Wolfson College Humanities Society Podcast
1) Laura Zucconi: Transgendered Copper Mining in the Levant
The description of Esau’s family in Genesis 36 and I Chronicles 1 has the figure of Timna change gender in the span of a few verses. She is a concubine, a sister, and then a male head of a clan. This ...Show More
2) Robert Koepp - George Elliot and the Religion of Favourable Chance
Professor Robert Koepp examines how Eliot's characters struggle with the profoundly human inclination to trust in luck by worshiping at the altar of 'blessed Chance'- arguing that this tendency is cen...Show More
3) Bjorn L. Basberg: Maynard Keynes and his Whaling Adventures
The economist John Maynard Keynes’ activities on the stock market are well known. One company in which he bought stocks in the late 1920s was the Hector Whaling Company Ltd. The paper explores how Key...Show More
4) Jennifer Davis: Trade (mark) Wars, 1860-1920: Sweatshops, the Retail Trade and the Meaning of Trade Marks
A registered trade mark acts an indication of origin for goods but tells us nothing specific about the circumstances under which the goods originated. This limitation was not inevitable. After trade m...Show More
5) Simon Szreter: Social Security in Britain -cost or benefit ? A historical perspective on a 2015 general election issue
Prof Szreter will discuss the costs and benefits of the long-term history of a national social security system in Britain. He will argue that such a perspective is important for evaluating the current...Show More
6) Professor Warren Dockter - Churchill and the Islamic World
In this anniversary year – 50 years since the death of Winston Churchill and 70 years since the end of WWII – Warren Dockter will look at Churchill’s long relationship with the Islamic world and his l...Show More
7) Dr Justin Colson on London Bridge
Dr Justin Colson talks about London Bridge which has existed in one form or another since the fourteenth century. He explores the social world of the Bridge in the late fifteenth century, and how the ...Show More
8) Dr Rowan Williams - Mysticism and politics; some thoughts about St Teresa of Avila
This year is the 500th anniversary of the birth of Teresa, one of the foremost ‘mystical’ writers of the Christian tradition. Research in the last fifty years has clarified more and more the nature of...Show More
Dr Rowan Williams - Mysticism and politics; some thoughts about St Teresa of Avila
1:01:00 | Feb 25th, 2015
9) Dr Robert Amundsen - Ibsen's women on and off the stage
There were two categories of women in Henrik Ibsen’s life: the women in his dramatic universe and the women in his own life. Ibsen’s attitude to women is highly complex: whereas the many women who inh...Show More
10) Professor Julius Lipner - Hinduism: the challenges of a polycentric approach to shaping our world
Hinduism is by far the majority culture of India, which is set fair to become a superpower in the next few decades. How then does the polycentric, decentralizing phenomenon of Hinduism influence and g...Show More