Video Recordings from Virtual Research Group Seminars

Click on the links below to access video-clips from VRG Seminars.

Collaborative Close Reading Seminar, 7 November 2007

This seminar performed an exercise in 'collaborative close reading'.  Four texts dealing with ideal states and utopias were selected and pre-circulated using the VRE.  In the virtual seminar itself they were severally introduced and then discussed among the group.  Such an approach seems an ideal means of taking advantage of the technology.

The four texts up for discussion were:

1. Thomas More, Of the beste state of a publique weale, and of the newe yle, called Utopia (1629 edn)
2. T.N., Pleasant dialogue between a lady called Listra, and a pilgrim concerning the government and commonweale of the great province of Cangalor (1579)
3. The free state of Noland [1696]
4. William Godwin, An enquiry concerning political justice, and its influence on general virtue and happiness (1793)

Colin Davis on Utopia (WinMed)

Colin Davis on Utopia (Flash)

Collaborative Articles, 30 November 2007

This seminar discussed the VRG's two collaboratively written articles, one dealing with methodological issues, the other offering a multi-perspectival study of early modern understandings of 'Commonwealth'.

Jenny Richards on Metaphors of Commonwealth

John Walter on the Distinctiveness of our Project

Colin Davis on Shared Language, Dialogue and Conversation

<Clips of other seminars will be available here soon...