Uncommon Knowledge
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- Duration: 2:38:43
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Podcast by Uncommon Knowledge Oxford
Episodes
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Uncommon Knowledge 11: Sarah Griffin on Medieval Cosmological Diagrams and Opicinus de Canistris
28/03/2017 Duration: 32minSarah 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.
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Uncommon Knowledge 10: Kristin Grogan on Modernists
16/03/2017 Duration: 33minD.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
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Uncommon Knowledge 9: Emily Knight on Death Masks
21/02/2017 Duration: 37minEmily 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.
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Uncommon Knowledge 8: Helen Slaney on Emma Hamilton's 'Attitudes'
20/07/2016 Duration: 29minDr 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!
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Uncommon Knowledge 7: Courtney Traub on The Whole Earth Catalog, Ecology, and the Early Internet
04/07/2016 Duration: 26minDr. 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.