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
Closing Reflections	The closing reflections of speakers Professor Joshua Hordern and Stephen Bergman.	Joshua Hordern, Professor Stephen Bergman	8 March, 2016
Book at Lunchtime: Arcadia	A Book at Lunchtime discussion of Iain Pears' interactive novel Arcadia	Elleke Boehmer, Alex Butterworth, Emily Short, Iain Pears, Richard Beard, Sophie Ratcliffe	7 March, 2016
Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials'	Margaret Kean explores how Philip Pullman plays with the idea of communication across different media in his trilogy	Margaret Kean	4 March, 2016
Middle Earth and Tolkien's Digital Afterlives	Stuart Lee traces how Tolkien's Middle-earth and especially 'The Lord of the Rings' have been reimagined through a range of digital technologies, from games to films	Stuart Lee	4 March, 2016
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland	Robert Douglas-Fairhurst explores how every generation has created its own Wonderland, and why we are still so curious about Alice’s dreamworld	Robert Douglas-Fairhurst	4 March, 2016
The Stories of Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien and Philip Pullman	Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Stuart Lee and Margaret Kean explore the digital afterlives of these celebrated storytellers	Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Stuart Lee, Margaret Kean	4 March, 2016
Are the Humanities More Digital than the Sciences?	A panel discussion with Howard Hotson, Andrew Prescott, Dave De Roure and Heather Viles	Howard Hotson, Andrew Prescott, Dave De Roure, Heather Viles, Kathryn Eccles	2 March, 2016
The Future of the Professions	In an era when machines can out-perform human beings at most tasks what are the prospects for employment?	Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind, Joshua Hordern, Vili Lehdonvirta, Judy Wajcman, Kahtryn Eccles	16 February, 2016
Wharton in Wartime	A roundtable discussion to mark the publication of Alice Kelly's critical edition of Edith Wharton's First World War reportage Fighting France: From Dunkerque to Belfort (Edinburgh University Press, 2015).	Alice Kelly, Shafquat Towheed, Dame Hermione Lee, Elleke Boehmer	11 February, 2016
Heroes and Villains in Game of Thrones	Dr Carolyne Larrington gives a talk about Game of Thrones and the often complicated morality its characters have. Part of the Ashmolean Live Friday event on 29th January 2016.	Carolyne Larrington	10 February, 2016
Intravenous anaesthesia on Turner's High Street	Dr Alessia Pannese explores a painted documentation of a relatively little known event in Oxford local history: the first intravenous anaesthesia during this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday	Alessia Pannese	9 February, 2016
Valour, betrayal and desire: heroes and villains in Indian paintings	Nisha Somasundaram explores both male and female heroes and demons in Indian epics in this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday.	Nisha Somasundaram	9 February, 2016
Live and Let Die - in Greek Epic	Almut Fries explores the iconography of the black-figured wine jug in this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday	Almut Fries	8 February, 2016
The Alfred Jewel and Kingship	Amy Faulkner explores how Alfred’s translations question what it means to be a good king in this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday	Amy Faulkner	8 February, 2016
Great men and fallen heroes	Jessica Goodman explores how the meaning of ‘hero’ shifted in France in the late eighteenth-century in this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday.	jessica Goodman	8 February, 2016
Knowledge Machines	How have digital technologies changed research practices in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities?	Eric Meyer, Lucie Burgess, Kathryn Eccles, James Smithies	5 February, 2016
Multiple Identities in a Frontier Land: Balkh and ‘The Iranians’	In this paper Dr. Arezou Azad focused on the region of Balkh in the north of modern-day Afghanistan, ancient Bactria	Arezou Azad	2 February, 2016
Ethnicity and Politics in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: The Kurdish Case	Dr. Djene Bajalan talks as part of the Language and Community from the Armenian to Iranian Plateaux series	Djene Bajalan	26 January, 2016
Ilya Afanasyev and Nicholas S. M. Matheou Introduction	Opening remarks from Ilya Afanasyev and Nicholas S M Matheou	Ilya Afanasyev, Nicholas S M Matheou	26 January, 2016
Tom Chatfield on Humans and Machines in the Digital Age	Tom Chatfield talks as part of the "What does it mean to be human in the digital age?" event	Tom Chatfield	26 January, 2016
Chris Fletcher on Libraries in the Digital Age	Chris Fletcher talks as part of the "What does it mean to be human in the digital age?" event	Chris Fletcher	26 January, 2016
Emma Smith on Forgetting in the Digital Age	Emma Smith talks as part of the "What does it mean to be human in the digital age?" event	Emma Smith	26 January, 2016
Diane Lees on Museums and Heritage in the Digital Age	Diane Lees talks as part of the "What does it mean to be human in the digital age?" event	Diane Lees	26 January, 2016
What Does it Mean to be Human in the Digital Age?	A librarian, literary scholar, museum director and digital commentator explore how the digital age has shaped, and will continue to shape, the human experience and the humanities	Lynne Brindley, Tom Chatfield, Chris Fletcher, Diane Lees, Emma Smith	22 January, 2016
Crossing Boundaries: Medievalists in Cross-Disciplinary Conversation	Launch event for the TORCH programme Oxford Medieval Studies	Emma Dillon, Henrike Lähnemann, David Wallace, Chris Wickham	13 January, 2016
Framing the Past through Suffering and Victimhood – Kurdish Discourses of Identity	Christine Allison gives a talk as part of The Long History of Identity, Ethnicity, and Nationhood workshop	Christine Allison	5 January, 2016
Making Sense of Kurdish Identity During the Middle Ages: Political Factors and Cultural Crossroad	Boris James gives a talk as part of the The Long History of Identity, Ethnicity, and Nationhood workshop	Boris James	4 January, 2016
Factors Affecting Iranian Identities from the Early Islamic Era to the Sixteenth Century	Ahmad Ashraf gives a talk as part of the The Long History of Identity, Ethnicity, and Nationhood workshop	Ahmad Ashra	4 January, 2016
Constructions of Armenian Identity in the Early Medieval Period	Tim Greenwood gives a talk as part of the The Long History of Identity, Ethnicity, and Nationhood workshop	Tim Greenwood	4 January, 2016
Iranian ‘Identities’ in Pre-Modern Times – Reality or Myth?	Speaker: Bert Fragner (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna).	Bert Fragner	18 December, 2015
The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads	An interdisciplinary panel discussion exploring the life and legacy of the dodo	multiple	7 December, 2015
The Dodo in the Museum	Director of the Museum of Natural History, Paul Smith, gives a presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’	Paul Smith	7 December, 2015
The Dodo in Literature	Literary scholar Kirsten Shepherd-Barr’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’	Kirsten Shepherd-Barr	7 December, 2015
The Dodo, Animal Icons and De-Extinction	Environmental researcher Paul Jepson’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’	Paul Jepson	7 December, 2015
The Dodo and Creativity	Author Jasper Fforde’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’	Jasper Fforde	4 December, 2015
The Dodo and Exploration	Historian of Science Pietro Corsi’s presentation at ‘The Oxford Dodo: Culture at the Crossroads’	Pietro Corsi	4 December, 2015
Heidegger and Phenomenology	Dr Joshua Broggi speaks at the Oxford Phenomenology Network seminar.	Joshua Broggi	3 December, 2015
Interview with Dr Sophie Ratcliffe	Practical Medical Humanities	Dr Sophie Ratcliffe	30 November, 2015
Interview with Dr Andrew Papanikitas	The importance of Medical Humanities in good medical practice	Dr Andrew Papanikitas	30 November, 2015
Interview with Dr Emma Mckenzie-Edwards	The use of Humanities in Medical Education	Dr Emma Mckenzie-Edwards	30 November, 2015
Interview with Dr Marion Lynch	Medical Humanities and Narratives	Dr Marion Lynch	30 November, 2015
Interview with Professor Stephen Lammers	Medical Humanities and Narratives	Professor Stephen Lammers	30 November, 2015
Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire	Elleke Boehmer discusses her new book with Megan Robb, Faisal Devji and Santanu Das	Elleke Boehmer, Faisal Devji, Megan Robb, Santanu Das, James Belich	23 November, 2015
Comparative Encounters between Artaud, Michaux and the Zhuangzi	Part of "Book at Lunchtime", a fortnightly series of bite size book discussions, with commentators from a range of disciplines. Xiaofan Amy Li discusses her new book "Comparative Encounters Between Artaud, Michaux and the Zhuangzi."	Xiofan Amy Li, Elleke Boehmer, Wang Xing, Matthew Reynolds, Marina Warner	20 November, 2015
The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Legacy	60 years since the publication of the series' final volume, a distinguished panel explore Tolkien's literary legacy	Elleke Boehmer, Stuart Lee, Patrick Curry, Dimitra Fimi, Andy Orchard	9 November, 2015
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World	Peter Frankopan discusses his new book with Averil Cameron, Robert Moore and Elleke Boehmer	Peter Frankopan, Averil Cameron, Robert Moore, Elleke Boehmer	27 October, 2015
Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life	Jonathan Bate, Anne Farrar Donovan, Seamus Perry and Oliver Taplin discuss life-writing, poetry and the poet	Jonathan Bate, Seamus Perry, Oliver Taplin, Anne Farrar Donovan	20 October, 2015
The Pragmatic Enlightenment and Other Enlightenments	Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston) discusses his book 'The Pragmatic Enlightenment'	Dennis Rasmussen	14 October, 2015
Too Valuable to Die?	Silke Ackermann, Nigel Biggar and Liz Bruton debate the ethics of science and scientists going to war	Silke Ackermann, Nigel Biggar, Liz Bruton	14 October, 2015
Periodic Tales	Author Hugh Aldersey-Williams, historian of science Jo Hedesan and chemist Peter Battle discuss the ways in which the elements continue to inspire us today	Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Jo Hedesan, Peter Battle	13 October, 2015

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