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Hunger Artistry: Kafka and the Art of Starvation

Kafka’s provocative story “The Hunger Artist” explores starvation, art, and the nature of human existence. Experts discuss the story and its reception.
Oxford Kafka24
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Tuberculosis: vaccines, diagnostics and experience 

Kafka died in 1924 of tuberculosis, which remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases. This talk looks at the various aspects of tuberculosis from candidate vaccines, the role of genetics in TB treatments and the perspective of a patient.
Science with Sanjula
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Halving premature death - Professor Sir Richard Peto

Professor Sir Richard Peto describes half a century of research seeking moderate reductions in big causes of death.
Professor of Poetry
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The Life and Death of Poetry

A distracted walkabout with T.S Eliot and others.
Talking Sense

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.
Talking Sense

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.
Uehiro Oxford Institute

Sleep softly: Ethics, Schubert and the value of dying well

An inter-disciplinary collaboration on music, mortality and ethics.
Philosophical perspectives on the causes of mental illness

2015 Welcome & Loebel Lecture in Neuroethics: Death and the self

This lecture investigates changing attitudes and beliefs about the persistence of the self.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Whither Death?

Helen Swift and Jessica Goodman discuss the one day conference 'Whither Death?'
Thinking with Things: The Oxford Collection

Mummified Child

On growing up and dying in ancient and modern populations.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

FRIGHT Friday - Stretched to Breaking Point

Dan Holloway 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

FRIGHT Friday - Fear and Flesh: Gothic Medicine

Dr Barry Murname 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

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.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

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.
International Migration Institute

Governing migration through death in Europe and the US: Identification, burial and the crisis of modern humanism

Vicki Squire examines similarities and differences in practices of ‘governing migration through death’ across the US–Mexico (Sonoran) and in the EU–North African (Mediterranean) contexts
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The Death Masks of Macbeth

Professor Simon Palfrey discusses the deaths and afterlives of Oliver Cromwell and Macbeth
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Memorialising Shakespeare: The First Folio and other elegies

Emma Smith (Professor of English Literature, Oxford), gives a talk on Shakespeare memorials.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Donne to Death

Peter McCullough, Professor of English, University of Oxford, gives a talk on John Donne.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Everyday death in Shakespeare's England

This podcast talks about accidental deaths and the hazards of everyday life in Shakespeare's day
Death at the Museum

Death at the Museum

Highlights of the Ashmolean Museum's Halloween DEADFriday event.

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