TORCH Newsletter
2 June 2015
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Applications are still open for Knowledge Exchange Fellowships, the TORCH-Science Museum research fellowship, and Environmental Humanities Grants. For more information about these, and other TORCH opportunities please visit our website. This week we highlight blogs on the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, Voltaire's portrayal of the universe, and a play about anorexia. We also look back at events from the past couple of weeks, with videos exploring neuroscience and dance, theatre and evolution, and German poetry. Please scroll to the bottom of the newsletter for a full calendar of upcoming events.
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Funding Opportunities Reminder
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The Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) and TORCH will support a short-term fellowship scheme for humanities scholars at the University of Oxford to build mutually beneficial partnerships with external organisations. Previous Fellowships supported by the scheme have included partnerships with the National Theatre, Southbank Centre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Deadline: Monday 29 June 2015, noon.
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Applications are welcome from Oxford humanities scholars for two grants in any area of the environmental humanities. The first is for £2,500 for a workshop or conference and the second is for £2,000 for a research project. Applications should be led by, or involve, postgraduate and/or early career researchers.
Deadline: 3 July 2015
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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
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Early Career Opportunities
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Introduction to Entrepreneurship
A chance to try your hand at some business case studies with local entrepreneurs
Tuesday 2 June, 6 - 8pm, SBS Launchpad, Said Business School, Park End Street
This workshop for DPhils and Early Career Researchers will introduce the basic concepts of Entrepreneurship and the Launchpad at the Said Business School. For more information and to book please click here.
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In this 'Voices Acros Borders' post Timothy Ogene reviews Terri Ochiagha’s new book, Achebe and Friends at Umuahia, and considers how the book places Achebe's writing within his network of literary contemporaries.
More here.
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In the latest Voltaire Foundation blog post Rowan Lyster examines Voltaire's portrayal of the universe and shares a poem she wrote inspired by his depictions.
More here.
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Watching a Play about Anorexia
Knowledge Exchange Fellow Emily Troscianko reflects on the play 'Mess' and examines why it’s hard to create theatre, or indeed films or novels, about anorexia.
More here.
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Congratulations to Daniel Lee and Kylie Murray who were announced as winners of the AHRC/BBC scheme. Daniel Lee's research examines experiences of Jews in France and in French North Africa during the Second World War and Kylie Murray's research explores pre-Reformation Scottish literature, books, and culture. For more information please visit the University arts blog.
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The Healthcare Values Partnership, led by Dr Joshua Hordern, seeks to develop working relationships between patients, researchers, healthcare practitioners, managers and policy makers to explore questions of value in healthcare today. The partnership website has just launched, find out more here.
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Wayne McGregor (Director, Random Dance) talks about his choreographic practice with Dr Phil Barnard, (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) and Eckhard Thiemann (Arts Producer). They explore the point where dance, choreography and science can meet.
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Watch the video here
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A discussion of Kirsten Shepherd-Barr's new book which reveals the deep, transformative entanglement among science, art, and culture in modern times.
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Watch the video here
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Twenty-five years since the fall of the Berlin Wall German poet Volker Braun gives a special reading and discusses his work with David Constantine and Karen Leeder.
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Watch the video here
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Tuesday 2 June, 17:00
A lecture by Amy Hollywood (Harvard University) on mysticism in the study of religion with responses by Vincent Gillespie (Oxford) and Joana Serrado (Oxford).
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Thursday 4 June, 17:30-19:00
Internationally renowned dance scholar Professor Mark Franko gives a lecture on his recent research on the important early twentieth-century choreographer 'Serge Lifar'.
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Friday 5 June, 14:30-18:30
A one-day workshop with papers including: Carla Bagnoli, Shame and Vulnerability; Edward Harcourt, Moral Emotions, Autonomy, and the ‘Extended Mind’ and Adam Leite,Self-Hatred, Self-Acceptance, and Self-Love.
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Friday 5 June, 17:30-19:00
Conversation with one of the most remarkable Polish poets Tomasz Różycki about his work and its translations into English led by Anna Ready from Oxford University Press.
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Tuesday 9 June, 16:00-17:00
How do the humanities engage with business, and vice-versa? This panel will explore the reciprocity – existing and potential – of business and the humanities, considering the contribution humanities researchers and graduates can make to the business world and how the humanities might benefit in return.
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Saturday 13 June
A celebration of literary translation consisting of workshops and talks throughout the day and culminating in the award of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
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Saturday 13 June
This study day will explore domestic space from an interdisciplinary perspective, tracing the vital significance of the home in art, design, architecture, literature, culture and social politics in the long eighteenth century.
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Latest news from the Humanitas Programme
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Humanitas Visiting Professor Barbara Rosenwein explores the history of emotions, with a response from Professor Ute Frevert.
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Watch the video here
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Professor Ute Frevert discusses rationality versus emotionality in the century of extremes with a response from Professor Barbara Rosenwein.
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Watch the video here
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Comparative European Literature
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In the last of his lecture series Javier Cercas reflects on European literature, politics and historical memory in conversation with Timothy Garton Ash, and Patrick McGuinness. The discussion will take place on 4 June from 17:30, please click here for more details.
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This week we revisit Michael Winterbottom's Visiting Professorship in Film and Television 2012-2013. This film workshop explores the idea of improvisation, the use of one versus two cameras, subtitling, and examines scenes from Winterbottom's films.
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Watch the workshop here
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Events Calendar, Weeks 6-8
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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.
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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 - 5:00pm
Narrative Transportation and Make-Believe
Tom van Laer (Storytelling Scholar, Cass Business School (City University London)/University of Sydney)
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
Embodiment and Materiality Reading Group
This week's reading is Lambros Malafouris: How Things Shape the Mind
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
17th-18th Century Chemistry
Papers by Anna Marie Roos (Lincoln) and Michael Bycroft (Warwick)
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Robert Hass's 'On Teaching Poetry'
Part of The Poet's Essay seminar series
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 4:30pm
Henry Adams, Henry James, and Minnie Temple: The Pursuit of the Real at the Turn of the 20th Century
A lecture by Amy Hollywood (Harvard University)
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 5:00pm
Suffering History: Phenomenology at the Intersection of Disease and Illness
Austin Argentieri (Oxford, Anthropology)
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 5:15pm
Écrire dans une langue, vivre dans deux
Reading by Hoda Barakat.
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 6:00pm
"The Societalization of Social Problems: Recent Social Crises and the Civil Sphere"
Wednesday, June, 3, 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Poetry Workshop
Part of the In Numbers programme
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Connected Life 2015: Our Digital Society
Interdisciplinary and international conference.
Thursday, June 4, 2015 (All day)
Relational Aesthetics
Aesthetics Today? discussion group
Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 12:45pm to 2:00pm
Marriage in Crisis: WW1 and Behavioural Change in Belgium
Dr Saskia Hin
Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 2:00pm
Animals and Objects: Knowledge and Visual Culture
Discussion group for Inter-Asian comparisons
Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Hoda Barakat: 'La Narration Dangereuse: Nos Personnages et la mise en Abîme'
Part of Orienting Fiction: Writers' Talks and Seminar Series.
Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 3:00pm
Biosense
A symposium celebrating the research behind a new contemporary science exhibition
Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 4:00pm
The Unspeakability of Trauma, the Unspeakability of Joy: The Pursuit of the Real at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
A lecture by Amy Hollywood (Harvard University) with a response by Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford)
Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 5:00pm
In Conversation: European Literature, Politics and Historical Memory
Humanitas Visiting Professor, Javier Cercas In Conversation with Timothy Garton Ash, and Patrick McGuinness. Chaired by Tim Gardam
Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Lecture: Serge Lifar
Professor Mark Franko (Temple University, US)
Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Research Presentations
By members of the 'Race and Resistance' network
Friday, June 5, 2015 - 12:45pm to 2:00pm
The tribal social instincts hypothesis
Speaker: Tim Lewens (University of Cambridge)
Friday, June 5, 2015 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Shame and Guilt
A one-day workshop
Friday, June 5, 2015 - 2:30pm to 6:30pm
25 years of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Eckhart and the Beguines
A roundtable convened by Ben Morgan (Oxford) and Johannes Depnering (Oxford)
Friday, June 5, 2015 - 5:00pm
Choreographing the Katabasis
Part of the week long residency of Choreographer Cathy Marston at APGRD
Friday, June 5, 2015 - 5:00pm
Research Brief Encounters
From the Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity
Friday, June 5, 2015 - 5:00pm
Poetry Evening
With Tomasz Różycki
Friday, June 5, 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
French Literature from the Modern to the Postmodern
Convened by Philippe Roussin (CNRS-MFO) and Michael Sheringham (University of Oxford, All Souls College)
Monday, June 8, 2015 - 2:15pm
What Was Late-Medieval English Poetry?
Professor Seth Lerer (University of California)
Monday, June 8, 2015 - 5:00pm
Medieval Studies Seminar
Seth Lerer (English, UC San Diego)
Monday, June 8, 2015 - 5:00pm
Objects from the Wallace Collection
Graduate presentations from Lindsay Macnaughton and Elena Sorochina.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 12:15pm to 1:30pm
Humanities and Business
A panel discussion exploring the reciprocity – existing and potential – of business and the humanities
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Cultures of Genius
Professor Sarah-Jane Leslie (Princeton University) examines why women are underrepresented in certain academic disciplines
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 5:00pm
20th Century Chemistry
Papers by Linda Richards (Oregon) and Juan Andres Leon (CHF)
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Commuters: From the Nineteenth Century to Now
Speaker: Rachel Bowlby (Princeton University). Part of the Science, Medicine and Culture in the Ninteenth Century seminar series
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Maths and Architecture
Part of the In Numbers programme
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Yoshida Hiroshi: A Japanese Artist in India
Gallery tour with Eva Schach.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 11:00am
Extremist Translation and the Deformation of Zone
Speakers: Joyelle McSweeney, Johannes Göransson, and Dr Adriana X. Jacobs.
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Inheritance and Cooperation Reading Group
This week's reading isFrancesca Merlin (Forthcoming) ‘Limited extended inheritance’
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Anglo-Norman Reading Group
Guest speaker: Professor Paul Hyams (Cornell/Oxford)
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Nacer Khemir: 'Les deux labyrinthes: le récit des mille et une nuits et la ville arabe'
Part of Orienting Fiction: Writers' Talks and Seminar Series.
Friday, June 12, 2015 - 5:00pm
Physics and the Great War
Conference discussing the development of physics during the First World War
Saturday, June 13, 2015 (All day)
Oxford Translation Day 2015
A day celebrating literary translation with a series of workshops and talks
Saturday, June 13, 2015 - 10:00am to 7:30pm
'At Home': Exploring Eighteenth-Century Domestic Space
RECSO study day
Saturday, June 13, 2015 - 11:00am to 5:00pm
History and Philosophy of Evidence-Base Health Care
Monday, June 15, 2015 (All day) to Friday, June 19, 2015 (All day)
In Conversation with Antonio Armano
Speakers: Antonio Armano and Dr Valentina Gosetti.
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 12:45pm to 2:00pm
The Author in the Medical Imagination
Speakers: Ann Jefferson (University of Oxford) and Geoffrey Wall (University of York).
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 5:30pm
The double-edged sword of perspective-taking
Ian Apperly (Psychology, Birmingham) on reciprocal influences of self and other perspectives on judgement and comprehension
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 5:00pm
Philosophy of Action Work-in-Progress Seminar
Speaker: Hong Yu Wong (Universität Tübingen).
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
"Bab' Aziz: Le prince qui contemplait son âme"
Film screening and Q&A with the director Nacer Khemir.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 8:00pm
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