'It ‘grow’d’. Or Fostering Discipline in Interdisciplinary Research

Recorded May 25, 2023. The French Department's in-person
'End-of-Year Lecture in French Studies' will be delivered by Prof
Mary Orr (University of St. Andrews), and is organised by the
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies. In this talk
Professor Orr (Buchanan Chair of French at the University of Saint
Andrews) will discuss some key learning points for
interdisciplinary and intermedial research, using as an example her
forthcoming book project, Sarah Bowdich Lee, 1791-1856: Pioneering
Perspectives in Natural History. In tracing the light-bulb moments
of its development, the many blocks that had to be overcome in its
12-year duration, and the challenges of its multi-disciplinary and
intermedial range, she will return to the pivotal components of her
title. To unpack key context(s), and to foster discipline in
interdisciplinary working, opens new debates on language hegemony
in ‘interdisciplinary’ study, and on the futures of disciplinary
distinctiveness for ‘French/francophone Studies’. This talk is
designed to stimulate debate and to share the adventures of
research in translingual fields. Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/