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Scholarcast 23: Pliny's Encyclopedia: The reception of the natural history

UCD Scholarcast - Series 3: Scholars off the Page - December 10, 2010 10:51 - 10 minutes
In his episode Aude Doody reads from the Introduction to Pliny’s Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History, published by Cambridge University Press. The Elder Pliny's Natural History is one of the largest and most extraordinary works to survive from antiquity. It has often been referred ...

Scholarcast 22: Sensation and Modernity in the 1860s

UCD Scholarcast - Series 3: Scholars off the Page - December 10, 2010 09:51 - 24 minutes
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...

Scholarcast 15: Old and New Media After Katrina

UCD Scholarcast - Series 3: Scholars off the Page - April 15, 2010 10:51 - 37 minutes
In this episode Diane Negra reads from the Introduction of Old and New Media after Katrina published by Palgrave Macmillan. This pioneering collection explores the relationship between Hurricane Katrina and a range of media forms, assessing how mainstream and independent media have responded some...

Scholarcast 14: Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland

UCD Scholarcast - Series 3: Scholars off the Page - December 16, 2009 10:51 - 20 minutes
In this episode Diarmaid Ferriter reads from chapter six of his latest book Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland published by Profile Books. Using a huge variety of different sources, Occasions of Sin charts the Irish sexual experience over the course of the twentieth century. In t...

Scholarcast 13: Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living

UCD Scholarcast - Series 3: Scholars off the Page - June 05, 2009 10:51 - 29 minutes
In this episode Declan Kiberd reads the closing chapter of his latest book Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living published by Faber and Faber. Kiberd shows that Ulysses, far from being the epitome of elitism, was always intended as a book for the common people. It was rooted in their experie...