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	<title>Why Humanities Courses Are in Distress: A Modest Proposal for a Remedy</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Paula Marantz Cohen DREXEL UNIVERSITY How can decline in enrollments in the humanities be explained? Nationwide in recent&#160;years estimates of the drop in liberal arts majors range from one-fourth to one-third of those in&#160;English, history, government, philosophy and other traditional subjects. English departments&#160;have been hit especially hard. One study found that faculty members seem to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Why Did Elizabethans and Jacobeans Read Shakespeare’s Plays?</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 20:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Aaron Pratt HARRY RANSOM CENTER Before the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623 and the efforts of subsequent editors and critics, England’s printed playbooks were considered “riff raff,” connected more with the world of London’s popular theaters than with what we might think of as “capital-L” Literature. Or so we have been told. This [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Imperial Recessional: Sir William Luce and the Creation of the United Arab Emirates</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Tancred Bradshaw LONDON One of the surprises of Britain’s withdrawal from the Middle East was the successful creation of the United Arab Emirates in 1971. Tancred Bradshaw will discuss the critical role played by Sir William Luce, previously Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Aden Colony, in that transition. Luce was responsible for establishing a viable [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Philip Goad (Harvard) on British and American architecture</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 17:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Philip Goad is the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies (AY2019-20) at Harvard University and Chair of Architecture and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne. He was trained as an architect and gained his PhD in architectural history at the University of Melbourne where he has taught since [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Philip Goad is the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies (AY2019-20) at Harvard University and Chair of Architecture and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne. He was trained as an architect and gained his PhD in architectural history at the University of Melbourne where he has taught since [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<title>How George Washington Defeated the British Empire</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2020 17:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Thomas Ricks NEW YORK TIMES &#160; If the best measure of a general is the ability to grasp the nature of the war he faces, and then to make adjustments, George Washington was one of the greatest the United States ever had. This is not perceived even today because he had few victories during the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>P. G. Wodehouse and Politics: What Did He Know, and When Did He Know It?</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; David Leal, Nuffield College, Oxford P.G. Wodehouse was England’s greatest comic writer. His new memorial at Westminster Abbey celebrates his achievements as “Humorist, Novelist, Playwright, Lyricist.” He continues to be widely read and written about. Wodehouse is best known for creating sunny fictional worlds into which we can escape, yet he found himself [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<title>Churchill&#8217;s Most Difficult Decisions</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2019 22:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Allen Packwood, Churchill College, Cambridge Allen Packwood will use his knowledge of the Churchill Papers, held at Churchill College, Cambridge, to analyze the contents of Churchill&#8217;s despatch boxes. He will go behind the iconic image and the famous oratory to look in detail at Churchill&#8217;s leadership and shed light on how the Prime [&#8230;]]]></description>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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<item>
	<title>‘When I feel very near to God, I always feel such a need to undress’: Religion, Nakedness and the Body Divine</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/when-i-feel-very-near-to-god-i-always-feel-such-a-need-to-undress-religion-nakedness-and-the-body-divine/</link>
	<pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Philippa Levine Diverse institutions have attempted to order and to organize, to regulate and to banish, to promote and to sell nakedness. Focusing on religion&#8217;s always ambivalent relationship with the human body, this talk explores a cultural history with surprisingly powerful contemporary resonance. Philippa Levine holds the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Philippa Levine Diverse institutions have attempted to order and to organize, to regulate and to banish, to promote and to sell nakedness. Focusing on religion&#8217;s always ambivalent relationship with the human body, this talk explores]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Philippa Levine Diverse institutions have attempted to order and to organize, to regulate and to banish, to promote and to sell nakedness. Focusing on religion&#8217;s always ambivalent relationship with the human body, this talk explores a cultural history with surprisingly powerful contemporary resonance. Philippa Levine holds the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Philippa Levine Diverse institutions have attempted to order and to organize, to regulate and to banish, to promote and to sell nakedness. Focusing on religion&#8217;s always ambivalent relationship with the human body, this talk explores a cultural history with surprisingly powerful contemporary resonance. Philippa Levine holds the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Jane Austen&#8217;s Lost Books</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/jane-austens-lost-books/</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=425</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Janine Barchas In the nineteenth century, inexpensive editions of Jane Austen&#8217;s novels were made available to Britain&#8217;s working classes. They were sold at railway stations, traded for soap wrappers, and awarded as school prizes. At pennies a copy, these reprints were some of the earliest mass-market paperbacks, with Austen&#8217;s stories squeezed into tight [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Janine Barchas In the nineteenth century, inexpensive editions of Jane Austen&#8217;s novels were made available to Britain&#8217;s working classes. They were sold at railway stations, traded for soap wrappers, and awarded as school prize]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Janine Barchas In the nineteenth century, inexpensive editions of Jane Austen&#8217;s novels were made available to Britain&#8217;s working classes. They were sold at railway stations, traded for soap wrappers, and awarded as school prizes. At pennies a copy, these reprints were some of the earliest mass-market paperbacks, with Austen&#8217;s stories squeezed into tight [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Janine Barchas In the nineteenth century, inexpensive editions of Jane Austen&#8217;s novels were made available to Britain&#8217;s working classes. They were sold at railway stations, traded for soap wrappers, and awarded as school prizes. At pennies a copy, these reprints were some of the earliest mass-market paperbacks, with Austen&#8217;s stories squeezed into tight [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
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	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Janine Barchas In the nineteenth century, inexpensive editions of Jane Austen&#8217;s novels were made available to Britain&#8217;s working classes. They were sold at railway stations, traded for soap wrappers, and awarded as school prizes. At pennies a copy, these reprints were some of the earliest mass-market paperbacks, with Austen&#8217;s stories squeezed into tight [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Facts, Censorship, and Spin: Covering the Pacific War from Australia, 1942</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/facts-censorship-and-spin-covering-the-pacific-war-from-australia-1942/</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2019 20:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=409</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Michael J. Birkner, Gettysburg College This lecture is about journalists based in Australia practicing their craft in 1942, when the prospect of a Japanese invasion was impending. How did professional standards compare with daily practice? Most information came from official sources, and draft articles had to run the gantlet of military censors. What [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Michael J. Birkner, Gettysburg College This lecture is about journalists based in Australia practicing their craft in 1942, when the prospect of a Japanese invasion was impending. How did professional standards compare with daily practice]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Michael J. Birkner, Gettysburg College This lecture is about journalists based in Australia practicing their craft in 1942, when the prospect of a Japanese invasion was impending. How did professional standards compare with daily practice? Most information came from official sources, and draft articles had to run the gantlet of military censors. What [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/409/facts-censorship-and-spin-covering-the-pacific-war-from-australia-1942.mp3" length="62047808" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Michael J. Birkner, Gettysburg College This lecture is about journalists based in Australia practicing their craft in 1942, when the prospect of a Japanese invasion was impending. How did professional standards compare with daily practice? Most information came from official sources, and draft articles had to run the gantlet of military censors. What [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
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	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Michael J. Birkner, Gettysburg College This lecture is about journalists based in Australia practicing their craft in 1942, when the prospect of a Japanese invasion was impending. How did professional standards compare with daily practice? Most information came from official sources, and draft articles had to run the gantlet of military censors. What [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Political Leadership in Macbeth and Coriolanus</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/political-leadership-in-macbeth-and-coriolanus/</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=388</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Gwyn Daniel OXFORD In many of his plays, Shakespeare deals with profound political questions that have continuing relevance for the contemporary world. His tragedies often have a family drama at their heart. They include conflicts between personal and family loyalties, on the one hand, and on the other the demands of realpolitik. In [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Gwyn Daniel OXFORD In many of his plays, Shakespeare deals with profound political questions that have continuing relevance for the contemporary world. His tragedies often have a family drama at their heart. They include conflicts between]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Gwyn Daniel OXFORD In many of his plays, Shakespeare deals with profound political questions that have continuing relevance for the contemporary world. His tragedies often have a family drama at their heart. They include conflicts between personal and family loyalties, on the one hand, and on the other the demands of realpolitik. In [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/388/political-leadership-in-macbeth-and-coriolanus.mp3" length="59289728" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Gwyn Daniel OXFORD In many of his plays, Shakespeare deals with profound political questions that have continuing relevance for the contemporary world. His tragedies often have a family drama at their heart. They include conflicts between personal and family loyalties, on the one hand, and on the other the demands of realpolitik. In [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
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	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Gwyn Daniel OXFORD In many of his plays, Shakespeare deals with profound political questions that have continuing relevance for the contemporary world. His tragedies often have a family drama at their heart. They include conflicts between personal and family loyalties, on the one hand, and on the other the demands of realpolitik. In [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>The Novels of Benjamin Disraeli and Oscar Wilde</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/the-novels-of-benjamin-disraeli-and-oscar-wilde/</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=356</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Sandra Mayer Oscar Wilde once described Benjamin Disraeli’s life as ‘the most brilliant of paradoxes’. It served as a model for someone who, as an Irishman and aspiring literary celebrity, shared Disraeli’s outsider status, his Byronic dandyism, his mastery of the quotable epigram, and his quest for fame in the British establishment. This [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Sandra Mayer Oscar Wilde once described Benjamin Disraeli’s life as ‘the most brilliant of paradoxes’. It served as a model for someone who, as an Irishman and aspiring literary celebrity, shared Disraeli’s outsider status, his Byronic da]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Sandra Mayer Oscar Wilde once described Benjamin Disraeli’s life as ‘the most brilliant of paradoxes’. It served as a model for someone who, as an Irishman and aspiring literary celebrity, shared Disraeli’s outsider status, his Byronic dandyism, his mastery of the quotable epigram, and his quest for fame in the British establishment. This [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/356/the-novels-of-benjamin-disraeli-and-oscar-wilde.mp3" length="65639168" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Sandra Mayer Oscar Wilde once described Benjamin Disraeli’s life as ‘the most brilliant of paradoxes’. It served as a model for someone who, as an Irishman and aspiring literary celebrity, shared Disraeli’s outsider status, his Byronic dandyism, his mastery of the quotable epigram, and his quest for fame in the British establishment. This [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Sandra Mayer Oscar Wilde once described Benjamin Disraeli’s life as ‘the most brilliant of paradoxes’. It served as a model for someone who, as an Irishman and aspiring literary celebrity, shared Disraeli’s outsider status, his Byronic dandyism, his mastery of the quotable epigram, and his quest for fame in the British establishment. This [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>The Cultural Identity of American Libraries</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/the-cultural-identity-of-american-libraries/</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=339</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa Since 1981, conservators who work in libraries and archives to preserve cultural records have been educated typically in three-to four-year graduate programs. Before 1981 in the U.S., however, no higher education opportunities existed—neither undergraduate nor graduate—targeted to the field of library and archives conservation. Why was this case? Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa locates [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa Since 1981, conservators who work in libraries and archives to preserve cultural records have been educated typically in three-to four-year graduate programs. Before 1981 in the U.S., however, no higher education o]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa Since 1981, conservators who work in libraries and archives to preserve cultural records have been educated typically in three-to four-year graduate programs. Before 1981 in the U.S., however, no higher education opportunities existed—neither undergraduate nor graduate—targeted to the field of library and archives conservation. Why was this case? Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa locates [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/339/the-cultural-identity-of-american-libraries.mp3" length="58818848" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa Since 1981, conservators who work in libraries and archives to preserve cultural records have been educated typically in three-to four-year graduate programs. Before 1981 in the U.S., however, no higher education opportunities existed—neither undergraduate nor graduate—targeted to the field of library and archives conservation. Why was this case? Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa locates [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa Since 1981, conservators who work in libraries and archives to preserve cultural records have been educated typically in three-to four-year graduate programs. Before 1981 in the U.S., however, no higher education opportunities existed—neither undergraduate nor graduate—targeted to the field of library and archives conservation. Why was this case? Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa locates [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
</item>

<item>
	<title>Carnival in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/carnival-in-shakespeares-twelfth-night/</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2019 20:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=322</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Wayne A. Rebhorn Shakespeare’s&#160;Twelfth Night&#160;has long been associated with the festive aspects of carnival, especially in its rejection of authority and the exploration of gender confusion in its main, romantic plot. But ‘carnival’ as used by Shakespeare also meant a time of grotesque liberation and indulgence. The carnivalesque can be disturbing as well [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Wayne A. Rebhorn Shakespeare’s&#160;Twelfth Night&#160;has long been associated with the festive aspects of carnival, especially in its rejection of authority and the exploration of gender confusion in its main, romantic plot. But ‘carniv]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Wayne A. Rebhorn Shakespeare’s&#160;Twelfth Night&#160;has long been associated with the festive aspects of carnival, especially in its rejection of authority and the exploration of gender confusion in its main, romantic plot. But ‘carnival’ as used by Shakespeare also meant a time of grotesque liberation and indulgence. The carnivalesque can be disturbing as well [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/322/carnival-in-shakespeares-twelfth-night.mp3" length="60883808" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Wayne A. Rebhorn Shakespeare’s&#160;Twelfth Night&#160;has long been associated with the festive aspects of carnival, especially in its rejection of authority and the exploration of gender confusion in its main, romantic plot. But ‘carnival’ as used by Shakespeare also meant a time of grotesque liberation and indulgence. The carnivalesque can be disturbing as well [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Wayne A. Rebhorn Shakespeare’s&#160;Twelfth Night&#160;has long been associated with the festive aspects of carnival, especially in its rejection of authority and the exploration of gender confusion in its main, romantic plot. But ‘carnival’ as used by Shakespeare also meant a time of grotesque liberation and indulgence. The carnivalesque can be disturbing as well [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>C. P. Snow and the Two Cultures of Medicine and the Humanities</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/c-p-snow-and-the-two-cultures-of-medicine-and-the-humanities/</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=300</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Stephen Sonnenberg While a student at Princeton in the late 1950s and early 1960s Stephen Sonnenberg was influenced by the ideas of the literary critic and poet R. P. Blackmur, and read C. P. Snow&#8217;s&#160;The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution&#160;(1959). He will explain Snow&#8217;s influence on his thinking throughout his life, as [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Stephen Sonnenberg While a student at Princeton in the late 1950s and early 1960s Stephen Sonnenberg was influenced by the ideas of the literary critic and poet R. P. Blackmur, and read C. P. Snow&#8217;s&#160;The Two Cultures and the Sci]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Stephen Sonnenberg While a student at Princeton in the late 1950s and early 1960s Stephen Sonnenberg was influenced by the ideas of the literary critic and poet R. P. Blackmur, and read C. P. Snow&#8217;s&#160;The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution&#160;(1959). He will explain Snow&#8217;s influence on his thinking throughout his life, as [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/300/c-p-snow-and-the-two-cultures-of-medicine-and-the-humanities.mp3" length="78227840" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Stephen Sonnenberg While a student at Princeton in the late 1950s and early 1960s Stephen Sonnenberg was influenced by the ideas of the literary critic and poet R. P. Blackmur, and read C. P. Snow&#8217;s&#160;The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution&#160;(1959). He will explain Snow&#8217;s influence on his thinking throughout his life, as [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Stephen Sonnenberg While a student at Princeton in the late 1950s and early 1960s Stephen Sonnenberg was influenced by the ideas of the literary critic and poet R. P. Blackmur, and read C. P. Snow&#8217;s&#160;The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution&#160;(1959). He will explain Snow&#8217;s influence on his thinking throughout his life, as [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Walter Scott, the Stuarts, and Stewardship</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/walter-scott-the-stuarts-and-stewardship/</link>
	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2019 16:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=287</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Sam Baker Often described as the inventor of the historical novel, the Scottish author Walter Scott (1771-1832) was also a poet, lawyer, pioneering editor, and popular historian. This talk will explore the theme of stewardship in Scott&#8217;s fiction—with particular reference to his best remembered work, Ivanhoe, and one of his least remembered, The [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Sam Baker Often described as the inventor of the historical novel, the Scottish author Walter Scott (1771-1832) was also a poet, lawyer, pioneering editor, and popular historian. This talk will explore the theme of stewardship in Scott&#8]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Sam Baker Often described as the inventor of the historical novel, the Scottish author Walter Scott (1771-1832) was also a poet, lawyer, pioneering editor, and popular historian. This talk will explore the theme of stewardship in Scott&#8217;s fiction—with particular reference to his best remembered work, Ivanhoe, and one of his least remembered, The [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/287/walter-scott-the-stuarts-and-stewardship.mp3" length="68789390" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Sam Baker Often described as the inventor of the historical novel, the Scottish author Walter Scott (1771-1832) was also a poet, lawyer, pioneering editor, and popular historian. This talk will explore the theme of stewardship in Scott&#8217;s fiction—with particular reference to his best remembered work, Ivanhoe, and one of his least remembered, The [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Sam Baker Often described as the inventor of the historical novel, the Scottish author Walter Scott (1771-1832) was also a poet, lawyer, pioneering editor, and popular historian. This talk will explore the theme of stewardship in Scott&#8217;s fiction—with particular reference to his best remembered work, Ivanhoe, and one of his least remembered, The [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Book Launch: 150 Highly Recommended Books</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/book-launch-150-highly-recommended-books/</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 21:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=203</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Dean Robert King This occasion celebrates the end of the five-year process, sponsored by Randy Diehl and the College of Liberal Arts, that resulted in 150 Highly Recommended Books. The other committee members for the project were Robert Abzug (Rapoport Chair of Jewish Studies), Roger Louis (Kerr Professor of English History and Culture), [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Dean Robert King This occasion celebrates the end of the five-year process, sponsored by Randy Diehl and the College of Liberal Arts, that resulted in 150 Highly Recommended Books. The other committee members for the project were Robert A]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Dean Robert King This occasion celebrates the end of the five-year process, sponsored by Randy Diehl and the College of Liberal Arts, that resulted in 150 Highly Recommended Books. The other committee members for the project were Robert Abzug (Rapoport Chair of Jewish Studies), Roger Louis (Kerr Professor of English History and Culture), [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Dean Robert King This occasion celebrates the end of the five-year process, sponsored by Randy Diehl and the College of Liberal Arts, that resulted in 150 Highly Recommended Books. The other committee members for the project were Robert Abzug (Rapoport Chair of Jewish Studies), Roger Louis (Kerr Professor of English History and Culture), [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Fake News, Alternative Facts, and the Question of Truth</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/fake-news-alternative-facts-and-the-question-of-truth/</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 21:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=201</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; David Edwards (GOVERNMENT) David Edwards has been a dedicated reader of American and British newspapers and opinion magazines since the 1950s. In fact, he still subscribes to more than one hundred print editions of newspapers, magazines, and journals. He will talk about how fake news has evolved into the versions of it that [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; David Edwards (GOVERNMENT) David Edwards has been a dedicated reader of American and British newspapers and opinion magazines since the 1950s. In fact, he still subscribes to more than one hundred print editions of newspapers, magazines, ]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; David Edwards (GOVERNMENT) David Edwards has been a dedicated reader of American and British newspapers and opinion magazines since the 1950s. In fact, he still subscribes to more than one hundred print editions of newspapers, magazines, and journals. He will talk about how fake news has evolved into the versions of it that [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; David Edwards (GOVERNMENT) David Edwards has been a dedicated reader of American and British newspapers and opinion magazines since the 1950s. In fact, he still subscribes to more than one hundred print editions of newspapers, magazines, and journals. He will talk about how fake news has evolved into the versions of it that [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; David Edwards (GOVERNMENT) David Edwards has been a dedicated reader of American and British newspapers and opinion magazines since the 1950s. In fact, he still subscribes to more than one hundred print editions of newspapers, magazines, and journals. He will talk about how fake news has evolved into the versions of it that [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Biographies: Research, Writing, and Reviews</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/biographies-research-writing-and-reviews/</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 21:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=199</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speakers &#8211; Bill Brands (HISTORY) Bat Sparrow (GOVERNMENT) Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa (HARRY RANSOM CENTER) Bill Brands and Bat Sparrow will discuss the difference between writing history and biography, and between writing the life of a living person and that of someone dead, perhaps long ago dead, as well as the attitudes of biographers toward their subjects. [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speakers &#8211; Bill Brands (HISTORY) Bat Sparrow (GOVERNMENT) Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa (HARRY RANSOM CENTER) Bill Brands and Bat Sparrow will discuss the difference between writing history and biography, and between writing the life of a living person a]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speakers &#8211; Bill Brands (HISTORY) Bat Sparrow (GOVERNMENT) Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa (HARRY RANSOM CENTER) Bill Brands and Bat Sparrow will discuss the difference between writing history and biography, and between writing the life of a living person and that of someone dead, perhaps long ago dead, as well as the attitudes of biographers toward their subjects. [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/199/biographies-research-writing-and-reviews.mp3" length="86120192" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speakers &#8211; Bill Brands (HISTORY) Bat Sparrow (GOVERNMENT) Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa (HARRY RANSOM CENTER) Bill Brands and Bat Sparrow will discuss the difference between writing history and biography, and between writing the life of a living person and that of someone dead, perhaps long ago dead, as well as the attitudes of biographers toward their subjects. [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speakers &#8211; Bill Brands (HISTORY) Bat Sparrow (GOVERNMENT) Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa (HARRY RANSOM CENTER) Bill Brands and Bat Sparrow will discuss the difference between writing history and biography, and between writing the life of a living person and that of someone dead, perhaps long ago dead, as well as the attitudes of biographers toward their subjects. [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>After Empire: Britain, the United States, and the Iranian Revolution</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/after-empire-britain-the-united-states-and-the-iranian-revolution/</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 21:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=197</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Mark Gasiorowski This lecture will begin with the historic Britain-Iran connection: ‘If you lift up Khomeini’s beard, you will find “MADE IN BRITAIN” stamped on his chin.’ After Iran’s 1978-1979 revolution, US and British officials sought a cooperative, mutually-beneficial relationship with the country’s new leaders. Contrary to what many believed, the CIA did [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Mark Gasiorowski This lecture will begin with the historic Britain-Iran connection: ‘If you lift up Khomeini’s beard, you will find “MADE IN BRITAIN” stamped on his chin.’ After Iran’s 1978-1979 revolution, US and British officials sought]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Mark Gasiorowski This lecture will begin with the historic Britain-Iran connection: ‘If you lift up Khomeini’s beard, you will find “MADE IN BRITAIN” stamped on his chin.’ After Iran’s 1978-1979 revolution, US and British officials sought a cooperative, mutually-beneficial relationship with the country’s new leaders. Contrary to what many believed, the CIA did [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/197/after-empire-britain-the-united-states-and-the-iranian-revolution.mp3" length="77639744" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Mark Gasiorowski This lecture will begin with the historic Britain-Iran connection: ‘If you lift up Khomeini’s beard, you will find “MADE IN BRITAIN” stamped on his chin.’ After Iran’s 1978-1979 revolution, US and British officials sought a cooperative, mutually-beneficial relationship with the country’s new leaders. Contrary to what many believed, the CIA did [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
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	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Mark Gasiorowski This lecture will begin with the historic Britain-Iran connection: ‘If you lift up Khomeini’s beard, you will find “MADE IN BRITAIN” stamped on his chin.’ After Iran’s 1978-1979 revolution, US and British officials sought a cooperative, mutually-beneficial relationship with the country’s new leaders. Contrary to what many believed, the CIA did [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Countess Noël, Heroine of the Titanic</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/countess-noel-heroine-of-the-titanic/</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 21:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=195</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Joanna Hitchcock Among the 1,300 passengers aboard the Titanic when she steamed out of Southampton Harbor in April 1912 was Noël, Countess of Rothes. She was traveling to the States to join her husband. This account of Noël’s experiences on the ship, in the lifeboat, and aboard the rescue ship is told through [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Joanna Hitchcock Among the 1,300 passengers aboard the Titanic when she steamed out of Southampton Harbor in April 1912 was Noël, Countess of Rothes. She was traveling to the States to join her husband. This account of Noël’s experiences ]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Joanna Hitchcock Among the 1,300 passengers aboard the Titanic when she steamed out of Southampton Harbor in April 1912 was Noël, Countess of Rothes. She was traveling to the States to join her husband. This account of Noël’s experiences on the ship, in the lifeboat, and aboard the rescue ship is told through [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/195/countess-noel-heroine-of-the-titanic.mp3" length="46623008" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Joanna Hitchcock Among the 1,300 passengers aboard the Titanic when she steamed out of Southampton Harbor in April 1912 was Noël, Countess of Rothes. She was traveling to the States to join her husband. This account of Noël’s experiences on the ship, in the lifeboat, and aboard the rescue ship is told through [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Joanna Hitchcock Among the 1,300 passengers aboard the Titanic when she steamed out of Southampton Harbor in April 1912 was Noël, Countess of Rothes. She was traveling to the States to join her husband. This account of Noël’s experiences on the ship, in the lifeboat, and aboard the rescue ship is told through [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>A UT Ethics Center? The Oxford Ethics Centre in Comparison &#8211; Round Table Discussion</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/a-ut-ethics-center-the-oxford-ethics-centre-in-comparison-round-table-discussion/</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 21:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=192</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speakers &#8211; Virginia Brown (Dell Medical School), Robert Prentice (McCombs Business School) Stephen Sonnenberg, M.D. (Plan II), Paul Woodruff (Philosophy) The Oxford Ethics Centre was established in 2003 with the aim of rational reflection on personal and professional ethics: ‘The vision is Socratic, not missionary’. The Oxford Centre promotes discussion on ‘climate change, terrorism, global [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speakers &#8211; Virginia Brown (Dell Medical School), Robert Prentice (McCombs Business School) Stephen Sonnenberg, M.D. (Plan II), Paul Woodruff (Philosophy) The Oxford Ethics Centre was established in 2003 with the aim of rational reflection on person]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speakers &#8211; Virginia Brown (Dell Medical School), Robert Prentice (McCombs Business School) Stephen Sonnenberg, M.D. (Plan II), Paul Woodruff (Philosophy) The Oxford Ethics Centre was established in 2003 with the aim of rational reflection on personal and professional ethics: ‘The vision is Socratic, not missionary’. The Oxford Centre promotes discussion on ‘climate change, terrorism, global [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/192/a-ut-ethics-center-the-oxford-ethics-centre-in-comparison-round-table-discussion.mp3" length="84727808" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speakers &#8211; Virginia Brown (Dell Medical School), Robert Prentice (McCombs Business School) Stephen Sonnenberg, M.D. (Plan II), Paul Woodruff (Philosophy) The Oxford Ethics Centre was established in 2003 with the aim of rational reflection on personal and professional ethics: ‘The vision is Socratic, not missionary’. The Oxford Centre promotes discussion on ‘climate change, terrorism, global [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speakers &#8211; Virginia Brown (Dell Medical School), Robert Prentice (McCombs Business School) Stephen Sonnenberg, M.D. (Plan II), Paul Woodruff (Philosophy) The Oxford Ethics Centre was established in 2003 with the aim of rational reflection on personal and professional ethics: ‘The vision is Socratic, not missionary’. The Oxford Centre promotes discussion on ‘climate change, terrorism, global [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>How the British Left Palestine</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/how-the-british-left-palestine/</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 21:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=190</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Bernard Wasserstein At the end of its three-decades-long mandate in 1948, Britain withdrew its administration and 100,000-strong armed forces from Palestine. But unlike its departure from any other dependent territory, it did not hand over to any successor government. Instead it left Arabs and Jews to fight for possession of the Holy Land. [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Bernard Wasserstein At the end of its three-decades-long mandate in 1948, Britain withdrew its administration and 100,000-strong armed forces from Palestine. But unlike its departure from any other dependent territory, it did not hand ove]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Bernard Wasserstein At the end of its three-decades-long mandate in 1948, Britain withdrew its administration and 100,000-strong armed forces from Palestine. But unlike its departure from any other dependent territory, it did not hand over to any successor government. Instead it left Arabs and Jews to fight for possession of the Holy Land. [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/190/how-the-british-left-palestine.mp3" length="61898366" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Bernard Wasserstein At the end of its three-decades-long mandate in 1948, Britain withdrew its administration and 100,000-strong armed forces from Palestine. But unlike its departure from any other dependent territory, it did not hand over to any successor government. Instead it left Arabs and Jews to fight for possession of the Holy Land. [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
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	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Bernard Wasserstein At the end of its three-decades-long mandate in 1948, Britain withdrew its administration and 100,000-strong armed forces from Palestine. But unlike its departure from any other dependent territory, it did not hand over to any successor government. Instead it left Arabs and Jews to fight for possession of the Holy Land. [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Worldwide Consequences of American Expansion in 1898</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/worldwide-consequences-of-american-expansion-in-1898/</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 21:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=188</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Karl Rove Karl Rove’s recent book, The Triumph of William McKinley, deals with the election of 1896 and its consequences. His lecture will expand on the results of the 1898 war with Spain: the annexation of the Philippines and Hawaii in the Pacific and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean as well as Cuba [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Karl Rove Karl Rove’s recent book, The Triumph of William McKinley, deals with the election of 1896 and its consequences. His lecture will expand on the results of the 1898 war with Spain: the annexation of the Philippines and Hawaii in t]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Karl Rove Karl Rove’s recent book, The Triumph of William McKinley, deals with the election of 1896 and its consequences. His lecture will expand on the results of the 1898 war with Spain: the annexation of the Philippines and Hawaii in the Pacific and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean as well as Cuba [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/188/worldwide-consequences-of-american-expansion-in-1898.mp3" length="38545673" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Karl Rove Karl Rove’s recent book, The Triumph of William McKinley, deals with the election of 1896 and its consequences. His lecture will expand on the results of the 1898 war with Spain: the annexation of the Philippines and Hawaii in the Pacific and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean as well as Cuba [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Karl Rove Karl Rove’s recent book, The Triumph of William McKinley, deals with the election of 1896 and its consequences. His lecture will expand on the results of the 1898 war with Spain: the annexation of the Philippines and Hawaii in the Pacific and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean as well as Cuba [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Brexit: An Historical Romance</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/brexit-an-historical-romance/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=148</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211;&#160;Geoffrey Wheatcroft The debate on Britain’s departure from the European Union, before the referendum and ever since, has invoked the past: ‘Our Island Story’ and a thousand years of history. The Leavers, or Brexiteers, are especially prone to talking of ‘vassalage’ and medieval history, of the 1533 Act in Restraint of Appeals, of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211;&#160;Geoffrey Wheatcroft The debate on Britain’s departure from the European Union, before the referendum and ever since, has invoked the past: ‘Our Island Story’ and a thousand years of history. The Leavers, or Brexiteers, are especially]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211;&#160;Geoffrey Wheatcroft The debate on Britain’s departure from the European Union, before the referendum and ever since, has invoked the past: ‘Our Island Story’ and a thousand years of history. The Leavers, or Brexiteers, are especially prone to talking of ‘vassalage’ and medieval history, of the 1533 Act in Restraint of Appeals, of the [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/148/brexit-an-historical-romance.mp3" length="73717760" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211;&#160;Geoffrey Wheatcroft The debate on Britain’s departure from the European Union, before the referendum and ever since, has invoked the past: ‘Our Island Story’ and a thousand years of history. The Leavers, or Brexiteers, are especially prone to talking of ‘vassalage’ and medieval history, of the 1533 Act in Restraint of Appeals, of the [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211;&#160;Geoffrey Wheatcroft The debate on Britain’s departure from the European Union, before the referendum and ever since, has invoked the past: ‘Our Island Story’ and a thousand years of history. The Leavers, or Brexiteers, are especially prone to talking of ‘vassalage’ and medieval history, of the 1533 Act in Restraint of Appeals, of the [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Samuel Beckett: Joycean and Surreal?</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/samuel-beckett-joycean-and-surreal/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2019 20:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=142</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Alan Friedman Scholars tend to label Samuel Beckett’s early career negatively as either his “Joyce years” or his “Surrealist period,” maintaining that Joyce’s writings had a detrimental effect on Beckett’s initial works and that Surrealism was only a minor influence. But both were critical models for Beckett. He mined his powerful predecessors for [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Alan Friedman Scholars tend to label Samuel Beckett’s early career negatively as either his “Joyce years” or his “Surrealist period,” maintaining that Joyce’s writings had a detrimental effect on Beckett’s initial works and that Surrealis]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Alan Friedman Scholars tend to label Samuel Beckett’s early career negatively as either his “Joyce years” or his “Surrealist period,” maintaining that Joyce’s writings had a detrimental effect on Beckett’s initial works and that Surrealism was only a minor influence. But both were critical models for Beckett. He mined his powerful predecessors for [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Heroes of the Intellect: Unbelief and Enlightenment Values across the Ages</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/heroes-of-the-intellect-unbelief-and-enlightenment-values-across-the-ages/</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; James Dee&#160; Religious beliefs have been questioned and opposed for centuries, from the pre-Socratics of ancient Hellas to the rise of science and the humanistic values of the Enlightenment—often said to be in decline today. This talk will summarize the ideas of a surprisingly large group of Hellenic skeptics and atheists, briefly survey [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; James Dee&#160; Religious beliefs have been questioned and opposed for centuries, from the pre-Socratics of ancient Hellas to the rise of science and the humanistic values of the Enlightenment—often said to be in decline today. This talk ]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; James Dee&#160; Religious beliefs have been questioned and opposed for centuries, from the pre-Socratics of ancient Hellas to the rise of science and the humanistic values of the Enlightenment—often said to be in decline today. This talk will summarize the ideas of a surprisingly large group of Hellenic skeptics and atheists, briefly survey [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; James Dee&#160; Religious beliefs have been questioned and opposed for centuries, from the pre-Socratics of ancient Hellas to the rise of science and the humanistic values of the Enlightenment—often said to be in decline today. This talk will summarize the ideas of a surprisingly large group of Hellenic skeptics and atheists, briefly survey [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>America&#8217;s Global Empire</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/americas-global-empire/</link>
	<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2019 21:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=186</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Tony Hopkins Challenging conventional accounts of the place of the United States in the international order during the last three centuries, Tony Hopkins will argue that the United States was part of a British imperial order throughout this period. After 1898, it ruled a now forgotten empire in the Pacific and Caribbean. It [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Tony Hopkins Challenging conventional accounts of the place of the United States in the international order during the last three centuries, Tony Hopkins will argue that the United States was part of a British imperial order throughout th]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Tony Hopkins Challenging conventional accounts of the place of the United States in the international order during the last three centuries, Tony Hopkins will argue that the United States was part of a British imperial order throughout this period. After 1898, it ruled a now forgotten empire in the Pacific and Caribbean. It [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Tony Hopkins Challenging conventional accounts of the place of the United States in the international order during the last three centuries, Tony Hopkins will argue that the United States was part of a British imperial order throughout this period. After 1898, it ruled a now forgotten empire in the Pacific and Caribbean. It [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
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	<title>Brexit&#8217;s Past: Withdrawals from the Empire</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/brexits-past-withdrawals-from-the-empire/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2019 19:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=133</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Harshan Kumarasingham&#160; As the world watches Britain’s slow departure from the European Union, it can be constructive to remember the multiple occasions, especially since 1947, when Britain pulled out of its imperial possessions, often in haste and turmoil. Decolonization changed the nature of the Commonwealth, the seventy-year-old organization that replaced the empire as [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Harshan Kumarasingham&#160; As the world watches Britain’s slow departure from the European Union, it can be constructive to remember the multiple occasions, especially since 1947, when Britain pulled out of its imperial possessions, ofte]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Harshan Kumarasingham&#160; As the world watches Britain’s slow departure from the European Union, it can be constructive to remember the multiple occasions, especially since 1947, when Britain pulled out of its imperial possessions, often in haste and turmoil. Decolonization changed the nature of the Commonwealth, the seventy-year-old organization that replaced the empire as [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Harshan Kumarasingham&#160; As the world watches Britain’s slow departure from the European Union, it can be constructive to remember the multiple occasions, especially since 1947, when Britain pulled out of its imperial possessions, often in haste and turmoil. Decolonization changed the nature of the Commonwealth, the seventy-year-old organization that replaced the empire as [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain and America, 1880– 1920</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/william-morris-and-the-arts-and-crafts-movement-in-britain-and-america-1880-1920/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 21:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=109</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Peter Stansky William Morris was a poet and artist as well as the foremost figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. He succeeded in reviving some of the techniques of handmade production that machines were replacing. His iconic patterns for fabrics and wallpaper are instantly recognizable, and the baroquely beautiful productions of his [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Peter Stansky William Morris was a poet and artist as well as the foremost figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. He succeeded in reviving some of the techniques of handmade production that machines were replacing. His iconic patterns fo]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Peter Stansky William Morris was a poet and artist as well as the foremost figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. He succeeded in reviving some of the techniques of handmade production that machines were replacing. His iconic patterns for fabrics and wallpaper are instantly recognizable, and the baroquely beautiful productions of his [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Peter Stansky William Morris was a poet and artist as well as the foremost figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. He succeeded in reviving some of the techniques of handmade production that machines were replacing. His iconic patterns for fabrics and wallpaper are instantly recognizable, and the baroquely beautiful productions of his [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>She Moves in Mysterious Ways: Jane Eyre’s Journeys</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/she-moves-in-mysterious-ways-jane-eyres-journeys/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=107</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; John Farrell It is sometimes overlooked that&#160;Jane&#160;Eyre&#160;is a classic Bildungsroman that narrates&#160;Jane&#8217;s formative years and spiritual education. Even more deliberately, it is a journey narrative. But&#160;Jane’s travels follow two incompatible paths. Both paths are narratively constructed as pilgrimages. Charlotte Brontë’s task in the novel—and&#160;Jane’s as well—is to make these pilgrimages converge. Their convergence [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; John Farrell It is sometimes overlooked that&#160;Jane&#160;Eyre&#160;is a classic Bildungsroman that narrates&#160;Jane&#8217;s formative years and spiritual education. Even more deliberately, it is a journey narrative. But&#160;Jane’s t]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; John Farrell It is sometimes overlooked that&#160;Jane&#160;Eyre&#160;is a classic Bildungsroman that narrates&#160;Jane&#8217;s formative years and spiritual education. Even more deliberately, it is a journey narrative. But&#160;Jane’s travels follow two incompatible paths. Both paths are narratively constructed as pilgrimages. Charlotte Brontë’s task in the novel—and&#160;Jane’s as well—is to make these pilgrimages converge. Their convergence [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; John Farrell It is sometimes overlooked that&#160;Jane&#160;Eyre&#160;is a classic Bildungsroman that narrates&#160;Jane&#8217;s formative years and spiritual education. Even more deliberately, it is a journey narrative. But&#160;Jane’s travels follow two incompatible paths. Both paths are narratively constructed as pilgrimages. Charlotte Brontë’s task in the novel—and&#160;Jane’s as well—is to make these pilgrimages converge. Their convergence [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; John Farrell It is sometimes overlooked that&#160;Jane&#160;Eyre&#160;is a classic Bildungsroman that narrates&#160;Jane&#8217;s formative years and spiritual education. Even more deliberately, it is a journey narrative. But&#160;Jane’s travels follow two incompatible paths. Both paths are narratively constructed as pilgrimages. Charlotte Brontë’s task in the novel—and&#160;Jane’s as well—is to make these pilgrimages converge. Their convergence [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Britain as a Superpower, 1945-1957</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/britain-as-a-superpower-1945-1957/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2019 17:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=102</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Derek Leebaert The British Empire remained a superpower at least until 1957. But the re-elected Eisenhower administration then proclaimed ‘a declaration ofindependence’ from British authority. The years in between are freighted withmyths: Britain’s ‘withdrawal from the Mediterranean’; the influence of GeorgeKennan’s view of Britain within the U.S. government; and Britain and thebeginning of [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Derek Leebaert The British Empire remained a superpower at least until 1957. But the re-elected Eisenhower administration then proclaimed ‘a declaration ofindependence’ from British authority. The years in between are freighted withmyths:]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Derek Leebaert The British Empire remained a superpower at least until 1957. But the re-elected Eisenhower administration then proclaimed ‘a declaration ofindependence’ from British authority. The years in between are freighted withmyths: Britain’s ‘withdrawal from the Mediterranean’; the influence of GeorgeKennan’s view of Britain within the U.S. government; and Britain and thebeginning of [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/102/britain-as-a-superpower-1945-1957.mp3" length="64800128" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Derek Leebaert The British Empire remained a superpower at least until 1957. But the re-elected Eisenhower administration then proclaimed ‘a declaration ofindependence’ from British authority. The years in between are freighted withmyths: Britain’s ‘withdrawal from the Mediterranean’; the influence of GeorgeKennan’s view of Britain within the U.S. government; and Britain and thebeginning of [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Oxford’s Battle for the Soul of Classics</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/oxfords-battle-for-the-soul-of-classics/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=96</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Paul Woodruff The Irish poet E. R. Dodds (1893–1979) was expelled as a student from Oxford in 1916 for protesting the English reaction to the Easter Rising. As a mature scholar, he transformed classical scholarship with his brilliant book The Greeks and the Irrational. The young poets W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice flourished [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Paul Woodruff The Irish poet E. R. Dodds (1893–1979) was expelled as a student from Oxford in 1916 for protesting the English reaction to the Easter Rising. As a mature scholar, he transformed classical scholarship with his brilliant book]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Paul Woodruff The Irish poet E. R. Dodds (1893–1979) was expelled as a student from Oxford in 1916 for protesting the English reaction to the Easter Rising. As a mature scholar, he transformed classical scholarship with his brilliant book The Greeks and the Irrational. The young poets W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice flourished [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Paul Woodruff The Irish poet E. R. Dodds (1893–1979) was expelled as a student from Oxford in 1916 for protesting the English reaction to the Easter Rising. As a mature scholar, he transformed classical scholarship with his brilliant book The Greeks and the Irrational. The young poets W.H. Auden and Louis MacNeice flourished [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Cyprus and World War II: A Turning Point in the War in the Mediterranean</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/cyprus-and-world-war-ii-a-turning-point-in-the-war-in-the-mediterranean/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=99</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; George Kelling The British acquired Cyprus for strategic reasons in 1888, and the island has provided a valuable strategic base up to this day. During World War II, Cyprus faced the danger of a German invasion. The loyalty of the Greek population on the island could not be taken for granted. According to [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; George Kelling The British acquired Cyprus for strategic reasons in 1888, and the island has provided a valuable strategic base up to this day. During World War II, Cyprus faced the danger of a German invasion. The loyalty of the Greek po]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; George Kelling The British acquired Cyprus for strategic reasons in 1888, and the island has provided a valuable strategic base up to this day. During World War II, Cyprus faced the danger of a German invasion. The loyalty of the Greek population on the island could not be taken for granted. According to [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/99/cyprus-and-world-war-ii-a-turning-point-in-the-war-in-the-mediterranean.mp3" length="66361988" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; George Kelling The British acquired Cyprus for strategic reasons in 1888, and the island has provided a valuable strategic base up to this day. During World War II, Cyprus faced the danger of a German invasion. The loyalty of the Greek population on the island could not be taken for granted. According to [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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	<title>Alan Turing: Genius, Patriot, Victim</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/alan-turing-genius-patriot-victim/</link>
	<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=68</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Robert D. King Founding Dean, College of Liberal Arts Alan Turing was the greatest mathematician Britain produced in the twentieth century. After a brilliant start at Cambridge he became the leading light in the British code-breaking center at Bletchley Park, and he was instrumental in breaking the German ENIGMA cipher by inventing and [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Robert D. King Founding Dean, College of Liberal Arts Alan Turing was the greatest mathematician Britain produced in the twentieth century. After a brilliant start at Cambridge he became the leading light in the British code-breaking cent]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Robert D. King Founding Dean, College of Liberal Arts Alan Turing was the greatest mathematician Britain produced in the twentieth century. After a brilliant start at Cambridge he became the leading light in the British code-breaking center at Bletchley Park, and he was instrumental in breaking the German ENIGMA cipher by inventing and [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/68/alan-turing-genius-patriot-victim.mp3" length="51403328" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Robert D. King Founding Dean, College of Liberal Arts Alan Turing was the greatest mathematician Britain produced in the twentieth century. After a brilliant start at Cambridge he became the leading light in the British code-breaking center at Bletchley Park, and he was instrumental in breaking the German ENIGMA cipher by inventing and [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Robert D. King Founding Dean, College of Liberal Arts Alan Turing was the greatest mathematician Britain produced in the twentieth century. After a brilliant start at Cambridge he became the leading light in the British code-breaking center at Bletchley Park, and he was instrumental in breaking the German ENIGMA cipher by inventing and [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>‘To Be or Not to Be’ Through the Ages</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/to-be-or-not-to-be-through-the-ages/</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
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	<description><![CDATA[Speakers &#8211; James Loehlin, Alan Friedman, and Eric Mallin ENGLISH Hamlet’s ‘To Be or Not to Be’ soliloquy has long been Shakespeare’s most famous speech; but the way in which it has been performed on stage has changed drastically over the centuries. This session will review the history of those performances, from speculation about early [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speakers &#8211; James Loehlin, Alan Friedman, and Eric Mallin ENGLISH Hamlet’s ‘To Be or Not to Be’ soliloquy has long been Shakespeare’s most famous speech; but the way in which it has been performed on stage has changed drastically over the centuries.]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speakers &#8211; James Loehlin, Alan Friedman, and Eric Mallin ENGLISH Hamlet’s ‘To Be or Not to Be’ soliloquy has long been Shakespeare’s most famous speech; but the way in which it has been performed on stage has changed drastically over the centuries. This session will review the history of those performances, from speculation about early [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speakers &#8211; James Loehlin, Alan Friedman, and Eric Mallin ENGLISH Hamlet’s ‘To Be or Not to Be’ soliloquy has long been Shakespeare’s most famous speech; but the way in which it has been performed on stage has changed drastically over the centuries. This session will review the history of those performances, from speculation about early [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
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	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle and the New Era in the History of Biology</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/charles-darwin-hms-beagle-and-the-new-era-in-the-history-of-biology/</link>
	<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=66</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Rodolfo John Alaniz HISTORY Charles Darwin&#8217;s voyage aboard HMS Beagle inaugurated a new era in the history of biology. However, Darwin was one of many naturalists who gathered specimens and gained prestige on nineteenth-century British expeditions. This talk will explore the role that the British Empire played in the establishment of Darwin’s theory, [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Rodolfo John Alaniz HISTORY Charles Darwin&#8217;s voyage aboard HMS Beagle inaugurated a new era in the history of biology. However, Darwin was one of many naturalists who gathered specimens and gained prestige on nineteenth-century Brit]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Rodolfo John Alaniz HISTORY Charles Darwin&#8217;s voyage aboard HMS Beagle inaugurated a new era in the history of biology. However, Darwin was one of many naturalists who gathered specimens and gained prestige on nineteenth-century British expeditions. This talk will explore the role that the British Empire played in the establishment of Darwin’s theory, [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/66/charles-darwin-hms-beagle-and-the-new-era-in-the-history-of-biology.mp3" length="38378612" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Rodolfo John Alaniz HISTORY Charles Darwin&#8217;s voyage aboard HMS Beagle inaugurated a new era in the history of biology. However, Darwin was one of many naturalists who gathered specimens and gained prestige on nineteenth-century British expeditions. This talk will explore the role that the British Empire played in the establishment of Darwin’s theory, [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Rodolfo John Alaniz HISTORY Charles Darwin&#8217;s voyage aboard HMS Beagle inaugurated a new era in the history of biology. However, Darwin was one of many naturalists who gathered specimens and gained prestige on nineteenth-century British expeditions. This talk will explore the role that the British Empire played in the establishment of Darwin’s theory, [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Bloomsbury and Harry Potter</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/bloomsbury-and-harry-potter/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=95</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Nigel Newton CHIEF EXECUTIVE, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, LONDON The Harry Potter books have been translated into some 75 languages and have sold more than 450 million copies. Nigel Newton owes the inspiration to publish the first in the series to his young daughter, who read the manuscript and insisted that it was ‘much better [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Nigel Newton CHIEF EXECUTIVE, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, LONDON The Harry Potter books have been translated into some 75 languages and have sold more than 450 million copies. Nigel Newton owes the inspiration to publish the first in the serie]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Nigel Newton CHIEF EXECUTIVE, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, LONDON The Harry Potter books have been translated into some 75 languages and have sold more than 450 million copies. Nigel Newton owes the inspiration to publish the first in the series to his young daughter, who read the manuscript and insisted that it was ‘much better [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/95/bloomsbury-and-harry-potter.mp3" length="48027008" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Nigel Newton CHIEF EXECUTIVE, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, LONDON The Harry Potter books have been translated into some 75 languages and have sold more than 450 million copies. Nigel Newton owes the inspiration to publish the first in the series to his young daughter, who read the manuscript and insisted that it was ‘much better [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Nigel Newton CHIEF EXECUTIVE, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, LONDON The Harry Potter books have been translated into some 75 languages and have sold more than 450 million copies. Nigel Newton owes the inspiration to publish the first in the series to his young daughter, who read the manuscript and insisted that it was ‘much better [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Seamus Heaney &#038; the London Origins of the Belfast Group</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/seamus-heaney-the-london-origins-of-the-belfast-group/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2018 17:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=89</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Stephen Enniss, HARRY RANSOM CENTER In the early 1960s a talented group of Northern Irish poets emerged in Belfast, including the future Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. In the decades since, a popular myth has taken root about the Northern Irish Renaissance with some commentators linking the emergence of a new generation of poets [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Stephen Enniss, HARRY RANSOM CENTER In the early 1960s a talented group of Northern Irish poets emerged in Belfast, including the future Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. In the decades since, a popular myth has taken root about the Northern ]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Stephen Enniss, HARRY RANSOM CENTER In the early 1960s a talented group of Northern Irish poets emerged in Belfast, including the future Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. In the decades since, a popular myth has taken root about the Northern Irish Renaissance with some commentators linking the emergence of a new generation of poets [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/89/seamus-heaney-the-london-origins-of-the-belfast-group.mp3" length="50160128" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Stephen Enniss, HARRY RANSOM CENTER In the early 1960s a talented group of Northern Irish poets emerged in Belfast, including the future Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. In the decades since, a popular myth has taken root about the Northern Irish Renaissance with some commentators linking the emergence of a new generation of poets [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Stephen Enniss, HARRY RANSOM CENTER In the early 1960s a talented group of Northern Irish poets emerged in Belfast, including the future Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. In the decades since, a popular myth has taken root about the Northern Irish Renaissance with some commentators linking the emergence of a new generation of poets [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Éamon de Valera and the Creation of Modern Ireland</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/eamon-de-valera-and-the-creation-of-modern-ireland/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2018 17:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=86</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Kevin Kenny, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Éamon de Valera (1882-1975) is the most important and divisive figure in modern Irish history. After rising to prominence in the Easter 1916 rebellion, he rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, provoking civil war in Ireland, but he returned to power in the 1930s and became the architect [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Kevin Kenny, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Éamon de Valera (1882-1975) is the most important and divisive figure in modern Irish history. After rising to prominence in the Easter 1916 rebellion, he rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, provoking]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Kevin Kenny, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Éamon de Valera (1882-1975) is the most important and divisive figure in modern Irish history. After rising to prominence in the Easter 1916 rebellion, he rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, provoking civil war in Ireland, but he returned to power in the 1930s and became the architect [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/86/eamon-de-valera-and-the-creation-of-modern-ireland.mp3" length="60255488" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Kevin Kenny, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Éamon de Valera (1882-1975) is the most important and divisive figure in modern Irish history. After rising to prominence in the Easter 1916 rebellion, he rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, provoking civil war in Ireland, but he returned to power in the 1930s and became the architect [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Kevin Kenny, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Éamon de Valera (1882-1975) is the most important and divisive figure in modern Irish history. After rising to prominence in the Easter 1916 rebellion, he rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, provoking civil war in Ireland, but he returned to power in the 1930s and became the architect [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Martyrs and Mistresses in Restoration London</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/martyrs-and-mistresses-in-restoration-london/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2018 17:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=81</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker: Paul Sullivan &#8211; ENGLISH Edward Coleman was drawn, hanged, and quartered for treason in December 1678, a victim of the public frenzy around the ‘Popish Plot’. The Ransom Center’s Pforzheimer Collection includes hundreds of manuscripts from Coleman and his newsletter office, reporting information and court gossip to Richard Bulstrode, a British diplomat in Brussels. [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker: Paul Sullivan &#8211; ENGLISH Edward Coleman was drawn, hanged, and quartered for treason in December 1678, a victim of the public frenzy around the ‘Popish Plot’. The Ransom Center’s Pforzheimer Collection includes hundreds of manuscripts from ]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker: Paul Sullivan &#8211; ENGLISH Edward Coleman was drawn, hanged, and quartered for treason in December 1678, a victim of the public frenzy around the ‘Popish Plot’. The Ransom Center’s Pforzheimer Collection includes hundreds of manuscripts from Coleman and his newsletter office, reporting information and court gossip to Richard Bulstrode, a British diplomat in Brussels. [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/81/martyrs-and-mistresses-in-restoration-london.mp3" length="62336288" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker: Paul Sullivan &#8211; ENGLISH Edward Coleman was drawn, hanged, and quartered for treason in December 1678, a victim of the public frenzy around the ‘Popish Plot’. The Ransom Center’s Pforzheimer Collection includes hundreds of manuscripts from Coleman and his newsletter office, reporting information and court gossip to Richard Bulstrode, a British diplomat in Brussels. [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker: Paul Sullivan &#8211; ENGLISH Edward Coleman was drawn, hanged, and quartered for treason in December 1678, a victim of the public frenzy around the ‘Popish Plot’. The Ransom Center’s Pforzheimer Collection includes hundreds of manuscripts from Coleman and his newsletter office, reporting information and court gossip to Richard Bulstrode, a British diplomat in Brussels. [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Light Reading for Intellectual Heavyweights</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/light-reading-for-intellectual-heavyweights/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=72</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Philip Waller OXFORD In ‘Light Reading’, Philip Waller will consider how various major figures, including Prime Ministers and Presidents, have chosen to relax by reading books, and whether their choices carry more significance than might appear. There are conflicts between what people feel they should read and what they do read. This tension [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Philip Waller OXFORD In ‘Light Reading’, Philip Waller will consider how various major figures, including Prime Ministers and Presidents, have chosen to relax by reading books, and whether their choices carry more significance than might ]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Philip Waller OXFORD In ‘Light Reading’, Philip Waller will consider how various major figures, including Prime Ministers and Presidents, have chosen to relax by reading books, and whether their choices carry more significance than might appear. There are conflicts between what people feel they should read and what they do read. This tension [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/72/light-reading-for-intellectual-heavyweights.mp3" length="62457728" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Philip Waller OXFORD In ‘Light Reading’, Philip Waller will consider how various major figures, including Prime Ministers and Presidents, have chosen to relax by reading books, and whether their choices carry more significance than might appear. There are conflicts between what people feel they should read and what they do read. This tension [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Philip Waller OXFORD In ‘Light Reading’, Philip Waller will consider how various major figures, including Prime Ministers and Presidents, have chosen to relax by reading books, and whether their choices carry more significance than might appear. There are conflicts between what people feel they should read and what they do read. This tension [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Australia and the Non-Acceptance of Refugees</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/australia-and-the-non-acceptance-of-refugees/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 16:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=70</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Rhonda Evans GOVERNMENT By using a combination of boat turn-backs, offshore detention and processing, and a refusal to ever accept refugees who have tried to reach its shores by boat, Australia has emerged as a world leader in deterrence. The staggering costs and ineffable human suffering inflicted by these policies have led critics [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Rhonda Evans GOVERNMENT By using a combination of boat turn-backs, offshore detention and processing, and a refusal to ever accept refugees who have tried to reach its shores by boat, Australia has emerged as a world leader in deterrence.]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Rhonda Evans GOVERNMENT By using a combination of boat turn-backs, offshore detention and processing, and a refusal to ever accept refugees who have tried to reach its shores by boat, Australia has emerged as a world leader in deterrence. The staggering costs and ineffable human suffering inflicted by these policies have led critics [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/70/australia-and-the-non-acceptance-of-refugees.mp3" length="49640240" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Rhonda Evans GOVERNMENT By using a combination of boat turn-backs, offshore detention and processing, and a refusal to ever accept refugees who have tried to reach its shores by boat, Australia has emerged as a world leader in deterrence. The staggering costs and ineffable human suffering inflicted by these policies have led critics [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
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	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Rhonda Evans GOVERNMENT By using a combination of boat turn-backs, offshore detention and processing, and a refusal to ever accept refugees who have tried to reach its shores by boat, Australia has emerged as a world leader in deterrence. The staggering costs and ineffable human suffering inflicted by these policies have led critics [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Castro’s Challenge to Britain and the United States</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/60/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2018 21:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=60</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Jonathan Brown When Fidel Castro formed an alliance with the Soviet Union in 1962, it sparked the Cuban missile crisis and became a defining incident of the Cold War. Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana predates the Cuban missile crisis, but the plot involves missile installations and seems to anticipate the events of [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Jonathan Brown When Fidel Castro formed an alliance with the Soviet Union in 1962, it sparked the Cuban missile crisis and became a defining incident of the Cold War. Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana predates the Cuban missile crisis, bu]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Jonathan Brown When Fidel Castro formed an alliance with the Soviet Union in 1962, it sparked the Cuban missile crisis and became a defining incident of the Cold War. Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana predates the Cuban missile crisis, but the plot involves missile installations and seems to anticipate the events of [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/60/60.mp3" length="59139074" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Jonathan Brown When Fidel Castro formed an alliance with the Soviet Union in 1962, it sparked the Cuban missile crisis and became a defining incident of the Cold War. Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana predates the Cuban missile crisis, but the plot involves missile installations and seems to anticipate the events of [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; Jonathan Brown When Fidel Castro formed an alliance with the Soviet Union in 1962, it sparked the Cuban missile crisis and became a defining incident of the Cold War. Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana predates the Cuban missile crisis, but the plot involves missile installations and seems to anticipate the events of [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Scotland and Brexit</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/scotland-and-brexit/</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=57</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; George Scott Christian In the last four years, fundamental questions have arisen about the future of the composite state created by the 1707 Treaty of Union between England and Scotland. In 2014 a majority of Scots voted to ‘remain’ in the Union. Yet in 2016 a large majority (68%) voted to ‘remain’ in [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; George Scott Christian In the last four years, fundamental questions have arisen about the future of the composite state created by the 1707 Treaty of Union between England and Scotland. In 2014 a majority of Scots voted to ‘remain’ in th]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; George Scott Christian In the last four years, fundamental questions have arisen about the future of the composite state created by the 1707 Treaty of Union between England and Scotland. In 2014 a majority of Scots voted to ‘remain’ in the Union. Yet in 2016 a large majority (68%) voted to ‘remain’ in [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; George Scott Christian In the last four years, fundamental questions have arisen about the future of the composite state created by the 1707 Treaty of Union between England and Scotland. In 2014 a majority of Scots voted to ‘remain’ in the Union. Yet in 2016 a large majority (68%) voted to ‘remain’ in [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Speaker &#8211; George Scott Christian In the last four years, fundamental questions have arisen about the future of the composite state created by the 1707 Treaty of Union between England and Scotland. In 2014 a majority of Scots voted to ‘remain’ in the Union. Yet in 2016 a large majority (68%) voted to ‘remain’ in [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Florence Nightingale, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Health Care &#8211; James Scott, Statistics and Data Sciences</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/florence-nightingale-artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-health-care-james-scott-statistics-and-data-sciences/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=51</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Although better known as a nurse, Florence Nightingale was also a skilled data scientist who successfully convinced hospitals that they could improve health care by using statistics. In 1859, in honor of these achievements, she became the first woman ever elected to the Royal Statistical Society. This talk will consider the question of what Nightingale’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Although better known as a nurse, Florence Nightingale was also a skilled data scientist who successfully convinced hospitals that they could improve health care by using statistics. In 1859, in honor of these achievements, she became the first woman eve]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Although better known as a nurse, Florence Nightingale was also a skilled data scientist who successfully convinced hospitals that they could improve health care by using statistics. In 1859, in honor of these achievements, she became the first woman ever elected to the Royal Statistical Society. This talk will consider the question of what Nightingale’s [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/51/florence-nightingale-artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-health-care-james-scott-statistics-and-data-sciences.mp3" length="61730282" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Although better known as a nurse, Florence Nightingale was also a skilled data scientist who successfully convinced hospitals that they could improve health care by using statistics. In 1859, in honor of these achievements, she became the first woman ever elected to the Royal Statistical Society. This talk will consider the question of what Nightingale’s [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Although better known as a nurse, Florence Nightingale was also a skilled data scientist who successfully convinced hospitals that they could improve health care by using statistics. In 1859, in honor of these achievements, she became the first woman ever elected to the Royal Statistical Society. This talk will consider the question of what Nightingale’s [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Worldwide Consequences of American Expansion in 1898 &#8211; Karl Rove</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/worldwide-consequences-of-american-expansion-in-1898-karl-rove/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2018 20:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=46</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Karl Rove’s recent book, The Triumph of William McKinley, deals with the election of 1896 and its consequences. His lecture will expand on the results of the 1898 war with Spain: the annexation of the Philippines and Hawaii in the Pacific and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean as well as Cuba as a protectorate of [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Karl Rove’s recent book, The Triumph of William McKinley, deals with the election of 1896 and its consequences. His lecture will expand on the results of the 1898 war with Spain: the annexation of the Philippines and Hawaii in the Pacific and Puerto Rico]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Karl Rove’s recent book, The Triumph of William McKinley, deals with the election of 1896 and its consequences. His lecture will expand on the results of the 1898 war with Spain: the annexation of the Philippines and Hawaii in the Pacific and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean as well as Cuba as a protectorate of [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/46/worldwide-consequences-of-american-expansion-in-1898-karl-rove.mp3" length="38545673" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Karl Rove’s recent book, The Triumph of William McKinley, deals with the election of 1896 and its consequences. His lecture will expand on the results of the 1898 war with Spain: the annexation of the Philippines and Hawaii in the Pacific and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean as well as Cuba as a protectorate of [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Karl Rove’s recent book, The Triumph of William McKinley, deals with the election of 1896 and its consequences. His lecture will expand on the results of the 1898 war with Spain: the annexation of the Philippines and Hawaii in the Pacific and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean as well as Cuba as a protectorate of [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>America’s Global Empire &#8211; Tony Hopkins</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/americas-global-empire-tony-hopkins/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2018 14:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=42</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Challenging conventional accounts of the place of the United States in the international order during the last three centuries, Tony Hopkins will argue that the United States was part of a British imperial order throughout this period. After 1898, it ruled a now forgotten empire in the Pacific and Caribbean. It brought formal colonial control [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Challenging conventional accounts of the place of the United States in the international order during the last three centuries, Tony Hopkins will argue that the United States was part of a British imperial order throughout this period. After 1898, it rul]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Challenging conventional accounts of the place of the United States in the international order during the last three centuries, Tony Hopkins will argue that the United States was part of a British imperial order throughout this period. After 1898, it ruled a now forgotten empire in the Pacific and Caribbean. It brought formal colonial control [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/42/americas-global-empire-tony-hopkins.mp3" length="66972128" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Challenging conventional accounts of the place of the United States in the international order during the last three centuries, Tony Hopkins will argue that the United States was part of a British imperial order throughout this period. After 1898, it ruled a now forgotten empire in the Pacific and Caribbean. It brought formal colonial control [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Challenging conventional accounts of the place of the United States in the international order during the last three centuries, Tony Hopkins will argue that the United States was part of a British imperial order throughout this period. After 1898, it ruled a now forgotten empire in the Pacific and Caribbean. It brought formal colonial control [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>Subversive, Rebellious, Genre-Busting: 18th and 19th Century Women Writers Move to Center Stage &#8211; Carol MacKay</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/subversive-rebellious-genre-busting-18th-and-19th-century-women-writers-move-to-center-stage-carol-mackay/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=40</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[This talk will serve as a preview of–and invitation to–‘New Directions’, the 26th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference to be held at UT April 11-15, and an occasion for Carol MacKay to review her contributions to some of its previous conferences. She will identify the recurring need to recover little-known women writers [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[This talk will serve as a preview of–and invitation to–‘New Directions’, the 26th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference to be held at UT April 11-15, and an occasion for Carol MacKay to review her contributions to some of its pre]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[This talk will serve as a preview of–and invitation to–‘New Directions’, the 26th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference to be held at UT April 11-15, and an occasion for Carol MacKay to review her contributions to some of its previous conferences. She will identify the recurring need to recover little-known women writers [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/40/subversive-rebellious-genre-busting-18th-and-19th-century-women-writers-move-to-center-stage-carol-mackay.mp3" length="64916288" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[This talk will serve as a preview of–and invitation to–‘New Directions’, the 26th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference to be held at UT April 11-15, and an occasion for Carol MacKay to review her contributions to some of its previous conferences. She will identify the recurring need to recover little-known women writers [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[This talk will serve as a preview of–and invitation to–‘New Directions’, the 26th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference to be held at UT April 11-15, and an occasion for Carol MacKay to review her contributions to some of its previous conferences. She will identify the recurring need to recover little-known women writers [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
</item>

<item>
	<title>Running With Shakespeare &#8211; Tom Cable</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/running-with-shakespeare-tom-cable/</link>
	<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=35</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Memorization has played a part in the composition and transmission of British literary texts. This talk will consider the embodied rhythms of poetry from Beowulf (eighth century) to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (fourteenth century), then on to Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1590s), and poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley two hundred years ago. With reference to [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Memorization has played a part in the composition and transmission of British literary texts. This talk will consider the embodied rhythms of poetry from Beowulf (eighth century) to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (fourteenth century), then on to Shakesp]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Memorization has played a part in the composition and transmission of British literary texts. This talk will consider the embodied rhythms of poetry from Beowulf (eighth century) to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (fourteenth century), then on to Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1590s), and poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley two hundred years ago. With reference to [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/35/running-with-shakespeare-tom-cable.mp3" length="57888128" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Memorization has played a part in the composition and transmission of British literary texts. This talk will consider the embodied rhythms of poetry from Beowulf (eighth century) to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (fourteenth century), then on to Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1590s), and poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley two hundred years ago. With reference to [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:image href="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/louis-wm-roger-350_2-e1504902352406.jpg"></itunes:image>
	<image>
		<url>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/louis-wm-roger-350_2-e1504902352406.jpg</url>
		<title>Running With Shakespeare &#8211; Tom Cable</title>
	</image>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Memorization has played a part in the composition and transmission of British literary texts. This talk will consider the embodied rhythms of poetry from Beowulf (eighth century) to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (fourteenth century), then on to Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1590s), and poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley two hundred years ago. With reference to [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:image href="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/louis-wm-roger-350_2-e1504902352406.jpg"></googleplay:image>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>British Labour, American Labor, and the Creation of the State of Israel</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/british-labour-american-labor-and-the-creation-of-the-state-of-israel/</link>
	<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=27</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[Adam Howard U. S. Department of State From the Balfour Declaration’s publication in November 1917 to Israel’s creation in 1948, the American labor movement worked for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.&#160;&#160;Successive British governments struggled to reconcile the contradictions of the Balfour Declaration, but American labor&#8217;s hopes rose in 1945 with the British Labour Party’s historic [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Adam Howard U. S. Department of State From the Balfour Declaration’s publication in November 1917 to Israel’s creation in 1948, the American labor movement worked for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.&#160;&#160;Successive British governments struggled to ]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[Adam Howard U. S. Department of State From the Balfour Declaration’s publication in November 1917 to Israel’s creation in 1948, the American labor movement worked for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.&#160;&#160;Successive British governments struggled to reconcile the contradictions of the Balfour Declaration, but American labor&#8217;s hopes rose in 1945 with the British Labour Party’s historic [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/27/british-labour-american-labor-and-the-creation-of-the-state-of-israel.mp3" length="48087087" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[Adam Howard U. S. Department of State From the Balfour Declaration’s publication in November 1917 to Israel’s creation in 1948, the American labor movement worked for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.&#160;&#160;Successive British governments struggled to reconcile the contradictions of the Balfour Declaration, but American labor&#8217;s hopes rose in 1945 with the British Labour Party’s historic [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:image href="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/louis-wm-roger-350_2-e1504902352406.jpg"></itunes:image>
	<image>
		<url>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/louis-wm-roger-350_2-e1504902352406.jpg</url>
		<title>British Labour, American Labor, and the Creation of the State of Israel</title>
	</image>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[Adam Howard U. S. Department of State From the Balfour Declaration’s publication in November 1917 to Israel’s creation in 1948, the American labor movement worked for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.&#160;&#160;Successive British governments struggled to reconcile the contradictions of the Balfour Declaration, but American labor&#8217;s hopes rose in 1945 with the British Labour Party’s historic [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:image href="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/louis-wm-roger-350_2-e1504902352406.jpg"></googleplay:image>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>September 08, 2006 – Peter Stanley – All Imaginable Excuses: Australian Deserters and the Fall of Singapore</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/september-08-2006-peter-stanley-all-imaginable-excuses-australian-deserters-and-the-fall-of-singapore/</link>
	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2017 15:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=22</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[All Imaginable Excuses: Australian Deserters and the Fall of Singapore. The fall of Singapore in February 1942 is a defining moment in both British and Australian history. Popular nationalist accounts in Australia emphasize Churchill&#8217;s &#8216;betrayal&#8217;. Australians increasingly see Singapore&#8217;s surrender as marking-in the words of Prime Minister John Curtin at the time-as the start of [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[All Imaginable Excuses: Australian Deserters and the Fall of Singapore. The fall of Singapore in February 1942 is a defining moment in both British and Australian history. Popular nationalist accounts in Australia emphasize Churchill&#8217;s &#8216;betra]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[All Imaginable Excuses: Australian Deserters and the Fall of Singapore. The fall of Singapore in February 1942 is a defining moment in both British and Australian history. Popular nationalist accounts in Australia emphasize Churchill&#8217;s &#8216;betrayal&#8217;. Australians increasingly see Singapore&#8217;s surrender as marking-in the words of Prime Minister John Curtin at the time-as the start of [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	<enclosure url="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast-download/22/september-08-2006-peter-stanley-all-imaginable-excuses-australian-deserters-and-the-fall-of-singapore.mp3" length="18213037" type="audio/mpeg"></enclosure>
	<itunes:summary><![CDATA[All Imaginable Excuses: Australian Deserters and the Fall of Singapore. The fall of Singapore in February 1942 is a defining moment in both British and Australian history. Popular nationalist accounts in Australia emphasize Churchill&#8217;s &#8216;betrayal&#8217;. Australians increasingly see Singapore&#8217;s surrender as marking-in the words of Prime Minister John Curtin at the time-as the start of [&#8230;]]]></itunes:summary>
	<itunes:image href="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/louis-wm-roger-350_2-e1504902352406.jpg"></itunes:image>
	<image>
		<url>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/louis-wm-roger-350_2-e1504902352406.jpg</url>
		<title>September 08, 2006 – Peter Stanley – All Imaginable Excuses: Australian Deserters and the Fall of Singapore</title>
	</image>
	<itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit>
	<itunes:block>no</itunes:block>
	<itunes:duration>0:00</itunes:duration>
	<itunes:author><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></itunes:author>	<googleplay:description><![CDATA[All Imaginable Excuses: Australian Deserters and the Fall of Singapore. The fall of Singapore in February 1942 is a defining moment in both British and Australian history. Popular nationalist accounts in Australia emphasize Churchill&#8217;s &#8216;betrayal&#8217;. Australians increasingly see Singapore&#8217;s surrender as marking-in the words of Prime Minister John Curtin at the time-as the start of [&#8230;]]]></googleplay:description>
	<googleplay:image href="https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/louis-wm-roger-350_2-e1504902352406.jpg"></googleplay:image>
	<googleplay:explicit>No</googleplay:explicit>
	<googleplay:block>no</googleplay:block>
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<item>
	<title>September 01, 2006 &#8211; Kurt Heinzelman, Michael Charlesworth – Tony Harrison&#8217;s &#8216;v.&#8217;</title>
	<link>https://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/podcast/september-01-2006-kurt-heinzelman-michael-charlesworth/</link>
	<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
	<dc:creator><![CDATA[British Studies Lecture Series]]></dc:creator>
	<guid isPermaLink="false">http://podcasts.la.utexas.edu/british-studies-lecture-series/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=17</guid>
	<description><![CDATA[In 1984-85, during the protracted coalminer’s strike in Great Britain, Tony Harrison, the well-known poet, dramatist, translator, and screenwriter, wrote the poem ‘v.’, modeled to an extent on Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’. In 1987, after Channel 4 made a film version of the poem, ‘v.’ acquired a certain notoriety, less for [&#8230;]]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[In 1984-85, during the protracted coalminer’s strike in Great Britain, Tony Harrison, the well-known poet, dramatist, translator, and screenwriter, wrote the poem ‘v.’, modeled to an extent on Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’. In 198]]></itunes:subtitle>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[In 1984-85, during the protracted coalminer’s strike in Great Britain, Tony Harrison, the well-known poet, dramatist, translator, and screenwriter, wrote the poem ‘v.’, modeled to an extent on Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’. In 1987, after Channel 4 made a film version of the poem, ‘v.’ acquired a certain notoriety, less for [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
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