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The University of Oxford is home to an impressive range and depth of research activities in the Humanities. TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities is a major new initiative that seeks to build on this heritage and to stimulate and support research that transcends disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Here we feature some of the networks and programmes, as well as recordings of events, and offer insights into the research that they make possible.
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| 1 | Platforming Artists Podcasts: Simran Uppal | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | Simran Uppal, Shivaike Shah | 26 Feb 2021 | |
| 2 | Ken Loach in Conversation | TORCH Goes Digital! presents Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Ken Loach, Judith Buchanan | 12 Feb 2021 | |
| 3 | Platforming Artists Podcasts: Azan Ahmed | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | Azan Ahmed, Shivaike Shah | 09 Feb 2021 | |
| 4 | Platforming Artists Podcasts: Francesca Amewudah-Rivers | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, Shivaike Shah | 05 Feb 2021 | |
| 5 | In Conversation with Anne Boyd | Internationally-renowned composer Anne Boyd is in conversation with composer Thomas Metcalf, discussing her life and music ahead of a performance of her String Quartet No. 2 ’Play on the Water’ later this year. | Anne Boyd, Thomas Metcalf | 05 Feb 2021 | |
| 6 | Dr Juliet Henderson on 'Decolonising Florence Park Street Names' | Dr Juliet Henderson and Florence Park community members discuss their new project to decolonise local street names. | Juliet Henderson | 04 Feb 2021 | |
| 7 | Liz Woolley on 'Lord Nuffield and the city of Oxford' (longer version) | Local historian, Liz Woolley, takes a closer look at the role Lord Nuffield played in changing the city of Oxford's physical and social landscape. | Liz Woolley | 04 Feb 2021 | |
| 8 | Book at Lunchtime: The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe written by Professor Simukai Chigudu. | Simukai Chigudu, Sloan Mahone, Jon Schubert, Wes Williams | 04 Feb 2021 | |
| 9 | 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 | |
| 10 | The 2020 Besterman Lecture: Who were the French Revolutionaries? | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | William Doyle, Karen O'Brien, Gregory S Brown, Lauren Clay | 07 Dec 2020 | |
| 11 | Liz Woolley on 'Lord Nuffield and the city of Oxford' | Local historian, Liz Wooley, takes a closer look at the role Lord Nuffield played in changing the city of Oxford's physical and social landscape. | Liz Wooley | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 12 | Dr Dexnell Peters on 'Politician Scholar: Dr Eric Williams' | Dr Dexnell Peters, Bennett Boskey Fellow in Atlantic History at Exeter College, reflects on the life and enduring legacy of eminent historian, Dr Eric Williams. | Dexnell Peters | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 13 | Dr Ben Grant on 'Richard Francis Burton | Dr Ben Grant, departmental lecturer in English and author of Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire (Routledge, 2009) reflects on Richard Francis Burton's sojourn in Oxford in the 1840s. | Ben Grant | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 14 | Dr Priya Atwal on 'Princesses Bamba and Catherine Duleep Singh at Oxford' | Historian, Dr Priya Atwal, takes a look at the lives of some of the University of Oxford's first Indian students. | Priya Atwal | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 15 | 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 | |
| 16 | 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 | |
| 17 | Book at Lunchtime: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe written by Professor Judith Herrin. Date: 4 November 2020. | Judith Herri, Peter Frankopan, Dame Averil Cameron, Conrad Leyser | 10 Nov 2020 | |
| 18 | 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 | |
| 19 | Humanities Cultural Programme Live Event: Katie Mitchell in conversation with Ben Whishaw | Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. 'Liveness'. | Ben Whishaw, Katie Mitchell, Wes Williams | 04 Nov 2020 | |
| 20 | Live Event: Tragedy and Plague - In Conversation with Professor Oliver Taplin and Fiona Shaw CBE | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Drama Week | Oliver Taplin, Fiona Shaw | 04 Nov 2020 | |
| 21 | Book at Lunchtime: Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War | Join us for an online TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War written by Dr Alice Kelly. | Alice Kelly, Michael Whitworth, Laura Rattray, Jay Winter | 03 Nov 2020 | |
| 22 | Transnational Francoism | Bàrbara Molas discusses Transnational Francoism: The British and The Canadian Friends of National Spain as part of the TORCH Network Conversations in Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood. Bàrbara Molas is a PHD Candidate in History at York University | Bàrbara Molas | 23 Oct 2020 | |
| 23 | Live Event: Imagined Journeys: Pilgrimage, Diplomacy, and Colonialism in Medieval Europe | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events!. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Marion Turner, Matthew Kneale | 21 Oct 2020 | |
| 24 | Live Event: White Rose - Voices of the German Resistance | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Alex Lloyd, John Herring | 19 Oct 2020 | |
| 25 | Supriya Chaudhuri, Significant Lives: biography, autobiography, gender, and women's history in South Asia | Chaired by Elleke Boehmer. | Supriya Chaudhuri | 18 Nov 2019 | |
| 26 | 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 | |
| 27 | 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 | |
| 28 | 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 | |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | 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 | 06 Oct 2019 | |
| 31 | 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 | |
| 32 | 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 | 23 Jul 2019 | |
| 33 | 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 | 23 Jul 2019 | |
| 34 | 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 Jul 2019 | |
| 35 | 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 Jul 2019 | |
| 36 | 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 Jul 2019 | |
| 37 | 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 Jul 2019 | |
| 38 | 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 | |
| 39 | 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 | |
| 40 | 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 | |
| 41 | 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 | 29 May 2019 | |
| 42 | 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 | |
| 43 | 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 | 20 May 2019 | |
| 44 | 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 | 16 May 2019 | |
| 45 | 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 | |
| 46 | 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 | 02 May 2019 | |
| 47 | 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 | 13 Oct 2020 | |
| 48 | 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 | 06 Mar 2019 | |
| 49 | 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 | 13 Oct 2020 | |
| 50 | 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 | 06 Mar 2019 | |
| 51 | 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 | |
| 52 | 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 | 07 Mar 2019 | |
| 53 | Creative Commons | The Selden Map | The Selden Map of China has been one of the treasures of the Bodleian Library since 1659. This film shows how this remarkable map is interpreted today by scholars from a range of different disciplines. | Kate Bennett, David Helliwell, Ros Ballaster, Rana Mitter | 29 May 2013 |
| 54 | 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 | 07 Oct 2020 | |
| 55 | 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 | 07 Mar 2019 | |
| 56 | Creative Commons | Early Modern Catholicism Network | Clare Copeland and Jan Machielsen talk about a new hub to encourage, enhance, and promote research touching on all aspects of early modern Catholicism from across the academic disciplines. | Jan Machielsen, Clare Copeland | 24 May 2013 |
| 57 | Live Event: Celebrating Tchaikovsky | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Music Week | Leah Broad, Philip Bullock | 06 Oct 2020 | |
| 58 | 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 | 07 Mar 2019 | |
| 59 | Creative Commons | HiCor: a Cross-Disciplinary Network for History and Corpus Linguistics | Gabor Mihaly Toth talks about a network of corpus linguists, computational linguists, and historians who are aiming to study how the resources, tools and methods of corpus linguistics can be used to address important historical research questions. | Gabor Mihaly Toth | 24 May 2013 |
| 60 | 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 | |
| 61 | 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 | |
| 62 | Creative Commons | Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century | Elleke Boehmer and Imaobong Umoren talk about their research network which is investigating how twentieth-century activists, artists and intellectuals challenged racially oppressive hierarchies and sought to achieve equality. | Elleke Boehmer, Imaobong Umoren | 24 May 2013 |
| 63 | 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 | |
| 64 | Interview with Dr Emma Mckenzie-Edwards | The use of Humanities in Medical Education | Dr Emma Mckenzie-Edwards | 30 Nov 2015 | |
| 65 | Creative Commons | Ancient Dance in Modern Dancers | Sophie Bocksberger, Berrow Scholar, Classics, talks about collaborative workshops involving classical historians, professionally-trained dancers, and anthropologists to create "reconstructive" performances of the Roman dance form tragoedia saltata. | Sophie Bocksberger | 24 May 2013 |
| 66 | 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 | |
| 67 | Interview with Michael Docherty | We catch up with Cancer Research UK's Director of Digital on fundraising in the digital age. | Michael Docherty | 03 Aug 2015 | |
| 68 | 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 | 15 Sep 2020 | |
| 69 | Creative Commons | TORCH Launch | The highlights of the launch event for The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). | Jonathan Bate, Clare Copeland, Andrew Hamilton, Marcus du Sautoy | 29 May 2013 |
| 70 | 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 | 15 Sep 2020 | |
| 71 | 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 | |
| 72 | 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 | 24 Jul 2020 | |
| 73 | 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 | |
| 74 | 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 | 30 Jun 2020 | |
| 75 | 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 Feb 2019 | |
| 76 | 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 | 17 Jun 2020 | |
| 77 | Germs Revisited | On Thursday 16 March 2017, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown gave a talk with Dr Jamie Lorimer (School of Geography and the Environment) and Dr Nicola Fawcett (Medical Sciences Division) on the subject of Germs Revisited. | Emilie Taylor-Brown, Jamie Lorimer, Nicola Fawcett, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr | 25 Apr 2017 | |
| 78 | 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 | 10 Jun 2020 | |
| 79 | 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 Feb 2019 | |
| 80 | Creative Commons | 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 | 19 May 2020 |
| 81 | The Pragmatic Enlightenment and Other Enlightenments | Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston) discusses his book 'The Pragmatic Enlightenment' | Dennis Rasmussen | 14 Oct 2015 | |
| 82 | 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 | |
| 83 | The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity | A discussion exploring Pedro Ferreira's book | Pedro Ferreira, Harvey Brown, Alex Butterworth, Javier Lezaun | 16 Mar 2015 | |
| 84 | 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 | |
| 85 | The Jagiellonians | Dr Natalia Nowakowska introduces a new research project which examines the Renaissance Europe Jagiellonian dynasty as an international political phenomenon. | Natalia Nowakowska | 12 Sep 2014 | |
| 86 | 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 | |
| 87 | Humanities and Science: Culture and Technology | An interdisciplinary discussion exploring culture’s interaction with technology | Maria Blanco, Fritz Vollrath, Andrew Wilson, Lionel Tarassenko | 16 Mar 2015 | |
| 88 | 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 | |
| 89 | Science and the Humanities | Are the Humanities and the Sciences fundamentally different? Or do they share roots, values, aspirations and a common, contemporary predicament? | Howard Hotson, Ian Walmsley, Mark Pagel, Sally Shuttleworth | 04 Mar 2014 | |
| 90 | Imitating Authors | Book at Lunchtime: Imitating Authors | Colin Burrow, Wes Williams, Kathryn Murphy, Stephen Halliwell | 24 Feb 2020 | |
| 91 | Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century | A discussion of Omar Nasim's book | Omar Nasim, Stephen Johnston, Martin Kemp, Chris Lintott | 16 Mar 2015 | |
| 92 | 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 | 11 Feb 2020 | |
| 93 | Creative Commons | African Knowledge and Livestock Health | Book at Lunchtime interview with Karen Brown and William Beinart about their book “African Knowledge and Livestock Health” | Karen Brown, William Beinart | 13 Feb 2014 |
| 94 | 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 | |
| 95 | 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 | |
| 96 | Empires of the Mind | Book at Lunchtime: Empires of the Mind | Robert Gildea, Rana Mitter, Faridah Zaman, Philip Bullock | 29 Jan 2020 | |
| 97 | Oxford University International Women's Day 2015 | Feminists, acadeamics and journalists reflect on feminism's achievements and future path. | Selina Todd, Senia Paseta, Melissa Benn, Trudy Coe | 16 Mar 2015 | |
| 98 | 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 | 14 Jan 2020 | |
| 99 | 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 | 13 Jan 2020 | |
| 100 | Wayne McGregor: Neuroscience and Dance | Wayne McGregor (Director, Random Dance) talks about his choreographic practice with Dr Phil Barnard, (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) and Eckhard Thiemann (Arts Producer). | Wayne McGregor, Phil Barnard, Eckhard Thiemann | 16 Mar 2015 |
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