The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Series associated with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Alliance
Art and Action: The Intersections of Literary Celebrity and Politics
Death at the Museum
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
Perceptions of Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
Talking Sense
Teaching to Transgress
Textual Therapies
The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli
The Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Unconscious Memory
Unlocking Late Schumann
Women in Oxford's History (Series One)
Women's Responses to the Reformation
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| 1 | Compassion's Edge | Book at Lunchtime: Compassion's Edge, Winner of the 2018 Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize. | Katherine Ibbett, Caroline de Jager, Lorna Hutson, Teresa Bejan | 18 Jun 2019 | |
| 2 | 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 | |
| 3 | 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 | |
| 4 | 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 | |
| 5 | 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 | |
| 6 | 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 | |
| 7 | 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 | |
| 8 | 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 | |
| 9 | 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 | |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 | |
| 13 | 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 | |
| 14 | 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 | |
| 15 | 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 | |
| 16 | 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 | |
| 17 | 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 | |
| 18 | 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 | |
| 19 | 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 | |
| 20 | 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 | |
| 21 | 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 | |
| 22 | 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 | |
| 23 | 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 | |
| 24 | 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 | |
| 25 | 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 | |
| 26 | 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 | |
| 27 | 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 | |
| 28 | 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 | |
| 29 | 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 | |
| 30 | 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 | |
| 31 | 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 | |
| 32 | 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 | |
| 33 | 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 | |
| 34 | 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 | |
| 35 | 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 | |
| 36 | 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 | |
| 37 | 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 | |
| 38 | 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 | |
| 39 | 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 | |
| 40 | 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 | |
| 41 | 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 | |
| 42 | 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 | |
| 43 | 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 | |
| 44 | 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 | |
| 45 | 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 |
| 46 | 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 | |
| 47 | 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 | |
| 48 | 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 | |
| 49 | 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 | |
| 50 | 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 | |
| 51 | 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 | |
| 52 | 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 | |
| 53 | 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 | |
| 54 | 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 | |
| 55 | 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 | |
| 56 | 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 | |
| 57 | 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 |
| 58 | 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 |
| 59 | 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 |
| 60 | 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 |
| 61 | 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 | |
| 62 | 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 | |
| 63 | 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 | |
| 64 | 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 | |
| 65 | 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 | |
| 66 | 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 | |
| 67 | 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 | |
| 68 | 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 | |
| 69 | 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 | |
| 70 | 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 | |
| 71 | 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 |
| 72 | 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 |
| 73 | 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 |
| 74 | 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 |
| 75 | 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 |
| 76 | 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 |
| 77 | 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 |
| 78 | 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 |
| 79 | 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 |
| 80 | 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 |
| 81 | 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 |
| 82 | Creative Commons | Interview with Dr Adrian Gregory | Adrian Gregory speaks to Johana Musalkova and Rita Phillips about the role of silence in public commemoration. | Adrian Gregory, Johana Musalkova, Rita Phillips | 30 Jul 2018 |
| 83 | Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature - Part 2 | A One-Day International Conference held at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, on June 25, 2018. | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ros Ballaster, Ankhi Mukherjee, Robert J. C. Young | 26 Jul 2018 | |
| 84 | Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature - Part 1 | A One-Day International Conference held at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, on June 25, 2018. | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ros Ballaster, Ankhi Mukherjee, Robert J. C. Young | 18 Jul 2018 | |
| 85 | Cultural Citizenship in India: Politics, Power and Media | Cultural Citizenship in India argues that citizenship is an ongoing and evolving discursive project. Further, it studies the role of culture and different media in the process of citizen-making by taking postcolonial India as its case study. | Lion König, Polly O'hanlon, Sundas Ali, Peter Frankopan | 13 Jul 2018 | |
| 86 | The Rest is Silence: Panel-led Workshop 2 | This workshop considered the practice, meaning and impact of silence, and the discussion was chaired by a practitioner of acoustic, site-specific composition. | Adrian Gregory, Mahinda Deegalle, Lydia Wilson, John Dunston | 29 Jun 2018 | |
| 87 | Reni Eddo-Lodge in conversation with Rebecca Surender | Reni Eddo-Lodge (author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and winner of the Jhalak Prize 2018), in conversation with Dr Rebecca Surender (Pro Vice-Chancellor and Advocate for Diversity, University of Oxford). | Reni Eddo-Lodge, Rebecca Surender | 28 Jun 2018 | |
| 88 | Jonathan Dove speaks to Kate McLoughlin | Composer Jonathan Dove talks to Kate McLoughlin about commemorating through music and music’s power to make us remember in the wake of individual and mass loss. | Jonathan Dove, Kate McLoughlin | 18 Jun 2018 | |
| 89 | Interview with Dr Peter Grant | Peter Grant talks to Johana Musalkova and Rita Phillips about the link between collective memory and popular music, exploring examples of artists who attempt to challenge dominant national narratives. | Peter Grant, Johana Musalkova, Rita Phillips | 18 Jun 2018 | |
| 90 | Laura Hassler speaks to Kate McLoughlin | Laura Hassler, Founding Director of Musicians without Borders, talks to Kate McLoughlin about her vision for the organisation and music’s potential in giving voice, recognition and empowerment to post-conflict communities. | Laura Hassler, Kate McLoughlin | 18 Jun 2018 | |
| 91 | Rihab Azar speaks to Niall Munro | Musician Rihab Azar talks to Niall Munro about her quest to find new ways of empowering and connecting communities through music and how music functions as a ‘resistance act’ in situations of (post-)conflict. | Rihab Azar, Niall Munro | 18 Jun 2018 | |
| 92 | Creative Commons | Lost in Print? Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Reggae Music Archive | Louisa Layne investigates the reggae music archive, exploring music and poetry through Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub club. | Louisa Layne | 13 Jun 2018 |
| 93 | Creative Commons | Lost and Found: Till Damaskus III | Travel back with Leah Broad to 1926 and hear recently found music by Swedish composter Ture Rangstrom, composed for a Strindberg play. | Leah Broad | 13 Jun 2018 |
| 94 | The Monk, the Memorist, the Mushroom and the MRI | Discover how we create and store ideas, and how modern neuroscience process 16th century theories on memory. | Dan Holloway | 13 Jun 2018 | |
| 95 | Creative Commons | A Lost Victorian Utopia: Living to 100 | An exploration of a Victorian blue-print for a city of health and happiness, where everyone could live to 100. | Sally Shuttleworth | 13 Jun 2018 |
| 96 | Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity | Book at Lunchtime, Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity | Philip Bullock, Antonia Fitzpatrick, Cecilia Trifogli, William Wood | 12 Jun 2018 | |
| 97 | Creative Commons | Artist Talk: Made in Imagination | Find out how Anne Griffiths’ work, Lost in Imagination, reimagines intriguing objects lost within the Pitt Rivers archive. | Anne Griffiths | 06 Jun 2018 |
| 98 | Creative Commons | Identity beyond Borders: Ethnicity in the American Pacific | Evan Matsuyama gives a short talk on Japanese mortality, identity, and ethnicity in the Nikkei struggle against mass incarceration during World War II. | Evan Matsuyama | 06 Jun 2018 |
| 99 | Creative Commons | Lost and Found: The story of a Museum store | Andrew Hughes gives a short talk on the discovery unusual things lost and found during a move of 100,000 Pitt Rivers Museum objects. | Andrew Hughes | 06 Jun 2018 |
| 100 | Rihab Azar – Oud Performance | Syrian musician Rihab Azar gives a short performance at the Music and Memory workshop. | Rihab Azar | 25 May 2018 |
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