Lecture 21
Professor Iain Fenlon, Faculty of Music, King's College, Cambridge
Life and Death: Public Music and Ritual in Renaissance Venice
Date: Thursday, 25 November 2010
Iain Fenlon is Professor of Historical Musicology in the Faculty of Music, and a Fellow of King’s College. He studied at Reading (BA 1970), Birmingham (MA 1971) and Cambridge (PhD 1977). In 1973-4 he was an advisory editor for Grove 6, then Hayward Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham (1974-5), a fellow of Villa I Tatti, (Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) Florence (1975-6), and Junior and subsequently Senior research fellow at King’s College, Cambridge (1976-83). From 1979 he was Lecturer at Cambridge, and in 1996 was appointed Reader. He has held visiting appointments at Wellesley College, Massachusetts (1978-9), Harvard University (1984-5), the British School in Rome (1985), the Centre de Musique Ancienne, Geneva (1988-9), the École Normale Superiéure, Paris (1998-9), and the University of Bologna (2000-2001). In 1984 he was awarded the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association, and was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1989. He has also held Visiting Fellowships at All Souls College, Oxford (1991-2), and New College, Oxford (1992), and is Honorary Keeper of the Music at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Fenlon is the founding editor of Early Music History (1981-).
His principal area of research is music from 1450 to 1650, particularly in Italy. An early monograph on music on 16th-century Mantua explores how the Gonzaga family patronised the reform of liturgical music and the secular arts of spectacle. With James Haar he has written a study of the emergence of the Italian madrigal, which establishes the importance of its Florentine origins, and his 1994 Panizzi lectures on early Italian music print culture are published by The British Library. Giaches de Wert: Letters and Documents (Paris, 1999) provides editions with commentary of the composer’s letters, including an important cache of autographs discovered in the late 1990s. Most of his writings, some of which are gathered together in Music and Culture in Late Renaissance Italy (Oxford, 2000), explore how the history of music is related to the history of society. His most recent book is The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice (Yale, 2007).
Lecture 20
This lecture is a joint HII / Folklore event as part of the 75th Anniversary of the Irish Folklore Commission
Dr Fredrik Skott, Research Archivist, Institute for Language and Folklore, University of Gothenburg
Folklore and Nationalism: Folklore Collecting in Sweden during the interwar period
Date: Wednesday, 6 October 2010
Fredrik Skott, PhD, Research archivist at the Institute for Language and Folklore, Department of Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in Gothenburg, and teacher at University of Gothenburg, Department of Historical Studies. In my thesis, Folkets minnen: Traditionsinsamling i idé och praktik 1919 - 1964 ["The Popular Memory: Folklore Collecting in Theory and Practice, 1919-1964"], I discussed the popular images that the Swedish folklore collections communicate and the ideas behind the selection principles governing their construction. Other research fields that I am interested in are witchcraft trials and mumming traditions.
Lecture 19
Professor David Hiley, Professor in Musicology, Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Universität Regensburg
Plainchant in the Norman lands: Normandy, England, Sicily
Date: Wednesday, 15 September 2010
David Hiley was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and King’s College, London where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the liturgical music of Norman Sicily. He was Music Master at Eton College and Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London before becoming professor of Musicology at Regensburg in 1986. He has served as secretary and vice-president of the Plainsong & Medieval Music society and editor of its journal; chair of the IMS study group Cantus Planus; co-editor of Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi and was a contributor and editor for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the New Oxford History of Music. He was elected to the Academia Europaea in 1998 and elected a corresponding member of the American Musicological Society in 2002. He has published numerous articles on all aspects of medieval plainchant, editions of saints’ offices and facsimile editions of medieval music manuscripts. He is probably best known for his 1993 publication Western Plainchant: A Handbook which has become the standard reference work on the subject. His most recent publication is the Cambridge Introduction to Gregorian Chant (2009). In recent years his work has focused on saints’ offices but he has also returned to re-examine the Norman chant traditions.
Lecture 18
Dr Toby Barnard, Armstrong-Macintyre-Markham Fellow and Tutor in History, Hertford College, Oxford University
Print in eighteenth-century Ireland: varieties and variations
Date: Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Toby Barnard is currently on a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship, until 2009. When not on leave, he teaches an extensive range of options on the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, and supervises graduate students working on Ireland and Britain over that period.
His main research and writing currently focus on his Leverhulme project: ‘The cultures of print in Ireland between 1680 and 1800’. This looks likely to yield two book-length studies: the first provisionally titled ‘Authorship and Readership in eighteenth-century Ireland’, and the other, ‘The Cultures of Print in Ireland, c.1680-1800’. Dr Barnard is also co-editing one of the volumes in the new Cambridge edition of the collected works of Jonathan Swift, and plans to write on popular and unpopular art in England, c.1920-1950.
Lecture 17
Professor Richard Sharpe, Professor of Diplomatic, Faculty of History, Oxford University
Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Edward Lhwyd, and the first Irish-English Dictionary (1707)
Date: Wednesday 5 May 2010
Professor Sharpe's interests are broadly the history of medieval England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. He has a special concern with first-hand work on the primary sources of medieval history, including palaeography, diplomatic and the editorial process, as well as the historical and legal contexts of medieval documents. He is general editor of the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues and has published recently on medieval books and libraries before 1540 and on the Latin writers of Great Britain and Ireland. He is currently working on writs and writ-charters in eleventh- and twelfth-century England, preparing editions of the charters of William II and Henry I. Saints' lives and cults, especially those of the Celtic churches, have long been an interest.
Lecture 16
Professor Lauren Swayne Barthold, Associate Professor of Philosophy & Coordinator, Gender Studies Minor, Gordon College Massachusetts
Gender as Interpretation
Date: Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Lauren Swayne Barthold joined the Department in 2005 as Assistant Professor of Philosophy. She received her Ph.D from the New School for Social Research in 2002, where she wrote her dissertation, under the supervision of Richard J. Bernstein, on Gadamer's conception of truth. She also holds an M.A. in Philosophy from Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, B.C.) and an M.C.S. from Regent College (Vancouver, B.C.). Previous teaching positions include Eugene Lang College, Haverford, and Siena. She has written and taught on Gadamer, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, Hannah Arendt, Harry Frankfurt, Jürgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Martin Heidegger. Other areas of research and teaching interests include philosophy and literature, feminism, ethics, American pragmatism, and hermeneutics. She is founder and current President of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics (NASPH Home Page).Her current areas of research include a monograph on the dialectical nature of Gadamer's hermeneutics, a critique of Rorty's refusal to allow religion a public role, and the role of the good in understanding.
Lecture 15
Professor Sally Wyatt, Digital Cultures in Development, Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio
Digitising Humanities and Social Sciences: Promises, Paradoxes and Problems
Date: Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Sally Wyatt is Professor of 'digital cultures in development', Maastricht University, and senior research fellow with the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, KNAW. Her background is in economics (BA McGill, 1976; MA Sussex, 1979) and science and technology studies (PhD Maastricht, 1998). She has more than 25 years experience in teaching and research about technology policy and about the relationship between technological and social change, focusing particularly on issues of social exclusion and inequality. She has worked at the Universities of Sussex, Brighton, East London and Amsterdam as well as at the British Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). She co-ordinates PhD training in the Dutch Research School for Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC) (with Els Rommes, Radboud University). She was President of EASST (European Association for the Study of Science and Technology) between 2001-4. Recently, she has worked on the internet and social exclusion and the ways in which people incorporate the internet into their practices for finding health information. Together with Andrew Webster, she is editor of a new book series, Health, Technology and Society (Palgrave Macmillan).This lecture has been organised in conjunction with the HII's Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA). For a copy of the poster for this event please click here.
Lecture 14
Professor John Kerrigan, Professor of English, St John's College, Cambridge
Shakespeare, Oaths and Vows
Date: Wednesday, 30 September 2009
The language-world of early modern England was thick with oaths and vows, from casual profanity in taverns to the solemn undertakings of those marrying or accepting public office. Moralists urged the seriousness of oaths, casuists advised on how to undo them. There were religious and legal debates about what it meant to swear and how firmly one should keep a promise. The literature of the time reflects the prevalence of oaths and vows and the arguments about their status. But Shakespeare was exceptional in the density, depth and subtlety with which he explored these issues. His plays are full of oaths and vows doing structural, psychological and verbally minute, inventive work. Ranging across the output, but paying particular attention to Troilus and Cressida and The Winter's Tale, this lecture aims to rectify scholarly neglect of the topic, using historical, philosophical and stage-related arguments to highlight Shakespeare's awareness of the paradoxes of oath-taking and vowing and their potency in performance.
John Kerrigan is Professor of English 2000 at the University of Cambridge. Among his books are Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (1996), On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature (2001) and Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics 1603-1707 (2008). He is currently completing a book on British and Irish poetry since the 1960s.
Lecture 13
Professor Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian, New College, University of Oxford
St. Petersburg: Shadows of the Past
Date: Monday, 18 May 2009
Catriona Kelly was born and brought up in London, and studies Russian at Oxford and the University of Voronezh. After holding various research fellowships at Christ Church, Oxford, she taught for three years at the School of Salvonic and East European Studies, University of London, before taking up her current post in 1996. She has published widely on Russian culture, especially of the Late Imperial and Soviet periods; her interests range from modernist poetry to the visual arts, women's writing and cultural history. Her books include Petrushka, the Russian Carnival Puppet Theatre (CUP, 1990); A History of Russian Women's Writing, 1820-1992 (OUP, 1994); An Anthology of Russian Women's Writing, 1777-1992 (OUP, 1994); Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin (OUP, 2001); Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2001); Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Society Boy Hero (Franta, 2005); and Children's World: Growing Up in Russia 1890-1991 (Yale, 2007) ((opens in a new window)www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/russian/childhood).
Lecture 12
Professor Guinn Batten, Associate Professor of English, Washington University in St. Louis. Fulbright Scholar 2008
Feeling into Wordsworth: Romanticism, Nature and Violence in Heaney and Lacan
Date: Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Professor Batten is the author of The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture in English Romanticism (1998), and she is a co-editor of Romantic Generations: Essays in Honor of Robert F. Gleckner (2001). Recently she has been involved in three Cambridge University Press projects associated with Irish Poetry. She is co-editor, with Dillon Johnston, of the section "Irish Poetry in English, 1945 to the Present'' for the Cambridge History of Irish Literature and a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (published Sept. 2003) and The Cambridge Companion to the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Fall 2008). With the support of a Fulbright award to Ireland in fall 2008, she is completing a book on states of emergency, the ethics of violence, and sexual difference in the poetry of English Romanticism and modern Ireland. She will also complete contributions for two Blackwell projects, a companion to the study of English Romantic poetry and a two-volume history of Irish literature. Formerly the manager and editor of Wake Forest University Press (the major publisher of Irish poetry in North America), she selected, edited, and wrote an Afterword for the North American edition of Medbh McGuckian’s, The Soldiers of Year II (2002).
Lecture 11
Professor Werner Jeanrond, Professor of Divinity, University of Glasgow
Ambiguous memories: retrieving western traditions of love today
Date: Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Werner Jeanrond gained his Masters Degree with distinction from the University of Saarbrücken in 1979, and a PhD with distinction from Chicago Divinity School in 1984. He was a lecturer, then senior lecturer, and eventually Head of School at Trinity College Dublin between 1981 and 1994. Most recently he has been working as Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Lund in Sweden.
Professor Jeanrond’s teaching interests include in all areas of systematic theology, such as christology , pneumatology, ecclesiology, soteriology, eschatology, political theology, feminist theology, theology of love, liberation theology, contextual theology and more. Prof Jeanrond also teaches hermeneutics, models of theology, correlational theologies; and philosophy of religion, ethics, theology and literature, and interreligious dialogue. His research interests include philosophical and theological hermeneutics; theological method; the concept of God; ecclesiology; political theology; the theology of love. At present he is working on a monograph on the theology of love.
Lecture 10
Professor Renford Reese, Professor of Politics Science and Director of the Colourful Flags Programme, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Ignorance is bliss: the challenge of cultural competency and citizenry
Date: Monday, 5 May 2008
Renford Reese grew up in McDonough, Georgia. He received his Bachelors of Arts degree in political science from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1989. He received his Master's degree in public policy from the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies in 1990. In 1996, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California's School of Public Administration in Los Angeles. He did his doctoral dissertation research on intergroup relations and ethnic conflict at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development in Geneva, Switzerland. Reese is currently a professor in the political science department and the founder/director of the acclaimed Colorful Flags program at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is the author of four provocative books—the most recent being American Bravado (2008), which is a scathing critique of American hegemony and misuse of power. Reese has travelled to 46 countries and has given lectures in many of them.
Lecture 9
Professor Julian Thomas, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester
Beyond material culture, material things and human existence
Date: Wednesday, 5 December 2007
Julian Thomas was educated at the Universities of Bradford (BTech in 1981) and Sheffield (MA1982, Ph.D. 1986). This doctoral research was concerned with social and economic change in the Neolithic of Wessex and the Upper Thames valley. He was a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Wales , Lampeter between 1987 and 1993, and taught at Southampton University from 1994 to 2000. He took up the Chair of Archaeology at Manchester in April 2000.
Julian's main research interests are concerned with the Neolithic period in Britain and north-west Europe, and with the theory and philosophy of archaeology. His major preoccupation throughout his career has been with finding ways of understanding prehistoric societies which confront the prejudices and assumptions of the contemporary west. Themes within this broader set of concerns include landscape and monumentality; the archaeology of death; the social role of material culture; the body, personhood and identity; the relationship between archaeology and anthropology; the history of archaeological thought; the contemporary political significance of archaeology; and the use of hermeneutic, phenomenological, feminist and post-structuralist philosophies in archaeology. He has recently published a study of the relationship between archaeology and modernity, which explores the connections between archaeological knowledge and the modern condition.
Lecture 8
Professor Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies, Harvard University
Aspects of memory and identity in Ireland
Date: Thursday, 29 November 2007
Tomás Ó Cathasaigh is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies and Director of the Department of Celtic Languages and Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of The Biography of Cormac mac Airt (1977) and of articles on early Irish literature, mythology and language.
Lecture 7
Professor Sneja Gunew, Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of British Columbia
Who counts as Europeans: from Orientalism to Occidentalism
Date: Wednesday, 9 May 2007
Sneja Gunew is currently Professor of English and Women's Studies and Director of the Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations at the University of British Columbia. She has published widely on postcolonial, multicultural and feminist critical theory and has worked in the area of cultural policy, serving as a member of the Australia Council, a federal arts funding body. She has edited and co-edited four anthologies of Australian women's and multicultural writings. Her most recent book is Haunted Nations: the Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms (Routledge 2004).
Lecture 6
Professor Stephen Uran, Centre d'Études Transdisciplinaires - Sociologie, Anthropologie, Histoire (CETSAH) EHESS CNRS
The "communitarianism" polemic, the "Jewish question", ethnic minorities and the crisis of French national identity
Date: Wednesday, 9 March 2007
Stephen Uran of the Centre d'Études Transdisciplinaires (Sociologie, Anthropologie, Histoire) of the CRNS in Paris is an expert in nineteenth and early twentieth century history.He has a special interest in the history of French colonialism.
Lecture 5
Professor Philip Esler, Professor of Biblical Criticism, St. Mary's College, St. Andrew's University
Chief Executive, UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
The contribution of the arts and humanities to the production of public value
Date: Thursday, 2 November 2006
Philip Esler has a particular interest in the reading of biblical texts using the tools provided by social-scientific research. He also publishes and teaches in the areas of the Bible and the Visual Arts, and early Christian identity in Rome. He has extensive experience in managing complex change at a senior level of a university from his recent three years as the Vice-Principal for Research at St Andrews. Earlier in his career he worked for ten years as a litigation solicitor and then barrister. He was also a co-founder of a successful Christian monthly news-magazine in Australia.
For a period of four years from 1st September 2005 Professor Esler holds the position of Chief Executive of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and is taking leave from the University of St Andrews for that purpose.
Career: B.A.(Hons), LL.B., LL.M., Sydney; D.Phil. Oxford
Teaching areas: Social-scientific approaches to interpretation, Paul, Bible and the visual arts, early Christian Rome.
Lecture 4
Professor Alain Peyraube, Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris, France) and Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Language and genes in China
Date: Thursday, 26 October 2006
Alain Peyraube was born in November 1944 in Bordeaux where he received his schooling and his university degrees (BA in Linguistics, BA in Chinese, MA in Chinese Linguistics). From 1973 to 1975 he was a foreign student at the Beijing Language Institute and Beijing University (Department of Chinese). He completed his PhD dissertation "Les constructions locatives en chinois moderne" in 1976 and his Doctorat d'Etat "Syntaxe diachronique du chinois - Evolution des constructions datives du 14eme siecle avant J.-C au 18eme siecle" in 1984.
He is currently Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris, France) and Professor of Chinese Linguistics at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).
He has been Director from 1984 to 1998 of the Institute of East Asian Linguistics (CNRS and EHESS), and is now Deputy Director of the "Division of Humanities and Social Sciences" of the CNRS since 1997.
Alain Peyraube has been Visiting Professor and Visiting Scholar at the Cornell University (Hu Shih Chair in 1995), at the University of California at Santa Barbara (1990-1991, and every year thereafter since 1996), at the Hong Kong Baptist University (from 1993 to 1995), at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1986), at the Academia Sinica of Taiwan (1988), at La Trobe University in Australia (1994, 1999).
He was elected and served as President of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics from 1998 to 1999.
He is director of the Collection "China" at Flammarion Publishing House, co-director of the Collection "Monographs of the Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie Orientale", associate editor of the Journal of Chinese Linguistics, co-editor of the International Review of Chinese Linguistics, member of the editorial boards of the Cahiers de linguistique - Asie Orientale, of Etudes Chinoises, of Faits de langue, of Zhongguo yuwen.
Lecture 3
Professor Merlin W. Donald, Professor and Chair, Department of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve UniversityAlso - Department of Psychology and Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
The deep cognitive roots of art and religion
Date: Thursday, 25 May 2006
Merlin Donald is a cognitive neuroscientist with a background in philosophy. He is the author of many scientific papers, and two influential books: Origins of the Modern Mind: Three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition (Harvard, 1991), and A Mind So Rare: The evolution of human consciousness (Norton, 2001). His PhD was obtained from McGill in 1968, and subsequently he spent two years at the School of Medicine, Yale University, as an NRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, followed by almost three years at the West Haven Veterans Administration Medical Center as a Research Neuropsychologist. He has been at Queen's University since 1972. He has also been a visiting professor at University College, London (three times), Harvard, Stanford, the University of California at San Diego, and elsewhere. He has also been a Visitor at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences, at Stanford, California. He was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship from 1994 to 1996, and is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association (1984), and the Royal Society of Canada (1995). Most of Dr. Donald's early empirical work was in the field of human cognitive and clinical neuroscience, with a specialization in electrophysiology. During the past 15 years he has returned to the topic that drew him to psychology in the first place: human intellectual and cognitive origins. This work bridges several disciplines in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. His central thesis is that human beings have evolved a completely novel cognitive strategy: brain-culture symbiosis.
Lecture 2
Professor Wolfgang Iser, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Konstanz
Erasing narration: Samuel Beckett's "Malone Dies" and "Texts for Nothing"
Date: Thursday, 9 March 2006
Founder of Reception Theory, recent publications on anthropology and literature: Born in 1926, Iser was Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Constance, West Germany. With his colleague Hans Robert Jauss, Iser is an exponent of 'reception-theory'. Iser privileges the experience of reading literary texts as a uniquely consciousness-raising activity and stresses the centrality of consciousness in all investigations of meaning. The study of phenomenology and the work of Husserl, Ingarden, Gadamer, and Poulet have influenced and contributed to the Iser's work.
Lecture 1
Professor Jay M. Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University
The moral witness and the two world wars
Date: Tuesday, 1 November 2005
Jay M. Winter is a specialist on World War I and its impact on the 20th century. His other interests include remembrances of war in the 20th century, such as memorial and mourning sites, European population decline, the causes and institution of war, British popular culture in the World War I era and the Armenian genocide of 1915. Winter is the author or co-author of a dozen books, including Socialism and the Challenge of War, Ideas and Politics in Britain, 1912-18, The Great War and the British People, The Fear of Population Decline, The Experience of World War I, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History, 1914-1918: The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century and his most recent, The Generation of Memory. He has edited or co-edited 13 books and contributed more than 40 book chapters to edited volumes. Works in preparation include the second volume of "Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919. The Cultural History of Nostalgic Modernity" and "Visions and Violence: An Alternative History of the 20th Century." He has also written a number of book introductions, forewords and translations. The historian was co-producer, co-writer and chief historian for the PBS series "The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century," which won an Emmy Award in 1997. Winter earned BA from Columbia University and his PhD and DLitt from Cambridge University. He taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Warwick and the University of Cambridge before joining the faculty of Columbia University in 2000 and then the Yale faculty one year later. At Yale, his courses include seminars on modern British and comparative modern European history. Winter has presented named lectures at Dartmouth College, Union University, Indiana University and the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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Professor Gillian Rose