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Book at Lunchtime: Porcelain - Poem on the Downfall of my City |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City by Durs Grünbein, translated by Professor Karen Leeder. |
Durs Grünbein, Karen Leeder, Edmund de Vaal, Patrick Major |
25 Jun 2021 |
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Book at Lunchtime: China’s Good War |
A TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on ‘China's Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism’ by Professor Rana Mitter. |
Rana Mitter, David Priestland, Vivienne Shue, Wes Williams |
25 Jun 2021 |
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Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography |
Book at Lunchtime: Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography |
Polly Jones, Katherine Lebow, Ann Jefferson, Stephen Lovell |
07 Feb 2020 |
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Likenesses: 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). |
Matthew Reynolds, Jason Gaiger, Adriana Jacobs, Nick Halmi |
08 Mar 2019 |
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Remembering 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). |
Natalia Nowakowska, Julia Mannherz, Hannah Skoda, Katherine Lebow |
14 Dec 2018 |
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Reading 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). |
Terrence Cave, Deirdre Wilson, Ben Morgan, Robyn Carston |
14 Dec 2018 |
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Britain'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). |
Bob Harris, Ryan Hanley, Padraic Scanlan, Sebabatso Manoeli |
13 Jun 2017 |
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InHabit: People, Places and Possessions |
Book at Lunchtime Seminar held on May 3rd 2017. |
Antony Buxton, Linda Hulin, Jane Anderson, Cathy Oakes |
10 May 2017 |
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Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry |
Book at Lunchtime event. |
Ben Bollig, Bart van Es, Leigh A Payne, Eduardo Posada-Carbo |
21 Mar 2017 |
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The Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard |
The book's author Sondra Hausner (Professor of Anthropology, University of Oxford) will explore the issues raised in her book. |
Sondra Hausner, Bridget Anderson, Diane Watt, Antonia Fitzpatrick |
10 Feb 2017 |
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Literature and the Public Good |
Part of the Book at Lunchtime series |
Rick Rylance, Jane Hiddleston, Timothy Michael, Ankhi Mukherjee |
01 Feb 2017 |
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Martin Luther - Renegade and Prophet |
Part of the Book at Lunchtime series |
Lyndal Roper, Laura Marcus, Simeon Zahl, Jas Elsner |
08 Nov 2016 |
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What We Cannot Know |
Part of the TORCH Book at Lunchtime series |
Marcus du Sautoy, Anita Avramides, Chrystalina Antoniades, Ben Morgan |
21 Oct 2016 |
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The Prelude |
Part of the TORCH Book at Lunchtime series |
James Engell, Fiona Stafford, Emily Knight, Steven Matthews |
21 Oct 2016 |
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The Prospect of Global History |
How can global history can be applied instead of advocated? |
James Belich, Elleke Boehmer, Richard Drayton, Hannah-Louise Clark |
27 Jul 2016 |
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Comparative 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." |
Xiofan Amy Li, Elleke Boehmer, Wang Xing, Matthew Reynolds |
20 Nov 2015 |
