Podcasts 2011-2012
To download papers you can subscribe to the podcast series on iTunes and via the RSS feed. Several podcasts from the 2011/12 academic year are available to stream below. The complete list of podcasts is available on iTunes and via the RSS feed.
Some notable events that were podcasted during 2011/12 included an interview with J. Hillis Miller, the G.B. Shaw: Back in Town Conference and the International James Joyce Research Colloquium.
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Eoin O'Brien - The Beckett Country
In this episode as part of the Beckett and the ‘State’ of Ireland Conference a lecture by Professor Eoin O'Brien on the photographic exhibition The Beckett Country. The exhibit consists of 33 panels containing photographs of the various locations in Ireland which pertain to Samuel Beckett and his work. It was initially created for Samuel Beckett’s eightieth birthday and was funded by Aer Lingus and the Arts Council of Great Britain. Many of the images mentioned in the lecture are avilable to view on the Beckett Country Collection section of the UCD Digital Library website.
J. Hillis Miller
Interview with J. Hillis Miller as part of 'Signing, Sealing, Sailing: The Life and Work of J. Hillis Miller'.
J. Hillis Miller's professional career as a teacher and scholar of literature, philosophy and critical theory has spanned well over fifty years now. He is, according to Edinburgh University Press, “the single most significant North American literary critic of the twentieth century.” He has published twenty-seven books and countless articles, edited collections and book chapters. Hillis holds honorary degrees as Doctor of Letters from the University of Florida, Doctor of Humane Letters at Bucknell University, and Doctor Honoris Cause at the University of Zaragoza. He is also Honorary Professor of Peking University and past president of the Modern Language Association. He has taught at The Johns Hopkins University, Yale University and University of California, Irvine. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society and currently Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
George Bernard Shaw - Back in Town Conference
This conference (co-sponsored by the UCD Humanities Institute and the International Shaw Society) focused on Shaw’s return to Dublin, so to speak, to revisit his Irish identity, and papers discussing his Irish qualities, inter-relationships with other notable Irish figures, and his contributions to Ireland and Irishness were presented, along with testimony to his stature in and influence on world drama among other topics.
President Michael D. Higgins. Speech at the opening reception in the National Gallery of Ireland.
Dr Hugh Brady (UCD President) Speech at the opening reception.
Sean Rainbird. (Director, National Gallery of Ireland) Speech at the opening reception.
Opening reception in its entirety including all speeches and musical showcase by the Rowsome Ensemble.
Professor Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin) Keynote Speech
'Dalkey's Outlook: Shaw's Scenic Sense'.
Professor Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel (Massachusetts Maritime Academy)
'Shaw, The Poor Law and 1910: The Rocky Road to Connolly'.
Peter Gahan 'Bernard Shaw: Irish Nationalist'.
Professor Anthony Roche (UCD) 'Shaw and Yeats: Theatre and its anti-self'.
Fifth Annual UCD James Joyce Research Colloquium
The international Joyce research colloquium at UCD provides a forum for the discussion of current and future developments in James Joyce Studies by leading scholars.
It facilitates active exchange between graduate students and practitioners in the field of Joyce Studies and related fields on the opportunities and challenges of undertaking research on Joyce. The UCD James Joyce Research Centre events are sponsored in part by the UCD Humanities Institute and the UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies. 2 papers from the 2012 colloquium are available to podcast.
1932: A new start for Ulysses in the Marketplace by Dr Luca Crispi (UCD School of English, Drama and Film & UCD Centre for Research for James Joyce Studies).
James Joyce v Samuel Roth and Two Worlds Publishing Company: Authors' Names and Blue Valley Butter by Professor Robert Spoo (College of Law, University of Tulsa).
Irish Studies Series - Professor Brian Ó Conchubhair
'Charting the River Shannon in 18th Century Irish Verse' by Professor Brian Ó Conchubhair (University of Notre Dame).
Irish Studies Session 2 - New Directions in Irish Studies
Paper 1: 'Oscar's Shadow: Wilde, Homosexuality and Modern Ireland' by Dr Éibhear Walshe (UCC School of English).
Paper 2: 'Disciplining Children: The Academic Study of Irish Children's Culture' by Dr Ríona Nic Congail (Department of Irish, St Patrick's College, Drumcondra).
Irish Studies Session 1 - Contemporary Ireland
Paper 1: 'Immigration and the Politics of Irish Identity' by Prof Bryan Fanning (UCD School of Applied Social Science).
Paper 2: 'Child Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church: Why Gender, Power and Organisational Culture Matter' by Dr Marie Keenan (UCD School of Applied Social Science).
The Book: history and practice workshop
The presentations at The book: history and practice workshop, which took place on March 12 2012 at the UCD Humanities Institute, were recorded and are available to watch on the workshop playlist on youtube.
The workshop was a unique venture in knowledge transfer between historians of the book and design and typographical experts. The workshop was designed to facilitate a dynamic exhange of expertise between humanities scholars and design experts to enhance the skills capacity and professional practice of both cohorts. Among those who made presentations at the workshop were:
Mary Ann Bolger (DIT); Dermot McGuinne (DIT); Jason McElligott (Marsh’s Library); David Smith (IADT); Clare Bell (DIT); Hilary Kenna (IADT); Philip Maddock (Rhode Island); Anne Brady (Vermillion Design); Elizabethanne Boran (Worth Library); Peter Maybury; Phil Baines (Central St Martins). The workshop was directed by Dr Marc Caball in collaboration with Dr Mick Wilson, Director, Graduate School in Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM).
The full workshop programme is available here - http://bit.ly/GNaruy
This event was made possible through the award of an IRCHSS New Ideas Award to Dr Marc Caball.
Bracha L. Ettinger
Title: 'Beauty in the Human: Uncanny Compassion, Uncanny Awe'.
Introduced by Rob Weatherill.
Bracha L. Ettinger is an internationally-renowned artist, working mainly in oil painting, drawing, photography and notebooks. She has exhibited her work in a large number of places around the world, including Barcelona, Amsterdam, Helsinki, Turku, London, Paris, Berlin and New York. She is also a philosopher, psychoanalyst and senior clinical psychologist. She works between Paris and Tel Aviv. This lecture provides an opportunity to see samples of her art and hear her speak about her art practice and how it both informs and is influenced by her psychoanalytic work.
Professor Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)
Title: Towards an Ecology of Materials
Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Following 25 years at the University of Manchester, where he was appointed Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology in 1995, Ingold moved in 1999 to Aberdeen, where he went on to establish the UK’s newest Department of Anthropology.
About the lecture: Both material culture studies and ecological anthropology are concerned with the material conditions of social and cultural life. Yet despite advances in each of these fields which have eroded traditional divisions between humanistic and science-based approaches, their respective practitioners continue to talk past one another in largely incommensurate theoretical languages. Through a review of recent trends in the study of material culture, the reasons for this are found to lie in: (1) a conception of the material world and the nonhuman that leaves no space for living organisms; (2) an emphasis on materiality that prioritises finished artefacts over the properties of materials, and (3) a conflation of things with objects that stops up the flows of energy and circulations of materials on which life depends. To overcome these limitations, an ecology of materials is proposed that focuses on their enrolment in form-making processes. The paper concludes with some observations on materials, mind and time.
Professor John Coffey (University of Leicester)
Title: Scripture and Toleration between Reformation and Enlightenment
John Coffey is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester, where he has taught since 1999. He works on religion, politics and ideas in early modern Britain and America. He has published intellectual biographies of the Scottish Covenanter Samuel Rutherford and of the English Independent John Goodwin, and is the author of Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1588-1689 (2000). He has recently co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism (2008) and Seeing Things their Way: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion (2009).
This event was organised in connection with the research project ‘Protestants, print and Gaelic culture in Ireland, 1567-1722’ (PI: Dr Marc Caball), which is funded by the IRCHSS and the Department of the Taoiseach.
Professor Alec Ryrie (Durham University)
Title: From Polemic to Devotion: Tolerance and Piety in Early Modern Britain
Alec Ryrie is Professor of the History of Christianity in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. His books include The Gospel and Henry VIII (2003), The Origins of the Scottish Reformation (2006), The Sorcerer’s Tale (2008) and The Age of Reformation (2009). He is currently working on a history of pious practice and emotion in Anglo-Scottish Protestantism during the Reformation era. His other research interests include the fluid nature of Catholicism in the mid-sixteenth century and the legacy of the Reformation period for Protestantism.
This event was organised in connection with the research project ‘Protestants, print and Gaelic culture in Ireland, 1567-1722’ (PI: Dr Marc Caball), which is funded by the IRCHSS and the Department of the Taoiseach.