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Closing the Door: Complaint as Diversity Work

29 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture by Sara Ahmed draws on interviews conducted with staff and students who have made complaints within universities that relate to unfair, u...

Art and Political Thought in Medieval England

20 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Book at Lunchtime: Art and Political Thought in Medieval England c.1150-1350 Images and imagery played a major role in medieval political thought and ...

People's Landscapes: Creative Landscapes

16 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A roundtable discussion exploring the ways in which writers, artists and musicians have both responded to and created conceptions of 'place' throughou...

People's Landscapes: Contested Landscapes

02 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A roundtable discussion of the history of land access and ownership, exploring how this has both physically and politically shaped our land and our ac...

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

09 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This talk from TORCH Global South Visiting Professor Supriya Chaudhuri will be illustrated with images from the Parichay archives and related document...

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

09 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This talk from TORCH Global South Visiting Professor Supriya Chaudhuri will interrogate the temporality of the modern, the aesthetics of the modern, a...

Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation

08 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The themes raised by Matthew Reynolds' Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation will be discussed by Dr Jason Gaiger (Ruskin School), Dr ...

Women and Power: Redressing the Balance – closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust

07 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust at the Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th...

Women Making History: The Leaders of Today – roundtable discussion chaired by Victoria Tandy, Co-Founder of the Women Leaders in Museums Network

07 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

‘Women Making History: The Leaders of Today’ is a roundtable session exploring the presence of women in senior roles in heritage organisations, at...

Women and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust – keynote by Hilary McGrady, Director-General, National Trust

07 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

‘Women and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust’ is the keynote by McGrady, Director-General, National Trust at the Women and Power conf...

Women and Power: Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves – keynote by Melissa Benn, Writer and Campaigner

06 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

'Women and Power: Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves’ is the keynote by the writer and campaigner Melissa Benn at the Women and Power conference...

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

06 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A discussion about the book Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century. Part of 'A Book at Lunchtime' series This volume rep...

Women and Power: Redressing the Balance – keynote by Annie Reilly, Head of Public Programmes, National Trust

06 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

'Women and Power: Redressing the Balance' is the opening keynote by Anne Reilly, Head of Public Programmes, National Trust at the Women and Power conf...

How not to Ruin Everything: Futures Thinking Launch

05 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Launch event for Futures Thinking, a new research group looking into future problems and opportunities created by advances in technology and artificia...

Oscar Wilde in Vienna: Pleasing and Teasing the Audience

20 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sandra Mayer, author of Oscar Wilde in Vienna, argues it was his willingness to both please and tease his audience. His plays skilfully manoeuvre betw...

Samraghni Bonnerjee presents, Envoy extraordinary: a study of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit and her contribution to modern India. Vera Brittain (Allen and Unwin, 1965)

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Samraghni Bonnerjee gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. Decolonising the curriculum m...

Olivia Slater presents, Place in research: Theory, methodology, and methods. Eve Tuck and Marcia McKenzie (Routledge, 2014)

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Olivia Slater gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. Decolonising the curriculum must me...

Ushashi Dasgupta presents, Rajmohan’s Wife Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1864).

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ushashi Dasgupta gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. Decolonising the curriculum must...

Arun Sood presents, Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. Mungo, Park and James Rennell (W. Bulmer and Company, 1799).

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Arun Sood gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. Decolonising the curriculum must mean m...

Discussion: How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges?

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Blue Weiss, Mia Liyanage, Nana Oforiatta Ayim, Supriya Chaudhuri, and Afua Hirsch, discuss what a decolonial curriculum would look like, part of the w...

How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges?

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Blue Weiss and Mia Liyanage, Common Ground Oxford, give a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2019....

How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges?

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Nana Oforiatta Ayim TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Fellow, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum?...

How does a curriculum introduce and structure alternate worldviews and knowledges?

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Supriya Chaudhuri, TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculu...

Joe Shaughnessy presents, Mine Boy Peter Abrahams (East African Publishers, 1946)

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Shaughnessy gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. Decolonising the curriculum must ...

Elsa Gomis presents, The Logic of Analogy: Slavery and the Contemporary Refugee. Yogita Goyal (Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 8(3), 543-546. 2017)

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Elsa Gomis gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. Decolonising the curriculum must mean ...

Rachel Fox presents, Refugee tales David, Herd and Anna Pincus (Comma Press, 2016)

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Rachel Fox gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. Decolonising the curriculum must mean ...

Ethel Maqeda presents, The Book of Memory: A Novel by Petina Gappah (Macmillan, 2016)

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ethel Maqeda gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. Decolonising the curriculum must mea...

What is a decolonial curriculum soapbox?

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held a...

Singing in the Age of Anxiety

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Laura will be joined an expert panel to discuss the book and its themes; Dr Benjamin Walton (Jesus, Cambridge), Professor Kate McLoughlin (Harris Manc...

Discussion: What is a decolonial curriculum?

15 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kwame Dawes, Jok Madut Jok, Peter D Mcdonald and Anu Anand discuss What is a decolonial curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th November 2018. Decolonising ...

Peter D Mcdonald - What is a decolonial curriculum?

15 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Peter D Mcdonald, Professor of English and Related Literature, University of Oxford gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? He...

Jok Madut Jok - What is a decolonial curriculum?

15 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jok Madut Jok, TORCH / Mellon Global South Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? H...

Kwame Dawes - What is a decolonial curriculum?

15 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Kwame Dawes, TORCH Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the workshop, What is a Decolonial Curriculum? Held at TORCH on 28th Nov...

Postcolonial Poetics: A Book at Lunchtime

14 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Elleke Boehmer, author of Postcolonial Poetics, joined by Dr Malachi McIntosh, Professor Ben Morgan, Professor Richar...

Anil Ramdas: Hope and Despair in Dutch Postcolonial Literature

04 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

An insight into prize-winning Dutch Surinamese columnist, correspondent, essayist, journalist, and TV and radio host, Anil Ramdas.

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

21 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Henrik Ibsen's drama is the most prominent and lasting contribution of the cultural surge seen in Scandinavian literature in the later nineteenth cent...

Smart People Work Everywhere - using your research skills outside academia

18 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A panel discuss using your research degree outside academia. Research degrees - what are they good for? Can you use the skills you have acquired durin...

Making Oscar Wilde

14 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Michele Mendelssohn, literary critic and cultural historian. Dr Sos Eltis (Brasenose, Oxford), Dr Charles Foster (Gre...

Forward with Classics

14 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Remembering the Jagiellonians

14 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Natalia Nowakowska, Somerville College, University of Oxford, Professor Julia Mannherz (Oriel, Oxford) Professor Han...

Reading Beyond the Code

14 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A Book at Lunchtime Seminar with Terrence Cave, Deirdre Wilson, Ben Morgan (Worcester College, Oxford), Professor Robyn Carston (Linguistics, UCL). Ch...

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

26 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A One-Day International Conference held at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, on June 25, 2018. This conference showcased interdisciplinary...

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

18 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A One-Day International Conference held at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford, on June 25, 2018. This conference showcased interdisciplinary...

Cultural Citizenship in India: Politics, Power and Media

13 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Cultural Citizenship in India argues that citizenship is an ongoing and evolving discursive project. Further, it studies the role of culture and diffe...

Reni Eddo-Lodge in conversation with Rebecca Surender

28 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Reni Eddo-Lodge (author of Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race and winner of the Jhalak Prize 2018), in conversation with Dr Rebecca...

Lost in Print? Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Reggae Music Archive

13 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Louisa Layne investigates the reggae music archive, exploring music and poetry through Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub club.

Lost and Found: Till Damaskus III

13 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Travel back with Leah Broad to 1926 and hear recently found music by Swedish composter Ture Rangstrom, composed for a Strindberg play.

The Monk, the Memorist, the Mushroom and the MRI

13 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Discover how we create and store ideas, and how modern neuroscience process 16th century theories on memory.

The Monk, the Memorist, the Mushroom and the MRI

13 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Discover how we create and store ideas, and how modern neuroscience process 16th century theories on memory.

A Lost Victorian Utopia: Living to 100

13 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

An exploration of a Victorian blue-print for a city of health and happiness, where everyone could live to 100.

Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity

12 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Book at Lunchtime, Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity is a study of the union of matter and the soul in the human bei...

Artist Talk: Made in Imagination

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Find out how Anne Griffiths’ work, Lost in Imagination, reimagines intriguing objects lost within the Pitt Rivers archive.

Artist Talk: Made in Imagination

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Find out how Anne Griffiths’ work, Lost in Imagination, reimagines intriguing objects lost within the Pitt Rivers archive.

Identity beyond Borders: Ethnicity in the American Pacific

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Evan Matsuyama gives a short talk on Japanese mortality, identity, and ethnicity in the Nikkei struggle against mass incarceration during World War II...

Identity beyond Borders: Ethnicity in the American Pacific

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Evan Matsuyama gives a short talk on Japanese mortality, identity, and ethnicity in the Nikkei struggle against mass incarceration during World War II...

Lost and Found: The story of a Museum store

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Hughes gives a short talk on the discovery unusual things lost and found during a move of 100,000 Pitt Rivers Museum objects.

Lost and Found: The story of a Museum store

06 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Hughes gives a short talk on the discovery unusual things lost and found during a move of 100,000 Pitt Rivers Museum objects.

Art and Emergency

22 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Book at Lunchtime, Art and Emergency During states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In these precario...

In search of the Phoenicians

10 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Book at Lunchtime, In search of the Phoenicians The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing se...

Photography and Tibet

05 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Author, Clare Harris, talks about her book on photography in Tibet - a place that has for centuries been a source of fascination for outsiders and a c...

A Celebration of the Centenary of the Birth of Olive Gibbs

26 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

100 years since the Representation of the People Act, the act which gave women the vote.

Ethnicised Religion and Sacralised Ethnicity in the Past and the Present

22 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

An expert panel discusses the phenomenon of ethnicisation of religious identifications focussing especially on the nexus of religious, ethnic and nati...

Valuing Women With Disabilities

21 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Valuing Women With Disabilities: Infantilised, Medicalised, Pauperised? Disability is too often framed as separate and foreign to what matters for wom...

James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film

16 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Book at Lunchtime, James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film James Joyce and the Phenomenology of Film reappraises the lines of influence said to exis...

A History of Algeria

25 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

James McDougall presents an expansive new account of the modern history of Africa's largest country Covering a period of five hundred years, from the ...

Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions

24 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Mary Beard and Neil MacGregor in conversation

Becoming / Unbecoming

18 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

With comics artist Una The TORCH Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form network are hosting a seminar on 'Becoming/Unbecoming' with comics ar...

Unlocking the Church

11 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Book at Lunchtime, Unlocking the Church In Unlocking the Church, William Whyte explores a forgotten revolution in social and architectural history and...

Late Victorian into Modern

08 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Book at Lunchtime, Late Victorian into Modern Late Victorian into Modern opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions, some familiar a...

Autonomy, Community, Destiny: Re-Imagining Disability

07 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The second seminar in the Disability and Curriculum Diversity series at TORCH The second seminar in the Disability and Curriculum Diversity series at...

Work, Time and Stress: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

07 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Stress & overwork in both education and professional life in the Victorian era and the 'dynamic' nature of disability and the impact of the stresses o...

Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society

06 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Me and My Beliefs: Challenges of Identity and Society held on 28 November 2017 Bishop Libby Lane is Britain’s first woman bishop in the Church of En...

Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions

27 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Book at Lunchtime held on 8th November 2017. Exploring Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, this major exhibition will be the first t...

Representing the Dead

26 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Book at Lunchtime event

Hidden Beneath the Surface: Untold Tales of Neurodivergence and Mental Difference in Oxford

18 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

World Mental Health Day 2017

Unflattening

05 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

With Nick Sousanis The TORCH Comics and Graphic Novels network hosted an event with Nick Sousanis, author of ‘Unflattening’ (2015), where he talke...

Disaster Drawn: Comics and Picturing Violence

05 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Keynote lecture by Hilary Chute as part of the Documenting Trauma conference. The TORCH Comics and Graphic Novels network hosted a symposium on ‘Doc...

Complexity in our multiple identities: the 2017 Disability Lecture

10 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

University of Oxford Annual Disability Lecture

Migration, Memory and Identity

07 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Part of the Humanities & Identities Lunchtime Seminar Series

Disability Narratives and Histories

04 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Launch event for the TORCH Disability and Curriculum Diversity series.

Music, Empathy and Cultural Understanding

04 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this TORCH Talk, Professor Eric Clarke talks about 'Music, Empathy and Cultural Understanding' at the Ashmolean Museum's Supersonic LiveFriday.

Orchestral Musicians' Experiences: Inside Out

04 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this TORCH Talk, Dr Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey presents on 'Orchestral Musicians' Experiences: Inside Out' at the Ashmolean Museum's Supersonic LiveF...

Images of Mithra

03 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Book at Lunchtime discussion

Repositioning Women's Health Care: A Case Study on Women Who Survived Ebola in Sierra Leone

27 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Part of the Humanities & Identities Lunchtime Series

Exploring Sicilian Epigraphy

23 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Sicilian schools study and research epigraphy in their museums.

Italian Stories in Britain

23 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A project about talking to Italian communities in Britain and finding out what stories there are.

Unsilencing the library: An exhibition at Compton Verney

23 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Research into how books make us feel.

Recreating the music of an ancient Greek chorus: Euripides Orestes

23 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Research into ancient music.

Storming Utopia

23 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The director from the Pegasus theatre in Oxford, talks about his upcoming theatre piece.

Literature and Silence

23 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Research into multiple Quaker congregations.

Transforming The Operatic Voice

23 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Looking at the relationships between philosophy and the creative practice of music.

Humanities Knowledge Exchange Showcase

19 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Knowledge Exchange is the mutually beneficial sharing of ideas, data, experience, and expertise, and involves collaboration between researchers and ex...

Performance of 'Night Dance (Fantasy)'

13 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Musicians Dan Hulme and Nick Fowler perform Night Dance (Fantasy) at a recent Live Friday event, held at the Ashmolean Museum on March 3rd 2017.

Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery

13 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Book at Lunchtime seminar on Britain's History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery, edited and written by Ryan Hanley (Fellow in History, University o...

Everything in Everything: Anaxagoras's Metaphysics

06 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Book at Lunchtime discussion

Volcanoes: Natural Disaster Narratives and the Environment in Caribbean Literature

05 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

A panel discussion Part of the 'Humanities & Identities' Lunchtime Seminar Series

InHabit: People, Places and Possessions

10 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Book at Lunchtime Seminar held on May 3rd 2017.

Germs Revisited

25 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On Thursday 16 March 2017, Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown gave a talk with Dr Jamie Lorimer (School of Geography and the Environment) and Dr Nicola Fawcett (M...

Whither Death?

28 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Helen Swift and Jessica Goodman discuss the one day conference 'Whither Death?' Helen Swift (Associate Professor of Medieval French) and Jessica Goodm...

Miles Hewstone - What Does Diversity Mean to Me?

28 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Opening event in TORCH Headline Series exploring 'Humanities & Identities' Miles Hewstone (Professor in Social Psychology) speaks at the TORCH Annual ...