From Ovid’s Metamorphoses to the poetry of Charles Bukowski and the textual nuances of Madame Bovary, Sarah Houillon shares insights from her broad interest in literature and her own artistic inclinations. Sarah has been a fellow of New College, Oxford where she taught French literature and language and a member of Pembroke College, Oxford as a graduate of English literature.
Category: WOAE podcast
WOAE040 Identity and languages, Lily Begg, Oxford
A conversation about identity and languages with Lily Begg from Pembroke College, Oxford. We met when Lily was editor-in-chief of The ISIS magazine in Oxford where she’s studying French and Italian. Lily shares personal insights from her experiences living in Belgium and England and on a student exchange in Italy and from her roles as a language translator, magazine editor, and theatre director.
WOAE039 Global and Imperial History, Olivia Durand, Oxford
Olivia Durand is an Oxford scholar researching neo-Frenchness in the cities of New Orleans and Odessa. Olivia has lived in the United States as a Fulbright scholar and in the Ukraine working for the French Foreign Office. A doctoral researcher with the Department of Global and Imperial History at Oxford University, Olivia is also vice-president and treasurer of the MCR at Pembroke College.
WOAE038 Clinical neuroscience, Dinant Riks, Oxford
Dinant Riks is a doctoral researcher of chronic migraines with the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Oxford University where he’s a member of Pembroke College. Dinant is using MRI technology to explore changes in the structure and function of the brain in the treatment of chronic migraines. We also discuss issues related to pain medication and Dinant shares insights from his previous studies of pharmacology and psychology.
WOAE037 Theology, Timothy Farrant, Oxford
As a school leaver Timothy Farrant took up a trade in amenity horticulture and worked as a greenkeeper on golf courses and as a farm labourer. It was whilst on his Morman mission that Tim was encouraged to apply to university and went on to study Medieval History. Tim is currently a Clarendon Scholar of Theology at Pembroke College, Oxford where he’s researching Augustinian influences on zoology in the Middle Ages.
WOAE036 International Relations, Lindsey Cohick, Oxford
Lindsey Cohick is a Clarendon Scholar with the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University and a member of Pembroke College. Her current research focuses on pirates as non-state actors in the ‘Golden Age of Piracy’, around 1650-1730. We discuss her previous research of Japanese history particularly the construction of the Samurai ethos of ‘death before dishonour’. Lindsey is also a creative writer and a comics enthusiast.
WOAE Sgt Pepper’s 50th anniversary
For the 50th anniversary of the release of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a companion episode to The Beatles’ album with Chris Bayne from The Oxford Beatles edited from a discussion of every Beatles album in episode WOAE028
