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Talking Sense

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.
Talking Sense

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.
Talking Sense

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.
Talking Sense

Episode 4: 'The Senses and Disease: A Renaissance Perfume Burner and a Victorian Poisonous Bookcase' – PART 2

In this episode, Amélie Bonney (DPhil Student, History of Science) examines a toxic Victorian bookcase to discover the sensory world of disease. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast.
Talking Sense

Episode 3: 'The Senses and Disease: A Renaissance Perfume Burner and a Victorian Poisonous Bookcase – PART 1

In this episode, Christy Callaway-Gale (DPhil Student, Medieval and Modern Languages) examines a Renaissance Italian perfume burner to discover the sensory world of disease. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

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.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

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.
Reading, Writing, Romans

Felas Octavi

New research reveals that this sling bullet is much ruder than previously thought. Prof. Alison Cooley discusses this with Dr Jane Masséglia and Dr Hannah Cornwell in the Ashmolean's updated Reading and Writing Gallery.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

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.
Thinking with Things: The Oxford Collection

Lion Statue

On whether there were ever lions in Egypt. Today, there are no lions roaming wild in north Africa, but evidence from ancient Egypt suggests that lions once did.
Thinking with Things: The Oxford Collection

Henry VIII Renaissance Medal

On Henry VIII and the Founding of the Church of England Minted at London in 1545, this medal shows a bust of Henry VIII, with inscriptions in Hebrew and Greek on the reverse.
Thinking with Things: The Oxford Collection

Meissen porcelain chocolate cup and tea bowl

On arranged marriages among royalty.
Thinking with Things: The Oxford Collection

Silver-gilt carriage clock

This travelling calendar carriage clock dates to 1747–1823. Why would such a clock need to have both lunar and sun time represented on it? With Professor Chris Lintott Astrophysics, University of Oxford.
Thinking with Things: The Oxford Collection

Carved Stone Ball

We still do not know why these stone balls were created. They date to the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age, between 3200 and 1500 BC.
Thinking with Things: The Oxford Collection

Tombstone of a Muslim girl

On what were people’s feelings about death and the dead in North Africa a thousand years ago? What does this tombstone tell us? With Professor Julia Bray, Arabic, University of Oxford.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

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.
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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.
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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.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

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.
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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.

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