Podcasts

Irish Studies and the Environmental Humanities Podcast Series UCD Scholarcast

“This series brings together a variety of scholars from the humanities and sciences, public officials and politicians, who help us understand and better narrate environmental issues. Such wide-scale, interdisciplinary engagement will update traditional methods of viewing and critiquing nature in Irish literary narratives, and also demonstrate the central importance of narrative in imagining environmental issues and habitable futures. Narrative, it is argued overall, produces conceptual leaps, empathetic bonds, and has deep historical, cultural and somatic effects, all of which determine how we engage with our environments.”

The Literatures and Cultures of the Irish Sea Podcast Series UCD Scholarcast

“This series hosts eight lectures by major scholars on literary and cultural transactions across the Irish Sea, and which focus on the Irish Sea as an ‘inner waterway’ of the British and Irish Isles. This has been the subject of considerable debate in recent literary scholarship, following John Kerrigan’s Archipelagic English (2008), and Christopher Harvie’s A Floating Commonwealth(2008), both of which proposed new ‘archipelagic’ and ‘coastal’ models for understanding the literatures of the isles. The lectures gather together, and make publicly available in downloadable audio and text formats, new work by major scholars who are currently researching maritime, coastal, and portal themes in the literatures and cultures around the Irish Sea.”