Ranked #1
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
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1hr 1min
Ranked #2
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
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50mins
Ranked #3
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
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1hr
Ranked #4
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
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39mins
Ranked #5
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
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54mins
Ranked #6
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
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51mins
Ranked #7
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
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18mins
Ranked #8
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
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1hr 15mins
Ranked #9
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
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #10
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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48mins
Ranked #11
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
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1hr 16mins
Ranked #12
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
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46mins
Ranked #13
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
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13mins
Ranked #14
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
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4mins
Ranked #15
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
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1hr 15mins
Ranked #16
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
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #17
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
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51mins
Ranked #18
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
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48mins
Ranked #19
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
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42mins
Ranked #20
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
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1hr 23mins