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
Whither Death?	Helen Swift and Jessica Goodman discuss the one day conference 'Whither Death?'	Helen Swift, jessica Goodman	28 March, 2017
Miles Hewstone - What Does Diversity Mean to Me?	Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities'	Miles Hewstone	28 March, 2017
Maria Misra - What Does Diversity Mean to Me?	Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities'	Maria Misra	28 March, 2017
Marvin Rees - What Does Diversity Mean to Me?	Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities'	Marvin Rees	28 March, 2017
Deborah Cameron - What Does Diversity Mean to Me?	Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities	Deborah Cameron	28 March, 2017
Ellah Wakatama Allfrey - What Does Diversity Mean to Me?	Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities'	Ellah Wakatama Allfrey	28 March, 2017
Jay Stewart - What Does Diversity Mean to Me?	Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities'	Jay Stewart	28 March, 2017
Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry	Book at Lunchtime event.	Ben Bollig, Bart van Es, Leigh A Payne, Eduardo Posada-Carbo, Maria Del Pilar Blanco	21 March, 2017
Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit	Lecture with Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College). Respondent: Anand Menon (King’s College London) Convenors: Timothy Garton Ash and Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony’s College).	Kalypso Nicolaidis, Anand Menon, Timothy Garton Ash	3 March, 2017
Walter Benjamin Meets the Cosmics	Professor Richard Wolin (CUNY) delivers a talk on 'Walter Benjamin Meets the Cosmics' for the TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network.	Richard Wolin	28 February, 2017
Language, Crisis, and Affect	The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network hosted a talk ‘Language, crisis and affect: Muted emotions in Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas’ with Dr Tobias Heinrich (University of Oxford).	Tobias Heinrich	28 February, 2017
Living Bilingual	Professor Elleke Boehmer (Director of TORCH) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Linguamania, Ashmolean Museum.	Elleke Boehmer	22 February, 2017
Bilingualism and the Internet	Scott Hale (Senior Data Scientist) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Linguamania, Ashmolean Museum.	Scott Hale	22 February, 2017
A Tristan Tile in the Ashmolean	Henrike Lähnemann (Professor of Medieval German Literature) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Linguamania, Ashmolean Museum.	Henrike Lähnemann	21 February, 2017
Do Objects Speak?	Wen-chin Ouyang (Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies) delivers a talk as part of the Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize Talks at Lingumania.	Wen-Chin Ouyang	21 February, 2017
Musings from Cloud Cuckoo Land	Dr Karen Park delivers a Creative Multilingualism and TORCH Bitesize talk as part of Linguamania	Karen Park	21 February, 2017
The Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard	The book's author Sondra Hausner (Professor of Anthropology, University of Oxford) will explore the issues raised in her book.	Sondra Hausner, Bridget Anderson, Diane Watt, Antonia Fitzpatrick	10 February, 2017
Literature and the Public Good	Part of the Book at Lunchtime series	Rick Rylance, Jane Hiddleston, Timothy Michael, Ankhi Mukherjee, Helen Small, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr	1 February, 2017
#NeverHillary vs #NeverTrump	The US Election on Social Media Panel Discussion	Philip N Howard, Gemma Joyce, Matthew Lee Anderson, Yin Yin Lu	1 February, 2017
Drawing the Line: Toward an Aesthetic of Transitional Justice	This Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar is on 'Drawing the Line: Toward an Aesthetic of Transitional Justice' with speaker Carrol Clarkson (University of Amsterdam).	Carrol Clarkson	6 January, 2017
FRIGHT Friday - Stretched to Breaking Point	Dan Holloway gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016.	Dan Holloway	12 December, 2016
FRIGHT Friday - Gothic Horror: Medicine and Monsters	Dr Andrew Papanikitas gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016.	Andrew Papanikitas	12 December, 2016
FRIGHT Friday - Fear and Flesh: Gothic Medicine	Dr Barry Murname gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016.	Barry Murname	12 December, 2016
FRIGHT Friday - Fear of Cats and Other Phobias	Professor Sally Shuttleworth gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016.	Sally Shuttleworth	12 December, 2016
FRIGHT Friday - Parenting, Fear, Hope and Salvation	Dr Joshua Hordern gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016.	Joshua Hordern	12 December, 2016
FRIGHT Friday - Embodying Life and Death	Professor Cathy Morgan gives a talk for the FRIGHT Friday series of talks, held in the Ashmolean Museum on 25th November 2016.	Cathy Morgan	12 December, 2016
Martin Luther - Renegade and Prophet	Part of the Book at Lunchtime series	Lyndal Roper, Laura Marcus, Simeon Zahl, Jas Elsner, Almut Suerbaum	8 November, 2016
Sharing Sacred Spaces in Early Modern Germany	With David Lubeke (University of Oregon)	David Lubeke	21 October, 2016
What We Cannot Know	Part of the TORCH Book at Lunchtime series	Marcus du Sautoy, Anita Avramides, Chrystalina Antoniades, Ben Morgan	21 October, 2016
The Prelude	Part of the TORCH Book at Lunchtime series	James Engell, Fiona Stafford, Emily Knight, Steven Matthews	21 October, 2016
Interview with Neil MacGregor	Neil MacGregor talks about the public engagement at the British Museum.	Neil MacGregor	12 October, 2016
The Fires of Faith	The Babsybanoo, Machionness of Winchester Lecture with Neil MacGregor	Neil MacGregor	7 September, 2016
Digital Unwrapping: Homer, Herculaneum, and the Scroll from Ein Gedi	With Dirk Obbink (Associate Professor in Papyrology and Greek Literature, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford)	Dirk Obbink	19 August, 2016
Digital Unwrapping: Homer, Herculaneum, and the Scroll from Ein Gedi	With Brent Seales (Professor of Computer Science, University of Kentucky)	Brent Seales	19 August, 2016
Digital Unwrapping: Homer, Herculaneum, and the Scroll from Ein Gedi	With Brent Seales and Dirk Obbink	Brent Seales, Dirk Obbink	19 August, 2016
Why We Need the Humanities	How has humanities scholarship influenced biomedical research and civil liberties and how can scholars serve the common good?	Donald Drakeman, Richard Ekins, Jay Sexton, Helen Small	27 July, 2016
The Prospect of Global History	How can global history can be applied instead of advocated?	James Belich, Elleke Boehmer, Richard Drayton, Hannah-Louise Clark	27 July, 2016
The Concept of 'Umma' in Early Islam	Fred Donner (University of Chicago) addresses the nebulous, often misunderstood concept of 'umma' in early Islam	Fred Donner	7 July, 2016
The Role of Religion in Identity	Julia Bray (University of Oxford) delivers a keynote lecture on the role of religion in identity	Julia Bray	7 July, 2016
Useful Frames and Dead Pasteboard	Sarah Hook looks at Victorian photographic card portraits, and charts their appearances in novels and poems from the period.	Sarah Hook	7 June, 2016
David Garrick's Wigless Celebrity	Ruth Scobie's bite-sized talk on a portrait of David Garrick by Johan Zoffany	Ruth Scobie	7 June, 2016
Chasing Butterflies: Capturing the Transience of Childhood	Emily Knight talks at the Ashmolean Museum about eighteenth-century portraits of children.	Emily Knight	7 June, 2016
The Death Masks of Macbeth	Professor Simon Palfrey discusses the deaths and afterlives of Oliver Cromwell and Macbeth	Simon Palfrey	7 June, 2016
Andy Warhol's Girls	Eleri Watson explores Andy Warhol's relationships with women.	Eleri Watson	7 June, 2016
Messages through Ashmolean Portraits	Vicky McGuinness's bite-sized talk at Ashmolean LiveFriday: Framed	Victoria McGuinness	7 June, 2016
Empire and Identity: Imperial Rule and Peoplehood across Time and Place	A round table discussion of empire's role in identity formation across time and place.	Miles Larmer, Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard, Bryan Ward-Perkins, Florian Schwarz, Michael Khodarkovsky, Emma Dench, Ilya Afanasyev	25 May, 2016
How English Became English	A Book at Lunchtime discussion looking at the English language and how it is developing with Simon Horobin, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Martin Wynne, Philip Durkin and Susie Dent.	Simon Horobin, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Martin Wynne, Philip Durkin, Susie Dent.	6 May, 2016
Rereading East Germany	A Book at Lunchtime discussion tracing the cultural legacy of the GDR with Karen Leeder, Dennis Tate, Sara Jones, Marc Silberman and Tom Smith	Karen Leeder, Dennis Tate, Sara Jones, Marc Silberman, Tom Smith	5 May, 2016
Thinking with Literature	A Book at Lunchtime discussion with Terence Cave about literature's links to cognitive science.	Terence Cave, Marina Warner, Ilona Roth, Deirdre Wilson, Emily Trosianko	28 April, 2016
Knowledge Exchange Highlights	Highlights from the Knowledge Exchange Showcase, 26 November 2015.	Joshua Hordern, Andrew Papanikitas, Barry Murnane, Laura Tunbridge, Martyn Harry, Tiffany Stern	28 April, 2016

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