Uncommon Knowledge

Uncommon Knowledge Oxford

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SOCIETY & CULTURE

Podcast by Uncommon Knowledge Oxford

03/28/2017

Uncommon Knowledge 11: Sarah Griffin on Medieval Cosmological Diagrams and Opicinus de Canistris

Sarah Griffin talks to us about the fourteenth-century cosmologist Opicinus de Canistris, who attempted to reconcile medieval theology, cosmology, and cartography in a series of incredible diagrams.

33 min
03/16/2017

Uncommon Knowledge 10: Kristin Grogan on Modernists

D.Phil student in English, Kristen Grogan, joins the podcast to talk about the relationships between modernist writers, including T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wright, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald

33 min
02/21/2017

Uncommon Knowledge 9: Emily Knight on Death Masks

Emily Knight, DPhil in Art History, tells us about the morbidly fascinating world of Victorian death masks, and what they can tell us about society, science, celebrity, and attitudes towards death.

37 min
07/20/2016

Uncommon Knowledge 8: Helen Slaney on Emma Hamilton's 'Attitudes'

Dr Helen Slaney joins us to discuss Emma Hamilton's 'Attitudes' - the series of classical poses she developed in response to the ancient vases collected by her husband, William Hamilton, in Naples. Listen and find out how to do an eighteenth-century impression of Medea!

30 min
07/04/2016

Uncommon Knowledge 7: Courtney Traub on The Whole Earth Catalog, Ecology, and the Early Internet

Dr. Courtney Traub, Teaching and Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford, joined us this week to tell us about an off-beat, counter-cultural publication from the 1960s and 70s, the Whole Earth Catalog.

26 min

5 Episodes

Podcast by Uncommon Knowledge Oxford

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Uncommon Knowledge Oxford
Years Active

2016 - 2017
Episodes

5
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