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Terry Eagleton interview on WTJU's Soundboard, Feb 13, 2014

Terry Eagleton interview on WTJU's Soundboard

Should we rake through painful experiences, and try to learn from them, or are they best forgotten? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? And how much should we keep from the people we love? These are some of the questions posed by Andrew O'Hagan's fifth novel, The Illuminations, a story of love, memory and war. In collaboration with Faber Social, we present an evening of readings, music and performance. Andrew O'Hagan shares the stage with novelist, poet and playwright Edna O'Brien, whom Philip Roth has described as 'the most gifted woman now writing in English'; and performance poet Kate Tempest, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, and shortlisted for the 2014 Mercury Music Prize. With music from James Yorkston.

Contains strong language.

Reflections On War With Edna O'Brien, Andrew O'Hagan And Kate Tempest [Part 1]

Is your disease human? Are you infected? Do you have an orphan or a rare disease? Has (the) polio (virus) been eradicated? ‘Can’ vaccines be made for all infectious diseases, & is eradication for ever? Why was there an epidemic of measles after the collapse of Soviet Union? Can anything be done about the strong genetic predisposition to (say) Huntington’s Chorea? Is diabetes non-communicable? Does society create different kinds of disabilities? Is all blindness treatable? Why aren’t radical interventions possible on the brain? Do infection, disease and mortality rates always follow a pattern across time? How does childhood variously influence diseases later in life? Will there always be new diseases, & why? Why don’t plants infect humans, when animals do? Can mosquitoes transmit HIV? How did we get dengue? Are vectors also hosts? Can cures cause diseases? Are all (including ‘lifestyle’?) diseases systemic? How do young landless labourers get diabetes? Is inequality a significant determinant of diseases? Is a disease free (sub) world possible? Or, can diseases eradicate entire species (including the human race)? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using concepts from neuroscience (Dr. Garga Chatterjee, ISI, Kolkata), virology (Dr. Shahid Jameel, The Wellcome Trust/ DBT India Alliance, New Delhi), & political economy/history of health (Prof. Mohan Rao, JNU, New Delhi). Listen in....

#TFOD (The Fate Of Diseases) --- SynTalk

Culture Wars - Kulturkriege
«Luxemburg Lecture» mit Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton gilt als der führende Literaturtheoretiker und Literaturkritiker Großbritanniens. Die Tageszeitung The Independent bezeichnete ihn 2007 als «the most influential academic critic». Eagelton war Professor in Oxford und Manchester und hält nach wie vor eine Professur an der Universität Lancaster. Er ist Mitglied der British Academy und der English Association. Terry Eagletons Werk umfasst über 40 wissenschaftliche Bücher zur Literaturkritik, zur Kulturtheorie, zu Religion, Politik und Geschichte. Mitten in der schwersten Krise des Kapitalismus brach der berühmte marxistische Literatur- und Kulturtheoretiker eine Lanze für Karl Marx. Streitbar, originell und mit britischem Humor widerlegt er in seinem jüngsten Buch «Warum Marx Recht hatte» zentrale Argumente und ideologische Vorurteile gegen den Marxismus.

Moderation: Christina Kaindl

http://www.rosalux.de/documentation/48590/culture-wars-kulturkriege.html

Terry Eagleton (2013): Culture Wars - Kulturkriege

Academy Discourse - Count Dracula and Bram Stoker
Terry Eagleton
Wednesday, 19 April 2012, Academy House

Terry Eagleton was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has been a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and was formerly Thomas Warton Professor of English in the University of Oxford. He is presently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Universities of Lancaster and Notre Dame, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of over forty works of literary, cultural and political criticism, which include studies of Irish history and culture such as Heathcliff and the Great Hunger. He has also written plays which have been staged in Ireland and Britain, including Saint Oscar, and a novel about Ireland entitled Saints and Scholars.

The lecture considered Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the context of some traditional notions of evil, including the very different presentation of the idea of evil in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman. It also raised the question of Stoker’s Irish Protestant background and its relevance to his fiction.

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Humanities: Academy Discourse - Count Dracula and Bram Stoker - Terry Eagleton

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