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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The University of Oxford is home to an impressive range and depth of research activities in the Humanities. TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities is a major new initiative that seeks to... Read more

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Compassion's Edge

Compassion's Edge

Book at Lunchtime: Compassion's Edge, Winner of the 2018 Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize. Compassion's Edge e... Read more

18 Jun 2019

48mins

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Closing the Door: Complaint as Diversity Work

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 univers... Read more

29 May 2019

1hr 1min

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Callaloo Creative Writing Reading by Maaza Mengiste

Callaloo Creative Writing Reading by Maaza Mengiste

Maaza reads from her novel dealing with the Italian invasion of Ethiopia during the early days of the Second World War

24 Jul 2015

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Derek Attridge 'The Experience of Poetry' Book Launch Panel Discussion

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 pa... Read more

29 May 2019

48mins

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Delius and the Sound of Place

Delius and the Sound of Place

Book at Lunchtime: Delius and the Sound of Place Few composers have responded as powerfully to place as Frederick Delius... Read more

28 Jun 2019

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Writing an Activist Life

Writing an Activist Life

A panel discussion with Karin Amatmoekrim, Margaretta Jolly, and JC Niala, exploring the politics and poetics of writing... Read more

4 Jun 2019

45mins

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Welcome to Teddie Cast, the podcast of the Oxford Critical Theory Network (TORCH)

Welcome to Teddie Cast, the podcast of the Oxford Critical Theory Network (TORCH)

In our very first episode, our host and network convenor Lillian Hingley (DPhil English, Oxford) reflects upon her thoug... Read more

19 May 2020

13mins

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Out of Silence 1: William Shakespeare

Out of Silence 1: William Shakespeare

From the Silence Hub Network. Professor Alexandra Harris discusses Shakespeare's sonnet 23, communication in lockdown, b... Read more

24 Apr 2020

14mins

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Out of Silence 2: Virginia Woolf

Out of Silence 2: Virginia Woolf

From the Silence Hub. Professors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin discuss Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, how the... Read more

23 Apr 2020

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Out of Silence 3: DH Lawrence

Out of Silence 3: DH Lawrence

From the Silence Hub Network. Professors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin read D. H. Lawrence's poem 'Silence' and d... Read more

23 Apr 2020

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Out of Silence 4: William Cowper

Out of Silence 4: William Cowper

From the Network. Silence HubProfessors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin read lines from The Task by the eighteenth-... Read more

23 Apr 2020

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

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. Most of the dire... Read more

18 Dec 2018

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Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature - Part 2

Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature - Part 2

A One-Day International Conference held at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, on June 25, 2018. This conferen... Read more

26 Jul 2018

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Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature - Part 1

Global Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in Postcolonial Literature - Part 1

A One-Day International Conference held at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, on June 25, 2018. This conferen... Read more

18 Jul 2018

1hr 16mins

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What made a Jewish country home Jewish?

What made a Jewish country home Jewish?

Leora Auslander (University of Chicago) gives the keynote talk for the JCH conference.

23 May 2018

48mins

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Philip Sassoon: perfectionism and the English country house

Philip Sassoon: perfectionism and the English country house

Jane Stevenson (University of Oxford) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fifth panel; Building New.

23 May 2018

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Charles-de-Gaulle – The castle of Ferrières, an emblematic house

Charles-de-Gaulle – The castle of Ferrières, an emblematic house

Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy (Université gives a talk for the JCH conference's fifth session; Building New.

23 May 2018

13mins

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Renaissance as locus: Bakst and the imaginary chateau in the Sleeping Beauty panels

Renaissance as locus: Bakst and the imaginary chateau in the Sleeping Beauty panels

Olga Medvedkova (CNRS) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth session; The Anglo-French Connection.

23 May 2018

14mins

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The Sterns, the Singers and Cross-Cultural Exchanges

The Sterns, the Singers and Cross-Cultural Exchanges

Tom Stammers (University of Durham) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth session; The Anglo-French Connection.

23 May 2018

18mins

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In Walpole’s footsteps - Braham and Stern at Strawberry Hill

In Walpole’s footsteps - Braham and Stern at Strawberry Hill

Silvia Davoli (Strawberry Hill House) and Nino Strachey (National Trust) gives a talk for the JCH conference's fourth se... Read more

23 May 2018

39mins

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