'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/