Humanities Division
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The Humanities Division is one of four academic divisions in the University of Oxford, bringing together the faculties of Classics; English; History; Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics; Medieval and Modern Languages; Music; Oriental Studies; Philosophy; and Theology, as well as the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
The Division offers world-class teaching and research, backed by the superb resources of the University’s libraries and museums, including the famous Bodleian Library, with its 11 million volumes and priceless early book and manuscript collections, and the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Such historic resources are linked to cutting-edge agendas in research and teaching, with an increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary study. Our faculties are among the largest in the world, enabling Oxford to offer an education in Arts and Humanities unparalleled in its range of subjects, from music and fine art to ancient and modern languages.
Series associated with Humanities Division
"British" World War One Poetry: An Introduction
'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference
2013 Carnegie-Uehiro-Oxford Ethics Conference: Happiness and Well-Being
A Writer's War
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures
African(a) and South Asian Philosophies
Alan Turing on Computability and Intelligence
Alliance
Ancient Egyptian Poetry
Ancient History HT2015: Digital Classics
Approaching Shakespeare
Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America
Art and Action: The Intersections of Literary Celebrity and Politics
Bio-Ethics Bites
Broadcast Media
Buddhist Studies at Oxford
Cantemir Institute
Censorship in Literature in South Africa
Centre for the Study of the Book
Challenging the Canon
Chaucer for Beginners
Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening participation in the Humanities
D.H. Lawrence
David Hume (2018)
Death at the Museum
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
Diplomacy and culture at the Ottoman Court
Diseases in Dialogue
Edward Lear's Feelings
Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius: A Story in Five Places
English at Oxford
English Graduate Conference 2012
Ethics in AI
Euthydemus - Platonic Dialogue
Exploring Humanities - The Ertegun Scholarship Programme
Faculty of Classics
Faculty of English - Introductions
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Fantasy Literature
Folk Tunes and Englishness
From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops
Gender and Authority
General Linguistics Seminar
General Philosophy
General Philosophy (2018)
George Eliot
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions
Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar series, 2016-2017
Great Writers Inspire
Great Writers Inspire at Home
Greece in Crisis: Culture, Identity, Politics
Hensley Henson Lectures 2018 - Thomas Cromwell: Enterprising Reformation
Hensley Henson Lectures 2019 Art, Craft and Theology: Making Good Words
History Faculty
History of Art Radio Hour
History of Art: Careers in Arts and Heritage
History of Art: Slade Lecture Series
History of Art: Special Lectures and Research Seminars
History of Art: Terra Foundation Lecture Series in American Art
History of Art: Undergraduate Course Lectures
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems
How Epidemics End
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
Hume's Central Principles
Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion
Ian Ramsey Centre: The Deist Controversy
Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
Indian Traces in Oxford
Institute for Visual Research
Interviews on Great Writers
Interviews with Philosophers
Introducing the Qur'an
Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One
Is the playwright dead?
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
Journal of Practical Ethics
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
La Bella Principessa: A Leonardo Discovered
Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium
Les Liaisons dangereuses in 5x5
Literature and Form
Literature, Art and Oxford
Literature, democracy and transitional justice
Medea, a performance history: APGRD eBooks
Medieval English
Medieval German Studies
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
Metaphor: Philosophical Issues
Modern Fairies
Modern Languages Inaugural lectures
MOVING, TEACHING, INSPIRING: The National Trust and University of Oxford in the 21st Century
MSt English Language
Musical Abstracts
Narrative Futures
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
Oriental Institute
Origins of Nature
Oscar Wilde
Oxford German Exchange Series on Brexit
Oxford Humanities - Research Showcase: Global Exploration, Innovation and Influence
Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast
Oxford Writers' House Talks
Perceptions of Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Philosophical perspectives on the causes of mental illness
Philosophy - Ethics of the New Biosciences
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy Special Lectures
Photo Archives VI: The Place of Photography
Poetry with A.E. Stallings
Poetry with Simon Armitage
Post-Conflict Landscapes
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies
Practical Ethics Bites
Practice Makes… the Oxford Reimagining Performance Podcast
Professor of Poetry
Promoting Interdisciplinary Engagement in the Digital Humanities
Putting magic in place: a knowledge exchange event
Race and Resistance: Understanding Bermuda Today
Reformation 2017
Regional Classics
Reid's Critique of Hume
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures
Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment
Renegotiations of History in light of the 'Greek Crisis'
Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction
Rethinking Moral Status
Rothermere American Institute
Ruskin School of Art
Russian Ab Initio Students: Pre-Course Listening Material
Sacrifice and Modern Thought
Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches critiques
Samuel Johnson
Science and Religious Conflict Conference
Shakespeare's First Folio (ePub format)
Sleep and the Rhythms of Life
Social Media and Faith
Spain: 1959 - 1992
Staging Shakespeare
Staying Alive: Poetry and Crisis
Stories, Spaces and Societies - Globalising and Localising the Great War
Talking Sense
Taylor Lecture
Teaching the Codex
Teaching to Transgress
Textual Therapies
The Beazley Archive - Classical Art Research Centre
The Dragon and The Cross: Christianity in China
The End of Journalism
The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII
The Fall of the Roman Empire (Bryan Ward-Perkins)
The Global History of Capitalism
The King James Bible Lecture Series
The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli
The New Madhyamaka
The Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership
The Oxford Sound Album
The Oxford/Berlin Creative Collaborations
The Pandemic Ethics Accelerator Podcasts
The Remedy
The Value of Humanities
The View from Above: Structure, Emergence, and Causation
The Zaharoff Lecture
Their Finest Hour
Theology Faculty
Thinking Out Loud: leading philosophers discuss topical global issues
Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar
Tolkien at Oxford
TORCH Post-Show Conversations
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Traces of the White Rose
Transforming Nineteenth-Century Historically Informed Practice
Translation and Medical Humanities
Uehiro Lectures: Practical solutions for ethical challenges
Uehiro Oxford Institute
Unconscious Memory
Unlocking Late Schumann
Valentine's Day at Oxford
Voltaire Foundation
War and Representation
Was there a Russian Enlightenment?
What is Tragedy?
What is Translation?
What next after your PhD? Getting published in journals and getting your first academic job
Women in Oxford's History (Series One)
Women's Responses to the Reformation
Writers in Dialogue
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| 2762 | Antigone through a digital lens, with Creation Theatre | Creation Theatre's Artistic Director Dr Helen Eastman talks about digital theatre, Creation's award-winning approach to digital work, and how they have used it both to interpret and to intervene in Sophocles' ancient tragedy. | Helen Eastman, Giovanna Di Martino, Claire Barnes | 26 Sep 2024 | |
| 2761 | Asian Territorial Deity Cosmologies as Vehicles for the Transmission of Buddhadharma (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series) | Robert Mayer's analysis of Guru Chowang's enduring connection between territorial deity cosmologies and the preservation of hidden teachings in Tibetan Buddhism | Robert Mayer | 05 Jul 2024 | |
| 2760 | Nāgas and relic treasures in the Mahāvaṃsa (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series) | Kristin Scheible uncovers the hidden role of nāgas in defining Buddhist treasures and explores their surprising significance in safeguarding sacred relics through early texts | Kristin Scheible | 05 Jul 2024 | |
| 2759 | The Successive Avatars of the Heart Essence of the Ḍākinī: Termas as Continuous Revelation (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series) | Team presentation on the project "For a Critical History of the Northern Treasures" (FCHNT) | For a Critical History of the Northern Treasures (FCHNT) | 13 Jun 2024 | |
| 2758 | Concealed Prosperity: Why People and Territorial Deities Need Treasures (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series) | This talk explores the intricate cosmology of territorial deities in Tibet and related concepts of land, prosperity, and fecundity, as well as sociality and socio-political organisation | Anna Sehnalova | 13 Jun 2024 | |
| 2757 | Creative Commons | Sleep, Insomnia and Wellbeing: Historical Perspectives | The Sleep and the Rhythms of Life Network welcomed Brigitte Steger (Japanese Studies, Cambridge) and Megan Leitch (English Literature, Cardiff, and President of the International Arthurian Society British Branch) to present two papers. | Brigitte Steger, Megan Leitch | 22 May 2024 |
| 2756 | Pirates, Poets, and "Plagiarism" | How Lord Byron translated, and was translated by, Greek poetry and reality. | Alicia Stallings | 17 May 2024 | |
| 2755 | The Poetics of Text Reuse | The Poetics of Text Reuse: Digital Intertextuality in the Eighteenth-century Archive | Glenn Roe | 10 May 2024 | |
| 2754 | Creative Commons | Marco Martinelli and Teatro delle Albe: Italy and Community Theatre | A podcast episode with Marco Martinelli | Marco Martinelli, Giovanna Di Martino, Claire Barnes | 23 Apr 2024 |
| 2753 | The Vagueness of Demandingness Objections | A St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, recorded at St Cross College, Oxford in February 2024. | Marcel van Ackeren | 28 Mar 2024 | |
| 2752 | Creative Commons | 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Knowledge and Achievement as Public Policy Goals (3 of 3) | A recording of the third and final of Professor Hurka's rescheduled lectures, series title Knowledge and Achievement: Their Value, Nature, and Public Policy Role | Thomas Hurka | 15 Mar 2024 |
| 2751 | Creative Commons | 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Degrees of Value in Knowledge and Achievement (2 of 3) | A recording of the second of Professor Hurka's rescheduled lectures, series title "Knowledge and Achievement: Their Value, Nature, and Public Policy Role" | Thomas Hurka | 15 Mar 2024 |
| 2750 | Creative Commons | 2023 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Knowledge and Achievement as Organic Goods (1 of 3) | A recording of the first of Professor Hurka's rescheduled lectures, series title "Knowledge and Achievement: Their Value, Nature, and Public Policy Role" | Thomas Hurka | 15 Mar 2024 |
| 2749 | Creative Commons | Dance Music, Wakefulness and Embodied Rhythm – Part 4 | How could different types of music be used in therapy? Oxford medical graduate and working musician and DJ Michael Diamond discusses the features of different music genres types of music and their therapeutic potential. | Eric Clarke, Michael Diamond | 22 Feb 2024 |
| 2748 | Creative Commons | Dance Music, Wakefulness and Embodied Rhythm – Part 3 | How can electronic dance music tools and techniques be used to manipulate music for psychological ends, for example to enhance sleep? | Eric Clarke, Michael Diamond | 22 Feb 2024 |
| 2747 | Creative Commons | Dance Music, Wakefulness and Embodied Rhythm – Part 2 | How does a DJ use different music to engage listeners, from a neuropsychological perspective? Professor Eric Clarke (Emeritus Professor of Music at Oxford) and Michael Diamond (Oxford medical graduate and musician/DJ) discuss. | Eric Clarke, Michael Diamond | 22 Feb 2024 |
| 2746 | Creative Commons | Dance Music, Wakefulness and Embodied Rhythm – Part 1 | What's the relationship between music and the rhythms of our lives? Professor Sally Shuttleworth asks Professor Eric Clarke (Music at University of Oxford) and Michael Diamond (Oxford medical graduate and musician/DJ) to discuss. | Sally Shuttleworth, Eric Clarke, Michael Diamond | 22 Feb 2024 |
| 2745 | Legacies | In this final episode, Tom Herring and Dr Alexandra Lloyd explore the enduring legacies of the White Rose, with contributions from students, academics, and authors working on this remarkable resistance group. | Tom Herring, Alexandra Lloyd | 21 Feb 2024 | |
| 2744 | Mr Eugenides after the Burning of Smyrna: George Seferis and The Waste Land | A.E. Stallings gave a lecture as the Oxford Professor of Poetry on 15 February 2024. She talked on Mr Eugenides after the Burning of Smyrna: George Seferis and The Waste Land | Alicia Stallings | 20 Feb 2024 | |
| 2743 | A Vital Practice: Translating Narrative Prothesis in Émile Zola’s L’Assommoir | Magdala Jeudy demonstrates her practice of translation with an episode from Emile Zola's L'Assommoir that raises many questions about conscious and unconscious translation practices. | Magdala Lissa Jeudy | 12 Feb 2024 | |
| 2742 | 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 |
| 2741 | 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 |
| 2740 | 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 |
| 2739 | Creative Commons | Chaucer 4 - The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale | Professor Marion Turner introduces one of the most famous and intricate tales from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales – "The Wife of Bath." | Marion Turner, Karen Carey | 08 Feb 2024 |
| 2738 | Creative Commons | Chaucer 3 - The Miller’s Tale | Professor Marion Turner introduces the ribald and humorous world of one of the Canterbury Tales' most famous stories – "The Miller's Tale." | Marion Turner, Karen Carey | 08 Feb 2024 |
| 2737 | 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 |
| 2736 | 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 |
| 2735 | Conference Highlights | A short film highlighting the two day Translation and Medical Humanities Conference 2023 | Trish Greenhalgh, Nicola Gardini, Charles Briggs, Mona Baker | 04 Jan 2024 | |
| 2734 | Into the Translation Zone | Marta Arnaldi introduces the idea that medical humanities is a fundamentally translational field. This vision reshuffle, and invites us to rethink, our beliefs of what counts as science, practice, and/or knowledge. | Marta Arnaldi | 04 Jan 2024 | |
| 2733 | I shiver a little, I shudder a little:” Gist Translation and Uncanny Bodily Knowledges | A moving scholarly exploration and poetic performance. | Alison Phipps, Tawona Sitholé | 04 Jan 2024 | |
| 2732 | Working Knowledge and the Duality of Uncertainty: Translating Heterogeneous Knowledge Networks in Long Covid Clinics | In this keynote speech, Trish Greenhalgh uses ideas of translation to analyse, make sense of, and bring under a unified lens the heterogenous knowledge networks at play in long-covid clinics. | Trish Greenhalgh | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 2731 | Conversations Across the Translational Medical Humanities | The speakers outline the possibilities and implications catalysed by rethinking translation and medical humanities as continuous, ever-changing, and synergistic fields. | Marta Arnaldi, Charles Briggs, Charles Forsdick, John Ødemark | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 2730 | Translating Symbolism into Precision Medicine | A fascinating exploration of the likenesses between cellular and verbal communication, and their impact on the insurgence of disease. | Banafshé Larijani | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 2729 | Health Rhymes with Death | Nicola Gardini challenges the idea that health is the opposite of disease. | Nicola Gardini | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 2728 | Translation and Medical Humanities: Personal Narratives, Scholarly Journeys, and Visions | The speakers share their disciplinary journeys (and crossings) by outlining the ways in which they came to research translation and medical humanities independently and collaboratively, as separate areas and as a unified field. | Marta Arnaldi, Eivind Engebretsen, Charles Forsdick, John Ødemark | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 2727 | Health, Ecology and Activism: The Dark Side of Translation | Mona Baker’s key note examines the work of recently founded groups of volunteer translators who focus on the intersection of health and the environment. | Mona Baker | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 2726 | Medical Humanities’ Translational Core: Remodeling the Field | Marta Arnaldi helps us imagine medical humanities as a fundamentally translational field. She envisions ways of thinking translationally about health and disease, while also pinpointing potential risks and likely areas of failure. | Marta Arnaldi | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 2725 | Bodies in Translation: Towards a Translational Medical Humanities | Professor John Ødemark outlines the key ideas underpinning the Bodies in Translation project and its role in shaping a translational medical humanities imagination. | John Ødemark | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 2724 | Incommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine | This keynote lecture approaches issues of translation by decolonizing dominant conceptions of language and medicine. It proposes collaborations aimed at creating incommunicability-free zone that promote communicative justice in health and medicine. | Charles Briggs | 03 Jan 2024 | |
| 2723 | J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Philologist | A talk by Professor Simon Horobin on Tolkien's long-standing career and interest in philology as part of the Tolkien 50th Commemoration seminar series. | Simon Horobin | 11 Dec 2023 | |
| 2722 | Tolkien and Beowulf | A talk by Dr Laura Varnam on Tolkien's long engagement with the Old English poem 'Beowulf' as part of the Tolkien 50th Commemoration seminar series. | Laura Varnam | 11 Dec 2023 | |
| 2721 | A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien’s “lost” Mythology of England? | A talk by PhD candidate Grace Khuri, University of Oxford, on Tolkien's Elvish history and English 'mythology', as part of the Tolkien 50th Commemoration seminar series. | Grace Khuri | 11 Dec 2023 | |
| 2720 | Tolkien and the Classics | A talk by Professor Giuseppe Pezzini on the influences of Classical Literature on Tolkien. [Audio only] | Giuseppe Pezzini | 11 Dec 2023 | |
| 2719 | Peak Middle-earth: Why Mount Doom is not the climax of 'The Lord of the Rings' | Audio only recording by Dr Michael Ward, Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford, as part of the Tolkien 50th Commemoration seminar series. [Audio only] | Michael Ward | 08 Dec 2023 | |
| 2718 | How to write 'The Lord of the Rings' | A lecture by Dr S Lee as part of the Tolkien 50th Commemoration seminar series. | Stuart Lee | 08 Dec 2023 | |
| 2717 | Unseen Beings and Tibetan Eco-Daemonology | Erik Jampa Andersson's presentation delves into the intricate world of Tibetan eco-daemonology and advocates for a deeper understanding of Traditional Ecological Knowledge | Erik Jampa Andersson | 24 Nov 2023 | |
| 2716 | The Bat Poet: Poetry as Echolocation | A.E. Stallings gave her inaugural lecture as the Oxford Professor of Poetry on 20 November 2023. She talked on 'The Bat Poet: Poetry as Echolocation'. | Alicia Stallings | 23 Nov 2023 | |
| 2715 | Hegel's Enlightenment | Professor Richard Bourke delivers the 2023 Annual Besterman Lecture. | Richard Bourke | 14 Nov 2023 | |
| 2714 | Creative Commons | Recalibrating the Perspective on Tibetan and Himalayan History: Identity- and Nation-Building in Bhutan | In this talk, Dr. Dagmar Schwerk presents the work-in-progress of her current research project, an investigation into identity- and nation-building in eighteenth-century Bhutan | Dagmar Schwerk | 13 Nov 2023 |
| 2713 | Morality and Personality | Professor Predrag uses a comparison of money and morality to explore the mutual relationship between morality and personality. | Predrag Cicovacki | 09 Nov 2023 | |
| 2712 | Part Three - Not In Vain | In Part Three, Tom Herring and Dr Alexandra Lloyd explore the final days of the White Rose resisters with poignant excerpts from their last letters to their loved ones. | Tom Herring, Alexandra Lloyd | 10 Oct 2023 | |
| 2711 | Part Two - Your Bad Conscience | In Part Two, Tom Herring and Dr Alexandra Lloyd dive deeper into the resistance writings of the White Rose, and find out what happened to Sophie and Hans Scholl following their arrest by the Gestapo. | Tom Herring, Alexandra Lloyd | 10 Oct 2023 | |
| 2710 | Part One - Out Of Reach | In Part One, Tom Herring and Dr Alexandra Lloyd take us into the world of the White Rose. We’ll find out who they were, how they were connected, and unpack the question of what led them to resist and ultimately risk everything. | Tom Herring, Alexandra Lloyd | 10 Oct 2023 | |
| 2709 | Traces of the White Rose: Introduction | Hosts Tom Herring and Dr Alexandra Lloyd set out what to expect from the series, and introduce the history of the White Rose resistance: five students and a professor who stood up to Nazism and paid with their lives. | Tom Herring, Alexandra Lloyd, Jud Newborn, Rebecca Donner | 10 Oct 2023 | |
| 2708 | Noor Inayat Khan: the "Spy Princess" - Interview with Shrabani Basu | Joseph Quinn speaks to Indian journalist, bestselling author and historian, Shrabani Basu, about the life and career of legendary SOE agent, Noor Inayat Khan. | Shrabani Basu, Joseph Quinn | 08 Sep 2023 | |
| 2707 | Soldiers of the Punjab in two world wars - Interview with Amandeep Madra | Joseph Quinn speaks to Amandeep Madra, founder of the UK Punjab Heritage Association, about Pubjabi and Sikh soldiers in the British Indian Army. | Joseph Quinn, Amandeep Madra | 25 Aug 2023 | |
| 2706 | ‘Treasures’ (gter ma) and treasure-finders in Yungdrung Bön: a Tibetan tradition spanning a thousand years (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series) | This talk presents an outline of the Yungdrung Bön ’Treasure’ tradition | Per Kværne | 09 Aug 2023 | |
| 2705 | The Duke of Windsor's German tutor - Interview with Emma Huber | Emma Huber, German subject librarian at Oxford's Taylorian Library, speaks to Joseph Quinn about the life and career of Professor H.G. Fiedler. | Emma Huber, Joseph Quinn | 02 Aug 2023 | |
| 2704 | Northern Ireland in WW2 - TFH Collection Day at the Linen Hall, Belfast | Interview with Scott Edgar at the Linen Hall Library, Belfast, just after hosting the first TFH Collection Day event in Northern Ireland. | Joseph Quinn, Scott Edgar | 13 Jul 2023 | |
| 2703 | Creative Commons | Yoginīs, Revelation, and Hidden Knowledge in Tantric Śaivism (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series) | This presentation examines Śākta transformations of conceptions of revelation and the transmission of esoteric knowledge in Mantramārga Śaivism | Shaman Hatley | 12 Jul 2023 |
| 2702 | Creative Commons | Nectar, Water, or Blood? A Buddhist History of Perceptual Relativism | In this talk, Jacob Fisher presents his research on a history of the Buddhist discussions surrounding perceptual relativism, in India and Tibet | Jacob Fisher | 12 Jul 2023 |
| 2701 | Creative Commons | A Chorus of Voices Chanting the Names of Mañjuśrī Rong-zom Chos-kyi-bzang-po’s Commentary on the Nāmasaṅgīti, and Its Indian Sources | Nicola Bajetta takes us through Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo's commentary on the Nāmasaṅgīti, a hymn of praise dedicated to Mañjuśrī | Nicola Bajetta | 12 Jul 2023 |
| 2700 | Fighting Proud: Gay Men in Wartime - Interview with Stephen Bourne | Interview with Stephen Bourne about the experiences of gay men in the British Armed Forces and at home during the Second World War. | Matthew Kidd, Stephen Bourne | 28 Jun 2023 | |
| 2699 | Under Fire: Black Britain in Wartime - Interview with Stephen Bourne | Interview with Stephen Bourne about the contribution of black men and women in wartime Britain during the Second World War. | Stephen Bourne | 20 Jun 2023 | |
| 2698 | Counterblast! (a manifesto for poetry) | Alice Oswald's final lecture as the English Faculty's Professor of Poetry. | Alice Oswald | 16 Jun 2023 | |
| 2697 | Choreographing Sophocles | A podcast episode with Leo Aylen and David Wiles | Leo Aylen, David Wiles | 05 Jun 2023 | |
| 2696 | Stories from the Archive - Part 1 | First episode of a new Their Finest Hour podcast mini-series examining a selection of stories submitted to the Online Archive. | Joseph Quinn | 19 May 2023 | |
| 2695 | Creative Commons | Slade Lecture Series 2023: Defiant Sculpture: Isek Bodys Kingelez and Mobutu Sese-Seko’s Authenticité, 1990s | Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu argues that the extravagant hypermodernity of Isek Bodys Kingelez’s architectural sculptures, as with segments of popular arts, constitute a distinctive form of imaginative resistance to official culture under Mobutu. | Chika Okeke-Agulu | 18 May 2023 |
| 2694 | Creative Commons | Slade Lecture Series 2023: Drawing the Line: Obiora Udechukwu and Nigeria’s Smiling General 1980s-1990s | In the 1980’s, the painter and poet Obiora Udechukwu (b. 1946), a leading figure of the Nsukka School, was at the height of his powers, with drawings and paintings celebrated for their lyrical power and trenchant social commentary. | Chika Okeke-Agulu | 18 May 2023 |
| 2693 | Creative Commons | Slade Lecture Series 2023: Prison Drawing: Ibrahim El Salahi in Al Nimeiry’s Sudan, 1970s | In this lecture, Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu focuses on the calligraphic figuration of Ibrahim El Salahi (b. 1930), the country’s leading modernist and onetime political prisoner. | Chika Okeke-Agulu | 18 May 2023 |
| 2692 | Creative Commons | Slade Lecture Series 2023: To speak in Parables: Dumile Feni in Hendrik Verwoerd’s South Africa, 1960s | Chika Okeke-Agulu examines art & politics in 1960s South Africa paying particular attention to Hendrik Verwoerd, the self-styled “Great Induna,” & architect of Apartheid, whose assassination in 1966 slowed the triumphant march of Afrikaner racist ideology | Chika Okeke-Agulu | 18 May 2023 |
| 2691 | Creative Commons | Slade Lecture Series 2023: Gazbia Sirry and Egyptian artists in the Nasserite State, 1950s-1960s | Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu follows the formal and tonal shifts in Gazbia Sirry’s work as it responded to, and was shaped by Nasser’s and post-revolutionary Egypt’s political fortunes. | Chika Okeke-Agulu | 18 May 2023 |
| 2690 | Creative Commons | Slade Lecture Series 2023: African Artists in the Age of the Big Man | Okeke-Agulu presents 5 artists whose work exemplify the difficult relationship of art & power as Africa’s decolonization gave way to the emergence of undemocratic polities ruled by charismatic & repressive strongmen in the second half of the 20th century. | Chika Okeke-Agulu | 18 May 2023 |
| 2689 | Creative Commons | Sūtra in Early Buddhist Treasure Texts (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series) | Reinier Langelaar’s talk on early Tibetan treasure literature’s influences, inspirations, and narrative themes | Reinier Langelaar | 15 May 2023 |
| 2688 | Sleep, Light, Architecture | How can a neuroscientist and an architect help us to understand the world of sleep and the rhythms that govern our lives? | Russell Foster, Ian Ritchie, Sally Shuttleworth, Ruth Abrahams | 12 May 2023 | |
| 2687 | Early Teachings on the Four Phurpas and the Relationship between the Revelatory and Transmitted Textual Tradition (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series) | Early teachings on the Four Phurpas in the light of the Eightfold Buddha Word, Embodying the Sugatas (bka' brgyad bde gshegs 'dus pa) revelation of Myang ral Nyi ma 'od zer (1124-1192), and the relationship between the Revelatory (gter ma) and Transmitted | Cathy Cantwell | 21 Apr 2023 | |
| 2686 | 'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference Day 3: 'Urban', 'Rome' and 'Placing the dead' | Talks from Alice Huxley, Amy Blakemore, Nancy Caciola and more, under the themes 'Urban', 'Rome' and 'Placing the dead'. | Alice Huxley, Todd Borlik, Amy Blakemore, Ellen Kushner | 20 Apr 2023 | |
| 2685 | 'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference Day 2: 'Making a Place', 'Between' and 'Getting Lost' | Talks from Caroline Tully, Elizabeth Garner, Gwendolyne Knight and more on the themes of 'Making a Place', 'Between' and 'Getting Lost'. | Gwendolyne Knight, Sophie Page, Karen Mahony, Alex Ukolov | 20 Apr 2023 | |
| 2684 | 'Magic and the Sense of Place' Conference Day 1: Opening Session, plus 'Who Owns This Place?' and 'The New World'. | Opening Session featuring Ronald Hutton and Chris Gosden, plus talks under the topics 'Who Owns This Place?' and 'The New World'. | Andrew Chesnut, Dan Kline, Will Badger, Ronald Hutton | 20 Apr 2023 | |
| 2683 | The Women behind "the Few" - Interview with Dr Sarah-Louise Miller | Interview with Dr Sarah-Louise Miller about the role of the WAAF in British air intelligence. | Joseph Quinn, Sarah-Louise Miller | 11 Apr 2023 | |
| 2682 | Acknowledgements | A special thank you to everyone involved in the podcast. | Torø Graven | 28 Mar 2023 | |
| 2681 | (E10/10) The Missing Bean | Sitting outside, just to the right of the entrance, facing Lincoln College. | Torø Graven | 28 Mar 2023 | |
| 2680 | (E9/10) Walking down Mansfield Road, Holywell Street, and Broad Street | From Queen Elizabeth House to Cornmarket Street, on the left-hand side. | Torø Graven | 28 Mar 2023 | |
| 2679 | (E8/10) Walking in University Parks | From the back gate at St Anne’s College, in through North Gate, and along North Walk to Lazenbee’s Ground Walk, in the middle of North Walk. | Torø Graven | 28 Mar 2023 | |
| 2678 | (E7/10) Oxford University Museum of Natural History | Sitting in the café on the gallery, at a table closest to the central court, just to the right of the till, facing the central court. | Torø Graven | 28 Mar 2023 | |
| 2677 | (E6/10) Walking down Cornmarket Street | From Carfax Tower to George Street, on the left-hand side. | Torø Graven | 28 Mar 2023 | |
| 2676 | (E5/10) Walking through Clarendon Centre | From Queen Street to Cornmarket Street, in the middle. | Torø Graven | 28 Mar 2023 | |
| 2675 | (E4/10) Walking inside University Church of St. Mary the Virgin | Down the aisle and into the Nave, back along the north corridor, and out on High Street. | Torø Graven | 28 Mar 2023 | |
| 2674 | (E3/10) Radcliffe Square on an early summer morning | Sitting outside at Vaults & Garden cafe, in the middle between the two entrances, facing Radcliffe Camera. | Torø Graven | 28 Mar 2023 | |
| 2673 | (E2/10) Walking up Queen’s Lane and New College Lane | From High Street to Catte Street, on the left-hand side. | Torø Graven | 28 Mar 2023 | |
| 2672 | (E1/10) Bell towers telling the time on Christ Church Meadow | Standing on Broad Walk, just to the left of Merton Grove, facing Christ Church Meadow. | Torø Graven | 28 Mar 2023 | |
| 2671 | Introduction | Welcome to the Oxford Sound Album. | Torø Graven | 28 Mar 2023 | |
| 2670 | Building the digital archive | A short interview with the project's technical lead, Catherine Conisbee, on building the digital archive. | Catherine Conisbee | 23 Mar 2023 | |
| 2669 | Creative Commons | Exploring relationships between theory of practice and practice by looking at the Abhisamayālaṃkāra in Gelukpa scholasticism | Chandra Ehm's investigation into the foundations of the Geluk monastic curriculum | Chandra Ehm | 17 Mar 2023 |
| 2668 | Creative Commons | The Transformation of Nyingma Identity: Some Key Developments in Contemporary Nyingma Monastic Education | Nicholas Hobhouse on Developments in Contemporary Nyingma Monastic Education | Nicholas Hobhouse | 17 Mar 2023 |
| 2667 | Creative Commons | Is AI bad for democracy? Analyzing AI’s impact on epistemic agency | Professor Mark Coeckelbergh considers whether AI poses a risk for democracy n this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar | Mark Coeckelbergh | 13 Mar 2023 |
| 2666 | Creative Commons | Forms of Buddhist treasures (re)discovered in Kalmykia (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series) | Valeriya Gazizova's talk on several cases of ‘treasure’ concealment and discoveries in the Buddhist society of postsocialist Kalmykia | Valeriya Gazizova | 01 Mar 2023 |
| 2665 | Exploring Rendawa’s Madhyamaka Legacy | Drukgyel Tsering's talk on Rendawa Shonu Lodro (1349–1412), the famed teacher of Lama Tsongkhapa and important progenitor of Madhyamaka philosophy in Tibet | Drukgyal Tsering | 28 Feb 2023 | |
| 2664 | Creative Commons | The Rgyud sde spyi rnam ascribed to Rin chen bzang po (958–1055) and its authoritative sources | Sonam Choden discusses Lo tsā ba Rin chen bzang po's composition of his "General Presentation of the Tantric Systems" and its authoritative sources | Sonam Choden | 28 Feb 2023 |
| 2663 | Anonymous and Onymous | A professor of poetry talk by Alice Oswald - Hilary Term 2023 | Alice Oswald, Lorna Hutson | 27 Feb 2023 |
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