TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The University of Oxford is home to an impressive range and depth of research activities in the Humanities. TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities is a major new initiative that seeks to build on this heritage and to stimulate and support research that transcends disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Here we feature some of the networks and programmes, as well as recordings of events, and offer insights into the research that they make possible.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Live Event: Tragedy and Plague - In Conversation with Professor Oliver Taplin and Fiona Shaw CBE	TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Drama Week	Oliver Taplin, Fiona Shaw	4 November, 2020
Book at Lunchtime: Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War	Join us for an online TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War written by Dr Alice Kelly.	Alice Kelly, Michael Whitworth, Laura Rattray, Jay Winter	3 November, 2020
Transnational Francoism	Bàrbara Molas discusses Transnational Francoism: The British and The Canadian Friends of National Spain as part of the TORCH Network Conversations in Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood. Bàrbara Molas is a PHD Candidate in History at York University	Bàrbara Molas	23 October, 2020
Live Event: Imagined Journeys: Pilgrimage, Diplomacy, and Colonialism in Medieval Europe	TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events!. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Marion Turner, Matthew Kneale	21 October, 2020
Live Event: White Rose - Voices of the German Resistance	TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Alex Lloyd, John Herring	19 October, 2020
Live Event: On Being Unprepared (For Our Own Times)	TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Decolonisation the Curriculum Week.	Margaret MacMillan, Homi K. Bhabha	13 October, 2020
Live Event: The World After CoVid	TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Humanities and Policy Week Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Ngaire Woods, Peter Frankopan	13 October, 2020
Live Event: Living with Pandemics: Finding New Narratives	In conversation with Dr Erica Charters and Robin Gorna. TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Performance Week	Erica Charters, Robin Gorna	13 October, 2020
Live Event: Voices from the Wings: Poetry, Performance and Translation on and off the page	TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Translation Week Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Ulrike Almut Sandig, Karen Leeder	13 October, 2020
Live Event: In Conversation with Jamelia, Multi-Award Winning Artist	TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Performance Week.	Jamelia, Priya Atwal, Yvonne Liao	7 October, 2020
Live Event: Celebrating Tchaikovsky	TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Music Week	Leah Broad, Philip Bullock	6 October, 2020
Live Event: In Conversation with Maaza Mengiste	TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events!	Elleke Boehmer, Maaza Mengiste, Richard Reid, Birhanu T. Gessese, Tsehai Berhane-Selassie	6 October, 2020
Live Event: The Social Life of Books: A History of Reading Together at Home	Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Abigail Williams, Giles Lewin	15 September, 2020
Live Event: This is Shakespeare - Prof Emma Smith in conversation with Erica Whyman OBE	Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Emma Smith, Erica Whyman	15 September, 2020
Live Event: Invalids on the Move	Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.	Sally Shuttleworth, Erica Charters, Philip Bullock	15 September, 2020
Live Event: Could you be arrested for planting flowers in your street?	What guerrilla gardening reveals about our relationship with urban nature and culture.	JC Niala, Elizabeth Ewart	15 September, 2020
Cyclone Amphan: Living through the Climate Crisis	In May 2020 a deadly tropical cyclone struck Eastern India and Bangladesh. Named ‘Amphan’ and classified as a ‘Super Cyclone’ this was almost certainly a climate change induced extreme event.	Debjani Bhattacharyya, Jason Cons, Annu Jalais, Megnaa Mehtta, Kasia Paprocki, Nayanika Mather, Amanda Power	24 July, 2020
What’s beneath the words: a paper journey	Presented in collaboration with the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study of the Book.	Andrew Honey, David Armes, Alexandra Franklin	30 June, 2020
OYUB Radio Play	OYUB is a Russian documentary play about the life of Oyub Titiev, a human rights activist in the Republic of Chechnya, Russia.	Julie Curtis, Peter Wieltschnig, Jacob Burns, Mistale Taylor, Sorcha Thomson, Rea Eldem, Matthew Romain, John Farndon, Alex Trustrum Thomas	17 June, 2020
TORCH (en)coding Heritage Network Digital Launch - Exploring Ancient Rome through Immersive Technologies	This digital event explores how 3D-modelling technologies and virtual reality can open new understandings of the past.	Lia Costiner, Richard Smith, Matthew Nichols	10 June, 2020
Welcome to Teddie Cast, the podcast of the Oxford Critical Theory Network (TORCH)	In our very first episode, our host and network convenor Lillian Hingley (DPhil English, Oxford) reflects upon her thoughts in lockdown.	Lillian Hingley	19 May, 2020
Out of Silence 1: William Shakespeare	From the Silence Hub Network. Professor Alexandra Harris discusses Shakespeare's sonnet 23, communication in lockdown, body language and masks with Professor Kate McLoughlin.	Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin	24 April, 2020
Out of Silence 2: Virginia Woolf	From the Silence Hub. Professors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin discuss Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, how the lockdown makes us feel self-conscious and what it feels like to live in momentous historical times.	Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin	23 April, 2020
Out of Silence 3: DH Lawrence	From the Silence Hub Network. Professors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin read D. H. Lawrence's poem 'Silence' and discuss the beauty and terror of silence, sex and death wishes.	Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin	23 April, 2020
Out of Silence 4: William Cowper	From the Network. Silence HubProfessors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin read lines from The Task by the eighteenth-century poet William Cowper and discuss the value of staying at home and not doing very much.	Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin	23 April, 2020
Imitating Authors	Book at Lunchtime: Imitating Authors	Colin Burrow, Wes Williams, Kathryn Murphy, Stephen Halliwell	24 February, 2020
Humanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! Full projection video	Full projection video as part of national Being Human Festival, a huge video projection onto the 3-storey Radcliffe humanities building, premiering SOURCE: CODE.	The Projection Studio	11 February, 2020
Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography	Book at Lunchtime: Revolution Rekindled: The Writers and Readers of Late Soviet Biography	Polly Jones, Katherine Lebow, Ann Jefferson, Stephen Lovell	7 February, 2020
Empires of the Mind	Book at Lunchtime: Empires of the Mind	Robert Gildea, Rana Mitter, Faridah Zaman, Philip Bullock	29 January, 2020
Patience Agbabi reading and conversation: podcast	In this podcast the dynamic poet Patience Agbabi is in conversation about her Ted Hughes short-listed collection Telling Tales (2015), a rebellious reworking of Chaucer, and her contribution to the 2016 Refugee Tales project.	Patience Agbabi, Elleke Boehmer, Marion Turner	14 January, 2020
Ashmolean After Hours: Carpe Diem! Highlights video	Highlights of the Torch collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum for a special edition of After Hours as part of the Last Supper of Pompeii exhibition to celebrate all things Pompeii and ancient Rome.	Highlights	13 January, 2020
Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture III: Stories for the future, and how to get there	Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, gives the third and final lecture in the Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture.	Martin Puchner	20 December, 2019
Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture II:Think Big! A modest argument about large scales	Martin Puchner gives the second lecture in the Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture.	Martin Puchner	20 December, 2019
Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture I: The Challenge of World Literature	Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, gives the first of the Princeton University Press Lectures.	Martin Puchner	20 December, 2019
Humanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped!	Highlights of the Humanities Night Light event.	Tom Crawford	19 December, 2019
Discovering the identity of plants in art	We are surrounded by artistic images of plants. These may be symbolic, decorative or functional. They tell us about the plants important in peoples' lives.	Stephen Harris	17 December, 2019
The Meaning of Carpe Diem	How "seize the day" does not get CLOSE to capturing the power of the poet Horace's words	Llewelyn Morgan	17 December, 2019
Supping and Sacrificing in Pompeii's Gardens	The archaeological evidence of garden dining spaces in Pompeii’s houses, restaurants, and tombs reveals complexities of both Roman dining practices and the meaning of the Roman garden	Janet Dunkelbarger	17 December, 2019
Gorgons, gods and gladiators: how to decorate a Pompeian wall	This interactive talk explores the myths, legends and scenes of daily life that Romans painted and scratched onto the walls of their houses.	Alison Pollard	17 December, 2019
Last Supper in Pompeii: An introduction to the Pompeii Exhibition	Exploring the narrative of the show through a selection of highlighted objects	Ilaria Perzia	17 December, 2019
Book at Lunchtime: Celebrity Culture and the Myth of Oceania	An intriguing case study on how popular images of Oceania, mediated through a developing culture of celebrity, contributed to the formation of British identity both domestically and as a nascent imperial power in the eighteenth century.	Ruth Scobie, Wes Williams, Ros Ballaster, Anna Senkiw, Bridget Orr	10 December, 2019
The Million-Dollar Maths Equations	Discover the Navier-Stokes Equations, which not only model the movement of every fluid on Earth, they also have a $1-million prize for a correct solution.	Tom Crawford	10 December, 2019
Unveiling the secrets and mysteries of French novels (1789-1820)	Dr Fanny Lacote will lift the veil on the secrets and mysteries contained within the unknown French literary production published during a turbulent period in History.	Fanny Lacote	10 December, 2019
Cuneiform Discoveries from Ancient Babylon	In ancient Iraq, scribes used cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script to write hundreds of thousands of texts in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages on clay tablets.	Frances Reynolds	10 December, 2019
Discovering Music	Many people love classical music heard on the radio or in concert. But they know less about the manuscripts that performers use, and that show us how the composer created their music.	Jo Bullivant	10 December, 2019
The World in a Box: Cabinets of Curiosity	Professor Das tells the story of the age when Britain first learnt how to collect, and of how that obsession with discovering secrets and collecting curiosities transformed the way we see the world and our place within it.	Nandini Das	10 December, 2019
Discovering Daily life in ancient Southern Babylonia	In this talk Professor Jacob Dahl will narrate a day in the life of an ordinary Babylonian person, not a king or a scribe, but a labourer working the fields of southern Babylonia.	Jacob Dahl	10 December, 2019
Secrets from Missing Manuscripts	Oxford’s libraries house many beautiful books copied by hand before the arrival of print. What, though, about the many more books from the past which have not survived?	Daniel Sawyer	10 December, 2019
AI and Creativity	How does AI interact with creativity? Watch this fascinating panel discussion with mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, composer Emily Howard and Sarah Ellis, the RSC's Director of Digital Development.	Marcus du Sautoy, Emily Howard, Sarah Ellis, Rana Mitter	27 November, 2019
Chineke! Championing Change and Celebrating Diversity in Classical Music	Chineke! Founder Chi Chi Nwanoku OBE talks about her orchestra of majority BME musicians.	Chi Chi Nwanoku OBE, Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey	20 November, 2019

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