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
Book at Lunchtime: India, Empire and First World War Culture	TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on India, Empire and First World War Culture by Professor Santanu Das. Held on 20th November 2019.	Santanu Das, Yasmin Khan, Laura Marcus, Jay Winter, Elleke Boehmer	20 November, 2019
Supriya Chaudhuri, Significant Lives: biography, autobiography, gender, and women's history in South Asia	Chaired by Elleke Boehmer.	Supriya Chaudhuri	18 November, 2019
How to write a southern life: Ethics and writing practices	Eduardo Lalo, Elleke Boehmer, Jonny Steinberg and Premilla Nadasen give a talk for the Southern Biographies event. Chaired by, Hélène Neveu Kringelbach.	Eduardo Lalo, Elleke Boehmer, Jonny Steinberg, Premilla Nadasen	18 November, 2019
Southern Biographies: epistemologies, methodologies, theoretical perspectives	Joy Owen, Marcio Goldman, Ramon Sarro and Santanu Das give talks as part of the Southern Biographies event. Chaired, Thomas Cousins.	Joy Owen, Marcio Goldman, Ramon Sarró, Santanu Das	18 November, 2019
Book at Lunchtime: Chaucer: A European Life	TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Chaucer: A European Life by Professor Marion Turner. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held fortnightly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines.	Marion Turner, Bart van Es, Helen Swift, John Watts, Elleke Boehmer	15 November, 2019
Literary Allusion in Harry Potter	J.K. Rowling’s imagination is fired by the past. How do historical objects illuminate the real-world sources of her ideas?	Beatrice Groves, Victoria McGuinness	11 October, 2019
Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond	Book at Lunchtime seminar held on 16th October 2019.	Dan Hicks, Sarah Mallet, Wes Williams, Leonie Ansems de Vries, Mary Bosworth, Lisa Kennedy, John McTernan	6 October, 2019
Storming Utopia	This event is an Oxford Public Engagement with Research and part of a Knowledge Exchange project. Organised by Professor Wes Williams (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages) and Richard Scholar (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages).	Wes Williams, Richard Scholar, Amantha Edmead, Erin Maglaque, Euton Daley MBE, Sara-Louise Cooper, James Attlee	14 August, 2019
People's Landscapes: Living in Landscapes	A roundtable discussion explore landscape as a space for living, considering the pressures on land from population growth and discussing questions of preservation vs. development.	Alice Purkiss, Lucy Footer, Ingrid Samuel, Crispin Truman, Dave Lomax, Caitlin Desilvey, David Howard	23 July, 2019
People's Landscapes: Future Landscapes	A roundtable discussion consider future landscapes in the context of food, farming and conservation.	Alice Purkiss, Helen Antrobus, Anita Weatherby, Sue Cornwell, E.J. Milner-Gulland, Phil Jarvis, Prue Addison	23 July, 2019
Knowledge Exchange Showcase - Understanding Visitor Engagement of Free Heritage Sites Using Social Media	Kathryn Eccles (Oxford Internet Institute), gives a talk on her Knowledge Exchange research project on using social media data to understand visitor engagement at heritage sites.	Kathryn Eccles	15 July, 2019
Knowledge Exchange Showcase - Understanding Postgraduate Medical Ethics Education	Andrew Papanikitas Primary Care Health Sciences and John Spicer Health Education England give a talk on their Knowledge Exchange research project on teaching ethics to medical students.	Andrew Papanikitas, John Spicer	15 July, 2019
Knowledge Exchange Showcase - Refugee Heritage: the Archaeology of the Calais 'Jungle'	Sarah Mallet School of Archaeology and Louise Fowler Museum of London Archaeology give a talk for the Knowledge Exchange Showcase on their research on the Calais migrant camp known as the Jungle.	Sarah Mallet, Louise Fowler	15 July, 2019
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 July, 2019
Delius and the Sound of Place	Book at Lunchtime: Delius and the Sound of Place	Daniel Grimley, Philip Bullock, Peter Franklin, Alexandra Harris, Charlotte de Mille	28 June, 2019
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, Philip Bullock	18 June, 2019
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 June, 2019
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	4 June, 2019
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, Mohamed Salah-Omri, Elleke Boehmer	29 May, 2019
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
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, Wes Williams	20 May, 2019
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, Rosemary Shirley, Craig Oldham, Fiona Stafford	16 May, 2019
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, Stephen Mileson, Kate Ashbrook	2 May, 2019
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	9 April, 2019
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	9 April, 2019
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, Ben Morgan	8 March, 2019
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	7 March, 2019
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	7 March, 2019
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	7 March, 2019
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	6 March, 2019
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, Claire Kenward, Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell	6 March, 2019
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	6 March, 2019
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, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Alice Billington	5 March, 2019
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 February, 2019
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 February, 2019
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 February, 2019
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 February, 2019
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 February, 2019
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, Afua Hirsch	19 February, 2019
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 February, 2019
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 February, 2019
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 February, 2019
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 February, 2019
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 February, 2019
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 February, 2019
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 February, 2019
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 February, 2019
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 February, 2019
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 February, 2019
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 February, 2019

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