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‘Like a Universal Leprosie Overspread this Whole Kingdom’ City and Provinces in Gangraena

Ann Hughes

in Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution

This chapter demonstrates how Edwards’s place as a lecturer in Christ Church, in the heart of revolutionary London, enabled him to produce Gangraena. His links with London Presbyterian clergy, with ... More

This chapter demonstrates how Edwards’s place as a lecturer in Christ Church, in the heart of revolutionary London, enabled him to produce Gangraena. His links with London Presbyterian clergy, with the Westminster Assembly, the London Common Council, and the Stationers’ Company brought him oral evidence, letters, and other manuscript sources. The accuracy of Edwards’s picture of religious divisions in London and in the provinces (particularly Kent and Essex), and his description of the New Model Army are assessed by comparing his version with that in other sources.Less

Coda: The Poet’s Work

ROBERT CRAWFORD

in The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge since the 1750s

This chapter examines the work of the poet in relation to the connection between poetry and academia. It suggests that poets and academics woo and execrate one another at times. Sometimes poets who ... More

This chapter examines the work of the poet in relation to the connection between poetry and academia. It suggests that poets and academics woo and execrate one another at times. Sometimes poets who work in universities will use the voice of the lecturer and of the poet, and sometimes they may use the voice of the academic in order to defend the voice of the poet. This chapter suggests that poets are not only custodians of inherited knowledge but also witness to the technical and spiritual force which helps preserve poetry as a distinct medium.Less

Introduction: Ernest Nicholson’s Contribution to Old Testament Studies

J. A. Emerton

in Covenant as Context: Essays in Honour of E. W. Nicholson

This chapter discusses the contribution of Ernest Nicholson to Old Testament studies. An important part of Nicholson's work as an Old Testament scholar has been as a teacher in the Universities of ... More

This chapter discusses the contribution of Ernest Nicholson to Old Testament studies. An important part of Nicholson's work as an Old Testament scholar has been as a teacher in the Universities of Dublin, Cambridge, and Oxford. He is a good lecturer and has helped many undergraduates better understand the Old Testament. Nicholson has also written and published works about the Old Testament for 35 years and continues to do so.Less

Making the Conversation General

April R. Haynes

in Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America

“Making the Conversation General” accounts for the end of the interracial moment in moral reform and documents women’s spreading campaign against the solitary vice. The Ladies Physiological Society ... More

“Making the Conversation General” accounts for the end of the interracial moment in moral reform and documents women’s spreading campaign against the solitary vice. The Ladies Physiological Society of Boston, led by white reform women, sponsored Mary Gove to teach women about sex and the solitary vice. Soon, members trained each other to speak publicly about the body. Traveling throughout rural New England, they lectured to hundreds of small moral reform societies making antimasturbation physiology central to Protestant white women’s sexual discourse. Members exchanged testimonials in intimate meetings that resembled twentieth-century consciousness-raising and elaborated a notion of sexual citizenship that influenced the early women’s rights movement. By 1845, however, the movement had fractured over the politics of virtue and purity. African Americans left to create autonomous black institutions like the Moral Reform Retreat; liberal white women embraced individualism and agitated for legal rights. The remaining white reformers returned to an ideology of sexual purity and protection. These “moral guardians” continued to spread the word against the solitary vice but no longer applied its logic to themselves. As missionaries of the new sexual ideology, they used antimasturbation physiology to protect children, discipline men, and convert Indigenous people to Christianity.Less

Journalist and Lecturer

Jonathan Beecher

in Victor Considerant and the Rise and Fall of French Romantic Socialism

This chapter examines the career of Victor Considerant as a journalist and lecturer. It explains that though Considerant was forced to bankruptcy in the 1840s, this period proved to be a marvellous ... More

This chapter examines the career of Victor Considerant as a journalist and lecturer. It explains that though Considerant was forced to bankruptcy in the 1840s, this period proved to be a marvellous decade for him. To find new sources of financial support for his movement, Considerant and his colleagues created an elaborate organization and the cornerstone of it was the socialist newspaper La Démocratie Pacifique. During this decade, Considerant lectured widely on Fourierism, published numerous popularizations of Charles Fourier's thought, and participated in a host of fundraising activities. He also continued to run for public office.Less

The Students' Saussure

Roy Harris

in Saussure and his Interpreters

This chapter examines the interpretation of Ferdinand de Saussure's ideas by his students. It explains that the question of the value of the students' evidence concerning Saussure's thinking about ... More

This chapter examines the interpretation of Ferdinand de Saussure's ideas by his students. It explains that the question of the value of the students' evidence concerning Saussure's thinking about language and linguistic study has two aspects which must not be confused. One is whether the students always correctly understood the points made by Saussure and the other has to do with Saussure's performance as a lecturer. The chapter argues that the first major contribution which Saussure's students made to an interpretation of his thoughts lies in the way their role as addressee implicitly contextualised the generality of general linguistics.Less

Taking your research career further

David Chadwick and Alison McGregor

in An Introduction to Clinical Research

Now you’ve completed, and possibly even published your first project, you may experience a gamut of emotions — maybe you’ll be relieved, or maybe you’ll be desperate ... More

Now you’ve completed, and possibly even published your first project, you may experience a gamut of emotions — maybe you’ll be relieved, or maybe you’ll be desperate to do it all again. Whether it’s due to a love of knowledge, or a serious coffee habit you couldn’t accommodate in clinical practice, there’s a chance you’ll want to continue in your new found academic vein. If so, you need to think about how you approach this. Your options range from total immersion in full-time academia to research ‘on the side’ whilst remaining in clinical practice — for most, an option combining the two is best. This can be achieved either by a period of full-time research before re-entering clinical practice, or an academic training post whereby a proportion of your time is protected for academic work. In the rest of this chapter, we’ll look through the options, including for those coming from a non-medical background. Until recently there was no clear route for doctors wanting to pursue an academic career in research. However, in 2005, the Walport Report recommended the integration of periods of research into specific medical training programmes through a process called Integrated Academic Training. Under this system, which has developed over the past few years, a number of postgraduate academic programmes have emerged, providing academic training alongside standard medical training. Although these programmes may appear to be a streamlined process whereby doctors pass from one academic programme to another, in reality there is considerable flexibility in the system. Hence, final year medical students who have done an intercalated BSc, PhD, or MB/PhD and know they want to be academic clinicians may reasonably decide not to apply to Academic Foundation programmes, and rather apply for an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship (ACF), and will almost certainly not be disadvantaged through not having held an Academic Foundation post. Whilst there is no doubt that Integrated Academic Training represents a considerable advance in the career structure for doctors wishing to become researchers, these academic posts are very competitive and given the number available most posts are only likely to be awarded to ‘high flyers’. Less

Professional Lecturing in Early British Film Shows

Joe Kember

in The Sounds of the Silents in Britain

Adding a magic-lantern-style educative lecturer to moving pictures was one way of addressing emerging concerns in the 1900s that moving pictures themselves did not fix attention. By delving into the ... More

Adding a magic-lantern-style educative lecturer to moving pictures was one way of addressing emerging concerns in the 1900s that moving pictures themselves did not fix attention. By delving into the detail of exhibition practices at St James’s Hall Plymouth, the chapter argues that town-hall shows there and elsewhere structured the manipulation of audience attention within new institutional configurations, and did so as early as 1901, not only after 1908 as previously understood. Shows at St James’s Hall serve to demonstrate that lecturers could contribute to the creation of new patterns of audience attention, mediating and modulating the various effects involved in moving-picture exhibition, and adapting a wide range of oral practices in doing so.Less

“Now, where were we?”: Ideal and Actual Early Cinema Lecturing Practices in Britain, Germany and the United States

Judith Buchanan

in The Sounds of the Silents in Britain

This chapter demonstrates that there could be a considerable gap between the ideal film lecture advocated in the trade press, and real-life instances of less-than-perfect actual lecturing. Like the ... More

This chapter demonstrates that there could be a considerable gap between the ideal film lecture advocated in the trade press, and real-life instances of less-than-perfect actual lecturing. Like the lanternist before him, the film lecturer was able to draw on his live showmanship effectively to “author” a film by an analogous speech act, making and remaking the show as required by the particular live situation. Campaigns in the trade press which promoted the erudition and eloquence of the lecturer, and the publication of set lectures to accompany particular films, contributed to a standardized notion of the cinematic lecture. However, an examination of a detailed transcription of one that accompanied the screening of a film of Othelloin Berlin in 1912 shows that the reality could be very far from ideal.Less

Sounding Scottish: Sound Practices and Silent Cinema in Scotland

Trevor Griffiths

in The Sounds of the Silents in Britain

This chapter examines the forces shaping developments in the use of sound in cinemas across Scotland until the end of the 1920s and which contributed to unusually high levels of support for this new ... More

This chapter examines the forces shaping developments in the use of sound in cinemas across Scotland until the end of the 1920s and which contributed to unusually high levels of support for this new entertainment medium. Paying particular attention to the legal and business contexts within which decisions were taken, it focuses especially on the role of elocutionists in presenting film to audiences in Aberdeen. Here, the practice of “speaking to” the pictures, inaugurated early in cinema’s second decade, endured for much of the remainder of the silent era. The unusual persistence of this mode of presentation reveals much about the financial calculations underlying picture-house management, as well as the extent to which cinema’s appeal continued to be rooted in depictions of the local and the immediate.Less

Seeing Empire: Colonialist Expertise and Spectacular Lessons Outside the Classroom

Jeff Bowersox

in Raising Germans in the Age of Empire: Youth and Colonial Culture, 1871-1914

This chapter charts the efforts of colonialist officials and activists to make Germany's overseas empire more visible in geography instruction. Although initially hesitant to get directly involved in ... More

This chapter charts the efforts of colonialist officials and activists to make Germany's overseas empire more visible in geography instruction. Although initially hesitant to get directly involved in education, the high demand for effective teaching materials pushed associations like the German Colonial Society to sponsor the production of educational resources—including teaching aids, exhibitions, museums, and lecture series—and to make them readily available to all. This chapter examines their political intentions while also situating their efforts within contemporary trends in commercial mass culture and pedagogical reform. Their efforts increased exposure to Germany's colonies and created opportunities for experts to earn a comfortable living in the process. At the same time, their claims to patriotic selflessness and professional expertise could not always protect them from accusations of commercial self-interest. Nor could they always stave off competitors within an ever-expanding market in commercialized colonial instruction.Less

An Abbreviated American Education (1868–70)

Scott D. Seligman

in The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo

In the late 1860s, Wong Chin Foo set sail for the United States to complete the Western education which he had already begun in a missionary school in China. He attended two American colleges, got ... More

In the late 1860s, Wong Chin Foo set sail for the United States to complete the Western education which he had already begun in a missionary school in China. He attended two American colleges, got his start as a lecturer as a way to fend for himself, and continued his studies. He provided several lectures on Chinese culture in a number of American cities, but returned to China without completing his studies.Less

Reconciler

C. T. McIntire

in Herbert Butterfield: Historian as Dissenter

This chapter discusses Butterfield's undergraduate supervisions in Peterhouse and his lectures in the Faculty of History. His new position in the university History Faculty set him up for his third ... More

This chapter discusses Butterfield's undergraduate supervisions in Peterhouse and his lectures in the Faculty of History. His new position in the university History Faculty set him up for his third year of lectures, and his fourth year on the History Faculty list. A new statute for Cambridge University in 1926 augmented the academic position of the university vis-a-vis the colleges, creating the Faculty of History and the position of University Lecturer. His name was put on the first list of the reorganized History Faculty for 1926–1927, one of forty-one historians attached to the university or one of the colleges. However, he had no standing that year as a lecturer in the university or the college, and offered no lectures. Officially the title Research Fellow, which he received in 1926, was a result of the new college statute, which, like every other Cambridge college, Peterhouse obtained in conjunction with the new university statute.Less

Practitioners Enter the Field Huxley and Ball as Popularizers

in Victorian Popularizers of Science: Designing Nature for New Audiences

This chapter examines the works of the scientific practitioners Thomas Henry Huxley and Robert Ball, who became active popularizers of science only after the early 1870s, analyses the shift in ... More

This chapter examines the works of the scientific practitioners Thomas Henry Huxley and Robert Ball, who became active popularizers of science only after the early 1870s, analyses the shift in Huxley's views during the late 1860s, and describes the three projects he became involved in during the 1870s. It suggests that although Huxley was often viewed as the foremost popularizer of science of his time, Ball was more successful than him in popularizing science, because he was willing to give more time and energy to his activities as scientific author and lecturer.Less

Feeding the Talent: The Path to Legitimacy

Laura J. Miller

in Building Nature's Market: The Business and Politics of Natural Foods

This chapter examines the ways that mid-twentieth century star spokespeople, as lecturers, authors, and television personalities, encouraged the public to experiment with health food. As well as ... More

This chapter examines the ways that mid-twentieth century star spokespeople, as lecturers, authors, and television personalities, encouraged the public to experiment with health food. As well as describing the direct business connections these spokespeople had to the health food industry, the chapter explains how they sparked interest in health food by film and television celebrities and proponents of physical culture. These constituencies were themselves outside of the mainstream, and thus helped perpetuate health food's exotic image. But their status as performers lent glamour and with it, greater visibility and legitimacy to the category. What further tied star spokespeople, bodybuilders and Hollywood figures together was that they all embraced health food for purposes of enhancing personal appearance on top of good health. In this way, they introduced an important new motivation for adopting a natural foods diet.Less

Improvising over the Changes: Improvisation as Intellectual and Aesthetic Practice in the Transitional Poems of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka

in The Shadow and the Act: Black Intellectual Practice, Jazz Improvisation, and Philosophical Pragmatism

This chapter analyzes LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's transitional period, his turn from modernism to Black Art, stressing his use of jazz in poetry and cultural criticism. Specifically, it addresses how ... More

This chapter analyzes LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's transitional period, his turn from modernism to Black Art, stressing his use of jazz in poetry and cultural criticism. Specifically, it addresses how jazz improvisation has informed his work and ideological changes as a poet and cultural critic, and how improvisation has become a theoretical practice integral to his work and to understanding his work. Jones/Baraka's poetry and jazz criticism reveal the processes of a cultural identification. Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note, The Dead Lecturer, and Black Magic are his first three collections. It is noted that jazz improvisation stood out as the most powerful aesthetic and philosophical option for Jones/Baraka. His articulations and improvisations have continued to exhibit and promote a pragmatic vision that remains influential on the ways the intersection of black music and the philosophical concerns of African American life are interpreted and conceptualized.Less

Women Lecturers and Radical Antislavery

Stacey M. Robertson

in Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest

This chapter describes how Abby Kelley, an experienced and road-weary Garrisonian lecturer from Massachusetts, had encountered hostile audiences across the Northeast for nearly a decade. Kelley had ... More

This chapter describes how Abby Kelley, an experienced and road-weary Garrisonian lecturer from Massachusetts, had encountered hostile audiences across the Northeast for nearly a decade. Kelley had come to the Old Northwest in June 1845 at the invitation of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society. By the time she arrived at the Orthodox Yearly Meeting of Quakers in Mount Pleasant, Kelley had been lecturing across the state for four months. The usually nonviolent Quakers reacted surprisingly fiercely to her, however. Only a few minutes after she rose to offer an unsolicited antislavery speech, Kelley was asked to sit down and be quiet. She replied that she “must speak whether men would hear, or whether they would forbear.” While the congregation watched Kelley in some confusion, “she was seized by one or two elderly men and dragged out of the house, with, perhaps two or three women pulling at her dress.”Less

| 1805 | 1805 Rivalry and Love

Dan C. Christensen

in Hans Christian Ørsted: Reading Nature's Mind

Ørsted meets considerable opposition from professor Bugge at the University and considers seeking a professorship in Germany, possibly Munich to work together with Ritter. Ørsted's natural philosophy ... More

Ørsted meets considerable opposition from professor Bugge at the University and considers seeking a professorship in Germany, possibly Munich to work together with Ritter. Ørsted's natural philosophy and performance as a lecturer is reconstructed. He takes advantage of the experience gained during his grand tour, especially from Charles. Ritter insinuates a love affair with a certain Charlotte, who follows his lectures on experimental physics. In the Scandinavian Literary Society Ørsted delivers a fanciful lecture on the analogy between electrical figures and organic forms, which draws heavily on Steffens and Schelling. It was not included in his collected works, so he probably regretted it. The problem of analogous thinking is scrutinized. Later on Ørsted declared that in a period of philosophical fermentation and confusion, and therefore he had used his lectures to fly kites and discuss them with his audience.Less

Redbrick Inhabited

William Whyte

in Redbrick: A social and architectural history of Britain's civic universities

This chapter surveys the students and staff who inhabited the interwar civic universities. It explores the growth of an increasingly vibrant student culture, fuelled not least by the opportunities ... More

This chapter surveys the students and staff who inhabited the interwar civic universities. It explores the growth of an increasingly vibrant student culture, fuelled not least by the opportunities male and female students now had to socialise with one another. It also discusses the experience of university staff, identifying the pressures they experienced and relating them to the development of the institutions within which they worked.Less