| Panel Discussion 1: Historiography's Origin Stories |
Taous Dahmani chairs a discussion with Val Williams |
Taous Dahmani, Val Willams |
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| The New Populist nationalism in Saudi Arabia |
Madawi Al-Rasheed (KCL and LSE), author of Salman’s Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia (2018) and Ben Hubbard (The New York Times), author of MBS: The Rise to Power of MBS (2020) give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. |
Madawi al-Rasheed, Ben Hubbard |
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| Fast Forward: Women in Photography |
Anna Fox gives an overview of Fast Forward - a research project designed to promote and engage with women in photography across the globe. |
Anna Fox |
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| David Beeson |
David Beeson, Professor in Molecular Neurosciences, talks with Stanley Ulijaszek |
David Beeson, Stanley Ulijaszek |
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| Adriana X Jacobs |
Adriana X Jacobs, Associate Professor and Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature in conversation with Stanley Ulijaszek |
Adriana X Jacobs, Stanley Ulijaszek |
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| After the lockdown: macroeconomic adjustment to the Covid-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa |
In this talk, Professor Chris Adam, Professor of Development Economics looks beyond the public health aspects of the pandemic to examine the medium-term macroeconomic adjustment challenge confronting domestic policy-makers and international donors. |
Chris Adam, Cameron Hepburn |
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| Global macroeconomic cooperation in response to the Covid-19 pandemic |
Professor David Vines, Professor of Economics at INET Oxford, discusses the need for international cooperation to support emerging economies after the covid-19 crisis. |
David Vines, Cameron Hepburn |
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| Write or be Written Off: the work of Jo Spence (1934-1992) as photography 'theory' |
Patrizia Di Bello discusses the work of Jo Spence as a writer, organiser and photographer |
Patrizia Di Bello |
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| The Isabel Project: Uncomvering 19th Century Institutional Photographers, One Woman at a Time |
Erika Lederman talks about her practice and the work of the V & A museum's first in house photographer, Isabel Cowper. |
Erika Lederman |
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| Rajput loyalties in the Mughal age |
Cynthia Talbot (Texas at Austin) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series on Mughal India and the Rajput. |
Cynthia Talbot |
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| Episode 5 - Kitschies, indies, and ads: Juggling narrative forms |
Jared Shurin explores his wide-ranging interests from anthologising speculative shorts to the Kitschies Awards to ethical advertising for revisioning global narratives. |
Jaren Shurin, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
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| Of parasites, dinosaurs, and other model animals |
Elaine Charwat has been on a journey into the attic storerooms behind the scenes of the Museum to discover 19th-century wax models of parasites. |
Elaine Charwat, Mark Carnall, Péter Molnár |
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| Global histories of hierarachy? Reflections from India on Caste, race and the Black Lives Matter movement |
Nayanika Mathur (Oxford) and Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford) give a talk for the Modern South Asian Studies seminars on the Black Lives Matter movement. |
Nayanika Mathur, Rosalind O'Hanlon |
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| Nahshon Perez (Bar-Ilan) and Yuval Jobani (Tel Aviv): Governing the Sacred: Political Toleration in Five Contested Sacred Sites |
Nachshon Perez discusses Perez and Jobani's co-authored book on the politics of contested sacred sites |
Nachshon Perez |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe |
TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe written by Professor Judith Herrin. Date: 4 November 2020. |
Judith Herri, Peter Frankopan, Dame Averil Cameron, Conrad Leyser |
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| Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt |
Dalia Fahmy (Long Island University) editor of Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy (2017), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. |
Dalia Fahmy, Daanish Faruqi, Usaama al-Azami |
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| Overcoming Sleep Problems |
What sleep is for, how does it work and how can we deal with tricky sleep problems? This is the second talk in the Department of Experimental Psychology’s Our Mental Wellness series. |
Colin Espie, Felicity Waite, Dimitri Gavriloff, Catharine Creswell |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Iconoclasm as Child's Play |
Dr Joseph Moshenska, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at University College, discusses his new book, Iconoclasm as Child's Play. |
Joseph Moshenska, Lorna Hutson, Alexandra Walsham, Kenneth Gross, Matthew Bevis, Wes Williams |
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| Globalisation in the post-COVID world |
Professor Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, discusses the recent developments in international trade and the link between trade finance and resilience of trade flows ready for a post-COVID world |
Beata Javorcik, Cameron Hepburn |
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| Lie machines: misinformation in a Post-COVID world |
Phil Howard, author of Lie Machines and Nicola Aitken, Policy Manager at Full Fact, discuss the implications of fake news and misinformation. |
Phil Howard, Nicola Aitken |
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| Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement |
Part of the Middle East Centre Women's Rights Research Seminars. With Dr Mine Yildirim Chair: Dr Nazila Ghanea (Department for Continuing Education,University of Oxford). |
Mine Yildirim, Nazila Ghanea |
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| Humanity, Inclusive Positivism and the Law of Armed Conflict |
Humanitarian personnel from time to time find themselves transporting desperate civilian residents forced out of besieged areas into long-term or even permanent displacement |
Nobuo Hayashi |
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| Looking back; Moving Forwards: The History of Black Lives Matter |
Wolfson College marks Black History Month 2020 with an engaging discussion with Britain's foremost experts on the history of black lives and communities in Britain. |
Olivette Otele, Hakim Adi |
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| Somali Kinship and Bureaucratic Governance at Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Kenya |
For this seminar we hosted Fred Ikanda from Maseno University. Professor Ikanda's spoke about his research and fieldwork experiences with the Dagahaley Refugee Camp. |
Fred Ikanda |
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| John Ledingham |
Peggy Frith interviews John Ledingham, professor of Clinical Medicine and former Director of Clinical Studies, 23 April 2012. |
Peggy Frith, John Ledingham, Rosie Fitzherbert Jones |
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| Buddhism and the Rise of ‘the Tibetans’ (bod pa): Religion, Myth and the Promotion of Ethnicity in the Pre-modern Period |
Apropos 'the Tibetans': Reinier Langelaar's talk focuses on the mythical origins and the promotion of ethnicity in historical Tibet |
Reinier Langelaar |
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| Domestic audience costs and foreign policy making in India: recent shifts in the BJP's strategy |
Unlike ever before in India’s history, domestic political calculations and audience costs dictate the shaping of the country’s foreign and security policy. |
Happymon Jacob |
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| Recipes for transforming food production and beyond |
Paul Clarke, Ocado's Chief Technology Officer, will focus on the disruptive ingredients and recipes at the heart of Ocado's ongoing journey of self-disruption and reinvention. |
Paul Clarke |
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| What is life? |
For this year's James Martin Memorial Lecture, Sir Paul Nurse will consider some of the fundamental ideas of biology with the aim of identifying principles that define living organisms. |
Paul Nurse |
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| Pandemic as event: thinking modern Indian society through a crisis |
Conjunctures and crises reveal the fault lines of a society. Covid 19 and the resultant lockdown in India have brought back memories of the devastation wrought by the flu epidemic of 1918 and the political crackdown by the colonial government. |
Dilip Menon |
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| Privacy Is Power |
Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Carissa Véliz, Sir Michael Tugendhat, Stephanie Hare, John Tasioulas |
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| Algorithms Eliminate Noise (and That Is Very Good) |
Part of the Colloquium on AI Ethics series presented by the Institute of Ethics in AI. This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
John Tasioulas, Ruth Chang, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Cass Sunstein |
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| Ethics in AI Education |
This event is also part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Peter Millican, Milo Phillips-Brown, Max Van Kleek, Helena Webb |
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| Episode 4: Short stories are short: Edit for meaning |
Mahvesh Murad discusses the work of curating and editing anthologies of speculative short fiction, ethically, refusing the word 'diversity' for doing too little, too late. |
Mahvesh Murad, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
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| Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran |
Maryam Alemzadeh (Princeton) Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (St Andrews), author of The Quest for Authority in Iran: a history of the presidency from revolution to Rouhani (2017), give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. |
Maryam Alemzadeh, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi |
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| Humanities Cultural Programme Live Event: Katie Mitchell in conversation with Ben Whishaw |
Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. 'Liveness'. |
Ben Whishaw, Katie Mitchell, Wes Williams |
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| Live Event: Tragedy and Plague - In Conversation with Professor Oliver Taplin and Fiona Shaw CBE |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Drama Week |
Oliver Taplin, Fiona Shaw |
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| Exploring the fundamentals of leadership with Professor Carl Heneghan - Part One |
Professor Kamal Mahtani interviews Professor Carl Heneghan, exploring his leadership; how it all started, the challenges he has faced, emotional intelligence, the importance of clear communication and being a tortoise rather than a hare as a leader. |
Carl Heneghan, Kamal Mahtani |
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| Book at Lunchtime: Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War |
Join us for an online TORCH Book at Lunchtime webinar on Commemorative Modernisms: Women Writers, Death and the First World War written by Dr Alice Kelly. |
Alice Kelly, Michael Whitworth, Laura Rattray, Jay Winter |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Semina: Danielle Drori (Oxford): Yosef Klausner in Translation: Zionism and Christianity |
The second seminar in the Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalism Sereis. Danielle Drori discusses Zionism and translation, with a focus on Klausner's Life of Jesus |
Danielle Drori |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Henry Segerman - Artistic Mathematics: truth and beauty |
Mathematicians get up to all sorts. Geometers and Topologists in particular occupy a world of inconceivable shapes, concepts and dimensions. But how do you visualise such ideas? Sure, there's computer graphics, but what about over here, in the real world? |
Henry Segerman |
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| Mathematics Public Lecture: How Learning Ten Equations Can Improve Your Life - David Sumpter |
Mathematics has a lot going for it, but David Sumpter argues that it can not only provide you with endless YouTube recommendations, and even make you rich, but it can make you a better person. |
David Sumpter |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures: How to Make the World Add Up - Tim Harford |
You have to sympathise with statistics. Misunderstood and misused when all they want to do is accumulate. What they need is a little human understanding. Tim Harford's Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture does just that. |
Tim Harford |
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| Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Can maths tell us how to win at Fantasy Football? - Joshua Bull |
Oxford Mathematician Josh Bull won the 2019-2020 Premier League Fantasy Football competition from nearly 8 million entrants. So how did he do it? Did he by any chance use mathematics? |
Joshua Bull |
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| OxPeace 2020: Take-aways from the ‘Women, Peace and Security’ Conference |
Frances Guy and Liz Carmichael sum up the 2020 Oxpeace Conference. |
Frances Guy, Liz Carmichael |
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| OxPeace 2020: Combating Sexual and Gender-based Violence |
Dr Henri Myrttinen, Gender Associations, gives a talk for the 2020 Oxpeace Conference |
Henri Myrttinen |
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| Orientalism and the Language of the Middle East |
Lillie Sullivan, Piotr Schulkes, and Hajar Meddah discuss what the Middle East as a region is and how it is portrayed in academia and the media. |
Piotr Schulkes, Hajar Meddah, Lillie Sullivan |
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| How do species postpone or even escape from senescence? |
Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez, Associate Professor in Ecology, Department of Zoology, gives a talk on lessons for a longer, better human life for the EBHC podcast series. |
Rob Salguero-Gomez |
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| Human Remains in Tibetan Material Religion: An object centered approach |
Ayesha Fuentes shares a unique and interdisciplinary insight into art conservation of human remains in Tibetan material religion |
Ayesha Fuentes |
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| Sacred Trash, Trash Talks, And Personhood |
Bo Wang discussing the practice of depositing garments as offerings to sacred mountains in Eastern Tibet |
Bo Wang |
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| Hadeel Abu Hussein (Oxford): Palestinian Arab Citizens in Israel, Equality Struggle |
Hadeel Abu Hussein discusses the historical stages of the Palestinian Arab citizens in Israel with respect to their political formation and social experience as individuals and a collective starting from 1948, until nowadays. |
Hadeel Abu Hussein |
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| The Helen Muspratt Archive |
Jessica Sutcliffe, the daughter of photographer, Helen Muspratt, give a short talk on her mother's life and career. |
Jessica Sutcliffe |
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| Black History Month: Exploring the Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois |
Jason Forrest, Director of Interactive Data Visualization, COVID Response Centre, McKinsey and Co, New York, gives the Department of Statistics Black History Month lecture, with a talk on the work of African-American scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois. |
Jason Forrest |
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| Episode 3 - People like me: Speculation in Pakistan |
Sami Shah ranges over his radio, comedy and burgeoning literary career, and describes how he has to write himself into the speculative fiction space. |
Sami Shah, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
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| The Dictatorship Syndrome |
Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Dictatorship Syndrome (2019), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford) |
Alaa Al Aswany, Eugene Rogan |
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| Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation |
For this seminar today we hosted Kwasi Konadu (Colgate University). Professor Konadu, Colgate University, spoke about his book, Our Own Way in This Part of the World: Biography of an African Community, Culture, and Nation. |
Kwasi Konadu |
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| Transnational Francoism |
Bàrbara Molas discusses Transnational Francoism: The British and The Canadian Friends of National Spain as part of the TORCH Network Conversations in Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood. Bàrbara Molas is a PHD Candidate in History at York University |
Bàrbara Molas |
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| Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Yair Wallach, (SOAS): Language of Revival or Conquest? Hebrew in the Streets of early 20th century Jerusalem |
Yair Wallach discusses his book A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem (Stanford University Press, 2020). |
Yair Wallach |
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| Episode 2 - Afrofuturism: For who? |
Mohale Mashigo describes her relationship with time, imagining a future inflected by apartheid, and her controversial Afrofuturism essay. |
Mohale Mashigo, The Yearning, afrofuturism, apartheid, South Africa, science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, representation, narrative futures, futures thinking network |
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| Live Event: Imagined Journeys: Pilgrimage, Diplomacy, and Colonialism in Medieval Europe |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events!. Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Marion Turner, Matthew Kneale |
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| Live Event: White Rose - Voices of the German Resistance |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Alex Lloyd, John Herring |
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| To the Volcano and Other Stories |
Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) in conversation with Wale Adebanwi (University of Oxford) |
Wale Adebanwi, Elleke Boehmer |
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| The Terra Lectures in American Art Part 1: Regarding the Portrait: The Primers |
Professor Amy M. Mooney, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art Hosted by TORCH. Moderator; Alastair Wright: Alastair Wright is Head of the History of Art Department and Tutorial Fellow in Art History at St John’s College, Oxford. |
Amy M. Mooney |
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| The Terra Lectures in American Art Part 3: Regarding the Portrait: The Progressives |
Professor Amy M. Mooney, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art Hosted by TORCH. Moderator: Melanie Chambliss, Assistant Professor in the Humanities, History, and Social Sciences Department at Columbia College Chicago. |
Amy M. Mooney |
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| The Terra Lectures in American Art Part 2: Regarding the Portrait: The Photographers |
Professor Amy M. Mooney, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art. Hosted by TORCH. Moderator: Professor Deborah Willis, Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. |
Amy M. Mooney |
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| The Terra Lectures in American Art Part 4: Regarding the Portrait: The Pragmatists |
Professor Amy M. Mooney, Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art Hosted by TORCH. |
Amy M. Mooney |
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| The First Tibetan Block Print: The Khara-Khoto Collection of Precious Dhāraṇīs with the Emperor's Postscript |
Alla Sizova discusses the role of translation activities in the spread of Buddhism in the 12th century and outlines the extent of Tibetan influence on the Tangut culture. |
Alla A. Sizova |
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| Sandy Kedar: Emptied Lands - A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev. |
Prof. Sandy Kedar (Haifa) discusses his co-authored book on the legal rights of the Bedouin in the Negev. |
Sandy Kedar |
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| Conscience Rights or Conscience Wrongs?: Debating conscientious objection in healthcare |
Alberto Giubilini and David Jones trade views and argue each other's position on conscientious objection in healthcare |
Alberto Giubilini, David Jones |
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| Cycling to Archaeology! |
From Thames-side ruins and forgotten stone circles to Ridgeway hillforts and Roman villas, Oxfordshire is abundant in archaeological riches. |
Nathaniel Erb-Satullo |
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| Episode 1 - Pandemic writing: How close is too close? |
Lauren Beukes discusses the proximity of her recent novel Afterland to the current pandemic and how collective action and art are the only way through these difficult times. |
Lauren Beukes, Chelsea Haith, Louis Greenberg |
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| Live Event: On Being Unprepared (For Our Own Times) |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Decolonisation the Curriculum Week. |
Margaret MacMillan, Homi K. Bhabha |
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| Live Event: The World After CoVid |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Humanities and Policy Week Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Ngaire Woods, Peter Frankopan |
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| Live Event: Living with Pandemics: Finding New Narratives |
In conversation with Dr Erica Charters and Robin Gorna. TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Performance Week |
Erica Charters, Robin Gorna |
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| Live Event: Voices from the Wings: Poetry, Performance and Translation on and off the page |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Translation Week Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. |
Ulrike Almut Sandig, Karen Leeder |
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| The Golden Age of French Writing Masters? |
Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris delivers the 4th lecture in this years Lyell Lecture series |
Marc Smith |
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| Live Event: In Conversation with Jamelia, Multi-Award Winning Artist |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Performance Week. |
Jamelia, Priya Atwal, Yvonne Liao |
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| Female Entrepreneurship in the Middle East |
Frederike Brockhoven sits down with Rania Ayman of Entreprenelle, Yasmeen Mjalli of Babyfist, and Lina Khalifeh of Shefighter to discuss female entrepreneurship in the Middle East. |
Frederike Brockhoven, Rania Ayman, Lina Khalifeh |
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| Live Event: Celebrating Tchaikovsky |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Music Week |
Leah Broad, Philip Bullock |
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| Live Event: In Conversation with Maaza Mengiste |
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! |
Elleke Boehmer, Maaza Mengiste, Richard Reid, Birhanu T. Gessese, Tsehai Berhane-Selassie |
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| Renaissance Calligraphy from Pen to Press and Back |
Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris delivers the 3rd lecture in this years Lyell Lecture series |
Marc Smith |
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| In At The Deep End |
Alex Gunz (1994, PPE) on his novel, In At The Deep End |
Alex Gunz |
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| Performance and Power in Delhi |
The passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in December 2019 has ushered in a new form of politics in India. |
Akash Bhattacharya, Harsh Mander, Abhik Chimni, Neha Dixit, Sudhanva Deshpande, Sumangala Damodaran, Sabika Abbas Naqvi, Bani Gill, Garima Jaju, Nayanika Mathur |
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| Bibliography and the Life Cycles of Writing Books |
The 2nd lecture in the 2020 series delivered by Professor Marc Smith, Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Paris |
Marc Smith |
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| Episode 5 – Babylon: Natural Theology versus Scientific Naturalism |
When Museum opened in 1860, a new secular approach to science was on the rise. In the final episode of Temple of Science we see how ‘natural theology’ responded to the challenges of Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection. |
John Holmes |
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| Episode 4 – Chambers of the Ministering Priests: Building Scientific Disciplines |
The Museum was founded on the principle that art should be used to teach science and to inspire generations of scientists. In episode 4 of Temple of Science we see how this was put into practice in some of the building’s less familiar spaces. |
John Holmes |
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| Episode 3 – The Sanctuary of the Temple of Science: The Central Court |
The central court of the Museum was described by one founder as ‘the sanctuary of the Temple of Science’. In this episode we see how every detail of this unique space was carefully planned and crafted to form a comprehensive model of natural science. |
John Holmes |
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| Episode 2 – 'God’s Own Museum': The Façade |
In episode 2 of Temple of Science, we take a closer look at the decoration on the outside of the Museum building, which captures the vitality of nature, presented in Victorian Oxford as the study of God’s creation. |
John Holmes |
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| Exiles From Paris |
Brigitte Adès (1982) on her novel, Exiles From Paris |
Brigitte Ades |
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| The Cry of the Lake |
Charlie Tyler (1993) on her debut novel, The Cry of the Lake |
Charlie Tyler |
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| Writing Models and the Formation of National Scripts |
The first lecture in the Lyell Lecture 2020 series delivered by Professor Marc Smith - Professeur de Paléographie, The Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Lyell Reader in Bibliography 2020 |
Marc Smith, Richard Ovenden |
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| The History of Magic |
What is magic, when did it begin, and does it still have a place in the modern world? Professor Chris Gosden discusses the long history of magic from the Ice Age, through antiquity, to the present. |
Chris Gosden |
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| Episode 1 – Oxford's Pre-Raphaelite Natural History Museum |
In the first episode of Temple of Science we find out how the Museum came to be, involving not only scientists but artists, architects and designers in one of the most original creative collaborations of the Victorian age. |
John Holmes |
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| The Kafala System |
Hajar Meddah, Felix Walker and Piotr Schulkes discuss the Middle East’s controversial Kafala system, that allows employers to exploit workers and undermine their rights without breaking the law. |
Hajar Meddah, Felix Walker, Piotr Schulkes |
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| Narrative Futures Coming Soon |
The trailer for the Narrative Futures podcast, devised and produced by Chelsea Haith, featuring interviews with eight authors and editors, and writing prompts by Louis Greenberg. |
Chelsea Haith, Lauren Beukes, Mohale Mashigo, Sami Shah, Mahvesh Murad, Jared Shurin, EJ Swift, Ken Liu, Tade Thompson, Louis Greenberg |
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| Covid-19: who should be vaccinated first? |
Katrien Devolder interviews Alberto Giubilini. |
Alberto Giubilini, Katrien Devolder |
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| The Risks of Coronavirus Contact Tracing Apps |
Katrien Devolder interviews Associate Professor Carissa Véliz. |
Carissa Véliz, Katrien Devolder |
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| Why Parental Status Matters When Allocating Scarce Medical Resources |
Katrien Devolder interviews Moti Gorin. |
Moti Gorin, Katrien Devolder |
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| Series Two Episode Five: Fairy and Other Transformations |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield discuss the theme of transformation through fairy or other kinds of magic. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Lucy Farrell, Inge Thomson, Mary Craig, Sarah Hesketh, Brian McMahon |
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| Series Two Episode Four: Fairies and the Environment |
Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about a new theme that emerged in the ‘Modern Fairies’ project, fairies as guardians of the environment. |
Carolyne Larrington, Fay Hield, Ben Nicholls, Inge Thomson, Ewan MacPherson, Sarah Hesketh, Patience Agbabi, Ian McLaughlin, Donald McBride, Brian McMahon |
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