CMTC Podcast Interviews: Recent Episodes
Gabriele Rota
This is not a podcast about manuscripts.
Join our host Gabriele Rota (https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-gabriele-rota) – Outreach Officer at the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures (CMTC) (https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/centre-manuscript-and-text-cultures) , The Queen's College (https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/) (University of Oxford)–in a series of conversations with some of the brightest researchers in the humanities working on premodern cultures.
Each interview will focus on the interviewee's character and approach to their discipline, their teaching philosophy and research, their plans for the future, and their advice to younger and soon-to-become colleagues. The atmosphere and tone will be friendly and relaxed–Gabriele's "default settings"–and the content wholly accessible to anyone, from casual and non-specialist listerners (for whom this podcast is chiefly intended) to fellow academics.
Hosted by the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.
Music by Michele Tasin.
An interview with Dr Matthew Shaw– The Queen's College Library, Oxford
Recorded on 12.02.2021.
Contents:
0.13: introduction
SECTION 1 (general)
1.09: academia vs librarianship
2.48: academic ties
4.32: a librarian's research
4.51: different libraries (BL, IHR, QCL)
6.09: librarianship over the centuries
7.59: reopening with COVID-19
10.13: services for locked-down scholars
11.35: stereotypical librarians
SECTION 2 (London)
15.38: the Americas collection
18.33: Benjamin Franklin at the BL (2006)
19.23: choosing items
22.21: a spectacular item (Cicero's Cato)
23.51: feedback (and Franklin's glass harmonica)
24.47: Jack Kerouac at the BL (2012)
27.28: a single-item exhibition
29.48: exhibitions and lockdown
32.10: a librarian in London
SECTION 3 (the QCL)
34.14: a short history of the collection
38.15: a unique library
39.11: architecture
41.13: mysterious provenance (Miles Coverdale's Ghostly Psalms)
44.14: curious books (the devil's language)
45.44: the future of librarianship
48.33: the invention of newspaper
50.16: goodbyes
51.27: acknowledgements
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Thank you!
Gabriele Rota
Hosted by the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.
Music by Michele Tasin.
An interview with Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh– ASNC, St John's College, Cambridge.
Recorded on 30.01.2021.
Contents:
0.13: introduction
SECTION 1 (general)
1.36: Irish roots
3.51: language requirements (none)
4.47: ASNC at Cambridge (language)
7.02: Celtic Studies in Ireland vs Britain
8.33: the earliest writing in Ireland
10.21: Irish manuscripts (language)
12.44: Latin vs vernacular manuscripts over time
14.29: non-textual features
17.37: Irish scribes (St Gall Priscian & Lebor na hUidre)
21.06: cultural backgrounds
SECTION 2 (Mapping the Medieval Mind)
23.47: mobility, places & COVID-19
28.15: old and new research
30.45: topography in archaic literature
32.06: the Dindshenchas Érenn
34.04: the DH as historiography
35.33: the author(s) and audience of the DH
38.06: surviving manuscripts > popularity
39.09: the DH “in practice”
41.22: etymology (Knowth)
45.16: Irish culture today (logainm.ie & placenamesni.org)
SECTION 3 (Text and Meaning)
47.34: revising the Dictionary of Mediaeval Irish (and A History of Ireland in 100 Words)
50.25: difficult words (stiúraslong)
53.15: loanwords
55.21: Old vs modern Irish
57.18: Irish and the monopoly of English
59.35: goodbyes
1.00.15: acknowledgements (with an anecdote)
If you like this podcast subscribe and give us a good rating and/or write a nice review.
Thank you!
Gabriele Rota
Hosted by the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.
Music by Michele Tasin.
An interview with Professor James Diggle–Classics, Queens’ College, Cambridge.
Recorded on 07.01.2021.
Contents:
0.13: introduction
SECTION 1 (general)
1.33: 54 years at Queens’
2.28: Classics at Cambridge
4.13: Stephen Oakley etc.
5.41: JD’s admission interview (1961)
7.11: advice to Oxbridge applicants
7.47: the first lecture
8.25: scholarly bilingualism
SECTION 2 (Cambridge Greek Lexicon)
10.45: the abridged LSJ
14.04: coverage
14.44: methodology
18.51: ἔχω (echō)
21.06: citations
22.45: unspeakable words
24.19: designed to replace the LSJ?
24.51: dead ends
25.49: Corippus (and Frank Goodyear)
27.45: the Housman papers (and A. S. F. Gow)
SECTION 3 (old friends and new research)
30.47: Denys Page
31.51: John Holloway
32.29: Euripides & Theophrastus
34.03: goodbyes
34.39: acknowledgements
36.10: Neil Hopkinson (13.03.1957–05.01.2021)
‘We’re gonna all be friends in heaven’ is a citation from ‘Ascension Blues’ (from Heaven Is Whenever, 2010) by The Hold Steady.
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Gabriele Rota