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History of the Book 2017-2019

Bumble-Bee Witches and the Reading of Dreams: Spectacular and Speculative Marginalia in a Renaissance Reader’s Montaigne

Earle Havens (Johns Hopkins), gives the first talk in the new term for the Centre for the Study of the Book on Friday 18th January 2019.
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Masterclass: the Frankenstein notebooks at the Bodleian Libraries

An examination of the notebooks in which Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein. These two notebooks, one purchased probably in Geneva, the second in England, are now kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Poetry with Simon Armitage

'Undisfigured by False or Vicious Ornaments' - Clarity and Obscurity in the Age of Formlessness

The Hilary Term Professor of Poetry lecture, delivered by Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage.
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Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth

A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Ibsen, Scandinavia, and the Making of a World Drama: A Book At Lunchtime

Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth century.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The Heterarchical Director - A Model of Authorship for the Twenty-First Century

The keynote talk for 'Collaboration in Theatre symposium' at the University of Oxford, 19 October 2018.
Valentine's Day at Oxford

Tales of Love and History - James Ivory in Conversation

Oscar-winning American film-maker James Ivory will talk about his experiences with the legendary Merchant Ivory productions, in partnership with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Making Oscar Wilde

A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Michele Mendelssohn, literary critic and cultural historian. Dr Sos Eltis (Brasenose, Oxford), Dr Charles Foster (Green Templeton, Oxford), Chaired by Professor Dame Hermione Lee (Wolfson, Oxford).
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Forward with Classics

A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Steven Hunt, Dr Mai Musie, Dr Peter Jones (Co-founder, Classics for All), Dr Alex Pryce (Head of Student Recruitment, Oxford), Chaired by Professor Fiona Macintosh (St Hilda's Oxford).
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Remembering the Jagiellonians

A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Natalia Nowakowska, Somerville College, University of Oxford, Professor Julia Mannherz (Oriel, Oxford) Professor Hannah Skoda (St John’s, Oxford) Chaired by Professor Katherine Lebow (Christ Church, Oxford).
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Reading Beyond the Code

A Book at Lunchtime Seminar with Terrence Cave, Deirdre Wilson, Ben Morgan (Worcester College, Oxford), Professor Robyn Carston (Linguistics, UCL). Chaired by Professor Philip Bullock (TORCH Director).
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Old Norse

Eleanor Parker, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature, Brasenose College, Oxford, gives the fifth and final talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old norse.
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Old English

Mark Atherton, Senior Lecturer in English, Regent's Park College, Oxford, gives the fourth talk in the Tolkien: The Maker of Middle Earth lecture series. This lecture focuses on Tolkien and old english.
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Gothic

Elizabeth Solopova, Lecturer in English Literature, Christ Church, Oxford. Tolkien wrote that he was 'fascinated' with the 'beautiful' Gothic language that he started to study at school, and his literary works attest to this interest.
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Medieval Welsh

Tolkien once termed Welsh 'the elder language of the men of Britain'; this talk explores how the sounds and grammar of Welsh captured Tolkien's imagination and are reflected in Sindarin, one of the two major Elvish languages which he created.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Why Read Frankenstein in 2018?

Two hundred years after it was first published, Nick Groom explains the abiding appeal and extraordinary contemporary relevance of Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Tolkien's turning point: Tolkien and the history of tongues

Tom Shippey's lecture will move from the detail to the (eventual) design of Tolkien's languages, and even the philosophical issues embedded in Tolkien's fiction.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Literacy and Democracy: Transitional Justice in South Africa

The paper explores the work of several intellectuals reflecting on South Africa’s transition to democracy, considering how the question of literacy precedes any discussion about literature and democracy.
Teaching the Codex

Teaching the Codex 13: 2017 Summary

Teresa Webber (Cambridge) gives closing remarks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex Colloquium.
Teaching the Codex

Teaching the Codex 12: Continental and Anglophone Approaches 2

Marigold Norbye speaks at the 2017 Teaching the Codex colloquium about learning palaeography at the École des chartes.

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