Faculty of Oriental Studies
Series associated with Faculty of Oriental Studies
Ancient Egyptian Poetry
Introducing the Qur'an
Oriental Institute
Staying Alive: Poetry and Crisis
Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 1 | Preliminary Practices: Bloody Knees, Calloused Palms and the Transformative Nature of Women’s Labor | The Preliminary Practices not only initiate practitioners into a specific tradition, but also more fundamentally, into Vajrayana Buddhism as it is practiced in contemporary Tibet. | Kati Fitzgerald | 27 May 2020 | |
| 2 | The Mortality of the Dalai Lama and its Scriptural Sources: A Study in Tibetan Buddhist Political Theology | I am currently focusing on the problem of the Dalai Lama’s mortality that is, the question of how to come to terms with his suffering and death, in light of the association between Tibetan kingship and the deity Avalokiteśvara. | Ian MacCormack | 26 May 2020 | |
| 3 | Creative Commons | Writing about the Nechung Oracle | Christopher Bell's talk about oracles, protector deities, and other mysteries | Christopher Bell | 13 May 2020 |
| 4 | Creative Commons | The sku bla of the Tibetan emperors and its metamorphosis in Yungdrung Bön | In the late 12th century Yungdrung Bön text Grags pa gling grags a deity that has a special relationship to the Tibetan ruler plays a prominent part in the narrative of the Tibetan kings. | Per Kværne | 11 May 2020 |
| 5 | Episode 8: Death Leaves Signs | This episode, the final one of this season, features the work of Palestinian poet Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, author-in-residence at Refugee Hosts. | Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Adriana X Jacobs | 14 Jun 2019 | |
| 6 | Episode 7: Living Absences | In this conversation with Trinidadian Scottish poet Vahni Capildeo, author of Venus as a Bear (2018), we explore the layered, polyphonous histories of the places we pass through and inhabit. | Vahni Capildeo, Adriana X Jacobs | 07 Jun 2019 | |
| 7 | Episode 6: The .01 Percent | In this episode, Israeli poet Tahel Frosh talks to us about her debut poetry collection Betsa (Avarice, 2014), financial crisis, and the value of culture. | Tahel Frosh, Adriana X Jacobs | 29 May 2019 | |
| 8 | Episode 5: The Cut Out | In this episode, I talk to US poet Diana Khoi Nguyen (Ghost Of, 2018) about the perseverance of eels, technologies of printing, and how poetry allows for the possibility that our dead will remain present with us in one form or another. | Diana Khoi Nguyen, Adriana X Jacobs | 22 May 2019 | |
| 9 | Talking with the Soul: A Dialogue about Life and Death | In this Ancient Egyptian poem, a man talks with his own soul about whether it is better to live or die. Read by Barbara Ewing. Translated by Richard Bruce Parkinson. | Barbara Ewing, Richard Parkinson | 16 May 2019 | |
| 10 | Episode 4: Survival Takes Time | Interview with US poet Laura Sims, author of Staying Alive (2016) and Looker (2018) | Laura Sims, Adriana X Jacobs | 16 May 2019 | |
| 11 | Episode 3: A Language for Grief | Interview with Israeli poet Shimon Adaf, author of Aviva-Lo (Aviva-No, 2009). | Shimon Adaf, Adriana X Jacobs | 08 May 2019 | |
| 12 | Episode 2: We Grow out of the Past | Interview with UK poet and translator Sasha Dugdale, author of Red House (2011) and Joy (2017) | Sasha Dugdale, Adriana X Jacobs | 01 May 2019 | |
| 13 | Episode 1: Like a Zombie Life | Interview with the US poet Mike Smith, author of Pocket Guide to Another Earth (2018) and And There was Evening and There was Morning (2018). | Mike Smith, Adriana X Jacobs | 23 Apr 2019 | |
| 14 | The Qur'an as literature | A principal reason for why the Qur'an managed to establish itself as a text believed to constitute divine revelation is that it is compelling literature. How do Islamic and modern Western scholars approach the Qur'an's literary dimension? | Nicolai Sinai | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 15 | Confirming and clarifying: The Qur'an in conversation with earlier Judaeo-Christian traditions | The Qur'an's original addressees must have been familiar with earlier Jewish and Christian traditions, which the Qur'an claims both to "confirm" and to "clarify". | Nicolai Sinai | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 16 | Rekindling Prophecy: The Qur'an in its historical milieu. | This second episode examines the historical context in which the material now collected in the Qur'an was first promulgated. Special attention is paid to the various groups of addressees who figure in the Qur'an. | Nicolai Sinai | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 17 | Hovering about the Qur'an without entering into it? On the academic study of the Qur'an. | What does it mean to study the Qur'an historically? In this initial episode we consider how historically oriented research on the Qur'an relates to religious belief and to traditional Islamic scriptural interpretation. | Nicolai Sinai | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 18 | The Life of Sinuhe | An ancient Egyptian tells his life-story from the walls of his tomb, c. 1850 BC. Read by Barbara Ewing. Translated by Richard Bruce Parkinson | Barbara Ewing, Richard Parkinson | 01 Nov 2016 | |
| 19 | The Queen Shrieks: The Shock of Ancient Egyptian Poetry | The Inaugural lecture of Richard B. Parkinson as Professor of Egyptology, accompanied by actress and author Barbara Ewing, on the emotional power of the famous Ancient Egyptian poem "The Tale of Sinuhe" | Richard Parkinson, Barbara Ewing | 27 Jun 2014 | |
| 20 | Creative Commons | One Connected Vision of Ancient Egypt: A launch of the digitised Topographical Bibliography | Richard Parkinson, Professor of Egyptology, gives a talk about the new digital Topographical Bibliography from the Griffith Institute at Oxford. | Richard Parkinson | 23 Jun 2014 |
| 21 | Creative Commons | How to Be Publishable: Graduate Training Seminar | A crash course in how to get published, from approaching the writing process to marketing your ideas. Dr. Eugene Rogan discusses the ins and outs of academic and trade publishing with insights for students at the graduate level and beyond. | Eugene Rogan | 20 Feb 2014 |