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Welcome to our podcast series, Settee Seminars!

Settee Seminars is a podcast series of fascinating short talks by leading experts, introducing you to a wide range of topics, including U.S. history, psychiatry, technology and 18th century & Postcolonial literature.

Available wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts.

If you want to learn more about the topics discussed on Settee Seminars, reading lists will be available in the episode description of your podcast app or on our website.

Season One

1.1. Simon Hall – Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s

1.2. David Fairer – Wigs, Swords and Poison: Writing Murder Mysteries set in Queen Anne’s London

1.3. Des McLernon – 5G Technology in the Covid Age: Saviour or Dystopian Future

1.4. Emily Zobel Marshall – Longing for Freedom: The Story of the African Trickster

1.5. Allan House – Only the Lonely?

Season Two

2.1. Fozia Bora & Alaric Hall – Decolonising Medieval Literature and History

2.2. Emily Webb – ‘Beneficial, Injurious or Innocent?’: Tea in Eighteenth Century Britain

2.3. Jason Allen-Paisant – On Being a Black Body in “Nature”: A Walking Lyric

2.4. Greg Radick – Darwin’s Argument by Analogy

Season Three

3.1. Anne Buckley and Frank Finlay – Skipton’s First World War Prisoner-of-War Camp

3.2. Emily Bell – Dickens Now: The Modern Legacy of a Victorian Author

3.3. Markus Fraundorfer – Tackling the Global Climate Crisis: Global Governance Dilemmas, Forest Protection and Indigenous People

3.4. James Mussell – Enquire Within: How the Victorians Invented the World Wide Web

3.5. Dr Sarah Hudspith & Dr Olivia Santovetti – ‘Illuminating the chaos and obscurity’: Ferrante and Dostoevsky in Dialogue

4.1 Catherine Walsh – How to Build a Habitable World

4.2 Dr James Souter – Asylum as Reparation: Rethinking Responsibilities to Refugees

4.3 Dr Bethany Robertson – Behind the Food on your Plate: Farming as Essential Work

4.4. Ingo Cornils – What Can German Science Fiction Tell Us About the Future?

4.5 Lucy Cheseldine – The Auroras of Autumn: Language, Landscape, and an Autumnal Obsession

Season Five

5.1. Katy Thorpe & Jody Vallance – Peatland Restoration Project on Ilkley Moor

5.2. Viktoria Spaiser & Nicole Nisbett – Stabilising Earth’s Climate – Key Social Dynamics

5.3. iCasp – Helping the Local Environment

5.4. Andrew Sudmant – The Urban Paradox: How Cities are both the cause of, and solution to, the Sustainability Challenges of the 21st Century

5.5. Kylie Harris presented in partnership with Climate Action Ilkley – Treating the Climate Emergency as a Spiritual Emergency

6.1 Daisy Towers – Spanish Civil War Translated Literature

6.2 Timothy Thurston & Tsering Samdrup – No Laughing Matter: Understanding Tibetan Experience in China through Comedy

6.3 Helen Finch & Alessio Baldini – Ukraine and the Voices of those Left Behind: Jewish Novelists Natalia Ginzburg and Katya Petrowskaja in Dialogue

6.4 Colin Grant & Alex Wheatle – Being Black in Britain

6.5 Greg Radick & Mike Dixon – Charles Darwin in Ilkley

6.6 Olivia Santovetti, Richard Hibbitt & Domenico Scarpa – Italo Calvino in a Nut/Shell

7.1 Translators on Translation – part one: David McCallam & Richard Hibbitt – translating Christophe Tarkos from French into English