Research in Action podcast launch
The School of Arts & Humanities has today launched a new series of podcasts offering an informative taste of some of the most exciting and topical research across the arts and humanities.
The aim of the Research in Action series is to provide a resource for prospective students, parents and teachers, and give a sense of the way in-depth research informs both teaching at King’s and the wider public discourse."What I love about the research that's happening in the School at the moment,” says Professor Catherine Boyle, Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies and the School’s Head of Research, “is that there's a real sense that we have something to say beyond the academy. The impulse is to talk, and to correspond, and to communicate our research to as many difference audiences as we possibly can.”
The series kicks off this week with Andrew Counter’s Love and sex under the Bourbon Restoration, which explores how writers from different social classes considered questions of love, sex and sexuality in Nineteenth-century France. With debates around gay marriage currently causing controversy on both sides of the Channel, Dr Counter asks whether looking at this period of French literature can inform both our preconceptions of what was common in the past, and our assumptions of what is normal in the present.
Research in Action will go on to examine radical religious groups’ relationships with politics with Dr Marat Shterin; the history of prejudices against women in education with Dr Rosie Wyles; and Professor Gordon McMullan will look at Shakespearean commemoration in Sydney and London ahead of the Bard’s quarter centenary celebration in 2016, which King’s and its cultural partners will play a key role in co-ordinating.
The podcasts will appear on the King’s website and on the College’s SoundCloud page twice a week until September.
Image: Allégorie du retour des Bourbons le 24 avril 1814 : Louis XVIII relevant la France de ses ruines by Louis-Philippe Crépin (via Creative Commons)