| Book at Lunchtime: India, Empire and First World War Culture |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on India, Empire and First World War Culture by Professor Santanu Das. Held on 20th November 2019. |
Santanu Das, Yasmin Khan, Laura Marcus, Jay Winter, Elleke Boehmer |
20 November, 2019 |
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| Supriya Chaudhuri, Significant Lives: biography, autobiography, gender, and women's history in South Asia |
Chaired by Elleke Boehmer. |
Supriya Chaudhuri |
18 November, 2019 |
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| How to write a southern life: Ethics and writing practices |
Eduardo Lalo, Elleke Boehmer, Jonny Steinberg and Premilla Nadasen give a talk for the Southern Biographies event. Chaired by, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach. |
Eduardo Lalo, Elleke Boehmer, Jonny Steinberg, Premilla Nadasen |
18 November, 2019 |
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| Southern Biographies: epistemologies, methodologies, theoretical perspectives |
Joy Owen, Marcio Goldman, Ramon Sarro and Santanu Das give talks as part of the Southern Biographies event. Chaired, Thomas Cousins. |
Joy Owen, Marcio Goldman, Ramon Sarró, Santanu Das |
18 November, 2019 |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Chaucer: A European Life |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Chaucer: A European Life by Professor Marion Turner. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held fortnightly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. |
Marion Turner, Bart van Es, Helen Swift, John Watts, Elleke Boehmer |
15 November, 2019 |
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| Literary Allusion in Harry Potter |
J.K. Rowling’s imagination is fired by the past. How do historical objects illuminate the real-world sources of her ideas? |
Beatrice Groves, Victoria McGuinness |
11 October, 2019 |
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| Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond |
Book at Lunchtime seminar held on 16th October 2019. |
Dan Hicks, Sarah Mallet, Wes Williams, Leonie Ansems de Vries, Mary Bosworth, Lisa Kennedy, John McTernan |
6 October, 2019 |
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| Storming Utopia |
This event is an Oxford Public Engagement with Research and part of a Knowledge Exchange project. Organised by Professor Wes Williams (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages) and Richard Scholar (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages). |
Wes Williams, Richard Scholar, Amantha Edmead, Erin Maglaque, Euton Daley MBE, Sara-Louise Cooper, James Attlee |
14 August, 2019 |
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| People's Landscapes: Living in Landscapes |
A roundtable discussion explore landscape as a space for living, considering the pressures on land from population growth and discussing questions of preservation vs. development. |
Alice Purkiss, Lucy Footer, Ingrid Samuel, Crispin Truman, Dave Lomax, Caitlin Desilvey, David Howard |
23 July, 2019 |
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| People's Landscapes: Future Landscapes |
A roundtable discussion consider future landscapes in the context of food, farming and conservation. |
Alice Purkiss, Helen Antrobus, Anita Weatherby, Sue Cornwell, E.J. Milner-Gulland, Phil Jarvis, Prue Addison |
23 July, 2019 |
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| Knowledge Exchange Showcase - Understanding Visitor Engagement of Free Heritage Sites Using Social Media |
Kathryn Eccles (Oxford Internet Institute), gives a talk on her Knowledge Exchange research project on using social media data to understand visitor engagement at heritage sites. |
Kathryn Eccles |
15 July, 2019 |
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| Knowledge Exchange Showcase - Understanding Postgraduate Medical Ethics Education |
Andrew Papanikitas Primary Care Health Sciences and John Spicer Health Education England give a talk on their Knowledge Exchange research project on teaching ethics to medical students. |
Andrew Papanikitas, John Spicer |
15 July, 2019 |
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| Knowledge Exchange Showcase - Refugee Heritage: the Archaeology of the Calais 'Jungle' |
Sarah Mallet School of Archaeology and Louise Fowler Museum of London Archaeology give a talk for the Knowledge Exchange Showcase on their research on the Calais migrant camp known as the Jungle. |
Sarah Mallet, Louise Fowler |
15 July, 2019 |
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| Knowledge Exchange Showcase - Jewish Country Houses |
Abigail Green (Faculty of History), Nino Strachey (National Trust), and Silvia Davoli, (Strawberry Hill House) give a presentation on their Knowledge Exchange research project on Jewish Country Houses |
Abigail Green, Nino Strachey, Silvia Davoli |
15 July, 2019 |
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| Delius and the Sound of Place |
Book at Lunchtime: Delius and the Sound of Place |
Daniel Grimley, Philip Bullock, Peter Franklin, Alexandra Harris, Charlotte de Mille |
28 June, 2019 |
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| Compassion's Edge |
Book at Lunchtime: Compassion's Edge, Winner of the 2018 Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize. |
Katherine Ibbett, Lorna Hutson, Teresa Bejan, Emma Claussen, Philip Bullock |
18 June, 2019 |
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| Veteran Poetics |
Book at Lunchtime: Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 |
Suzan Kalayci, Kate McLoughlin, Santanu Das, Elleke Boehmer |
12 June, 2019 |
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| Writing an Activist Life |
A panel discussion with Karin Amatmoekrim, Margaretta Jolly, and JC Niala, exploring the politics and poetics of writing an activist life. |
Karin Amatmoekrim, Margaretta Jolly, JC Niala |
4 June, 2019 |
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| Derek Attridge 'The Experience of Poetry' Book Launch Panel Discussion |
This event celebrates the publication of Professor Derek Attridge's work The Experience of Poetry with a book launch panel discussion. |
Derek Attridge, Helen Cooper, Cathy Shrank, Stephen Harrison, Mohamed Salah-Omri, Elleke Boehmer |
29 May, 2019 |
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| Closing the Door: Complaint as Diversity Work |
This lecture by Sara Ahmed draws on interviews conducted with staff and students who have made complaints within universities that relate to unfair, unjust or unequal working conditions and to abuses of power such as sexual and racial harassment. |
Sara Ahmed, Katherine Collins |
29 May, 2019 |
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| Art and Political Thought in Medieval England |
Book at Lunchtime: Art and Political Thought in Medieval England c.1150-1350 |
Laura Slater, Pippa Byrne, Jessica Berenbeim, Tim Farrant, Wes Williams |
20 May, 2019 |
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| People's Landscapes: Creative Landscapes |
A roundtable discussion exploring the ways in which writers, artists and musicians have both responded to and created conceptions of 'place' throughout history. Thursday 16th May 2019. |
Alice Purkiss, Helen Antrobus, Grace Davies, Kate Stoddart, Rosemary Shirley, Craig Oldham, Fiona Stafford |
16 May, 2019 |
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| People's Landscapes: Contested Landscapes |
A roundtable discussion of the history of land access and ownership, exploring how this has both physically and politically shaped our land and our access to it. |
Alice Purkiss, Helen Antrobus, Briony McDonagh, Helen Wright, Stephen Mileson, Kate Ashbrook |
2 May, 2019 |
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| The Social Life of Modernism: Conversation, Literary Community, and Espionage in 1930s Calcutta |
This talk from TORCH Global South Visiting Professor Supriya Chaudhuri will be illustrated with images from the Parichay archives and related documents and correspondence. |
Supriya Chaudhuri |
9 April, 2019 |
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| What is the Modern? Temporality, Aesthetics, and Global Melancholy |
This talk from TORCH Global South Visiting Professor Supriya Chaudhuri will interrogate the temporality of the modern, the aesthetics of the modern, and as a somewhat cryptic afterthought, the mood of the modern, here categorized as melancholy. |
Supriya Chaudhuri |
9 April, 2019 |
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| Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation |
The themes raised by Matthew Reynolds' Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation will be discussed by Dr Jason Gaiger (Ruskin School), Dr Adriana Jacobs (Oriental Studies) and Dr Nick Halmi (English). |
Matthew Reynolds, Jason Gaiger, Adriana Jacobs, Nick Halmi, Ben Morgan |
8 March, 2019 |
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| Women and Power: Redressing the Balance – closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust |
The closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. |
Helen Antrobus |
7 March, 2019 |
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| Women Making History: The Leaders of Today – roundtable discussion chaired by Victoria Tandy, Co-Founder of the Women Leaders in Museums Network |
‘Women Making History: The Leaders of Today’ is a roundtable session exploring the presence of women in senior roles in heritage organisations, at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. |
Hilary Carty, Kate Clark, Sara Wajid, Virginia Tandy |
7 March, 2019 |
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| Women and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust – keynote by Hilary McGrady, Director-General, National Trust |
‘Women and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust’ is the keynote by McGrady, Director-General, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. |
Hilary McGrady |
7 March, 2019 |
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| Women and Power: Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves – keynote by Melissa Benn, Writer and Campaigner |
'Women and Power: Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves’ is the keynote by the writer and campaigner Melissa Benn at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. |
Melissa Benn, Senia Paseta |
6 March, 2019 |
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| Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century |
A discussion about the book Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century. Part of 'A Book at Lunchtime' series |
Oliver Taplin, Wes Williams, Olga Taxidou, Sarah Whatley, Claire Kenward, Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell |
6 March, 2019 |
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| Women and Power: Redressing the Balance – keynote by Annie Reilly, Head of Public Programmes, National Trust |
'Women and Power: Redressing the Balance' is the opening keynote by Anne Reilly, Head of Public Programmes, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. |
Annie Reilly, Alice Purkiss |
6 March, 2019 |
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| How not to Ruin Everything: Futures Thinking Launch |
Launch event for Futures Thinking, a new research group looking into future problems and opportunities created by advances in technology and artificial intelligence. |
Chelsea Haith, Robert Iliffe, Gretta Corporaal, Alexandra Paddock, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Alice Billington |
5 March, 2019 |
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| Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience |
Sandra Mayer, author of Oscar Wilde in Vienna, argues it was his willingness to both please and tease his audience. His plays skilfully manoeuvre between conformism and subversion, conventionality and innovation. |
Sandra Mayer, Dominic Janes, Stefano Evangelista, Mary Luckhurst |
20 February, 2019 |
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| Samraghni Bonnerjee presents, Envoy extraordinary: a study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her contribution to modern India. Vera Brittain (Allen and Unwin, 1965) |
Samraghni Bonnerjee gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Samraghni Bonnerjee |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Olivia Slater presents, Place in research: Theory, methodology, and methods. Eve Tuck and Marcia McKenzie (Routledge, 2014) |
Olivia Slater gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Olivia Slater |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Ushashi Dasgupta presents, Rajmohan’s Wife Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1864). |
Ushashi Dasgupta gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Ushashi Dasgupta |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Arun Sood presents, Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. Mungo, Park and James Rennell (W. Bulmer and Company, 1799). |
Arun Sood gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Arun Sood |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Discussion: How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? |
Blue Weiss, Mia Liyanage, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Supriya Chaudhuri, and Afua Hirsch, discuss what a decolonial curriculum would look like, part of the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Blue Weiss, Mia Liyanage, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Supriya Chaudhuri, Afua Hirsch |
19 February, 2019 |
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| How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? |
Blue Weiss and Mia Liyanage, Common Ground Oxford, give a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2019. |
Blue Weiss, Mia Liyanage |
19 February, 2019 |
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| How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? |
Nana Oforiatta Ayim TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Nana Oforiatta Ayim |
19 February, 2019 |
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| How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? |
Supriya Chaudhuri, TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Supriya Chaudhuri |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Joe Shaughnessy presents, Mine Boy Peter Abrahams (East African Publishers, 1946) |
Joe Shaughnessy gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Joe Shaughnessy |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Elsa Gomis presents, The Logic of Analogy: Slavery and the Contemporary Refugee. Yogita Goyal (Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 8(3), 543-546. 2017) |
Elsa Gomis gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Elsa Gomis |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Rachel Fox presents, Refugee tales David, Herd and Anna Pincus (Comma Press, 2016) |
Rachel Fox gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Rachel Fox |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Ethel Maqeda presents, The Book of Memory: A Novel by Petina Gappah (Macmillan, 2016) |
Ethel Maqeda gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Ethel Maqeda |
19 February, 2019 |
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| What is a decolonial curriculum soapbox? |
Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Elleke Boehmer |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Singing in the Age of Anxiety |
Laura will be joined an expert panel to discuss the book and its themes; Dr Benjamin Walton (Jesus, Cambridge), Professor Kate McLoughlin (Harris Manchester, Oxford). Chaired by Professor Philip R. Bullock (Wadham, Oxford). |
Laura Tunbridge, Kate McLoughlin, Philip Bullock, Benjamin Walton |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Discussion: What is a decolonial curriculum? |
Kwame Dawes, Jok Madut Jok, Peter D Mcdonald and Anu Anand discuss What is a decolonial curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Kwame Dawes, Jok Madut Jok, Peter D McDonald, Anu Anand |
15 February, 2019 |
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| Peter D Mcdonald - What is a decolonial curriculum? |
Peter D Mcdonald, Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Peter D McDonald |
15 February, 2019 |
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| Jok Madut Jok - What is a decolonial curriculum? |
Jok Madut Jok, TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Jok Madut Jok |
15 February, 2019 |
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| Kwame Dawes - What is a decolonial curriculum? |
Kwame Dawes, TORCH Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Kwame Dawes |
15 February, 2019 |
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| Postcolonial Poetics: A Book at Lunchtime |
A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Elleke Boehmer, author of Postcolonial Poetics, joined by Dr Malachi McIntosh, Professor Ben Morgan, Professor Richard Drayton and Professor Robert Young (chair). |
Elleke Boehmer, Malachi McIntosh, Ben Morgan, Richard Drayton, Robert Young |
14 February, 2019 |
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| Anil Ramdas: Hope and Despair in Dutch Postcolonial Literature |
An insight into prize-winning Dutch Surinamese columnist, correspondent, essayist, journalist, and TV and radio host, Anil Ramdas. |
Karin Amatmoekrim |
4 February, 2019 |
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| Ibsen, Scandinavia, and the Making of a World Drama: A Book At Lunchtime |
Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century. |
Narve Fulsas, Tore Rem, Peter McDonald, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Julia Mannherz |
21 January, 2019 |
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| The Heterarchical Director - A Model of Authorship for the Twenty-First Century |
The keynote talk for 'Collaboration in Theatre symposium' at the University of Oxford, 19 October 2018. |
Duška Radosavljević |
18 December, 2018 |
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| Smart People Work Everywhere - using your research skills outside academia |
A panel discuss using your research degree outside academia. |
Carole Souter, Philip Bullock, Kate Williams, Mark Byford, Michael Pye |
18 December, 2018 |
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| Making Oscar Wilde |
A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Michele Mendelssohn, literary critic and cultural historian. Dr Sos Eltis (Brasenose, Oxford), Dr Charles Foster (Green Templeton, Oxford), Chaired by Professor Dame Hermione Lee (Wolfson, Oxford). |
Michèle Mendelssohn, Sos Eltis, Charles Foster, Dame Hermione Lee |
14 December, 2018 |
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| Forward with Classics |
A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Steven Hunt, Dr Mai Musie, Dr Peter Jones (Co-founder, Classics for All), Dr Alex Pryce (Head of Student Recruitment, Oxford), Chaired by Professor Fiona Macintosh (St Hilda's Oxford). |
Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Steven Hunt, Mai Musié, Peter Jones, Alex Pryce, Fiona Macintosh |
14 December, 2018 |
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| Remembering the Jagiellonians |
A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Natalia Nowakowska, Somerville College, University of Oxford, Professor Julia Mannherz (Oriel, Oxford) Professor Hannah Skoda (St John’s, Oxford) Chaired by Professor Katherine Lebow (Christ Church, Oxford). |
Natalia Nowakowska, Julia Mannherz, Hannah Skoda, Katherine Lebow |
14 December, 2018 |
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| Reading Beyond the Code |
A Book at Lunchtime Seminar with Terrence Cave, Deirdre Wilson, Ben Morgan (Worcester College, Oxford), Professor Robyn Carston (Linguistics, UCL). Chaired by Professor Philip Bullock (TORCH Director). |
Terrence Cave, Deirdre Wilson, Ben Morgan, Robyn Carston, Philip Bullock |
14 December, 2018 |
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| Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature - Part 2 |
A One-Day International Conference held at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, on June 25, 2018. |
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ros Ballaster, Ankhi Mukherjee, Robert J. C. Young |
26 July, 2018 |
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| Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature - Part 1 |
A One-Day International Conference held at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, on June 25, 2018. |
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ros Ballaster, Ankhi Mukherjee, Robert J. C. Young |
18 July, 2018 |
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| Cultural Citizenship in India: Politics, Power and Media |
Cultural Citizenship in India argues that citizenship is an ongoing and evolving discursive project. Further, it studies the role of culture and different media in the process of citizen-making by taking postcolonial India as its case study. |
Lion König, Polly O'hanlon, Sundas Ali, Peter Frankopan |
13 July, 2018 |
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| Reni Eddo-Lodge in conversation with Rebecca Surender |
Reni Eddo-Lodge (author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and winner of the Jhalak Prize 2018), in conversation with Dr Rebecca Surender (Pro Vice-Chancellor and Advocate for Diversity, University of Oxford). |
Reni Eddo-Lodge, Rebecca Surender |
28 June, 2018 |
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| Lost in Print? Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Reggae Music Archive |
Louisa Layne investigates the reggae music archive, exploring music and poetry through Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub club. |
Louisa Layne |
13 June, 2018 |
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| Lost and Found: Till Damaskus III |
Travel back with Leah Broad to 1926 and hear recently found music by Swedish composter Ture Rangstrom, composed for a Strindberg play. |
Leah Broad |
13 June, 2018 |
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| The Monk, the Memorist, the Mushroom and the MRI |
Discover how we create and store ideas, and how modern neuroscience process 16th century theories on memory. |
Dan Holloway |
13 June, 2018 |
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| A Lost Victorian Utopia: Living to 100 |
An exploration of a Victorian blue-print for a city of health and happiness, where everyone could live to 100. |
Sally Shuttleworth |
13 June, 2018 |
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| Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity |
Book at Lunchtime, Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity |
Philip Bullock, Antonia Fitzpatrick, Cecilia Trifogli, William Wood, Emily Corran |
12 June, 2018 |
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| Artist Talk: Made in Imagination |
Find out how Anne Griffiths’ work, Lost in Imagination, reimagines intriguing objects lost within the Pitt Rivers archive. |
Anne Griffiths |
6 June, 2018 |
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| Identity beyond Borders: Ethnicity in the American Pacific |
Evan Matsuyama gives a short talk on Japanese mortality, identity, and ethnicity in the Nikkei struggle against mass incarceration during World War II. |
Evan Matsuyama |
6 June, 2018 |
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| Lost and Found: The story of a Museum store |
Andrew Hughes gives a short talk on the discovery unusual things lost and found during a move of 100,000 Pitt Rivers Museum objects. |
Andrew Hughes |
6 June, 2018 |
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| What made a Jewish country home Jewish? |
Leora Auslander (University of Chicago) gives the keynote talk for the JCH conference. |
Leora Auslander |
23 May, 2018 |
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| Philip Sassoon: perfectionism and the English country house |
Jane Stevenson (University of Oxford) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fifth panel; Building New. |
Jane Stevenson |
23 May, 2018 |
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| Charles-de-Gaulle – The castle of Ferrières, an emblematic house |
Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy (Université gives a talk for the JCH conference's fifth session; Building New. |
Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy |
23 May, 2018 |
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| Renaissance as locus: Bakst and the imaginary chateau in the Sleeping Beauty panels |
Olga Medvedkova (CNRS) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth session; The Anglo-French Connection. |
Olga Medvedkova |
23 May, 2018 |
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| The Sterns, the Singers and Cross-Cultural Exchanges |
Tom Stammers (University of Durham) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth session; The Anglo-French Connection. |
Tom Stammers |
23 May, 2018 |
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| In Walpole’s footsteps - Braham and Stern at Strawberry Hill |
Silvia Davoli (Strawberry Hill House) and Nino Strachey (National Trust) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth session; The Anglo-French Connection. |
Silvia Davoli |
23 May, 2018 |
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| Schloss Freienwalde: a Jewish restoration of a Prussian legacy |
Martin Sabrow (ZZF Potsdam/ Humboldt University) gives a talk for the JCH conference's third session; The Political World of the Jewish Country House. |
Martin Sabrow |
23 May, 2018 |
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| Disraeli at Hughenden - A Fish out of Water? |
Todd Endelman (University of Michigan) gives a talk for the JCH conference's third session; The Political World of the Jewish Country House. |
Todd Endelman |
23 May, 2018 |
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| Sommerfrische, Connoisseurship, Scandal and the Temporary in the Jewish Country House in Austria: Baron Nathaniel Rothschild’s castle in Reichenau and Dr. Josef Kranz’ Villa Raach |
Mimi Schmidt (Jindal Global University) gives a talk for the JCH conference's second session; Villas and Chateaux. |
Mimi Schmidt |
23 May, 2018 |
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| Torre Alfina: A Cahen d’Anvers Manor in Italy |
Alice Legé (University of Amiens/University of Milan) gives a talk for the JCH conference's second session; Villas and Chateaux. |
Alice Lege |
23 May, 2018 |
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| Gunnersbury Park, 1835-1925: a Rothschild Family Villa |
Diana Davis gives a talk for the JCH conference's second panel, Villas and Chateaux. |
Diana Davis |
23 May, 2018 |
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| Property and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Provincial Austria |
Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) gives a talk for the JCH conference's first conference The Lure of the Land. |
Lisa Silverman |
23 May, 2018 |
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| Places, Symbols and Images of an Elite: the Country Houses of the Italian Jewish Nobility |
Paolo Pellegrini (Scuola di Archivistica, Paelografica e Diplomatica dell'Archivio di Stato di Perugia) gives a talk for the JCH conference's first session; The Lure of the Land. |
Paolo Pellegrini |
23 May, 2018 |
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| Creolizing Country Homes and the Dutch Jewish Pastoral |
Laura Leibmann (Reed College) gives a talk for the JCH conference's first panel, The Lure of the Land. |
Laura Leibmann |
23 May, 2018 |
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| Jewish Country Houses Conference Welcome and Opening Remarks |
Abigail Green (Oxford) introduces the conference, held in the Radcliffe Humanities Building on 5th March 2018. |
Abigail Green |
23 May, 2018 |
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| Art and Emergency |
Book at Lunchtime, Art and Emergency |
Emilia Terracciano, Partha Mitter, Lion König, Naiza Khan |
22 May, 2018 |
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| In search of the Phoenicians |
Book at Lunchtime, In search of the Phoenicians |
Josephine Quinn, Hindy Najman, Stephanie Dalley, John Watts |
10 May, 2018 |
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| Photography and Tibet |
Author, Clare Harris, talks about her book on photography in Tibet - a place that has for centuries been a source of fascination for outsiders and a captivating yet troublesome subject for photographers. |
Clare Harris, Thupten Kelsang, Elizabeth Edwards, Geraldine Johnson |
5 April, 2018 |
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| A Celebration of the Centenary of the Birth of Olive Gibbs |
100 years since the Representation of the People Act, the act which gave women the vote. |
Susanna Pressel, Liz Woolley, Bruce Kent, Simon Gibbs, Christine Simm |
26 February, 2018 |
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| Ethnicised Religion and Sacralised Ethnicity in the Past and the Present |
An expert panel discusses the phenomenon of ethnicisation of religious identifications focussing especially on the nexus of religious, ethnic and national identifications in colonial, anti-colonial and postcolonial settings from Ireland to South Asia. |
Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, Faisal Devji, Peter Leary, Ilya Afanasyev |
22 February, 2018 |
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| Valuing Women With Disabilities |
Valuing Women With Disabilities: Infantilised, Medicalised, Pauperised? |
Marie Tidball, Helen Brookman, Julie Jaye Charles |
21 February, 2018 |
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| James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film |
Book at Lunchtime, James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film |
Katherine Morris, Ulrika Maude, Jeri Johnson, Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, Philip Bullock |
16 February, 2018 |
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| A History of Algeria |
James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country |
James McDougal, Eugene Rogan, Laleh Khalili, Robert Gildea, Philip Bullock |
25 January, 2018 |
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| Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions |
Mary Beard and Neil MacGregor in conversation |
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24 January, 2018 |
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| Becoming / Unbecoming |
With comics artist Una |
Una |
18 December, 2017 |
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| Unlocking the Church |
Book at Lunchtime, Unlocking the Church |
William Whyte, Dan Hicks, Julia Smith, Mark Chapman |
11 December, 2017 |
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| Late Victorian into Modern |
Book at Lunchtime, Late Victorian into Modern |
Laura Marcus, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Michael Bentley, Charlotte Jones, Philip Bullock |
8 December, 2017 |
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