Press article on Savoir-faire des Anciens book
Feature in French newspaper L'Independant, South of France, on Hoffman's book with an 88-year-old French shepherd, Savoir-faire des Anciens (click on the article on the right to read it in full)
Touching a nerve with the public, the book was unexpectedly popular and sold out in a few weeks. A last copy or two may still be available from these French bookshops (click on them to visit their cute websites - the next best thing to being there!):
Libellis
L'An Demain
Broadcasts & media
Interviews on BBC2 TV, Channel 4 TV, BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4, Women’s Hour
Features on Hoffman’s work in The Guardian, The Independent (UK) and L'Independant (France)
Series of six broadcasts on theatre for The Arts Show, Muster Radio
Winner, as part of 4-person film-making team, of Moviemaker Award at National Film Theatre, South Bank, London
Dozens of articles in the local government press
Sample of conference papers, articles & commissioned reports
On cultural studies
The author, tired but happy
after a day's windsurfing
Feature on Hoffman's work in ethnographic and applied oral history in the British Journal of the Oral History Society
'Les sages paroles de l'ancien', review of Hoffman's book Savoir-faire de l'Ancien in L'Independant newspaper, France
'Gooseworld', an eco-poem to commemorate the journal’s founding, in an anniversary edition of The Goose, Journal of Arts, Environment and Culture in Canada
'Ecological knowledge - Green knowing and doing in the French hills', for a conference on Literature and the Environment at University of Cambridge
‘Sacred bodies - Objects on the body and material culture in rural Irish Catholicism’, at University of Notre Dame, USA
‘Ní bheidh ár leithéidí ann arís' - A brief ethnography of the Gaelic-speaking Blasket Islanders' for 'The Idea of Heritage - Past, present and future', at a conference at the University of York
'The national mind - How culture and language shape worldview', at University of Cambridge
'The culture of the city - gazes, objects and space in Baudelaire', at University of Cambridge
'Recycling our hegemonies - Cultural slippage and identities in the twenty-first century', keynote paper for a conference at University of Aberdeen
'Laughing at the apocalypse - Tasks of healing and humanising in twenty-first century culture', for a conference at University College Cork
'Patterns of experience - Loss, archetypes and myths of the Irish psyche' in The Irish Reporter journal
'The Buddhist perspective' in Urthona Journal of Western Buddhist Arts
On social and political science
The old library in hoffman's village in France
'Using oral history to improve public policies and programs', for the annual conference of the American Oral History Association, Minneapolis
'Resistance and belonging - Dilemmas for migrant lives in Cambridge', for a conference at the Centre for Refugees, Migration & Belonging , University of East London
‘Life histories and coaching as tools for building leadership in excluded communities’, for Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath
'Making Voices Count - Community empowerment, a case-study', for British Government Homes & Communities Department
‘The challenges of building civic participation among underprivileged communities', for British Government Homes & Communities Department
'Human rights and good governance - The potentials', used as a degree syllabus text by Law Faculty, University of Lund, Sweden
'Governance and ethical standards in non-governmental organisations worldwide - a compendium', for Transparency International
'Access to higher education funding across the developing world - A comprehensive survey', a compendium report for Transparency International
'Global public policy networks tackling corruption', research report for Transparency International and the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace
'Corruption as national crisis - Ireland and the Flood Tribunals', report for Transparency International
'Tackling economic inequality as a route to better race relations', for a conference of the British Chartered Institute of Housing
‘Strategies for boosting participation in democracy amidst recession and austerity’, for a conference of the British Chartered Institute of Housing
'Innovative, creative strategies for boosting civic participation in excluded communities', for a conference at Cambridge City Council, UK
'Anti-Irish racism and stereotypes' in The Guardian, UK
'Best practice in building civic participation - a masterclass', for a Public Sector Knowledge conference, UK
Over 1.8 million people are reading the health advice articles of Dr Richard Hoffman
Over 1.8 million readers consult the online health advice articles of Dr Richard Hoffman, co-owner of the Hoffmans’ writers’ retreat.
Whether on diet, alcohol or lifestyles, see his articles at The Conversation here.