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- audio/mpeg
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- This series features highlights from the many presentations in the Archaeologies of Art theme of the Sixth World Archaeological Congress. Douglass Bailey from San Francisco State University reflects on the current relationships between contemporary art and contemporary archaeology and suggests some... [ … ]
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- audio/mpeg
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- In this series leading scholars from across the humanities read extracts from their recently published books.
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- audio/mpeg
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- The aim of this series is to offer insights into key moments in the story of Irish popular culture since the publication of Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies in the early nineteenth century. If the story of transnational Irish popular culture begins with Thomas Moore in the early nineteenth century, it... [ … ]
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- audio/mpeg
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- In this series some of the major participants in the Irish folk music revival, as well as a number of the leading scholars in the field, reflect on developments in Irish music over the course of the twentieth century. [ … ]
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- audio/mpeg
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- In his book, On the Shores of Politics, Jacques Rancière argues that the Western Platonic project of utopian politics has been based upon 'an anti-maritime polemic'. The treacherous boundaries of the political are imagined as island shores, riverbanks, and abysses. Its enemies are the mutinous... [ … ]
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- audio/mpeg
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- This Scholarcast series is produced in collaboration with the University of Notre Dame.
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Connolly, Claire (Claire Connolly)
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- The emergence of four nations framework in literary and historical scholarship has helped us to arrive at a fuller understanding of the complex and overlapping histories of the islands of Britain and Ireland, while recent research into Wales and Ireland in particular has helped to make the map of... [ … ]
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- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Daly, Nicholas Paul (Nick Daly)
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- In this episode Nicholas Daly reads from the Introduction to his book Sensation and Modernity in the 1860's published by Cambridge University Press. This is a study of high and low culture in the years before the Reform Act of 1867, which vastly increased the number of voters in Victorian Britain.... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Entwistle, Alice (Alice Entwistle)
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- Among the many divergent strands of Irish and Welsh cultural history, one commonality stands out: the profoundly self-conscious preoccupation with nationality and nationhood. For decades, political and cultural thinkers have troped this concern in the spatialized relation between centre and... [ … ]
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- Type/Formats:
- Sound — Lectures — Podcasts
- Publisher:
- University College Dublin
- Contributor:
- Wolfreys, Julian, 1958-
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- In '"I have only one culture and it is not mine": Professions of English diaspora', Julian Wolfreys engages in acts of memory-work, to recover, through a focus on the voice as mnemotechnic and anamnesiac trace, the occluded and marginalized cultural differences of the regional English. Through a... [ … ]
