Week 0
Saturday 10 October
10:00-16:00 | Local connections, global conflict A World War One Adult Study Day
Week 1
Monday 12 October
14:00-17:00 | Wikipedia: women in science transcribe-a-thon Celebrate the bicentenary of Ada Lovelace
Tuesday 13 October
12:30-14:00 | Photography, exhibitions and the birth of a discipline Speaker: Anthony Gardner (Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford)
14:00-17:00 | Wikipedia: women in science edit-a-thon Celebrate the bicentenary of Ada Lovelace
14:00-17:00 | Too valuable to die? An interdisciplinary panel discussion with Silke Ackermann, Liz Bruton and Nigel Biggar exploring the ethics of science and scientists going to war
Wednesday 14 October
14:00-17:00 | Wikipedia: women in science improve-a-thon Celebrate the bicentenary of Ada Lovelace
17:00-18:30 | M. C. Escher - artist, mathematician, man Speakers: Roger Penrose and Jon Chapman
Thursday 15 October
9:30-20:30 | Controlling environments One-day conference looking at cybernetic sciences
11:00 | Research brief encounters Share your research
14:00-17:00 | Wikipedia: women in science image-a-thon Celebrate the bicentenary of Ada Lovelace
15:30-16:30 | In praise of idleness?: The work of the humanities’ work Speaker: Professor Helen Small (Pembroke College, University of Oxford)
Friday 16 October
All day | Celebrating women in computer science Ada Lovelace bicentenary
18:00-19:00 | Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life To celebrate the publication of Jonathan Bate's new biography, we are joined by the author, Seamus Perry, Oliver Taplin and Anne Farrar Donovan, cousin of Ted Hughes, for discussion
Saturday 17 October
14:00-16:00 | Illegitimate Objects: Poets Poets reading their new work
Week 2
Monday 19 October
17:30-19:00 | Stephen Greenblatt: “In The Bathhouse” Humanitas Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries and Libraries delivers his inaugural lecture
Tuesday 20 October
14:00-15:00 | Off-Stage Rules: Sarah Siddons And Satire With Anna Senkiw (DPhil Candidate English, University of Oxford)
17:00-18:30 | Stephen Greenblatt: “Getting Real” Humanitas Visiting Professor Stephen Greenblatt delivers his second lecture in his series "The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve"
17:30-19:00 | Saints From The Latin East: The Memory Of North Illyricum In Greek Hagiography Speaker: Efthymios Rizos (Linacre College, University of Oxford)
Wednesday 21 October
12:30-13:30 | Postgraduate And Early Career Researchers Lunchtime Meeting Hosted by the TORCH Programme Women in the Humanities
12:45-14:00 | The Silk Roads: A New History Of The World A Book at Lunchtime discussion with Peter Frankopan, Averil Cameron, and Robert Moore.
17:00-19:00 | Oxford Phenomenology Network Seminar Seminar run by the TORCH Oxford Phenomenology Network with Joshua Broggi (University of Oxford)
Thursday 22 October
12:00-13:00 | Pastorhood As A Calling And Career Migration, Religion and Social Mobility Among Kenyan Penetcostal Pastors in London. Speaker: Leslie Fesenmyer (COMPAS, Oxford)
13:30-16:00 | An Army Without A Face: The Ottoman Army And The First World War Speaker: Professor Mesut Uyar (UNSW Canberra)
17:00-19:00 | Practical Architectural History Seminar In partnership with Purcell
Friday 23 October
12:45-14:00 | Race And Resistance Seminar Seminar hosted by the Race and Resistance TORCH Network
Saturday 24 October
All day | Imperial Identities: Intersections And Transformations A workshop bringing together researchers working on intersections of gender and identity within imperial contexts
19:00-21:00 | Spectral Landscapes Mixed media event exploring the concept of the 'English Eerie'
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