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101 |
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The Art of Erosion |
Inaugural Lecture of Alice Oswald, Professor of Poetry, held at the University of Oxford Exam Schools. |
Alice Oswald |
09 Dec 2019 |
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102 |
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Book 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. |
Santanu Das, Yasmin Khan, Laura Marcus, Jay Winter |
20 Nov 2019 |
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103 |
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Introduction to Modern Greek Literature |
Professor Peter Mackridge takes his audience on a whistle-stop tour of the major landmarks of Modern Greek Literature. |
Peter Mackridge |
19 Nov 2019 |
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104 |
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Supriya Chaudhuri, Significant Lives: biography, autobiography, gender, and women's history in South Asia |
Chaired by Elleke Boehmer. |
Supriya Chaudhuri |
18 Nov 2019 |
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105 |
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How 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. |
Eduardo Lalo, Elleke Boehmer, Jonny Steinberg, Premilla Nadasen |
18 Nov 2019 |
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106 |
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Southern 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. |
Joy Owen, Marcio Goldman, Ramon Sarró, Santanu Das |
18 Nov 2019 |
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107 |
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Book 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. |
Marion Turner, Bart van Es, Helen Swift, John Watts |
15 Nov 2019 |
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108 |
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‘Arriving before us’: seeing, ingenuity and imagination in Dante: Simon Gilson's Inaugural lecture |
During his inaugural lecture, Professor Gilson will show how ideas about vision and cognate faculties such as the wits and the imagination are central to Dante’s masterpiece, the Commedia. |
Simon Gilson |
22 Oct 2019 |
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109 |
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Zaharoff Lecture 2018: Je n'ai pas la tentation du silence |
Pierre Michon, writer, gives the 2018 Zaharoff lecture. Introduced by Catriona Seth. |
Pierre Michon |
18 Oct 2019 |
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110 |
Creative Commons |
Literary Allusion in Harry Potter |
J.K. Rowling’s imagination is fired by the past. How do historical objects illuminate the real-world sources of her ideas? |
Beatrice Groves, Victoria McGuinness |
11 Oct 2019 |
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111 |
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Storming 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). |
Wes Williams, Richard Scholar, Amantha Edmead, Erin Maglaque |
14 Aug 2019 |
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112 |
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Delius and the Sound of Place |
Book at Lunchtime: Delius and the Sound of Place |
Daniel Grimley, Philip Bullock, Peter Franklin, Alexandra Harris |
28 Jun 2019 |
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113 |
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Compassion's Edge |
Book at Lunchtime: Compassion's Edge, Winner of the 2018 Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize. |
Katherine Ibbett, Lorna Hutson, Teresa Bejan, Emma Claussen |
18 Jun 2019 |
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114 |
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Veteran Poetics |
Book at Lunchtime: Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 |
Suzan Kalayci, Kate McLoughlin, Santanu Das, Elleke Boehmer |
12 Jun 2019 |
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115 |
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Writing an Activist Life |
A panel discussion with Karin Amatmoekrim, Margaretta Jolly, and JC Niala, exploring the politics and poetics of writing an activist life. |
Karin Amatmoekrim, Margaretta Jolly, JC Niala |
04 Jun 2019 |
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116 |
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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer |
Simon Armitage delivers his final lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry, reflecting on his own influences as a poet. |
Simon Armitage |
17 May 2019 |
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117 |
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The 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. |
Supriya Chaudhuri |
09 Apr 2019 |
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118 |
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What 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. |
Supriya Chaudhuri |
09 Apr 2019 |
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119 |
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15cHEBRAICA: Capturing the former owners of Hebrew incunabula and their annotations in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database |
Marco Bertagna gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 1st March 2019. |
Marco Bertagna |
08 Mar 2019 |
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120 |
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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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121 |
Creative Commons |
Manuscript and Print, 1660–1760 |
Carly Watson outlines the material forms in which literary texts circulated between 1660 and 1760. |
Carly Watson |
07 Mar 2019 |
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122 |
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How 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. |
Chelsea Haith, Robert Iliffe, Gretta Corporaal, Alexandra Paddock |
05 Mar 2019 |
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123 |
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Climate Change and Literature: Reading Change |
Can literature help us understand and deal with climate change? In this episode, we talk to Dr. Jemma Deer, an Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, about how literature can help us rethink climate change. |
Jemma Deer, Alice Evatt, Henry Tann |
05 Mar 2019 |
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124 |
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Oscar 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. |
Sandra Mayer, Dominic Janes, Stefano Evangelista, Mary Luckhurst |
20 Feb 2019 |
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125 |
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Samraghni 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. |
Samraghni Bonnerjee |
19 Feb 2019 |
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126 |
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Olivia 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. |
Olivia Slater |
19 Feb 2019 |
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127 |
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Ushashi 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. |
Ushashi Dasgupta |
19 Feb 2019 |
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128 |
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Arun 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. |
Arun Sood |
19 Feb 2019 |
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129 |
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Discussion: 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. |
Blue Weiss, Mia Liyanage, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Supriya Chaudhuri |
19 Feb 2019 |
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130 |
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How 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. |
Blue Weiss, Mia Liyanage |
19 Feb 2019 |
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131 |
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How 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. |
Nana Oforiatta Ayim |
19 Feb 2019 |
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132 |
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How 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. |
Supriya Chaudhuri |
19 Feb 2019 |
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133 |
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Joe 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. |
Joe Shaughnessy |
19 Feb 2019 |
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134 |
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Elsa 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. |
Elsa Gomis |
19 Feb 2019 |
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135 |
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Rachel 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. |
Rachel Fox |
19 Feb 2019 |
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136 |
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Ethel 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. |
Ethel Maqeda |
19 Feb 2019 |
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137 |
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What 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. |
Elleke Boehmer |
19 Feb 2019 |
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138 |
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Singing 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). |
Laura Tunbridge, Kate McLoughlin, Philip Bullock, Benjamin Walton |
19 Feb 2019 |
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139 |
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Postcolonial 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). |
Elleke Boehmer, Malachi McIntosh, Ben Morgan, Richard Drayton |
14 Feb 2019 |
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140 |
Creative Commons |
Visual metre and rhythm: the function of movable devices in books |
A lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society and the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book, by Bodleian Printer in Residence, 2018, Emily Martin. |
Emily Martin |
12 Feb 2019 |
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141 |
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Bumble-Bee Witches and the Reading of Dreams: Spectacular and Speculative Marginalia in a Renaissance Reader’s Montaigne |
Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins), gives the first talk in the new term for the Centre for the Study of the Book on Friday 18th January 2019. |
Earle Havens |
30 Jan 2019 |
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142 |
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Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries |
An examination of the notebooks in which Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein. These two notebooks, one purchased probably in Geneva, the second in England, are now kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. |
Miranda Seymour, Richard Ovenden, Stephen Hebron |
29 Jan 2019 |
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143 |
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'Undisfigured by False or Vicious Ornaments' - Clarity and Obscurity in the Age of Formlessness |
The Hilary Term Professor of Poetry lecture, delivered by Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage. |
Simon Armitage |
28 Jan 2019 |
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144 |
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Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth |
A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi. |
Marina Warner, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi |
25 Jan 2019 |
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145 |
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Ibsen, 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. |
Narve Fulsas, Tore Rem, Peter McDonald, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr |
21 Jan 2019 |
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146 |
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The Heterarchical Director - A Model of Authorship for the Twenty-First Century |
The keynote talk for 'Collaboration in Theatre symposium' at the University of Oxford, 19 October 2018. |
Duška Radosavljević |
18 Dec 2018 |
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147 |
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Tales of Love and History - James Ivory in Conversation |
Oscar-winning American film-maker James Ivory will talk about his experiences with the legendary Merchant Ivory productions, in partnership with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. |
James Ivory, Richard Parkinson, Katherine Harloe, Jennifer Ingleheart |
18 Dec 2018 |
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148 |
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Making 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). |
Michèle Mendelssohn, Sos Eltis, Charles Foster, Dame Hermione Lee |
14 Dec 2018 |
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149 |
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Forward 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). |
Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Steven Hunt, Mai Musié, Peter Jones |
14 Dec 2018 |
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150 |
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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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151 |
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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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152 |
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Old Norse |
Eleanor Parker, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, Brasenose College, Oxford, gives the fifth and final talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old norse. |
Eleanor Parker |
31 Oct 2018 |
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153 |
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Old English |
Mark Atherton, Senior Lecturer in English, Regent's Park College, Oxford, gives the fourth talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old english. |
Mark Atherton |
31 Oct 2018 |
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154 |
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Gothic |
Elizabeth Solopova, Lecturer in English Literature, Christ Church, Oxford. Tolkien wrote that he was 'fascinated' with the 'beautiful' Gothic language that he started to study at school, and his literary works attest to this interest. |
Elizabeth Solopova |
31 Oct 2018 |
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155 |
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Medieval Welsh |
Tolkien once termed Welsh 'the elder language of the men of Britain'; this talk explores how the sounds and grammar of Welsh captured Tolkien's imagination and are reflected in Sindarin, one of the two major Elvish languages which he created. |
Mark Williams (English Faculty) |
31 Oct 2018 |
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156 |
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Why Read Frankenstein in 2018? |
Two hundred years after it was first published, Nick Groom explains the abiding appeal and extraordinary contemporary relevance of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. |
Nick Groom |
22 Oct 2018 |
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157 |
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Tolkien's turning point: Tolkien and the history of tongues |
Tom Shippey's lecture will move from the detail to the (eventual) design of Tolkien's languages, and even the philosophical issues embedded in Tolkien's fiction. |
Tom Shippey |
19 Sep 2018 |
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158 |
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Literacy and Democracy: Transitional Justice in South Africa |
The paper explores the work of several intellectuals reflecting on South Africa’s transition to democracy, considering how the question of literacy precedes any discussion about literature and democracy. |
Carrol Clarkson |
03 Sep 2018 |
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159 |
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Teaching the Codex 13: 2017 Summary |
Teresa Webber (Cambridge) gives closing remarks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium. |
Teresa Webber |
28 Aug 2018 |
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160 |
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Teaching the Codex 12: Continental and Anglophone Approaches 2 |
Marigold Norbye speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex colloquium about learning palaeography at the École des chartes. |
Marigold Norbye |
28 Aug 2018 |
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161 |
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Teaching the Codex 11: Continental and Anglophone Approaches 1 |
Daniel Sawyer (Oxford) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about the teaching of palaeography and codicology in Oxford’s Faculty of English. |
Daniel Sawyer |
28 Aug 2018 |
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162 |
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Teaching the Codex 10: Manuscripts and Outreach 4 |
Pauline Souleau (Oxford) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about the Manuscript Outreach Network and the Wadham-Luton Access Project. |
Pauline Souleau |
28 Aug 2018 |
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163 |
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Teaching the Codex 9: Manuscripts and Outreach 3 |
Anna Boeles Rowland (Oxford) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about the Manuscript Outreach Network. Introduction by Pauline Souleau (Oxford). |
Anna Boeles Rowland, Pauline Souleau |
28 Aug 2018 |
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164 |
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Teaching the Codex 7: Manuscripts and Outreach 1 |
Sarah Laseke (Leiden, Oxford) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about a public engagement approach to teaching palaeography. Introduction by Pauline Souleau (Oxford). |
Sarah Laseke, Pauline Souleau |
28 Aug 2018 |
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165 |
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Teaching the Codex 6: Teaching Art History in Manuscripts |
Spike Bucklow (Cambridge) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about the materiality of manuscript images. Introduction by Emily Guerry (Kent). |
Spike Bucklow, Emily Guerry |
28 Aug 2018 |
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166 |
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Zaharoff Lecture 2017: Penser dans les mots |
Penser dans les mots. (This lecture is in French.) |
Tiphaine Samoyault, Catriona Seth |
20 Jul 2018 |
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167 |
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The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Cultures of collecting in the 17th century' |
David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the fifth and final Lyell lecture on 8th May 2018. |
David Pearson |
11 Jun 2018 |
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168 |
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The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Books for the common man' |
David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the fourth Lyell lecture on 3rd May 2018. |
David Pearson |
11 Jun 2018 |
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169 |
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The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Women and books in the 17th century' |
David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the third Lyell lecture on 1st May 2018. |
David Pearson |
11 Jun 2018 |
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170 |
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The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Books for use and books for show' |
David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London gives the second 2018 Lyell lecture on 26th April 2018. |
David Pearson |
11 Jun 2018 |
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171 |
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The Lyell Lectures 2018: Book Ownership in Stuart England: 'Setting the scene: Trends and patterns' |
David Pearson, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2017-18 and Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London, gives the first of the 2018 Lyell lectures on Tuesday 24 April 2018. |
David Pearson |
11 Jun 2018 |
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172 |
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Free Reading |
Professor Lloyd Pratt delivers his inaugural lecture as Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature. |
Lloyd Pratt |
22 May 2018 |
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173 |
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Teaching the Codex 5: Teaching Music Palaeography 2 |
Margaret Bent (Oxford) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about music palaeography in the classroom. |
Margaret Bent |
10 Apr 2018 |
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174 |
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Teaching the Codex 4: Teaching Music Palaeography 1 |
Eleanor Giraud (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick) speaks about music palaeography in the classroom. |
Eleanor Giraud |
10 Apr 2018 |
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175 |
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Jane Potter speaks to Kate McLoughlin |
Dr Jane Potter, Reader in Arts at Oxford Brookes University, talks to Kate McLoughlin about textual and material commemorative cultures and the central role of words and language in the reconstruction and renegotiation of memory. |
Jane Potter, Kate McLoughlin |
28 Mar 2018 |
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176 |
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James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film |
Book at Lunchtime, James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film |
Katherine Morris, Ulrika Maude, Jeri Johnson, Cleo Hanaway-Oakley |
16 Feb 2018 |
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177 |
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Teach us how we may pray |
AElfric of Eynsham teaches the congregation to recite the Lord’s Prayer in English, 'Thu ure faeder'. MS. Hatton 115, fol. 10r. Composed 990-995, copied in the second half of the 1000s. Read by Andy Orchard. |
Andy Orchard |
16 Jan 2018 |
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178 |
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Come and dance with me in Ireland |
The lyrics of dance songs about love and longing, jotted down without music. MS. Rawl. D. 913, fol. 1r-v. Copied in the early 1300s. Read by Helen Appleton, Daniel Wakelin. |
Helen Appleton, Daniel Wakelin |
16 Jan 2018 |
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179 |
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If it be played |
In the play The Burial of Christ, Joseph, Mary Magdalen and three other women cry out when they see Jesus on the Cross. MS. e Musaeo 160, fol. 141r. Copied c. 1518–1520. Read by Helen Appleton, Angela O'Brien, Daniel Sawyer, Wing Tan Lai. |
Helen Appleton, Angela O'Brien, Daniel Sawyer, Wing Tan Lai |
16 Jan 2018 |
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180 |
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Listeneth now and beth not deaf! |
A travelling preacher recites a poem, warning about the horrors of death. MS. Add. E. 6 (R). Copied in the late 1200s. Read by Daniel Wakelin. |
Daniel Wakelin |
16 Jan 2018 |
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181 |
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Research behind... Understanding Misunderstanding |
A podcast about a song about the parallels of fake news today and satire in the 18th Century based on research by Prof Abigail Williams at the University of Oxford |
Abigail Williams |
09 Jan 2018 |
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182 |
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The Women who 'Meant to Do It': George Eliot and Celebrity Performance |
Life-Writing and Female Celebrity, 4 Nov 2017 Keynote: Patricia Duncker |
Patricia Duncker |
08 Jan 2018 |
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183 |
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Life-writing and female celebrity - Panel 1 |
Women's Lives and Celebrity in the 18th Century (chair: Anna Senkiw) Ruth Scobie - Pre-Truth Media and the Female Imposter: The Case of ‘Elizabeth Harriet Grieve’ |
Ruth Scobie |
08 Jan 2018 |
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184 |
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Life-Writing and Female Celebrity, 4 Nov 2017 Panel 2: Female Celebrity Performance across Media and Genres |
Chaired by Sandra Mayer, with Mary Luckhurst, Oline Eaton and Hannah Yelin. |
Mary Luckhurst, Oline Eaton, Hannah Yelin |
08 Jan 2018 |
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185 |
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'Art and Attunement', by Professor Rita Felski, University of Virginia and Southern Denmark |
In this talk Rita Felski reported at new research on how we engage with works of art across a broad range (including cat videos) and considered the puzzling question of why we are drawn by some pieces of music, art and literature, and not by others. |
Rita Felski |
19 Dec 2017 |
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186 |
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Rachel Seiffert speaks to Catherine Gilbert |
Novelist Rachel Seiffert talks to Dr Catherine Gilbert about the ritual of memory and the possibilities of fiction as a response to a difficult past. |
Rachel Seiffert, Catherine Gilbert |
08 Dec 2017 |
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187 |
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Lyndsey Stonebridge speaks to Rita Phillips |
Lyndsey Stonebridge, Professor of Modern Literature and History at the University of East Anglia, talks to Rita Phillips about literary humanitarianism and the ethics of empathy. |
Lyndsey Stonebridge, Rita Phillips |
08 Dec 2017 |
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188 |
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Elleke Boehmer speaks to Kate McLoughlin |
Elleke Boehmer talks to Kate McLoughlin about her most recent novel, The Shouting in the Dark, the language of reconciliation in South Africa, and the creative potential for the work of both fiction and literary criticism. |
Elleke Boehmer, Kate McLoughlin |
08 Dec 2017 |
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189 |
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Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions |
Book at Lunchtime held on 8th November 2017. |
Gervase Rosser, Georgi Parpulov, Stefanie Lenk, Kate Cooper |
27 Nov 2017 |
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190 |
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Conflict and Community: Panel-led Workshop 2 |
Mobilising the wide-ranging expertise of the speakers, this workshop explored questions of narrative, community and the special commemorative needs that arise in the wake of civil war and terrorism. |
Rachel Seiffert, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Harvey Whitehouse, Helen Small |
24 Nov 2017 |
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191 |
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Poetry and Life-Writing: Panel-led Workshop 1 |
Bringing together experts working at the intersection of literature, human rights, foreign policy and peace initiatives, this workshop explored the role of poetry and life-writing in post-war healing. |
Dunya Mikhail, Philippe Sands, Lord John Alderdice, Jeremy Treglown |
21 Nov 2017 |
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192 |
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Aminatta Forna speaks to Catherine Gilbert |
Aminatta Forna OBE, author of The Devil that Danced on the Water, talks to Dr Catherine Gilbert about silence, narrative and resilience in Sierra Leone. |
Aminatta Forna, Catherine Gilbert |
21 Nov 2017 |
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193 |
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Philippe Sands speaks to Kate McLoughlin |
Philippe Sands, QC, international human rights lawyer and author of East West Street, talks to Kate McLoughlin about the law-court as a place of commemoration and what he came to understand outside the city of Lviv. |
Philippe Sands, Kate McLoughlin |
21 Nov 2017 |
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194 |
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Memoir and Memory: Aminatta Forna in Conversation with Elleke Boehmer |
Launch event for the Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series. Aminatta Forna, OBE (novelist and memoirist, Lannan Visiting Professor of Poetics at Georgetown University) in conversation with Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, Oxford). |
Aminatta Forna, Elleke Boehmer |
20 Nov 2017 |
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195 |
Creative Commons |
The Future of Publishing |
A talk that focuses on promoting and championing scientific literature. |
Ritu Dhand |
19 Oct 2017 |
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196 |
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Understanding Misunderstanding |
A song about the parallels of fake news today and satire in the 18th Century based on research by Prof Abigail Williams at the University of Oxford |
Abigail Williams |
16 Oct 2017 |
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197 |
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Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland on writing and community |
Writers Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland read from their work, and discuss why they write, who they write for, their imagined audiences, and how their writing relates to their identities. |
Selma Dabbagh, Courttia Newland |
25 Aug 2017 |
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198 |
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M. NourbeSe Philip on the haunting of history |
M. NourbeSe Philip reads from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and Zong! (2008) as she describes her poetic development. |
M NourbeSe Philip, Marina Warner, Matthew Reynolds, Elleke Boehmer |
25 Aug 2017 |
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199 |
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Editors and contributors, The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing |
Profs Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein speak about the genesis of their new Cambridge History project, Dr Gail Low discusses the networks and institutions of Caribbean-British writing. |
Susheila Nasta, Mark Stein, Gail Low, Henghameh Saroukhani |
25 Aug 2017 |
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200 |
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Aminatta Forna on writing memory and trauma in The Memory of Love |
Aminatta Forna gives a reading from her award-winning novel, The Memory of Love (2010), and discusses it with Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee. She talks about the psychology of war and healing after conflict, and about love, betrayal and complicity. |
Aminatta Forna, Ankhi Mukherjee |
25 Aug 2017 |
