Media

‘Hakluyt and Empire’

Part of the TORCH Oxford and Empire lunchtime series, this talk by Professor Nandini Das and TIDE postdoc Dr Emily Stevenson explores the relationship between Oxford and Empire through an examination of Richard Hakluyt’s connections to the city and the role that the University played within his most famous work, Principal Navigations.

‘The Kristapurana’, BBC Radio 3

A full 50 years before John Milton wrote Paradise Lost, an Englishman called Thomas Stephens composed an epic based on the story of the Bible, in an Indian language, in Portuguese-dominated Goa, India. In this BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature, Professor Nandini Das explores the story of its making, and a story of early modern English travel caught up in multiple forms of identity and belonging.

‘Rainsong in Five Senses: India and the Sound of Rain’, BBC Radio 3

Rainsong in Five Senses was series of five essays on BBC Radio 3 curated by Professor Nandini Das which each take a particular sense and location as focus. This opening essay begins with Nandini's native India and the sound of rainfall, exploring the thundering rains of the monsoon season in Kolkata, and the language that captured its power, the inherited myths and stories of India, as well as the musical dramas in which raags are used to call the rains and Bengali nursery rhymes which carry its sound.

‘Globes, Networks, & the Early Modern World’, TIDEfest

University of Oxford/Online: Part of TIDEFest, a two day long literary festival held after TIDE’s second conference in 2021, this conversation between the artist Loraine Rutt and TIDE Postdocs Dr Lauren Working and Dr Emily Stevenson examines their collaboration on the exhibition ‘From Middle Temple to Manoa: Global Networks at the Early Modern Inns of Court’ which was held at the Middle Temple Library in winter 2021.

‘The Mayflower and Native American History‘, BBC Radio 3

Featuring TIDE postdoc Dr Lauren Working, this episode of ‘Arts & Ideas’ explores how objects help us tell the story of the colonisation of America and the legacy of the ideas brought by Puritan settlers who left English port cities like Plymouth and Southampton 400 years ago. It also features academics Professor Sarah Churchwell, Director of the Being Human festival, Dr Kathryn Gray from the University of Plymouth and contributors from the Wampanoag Advisory Committee.

‘Impacting Policy with Early Modern Research, with Nandini Das’, Society of Renaissance Studies

This conversation between TIDE PI Professor Nandini Das and Dr John Gallagher discusses the impact of the TIDE project beyond the academic sphere, including its work with the Runnymede Trust in creating the Beacon Fellowships ¬– a collaboration which would later lead to the TRACTION project.