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Narrative Futures
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Episode 5 - Kitschies, indies, and ads: Juggling narrative forms

Jared Shurin explores his wide-ranging interests from anthologising speculative shorts to the Kitschies Awards to ethical advertising for revisioning global narratives.
Narrative Futures
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Episode 4: Short stories are short: Edit for meaning

Mahvesh Murad discusses the work of curating and editing anthologies of speculative short fiction, ethically, refusing the word 'diversity' for doing too little, too late.
Narrative Futures
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Episode 3 - People like me: Speculation in Pakistan

Sami Shah ranges over his radio, comedy and burgeoning literary career, and describes how he has to write himself into the speculative fiction space.
Narrative Futures
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Narrative Futures Coming Soon

The trailer for the Narrative Futures podcast, devised and produced by Chelsea Haith, featuring interviews with eight authors and editors, and writing prompts by Louis Greenberg.
Fantasy Literature
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What Tolkien learnt from 'Beowulf': Representations of Evil

Monsters and evil in Tolkien
Fantasy Literature
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Alan Garner

A brief introduction to the British fantasy writer, Alan Garner.
Fantasy Literature
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Approaching Fantasy Literature

A short introduction to reading and studying fantasy literature.
Fantasy Literature
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H. P. Lovecraft

A brief introduction to the writer, H. P. Lovecraft.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Heroes and Villains in Game of Thrones

Dr Carolyne Larrington gives a talk about Game of Thrones and the often complicated morality its characters have. Part of the Ashmolean Live Friday event on 29th January 2016.
Contemporary Islamic Studies

The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day 2010

Judith Priestman, curator of literary manuscripts at the Bodleian library, discusses the World Book Day 2010 Tolkien exhibition, at which a selection of J.R.R. Tolkien's original artwork for The Hobbit, was on display to the public.
The History of Science Museum

Crackpots and Eggheads: Eccentricity in Natural History

In the first in a series of 'Eccentricity' lectures, Dr Brian Regal talks about the search for 'monsters', in particular the hunt for Sasquatch or 'Bigfoot', and the "crackpot" natural historians who were obsessed with the search.
Tolkien at Oxford

Talking Tolkien: The influences of Medieval Literature on the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien

Stuart Lee and Elizabeth Solopova discuss the influences of medieval literature on the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien.

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