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SUMMARY:Helene Von Bismarck FANTASTIC KINGDOM with Ciaran Martin
DESCRIPTION:German historian Helene von Bismarck offers an affectionate and insightful portrait of the United Kingdom as seen by an outsider. \n\n\n\n\nFantastic Kingdom \nGlobal yet insular\, tolerant yet suspicious\, proudly pragmatic yet profoundly sentimental. The United Kingdom inspires fierce loyalty and endless argument. Ten years after Brexit\, it is as divided as ever. \nAfter twenty years of studying Britain\, German historian Helene von Bismarck offers an affectionate and insightful portrait of the United Kingdom as seen by an outsider. From the enduring fantasy of Britain as a self-sufficient island to the profound devotion to a global monarchy; from imperial amnesia to modern multiculturalism\, she explores the paradoxes and myths that shape British identity. \nClear-eyed and witty\, Fantastic Kingdom is a letter from a friend\, revealing why the question of what unites the country has never mattered more than now\, at a time of dramatic geopolitical change when liberal democracy is under attack. Looking backwards into history\, and outwards into the global context\, she closes the gap between how Britain understands itself and how it is seen abroad. \nHelene Von Bismarck \nHelene von Bismarck is a historian\, author and political commentator. Her main interest is Britain’s role in international relations during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Helene’s fascination with the past motivates her dedication to the present. She has published numerous essays providing historical context to current affairs\, addressed academic and non-academic audiences around the world\, and acted as a commentator on radio and television. Helene is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society\, as well as a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). \nCiaran Martin \nCiaran Martin is Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations. Prior to joining the School\, Ciaran was the founding Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre\, part of GCHQ. In September 2020 he was appointed Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations at the Blavatnik School of Government\, University of Oxford.
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LOCATION:Blackwell’s Bookshop\, 48-51 Broad Street\, Oxford\, OX1 3BQ
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SUMMARY:Amanda Golden THE POEMS OF SYLVIA PLATH with Erica McAlpine
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Golden\, Editor of this new edition of Sylvia Plath’s poems will discuss the book with Poet Erica McAlpine. \n\n\n\n\nThe Poems of Sylvia Plath \nSylvia Plath’s first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This new volume draws on decades of research and almost doubles the content of that previous edition. \nThe book is in two parts. It begins with the poems Plath composed in the last ten years of her life and on which her reputation is founded\, and follows with those poems written in childhood and through her student years. In both sections the editors date\, correct and arrange each poem chronologically\, drawing on manuscripts\, typescripts and related material. Critical notes help document Plath’s extraordinary evolution as a poet\, from her childhood compositions through to the blossoming of early ambition and into the molten core that was to shape the poems of her last few years and secure her place in literary history. \nAmanda Golden \nAmanda Golden is an Associate Professor of English at New York Institute of Technology. Previously\, She held a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology\, the NEH Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Poetics at Emory University’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry\, and taught at Agnes Scott College. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and her B.A. in English from Colgate University. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth century literature\, modernism\, poetry and poetics\, literary archives\, composition\, and the digital humanities. \nErica McAlpine \nErica McAlpine is Associate Professor of English at Oxford and the A. C. Cooper Fellow in English at St Edmund Hall.
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SUMMARY:Gwyneth Lewis NIGHTSHADE MOTHER with Kate Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Gwyneth Lewis\, the inaugural National Poet of Wales\, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling\, coercive mother. \n\n\n\n\nNightshade Mother \nIn this extraordinary memoir\, Gwyneth Lewis\, the inaugural National Poet of Wales\, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling\, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing to write all her life\, keeping diaries since childhood. In these journals\, she interrogates the emotionally abusive relationship she experienced\, in great pain but determined to find a way through. \nNightshade Mother is a book that Gwyneth co-writes with her younger self\, an unexpected and life-saving dialogue through time. Metaphors of haunting intensity help her confront what happened to her; quotations from art and literature guide and steady her. This is a book about the power of art\, language and\, ultimately\, about homecoming over a lifetime of exile from herself. It is a profoundly moving and beautiful work; questing\, forgiving and loving in its approach. \nGwyneth Lewis \nGwyneth Lewis was the first National Poet of Wales and wrote the six-foot-high words on the front of the iconic Wales Millennium Centre. She’s an award-winning poet in both Welsh and English and has published ten collections. Her third memoir\, Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling gives an account of the emotional abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother. It won then Wales Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was shortlisted for a Sky Arts Award. Gwyneth was Artist in Residence at Balliol for the last four years. \nKate Kennedy \nKate Kennedy is a biographer and BBC broadcaster\, Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-writing\, and a Research Fellow at Wolfson College\, Oxford. She is the author of numerous books on twentieth century literature and music\, and most recently co-editor with Dame Hermione Lee of Lives of Houses\, and author of Dweller in Shadows – A Life of Ivor Gurney. Her most recent book Cello – A Journey From Silence to Sound met with international acclaim and was shortlisted for multiple awards in the UK and US. Kate is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society\, and recipient of Oxford University’s Chancellor’s Prize for Public Engagement with Research.
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SUMMARY:Carlo Rovelli ON THE EQUALITY OF ALL THINGS with Iain McGilchrist
DESCRIPTION:Internationally acclaimed physicist Carlo Rovelli joins us to talk about his latest book in an evening at the prestigious Sheldonian theatre \n\n\n\n\nOn the Equality of All Things \nWhat do we really know about the world? Acclaimed physicist Carlo Rovelli guides us through the speculative depths of modern physics to explore what our knowledge tells us about the strangeness of reality. Be unafraid to test its limits and prepare to lose your moorings\, as he suggests there may be no final foundation to life. We live in a universe where electrons and minds\, stones and laws\, judgements and galaxies are notions that illuminate each other\, and reality is better understood as a set of reflections\, revealing the equality of all things. \nRecalling the ancient story of the philosopher who dreamt that he was a butterfly and\, on waking\, wonders if it wasn’t the butterfly who had dreamt it was the philosopher\, Rovelli invites us to recognise that our knowledge is coherent but also uncertain and circular. There may be no foundations\, no hierarchies\, but we\, who are woven together by thoughts and desires\, emotions and dreams\, are at one with all things in the world. We are\, in a deep sense\, at home. \nCarlo Rovelli \nCarlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to quantum theory and the physics of space and time. He directs a Quantum Gravity research group in Marseille\, France. He is an internationally acclaimed writer\, whose books\, including Seven Brief Lessons on Physics\, The Order of Time\, Helgoland and White Holes\, have been number one bestsellers around the world and translated into over forty languages\, rendering the insights of contemporary physics accessible to wide audiences. \nDr Iain McGilchrist \nIain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College\, Oxford\, an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College\, Oxford\, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts\, a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital\, London\, a former research Fellow in Neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School\, Baltimore\, and a former Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. \nHe is committed to the idea that the mind and brain can be understood only by seeing them in the broadest possible context\, that of the whole of our physical and spiritual existence\, and of the wider human culture in which they arise – the culture which helps to mould\, and in turn is moulded by\, our minds and brains.
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