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Episode: 'It ‘grow’d’. Or Fostering Discipline in Interdisciplinary Research
Description: Recorded May 25, 2023.
The French Department's in-person 'End-of-Year Lecture in French Studies' will be delivered by Prof Mary Orr (University of St. Andrews), and is organised by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. In this talk Professor Orr (Buchanan Chair of French at the University of Saint Andrews) will discuss some key learning points for interdisciplinary and intermedial research, using as an example her forthcoming book project, Sarah Bowdich Lee, 1791-1856: Pioneering Perspectives in Natural History. In tracing the light-bulb moments of its development, the many blocks that had to be overcome in its 12-year duration, and the challenges...