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Want to support the podcast? Join our Patreon or buy us a coffee. As an independent podcast, Shakespeare Anyone? is supported by listeners like you. In today's episode, we are exploring the English relationships with foreigners and immigrants from other European countries. First, we'll discuss what the experience of immigrant communities was like in England during the Tudor and early Stuart periods--were the English people xenophobic or welcoming to others? We'll look specifically at experiences of Dutch and French immigrants, who made up the majority of immigrants to England in the mid-late 1500s.  Then, we'll take a look at England's attempt to colonize Ireland through Essex's campaign in the late 1590s and how English anxieties about foreign invasions while also attempting to invade Ireland may have influenced Shakespeare's writing of King Henry V. We'll also discuss the characters of Macmorris, Jamy, and Fluellen and how they represent contemporary English relations with the Irish, Scottish, and Welsh.  We have previously explored England's proto-colonial practices and treatment of people of the global majority outside of Europe, and their legacies in the following episodes: Mini: Shakespeare and the Colonial Imagination Mini: Shakespeare's World: Immigrants, Others, and Foreign Commodities Mini: "Decolonize the Mind" through Shakespeare Mini: Intercultural and Global Shakespeare in a Postcolonial World Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. For updates: join our email list, follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com You can support the podcast by becoming a patron at patreon.com/shakespeareanyone, buying us coffee, or by shopping our bookshelves at bookshop.org/shop/shakespeareanyonepod (we earn a small commission when you use our link and shop bookshop.org). Find additional links mentioned in the episode in our Linktree. Works referenced: Goose, Nigel. “Immigrants and English Economic Development in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.” Immigrants in Tudor and Early Stuart England, edited by Nigel Goose and Lien Luu, Liverpool University Press, 2013, pp. 136–60. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.4418193.12. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025. Goose, Nigel. “‘Xenophobia' in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England: An Epithet Too Far?” Immigrants in Tudor and Early Stuart England, edited by Nigel Goose and Lien Luu, Liverpool University Press, 2013, pp. 110–35. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.4418193.11. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025. Highley, Christopher. “‘If the Cause Be Not Good': Henry V and Essex's Irish Campaign.” Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 134–163. Print. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture.

Humans probably started fermenting things on purpose by about 10,000 BCE. But when did they start discussing the aftereffects that come from drinking too much? Research: · Beringer, Guy. “Brunch: a plea.” Harper's Weekly, 1895. https://archive.org/details/archive_charlyj_001 · Bishop-Stall, Shaughnessy. “Hung Over: The Morning After and One Man’s Quest for the Cure.” Penguin Books. 2018. · Bishop-Stall, Shaughnessy. “Weird Hangover Cures Through the Ages.” Lit Hub. 11/20/2018. https://lithub.com/weird-hangover-cures-through-the-ages/ · Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham. “The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories; with two appendices;.” https://archive.org/details/readershandb00brew/page/957/ · Danovich, Tove. “The Weird and Wonderful History of Hangover Cures.” 12/31/2015. https://www.eater.com/2015/12/31/10690384/hangover-cure-history · Dean, Sam. “How to Say 'Hangover' in French, German, Finnish, and Many Other Languages.” Bon Appetit. 12/28/2012. https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/how-to-say-hangover-in-french-german-finnish-and-many-other-languages · Frazer, Sir James George. “The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion.” https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3623/3623-h/3623-h.htm#c3section1 · “'Hair of the Dog that Bit you' in Dog, N. (1), Sense P.6.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, September 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/6646229330. · “Hangover, N., Sense 2.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, July 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/3221323975. · Hanson, David J. “Historical evolution of alcohol consumption in society.” From Alcohol: Science, Policy and Public Health. Peter Boyle, ed. Oxford University Press. 2013. · “Jag, N. (2), Sense 1.c.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, June 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/3217891040. · MacDonald, James. “The Weird Ways Humans Have Tried Curing Hangovers.” JSTOR Daily. 1/25/2016. https://daily.jstor.org/weird-ways-humans-tried-curing-hangovers/ · Nasser, Mervat. “Psychiatry in Ancient Egypt.” Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Vol. 11. December 1987. · Office of Communications, Princeton University. “Desires for fatty foods and alcohol share a chemical trigger.” 12/15/2004. https://pr.princeton.edu/news/04/q4/1215-galanin.htm · O'Reilly, Jean. “No convincing scientific evidence that hangover cures work, according to new research.” Via EurekAlert. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/938938 · Paulsen, Frank M. “A Hair of the Dog and Some Other Hangover Cures from Popular Tradition.” The Journal of American Folklore , Apr. - Jun., 1961, Vol. 74, No. 292 (Apr. - Jun., 1961). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/537784 · Pittler, Max, et al. “Interventions For Preventing Or Treating Alcohol Hangover: Systematic Review Of Randomised Controlled Trials.” BMJ: British Medical Journal , Dec. 24 - 31, 2005, Vol. 331, No. 7531 (Dec. 24 - 31, 2005). https://www.jstor.org/stable/25455748 · Shears, Jonathon. “The Hangover: A Literary & Cultural History.” Liverpool University Press. 2020. Suddath, Claire. “A Brief History of Hangovers.” Time. 1/1/2009. https://time.com/3958046/history-of-hangovers/ · Van Huygen, Meg. “15 Historical Hangover Cures.” Mental Floss. 12/30/2016. · Weinberg, Caroline. “The Science of Hangovers.” Eater. 12/31/2015. https://www.eater.com/drinks/2015/12/31/10685644/hangover-cures-how-to-prevent-hungover · Wills, Matthew. “Treating Wounds With Magic.” JSTOR Daily. 9/14/2019. https://daily.jstor.org/treating-wounds-with-magic/ · Wurdz, Gideon. “The Foolish Dictionary: An Exhausting Work of Reference to Un-certain English Words, Their Origin, Meaning, Legitimate and Illegitimate Use, Confused by a Few Pictures.” Robinson, Luce Company. 1904. https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=71QYAAAAYAAJ&rdid=book-71QYAAAAYAAJ&rdot=1 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Another chance to hear a Cunningcast Christmas treat: Tony reading his favourite poem ‘Goblin Market' by Christina Rossetti. He's discussing the context and history of Rossetti's iconic work with Madeleine Callaghan, Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. In his electrifying reading, Tony captures all the magic and strangeness of ‘Goblin Market', set in a fairy-tale world where a fraught encounter takes place between the two sisters Laura and Lizzie and a band of sinister goblin merchants who tempt Laura with their ‘forbidden fruits'. Can Lizzie save her sister from the evil Goblin's temptations? Hosted by Sir Tony Robinson X | Instagram With Madeleine Callaghan, Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. Author of ‘Shelley's Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays' (2017) and ‘The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley' (2019) published by Anthem Press. ‘Eternity in British Romantic Poetry' (Liverpool University Press), June 2022. www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/people/academic-staff/madeleine-callaghan Credits: Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald X @melissafitzg Executive Producer: Dominic de Terville Cover Art: The Brightside A Zinc Media Group production Follow: X @cunningcastpod Instagram @cunningcastpod If you enjoyed my podcast, please leave us a rating or review. Thank you, Love Tony x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 161 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 123 books, journals, and projects that embody the #StepUP theme of this year's University Press Week, happening Nov. 11 to 15. The featured publications, curated by AUPresses members in 12 countries, present thought-provoking concepts, new points of view, and inspiring ideas, many of which advocate for social change. For a complete list of UP Week events, see here For the gallery of 103 publications, see here To work at a university press, see here Anthony Cond is director of Liverpool University Press and president of the Association of University Presses Caleb Zakarin is editor at the New Books Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 161 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 123 books, journals, and projects that embody the #StepUP theme of this year's University Press Week, happening Nov. 11 to 15. The featured publications, curated by AUPresses members in 12 countries, present thought-provoking concepts, new points of view, and inspiring ideas, many of which advocate for social change. For a complete list of UP Week events, see here For the gallery of 103 publications, see here To work at a university press, see here Anthony Cond is director of Liverpool University Press and president of the Association of University Presses Caleb Zakarin is editor at the New Books Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/education

The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 161 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 123 books, journals, and projects that embody the #StepUP theme of this year's University Press Week, happening Nov. 11 to 15. The featured publications, curated by AUPresses members in 12 countries, present thought-provoking concepts, new points of view, and inspiring ideas, many of which advocate for social change. For a complete list of UP Week events, see here For the gallery of 103 publications, see here To work at a university press, see here Anthony Cond is director of Liverpool University Press and president of the Association of University Presses Caleb Zakarin is editor at the New Books Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 161 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 123 books, journals, and projects that embody the #StepUP theme of this year's University Press Week, happening Nov. 11 to 15. The featured publications, curated by AUPresses members in 12 countries, present thought-provoking concepts, new points of view, and inspiring ideas, many of which advocate for social change. For a complete list of UP Week events, see here For the gallery of 103 publications, see here To work at a university press, see here Anthony Cond is director of Liverpool University Press and president of the Association of University Presses Caleb Zakarin is editor at the New Books Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 161 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 123 books, journals, and projects that embody the #StepUP theme of this year's University Press Week, happening Nov. 11 to 15. The featured publications, curated by AUPresses members in 12 countries, present thought-provoking concepts, new points of view, and inspiring ideas, many of which advocate for social change. For a complete list of UP Week events, see here For the gallery of 103 publications, see here To work at a university press, see here Anthony Cond is director of Liverpool University Press and president of the Association of University Presses Caleb Zakarin is editor at the New Books Network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wir springen in dieser Folge wild in der Zeit herum, was nicht verwunderlich ist, denn wir sprechen über Zeitreisen. Eigentlich ein altes Konzept, ist jenes, mit dem wir heute am vertrautesten sind, eines, das erst im 19. Jahrhundert geboren wurde. Wir verdanken es einem Mann, der die wissenschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Einflüsse der Zeit zu einem Werk verarbeitet, das einflussreicher nicht hätte sein können – und damit nicht nur die Literatur, sondern auch die Art und Weise wie wir heute Vergangenheit und Zukunft diskutieren, maßgeblich beeinflusst. // Literatur - Carlo Rovelli. The Order of Time. Penguin UK, 2018. - James Gleick. Time Travel: A History. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016. - Leofranc Holford-Strevens. The History of Time: A Very Short Introduction. OUP Oxford, 2005. - Shippey, Tom. „‘Science Fiction and the Idea of History'“. In Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction, 70–84. Liverpool University Press, 2016. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1gn6c93.13. - Whitrow, G. J. „Reflections on the History of the Concept of Time“. In The Study of Time: Proceedings of the First Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time Oberwolfach (Black Forest) — West Germany, herausgegeben von J. T. Fraser, F. C. Haber, und G. H. Müller, 1–11. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 1972. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65387-2_1. // Erwähnte Folgen GAG30: Wie die Zeit zu unserer Zeit wurde – https://gadg.fm/30 GAG410: Lady Six Sky und eine kurze Geschichte der Maya – https://gadg.fm/410 GAG280: Der versunkene Kontinent Lemuria – https://gadg.fm/280 GAG466: Julia Felix und das Ende Pompejis – https://gadg.fm/466 GAG143: Über Marsmenschen, Massenpanik und die Entstehung eines Mythos – https://gadg.fm/143 Das Episodenbild zeigt einen Ausschnitt des Buchcovers "The Time Machine" von H.G. Wells. //Aus unserer Werbung Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte: https://linktr.ee/GeschichtenausderGeschichte //Wir haben auch ein Buch geschrieben: Wer es erwerben will, es ist überall im Handel, aber auch direkt über den Verlag zu erwerben: https://www.piper.de/buecher/geschichten-aus-der-geschichte-isbn-978-3-492-06363-0 Wer Becher, T-Shirts oder Hoodies erwerben will: Die gibt's unter https://geschichte.shop Wer unsere Folgen lieber ohne Werbung anhören will, kann das über eine kleine Unterstützung auf Steady oder ein Abo des GeschichteFM-Plus Kanals auf Apple Podcasts tun. Wir freuen uns, wenn ihr den Podcast bei Apple Podcasts oder wo auch immer dies möglich ist rezensiert oder bewertet. Wir freuen uns auch immer, wenn ihr euren Freundinnen und Freunden, Kolleginnen und Kollegen oder sogar Nachbarinnen und Nachbarn von uns erzählt! Du möchtest Werbung in diesem Podcast schalten? Dann erfahre hier mehr über die Werbemöglichkeiten bei Seven.One Audio: https://www.seven.one/portfolio/sevenone-audio

Episode 189: Memory as Inheritance: North African Jewish Heritage Through Documentary Film In this podcast, Margaux Fitoussi and Cléo Cohen discuss two of their films, El Hara (2017) and Que Dieu te protège/Rabbi Maak (2021), respectively. Each film asks questions about senses of home, heritage, memory, and displacement among Jewish North Africans. In the interview, Fitoussi and Cohen, who both come from North African Jewish families, discuss their personal relationships with their Jewish, Arab, French, and American identities. Albert Memmi, a prominent Tunisian Jewish author, influenced both filmmakers, as his writings articulate the complexity of Jewish North African identity in relation to class, colonialism, postcoloniality, ambivalence, and exile. Margaux Fitoussi is a visual anthropologist. Her work has screened at Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York, Director's Note, Musée d'art et d'histoire duJudaïsme in Paris, Cultural Pinacothèque in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin. Her translations have been published by AUC Press and Liverpool University Press. Before beginning her doctorate in anthropology at Columbia University, she studied religion at Harvard University and history at UC Berkeley. Cléo Cohen was born in 1993. She studied literature at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d'Ulm and at the Sorbonne. In 2017, she was a student at the Ecole documentaire de Lussas where she directed her first short documentary, Avant le depart (26'), which was selected at several festivals in France and internationally. Her first feature length film, Que Dieu te protège (77'), produced by Petit à Petit Production, was selected in several international festivals including CINEMED, IDFA, Traces de vie, JFF, CINEMAMED, CineJue Barcelone, Kaleidoskop FF, and the Festival du Film d'Auteur de Rabat, and won prizes at DOKLEIPZIG (Prix Interreligieux) and MIZNA ARAB FILM FESTIVAL (Prix du public). The film was broadcast on France 3 (l'Heure d). She is the author of several radiodocumentaries produced by France Culture including the series "Juive-arabe : comment je me suis réconciliée" (Jewish-Arab: How I Reconciled with Myself) (LSD, The Documentary Series), broadcast in May 2022. This podcast was recorded via Zoom on the 18th of September 2023 with Luke Scalone, CEMAT Chargé de Programmes. We thank Mr. Souheib Zallazi, (student at CFT, Tunisia) and Mr. Malek Saadani (student at ULT, Tunisia), for their interpretation of el Ardh Ardhi of Sabri Mesbah, performed for the introduction and conclusion of this podcast. Souheib on melodica and Malek on guitar. Production and editing: Lena Krause, AIMS Resident Fellow at the Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT).

GUEST OVERVIEW: Brian Fitzgerald is an independent scholar, adjunct professor at Eastern University, and long-term Orthodox Christian with publications at Liverpool University Press, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, and the Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. He has special interests in Byzantine and Syriac Christian history and theology, as well as Roman, Late Antique, Byzantine, and Middle Eastern history in general.

Find us on Twitter @BloodyBiblePod, on Facebook @TheBloodyBiblePodcast, and on Instagram @bloodybiblepodcast. You can also email the podcast at BloodyBiblePodcast@gmail.com.The Bloody Bible podcast is produced by Caroline Blyth, Emily Colgan and Richard BonifantEpisodes are recorded and edited by Richard BonifantOur podcast music is ‘Stalker' by Alexis Ortiz Sofield, courtesy of Pixabay music https://pixabay.com/music/search/stalker/ Our podcast art was created by Sarah Lea Westhttps://www.instagram.com/sarahleawest.art/?fbclid=IwAR0F4i-R7JpRePmm8PmGta_OkOCWa-kMjR3QGSSeOKi6SWNrCk3rA5VuIZk Resources for this episodeMelissa Archer, “The S/spirit of Jezebel and the Spirit of Prophecy: A Pentecostal Reading of Revelation 2:18–29.” Pneuma 44 (2022): 159–82.Eileen Berrington & Päivi Honkatukia, “An Evil Monster and a Poor Thing: Female Violence in the Media.” Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention 3, no. 1 (2002): 50–72. Athalya Brenner, “Jezebel: Bible.” Jewish Women's Archive. https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/jezebel-bible Bradley L. Crowell. “Good Girl, Bad Girl: Foreign Women of the Deuteronomistic History in Postcolonial Perspective.” Biblical Interpretation 21, no. 1 (2013): 1–11.Janet S. Everhart, “Jezebel: Framed by Eunuchs?” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 72 (2010): 688–98.Wilda C. Gafney, Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne. Westminster John Knox Press, 2017.Janet Howe Gaines, “How Bad Was Jezebel?” Biblical History Daily, 1 April 2023. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/how-bad-was-jezebel/ Else Holt, “‘Urged On by His Wife Jezebel': A Literary Reading of 1 Kgs 18 in Context,” JSOT 9 (1995) 83-96.Melissa Jackson, Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible: A Subversive Collaboration. Oxford University Press, 2012.Helena Kennedy, Misjustice: How British Law is Failing Women. Vintage, 2019.Leath, Jennifer S. ‘Revising Jezebel Politics: Towards a New Black Sexual Ethic' in Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century, 195–210. Liverpool University Press, 2017. Mark McEntire, “Cozbi, Achan, and Jezebel: Executions in the Hebrew Bible and Modern Lynching.” Review and Expositor 118, no. 1 ( 2021): 21–31.Judith E. McKinley, “Negotiating the Frame for Viewing the Death of Jezebel.” Biblical Interpretation 10, no. 3 (2002): 305–23.Jonathan O'Donnell, “The Body Politic(s) of the Jezebel Spirit.” Religion & Gender 7, no. 2 (2017), 240–55. https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/rag/7/2/article-p240_7.xml David Pilgrim, “The Jezebel Stereotype.” Jim Crow Museum. https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/jezebel/index.htm Phyllis Trible, “Exegesis for Storytellers and Other Strangers.” Journal of Biblical Literature 114, no. 1 (1995): 3–19.Robyn J. Whitaker, “Invoking Jezebel, Invoking Terror: The Threat of Sexual Violence in the Apocalypse to John.” In Terror in the Bible: Rhetoric, Gender, and Violence, ed. Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon and Robyn J. Whitaker, 107–120. SBL, 2021.“Black Girl Gone” podcast https://blackgirlgonepodcast.com/ Support Services List of sexual assault support services (NZ) – https://sexualabuse.org.nz/resources/find-sexual-assault-support-near-you/ RAINN (USA) – https://www.rainn.org/ For US listeners, to find a sexual assault support provider in your area, call 800.656.HOPE (4673)Helping Survivors (USA) – https://helpingsurvivors.org/ Rape Crisis (UK) – https://rapecrisis.org.uk/ Rape Crisis Scotland –​​ https://www.rapecrisisscotland.org.uk/ Full Stop (Australia) – https://fullstop.org.au/ Find a Helpline (lists helplines internationally) https://findahelpline.com/

This talk was given by Professor Anne Rowe at the Iris Murdoch Research Centre, University of Chichester (UK) on Saturday 17th February 2024. Anne Rowe is Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester and Emeritus Research Fellow with the Iris Murdoch Archive Project at Kingston University. Her publications include The Visual Arts and the Novels of Iris Murdoch (2002); Iris Murdoch: A Literary Life (2010) with Priscilla Martin, and Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 (2015), co-edited with Avril Horner and Iris Murdoch (2019) in the Writers and their Work series from Liverpool University Press. She has just completed work as a co-editor of the Poetry of Iris Murdoch (Forthcoming).

A Cunningcast Christmas treat: today Tony is reading his favourite poem ‘Goblin Market' by Christina Rossetti, an often-overlooked member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and he's discussing the context and history of Rossetti's iconic work with Madeleine Callaghan, Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield.In his electrifying reading, Tony captures all the magic and strangeness of ‘Goblin Market', which is set in a fairy-tale world where a fraught encounter takes place between the two sisters Laura and Lizzie and a band of sinister goblin merchants who tempt Laura with their ‘forbidden fruits'. Can Lizzie save her sister from the evil Goblin's temptations?Hosted by Sir Tony RobinsonX | InstagramWithMadeleine Callaghan, Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. Author of ‘Shelley's Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays' (2017) and ‘The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley' (2019) published by Anthem Press. Her latest book, ‘Eternity in British Romantic Poetry' (Liverpool University Press), came out in June 2022.www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/people/academic-staff/madeleine-callaghanCredits: Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald X @melissafitzg Executive Producer: Dominic de Terville Cover Art: The Brightside A Zinc Media Group production Follow: X @cunningcastpod Instagram @cunningcastpod If you enjoyed my podcast, please leave us a rating or review. Thank you, Love Tony x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today I talked to Ben Pladek about his novel Dry Land (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023).  Rand Brandt, a forester in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, discovers that his touch can grow any plant or tree. In this tale of Magical Realism, he dreams of using his gift to restore landscapes ruined by the lumber industry, but first needs to test his powers. Gabriel, his fellow forester, and secret lover, finds and saves Rand after he's pushed himself by spending his nights sneaking into the forest instead of sleeping. It's 1917 and the foresters are drafted to join in the fight in France. An old friend of Rand's joins the press covering his unit and helps him cover his tracks. A commanding officer learns about Rand's gift and demands that he grow forests for the wood needed to win the war, but Rand learns that everything he grows will die within days. Now, he's keeping two major secrets, either of which, if discovered, could destroy him. Ben Pladek is associate professor of literature at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His first novel, Dry Land, appeared in September 2023 with the University of Wisconsin Press. He's previously published short fiction in Strange Horizons, The Offing, Slate Future Tense Fiction, and elsewhere. As a colleague pointed out to him, his short fiction is often set in the near-future and his longer fiction in the near-past; other recurring interests include ecology, messy relationships, messier bureaucracy, and people feeling guilty. He's also written an academic book called The Poetics of Palliation: Romantic Literary Therapy, 1790-1850, that came out from Liverpool University Press in 2019, as well as a number of articles on British Romanticism. Before getting hired at Marquette, he did his PhD at the University of Toronto and taught for a year in the fantastic Foundation Year Programme at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When he moved to Wisconsin, he fell in love with the landscape and the state's fascinating history of conservation, including the writings of Aldo Leopold. Ben and his husband have hiked all over Wisconsin. They especially enjoy the Northwoods, Horicon Marsh, and the southwest “driftless” area. In Ben's spare time you can find him reading, birdwatching, taking long walks around Milwaukee, admiring wetlands, eating peanut butter, and taking pictures of informational signs at historical monuments that he'll never go back and read. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Today I talked to Ben Pladek about his novel Dry Land (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023).  Rand Brandt, a forester in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, discovers that his touch can grow any plant or tree. In this tale of Magical Realism, he dreams of using his gift to restore landscapes ruined by the lumber industry, but first needs to test his powers. Gabriel, his fellow forester, and secret lover, finds and saves Rand after he's pushed himself by spending his nights sneaking into the forest instead of sleeping. It's 1917 and the foresters are drafted to join in the fight in France. An old friend of Rand's joins the press covering his unit and helps him cover his tracks. A commanding officer learns about Rand's gift and demands that he grow forests for the wood needed to win the war, but Rand learns that everything he grows will die within days. Now, he's keeping two major secrets, either of which, if discovered, could destroy him. Ben Pladek is associate professor of literature at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His first novel, Dry Land, appeared in September 2023 with the University of Wisconsin Press. He's previously published short fiction in Strange Horizons, The Offing, Slate Future Tense Fiction, and elsewhere. As a colleague pointed out to him, his short fiction is often set in the near-future and his longer fiction in the near-past; other recurring interests include ecology, messy relationships, messier bureaucracy, and people feeling guilty. He's also written an academic book called The Poetics of Palliation: Romantic Literary Therapy, 1790-1850, that came out from Liverpool University Press in 2019, as well as a number of articles on British Romanticism. Before getting hired at Marquette, he did his PhD at the University of Toronto and taught for a year in the fantastic Foundation Year Programme at the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When he moved to Wisconsin, he fell in love with the landscape and the state's fascinating history of conservation, including the writings of Aldo Leopold. Ben and his husband have hiked all over Wisconsin. They especially enjoy the Northwoods, Horicon Marsh, and the southwest “driftless” area. In Ben's spare time you can find him reading, birdwatching, taking long walks around Milwaukee, admiring wetlands, eating peanut butter, and taking pictures of informational signs at historical monuments that he'll never go back and read. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

In this latest episode, writer Rosie Garland talks to us about the poem that has been a friend to her: 'My Dark Horses' by Jodie Hollander.Writer and singer with post-punk band The March Violets, Rosie Garland has a passion for language nurtured by public libraries. Her poetry collection ‘What Girls do the Dark' (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2021, & her novel The Night Brother was described by The Times as “a delight...with shades of Angela Carter.” Val McDermid has named her one of the UK's most compelling LGBT writers. http://www.rosiegarland.comJodie Hollander, originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was raised in a family of classical musicians. She studied poetry in England, and her poems have appeared in journals such as The Poetry Review, The Yale Review and The Dark Horse. Her debut full-length collection, My Dark Horses, was published with Liverpool University Press (Pavilion Poetry) in 2017. Her second collection, Nocturne, was published with Liverpool & Oxford University Press in the spring of 2023. https://www.jodiehollander.comRosie Garland is in conversation with The Poetry Exchange team members Sally Anglesea and John Prebble.In the introduction, Fiona also mentions Glyn Maxwell's extraordinary new collection, 'The Big Calls', which was published by Live Canon in March 2023.We hope you enjoy being with all the poems featured in this episode!*********My Dark Horsesby Jodie HollanderIf only I were more like my dark horses, I wouldn't have to worry all the time that I was running too little and resting too much. I'd spend my hours grazing in the sunlight, taking long naps in the vast pastures. And when it was time to move along I'd know; I'd spend some time with all those that I'd loved, then disappear into a gathering of trees.If only I were more like my dark horses, I wouldn't be so frightened of the storms; instead, when the clouds began to gather and fill I'd make my way calmly to the shed, and stand close to all the other horses. Together, we'd let the rain fall round us, knowing as darkness passes overhead that above all, this is the time to be still.From 'My Dark Horses' by Jodie Hollander, Liverpool University Press, 2017. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Es geht auch in dieser Folge weiter mit den Comics. Zu Gast ist Agnieszka Komorowska, die sich viel mit französischen und spanischen Comics auseinandergesetzt hat.Genauer berichtet sie von ihrer Forschung zur Darstellung der Wirtschaftskrise in diesem Medium. Wer wird als Täter dargestellt; wer als Opfer? Wird “die Realität” dargestellt? Warum gibt es in diesen Ländern diese Form der Darstellung?Doch wir sprechen nicht nur darüber sondern auch allgemein über den Unterschied zwischen Graphic Novel und Comic, über die Wichtigkeit des lokalen Buchhandels oder holen uns Tipps von ihr für Vorträge und Tagungen. Wer Gast sein möchte, Fragen oder Feedback hat, kann dieses gerne an houseofmodernhistory@gmail.com oder auf Twitter an @‌houseofmodhist richten. Literatur & Quellen:Antelme, Robert: Das Menschengeschlecht. diaphanes broschur, 2016.Appert, Etienne & Papin, Florent: Lehman, la Crise et Moi. La Boîte à Bulles, 2019.Aya Nakamura: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-69vhXlCa3XHbF8JHCQHfgBlair, Ann; Duguid, Paul; Goeing, Anka-Silvia & Grafton, Anthony: Information: A Historical Companion. Princeton University Press, 2021.Booba: https://www.youtube.com/@B2ObaOfficiel/videosBrieva, Miguel: Lo que me està passando. Diario de un joven emperdedor. Barcelona, Penguin Random House, 2015.Carle, Benjamin & Lopez, David: Sortie d'usine. La désindustrialisation et moi. Steinkis, 2021.Davodeau, Étienne: Les Mauvaises Gens. Delcourt, 2018.Despentes, Virginie: Liebes Arschloch. Kiepenhauer & Witsch, 2023.Hénaff, Patrick; Sabbah, Philippe & Roulot, Tristan: Hedge Fund. Le Lombard.Komorowska, Agnieszka: Scham und Schrift.Strategien literarischer Subjektkonstitution bei Duras, Goldschmidt und Ernaux. 2017.Moreno-Caballud, Luiis: Cultures of Anyone. Studies on Cultural Democratization in the Spanish Neoliberal Crisis. Liverpool University Press, 2015.Nickenig, Annika & Komorowska, Agnieszka: Poetiken des Scheiterns. Formen und Funktionen des unökonomische Erzählens. Brill, 2018.Porroni, Paula: Buena alumna. Editoral Minúscula, 2017.

...in which we celebrate our 100th birthday with an ascent of Grasmere's favourite fell, Helm Crag, to consider the question: "What is the unique magic of the Lake District?" In the company of Little Langdale cragsman and author Bill Birkett, poet Harriet Fraser, photographer Rob Fraser and – sharing our birthday – 90-year-old Gordon Bambrough, we enjoy blue skies as we climb steadily to The Lion and the Lamb's rocky top. As we walk, we explore our own relationships with Cumbria, how each of us fell in love with north-country landscapes, and what the fells mean to us. As we rove, we are joined by dozens of Lakes-lovers who answer the same enduring question: "What is the magic of Lakeland for you?" before picking a piece of poetry or prose that articulates the magic for them. Our readers for the episode – with many thanks – are the brilliant Sue Allan and Jonathan Humble. Emily Hasler's poem 'Grasmere Lake' is taken from The Built Environment and is published by Pavilion Poetry at Liverpool University Press. With thanks to all of our many contributors to this episode: you're all stars :-)

A podcast with my colleague Dr Mark McKenna who is an Associate Professor at Staffordshire University. We talked about horror films. Specifically, we talked about the the snuff movie as a form of horror. We also talked about the cultural mythologies that have grown up around the concept of snuff, how this mythology transformed in the technological age as well issues pertaining to distribution, marketing and desensitization. Please note we discuss extreme violence and sexual violence in this podcast. You can find out more about Mark via his personal website and his university webpage. Dr Mark McKenna is an Associate Professor in the Film and Media Industries and Director of the Centre for Research in the Digital Entertainment and Media Industries at Staffordshire University. Mark's research is largely centered on cult and horror cinema, he is the author of Nasty Business: The Marketing and Distribution of the Video Nasties  (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) and Snuff (Liverpool University Press, 2023), and is co-editor of the Routledge collection Horror Franchise Cinema (2021), and author of the report Silicon Stoke 2023: Developing Film, TV and Other Content Production in North Staffordshire and is he is currently working on his third monograph, a study of the John Milius surf film Big Wednesday (1978) for the Routledge series Cinema and Youth Cultures. If you would like to study with me you can find more information about our online education MAs in Philosophy here at Staffordshire University. You can find out more information on our MA in Continental Philosophy via this link. Or, join our MA in Philosophy of Nature, Information and Technology via this link. Find out more about me here.  September intakes F/T or January intakes P/T. You can listen to more free back content from the Thales' Well podcast on TuneIn Radio, Player Fm, Stitcher and Podbean. You can also download their apps to your smart phone and listen via there. You can also subscribe for free on iTunes. Please leave a nice review.  

Ciaran O'Driscoll lives in Limerick. A member of Aosdána, he has published ten books of poetry, including Gog and Magog (1987), Moving On, Still There: New and Selected Poems (2001), and Surreal Man (2006). His work has been translated into many languages. Angel Hour (SurVision, 2021) is his most recent full collection. Liverpool University Press published his childhood memoir, A Runner Among Falling Leaves (2001). His novel, A Year's Midnight, was published by Pighog Press (2012). His awards include the James Joyce Prize and the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry. His poem ‘Please Hold' (featured in Forward's anthology Poems of the Decade (2011) has become a set text for A Level English Literature. Five of his poems are included in the forthcoming anthology Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poetry, edited by Jonas Danys (Lamar University Literary Press, USA).This week's Southword poem is ‘Sept 13th, 2001' by Dante Micheaux, which appears in issue 41. You can buy single issues, subscribe, or find out how to submit to Southword here.

In Andrzej Żuławski's "Possession" (1981), Anna (Isabelle Adjani) and Marc (Sam Neill) are a married couple in turmoil. When Marc, some kind of international spy (it's never specified) comes home to West Berlin after a mission in East Berlin, he and Anna are on thin ice. Marc suspects she's having an affair and when he finds confirmation of this news, has a brief depressive spiral. Their son, Bob (Michael Hogben), seems to be the only thing keeping both of them in contact with each other, although he is severely neglected by both throughout the film. In Anna's absence, Marc clings to other women like Helen, Bob's teacher (also played by Adjani), who is Anna's double but with lighter hair, eyes, and a more easy-going attitude; and Margie, Anna's best friend who pops in as a surrogate caregiver when Marc needs her. In order to figure out WTF is going on with Anna, Marc decides to hire a detective to look into her whereabouts/affairs. What he finds is more than Marc could have ever predicted. Not only is Anna killing men, she's feeding parts of them to a monster that she is also fucking. The monster is a project and when “ready,” will become Marc's double … the version of him that Anna finds most palatable. The film's structure has been compared to that of a spiral staircase (a common visual in many Żuławski films, including this one) … at each new level, it builds on what is already there, transcending to something the same but different. Here are some things we mentioned during the episode and/or that we think you should check out: Alison Taylor's installment on "Possession" from the Devil's Advocates series (Be warned, they seem to print these books on demand, so the photos are potato quality but the text is excellent. I wish Liverpool University Press would just sell a PDF.) Kier-La Janisse's "House of Psychotic Women" where she discusses the film and her own relationship to it (among others) Interview with Żuławski Kim Newman's overview on the history of the ‘video nasty' controversy The upcoming Faith & Chance (A Deep Dive into POSSESSION) podcast 2016 Daughters of Darkness 4-part series on Żuławski (search for his name) The Projection Booth podcast (search for "Possession") Other cerebral horror movies about fucked up relationships where people try to possess each other: Lars von Trier's “Antichrist” (2009) David Cronenberg's “The Brood” (1979) Nicolas Roeg's “Don't Look Now” (1973) Claire Denis' “Trouble Every Day” (2001) Roman Polanski's “Bitter Moon” (1992) Ingmar Bergman's “Through a Glass Darkly” (1961) Other cerebral horror movies about women losing their shit: Roman Polanski's “Repulsion” (1965) and “Rosemary's Baby” (1968) David Fincher's “Gone Girl” (2014) Julia Ducournau's "Raw" (2017) and “Titane” (2021) David Lynch's "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" (1992), “Mulholland Drive” (2001), and “Inland Empire” (2008) Ingmar Bergman's "Persona" (1966)

Today we're going back to the Regency with 2020's Emma.! Join us as we learn about pinkie rings, marriage customs, Roma stereotypes, and more! Sources: Church of England, "Marriage" https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/marriage  The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland... (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1840) https://google.com/books/edition/The_Book_of_Common_Prayer/ba89AAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1  Richard Crider, "Emma's Anglican Wedding," Christianity and Literature 28, no. 2 (1979): 34-39. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44310592   Rebecca Probert, "Control over Marriage in England and Wales, 1753-1823: The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 in Context," Law and History Review 27, no.2 (2009): 413-450. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40646019  Wendy Kennett, "The Place of Worship in Solemnization of a Marriage," Journal of Law and Religion 30, no.2 (2015): 260-294. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24739206   https://ew.com/awards/oscars/emma-costumes-alexandra-byrne/  Victoria & Albert Museum, examples of early 1800s wedding fashion: 1820s dress https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O63393/wedding-dress-unknown/  1820 veil https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O359432/wedding-veil-unknown/  1807 dress https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1261897/wedding-dress-unknown/ 1818 fashion plate https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O711008/bridal-dress-fashion-plate-unknown/  """Harriet Innes-Ker (née Charlewood), Duchess of Roxburghe ('London Fashions for September 1806, taken Authentically from the full & half dresses of the Dutches of Roxborough as worn by her Grace on her Marriage in August last')"" published by John Bell, published in La Belle Assemblée or Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine etching and line engraving, published 1806 7 1/4 in. x 5 1/4 in. (185 mm x 134 mm) paper size; acquired unknown source, 1930; Reference Collection NPG D47501 https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw279713/Harriet-Innes-Ker-ne-Charlewood-Duchess-of-Roxburghe-London-Fashions-for-September-1806-taken-Authentically-from-the-full--half-dresses-of-the-Dutches-of-Roxborough-as-worn-by-her-Grace-on-her-Marriage-in-August-last?LinkID=mp160026&role=art&rNo=7 " David Cressy, "Trouble with Gypsies in Early Modern England," The Historical Journal 59, no.1 (2016): 45-70. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24809837   Yaron Matras, "The Historical Position of British Romani," in Romani in Britain: The Afterlife of a Language, 57-94 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r23jh.8  Colin Clark, "'Severity has often enraged but never subdued a gipsy': The History and Making of European Romani Stereotypes," in Role of the Romanies: Images and Counter Images of 'Gypsies'/Romanies in European Cultures eds. Nicholas Saul and Susan Tebbutt, 226-246 (Liverpool University Press, 2004) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vjjv0.19  Slate Interview with Autumn De Wilde: https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/emma-movie-autumn-de-wilde-interview-jane-austen-beck.html Emma, Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/emma_2020 Emma, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_(2020_film) Ellie Harrison, "Queen's Gambit Star Reveals That She Can Make Her Nose Bleed on Cue," The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/anya-taylor-joy-emma-queens-gambit-b1767215.html Portrait of Richard Cumberland, 1776, National Portrait Gallery. Available at https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw01669/Richard-Cumberland National Portrait Gallery, Search Results for Years 1775-1825: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?search=ap&firstRun=true&title=&npgno=&eDate=1775&lDate=1825&medium=&subj=&set=&portraitplace=&searchCatalogue=&submitSearchTerm=Search Leena Kim, "The History of the Pinkie Ring," Town and Country, available at https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/mens-fashion/a37937872/pinky-rings-meaning/ Alice Drum, "Pride and Prestige: Jane Austen and the Professions," College Literature 36, 3 (2009)

Wednesday, 4 May 2022, 1 – 2pm An 'in conversation' event featuring Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Dr Karly Kehoe (Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia, Canada), hosted by Dr Ciaran O'Neill, Deputy Director Trinity Long Room Hub. About Dr Karly Kehoe Dr Karly Kehoe is the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities at Saint Mary's University in Nova Scotia, Canada. She researches religious minority migration (focusing on Irish and Scottish Catholics) and settler colonialism in the north Atlantic world. She is the convenor of the Scottish Historical Review Trust, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is the chairperson and academic lead of the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies. She co-edits the Histories of the Scottish North Atlantic book series with Edinburgh University Press and her second monograph, Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780-1850, was published in February 2022 by Toronto University Press. While at Trinity, she will be working on the A Catholic Atlantic project which explores the links between Scotland and Ireland, the Caribbean, and northeastern British North America. Dr Ciaran O'Neill Ciaran O'Neill began his term as Deputy Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub in September 2020. Ciaran also serves as Trinity's Community Liaison Officer. A nineteenth century historian, his first monograph, Catholics of Consequence (2014) wone the JS Donnelly Prize at the American Conference for Irish Studies. He is editor (with Finola O'Kane Crimmins) of the forthcoming MUP collection, Ireland, Slavey and the Caribbean (2021) and is currently completing a second monograph entitled Life in a Palliative State. His current research projects focus on the Eastern Caribbean. Ciaran is a series editor for both Liverpool University Press's Reappraisals in Irish History and the SSNCI series. He has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Sâo Paulo, Boston College, University of Notre Dame, and at St Mary's University Halifax

This discussion is with Dr. Jacqueline Couti, she is the Laurence H. Favrot Professor of French Studies at Rice university. Her research and teaching interests delve into the transatlantic and transnational interconnections between cultural productions from continental France and its now former colonies. A central theme of her research is how local knowledge in the colonial and post-colonial eras has shaped the literatures, and the cultural awareness of the self, in former French colonies through specific representations of sexuality. She is the author of Dangerous Creole Liaisons (2016) and “Lumina Sophie, Nineteenth-Century Martinique,” in Women Claiming Freedom: Gender, Race, and Liberty in the Americas. In this conversation, we discuss Sex, Sea, and Self: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses 1924-1948 published by Liverpool University Press in 2021. Our conversation here focuses on key concepts and arguments in the book where she puts Metropolitan France and the French Caribbean in dialogue exploring constructions of gender, race, sexuality, identity politics, and nationalism. 

A conversation with Zeyad el Nabolsy, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, and Grant Farred about the forthcoming collection Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures, forthcoming in spring 2022 with Temple University Press. The volume addresses the history and future of the field of Africana studies, with emphasis on theoretical innovations and possibilities in Africa and the black Atlantic.Zeyad el Nabolsy is a doctoral student in Africana Studies at Cornell University, where he works on African iterations of philosophy, culture, and Marxism in a continental and global intellectual context and has authored a piece on political economy and African philosophy for the volume under discussion. Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, the author of the volume's Afterword, is Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick and writes on philosophy and cultural theory with particular emphasis on francophone Africa, including Past Imperfect: Time and African Decolonization, 1945-1960, which was published in 2021 by Liverpool University Press. Grant Farred, the editor of Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures, is Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University, where he writes and teaches philosophy, cultural studies, and literature in a black Atlantic context. Grant is the author of a number of books, including most recently An Essay for Ezra: Racial Terror in America, published by University of Minnesota in late 2021.

The first episode of the Combat Morale Podcast features an interview with Dr Edward Burke, Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. Edward talks about his book, ‘An Army of Tribes', that explores the motivation, cohesion, efficiency, ethics and morale of the British soldier during the early stages of Operation Banner, the deployment of the British Army to Northern Ireland in the early 1970s. Published by Liverpool University Press.

Presentaciones de libros de Estudios Ibéricos. En este episodio, Katiusca Darici (U. Ca' Foscari Venecia) conversa con Esther Gimeno Ugalde (U. Vienna), Marta Pachecho Pinto (U. Lisboa) y Ânglea Fernandes (U. Lisboa), editoras de Iberian and Translation Studies, Literary Contact Zones (Liverpool University Press, 2021).

An interview with Robert G. Hoyland, Professor of Late Antiquity and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. He is the author of "In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire," published by Oxford University Press in 2014, and translator and editor of "The 'History of the Kings of the Persians' in Three Arabic Chronicles: The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam," published by Liverpool University Press in 2018.

Cerrando con broche de oro esta serie de episodios sobre nuestro Bicentenario, hoy conversamos del importante papel que tuvieron las mujeres durante dicho proceso, desde las grandes rebeliones del siglo XVIII hasta la consolidación de la independencia en 1824, descubriendo y reivindicando las acciones de algunas mujeres en este contexto histórico, en el cual muchas veces han quedado injustamente relegadas, tanto de los rostros más conocidos como Micaela Bastidas, María Parado de Bellido o Manuela Sáenz, como de auténticas heroínas de quienes no se conoce mucho, entre ellas Tomasa Tito Condemayta, Ventura Ccalamaqui o Matiaza Rimachi. Para conversar sobre el rol de las mujeres en nuestra independencia nos acompaña Adriana Ayala, estudiante de la Academia Diplomática del Perú; asimismo, entrevistamos a Violeta Quispe, artista de Sarhua, quien nos contará sobre su participación en la muestra del LUM Las independencias regionales: Guerra, mujeres y participación popular. ¡Gracias a nuestros Patreons que hacen posible llegar semana a semana con los episodios de Por las Rutas! Para ser parte de nuestro Patreon, visita: https://www.patreon.com/porlasrutasdelacuriosidad, o envíanos un Yape ingresando a: https://bit.ly/3fcTORK. Gracias por la portada a JB Design – Diseño, Diagramación y Publicidad REFERENCIAS: Mujeres peruanas: el otro lado de la historia, Sara Beatriz Guardia; Sara Beatriz Guardia, edición reimpresa, 2013 South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Text, Claire Brewster (traducido por Camila Huerga) y varios autores; Liverpool University Press, edición digital, 2011 El liderazgo de Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua, Alfredo Sumi; Grupo Editorial Gato Viejo, edición reimpresa, 2017 http://e.elcomercio.pe/66/impresa/pdf/2010/05/09/ECTE090510z14.pdf https://revistas.unjbg.edu.pe/index.php/vyh/article/download/866/962/1686 http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/blog/juanluisorrego/2008/07/16/las-rabonas/ https://www.bcrp.gob.pe/docs/Billetes-Monedas/Monedas-de-Coleccion/la-mujer-en-el-proceso-de-independencia-del-peru/mujeres-patriotas-folleto.pdf https://historiaperuana.pe/periodo-colonial/emancipacion/intervencion-mujer-gesta-emancipadora https://redaccion.lamula.pe/2019/03/08/heroinas-de-la-independencia-del-peru-son-visibilizadas-en-el-centro-cultural-espana-fotos/redaccionmulera/ https://elcomercio.pe/opinion/colaboradores/mujer-politica-mito-realidad-margarita-guerra-207785-noticia/ http://revista.letras.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/le/article/download/19/19/ https://blog.derrama.org.pe/y-quien-fue-brigida-silva-de-ochoa/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpUIf2HTaH8 https://elperuano.pe/noticia/70870-femenino-gesto-de-rebeldia https://www.servindi.org/actualidad-entrevistas/24/09/2018/la-rebelion-de-ventura-qalamaqui-en-1814 Ver referencias completas en: porlasrutas.com/t3e29 MÚSICA UTILIZADA EN ESTE PROGRAMA (TODOS LOS DERECHOS PERTENECEN A LOS AUTORES, COMPOSITORES Y/O INTÉRPRETES) Danza de tijeras, Wayanay / Autor: Danza folklórica de los departamentos de Apurímac, Ayacucho y Huancavelica Para vivir contigo (Canto a Micaela Bastidas), Erick Tejada ft. Daniela Pabón, Tere Morales, José Luis Ramírez, Andi Valenz, Karen Villarroel y Javier Mariscal / Autor: César Calvo y Erick Tejada María Parado de Bellido, Pastorita Huaracina / Autor: María Alvarado Trujillo Warma viday, Los Legendarios Morochucos / Autor: Leonardo Alarcón Cárdenas

To learn more about the Haitian Revolution in fiction, I spoke with Professor Marlene Daut specialized in pre-20th-century Caribbean, African American, and French colonial literary and historical studies. Her first book, Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865, was published in 2015 by Liverpool University Press' Series in the Study of International Slavery. Her second book, Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism, was published in fall 2017 from Palgrave Macmillan’s series in the New Urban Atlantic. She is  also working on a collaborative project entitled, An Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions (Age of Slavery), which is under contract with the University of Virginia Press. Daut is the co-creator and co-editor of H-Net Commons’ digital platform, H-Haiti. She also curates a website on early Haitian print culture at http://lagazetteroyale.com and has developed an online bibliography of fictions of the Haitian Revolution from 1787 to 1900 at the website http://haitianrevolutionaryfictions.com.  "Theresa. A Haytien Tale," (1828) is the first known published story by an African-American writer in the United States. The story appeared in four installments in Freedom’s Journal, the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the U.S. from 1827 - 1829. The story was rediscovered by pioneering scholar Frances Smith Foster. The story is now included in Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts.     —————————   //////////////////   Follow us: (THINK ABOUT IT PODCAST) INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/thinkaboutit.podcast/ . (ULI BAER) TWITTER - https://twitter.com/UliBaer INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/uli.baer WEBSITE - https://woodson.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/mld9b . (MARLENE DAUT) TWITTER - https://twitter.com/fictionsofhaiti INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/fictionsofhaiti ////////////////   Listen to the Podcast on: APPLE PODCASTS - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/think-about-it/id1438358902 SPOTIFY - https://open.spotify.com/show/3QDjymXla0Lt61r2OaWEtV YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnaJi-J359remsMZ3Y2EJMQ   Thanks for listening! :) Uli Baer.

This special centenary joint symposium will address the cultural, political and social legacies of Irish partition in 1921. The symposium consists of two panels: the first, from Trinity College, Dublin, will discuss the cultural and literary legacies of partition; the second, from Queen's University, Belfast, will cover the political and social consequences. Each panel consists of three speakers who will present for 10 minutes each, followed by audience Q and A. The symposium is hosted by the Trinity Long Room Hub. Chair: Ciaran O'Neill Ciaran O'Neill is Associate Professor in Nineteenth Century History at Trinity College Dublin and Deputy Director of Trinity Long Room Hub. He is editor (with Finola O'Kane Crimmins) of the forthcoming MUP collection, Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean (2022) and is currently completing a second monograph, entitled Life in a Palliative State (OUP, 2022). His current research projects focus on the Eastern Caribbean. Speakers: Stephen O'Neill Stephen O'Neill's monograph, Irish Culture and Partition 1920-1955 is forthcoming with Liverpool University Press. From 2019-2020 he was an National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the University of Notre Dame's Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. A graduate of Queen's University Belfast, he completed his PhD in the School of English at Trinity College in 2018. Stephen will discuss the early literature and culture of partition in Ireland, with a focus on the 1920s. Guy Woodward Guy Woodward is the author of Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War, published by OUP in 2015. He completed his doctorate and IRC-funded postdoctorate in Trinity College, and is currently Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the project ‘The Political Warfare Executive, Covert Propaganda and British Culture' in the Department of English Studies, Durham University. He will talk on ‘Border crossings in Irish wartime writing'. Eve Patten Eve Patten is Professor in Trinity's School of English and is currently Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. She is the editor of Irish Literature in Transition, 1940 – 1980 (CUP, 2020) and is completing a monograph, Ireland, Revolution and the English Modernist Imagination, for OUP. She will discuss depictions of the Irish border in English film and literature.

President Biden made an unvarnished case for taxing the rich on Wednesday, facing reporters steeped in decades of anti-tax dogma. In another surprise move, Biden came out in favor of suspending patents for vaccine makers in order to make the vaccine more readily available to the world. However, Germany is pushing back against waivers, which will lead to a global showdown over access to the life-saving shots.  India’s COVID cases continued to climb this week to more than 412,000 cases in one day. Only about 2% of Indians have been vaccinated and hospitals continue to face oxygen shortages as the Modi government faces charges of fumbling or actively worsening conditions.  More than 25 people are dead in Colombia after more than a week of protests over a tax plan put forward to cover costs of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Colombia is has also been hit by mass unemployment due to lockdowns.  Right-wing Republican Liz Cheyney is on the verge of losing her House leadership position because she won’t tow the party line that Trump actually won the election. New York’s morphing power-Trumpista, Elise Stefanik looks like she may take over Cheyney’s leadership position.  Texas Republican’s pass more voter suppression legislation. Good thing the Texas GOP dominated Senate passed legislation the day before allowing concealed carry without a permit.  A Trump appointed federal judge, Dabney Friedrich, struck down the CDC’s eviction moratorium on Wednesday, spreading that much more concern among tenants hit hard by the pandemic.  Irish Republican’s remembered the IRA’s Bobby Sands this week on the 40th anniversary of his death in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland. Check out my friend Stu’s amazing book on the hunger strikes, Smashing H-Block: The Popular Campaign against Criminalization and the Irish Hunger Strikes 1976-1982, from Liverpool University Press.  Ski Patrollers at Breckenridge Resort in Colorado voted to unionize with the Communications Workers of America. Breckenridge Resort is part of Vail Resorts which has seen a string of union drives over the past few years as patrollers point to declining wages and working conditions.  Trump launched a new blog.  And births fall to a 42-year low in the U.S. due largely to pandemic social distancing. However, if you follow calls for a “Hot Vax Summer” on social media, we just might see a new boom in little ones by next spring.  Governor Wolf fired every member on the Charter Appeals Board and sent nominations to the Pennsylvania Senate.  One of the nominees include former state senate candidate and music teacher, Shanna Danielson. The Charter Appeals Board was filled with holdovers with expired terms from the Corbett administration.  The race for Philadelphia District Attorney is getting underway and Philly politics is showing everyone what they got.  Late last week, the Philadelphia FOP was handing out Mr. Softee ice cream cones in front of Larry Krasner’s offices.   In response to this stunt, Ben Cohen from Ben and Jerry’s put Mr Softee on blast.  In a press release, Mr. Cohen stated: “The FOP is out of control, regularly lashing out at anyone who threatens their unquestioned power,” “To be clear, Mr. Softee isn’t even ice cream. It is pumped up with a lot of hot air, which is somehow frozen in a limp sort of way. It is chock full of artificial ingredients. In short, it’s fake ice cream. Just like the lies that the FOP has been telling about a courageous fighter for true justice and one of the best D.A.’s in the U.S.” Then following Wednesday’s debate, Krasner’s opponent, Carlos Vega tried taunting Krasner once the debate finished. The taunting was caught on a hot-mic and Vega said “I’m your worst nightmare” and “I’ve been in your head for a long time.”  Krasner responded by saying “Sure Carlos.” Vega claims to be living “rent-free” in Krasner’s head, but Vega filed a bullshit lawsuit trying to sue Krasner and his supporters from social media because of “mean tweets.” Will Bunch wrote a scathing column writing that moves to dismantle the PA State System of Higher Education are actively turning the American Dream into a nightmare. He lays the bulk of the blame at the feet of GOP legislators who have been beating the drum of austerity since the 1980s. Oh, and thanks to Rep. Russ Diamond. Russ decided to troll us after our Monday show and, as a result, we’ve got a whole bunch of new listeners! An 18 ton Chinese rocket segment is set to come crashing down to Earth most likely this weekend and no one knows where exactly it will land. Normally a piece of equipment that large would reenter the atmosphere in a controlled descent. Not the case here. After delivering the first module of China’s first space station to orbit, the booster started to fall back to Earth in an uncontrolled descent. So, as they say, heads up this weekend.  SpaceX finally sticks a Starship landing. The SN15 Starship rocket made a successful high-latitude test on Wednesday - this time without the explosive landing.  Pennsylvania House is taking up a critical question that’s on everyone’s post-pandemic mind: will we still be able to get our cocktails to-go? Well, we have an answer - at least part of an answer: on Tuesday, the PA House Liquor Control Committee voted 23-0 to approve Republican Rep. Kurt Masser’s legislation to make drinks-to-go a permanent part of living the PA life.  Free Will Brewing releases: Spruce - Barrel Aged Saison with Spruce Tips; Tentacle - Pale Ale hopped with EXP10416, Amarillo, and Huell Melon; and, Safeword - Imperial IPA with Mangoes and Habanero Peppers.  Sean is turning to wine for the next chapter of his lifestyle channel. 

Monday, 12 April 2021, 10 – 11am A research presentation by Dr Denis Murphy (Department of Film, TCD) as part of the School of Creative Arts Research Forum (SCARF) in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. Although filmmaking in Ireland dates back to the silent era, Irish film workers have not always enjoyed easy access to employment on the international productions on which the Irish film industry has always depended for its economic survival. These struggles – for the right to employment itself, and the right to influence its quality through pay and working conditions – have been shaped throughout the past six decades by film worker activism. This presentation introduces this ‘bottom-up' approach to understanding Irish film and television production, highlighting the unique contribution of film workers to the development of screen policy in Ireland. The research, therefore, takes a novel approach to the examination of Irish screen media, appreciating them for their industrial rather than cultural aspects – and particularly the extent to which they provide quality employment to screen workers (and screen producers) in Ireland. Denis Murphy is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Dept. of Film at Trinity College Dublin, where he also lectures in screen production. He has also lectured at DCU and Maynooth University and previously worked as an editor and producer in film, cable television, multimedia and advertising. His book on the labour history of Irish film and television production is to be published by Liverpool University Press. The School of Creative Arts Research Forum meets fortnightly at 10am on Mondays during term and is led by the School's doctoral students. The aim of the Forum is to give a space for School researchers, both staff and postgraduate students, to share their ideas in a supportive environment. It is also an opportunity for the School to hear about the research of colleagues both from within TCD and outside who share our research interests. In line with the research agenda of the School, talks will encompass traditional research and practice-based research and will be followed by Q&A.

In this episode, we tackle reading King James I's Demonology so you don't have to! Because it. is. a. lot. But there's also plenty of source material in there that likely informed the depiction of witchcraft in Macbeth. Shakespeare Anyone? is created, written, produced, and hosted by Korey Leigh Smith and Elyse Sharp. Our theme music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Works Referenced: King James VI and I. (2008). Daemonologie. Urbana, Illinois: Project Gutenberg. Accessed x Nov. 2020, from http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25929/25929-h/25929-h.html. Normand, Lawrence, and Gareth Roberts, editors. Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches. 1st ed., Liverpool University Press, 2000. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vjmvw. Accessed 21 Dec. 2020. Tyson, Donald, and James Carmichael. The Demonology of King James I. Edited by Tom Bilstad, 5th ed., Llewellyn, 2019. Wright, James. “Ritual Protection Marks and Witchcraft at Knole, Kent.” Mondays at One Archaeology Series. 19 Oct. 2015, Gresham College, Accessed 5 Nov. 2020, from https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/ritual-protection-marks-and-witchcraft-at-knole-kent

Ever read Macbeth and wonder, "Why witches?" Well, if you were trying to earn favor with your new Scottish King who was OBSESSED with witchcraft, maybe you'd write some witches into your very Scottish play.  In this episode, we explore the concept of witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland, King James I's obsession with the topic, and the North Berwick Witch Trials to discover the cultural context that surrounded the creation of Shakespeare's Weird Sisters.  Shakespeare Anyone? is created, written, produced, and hosted by Korey Leigh Smith and Elyse Sharp. Our theme music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Works Referenced: Normand, Lawrence, and Gareth Roberts, editors. Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches. 1st ed., Liverpool University Press, 2000. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vjmvw. Accessed 21 Dec. 2020. Tyson, Donald, and James Carmichael. The Demonology of King James I. Edited by Tom Bilstad, 5th ed., Llewellyn, 2019.  Wright, James. “Ritual Protection Marks and Witchcraft at Knole, Kent.” Mondays at One Archaeology Series. 19 Oct. 2015, Gresham College, Accessed 5 Nov. 2020, from https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/ritual-protection-marks-and-witchcraft-at-knole-kent

Travel back to the early-19th century (and your childhood) with Mary Poppins! Join us for a discussion of constables, bank runs, Dick van Dyke's accent, screevers and buskers, and more! Sources: Film Background: "Mary Poppins," IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058331/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv Robin Raven, "What the Mary Poppins Author Really Thought of the Original Movie," Readers Digest, available at https://www.rd.com/article/mary-poppins-p-l-travers/ Maane Khatchatourian, "Tom Hanks: PL Travers Would Hate 'Saving Mr Banks'" Variety, available at https://variety.com/2013/scene/news/tom-hanks-p-l-travers-would-hate-saving-mr-banks-1200940630/ Cockney Accent: New York Times, "Michael Caine: An Accent that Broke Through Class Barriers," available at https://youtu.be/XBjp1oEZcwU "Cockney Accent," British Library. Available at https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/cockney-accent-freddie-ridley-road-market "Cockney," Encyclopedia Britannica, available at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cockney Derek B. Scott, "The Music-Hall Cockney: Flesh, Blood, or Replicant?" Music and Letters 83, 2 (2002) Dialects Archive: England. Available at https://www.dialectsarchive.com/england Melissa Hogenboom, "What Does Your Accent Say About You?" BBC. Available at https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180307-what-does-your-accent-say-about-you Bank Runs: William Dalrymple, "The East India Company: The Original Corporate Raiders," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders Richard B. Sheridan, "The British Credit Crisis of 1772 and the American Colonies," Journal of Economic History 20, 2 (1960) Henry Hamilton, "The Failure of Ayre Bank," Economic History Review 8, 3 (1956) Christopher Klein, "10 Things You Might Not Know About the Boston Tea Party," History.com, available at https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-boston-tea-party Constables: Philip Rawlings, Policing: a short history (Willan, 2002). Joanne Klein, Invisible Men: The Secret Lives of Police Constables in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, 1900-1939 (Liverpool University Press, 2010). Clive Emsley, Hard men: the English and violence since 1750 (Hambledon and London, 2005). Buskers and Screevers: Dr. Paul Simpson, "The History of Street Performance" Gresham College https://youtu.be/Ja9wnrusGdQ Dr. Paul Simpson, "The History of Street Performance: 'Music by handle' and the Silencing of Street Musicians in the Metropolis," Gresham College https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-history-of-street-performance Dale Chapman, "The 'one-man band' and entrepreneurial selfhood in neoliberal culture," Popular Music 32:3 (October 2013): 451-70. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24736784 John M. Picker, "The Soundproof Study: Victorian Professionals, Work Space, and Urban Noise," Victorian Studies 42:3 (Spring 1999- Spring 2000): 427-53. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3828975 Sam Wollaston, "Where the streets have no change: how buskers are surviving in cashless times," The Guardian (8 November 2018). https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/08/where-the-streets-have-no-change-how-buskers-are-surviving-in-cashless-times Leslie Gilbert Elman, "Where the sidewalk ends, chalk art begins," CNN Travel (10 September 2013). https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/chalk-art-festivals/index.html "I Madonnari: Italian street artists take over the chicest shopping streets in Europe" https://world.dolcegabbana.com/discover/a-brief-history-of-the-italian-street-artists-called-madonnari/ Daniel South, "David Zinn: Street art that washes away in the rain," BBC (6 June 2020). https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-52913521 Sarah Todd, "Sidewalk chalk drawings have a colorful 500-year history" Quartz (22 June 2019). https://qz.com/quartzy/1650194/the-history-of-sidewalk-chalk-drawings/

I ask the stupid questions on your behalf. Dr. Andrew Sanders holds a PhD in Politics, International Studies and Philosophy and a MA FROM Queen's University Belfast and a BSc in Social and Management Science from Edinburgh Napier University. His research focuses on terrorism and political violence, state responses to insurgency, and the intentional dimension to conflict. He is the author of Inside the IRA:Dissident Republicans and the War for Ligitimacy (Edinburgh, 2011) and co-authored Times and Troubles: Britiain's War in Northern Ireland (Edinburgh, 2012) with Ian S. Wood. His third book, the Long Peace Process: The United States of America and the Northern Ireland Conflict is forthcoming with Liverpool University Press. He has published several articles on topics such as international support for terrorism, the role of diaspora in conflict, the concept of minimum force in military operations,and transatlantic relations. He teaches course on Comparative Politics, International Relations, Terrorism, Political Research and US and Texas Government.

Apresentação de livros de estudos ibéricos, programa 4 (Segunda-feira, 19 de outubro de 2020). Neste episódio falamos com Hilary Owen e Claire Williams, editoras de Transnational Portuguese Studies (Liverpool University Press, 2020).

My guest is Tara Martin Lopez. Tara is an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences of at Northern New Mexico College. Her work focuses on the intersection between gender, race, and social movements with a particular focus on the US punk movement. She also wrote a book on one of the most tumultuous period in postwar British history, entitled “The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory and History”, which was published by Liverpool University Press in 2014. Tara and I talk about the "winter of discontent" in the UK, about "the greatest punk rock band in the world", and about the punk scene in El Paso, Texas.

Can Employers be Held Accountable for Driving Workers to Suicidal Despair?Waters, S. (2020). Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France. Liverpool University Press. https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/53177/Waters, S. (2020). Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France. Liverpool University Press. https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/53177/Internationally, over the last few years, there has been increased interest in work-related suicide deaths. No longer are suicides considered the sole result of an individual's mental health condition. Currently, researchers have linked suicide death and suicidal despair to a toxic working conditions and job strain, including the following psychosocial hazards: Job Design ChallengesLow job control — lack of decision-making power and limited ability to try new thingsExcessive job demands and constant pressure/overtimeEffort-reward imbalance — related to perceived insufficient financial compensation, respect or statusJob insecurity — perceived threat of job loss and anxiety about that threatLack of job autonomyLack of job varietyToxic work-design elements (e.g., exposure to environmental aspects that cause pain or illness) Toxic Interpersonal RelationshipsBullying, harassment and hazing at workPrejudice and discrimination at workLack of supervisor of collegial support — poor working relationships Family DisruptionWork-family conflict (i.e., work demands make family responsibilities more difficult)Family-work conflict (i.e., family demands make work role challenging) Lack of Purpose or Connection to MissionHeightened job dissatisfaction and the feeling of being “trapped”Work is not meaningful or rewarding Other Work-Related Health ImpactsWork-related trauma (e.g., personal or seeing and accident or injury)Work-related sleep disruption (e.g., due to unexpected overtime, extended or changing shifts)Work culture of poor self-care and destructive coping (e.g., alcohol and drug use) In this podcast, I have the honor of interviewing Professor Sarah Waters from the UK. She is a leading global researcher on the topic of work-related suicides, and a driver of legislation to improve working conditions and help make suicide prevention a health and safety priority at work. Here we discuss a number of large employers who have been held accountable for the suicide deaths of their employees in criminal court. About Professor Sarah Waters Sarah Waters headshot B&W.pngSarah Waters is Professor of French Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research focuses on work-related suicide in France and across the international stage and seeks to understand the complex connections that link contemporary working conditions with the extreme and subjective act of suicide. Her book, Suicide Voices. Labour Trauma in France was published by Liverpool University Press in September 2020.In her book, Sarah examines testimonial material linked to 66 suicide cases across three large French corporations. She examines ‘suicide voices' considering how workers themselves describe the circumstances that led them to such desperate extremes in the letters, emails and recordings they leave behind. Why at the present historical juncture do conditions of work push some individuals to take their own lives? What can suicide letters tell us about the contemporary economic order and its impact on flesh and blood bodies? How do suicidal individuals describe the causes and motivations of their act?Alongside her research, Sarah actively campaigns to improve workplace legislation in order to recognise and monitor work-related suicides. She is part of the trade union Hazards campaign in the UK that lobbies the Health and Safety ExecutiveShe lives in Leeds and is a mother of two teenage boys.

My guest this week was David Halperin, retired religious studies professor and author of INTIMATE ALIEN: The Hidden Story of The UFO. How we interpret eyewitness sightings and alien abduction events is challenged. David makes the argument that none of the reported UFOs or related experiences have anything to do with physical ships or visiting extraterrestrials. That human minds, including historical past traumas and current real world events, cause eyewitness to project onto mundane things like aircraft an imagined visualization and experience. David’s line of thinking is more akin to Jacques Vallée and Carl Jung put together. But he believes it is something more, only he does not know exactly what the UFO enigma is, but makes a good case against traditional ufology. For those who take stock in the Roswell incident or the Betty and Barney Hill abduction case, your convictions may be challenged. For David's book and more - visit his website here:https://www.davidhalperin.net/"Back in the 1960s, David Halperin was a teenage UFO investigator.Later he became a professor of religious studies — his specialty, religious traditions of heavenly ascent. From 1976 through 2000, David taught Jewish history in the Religious Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Now retired from teaching, he lives in North Carolina with his wife Rose. He’s the author of five non-fiction books on Jewish mysticism and messianism, the coming-of-age novel Journal of a UFO Investigator, and now Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO. For a more academically oriented bio, reflecting David’s work as a Judaica scholar, visit his author page on Liverpool University Press."Please Like and Subscribe to Paranormal Pop for more content. Thank you!YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/paranormalpophttps://kgraradio.com/paranormal-now/https://www.paranormalnow.netTWITTER: https://twitter.com/Paranormal_NowINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/paranormalnow/FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/paranormalnowradio

Today is a conversation with Chris Pak who is a scholar of speculative literature. His research interests are in the ecological and environmental significance of stories of terraforming and pantropy , which is to say the modification of other planets and the modification of bodies to enable the habitation of otherwise uninhabitable environments. His book (which we’ll be discussing today) is from Liverpool University Press called, Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction. The book focuses on terraforming and its link to climate change and geoengineering, global politics and the relationship between the sciences, philosophy and the arts.

Welcome to the first episode of Hidden Histories of the Northern Ireland Troubles. This is a new podcast which aims to explore the lesser-known and unique stories of events which occurred during the conflict in Northern Ireland from the 1960s up to the 1990s. I am a Belfast based researcher and author (in my spare time). In 2016 my book 'Tartan Gangs and Paramilitaries' was published to wide acclaim by Liverpool University Press. One of the people I interviewed for the book was Robert 'Beano' Niblock. Beano was a member of the loyalist youth gang the Woodstock Tartan in 1971. In July 1972 he joined the Red Hand Commando. The Red Hand was a loyalist paramilitary organisation which had been established in the Oldpark area of Belfast in June 1970. In recent years Beano has written a critically acclaimed play, 'Tartan', about his experience of these early years of the Troubles. Even more recently Beano has written a series of poems from the perspective of a young loyalist growing up during the turbulent and violent maelstrom of Belfast from 1969 until 1972. In this podcast episode I talk to Beano about these poems and the influences and events which inspired them. On 8th November 2018 myself and Beano will be co-hosting a special evening entitled 'Belts and Boots to Bombs and Bullets' which we hope will be the first in a series of events relating to people's experiences of the conflict. ___ Gareth Mulvenna

Shawn Malley is a Canadian professor interested in the Victorian period. We talk about his latest book that discusses the intersection between archaeology, science fiction and spectacle. 1:45 – Shawn talks about how he got into writing on science fiction. He’s a Victorianist by trade. 4:09 – Shawn talks about how he divides the book … Continue reading Sci-fi and archaeology – “Excavating the Future” (Liverpool University Press, 2018) – Shawn Malley interview →

Dun dun…. Dun dun….dundundundundundundun! This week we’re talking about the Steven Spielberg film, Jaws! In this episode we’ll be telling disastrous behind the scenes stories, discussing the gender of the shark, and trying to remember whether or not sharks have nostrils! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Check out our sponsors at Recess Coffee: www.recesscoffee.com Resources: Butler, Andrew M. Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s. Liverpool University Press, 2012. Clover, Carol J. Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton University, 1997. Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. Routledge, 2015. Kowalski, Dean A. Steven Spielberg and Philosophy: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Book. University Press of Kentucky, 2008. Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78AstZwjf1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M69YyOxzKa0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWR8dHTgX0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MiVtavjD8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-kDfBjy1oU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(film) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMKFpHwTlIc http://thedailyjaws.com/blog/top-10-jaws-references http://www.mafilm.org/2010/09/20/10-reasons-jaws-might-be-the-best-film-ever-made/ https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/jaws-turns-40-surprising-facts-about-the-first-blockbuster/12/ http://screenprism.com/insights/article/why-does-bruce-the-sharks-gender-matter-in-jaws http://screenprism.com/insights/article/did-jaws-establish-the-tyranny-happy-endings

“Is Theory Good for the Jews?” asks author Bruno Chaouat, professor of French at the University of Minnesota, in Is Theory Good for the Jews?: French Thought and the Challenge of the New Antisemitism (Liverpool University Press, 2017) . The title carries a measure of Chaouat’s characteristically ironic, self-deprecatory, yet polemical tone. So, Chaouat wonders, in both winking reference to the anti-Semitic trope of Jewish tribalism and self-involvement, and at the same time in all sincerity, whether “Theory” – in particular the canon of philosophy, literature, and social thought that grew largely out of Heideggerian roots and which continues to find contemporary purchase – is able to use its own tools to deal with today’s resurgent strains of anti-Semitism. In this episode, Chaouat discusses several recent events in French letters, including the 2010 publication of writer, diplomat and French Resistance fighter Stéphane Hessel’s manifesto Time for Outrage and novelist Salim Bachi’s literary op-ed, “Moi, Mohammed Merah,”  a fictionalized account of the 2012 Toulouse attacks, told from the point of view of the murderer. We also talk about earlier influential figures, such as Georges Bataille and Jean Genet, and discuss how the vocabularies they invented, which they used to retool ideas of evil, transgression, and “our common inhumanity,” come to be recoded in service of a new “moralistic turn.” Daveeda Goldberg is a PhD candidate in the Department of Humanities at York University, in Toronto, Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Is Theory Good for the Jews?” asks author Bruno Chaouat, professor of French at the University of Minnesota, in Is Theory Good for the Jews?: French Thought and the Challenge of the New Antisemitism (Liverpool University Press, 2017) . The title carries a measure of Chaouat’s characteristically ironic, self-deprecatory, yet polemical tone. So, Chaouat wonders, in both winking reference to the anti-Semitic trope of Jewish tribalism and self-involvement, and at the same time in all sincerity, whether “Theory” – in particular the canon of philosophy, literature, and social thought that grew largely out of Heideggerian roots and which continues to find contemporary purchase – is able to use its own tools to deal with today’s resurgent strains of anti-Semitism. In this episode, Chaouat discusses several recent events in French letters, including the 2010 publication of writer, diplomat and French Resistance fighter Stéphane Hessel’s manifesto Time for Outrage and novelist Salim Bachi’s literary op-ed, “Moi, Mohammed Merah,”  a fictionalized account of the 2012 Toulouse attacks, told from the point of view of the murderer. We also talk about earlier influential figures, such as Georges Bataille and Jean Genet, and discuss how the vocabularies they invented, which they used to retool ideas of evil, transgression, and “our common inhumanity,” come to be recoded in service of a new “moralistic turn.” Daveeda Goldberg is a PhD candidate in the Department of Humanities at York University, in Toronto, Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Is Theory Good for the Jews?” asks author Bruno Chaouat, professor of French at the University of Minnesota, in Is Theory Good for the Jews?: French Thought and the Challenge of the New Antisemitism (Liverpool University Press, 2017) . The title carries a measure of Chaouat’s characteristically ironic, self-deprecatory, yet polemical tone. So, Chaouat wonders, in both winking reference to the anti-Semitic trope of Jewish tribalism and self-involvement, and at the same time in all sincerity, whether “Theory” – in particular the canon of philosophy, literature, and social thought that grew largely out of Heideggerian roots and which continues to find contemporary purchase – is able to use its own tools to deal with today’s resurgent strains of anti-Semitism. In this episode, Chaouat discusses several recent events in French letters, including the 2010 publication of writer, diplomat and French Resistance fighter Stéphane Hessel’s manifesto Time for Outrage and novelist Salim Bachi’s literary op-ed, “Moi, Mohammed Merah,”  a fictionalized account of the 2012 Toulouse attacks, told from the point of view of the murderer. We also talk about earlier influential figures, such as Georges Bataille and Jean Genet, and discuss how the vocabularies they invented, which they used to retool ideas of evil, transgression, and “our common inhumanity,” come to be recoded in service of a new “moralistic turn.” Daveeda Goldberg is a PhD candidate in the Department of Humanities at York University, in Toronto, Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Is Theory Good for the Jews?” asks author Bruno Chaouat, professor of French at the University of Minnesota, in Is Theory Good for the Jews?: French Thought and the Challenge of the New Antisemitism (Liverpool University Press, 2017) . The title carries a measure of Chaouat’s characteristically ironic, self-deprecatory, yet polemical tone. So, Chaouat wonders, in both winking reference to the anti-Semitic trope of Jewish tribalism and self-involvement, and at the same time in all sincerity, whether “Theory” – in particular the canon of philosophy, literature, and social thought that grew largely out of Heideggerian roots and which continues to find contemporary purchase – is able to use its own tools to deal with today’s resurgent strains of anti-Semitism. In this episode, Chaouat discusses several recent events in French letters, including the 2010 publication of writer, diplomat and French Resistance fighter Stéphane Hessel’s manifesto Time for Outrage and novelist Salim Bachi’s literary op-ed, “Moi, Mohammed Merah,”  a fictionalized account of the 2012 Toulouse attacks, told from the point of view of the murderer. We also talk about earlier influential figures, such as Georges Bataille and Jean Genet, and discuss how the vocabularies they invented, which they used to retool ideas of evil, transgression, and “our common inhumanity,” come to be recoded in service of a new “moralistic turn.” Daveeda Goldberg is a PhD candidate in the Department of Humanities at York University, in Toronto, Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Is Theory Good for the Jews?” asks author Bruno Chaouat, professor of French at the University of Minnesota, in Is Theory Good for the Jews?: French Thought and the Challenge of the New Antisemitism (Liverpool University Press, 2017) . The title carries a measure of Chaouat’s characteristically ironic, self-deprecatory, yet polemical tone. So, Chaouat wonders, in both winking reference to the anti-Semitic trope of Jewish tribalism and self-involvement, and at the same time in all sincerity, whether “Theory” – in particular the canon of philosophy, literature, and social thought that grew largely out of Heideggerian roots and which continues to find contemporary purchase – is able to use its own tools to deal with today’s resurgent strains of anti-Semitism. In this episode, Chaouat discusses several recent events in French letters, including the 2010 publication of writer, diplomat and French Resistance fighter Stéphane Hessel’s manifesto Time for Outrage and novelist Salim Bachi’s literary op-ed, “Moi, Mohammed Merah,”  a fictionalized account of the 2012 Toulouse attacks, told from the point of view of the murderer. We also talk about earlier influential figures, such as Georges Bataille and Jean Genet, and discuss how the vocabularies they invented, which they used to retool ideas of evil, transgression, and “our common inhumanity,” come to be recoded in service of a new “moralistic turn.” Daveeda Goldberg is a PhD candidate in the Department of Humanities at York University, in Toronto, Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historian Carole Holohan will address broader societal changes in the decade that gave us the Berkeley Library, with a particular focus on how economic, social and cultural developments affected young people. This lecture will focus on the position of youth in the Republic of Ireland at a time when the meaning of youth, and the nature of youth culture, was changing internationally. Dr Carole Holohan is the Assistant Professor in modern Irish history at Trinity College Dublin. She is a social historian focused on the postwar period, with a particular interest in the history of youth and of poverty. Her first book is entitled Reframing Irish Youth in the Sixties and it will be published with Liverpool University Press early next year.

Just after World War II, West Indians began moving to London in large numbers. The artists, writers, and musicians among them found a place to create, and they found ways to express their complex notions of belonging to both the Caribbean and to the British Empire. Amanda Bidnall‘s The West Indian Generation: Remaking British Culture in London, 1945-1965 (Liverpool University Press, 2017) traces their paths and their fortunes, their successes and their troubles. Bidnall writes against a prevailing interpretation of immigrant London as torn apart with racial divisions. While this generation may have encountered degrees of racial animosity, they were at also intent on participating in and contributing to a burgeoning scene that welcomed them as newcomers.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just after World War II, West Indians began moving to London in large numbers. The artists, writers, and musicians among them found a place to create, and they found ways to express their complex notions of belonging to both the Caribbean and to the British Empire. Amanda Bidnall‘s The West Indian Generation: Remaking British Culture in London, 1945-1965 (Liverpool University Press, 2017) traces their paths and their fortunes, their successes and their troubles. Bidnall writes against a prevailing interpretation of immigrant London as torn apart with racial divisions. While this generation may have encountered degrees of racial animosity, they were at also intent on participating in and contributing to a burgeoning scene that welcomed them as newcomers.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just after World War II, West Indians began moving to London in large numbers. The artists, writers, and musicians among them found a place to create, and they found ways to express their complex notions of belonging to both the Caribbean and to the British Empire. Amanda Bidnall‘s The West Indian Generation: Remaking British Culture in London, 1945-1965 (Liverpool University Press, 2017) traces their paths and their fortunes, their successes and their troubles. Bidnall writes against a prevailing interpretation of immigrant London as torn apart with racial divisions. While this generation may have encountered degrees of racial animosity, they were at also intent on participating in and contributing to a burgeoning scene that welcomed them as newcomers.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just after World War II, West Indians began moving to London in large numbers. The artists, writers, and musicians among them found a place to create, and they found ways to express their complex notions of belonging to both the Caribbean and to the British Empire. Amanda Bidnall‘s The West Indian Generation: Remaking British Culture in London, 1945-1965 (Liverpool University Press, 2017) traces their paths and their fortunes, their successes and their troubles. Bidnall writes against a prevailing interpretation of immigrant London as torn apart with racial divisions. While this generation may have encountered degrees of racial animosity, they were at also intent on participating in and contributing to a burgeoning scene that welcomed them as newcomers.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just after World War II, West Indians began moving to London in large numbers. The artists, writers, and musicians among them found a place to create, and they found ways to express their complex notions of belonging to both the Caribbean and to the British Empire. Amanda Bidnall‘s The West Indian Generation: Remaking British Culture in London, 1945-1965 (Liverpool University Press, 2017) traces their paths and their fortunes, their successes and their troubles. Bidnall writes against a prevailing interpretation of immigrant London as torn apart with racial divisions. While this generation may have encountered degrees of racial animosity, they were at also intent on participating in and contributing to a burgeoning scene that welcomed them as newcomers.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kathryn Kleppinger’s Branding the Beur Author: Minority Writing and the Media in France, 1983-2013 (Liverpool University Press, 2015) examines the “paradox of ethnic minority writing” in the work of multiple authors of North African descent over a thirty-year period. Organized chronologically as a series of portraits, the book’s chapters deal with the literary (and filmic) output of an impressive number of writers, including Mehdi Charef, Azouz Begag, Farida Belghoul, Soraya Nini, Samira Bellil, Rachid Djaidani,Faiza Guene, and Sabri Loutah. Considering literary works themselves, as well as the audio-visual media representation of texts and authors on French TV and radio, Kleppinger’s analysis pushes back against the tendency to understand “beur” literature in exclusively social and political terms at the expense of aesthetic or artistic readings. Drawing on a range of sources, from literature to television and radio archives, to interviews Kleppinger conducted with the authors themselves, the book weaves together the analysis of form and content, spoken word and gesture, personal and professional biography, representational and political strategies and effects. Exploring the categories that have simultaneously gained these authors and texts attention and limited the ways they have been understood, Branding the Beur Author moves across three decades of tremendous change in contemporary France. Its pages explore the work of both men and women writing, reading, and interrogating the “beur”as a social and literary identity in a nation engaged both historically and currently in crucial debates regarding the meanings of difference. Roxanne Panchasi is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. A historian of culture and politics in the twentieth century, her current research focuses on the representation of nuclear weapons and testing in France since 1945. She lives and reads in Vancouver, Canada. Please drop her a line at panchasi@sfu.ca if you have a recent title to suggest for the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kathryn Kleppinger’s Branding the Beur Author: Minority Writing and the Media in France, 1983-2013 (Liverpool University Press, 2015) examines the “paradox of ethnic minority writing” in the work of multiple authors of North African descent over a thirty-year period. Organized chronologically as a series of portraits, the book’s chapters deal with the literary (and filmic) output of an impressive number of writers, including Mehdi Charef, Azouz Begag, Farida Belghoul, Soraya Nini, Samira Bellil, Rachid Djaidani,Faiza Guene, and Sabri Loutah. Considering literary works themselves, as well as the audio-visual media representation of texts and authors on French TV and radio, Kleppinger’s analysis pushes back against the tendency to understand “beur” literature in exclusively social and political terms at the expense of aesthetic or artistic readings. Drawing on a range of sources, from literature to television and radio archives, to interviews Kleppinger conducted with the authors themselves, the book weaves together the analysis of form and content, spoken word and gesture, personal and professional biography, representational and political strategies and effects. Exploring the categories that have simultaneously gained these authors and texts attention and limited the ways they have been understood, Branding the Beur Author moves across three decades of tremendous change in contemporary France. Its pages explore the work of both men and women writing, reading, and interrogating the “beur”as a social and literary identity in a nation engaged both historically and currently in crucial debates regarding the meanings of difference. Roxanne Panchasi is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. A historian of culture and politics in the twentieth century, her current research focuses on the representation of nuclear weapons and testing in France since 1945. She lives and reads in Vancouver, Canada. Please drop her a line at panchasi@sfu.ca if you have a recent title to suggest for the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kathryn Kleppinger’s Branding the Beur Author: Minority Writing and the Media in France, 1983-2013 (Liverpool University Press, 2015) examines the “paradox of ethnic minority writing” in the work of multiple authors of North African descent over a thirty-year period. Organized chronologically as a series of portraits, the book’s chapters deal with the literary (and filmic) output of an impressive number of writers, including Mehdi Charef, Azouz Begag, Farida Belghoul, Soraya Nini, Samira Bellil, Rachid Djaidani,Faiza Guene, and Sabri Loutah. Considering literary works themselves, as well as the audio-visual media representation of texts and authors on French TV and radio, Kleppinger’s analysis pushes back against the tendency to understand “beur” literature in exclusively social and political terms at the expense of aesthetic or artistic readings. Drawing on a range of sources, from literature to television and radio archives, to interviews Kleppinger conducted with the authors themselves, the book weaves together the analysis of form and content, spoken word and gesture, personal and professional biography, representational and political strategies and effects. Exploring the categories that have simultaneously gained these authors and texts attention and limited the ways they have been understood, Branding the Beur Author moves across three decades of tremendous change in contemporary France. Its pages explore the work of both men and women writing, reading, and interrogating the “beur”as a social and literary identity in a nation engaged both historically and currently in crucial debates regarding the meanings of difference. Roxanne Panchasi is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. A historian of culture and politics in the twentieth century, her current research focuses on the representation of nuclear weapons and testing in France since 1945. She lives and reads in Vancouver, Canada. Please drop her a line at panchasi@sfu.ca if you have a recent title to suggest for the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kathryn Kleppinger’s Branding the Beur Author: Minority Writing and the Media in France, 1983-2013 (Liverpool University Press, 2015) examines the “paradox of ethnic minority writing” in the work of multiple authors of North African descent over a thirty-year period. Organized chronologically as a series of portraits, the book’s chapters deal with the literary (and filmic) output of an impressive number of writers, including Mehdi Charef, Azouz Begag, Farida Belghoul, Soraya Nini, Samira Bellil, Rachid Djaidani,Faiza Guene, and Sabri Loutah. Considering literary works themselves, as well as the audio-visual media representation of texts and authors on French TV and radio, Kleppinger’s analysis pushes back against the tendency to understand “beur” literature in exclusively social and political terms at the expense of aesthetic or artistic readings. Drawing on a range of sources, from literature to television and radio archives, to interviews Kleppinger conducted with the authors themselves, the book weaves together the analysis of form and content, spoken word and gesture, personal and professional biography, representational and political strategies and effects. Exploring the categories that have simultaneously gained these authors and texts attention and limited the ways they have been understood, Branding the Beur Author moves across three decades of tremendous change in contemporary France. Its pages explore the work of both men and women writing, reading, and interrogating the “beur”as a social and literary identity in a nation engaged both historically and currently in crucial debates regarding the meanings of difference. Roxanne Panchasi is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. A historian of culture and politics in the twentieth century, her current research focuses on the representation of nuclear weapons and testing in France since 1945. She lives and reads in Vancouver, Canada. Please drop her a line at panchasi@sfu.ca if you have a recent title to suggest for the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kathryn Kleppinger’s Branding the Beur Author: Minority Writing and the Media in France, 1983-2013 (Liverpool University Press, 2015) examines the “paradox of ethnic minority writing” in the work of multiple authors of North African descent over a thirty-year period. Organized chronologically as a series of portraits, the book’s chapters deal with the literary (and filmic) output of an impressive number of writers, including Mehdi Charef, Azouz Begag, Farida Belghoul, Soraya Nini, Samira Bellil, Rachid Djaidani,Faiza Guene, and Sabri Loutah. Considering literary works themselves, as well as the audio-visual media representation of texts and authors on French TV and radio, Kleppinger’s analysis pushes back against the tendency to understand “beur” literature in exclusively social and political terms at the expense of aesthetic or artistic readings. Drawing on a range of sources, from literature to television and radio archives, to interviews Kleppinger conducted with the authors themselves, the book weaves together the analysis of form and content, spoken word and gesture, personal and professional biography, representational and political strategies and effects. Exploring the categories that have simultaneously gained these authors and texts attention and limited the ways they have been understood, Branding the Beur Author moves across three decades of tremendous change in contemporary France. Its pages explore the work of both men and women writing, reading, and interrogating the “beur”as a social and literary identity in a nation engaged both historically and currently in crucial debates regarding the meanings of difference. Roxanne Panchasi is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. A historian of culture and politics in the twentieth century, her current research focuses on the representation of nuclear weapons and testing in France since 1945. She lives and reads in Vancouver, Canada. Please drop her a line at panchasi@sfu.ca if you have a recent title to suggest for the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kathryn Kleppinger’s Branding the Beur Author: Minority Writing and the Media in France, 1983-2013 (Liverpool University Press, 2015) examines the “paradox of ethnic minority writing” in the work of multiple authors of North African descent over a thirty-year period. Organized chronologically as a series of portraits, the book’s chapters deal with the literary (and filmic) output of an impressive number of writers, including Mehdi Charef, Azouz Begag, Farida Belghoul, Soraya Nini, Samira Bellil, Rachid Djaidani,Faiza Guene, and Sabri Loutah. Considering literary works themselves, as well as the audio-visual media representation of texts and authors on French TV and radio, Kleppinger’s analysis pushes back against the tendency to understand “beur” literature in exclusively social and political terms at the expense of aesthetic or artistic readings. Drawing on a range of sources, from literature to television and radio archives, to interviews Kleppinger conducted with the authors themselves, the book weaves together the analysis of form and content, spoken word and gesture, personal and professional biography, representational and political strategies and effects. Exploring the categories that have simultaneously gained these authors and texts attention and limited the ways they have been understood, Branding the Beur Author moves across three decades of tremendous change in contemporary France. Its pages explore the work of both men and women writing, reading, and interrogating the “beur”as a social and literary identity in a nation engaged both historically and currently in crucial debates regarding the meanings of difference. Roxanne Panchasi is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. A historian of culture and politics in the twentieth century, her current research focuses on the representation of nuclear weapons and testing in France since 1945. She lives and reads in Vancouver, Canada. Please drop her a line at panchasi@sfu.ca if you have a recent title to suggest for the podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marlene Daut tackles the complicated intersection of history and literary legacy in her book Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (Liverpool University Press, 2015). She not only describes the immediate political reaction to the Haitian Revolution, but traces how writers, novelists, playwrights, and scholars imposed particular racial assumptions onto that event for decades afterward. Specifically, she identifies a number of recurring tropes that sought to assign intense racial divisions to the Haitian people. Individuals of joint African and European heritage, she contends, received the blunt of these attacks, as they were portrayed as monstrous, vengeful, mendacious, and yet also destined for tragedy. Moreover, observers and chroniclers of the Revolution maintained that these supposed characteristics produced ever-lasting discord with black Haitians. Daut analyzes hundreds of fictional and non-fictional accounts to argue that portrayals of the Haitian Revolution, and of the country itself, have long suffered under these false assumptions of exceptional racial problems. She has also produced a compendium of Haitian fiction during this period, in conjunction with the book. You can find it here.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marlene Daut tackles the complicated intersection of history and literary legacy in her book Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (Liverpool University Press, 2015). She not only describes the immediate political reaction to the Haitian Revolution, but traces how writers, novelists, playwrights, and scholars imposed particular racial assumptions onto that event for decades afterward. Specifically, she identifies a number of recurring tropes that sought to assign intense racial divisions to the Haitian people. Individuals of joint African and European heritage, she contends, received the blunt of these attacks, as they were portrayed as monstrous, vengeful, mendacious, and yet also destined for tragedy. Moreover, observers and chroniclers of the Revolution maintained that these supposed characteristics produced ever-lasting discord with black Haitians. Daut analyzes hundreds of fictional and non-fictional accounts to argue that portrayals of the Haitian Revolution, and of the country itself, have long suffered under these false assumptions of exceptional racial problems. She has also produced a compendium of Haitian fiction during this period, in conjunction with the book. You can find it here.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marlene Daut tackles the complicated intersection of history and literary legacy in her book Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (Liverpool University Press, 2015). She not only describes the immediate political reaction to the Haitian Revolution, but traces how writers, novelists, playwrights, and scholars imposed particular racial assumptions onto that event for decades afterward. Specifically, she identifies a number of recurring tropes that sought to assign intense racial divisions to the Haitian people. Individuals of joint African and European heritage, she contends, received the blunt of these attacks, as they were portrayed as monstrous, vengeful, mendacious, and yet also destined for tragedy. Moreover, observers and chroniclers of the Revolution maintained that these supposed characteristics produced ever-lasting discord with black Haitians. Daut analyzes hundreds of fictional and non-fictional accounts to argue that portrayals of the Haitian Revolution, and of the country itself, have long suffered under these false assumptions of exceptional racial problems. She has also produced a compendium of Haitian fiction during this period, in conjunction with the book. You can find it here.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marlene Daut tackles the complicated intersection of history and literary legacy in her book Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (Liverpool University Press, 2015). She not only describes the immediate political reaction to the Haitian Revolution, but traces how writers, novelists, playwrights, and scholars imposed particular racial assumptions onto that event for decades afterward. Specifically, she identifies a number of recurring tropes that sought to assign intense racial divisions to the Haitian people. Individuals of joint African and European heritage, she contends, received the blunt of these attacks, as they were portrayed as monstrous, vengeful, mendacious, and yet also destined for tragedy. Moreover, observers and chroniclers of the Revolution maintained that these supposed characteristics produced ever-lasting discord with black Haitians. Daut analyzes hundreds of fictional and non-fictional accounts to argue that portrayals of the Haitian Revolution, and of the country itself, have long suffered under these false assumptions of exceptional racial problems. She has also produced a compendium of Haitian fiction during this period, in conjunction with the book. You can find it here.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marlene Daut tackles the complicated intersection of history and literary legacy in her book Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865 (Liverpool University Press, 2015). She not only describes the immediate political reaction to the Haitian Revolution, but traces how... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Libby Purves meets surrealist painter Patrick Hughes, Pam Dix of Disaster Action, artist and performer Scottee and Dr Bryn Dentinger, mycologist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Patrick Hughes is a surrealist painter renowned for his optical illusion technique, reverspective, where the parts of a picture which seem farthest away are actually physically the nearest. He is to receive an honorary degree, from the University of London's School of Advanced Study, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to education and research. Patrick's current exhibition New Reverspectives is at Flowers Gallery, London. Pam Dix is the co-author of Collective Conviction: The Story of Disaster Action with Anne Eyre. The book recounts how the charity Disaster Action was founded in 1991 by survivors and bereaved people affected by disasters of the late 1980s, including the King's Cross fire; the Lockerbie bombing and the sinking of the Marchioness. Pam's brother Peter died in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Since its formation Disaster Action has had a significant influence on emergency planning and management and the way people are treated after disasters. Collective Conviction: The Story of Disaster Action by Pamela Dix and Anne Eyre is published by Liverpool University Press. Scottee is a performer, broadcaster, writer and director. His solo show, The Worst of Scottee, is a reflection on his troubled past in which he looks back over his life and invites some of those he hurt and adversely affected to remember him. The Worst of Scottee is touring. Dr Bryn Dentinger is head of mycology at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew where he studies fungal diversity, distribution and conservation. His career epiphany came at 16 when his mother gave him a copy of a guide to mushrooms and challenged him to identify all the fungi in the family garden. Bryn recently discovered three new species of mushroom in a packet of supermarket porcini after putting the fungi through a DNA barcode test. Producer: Paula McGinley.