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The Humanities Division is one of four academic divisions in the University of Oxford, bringing together the faculties of Classics; English; History; Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics; Medieval and Modern Languages; Music; Oriental Studies; Philosophy; and Theology, as well as the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
The Division offers world-class teaching and research, backed by the superb resources of the University’s libraries and museums, including the famous Bodleian Library, with its 11 million volumes and priceless early book and manuscript collections, and the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Such historic resources are linked to cutting-edge agendas in research and teaching, with an increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary study. Our faculties are among the largest in the world, enabling Oxford to offer an education in Arts and Humanities unparalleled in its range of subjects, from music and fine art to ancient and modern languages.
Series associated with Humanities Division
"British" World War One Poetry: An Introduction
2013 Carnegie-Uehiro-Oxford Ethics Conference: Happiness and Well-Being
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures
Ancient Egypt
Ancient History HT2015: Digital Classics
Approaching Shakespeare
Art Across the Black Diaspora: Visualizing Slavery in America
Bio-Ethics Bites
Broadcast Media
Cantemir Institute
Censorship in Literature in South Africa
Centre for the Study of the Book
Challenging the Canon
Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening participation in the Humanities
D.H. Lawrence
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
Diplomacy and culture at the Ottoman Court
Edward Lear's Feelings
English at Oxford
English Graduate Conference 2012
Euthydemus - Platonic Dialogue
Exploring Humanities - The Ertegun Scholarship Programme
Faculty of Classics
From Conscience to Robots: Practical Ethics Workshops
General Philosophy
George Eliot
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Global Poverty: Philosophical Questions
Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar series, 2016-2017
Great Writers Inspire
Great Writers Inspire at Home
Greece in Crisis: Culture, Identity, Politics
Greek and Roman Drama - Theatre History and Modern Performance (APGRD Public Lectures)
History Faculty
History of Art
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
Hume's Central Principles
Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion
Ian Ramsey Centre: The Deist Controversy
Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
Indian Traces in Oxford
Institute for Visual Research
Interviews on Great Writers
Interviews with Philosophers
Introducing the Qur'an
Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
Journal of Practical Ethics
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
La Bella Principessa: A Leonardo Discovered
Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium
Les Liaisons dangereuses in 5x5
Literature and Form
Literature, Art and Oxford
Medea, a performance history (APGRD multimedia ebooks)
Medieval English
Medieval German Studies
Mesoamerican Manuscripts
Metaphor: Philosophical Issues
Modern Languages
MSt English Language
Musical Abstracts
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature
Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
Oriental Institute
Origins of Nature
Oscar Wilde
Oxford Humanities - Research Showcase: Global Exploration, Innovation and Influence
Oxford Writers' House Talks
Philosophical perspectives on the causes of mental illness
Philosophy - Ethics of the New Biosciences
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy Special Lectures
Photo Archives VI: The Place of Photography
Poetry with Simon Armitage
Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies
Practical Ethics Bites
Promoting Interdisciplinary Engagement in the Digital Humanities
Reformation 2017
Reid's Critique of Hume
Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment
Renegotiations of History in light of the 'Greek Crisis'
Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction
Rothermere American Institute
Ruskin School of Art
Russian Ab Initio Students: Pre-Course Listening Material
Sacrifice and Modern Thought
Sade, l'inconnu? Nouvelles approaches critiques
Samuel Johnson
Science and Religious Conflict Conference
Shakespeare's first folio
Social Media and Faith
Spain: 1959 - 1992
Staging Shakespeare
Stories, Spaces and Societies - Globalising and Localising the Great War
Teaching the Codex
The Beazley Archive - Classical Art Research Centre
The Dragon and The Cross: Christianity in China
The End of Journalism
The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII
The Fall of the Roman Empire (Bryan Ward-Perkins)
The King James Bible Lecture Series
The New Madhyamaka
The Remedy
The Trouble with Literature - Clarendon Lectures 2017
The Value of Humanities
The View from Above: Structure, Emergence, and Causation
The Zaharoff Lecture
Theology Faculty
Tolkien at Oxford
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Uehiro Lectures: Practical solutions for ethical challenges
Unlocking Late Schumann
Voltaire Foundation
Was there a Russian Enlightenment?
What is Tragedy?
What is Translation?
Writers in Dialogue
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| 1 | Teaching the Codex 5: Teaching Music Palaeography 2 | Margaret Bent (Oxford) speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium about music palaeography in the classroom. | Margaret Bent | 10 Apr 2018 | |
| 2 | Teaching the Codex 4: Teaching Music Palaeography 1 | Eleanor Giraud (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick) speaks about music palaeography in the classroom. | Eleanor Giraud | 10 Apr 2018 | |
| 3 | 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 | 05 Apr 2018 | |
| 4 | Weeping | 'He weeps by the side of the ocean, He weeps on the top of the hill', the poet wrote of himself in 'How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear'. | Matthew Bevis, Jasmine Jagger | 04 Apr 2018 | |
| 5 | Laughter | Lear once spoke of 'this ludicrously whirligig life which one suffers from first and laughs at afterwards.' | Matthew Bevis, Jasmine Jagger | 04 Apr 2018 | |
| 6 | Disgust | This programme explores appetite, desire, and disgust in Lear. | Matthew Bevis, Jasmine Jagger | 04 Apr 2018 | |
| 7 | Wonder | This programme examines different meanings of 'wonder' in Lear - as both a positive and a negative emotion, and as something in between. | Matthew Bevis, Jasmine Jagger | 04 Apr 2018 | |
| 8 | Introduction | This programme introduces Lear and outlines the structure of the programmes. | Matthew Bevis, Jasmine Jagger | 04 Apr 2018 | |
| 9 | Like, Elizabeth Bishop | Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage delivers a lecture on the american writer and poet Elizabeth Bishop. | Simon Armitage | 20 Mar 2018 | |
| 10 | Creative Commons | Creative Media Lecture 02 | In the second lecture, Stig Abell discusses the future of modern and social journalism. | Stig Abell | 12 Mar 2018 |
| 11 | Creative Commons | Creative Media Lecture 01 | In the first lecture, Stig Abell discusses the pros and cons of old fashioned journalism as well as modern forms of journalism such as social media. | Stig Abell | 12 Mar 2018 |
| 12 | Modal Epistemology and the Formal Identity of Intellect and Object | A defence of the Formal Identity Thesis and of the immateriality of the human intellect, based on specifically epistemological arguments about our knowledge of necessary or essential truths, including especially essential truths about value. | Robert Koons | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 13 | Hylomorphism, natural science, mind and God | Howard Robinson argues that the early moderns were right to think that Aristotelian or scholastic hylomorphism was inconsistent with modern science. | Howard Robinson | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 14 | Dependent Powerful Qualities and Grounded Downward Causation | David Yates argues that some physically realised qualitative properties have their causal roles solely in virtue of being the qualities they are, and not in virtue of the powers bestowed by their physical realizers on a given occasion. | David yates | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 15 | A Biologically Informed Hylomorphism | Utilising recent advances in developmental biology, Christopher Austin argues that the hylomorphic framework is an empirically adequate and conceptually rich explanatory schema with which to model the nature of organisms. | Christopher J Austin | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 16 | Hylomorphic Structure, Emergence, and Supervenience | William Jaworski argues why the hylomorphic structure is the best (and perhaps only) thing that can explain the persistence of individuals that change their matter over time. | William Jaworski | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 17 | The Qur'an as literature | A principal reason for why the Qur’an managed to establish itself as a text believed to constitute divine revelation is that it is compelling literature. How do Islamic and modern Western scholars approach the Qur’an’s literary dimension? | Nicolai Sinai | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 18 | Confirming and Clarifying: The Qur'an in conversation with earlier Judaeo-Christian traditions | The Qur’an’s original addressees must have been familiar with earlier Jewish and Christian traditions, which the Qur’an claims both to “confirm” and to “clarify”. Narratives about Abraham and the death of Pharaoh serve to exemplify what this means. | Nicolai Sinai | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 19 | Rekindling Prophecy: The Qur'an in its historical milieu. | This second episode examines the historical context in which the material now collected in the Qur’an was first promulgated. Special attention is paid to the various groups of addressees who figure in the Qur’an. | Nicolai Sinai | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 20 | Hovering about the Qur'an without entering into it? On the academic study of the Qur’an. | What does it mean to study the Qur’an historically? In this initial episode we consider how historically oriented research on the Qur’an relates to religious belief and to traditional Islamic scriptural interpretation. | Nicolai Sinai | 27 Feb 2018 | |
| 21 | 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 | 26 Feb 2018 | |
| 22 | 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 Feb 2018 | |
| 23 | Valuing Women With Disabilities | Valuing Women With Disabilities: Infantilised, Medicalised, Pauperised? | Marie Tidball, Helen Brookman, Julie Jaye Charles | 21 Feb 2018 | |
| 24 | Brain-machine interfaces and the translation of thought into action | In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Dr Tom Buller reflects on the causal relationship between movement goals and bodily awareness and challenges the idea that BMI-enabled movement and intentional bodily movement are equal actions. | Tom Buller | 19 Feb 2018 | |
| 25 | Creative Commons | Trade - Merchants' books of Venice and Florence | Dr Irene Ceccherini (Lyell-Bodleian Research Fellow in Manuscript Studies, Bodleian Library, Dilts Research Fellow in Palaeography, Lincoln College, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the Seminar in the History of the Book on 9th February 2017. | Irene Ceccherini | 16 Feb 2018 |
| 26 | 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 | 16 Feb 2018 | |
| 27 | Creative Commons | Politics After God | The 2018 Winant Lecture in American Government. | David Sehat, Hal Jones | 15 Feb 2018 |
| 28 | Early Modern Publishing Policies - Andreas Frisius of Amsterdam and the search for a niche market, 1664-75 | Professor Ian Maclean (All Souls College), gives the third seminar in the History of the Book series, looking at the early modern period publishing policies in Europe on February 2nd, 2018. | Ian Maclean | 06 Feb 2018 | |
| 29 | Creative Commons | Collective inaction and group-based ignorance | In this St Cross Special Ethics Seminar, Anne Schwenkebecher discusses morally wrongful collective inaction and the problem of group-based ignorance. | Anne Schwekenbecher | 06 Feb 2018 |
| 30 | Arabic - Scrolls into codices: Jilyani's picture-poems for Saladin | Professor Julia Bray (Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the new series for the Centre for the Study of the Book. | Julia Bray | 29 Jan 2018 | |
| 31 | Numismatics - Coins, Money and Prices in Renaissance Italy | Dr Alan Stahl (Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University) gives a talk in the new Centre for the Study of the Book Seminar series. | Alan Stahl | 29 Jan 2018 | |
| 32 | 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 | 25 Jan 2018 | |
| 33 | Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions | Mary Beard and Neil MacGregor in conversation | undefined | 24 Jan 2018 | |
| 34 | Research behind... Understanding Misunderstanding | A podcast about a song about the parallels of fake news today and satire in the 18th Century based on research by Prof Abigail Williams at the University of Oxford | Abigail Williams | 09 Jan 2018 | |
| 35 | Research Behind... The Great Vape Debate | A podcast about a song about vaping based on the latest evidence from research from Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce at the University of Oxford | Jamie Hartmann-Boyce | 09 Jan 2018 | |
| 36 | Research Behind... Stomach is the Monarch | The research behind a song about how Victorians saw the conversation between the gut and mood, featuring an interview with researcher Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown at the University of Oxford | Emilie Taylor-Brown | 09 Jan 2018 | |
| 37 | Research Behind... Use the Digital to Make the World you Want to See | The research behind a song about mapping the internet and how it links to our physical world, based on research by Prof Mark Graham at the University of Oxford. | Mark Graham | 08 Jan 2018 | |
| 38 | Research Behind... Mars Quakes | The research behind a song about the quest to hear Marsquakes based on research by Dr Neil Bowles at the University of Oxford. | Neil Bowles | 08 Jan 2018 | |
| 39 | VoxPop 2: Christmas | Episode 2 of VoxPop, the Oxford Classics Podcast | Gail Trimble, Emma Searle, Jas Elsner, Dominic Dalglish | 05 Jan 2018 | |
| 40 | VoxPop 1: Ovid 2000 | Episode 1 of VoxPop, where we explore the works and influence of the Roman poet Ovid, 2000 years after his death. | Qasim Alli, Marchella Ward, Oren Margolis, Jim Harris | 20 Dec 2017 | |
| 41 | 'Art and Attunement', by Professor Rita Felski, University of Virginia and Southern Denmark | In this talk Rita Felski reported at new research on how we engage with works of art across a broad range (including cat videos) and considered the puzzling question of why we are drawn by some pieces of music, art and literature, and not by others. | Rita Felski | 19 Dec 2017 | |
| 42 | Becoming / Unbecoming | With comics artist Una | Una | 18 Dec 2017 | |
| 43 | Creative Commons | The Two Gentlemen of Verona | Professor Emma Smith gives the last of her 2017 Shakespeare lectures on his early comedy, Two Gentlemen of Verona. | Emma Smith | 15 Dec 2017 |
| 44 | Digital Rhetoric, literae humaniores and Leibniz's dream | Willard McCarty, King's College, London, gives the 2017 Besterman lecture. | Willard McCarty | 13 Dec 2017 | |
| 45 | Unlocking the Church | Book at Lunchtime, Unlocking the Church | William Whyte, Dan Hicks, Julia Smith, Mark Chapman | 11 Dec 2017 | |
| 46 | Late Victorian into Modern | Book at Lunchtime, Late Victorian into Modern | Laura Marcus, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Michael Bentley, Charlotte Jones | 08 Dec 2017 | |
| 47 | Autonomy, Community, Destiny: Re-Imagining Disability | The second seminar in the Disability and Curriculum Diversity series at TORCH | Elizabeth Frood, Dom Hyams, Marie Tidball | 07 Dec 2017 | |
| 48 | Work, Time and Stress: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives | Stress & overwork in both education and professional life in the Victorian era and the 'dynamic' nature of disability and the impact of the stresses of modern life has. | Sally Shuttleworth, Marie Tidball | 07 Dec 2017 | |
| 49 | Core Course: Architects or Artisans? The Builders of the Medieval Cathedrals | This lecture forms part of series entitled Introduction to the History of Art, a core course taught to the first year undergraduate History of Art students. | Gervase Rosser | 07 Dec 2017 | |
| 50 | Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society | Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society held on 28 November 2017 | Libby Lane, Jas' Elsner, Shaista Aziz, Elleke Boehmer | 06 Dec 2017 | |
| 51 | Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions | Book at Lunchtime held on 8th November 2017. | Gervase Rosser, Georgi Parpulov, Stefanie Lenk, Kate Cooper | 27 Nov 2017 | |
| 52 | Lecture 4: Literariness in Kant, Kierkegaard, and Coetzee | The fourth lecture considers the work of Kant, Kierkegaard, and J.M. Coetzee. | Victoria Khan | 24 Nov 2017 | |
| 53 | Lecture 3: Milton and the Problem of Belief | The second and third lecture focus on Thomas Hobbes and John Milton. | Victoria Kahn | 24 Nov 2017 | |
| 54 | Lecture 2: Hobbes and Maker's Knowledge | The second and third lecture focus on Thomas Hobbes and John Milton. | Victoria Kahn | 24 Nov 2017 | |
| 55 | Lecture 1: Literature and Literariness | The first lecture contrasts modern and early modern understandings of literature and literariness. | Victoria Kahn | 24 Nov 2017 | |
| 56 | Creative Commons | The Materiality of the Divine: Aniconism, Iconoclasm, Iconography | Professor Salvatore Settis, an archaeologist and art historian, presents a special lecture on the The Materiality of the Divine. | Salvatore Settis | 23 Nov 2017 |
| 57 | The Hawks and the Doves – raptors and rapture in the poetry of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes. | Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage discusses the poems of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes. | Simon Armitage | 15 Nov 2017 | |
| 58 | 2017 Annual Uehiro Lecture (3/3) Obligations to the Needy: Some Empirical Worries and Uncomfortable Philosophical Possibilities | In this final lecture, Professor Temkin considers possible negative impacts of global efforts to aid the needy, and reviews the main claims and arguments of all three Lectures | Larry Temkin | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 59 | 2017 Annual Uehiro Lecture (2/3) Obligations to the Needy: Singer’s Pond Example versus Supporting International Aid Organizations—Some Disanalogies and Their Normative Significance | In this second lecture, Professor Temkin considers some disanalogies between saving a drowning child and giving to an aid organization, and discusses the issues of corruption and poor governance. | Larry Temkin | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 60 | 2017 Annual Uehiro Lecture (1/3) Obligations to the Needy: Effective Altruism, Pluralism, and Singer’s Pond Example | In this first lecture, Larry Temkin explores different philosophical approaches to aiding the needy, and how they may fit with Peter Singer's famous Pond Example thought experiment. | Larry Temkin | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 61 | Creative Commons | The Fowler Lecture 2017: Fragmentations and Forgettings: (An)atomizing Classics in English Modernist Fiction David Scourfield | The 2017 Fowler Lecture, delivered by Professor David Scourfield of Maynooth University. | David Scourfield | 13 Nov 2017 |
| 62 | Creative Commons | The Dream Colony: The Life in Art of Walter Hopps | Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor of The New Yorker, discusses the life and work of American museum director and curator of modern art, Walter Hopps, with visiting professor of American Art, Miguel De Baca | Deborah Treisman, Miguel De Baca | 13 Nov 2017 |
| 63 | Sacred Values and the Sanctity of Life | OUC-Ethox Seminar. Steve Clarke discusses Ronald Dworkin's account of sacred values in his work 'Life's Dominion' and furthers the argument that the assertion 'life is sacred' is tenable by both liberals and conservatives. | Steve Clarke | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 64 | On Moral Experts | A St Cross Special Ethics Seminar. Professor John-Stewart Gordon focusses on the question of whether moral experts must follow their own expert advice in order to remain experts. | John-Stewart Gordon | 13 Nov 2017 | |
| 65 | Creative Commons | Henry VI, Part 2 | Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a 2017 lecture on the early history play, Henry VI, Part 2. | Emma Smith | 09 Nov 2017 |
| 66 | 2015 Uehiro Lectures: Reasons to Worry | The second of the three 2015 Annual Uehiro Lectures 'Why Worry About Future Generations'. Why should we care about what happens to human beings in the future, after we ourselves are long gone? | Samuel Scheffler | 06 Nov 2017 | |
| 67 | 2015 Uehiro Lectures: Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future Generations | The last of the three 2015 Annual Uehiro Lectures 'Why Worry About Future Generations'. Why should we care about what happens to human beings in the future, after we ourselves are long gone? | Samuel Scheffler | 06 Nov 2017 | |
| 68 | 2015 Uehiro Lectures: Temporal Parochialism and Its Discontents | The first of the three 2015 Annual Uehiro Lectures 'Why Worry About Future Generations'. Why should we care about what happens to human beings in the future, after we ourselves are long gone? | Samuel Scheffler | 06 Nov 2017 | |
| 69 | 2016 Annual Uehiro Lecture 1: Consequentialism for Cows | Professor Shelly Kagan delivers the first of three Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics, ‘How to Count Animals, More or Less’ | Shelly Kagan | 06 Nov 2017 | |
| 70 | 2016 Annual Uehiro Lecture 2: Deontology for Dogs | Professor Shelly Kagan delivers the second of three Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics, ‘How to Count Animals, More or Less’ | Shelly Kagan | 06 Nov 2017 | |
| 71 | 2016 Annual Uehiro Lecture 3: Foundation for Frogs | Professor Shelly Kagan delivers the final of three Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics, ‘How to Count Animals, More or Less’ | Shelly Kagan | 06 Nov 2017 | |
| 72 | Representing the Dead | Book at Lunchtime event | Helen Swift, jessica Goodman, Philip Bullock, Neil Kenny | 26 Oct 2017 | |
| 73 | Creative Commons | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. | Emma Smith | 25 Oct 2017 |
| 74 | Creative Commons | All's Well That Ends Well | Professor Emma Smith lectures on Shakespeare’s comedy All's Well That Ends Well. | Emma Smith | 25 Oct 2017 |
| 75 | Creative Commons | Cymbeline | Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on one of Shakespeare’s later plays, Cymbeline. | Emma Smith | 25 Oct 2017 |
| 76 | Hidden Beneath the Surface: Untold Tales of Neurodivergence and Mental Difference in Oxford | World Mental Health Day 2017 | Dan Holloway, Miranda Reilly, Sonia Boue, Marie Tidball | 18 Oct 2017 | |
| 77 | Marsquakes | A song about the quest to hear Marsquakes based on research by Dr Neil Bowles at the University of Oxford | Neil Bowles | 16 Oct 2017 | |
| 78 | Understanding Misunderstanding | A song about the parallels of fake news today and satire in the 18th Century based on research by Prof Abigail Williams at the University of Oxford | Abigail Williams | 16 Oct 2017 | |
| 79 | The Great Vape Debate | A song about vaping based on the latest evidence from research, from Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce at the University of Oxford | Jamie Hartmann-Boyce | 16 Oct 2017 | |
| 80 | Stomach is the Monarch | A song about how Victorians saw the conversation between the gut and mood, based on research by Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown at the University of Oxford | Emilie Taylor-Brown | 16 Oct 2017 | |
| 81 | Use the Digital to Make the World you Want to See | A song about mapping the internet and how it links to our physical world, based on research by Prof Mark Graham at the University of Oxford. | Mark Graham | 16 Oct 2017 | |
| 82 | Creative Commons | Music and Morale in the British Army, 1914-1918 | Dr Emma Hanna (University of Kent) gives a talk for the Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar series. | Emma Hanna | 12 Sep 2017 |
| 83 | Creative Commons | From Bandage Wallahs to Knights of the Red Cross: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War | Dr Jessica Meyer (Leeds) gives a talk for the Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar series. | Jessica Meyer | 12 Sep 2017 |
| 84 | Creative Commons | Ego-Documents and Official History: Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria's Diary and the Battle for Memory, 1914-39 | Dr Jonathan Boff (University of Birmingham) gives a talk for the Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar series. | Jonathan Boff | 12 Sep 2017 |
| 85 | Creative Commons | The Fortress: A Case Study of Total War in the East, 1914-15 | Professor Alexander Watson (Goldsmith's University) gives a talk for the Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar series. | Alexander Watson | 12 Sep 2017 |
| 86 | Creative Commons | Enmity or empathy? Jacques Rivière's L'Allemand | Dr Arabella Hobbs (University of Pennsylvania) gives a talk for the Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar series. | Arabella Hobbs | 12 Sep 2017 |
| 87 | Creative Commons | Kde domov muj and Wacht am Rhein: Singing Loyalty and Disloyalty in Habsburg Bohemia during the First World War | Dr Tamara Scheer (Ludwig Boltzmann-Institute for Historical Social Science/Institute for East European History, University of Vienna) gives a talk for the Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar series. | Tamara Scheer | 12 Sep 2017 |
| 88 | Creative Commons | Rescuing Maritime Strategy from the Continental Commitment: Julian Corbett's analysis of Gallipoli and Jutland in the Official History of Naval Operations | Professor Andrew Lambert (King’s College London), gives a talk for the Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar series. | Andrew Lambert | 12 Sep 2017 |
| 89 | Creative Commons | Scholarly identities in war and peace: the Paris Peace Conference and the mobilization of intellect | Dr Tomás Irish (Swansea University), gives a talk for the Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar series. | Tomás Irish | 12 Sep 2017 |
| 90 | Creative Commons | Victorious in name only: The Portuguese Republic and its empire at war, 1916-1918 | Professor Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses (Maynooth University), gives a talk for the Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar series. | Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses | 12 Sep 2017 |
| 91 | Creative Commons | Tabriz under two rival empires: Ottomans and Russians during the Great War | Fatemeh Masjedi (Zentrum Moderner Orient) gives a talk for the Globalising and Localising the Great War seminar series. | Fatemeh Masjedi | 12 Sep 2017 |
| 92 | Unflattening | With Nick Sousanis | Nick Sousanis, Dominic Davies, Segolene Tarte | 05 Sep 2017 | |
| 93 | Disaster Drawn: Comics and Picturing Violence | Keynote lecture by Hilary Chute as part of the Documenting Trauma conference. | Hilary Chute | 05 Sep 2017 | |
| 94 | Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland on writing and community | Writers Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland read from their work, and discuss why they write, who they write for, their imagined audiences, and how their writing relates to their identities. | Selma Dabbagh, Courttia Newland | 25 Aug 2017 | |
| 95 | M. NourbeSe Philip on the haunting of history | M. NourbeSe Philip reads from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988) and Zong! (2008) as she describes her poetic development. | M NourbeSe Philip, Marina Warner, Matthew Reynolds, Elleke Boehmer | 25 Aug 2017 | |
| 96 | Editors and contributors, The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing | Profs Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein speak about the genesis of their new Cambridge History project, Dr Gail Low discusses the networks and institutions of Caribbean-British writing. | Susheila Nasta, Mark Stein, Gail Low, Henghameh Saroukhani | 25 Aug 2017 | |
| 97 | Aminatta Forna on writing memory and trauma in The Memory of Love | Aminatta Forna gives a reading from her award-winning novel, The Memory of Love (2010), and discusses it with Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee. She talks about the psychology of war and healing after conflict, and about love, betrayal and complicity. | Aminatta Forna, Ankhi Mukherjee | 25 Aug 2017 | |
| 98 | Nadifa Mohamed on travelling, home and belonging in Black Mamba Boy | Nadifa Mohamed reads from and discusses her debut novel, Black Mamba Boy (2010), based on her father’s travels across the Horn of Africa before settling in Britain. | Nadifa Mohamed, Kate Wallis | 25 Aug 2017 | |
| 99 | D-Empress Dianne Regisford presents ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’ | D-Empress Dianne Regisford presents a performance installation that explores the notion of the liberated woman from an African feminist perspective. | D-Empress Dianne Regisford, Rev J, Erica Lombard | 25 Aug 2017 | |
| 100 | Daljit Nagra on voice and identity in Look We Have Coming to Dover! | Daljit Nagra reads from and discusses his celebrated debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! (2007). In conversation with Dr Rachael Gilmour and the audience, he speaks about how and why he writes his poetry, and the readers for whom he writes. | Daljit Nagra, Rachael Gilmour | 25 Aug 2017 |
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