The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Series associated with The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Alliance
Art and Action: The Intersections of Literary Celebrity and Politics
Death at the Museum
Diseases in Dialogue
Gender and Authority
Is the playwright dead?
Literature, democracy and transitional justice
Medieval German Studies
MOVING, TEACHING, INSPIRING: The National Trust and University of Oxford in the 21st Century
Narrative Futures
Perceptions of Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Post-Conflict Landscapes
Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation
Talking Sense
Teaching to Transgress
Textual Therapies
The Many Lives of Benjamin Disraeli
The Oxford Healthcare Values Partnership
The Oxford/Berlin Creative Collaborations
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Unconscious Memory
Unlocking Late Schumann
Valentine's Day at Oxford
Women in Oxford's History (Series One)
Women's Responses to the Reformation
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| 1 | Animal Eyes on the Planet (1/3) | First in a trilogy, this podcast introduces the creative collaboration on Climate Crisis Thinking. | Amanda Power, Nina Fischer, Eiko Soga, Lisa Maria Steppacher | 11 Jan 2021 | |
| 2 | Behind The Scenes of The Sound of Contagion | The “Sound of Contagion” explores what a society of contagion can sound like and how technology can illuminate 2020 pandemic and others throughout history. | Rob Laidlow, Wenzel Mehnert, Chelsea Haith | 18 Dec 2020 | |
| 3 | The 2020 Besterman Lecture: Who were the French Revolutionaries? | 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. | William Doyle, Karen O'Brien, Gregory S Brown, Lauren Clay | 07 Dec 2020 | |
| 4 | Liz Woolley on 'Lord Nuffield and the city of Oxford' | Local historian, Liz Wooley, takes a closer look at the role Lord Nuffield played in changing the city of Oxford's physical and social landscape. | Liz Wooley | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 5 | Dr Dexnell Peters on 'Politician Scholar: Dr Eric Williams' | Dr Dexnell Peters, Bennett Boskey Fellow in Atlantic History at Exeter College, reflects on the life and enduring legacy of eminent historian, Dr Eric Williams. | Dexnell Peters | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 6 | Dr Ben Grant on 'Richard Francis Burton | Dr Ben Grant, departmental lecturer in English and author of Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire (Routledge, 2009) reflects on Richard Francis Burton's sojourn in Oxford in the 1840s. | Ben Grant | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 7 | Dr Priya Atwal on 'Princesses Bamba and Catherine Duleep Singh at Oxford' | Historian, Dr Priya Atwal, takes a look at the lives of some of the University of Oxford's first Indian students. | Priya Atwal | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 8 | Episode 8 - Telling stories: Psychoanalysis and alien invasion | Tade Thompson explores alien invasion as a metaphor for colonialism and discusses the importance of psychoanalysis and self-awareness in the building of personal and group identities. | Tade Thompson, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg | 30 Nov 2020 | |
| 9 | Episode 7 - National myth: Rewriting America and China | Ken Liu discusses the power of myth in the construction of national narratives and the revisionist work that epic fantasy can do to rewrite them, drawing on the weight of time as omnipresent to narrative intent. | Ken Liu, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg | 23 Nov 2020 | |
| 10 | Anna Atkins: Botanical Illustration and Photographic Innovation | This event is supported by TORCH as part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones of the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Geoffrey Batchen, Lena Fritsch | 20 Nov 2020 | |
| 11 | Talking Afropean | Talking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu about his award-winning book. | Johny Pitts, Elleke Boehmer, Simukai Chigudu | 20 Nov 2020 | |
| 12 | Episode 6 - Climate fiction: Content dictates form | EJ Swift describes her deep time speculative approach to climate fiction and the effect of content on form in speculative nested or fragmented narratives. | EJ Swift, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg | 19 Nov 2020 | |
| 13 | Episode 5 - Kitschies, indies, and ads: Juggling narrative forms | Jared Shurin explores his wide-ranging interests from anthologising speculative shorts to the Kitschies Awards to ethical advertising for revisioning global narratives. | Jaren Shurin, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg | 12 Nov 2020 | |
| 14 | Book at Lunchtime: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe written by Professor Judith Herrin. Date: 4 November 2020. | Judith Herri, Peter Frankopan, Dame Averil Cameron, Conrad Leyser | 10 Nov 2020 | |
| 15 | Book at Lunchtime: Iconoclasm as Child's Play | Dr Joseph Moshenska, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at University College, discusses his new book, Iconoclasm as Child's Play. | Joseph Moshenska, Lorna Hutson, Alexandra Walsham, Kenneth Gross | 09 Nov 2020 | |
| 16 | Episode 4: Short stories are short: Edit for meaning | Mahvesh Murad discusses the work of curating and editing anthologies of speculative short fiction, ethically, refusing the word 'diversity' for doing too little, too late. | Mahvesh Murad, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg | 05 Nov 2020 | |
| 17 | Humanities Cultural Programme Live Event: Katie Mitchell in conversation with Ben Whishaw | 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. 'Liveness'. | Ben Whishaw, Katie Mitchell, Wes Williams | 04 Nov 2020 | |
| 18 | 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 | 04 Nov 2020 | |
| 19 | 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 | 03 Nov 2020 | |
| 20 | Episode 3 - People like me: Speculation in Pakistan | Sami Shah ranges over his radio, comedy and burgeoning literary career, and describes how he has to write himself into the speculative fiction space. | Sami Shah, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg | 23 Oct 2020 | |
| 21 | 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 Oct 2020 | |
| 22 | Episode 2 - Afrofuturism: For who? | Mohale Mashigo describes her relationship with time, imagining a future inflected by apartheid, and her controversial Afrofuturism essay. | Mohale Mashigo, The Yearning, afrofuturism, apartheid | 22 Oct 2020 | |
| 23 | 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 Oct 2020 | |
| 24 | 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 Oct 2020 | |
| 25 | Episode 1 - Pandemic writing: How close is too close? | Lauren Beukes discusses the proximity of her recent novel Afterland to the current pandemic and how collective action and art are the only way through these difficult times. | Lauren Beukes, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg | 14 Oct 2020 | |
| 26 | 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 Oct 2020 | |
| 27 | 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 Oct 2020 | |
| 28 | 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 Oct 2020 | |
| 29 | 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 Oct 2020 | |
| 30 | 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 | 07 Oct 2020 | |
| 31 | Live Event: Celebrating Tchaikovsky | TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Music Week | Leah Broad, Philip Bullock | 06 Oct 2020 | |
| 32 | 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 | 06 Oct 2020 | |
| 33 | Narrative Futures Coming Soon | The trailer for the Narrative Futures podcast, devised and produced by Chelsea Haith, featuring interviews with eight authors and editors, and writing prompts by Louis Greenberg. | Chelsea Haith, Lauren Beukes, Mohale Mashigo, Sami Shah | 28 Sep 2020 | |
| 34 | 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 Sep 2020 | |
| 35 | 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 Sep 2020 | |
| 36 | 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 Sep 2020 | |
| 37 | 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 Sep 2020 | |
| 38 | 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 | 24 Jul 2020 | |
| 39 | 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 Jun 2020 | |
| 40 | 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 | 17 Jun 2020 | |
| 41 | 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 Jun 2020 | |
| 42 | Creative Commons | 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 |
| 43 | 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 Apr 2020 | |
| 44 | 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 Apr 2020 | |
| 45 | 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 Apr 2020 | |
| 46 | 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 Apr 2020 | |
| 47 | Imitating Authors | Book at Lunchtime: Imitating Authors | Colin Burrow, Wes Williams, Kathryn Murphy, Stephen Halliwell | 24 Feb 2020 | |
| 48 | 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 Feb 2020 | |
| 49 | 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 | 07 Feb 2020 | |
| 50 | Empires of the Mind | Book at Lunchtime: Empires of the Mind | Robert Gildea, Rana Mitter, Faridah Zaman, Philip Bullock | 29 Jan 2020 | |
| 51 | 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 Jan 2020 | |
| 52 | 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 Jan 2020 | |
| 53 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 54 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 55 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 56 | Humanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! | Highlights of the Humanities Night Light event. | Tom Crawford | 19 Dec 2019 | |
| 57 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 58 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 59 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 60 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 61 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 62 | Post-Conflict Landscapes 22 Nov 2019 Buildings and Collections panel | Sarah Kay (National Trust), 'Conflict and Conscience project' and Professor Lynda Mugglestone (Oxford), 'Langscapes of War'. | Sarah Kay, Lynda Mugglestone | 11 Dec 2019 | |
| 63 | Post-Conflict Landscapes 22 Nov 2019 Seascapes panel | Professor Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford), Writing after Waterloo: Jane Austen’s Late Fiction and Jonathan Wallis and Kiki Claxton (National Trust), 'Easington Colliery: Conflict in the Landscape'. | Kathryn Sutherland, Jonathan Wallis, Kiki Claxton | 11 Dec 2019 | |
| 64 | Post-Conflict Landscapes 22 Nov 2019 Landscapes panel | Professor Christiana Payne (Oxford Brookes), 'Artists and Trees in the Post-Conflict Landscape' and Ian Barnes (Head of Archaeology, National Trust), 'The Long-Term Impact of Conflict on the UK Landscape'. | Christiana Payne, Ian Barnes | 11 Dec 2019 | |
| 65 | 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 | 10 Dec 2019 | |
| 66 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 67 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 68 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 69 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 70 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 71 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 72 | 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 Dec 2019 | |
| 73 | 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 Nov 2019 | |
| 74 | 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 Nov 2019 | |
| 75 | 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 | 20 Nov 2019 | |
| 76 | Supriya Chaudhuri, Significant Lives: biography, autobiography, gender, and women's history in South Asia | Chaired by Elleke Boehmer. | Supriya Chaudhuri | 18 Nov 2019 | |
| 77 | 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 Nov 2019 | |
| 78 | 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 Nov 2019 | |
| 79 | 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 | 15 Nov 2019 | |
| 80 | Creative Commons | 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 Oct 2019 |
| 81 | 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 | 06 Oct 2019 | |
| 82 | 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 | 14 Aug 2019 | |
| 83 | 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 | 23 Jul 2019 | |
| 84 | 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 | 23 Jul 2019 | |
| 85 | 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 Jul 2019 | |
| 86 | 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 Jul 2019 | |
| 87 | 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 Jul 2019 | |
| 88 | 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 Jul 2019 | |
| 89 | Episode 16: 'The Rough and the Refined: Sensing the Luxurious and the Everyday' – PART 2 | Dr Juanjo García-Granero (Postdoctoral Researcher, Archaeology) explores the senses in grand and ordinary living, through examining a Minoan cooking vessel. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Juanjo García-Granero, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 90 | Episode 15: 'The Rough and the Refined: Sensing the Luxurious and the Everyday' – PART 1 | Clare Gardom (DPhil Student, Classics) explores the senses in grand and ordinary living, through examining textiles from Classical Egypt. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Clare Gardom, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 91 | Episode 14: 'Making Sense of Death' – PART 2 | In this episode, Alexis Gorby (DPhil Student, Archaeology) looks at glass from the Roman catacombs to explore how ancient and contemporary cultures use the senses to make sense of death. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Alexis Gorby, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 92 | Episode 13: 'Making Sense of Death' – PART 1 | Dr Carrie Ryan (Postdoctoral Researcher, Anthropology) uses Angela Palmer’s Ashmolean Mummy Boy 3 to explore how ancient and contemporary cultures use the senses to make sense of death. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Carrie Ryan, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 93 | Episode 12: 'Stripping Back to Sharpen the Senses: A Holy Face and a Waterfall Vase' – PART 2 | Yayoi Teramoto Kimura (DPhil Student, Computational Neuroscience) focuses on a twentieth-century Japanese vase to demonstrate how artists can engage our senses through a pared down approach. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Yayoi Teramoto Kimura, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 94 | Episode 11: 'Stripping Back to Sharpen the Senses: A Holy Face and a Waterfall Vase' – PART 1 | Eleanor Townsend (DPhil Student, History of Art) focuses on a seventeenth-century Spanish painting to demonstrate how artists can engage our senses by focusing on a pared down approach. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Eleanor Townsend, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 95 | Episode 10: 'Sights for Sore Eyes: Reading the Senses in Religious and Cultural Pilgrimage' – PART 2 | Jasmine Proteau (DPhil Student, History) uses an eighteenth-century carriage clock to explore the significance of the senses in reading and travelling to centres of culture and spiritual salvati. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast | Jasmine Proteau, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 96 | Episode 9: Sights for Sore Eyes: Reading the Senses in Religious and Cultural Pilgrimage' – PART 1 | Raphaela Rohrhofer (DPhil Student, English) uses the Alfred Jewel and the reliquary casket of St Thomas Becket to explore the significance of the senses in reading and travelling. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Raphaela Rohrhofer, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 97 | Episode 8: 'Altered States of Body: The Power of the Senses in Ritual and Revelry' – PART 2 | In this episode, Helena Guzik (DPhil Student, History of Art) analyses Indian pilgrim stamps to show how objects have the power to transform us, engaging the senses to alter the body. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Helena Guzik, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 98 | Episode 7: 'Altered States of Body: The Power of the Senses in Ritual and Revelry' – PART 1 | In this episode, Dr Hugo Shakeshaft (Postdoctoral Researcher, Classics) analyses a Greek symposium cup to show how objects have the power to transform us, engaging the senses to alter the body. Further reading:https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Hugo Shakeshaft, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 99 | Episode 6: 'Sensory Intoxication: Getting Drunk From Oxford to Iran' – PART 2 | Jonny Lawrence (DPhil Student, Oriental Institute) looks at an Iranian tile scene to explore how drunkenness and intoxication play a big role in the visual culture of the senses. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Jonny Lawrence, Christy Callaway-Gale | 12 Jul 2019 | |
| 100 | Episode 5: 'Sensory Intoxication: Getting Drunk from Oxford to Iran' – PART 1 | Sian Witherden (DPhil Student, English) uses a medieval puzzle jug to explore how drunkenness and intoxication play a big role in the visual culture of the senses. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. | Sian Witherden, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence | 12 Jul 2019 |
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