| 'Poets in Purgatory' Video |
Contemporary poets read from their translations of the Purgatorio and from their poems about Dante. |
Jane Draycott, Steve Ellis, Andrew Fitzsimons, Lorna Goodison, Peter Hainsworth, Nick Havely, Angela Jarman, Jan Kemp, Jamie McKendrick, Bernard O'Donoghue, A.E. Stallings, Patrick Worsnip |
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| How does climate crisis change the curriculum? |
A Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences event. Shifting the question from ‘how should climate change be put into the curriculum?’ to ‘how does it transform the curriculum?’ opens up the subject in new ways across the world. |
Rahul Chopra, Kim Polgreen, Amanda Power, Steve Puttick, James Robson, Arjen Wals, William Finnegan |
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| It's True, It's True, It's True: Verbatim Theatre, Staging Sexual Assault, and Female Representation in the Arts |
Breach Theatre's Billy Barrett and Ellice Stevens in conversation with Dr Hannah Simpson and Dr Sos Eltis |
Hannah Simpson, Sos Eltis, Billy Barrett, Ellice Stevens |
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| Mark Davies on 'Medley Manor' |
Oxfordshire Local historian, Mark Davies, takes a look at the history of Medley Manor and its connections to empire as well as his own family history. |
Mark Davies |
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| The Diasporic Quartets: Identity and Aesthetics |
Keynote lecture in the Diversity and the British String Quartet Symposium, day 3, held on 16th June 2021. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Des Oliver, Nina Whiteman |
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| The string quartet takes residence: class, community, curricula |
Keynote lecture in the Diversity and the British String Quartet Symposium, held on 14th June 2021. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Laura Tunbridge, Wiebke Thormählen |
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| Art and Action: Benjamin Zephaniah in Conversation |
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Benjamin Zephaniah, Elleke Boehmer, Malachi McIntosh, Wes Williams |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism |
Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held weekly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. The events are free to attend and open to all. |
Abigail Green, Simon Levis Sullam, Adam Sutcliffe, Kei Hiruta, Wes Williams |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Born to Write |
A TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on ‘Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France’ by Professor Neil Kenny. |
Neil Kenny, Caroline Warman, Ceri Sullivan, Wes Williams |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Porcelain - Poem on the Downfall of my City |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City by Durs Grünbein, translated by Professor Karen Leeder. |
Durs Grünbein, Karen Leeder, Edmund de Vaal, Patrick Major, Wes Williams |
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| Book at Lunchtime: China’s Good War |
A TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on ‘China's Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism’ by Professor Rana Mitter. |
Rana Mitter, David Priestland, Vivienne Shue, Wes Williams |
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| The Formula of Giving Heart: Panel Discussion and Conversation with the Artist |
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Khaled Kaddal, Christopher Haworth, Darci Sprengel, Christabel Stirling |
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| Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
James Attlee, Marina Warner, Pablo Mukherjee, Wes Williams |
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| Platforming Artists Podcasts: Andi Burton Marsh |
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. |
Andi Burton Marsh, Shivaike Shah |
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| A Concatenation of Rumour |
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Richard Rathbone |
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| The Cake, Emma’s Romantic dreams, and le bovarysme - part two, French |
Elise Busset, an undergraduate at Oxford University, reads an extract from Madam Bovary in french. Blog post by Professor Jennifer Yee. |
Elise Busset |
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| The Cake, Emma’s Romantic dreams, and le bovarysme - part one |
Eleanor Gilbert, an undergraduate at Oxford University, reads an extract from Madam Bovary in english. Blog post by Professor Jennifer Yee. |
Elenor Gilbert |
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| In Conversation with Lolita Chakrabarti |
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities on Thursday 13th May 2021. |
Lolita Chakrabarti, Matt Wolf |
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| Platforming Artists Podcasts: Rosa Andujar |
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. |
Rosa Andujar, Shivaike Shah |
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| Platforming Artists Podcasts: Theophina Gabriel |
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. |
Theophina Gabriel, Shivaike Shah |
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| 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 |
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| Translation and Retranslation: priorities, discoveries, pleasures |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Sasha Dugdale, Oliver Ready, Wes Williams |
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| 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 |
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| The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 1: Performing Innocence: Belated |
Professor Emily C. Burns, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the first in the series of The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914. |
Emily C. Burns, Peter Gibian |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction - The Lodger World |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World by Dr Ushashi Dasgupta. |
Ushashi Dasgupta, Jeremy Tabling, Sophia Psarra, Wes Williams |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire, written by Dr Priya Atwal. |
Priya Atwal, Faisal Devji, Polly O’Hanlon, Wes Williams |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Anna Atkins: Botanical Illustration and Photographic Innovation |
This event is supported by TORCH as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones of the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Geoffrey Batchen, Lena Fritsch |
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| Talking Afropean |
Talking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu about his award-winning book. |
Johny Pitts, Elleke Boehmer, Simukai Chigudu |
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| 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 |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Iconoclasm as Child's Play |
Dr Joseph Moshenska, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at University College, discusses his new book, Iconoclasm as Child's Play. |
Joseph Moshenska, Lorna Hutson, Alexandra Walsham, Kenneth Gross, Matthew Bevis, Wes Williams |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Live Event: On Being Unprepared (For Our Own Times) |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Decolonisation the Curriculum Week. |
Margaret MacMillan, Homi K. Bhabha |
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| Live Event: The World After CoVid |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Humanities and Policy Week Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Ngaire Woods, Peter Frankopan |
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| Live Event: Living with Pandemics: Finding New Narratives |
In conversation with Dr Erica Charters and Robin Gorna. TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Performance Week |
Erica Charters, Robin Gorna |
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| Live Event: Voices from the Wings: Poetry, Performance and Translation on and off the page |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Translation Week Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Ulrike Almut Sandig, Karen Leeder |
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| Live Event: In Conversation with Jamelia, Multi-Award Winning Artist |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Performance Week. |
Jamelia, Priya Atwal, Yvonne Liao |
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| Live Event: Celebrating Tchaikovsky |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Music Week |
Leah Broad, Philip Bullock |
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| Live Event: In Conversation with Maaza Mengiste |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! |
Elleke Boehmer, Maaza Mengiste, Richard Reid, Birhanu T. Gessese, Tsehai Berhane-Selassie |
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| Live Event: The Social Life of Books: A History of Reading Together at Home |
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Abigail Williams, Giles Lewin |
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| Live Event: This is Shakespeare - Prof Emma Smith in conversation with Erica Whyman OBE |
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Emma Smith, Erica Whyman |
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| Live Event: Invalids on the Move |
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Sally Shuttleworth, Erica Charters, Philip Bullock |
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| Live Event: Could you be arrested for planting flowers in your street? |
What guerrilla gardening reveals about our relationship with urban nature and culture. |
JC Niala, Elizabeth Ewart |
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| Cyclone Amphan: Living through the Climate Crisis |
In May 2020 a deadly tropical cyclone struck Eastern India and Bangladesh. Named ‘Amphan’ and classified as a ‘Super Cyclone’ this was almost certainly a climate change induced extreme event. |
Debjani Bhattacharyya, Jason Cons, Annu Jalais, Megnaa Mehtta, Kasia Paprocki, Nayanika Mather, Amanda Power |
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| What’s beneath the words: a paper journey |
Presented in collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book. |
Andrew Honey, David Armes, Alexandra Franklin |
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| 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, Sorcha Thomson, Rea Eldem, Matthew Romain, John Farndon, Alex Trustrum Thomas |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Out of Silence 1: William Shakespeare |
From the Silence Hub Network. Professor Alexandra Harris discusses Shakespeare's sonnet 23, communication in lockdown, body language and masks with Professor Kate McLoughlin. |
Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Out of Silence 2: Virginia Woolf |
From the Silence Hub. Professors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin discuss Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, how the lockdown makes us feel self-conscious and what it feels like to live in momentous historical times. |
Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Out of Silence 3: DH Lawrence |
From the Silence Hub Network. Professors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin read D. H. Lawrence's poem 'Silence' and discuss the beauty and terror of silence, sex and death wishes. |
Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Out of Silence 4: William Cowper |
From the Network. Silence HubProfessors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin read lines from The Task by the eighteenth-century poet William Cowper and discuss the value of staying at home and not doing very much. |
Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Imitating Authors |
Book at Lunchtime: Imitating Authors |
Colin Burrow, Wes Williams, Kathryn Murphy, Stephen Halliwell |
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| 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 |
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| Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography |
Book at Lunchtime: Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography |
Polly Jones, Katherine Lebow, Ann Jefferson, Stephen Lovell |
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| Empires of the Mind |
Book at Lunchtime: Empires of the Mind |
Robert Gildea, Rana Mitter, Faridah Zaman, Philip Bullock |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture III: Stories for the future, and how to get there |
Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, gives the third and final lecture in the Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture. |
Martin Puchner |
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| Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture II:Think Big! A modest argument about large scales |
Martin Puchner gives the second lecture in the Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture. |
Martin Puchner |
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| Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture I: The Challenge of World Literature |
Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, gives the first of the Princeton University Press Lectures. |
Martin Puchner |
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| Humanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! |
Highlights of the Humanities Night Light event. |
Tom Crawford |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Last Supper in Pompeii: An introduction to the Pompeii Exhibition |
Exploring the narrative of the show through a selection of highlighted objects |
Ilaria Perzia |
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| 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, Bridget Orr |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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