Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Series
  • People
  • Depts & Colleges
  • Open Education

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Series
  • People
  • Depts & Colleges
  • Open Education

paradise

On Paradise series artwork
Captioned

6. J. C. Niala: Everyday Paradises

Dr J. C. Niala reflects on her research with allotment gardeners. She discusses how ‘paradise’ may be found in everyday places, acts, and what she terms ‘banal utopias’.
On Paradise series artwork
Captioned

5. Sondra Hausner: Transcending Paradisal Imaginaries

Professor Sondra Hausner questions the assumed universalism of concepts of Paradise. From a Hindu and Buddhist perspective, such imaginaries are vehicles for transcendence.
On Paradise series artwork
Captioned

4. Peter Boxall: Paradise and the Drama of Hope

Professor Peter Boxall discusses Paradise and Utopia in a secular context. Images of perfect worlds must be more than mere wish-fulfillment, they must be put into relation with the world as it is in order to generate hope.
On Paradise series artwork
Captioned

3. Wes Williams: Paradise and Utopia

Professor Wes Williams discusses Paradise as a fictional construct that can be imagined into being or made in the act of naming. He considers Thomas More’s Utopia as a moment in the longer history of Paradise.
On Paradise series artwork
Captioned

2. Kathryn Murphy: Paradises Lost and Regained

Professor Kathryn Murphy discusses 17th-century Christian thought concerning humanity’s expulsion from Paradise, nostalgia for a lost originary state, and possibilities for reinstantiating Paradise within.
On Paradise series artwork
Captioned

1. Veronika Poier: Paradise Gardens and Divine Order

Dr Veronika Poier discusses the Persian origins of Paradise as an enclosed garden, expressive of divine order on Earth.

Footer

  • About
  • Accessibility
  • Contribute
  • Copyright
  • Contact
  • Privacy
  • Login
'Oxford Podcasts' X Account @oxfordpodcasts | Upcoming Talks in Oxford | © 2011-2026 The University of Oxford