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
Autonomy, Community, Destiny: Re-Imagining Disability	The second seminar in the Disability and Curriculum Diversity series at TORCH	Elizabeth Frood, Dom Hyams, Marie Tidball	7 December, 2017
Work, Time and Stress: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives	Stress & overwork in both education and professional life in the Victorian era and the 'dynamic' nature of disability and the impact of the stresses of modern life has.	Sally Shuttleworth, Marie Tidball	7 December, 2017
Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society	Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society held on 28 November 2017	Libby Lane, Jas' Elsner, Shaista Aziz, Elleke Boehmer	6 December, 2017
Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions	Book at Lunchtime held on 8th November 2017.	Gervase Rosser, Georgi Parpulov, Stefanie Lenk, Kate Cooper, Mallica Kumbera Landrus	27 November, 2017
Representing the Dead	Book at Lunchtime event	Helen Swift, jessica Goodman, Philip Bullock, Neil Kenny, Michele Aaron	26 October, 2017
Hidden Beneath the Surface: Untold Tales of Neurodivergence and Mental Difference in Oxford	World Mental Health Day 2017	Dan Holloway, Miranda Reilly, Sonia Boue, Marie Tidball	18 October, 2017
Unflattening	With Nick Sousanis	Nick Sousanis, Dominic Davies, Segolene Tarte	5 September, 2017
Disaster Drawn: Comics and Picturing Violence	Keynote lecture by Hilary Chute as part of the Documenting Trauma conference.	Hilary Chute	5 September, 2017
Thinking the Beyond of Crisis	Professor Simon Glendinnning (London School of Economics) delivered the keynote address on 'Thinking the Beyond of Crisis' at the TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse event 'Rethinking Crisis'.	Simon Glendinning	18 July, 2017
Fascism, Fake News, and the Nature of Social Extremophilia	With Luciano Floridi (University of Oxford).	Luciano Floridi	18 July, 2017
Complexity in our multiple identities: the 2017 Disability Lecture	University of Oxford Annual Disability Lecture	Dan Holloway, Torø Graven, Rebecca Surender, Marie Tidball, Caroline Moughton	10 July, 2017
Migration, Memory and Identity	Part of the Humanities & Identities Lunchtime Seminar Series	Laura van Broekhoven, Elleke Boehmer, Karma Nabulsi, Gayle Lonergan	7 July, 2017
Disability Narratives and Histories	Launch event for the TORCH Disability and Curriculum Diversity series.	Marie Tidball, Helen Hillman, Richard Sandell, Elleke Boehmer	4 July, 2017
Music, Empathy and Cultural Understanding	In this TORCH Talk, Professor Eric Clarke talks about 'Music, Empathy and Cultural Understanding' at the Ashmolean Museum's Supersonic LiveFriday.	Eric Clarke	4 July, 2017
Orchestral Musicians' Experiences: Inside Out	In this TORCH Talk, Dr Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey presents on 'Orchestral Musicians' Experiences: Inside Out' at the Ashmolean Museum's Supersonic LiveFriday.	Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey	4 July, 2017
Images of Mithra	Book at Lunchtime discussion	Dominic Dalglish, Josephine Quinn, Elleke Boehmer, Robert Bracey, Peter Stewart, Richard Gordon	3 July, 2017
Repositioning Women's Health Care: A Case Study on Women Who Survived Ebola in Sierra Leone	Part of the Humanities & Identities Lunchtime Series	Elleke Boehmer, Fatou Wurie	27 June, 2017
Exploring Sicilian Epigraphy	Sicilian schools study and research epigraphy in their museums.	Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Andrew Fairweather-Tall	23 June, 2017
Italian Stories in Britain	A project about talking to Italian communities in Britain and finding out what stories there are.	Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Matthew Reza	23 June, 2017
Unsilencing the library: An exhibition at Compton Verney	Research into how books make us feel.	Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Sophie Ratcliffe, Steven Parissien	23 June, 2017
Recreating the music of an ancient Greek chorus: Euripides Orestes	Research into ancient music.	Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Armand O Angour	23 June, 2017
Storming Utopia	The director from the Pegasus theatre in Oxford, talks about his upcoming theatre piece.	Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Wes Williams	23 June, 2017
Literature and Silence	Research into multiple Quaker congregations.	Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Kate McLoughlin	23 June, 2017
Transforming The Operatic Voice	Looking at the relationships between philosophy and the creative practice of music.	Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Toby Young	23 June, 2017
How the Mouse Lost its Tail, Or, Lamarck's Dangerous Idea	Speaker: Jessica Riskin (University of Stanford)	Jessica Riskin	19 June, 2017
Progress, Providence, Eschaton: Löwith, Blumenberg, and After	Speaker: Jean-Claude Monond (ENS)	Jean-Claude Monond	19 June, 2017
Rescue in the Face of Danger: Benjamin, Goethe, Sebald	Speaker: Carolin Duttlinger (University of Oxford)	Carolin Duttlinger	19 June, 2017
The Modern Epimetheus. Carl Schmitt's Marian Katechontism	Speaker: Hjalmar Falk (Oxford/Gothenburg)	Hjalmar Falk	19 June, 2017
Ernst Kantorowicz and the Politics of Political Theology	Speaker: Martin Ruehl (University of Cambridge)	Martin Ruehl	19 June, 2017
On Real and Imagined Catastrophes: Gershom Scholem's Sabbatinism	Speaker: Amir Engel (Hebrew University)	Amir Engel	19 June, 2017
Surrealism’s Political-Theological Afterlife: Benjamin—Blumenberg—Taubes	Speaker: Julia Ng (Goldsmith's)	Julia Ng	19 June, 2017
Humanities Knowledge Exchange Showcase	Knowledge Exchange is the mutually beneficial sharing of ideas, data, experience, and expertise, and involves collaboration between researchers and external organisations or the public.	Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Toby Young, Kate McLoughlin	19 June, 2017
Between Historiography and Literature: "Gershom Sholem's Intellectual Biography"	Speaker: Amir Engel (Hebrew University)	Amir Engel	19 June, 2017
Performance of 'Night Dance (Fantasy)'	Musicians Dan Hulme and Nick Fowler perform Night Dance (Fantasy) at a recent Live Friday event, held at the Ashmolean Museum on March 3rd 2017.	Dan Hulme, Nick Fowler	13 June, 2017
Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery	Book at Lunchtime seminar on Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery, edited and written by Ryan Hanley (Fellow in History, University of Oxford).	Bob Harris, Ryan Hanley, Padraic Scanlan, Sebabatso Manoeli, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr	13 June, 2017
Everything in Everything: Anaxagoras's Metaphysics	Book at Lunchtime discussion	Anna Marmodoro, Elleke Boehmer, Naoya Iwata, Simona Aimar	6 June, 2017
Volcanoes: Natural Disaster Narratives and the Environment in Caribbean Literature	A panel discussion	Elleke Boehmer, Imaobong Umoren, Richard Scholar, Anne Castro, Jemima Paine, Vanessa Lee	5 June, 2017
Bruno Latour's Anti-sacrificial Politics	Part of the Sacrifice Revisited event	Martin Crowley	22 May, 2017
Meanings of ‘Sacrifice’ in Brexit Mythology	Part of the Sacrifice Revisited event	Kalypso Nicolaidis	22 May, 2017
Gandhi, Sacrifice and the Ambiguities of Non-Violence	Part of the Sacrifice Revisited event	Faisal Devji	22 May, 2017
Consequentialist Extremism: Present Sacrifices for Future Dreams in the Justification of Violence	Part of the Sacrifice Revisited event	Jonathan Leader Maynard	22 May, 2017
On Violence, Gender, and Sacrifice: Old Stories and New Reflections	Part of the Sacrifice Revisited event	Kimberley Hutchings	22 May, 2017
A Genre in Crisis: The Novel in 1940s France	Professor Ann Jefferson discusses the French novel.	Ann Jefferson	17 May, 2017
InHabit: People, Places and Possessions	Book at Lunchtime Seminar held on May 3rd 2017.	Antony Buxton, Linda Hulin, Jane Anderson, Cathy Oakes, Oliver Cox, Elleke Boehmer	10 May, 2017
Terminus or Renovation? Francis Bacon and crisis in early modern knowledge	The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network hosted a talk on 'Terminus or Renovation? Francis Bacon and Crisis in Early Modern Knowledge' with Dr Richard Serjeantson (University of Cambridge)	Richard Serjeantson	10 May, 2017
Ernst Kantorowicz on Methods and Postage Stamps	The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network hosted a talk on ''Ernst Kantorowicz on Methods and Postage Stamps' given by Professor Robert Lerner (Northwestern)	Robert Lerner	10 May, 2017
The Rise of Endless War	The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network hosted a talk on 'The Rise of Endless War' with Professor Samuel Moyn (Harvard University).	samuel moyn	10 May, 2017
Robespierre and the Politicians' Terror	The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network hosted a talk on 'Robespierre and the Politicians’ Terror' with Marisa Linton (Kingston University).	Marisa Linton	10 May, 2017
Dystopia Today	The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalyse network have hosted an event on 'Dystopia Today' with Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London).	Greg Claeys	10 May, 2017
Germs Revisited	On Thursday 16 March 2017, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown gave a talk with Dr Jamie Lorimer (School of Geography and the Environment) and Dr Nicola Fawcett (Medical Sciences Division) on the subject of Germs Revisited.	Emilie Taylor-Brown, Jamie Lorimer, Nicola Fawcett, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Karen O'Brien	25 April, 2017

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