admissions system, and the benefits studying Law at Cambridge, The Open Day gives potential students, and their parents and teachers, a chance to look around the Faculty and the Squire Law Library, meet members of Faculty staff, and ask any questions they might have.In this lecture on 3 July 2024, Dr Tom Hawker-Dawson (Brenda Hale Fellow in Law, Girton College) discusses process of applying to study Law at Cambridge.You can download the slides from this presentation from:https://resources.law.cam.ac.uk/documents/open_day/open_day_2024_applying_to_cambridge.pdfThe general talks given at this Open Day are available to listen to in this podcast, or can be watched on YouTube.The Open Day programme:Welcome to the Faculty: Professor Mark ElliottLaw at Cambridge: Dr Christina AngelopoulosWithout Lawful Excuse: Professor Findlay StarkLegal Problems: Professor Janet O'Sullivan & Professor Graham VirgoApplying to Cambridge Law: Dr Tom Hawker-DawsonFor more information about the Undergraduate BA Law Tripos Degree please refer to:http://ba.law.cam.ac.uk
In this third and final part, Rev Dr Malcolm Guite, Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge University answers questions about CS Lewis on Narnia, The Pilgrim's Regress and poetry. This is taken from the Q&A after his presentation ‘A Little Incarnation: CS Lewis and the poetry of embodiment', which was given at a CS Lewis symposium called Now We Have Faces, hosted by The CS Lewis Group at Ulster University in coordination with English at Ulster. + Subscribe to The CS Lewis podcast: https://pod.link/1560959545 + For more shows, free ebook and newsletter visit our new website + For online learning https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training + For our Premier Unbelievable? Live events + Support the podcast from the USA + Support the podcast from UK and rest of the world
In the second part of his presentation, Rev Dr Malcolm Guite, Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge University shares his thoughts about Lewis' poem 'Reason', looking at his relationship with imagination and rationality. This talk was originally given at a CS Lewis symposium called Now We Have Faces, which was hosted by The CS Lewis Group at Ulster University in coordination with English at Ulster. The title of Malcolm's presentation was ‘A Little Incarnation: CS Lewis and the poetry of embodiment'. + Subscribe to The CS Lewis podcast: https://pod.link/1560959545 + For more shows, free ebook and newsletter visit our new website + For online learning https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training + For our Premier Unbelievable? Live events + Support the podcast from the USA + Support the podcast from UK and rest of the world
Rev Dr Malcolm Guite, Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge University shares his thoughts about Lewis' imaginative vision as a writer. This talk was originally given at a CS Lewis symposium called Now We Have Faces, which was hosted by The CS Lewis Group at Ulster University in coordination with English at Ulster. The title of Malcolm's presentation was ‘A Little Incarnation: CS Lewis and the poetry of embodiment' + Subscribe to The CS Lewis podcast: https://pod.link/1560959545 + For more shows, free ebook and newsletter visit our new website + For online learning https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training + For our Premier Unbelievable? Live events + Support the podcast from the USA + Support the podcast from UK and rest of the world
This is the third interview with Mrs Charity (Cherry) Hopkins, Life Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Mrs Hopkins was interviewed for the third time on 14 February 2024 in the Squire Law Library.For more information, see the Squire Law Library website at:http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive
This is the third interview with Mrs Charity (Cherry) Hopkins, Life Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Mrs Hopkins was interviewed for the third time on 14 February 2024 in the Squire Law Library.For more information, see the Squire Law Library website at:http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive
" Moi, je suis le pain vivant, qui est descendu du ciel "Méditation de l'évangile (Jn 6, 44-51) par le Père Sébastien AntoniChant final : ""Adoramus te Christe" par le Choir of Girton College
"Moi, je suis le pain vivant, qui est descendu du ciel"Méditation de l'évangile (Jn 6, 44-51) par le Père Sébastien AntoniChant final : "Adoramus te Christe" par le Choir of Girton College
This is the second interview with Mrs Charity (Cherry) Hopkins, Life Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Mrs Hopkins was interviewed for the second time on 16 October 2023 in the Squire Law Library.For more information, see the Squire Law Library website at:http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive
This is the second interview with Mrs Charity (Cherry) Hopkins, Life Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Mrs Hopkins was interviewed for the second time on 16 October 2023 in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire Law Library website at: http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive
This is the second interview with Mrs Charity (Cherry) Hopkins, Life Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Mrs Hopkins was interviewed for the second time on 16 October 2023 in the Squire Law Library.For more information, see the Squire Law Library website at:http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive
Welcome to a special Easter episode of Harmonious World with sax player and Chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge, Tim Boniface.Although I set out to discuss Tim's latest composition - jazz suite Psalter: Themes for Peace - we also discussed his Christmas suite The Infant and The Eight Words, an Easter suite that you can hear extracts of alongside our conversation.Thank you to Tim for chatting with me in his tranquil study at Girton, and for allowing me to share tracks from the album alongside our conversation.Thank you for listening to Harmonious World. Please rate, review and share: click on the link and subscribe to support the show.Don't forget the Quincy Jones quote that sums up why I do this: "Imagine what a harmonious world it would be if every single person, both young and old, shared a little of what he is good at doing."Support the showThanks for listening to Harmonious World. You can support the show by becoming a subscriber.Please rate and review wherever you find your podcasts - it really helps.Read my reviews of albums, gigs and books as well as a little personal stuff on my blogFollow me on instagram.com/hilseabrookFollow me on facebook.com/HilarySeabrookFreelanceWriterFollow me on twitter.com/hilaryrwriter
Dr Elisabeth Kendall, a Middle East expert and head of Girton College at Cambridge University, speaks to John Maytham about the ever-widening Middle East conflict.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, we're looking at everything about Yemen that might have flown under the radar in recent years with Dr Elisabeth Kendall, the Mistress of Girton College at Cambridge University and an Arabist and middle east specialist. Who are the Houthis? What do they want? Why did the UK and the US act together against them? How has the world barely noticed the war in Yemen? How did it last for so long? The Explainer is brought to you by The Journal. Providing open access to valuable journalism in Ireland has been the aim of The Journal for a decade. You can contribute to ensure we can keep questioning, investigating, debunking, explaining and informing at www.thejournal.ie/contribute/
Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthis began firing missiles into Israel shortly after the invasion of Gaza. But when the rebels started targeting commercial shipping vessels in the Red Sea, the US and UK hit back. So, who are the Houthis and can they be stopped?This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: thetimes.co.uk/storiesofourtimes.Guest: Dr Elisabeth Kendall, Arabist & Middle East specialist and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge University. Host: Manveen Rana.Clips: NBC, CBS, BBC, France 24, Al Jazeera, Reuters, YouTube/Dr Elisabeth Kendall. Email us: storiesofourtimes@thetimes.co.ukFind out more about our bonus series for Times subscribers: 'Inside the newsroom' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
As if the conflict in Gaza wasn't bad enough, the fighting has ignited old and new tensions elsewhere across the region. Since the surprise attack by Hamas on 7th October, clashes on the Lebanon-Israel border have restarted, attacks on US troops stationed in Syria and Iraq have escalated and a group of Houthi armed rebels from Yemen has started firing rockets at cargo ships trying to access the Suez Canal from the Red Sea. So in this week's programme David Aaronovitch asks how close the war in Gaza is to becoming a wider conflict across the Middle East. David is joined by the following experts: Frank Gardner, BBC's Security Correspondent. Dr Elisabeth Kendall, Arabist & Middle East specialist and also The Mistress of Girton College at the University of Cambridge. Jane Kinninmont, Policy & Impact Director at the European Leadership Network. Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics at University College Dublin's Clinton Institute.Production team: Nick Holland, Kirsteen Knight and Charlotte McDonald Production Co-ordinators: Sophie Hill Sound: Neil Churchill Editor: Richard Vadon
This is the first interview with Mrs Charity (Cherry) Hopkins, Life Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Mrs Hopkins was interviews for the first time on 13 September 2023 in the Squire Law Library.For more information, see the Squire Law Library website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive
This is the first interview with Mrs Charity (Cherry) Hopkins, Life Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Mrs Hopkins was interviews for the first time on 13 September 2023 in the Squire Law Library. For more information, see the Squire Law Library website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive
This is the first interview with Mrs Charity (Cherry) Hopkins, Life Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Mrs Hopkins was interviews for the first time on 13 September 2023 in the Squire Law Library.For more information, see the Squire Law Library website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive
Jim Eldridge had a stellar career writing for TV and radio before he turned to World War II and late 19th century historical mysteries which demonstrate all the page-turning immediacy of the TV shows he cut his teeth on. Hi there, I'm your host Jenny Wheeler. And on this week's Joys of Binge Reading podcast, Jim talks about growing up on a London bomb site and staying ahead in an ever-changing publishing world. This week's Giveaway Our Giveaway this week is a BookSweeps draw – a Literary, Historical and Book Club Fiction selection. Be into win a library of great books, plus a brand new E reader, worth $300 in total prize value. :https://www.booksweeps.com/giveaway/nov23-win-a-bundle-of-literary-historical-book-club-fiction/ Available only for a limited time - the draw closes on November 22. ENTER BOOKSWEEPS DRAW Before we get to hear from Jim, I wanted to take a moment to issue a huge apology to those of you who may have reached out to me through my website contact forms, either through my book site at www.jennywheeler.biz or the podcast at www.thejoysofbingereading.com I've discovered quite recently to my horror, that emails from those sites have been going into a kind of internet nether land for quite a few months. I don't really know how long, never to be seen or heard from again. With the help of Toby, our new webmaster we have solved this problem, and I will answer all genuine inquiries as soon as I can, but unfortunately I can't get any of those historical ones back. Also another reminder, if you enjoy the show, leave us a review so others will find us too. Links to things mentioned in this episode: The Line of Kings (Tower of London): https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/whats-on/line-of-kings/ Girton College, Cambridge: https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/ Churchill's War Room: https://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/churchill-war-rooms Down St Station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_Street_tube_station The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha The Blind Beggar pub: https://www.theblindbeggar.com/ Salvation Army founder, William Booth: https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/activists/william-booth.html The Kray Brothers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kray_twins Dennis May Wilson: https://www.comedy.co.uk/features/comedy_chronicles/dennis-main-wilson/ Georges Simeon: (Maigret author) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9693.Georges_Simenon Maigret: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/IMA/inspector-maigret Ed McBain: (real name Evan Hunter) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Hunter Peter Davison: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/peter_davison V2s: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-terrifying-german-revenge-weapons-of-the-second-world-war Where to Find Jim online: Website: https://www.jimeldridge.com/ Email: Contact form on Jim's website. Introducing mystery author Jim Eldridge Jim Eldridge - historical mystery author and TV script writer But now here's Jim. Hell, Jim and welcome to the show. It's great to have you with us. Jim Eldridge: It's fantastic to be here Jenny and thank you for inviting me on. Jenny Wheeler: You've had a fascinating varied career with a very large amount of experience in TV before you set about doing your fiction writing with your historical mysteries. We're going to be focusing on those historical mysteries and two of your most recent books, Murder at the Tower of London, which is #9 in the Museum Murder series, and Murder at Down Street Station, which is #5 in the World War II mysteries. Tell me, what made you change from doing TV to writing historical mysteries? Jim Eldridge: I think actually what happened was I had my first show on in 1971, which is a long time ago. And over the years, things changed at the broadcasting. I wrote for British, Irish, and American television, TV and radio.
Ayodeji Malcolm Guite (/ɡaɪt/; born 12 November 1957) is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and academic. Born in Nigeria to British expatriate parents, Guite earned degrees from Cambridge and Durham universities. His research interests include the intersection of religion and the arts, and the examination of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and Owen Barfield, and British poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was a Bye-Fellow and chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge, and associate chaplain of St Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge. On several occasions, he has taught as visiting faculty at several colleges and universities in England and North America.Guite is the author of Sounding the Seasons and four other books of poetry, including two chapbooks and three full-length collections, as well as several books on Christian faith and theology, and Mariner, a critical biography of Coleridge. Guite has a decisively simple, formalist style in poems, many of which are sonnets, and he stated that his aim is to "be profound without ceasing to be beautiful". Guite performs as a singer and guitarist fronting the Cambridgeshire-based blues, rhythm and blues, and rock band Mystery Train. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Help us get better by taking our quick survey! Your feedback will help us understand how we can improve in the future. Thank you for your time.Here's a question for you dear listener. What's the link between music and physics? What is the sound of physics? Today we're diving into a fascinating world where art, science, and music intersect. Joining us in our studio are two incredible individuals who have embarked on a journey that brings together the realms of sound, physics, and human emotion. Ain Bailey is a composer and the second Cavendish Arts Science Fellow. Cavendish Arts Science creates collective encounters between art and science that explore the world, our humanity and our place in the world. Ain's practice explores sonic autobiographies and the constellation of sounds that form individual and community identities. Her compositions are often inspired by reflections on silence and absence, feminist activism and architectural acoustics. Dr Gemma Bale is an assistant professor of Medical Therapeutics at the University of Cambridge, and the head of the Neuro Optics Lab. Sitting at the junction of engineering and physics, her team develops new, non-invasive optical devices to monitor brain metabolism in areas which traditional brain monitoring can't. Lately, she's been exploring the relationship between music and dementia, and it was only a matter of time before she and Ain's worlds collided, and a conversation sparked. With Ain and Gemma, we talk about music of course, and how our brains react to it, exploring the unknown and bridging the gap between art and science. Useful linksAin's performance ‘The Cavendish: A Tone Poem' at Girton College (Cambridge) is on Saturday 23rd September at 3pm– Book ahead! She will also perform at Café Oto (London) in November, look out for the date on their website.The annual Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship is delivered in partnership with Girton College, thanks to the vision and generous support of Una Ryan. Cavendish Arts Science will soon announce their new Fellow for 2023/24, stay tuned! Explore Gemma's research on her Neuro Optics Lab websiteSee and hear more of Ain's work on AIN BAILEY (tumblr.com)To learn more about the Cavendish Laboratory, or if you are interested in joining us or studying with us, go to the Cavendish website. Share and join the conversationIf you like this episode don't forget to rate it and leave a review on your favourite podcast app. It really helps others to find us.Any comment about the podcast or question you would like to ask our physicists, email us at podcast@phy.cam.ac.uk or join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #PeopleDoingPhysics.Episode creditsHosts: Simone Eizagirre Barker and Vanessa Bismuth Recording and Editing: Chris...
Number 4 in our new Top Ten is our 9 September 2022 podcast with Dr Elisabeth Kendall. Dr Kendall is an expert on Yemen and militant jihadist movements. Prior to her appointment as Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge University she was a senior research fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Oxford University's Pembroke College. Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & weekly podcasts.
Every historian dreams of hitting gold in the archives. Matt Lewis's guest Dr. James Wade of Girton College, Cambridge has done just that.James has uncovered a manuscript by cleric and tutor Richard Heege, which reports the routines of a medieval minstrel. It reads like a mixture of stand-up script and satirical panel show. The text mocks kings, priests and peasants, encourages audiences to get drunk and shocks them with slapstick as well as a killer rabbit worthy of Monty Python. It all sheds new light on the English sense of humour, and the role played by minstrels in medieval society.This episode was edited by Joseph Knight and produced by Rob Weinberg.Discover the past on History Hit with ad-free original podcasts and documentaries released weekly presented by world renowned historians including Dan Snow, Suzannah Lipscomb, Lucy Worsley, Matt Lewis, Tristan Hughes and more. Get 50% off your first 3 months with code MEDIEVAL. Download the app on your smart TV or in the app store or sign up here > You can take part in our listener survey here. If you're enjoying this podcast and are looking for more fascinating Medieval content then subscribe to our Medieval Monday newsletter here: https://insights.historyhit.com/signup-form Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Support the showRegister for conference: Preaching in a Post-Christian Age.Join us in the Holy Land in 2024It is a delight to be with you in the first week of Pentecost.Many of you are artists, musicians, writers, lovers of beauty, literature, good poetry, a good pint or pipe. The combination of art, beauty, and Christian life is a fascinating and life-giving one, and one that's closely related to the work of Pentecost: the renewal of creation, and the bringing of everything good into God's own eternity.Today's guest is poet, priest, musician and motocyclist, Malcolm Guite. Though we had him on to talk about the threads of relationship between poetry and Pentecost, our conversation took us to many unplanned places, while still returning, interestingly, to the themes of Pentecost: language and breath, moving from isolation to integration, and how the creation itself, "undersprung" with music, longs to be tuned back to the note that Jesus played perfectly, once for all. The Rev. Dr. Malcolm Guite is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and scholar. His research interests include the intersection of religion and the arts, the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Owen Barfield, and British poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was a Bye-Fellow and chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge, and associate chaplain of St. Edward King and Martyr, Cambridge. Please check out his books of poetry, they are rich mines of devotion and enjoyment, as well as his books on faith and theology (see the link below).As we go from the Tower of Babel to Beowulf, from Keats and Shelley to singing in tongues, we hope you enjoy the conversation.Check out books by Malcolm GuiteSupport the show
From Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday, Malcolm Guite shares a sequence of sonnets for Holy Week. They are taken from his collection, Sounding the Seasons (Canterbury Press). Today, he reflects on and reads his sonnet, “Maundy Thursday.” The Revd Dr Malcolm Guite is a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, and writes the weekly Poet's Corner column for the Church Times. Try 10 issues of the Church Times for £10 or get two months access to our website and apps, also for £10. Go to churchtimes.co.uk/new-reader
Help us get better by taking our quick survey! Your feedback will help us understand how we can improve in the future. Thank you for your time.We are very excited to present a very special episode this month. The podcast has been recorded with a live audience in the Pippard lecture theatre during the Cavendish Festival. For this special episode, we're joined by Professor Athene Donald, Emeritus of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish and Master of Churchill College Cambridge. Athene has had an illustrious research career in soft matter physics for which she has received numerous accolades, including the Royal Society Bakerian Medal, the L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award, the Institute of Physics' Faraday Medal, and ten honorary doctorates. She is also a strong advocate for women in science and has chaired numerous diversity and gender equality initiatives that seek to improve the representation and career progression of women in STEM.[00:48] – Guest's intro[03:29] – Inspiration to do science and physics [06:41] – Experience of studying natural sciences at Girton College and overcoming initial difficulties in studying physics[14:15] – Keeping motivated during the research[16:48] – Moving to Cornell for post doc and culture shock [18:18] – Coming back to Cambridge and work in soft matter physics [19:50] – Studying Mechanical properties of snack foods and using techniques like small angle X-ray scattering[23:00] – Inspiration behind advocacy of women in science and the book release - Not just for the Boys[26:33] – Diversity is good for science [28:05] – Decision on joining Churchill College as Master [30:32] – Blogging and the book – Not just for the boys [31:35] – Outreach and policy work [34:00] – Tackling generalised statements about women and girls in science[37:02] – Advocacy work and hope for future [38:05] – OutroUseful linksLearn more about Professor Dame Athene Donald and her research group Biological and Soft Systems. During the episode Athene discusses her Blog and forthcoming book - Not Just for the Boys. To learn more about the Cavendish Laboratory, or if you are interested in joining us or studying with us, go to www.phy.cam.ac.uk Share and join the conversationIf you like this episode don't forget to rate it and leave a review on your favourite podcast app. It really helps others to find us.Any comment about the podcast or question you would like to ask our physicists, email us at podcast@phy.cam.ac.uk or join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #PeopleDoingPhysics.Episode...
From Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday, Malcolm Guite shares a sequence of sonnets for Holy Week. They are taken from his collection, Sounding the Seasons (Canterbury Press). Today, he reflects on and reads his sonnet, “The anointing at Bethany.” The Revd Dr Malcolm Guite is a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, and writes the weekly Poet's Corner column for the Church Times. Try 10 issues of the Church Times for £10 or get two months access to our website and apps, also for £10. Go to churchtimes.co.uk/new-reader
From Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday, Malcolm Guite shares a sequence of sonnets for Holy Week. They are taken from his collection, Sounding the Seasons (Canterbury Press). Today, he reflects on and reads his sonnet, “Cleansing the Temple.” The Revd Dr Malcolm Guite is a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, and writes the weekly Poet's Corner column for the Church Times. Try 10 issues of the Church Times for £10 or get two months access to our website and apps, also for £10. Go to churchtimes.co.uk/new-reader
From Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday, Malcolm Guite shares a sequence of sonnets for Holy Week. They are taken from his collection, Sounding the Seasons (Canterbury Press). Today, he reflects on and reads his sonnet, “Jesus weeps.” The Revd Dr Malcolm Guite is a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, and writes the weekly Poet's Corner column for the Church Times. Try 10 issues of the Church Times for £10 or get two months access to our website and apps, also for £10. Go to churchtimes.co.uk/new-reader
From Palm Sunday to Maundy Thursday, Malcolm Guite shares a sequence of sonnets for Holy Week. They are taken from his collection, Sounding the Seasons (Canterbury Press). “In composing these sonnets, I had in mind that mysterious and beautiful phrase in the Psalms about the man in whose heart are the highways to Zion (Psalm 84.5),” he says. “I wanted to develop the hint offered in that phrase that there is an inner as well as an outer Jerusalem, and that therefore the events of Holy Week are both about Jesus's outward visible and historical entry into Jerusalem. and what he did there, and also about his entry into the inner Jerusalem, 'the seething holy city' of our own hearts.” The Revd Dr Malcolm Guite is a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, and writes the weekly Poet's Corner column for the Church Times. Try 10 issues of the Church Times for £10 or get two months access to our website and apps, also for £10. Go to churchtimes.co.uk/new-reader
S7 E06 Hymn Tunes with Guest Host James Moyar This episode I am grateful for James Moyar to take time out of his busy Droning On and Piping Dojo schedule to share some of his favorite hymn tunes on bagpipes. Be sure to listen to James on my favorite Piping Podcast, Droning On: https://droningon.podbean.com/ And Check out his Merch Store where I have some materials for sale as well: https://www.bagpipeswag.com/ Many of the tunes he plays through on this episode are available on his excellent collection of Hymn tunes on smallpipes available on Bandcamp: Sunday Smallpipes Vol I: https://heritagebagpipes.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-smallpipes-vol-i Tunes: -Track 1: Madrid (Trad, Spain) By: Unknown, traditional Spanish Melody Year: unknown Other Examples: —”Come, Christians, Join to Sing” arr. Sterling Procter, performed by The Chancel Choir + The Chapel Choir + Broadway Baptist Church +The Oratoriao Chorus + Southwestern Baptist Seminary + The Festival Brass + Albert Travis on Organ + Congregational singing under direction of David Keith. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO9vTae4Rxs —------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Track 2: Aus der Tiefe Rufe Ich (18th c, Germany) By: Attributed to Martin Herbst in the 2nd half of the 17th century, possibly reworked by Bach in the early 18th century Other examples: Played on piano by Andrew Remillard under the title, “Forty Days and Forty Nights” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66KEopPjEY —------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Track 4: Breslau (15th c, Germany) By: Joseph Clauder, though he may have simply arranged or harmonized an even older tune, his instances of it go back to at least 1450 Other examples: Choir of Girton College singing it with organ under the lyric title, “Take Up Thy Cross, the Savior Said,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0frmiQHNOo —------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Track 5: O Breath of God / St Columba By: Unknown (Trad, Ireland) Story of St. Columba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfhesEWpok8 Very old, traditional gaelic/Irish tune, very popular, has remained in-use in a lot of hymnals for a very long time Other Examples: Organ arrangement by Ste Duckett: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31fo_aAAstU Harp by Ray Pool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym6z4cPkHE8 —------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Track 6: Eventide / Abide with Me, Fast Falls the Even Tide By: William H. Monk, https://hymnary.org/person/Monk_William , text by Henry Francis Lyte Year: (19th c, England) According to some sources, William H. Monk wrote EVENTIDE for Lyte's text in ten minutes. As the story goes, Monk was attending a hymnal committee meeting for the 1861 edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern of which he was music editor. Realizing that this text had no tune, Monk sat down at the piano and composed EVENTIDE. The hymn was then published in that edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern. The tune has always been associated with this text. —------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Track 10: Windsor By: From Este's Psalter Year: 16th Century https://hymnary.org/tune/windsortyedaman#Composer_attributedto_ —------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Track 11: O Waly, Waly By: Trad, England Year: ? https://youtu.be/86G3ZHSx6RA "The Water is Wide" https://youtu.be/TEap3IVX_kg —------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Track 16: Arfon By: ? Year: Trad Common in major and minor. Good examples: https://youtu.be/SVZY-5d5NHM https://youtu.be/Jn20a6ESL34 —------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Track 18: Donne Secours By: From the Genevan Psalter Year: 16th Century Other examples: Andrew Remillard on Piano: https://youtu.be/ZE4aph6OKAc Emma Lou on Organ: https://youtu.be/la9p9IcTNL4 Here are some ways you can support the show: You can support the Podcast by joining the Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/wetootwaag You can also take a minute to leave a review of the podcast if you listen on Itunes! Tell your piping and history friends about the podcast! 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The subject of navigation in the Middle Ages is fundamental to maritime history as it lays the foundation for the exploration, migration, global trade and international wars that followed. It is also a fascinating and multi-faceted topic; one which takes us out into the deep oceans where issues of wind, current, tide and depth are all influential, but also up into the sky where the sun, moon, planet and stars help us find out where we are and WHEN we are: the history of navigation is intimately linked with the question of time at sea. To find out more, Dr Sam Willis spoke with Dr Seb Falk from Girton College, Cambridge, an historian who specialises in the history of astronomy, navigation and mathematics from their ancient origins to modern developments. For Seb the Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They gave us the first universities, the first eyeglasses and the first mechanical clocks as medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky. Seb is the author of an important recent book: The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Malcolm Guite is an English poet, academic and priest in the Church of England. He is a fellow of Girton College in the University of Cambridge and has published widely in the field of theology and literature. His research interests include the intersection of religion and the arts and the examination of the works of J.R.R. Tolkein, C.S. Lewis and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In this episode Malcolm and I discuss what I've termed as the poetics of restoration and how poetry and literature hold keys to understanding and even bridging the gaps between tradition and originality. Patrons of the podcast can enjoy three additional interview segments with Malcolm, one on the moral imagination (which members of our creative collective will recall from discussions in our last book club.) also Malcolm's thoughts on imagination as empathy, and practices to can we establish to achieve longevity for the artist and writer. Bright Wings Poetry Contest! Support The Podcast. Get The Exclusive Content. Brightbell Creative: Meaningful Marketing For The Creative Artist
Sitting at number six in the top ten countdown is Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: down but not out with Elisabeth Kendall. Her conversation with William Law was podcast on 17 September, 2021. Dr Kendall is a Senior Research Fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Oxford University's Pembroke College and an expert on Yemen and on Jihadist movements. In October she takes up her appointment as Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. Her article, “The Jihadi threat and the Arabian Peninsula” on which their conversation was based was published in a 9/11 CTC Sentinel special issue. (CTC Sentinel is West Point's Combating Terrorism Center Journal.) Sign up NOW at ArabDigest.org for free to join the club and start receiving our daily newsletter & podcasts.
"'the barbarians have made me welcome'"
On the podcast this week, Malcolm Guite talks about the faith of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the anniversary of whose death was marked on Monday (25 July). Part of the interview featured on the very first episode of the Church Times Podcast, in 2017, shortly after the publication of his book Mariner: A voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Hodder & Stoughton) (Books, 10 February 2017). “Coleridge roots our own capacity to know through the imagination with the divine imagination. And he sees the imagination with which we perceive the world as an echo in the finite mind of the eternal and infinite act of creation in the divine”, Malcolm says. “That's dynamite, that's an amazing thing he's actually saying: anybody engaged in a moment of artistic apprehension and intuition is echoing the way God made the world and helping to see it.” After the interview, Malcolm reads a sonnet that he wrote for Coleridge. It was recorded in St Michael's, Highgate, in north London, where Coleridge is buried. Malcolm's most recent book is Lifting the Veil: Imagination and the Kingdom of God (Canterbury Press) (Faith feature, 13 May, Books 1 July). The Revd Dr Malcolm Guite is a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, and writes the weekly Poet's Corner column for the Church Times. Try 10 issues of the Church Times for £10 or get two months access to our website and apps, also for £10. Go to churchtimes.co.uk/new-reader.
Elisabeth Kendall discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Elisabeth Kendall is Mistress-elect of Girton College, Cambridge, and Senior Research Fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Pembroke College, Oxford. Her current work examines how militant jihad groups exploit cultural traditions and local dynamics. Previously, she was at the Universities of Edinburgh and Harvard, and served as Director of a UK government-sponsored Centre focused on building Arabic-based research expertise. Elisabeth has lectured at governmental, military and scholarly institutions all around the world and is a frequent contributor to international television and print media. She also sits on a variety of international boards and is Chairman of a grass-roots NGO in eastern Yemen. She has authored and edited several books, including ReClaiming Islamic Tradition and Twenty-First Century Jihad. She conceived of the “Essential Middle Eastern Vocabularies” series, which includes the following titles which she also authored: Diplomacy Arabic, Intelligence Arabic and Media Arabic. She is currently working on a new book called Rock Stars of Jihad. Elisabeth has spent significant time in the field, especially in Yemen. She can be followed on Twitter https://twitter.com/Dr_E_Kendall and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/ElisabethKendall/videos Craft chocolate https://www.greatbritishfoodawards.com/blog/9-british-craft-chocolate-bars-you-have-to-try War in Yemen https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/war-yemen The Great Courses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wondrium The Lycian Way https://cultureroutesinturkey.com/the-lycian-way/ Elizabeth Welsh https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/events/elizabeth-welsh-1843-1921 Foreign languages https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40954948 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm
We have all been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic… perhaps we have had COVID ourselves, perhaps friends, family and loved ones have suffered. Yet how has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted on wellness and well -being in the workplace? And what does this mean for individuals and organisations? For this, our 50th episode, we speak to Professor Thomas Roulet of the University of Cambridge to explore the trends in workplace wellness and wellbeing, and consider what the future might hold. Thomas Roulet is Associate Professor in Organisation Theory at the University of Cambridge and Deputy Director of the MBA Programme at Judge Business School. He is a Fellow in Sociology and Director of Studies in Management at Girton College, Cambridge, and Bye-Fellow and Co-Director of the King's Entrepreneurship Lab at King's College Prior to starting an academic career, Thomas worked in Debt Capital Markets on a trading floor in London, and for the Center for Entrepreneurship at the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) in Paris. His work has appeared in a variety of scientific outlets in management, including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management), ethics (Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Business & Society), and more broadly in social sciences and sociology His book The Power of Being Divisive: Understanding Negative Social Evaluations was the runner-up for the George Terry book award of the Academy of Management in 2021, an award recognising the book having made the most important contribution to the field of management. The Financial Times described the book as “a fascinating study of the social-media fuelled and fast-changing landscape of public opinion, and the possible ways in which that might be beneficial”. Thomas' personal website is www.thomasroulet.com
Samantha Williams Confabulating with Prof. Samantha K. Williams She undertook her BA (Hons) in History at Lancaster, where she gained her passion for social history and the history of poverty, medicine and disease. She then moved to Oxford for an MSc in Economic and Social History, with a social history of medicine pathway at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine. Another move to Cambridge meant that she studied for her PhD at the inspiring Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, where she now sits on the management committee. After a teaching job at Goldsmith's, University of London, she returned to Cambridge and to the Institute of Continuing Education (Madingley Hall) and Girton College. She enjoys teaching both undergraduates at Girton and older students at Madingley Hall. She is Course Director for the MSt (part-time) in History. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ihshg/support
This week, I'm joined by Dr. Arik Kershenbaum, zoologist and astrobiologist at Girton College, University of Cambridge for a fascinating discussion about alien life and what we can learn about it from life on Earth.Dr. Arik Kershenbaum at the University of CambridgeDr. Arik Kershenbaum on TwitterThe Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy by Dr. Arik Kershenbaum
From host Matt Conner: "We can't venture very far into our exploration of Genesis 1 without contending with the form in which it's been given to us. The creation narrative isn't something to analyze and apply like a textbook. Instead, there's cadence and meter, there's rhythm, repetition. It's a poem after all. It was clear to me fairly early on that I wanted to discuss the creation narrative—imbued as it is with themes of creating in the image of a Creator, rest and reflection, and participating in the Spirit-led recreation of all things—with someone who could approach it for the poem that it is. And I knew of no one better suited for that task than Malcolm Guite. To be quite honest, I was very nervous to sit down with Malcolm, although that's not anything to do with his own posture. Rather, as a man so well versed in poetry and literature, a captivating author and speaker, I knew all my insecurities would rise to the surface. And then the idea of having those permanently imprinted on a podcast episode just made me feel a little ill. However, I also knew he would be the perfect interview subject to carry us further, to help illuminate the action of calling it good. Talking to Malcolm about Genesis 1 turned out to be like drinking from a firehose. Even in our pre-interview banner before we started recording, he was quoting off the top of his head Shakespeare, Keats, Wendell Berry, and George Herbert. Malcolm is a poet and priest, author, and chaplain of Girton College at the University of Cambridge. He's written several books on theology and the arts and several more of his own poetry anthologies. In short, we needed a poet to appreciate the poem. And that's exactly what you'll find on this episode with the wonderful Malcolm Guite." Audio engineering & theme music by Asher Peterson. Find transcripts for Call It Good at RabbitRoom.com/podcast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
If extraterrestrial life is out there — not just microbial slime, but big, complex, macroscopic organisms — what will they be like? Movies have trained us to think that they won't be that different at all; they'll even drink and play music at the same cafes that humans frequent. A bit of imagination, however, makes us wonder whether they won't be completely alien — we have zero data about what extraterrestrial biology could be like, so it makes sense to keep an open mind. Arik Kershenbaum argues for a judicious middle ground. He points to constraints from physics and chemistry, as well as the tendency of evolution to converge toward successful designs, as reasons to think that biologically complex aliens won't be utterly different from us after all.Support Mindscape on Patreon.Arik Kershenbaum received his Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology from the University of Haifa. He is currently College Lecturer and Director of Studies at Girton College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens — and Ourselves.Web siteCambridge web pageGoogle Scholar publicationsAmazon author pageTwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
(Lucy) Poet and activist, scholar and politician, Sarojini Naidu inhabited many roles. The daughter of privilege, she enjoyed an elite education... and defied her family in marrying for love. Before women students could receive degrees, she studied at universities in both India and England, including at Girton College, Cambridge. A gifted poet, she was known as the "Nightingale of India," and wrote about topics including her own experience of chronic illness. She was involved in activism and politics, supporting women's suffrage in England, and working internationally for the cause of Indian independence from the 1920s onwards. This podcast examines both her extraordinary life and her distinctive literary voice.
My guest for this episode is Tim Boniface. Tim is an ordained priest and a chaplain at Girton College here in Cambridge, but he’s also a professional jazz musician, and you’ll hear some of his music in this episode, and as part of our conversation, we talk about the fundamental role that music has played in his life. If you’re a listener to my other podcast for Creative Writers, the Creative Writer’s Toolbelt, it’s Tim’s music you hear at the start of that podcast. Tim is a fascinating character and has some real insights on the challenge of combining a career in music with a vocation to the priesthood, this is his story. You can find out more about Tim and check out his music at www.timboniface.co.uk
This special episode was recorded last year as part of our Primadonna Prize event. It features:Sandi Toksvig began her comedy career at Girton College, Cambridge where she found time to write and perform in the first all-woman show at the Footlights as well as achieve a first-class degree. Sandi is well known to UK audiences as a broadcaster from Number 73, Call My Bluff, Whose Line Is It Anyway? QI, and The Great British Bake Off. She has written more than twenty fiction and non-fiction books for children and adults.Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She has published eighteen books, twelve of which are novels. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. In 2017 she was chosen by Politico as one of the twelve people who would make the world better. Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu is a New York Attorney and Solicitor of England & Wales with broad expertise in the financial services industry, an author, public speaker and political commentator featured in mainstream and online media. She founded the Women in Leadership publication as a platform to drive positive change on topical issues that impact women globally through inspiring personal leadership journeys. Her book This Is Why I Resist was published in 2021.Tickets for this year's Primadonna Prize award, live at Conway Hall on 31 March and featuring Lenny Henry, Kit de Waal and Sandi Toksvig, are now on sale. See our website for details. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-world-as-it-should-be. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ayodeji Malcolm Guite (/ɡaɪt/; born 12 November 1957) is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and academic. Born in Nigeria to British expatriate parents, Guite earned degrees from Cambridge and Durham universities. His research interests include the intersection of religion and the arts, and the examination of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, and British poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was a Bye-Fellow and chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge and associate chaplain of St Edward King and Martyr in Cambridge. On several occasions, he has taught as visiting faculty at several colleges and universities in England and North America.Guite is the author of five books of poetry, including two chapbooks and three full-length collections, as well as several books on Christian faith and theology. Guite has a decisively simple, formalist style in poems, many of which are sonnets, and he stated that his aim is to "be profound without ceasing to be beautiful".[1] Guite performs as a singer and guitarist fronting the Cambridgeshire-based blues, rhythm and blues, and rock band "Mystery Train".[2]Bio via Wikipedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
As the start of Advent approaches, this week's podcast returns to Malcolm Guite's journey through “The Great O Antiphons”: seven prayers which the Church prayed during the first centuries, which called afresh for Christ to come. Malcolm reads each of the seven prayers and reflects on them, and offers his own poetic response to each one, taken from his collection Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for the Christian year (Canterbury Press). This talk was first broadcast last November during an online Advent retreat, hosted by the Church Times and Canterbury Press. The Revd Dr Malcolm Guite is a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, and writes the weekly Poet's Corner column for the Church Times. His books include Mariner: A voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Hodder), Love Remember: 40 poems of loss, lament and hope (Canterbury Press), and David's Crown: Sounding the Psalms (Canterbury Press). Music for the podcast is by Twisterium. Try 10 issues of the Church Times for £10 or get two months access to our website and apps, also for £10. Go to churchtimes.co.uk/new-reader.
Laura, Dominique and Doug sit down with poet-priest Malcolm Guite to talk about the intersections of poetry, lament, and justice as well as his new book, David's Crown: A Poetic Companion to the Psalms. malcolmguite.wordpress.com Malcolm Guite is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and academic. Born in Nigeria to British expatriate parents, Guite earned degrees from Cambridge and Durham universities. His research interests include the intersection of religion and the arts, and the examination of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and British poets. He is currently a Bye-Fellow and chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge and associate chaplain of St Edward King and Martyr in Cambridge. Guite is the author of five books of poetry, including two chapbooks and three full-length collections, as well as several books on Christian faith and theology. Guite has a decisively simple, formalist style in poems, many of which are sonnets, and he stated that his aim is to "be profound without ceasing to be beautiful". Guite performs as a singer and guitarist fronting the Cambridgeshire-based blues, rhythm and blues, and rock band "Mystery Train". Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won a 2018 Book of the Year Award for InterVarsity Press and was named Outreach Magazine's 2019 Social Issues Resource of the Year. Gilliard also serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary and serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association. In 2015, the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” Gilliard's forthcoming book, Subversive Witness: Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilegewill be released on August 24, 2021. @DDGilliard // facebook.com/dominique.dg.7 Rev. Dr. Laura Truax is senior pastor of LaSalle Street Church in Chicago and serves on the Seminary Advisory Board at the University of Dubuque. Dr. Truax holds a master of divinity degree from Loyola University and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the joint program of North Park Seminary and Fuller Theological Seminary. She is the author of Undone: When coming apart puts you back together (2013) and Love Let Go: Radical Generosity for the real world (2017) and is part of the Red Letter Christians. @revtruax // facebook.com/laura.truax1 Doug Pagitt is the Executive Director and one of the founders of Vote Common Good. He is also a pastor, author, and social activist. @pagitt The Common Good Podcast is produced and edited by Daniel Deitrich. @danieldeitrich Our theme music is composed by Ben Grace. @bengracemusic votecommongood.com votecommongood.com/podcast facebook.com/votecommongood twitter.com/votecommon
There's a lot of what we know from Earth that can teach us what to expect from extraterrestrials in the future. In this week's episode, Zoologist, Dr Arik Kershenbaum joins comedian Will Preston to discuss insights from Arik's book 'A Zoologists Guide to The Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens' which has won praise from high places, including Richard Dawkins.In this episode we cover common expectations, what alien mating might be like, what drives human evolution and the best and worst depictions of aliens in popular culture. Expert guest: Dr Arik Kershenbaum is a zoologist, College Lecturer, and Fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge. He has researched animal vocal communication for the past ten years in Europe, Israel and the United States and has published more than twenty academic publications on the topic. He is also a member of the international board of advisors for METI.org, a think tank on the topic of Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.Comedy guest: Will Preston has been performing comedy since 2016 all across the UK and the US. He is a regular at the top comedy clubs on the London scene. Will is also the co-host of the Marvel Versus Marvel podcast.
In the high-tech space race to find intelligent life, it might be good to remember Darwin’s 19th century ideas when we’re up there. Arik Kershenbaum is a zoologist and fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge. He joins host Krys Boyd to talk about understanding evolution on Earth and how that might parallel alien life forms elsewhere. His book is called “The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves.”
GUESTAyodeji Malcolm Guite is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest, and academic. Born in Nigeria to British expatriate parents, Guite earned degrees from Cambridge and Durham universities. His research interests include the intersection of religion and the arts, and the examination of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and British poets. He is currently a Bye-Fellow and retired chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge and associate chaplain of St Edward King and Martyr in Cambridge. On several occasions, he has taught as visiting faculty at several colleges and universities in England and North America. Guite is the author of five books of poetry, including two chapbooks and three full-length collections, as well as several books on Christian faith and theology. Guite has a decisively simple, formalist style in poems, many of which are sonnets, and he stated that his aim is to "be profound without ceasing to be beautiful". Guite performs as a singer and guitarist fronting the Cambridgeshire-based blues, rhythm and blues, and rock band "Mystery Train". His latest book is called DAVID'S CROWN- a collection of 150 Sonnets in response to the psalms. Today We discuss: - grief and the power of poetry - Holy Week and the power of liturgy - David's Crown- Lord of The Rings Quiz - JRR Tolkien as Prophet - life a year into the lockdown IT'S NOT A LIE Did Kevin get punished by pigs? WEBPAGES www.malcolmguite.com
Professor James Riley is a Fellow of English Literature at Girton College, Cambridge, focusing on modern and contemporary literature, popular film and 1960s culture. He co-edited The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2018). He also makes films and performs spoken word poetry. In this podcast, we focus on his recent work The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties. For more information about Dr. Riley's work, please see his academic website: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/James.Riley/ or his blog: http://residual-noise.blogspot.com/ Have a great week!
James Riley is a Fellow of English Literature at Girton College, Cambridge, focusing on modern and contemporary literature, popular film and 1960s culture. In this episode we discuss his latest publication The Bad Trip – Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties, alongside discussions of counterculture, evil, poststructuralism, activism and control. Purchase The Bad Trip – Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties here Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter Hermitix Discord Support Hermitix: Subscribe Hermitix Patreon Hermitix Merchandise One off Donations at Ko-Fi Hermitix Twitter Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0xfd2bbe86d6070004b9Cbf682aB2F25170046A996
James Riley is a Fellow of English Literature at Girton College, Cambridge, focusing on modern and contemporary literature, popular film and 1960s culture. In this episode we discuss his latest publication The Bad Trip – Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties, alongside discussions of counterculture, evil, poststructuralism, activism and control. Purchase The Bad Trip – Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties here Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter Hermitix Discord Support Hermitix: Subscribe Hermitix Patreon Hermitix Merchandise One off Donations at Ko-Fi Hermitix Twitter Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0xfd2bbe86d6070004b9Cbf682aB2F25170046A996
Carolina Alves is the Joan Robinson Research Fellow in Heterodox Economics at Girton College, Cambridge and a co-founder of D-Econ. Her work mostly focuses on macroeconomics and international political economy. In this episode we discuss: - You can read much more on this episode's accompanying write-up: hearthisidea.com/episodes/Carolina. If you have any feedback or suggestions for future guests, please get in touch through our website. Please also consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening to this. If you want to support the show more directly and help us keep hosting these episodes online, consider leaving a tip at https://www.tips.pinecast.com/jar/hear-this-idea. Thanks for listening!
"It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?'" This is the opening stanza to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1798 poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, an epic saga of sin, remorse, regret and redemption set in the tale of an aged sailor, telling of his woes to someone about to enter into a wedding celebration. Why poetry in the midst of a pandemic, though? What does Coleridge have to say to us in 2020? Much in every way. In April of this year, several celebrities took turns reading The Rime of the Ancient Mariner online (https://bit.ly/Ancient_Mariner). It was a surprising success. As The Atlantic noted in May (https://bit.ly/TheAtlanticMag), it is a poem written in 1798 for people in 2020. Though over two centuries removed from our own, there appears within Coleridge's verse a timeless resonance with our own turbulent times. Indeed, poetry, parable, metaphor, and the imagination are absolutely essential for our ongoing defense of the Christian faith in the cultural darkness in which we find ourselves. On part two of my discussion with Malcolm Guite, we talk more about Coleridge's influence on Guite's thought and the important role imagination plays in our conversations about everything from moonlight to the glory of God. Malcolm Guite is an Anglican Priest and is the Chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge where he also teaches for the Divinity Faculty. He lectures widely in England and North America on theology and literature. Mr. Guite has published poetry, theology, and literary criticism, and worked as a librettist. His books include Word in the Wilderness, Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination, and Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. BONUS LINKS: Here are some additional resources: Malcolm Guite Blog: https://bit.ly/GuiteBlog A Spell in the Library, Malcolm Guite's YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/MalcolmGuite Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poetry Foundation: https://bit.ly/SamuelColeridge FREE: We are also offering a free subscription to our bimonthly Profiles here: www.watchman.org/Free. SUPPORT: Help us create more content like this. Join the Apologetics Profile podcast team for as little as $1 here: www.patreon.com/WatchmanFellowship. Apologetics Profile is a ministry of Watchman FellowshipFor more information, visit www.watchman.org © Watchman Fellowship, Inc.
What role does the faculty of the imagination play in our defense of the Christian faith? Is the imagination inferior to logic and reason or is it a needful aspect in our engagement with contemporary culture? Consider the incredible popularity of the movies and TV drama series. We are storytellers, image bearers of our Creator, who delight in creating, whether it be stories, buildings, automobiles, or works of art or literature, we are constantly using our imagination, often without thinking about it. On this episode of Apologetics Profile, Watchman staff apologist Daniel Ray speaks with poet, priest, and author Malcolm Guite about the necessity of the imagination in cultivating a deeper understanding and appreciation for the world that God has created and for the way God communicates with us. In part one, we talk about how Malcolm became interested in poetry as a child and how the poetry and philosophy of the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge played an integral role in Malcolm coming to faith in Christ. Malcolm Guite is an Anglican Priest and is the Chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge where he also teaches for the Divinity Faculty. He lectures widely in England and North America on theology and literature. Mr. Guite has published poetry, theology, and literary criticism, and worked as a librettist. His books include Word in the Wilderness, Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination, and Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. BONUS LINKS: Here are some additional resources: Malcolm Guite Blog: https://bit.ly/GuiteBlog A Spell in the Library, Malcolm Guite's YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/MalcolmGuite Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poetry Foundation: https://bit.ly/SamuelColeridge FREE: We are also offering a free subscription to our bimonthly Profiles here: www.watchman.org/Free. SUPPORT: Help us create more content like this. Join the Apologetics Profile podcast team for as little as $1 here: www.patreon.com/WatchmanFellowship. Apologetics Profile is a ministry of Watchman FellowshipFor more information, visit www.watchman.org © Watchman Fellowship, Inc.
In a programme first broadcast in 2017, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. She developed many of her ideas in response to the rise of totalitarianism in the C20th, partly informed by her own experience as a Jew in Nazi Germany before her escape to France and then America. She wanted to understand how politics had taken such a disastrous turn and, drawing on ideas of Greek philosophers as well as her peers, what might be done to create a better political life. Often unsettling, she wrote of 'the banality of evil' when covering the trial of Eichmann, one of the organisers of the Holocaust. With Lyndsey Stonebridge Professor of Modern Literature and History at the University of East Anglia Frisbee Sheffield Lecturer in Philosophy at Girton College, University of Cambridge and Robert Eaglestone Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University London Producer: Simon Tillotson.
In this Episode, Luke Burton and I discuss his residency in Cambridge at Girton College and the realities of true isolation. We talk about his circling of painting in work that involves a cartoon-like shorthand that withstands a lot of manipulation such as stretching,warping and flattening. We revisit his recent show at Picnic Gallery in Peckham, which was constantly opening and closing and showed stacks of sports equipment in graphic totems to the closing down high street and seem now in memory to preempt the closure of so many shops and the cancellation of all sport. We discuss Pandemic poetry, miniatures, problems of display and drawing and the ornamental, ending with thoughts on the decorative and snooker (Ronnie O'Sullivan.) Image: Gene. Vitreous enamel on copper. 2020 Links: Luke will be having solo shows at Girton College, Cambridge and Bosse & Baum, London in late September. Some of his enamels are on view as part of Preview London on the digital platform Artland (this show migrated from a physical space after Covid-19) at: https://www.artland.com/viewing-rooms/ck8hhmwksax7o07829wqiz5cs Picnic Gallery - https://www.picnicgallery.com/exhibitions/luke-burton-podium-sales Link to Adorno's Minima Moralia - https://www.versobooks.com/books/3143-minima-moralia Ronnie's fastest ever maximum clearance of 147 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3C7I5lRZII http://www.bosseandbaum.com/luke-burton/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/emma-cousin/support
Jamie Howison speaks with Malcolm Guite, a priest, chaplain to Girton College in Cambridge, theologian, musician and poet. The author of not only theological books but also numerous collections of poetry, Malcolm's latest book is After Prayer: New sonnets and other poems, published in November 2019 by Canterbury Press. In an endorsement for the 2012 Sounding the Seasons collection, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams commented, “These pieces have the economy and pungency of all good sonnets, and again and again, offer deep resources for prayer and meditation to the reader,” to which the American poet Luci Shaw added, “Each of Malcolm Guite's sonnets is like a Celtic knot, with threads of devotion and theology cunningly woven into shining emblems of truth and beauty.”To find out more about Malcolm and his work, visit his website, where you will find recordings of him reading his poetry along with all sorts of other good things. You can also follow him on Facebook. Comment on this episode on our website. Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to audio and we invite you to rate us or write a review of what we are doing on Apple Podcasts. Reviews help others join the conversation.* * *This podcast is created at saint benedict's table, a congregation of the Anglican Church of Canada in Winnipeg. We've been podcasting since 2006 and put a renewed focus on this ministry in 2019.Our goal is to provide rich and stimulating audio resources to the wider church and engage topics and issues relevant to the concerns and questions of the larger culture in which we live.
This year sees Girton College celebrating 150 years since it's foundation. In 1948, it was granted full college status by the university, marking the official admittance of women to the University of Cambridge.We find out about the Women behind the names – part of an extraordinary group of Girton College alumnae among an illustrious list of people to have roads in Eddington, Cambridge's new urban area, named after them. Mistress of Girton College, Susan Smith, spoke to our contributor Phil Mynott at the college's Swirles Court in Eddington about the legacies of these Cambridge pioneers and how they still continue to affect us. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week’s episode features an inspiring and insightful interview with Reverend Dr. Malcolm Guite about the intersection of theology, literature, and the arts. Drs. Crystal and David Downing also discuss Guite’s conversion encounter as well as the impact of Romantic poets like Shelley, Coleridge, Blake, and C.S Lewis on his spiritual journey and worldview. Malcolm is the Chaplain and a Bye-Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge. He is the author of five books of poetry, several books on Christianity and theology, and regularly performs as a singer and guitarist with the rock band “Mystery Train.”
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. She developed many of her ideas in response to the rise of totalitarianism in the C20th, partly informed by her own experience as a Jew in Nazi Germany before her escape to France and then America. She wanted to understand how politics had taken such a disastrous turn and, drawing on ideas of Greek philosophers as well as her peers, what might be done to create a better political life. Often unsettling, she wrote of 'the banality of evil' when covering the trial of Eichmann, one of the organisers of the Holocaust. With Lyndsey Stonebridge Professor of Modern Literature and History at the University of East Anglia Frisbee Sheffield Lecturer in Philosophy at Girton College, University of Cambridge and Robert Eaglestone Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University London Producer: Simon Tillotson.
Malcolm Guite will be known to Church Times readers as the author of the weekly Poet's Corner column. He is the chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge, and a poet, teacher and musician. His latest book, published by Canterbury Press, is called Love Remember: 40 poems of loss, lament and hope. It is, Malcolm writes, “written to give voice both to love and to lamentation, to find expression for grief without losing hope, to help us honour the dead with tears, yet still to glimpse through those tears the light of resurrection”. Malcolm came to the Church Times offices this week to talk more about the book. If you don't already subscribe to the Church Times, and would like to read Malcolm's column each week, along with a host of news, features, and reviews, go to churchtimes.co.uk/subscribe, where you can get 10 issues for £10.
Third in my series of sermons preached at Girton College on the Apostles Creed ' 'He descended into Hell'
Helen Arney, self confessed science nerd, stand-up entertainer, and once nicknamed a "geek songstress", tells Matthew Parris why she's chosen Hertha Ayrton, the pioneering Victorian physicist, inventor and suffragette, as her great life. Ayrton, we hear, was the first woman to be admitted into membership of what is today known as the IET, the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Their archivist Anne Locker knows Ayrton's life and works and fields the questions from Matthew and Helen. They talk about how Hertha (1854-1923) overcame considerable obstacles to be the first woman who was proposed for the fellowship of the Royal Society. Her candidature was refused on the grounds that as a married woman she had no legal existence in British law. This did not stop her from patenting over 20 of her inventions, which included a large electric fan designed to disperse mustard gas from the Trenches during the First World War. Fascinated by electricity, her achievements also ranged across mathematics and physics. Helen Arney, who's one third of the Festival of the Spoken Nerd, the comedy group that makes science entertaining for audiences, explains why she's championing Ayrton. Hertha's father was a Jewish immigrant, a watchmaker from Poland, who hawked goods at markets. Nonetheless, Hertha was among the first generation of women to study at Girton College, Cambridge. Producer: Mark Smalley.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. She developed many of her ideas in response to the rise of totalitarianism in the C20th, partly informed by her own experience as a Jew in Nazi Germany before her escape to France and then America. She wanted to understand how politics had taken such a disastrous turn and, drawing on ideas of Greek philosophers as well as her peers, what might be done to create a better political life. Often unsettling, she wrote of 'the banality of evil' when covering the trial of Eichmann, one of the organisers of the Holocaust. With Lyndsey Stonebridge Professor of Modern Literature and History at the University of East Anglia Frisbee Sheffield Lecturer in Philosophy at Girton College, University of Cambridge and Robert Eaglestone Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University London Producer: Simon Tillotson.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt. She developed many of her ideas in response to the rise of totalitarianism in the C20th, partly informed by her own experience as a Jew in Nazi Germany before her escape to France and then America. She wanted to understand how politics had taken such a disastrous turn and, drawing on ideas of Greek philosophers as well as her peers, what might be done to create a better political life. Often unsettling, she wrote of 'the banality of evil' when covering the trial of Eichmann, one of the organisers of the Holocaust. With Lyndsey Stonebridge Professor of Modern Literature and History at the University of East Anglia Frisbee Sheffield Lecturer in Philosophy at Girton College, University of Cambridge and Robert Eaglestone Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University London Producer: Simon Tillotson.
Join us as Claire Perini and Malcolm Guite (@malcolmguite) talk about poetry, slowing down, being a good host to words, and how poetry helps us read scripture and see the world around us anew. Malcolm Guite is a poet, priest and singer-songwriter. He is also Chaplain of Girton College. Malcolm has written several poetry collections and books, including Parable and Paradox, The Singing Bowl , Sounding the Seasons, and Faith, Hope and Poetry. His next book is Mariner! A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, forthcoming in early 2017. Malcolm most recently taught the course "Poetic Meditations on the Teaching of Jesus" at Regent in Summer 2016. He will be back at Regent in Summer 2017 with the course, "A Passion for Poetry: How to Read It, Enjoy It, and Grow with It". You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, and read his blog at malcolmguite.wordpress.com. Regent College is an innovative graduate school of theology, where vibrant evangelical faith meets rigorous academics. Find out more at www.regent-college.edu
This free online lecture is part of the Mythgard Academy Guest Lecture Series. Synopsis: John Keats spoke of "The truth of Imagination"; this lecture will explore the ways in which the rich, intuitive, and image-laden myth-making of Lewis and Tolkien allows the imagination to become a truth-bearing faculty. Recordings from Monday, Oct. 26, 2015 Watch: Video Listen: Audio Suggested Reading Tree and Leaf by Tolkien, especially the poem "Mythopoeia" The introduction to Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination by Malcolm Guite Biography Malcolm Guite is a priest, poet, professor, writer, and rock-n-roller. He is Bye-Fellow, Chaplain, and Supervisor in English and Theology at Girton College, Cambridge University. He researches and writes about the interface between theology and the arts, particularly Theology and Literature, and has special interests in Coleridge and C.S. Lewis. He has published a book entitled Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination, as well as poetry and theological writing. He is also one of the Clergy at St. Edward King and Martyr, in the Centre of Cambridge. He has a rock band called Mystery Train and is part of a jazz-poetry performance collective called riprap.
Patricia Northover specializes in Development studies and is a Senior Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES, UWI, Mona, Jamaica). She received her doctorate in economics and philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She has been a Fellow of Girton College at the University of Cambridge and a Visiting Fellow at Duke University with the Race, Space and Place project. She is the author and co-author of several articles in the philosophy of economics and Caribbean development, published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cultural Dynamics, Caribbean Dialogue and Social and Economic Studies. She has published with Michaeline Crichlow, Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. Her forthcoming book is, Growth Theory: Critical Philosophical Perspectives (Routledge). Presented by Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
4pm–4.30pm: Reflections Dr Alastair Reid, Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, and co-founder of H&P
In this podcast, Seán Hewitt reads and discusses his translation of Ciaran Carson's only published poem in Irish. Seán Hewitt was born 1990, read English at Girton College, Cambridge, and is currently studying for an MA Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool. He translates from the Irish.
On Friday 8th March 2013, Dame Anne Owers gave the Girton College Founders' Memorial Lecture, at Girton College, Cambridge. Dame Anne Owers brings a wealth of experience in the criminal justice system to this lecture. Appointed Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission in February 2012, she offers an engaging insight to her new and challenging role. Previously HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Anne had remit that included inspections of prisons, immigration removal centres and police custody. She chaired an independent review of the prison system in Northern Ireland. She is currently an non-executive director of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and holds a number of voluntary roles, mainly in the area of penal policy and activity. Drawing on this experience, Anne provides an engaging insight into the role and importance of independent oversight of places of detention and the interaction between the police and the public: why it exists, what it can achieve and how it has helped to improve the work and accountability of these vital, but sometimes unseen services.
On Friday 8th March 2013, Dame Anne Owers gave the Girton College Founders' Memorial Lecture, at Girton College, Cambridge. Dame Anne Owers brings a wealth of experience in the criminal justice system to this lecture. Appointed Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission in February 2012, she offers an engaging insight to her new and challenging role. Previously HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Anne had remit that included inspections of prisons, immigration removal centres and police custody. She chaired an independent review of the prison system in Northern Ireland. She is currently an non-executive director of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and holds a number of voluntary roles, mainly in the area of penal policy and activity. Drawing on this experience, Anne provides an engaging insight into the role and importance of independent oversight of places of detention and the interaction between the police and the public: why it exists, what it can achieve and how it has helped to improve the work and accountability of these vital, but sometimes unseen services.
On Friday 8th March 2013, Dame Anne Owers gave the Girton College Founders' Memorial Lecture, at Girton College, Cambridge. Dame Anne Owers brings a wealth of experience in the criminal justice system to this lecture. Appointed Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission in February 2012, she offers an engaging insight to her new and challenging role. Previously HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Anne had remit that included inspections of prisons, immigration removal centres and police custody. She chaired an independent review of the prison system in Northern Ireland. She is currently an non-executive director of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and holds a number of voluntary roles, mainly in the area of penal policy and activity. Drawing on this experience, Anne provides an engaging insight into the role and importance of independent oversight of places of detention and the interaction between the police and the public: why it exists, what it can achieve and how it has helped to improve the work and accountability of these vital, but sometimes unseen services.
On Friday 8th March 2013, Dame Anne Owers gave the Girton College Founders' Memorial Lecture, at Girton College, Cambridge. Dame Anne Owers brings a wealth of experience in the criminal justice system to this lecture. Appointed Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission in February 2012, she offers an engaging insight to her new and challenging role. Previously HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Anne had remit that included inspections of prisons, immigration removal centres and police custody. She chaired an independent review of the prison system in Northern Ireland. She is currently an non-executive director of the Criminal Cases Review Commission and holds a number of voluntary roles, mainly in the area of penal policy and activity. Drawing on this experience, Anne provides an engaging insight into the role and importance of independent oversight of places of detention and the interaction between the police and the public: why it exists, what it can achieve and how it has helped to improve the work and accountability of these vital, but sometimes unseen services.
Jacob Paskins ( Research Fellow at Girton College )
If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Peter Manson (born 1969) is a contemporary Scottish poet. His books include For the Good of Liars (Barque Press 2006), Adjunct: an Undigest (Edinburgh Review 2005), Before and After Mallarmé (Survivors' Press 2005), Two renga (collaborations with the poet Elizabeth James, in the Reality Street Editions 4-pack "Renga+", 2002), Rosebud (Form Books 2002), Birth Windows (Barque Press 1999), me generation (Writers Forum 1997), iter atur e (Writers Forum 1995). Between 1994 and 1997, he co-edited (with Robin Purves) eight issues of the experimental/modernist poetry journal Object Permanence. In 2001, the imprint was revived as an occasional publisher of pamphlets of innovative poetry, and has so far published work by the poets J. H. Prynne, Keston Sutherland, Fiona Templeton and Andrea Brady. He was the 2005-6 Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Girton College, Cambridge.
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a philosopher, academic and mistress of Girton College, Cambridge; but Lady Mary Warnock is perhaps best known for her work in the public arena, on committees looking at a wide range of ethically-controversial subjects, including embryo research and animal experimentation.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about these difficult areas and also her early days as an academic when she was also bringing up five children. Throughout her life, music has also been a dominant theme and she'll be carrying out the difficult task of choosing eight records to accompany her to the desert island.Favourite track: My Beloved Spake by Henry Purcell Book: The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope Luxury: Pen and paper
The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is a philosopher, academic and mistress of Girton College, Cambridge; but Lady Mary Warnock is perhaps best known for her work in the public arena, on committees looking at a wide range of ethically-controversial subjects, including embryo research and animal experimentation. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] She'll be talking to Sue Lawley about these difficult areas and also her early days as an academic when she was also bringing up five children. Throughout her life, music has also been a dominant theme and she'll be carrying out the difficult task of choosing eight records to accompany her to the desert island. Favourite track: My Beloved Spake by Henry Purcell Book: The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope Luxury: Pen and paper
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