The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
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TORCH is a nucleus of intellectual energy for the humanities and a place to develop new ideas and collaborations both within and beyond academia. Since its creation, TORCH has raised over £3 million in grants and philanthropy to support researchers to develop research projects. Launched in May 2013, TORCH provides an important opportunity for Oxford’s humanities scholars to collaborate with researchers across other disciplines, and institutions; work with academics across all stages of their academic careers; develop partnerships with public and private institutions; engage with wider audiences; and bring together academic research, diverse industries, and the performing arts. Public engagement with research is at the heart of TORCH's aims.
During 2018-19, TORCH hosted almost 400 events, with audiences of over 20,000 people. During 2019-20, TORCH hosted online events during COVID-restrictions, reaching audiences in person and then online of over 50,000 globally. Since 2013, TORCH has supported 400 researchers each year; 62 Knowledge Exchange Fellowships; over 50 seed-funded research networks and 10 research programmes.
The TORCH Director, Professor Wes Williams (wes.williams@seh.ox.ac.uk), welcomes questions about the centre and suggestions for research and wider engagement activities.
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
Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius: A Story in Five Places
Folk Tunes and Englishness
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
Putting magic in place: a knowledge exchange event
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
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 1 | Mark Davies on 'Medley Manor' | Oxfordshire Local historian, Mark Davies, takes a look at the history of Medley Manor and its connections to empire as well as his own family history. | Mark Davies | 15 Sep 2021 | |
| 2 | The Diasporic Quartets: Identity and Aesthetics | Keynote lecture in the Diversity and the British String Quartet Symposium, day 3, held on 16th June 2021. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Des Oliver, Nina Whiteman | 02 Sep 2021 | |
| 3 | The string quartet takes residence: class, community, curricula | Keynote lecture in the Diversity and the British String Quartet Symposium, held on 14th June 2021. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Laura Tunbridge, Wiebke Thormählen | 02 Sep 2021 | |
| 4 | Art and Action: Benjamin Zephaniah in Conversation | Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Benjamin Zephaniah, Elleke Boehmer, Malachi McIntosh, Wes Williams | 31 Aug 2021 | |
| 5 | Final Roundtable: Into the Hills | Diane Purkiss, University of Oxford, chairs the final roundtable discussion of the conference. | Diane Purkiss | 05 Aug 2021 | |
| 6 | Is there such a thing as an authentic myth? Folklore in heritage interpretation at prehistoric places | Susan Greaney (English Heritage), gives the second presentation in the sixth panel of the conference, Show and Tell: What is Real? Chaired by Oliver Cox. | Susan Greaney | 05 Aug 2021 | |
| 7 | Tangible and intangible heritage: exploring magic, folklore, and the supernatural in the places, spaces and collections of the National Trust | Sally Anne Huxtable (National Trust), gives the first presentation in the sixth panel of the conference, Show and Tell: What is Real? Chaired by Oliver Cox. | Sally Anne Huxtable | 05 Aug 2021 | |
| 8 | Telling Tales: Inspiring Creativity through the Myths, Legends and Folklore of England | Kate Armstrong and Hannah Keddie (English Heritage) give the third presentation in the fifth panel of the conference, Teaching and Learning, chaired by Oliver Cox. | Kate Armstrong, Hannah Keddie | 05 Aug 2021 | |
| 9 | Teaching the Folklore of British Landscapes | Owen Davies (Hertfordshire), gives the second presentation in the fifth panel of the conference, Teaching and Learning, chaired by Oliver Cox. | Owen Davies | 05 Aug 2021 | |
| 10 | Crowd-sourcing England's legends: The English Heritage Myths and Legends Map | Mary Bateman (English Heritage), gives the first talk in the fifth panel of the conference, Teaching and Learning, chaired by Oliver Cox. | Mary Bateman | 05 Aug 2021 | |
| 11 | Supernatural defences activated through death | Brian Hoggard (Folklorist), gives the first talk in the fourth panel of the conference, The Dark Side, chaired by Oliver Cox. | Brian Hoggard | 05 Aug 2021 | |
| 12 | Episode 4. The Birmingham Oratory: Elgar and Newman | Fr Guy Nicholls joins Dr Joanna Bullivant at The Oratory in Birmingham to discuss the origins of Elgar’s work in Cardinal Newman’s own poetry, charitable work, and love of music. | Joanna Bullivant, Guy Nicholls | 05 Aug 2021 | |
| 13 | Episode 3. The Firs and Birchwood Lodge: Natural Inspirations | Dr Joanna Bullivant visits Elgar’s Birthplace - The Firs - and Birchwood Lodge, where The Dream of Gerontius was written, and talks about the inspiration Elgar drew from the natural landscapes in these two locations. | Joanna Bullivant | 05 Aug 2021 | |
| 14 | Episode 2. St George’s Church, Worcester: Marginal Origins | Dr Joanna Bullivant is joined by Deacon Paul O’Connor to visit the Catholic church in which Elgar worshipped and acted as organist, and to discuss Elgar’s place in the history of Catholic Worcester. | Joanna Bullivant, Paul O’Connor | 05 Aug 2021 | |
| 15 | Episode 1. Worcester Cathedral: A Civic Legacy | Dr Joanna Bullivant explores the tumultuous history of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius, and speaks to Samuel Hudson, Director of Music at Worcester Cathedral, to learn about the importance of Elgar’s work in Worcester today. | Joanna Bullivant, Samuel Hudson | 05 Aug 2021 | |
| 16 | Panel 3 – The Land Remembers: Place as Keeper of Story questions | Questions and answers from the second panel of the seminar. Moderated by Alice Purkiss (National Trust Partnership and University of Oxford). | Alice Purkiss, Jenny Butler, Andrew Sneddon, Diane Purkiss | 04 Aug 2021 | |
| 17 | Remembering Irish witches | Andrew Sneddon (Ulster), gives the second talk in the third panel, The Land Remembers: Place as Keeper of Story. Chaired by Alice Purkiss. | Andrew Sneddon | 04 Aug 2021 | |
| 18 | Touching the Numinous: ‘fairy places’ in legend and experience of the Irish landscape | Jenny Butler (UC Cork), gives the first talk in the third panel, The Land Remembers: Place as Keeper of Story. Chaired by Alice Purkiss. | Jenny Butler | 04 Aug 2021 | |
| 19 | Mysterious Wales: between romanticism and tourism | Juliette Wood (Folklorist), gives the third talk in the second panel, Tales in Place: Change and Continuity. Chaired by Alice Purkiss. | Juliette Wood | 04 Aug 2021 | |
| 20 | Well, what about witches and wizards? | Lisa Tallis (Cardiff) gives the second talk in the second panel - Tales in Place: Change and Continuity - of the conference. Chaired by Alice Purkiss. | Lisa Tallis | 03 Aug 2021 | |
| 21 | Magic and Medicine in Early Roman Britain | Nicky Garland (Durham), gives the first talk in the second panel, Tales in Place: Change and Continuity, in the conference. Chaired by Alice Purkiss. | Nicky Garland | 03 Aug 2021 | |
| 22 | Panel 1 - Who Owns this Place? Pondering Identities Questions | Questions and answers from the first panel of the seminar. Moderated by Alice Purkiss (National Trust Partnership and University of Oxford). | Alice Purkiss | 26 Jul 2021 | |
| 23 | The Byland Abbey ghost stories: using the dead to bring a medieval monastery to life | Michael Carter (English Heritage) gives the second talk for the seminar. | Michael Carter | 26 Jul 2021 | |
| 24 | Book at Lunchtime: Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism | Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held weekly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. The events are free to attend and open to all. | Abigail Green, Simon Levis Sullam, Adam Sutcliffe, Kei Hiruta | 23 Jul 2021 | |
| 25 | How sacred is an ancient sacred site? The interface between academics, heritage managers and modern Paganism | First talk of Panel 1 - Who Owns this Place? Pondering Identities, chaired by Alice Purkiss, talk by Ronald Hutton (Bristol). | Ronald Hutton | 23 Jul 2021 | |
| 26 | Book at Lunchtime: Born to Write | A TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on ‘Born to Write: Literary Families and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern France’ by Professor Neil Kenny. | Neil Kenny, Caroline Warman, Ceri Sullivan, Wes Williams | 29 Jun 2021 | |
| 27 | Book at Lunchtime: Porcelain - Poem on the Downfall of my City | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City by Durs Grünbein, translated by Professor Karen Leeder. | Durs Grünbein, Karen Leeder, Edmund de Vaal, Patrick Major | 25 Jun 2021 | |
| 28 | Book at Lunchtime: China’s Good War | A TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on ‘China's Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism’ by Professor Rana Mitter. | Rana Mitter, David Priestland, Vivienne Shue, Wes Williams | 25 Jun 2021 | |
| 29 | The Formula of Giving Heart: Panel Discussion and Conversation with the Artist | Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Khaled Kaddal, Christopher Haworth, Darci Sprengel, Christabel Stirling | 18 Jun 2021 | |
| 30 | Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown | 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. | James Attlee, Marina Warner, Pablo Mukherjee, Wes Williams | 18 Jun 2021 | |
| 31 | Platforming Artists Podcasts: Andi Burton Marsh | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | Andi Burton Marsh, Shivaike Shah | 16 Jun 2021 | |
| 32 | Cre-AI-tivity: Blood in a Whatsapp message? | This last in our trilogy explores data as the foundation of AI systems. We learn how this enables mapping individual learners' progress and benchmarking in a teaching context, but also how that data exchange raises ethical issues. | Abigail Williams, Jussi Ängeslevä, Carl Schoenfeld | 28 May 2021 | |
| 33 | A Concatenation of Rumour | Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. | Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Richard Rathbone | 24 May 2021 | |
| 34 | The Cake, Emma’s Romantic dreams, and le bovarysme - part two, French | Elise Busset, an undergraduate at Oxford University, reads an extract from Madam Bovary in french. Blog post by Professor Jennifer Yee. | Elise Busset | 21 May 2021 | |
| 35 | The Cake, Emma’s Romantic dreams, and le bovarysme - part one | Eleanor Gilbert, an undergraduate at Oxford University, reads an extract from Madam Bovary in english. Blog post by Professor Jennifer Yee. | Elenor Gilbert | 21 May 2021 | |
| 36 | In Conversation with Lolita Chakrabarti | Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities on Thursday 13th May 2021. | Lolita Chakrabarti, Matt Wolf | 21 May 2021 | |
| 37 | Cre-AI-tivity: Hogwarts 4ever? | The second in our trilogy of podcasts explores the role AI can play in story creation and development. We learn how machines can extend a fictional story world, as well as our interaction with it. | Abigail Williams, Jussi Ängeslevä, Carl Schoenfeld | 17 May 2021 | |
| 38 | Platforming Artists Podcasts: Rosa Andujar | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | Rosa Andujar, Shivaike Shah | 13 May 2021 | |
| 39 | English folk tunes, borders, nationalism and race | Dr Alice Little speaks with folk musicians and researchers Cohen Braithwaite- Kilcoyne, Nicola Beazley, Stewart Hardy, Tom Kitching, and Marie Bashiru about the borders of English folk music - regionally, racially, and conceptually. | Alice Little, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Nicola Beazley, Stewart Hardy | 10 May 2021 | |
| 40 | Cre-AI-tivity: Make the machine work 4u | First in a trilogy explores the impact of AI on story creation and reception. We learn how machines enable audiences to experience the humanity of fictional characters. Yet a ‘rhetoric of innovation’ gets in the way of understanding what is happening. | Abigail Williams, Jussi Ängeslevä, Carl Schoenfeld | 06 May 2021 | |
| 41 | English folk tunes in performance today | Musicians Sam Sweeney, Rob Harbron, and Alan Lamb join Dr Alice Little to discuss English folk music in performance today. | Sam Sweeney, Rob Harbron, Alan Lamb, Alice Little | 03 May 2021 | |
| 42 | A history of English folk tunes | Dr Alice Little speaks with folk musicians and music collectors Jeremy Barlow, Matt Coatsworth, and Becky Price about the history of English folk music, and what makes it so 'English'. | Alice Little, Jeremy Barlow, Matt Coatsworth, Becky Price | 26 Apr 2021 | |
| 43 | Platforming Artists Podcasts: Theophina Gabriel | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | Theophina Gabriel, Shivaike Shah | 19 Apr 2021 | |
| 44 | Animal Eyes on the Planet (3/3): The Aesthetics of an Intangible World | In this third and last podcast Berlin and the Oxford creative collaboration on Climate Crisis Thinking we work with the Japan’s indigenous Ainu culture and history to explore how artists can respond to intangible aspects of the world and express them. | Amanda Power, Nina Fischer, Hana Yoo, Eiko Soga | 12 Apr 2021 | |
| 45 | The Sound of Contagion 2/3 | The “Sound of Contagion” explores what a society of contagion can sound like and how technology can illuminate 2020 pandemic and others throughout history. | Chelsea Haith, Robert Laidlow, Wenzel Mehnert | 26 Mar 2021 | |
| 46 | Platforming Artists Podcasts: Fiona Macintosh | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | Fiona Macintosh, Shivaike Shah | 23 Mar 2021 | |
| 47 | Translation and Retranslation: priorities, discoveries, pleasures | 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. | Sasha Dugdale, Oliver Ready, Wes Williams | 22 Mar 2021 | |
| 48 | The Black Chicago Renaissance Women: Lives and Legacies in Music | Dr. Samantha Ege | Held on International Women's Day 2021, Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities - in collaboration with Lincoln College, Oxford. | Samantha Ege | 22 Mar 2021 | |
| 49 | Animal Eyes on the Planet (2/3): The Felt Knowledge of a More-Than-Human-World | In this second podcast from the Berlin and the Oxford creative collaboration on Climate Crisis Thinking we acquaint ourselves with the Japan’s indigenous Ainu culture and history. | Amanda Power, Nina Fischer, Eiko Soga, Lisa Maria Steppacher | 18 Mar 2021 | |
| 50 | The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 1: Performing Innocence: Belated | Professor Emily C. Burns, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the first in the series of The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914. | Emily C. Burns, Peter Gibian | 18 Mar 2021 | |
| 51 | The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 3; Performing Innocence: Primitive / Incipient | Professor Emily C. Burns, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the third in the series of The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914. | Emily C. Burns, James Smalls | 15 Mar 2021 | |
| 52 | The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 2 Performing Innocence: Puritan | Professor c, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the second lecture in the The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914 series. | Emily C. Burns, Wanda M. Corn | 15 Mar 2021 | |
| 53 | The Terra Lectures in American Art: Part 4; Performing Innocence: Baby Nation | Professor Emily C. Burns, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art, gives the fourth in the series of The Terra Lectures in American Art: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914. | Emily C. Burns, Alastair Wright | 15 Mar 2021 | |
| 54 | The Pitt River's Catamaran | History DPhil student, Morgan Breene, contextualizes the catamaran displayed in the Pitt Rivers' Museum. Part of the Oxford and Empire series. | Morgan Breene | 10 Mar 2021 | |
| 55 | Book at Lunchtime: Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction - The Lodger World | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World by Dr Ushashi Dasgupta. | Ushashi Dasgupta, Jeremy Tabling, Sophia Psarra, Wes Williams | 10 Mar 2021 | |
| 56 | Book at Lunchtime: Sophocles – Antigone and other tragedies | TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Sophocles: Antigone and other tragedies by Professor Oliver Taplin. With panellists Professor Karen Leeder and Dr Lucy Jackson. | Oliver Taplin, Karen Leeder, Lucy Jackson, Wes Williams | 01 Mar 2021 | |
| 57 | Writing and Resistance – The White Rose Pamphlets: A Live Reading | At around 11am on Thursday 18 February 1943 two students in Munich were arrested for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets. By Monday they had been interrogated, tried, and executed along with another member of the resistance circle. | Alexandra Lloyd, Eve Mason, Sophie Caws, Sam Thompson | 01 Mar 2021 | |
| 58 | Platforming Artists Podcasts: Simran Uppal | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | Simran Uppal, Shivaike Shah | 26 Feb 2021 | |
| 59 | WillPlay: Chat, Play, Learn Shakespeare | This podcast explores WillPlay, an AI-powered reimagining of Shakespeare's plays for school students. | Abigail Williams, Felicity Brown, Rachael Hodge, Giles Lewin | 17 Feb 2021 | |
| 60 | Ken Loach in Conversation | TORCH Goes Digital! presents 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. | Ken Loach, Judith Buchanan | 12 Feb 2021 | |
| 61 | Silences | Silences explores what we mean by silence and what silence means to us. Interweaving silences, sounds and voices, it reveals the rich pleasures and mysteries of experiences without noises or words. | Kate McLoughlin, Ariane Jeßulat, Sylee Gore, Thorsten Weigelt | 11 Feb 2021 | |
| 62 | Platforming Artists Podcasts: Azan Ahmed | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | Azan Ahmed, Shivaike Shah | 09 Feb 2021 | |
| 63 | Platforming Artists Podcasts: Francesca Amewudah-Rivers | Shivaike Shah hosts a podcast series with the artists and academics on the team in order to create a dialogue with potential audiences. The podcasts discuss the collaborations on Medea and explores the work of each guest beyond the ‘Medea’ project. | Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, Shivaike Shah | 05 Feb 2021 | |
| 64 | In Conversation with Anne Boyd | Internationally-renowned composer Anne Boyd is in conversation with composer Thomas Metcalf, discussing her life and music ahead of a performance of her String Quartet No. 2 ’Play on the Water’ later this year. | Anne Boyd, Thomas Metcalf | 05 Feb 2021 | |
| 65 | Dr Juliet Henderson on 'Decolonising Florence Park Street Names' | Dr Juliet Henderson and Florence Park community members discuss their new project to decolonise local street names. | Juliet Henderson | 04 Feb 2021 | |
| 66 | Liz Woolley on 'Lord Nuffield and the city of Oxford' (longer version) | Local historian, Liz Woolley, takes a closer look at the role Lord Nuffield played in changing the city of Oxford's physical and social landscape. | Liz Woolley | 04 Feb 2021 | |
| 67 | Book at Lunchtime: The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on The Political Life of an Epidemic – Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe written by Professor Simukai Chigudu. | Simukai Chigudu, Sloan Mahone, Jon Schubert, Wes Williams | 04 Feb 2021 | |
| 68 | Book at Lunchtime: Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire | TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Royals and Rebels: The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire, written by Dr Priya Atwal. | Priya Atwal, Faisal Devji, Polly O’Hanlon, Wes Williams | 28 Jan 2021 | |
| 69 | 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 | |
| 70 | 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 | |
| 71 | 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 | |
| 72 | 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 | |
| 73 | 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 | |
| 74 | 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 | |
| 75 | 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 | |
| 76 | 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 | |
| 77 | 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 | |
| 78 | 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 | |
| 79 | 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 | |
| 80 | 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 | |
| 81 | 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 | |
| 82 | 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 | |
| 83 | 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 | |
| 84 | 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 | |
| 85 | 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 | |
| 86 | 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 | |
| 87 | 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 | |
| 88 | 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 | |
| 89 | 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 | |
| 90 | 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 | |
| 91 | 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 | |
| 92 | 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 | |
| 93 | 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 | |
| 94 | 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 | |
| 95 | 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 | |
| 96 | 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 | |
| 97 | 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 | |
| 98 | 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 | |
| 99 | 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 | |
| 100 | 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 |
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