Scholarcast Series 11: Irish Studies and the Environmental Humanities
Every reader and scholar of Irish literature is familiar with its extensive genealogy of nature writing, and a ‘sense of place’ found across a great variety of texts. While not unique to Ireland such a rich heritage has produced some of the most enduring and exciting literary and cultural criticisms. However, given our contemporary concerns with environmental issues, of which climate change is one, literary and cultural narratives need to be re-read and re-energized to help us find a language that speaks to current existential anxieties.
This series hopes to produce some of the conceptual pathways that might bridge the narrative of climate change offered by climate scientists and economists, and the humanities’ deep engagement with the idea of narrative as something that allows conceptual leaps, produces historical, cultural and somatic effects.
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Scholarcast Main Logo14001400Scholarcast Series 11: Irish Studies and the Environmental HumanitiesEvery reader and scholar of Irish literature is familiar with its extensive genealogy of nature writing, and a 'sense of place' found across a great variety of texts. While not unique to Ireland such a rich heritage has produced some of the most enduring and exciting literary and cultural criticisms. However, given our contemporary concerns with environmental issues, of which climate change is one, literary and cultural narratives need to be re-read and re-energized to help us find a language that speaks to current existential anxieties.
This series hopes to produce some of the conceptual pathways that might bridge the narrative of climate change offered by climate scientists and economists, and the humanities' deep engagement with the idea of narrative as something that allows conceptual leaps, produces historical, cultural and somatic effects.
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Malcolm SenLecturehttp://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/index.htmlhttp://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/series11.htmlMon, 22 Dec 2014 12:00:00 +0100Scholarcast Series 11: Irish Studies and the Environmental HumanitiesThis series hopes to produce some of the conceptual pathways that might bridge the narrative of climate change offered by climate scientists and economists, and the humanities' deep engagement with the idea of narrative as something that allows conceptual leaps, produces historical, cultural and somatic effects. 00:02:40UCD, Scholarcast, Art, Culture, History, Ireland, Literature, Humanities, Irish Studies, Malcolm Sen, The Environment, Environmentalism, Malcolm SenMalcolm SennoScholarcast 45: Salmon LeapIn this episode, Eamonn Ryan deliberates on the collective leap which individuals and nation states need to make for a sustainable, habitable future. He argues that individuals cannot be faced with moral choices about the environment on a daily basis. Instead, he indicates that it is through sound governance that environmental habits are nurtured effectively. Ryan also persuasively demonstrates the importance of everyday language and stories for an environmental consciousness. The task for the individual and the national collective is akin to the leap a salmon makes. A habitable future rests on going against the current of traditional and normative modes of behavior.
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Eamonn RyanLecturehttp://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/index.htmlhttp://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/scholarcast45.htmlMon, 22 Dec 2014 12:00:00 +0100Scholarcast 45: Salmon LeapIn this episode, Eamonn Ryan deliberates on the collective leap which individuals and nation states need to make for a sustainable, habitable future. He argues that individuals cannot be faced with moral choices about the environment on a daily basis. Instead, he indicates that it is through sound governance that environmental habits are nurtured effectively.00:13:48UCD, Scholarcast, Art, Culture, History, Ireland, Literature, Humanities, Irish Studies, Malcolm Sen, The Environment, Environmentalism, Eamonn Ryan, Green PartyEamonn RyannoScholarcast 53: Supply Chains: Labour, Poverty, and the the Nonhuman Animal of Joyce's UlyssesIn this episode Adam Putz explores complementary representations of labour and poverty in Ulysses which disintegrate category distinctions like human and nonhuman.
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Adam PutzLecturehttp://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/index.htmlhttp://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/scholarcast53.htmlThu, 04 Jun 2015 12:00:00 +0100Scholarcast 53: Supply Chains: Labour, Poverty, and the the Nonhuman Animal of Joyce's UlyssesIn this episode Adam Putz explores complementary representations of labour and poverty in Ulysses which disintegrate category distinctions like human and nonhuman.00:29:40UCD, Scholarcast, Art, Culture, History, Ireland, Literature, Humanities, Irish Studies, Malcolm Sen, The Environment, Environmentalism, Adam Putz, Joyce, Derrida, Nonhuman, Dublin ZooAdam PutznoScholarcast 57: James Joyce, Treeless Hills and the Night of the Big WindThe fall of the great forests of Ireland provided James Joyce with a rich literary trope laden with cultural memory and socio-political resonances, which he utilized throughout his works and most fully in Finnegans Wake. The trope taps into a chain of historical events well-rehearsed by nationalist rhetoric and thus it is compatible with Joyce’s innovative utilisation of repeated motifs with multiple textual resonances.
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Katherine O’CallaghanLecturehttp://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/index.htmlhttp://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/scholarcast57.htmlTue, 11 Aug 2015 12:00:00 +0100Scholarcast 57: James Joyce, Treeless Hills and the Night of the Big WindThe fall of the great forests of Ireland provided James Joyce with a rich literary trope laden with cultural memory and socio-political resonances, which he utilized throughout his works and most fully in Finnegans Wake. The trope taps into a chain of historical events well-rehearsed by nationalist rhetoric and thus it is compatible with Joyce's innovative utilisation of repeated motifs with multiple textual resonances.00:45:35UCD, Scholarcast, Art, Culture, History, Ireland, Literature, Humanities, Irish Studies, Malcolm Sen, The Environment, Environmentalism, Katherine O’Callaghan, Joyce, Finnegans wake, UlyssesKatherine O’CallaghannoScholarcast 59: Environmental Narratives, Climate Change and Sovereignty LossThis episode argues for a politicization of cultural and literary critiques of environmental issues in Ireland. It demonstrates methods through which Irish Studies can enter into a creative correspondence with the growing field of Environmental Humanities scholarship.
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Malcolm SenLecturehttp://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/index.htmlhttp://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/scholarcast59.htmlMon, 11 Jan 2016 12:00:00 +0100Scholarcast 59: Environmental Narratives, Climate Change and Sovereignty LossThis episode argues for a politicization of cultural and literary critiques of environmental issues in Ireland. It demonstrates methods through which Irish Studies can enter into a creative correspondence with the growing field of Environmental Humanities scholarship.00:22:49UCD, Scholarcast, Art, Culture, History, Ireland, Literature, Humanities, Irish Studies, Malcolm Sen, The Environment, Environmentalism, Soverignty, NarrativeMalcolm SennoScholarcast 60: On Development, Waste and GhostsMovements in ecocriticism that call for links to be made with postcolonialism challenge us, here in Ireland and outside of it, to do work that has not come naturally. As critics like Rob Nixon have pointed out, ecocriticism and postcolonialism were, in fact, often at odds with each other as the fields arose, operating at a disconnect.
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Oona FrawleyLecturehttp://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/index.htmlhttp://www.ucd.ie/scholarcast/scholarcast60.htmlWed, 27 Jan 2016 12:00:00 +0100Scholarcast 60: On Development, Waste and GhostsThis episode argues for a politicization of cultural and literary critiques of environmental issues in Ireland. It demonstrates methods through which Irish Studies can enter into a creative correspondence with the growing field of Environmental Humanities scholarship.00:37:02UCD, Scholarcast, Art, Culture, History, Ireland, Literature, Humanities, Irish Studies, Oona Frawley, The Environment, Environmentalism, Waste, Environmentalism, literature, ecocriticism, postcolonialismOona Frawleyno