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Environmental Law – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 49

May 19, 2022The Very Short Introductions Podcastelizabeth fisher, environmental law, environmentalism, oil spills, the very short introductions podcastoxfordacademic

In this episode, Elizabeth Fisher introduces environmental law, a wide-ranging area of law that can operate at both a local and global level and is an area of complexity and hard-fought cases.

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Elizabeth Fisher is Professor of Environmental Law in the Faculty of Law and at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. She has won awards for both her teaching and her scholarship, and is General Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law.

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Epicureanism – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 48

May 12, 2022The Very Short Introductions Podcastcatherine wilson, epicureanism, epicurus, modesty, philosophy, schools of thought, simple life, the very short introductions podcastoxfordacademic

In this episode, Catherine Wilson introduces Epicureanism, a school of thought based on the teachings of Epicurus, that promotes modest pleasure and a simple life—ideals that still hold relevance today.

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Catherine Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at York University and a member of the Graduate Faculty of the City University of New York. She is the author of a number of books and articles on the history and philosophy of science and on the Epicurean influence on moral and political theory.

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Violence – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 47

May 5, 2022The Very Short Introductions Podcasthistory of violence, philip dwyer, the very short introductions podcast, violence, violence in the modern worldoxfordacademic

In this episode, Philip Dwyer introduces the difficult but important topic of violence and addresses the truth behind the claims that society is becoming less violent.

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Philip Dwyer is Professor of History and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, including a three-volume biography of Napoleon.

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Mary Shelley – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 46

April 28, 2022The Very Short Introductions Podcastfrankenstein, gothic, mary shelley, mary wollstonecraft, the very short introductions podcast, women writersoxfordacademic

In this episode, Charlotte Gordon introduces Mary Shelley, an author known for the seminal Frankenstein but whose body of work extends beyond one novel.

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Charlotte Gordon is the Distinguished Professor of English at Endicott College. An award-winning author, her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, among other publications. Her latest book, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (2015) won the National Book Critics Circle award. She is also the author of Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Story of America’s First Poet (2005), and The Woman Who Named God: Abraham’s Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths (2009). Most recently, she has written the Introduction to Penguin’s re-issue of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

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Modern China – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 45

April 21, 2022The Very Short Introductions Podcastccp, chinese communist party, chinese history, communism, covid-19, hong kong, modern china, modern chinese politics, rana mitter, the very short introductions podcast, xi jinpingoxfordacademic

In this episode, Rana Mitter introduces modern China, a country full of contradictions that continues to make global headlines as it balances its past with its future.

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Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China and Director of the University China Centre at the University of Oxford. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Manchurian Myth: Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China (University of California Press, 2000) and A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World (OUP, 2004). His most recent book is China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945 (Penguin, 2014), which won the 2014 Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature, and was a 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. He is a presenter for BBC Radio 3’s arts and ideas programme, Free Thinking.

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