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
Accelerating AI Ethics
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
Kristin Scott Thomas Reads Kafka
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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| 2420 | Connections in the Making and Meaning of the Art of Bhutan and Tibet in the 17 th and 18 th Centuries: A Study of the Wall Paintings at Tango Monastery | Pu Lan discusses her PhD project, which explores the 17th-century Monastery of Tango and how it illustrates the development of wall painting technology in Bhutan | Pu Lan | 31 Mar 2021 | |
| 2419 | The Geluk Domestication of Tantra | Brenton Sullivan presents his new book "Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa" and discuss the third chapter, "Institutionalizing Tantra", in more detail | Brenton Sullivan | 31 Mar 2021 | |
| 2418 | The Sound of Contagion 2/3 | The “Sound of Contagion” explores what a society of contagion can sound like and how technology can illuminate 2020 pandemic and others throughout history. | Chelsea Haith, Robert Laidlow, Wenzel Mehnert | 26 Mar 2021 | |
| 2417 | Platforming Artists Podcasts: Fiona Macintosh | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | Fiona Macintosh, Shivaike Shah | 23 Mar 2021 | |
| 2416 | Translation and Retranslation: priorities, discoveries, pleasures | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Sasha Dugdale, Oliver Ready, Wes Williams | 22 Mar 2021 | |
| 2415 | The Black Chicago Renaissance Women: Lives and Legacies in Music | Dr. Samantha Ege | Held on International Women's Day 2021, Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities - in collaboration with Lincoln College, Oxford. | Samantha Ege | 22 Mar 2021 | |
| 2414 | Animal Eyes on the Planet (2/3): The Felt Knowledge of a More-Than-Human-World | In this second podcast from the Berlin and the Oxford creative collaboration on Climate Crisis Thinking we acquaint ourselves with the Japan’s indigenous Ainu culture and history. | Amanda Power, Nina Fischer, Eiko Soga, Lisa Maria Steppacher | 18 Mar 2021 | |
| 2413 | The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 1: Performing Innocence: Belated | Professor Emily C. Burns, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the first in the series of The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914. | Emily C. Burns, Peter Gibian | 18 Mar 2021 | |
| 2412 | The Mongolian Kanjur - Should Tibetologists Care? | Kirill Alekseev presents his latest research on the Mongolian Kanjur and its ramifications in Tibetan Studies | Kirill Alekseev | 16 Mar 2021 | |
| 2411 | The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 3; Performing Innocence: Primitive / Incipient | Professor Emily C. Burns, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the third in the series of The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914. | Emily C. Burns, James Smalls | 15 Mar 2021 | |
| 2410 | The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 2 Performing Innocence: Puritan | Professor c, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the second lecture in the The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914 series. | Emily C. Burns, Wanda M. Corn | 15 Mar 2021 | |
| 2409 | The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 4; Performing Innocence: Baby Nation | Professor Emily C. Burns, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the fourth in the series of The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914. | Emily C. Burns, Alastair Wright | 15 Mar 2021 | |
| 2408 | The Pitt River's Catamaran | History DPhil student, Morgan Breene, contextualizes the catamaran displayed in the Pitt Rivers' Museum. Part of the Oxford and Empire series. | Morgan Breene | 10 Mar 2021 | |
| 2407 | Book at Lunchtime: Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction - The Lodger World | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World by Dr Ushashi Dasgupta. | Ushashi Dasgupta, Jeremy Tabling, Sophia Psarra, Wes Williams | 10 Mar 2021 | |
| 2406 | Layers of Protection: Everyday Life with Empowered Objects | In her talk, Inger Vasstveit discusses “empowered objects” - small Buddhist objects that people wear on their person - in relation to the broader socio-political and cosmological environment in India | Inger Vasstveit | 02 Mar 2021 | |
| 2405 | Towards a plasticity of the mind – New-ish ethical conundrums in dementia care, treatment, and research | A New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar with Dr David M Lyreskog. | David M Lyreskog | 01 Mar 2021 | |
| 2404 | Book at Lunchtime: Sophocles – Antigone and other tragedies | TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Sophocles: Antigone and other tragedies by Professor Oliver Taplin. With panellists Professor Karen Leeder and Dr Lucy Jackson. | Oliver Taplin, Karen Leeder, Lucy Jackson, Wes Williams | 01 Mar 2021 | |
| 2403 | Writing and Resistance – The White Rose Pamphlets: A Live Reading | At around 11am on Thursday 18 February 1943 two students in Munich were arrested for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets. By Monday they had been interrogated, tried, and executed along with another member of the resistance circle. | Alexandra Lloyd, Eve Mason, Sophie Caws, Sam Thompson | 01 Mar 2021 | |
| 2402 | Lines by Alice Oswald | It's fifty years since the publication of From the Life and Songs of the Crow (by Ted Hughes). This is a lecture about lines and other sound barriers and how Crow flies straight through them. | Alice Oswald | 01 Mar 2021 | |
| 2401 | Platforming Artists Podcasts: Simran Uppal | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | Simran Uppal, Shivaike Shah | 26 Feb 2021 | |
| 2400 | How to prevent future pandemics | Katrien Devolder and Jeff Sebo on factory farms as breeding grounds for pandemics | Jeff Sebo, Katrien Devolder | 17 Feb 2021 | |
| 2399 | WillPlay: Chat, Play, Learn Shakespeare | This podcast explores WillPlay, an AI-powered reimagining of Shakespeare's plays for school students. | Abigail Williams, Felicity Brown, Rachael Hodge, Giles Lewin | 17 Feb 2021 | |
| 2398 | Greek Tragedy at the National Theatre of Prague during the Nazi occupation (1939 – 1945) | Alena Sarkissian gives public lecture, subtitled 'Theatre as a space of Spiritual Contemplation', on Greek Tragedy in the Czech Republic under Nazi Occupation. | Alena Sarkissian | 12 Feb 2021 | |
| 2397 | Ken Loach in Conversation | TORCH Goes Digital! presents Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Ken Loach, Judith Buchanan | 12 Feb 2021 | |
| 2396 | Silences | Silences explores what we mean by silence and what silence means to us. Interweaving silences, sounds and voices, it reveals the rich pleasures and mysteries of experiences without noises or words. | Kate McLoughlin, Ariane Jeßulat, Sylee Gore, Thorsten Weigelt | 11 Feb 2021 | |
| 2395 | Platforming Artists Podcasts: Azan Ahmed | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | Azan Ahmed, Shivaike Shah | 09 Feb 2021 | |
| 2394 | Platforming Artists Podcasts: Francesca Amewudah-Rivers | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, Shivaike Shah | 05 Feb 2021 | |
| 2393 | In Conversation with Anne Boyd | Internationally-renowned composer Anne Boyd is in conversation with composer Thomas Metcalf, discussing her life and music ahead of a performance of her String Quartet No. 2 ’Play on the Water’ later this year. | Anne Boyd, Thomas Metcalf | 05 Feb 2021 | |
| 2392 | Death by Poisoning: Cautionary Narratives and Inter-Ethnic Accusations in Contemporary Sikkim | Kikee Bhutia talks about the contemporary discourses around ‘othering’ in Sikkim and analyse the region’s inter-ethnic challenges | Kikee Bhutia | 04 Feb 2021 | |
| 2391 | Dr Juliet Henderson on 'Decolonising Florence Park Street Names' | Dr Juliet Henderson and Florence Park community members discuss their new project to decolonise local street names. | Juliet Henderson | 04 Feb 2021 | |
| 2390 | Liz Woolley on 'Lord Nuffield and the city of Oxford' (longer version) | Local historian, Liz Woolley, takes a closer look at the role Lord Nuffield played in changing the city of Oxford's physical and social landscape. | Liz Woolley | 04 Feb 2021 | |
| 2389 | Book at Lunchtime: The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe written by Professor Simukai Chigudu. | Simukai Chigudu, Sloan Mahone, Jon Schubert, Wes Williams | 04 Feb 2021 | |
| 2388 | Fervent admiration and devotion: Exploring devotional literature in the collected works of the 3rd Dodrupchen | Renée Ford's introduction to the devotional literature in the collected works of the 3rd Dodrupchen composed in admiration of his late teacher Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. | Renée Ford | 02 Feb 2021 | |
| 2387 | Book at Lunchtime: Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire, written by Dr Priya Atwal. | Priya Atwal, Faisal Devji, Polly O’Hanlon, Wes Williams | 28 Jan 2021 | |
| 2386 | The Neuroscience of a Life Well-Lived | Professor Morten L. Kringlebach explains how recent advances in neuroimaging offer an insight into hedonia and eudaimonia, and draws out implications for neuropsychiatric disorders. | Morten L. Kringelbach | 27 Jan 2021 | |
| 2385 | University Classical Plays | Representatives from University College London and Oxford University discuss their respective classical plays, a rich university tradition for each which has been forced to adapt significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic. | David Bullen, Lewis Bentley, Elena Bashkova, Zoë De Barros | 17 Jan 2021 | |
| 2384 | Classics in Communities | A podcast with Arlene Holmes-Henderson and Mai Musié. | Mai Musié, Arlene Holmes-Henderson | 17 Jan 2021 | |
| 2383 | Creative Commons | Turing 2018/8: Searle versus Turing - Conclusion | Lecture 8 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. | Peter Millican | 14 Jan 2021 |
| 2382 | Creative Commons | Turing 2018/7: Blockhead, the Chinese Room, and ELIZA | Lecture 7 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. | Peter Millican | 14 Jan 2021 |
| 2381 | Creative Commons | Turing 2018/6: "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" - Overview of Turing's 1950 paper | Lecture 6 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. | Peter Millican | 14 Jan 2021 |
| 2380 | Creative Commons | Turing 2018/5: Settling Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem, and the Halting Problem | Lecture 5 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. | Peter Millican | 14 Jan 2021 |
| 2379 | Creative Commons | Turing 2018/4: Enumerating the Computable Numbers, and the Universal Turing Machine | Lecture 4 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. | Peter Millican | 14 Jan 2021 |
| 2378 | Creative Commons | Turing 2018/3: "On Computable Numbers" - Turing's 1936 Paper | Lecture 3 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. | Peter Millican | 14 Jan 2021 |
| 2377 | Creative Commons | Turing 2018/2: Hilbert's Programme and Gödel's Theorem | Lecture 2 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. | Peter Millican | 14 Jan 2021 |
| 2376 | Creative Commons | Turing 2018/1: Types of number, Cantor, infinities, diagonal arguments | Lecture 1 in Peter Millican's 2018 Turing series. | Peter Millican | 14 Jan 2021 |
| 2375 | Animal Eyes on the Planet (1/3) | First in a trilogy, this podcast introduces the creative collaboration on Climate Crisis Thinking. | Amanda Power, Nina Fischer, Eiko Soga, Lisa Maria Steppacher | 11 Jan 2021 | |
| 2374 | Behind The Scenes of The Sound of Contagion | The “Sound of Contagion” explores what a society of contagion can sound like and how technology can illuminate 2020 pandemic and others throughout history. | Rob Laidlow, Wenzel Mehnert, Chelsea Haith | 18 Dec 2020 | |
| 2373 | Creative Commons | The Literature of Absolute War - Transnationalism and WWII | Professor Nil Santiáñez discusses absolute war, total war, and the literature of WWII with Anders Engberg-Pedersen. | Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Nil Santiáñez | 17 Dec 2020 |
| 2372 | Medea - A Mirror for the 21st Century | Avery Willis Hoffman, Fran Amewudah and Shivaike Shah talk about the BAME Medea project | Avery Willis Hoffman, Fran Amewudah, Shivaike Shah | 09 Dec 2020 | |
| 2371 | Reading Greek Tragedy Online | A podcast with Paul O'Mahony, Joel Christensen, and Lanah Koelle | Paul O'Mahony, Joel Christensen, Lanah Koelle | 09 Dec 2020 | |
| 2370 | Ancient Theatre Around the Black Sea | A podcast with Edith Hall and Rosie Wyles | Edith Hall, Rosie Wyles | 09 Dec 2020 | |
| 2369 | Sicily and Ancient Greek Theatre | A podcast episode with Oliver Taplin and Giovanna Di Martino | Oliver Taplin, Giovanna Di Martino | 09 Dec 2020 | |
| 2368 | East and West in Ancient Drama | A podcast with Michael Scott and Marchella Ward | Michael Scott, Marchella Ward | 09 Dec 2020 | |
| 2367 | Does AI threaten Human Autonomy? | This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Peter Millican, Jonathan Pugh, Jessica Morley, Carina Prunkl | 07 Dec 2020 | |
| 2366 | The 2020 Besterman Lecture: Who were the French Revolutionaries? | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | William Doyle, Karen O'Brien, Gregory S Brown, Lauren Clay | 07 Dec 2020 | |
| 2365 | The Role of Prophecies in the Construction of the Geluk Tradition | In this talk, Michael Ium explores the role of prophecies in the legitimation and construction of the Geluk tradition. | Michael Ium | 03 Dec 2020 | |
| 2364 | Episode 7: Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast | In episode seven, we speak to Daniela Omlor (Associate Professor in Modern Spanish Literature) about Nada, by Carmen Laforet. | Daniela Omlor | 01 Dec 2020 | |
| 2363 | Liz Woolley on 'Lord Nuffield and the city of Oxford' | Local historian, Liz Wooley, takes a closer look at the role Lord Nuffield played in changing the city of Oxford's physical and social landscape. | Liz Wooley | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 2362 | Dr Dexnell Peters on 'Politician Scholar: Dr Eric Williams' | Dr Dexnell Peters, Bennett Boskey Fellow in Atlantic History at Exeter College, reflects on the life and enduring legacy of eminent historian, Dr Eric Williams. | Dexnell Peters | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 2361 | Dr Ben Grant on 'Richard Francis Burton | Dr Ben Grant, departmental lecturer in English and author of Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire (Routledge, 2009) reflects on Richard Francis Burton's sojourn in Oxford in the 1840s. | Ben Grant | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 2360 | Dr Priya Atwal on 'Princesses Bamba and Catherine Duleep Singh at Oxford' | Historian, Dr Priya Atwal, takes a look at the lives of some of the University of Oxford's first Indian students. | Priya Atwal | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 2359 | Episode 8 - Telling stories: Psychoanalysis and alien invasion | Tade Thompson explores alien invasion as a metaphor for colonialism and discusses the importance of psychoanalysis and self-awareness in the building of personal and group identities. | Tade Thompson, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 2358 | Liu pin fo lou (Building of Six Classes of Sutra and Tantra), the Tibetan Buddhist pantheon in the Forbidden City | Ziyi Shao takes us to the reign of the Qianlong Emperor and will show us around the Fan hua lou (Hall of Buddhist Efflorescence), one of the most complex and prominent Buddhist monuments in the Forbidden city | Ziyi Shao | 26 Nov 2020 | |
| 2357 | Verse and Prose in Fantasy Literature | An analysis of two forms that dominate fantasy literature. | Katherine Olley | 24 Nov 2020 | |
| 2356 | Guy Gavriel Kay | A short introduction to the writer Guy Gavriel Kay. | Katherine Olley | 24 Nov 2020 | |
| 2355 | Episode 7 - National myth: Rewriting America and China | Ken Liu discusses the power of myth in the construction of national narratives and the revisionist work that epic fantasy can do to rewrite them, drawing on the weight of time as omnipresent to narrative intent. | Ken Liu, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg | 23 Nov 2020 | |
| 2354 | Creative Commons | Affect, Value and Problems Assessing Decision-Making Capacity | MT20 New St Cross Special Ethics Seminar with Assoc. Professor Jennifer Hawkins | Jennifer Hawkins | 23 Nov 2020 |
| 2353 | Anna Atkins: Botanical Illustration and Photographic Innovation | This event is supported by TORCH as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones of the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Geoffrey Batchen, Lena Fritsch | 20 Nov 2020 | |
| 2352 | Talking Afropean | Talking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu about his award-winning book. | Johny Pitts, Elleke Boehmer, Simukai Chigudu | 20 Nov 2020 | |
| 2351 | Culture of Emotions: Uses and Interpretations of Musical Heritage in the Tibetan Refugee Community of Dharamsala | Chloé Lukasiewicz talk on the significance of music in the Tibetan refugee community in Dharamsala, India | Chloé Lukasiewicz | 19 Nov 2020 | |
| 2350 | Episode 6 - Climate fiction: Content dictates form | EJ Swift describes her deep time speculative approach to climate fiction and the effect of content on form in speculative nested or fragmented narratives. | EJ Swift, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg | 19 Nov 2020 | |
| 2349 | 2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (3/3): The case for an unfunded pay as you go (PAYG) pension | Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics) delivers the final of three public lectures in the series 'How to pool risks across generations: the case for collective pensions' | Michael Otsuka | 17 Nov 2020 | |
| 2348 | 2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (2/3): The case for collective defined contribution (CDC) | Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics) delivers the second of three public lectures in the series 'How to pool risks across generations: the case for collective pensions' | Michael Otsuka | 17 Nov 2020 | |
| 2347 | 2020 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics (1/3): The case for a funded pension with a defined benefit (DB) | Professor Michael Otsuka (London School of Economics) delivers the first of three public lectures in the series 'How to pool risks across generations: the case for collective pensions' | Michael Otsuka | 17 Nov 2020 | |
| 2346 | Episode 5 - Kitschies, indies, and ads: Juggling narrative forms | Jared Shurin explores his wide-ranging interests from anthologising speculative shorts to the Kitschies Awards to ethical advertising for revisioning global narratives. | Jaren Shurin, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg | 12 Nov 2020 | |
| 2345 | Episode 6: Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast | In episode six, we speak to Jonathan Thacker (King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies) about the two short stories Novela del casamiento engañoso and El coloquio de los perros, by Miguel de Cervantes. | Jonathan Thacker | 10 Nov 2020 | |
| 2344 | Book at Lunchtime: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe written by Professor Judith Herrin. Date: 4 November 2020. | Judith Herri, Peter Frankopan, Dame Averil Cameron, Conrad Leyser | 10 Nov 2020 | |
| 2343 | Book at Lunchtime: Iconoclasm as Child's Play | Dr Joseph Moshenska, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at University College, discusses his new book, Iconoclasm as Child's Play. | Joseph Moshenska, Lorna Hutson, Alexandra Walsham, Kenneth Gross | 09 Nov 2020 | |
| 2342 | Buddhism and the Rise of ‘the Tibetans’ (bod pa): Religion, Myth and the Promotion of Ethnicity in the Pre-modern Period | Apropos 'the Tibetans': Reinier Langelaar's talk focuses on the mythical origins and the promotion of ethnicity in historical Tibet | Reinier Langelaar | 05 Nov 2020 | |
| 2341 | Privacy Is Power | Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Carissa Véliz, Sir Michael Tugendhat, Stephanie Hare, John Tasioulas | 05 Nov 2020 | |
| 2340 | Algorithms Eliminate Noise (and That Is Very Good) | Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | John Tasioulas, Ruth Chang, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Cass Sunstein | 05 Nov 2020 | |
| 2339 | Ethics in AI Education | This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Peter Millican, Milo Phillips-Brown, Max Van Kleek, Helena Webb | 05 Nov 2020 | |
| 2338 | Episode 4: Short stories are short: Edit for meaning | Mahvesh Murad discusses the work of curating and editing anthologies of speculative short fiction, ethically, refusing the word 'diversity' for doing too little, too late. | Mahvesh Murad, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg | 05 Nov 2020 | |
| 2337 | Humanities Cultural Programme Live Event: Katie Mitchell in conversation with Ben Whishaw | Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. 'Liveness'. | Ben Whishaw, Katie Mitchell, Wes Williams | 04 Nov 2020 | |
| 2336 | Live Event: Tragedy and Plague - In Conversation with Professor Oliver Taplin and Fiona Shaw CBE | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Drama Week | Oliver Taplin, Fiona Shaw | 04 Nov 2020 | |
| 2335 | Book at Lunchtime: Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War | Join us for an online TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War written by Dr Alice Kelly. | Alice Kelly, Michael Whitworth, Laura Rattray, Jay Winter | 03 Nov 2020 | |
| 2334 | Human Remains in Tibetan Material Religion: An object centered approach | Ayesha Fuentes shares a unique and interdisciplinary insight into art conservation of human remains in Tibetan material religion | Ayesha Fuentes | 29 Oct 2020 | |
| 2333 | Sacred Trash, Trash Talks, And Personhood | Bo Wang discussing the practice of depositing garments as offerings to sacred mountains in Eastern Tibet | Bo Wang | 29 Oct 2020 | |
| 2332 | Episode 3 - People like me: Speculation in Pakistan | Sami Shah ranges over his radio, comedy and burgeoning literary career, and describes how he has to write himself into the speculative fiction space. | Sami Shah, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg | 23 Oct 2020 | |
| 2331 | Transnational Francoism | Bàrbara Molas discusses Transnational Francoism: The British and The Canadian Friends of National Spain as part of the TORCH Network Conversations in Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood. Bàrbara Molas is a PHD Candidate in History at York University | Bàrbara Molas | 23 Oct 2020 | |
| 2330 | Episode 2 - Afrofuturism: For who? | Mohale Mashigo describes her relationship with time, imagining a future inflected by apartheid, and her controversial Afrofuturism essay. | Mohale Mashigo, The Yearning, afrofuturism, apartheid | 22 Oct 2020 | |
| 2329 | Live Event: Imagined Journeys: Pilgrimage, Diplomacy, and Colonialism in Medieval Europe | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events!. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Marion Turner, Matthew Kneale | 21 Oct 2020 | |
| 2328 | Live Event: White Rose - Voices of the German Resistance | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Alex Lloyd, John Herring | 19 Oct 2020 | |
| 2327 | The Terra Lectures in American Art Part 1: Regarding the Portrait: The Primers | Professor Amy M. Mooney, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art Hosted by TORCH. Moderator; Alastair Wright: Alastair Wright is Head of the History of Art Department and Tutorial Fellow in Art History at St John’s College, Oxford. | Amy M. Mooney | 16 Oct 2020 | |
| 2326 | The Terra Lectures in American Art Part 3: Regarding the Portrait: The Progressives | Professor Amy M. Mooney, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art Hosted by TORCH. Moderator: Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor in the Humanities, History, and Social Sciences Department at Columbia College Chicago. | Amy M. Mooney | 16 Oct 2020 | |
| 2325 | The Terra Lectures in American Art Part 2: Regarding the Portrait: The Photographers | Professor Amy M. Mooney, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art. Hosted by TORCH. Moderator: Professor Deborah Willis, Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. | Amy M. Mooney | 16 Oct 2020 | |
| 2324 | The Terra Lectures in American Art Part 4: Regarding the Portrait: The Pragmatists | Professor Amy M. Mooney, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art Hosted by TORCH. | Amy M. Mooney | 16 Oct 2020 | |
| 2323 | The First Tibetan Block Print: The Khara-Khoto Collection of Precious Dhāraṇīs with the Emperor's Postscript | Alla Sizova discusses the role of translation activities in the spread of Buddhism in the 12th century and outlines the extent of Tibetan influence on the Tangut culture. | Alla A. Sizova | 15 Oct 2020 | |
| 2322 | Conscience Rights or Conscience Wrongs?: Debating conscientious objection in healthcare | Alberto Giubilini and David Jones trade views and argue each other's position on conscientious objection in healthcare | Alberto Giubilini, David Jones | 14 Oct 2020 | |
| 2321 | Episode 1 - Pandemic writing: How close is too close? | Lauren Beukes discusses the proximity of her recent novel Afterland to the current pandemic and how collective action and art are the only way through these difficult times. | Lauren Beukes, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg | 14 Oct 2020 |
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