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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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310 | Discussion: 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. | Kwame Dawes, Jok Madut Jok, Peter D McDonald, Anu Anand | 15 Feb 2019 | |
309 | OYUB Radio Play | OYUB is a Russian documentary play about the life of Oyub Titiev, a human rights activist in the Republic of Chechnya, Russia. | Julie Curtis, Peter Wieltschnig, Jacob Burns, Mistale Taylor | 17 Jun 2020 | |
308 | Germs 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. | Emilie Taylor-Brown, Jamie Lorimer, Nicola Fawcett, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr | 25 Apr 2017 | |
307 | TORCH (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. | Lia Costiner, Richard Smith, Matthew Nichols | 10 Jun 2020 | |
306 | Peter 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. | Peter D McDonald | 15 Feb 2019 | |
305 | Creative Commons | Welcome to Teddie Cast, the podcast of the Oxford Critical Theory Network (TORCH) | In our very first episode, our host and network convenor Lillian Hingley (DPhil English, Oxford) reflects upon her thoughts in lockdown. | Lillian Hingley | 19 May 2020 |
304 | The Pragmatic Enlightenment and Other Enlightenments | Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston) discusses his book 'The Pragmatic Enlightenment' | Dennis Rasmussen | 14 Oct 2015 | |
303 | 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 | |
302 | The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity | A discussion exploring Pedro Ferreira's book | Pedro Ferreira, Harvey Brown, Alex Butterworth, Javier Lezaun | 16 Mar 2015 | |
301 | 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 | |
300 | The Jagiellonians | Dr Natalia Nowakowska introduces a new research project which examines the Renaissance Europe Jagiellonian dynasty as an international political phenomenon. | Natalia Nowakowska | 12 Sep 2014 | |
299 | 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 | |
298 | Humanities and Science: Culture and Technology | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring culture’s interaction with technology | Maria Blanco, Fritz Vollrath, Andrew Wilson, Lionel Tarassenko | 16 Mar 2015 | |
297 | 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 | |
296 | Science and the Humanities | Are the Humanities and the Sciences fundamentally different? Or do they share roots, values, aspirations and a common, contemporary predicament? | Howard Hotson, Ian Walmsley, Mark Pagel, Sally Shuttleworth | 04 Mar 2014 | |
295 | Imitating Authors | Book at Lunchtime: Imitating Authors | Colin Burrow, Wes Williams, Kathryn Murphy, Stephen Halliwell | 24 Feb 2020 | |
294 | Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century | A discussion of Omar Nasim's book | Omar Nasim, Stephen Johnston, Martin Kemp, Chris Lintott | 16 Mar 2015 | |
293 | Humanities 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. | The Projection Studio | 11 Feb 2020 | |
292 | Creative Commons | African Knowledge and Livestock Health | Book at Lunchtime interview with Karen Brown and William Beinart about their book “African Knowledge and Livestock Health” | Karen Brown, William Beinart | 13 Feb 2014 |
291 | 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 | |
290 | 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 | |
289 | Empires of the Mind | Book at Lunchtime: Empires of the Mind | Robert Gildea, Rana Mitter, Faridah Zaman, Philip Bullock | 29 Jan 2020 | |
288 | Oxford University International Women's Day 2015 | Feminists, acadeamics and journalists reflect on feminism's achievements and future path. | Selina Todd, Senia Paseta, Melissa Benn, Trudy Coe | 16 Mar 2015 | |
287 | Patience 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. | Patience Agbabi, Elleke Boehmer, Marion Turner | 14 Jan 2020 | |
286 | Ashmolean 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. | Highlights | 13 Jan 2020 | |
285 | Wayne 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). | Wayne McGregor, Phil Barnard, Eckhard Thiemann | 16 Mar 2015 | |
284 | 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 | |
283 | Reni 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). | Reni Eddo-Lodge, Rebecca Surender | 28 Jun 2018 | |
282 | 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 | |
281 | 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 | |
280 | Creative Commons | Lost 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. | Leah Broad | 13 Jun 2018 |
279 | Humanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! | Highlights of the Humanities Night Light event. | Tom Crawford | 19 Dec 2019 | |
278 | Faith and Wisdom in Science | A Book at Lunchtime discussion with Tom McLeish, Sally Shuttleworth, John Christie and Ard A. Louis | Tom McLeish, Sally Shuttleworth, John Christie, Ard Louis | 19 Feb 2015 | |
277 | Discovering 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. | Stephen Harris | 17 Dec 2019 | |
276 | A 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 | 21 Feb 2017 | |
275 | The Meaning of Carpe Diem | How "seize the day" does not get CLOSE to capturing the power of the poet Horace's words | Llewelyn Morgan | 17 Dec 2019 | |
274 | Humanities and Science: Randomness and Order | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring the role of randomness and order in physics, probability, history and music. | Ian Walmsley, Jonathan Cross, Alison Etheridge, Chris Wickham | 18 Feb 2015 | |
273 | Supping 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 | Janet Dunkelbarger | 17 Dec 2019 | |
272 | Leviathan 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 | Ritchie Robertson, David Wootton, Michael Hunter | 12 May 2015 | |
271 | Gorgons, 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. | Alison Pollard | 17 Dec 2019 | |
270 | The Stressed Sex: Uncovering the Truth About Men, Women, and Mental Health | An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discuss Daniel Freeman's book | Daniel Freeman, Elaine Fox, Avner Offer, Janet Radcliffe Richards | 09 Feb 2015 | |
269 | Last Supper in Pompeii: An introduction to the Pompeii Exhibition | Exploring the narrative of the show through a selection of highlighted objects | Ilaria Perzia | 17 Dec 2019 | |
268 | Charles-de-Gaulle – The castle of Ferrières, an emblematic house | Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy (Université gives a talk for the JCH conference's fifth session; Building New. | Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy | 23 May 2018 | |
267 | Book 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. | Ruth Scobie, Wes Williams, Ros Ballaster, Anna Senkiw | 10 Dec 2019 | |
266 | Disraeli at Hughenden - A Fish out of Water? | Todd Endelman (University of Michigan) gives a talk for the JCH conference's third session; The Political World of the Jewish Country House. | Todd Endelman | 23 May 2018 | |
265 | The 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. | Tom Crawford | 10 Dec 2019 | |
264 | Property and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Provincial Austria | Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) gives a talk for the JCH conference's first conference The Lure of the Land. | Lisa Silverman | 23 May 2018 | |
263 | Unveiling 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. | Fanny Lacote | 10 Dec 2019 | |
262 | Creative Commons | Unsilencing the library: An exhibition at Compton Verney | Research into how books make us feel. | Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Sophie Ratcliffe, Steven Parissien | 23 Jun 2017 |
261 | Cuneiform 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. | Frances Reynolds | 10 Dec 2019 | |
260 | A History of Algeria | James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country | James McDougal, Eugene Rogan, Laleh Khalili, Robert Gildea | 25 Jan 2018 | |
259 | Discovering 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. | Jo Bullivant | 10 Dec 2019 | |
258 | Creative Commons | Chasing Butterflies: Capturing the Transience of Childhood | Emily Knight talks at the Ashmolean Museum about eighteenth-century portraits of children. | Emily Knight | 07 Jun 2016 |
257 | The 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. | Nandini Das | 10 Dec 2019 | |
256 | Unflattening | With Nick Sousanis | Nick Sousanis, Dominic Davies, Segolene Tarte | 05 Sep 2017 | |
255 | Images of Mithra | Book at Lunchtime discussion | Dominic Dalglish, Josephine Quinn, Elleke Boehmer, Robert Bracey | 03 Jul 2017 | |
254 | Discovering 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. | Jacob Dahl | 10 Dec 2019 | |
253 | Creative Commons | Recreating the music of an ancient Greek chorus: Euripides Orestes | Research into ancient music. | Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Armand O Angour | 23 Jun 2017 |
252 | The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads | An interdisciplinary panel discussion exploring the life and legacy of the dodo | multiple | 07 Dec 2015 | |
251 | Secrets 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? | Daniel Sawyer | 10 Dec 2019 | |
250 | Progress, Providence, Eschaton: Löwith, Blumenberg, and After | Speaker: Jean-Claude Monond (ENS) | Jean-Claude Monond | 19 Jun 2017 | |
249 | Creative Commons | Deborah Cameron - What Does Diversity Mean to Me? | Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities | Deborah Cameron | 28 Mar 2017 |
248 | AI 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. | Marcus du Sautoy, Emily Howard, Sarah Ellis, Rana Mitter | 27 Nov 2019 | |
247 | Creative Commons | The Death Masks of Macbeth | Professor Simon Palfrey discusses the deaths and afterlives of Oliver Cromwell and Macbeth | Simon Palfrey | 07 Jun 2016 |
246 | Humanities and Science: Mental Health | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring the role of the humanities in mental health. | Edward Harcourt, John Geddes, Matthew Broome, Emily Troscianko | 09 Feb 2015 | |
245 | Chineke! Championing Change and Celebrating Diversity in Classical Music | Chineke! Founder Chi Chi Nwanoku OBE talks about her orchestra of majority BME musicians. | Chi Chi Nwanoku OBE, Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey | 20 Nov 2019 | |
244 | Philip Sassoon: perfectionism and the English country house | Jane Stevenson (University of Oxford) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fifth panel; Building New. | Jane Stevenson | 23 May 2018 | |
243 | On Real and Imagined Catastrophes: Gershom Scholem's Sabbatinism | Speaker: Amir Engel (Hebrew University) | Amir Engel | 19 Jun 2017 | |
242 | 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 | |
241 | FRIGHT 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. | Barry Murname | 12 Dec 2016 | |
240 | The 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 | 07 Dec 2015 | |
239 | On Violence, Gender, and Sacrifice: Old Stories and New Reflections | Part of the Sacrifice Revisited event | Kimberley Hutchings | 22 May 2017 | |
238 | Martin Luther - Renegade and Prophet | Part of the Book at Lunchtime series | Lyndal Roper, Laura Marcus, Simeon Zahl, Jas Elsner | 08 Nov 2016 | |
237 | Ethnicity and Politics in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Kurdish Case | Dr. Djene Bajalan talks as part of the Language and Community from the Armenian to Iranian Plateaux series | Djene Bajalan | 26 Jan 2016 | |
236 | Crossing Boundaries: Medievalists in Cross-Disciplinary Conversation | Launch event for the TORCH programme Oxford Medieval Studies | Emma Dillon, Henrike Lähnemann, David Wallace, Chris Wickham | 13 Jan 2016 | |
235 | Unconscious Memory and Mental Space | Professor Michael Burke and Dr Sebastian Groes | Michael Burke, Sebastian Groes, Ben Morgan | 26 Jan 2015 | |
234 | Creative Commons | In Everyone's Interests - the highlights | Panel discussion on what it means to invest in the humanities | Andrew Hamilton, Earl Lewis, Hermione Lee, Charlotte Higgins | 04 Feb 2014 |
233 | What made a Jewish country home Jewish? | Leora Auslander (University of Chicago) gives the keynote talk for the JCH conference. | Leora Auslander | 23 May 2018 | |
232 | Schloss Freienwalde: a Jewish restoration of a Prussian legacy | Martin Sabrow (ZZF Potsdam/ Humboldt University) gives a talk for the JCH conference's third session; The Political World of the Jewish Country House. | Martin Sabrow | 23 May 2018 | |
231 | Aristotle on Perceiving Objects | A discussion of Anna Marmodoro's book | Anna Marmodoro, Ophelia Deroy, Richard Sorabji, Rowland Stout | 14 May 2015 | |
230 | Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions | Mary Beard and Neil MacGregor in conversation | undefined | 24 Jan 2018 | |
229 | Robespierre and the Politicians' Terror | The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network hosted a talk on 'Robespierre and the Politicians’ Terror' with Marisa Linton (Kingston University). | Marisa Linton | 10 May 2017 | |
228 | Chris 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 | 26 Jan 2016 | |
227 | Creative Commons | Storming Utopia | The director from the Pegasus theatre in Oxford, talks about his upcoming theatre piece. | Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Wes Williams | 23 Jun 2017 |
226 | How the Mouse Lost its Tail, Or, Lamarck's Dangerous Idea | Speaker: Jessica Riskin (University of Stanford) | Jessica Riskin | 19 Jun 2017 | |
225 | Alison 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 | Alison Light | 08 Dec 2014 | |
224 | Gunnersbury Park, 1835-1925: a Rothschild Family Villa | Diana Davis gives a talk for the JCH conference's second panel, Villas and Chateaux. | Diana Davis | 23 May 2018 | |
223 | #NeverHillary vs #NeverTrump | The US Election on Social Media Panel Discussion | Philip N Howard, Gemma Joyce, Matthew Lee Anderson, Yin Yin Lu | 01 Feb 2017 | |
222 | Interview with Dr Sophie Ratcliffe | Practical Medical Humanities | Dr Sophie Ratcliffe | 30 Nov 2015 | |
221 | Ethnicised 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. | Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, Faisal Devji, Peter Leary, Ilya Afanasyev | 22 Feb 2018 | |
220 | Creative Commons | Jay Stewart - What Does Diversity Mean to Me? | Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities' | Jay Stewart | 28 Mar 2017 |
219 | Factors Affecting Iranian Identities from the Early Islamic Era to the Sixteenth Century | Ahmad Ashraf gives a talk as part of the The Long History of Identity, Ethnicity, and Nationhood workshop | Ahmad Ashra | 04 Jan 2016 | |
218 | Jok 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. | Jok Madut Jok | 15 Feb 2019 | |
217 | Living Bilingual | Professor Elleke Boehmer (Director of TORCH) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Linguamania, Ashmolean Museum. | Elleke Boehmer | 22 Feb 2017 | |
216 | Creative Commons | Andy Warhol's Girls | Eleri Watson explores Andy Warhol's relationships with women. | Eleri Watson | 07 Jun 2016 |
215 | Repositioning Women's Health Care: A Case Study on Women Who Survived Ebola in Sierra Leone | Part of the Humanities & Identities Lunchtime Series | Elleke Boehmer, Fatou Wurie | 27 Jun 2017 | |
214 | 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 | |
213 | Heroes 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. | Carolyne Larrington | 10 Feb 2016 | |
212 | Surrealism’s Political-Theological Afterlife: Benjamin—Blumenberg—Taubes | Speaker: Julia Ng (Goldsmith's) | Julia Ng | 19 Jun 2017 | |
211 | The Dodo in Literature | Literary scholar Kirsten Shepherd-Barr’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’ | Kirsten Shepherd-Barr | 07 Dec 2015 |
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