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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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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

Ranked #2

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Storming Utopia

Storming Utopia

This event is an Oxford Public Engagement with Research and part of a Knowledge Exchange project. Organised by Professor... Read more

14 Aug 2019

50mins

Ranked #3

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The Social Life of Modernism: Conversation, Literary Community, and Espionage in 1930s Calcutta

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... Read more

9 Apr 2019

1hr

Ranked #4

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Why We Need the Humanities

Why We Need the Humanities

How has humanities scholarship influenced biomedical research and civil liberties and how can scholars serve the common ... Read more

27 Jul 2016

39mins

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Supriya Chaudhuri, Significant Lives: biography, autobiography, gender, and women's history in South Asia

Supriya Chaudhuri, Significant Lives: biography, autobiography, gender, and women's history in South Asia

Chaired by Elleke Boehmer.

18 Nov 2019

54mins

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How to write a southern life: Ethics and writing practices

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. Chair... Read more

18 Nov 2019

51mins

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Knowledge Exchange Showcase - Jewish Country Houses

Knowledge Exchange Showcase - Jewish Country Houses

Abigail Green (Faculty of History), Nino Strachey (National Trust), and Silvia Davoli, (Strawberry Hill House) give a pr... Read more

15 Jul 2019

18mins

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Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture III: Stories for the future, and how to get there

Princeton University Press Lectures in European History and Culture III: Stories for the future, and how to get there

Martin Puchner, the Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, gives th... Read more

20 Dec 2019

1hr 15mins

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Book at Lunchtime: Chaucer: A European Life

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 b... Read more

15 Nov 2019

1hr 2mins

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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

48mins

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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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Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond

Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond

Book at Lunchtime seminar held on 16th October 2019. How can Archaeology help us understand our contemporary world? This... Read more

6 Oct 2019

46mins

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Knowledge Exchange Showcase - Understanding Visitor Engagement of Free Heritage Sites Using Social Media

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 medi... Read more

15 Jul 2019

13mins

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HiCor: a Cross-Disciplinary Network for History and Corpus Linguistics

HiCor: a Cross-Disciplinary Network for History and Corpus Linguistics

Gabor Mihaly Toth talks about a network of corpus linguists, computational linguists, and historians who are aiming to ... Read more

24 May 2013

4mins

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What is the Modern? Temporality, Aesthetics, and Global Melancholy

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, t... Read more

9 Apr 2019

1hr 15mins

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People's Landscapes: Future Landscapes

People's Landscapes: Future Landscapes

A roundtable discussion consider future landscapes in the context of food, farming and conservation. People's Landscapes... Read more

23 Jul 2019

1hr 8mins

Ranked #17

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Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century

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 Lun... Read more

6 Mar 2019

51mins

Ranked #18

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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

Ranked #19

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Cultural Citizenship in India: Politics, Power and Media

Cultural Citizenship in India: Politics, Power and Media

Cultural Citizenship in India argues that citizenship is an ongoing and evolving discursive project. Further, it studies... Read more

13 Jul 2018

42mins

Ranked #20

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People's Landscapes: Creative Landscapes

People's Landscapes: Creative Landscapes

A roundtable discussion exploring the ways in which writers, artists and musicians have both responded to and created co... Read more

16 May 2019

1hr 23mins

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