Name: The Secret Place words and music by Michael Dooley by Gillian Dooley
Duration: 3 min 57 s
Description: A world premiere performance of a song from Michael Dooley's song cycle 'Divine Nature', Gillian Dooley (soprano) and Ray Booth (piano). Recorded at St David's Church, Burnside, South Australia on 30 April 2017.

Gorgeous song, gorgeous performance, what a gorgeous family I have!

In this podcast Miles is joined by Paul Hullah, Associate Professor of English Literature at Meiji Gakuin, and President of the Iris Murdoch Society of Japan. 

Paul discusses his early life, literature, music and his meeting and subsequent friendship with Iris Murdoch. He and Yozo Muroya edited the only collection of Murdoch's poetry to date, as well as a volume of her essays. We talk about her poetry and why she changed Paul's life.

Unfortunately the 'Poems' collection is out-of-print, but Paul hopes to have some copies available in 2022. 'Occasional Essays' by Iris Murdoch is available via Amazon.

You can find Paul's tribute to Iris here: https://youtu.be/8q7BV6c2vUE

In Conversation: Paul Hullah Podcast

Variations on  'Welsch Air'  (Mozart? who?) by Miss Baxter, c. 1810 played on an Erat single-action harp

A Welsch Air

In this episode I'm joined by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza (University College Dublin, and the Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice)  and Mark Hopwood (Sewanne, University of the South, USA) to discuss their recently published edited collection 'The Murdochian Mind'.

Silvia Caprioglio Panizza is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice, and a fellow of the PEriTiA project (Policy, Expertise, and Trust in Action) at the Centre for Ethics in Public Life, University College Dublin. She has edited and translated Simone Weil’s Venice Saved with Philip Wilson (2019) and is the author of The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil (2022).

Mark Hopwood is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of the South, Sewanee, USA. He has published articles on a range of topics in moral philosophy, including love, narcissism, hypocrisy, and the nature of moral judgment, and is currently writing a book on Iris Murdoch’s ethics.

You can find out more about the book, and purchase a copy, here:

https://www.routledge.com/The-Murdochian-Mind/Panizza-Hopwood/p/book/9780367468019

The Murdochian Mind Podcast

Gillian Dooley (Flinders University, Australia) is in conversation with Lucy Bolton (QMUL, UK) about her new book, 'Listening to Iris Murdoch: Music, Sounds and Silences' (Palgrave, 2022) - the first book in the 'Iris Murdoch Today' Series. 

As Lucy says about the Gillian's book: 'When we think of Iris Murdoch’s relationship with art forms, the visual arts come most readily to mind. However, music and other sounds are equally important. Soundscapes – music and other types of sound – contribute to the richly textured atmosphere and moral tenor of Murdoch’s novels. This book will help readers to appreciate anew the sensuous nature of Iris Murdoch’s prose, and to listen for all kinds of music, sounds and silences in her novels, opening up a new sub-field in Murdoch studies in line with the emerging field of Word and Music Studies.

This study is supported by close readings of selected novels exemplifying the subtle variety of ways she deploys music, sounds and silence in her fiction. It also covers Murdoch’s knowledge of music and her allusions to music throughout her work, and includes a survey of musical settings of her words by various composers.'

Find out more here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-00860-3

In Conversation - Gillian Dooley

In this episode Miles is joined by Justin Broackes (Brown, USA) and Meredith Trexler-Drees (Notre Dame, US) to discuss and celebrate Justin's edited collection 'Iris Murdoch, Philosopher' which was published in 2012. We range across the collection, the work it inspired including Meredith's latest monograph, and discuss Justin's latest work on Murdoch's Heidegger Manuscript and his commentary on the Sovereignty of Good, both forthcoming with OUP.

You can find the collection here:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/iris-murdoch-philosopher-9780198701200?cc=ro&lang=en&

Justin is Professor of Philosophy at Brown, and his present research focuses on issues in metaphysics and the theory of perception, and their connections with the history of the subject. Special areas of interest include: Theory of Color and Color-Perception, from the Ancient Greeks to the present; Color-Blindness; and the Notion of Substance, and what became of that idea in the 17th and 18th centuries and after. In addition, he is working on a book on Iris Murdoch's The Sovereignty of Good and editing her monograph on Martin Heidegger.

Meredith is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Kansas Wesleyan University. Her recent book, Aesthetic Experience and Moral Vision in Plato, Kant, and Murdoch: Looking Good/Being Good (Palgrave 2021) presents an extended version of Iris Murdoch’s moral vision. She is currently continuing her work on Murdoch and Kant at the Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame.

You can find her latest monograph here: 

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-79088-2

Iris Murdoch, Philosopher Podcast

Joining Miles to discuss Murdoch's sixth novel are Dr Frances White and Lucy Oulton, both from the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the University of Chichester.

An Unofficial Rose Podcast

Miles is joined by Lesley Jamieson (Centre for Ethics as Study in Human Value at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic) to discuss her new book, 'Iris Murdoch's Practical Metaphysics: A Guide to her Early Writings' (Palgrave, 2023). You can find out more about the book here:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-36080-0

Iris Murdoch's Practical Metaphysics Podcast

In this episode Miles is joined by artists Kevin Petrie (University of Sunderland), Matthew Richardson (University of Kingston) and Carol Sommer to discuss their latest work which has been inspired by Murdoch's writing.

Kevin Petrie is Head of the School of Art and Design and Professor of Glass and Ceramics at University of Sunderland.  He is known for his artwork on ceramics and glass, especially in combination with printmaking and drawing. Kevin has also written and edited a number of books and articles about ceramics and glass and lectured around the World. Kevin’s artwork is held in a number of private and public collections including National Glass Centre and National Museums of Scotland. In recent years, Kevin has focused on his painting practice and this work can be seen on his website at https://kevinpetrieart.com.

Matthew Richardson is an artist and illustrator who works across physical and digital media seeing how things fit or collide through processes of collage and assemblage. He is interested in how, why and what is kept or discarded, lost or found, and left behind. He studied at Central St. Martins and Cardiff University and is currently completing a practice-based PhD at Kingston School of Art, titled Para-illustration: Gaps, fragments and spaces of the literary imagination, which explores the materiality of a writer’s notes, drafts and archives as a method for making literary images.
https://matthew-richardson.co.uk/

Carol Sommer visual artist and art educator based in Darlington, Co. Durham.  I’m interested in the potential of piracy to interrogate value systems. Sometimes within the aesthetic context of conceptual writing, my practice includes making books, videos, performances, installation and an Instagram account @cartography_for_girls. In 2019 I completed a practice led Ph.D. at Leeds Beckett University, and I am the author of ‘Cartography for Girls, an A-Z of Orientations Identified within the Novels of Iris Murdoch’. Her work is currently being exhibited at the Phoenix Art Space in Brighton until the 19th November as part of the ‘Are you a Woman in Authority’ exhibition. https://www.carolsommer.net/
https://www.phoenixbrighton.org/Events/are-you-a-woman-in-authority/

Iris Murdoch and Artistic Inspiration Podcast

A world premiere performance of a song from Michael Dooley's song cycle 'Divine Nature', Gillian Dooley (soprano) and Ray Booth (piano). Recorded at St David's Church, Burnside, South Australia on 30 April 2017.

Unknown album (4/07/2017 3:49:41 PM)

The Secret Place words and music by Michael Dooley

In this episode, Miles is joined by Ian D'Alton (Trinity College, Dublin), Gillian Dooley (Flinders University Australia) and Frances White (IMRC, Chichester) to discuss Iris' Irishness. Areas covered include her biography and links with Irish culture, along with the novels 'The Unicorn', 'The Red and the Green', and her only short story 'Something Special'.

Ian's article on her Irishness: 

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/in-praise-of-iris-murdoch-by-ian-d-alton-1.2235736

Gillian's New work: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030189662

Frances' biography:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Becoming-Iris-Murdoch-Frances-White/dp/1899999604/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=white+iris+murdoch&qid=1602192322&sr=8-2

Iris Murdoch and Ireland Podcast

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