TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
By Oxford University
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Description
The University of Oxford is home to an impressive range and depth of research activities in the Humanities. TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities is a major new initiative that seeks to build on this heritage and to stimulate and support research that transcends disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Here we feature some of the networks and programmes, as well as recordings of events, and offer insights into the research that they make possible.
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It's True, It's True, It's True: Verbatim Theatre, Staging Sexual Assault, and Female Representation in the Arts | Breach Theatre's Billy Barrett and Ellice Stevens in conversation with Dr Hannah Simpson and Dr Sos Eltis | 3 11 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mark Davies on 'Medley Manor' | Oxfordshire Local historian, Mark Davies, takes a look at the history of Medley Manor and its connections to empire as well as his own family history. | 15 9 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Diasporic Quartets: Identity and Aesthetics | Keynote lecture in the Diversity and the British String Quartet Symposium, day 3, held on 16th June 2021. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 1 9 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The string quartet takes residence: class, community, curricula | Keynote lecture in the Diversity and the British String Quartet Symposium, held on 14th June 2021. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 1 9 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Art and Action: Benjamin Zephaniah in Conversation | Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 30 8 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book at Lunchtime: Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism | Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held weekly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. The events are free to attend and open to all. | 23 7 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book at Lunchtime: Born to Write | A TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on ‘Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France’ by Professor Neil Kenny. | 28 6 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book at Lunchtime: Porcelain - Poem on the Downfall of my City | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City by Durs Grünbein, translated by Professor Karen Leeder. | 25 6 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book at Lunchtime: China’s Good War | A TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on ‘China's Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism’ by Professor Rana Mitter. | 25 6 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Formula of Giving Heart: Panel Discussion and Conversation with the Artist | Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 17 6 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 17 6 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Platforming Artists Podcasts: Andi Burton Marsh | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | 16 6 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Concatenation of Rumour | Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 24 5 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Cake, Emma’s Romantic dreams, and le bovarysme - part two, French | Elise Busset, an undergraduate at Oxford University, reads an extract from Madam Bovary in french. Blog post by Professor Jennifer Yee. | 20 5 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Cake, Emma’s Romantic dreams, and le bovarysme - part one | Eleanor Gilbert, an undergraduate at Oxford University, reads an extract from Madam Bovary in english. Blog post by Professor Jennifer Yee. | 20 5 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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In Conversation with Lolita Chakrabarti | Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities on Thursday 13th May 2021. | 20 5 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Platforming Artists Podcasts: Rosa Andujar | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | 12 5 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Platforming Artists Podcasts: Theophina Gabriel | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | 18 4 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Platforming Artists Podcasts: Fiona Macintosh | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | 23 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Translation and Retranslation: priorities, discoveries, pleasures | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 21 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Black Chicago Renaissance Women: Lives and Legacies in Music | Dr. Samantha Ege | Held on International Women's Day 2021, Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities - in collaboration with Lincoln College, Oxford. | 21 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 1: Performing Innocence: Belated | Professor Emily C. Burns, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the first in the series of The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914. | 18 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 3; Performing Innocence: Primitive / Incipient | Professor Emily C. Burns, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the third in the series of The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914. | 15 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 2 Performing Innocence: Puritan | Professor c, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the second lecture in the The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914 series. | 14 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 4; Performing Innocence: Baby Nation | Professor Emily C. Burns, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the fourth in the series of The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914. | 14 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Pitt River's Catamaran | History DPhil student, Morgan Breene, contextualizes the catamaran displayed in the Pitt Rivers' Museum. Part of the Oxford and Empire series. | 10 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book at Lunchtime: Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction - The Lodger World | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World by Dr Ushashi Dasgupta. | 9 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book at Lunchtime: Sophocles – Antigone and other tragedies | TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Sophocles: Antigone and other tragedies by Professor Oliver Taplin. With panellists Professor Karen Leeder and Dr Lucy Jackson. | 28 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Writing and Resistance – The White Rose Pamphlets: A Live Reading | At around 11am on Thursday 18 February 1943 two students in Munich were arrested for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets. By Monday they had been interrogated, tried, and executed along with another member of the resistance circle. | 28 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Platforming Artists Podcasts: Simran Uppal | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | 25 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ken Loach in Conversation | TORCH Goes Digital! presents Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 12 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Platforming Artists Podcasts: Azan Ahmed | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | 8 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Platforming Artists Podcasts: Francesca Amewudah-Rivers | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | 4 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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In Conversation with Anne Boyd | Internationally-renowned composer Anne Boyd is in conversation with composer Thomas Metcalf, discussing her life and music ahead of a performance of her String Quartet No. 2 ’Play on the Water’ later this year. | 4 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr Juliet Henderson on 'Decolonising Florence Park Street Names' | Dr Juliet Henderson and Florence Park community members discuss their new project to decolonise local street names. | 4 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Liz Woolley on 'Lord Nuffield and the city of Oxford' (longer version) | Local historian, Liz Woolley, takes a closer look at the role Lord Nuffield played in changing the city of Oxford's physical and social landscape. | 4 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book at Lunchtime: The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe written by Professor Simukai Chigudu. | 4 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book at Lunchtime: Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire, written by Dr Priya Atwal. | 27 1 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The 2020 Besterman Lecture: Who were the French Revolutionaries? | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 6 12 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Liz Woolley on 'Lord Nuffield and the city of Oxford' | Local historian, Liz Wooley, takes a closer look at the role Lord Nuffield played in changing the city of Oxford's physical and social landscape. | 30 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr Dexnell Peters on 'Politician Scholar: Dr Eric Williams' | Dr Dexnell Peters, Bennett Boskey Fellow in Atlantic History at Exeter College, reflects on the life and enduring legacy of eminent historian, Dr Eric Williams. | 30 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr Ben Grant on 'Richard Francis Burton | Dr Ben Grant, departmental lecturer in English and author of Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire (Routledge, 2009) reflects on Richard Francis Burton's sojourn in Oxford in the 1840s. | 30 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dr Priya Atwal on 'Princesses Bamba and Catherine Duleep Singh at Oxford' | Historian, Dr Priya Atwal, takes a look at the lives of some of the University of Oxford's first Indian students. | 30 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Anna Atkins: Botanical Illustration and Photographic Innovation | This event is supported by TORCH as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones of the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 19 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Talking Afropean | Talking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu about his award-winning book. | 19 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book at Lunchtime: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe written by Professor Judith Herrin. Date: 4 November 2020. | 10 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book at Lunchtime: Iconoclasm as Child's Play | Dr Joseph Moshenska, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at University College, discusses his new book, Iconoclasm as Child's Play. | 8 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Humanities Cultural Programme Live Event: Katie Mitchell in conversation with Ben Whishaw | Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. 'Liveness'. | 4 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Live Event: Tragedy and Plague - In Conversation with Professor Oliver Taplin and Fiona Shaw CBE | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Drama Week | 4 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Book at Lunchtime: Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War | Join us for an online TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War written by Dr Alice Kelly. | 3 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transnational Francoism | Bàrbara Molas discusses Transnational Francoism: The British and The Canadian Friends of National Spain as part of the TORCH Network Conversations in Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood. Bàrbara Molas is a PHD Candidate in History at York University | 23 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cyclone Amphan: Living through the Climate Crisis | In May 2020 a deadly tropical cyclone struck Eastern India and Bangladesh. Named ‘Amphan’ and classified as a ‘Super Cyclone’ this was almost certainly a climate change induced extreme event. | 23 7 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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OYUB Radio Play | OYUB is a Russian documentary play about the life of Oyub Titiev, a human rights activist in the Republic of Chechnya, Russia. | 16 6 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Welcome to Teddie Cast, the podcast of the Oxford Critical Theory Network (TORCH) | In our very first episode, our host and network convenor Lillian Hingley (DPhil English, Oxford) reflects upon her thoughts in lockdown. | 18 5 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Out of Silence 1: William Shakespeare | From the Silence Hub Network. Professor Alexandra Harris discusses Shakespeare's sonnet 23, communication in lockdown, body language and masks with Professor Kate McLoughlin. | 23 4 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Out of Silence 2: Virginia Woolf | From the Silence Hub. Professors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin discuss Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, how the lockdown makes us feel self-conscious and what it feels like to live in momentous historical times. | 23 4 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Out of Silence 3: DH Lawrence | From the Silence Hub Network. Professors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin read D. H. Lawrence's poem 'Silence' and discuss the beauty and terror of silence, sex and death wishes. | 22 4 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Out of Silence 4: William Cowper | From the Network. Silence HubProfessors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin read lines from The Task by the eighteenth-century poet William Cowper and discuss the value of staying at home and not doing very much. | 22 4 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Literary Allusion in Harry Potter | J.K. Rowling’s imagination is fired by the past. How do historical objects illuminate the real-world sources of her ideas? | 11 10 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Delius and the Sound of Place | Book at Lunchtime: Delius and the Sound of Place | 28 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Compassion's Edge | Book at Lunchtime: Compassion's Edge, Winner of the 2018 Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize. | 18 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Writing an Activist Life | A panel discussion with Karin Amatmoekrim, Margaretta Jolly, and JC Niala, exploring the politics and poetics of writing an activist life. | 4 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Derek Attridge 'The Experience of Poetry' Book Launch Panel Discussion | This event celebrates the publication of Professor Derek Attridge's work The Experience of Poetry with a book launch panel discussion. | 29 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Closing the Door: Complaint as Diversity Work | This lecture by Sara Ahmed draws on interviews conducted with staff and students who have made complaints within universities that relate to unfair, unjust or unequal working conditions and to abuses of power such as sexual and racial harassment. | 29 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Heterarchical Director - A Model of Authorship for the Twenty-First Century | The keynote talk for 'Collaboration in Theatre symposium' at the University of Oxford, 19 October 2018. | 18 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature - Part 2 | A One-Day International Conference held at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, on June 25, 2018. | 26 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature - Part 1 | A One-Day International Conference held at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, on June 25, 2018. | 18 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What made a Jewish country home Jewish? | Leora Auslander (University of Chicago) gives the keynote talk for the JCH conference. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Philip Sassoon: perfectionism and the English country house | Jane Stevenson (University of Oxford) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fifth panel; Building New. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Charles-de-Gaulle – The castle of Ferrières, an emblematic house | Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy (Université gives a talk for the JCH conference's fifth session; Building New. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Renaissance as locus: Bakst and the imaginary chateau in the Sleeping Beauty panels | Olga Medvedkova (CNRS) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth session; The Anglo-French Connection. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Sterns, the Singers and Cross-Cultural Exchanges | Tom Stammers (University of Durham) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth session; The Anglo-French Connection. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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In Walpole’s footsteps - Braham and Stern at Strawberry Hill | Silvia Davoli (Strawberry Hill House) and Nino Strachey (National Trust) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth session; The Anglo-French Connection. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Schloss Freienwalde: a Jewish restoration of a Prussian legacy | Martin Sabrow (ZZF Potsdam/ Humboldt University) gives a talk for the JCH conference's third session; The Political World of the Jewish Country House. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Disraeli at Hughenden - A Fish out of Water? | Todd Endelman (University of Michigan) gives a talk for the JCH conference's third session; The Political World of the Jewish Country House. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sommerfrische, Connoisseurship, Scandal and the Temporary in the Jewish Country House in Austria: Baron Nathaniel Rothschild’s castle in Reichenau and Dr. Josef Kranz’ Villa Raach | Mimi Schmidt (Jindal Global University) gives a talk for the JCH conference's second session; Villas and Chateaux. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Torre Alfina: A Cahen d’Anvers Manor in Italy | Alice Legé (University of Amiens/University of Milan) gives a talk for the JCH conference's second session; Villas and Chateaux. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gunnersbury Park, 1835-1925: a Rothschild Family Villa | Diana Davis gives a talk for the JCH conference's second panel, Villas and Chateaux. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Property and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Provincial Austria | Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) gives a talk for the JCH conference's first conference The Lure of the Land. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Places, Symbols and Images of an Elite: the Country Houses of the Italian Jewish Nobility | Paolo Pellegrini (Scuola di Archivistica, Paelografica e Diplomatica dell'Archivio di Stato di Perugia) gives a talk for the JCH conference's first session; The Lure of the Land. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Creolizing Country Homes and the Dutch Jewish Pastoral | Laura Leibmann (Reed College) gives a talk for the JCH conference's first panel, The Lure of the Land. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Jewish Country Houses Conference Welcome and Opening Remarks | Abigail Green (Oxford) introduces the conference, held in the Radcliffe Humanities Building on 5th March 2018. | 23 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Becoming / Unbecoming | With comics artist Una | 18 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Unlocking the Church | Book at Lunchtime, Unlocking the Church | 11 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Late Victorian into Modern | Book at Lunchtime, Late Victorian into Modern | 8 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Autonomy, Community, Destiny: Re-Imagining Disability | The second seminar in the Disability and Curriculum Diversity series at TORCH | 7 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Work, Time and Stress: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives | Stress & overwork in both education and professional life in the Victorian era and the 'dynamic' nature of disability and the impact of the stresses of modern life has. | 7 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society | Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society held on 28 November 2017 | 6 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Thinking the Beyond of Crisis | Professor Simon Glendinnning (London School of Economics) delivered the keynote address on 'Thinking the Beyond of Crisis' at the TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse event 'Rethinking Crisis'. | 18 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Fascism, Fake News, and the Nature of Social Extremophilia | With Luciano Floridi (University of Oxford). | 18 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Images of Mithra | Book at Lunchtime discussion | 3 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Repositioning Women's Health Care: A Case Study on Women Who Survived Ebola in Sierra Leone | Part of the Humanities & Identities Lunchtime Series | 27 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Exploring Sicilian Epigraphy | Sicilian schools study and research epigraphy in their museums. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Italian Stories in Britain | A project about talking to Italian communities in Britain and finding out what stories there are. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Unsilencing the library: An exhibition at Compton Verney | Research into how books make us feel. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Recreating the music of an ancient Greek chorus: Euripides Orestes | Research into ancient music. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Storming Utopia | The director from the Pegasus theatre in Oxford, talks about his upcoming theatre piece. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Literature and Silence | Research into multiple Quaker congregations. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Transforming The Operatic Voice | Looking at the relationships between philosophy and the creative practice of music. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How the Mouse Lost its Tail, Or, Lamarck's Dangerous Idea | Speaker: Jessica Riskin (University of Stanford) | 19 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Progress, Providence, Eschaton: Löwith, Blumenberg, and After | Speaker: Jean-Claude Monond (ENS) | 19 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rescue in the Face of Danger: Benjamin, Goethe, Sebald | Speaker: Carolin Duttlinger (University of Oxford) | 19 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Modern Epimetheus. Carl Schmitt's Marian Katechontism | Speaker: Hjalmar Falk (Oxford/Gothenburg) | 19 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ernst Kantorowicz and the Politics of Political Theology | Speaker: Martin Ruehl (University of Cambridge) | 19 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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On Real and Imagined Catastrophes: Gershom Scholem's Sabbatinism | Speaker: Amir Engel (Hebrew University) | 19 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Surrealism’s Political-Theological Afterlife: Benjamin—Blumenberg—Taubes | Speaker: Julia Ng (Goldsmith's) | 19 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Humanities Knowledge Exchange Showcase | Knowledge Exchange is the mutually beneficial sharing of ideas, data, experience, and expertise, and involves collaboration between researchers and external organisations or the public. | 19 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Between Historiography and Literature: "Gershom Sholem's Intellectual Biography" | Speaker: Amir Engel (Hebrew University) | 19 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Volcanoes: Natural Disaster Narratives and the Environment in Caribbean Literature | A panel discussion | 5 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Bruno Latour's Anti-sacrificial Politics | Part of the Sacrifice Revisited event | 22 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Meanings of ‘Sacrifice’ in Brexit Mythology | Part of the Sacrifice Revisited event | 22 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gandhi, Sacrifice and the Ambiguities of Non-Violence | Part of the Sacrifice Revisited event | 22 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Consequentialist Extremism: Present Sacrifices for Future Dreams in the Justification of Violence | Part of the Sacrifice Revisited event | 22 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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On Violence, Gender, and Sacrifice: Old Stories and New Reflections | Part of the Sacrifice Revisited event | 22 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Genre in Crisis: The Novel in 1940s France | Professor Ann Jefferson discusses the French novel. | 17 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Terminus or Renovation? Francis Bacon and crisis in early modern knowledge | The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network hosted a talk on 'Terminus or Renovation? Francis Bacon and Crisis in Early Modern Knowledge' with Dr Richard Serjeantson (University of Cambridge) | 10 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ernst Kantorowicz on Methods and Postage Stamps | The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network hosted a talk on ''Ernst Kantorowicz on Methods and Postage Stamps' given by Professor Robert Lerner (Northwestern) | 10 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Rise of Endless War | The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network hosted a talk on 'The Rise of Endless War' with Professor Samuel Moyn (Harvard University). | 10 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Robespierre and the Politicians' Terror | The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network hosted a talk on 'Robespierre and the Politicians’ Terror' with Marisa Linton (Kingston University). | 10 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dystopia Today | The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalyse network have hosted an event on 'Dystopia Today' with Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London). | 10 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Walter Benjamin Meets the Cosmics | Professor Richard Wolin (CUNY) delivers a talk on 'Walter Benjamin Meets the Cosmics' for the TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network. | 28 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Language, Crisis, and Affect | The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network hosted a talk ‘Language, crisis and affect: Muted emotions in Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas’ with Dr Tobias Heinrich (University of Oxford). | 28 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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#NeverHillary vs #NeverTrump | The US Election on Social Media Panel Discussion | 1 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Drawing the Line: Toward an Aesthetic of Transitional Justice | This Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar is on 'Drawing the Line: Toward an Aesthetic of Transitional Justice' with speaker Carrol Clarkson (University of Amsterdam). | 6 1 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sharing Sacred Spaces in Early Modern Germany | With David Lubeke (University of Oregon) | 21 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Concept of 'Umma' in Early Islam | Fred Donner (University of Chicago) addresses the nebulous, often misunderstood concept of 'umma' in early Islam | 7 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Role of Religion in Identity | Julia Bray (University of Oxford) delivers a keynote lecture on the role of religion in identity | 7 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Empire and Identity: Imperial Rule and Peoplehood across Time and Place | A round table discussion of empire's role in identity formation across time and place. | 25 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Are the Humanities More Digital than the Sciences? | A panel discussion with Howard Hotson, Andrew Prescott, Dave De Roure and Heather Viles | 2 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Future of the Professions | In an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks what are the prospects for employment? | 16 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Wharton in Wartime | A roundtable discussion to mark the publication of Alice Kelly's critical edition of Edith Wharton's First World War reportage Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). | 11 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Multiple Identities in a Frontier Land: Balkh and ‘The Iranians’ | In this paper Dr. Arezou Azad focused on the region of Balkh in the north of modern-day Afghanistan, ancient Bactria | 2 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ethnicity and Politics in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Kurdish Case | Dr. Djene Bajalan talks as part of the Language and Community from the Armenian to Iranian Plateaux series | 26 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ilya Afanasyev and Nicholas S. M. Matheou Introduction | Opening remarks from Ilya Afanasyev and Nicholas S M Matheou | 26 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Framing the Past through Suffering and Victimhood – Kurdish Discourses of Identity | Christine Allison gives a talk as part of The Long History of Identity, Ethnicity, and Nationhood workshop | 5 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Making Sense of Kurdish Identity During the Middle Ages: Political Factors and Cultural Crossroad | Boris James gives a talk as part of the The Long History of Identity, Ethnicity, and Nationhood workshop | 4 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Factors Affecting Iranian Identities from the Early Islamic Era to the Sixteenth Century | Ahmad Ashraf gives a talk as part of the The Long History of Identity, Ethnicity, and Nationhood workshop | 4 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Constructions of Armenian Identity in the Early Medieval Period | Tim Greenwood gives a talk as part of the The Long History of Identity, Ethnicity, and Nationhood workshop | 4 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Iranian ‘Identities’ in Pre-Modern Times – Reality or Myth? | Speaker: Bert Fragner (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna). | 18 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Heidegger and Phenomenology | Dr Joshua Broggi speaks at the Oxford Phenomenology Network seminar. | 3 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy | 60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy | 9 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Periodic Tales | Author Hugh Aldersey-Williams, historian of science Jo Hedesan and chemist Peter Battle discuss the ways in which the elements continue to inspire us today | 13 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Interview with Michael Docherty | We catch up with Cancer Research UK's Director of Digital on fundraising in the digital age. | 3 8 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Fundraising through Digital | Michael Docherty (Cancer Research UK) on how clicktivists, slacktivists and hacktivists are helping us beat cancer sooner. | 3 8 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Callaloo Creative Writing Reading by Vievee Francis | Vievee reads poetry from her collection 'Forest Primeval' | 24 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Callaloo Creative Writing Reading by Maaza Mengiste | Maaza reads from her novel dealing with the Italian invasion of Ethiopia during the early days of the Second World War | 24 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Callaloo Literary Lecture and Reading by Fred d'Aguiar | Fred reads fiction and poems about his childhood in Guyana, remembering his father, and slavery | 24 7 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Unspeakability of Trauma, the Unspeakability of Joy: The Pursuit of the Real at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century | A lecture by Amy Hollywood with response from Kate Kirkpatrick and Johannes Depnering. | 18 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Henry Adams, Henry James, and Minnie Temple: The Pursuit of the Real at the Turn of the 20th Century | A lecture by Amy Hollywood. | 18 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Real, the True, and Critique: Mysticism in the Study of Religion | A lecture by Amy Hollywood with response from Vincent Gillespie and Joana Serrado. | 18 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Suffering History: Phenomenology at the Intersection of Disease and Illness | A presentation by Austin Argentieri. | 10 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rubble Flora: Volker Braun Poetry Reading | The German poet gives a special reading of old and new work and answers questions with David Constantine and Karen Leeder. | 20 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Common People: The History of an English Family | An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discuss Alison Light's book | 11 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alison Light on 'Common People' | The author discusses her new book, exploring the interplay between fiction and history, the redefinition of the common, and family history | 8 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918 | An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discuss Dr Senia Paseta's book | 3 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Senia Paseta on Irish Nationalist Women | Dr Paseta explores women's history and the nationalist narrative in Ireland. | 1 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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