British Studies Lecture Series

The British Studies program at the University of Texas at Austin was created in 1975. For more than thirty years the program has sponsored public lectures in English literature, history, and government, and has conducted a weekly seminar called the Faculty Seminar on British Studies that includes faculty members, graduate students, undergraduates, and members of the Austin community.

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Carnival in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

British Studies Lecture Series

09/16/19 • 0 min

Speaker – Wayne A. Rebhorn Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night has long been associated with the festive aspects of carnival, especially in its rejection of authority and the exploration of gender confusion in its main, romantic plot. But ‘carnival’ as used by Shakespeare also meant a time of grotesque liberation and indulgence. The carnivalesque can be disturbing as well [...]

Worldwide Consequences of American Expansion in 1898

British Studies Lecture Series

05/28/19 • 0 min

Speaker – Karl Rove Karl Rove’s recent book, The Triumph of William McKinley, deals with the election of 1896 and its consequences. His lecture will expand on the results of the 1898 war with Spain: the annexation of the Philippines and Hawaii in the Pacific and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean as well as Cuba [...]

She Moves in Mysterious Ways: Jane Eyre’s Journeys

British Studies Lecture Series

02/22/19 • 0 min

Speaker – John Farrell It is sometimes overlooked that Jane Eyre is a classic Bildungsroman that narrates Jane’s formative years and spiritual education. Even more deliberately, it is a journey narrative. But Jane’s travels follow two incompatible paths. Both paths are narratively constructed as pilgrimages. Charlotte Brontë’s task in the novel—and Jane’s as well—is to make these pilgrimages converge. Their convergence [...]

Britain as a Superpower, 1945-1957

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02/15/19 • 0 min

Speaker – Derek Leebaert The British Empire remained a superpower at least until 1957. But the re-elected Eisenhower administration then proclaimed ‘a declaration ofindependence’ from British authority. The years in between are freighted withmyths: Britain’s ‘withdrawal from the Mediterranean’; the influence of GeorgeKennan’s view of Britain within the U.S. government; and Britain and thebeginning of [...]

Oxford’s Battle for the Soul of Classics

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11/30/18 • 0 min

Speaker – Paul Woodruff The Irish poet E. R. Dodds (1893–1979) was expelled as a student from Oxford in 1916 for protesting the English reaction to the Easter Rising. As a mature scholar, he transformed classical scholarship with his brilliant book The Greeks and the Irrational. The young poets W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice flourished [...]

Alan Turing: Genius, Patriot, Victim

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11/28/18 • 0 min

Speaker – Robert D. King Founding Dean, College of Liberal Arts Alan Turing was the greatest mathematician Britain produced in the twentieth century. After a brilliant start at Cambridge he became the leading light in the British code-breaking center at Bletchley Park, and he was instrumental in breaking the German ENIGMA cipher by inventing and [...]

Bloomsbury and Harry Potter

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11/16/18 • 0 min

Speaker – Nigel Newton CHIEF EXECUTIVE, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, LONDON The Harry Potter books have been translated into some 75 languages and have sold more than 450 million copies. Nigel Newton owes the inspiration to publish the first in the series to his young daughter, who read the manuscript and insisted that it was ‘much better [...]

Seamus Heaney & the London Origins of the Belfast Group

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11/02/18 • 0 min

Speaker – Stephen Enniss, HARRY RANSOM CENTER In the early 1960s a talented group of Northern Irish poets emerged in Belfast, including the future Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. In the decades since, a popular myth has taken root about the Northern Irish Renaissance with some commentators linking the emergence of a new generation of poets [...]

Éamon de Valera and the Creation of Modern Ireland

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10/26/18 • 0 min

Speaker – Kevin Kenny, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Éamon de Valera (1882-1975) is the most important and divisive figure in modern Irish history. After rising to prominence in the Easter 1916 rebellion, he rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, provoking civil war in Ireland, but he returned to power in the 1930s and became the architect [...]

‘When I feel very near to God, I always feel such a need to undress’: Religion, Nakedness and the Body Divine

British Studies Lecture Series

11/06/19 • 0 min

Speaker – Philippa Levine Diverse institutions have attempted to order and to organize, to regulate and to banish, to promote and to sell nakedness. Focusing on religion’s always ambivalent relationship with the human body, this talk explores a cultural history with surprisingly powerful contemporary resonance. Philippa Levine holds the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History [...]

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How many episodes does British Studies Lecture Series have?

British Studies Lecture Series currently has 54 episodes available.

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The episode title 'Why Did Elizabethans and Jacobeans Read Shakespeare’s Plays?' is the most popular.

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The first episode of British Studies Lecture Series was released on Sep 7, 2017.

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