TORCH Newsletter
19 May 2015
|
|
|
|
We are pleased to announce a new research fellowship in collaboration with the Science Museum, an opportunity to develop an Environmental Humanities project, and a call for bite-size lectures on death for an Ashmolean LiveFriday event. We also look back at events from the past couple of weeks, with videos exploring the 1659 air pump, the German Enlightenment, Aristotle and perception, and terrorism in the 21st century. Please scroll to the bottom of the newsletter for a full calendar of upcoming events.
|
|
|
|
|
|
A new Knowledge Exchange fellowship is offered to support research on the Science Museum’s collections, which would also contribute to the Museum’s forthcoming Exhibition Programme. Details of forthcoming exhibitions, and about the fellowship more generally, are available on the TORCH website.
Deadline: 29 June 2015
|
|
More information
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Applications are welcome from humanities scholars at the University of Oxford for two grants in any area of the environmental humanities. The first grant is for up to £2,500 for a workshop, symposium or conference and the second is for up to £2,000 for a research project. Applications should be led by, or involve, postgraduate and/or early career researchers.
Deadline: 3 July 2015
|
|
More information
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Each term TORCH sponsors the creation and/or development of up to three interdisciplinary research networks by providing a venue, funding up to £2,500, a web presence and publicity. Current networks include Celebrity Research, Global Brazil and Medieval Studies.
Deadline: 29 May 2015
|
|
More information
|
|
|
|
|
|
TORCH will collaborate with the Ashmolean on bite-size talks for their death-themed Halloween LiveFriday. We are looking for short talks by University of Oxford researchers with an innovative take on death and that make use of an object from the collections.
Deadline: 20 May 2015
|
|
More information
|
|
|
|
|
Early Career Opportunities
|
|
Public Engagement Summer School
The AHRC -TORCH Public Engagement Summer School from 27-30 July brings together skills workshops, lectures, and small group sessions designed to give participants the skills to integrate public engagement into their research.
|
|
|
Are you thinking about getting published? Whether you've got a full proposal ready, or you've just got a promising idea, this matchmaking event is a great opportunity for early career researchers to meet a Palgrave commissioning editor and get their input. The event will take place on 26 May.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Historians of science David Wootton and Michael Hunter review the debate between Robert Boyle and Thomas Hobbes over Boyle's air pump experiments and the philosophical foundations of this new approach to science. The discussion is framed by Wootton and Hunter's critiques of Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer's controversial book Leviathan and the Air-Pump (1985).
|
|
Watch the video here
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment
A discussion of Jim Reed's new book, exploring the legacy of the German Enlightenment and the controversies of its major thinkers.
|
|
Watch the video here
|
|
|
|
|
Aristotle on Perceiving Objects
How can we explain perceptual experience? This discussion explores how Aristotle investigated this question, and examines Anna Marmodoro's book on the subject.
|
|
Watch the video here
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wednesday 20 May, 13:00-14:00 (lunch from 12:45)
Michael Billington (Theatre Critic, The Guardian), Morten Kringlebach (Psychiatry, Oxford) and Laura Marcus (English, Oxford) discuss Kirsten Shepherd-Barr's new book on the transformative entanglement among science, art, and culture in modern times, followed by a response from the author.
|
|
|
Tuesday 26 May, 13:00
In response to the Ashmolean exhibition Katy Haigh will be giving a 30 minute gallery talk discussing the approaches to femininity and sexuality in contemporary Indian society.
|
|
|
Tuesday 26 May, 17:00
A lecture by Sam Ladkin, which is part of the Literature and Visual Cultures Seminar Series, a new forum for interdisciplinary discussion at Oxford.
|
|
|
Wednesday 27 May, 19:00-20:00
A panel discussion exploring the relationship between mathematics and music. Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science Andrew Ker - who is also a musician - will be in conversation with mathematician Jamshid Derakhshan.
|
|
|
Monday 1 June, 15:00
A lecture by Amy Hollywood (Harvard University) with responses by Fernanda Bernardo (Coimbra) and Graham Ward (Oxford). Convenor: Sondra Hausner. This is part of a lecture series given by Amy Hollywood on philosophy, literature and mysticism.
|
|
|
Monday 1 June, 19:00
Last Train to Oxford is a dramatised adaptation of John Schad’s documentary novel Someone Called Derrida by Fred Dalmasso & John Schad. The performance follows Amy Hollywood's lecture on 'Reading Derrida Reading'.
|
|
|
Tuesday 2 June, 17:00
A seminar by Tom van Laer (Storytelling Scholar, Cass Business School). It is part of the Calleva Centre seminar series on Make-Believe, which combines perspectives from psychology, theatre and classics.
|
|
Latest news from the Humanitas Programme
|
|
|
The Humanitas Programme continues with Javier Cercas' Visiting Professorship in Comparative European Literature. His lectures are the last Humanitas events for this academic year, but we will be back in October. Already confirmed for next academic year are the literary critic, theorist and scholar, Stephen Greenblatt, who will be the Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries and Libraries and the conductor Christian Thielemann, who will be the Visiting Professor in Classical Music. In the meantime, you can watch this term's events again on our website, including John McLaughlin's lectures on the challenges facing American intelligence and terrorism in the 21st century.
|
|
Comparative European Literature
|
|
|
Javier Cercas will be in residence at St Anne's College during Trinity Term. In a series of lectures, Cercas will reflect on the nature of the novel as a genre, including discussions of The Anatomy of a Moment, as well as works by Vargas Llosa, Cervantes, Melville, James and Kafka.
21 May, 17:30-19:00 | The Blind Spot
26 May, 17:30-19:00 | The Man Who Says No
4 June, 17:30-19:00 | In Conversation: European Literature, Politics and Historical Memory
|
|
|
|
|
|
In celebration of Artweeks, we look back at last year's Visiting Professorship in Museums, Galleries and Libraries, which was held by Michael Govan, the Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). In this short video he talks about completely reshaping LACMA, the connections between artists and museums and the importance of interdisciplinary research and collaboration.
|
|
|
|
Events Calendar, Weeks 4-6
|
|
|
All these events seek to bring together people from different disciplines who are interested in the same research area. For more details about these events, and to get in touch with the people who are running them, please visit the TORCH website.
|
|
|
Images and Imagination in Theorizing about Law
A workshop examining the role of images in legal scholarship, both theoretically and historically
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 10:30am to 7:00pm
Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett
A Book at Lunchtime discussion with Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Michael Billington, Morten Kringlebach and Laura Marcus
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 12:45pm to 2:00pm
The Aesthetics of Jacques Maritain
Jennifer Johnson (Oxford, English/ History of Art)
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 5:15pm
Poetry Workshop
Part of the In Numbers programme
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
‘On account of their whiteness’: Photographing Sculpture from Talbot to Today
Geraldine Johnson (University of Oxford)
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Pitt Rivers Museum Photograph Collections: Research and Curatorial Directions
A site visit to the Pitt Rivers Museum, with Chris Morton in conversation with Elizabeth Edwards & Philip Grover
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Anthropological Aesthetics
Aesthetics Today? discussion group
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 12:45pm to 2:00pm
The Body, Representation and Sensation: Reading Image and Using Image
Discussion group for Inter-Asian comparisons
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Ibrahim Al-Koni: 'Vagabond Homelands'
Part of Orienting Fiction: Writers' Talks and Seminar Series.
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 3:00pm
The Blind Spot
Humanitas Visiting Professor, Javier Cercas delivers his fourth lecture
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Image and Object Workshop
A one-day symposium on the subject of images, objects and data
Friday, May 22, 2015 - 11:00am to 4:30pm
Research Presentations
By members of the Race and Resistance network
Friday, May 22, 2015 - 12:45pm to 2:00pm
Inheritance and Cooperation Reading Group
This week's reading isSterelny (2013) 'Cooperation in a Complex World: The Role of Proximate Factors in Ultimate Explanations'
Friday, May 22, 2015 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Positive Thinking and the Name Game
Part of HowTheLightGetsIn 2015: The Philosophy and Music Festival at Hay
Sunday, May 24, 2015 - 12:00pm
Approaches to Feminity and Sexuality in Contemporary Indian Society
Gallery tour by Katy Haigh
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 1:00pm
Frank O’Hara and the Language of Art
Dr Sam Ladkin, University of Sheffield
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 5:00pm
‘Catching the catcher’: images of Cornish seine fishing 1880-1913
Mary O'Neill (Oxford Brookes)
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 5:00pm
The Man Who Says No
Humanitas Visiting Professor, Javier Cercas delivers his fifth lecture
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Alchemical Melodies
A conference exploring the quest for musical quintessence in the seventeenth century
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 (All day)
17th Century Alchemy
Papers by Georgiana Hedesan (Oxford) and Judith Mawer (Goldmiths London)
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
For the sake of a Dibbling Stick
Speaker: Matthew Paskins (University of Leeds and The Open University). Part of the Science, Medicine and Culture in the Ninteenth Century seminar series
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Maths and Music
Part of the In Numbers programme
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
'Elissa the Wanderer: Dido in Carthage'
Part of Orienting Fiction: Writers' Talks and Seminar Series.
Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 5:00pm
Inheritance and Cooperation Reading Group
This week's reading isColleran and Mace (2011) ‘Contrasts and conflicts in anthropology and archaeology: the evolutionary/interpretive dichotomy in human behavioural research'
Friday, May 29, 2015 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Exploring Scandinavia
A seminar looking at literature, theatre, music, radio broadcasting, language, educational theory, and even late 19th-century social networking
Friday, May 29, 2015 - 2:00pm to 4:30pm
On Exhibit B and other Contemporary Human Zoos
Round Table with Tamar Garb (University College London), Yvette Hutchinson (University of Warwick), Deirdre Osborne (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Friday, May 29, 2015 - 5:00pm
Anglo-Norman Reading Group
This group provides a relaxed and collaborative forum in which to hear about, read, translate and comment upon a wide variety of Anglo-Norman texts
Friday, May 29, 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Reading Derrida Reading
A lecture by Amy Hollywood (Harvard University) with responses by Fernanda Bernardo (Coimbra) and Graham Ward (Oxford)
Monday, June 1, 2015 - 3:00pm
Last Train to Oxford
A performance of the dramatised adaption of John Schad’s documentary novel Someone Called Derrida
Monday, June 1, 2015 - 7:00pm
Druisilla’s Inheritance: Possessing and Transmitting Power in Caligula’s Rome
Sarah Cohen (University of Oxford)
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Real, the True, and Critique: Mysticism in the Study of Religion
A lecture by Amy Hollywood (Harvard University) with responses by Vincent Gillespie (Oxford) and Joana Serrado (Oxford)
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - 3:00pm
Narrative Transportation and Make-Believe
Tom van Laer (Storytelling Scholar, Cass Business School)
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - 5:00pm
Local Biologies, Leaky Things, and the Chemical Infrastructure of Global Health
Speaker: Alex Nading (Anthropology, University of Edinburgh)
Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - 5:30pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
