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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 |
22 Mar 2021 |
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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 |
18 Mar 2021 |
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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 |
10 Mar 2021 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
28 Jan 2021 |
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Etiquette |
Isabel Parkinson (2015) on her debut novel, Etiquette |
Isabel Parkinson |
27 Jan 2021 |
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Reynard the Fox |
In this BodCast from the Friends of the Bodleian, Professor Dame Marina Warner interviews Anne Louise Avery, writer and art historian, on the subject of Avery's recent book, Reynard the Fox https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/reynard-the-fox |
Dame Marina Warner, Anne Louise Avery |
09 Dec 2020 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
20 Nov 2020 |
14 |
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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 |
20 Nov 2020 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
09 Nov 2020 |
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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 |
20 |
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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 |
13 Oct 2020 |
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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 |
13 Oct 2020 |
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Episode 5: Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast |
In episode five, we speak to Laura Lonsdale (Associate Professor in Modern Spanish Literature) about Bodas de sangre, by Federico García Lorca. |
Laura Lonsdale |
09 Oct 2020 |
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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 |
06 Oct 2020 |
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In At The Deep End |
Alex Gunz (1994, PPE) on his novel, In At The Deep End |
Alex Gunz |
02 Oct 2020 |
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Exiles From Paris |
Brigitte Adès (1982) on her novel, Exiles From Paris |
Brigitte Ades |
01 Oct 2020 |
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The Cry of the Lake |
Charlie Tyler (1993) on her debut novel, The Cry of the Lake |
Charlie Tyler |
30 Sep 2020 |
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Narrative Futures Coming Soon |
The trailer for the Narrative Futures podcast, devised and produced by Chelsea Haith, featuring interviews with eight authors and editors, and writing prompts by Louis Greenberg. |
Chelsea Haith, Lauren Beukes, Mohale Mashigo, Sami Shah |
28 Sep 2020 |
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Series Two Episode Five: Fairy and Other Transformations |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield discuss the theme of transformation through fairy or other kinds of magic. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Lucy Farrell, Inge Thomson |
22 Sep 2020 |
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Series Two Episode Four: Fairies and the Environment |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about a new theme that emerged in the ‘Modern Fairies’ project, fairies as guardians of the environment. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Ben Nicholls, Inge Thomson |
22 Sep 2020 |
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Series Two Episode Three: Fairies and Children |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield uncover the works inspired by the strange tale of the Green Children and the changeling legend. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Terri Windling, Brian McMahon |
22 Sep 2020 |
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Series Two Episode Two: Fairy Time and Space |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield explore the ways in which the project artists engaged with the fairy world as parallel and yet distinct from our world, and the ways in which time warps in the other world. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Barney Morse Brown, Ewan MacPherson |
22 Sep 2020 |
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Series Two Episode One: Introducing the Modern Fairies Project |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield introduce the artists and outcomes of the Modern Fairies Project. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield |
22 Sep 2020 |
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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 |
15 Sep 2020 |
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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 |
15 Sep 2020 |
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St Antony's Looks at the World - Ep. 3 Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis |
Professor of International Relations, Faculty Fellow, St Antonys College discusses her recent reflections on the Coronavirus pandemic and what it means for our story and myth. |
Kalypso Nicolaidis |
26 Aug 2020 |
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What Tolkien learnt from 'Beowulf': Representations of Evil |
Monsters and evil in Tolkien |
Rafael J. Pascual |
16 Jul 2020 |
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Interview with Water |
This is the first ever online lecture by a Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In the lecture, Alice Oswald explores the strange connection between water and grief. |
Alice Oswald |
08 Jul 2020 |
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Episode 2: Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast |
In episode two, we speak to Oliver Noble Wood (University Lecturer in Golden Age Spanish Literature) about Lazarillo de Tormes. |
Oliver Noble Wood |
02 Jul 2020 |
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Episode 1: Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast |
In episode one, we speak to Geraldine Hazbun (Professor of Medieval Spanish Literature) about Coplas por la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique. |
Geraldine Hazbun |
02 Jul 2020 |
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Trailer: Oxford Spanish Literature Podcast |
Thinking about applying for Modern Languages at university? Listen in on our conversations with Spanish tutors at Oxford to find out what's so fascinating about the literature they teach, why they love teaching, and why they think you might love it too. |
Geraldine Hazbun, Oliver Noble Wood, Maria Del Pilar Blanco, Dominic Moran |
02 Jul 2020 |
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Creative Commons |
Why do we need people to translate when we have machine translation? |
Some people ask why they should bother learning a language when there are online apps and websites which can translate quickly and accurately. |
Matthew Reynolds, Eleni Philippou, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Adriana X Jacobs |
01 May 2020 |
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Maud Gonne MacBride: feminist, agitator, muse |
Kellogg Fellow Dr Tara Stubbs introduces us to Maud Gonne Macbride: feminist, agitator, muse. |
Tara Stubbs |
25 Apr 2020 |
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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 |
24 Apr 2020 |
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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 |
23 Apr 2020 |
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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 |
23 Apr 2020 |
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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 |
23 Apr 2020 |
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Why should we read translated texts? |
This episode explores what we lose or gain when we read a translated book. Are we missing something by reading the English translation and not the original language version? And what can the translation process tell us about how languages work? |
Jane Hiddleston, Laura Lonsdale |
16 Mar 2020 |
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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 |
07 Feb 2020 |
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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 |
20 Dec 2019 |
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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 |
20 Dec 2019 |
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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 |
20 Dec 2019 |
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Post-Conflict Landscapes 22 Nov 2019 Buildings and Collections panel |
Sarah Kay (National Trust), 'Conflict and Conscience project' and Professor Lynda Mugglestone (Oxford), 'Langscapes of War'. |
Sarah Kay, Lynda Mugglestone |
11 Dec 2019 |
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Post-Conflict Landscapes 22 Nov 2019 Seascapes panel |
Professor Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford), Writing after Waterloo: Jane Austen’s Late Fiction and Jonathan Wallis and Kiki Claxton (National Trust), 'Easington Colliery: Conflict in the Landscape'. |
Kathryn Sutherland, Jonathan Wallis, Kiki Claxton |
11 Dec 2019 |
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The Art of Erosion |
Inaugural Lecture of Alice Oswald, Professor of Poetry, held at the University of Oxford Exam Schools. |
Alice Oswald |
09 Dec 2019 |
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Book at Lunchtime: India, Empire and First World War Culture |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on India, Empire and First World War Culture by Professor Santanu Das. Held on 20th November 2019. |
Santanu Das, Yasmin Khan, Laura Marcus, Jay Winter |
20 Nov 2019 |
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Introduction to Modern Greek Literature |
Professor Peter Mackridge takes his audience on a whistle-stop tour of the major landmarks of Modern Greek Literature. |
Peter Mackridge |
19 Nov 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 Nov 2019 |
58 |
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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 Nov 2019 |
59 |
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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 Nov 2019 |
60 |
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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 |
15 Nov 2019 |
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‘Arriving before us’: seeing, ingenuity and imagination in Dante: Simon Gilson's Inaugural lecture |
During his inaugural lecture, Professor Gilson will show how ideas about vision and cognate faculties such as the wits and the imagination are central to Dante’s masterpiece, the Commedia. |
Simon Gilson |
22 Oct 2019 |
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Zaharoff Lecture 2018: Je n'ai pas la tentation du silence |
Pierre Michon, writer, gives the 2018 Zaharoff lecture. Introduced by Catriona Seth. |
Pierre Michon |
18 Oct 2019 |
63 |
Creative Commons |
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 Oct 2019 |
64 |
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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 |
14 Aug 2019 |
65 |
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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 |
28 Jun 2019 |
66 |
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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 |
18 Jun 2019 |
67 |
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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 Jun 2019 |
68 |
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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 |
04 Jun 2019 |
69 |
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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer |
Simon Armitage delivers his final lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry, reflecting on his own influences as a poet. |
Simon Armitage |
17 May 2019 |
70 |
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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 |
09 Apr 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 |
09 Apr 2019 |
72 |
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15cHEBRAICA: Capturing the former owners of Hebrew incunabula and their annotations in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database |
Marco Bertagna gives a talk for the History of the Book seminar series on 1st March 2019. |
Marco Bertagna |
08 Mar 2019 |
73 |
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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 |
08 Mar 2019 |
74 |
Creative Commons |
Manuscript and Print, 1660–1760 |
Carly Watson outlines the material forms in which literary texts circulated between 1660 and 1760. |
Carly Watson |
07 Mar 2019 |
75 |
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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 |
05 Mar 2019 |
76 |
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Climate Change and Literature: Reading Change |
Can literature help us understand and deal with climate change? In this episode, we talk to Dr. Jemma Deer, an Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, about how literature can help us rethink climate change. |
Jemma Deer, Alice Evatt, Henry Tann |
05 Mar 2019 |
77 |
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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 Feb 2019 |
78 |
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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 Feb 2019 |
79 |
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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 Feb 2019 |
80 |
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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 Feb 2019 |
81 |
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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 Feb 2019 |
82 |
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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 |
19 Feb 2019 |
83 |
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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 Feb 2019 |
84 |
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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 Feb 2019 |
85 |
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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 Feb 2019 |
86 |
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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 Feb 2019 |
87 |
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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 Feb 2019 |
88 |
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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 Feb 2019 |
89 |
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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 Feb 2019 |
90 |
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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 Feb 2019 |
91 |
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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 Feb 2019 |
92 |
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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 |
14 Feb 2019 |
93 |
Creative Commons |
Visual metre and rhythm: the function of movable devices in books |
A lecture for the Oxford Bibliographical Society and the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book, by Bodleian Printer in Residence, 2018, Emily Martin. |
Emily Martin |
12 Feb 2019 |
94 |
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Bumble-Bee Witches and the Reading of Dreams: Spectacular and Speculative Marginalia in a Renaissance Reader’s Montaigne |
Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins), gives the first talk in the new term for the Centre for the Study of the Book on Friday 18th January 2019. |
Earle Havens |
30 Jan 2019 |
95 |
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Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries |
An examination of the notebooks in which Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein. These two notebooks, one purchased probably in Geneva, the second in England, are now kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. |
Miranda Seymour, Richard Ovenden, Stephen Hebron |
29 Jan 2019 |
96 |
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'Undisfigured by False or Vicious Ornaments' - Clarity and Obscurity in the Age of Formlessness |
The Hilary Term Professor of Poetry lecture, delivered by Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage. |
Simon Armitage |
28 Jan 2019 |
97 |
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Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth |
A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi. |
Marina Warner, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi |
25 Jan 2019 |
98 |
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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 |
21 Jan 2019 |
99 |
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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 Dec 2018 |
100 |
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Tales of Love and History - James Ivory in Conversation |
Oscar-winning American film-maker James Ivory will talk about his experiences with the legendary Merchant Ivory productions, in partnership with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. |
James Ivory, Richard Parkinson, Katherine Harloe, Jennifer Ingleheart |
18 Dec 2018 |