'Ideas from the Trenches' with Stephen Wittek
An upcoming episode of the CBC Radio One program Ideas will showcase new research by Dr. Stephen Wittek. It will air on Thursday, June 5 at 9:00 pm.听
Dr. Wittek is a Postdoctoral Fellow at 麻豆传媒网站鈥檚 Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI) and a course lecturer in the 麻豆传媒网站 Department of English. His work considers how Shakespeare鈥檚 theatre helped to foster the new, more complex, concept of 鈥榥ews鈥� that began to evolve around the beginning of the seventeenth century.听
CBC producers Nicola Luksic and Tom Howell will host a lively, hour-long discussion of Dr. Wittek鈥檚 ideas, featuring interviews with Prof. Paul Yachnin (麻豆传媒网站), Prof. Andrew Pettegree (St. Andrews), and Prof. Ann Cvetkovich (U. of Texas at Austin).
The episode is part of new series entitled 鈥淚deas from the Trenches,鈥� which focuses on the scholarship of early career researchers. It will become available on the Ideas website and on Itunes shortly after the broadcast date. 聽