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The World in a Box: Cabinets of Curiosity

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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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.
Professor Nandini Das, Early Modern English Literature and Culture
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. It begins, as good stories often do, with the opening of a box – a Cabinet of Curiosities.
Humanities Light Night – Oxford Research Unwrapped!
As part of the national Being Human Festival, and Oxford’s Christmas Light Festival, Humanities Light Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! was a spectacular explosion of colour, sound and activity for all, including a huge video projection onto the 3-storey Radcliffe humanities building, premiering SOURCE: CODE which featured the work of Oxford Humanities Professors Jacob Dahl, Richard Parkinson and Armand D'Angour, and co-created by Oxford Humanities researchers and The Projection Studio, world-class projection and sound-artists. A series of talks took place during the evening, relating to the theme ‘Discovery’.
This event was part of the Humanities Cultural Programme.

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Nandini Das
Keywords
curiosities
secrets
collect
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 10/12/2019
Duration: 00:15:25

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