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 | Video'Poets in Purgatory' Video | Contemporary poets read from their translations of the Purgatorio and from their poems about Dante. After Dante: Poets in Purgatory, edited by Nick Havely with Bernard O'Donoghue, was published by Arc Poetry in July and marks the 700th anniversary of t | 17 12 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | VideoHow does climate crisis change the curriculum? | A Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences event. Shifting the question from ‘how should climate change be put into the curriculum?’ to ‘how does it transform the curriculum?’ opens up the subject in new ways across the worl | 15 12 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoThe 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. Chair: Dr Nin | 1 9 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | VideoThe 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. Lecture by Professor | 1 9 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoArt 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. In his autobiography, The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah (2018), award-winning poet, lyricist, musician, and act | 30 8 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoBook 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. About the book: The emancipatory promise of liberalism - and its ex | 23 7 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoBook 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. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held weekly during term-time, with commentators | 28 6 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | VideoBook 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. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held weekly during term-time, with commentators from a ra | 25 6 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoBook 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. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held weekly during term-time, with commentators from a ran | 25 6 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | VideoThe 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. This panel discussion and conversation with artist Khaled Kaddal examines The Formula of Giving Heart as a piercing st | 17 6 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoUnder 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. Under the Rainbow: Voices from Loc | 17 6 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | VideoA Concatenation of Rumour | Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Named after the original title of Richard Rathbone's book on Nana Ofori Atta I, the King of Akyem Abuakwa in Ghana, th | 24 5 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoThe 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. The heroine of Gustave Flaubert’s 1857 novel Madame Bovary, Emma, is the daughter of a farmer, who has been educate | 20 5 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | VideoThe 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. The heroine of Gustave Flaubert’s 1857 novel Madame Bovary, Emma, is the daughter of a farmer, who has been ed | 20 5 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoIn 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. Join us for a fascinating evening with award-winning playwright and actress Lolita Chakrabar | 20 5 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | VideoTranslation 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. Oliver Ready (St Antony’s College | 21 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | VideoThe 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. Talk and Performance from Dr S | 21 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | VideoThe 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. Between the end of the US Civil War and the start | 18 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | VideoThe 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. Performing Innocence: Primitive / Incipient The T | 15 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 20 | VideoThe 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. Moderator: Wanda M.Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professo | 14 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 21 | VideoThe 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. Content Warning: This talk will include reference | 14 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 22 | VideoBook 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. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held weekly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disci | 9 3 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 23 | VideoBook 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. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held during term-time, with co | 28 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 24 | VideoWriting 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. Further arrests followe | 28 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 25 | VideoKen 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. In this joint event between St Peter's College and TORCH, disti | 12 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 26 | VideoIn 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. This is part of the TORCH project ‘P | 4 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 27 | VideoBook 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. About the book: Zimbabwe's catastrophic cholera outbreak of 2008–9 saw an unprecedented number o | 4 2 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 28 | VideoBook 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. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held weekly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplin | 27 1 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 29 | VideoThe 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. In collaboration with the Voltaire | 6 12 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 30 | VideoAnna 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. Supported by TORCH through the Humanities Cultural Programme. Join us for an onli | 19 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 31 | VideoTalking Afropean | Talking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu about his award-winning book. TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events!. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of th | 19 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 32 | VideoBook 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. Book at Lunchtime https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/book-at-lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held | 10 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 33 | VideoBook 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. Drawing on a range of sixteenth-century artifacts, artworks, and texts, as well as on ancient and modern theories of | 8 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 34 | VideoHumanities 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'. Biographies: Katie Mitchell is a British theatre director whose unique style and | 4 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 35 | VideoLive 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 Biographies: Fiona Sha | 4 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 36 | VideoBook 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. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held fortnightly during term-time, wi | 3 11 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 37 | VideoTransnational 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 |
| 38 | VideoLive 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. Join us to discuss Imagined Journe | 21 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 39 | VideoLive 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. Join Dr Alex Lloyd (Fellow by Spec | 18 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 40 | VideoLive 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 |
| 41 | VideoLive 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. The Wo | 13 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 42 | VideoLive 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 Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen | 12 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 43 | VideoLive 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. This event present | 12 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 44 | VideoLive 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. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Join us for | 7 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 45 | VideoLive Event: Celebrating Tchaikovsky | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Music Week Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Thursday 7th May marks | 6 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 46 | VideoLive Event: In Conversation with Maaza Mengiste | 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. In conversation with Maaza Mengist | 6 10 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 47 | VideoLive 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. If we were able to step inside the parlours and drawing rooms of the eighteenth century we’d find homes busy with hom | 14 9 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 48 | VideoLive 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. Professor Emma Smith (English Faculty) in conversation with Erica Whyman OBE (Royal Shakespeare Company). Both Emma a | 14 9 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 49 | VideoLive 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. At a time when we are all locked down in our homes, Sally Shuttleworth and Erica Charters take a look, both serious and | 14 9 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 50 | VideoLive Event: Could you be arrested for planting flowers in your street? | What guerrilla gardening reveals about our relationship with urban nature and culture. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Dr Elizabeth Ewart, Head of th | 14 9 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 51 | VideoCyclone 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. This event was organised by the Climate Crisis Thin | 23 7 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 52 | VideoWhat’s beneath the words: a paper journey | Presented in collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book. Contemporary letterpress artist David Armes (Red Plate Press) and book conservator Andrew Honey (Bodleian Libraries) share their appreciation for paper and for the | 29 6 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 53 | VideoTORCH (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. Prof Matthew Nicholls describes the creation of a large-scale 3D model of Ancient Rome, exploring the use of computer modelling in th | 9 6 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 54 | VideoImitating Authors | Book at Lunchtime: Imitating Authors Colin Burrow gives us an original literary history of imitation from an esteemed scholar and literary critic and a fascinating account of how authors from the earliest stages of Western literature to the present day | 24 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 55 | VideoHumanities 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. As part of the national Being Human Festival, and Oxford's Christmas Light Festival, Humani | 11 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 56 | VideoRevolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography | Book at Lunchtime: Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography Polly Jones offers the first ever archival and oral history study of Brezhnev-era publishing and propaganda production, highlighting the consistent pressure throug | 7 2 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 57 | VideoEmpires of the Mind | Book at Lunchtime: Empires of the Mind 'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation | 29 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 58 | VideoPatience 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. After reading from both wor | 14 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 59 | VideoAshmolean 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. Mount Vesuvius is thought to have begun erupting on 2 | 13 1 2020 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 60 | VideoPrinceton 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. Based on the history of world l | 20 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 61 | VideoPrinceton 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. The idea of world literature contains an argument in favor of large-scale comparative projects. But most humanities disciplines have shie | 20 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 62 | VideoPrinceton 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. On January 31st, 1827, the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe shocked his s | 20 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 63 | VideoHumanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! | Highlights of the Humanities Night Light event. As part of the national Being Human Festival, and Oxford's Christmas Light Festival, Humanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! was a spectacular explosion of colour, sound and activity for all, i | 19 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 64 | VideoDiscovering 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. Ashmolean After Hours: Carpe Diem! Mount Vesuvius is thought to have begun erupting on 24 Octobe | 17 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 65 | VideoThe Meaning of Carpe Diem | How "seize the day" does not get CLOSE to capturing the power of the poet Horace's words Ashmolean After Hours: Carpe Diem! Mount Vesuvius is thought to have begun erupting on 24 October AD 79. Almost two thousand years later, TORCH collaborated with th | 17 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 66 | VideoSupping 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 Ashmolean After Hours: Carpe Diem! Mount Vesuvius is thought to hav | 17 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 67 | VideoGorgons, 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. Ashmolean After Hours: Carpe Diem! Mount Vesuvius is thought to have begun erupting on 24 October AD 79. Almost | 17 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 68 | VideoLast Supper in Pompeii: An introduction to the Pompeii Exhibition | Exploring the narrative of the show through a selection of highlighted objects Ashmolean After Hours: Carpe Diem! Mount Vesuvius is thought to have begun erupting on 24 October AD 79. Almost two thousand years later, TORCH collaborated with the Ashmolea | 17 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 69 | VideoBook 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. At the end of th | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 70 | VideoThe 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. Dr Tom Crawford, Lecturer in Mathematics, St Edmund Hall, and creator of the award-winning ’Tom | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 71 | VideoUnveiling 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. Dr Fanny Lacote, FWA post-doctoral research fellow in French Unveiling the secrets an | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 72 | VideoCuneiform 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. Dr Frances Reynolds, Shillito Fellow in Assyriology, Faculty of Oriental Studies and St Benet's | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 73 | VideoDiscovering 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. Dr Jo Bullivant, Departmental Lecturer, Faculty of Music and St Cathe | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 74 | VideoThe 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. Professor Nandini Das, Early M | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 75 | VideoDiscovering 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. Professor Jacob Dahl, Professor of Assyriology, Faculty of Oriental Studi | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 76 | VideoSecrets 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? Dr Daniel Sawyer, Research Fellow in Medieval English Literature, Merton College, | 10 12 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 77 | VideoAI 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. Bringing together world leading researchers and industry | 27 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 78 | VideoChineke! 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 |
| 79 | VideoBook 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. Based on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recove | 19 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 80 | VideoSupriya Chaudhuri, Significant Lives: biography, autobiography, gender, and women's history in South Asia | Chaired by Elleke Boehmer. | 18 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 81 | VideoHow 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 |
| 82 | VideoSouthern 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 |
| 83 | VideoBook 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. More than any other can | 15 11 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 84 | VideoLande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond | Book at Lunchtime seminar held on 16th October 2019. How can Archaeology help us understand our contemporary world? This ground-breaking book reflects on material, visual and digital culture from the Calais 'Jungle' - the informal camp where, before its | 6 10 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 85 | VideoStorming 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). Thomas More | 14 8 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 86 | VideoPeople'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. People's Landscapes: Beyond the Green and Pleasant Land is a lecture ser | 23 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 87 | VideoPeople's Landscapes: Future Landscapes | A roundtable discussion consider future landscapes in the context of food, farming and conservation. People's Landscapes: Beyond the Green and Pleasant Land is a lecture series convened by the University of Oxford's National Trust Partnership, which bri | 23 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 88 | VideoKnowledge 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. Kathryn Eccles, Oxford Internet Institute Dr Kathryn Eccles has been a Re | 15 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 89 | VideoKnowledge 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. Andrew Papanikitas, Primary Care Health Sciences Dr Andrew Papaniki | 15 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 90 | VideoKnowledge 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. Sarah Mallet, School of Archaeology Dr Sarah Mallet is a | 15 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 91 | VideoKnowledge 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 Professor Abigail Green is Tutorial Fellow in Histor | 15 7 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 92 | VideoDelius and the Sound of Place | Book at Lunchtime: Delius and the Sound of Place Few composers have responded as powerfully to place as Frederick Delius (1862–1934). Born in Yorkshire, Delius resided in the United States, Germany, and Scandinavia before settling in France, where he | 28 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 93 | VideoCompassion's Edge | Book at Lunchtime: Compassion's Edge, Winner of the 2018 Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize. Compassion's Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling—pity, compassion, and charitable care—that flourished in France in the period from the E | 18 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 94 | VideoVeteran Poetics | Book at Lunchtime: Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 In this first full-length study of the war veteran in literature, Kate McLoughlin draws new critical attention to a figure central to national life. Offering | 12 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 95 | VideoWriting an Activist Life | A panel discussion with Karin Amatmoekrim, Margaretta Jolly, and JC Niala, exploring the politics and poetics of writing an activist life. Karin is an award-winning novelist, and TORCH Global South Visiting Fellow. She will speak about her biography of | 4 6 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 96 | VideoDerek 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. The Experience of Poetry asks, was the experience of poetry—or a cultural practice we now call poetry—continuousl | 29 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 97 | VideoClosing 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. It ap | 29 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 98 | VideoArt and Political Thought in Medieval England | Book at Lunchtime: Art and Political Thought in Medieval England c.1150-1350 Images and imagery played a major role in medieval political thought and culture, but their influence has rarely been explored. This book provides a full assessment of the subj | 20 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 99 | VideoPeople'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. People's Landscapes: Beyond the Green and Pleasant Land is a lecture | 16 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 100 | VideoPeople'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. People's Landscapes: Beyond the Green and Pleasant Land is a lecture series convened by the | 2 5 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 101 | VideoThe 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. Literary communities - often intersecting with the more exclusive segregations of | 9 4 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 102 | VideoWhat 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. But it | 9 4 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 103 | VideoLikenesses: 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). Translation, illustration and interpreta | 8 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 104 | VideoWomen 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. Women and Power: Redressing the Balance was a 2-day conference, jointly convened b | 7 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 105 | VideoWomen 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. Women and Power: Redres | 7 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 106 | VideoWomen 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. Women and Power: Redressing the Balance was a 2- | 7 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 107 | VideoWomen 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. Women and Power: Redressing the Balance was a 2-day co | 6 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 108 | VideoEpic 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 This volume represents the first systematic attempt to chart the afterlife of epic in modern performance traditions, w | 6 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 109 | VideoWomen 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. Women and Power: Redressing the Balance was a 2- | 6 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 110 | VideoHow 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. In literature, in popular media, in scientific research, and in public consciousness, d | 5 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 111 | VideoOscar 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. Her new book investigates the dynamic i | 20 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 112 | VideoSamraghni 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one of the editors of the new book | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 113 | VideoOlivia 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one of the editors of the new book, Deco | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 114 | VideoUshashi 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one of the editors of the new book, D | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 115 | VideoArun 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one of the editors of the new book, Decoloni | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 116 | VideoDiscussion: 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. Mia Liyanage, Common Gro | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 117 | VideoHow 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 118 | VideoHow 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 119 | VideoHow 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply includin | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 120 | VideoJoe 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one of the editors of the new book, De | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 121 | VideoElsa 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one of the editors of the new book, Decolon | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 122 | VideoRachel 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one of the editors of the new book, Decolon | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 123 | VideoEthel 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one of the editors of the new book, Decol | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 124 | VideoWhat 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 |
| 125 | VideoSinging 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). In New York and London during | 19 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 126 | VideoDiscussion: 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Gebrial, one of the editors | 15 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 127 | VideoPeter 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including div | 15 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 128 | VideoJok 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including di | 15 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 129 | VideoKwame 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. Decolonising the curriculum must mean more than simply including diverse texts. As Dalia Ge | 15 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 130 | VideoPostcolonial 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). Postcolonial Poetics is about how we read postcolonial an | 14 2 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 131 | VideoAnil 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 |
| 132 | VideoIbsen, 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. When he made his debut in Norway in 1850, the nation's literary presence was negligible, yet by 1 | 21 1 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 133 | VideoSmart People Work Everywhere - using your research skills outside academia | A panel discuss using your research degree outside academia. Research degrees - what are they good for? Can you use the skills you have acquired during your DPhil in a career outside academia - and why would you want to? Professor Philip Bullock, Direct | 18 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 134 | VideoMaking 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). Witty, inspiring, and | 14 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 135 | VideoForward 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). Despi | 14 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 136 | VideoRemembering 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). Alongside | 14 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 137 | VideoReading 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). Is language a simple code, or is meaning conveyed a | 14 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 138 | VideoGlobal 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. This conference showcased interdisciplinary research on poverty in the fields of postcolonial, comparative, and world literature. | 26 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 139 | VideoGlobal 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. This conference showcased interdisciplinary research on poverty in the fields of postcolonial, comparative, and world literature. | 18 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 140 | VideoCultural 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. Book at lun | 13 7 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 141 | VideoReni 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 |
| 142 | VideoLost 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 |
| 143 | VideoLost 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 |
| 144 | VideoThe 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 |
| 145 | VideoA 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 |
| 146 | VideoThomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity | Book at Lunchtime, Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity is a study of the union of matter and the soul in the human being in the thought of the Dominican Thomas Aquinas. At first glance this issue might appear arcane, but | 12 6 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 147 | VideoArtist 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 |
| 148 | VideoIdentity 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 |
| 149 | VideoLost 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 |
| 150 | VideoArt and Emergency | Book at Lunchtime, Art and Emergency During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In these precarious intervals, when the human potential for violence can be released and rehearsed, images may also emer | 22 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 151 | VideoIn search of the Phoenicians | Book at Lunchtime, In search of the Phoenicians The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long rem | 10 5 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 152 | VideoPhotography 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. Mysterious and magnificent, Tibet has for centur | 5 4 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 153 | VideoA 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 |
| 154 | VideoEthnicised 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. T | 22 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 155 | VideoValuing Women With Disabilities | Valuing Women With Disabilities: Infantilised, Medicalised, Pauperised? Disability is too often framed as separate and foreign to what matters for women (Frances Ryan). The relative absence of disability in the politics of the feminist movement, as Rose | 21 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 156 | VideoJames Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film | Book at Lunchtime, James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film reappraises the lines of influence said to exist between Joyce's writing and early cinema and provides an alternative to previous psychoanalytic readi | 16 2 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 157 | VideoA History of Algeria | James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country Covering a period of five hundred years, from the arrival of the Ottomans to the aftermath of the Arab uprisings, James McDougall presents an expansive n | 25 1 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 158 | VideoImagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions | Mary Beard and Neil MacGregor in conversation | 24 1 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 159 | VideoBecoming / Unbecoming | With comics artist Una The TORCH Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form network are hosting a seminar on 'Becoming/Unbecoming' with comics artist Una, author of Becoming/Unbecoming part graphic memoir and part graphic history, discusses the way | 18 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 160 | VideoUnlocking the Church | Book at Lunchtime, Unlocking the Church In Unlocking the Church, William Whyte explores a forgotten revolution in social and architectural history and in the history of the Church. He details the architectural and theological debates of the day, explain | 11 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 161 | VideoLate Victorian into Modern | Book at Lunchtime, Late Victorian into Modern Late Victorian into Modern opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions, some familiar and some more obscure, of late Victorian and modern literature and culture, primarily in British context | 8 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 162 | VideoAutonomy, Community, Destiny: Re-Imagining Disability | The second seminar in the Disability and Curriculum Diversity series at TORCH The second seminar in the Disability and Curriculum Diversity series at TORCH with Elizabeth Frood (Associate Professor of Egyptology, Oxford), Dom Hyams (Producer and Editor | 7 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 163 | VideoWork, 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. Professor Sally Shuttleworth (Faculty of English Language and Literature) will look | 7 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 164 | VideoMe and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society | Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society held on 28 November 2017 Bishop Libby Lane is Britain’s first woman bishop in the Church of England. In this talk - Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society - Bishop Libby explores t | 6 12 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 165 | VideoImagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions | Book at Lunchtime held on 8th November 2017. Exploring Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, this major exhibition will be the first to look at the art of the five world religions as they spread across continents in the first millennium | 27 11 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 166 | VideoRepresenting the Dead | Book at Lunchtime event | 26 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 167 | VideoHidden Beneath the Surface: Untold Tales of Neurodivergence and Mental Difference in Oxford | World Mental Health Day 2017 | 18 10 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 168 | VideoUnflattening | With Nick Sousanis The TORCH Comics and Graphic Novels network hosted an event with Nick Sousanis, author of ‘Unflattening’ (2015), where he talked about his use of the comics form to develop new ways of critical thinking. Ran in collaboration with | 5 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 169 | VideoDisaster Drawn: Comics and Picturing Violence | Keynote lecture by Hilary Chute as part of the Documenting Trauma conference. The TORCH Comics and Graphic Novels network hosted a symposium on ‘Documenting Trauma: Comics and the Politics of Memory’. This symposium concluded with a keynote lecture | 5 9 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 170 | VideoComplexity in our multiple identities: the 2017 Disability Lecture | University of Oxford Annual Disability Lecture | 10 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 171 | VideoMigration, Memory and Identity | Part of the Humanities & Identities Lunchtime Seminar Series | 7 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 172 | VideoDisability Narratives and Histories | Launch event for the TORCH Disability and Curriculum Diversity series. | 4 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 173 | VideoMusic, 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 |
| 174 | VideoOrchestral 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 |
| 175 | VideoImages of Mithra | Book at Lunchtime discussion | 3 7 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 176 | VideoRepositioning 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 |
| 177 | VideoExploring Sicilian Epigraphy | Sicilian schools study and research epigraphy in their museums. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 178 | VideoItalian 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 |
| 179 | VideoUnsilencing the library: An exhibition at Compton Verney | Research into how books make us feel. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 180 | VideoRecreating the music of an ancient Greek chorus: Euripides Orestes | Research into ancient music. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 181 | VideoStorming Utopia | The director from the Pegasus theatre in Oxford, talks about his upcoming theatre piece. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 182 | VideoLiterature and Silence | Research into multiple Quaker congregations. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 183 | VideoTransforming The Operatic Voice | Looking at the relationships between philosophy and the creative practice of music. | 23 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 184 | VideoHumanities 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 |
| 185 | VideoPerformance 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 |
| 186 | VideoBritain'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). Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community | 13 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 187 | VideoEverything in Everything: Anaxagoras's Metaphysics | Book at Lunchtime discussion | 6 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 188 | VideoVolcanoes: Natural Disaster Narratives and the Environment in Caribbean Literature | A panel discussion Part of the 'Humanities & Identities' Lunchtime Seminar Series | 5 6 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 189 | VideoInHabit: People, Places and Possessions | Book at Lunchtime Seminar held on May 3rd 2017. | 10 5 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 190 | VideoGerms 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. The talk discusses bad germs, friendly bac | 25 4 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 191 | VideoWhither Death? | Helen Swift and Jessica Goodman discuss the one day conference 'Whither Death?' Helen Swift (Associate Professor of Medieval French) and Jessica Goodman (Associate Professor of French) discuss the one day conference 'Whither Death?', discussing memory a | 28 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 192 | VideoMiles Hewstone - What Does Diversity Mean to Me? | Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities' Miles Hewstone (Professor in Social Psychology) speaks at the TORCH Annual Headline Series Launch Event 2017. Funded from the Vice-Chancellor’s Diversity Fund and the Andrew W. | 28 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 193 | VideoMaria Misra - What Does Diversity Mean to Me? | Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities' Maria Misra (Associate Professor in Modern History) speaks at the TORCH Annual Headline Series Launch Event 2017. Funded from the Vice-Chancellor’s Diversity Fund and the Andre | 28 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 194 | VideoMarvin Rees - What Does Diversity Mean to Me? | Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities' Marvin Rees (Mayor of Bristol) speaks at the TORCH Annual Headline Series Launch Event 2017. Funded from the Vice-Chancellor’s Diversity Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundatio | 28 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 195 | VideoDeborah Cameron - What Does Diversity Mean to Me? | Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities Deborah Cameron (Professor of Language and Communication) speaks at the TORCH Annual Headline Series Launch Event 2017. Funded from the Vice-Chancellor’s Diversity Fund and the | 28 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 196 | VideoEllah Wakatama Allfrey - What Does Diversity Mean to Me? | Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities' Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (editor and literary critic) speaks at the TORCH Annual Headline Series Launch Event 2017. Funded from the Vice-Chancellor’s Diversity Fund and the Andr | 28 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 197 | VideoJay Stewart - What Does Diversity Mean to Me? | Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities' Jay Stewart (co-founder of ‘Gendered Intelligence’) speaks at the TORCH Annual Headline Series Launch Event 2017. Funded from the Vice-Chancellor’s Diversity Fund and the A | 28 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 198 | VideoPolitics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry | Book at Lunchtime event. This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of “lyric” and “state” as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Ar | 21 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 199 | VideoExodus, 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). The event was co-sponsored by The Oxford Research Centre in the Huma | 3 3 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 200 | VideoLiving Bilingual | Professor Elleke Boehmer (Director of TORCH) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Linguamania, Ashmolean Museum. Professor Elleke Boehmer (Director of TORCH) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilin | 22 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 201 | VideoBilingualism 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. Scott Hale (Senior Data Scientist) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bi | 22 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 202 | VideoA 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. Henrike Lähnemann (Professor of Medieval German Literature) delivers a talk | 21 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 203 | VideoDo 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. Wen-chin Ouyang (Professor of Arabic and Compa | 21 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 204 | VideoMusings from Cloud Cuckoo Land | Dr Karen Park delivers a Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize talk as part of Linguamania Dr Karen Park (Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Linguist for the Ethno-Ornithology World Archive) delivers a talk on 'Musings from Cl | 21 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 205 | VideoThe Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard | The book's author Sondra Hausner (Professor of Anthropology, University of Oxford) will explore the issues raised in her book. Every month, a ragtag group of Londoners gather in the site known as Crossbones Graveyard to commemorate the souls of medieva | 10 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 206 | VideoLiterature and the Public Good | Part of the Book at Lunchtime series What is the public value of literary studies? What is the justification for literature at the present time? Literature and the Public Good looks at literature's value and its public presence, and its contribution to | 1 2 2017 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 207 | VideoDrawing 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 |
| 208 | VideoFRIGHT 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 |
| 209 | VideoFRIGHT 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 |
| 210 | VideoFRIGHT 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 |
| 211 | VideoFRIGHT 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 |
| 212 | VideoFRIGHT 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 |
| 213 | VideoFRIGHT 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 |
| 214 | VideoMartin Luther - Renegade and Prophet | Part of the Book at Lunchtime series The Book at Lunchtime series looks at Professor Lyndal Roper's new book 'Martin Luther - Renegade and Prophet' . When Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door of a small university town on 31 October | 8 11 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 215 | VideoWhat We Cannot Know | Part of the TORCH Book at Lunchtime series Marcus du Sautoy (Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science), Anita Avramides (Reader in Philosophy of Mind, University of Oxford), Chrystalina Antoniades (Associate Professor at the Department | 21 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 216 | VideoThe Prelude | Part of the TORCH Book at Lunchtime series Editor of a new edition of William Wordsworth's 'The Prelude' James Engell discusses the book with Professor Fiona Stafford (Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford), Emily Knight (D. | 21 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 217 | VideoInterview with Neil MacGregor | Neil MacGregor talks about the public engagement at the British Museum. Neil MacGregor talks about his lecture on 'The Fires of Faith', building works at the British Museum, and public engagement. | 12 10 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 218 | VideoThe Fires of Faith | The Babsybanoo, Machionness of Winchester Lecture with Neil MacGregor Neil MacGregor (former British Museum Director) gives the Babsybanoo, Machionness of Winchester, Lecture on 'The Fires of Faith'. | 7 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 219 | VideoDigital 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) Dirk Obbink (Associate Professor in Papyrology and Greek Literature, Faculty of Classics, Oxford) discusses their work using digital tec | 19 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 220 | VideoDigital Unwrapping: Homer, Herculaneum, and the Scroll from Ein Gedi | With Brent Seales (Professor of Computer Science, University of Kentucky) Brent Seales (Professor of Computer Science, University of Kentucky) discusses his work using digital technologies to reveal and read the 'invisible library' hidden within ancient | 19 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 221 | VideoDigital Unwrapping: Homer, Herculaneum, and the Scroll from Ein Gedi | With Brent Seales and Dirk Obbink Brent Seales (Professor of Computer Science, University of Kentucky) and Dirk Obbink (Associate Professor in Papyrology and Greek Literature, Faculty of Classics, Oxford) discuss their work using digital technologies to | 19 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 222 | VideoWhy We Need the Humanities | How has humanities scholarship influenced biomedical research and civil liberties and how can scholars serve the common good? Entrepreneur and scholar Donald Drakeman discusses his new book, Why We Need the Humanities, exploring the value and impact of | 27 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 223 | VideoThe Prospect of Global History | How can global history can be applied instead of advocated? The new volume The Prospect of Global History examines this question and explores the fast growing field of global history across a wide geographical and chronological range. One of the book's | 27 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 224 | VideoUseful Frames and Dead Pasteboard | Sarah Hook looks at Victorian photographic card portraits, and charts their appearances in novels and poems from the period. She tells the story of loving and burning card portraits, which were widely circulated in nineteenth-century society and became | 7 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 225 | VideoDavid Garrick's Wigless Celebrity | Ruth Scobie's bite-sized talk on a portrait of David Garrick by Johan Zoffany Dr Ruth Scobie looks at a portrait by Johan Zoffany of the eighteenth-century actor David Garrick, and asks what the picture's notorious wiglessness has to do with the actor's | 7 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 226 | VideoChasing Butterflies: Capturing the Transience of Childhood | Emily Knight talks at the Ashmolean Museum about eighteenth-century portraits of children. Throughout history we have attempted to capture the transience of childhood in images, whether through portraits painted in the eighteenth century or photos taken | 7 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 227 | VideoThe Death Masks of Macbeth | Professor Simon Palfrey discusses the deaths and afterlives of Oliver Cromwell and Macbeth In this short talk Simon Palfrey explores the deathly afterlives of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ and reads extracts from his novel 'Macbeth, Macbeth'. Simon Palf | 7 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 228 | VideoAndy Warhol's Girls | Eleri Watson explores Andy Warhol's relationships with women. Eleri Watson gives a short talk at the Ashmolean Museum's Live Friday: Framed!, on her research into Andy Warhol's relationships with women. Eleri is a DPhil candidate in English Literature a | 7 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 229 | VideoMessages through Ashmolean Portraits | Vicky McGuinness's bite-sized talk at Ashmolean LiveFriday: Framed Vicky McGuinness explores the historical contexts and identities communicated by some of the portraits to be found on objects in the Ashmolean Museum's collections, taking a journey from | 7 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 230 | VideoHow 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. The English Language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the worl | 6 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 231 | VideoRereading 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 'Rereading East Germany: Literature and Film in the GDR' is the first volume to address the culture of the Ger | 5 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 232 | VideoThinking with Literature | A Book at Lunchtime discussion with Terence Cave about literature's links to cognitive science. Terence Cave, professor of French Literature and the author of Thinking with Literature, discusses the cognitive function of literature and its creation of n | 28 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 233 | VideoKnowledge Exchange Highlights | Highlights from the Knowledge Exchange Showcase, 26 November 2015. Highlights from the Knowledge Exchange Showcase at Ertgeun House on the 26th November 2015. Featuring Knowledge Exchange Fellows: Dr Joshua Hordern; Dr Andrew Papanikitas; Barry Murnane; | 28 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 234 | VideoClosing Reflections | The closing reflections of speakers Professor Joshua Hordern and Stephen Bergman. Professor Joshua Hordern and Stephen Bergman offer their closing reflection from the What Can Policy-Makers Learn from the Humanities? event in September 2015. | 8 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 235 | VideoBook at Lunchtime: Arcadia | A Book at Lunchtime discussion of Iain Pears' interactive novel Arcadia “The Arcadia App is one of the most substantial and interesting works of interactive fiction released last year” begins Emily Short. In this Book at Lunchtime event for the TORC | 7 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 236 | VideoPhilip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' | Margaret Kean explores how Philip Pullman plays with the idea of communication across different media in his trilogy Philip Pullman’s work has a deep connection to Oxford, and 'His Dark Materials' has passages set in the Oxford Museum of Natural Histo | 4 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 237 | VideoMiddle 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 One of Oxford’s best-loved authors is J.R.R. Tolkien, whose work as Professor of Angl | 4 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 238 | VideoLewis 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 150 years after the original publication of 'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland', Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | 4 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 239 | VideoThe 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 The city of Oxford has been home to some of the world’s greatest writers and has inspired countless stories for all ages. This discu | 4 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 240 | VideoAre the Humanities More Digital than the Sciences? | A panel discussion with Howard Hotson, Andrew Prescott, Dave De Roure and Heather Viles Are the Humanities More Digital than the Sciences? A panel discussion with Howard Hotson, Andrew Prescott, Dave De Roure and Heather Viles. Part of the Humanities an | 2 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 241 | VideoThe Future of the Professions | In an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks what are the prospects for employment? In an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks, what are the prospects for employment, who should own and control online expert | 16 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 242 | VideoHeroes 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 |
| 243 | VideoIntravenous 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 The introduction of anaesthesia in medi | 9 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 244 | VideoValour, 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. This talk introduces the great male and female heroes in Indian epics and the demons they defeated using | 9 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 245 | VideoLive 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 The Attic black-figured wine jug illustrates a crucial scene from The Illiad, a tale in which heroism and villainy merge. | 8 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 246 | VideoThe 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 The Alfred Jewel is a testament to Alfred’s educational reforms, supposedly one of the mysteriou | 8 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 247 | VideoGreat 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. In the late eighteenth century the French start rethinking what a hero is - it's no | 8 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 248 | VideoKnowledge Machines | How have digital technologies changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities? Professor Eric T. Meyer (Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford) discusses his book 'Knowledge Machines: Digital | 5 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 249 | VideoTom 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 Tom Chatfield (author and broadcaster) explores how technology connects us to each other as never before, how machines are taking on more and more of the tasks | 26 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 250 | VideoChris 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 Chris Fletcher (Keeper of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford) explores the continuing interest in the analogue form of the word, | 26 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 251 | VideoEmma 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 In 2005, two neurologists diagnosed a new modern malaise - hyperthymestic syndrome, or the inability to forget. Emma Smith (Fellow and Tutor in English, University | 26 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 252 | VideoDiane 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 Diane Lees (Director-General of the Imperial War Museum Group) discusses some of the Imperial War Museum's major digital projects and share lessons learnt. In look | 26 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 253 | VideoWhat 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 The TORCH Humanities and the Digital Age series will explore the relations | 22 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 254 | VideoCrossing Boundaries: Medievalists in Cross-Disciplinary Conversation | Launch event for the TORCH programme Oxford Medieval Studies The launch event for the TORCH programme Oxford Medieval Studies included speakers: Emma Dillon (Professor of Music, King's College London); Henrike Lähnemann (Chair of Medieval German Liter | 13 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 255 | VideoThe Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads | An interdisciplinary panel discussion exploring the life and legacy of the dodo Why does the dodo continue to haunt our imagination? Why is it the poster bird for extinction? How has it been represented across time and culture? An interdisciplinary pane | 7 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 256 | VideoThe Dodo in the Museum | Director of the Museum of Natural History, Paul Smith, gives a presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’ Paul Smith (Director, Oxford University Museum of Natural History) gives a presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the | 7 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 257 | VideoThe Dodo in Literature | Literary scholar Kirsten Shepherd-Barr’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’ Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (Professor of English and Theatre Studies and Knowledge Exchange Champion for the Humanities) gives a presentation at ‘Th | 7 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 258 | VideoThe Dodo, Animal Icons and De-Extinction | Environmental researcher Paul Jepson’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’ Paul Jepson (Researcher at the School of Geography and Environment and Course Director for the MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management) gi | 7 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 259 | VideoThe Dodo and Creativity | Author Jasper Fforde’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’ Author Jasper Fforde’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’ | 4 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 260 | VideoThe Dodo and Exploration | Historian of Science Pietro Corsi’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’ Historian of Science Pietro Corsi’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’ | 4 12 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 261 | VideoInterview with Dr Sophie Ratcliffe | Practical Medical Humanities Interview with Dr Sophie Ratcliffe as part of the Knowledge Exchange project (Compassion and Healthcare) discussing "Practical Medical Humanities" | 30 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 262 | VideoInterview with Dr Andrew Papanikitas | The importance of Medical Humanities in good medical practice An interview with Dr Andrew Papanikitas as part of the Knowledge Exchange project (Compassion and Healthcare) discussing "The importance of Medical Humanities in good medical practice" | 30 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 263 | VideoInterview with Dr Emma Mckenzie-Edwards | The use of Humanities in Medical Education Interview with Dr Emma Mckenzie-Edwards as part of the Knowledge Exchange project (Compassion and Healthcare) discussing "The use of Humanities in Medical Education" | 30 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 264 | VideoInterview with Dr Marion Lynch | Medical Humanities and Narratives Interview with Dr Marion Lynch as part of the Knowledge Exchange project (Compassion and Healthcare) discussing "Medical Humanities and Narratives" | 30 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 265 | VideoInterview with Professor Stephen Lammers | Medical Humanities and Narratives Interview with Professor Stephen Lammers as part of the Knowledge Exchange project (Compassion and Healthcare) discussing "Medical Humanities and Narratives" | 30 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 266 | VideoIndian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire | Elleke Boehmer discusses her new book with Megan Robb, Faisal Devji and Santanu Das Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford) discusses her new book with Megan Robb (Lecturer of Hindi and Urdu, Oriental Institute, a | 23 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 267 | VideoComparative 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." Xiaofan Amy Li (Rand | 20 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 268 | VideoThe 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 To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of the final volume of Tolkien’s fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings, the Bodleian | 9 11 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 269 | VideoThe Silk Roads: A New History of the World | Peter Frankopan discusses his new book with Averil Cameron, Robert Moore and Elleke Boehmer Peter Frankopan (Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, University of Oxford) discusses his book The Silk Roads: A New History of the World with A | 27 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 270 | VideoTed Hughes: The Unauthorised Life | Jonathan Bate, Anne Farrar Donovan, Seamus Perry and Oliver Taplin discuss life-writing, poetry and the poet To celebrate the publication of Jonathan Bate's new biography Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life we were joined by a distinguished panel to discu | 20 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 271 | VideoThe Pragmatic Enlightenment and Other Enlightenments | Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston) discusses his book 'The Pragmatic Enlightenment' Political theorist Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston) discusses his book 'The Pragmatic Enlightenment' | 14 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 272 | VideoToo Valuable to Die? | Silke Ackermann, Nigel Biggar and Liz Bruton debate the ethics of science and scientists going to war Silke Ackermann (Director, Museum of the History of Science) Liz Bruton (Co-curator, “Dear Harry”… Henry Moseley: A Scientist Lost to War) and Ni | 14 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 273 | VideoPeriodic 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 The chemical elements, the fundamental ingredients of all matter, have fascinated people for cent | 13 10 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 274 | VideoInterview with Michael Docherty | We catch up with Cancer Research UK's Director of Digital on fundraising in the digital age. Michael Docherty discusses how digital platforms have transformed fundraising, how research and fundraising can be brought closer together, and the future of fu | 3 8 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 275 | VideoFundraising through Digital | Michael Docherty (Cancer Research UK) on how clicktivists, slacktivists and hacktivists are helping us beat cancer sooner. At the Annual TORCH Digital Humanities lecture Michael Docherty (Digital and Strategic Marketing Planning Director, Cancer Researc | 3 8 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 276 | VideoCallaloo 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 |
| 277 | VideoCallaloo 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 |
| 278 | VideoThe 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 |
| 279 | VideoHenry 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 |
| 280 | VideoThe 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 |
| 281 | VideoPhenomenology and Health | A highlights video from the one-day conference Phenomenology is increasingly being employed as both a method of inquiry and a form of practice in a range of healthcare settings. This one-day conference brought together scholars of science and humanities | 15 6 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 282 | VideoLeviathan and the Air Pump: Highlights | Historians of Science David Wootton and Michael Hunter review the controversial book 50 years on Robert Boyle's air-pump experiments in 1659 provoked a lively debate over the possibility of a vacuum. The air-pump, a complicated and expensive device, bec | 28 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 283 | VideoRubble 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 |
| 284 | VideoTheatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett | An interdisciplinary discussion of Kirsten Shepherd-Barr's book Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (Associate Professor of Modern Drama, University of Oxford) discusses her book Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett with Michael Billington (Theatre Critic, The | 20 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 285 | VideoAristotle on Perceiving Objects | A discussion of Anna Marmodoro's book Anna Marmodoro (Fellow in Philosophy, Corpus Christi, University of Oxford) discusses her book Aristotle on Perceiving Objects with Ophelia Deroy (Associate Director, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Stud | 14 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 286 | VideoLight in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment | A discussion of Jim Reed's book Jim Reed (Taylor Professor of German, University of Oxford) discusses his book Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment with Joachim Whaley (Professor of German History and Thought, University of Cambridge) | 12 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 287 | VideoLeviathan 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 Robert Boyle's air-pump experiments in 1659 provoked a lively debate over the pos | 12 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 288 | VideoWildlife in the Anthropocene: Conservation after Nature | An interdisciplinary discussion of Jamie Lorimer's book Jamie Lorimer (Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Oxford) discusses his book with William Beinart (Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford), Daniel Grimley (Prof | 6 5 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 289 | VideoThat Other Place: Art and Alzheimer's | A short video about a recent exhibition of photography and film As the social, emotional and welfare costs of Alzheimer’s disease gain prominence, and with the number of sufferers predicted to reach one million by 2025, exploring the ways in which the | 28 4 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 290 | VideoHumanities and Science: Representing Science | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring the many possible approaches to representing science through the arts, as well as potential challenges The discussion begins with a presentation by Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (Associate Professor in Modern Drama, | 17 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 291 | VideoThe Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity | A discussion exploring Pedro Ferreira's book Pedro Ferreira (Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford) discusses his book 'The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity' with Harvey Brown (Professor of Philosoph | 16 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 292 | VideoHumanities and Science: Culture and Technology | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring culture’s interaction with technology Dr Maria Blanco (Associate Professor in Spanish) examines how the question of culture’s interaction with technology gets interesting—not to say sticky—when we broade | 16 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 293 | VideoObserving by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century | A discussion of Omar Nasim's book Dr Omar Nasim (lecturer in history at the University of Kent) discusses his book with Dr Stephen Johnston (Assistant Keeper, Museum of the History of Science), Professor Martin Kemp (History of Art, University of Oxford | 16 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 294 | VideoOxford University International Women's Day 2015 | Feminists, acadeamics and journalists reflect on feminism's achievements and future path. Melissa Benn (author of What Should We Tell Our Daughters?), Trudy Coe (Head of Oxford University's Equality and Diversity Unit), Caroline Criado-Perez (feminist c | 16 3 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 295 | VideoWayne 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 |
| 296 | VideoFaith and Wisdom in Science | A Book at Lunchtime discussion with Tom McLeish, Sally Shuttleworth, John Christie and Ard A. Louis An interdisciplinary discussion about Tom McLeish's "Faith and Wisdom in Science". About the book: "Do you have wisdom to count the clouds?" asks the | 19 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 297 | VideoHumanities and Science: Randomness and Order | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring the role of randomness and order in physics, probability, history and music. The discussion begins with a 20 minute presentation by Professor Ian Walmsley (Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics & Pro Vice Chan | 18 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 298 | VideoThe 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 |
| 299 | VideoHumanities and Science: Mental Health | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring the role of the humanities in mental health. | 9 2 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 300 | VideoUnconscious Memory and Mental Space | Professor Michael Burke and Dr Sebastian Groes Chaired by: Dr Ben Morgan (Worcester, Oxford) Professor Michael Burke (Utrecht): 'Implicit Memory in Literary Discourse Processing' Michael Burke, Professor of Rhetoric at Utrecht University, explores the | 26 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 301 | VideoExploring the Two Cultures | Professor Larry Squire and Dr Simon Kemp Larry Squire: ‘Conscious and Unconscious Memory Systems of the Mammalian Brain’ Distinguished Professor Larry Squire (UCSD), whose pioneering work established the distinction between conscious and unconscious | 26 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 302 | VideoNarrative 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. Literary techniques and mathematical proofs are rarely, if ever, brought together but Marcus du Sautoy is ver | 22 1 2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 303 | VideoCommon People: The History of an English Family | An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discuss Alison Light's book | 11 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 304 | VideoAlison 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 |
| 305 | VideoIrish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918 | An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discuss Dr Senia Paseta's book | 3 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 306 | VideoSenia Paseta on Irish Nationalist Women | Dr Paseta explores women's history and the nationalist narrative in Ireland. | 1 12 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 307 | VideoThe 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 |
| 308 | VideoThe 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 |
| 309 | VideoMuseums 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 |
| 310 | VideoMedieval Storytelling | An AHRC funded workshop for Early Career researchers On 7th and 8th April early career researchers from around the UK came to Oxford to be trained in the art of storytelling. Professional storytellers Daniel Morden and Jenny Moon provided dedicated work | 17 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 311 | VideoDance Circles | An interdisciplinary discussion of Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach's book. A discussion of Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach's "Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal", which uses dance as a window onto social change, looking a | 9 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 312 | VideoInterview with Hélène Neveu Kringelbach | The author discusses her recent book on dance in urban Senegal. At the TORCH Book at Lunchtime, author Hélène Neveu Kringelbach discussed her book Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal with a multi-disciplinary panel o | 9 4 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 313 | VideoInterview with Emily Troscianko | Discussion of Kafka's Cognitive Realism At the TORCH Book at Lunchtime, author Emily Troscianko discussed her book Kafka's Cognitive Realism with a multi-disciplinary panel of scholars. Visit http://torch.ox.ac.uk/kafkas-cognitive-realism for the full-l | 26 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 314 | VideoKafka's Cognitive Realism | An interdisciplinary discussion of Dr Emily Troscianko's book A discussion of Dr Emily Troscianko's "Kafka's Cognitive Realism", which uses insights from the cognitive sciences to illuminate Kafka’s poetics, exemplifying a paradigm for literary studie | 26 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 315 | VideoActivist Humanities in a Global Context | Ahadf Soueif, Paul Smith and Robin Kelley discuss how the humanities can solve global challenges In this discussion, Ahdaf Soueif Paul Smith and Robin Kelley discuss the active role of the humanities in addressing contemporary crises, drawing from their | 19 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 316 | VideoWhat Have the Humanities to Teach the Modern University? | Part of the Humanities and the Public Good series Universities are associations of researchers, teachers and students who see themselves as inclusive and outward-looking, proactive, creative, and restless in the pursuit of excellence. They are also inst | 19 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 317 | VideoScience and the Humanities | Are the Humanities and the Sciences fundamentally different? Or do they share roots, values, aspirations and a common, contemporary predicament? Are the Humanities and the Sciences fundamentally different? Or do they share roots, values, aspirations and | 4 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 318 | VideoWhere'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? Whether in banks or on the battlefield, in the NHS or in national newspapers, the need for virtuous leadership is now patent. An education in t | 4 3 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 319 | VideoAfrican Knowledge and Livestock Health | Book at Lunchtime interview with Karen Brown and William Beinart about their book “African Knowledge and Livestock Health” Part of the "Book at Lunchtime" series at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). | 13 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 320 | VideoIn Everyone's Interests - the highlights | Panel discussion on what it means to invest in the humanities The opening event of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities' headline series, The Humanities and the Public Good, bringing together leading scholars from the arts and sciences and beyon | 4 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 321 | VideoIn Everyone's Interests | Panel discussion on what it means to invest in the humanities The opening event of The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)'s headline series, The Humanities and the Public Good, bringing together leading scholars from the arts and sciences | 4 2 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 322 | VideoAre 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. This question will be asked a | 16 1 2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 323 | VideoTORCH 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 Winner of the 2012 Wolfson History Prize, 'The Heart’s Forest' is a biography of renaissance po | 12 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 324 | VideoThe Trans-Atlantic, the Diaspora, and Africa | Ngugi wa Thiong’o delivers the opening keynote lecture of the Calloloo conference 'The Trans-Atlantic, the Diaspora, and Africa' was held at Pembroke College, Oxford, in November 2013. This conference advances and challenges the newest theoretical sch | 5 12 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 325 | VideoHumanities Graduates and the British Economy | Humanities Graduates and the British Economy. | 1 8 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 326 | VideoTORCH Launch | The highlights of the launch event for The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). Launching The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities. | 29 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 327 | VideoEarly 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 |
| 328 | VideoHiCor: 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 |
| 329 | VideoRace 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. Elleke Boehmer and Imaob | 24 5 2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 330 | VideoAncient 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 |
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