| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| Humanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! |
Highlights of the Humanities Night Light event. |
Tom Crawford |
19 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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, Bridget Orr |
10 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 December, 2019 |
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| 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 November, 2019 |
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| 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 November, 2019 |
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| 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, Elleke Boehmer |
20 November, 2019 |
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| Supriya Chaudhuri, Significant Lives: biography, autobiography, gender, and women's history in South Asia |
Chaired by Elleke Boehmer. |
Supriya Chaudhuri |
18 November, 2019 |
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| 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 November, 2019 |
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| 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 November, 2019 |
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| 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, Elleke Boehmer |
15 November, 2019 |
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| 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 October, 2019 |
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| 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, Mary Bosworth, Lisa Kennedy, John McTernan |
6 October, 2019 |
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| 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, Euton Daley MBE, Sara-Louise Cooper, James Attlee |
14 August, 2019 |
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| 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, Dave Lomax, Caitlin Desilvey, David Howard |
23 July, 2019 |
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| 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, E.J. Milner-Gulland, Phil Jarvis, Prue Addison |
23 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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 July, 2019 |
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| 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. |
Amélie Bonney, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence |
12 July, 2019 |
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| 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. |
Christy Callaway-Gale, Jonny Lawrence |
12 July, 2019 |
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| Delius and the Sound of Place |
Book at Lunchtime: Delius and the Sound of Place |
Daniel Grimley, Philip Bullock, Peter Franklin, Alexandra Harris, Charlotte de Mille |
28 June, 2019 |
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| The Gut-Brain Connection |
Why is digestive health so central to our understanding of who we are? How has this changed since the nineteenth century? How did Victorians perceive the gut-brain connection? What does science tell us now? |
Emilie Taylor-Brown, Katerina Johnson |
24 June, 2019 |
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| A Networked Age |
What does it means to live in a networked age? Was the electric telegraph a forerunner of the internet? Have the benefits of new means of communication been universal? Is the long-awaited ‘global village’ still on the horizon? |
Grant Blank, Jean-Michel Johnston |
24 June, 2019 |
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| Surgical Consent |
How has the relationship between doctor and patient changed since the nineteenth century? Did Victorian surgeons take their patients’ wishes seriously? How have the regulations surrounding surgical consent changed? |
Ashok Handa, Sally Frampton |
24 June, 2019 |
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| Compassion's Edge |
Book at Lunchtime: Compassion's Edge, Winner of the 2018 Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize. |
Katherine Ibbett, Lorna Hutson, Teresa Bejan, Emma Claussen, Philip Bullock |
18 June, 2019 |
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| Veteran Poetics |
Book at Lunchtime: Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 |
Suzan Kalayci, Kate McLoughlin, Santanu Das, Elleke Boehmer |
12 June, 2019 |
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| Writing an Activist Life |
A panel discussion with Karin Amatmoekrim, Margaretta Jolly, and JC Niala, exploring the politics and poetics of writing an activist life. |
Karin Amatmoekrim, Margaretta Jolly, JC Niala |
4 June, 2019 |
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| Derek Attridge 'The Experience of Poetry' Book Launch Panel Discussion |
This event celebrates the publication of Professor Derek Attridge's work The Experience of Poetry with a book launch panel discussion. |
Derek Attridge, Helen Cooper, Cathy Shrank, Stephen Harrison, Mohamed Salah-Omri, Elleke Boehmer |
29 May, 2019 |
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| Closing the Door: Complaint as Diversity Work |
This lecture by Sara Ahmed draws on interviews conducted with staff and students who have made complaints within universities that relate to unfair, unjust or unequal working conditions and to abuses of power such as sexual and racial harassment. |
Sara Ahmed, Katherine Collins |
29 May, 2019 |
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| Art and Political Thought in Medieval England |
Book at Lunchtime: Art and Political Thought in Medieval England c.1150-1350 |
Laura Slater, Pippa Byrne, Jessica Berenbeim, Tim Farrant, Wes Williams |
20 May, 2019 |
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| People's Landscapes: Creative Landscapes |
A roundtable discussion exploring the ways in which writers, artists and musicians have both responded to and created conceptions of 'place' throughout history. Thursday 16th May 2019. |
Alice Purkiss, Helen Antrobus, Grace Davies, Kate Stoddart, Rosemary Shirley, Craig Oldham, Fiona Stafford |
16 May, 2019 |
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| Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness |
Could an AI be conscious? If so, how could we tell? What would a conscious AI mean for the possible risks that AI pose to humanity? In this episode we speak to Professor David Chalmers (NYU) about philosophy, consciousness and AI. |
David Chalmers, Alice Evatt, Henry Tann |
7 May, 2019 |
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| People's Landscapes: Contested Landscapes |
A roundtable discussion of the history of land access and ownership, exploring how this has both physically and politically shaped our land and our access to it. |
Alice Purkiss, Helen Antrobus, Briony McDonagh, Helen Wright, Stephen Mileson, Kate Ashbrook |
2 May, 2019 |
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| Episode 2: The Workshop Days |
Jonathan Lawrence and Christy Callaway-Gale, two participants in the TORCH-Ashmolean Talking Sense project, introduce the workshop days. |
Jonathan Lawrence, Christy Callaway-Gale, Jim Harris |
18 April, 2019 |
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| Episode 1: Introduction to Talking Sense |
Jonathan Lawrence and Christy Callaway-Gale, two participants in the TORCH-Ashmolean Talking Sense project, introduce the inter-disciplinary research project. |
Jonathan Lawrence, Christy Callaway-Gale, Hugo Shakeshaft, Helena Guzik, Carrie Ryan, Raphaela Rohrhofer |
18 April, 2019 |
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| The Social Life of Modernism: Conversation, Literary Community, and Espionage in 1930s Calcutta |
This talk from TORCH Global South Visiting Professor Supriya Chaudhuri will be illustrated with images from the Parichay archives and related documents and correspondence. |
Supriya Chaudhuri |
9 April, 2019 |
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| What is the Modern? Temporality, Aesthetics, and Global Melancholy |
This talk from TORCH Global South Visiting Professor Supriya Chaudhuri will interrogate the temporality of the modern, the aesthetics of the modern, and as a somewhat cryptic afterthought, the mood of the modern, here categorized as melancholy. |
Supriya Chaudhuri |
9 April, 2019 |
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| Medingen Manuscripts |
For the launch of the Polonsky Foundation funded digitisation project of Manuscripts from the German Speaking Lands, Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford) talks about manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbey of Medingen (Lower Saxony). |
Henrike Lähnemann |
27 March, 2019 |
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| Second part of the masterclass: The Medingen Manuscripts in the Bodleian |
Masterclass for the Leverhulme Doctoral Students with Henrike Lähnemann, filmed by Natascha Domeisen. |
Henrike Lähnemann |
27 March, 2019 |
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| Trailer: Medieval Manuscripts in the Bodleian |
A film of a class for 'Publication Beyond Print', the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre. Filmed at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, by Natascha Domeisen. |
Daniel Wakelin, Henrike Lähnemann |
27 March, 2019 |
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| Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation |
The themes raised by Matthew Reynolds' Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation will be discussed by Dr Jason Gaiger (Ruskin School), Dr Adriana Jacobs (Oriental Studies) and Dr Nick Halmi (English). |
Matthew Reynolds, Jason Gaiger, Adriana Jacobs, Nick Halmi, Ben Morgan |
8 March, 2019 |
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| Women and Power: Redressing the Balance – closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust |
The closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. |
Helen Antrobus |
7 March, 2019 |
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| Women Making History: The Leaders of Today – roundtable discussion chaired by Victoria Tandy, Co-Founder of the Women Leaders in Museums Network |
‘Women Making History: The Leaders of Today’ is a roundtable session exploring the presence of women in senior roles in heritage organisations, at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. |
Hilary Carty, Kate Clark, Sara Wajid, Virginia Tandy |
7 March, 2019 |
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| Women and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust – keynote by Hilary McGrady, Director-General, National Trust |
‘Women and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust’ is the keynote by McGrady, Director-General, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. |
Hilary McGrady |
7 March, 2019 |
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| Women and Power: Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves – keynote by Melissa Benn, Writer and Campaigner |
'Women and Power: Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves’ is the keynote by the writer and campaigner Melissa Benn at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. |
Melissa Benn, Senia Paseta |
6 March, 2019 |
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| Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century |
A discussion about the book Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century. Part of 'A Book at Lunchtime' series |
Oliver Taplin, Wes Williams, Olga Taxidou, Sarah Whatley, Claire Kenward, Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell |
6 March, 2019 |
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| Women and Power: Redressing the Balance – keynote by Annie Reilly, Head of Public Programmes, National Trust |
'Women and Power: Redressing the Balance' is the opening keynote by Anne Reilly, Head of Public Programmes, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019. |
Annie Reilly, Alice Purkiss |
6 March, 2019 |
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| How not to Ruin Everything: Futures Thinking Launch |
Launch event for Futures Thinking, a new research group looking into future problems and opportunities created by advances in technology and artificial intelligence. |
Chelsea Haith, Robert Iliffe, Gretta Corporaal, Alexandra Paddock, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Alice Billington |
5 March, 2019 |
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| Climate Change and Literature: Reading Change |
Can literature help us understand and deal with climate change? In this episode, we talk to Dr. Jemma Deer, an Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, about how literature can help us rethink climate change. |
Jemma Deer, Alice Evatt, Henry Tann |
5 March, 2019 |
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| Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience |
Sandra Mayer, author of Oscar Wilde in Vienna, argues it was his willingness to both please and tease his audience. His plays skilfully manoeuvre between conformism and subversion, conventionality and innovation. |
Sandra Mayer, Dominic Janes, Stefano Evangelista, Mary Luckhurst |
20 February, 2019 |
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| Samraghni Bonnerjee presents, Envoy extraordinary: a study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her contribution to modern India. Vera Brittain (Allen and Unwin, 1965) |
Samraghni Bonnerjee gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Samraghni Bonnerjee |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Olivia Slater presents, Place in research: Theory, methodology, and methods. Eve Tuck and Marcia McKenzie (Routledge, 2014) |
Olivia Slater gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Olivia Slater |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Ushashi Dasgupta presents, Rajmohan’s Wife Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1864). |
Ushashi Dasgupta gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Ushashi Dasgupta |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Arun Sood presents, Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. Mungo, Park and James Rennell (W. Bulmer and Company, 1799). |
Arun Sood gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Arun Sood |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Discussion: How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? |
Blue Weiss, Mia Liyanage, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Supriya Chaudhuri, and Afua Hirsch, discuss what a decolonial curriculum would look like, part of the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Blue Weiss, Mia Liyanage, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Supriya Chaudhuri, Afua Hirsch |
19 February, 2019 |
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| How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? |
Blue Weiss and Mia Liyanage, Common Ground Oxford, give a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2019. |
Blue Weiss, Mia Liyanage |
19 February, 2019 |
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| How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? |
Nana Oforiatta Ayim TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Nana Oforiatta Ayim |
19 February, 2019 |
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| How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges? |
Supriya Chaudhuri, TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Supriya Chaudhuri |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Joe Shaughnessy presents, Mine Boy Peter Abrahams (East African Publishers, 1946) |
Joe Shaughnessy gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Joe Shaughnessy |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Elsa Gomis presents, The Logic of Analogy: Slavery and the Contemporary Refugee. Yogita Goyal (Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 8(3), 543-546. 2017) |
Elsa Gomis gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Elsa Gomis |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Rachel Fox presents, Refugee tales David, Herd and Anna Pincus (Comma Press, 2016) |
Rachel Fox gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Rachel Fox |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Ethel Maqeda presents, The Book of Memory: A Novel by Petina Gappah (Macmillan, 2016) |
Ethel Maqeda gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Ethel Maqeda |
19 February, 2019 |
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| What is a decolonial curriculum soapbox? |
Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Elleke Boehmer |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Singing in the Age of Anxiety |
Laura will be joined an expert panel to discuss the book and its themes; Dr Benjamin Walton (Jesus, Cambridge), Professor Kate McLoughlin (Harris Manchester, Oxford). Chaired by Professor Philip R. Bullock (Wadham, Oxford). |
Laura Tunbridge, Kate McLoughlin, Philip Bullock, Benjamin Walton |
19 February, 2019 |
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| Discussion: What is a decolonial curriculum? |
Kwame Dawes, Jok Madut Jok, Peter D Mcdonald and Anu Anand discuss What is a decolonial curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Kwame Dawes, Jok Madut Jok, Peter D McDonald, Anu Anand |
15 February, 2019 |
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| Peter D Mcdonald - What is a decolonial curriculum? |
Peter D Mcdonald, Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Peter D McDonald |
15 February, 2019 |
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| Jok Madut Jok - What is a decolonial curriculum? |
Jok Madut Jok, TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Jok Madut Jok |
15 February, 2019 |
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| Kwame Dawes - What is a decolonial curriculum? |
Kwame Dawes, TORCH Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. |
Kwame Dawes |
15 February, 2019 |
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| North Korea and The Bomb: A National Mission |
Why did North Korea nuclearize? Are we on the cusp of nuclear war with North Korea? Join us in the first episode of Alliance as we talk to Historian Cheehyung Harrison Kim about North Korea, nuclear weapons and existential risk. |
Cheehyung Harrison Kim, Alice Evatt, Henry Tann |
15 February, 2019 |
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| Postcolonial Poetics: A Book at Lunchtime |
A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Elleke Boehmer, author of Postcolonial Poetics, joined by Dr Malachi McIntosh, Professor Ben Morgan, Professor Richard Drayton and Professor Robert Young (chair). |
Elleke Boehmer, Malachi McIntosh, Ben Morgan, Richard Drayton, Robert Young |
14 February, 2019 |
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| Anil Ramdas: Hope and Despair in Dutch Postcolonial Literature |
An insight into prize-winning Dutch Surinamese columnist, correspondent, essayist, journalist, and TV and radio host, Anil Ramdas. |
Karin Amatmoekrim |
4 February, 2019 |
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