Scientific Travel Writing and the Environmental Imagination by Isabella Engberg
In this episode, hosts Ian Grosz and Lise Olsen interview Isabella Maria Engberg about her PhD project, which discusses how environmental portrayals in scientific travel writing from the long nineteen...
23 Juni 202234min
Literary Adaptation and Representation by May Toudic
Despite the major advancement in social justice made in the past decades, modern media is still lagging behind when it comes to diversity and the representation of marginalised communities. This poses...
23 Maj 202226min
We Must Walk: A conversation with Lise Olsen on her 12-month artist in residency with The Moray Way Association
A conversation with Lise Olsen on her 12-month artist in residency with The Moray Way Association, a charity organisation established to promote a 100-mile long circular walking route called The Moray...
14 Apr 202235min
Pilots in Pyjamas (1968), a four-part documentary on the Vietnam War by GDR filmmakers Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann by Lauren Cuthbert
Lauren’s research focuses on the films of GDR documentary filmmakers Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann, who made multiple documentaries opposing the Vietnam War during the 1960s and 1970s. Althou...
24 Mars 202243min
‘Bears Meddling in Human Politics’: Ecologising Democracy in Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Ines Kirschner
Join Dr Suk-Jun Kim, Isabella Engberg, and Ines for a chat about her current research on conference-going polar bears and climate change in German-Japanese writer Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear...
25 Feb 202232min
Echoes of War: Fiction of Traumatic Memories in the Aftermath of the Spanish Civil War by Libertad Ansola-Palazuelos
A transcript for this episode can be found online here. In this episode, Libertad discusses her PhD research project, ‘Echoes of War: A creative Exploration in Fiction of Traumatic Memories in the Aft...
28 Jan 202247min
Representations of autism and place in 21st Century: Sarinah O’Donoghue
A transcript for this episode can be found online, here. In this episode, Sarinah O’Donoghue discusses her research project that explores representations of autism and place in twenty-first century tr...
14 Jan 202258min
E. A. Hornel: A Painter Behind the Camera
A transcript for this episode can be found online, here.The Scottish artist E.A. Hornel, who was part of the ‘Glasgow Boys’, is well-known for his work as a painter, and it is no secret that he used p...
10 Dec 202136min
