Film Music – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 28

April 29, 2021The Very Short Introductions Podcastfilm music, franz waxman, hitchcock, kathryn kalinak, rebecca, the very short introductions podcast, vsioxfordacademic

In this episode, Kathryn Kalinak introduces film music, which began as an accompaniment to moving pictures and is now its own industry, providing a platform for expressing creative visions and a commercial vehicle for growing musical stars of all varieties.

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Kathryn Kalinak is Professor of English and Film Studies at Rhode Island College.

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Environmental Histories and Potential Futures – Episode 60 – The Oxford Comment

April 27, 2021The Oxford Comment, The Oxford Commentclimate change, environmental future, environmental history, environmentalism, erin mauldin, future studies, jennifer gidley, The Oxford Commentoxfordacademic

The academic fields of both environmental history and future studies originated in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s during the rise of the mainstream environmental movement. On today’s episode of The Oxford Comment, we are joined by environmental historian Erin Stewart Mauldin, author Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South, and Jennifer Gidley, the past president of the World Futures Studies and author of The Future: A Very Short Introduction, to learn more about how these two areas of study look at our relationship with the environment and how these valuable perspectives can engage, and inform, our environmental understanding.

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Canada – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 27

April 22, 2021The Very Short Introductions Podcastcanada, canadian culture, canadian history, donald wright, the very short introductions podcast, vsioxfordacademic

In this episode, Donald Wright introduces Canada, a country of complexity and diversity, which isn’t one single nation but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations.

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Donald Wright is a specialist in Canadian history and politics and is Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick in Canada.

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Calvinism – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 26

April 15, 2021The Very Short Introductions Podcastcalvinism, john calvin, jon balserak, reformed, the very short introductions podcast, vsioxfordacademic

In this episode, Jon Balserak introduces Calvinism, which has gone on to influence all aspects of contemporary thought, from theology to civil government, economics to the arts, and education to work.

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Jon Balserak is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Bristol. He has published numerous scholarly articles on John Calvin and the Calvinist and Reformed tradition.

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Homer – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 25

April 8, 2021The Very Short Introductions Podcastancience greece, barbara graziosi, greek mythology, homer, the iliad, the odyssey, the very short introductions podcast, vsioxfordacademic

In this episode, Barbara Graziosi introduces Homer, whose mythological tales of war and homecoming, The Iliad and The Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature.

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Barbara Graziosi teaches classics at Durham University. She is the author of Inventing Homer (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and together with Johannes Haubold she wrote Homer: The Resonance of Epic (Duckworth, 2005), and completed a commentary on Iliad 6 for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

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