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Oxford Reads Kafka |
A collective public reading of 'Metamorphosis' to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death. Bringing together literary figures, civic leaders and University academics and students, this event celebrates the power of Kafka’s voice today. |
Lemn Sissay, Ben Okri, Lisa Appignanesi, Helen McShane |
12 Jun 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Love's Labour's Lost |
Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Love's Labour's Lost. |
Emma Smith |
12 Feb 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Chaucer 6 - Chaucer’s legacy |
Professor Marion Turner looks at Chaucer's legacy and the changes in societal perception of Chaucer. She also looks at online resources to help the beginner study Chaucer. |
Marion Turner, Karen Carey |
08 Feb 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Chaucer 5 - The Language of Chaucer |
Professor Marion Turner delves into Geoffrey Chaucer's language and writing style. Chaucer championed a vernacular English form of writing, a departure from the prevalent use of Latin or French in poetry and the law. |
Marion Turner, Karen Carey |
08 Feb 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Chaucer 2 - An Introduction to the Canterbury Tales |
Professor Marion Turner provides an in-depth exploration of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic work, the Canterbury Tales. |
Marion Turner, Karen Carey |
08 Feb 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Chaucer 1 - An Introduction to the life and times of Geoffrey Chaucer |
In the introductory episode of "Chaucer for Beginners,” expert Professor Marion Turner introduces the life of writer Geoffrey Chaucer, shedding light on his background and life in 14th century England. |
Marion Turner, Karen Carey |
08 Feb 2024 |
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Creative Commons |
Albert Hourani’s Impact |
2022 is the 60th anniversary of the publication of Albert Hourani’s magnum opus Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939. |
Matthew Smith, Charles Ough, Paul Dresch, Eugene Rogan |
17 Oct 2022 |
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1 - Dame Hermione Lee |
Our first and so far only female president - heroes, milestones and 17 year old blunders |
Hermione Lee |
21 Sep 2022 |
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North Sea Crossings: inside the exhibition |
Discover the treasures that illustrate how exchanges between England and the Netherlands have shaped literature, book production and institutions such as the Bodleian itself, on either side of the North Sea. |
Sjoerd Levelt, Ad Putter |
14 Apr 2022 |
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Creative Commons |
Emma Smith interviews Shahnaz Ahsan |
Shahnaz Ahsan is Emma's guest to discuss her debut novel, Hashim & Family. They talk about Bangladesh, about the personal and the political, and about the classroom experience that has seared itself into her fiction. |
Emma Smith, Shahnaz Ahsan |
17 Dec 2021 |
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Creative Commons |
Emma Smith interviews Alex Preston |
Emma Smith chats with Alex Preston about Hertford, his career in finance, bees, and his new historical novel Winchelsea - Emma also teases Alex about the label of Mr Nice Review in Private Eye. |
Emma Smith, Alex Preston |
17 Dec 2021 |
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Creative Commons |
Emma Smith interviews Louisa Reid |
Louisa Reid's Young Adult novels in verse have been widely praised: join Emma Smith for a discussion of the challenges and responsibilities of writing for teens, as well as Louisa's experience as a teacher. |
Emma Smith, Louisa Reid |
30 Nov 2021 |
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Creative Commons |
Emma Smith interviews Claire McGowan |
Memories, genre fiction and writing under a different pen name are all on the agenda for this podcast with Northern Irish crime author Claire McGowan (and her alter ego Eva Woods). |
Emma Smith, Claire McGowan |
17 Nov 2021 |
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Creative Commons |
Emma Smith interviews Anya Glazer |
This week’s guest is children’s picture book author and illustrator Anya Glazer. We talk dinosaurs, sisters, merchandizing and how she riffed on her Modern Languages degree for her first book, Thesaurus has a Secret. |
Emma Smith, Anya Glazer |
04 Nov 2021 |
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Creative Commons |
Emma Smith interviews James Hawes |
James Hawes, novelist and micro-historian of The Shortest History of England and The Shortest History of Germany, talks about agents and editors, his role in the worst film ever made, and playing the French horn on the roof of Hertford’s library. |
Emma Smith, James Hawes |
21 Oct 2021 |
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Body of evidence |
In this online event, Ana Paula Cordeiro, the creator of Body of Evidence, speaks from the workshop in New York City where she produced it. She will be joined in conversation by Merve Emre, Associate Professor of American Literature. |
Ana Paula Cordeiro, Merve Emre |
17 Aug 2021 |
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Final Roundtable: Into the Hills |
Diane Purkiss, University of Oxford, chairs the final roundtable discussion of the conference. |
Diane Purkiss |
05 Aug 2021 |
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Is there such a thing as an authentic myth? Folklore in heritage interpretation at prehistoric places |
Susan Greaney (English Heritage), gives the second presentation in the sixth panel of the conference, Show and Tell: What is Real? Chaired by Oliver Cox. |
Susan Greaney |
05 Aug 2021 |
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Tangible and intangible heritage: exploring magic, folklore, and the supernatural in the places, spaces and collections of the National Trust |
Sally Anne Huxtable (National Trust), gives the first presentation in the sixth panel of the conference, Show and Tell: What is Real? Chaired by Oliver Cox. |
Sally Anne Huxtable |
05 Aug 2021 |
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Telling Tales: Inspiring Creativity through the Myths, Legends and Folklore of England |
Kate Armstrong and Hannah Keddie (English Heritage) give the third presentation in the fifth panel of the conference, Teaching and Learning, chaired by Oliver Cox. |
Kate Armstrong, Hannah Keddie |
05 Aug 2021 |
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Teaching the Folklore of British Landscapes |
Owen Davies (Hertfordshire), gives the second presentation in the fifth panel of the conference, Teaching and Learning, chaired by Oliver Cox. |
Owen Davies |
05 Aug 2021 |
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Crowd-sourcing England's legends: The English Heritage Myths and Legends Map |
Mary Bateman (English Heritage), gives the first talk in the fifth panel of the conference, Teaching and Learning, chaired by Oliver Cox. |
Mary Bateman |
05 Aug 2021 |
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Supernatural defences activated through death |
Brian Hoggard (Folklorist), gives the first talk in the fourth panel of the conference, The Dark Side, chaired by Oliver Cox. |
Brian Hoggard |
05 Aug 2021 |
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Remembering Irish witches |
Andrew Sneddon (Ulster), gives the second talk in the third panel, The Land Remembers: Place as Keeper of Story. Chaired by Alice Purkiss. |
Andrew Sneddon |
04 Aug 2021 |
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Touching the Numinous: ‘fairy places’ in legend and experience of the Irish landscape |
Jenny Butler (UC Cork), gives the first talk in the third panel, The Land Remembers: Place as Keeper of Story. Chaired by Alice Purkiss. |
Jenny Butler |
04 Aug 2021 |
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Mysterious Wales: between romanticism and tourism |
Juliette Wood (Folklorist), gives the third talk in the second panel, Tales in Place: Change and Continuity. Chaired by Alice Purkiss. |
Juliette Wood |
04 Aug 2021 |
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Well, what about witches and wizards? |
Lisa Tallis (Cardiff) gives the second talk in the second panel - Tales in Place: Change and Continuity - of the conference. Chaired by Alice Purkiss. |
Lisa Tallis |
03 Aug 2021 |
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Magic and Medicine in Early Roman Britain |
Nicky Garland (Durham), gives the first talk in the second panel, Tales in Place: Change and Continuity, in the conference. Chaired by Alice Purkiss. |
Nicky Garland |
03 Aug 2021 |
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Panel 1 - Who Owns this Place? Pondering Identities Questions |
Questions and answers from the first panel of the seminar. Moderated by Alice Purkiss (National Trust Partnership and University of Oxford). |
Alice Purkiss |
26 Jul 2021 |
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The Byland Abbey ghost stories: using the dead to bring a medieval monastery to life |
Michael Carter (English Heritage) gives the second talk for the seminar. |
Michael Carter |
26 Jul 2021 |
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How sacred is an ancient sacred site? The interface between academics, heritage managers and modern Paganism |
First talk of Panel 1 - Who Owns this Place? Pondering Identities, chaired by Alice Purkiss, talk by Ronald Hutton (Bristol). |
Ronald Hutton |
23 Jul 2021 |
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Book at Lunchtime: Born to Write |
A TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on ‘Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France’ by Professor Neil Kenny. |
Neil Kenny, Caroline Warman, Ceri Sullivan, Wes Williams |
29 Jun 2021 |
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Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
James Attlee, Marina Warner, Pablo Mukherjee, Wes Williams |
18 Jun 2021 |
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Claudia Piñeiro in Conversation |
The writer Claudia Piñeiro, one of the most widely acclaimed Argentine authors of recent years, talks about her work with Ben Bollig of the Spanish sub-Faculty of the University of Oxford. |
Claudia Piñeiro, Ben Bollig |
17 Jun 2021 |
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Episode 8: Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast |
In episode eight, we speak to Alice Brooke (Associate Professor in Spanish) about the sonnet ‘Este, que ves, engaño colorido’, by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. |
Alice Brooke |
16 Jun 2021 |
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A Concatenation of Rumour |
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Richard Rathbone |
24 May 2021 |
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How to be Human: An Autistic Man's Guide to Life |
Jory Fleming (2017, Environmental Change and Management) on his debut book, How to be Human: An Autistic Man's Guide to Life. |
Jory Fleming |
24 May 2021 |
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The Cake, Emma’s Romantic dreams, and le bovarysme - part two, French |
Elise Busset, an undergraduate at Oxford University, reads an extract from Madam Bovary in french. Blog post by Professor Jennifer Yee. |
Elise Busset |
21 May 2021 |
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The Cake, Emma’s Romantic dreams, and le bovarysme - part one |
Eleanor Gilbert, an undergraduate at Oxford University, reads an extract from Madam Bovary in english. Blog post by Professor Jennifer Yee. |
Elenor Gilbert |
21 May 2021 |
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In Conversation with Lolita Chakrabarti |
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities on Thursday 13th May 2021. |
Lolita Chakrabarti, Matt Wolf |
21 May 2021 |
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Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film: Rant Against the Regime |
Professor Kirk Combe (1983, English) discusses his new book, published by Routledge, Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film: Rant Against the Regime. |
Kirk Combe |
17 May 2021 |
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"वासाड गावाचा धनगर राजा": Ecological Refugees in Ancestral Grass-scape (Historical life space and changing socio-economic dynamics) |
Saili Palande-Datar gives the fourth and final presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. |
Saili Palande-Datar |
28 Apr 2021 |
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Mobilizing transregional indigenous identities on cross-sectional borders |
Bina Sengar gives the third presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. |
Bina Sengar |
28 Apr 2021 |
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Persian Cosmopolis and World Literature in Precolonial Marathi Literary Historiography |
Sachin Ketkar gives the second presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. |
Sachin Ketkar |
28 Apr 2021 |
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Circuits of interchange and influence: The 1979 Rucha issue on Urdu and Marathi modernist poetry |
Anjali Nerlekar gives the first talk on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. |
Anjali Nerlekar |
28 Apr 2021 |
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Education, Nationalism and the Native Body: the Pradnya Pathshala Project |
Rahul Sarwate gives the fourth presentation on the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. |
Rahul Sarwate |
28 Apr 2021 |
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सत्ता तुझी राणीबाई: Royals in Marathi Writings |
Shraddha Kumbhojkar gives the third presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. |
Shraddha Kumbhojkar |
28 Apr 2021 |
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Translation and Retranslation: priorities, discoveries, pleasures |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Sasha Dugdale, Oliver Ready, Wes Williams |
22 Mar 2021 |
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The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 1: Performing Innocence: Belated |
Professor Emily C. Burns, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the first in the series of The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914. |
Emily C. Burns, Peter Gibian |
18 Mar 2021 |
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Book at Lunchtime: Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction - The Lodger World |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World by Dr Ushashi Dasgupta. |
Ushashi Dasgupta, Jeremy Tabling, Sophia Psarra, Wes Williams |
10 Mar 2021 |
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Lines by Alice Oswald |
It's fifty years since the publication of From the Life and Songs of the Crow (by Ted Hughes). This is a lecture about lines and other sound barriers and how Crow flies straight through them. |
Alice Oswald |
01 Mar 2021 |
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WillPlay: Chat, Play, Learn Shakespeare |
This podcast explores WillPlay, an AI-powered reimagining of Shakespeare's plays for school students. |
Abigail Williams, Felicity Brown, Rachael Hodge, Giles Lewin |
17 Feb 2021 |
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Silences |
Silences explores what we mean by silence and what silence means to us. Interweaving silences, sounds and voices, it reveals the rich pleasures and mysteries of experiences without noises or words. |
Kate McLoughlin, Ariane Jeßulat, Sylee Gore, Thorsten Weigelt |
11 Feb 2021 |
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Book at Lunchtime: Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire, written by Dr Priya Atwal. |
Priya Atwal, Faisal Devji, Polly O’Hanlon, Wes Williams |
28 Jan 2021 |
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Etiquette |
Isabel Parkinson (2015) on her debut novel, Etiquette |
Isabel Parkinson |
27 Jan 2021 |
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Reynard the Fox |
In this BodCast from the Friends of the Bodleian, Professor Dame Marina Warner interviews Anne Louise Avery, writer and art historian, on the subject of Avery's recent book, Reynard the Fox https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/reynard-the-fox |
Dame Marina Warner, Anne Louise Avery |
09 Dec 2020 |
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Episode 7: Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast |
In episode seven, we speak to Daniela Omlor (Associate Professor in Modern Spanish Literature) about Nada, by Carmen Laforet. |
Daniela Omlor |
01 Dec 2020 |
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Episode 8 - Telling stories: Psychoanalysis and alien invasion |
Tade Thompson explores alien invasion as a metaphor for colonialism and discusses the importance of psychoanalysis and self-awareness in the building of personal and group identities. |
Tade Thompson, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
30 Nov 2020 |
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Episode 7 - National myth: Rewriting America and China |
Ken Liu discusses the power of myth in the construction of national narratives and the revisionist work that epic fantasy can do to rewrite them, drawing on the weight of time as omnipresent to narrative intent. |
Ken Liu, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
23 Nov 2020 |
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Anna Atkins: Botanical Illustration and Photographic Innovation |
This event is supported by TORCH as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones of the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Geoffrey Batchen, Lena Fritsch |
20 Nov 2020 |
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Talking Afropean |
Talking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu about his award-winning book. |
Johny Pitts, Elleke Boehmer, Simukai Chigudu |
20 Nov 2020 |
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Episode 6 - Climate fiction: Content dictates form |
EJ Swift describes her deep time speculative approach to climate fiction and the effect of content on form in speculative nested or fragmented narratives. |
EJ Swift, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
19 Nov 2020 |
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Episode 5 - Kitschies, indies, and ads: Juggling narrative forms |
Jared Shurin explores his wide-ranging interests from anthologising speculative shorts to the Kitschies Awards to ethical advertising for revisioning global narratives. |
Jaren Shurin, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
12 Nov 2020 |
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Episode 6: Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast |
In episode six, we speak to Jonathan Thacker (King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies) about the two short stories Novela del casamiento engañoso and El coloquio de los perros, by Miguel de Cervantes. |
Jonathan Thacker |
10 Nov 2020 |
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Book at Lunchtime: Iconoclasm as Child's Play |
Dr Joseph Moshenska, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at University College, discusses his new book, Iconoclasm as Child's Play. |
Joseph Moshenska, Lorna Hutson, Alexandra Walsham, Kenneth Gross |
09 Nov 2020 |
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Episode 4: Short stories are short: Edit for meaning |
Mahvesh Murad discusses the work of curating and editing anthologies of speculative short fiction, ethically, refusing the word 'diversity' for doing too little, too late. |
Mahvesh Murad, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
05 Nov 2020 |
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Live 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 Week. |
Margaret MacMillan, Homi K. Bhabha |
13 Oct 2020 |
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Live 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. |
Ulrike Almut Sandig, Karen Leeder |
13 Oct 2020 |
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Episode 5: Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast |
In episode five, we speak to Laura Lonsdale (Associate Professor in Modern Spanish Literature) about Bodas de sangre, by Federico García Lorca. |
Laura Lonsdale |
09 Oct 2020 |
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Live Event: In Conversation with Maaza Mengiste |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! |
Elleke Boehmer, Maaza Mengiste, Richard Reid, Birhanu T. Gessese |
06 Oct 2020 |
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In At The Deep End |
Alex Gunz (1994, PPE) on his novel, In At The Deep End |
Alex Gunz |
02 Oct 2020 |
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Exiles From Paris |
Brigitte Adès (1982) on her novel, Exiles From Paris |
Brigitte Ades |
01 Oct 2020 |
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The Cry of the Lake |
Charlie Tyler (1993) on her debut novel, The Cry of the Lake |
Charlie Tyler |
30 Sep 2020 |
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Narrative Futures Coming Soon |
The trailer for the Narrative Futures podcast, devised and produced by Chelsea Haith, featuring interviews with eight authors and editors, and writing prompts by Louis Greenberg. |
Chelsea Haith, Lauren Beukes, Mohale Mashigo, Sami Shah |
28 Sep 2020 |
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Series Two Episode Five: Fairy and Other Transformations |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield discuss the theme of transformation through fairy or other kinds of magic. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Lucy Farrell, Inge Thomson |
22 Sep 2020 |
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Series Two Episode Four: Fairies and the Environment |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about a new theme that emerged in the ‘Modern Fairies’ project, fairies as guardians of the environment. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Ben Nicholls, Inge Thomson |
22 Sep 2020 |
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Series Two Episode Three: Fairies and Children |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield uncover the works inspired by the strange tale of the Green Children and the changeling legend. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Terri Windling, Brian McMahon |
22 Sep 2020 |
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Series Two Episode Two: Fairy Time and Space |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield explore the ways in which the project artists engaged with the fairy world as parallel and yet distinct from our world, and the ways in which time warps in the other world. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Barney Morse Brown, Ewan MacPherson |
22 Sep 2020 |
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Series Two Episode One: Introducing the Modern Fairies Project |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield introduce the artists and outcomes of the Modern Fairies Project. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield |
22 Sep 2020 |
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Live 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. |
Abigail Williams, Giles Lewin |
15 Sep 2020 |
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Live 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. |
Emma Smith, Erica Whyman |
15 Sep 2020 |
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St Antony's Looks at the World - Ep. 3 Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis |
Professor of International Relations, Faculty Fellow, St Antonys College discusses her recent reflections on the Coronavirus pandemic and what it means for our story and myth. |
Kalypso Nicolaidis |
26 Aug 2020 |
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What Tolkien learnt from 'Beowulf': Representations of Evil |
Monsters and evil in Tolkien |
Rafael J. Pascual |
16 Jul 2020 |
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Interview with Water |
This is the first ever online lecture by a Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In the lecture, Alice Oswald explores the strange connection between water and grief. |
Alice Oswald |
08 Jul 2020 |
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Episode 2: Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast |
In episode two, we speak to Oliver Noble Wood (University Lecturer in Golden Age Spanish Literature) about Lazarillo de Tormes. |
Oliver Noble Wood |
02 Jul 2020 |
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Episode 1: Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast |
In episode one, we speak to Geraldine Hazbun (Professor of Medieval Spanish Literature) about Coplas por la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique. |
Geraldine Hazbun |
02 Jul 2020 |
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Trailer: Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast |
Thinking about applying for Modern Languages at university? Listen in on our conversations with Spanish tutors at Oxford to find out what's so fascinating about the literature they teach, why they love teaching, and why they think you might love it too. |
Geraldine Hazbun, Oliver Noble Wood, Maria Del Pilar Blanco, Dominic Moran |
02 Jul 2020 |
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Creative Commons |
Why do we need people to translate when we have machine translation? |
Some people ask why they should bother learning a language when there are online apps and websites which can translate quickly and accurately. |
Matthew Reynolds, Eleni Philippou, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Adriana X Jacobs |
01 May 2020 |
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Maud Gonne MacBride: feminist, agitator, muse |
Kellogg Fellow Dr Tara Stubbs introduces us to Maud Gonne Macbride: feminist, agitator, muse. |
Tara Stubbs |
25 Apr 2020 |
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Out of Silence 1: William Shakespeare |
From the Silence Hub Network. Professor Alexandra Harris discusses Shakespeare's sonnet 23, communication in lockdown, body language and masks with Professor Kate McLoughlin. |
Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin |
24 Apr 2020 |
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Out of Silence 2: Virginia Woolf |
From the Silence Hub. Professors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin discuss Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, how the lockdown makes us feel self-conscious and what it feels like to live in momentous historical times. |
Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin |
23 Apr 2020 |
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Out of Silence 3: DH Lawrence |
From the Silence Hub Network. Professors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin read D. H. Lawrence's poem 'Silence' and discuss the beauty and terror of silence, sex and death wishes. |
Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin |
23 Apr 2020 |
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Out of Silence 4: William Cowper |
From the Network. Silence HubProfessors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin read lines from The Task by the eighteenth-century poet William Cowper and discuss the value of staying at home and not doing very much. |
Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin |
23 Apr 2020 |
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Why should we read translated texts? |
This episode explores what we lose or gain when we read a translated book. Are we missing something by reading the English translation and not the original language version? And what can the translation process tell us about how languages work? |
Jane Hiddleston, Laura Lonsdale |
16 Mar 2020 |
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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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Princeton 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. |
Martin Puchner |
20 Dec 2019 |
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Princeton 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. |
Martin Puchner |
20 Dec 2019 |
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Princeton 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. |
Martin Puchner |
20 Dec 2019 |
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Post-Conflict Landscapes 22 Nov 2019 Buildings and Collections panel |
Sarah Kay (National Trust), 'Conflict and Conscience project' and Professor Lynda Mugglestone (Oxford), 'Langscapes of War'. |
Sarah Kay, Lynda Mugglestone |
11 Dec 2019 |
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Post-Conflict Landscapes 22 Nov 2019 Seascapes panel |
Professor Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford), Writing after Waterloo: Jane Austen’s Late Fiction and Jonathan Wallis and Kiki Claxton (National Trust), 'Easington Colliery: Conflict in the Landscape'. |
Kathryn Sutherland, Jonathan Wallis, Kiki Claxton |
11 Dec 2019 |
