TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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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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| 1 | CleanVideoTransnational 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 |
| 2 | CleanVideoLive Event: Imagined Journeys: Pilgrimage, Diplomacy, and Colonialism in Medieval Europe | 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 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | CleanVideoLive Event: White Rose - Voices of the German Resistance | 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. | 18 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | CleanVideoSupriya Chaudhuri, Significant Lives: biography, autobiography, gender, and women's history in South Asia | Chaired by Elleke Boehmer. | 18 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | CleanVideoHow to write a southern life: Ethics and writing practices | Eduardo Lalo, Elleke Boehmer, Jonny Steinberg and Premilla Nadasen give a talk for the Southern Biographies event. Chaired by, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach. | 18 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | CleanVideoSouthern Biographies: epistemologies, methodologies, theoretical perspectives | Joy Owen, Marcio Goldman, Ramon Sarro and Santanu Das give talks as part of the Southern Biographies event. Chaired, Thomas Cousins. | 18 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | CleanVideoBook at Lunchtime: Chaucer: A European Life | TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Chaucer: A European Life by Professor Marion Turner. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held fortnightly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. | 15 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | CleanVideoLande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond | Book at Lunchtime seminar held on 16th October 2019. | 6 10 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | CleanVideoStorming Utopia | This event is an Oxford Public Engagement with Research and part of a Knowledge Exchange project. Organised by Professor Wes Williams (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages) and Richard Scholar (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages). | 14 8 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | CleanVideoPeople's Landscapes: Living in Landscapes | A roundtable discussion explore landscape as a space for living, considering the pressures on land from population growth and discussing questions of preservation vs. development. | 23 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | CleanVideoPeople's Landscapes: Future Landscapes | A roundtable discussion consider future landscapes in the context of food, farming and conservation. | 23 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | CleanVideoKnowledge Exchange Showcase - Understanding Visitor Engagement of Free Heritage Sites Using Social Media | Kathryn Eccles (Oxford Internet Institute), gives a talk on her Knowledge Exchange research project on using social media data to understand visitor engagement at heritage sites. | 15 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | CleanVideoKnowledge Exchange Showcase - Understanding Postgraduate Medical Ethics Education | Andrew Papanikitas Primary Care Health Sciences and John Spicer Health Education England give a talk on their Knowledge Exchange research project on teaching ethics to medical students. | 15 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | CleanVideoKnowledge Exchange Showcase - Refugee Heritage: the Archaeology of the Calais 'Jungle' | Sarah Mallet School of Archaeology and Louise Fowler Museum of London Archaeology give a talk for the Knowledge Exchange Showcase on their research on the Calais migrant camp known as the Jungle. | 15 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | CleanVideoKnowledge Exchange Showcase - Jewish Country Houses | Abigail Green (Faculty of History), Nino Strachey (National Trust), and Silvia Davoli, (Strawberry Hill House) give a presentation on their Knowledge Exchange research project on Jewish Country Houses | 15 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | CleanVideoDelius and the Sound of Place | Book at Lunchtime: Delius and the Sound of Place | 28 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | CleanVideoCompassion'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 |
| 18 | CleanVideoVeteran Poetics | Book at Lunchtime: Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 | 12 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | CleanVideoDerek 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 |
| 20 | CleanVideoClosing 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 |
| 21 | CleanVideoArt and Political Thought in Medieval England | Book at Lunchtime: Art and Political Thought in Medieval England c.1150-1350 | 20 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 22 | CleanVideoPeople's Landscapes: Creative Landscapes | A roundtable discussion exploring the ways in which writers, artists and musicians have both responded to and created conceptions of 'place' throughout history. Thursday 16th May 2019. | 16 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 23 | CleanVideoLive Event: On Being Unprepared (For Our Own Times) | 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. Decolonisation the Curriculum Wee | 13 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 24 | CleanVideoPeople's Landscapes: Contested Landscapes | A roundtable discussion of the history of land access and ownership, exploring how this has both physically and politically shaped our land and our access to it. | 2 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 25 | CleanVideoLive Event: The World After CoVid | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Humanities and Policy Week Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 13 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 26 | CleanVideoWomen and Power: Redressing the Balance – keynote by Annie Reilly, Head of Public Programmes, National Trust | 'Women and Power: Redressing the Balance' is the opening keynote by Anne Reilly, Head of Public Programmes, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. | 6 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 27 | CleanVideoLive Event: Living with Pandemics: Finding New Narratives | In conversation with Dr Erica Charters and Robin Gorna. TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Performance Week | 12 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 28 | CleanVideoWomen and Power: Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves – keynote by Melissa Benn, Writer and Campaigner | 'Women and Power: Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves’ is the keynote by the writer and campaigner Melissa Benn at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. | 6 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 29 | CleanVideoLive Event: Voices from the Wings: Poetry, Performance and Translation on and off the page | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Translation Week Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 12 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 30 | CleanVideoWomen and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust – keynote by Hilary McGrady, Director-General, National Trust | ‘Women and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust’ is the keynote by McGrady, Director-General, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. | 7 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 31 | CleanVideoLive Event: In Conversation with Jamelia, Multi-Award Winning Artist | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Performance Week. | 7 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 32 | CleanVideoWomen Making History: The Leaders of Today – roundtable discussion chaired by Victoria Tandy, Co-Founder of the Women Leaders in Museums Network | ‘Women Making History: The Leaders of Today’ is a roundtable session exploring the presence of women in senior roles in heritage organisations, at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. | 7 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 33 | CleanVideoLive Event: Celebrating Tchaikovsky | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Music Week | 6 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 34 | CleanVideoWomen and Power: Redressing the Balance – closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust | The closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. | 7 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 35 | CleanVideoLive Event: In Conversation with Maaza Mengiste | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! | 6 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 36 | CleanVideoWriting 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 |
| 37 | CleanVideoLive Event: The Social Life of Books: A History of Reading Together at Home | Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 14 9 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 38 | CleanVideoInterview with Dr Emma Mckenzie-Edwards | The use of Humanities in Medical Education | 30 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 39 | CleanVideoLive Event: This is Shakespeare - Prof Emma Smith in conversation with Erica Whyman OBE | Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 14 9 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 40 | CleanVideoInterview 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 |
| 41 | CleanVideoLive Event: Invalids on the Move | Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | 14 9 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 42 | CleanVideoTORCH Launch | The highlights of the launch event for The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). | 29 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 43 | CleanVideoLive Event: Could you be arrested for planting flowers in your street? | What guerrilla gardening reveals about our relationship with urban nature and culture. | 14 9 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 44 | CleanVideoLikenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation | The themes raised by Matthew Reynolds' Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation will be discussed by Dr Jason Gaiger (Ruskin School), Dr Adriana Jacobs (Oriental Studies) and Dr Nick Halmi (English). | 8 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 45 | CleanVideoCyclone 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 |
| 46 | CleanVideoWhat is a decolonial curriculum soapbox? | Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 47 | CleanVideoWhat’s beneath the words: a paper journey | Presented in collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book. | 29 6 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 48 | CleanVideoDiscussion: What is a decolonial curriculum? | Kwame Dawes, Jok Madut Jok, Peter D Mcdonald and Anu Anand discuss What is a decolonial curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 15 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 49 | CleanVideoGerms Revisited | On Thursday 16 March 2017, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown gave a talk with Dr Jamie Lorimer (School of Geography and the Environment) and Dr Nicola Fawcett (Medical Sciences Division) on the subject of Germs Revisited. | 25 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 50 | CleanVideoTORCH (en)coding Heritage Network Digital Launch - Exploring Ancient Rome through Immersive Technologies | This digital event explores how 3D-modelling technologies and virtual reality can open new understandings of the past. | 9 6 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 51 | CleanVideoPeter D Mcdonald - What is a decolonial curriculum? | Peter D Mcdonald, Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 15 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 52 | CleanVideoThe Pragmatic Enlightenment and Other Enlightenments | Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston) discusses his book 'The Pragmatic Enlightenment' | 14 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 53 | CleanVideoThe Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity | A discussion exploring Pedro Ferreira's book | 16 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 54 | CleanVideoThe Jagiellonians | Dr Natalia Nowakowska introduces a new research project which examines the Renaissance Europe Jagiellonian dynasty as an international political phenomenon. | 12 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 55 | CleanVideoHumanities and Science: Culture and Technology | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring culture’s interaction with technology | 16 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 56 | CleanVideoScience and the Humanities | Are the Humanities and the Sciences fundamentally different? Or do they share roots, values, aspirations and a common, contemporary predicament? | 4 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 57 | CleanVideoImitating Authors | Book at Lunchtime: Imitating Authors | 24 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 58 | CleanVideoObserving by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century | A discussion of Omar Nasim's book | 16 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 59 | CleanVideoHumanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! Full projection video | Full projection video as part of national Being Human Festival, a huge video projection onto the 3-storey Radcliffe humanities building, premiering SOURCE: CODE. | 11 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 60 | CleanVideoAfrican Knowledge and Livestock Health | Book at Lunchtime interview with Karen Brown and William Beinart about their book “African Knowledge and Livestock Health” | 13 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 61 | CleanVideoRevolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography | Book at Lunchtime: Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography | 7 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 62 | CleanVideoHow does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? | Nana Oforiatta Ayim TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 63 | CleanVideoEmpires of the Mind | Book at Lunchtime: Empires of the Mind | 29 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 64 | CleanVideoOxford University International Women's Day 2015 | Feminists, acadeamics and journalists reflect on feminism's achievements and future path. | 16 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 65 | CleanVideoPatience Agbabi reading and conversation: podcast | In this podcast the dynamic poet Patience Agbabi is in conversation about her Ted Hughes short-listed collection Telling Tales (2015), a rebellious reworking of Chaucer, and her contribution to the 2016 Refugee Tales project. | 14 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 66 | CleanVideoTales of Love and History - James Ivory in Conversation | Oscar-winning American film-maker James Ivory will talk about his experiences with the legendary Merchant Ivory productions, in partnership with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. | 18 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 67 | CleanVideoAshmolean After Hours: Carpe Diem! Highlights video | Highlights of the Torch collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum for a special edition of After Hours as part of the Last Supper of Pompeii exhibition to celebrate all things Pompeii and ancient Rome. | 13 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 68 | CleanVideoWayne McGregor: Neuroscience and Dance | Wayne McGregor (Director, Random Dance) talks about his choreographic practice with Dr Phil Barnard, (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) and Eckhard Thiemann (Arts Producer). | 16 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 69 | CleanVideoPrinceton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture III: Stories for the future, and how to get there | Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, gives the third and final lecture in the Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture. | 20 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 70 | CleanVideoReni Eddo-Lodge in conversation with Rebecca Surender | Reni Eddo-Lodge (author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and winner of the Jhalak Prize 2018), in conversation with Dr Rebecca Surender (Pro Vice-Chancellor and Advocate for Diversity, University of Oxford). | 28 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 71 | CleanVideoPrinceton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture II:Think Big! A modest argument about large scales | Martin Puchner gives the second lecture in the Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture. | 20 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 72 | CleanVideoPrinceton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture I: The Challenge of World Literature | Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, gives the first of the Princeton University Press Lectures. | 20 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 73 | CleanVideoLost and Found: Till Damaskus III | Travel back with Leah Broad to 1926 and hear recently found music by Swedish composter Ture Rangstrom, composed for a Strindberg play. | 13 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 74 | CleanVideoHumanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! | Highlights of the Humanities Night Light event. | 19 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 75 | CleanVideoFaith and Wisdom in Science | A Book at Lunchtime discussion with Tom McLeish, Sally Shuttleworth, John Christie and Ard A. Louis | 19 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 76 | CleanVideoDiscovering the identity of plants in art | We are surrounded by artistic images of plants. These may be symbolic, decorative or functional. They tell us about the plants important in peoples' lives. | 17 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 77 | CleanVideoA Tristan Tile in the Ashmolean | Henrike Lähnemann (Professor of Medieval German Literature) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Linguamania, Ashmolean Museum. | 21 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 78 | CleanVideoThe Meaning of Carpe Diem | How "seize the day" does not get CLOSE to capturing the power of the poet Horace's words | 17 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 79 | CleanVideoHumanities and Science: Randomness and Order | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring the role of randomness and order in physics, probability, history and music. | 18 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 80 | CleanVideoSupping and Sacrificing in Pompeii's Gardens | The archaeological evidence of garden dining spaces in Pompeii’s houses, restaurants, and tombs reveals complexities of both Roman dining practices and the meaning of the Roman garden | 17 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 81 | CleanVideoLeviathan and the Air Pump: Thirty Years On | The historian of science David Wootton reviews the controversial dispute between Robert Boyle and Thomas Hobbes, followed by a reply from Boyle's biographer Michael Hunter | 12 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 82 | CleanVideoGorgons, gods and gladiators: how to decorate a Pompeian wall | This interactive talk explores the myths, legends and scenes of daily life that Romans painted and scratched onto the walls of their houses. | 17 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 83 | CleanVideoThe Stressed Sex: Uncovering the Truth About Men, Women, and Mental Health | An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discuss Daniel Freeman's book | 9 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 84 | CleanVideoLast Supper in Pompeii: An introduction to the Pompeii Exhibition | Exploring the narrative of the show through a selection of highlighted objects | 17 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 85 | CleanVideoBook at Lunchtime: Celebrity Culture and the Myth of Oceania | An intriguing case study on how popular images of Oceania, mediated through a developing culture of celebrity, contributed to the formation of British identity both domestically and as a nascent imperial power in the eighteenth century. | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 86 | CleanVideoThe Million-Dollar Maths Equations | Discover the Navier-Stokes Equations, which not only model the movement of every fluid on Earth, they also have a $1-million prize for a correct solution. | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 87 | CleanVideoUnveiling the secrets and mysteries of French novels (1789-1820) | Dr Fanny Lacote will lift the veil on the secrets and mysteries contained within the unknown French literary production published during a turbulent period in History. | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 88 | CleanVideoUnsilencing the library: An exhibition at Compton Verney | Research into how books make us feel. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 89 | CleanVideoCuneiform Discoveries from Ancient Babylon | In ancient Iraq, scribes used cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script to write hundreds of thousands of texts in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages on clay tablets. | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 90 | CleanVideoA History of Algeria | James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country | 25 1 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 91 | CleanVideoDiscovering Music | Many people love classical music heard on the radio or in concert. But they know less about the manuscripts that performers use, and that show us how the composer created their music. | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 92 | CleanVideoChasing Butterflies: Capturing the Transience of Childhood | Emily Knight talks at the Ashmolean Museum about eighteenth-century portraits of children. | 7 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 93 | CleanVideoThe World in a Box: Cabinets of Curiosity | Professor Das tells the story of the age when Britain first learnt how to collect, and of how that obsession with discovering secrets and collecting curiosities transformed the way we see the world and our place within it. | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 94 | CleanVideoUnflattening | With Nick Sousanis | 5 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 95 | CleanVideoImages of Mithra | Book at Lunchtime discussion | 3 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 96 | CleanVideoDiscovering Daily life in ancient Southern Babylonia | In this talk Professor Jacob Dahl will narrate a day in the life of an ordinary Babylonian person, not a king or a scribe, but a labourer working the fields of southern Babylonia. | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 97 | CleanVideoRecreating the music of an ancient Greek chorus: Euripides Orestes | Research into ancient music. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 98 | CleanVideoThe Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads | An interdisciplinary panel discussion exploring the life and legacy of the dodo | 7 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 99 | CleanVideoSecrets from Missing Manuscripts | Oxford’s libraries house many beautiful books copied by hand before the arrival of print. What, though, about the many more books from the past which have not survived? | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 100 | CleanVideoDeborah Cameron - What Does Diversity Mean to Me? | Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities | 28 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 101 | CleanVideoAI and Creativity | How does AI interact with creativity? Watch this fascinating panel discussion with mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, composer Emily Howard and Sarah Ellis, the RSC's Director of Digital Development. | 27 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 102 | CleanVideoThe Death Masks of Macbeth | Professor Simon Palfrey discusses the deaths and afterlives of Oliver Cromwell and Macbeth | 7 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 103 | CleanVideoHumanities and Science: Mental Health | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring the role of the humanities in mental health. | 9 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 104 | CleanVideoChineke! Championing Change and Celebrating Diversity in Classical Music | Chineke! Founder Chi Chi Nwanoku OBE talks about her orchestra of majority BME musicians. | 20 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 105 | CleanVideoBook at Lunchtime: India, Empire and First World War Culture | TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on India, Empire and First World War Culture by Professor Santanu Das. Held on 20th November 2019. | 19 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 106 | CleanVideoFRIGHT Friday - Fear and Flesh: Gothic Medicine | Dr Barry Murname gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016. | 12 12 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 107 | CleanVideoThe Dodo in the Museum | Director of the Museum of Natural History, Paul Smith, gives a presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’ | 7 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 108 | CleanVideoMartin Luther - Renegade and Prophet | Part of the Book at Lunchtime series | 8 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 109 | CleanVideoCrossing Boundaries: Medievalists in Cross-Disciplinary Conversation | Launch event for the TORCH programme Oxford Medieval Studies | 13 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 110 | CleanVideoUnconscious Memory and Mental Space | Professor Michael Burke and Dr Sebastian Groes | 26 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 111 | CleanVideoIn Everyone's Interests - the highlights | Panel discussion on what it means to invest in the humanities | 4 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 112 | CleanVideoAristotle on Perceiving Objects | A discussion of Anna Marmodoro's book | 14 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 113 | CleanVideoImagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions | Mary Beard and Neil MacGregor in conversation | 24 1 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 114 | CleanVideoChris Fletcher on Libraries in the Digital Age | Chris Fletcher talks as part of the "What does it mean to be human in the digital age?" event | 26 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 115 | CleanVideoStorming Utopia | The director from the Pegasus theatre in Oxford, talks about his upcoming theatre piece. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 116 | CleanVideoAlison 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 |
| 117 | CleanVideoInterview with Dr Sophie Ratcliffe | Practical Medical Humanities | 30 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 118 | CleanVideoEthnicised Religion and Sacralised Ethnicity in the Past and the Present | An expert panel discusses the phenomenon of ethnicisation of religious identifications focussing especially on the nexus of religious, ethnic and national identifications in colonial, anti-colonial and postcolonial settings from Ireland to South Asia. | 22 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 119 | CleanVideoJay Stewart - What Does Diversity Mean to Me? | Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities' | 28 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 120 | CleanVideoJok Madut Jok - What is a decolonial curriculum? | Jok Madut Jok, TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 15 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 121 | CleanVideoLiving Bilingual | Professor Elleke Boehmer (Director of TORCH) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Linguamania, Ashmolean Museum. | 22 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 122 | CleanVideoAndy Warhol's Girls | Eleri Watson explores Andy Warhol's relationships with women. | 7 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 123 | CleanVideoRepositioning 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 |
| 124 | CleanVideoThe Prospect of Global History | How can global history can be applied instead of advocated? | 27 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 125 | CleanVideoHeroes and Villains in Game of Thrones | Dr Carolyne Larrington gives a talk about Game of Thrones and the often complicated morality its characters have. Part of the Ashmolean Live Friday event on 29th January 2016. | 10 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 126 | CleanVideoThe Dodo in Literature | Literary scholar Kirsten Shepherd-Barr’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’ | 7 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 127 | CleanVideoAre the humanities worth investing in? | Knowledge Exchange Fellow Oliver Cox (@OliverJWCox) from The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) asked members of the public, students and academics in Oxford whether humanities subjects are worth investing in. | 16 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 128 | CleanVideoPostcolonial Poetics: A Book at Lunchtime | A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Elleke Boehmer, author of Postcolonial Poetics, joined by Dr Malachi McIntosh, Professor Ben Morgan, Professor Richard Drayton and Professor Robert Young (chair). | 14 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 129 | CleanVideoWhither Death? | Helen Swift and Jessica Goodman discuss the one day conference 'Whither Death?' | 28 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 130 | CleanVideoBook at Lunchtime: Arcadia | A Book at Lunchtime discussion of Iain Pears' interactive novel Arcadia | 7 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 131 | CleanVideoDisability Narratives and Histories | Launch event for the TORCH Disability and Curriculum Diversity series. | 4 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 132 | CleanVideoWildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature | An interdisciplinary discussion of Jamie Lorimer's book | 6 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 133 | CleanVideoInterview with Emily Troscianko | Discussion of Kafka's Cognitive Realism | 26 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 134 | CleanVideoReading Beyond the Code | A Book at Lunchtime Seminar with Terrence Cave, Deirdre Wilson, Ben Morgan (Worcester College, Oxford), Professor Robyn Carston (Linguistics, UCL). Chaired by Professor Philip Bullock (TORCH Director). | 14 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 135 | CleanVideoInterview with Dr Andrew Papanikitas | The importance of Medical Humanities in good medical practice | 30 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 136 | CleanVideoCommon People: The History of an English Family | An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discuss Alison Light's book | 11 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 137 | CleanVideoWhere's the Virtue in the Humanities? | How can the Liberal Humanities own up to – and promote – its public service as a matrix of civic virtue? | 4 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 138 | CleanVideoHumanities Graduates and the British Economy | Humanities Graduates and the British Economy. | 1 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 139 | CleanVideoWhat is the Modern? Temporality, Aesthetics, and Global Melancholy | This talk from TORCH Global South Visiting Professor Supriya Chaudhuri will interrogate the temporality of the modern, the aesthetics of the modern, and as a somewhat cryptic afterthought, the mood of the modern, here categorized as melancholy. | 9 4 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 140 | CleanVideoLost in Print? Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Reggae Music Archive | Louisa Layne investigates the reggae music archive, exploring music and poetry through Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub club. | 13 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 141 | CleanVideoThe Monk, the Memorist, the Mushroom and the MRI | Discover how we create and store ideas, and how modern neuroscience process 16th century theories on memory. | 13 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 142 | CleanVideoA Celebration of the Centenary of the Birth of Olive Gibbs | 100 years since the Representation of the People Act, the act which gave women the vote. | 26 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 143 | CleanVideoBilingualism and the Internet | Scott Hale (Senior Data Scientist) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Linguamania, Ashmolean Museum. | 22 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 144 | CleanVideoThe 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 |
| 145 | CleanVideoLive and Let Die - in Greek Epic | Almut Fries explores the iconography of the black-figured wine jug in this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday | 8 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 146 | CleanVideoThe Cult of Saints | Dr Bryan Ward-Perkins introduces a new research project which examines the origins and development of the cult of Christian saints. | 12 9 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 147 | CleanVideoHow does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? | Blue Weiss and Mia Liyanage, Common Ground Oxford, give a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2019. | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 148 | CleanVideoAutonomy, Community, Destiny: Re-Imagining Disability | The second seminar in the Disability and Curriculum Diversity series at TORCH | 7 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 149 | CleanVideoHidden Beneath the Surface: Untold Tales of Neurodivergence and Mental Difference in Oxford | World Mental Health Day 2017 | 18 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 150 | CleanVideoEllah Wakatama Allfrey - What Does Diversity Mean to Me? | Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities' | 28 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 151 | CleanVideoDo Objects Speak? | Wen-chin Ouyang (Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Lingumania. | 21 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 152 | CleanVideoTom Chatfield on Humans and Machines in the Digital Age | Tom Chatfield talks as part of the "What does it mean to be human in the digital age?" event | 26 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 153 | CleanVideoToo Valuable to Die? | Silke Ackermann, Nigel Biggar and Liz Bruton debate the ethics of science and scientists going to war | 14 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 154 | CleanVideoJames Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film | Book at Lunchtime, James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film | 16 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 155 | CleanVideoTed Hughes: The Unauthorised Life | Jonathan Bate, Anne Farrar Donovan, Seamus Perry and Oliver Taplin discuss life-writing, poetry and the poet | 20 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 156 | CleanVideoThe 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 |
| 157 | CleanVideoOrchestral Musicians' Experiences: Inside Out | In this TORCH Talk, Dr Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey presents on 'Orchestral Musicians' Experiences: Inside Out' at the Ashmolean Museum's Supersonic LiveFriday. | 4 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 158 | CleanVideoEverything in Everything: Anaxagoras's Metaphysics | Book at Lunchtime discussion | 6 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 159 | CleanVideoDrawing 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 |
| 160 | CleanVideoDigital Unwrapping: Homer, Herculaneum, and the Scroll from Ein Gedi | With Brent Seales (Professor of Computer Science, University of Kentucky) | 19 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 161 | CleanVideoPhilip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' | Margaret Kean explores how Philip Pullman plays with the idea of communication across different media in his trilogy | 4 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 162 | CleanVideoValour, betrayal and desire: heroes and villains in Indian paintings | Nisha Somasundaram explores both male and female heroes and demons in Indian epics in this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday. | 9 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 163 | CleanVideoPhenomenology and Health | A highlights video from the one-day conference | 15 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 164 | CleanVideoOlivia Slater presents, Place in research: Theory, methodology, and methods. Eve Tuck and Marcia McKenzie (Routledge, 2014) | Olivia Slater gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 165 | CleanVideoWhat We Cannot Know | Part of the TORCH Book at Lunchtime series | 21 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 166 | CleanVideoWhy We Need the Humanities | How has humanities scholarship influenced biomedical research and civil liberties and how can scholars serve the common good? | 27 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 167 | CleanVideoThinking with Literature | A Book at Lunchtime discussion with Terence Cave about literature's links to cognitive science. | 28 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 168 | CleanVideoClosing Reflections | The closing reflections of speakers Professor Joshua Hordern and Stephen Bergman. | 8 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 169 | CleanVideoThe Dodo, Animal Icons and De-Extinction | Environmental researcher Paul Jepson’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’ | 7 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 170 | CleanVideoSenia Paseta on Irish Nationalist Women | Dr Paseta explores women's history and the nationalist narrative in Ireland. | 1 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 171 | CleanVideoPhotography and Tibet | Author, Clare Harris, talks about her book on photography in Tibet - a place that has for centuries been a source of fascination for outsiders and a captivating yet troublesome subject for photographers. | 5 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 172 | CleanVideoFRIGHT Friday - Stretched to Breaking Point | Dan Holloway gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016. | 12 12 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 173 | CleanVideoWhat Have the Humanities to Teach the Modern University? | Part of the Humanities and the Public Good series | 19 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 174 | CleanVideoDiscussion: How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? | Blue Weiss, Mia Liyanage, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Supriya Chaudhuri, and Afua Hirsch, discuss what a decolonial curriculum would look like, part of the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 175 | CleanVideoAre 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 |
| 176 | CleanVideoCultural Citizenship in India: Politics, Power and Media | Cultural Citizenship in India argues that citizenship is an ongoing and evolving discursive project. Further, it studies the role of culture and different media in the process of citizen-making by taking postcolonial India as its case study. | 13 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 177 | CleanVideoInterview with Dr Marion Lynch | Medical Humanities and Narratives | 30 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 178 | CleanVideoDisaster Drawn: Comics and Picturing Violence | Keynote lecture by Hilary Chute as part of the Documenting Trauma conference. | 5 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 179 | CleanVideoThe Silk Roads: A New History of the World | Peter Frankopan discusses his new book with Averil Cameron, Robert Moore and Elleke Boehmer | 27 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 180 | CleanVideoFRIGHT Friday - Fear of Cats and Other Phobias | Professor Sally Shuttleworth gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016. | 12 12 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 181 | CleanVideoFundraising 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 |
| 182 | CleanVideoInterview with Professor Stephen Lammers | Medical Humanities and Narratives | 30 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 183 | CleanVideoExploring the Two Cultures | Professor Larry Squire and Dr Simon Kemp | 26 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 184 | CleanVideoKafka's Cognitive Realism | An interdisciplinary discussion of Dr Emily Troscianko's book | 26 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 185 | CleanVideoEarly Modern Catholicism Network | Clare Copeland and Jan Machielsen talk about a new hub to encourage, enhance, and promote research touching on all aspects of early modern Catholicism from across the academic disciplines. | 24 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 186 | CleanVideoHow not to Ruin Everything: Futures Thinking Launch | Launch event for Futures Thinking, a new research group looking into future problems and opportunities created by advances in technology and artificial intelligence. | 5 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 187 | CleanVideoActivist Humanities in a Global Context | Ahadf Soueif, Paul Smith and Robin Kelley discuss how the humanities can solve global challenges | 19 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 188 | CleanVideoIbsen, Scandinavia, and the Making of a World Drama: A Book At Lunchtime | Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century. | 21 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 189 | CleanVideoGlobal 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 |
| 190 | CleanVideoMigration, Memory and Identity | Part of the Humanities & Identities Lunchtime Seminar Series | 7 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 191 | CleanVideoThe Trans-Atlantic, the Diaspora, and Africa | Ngugi wa Thiong’o delivers the opening keynote lecture of the Calloloo conference | 5 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 192 | CleanVideoWork, 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 |
| 193 | CleanVideoEmma Smith on Forgetting in the Digital Age | Emma Smith talks as part of the "What does it mean to be human in the digital age?" event | 26 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 194 | CleanVideoThe Selden Map | The Selden Map of China has been one of the treasures of the Bodleian Library since 1659. This film shows how this remarkable map is interpreted today by scholars from a range of different disciplines. | 29 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 195 | CleanVideoThe Social Life of Modernism: Conversation, Literary Community, and Espionage in 1930s Calcutta | This talk from TORCH Global South Visiting Professor Supriya Chaudhuri will be illustrated with images from the Parichay archives and related documents and correspondence. | 9 4 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 196 | CleanVideoMedieval Storytelling | An AHRC funded workshop for Early Career researchers | 17 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 197 | CleanVideoJoe Shaughnessy presents, Mine Boy Peter Abrahams (East African Publishers, 1946) | Joe Shaughnessy gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 198 | CleanVideoEpic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century | A discussion about the book Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century. Part of 'A Book at Lunchtime' series | 6 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 199 | CleanVideoMaking Oscar Wilde | A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Michele Mendelssohn, literary critic and cultural historian. Dr Sos Eltis (Brasenose, Oxford), Dr Charles Foster (Green Templeton, Oxford), Chaired by Professor Dame Hermione Lee (Wolfson, Oxford). | 14 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 200 | CleanVideoGlobal 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 |
| 201 | CleanVideoPolitics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry | Book at Lunchtime event. | 21 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 202 | CleanVideoMiles Hewstone - What Does Diversity Mean to Me? | Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities' | 28 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 203 | CleanVideoRereading East Germany | A Book at Lunchtime discussion tracing the cultural legacy of the GDR with Karen Leeder, Dennis Tate, Sara Jones, Marc Silberman and Tom Smith | 5 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 204 | CleanVideoMiddle Earth and Tolkien's Digital Afterlives | Stuart Lee traces how Tolkien's Middle-earth and especially 'The Lord of the Rings' have been reimagined through a range of digital technologies, from games to films | 4 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 205 | CleanVideoThe Alfred Jewel and Kingship | Amy Faulkner explores how Alfred’s translations question what it means to be a good king in this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday | 8 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 206 | CleanVideoIn search of the Phoenicians | Book at Lunchtime, In search of the Phoenicians | 10 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 207 | CleanVideoValuing Women With Disabilities | Valuing Women With Disabilities: Infantilised, Medicalised, Pauperised? | 21 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 208 | CleanVideoMusings from Cloud Cuckoo Land | Dr Karen Park delivers a Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize talk as part of Linguamania | 21 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 209 | CleanVideoThe Prelude | Part of the TORCH Book at Lunchtime series | 21 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 210 | CleanVideoIndian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire | Elleke Boehmer discusses her new book with Megan Robb, Faisal Devji and Santanu Das | 23 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 211 | CleanVideoLeviathan and the Air Pump: Highlights | Historians of Science David Wootton and Michael Hunter review the controversial book 50 years on | 28 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 212 | CleanVideoHiCor: a Cross-Disciplinary Network for History and Corpus Linguistics | Gabor Mihaly Toth talks about a network of corpus linguists, computational linguists, and historians who are aiming to study how the resources, tools and methods of corpus linguistics can be used to address important historical research questions. | 24 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 213 | CleanVideoOscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience | Sandra Mayer, author of Oscar Wilde in Vienna, argues it was his willingness to both please and tease his audience. His plays skilfully manoeuvre between conformism and subversion, conventionality and innovation. | 20 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 214 | CleanVideoFRIGHT Friday - Parenting, Fear, Hope and Salvation | Dr Joshua Hordern gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016. | 12 12 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 215 | CleanVideoMessages through Ashmolean Portraits | Vicky McGuinness's bite-sized talk at Ashmolean LiveFriday: Framed | 7 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 216 | CleanVideoThe Dodo and Creativity | Author Jasper Fforde’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’ | 4 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 217 | CleanVideoDance Circles | An interdisciplinary discussion of Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach's book. | 9 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 218 | CleanVideoElsa Gomis presents, The Logic of Analogy: Slavery and the Contemporary Refugee. Yogita Goyal (Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 8(3), 543-546. 2017) | Elsa Gomis gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 219 | CleanVideoForward with Classics | A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Steven Hunt, Dr Mai Musie, Dr Peter Jones (Co-founder, Classics for All), Dr Alex Pryce (Head of Student Recruitment, Oxford), Chaired by Professor Fiona Macintosh (St Hilda's Oxford). | 14 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 220 | CleanVideoArt and Emergency | Book at Lunchtime, Art and Emergency | 22 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 221 | CleanVideoInHabit: People, Places and Possessions | Book at Lunchtime Seminar held on May 3rd 2017. | 10 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 222 | CleanVideoHow English Became English | A Book at Lunchtime discussion looking at the English language and how it is developing with Simon Horobin, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Martin Wynne, Philip Durkin and Susie Dent. | 6 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 223 | CleanVideoThe 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 |
| 224 | CleanVideoThat Other Place: Art and Alzheimer's | A short video about a recent exhibition of photography and film | 28 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 225 | CleanVideoKwame Dawes - What is a decolonial curriculum? | Kwame Dawes, TORCH Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 15 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 226 | CleanVideoBecoming / Unbecoming | With comics artist Una | 18 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 227 | CleanVideoUnlocking the Church | Book at Lunchtime, Unlocking the Church | 11 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 228 | CleanVideoImagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions | Book at Lunchtime held on 8th November 2017. | 27 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 229 | CleanVideoGreat men and fallen heroes | Jessica Goodman explores how the meaning of ‘hero’ shifted in France in the late eighteenth-century in this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday. | 8 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 230 | CleanVideoDiane Lees on Museums and Heritage in the Digital Age | Diane Lees talks as part of the "What does it mean to be human in the digital age?" event | 26 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 231 | CleanVideoNarrative and Proof: Two Sides of the Same Equation | One of the UK's leading scientists, Marcus du Sautoy, argues that mathematical proofs are not just number-based, but also a form of narrative. | 22 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 232 | CleanVideoIdentity beyond Borders: Ethnicity in the American Pacific | Evan Matsuyama gives a short talk on Japanese mortality, identity, and ethnicity in the Nikkei struggle against mass incarceration during World War II. | 6 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 233 | CleanVideoMusic, Empathy and Cultural Understanding | In this TORCH Talk, Professor Eric Clarke talks about 'Music, Empathy and Cultural Understanding' at the Ashmolean Museum's Supersonic LiveFriday. | 4 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 234 | CleanVideoExploring Sicilian Epigraphy | Sicilian schools study and research epigraphy in their museums. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 235 | CleanVideoPerformance of 'Night Dance (Fantasy)' | Musicians Dan Hulme and Nick Fowler perform Night Dance (Fantasy) at a recent Live Friday event, held at the Ashmolean Museum on March 3rd 2017. | 13 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 236 | CleanVideoFRIGHT Friday - Gothic Horror: Medicine and Monsters | Dr Andrew Papanikitas gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016. | 12 12 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 237 | CleanVideoThe Fires of Faith | The Babsybanoo, Machionness of Winchester Lecture with Neil MacGregor | 7 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 238 | CleanVideoCallaloo 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 |
| 239 | CleanVideoRubble 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 |
| 240 | CleanVideoSinging in the Age of Anxiety | Laura will be joined an expert panel to discuss the book and its themes; Dr Benjamin Walton (Jesus, Cambridge), Professor Kate McLoughlin (Harris Manchester, Oxford). Chaired by Professor Philip R. Bullock (Wadham, Oxford). | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 241 | CleanVideoMe 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 |
| 242 | CleanVideoUseful Frames and Dead Pasteboard | Sarah Hook looks at Victorian photographic card portraits, and charts their appearances in novels and poems from the period. | 7 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 243 | CleanVideoLewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst explores how every generation has created its own Wonderland, and why we are still so curious about Alice’s dreamworld | 4 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 244 | CleanVideoMuseums in the digital age: development or conflict? | Interview with Martin Roth – Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. | 30 7 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 245 | CleanVideoHow does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? | Supriya Chaudhuri, TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 246 | CleanVideoThomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity | Book at Lunchtime, Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity | 12 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 247 | CleanVideoMaria Misra - What Does Diversity Mean to Me? | Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities' | 28 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 248 | CleanVideoIntravenous anaesthesia on Turner's High Street | Dr Alessia Pannese explores a painted documentation of a relatively little known event in Oxford local history: the first intravenous anaesthesia during this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday | 9 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 249 | CleanVideoComparative Encounters between Artaud, Michaux and the Zhuangzi | Part of "Book at Lunchtime", a fortnightly series of bite size book discussions, with commentators from a range of disciplines. Xiaofan Amy Li discusses her new book "Comparative Encounters Between Artaud, Michaux and the Zhuangzi." | 20 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 250 | CleanVideoHenry 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 |
| 251 | CleanVideoRace and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century | Elleke Boehmer and Imaobong Umoren talk about their research network which is investigating how twentieth-century activists, artists and intellectuals challenged racially oppressive hierarchies and sought to achieve equality. | 24 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 252 | CleanVideoSamraghni Bonnerjee presents, Envoy extraordinary: a study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her contribution to modern India. Vera Brittain (Allen and Unwin, 1965) | Samraghni Bonnerjee gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 253 | CleanVideoRachel Fox presents, Refugee tales David, Herd and Anna Pincus (Comma Press, 2016) | Rachel Fox gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 254 | CleanVideoLost and Found: The story of a Museum store | Andrew Hughes gives a short talk on the discovery unusual things lost and found during a move of 100,000 Pitt Rivers Museum objects. | 6 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 255 | CleanVideoTransforming The Operatic Voice | Looking at the relationships between philosophy and the creative practice of music. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 256 | CleanVideoThe Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard | The book's author Sondra Hausner (Professor of Anthropology, University of Oxford) will explore the issues raised in her book. | 10 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 257 | CleanVideoInterview with Hélène Neveu Kringelbach | The author discusses her recent book on dance in urban Senegal. | 9 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 258 | CleanVideoSmart People Work Everywhere - using your research skills outside academia | A panel discuss using your research degree outside academia. | 18 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 259 | CleanVideoRemembering the Jagiellonians | A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Natalia Nowakowska, Somerville College, University of Oxford, Professor Julia Mannherz (Oriel, Oxford) Professor Hannah Skoda (St John’s, Oxford) Chaired by Professor Katherine Lebow (Christ Church, Oxford). | 14 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 260 | CleanVideoComplexity in our multiple identities: the 2017 Disability Lecture | University of Oxford Annual Disability Lecture | 10 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 261 | CleanVideoLiterature and Silence | Research into multiple Quaker congregations. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 262 | CleanVideoFRIGHT Friday - Embodying Life and Death | Professor Cathy Morgan gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016. | 12 12 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 263 | CleanVideoLate Victorian into Modern | Book at Lunchtime, Late Victorian into Modern | 8 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 264 | CleanVideoItalian 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 |
| 265 | CleanVideoHumanities 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 |
| 266 | CleanVideoVolcanoes: Natural Disaster Narratives and the Environment in Caribbean Literature | A panel discussion | 5 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 267 | CleanVideoExodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit | Lecture with Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College). Respondent: Anand Menon (King’s College London) Convenors: Timothy Garton Ash and Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College). | 3 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 268 | CleanVideoDigital Unwrapping: Homer, Herculaneum, and the Scroll from Ein Gedi | With Dirk Obbink (Associate Professor in Papyrology and Greek Literature, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford) | 19 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 269 | CleanVideoDigital Unwrapping: Homer, Herculaneum, and the Scroll from Ein Gedi | With Brent Seales and Dirk Obbink | 19 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 270 | CleanVideoIrish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918 | An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discuss Dr Senia Paseta's book | 3 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 271 | CleanVideoBritain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery | Book at Lunchtime seminar on Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery, edited and written by Ryan Hanley (Fellow in History, University of Oxford). | 13 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 272 | CleanVideoDavid Garrick's Wigless Celebrity | Ruth Scobie's bite-sized talk on a portrait of David Garrick by Johan Zoffany | 7 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 273 | CleanVideoKnowledge Exchange Highlights | Highlights from the Knowledge Exchange Showcase, 26 November 2015. | 28 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 274 | CleanVideoKnowledge Machines | How have digital technologies changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities? | 5 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 275 | CleanVideoWhat Does it Mean to be Human in the Digital Age? | A librarian, literary scholar, museum director and digital commentator explore how the digital age has shaped, and will continue to shape, the human experience and the humanities | 22 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 276 | CleanVideoTORCH Book Series: ‘Thomas Wyatt - The Heart’s Forest’ by Susan Brigden | David Starkey, Chris Stamatakis and Diarmaid MacCulloch discuss ‘Thomas Wyatt - The Heart’s Forest’ by Susan Brigden as part of the TORCH Book Series | 12 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 277 | CleanVideoArun Sood presents, Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. Mungo, Park and James Rennell (W. Bulmer and Company, 1799). | Arun Sood gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 278 | CleanVideoMarvin Rees - What Does Diversity Mean to Me? | Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities' | 28 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 279 | CleanVideoInterview with Neil MacGregor | Neil MacGregor talks about the public engagement at the British Museum. | 12 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 280 | CleanVideoThe Stories of Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien and Philip Pullman | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Stuart Lee and Margaret Kean explore the digital afterlives of these celebrated storytellers | 4 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 281 | CleanVideoThe Dodo and Exploration | Historian of Science Pietro Corsi’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’ | 4 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 282 | CleanVideoPeriodic 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 |
| 283 | CleanVideoCallaloo 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 |
| 284 | CleanVideoAnil Ramdas: Hope and Despair in Dutch Postcolonial Literature | An insight into prize-winning Dutch Surinamese columnist, correspondent, essayist, journalist, and TV and radio host, Anil Ramdas. | 4 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 285 | CleanVideoArtist Talk: Made in Imagination | Find out how Anne Griffiths’ work, Lost in Imagination, reimagines intriguing objects lost within the Pitt Rivers archive. | 6 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 286 | CleanVideoRepresenting the Dead | Book at Lunchtime event | 26 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 287 | CleanVideoThe 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 |
| 288 | CleanVideoTheatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett | An interdisciplinary discussion of Kirsten Shepherd-Barr's book | 20 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 289 | CleanVideoLight in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment | A discussion of Jim Reed's book | 12 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 290 | CleanVideoIn Everyone's Interests | Panel discussion on what it means to invest in the humanities | 4 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 291 | CleanVideoAncient Dance in Modern Dancers | Sophie Bocksberger, Berrow Scholar, Classics, talks about collaborative workshops involving classical historians, professionally-trained dancers, and anthropologists to create "reconstructive" performances of the Roman dance form tragoedia saltata. | 24 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 292 | CleanVideoUshashi Dasgupta presents, Rajmohan’s Wife Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1864). | Ushashi Dasgupta gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 293 | CleanVideoEthel Maqeda presents, The Book of Memory: A Novel by Petina Gappah (Macmillan, 2016) | Ethel Maqeda gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 294 | CleanVideoA Lost Victorian Utopia: Living to 100 | An exploration of a Victorian blue-print for a city of health and happiness, where everyone could live to 100. | 13 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 295 | CleanVideoLiterature and the Public Good | Part of the Book at Lunchtime series | 1 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 296 | CleanVideoHumanities and Science: Representing Science | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring the many possible approaches to representing science through the arts, as well as potential challenges | 17 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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