The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
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TORCH is a nucleus of intellectual energy for the humanities and a place to develop new ideas and collaborations both within and beyond academia. Since its creation, TORCH has raised over £3 million in grants and philanthropy to support researchers to develop research projects. Launched in May 2013, TORCH provides an important opportunity for Oxford’s humanities scholars to collaborate with researchers across other disciplines, and institutions; work with academics across all stages of their academic careers; develop partnerships with public and private institutions; engage with wider audiences; and bring together academic research, diverse industries, and the performing arts. Public engagement with research is at the heart of TORCH's aims.
During 2018-19, TORCH hosted almost 400 events, with audiences of over 20,000 people. During 2019-20, TORCH hosted online events during COVID-restrictions, reaching audiences in person and then online of over 50,000 globally. Since 2013, TORCH has supported 400 researchers each year; 62 Knowledge Exchange Fellowships; over 50 seed-funded research networks and 10 research programmes.
The TORCH Director, Professor Wes Williams (wes.williams@seh.ox.ac.uk), welcomes questions about the centre and suggestions for research and wider engagement activities.
Series associated with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
African(a) and South Asian Philosophies
Alliance
Art and Action: The Intersections of Literary Celebrity and Politics
Death at the Museum
Diseases in Dialogue
Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius: A Story in Five Places
Folk Tunes and Englishness
Gender and Authority
Is the playwright dead?
Literature, democracy and transitional justice
Medieval German Studies
MOVING, TEACHING, INSPIRING: The National Trust and University of Oxford in the 21st Century
Narrative Futures
Perceptions of Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Post-Conflict Landscapes
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
Putting magic in place: a knowledge exchange event
Race and Resistance: Understanding Bermuda Today
Talking Sense
Teaching to Transgress
Textual Therapies
The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli
The Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership
The Oxford/Berlin Creative Collaborations
TORCH Post-Show Conversations
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Unconscious Memory
Unlocking Late Schumann
Valentine's Day at Oxford
Women in Oxford's History (Series One)
Women's Responses to the Reformation
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 505 | 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 | |
| 504 | Episode 16: 'The Rough and the Refined: Sensing the Luxurious and the Everyday' – PART 2 | Dr Juanjo García-Granero (Postdoctoral Researcher, Archaeology) explores the senses in grand and ordinary living, through examining a Minoan cooking vessel. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Juanjo García-Granero, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 503 | Episode 15: 'The Rough and the Refined: Sensing the Luxurious and the Everyday' – PART 1 | Clare Gardom (DPhil Student, Classics) explores the senses in grand and ordinary living, through examining textiles from Classical Egypt. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Clare Gardom, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 502 | Episode 14: 'Making Sense of Death' – PART 2 | In this episode, Alexis Gorby (DPhil Student, Archaeology) looks at glass from the Roman catacombs to explore how ancient and contemporary cultures use the senses to make sense of death. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Alexis Gorby, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 501 | Episode 13: 'Making Sense of Death' – PART 1 | Dr Carrie Ryan (Postdoctoral Researcher, Anthropology) uses Angela Palmer’s Ashmolean Mummy Boy 3 to explore how ancient and contemporary cultures use the senses to make sense of death. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Carrie Ryan, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 500 | Episode 12: 'Stripping Back to Sharpen the Senses: A Holy Face and a Waterfall Vase' – PART 2 | Yayoi Teramoto Kimura (DPhil Student, Computational Neuroscience) focuses on a twentieth-century Japanese vase to demonstrate how artists can engage our senses through a pared down approach. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Yayoi Teramoto Kimura, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 499 | Episode 11: 'Stripping Back to Sharpen the Senses: A Holy Face and a Waterfall Vase' – PART 1 | Eleanor Townsend (DPhil Student, History of Art) focuses on a seventeenth-century Spanish painting to demonstrate how artists can engage our senses by focusing on a pared down approach. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Eleanor Townsend, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 498 | Episode 10: 'Sights for Sore Eyes: Reading the Senses in Religious and Cultural Pilgrimage' – PART 2 | Jasmine Proteau (DPhil Student, History) uses an eighteenth-century carriage clock to explore the significance of the senses in reading and travelling to centres of culture and spiritual salvati. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast | Jasmine Proteau, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 497 | Episode 9: Sights for Sore Eyes: Reading the Senses in Religious and Cultural Pilgrimage' – PART 1 | Raphaela Rohrhofer (DPhil Student, English) uses the Alfred Jewel and the reliquary casket of St Thomas Becket to explore the significance of the senses in reading and travelling. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Raphaela Rohrhofer, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 496 | Episode 8: 'Altered States of Body: The Power of the Senses in Ritual and Revelry' – PART 2 | In this episode, Helena Guzik (DPhil Student, History of Art) analyses Indian pilgrim stamps to show how objects have the power to transform us, engaging the senses to alter the body. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Helena Guzik, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 495 | Episode 7: 'Altered States of Body: The Power of the Senses in Ritual and Revelry' – PART 1 | In this episode, Dr Hugo Shakeshaft (Postdoctoral Researcher, Classics) analyses a Greek symposium cup to show how objects have the power to transform us, engaging the senses to alter the body. Further reading:https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Hugo Shakeshaft, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 494 | Episode 6: 'Sensory Intoxication: Getting Drunk From Oxford to Iran' – PART 2 | Jonny Lawrence (DPhil Student, Oriental Institute) looks at an Iranian tile scene to explore how drunkenness and intoxication play a big role in the visual culture of the senses. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Jonny Lawrence, Christy Callaway-Gale | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 493 | Episode 5: 'Sensory Intoxication: Getting Drunk from Oxford to Iran' – PART 1 | Sian Witherden (DPhil Student, English) uses a medieval puzzle jug to explore how drunkenness and intoxication play a big role in the visual culture of the senses. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Sian Witherden, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 492 | Episode 4: 'The Senses and Disease: A Renaissance Perfume Burner and a Victorian Poisonous Bookcase' – PART 2 | In this episode, Amélie Bonney (DPhil Student, History of Science) examines a toxic Victorian bookcase to discover the sensory world of disease. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Amélie Bonney, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 491 | Episode 3: 'The Senses and Disease: A Renaissance Perfume Burner and a Victorian Poisonous Bookcase – PART 1 | In this episode, Christy Callaway-Gale (DPhil Student, Medieval and Modern Languages) examines a Renaissance Italian perfume burner to discover the sensory world of disease. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 490 | 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 | |
| 489 | Creative Commons | The Gut-Brain Connection | Why is digestive health so central to our understanding of who we are? How has this changed since the nineteenth century? How did Victorians perceive the gut-brain connection? What does science tell us now? | Emilie Taylor-Brown, Katerina Johnson | 24 Jun 2019 |
| 488 | Creative Commons | A Networked Age | What does it means to live in a networked age? Was the electric telegraph a forerunner of the internet? Have the benefits of new means of communication been universal? Is the long-awaited ‘global village’ still on the horizon? | Grant Blank, Jean-Michel Johnston | 24 Jun 2019 |
| 487 | Creative Commons | Surgical Consent | How has the relationship between doctor and patient changed since the nineteenth century? Did Victorian surgeons take their patients’ wishes seriously? How have the regulations surrounding surgical consent changed? | Ashok Handa, Sally Frampton | 24 Jun 2019 |
| 486 | 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 | |
| 485 | 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 | |
| 484 | 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 | |
| 483 | 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 | |
| 482 | 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 | |
| 481 | 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 | |
| 480 | 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 | |
| 479 | Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness | Could an AI be conscious? If so, how could we tell? What would a conscious AI mean for the possible risks that AI pose to humanity? In this episode we speak to Professor David Chalmers (NYU) about philosophy, consciousness and AI. | David Chalmers, Alice Evatt, Henry Tann | 07 May 2019 | |
| 478 | 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 | |
| 477 | Creative Commons | Episode 2: The Workshop Days | Jonathan Lawrence and Christy Callaway-Gale, two participants in the TORCH-Ashmolean Talking Sense project, introduce the workshop days. | Jonathan Lawrence, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jim Harris | 18 Apr 2019 |
| 476 | Creative Commons | Episode 1: Introduction to Talking Sense | Jonathan Lawrence and Christy Callaway-Gale, two participants in the TORCH-Ashmolean Talking Sense project, introduce the inter-disciplinary research project. | Jonathan Lawrence, Christy Callaway-Gale, Hugo Shakeshaft, Helena Guzik | 18 Apr 2019 |
| 475 | 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 | |
| 474 | 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 | |
| 473 | Medingen Manuscripts | For the launch of the Polonsky Foundation funded digitisation project of Manuscripts from the German Speaking Lands, Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford) talks about manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbey of Medingen (Lower Saxony). | Henrike Lähnemann | 27 Mar 2019 | |
| 472 | Second part of the masterclass: The Medingen Manuscripts in the Bodleian | Masterclass for the Leverhulme Doctoral Students with Henrike Lähnemann, filmed by Natascha Domeisen. | Henrike Lähnemann | 27 Mar 2019 | |
| 471 | Trailer: Medieval Manuscripts in the Bodleian | A film of a class for 'Publication Beyond Print', the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre. Filmed at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, by Natascha Domeisen. | Daniel Wakelin, Henrike Lähnemann | 27 Mar 2019 | |
| 470 | 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 | |
| 469 | 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 | |
| 468 | 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 | |
| 467 | 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 | |
| 466 | 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 | |
| 465 | 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 | 06 Mar 2019 | |
| 464 | 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 | |
| 463 | 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 | |
| 462 | 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 | |
| 461 | 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 | |
| 460 | 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 | |
| 459 | 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 | |
| 458 | 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 | |
| 457 | 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 | |
| 456 | 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 | |
| 455 | 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 | |
| 454 | 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 | |
| 453 | 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 | |
| 452 | 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 | |
| 451 | 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 | |
| 450 | 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 | |
| 449 | 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 | |
| 448 | 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 | |
| 447 | 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 | |
| 446 | 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 | |
| 445 | 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 | |
| 444 | 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 Feb 2019 | |
| 443 | 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 Feb 2019 | |
| 442 | Creative Commons | North Korea and The Bomb: A National Mission | Why did North Korea nuclearize? Are we on the cusp of nuclear war with North Korea? Join us in the first episode of Alliance as we talk to Historian Cheehyung Harrison Kim about North Korea, nuclear weapons and existential risk. | Cheehyung Harrison Kim, Alice Evatt, Henry Tann | 15 Feb 2019 |
| 441 | 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 | |
| 440 | 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 | 04 Feb 2019 | |
| 439 | 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 | |
| 438 | 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 | |
| 437 | 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 | |
| 436 | 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 | 18 Dec 2018 | |
| 435 | 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 Dec 2018 | |
| 434 | 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 | 14 Dec 2018 | |
| 433 | 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 Dec 2018 | |
| 432 | 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 | 14 Dec 2018 | |
| 431 | Remembrance: A Concert | Excerpts from the Remembrance Concert, which marked the conclusion of the Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation seminar series. | Simon Over, Augusta Holmès, Anthony Ritchie, Annabel Drummond | 14 Dec 2018 | |
| 430 | Creative Commons | Computational Literary Studies and Mental Health | A project combining English literature, experimental psychology, and computational linguistics, with a focus on entropy, abstraction, and mental health. | James Carney, Emily Troscianko | 12 Sep 2018 |
| 429 | Creative Commons | What Does Disney do to Mental Health? | Exploring the dangers of Disney’s take on poverty, mental health, and relationships. | Jenifer Fisher, Nikki York, Emily Troscianko | 12 Sep 2018 |
| 428 | Creative Commons | Combating Fat Stigma Through Narrative | A series of narrative workshops helping make life better for fat people. | Rachel Fox, Kelly Park, Emily Troscianko | 12 Sep 2018 |
| 427 | Creative Commons | Why Public Health Needs Narrative | An introduction to an often overlooked context for using narrative in healthcare: public health. | Lise Saffran, Emily Troscianko | 12 Sep 2018 |
| 426 | Procès, fiction, document: La reconstruction de la littérature en Europe après 1945 | This paper explores the relationship between testimony and fiction in the context of transitional justice, by comparing three 1950 European literary works which use the form of interrogation, investigation, and trial. | Philippe Roussin | 03 Sep 2018 | |
| 425 | Dissident Writing, Law and Transitional Justice in Tunisia | The paper explores selected testimonies and memoirs by survivors of state repression in Tunisia, in order to discuss whether their role is to be considered reformist or revolutionary after the liberation of narrative in 2011. | Mohamed-Salah Omri | 03 Sep 2018 | |
| 424 | Voices of Suffering: The Incorporation of Victim Testimony in Judgements of the ICTY | This paper examines the use of victim testimony by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, discussing the role of ‘humanitarian narratives’ in our understanding of the wars of Yugoslav succession. | Christian Axboe Nielsen | 03 Sep 2018 | |
| 423 | Literature and Transitional Justice After the Rwandan Genocide: Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imama | This paper discusses the problems of literary memorialization and quest for truth in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide as addressed by Veronique Tadjo’s The Shadow of Imana. | Brendon Nicholls | 03 Sep 2018 | |
| 422 | Victims’ Narratives in the Colombian Peace Process | This paper analyses how victims’ voices were heard during the peace negotiations and in the implementation of the 2016 peace accord between the FARC guerrilla and the Colombian government. | Annelen Micus | 03 Sep 2018 | |
| 421 | The Irreverence of Bones: Reclaiming Trashed Lives in the Aftermath of Violence in Adios Ayacucho (1984) and Insensatez (2004) | By analysing two Latin American fictional narratives, this paper explores the metaphors of humanity as waste and memory as cleansing in the context of transitional justice. | Daniel O Mosquera | 03 Sep 2018 | |
| 420 | Alternative Account, Mourning Family and Transformation into Life: Three Contemporary Artworks related to the Event of 28 February 1947 in Taiwan | The paper discusses three contemporary Taiwanese artworks related to the tragic events of 28 February in Taiwan, presenting their emphasis on victims as crucial in understanding the process of transitional justice. | Lin Chi-Ming | 03 Sep 2018 | |
| 419 | Une démocratie sans justice transitionnelle: refoulement, silence et oubli dans le pacte de dénégation de l’Espagne de la transition | This paper is a study of transitional justice in Spain after the Francoist dictatorship, a process of reconciliation based on the denial of the regime’s genocidal violence. | Jesús Izquierdo Martín | 03 Sep 2018 | |
| 418 | Tolérance et justice dans le monde arabe, hier et aujourd’hui | The paper discusses the concept of tolerance in Arabic philosophy, literature and religion, foregrounding this value as an important objective of transitional justice in the Arab world. | Mohsen ElKhouni | 03 Sep 2018 | |
| 417 | Literacy and Democracy: Transitional Justice in South Africa | The paper explores the work of several intellectuals reflecting on South Africa’s transition to democracy, considering how the question of literacy precedes any discussion about literature and democracy. | Carrol Clarkson | 03 Sep 2018 | |
| 416 | Creative Commons | Susie Campbell speaks to Niall Munro | Susie Campbell talks to Niall Munro about her experience as poet-in-residence during the Post-War seminar series 2017-18. | Susie Campbell, Niall Munro | 06 Aug 2018 |
| 415 | Creative Commons | A Crack of Light: Poetry Reading | Poems of commemoration, reconstruction and reconciliation from the Post-War series' poets-in-residence. | Susie Campbell, Mariah Whelan, Sue Zatland, Patrick Toland | 06 Aug 2018 |
| 414 | Creative Commons | Alex Donnelly speaks to Niall Munro | Alex Donnelly talks to Niall Munro about his work on the ecology of conflict, the interpretative role of academic research, and his interest in the 'lone voices' in poetry. | Alex Donnelly, Niall Munro | 31 Jul 2018 |
| 413 | Creative Commons | Jon Stainsby speaks to Johana Muskalova | Jon Stainsby talks to Johana Muskalova about the relationship between music and commemoration and his experience as a performer. | Jon Stainsby, Johana Musalkova | 31 Jul 2018 |
| 412 | Creative Commons | Anna Leese speaks to Niall Munro | Anna Leese speaks to Niall Munro about her personal connections to commemorations of war and the performance of commemorative music. | Anna Leese, Niall Munro | 31 Jul 2018 |
| 411 | Creative Commons | Simon Over speaks to Rita Phillips | Conductor Simon Over talks to Rita Phillips about the performance of commemorative musical works. | Simon Over, Rita Phillips | 31 Jul 2018 |
| 410 | Creative Commons | Anthony Ritchie speaks to Catherine Gilbert | Composer Anthony Ritchie talks to Catherine Gilbert about the relationship between music, war and remembrance in his oratorio Gallipoli to the Somme. | Anthony Ritchie, Catherine Gilbert | 31 Jul 2018 |
| 409 | Creative Commons | Interview with Lord William Wallace | Lord William Wallace, member of the Parliament Choir, talks to Professor Kate McLoughlin about the centenary commemorations of the First World War. | William Wallace, Kate McLoughlin | 30 Jul 2018 |
| 408 | Creative Commons | John Dunston speaks to Kate McLoughlin | John Dunston and Kate McLoughlin explore varieties of religious silence and the relationship between silence and commemoration. | John Dunston, Kate McLoughlin | 30 Jul 2018 |
| 407 | Creative Commons | Lydia Wilson speaks to Alex Donnelly | Lydia Wilson talks to Alex Donnelly about commemoration as a narrative for the future in the Middle East | Lydia Wilson, Alex Donnelly | 30 Jul 2018 |
| 406 | Creative Commons | Mahinda Deegalle speaks to Catherine Gilbert | Mahinda Deegalle talks to Catherine Gilbert about the application of Buddhist values in post-conflict societies. | Mahinda Deegalle, Catherine Gilbert | 30 Jul 2018 |
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