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Week 3
Wednesday 28 October
Fiction and Other Minds seminar
4:30-6:30pm | Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford
Speakers: Peter Garratt (Durham) and Helen Small (English, University of Oxford). Chair: Ben Morgan (German, University of Oxford).
A 'Heart Hard As A Nether Millstone': The Relational Dynamics Of Victorian 'Addiction'
5:30-7:00pm | St Anne's College, 56 Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6HS
Speaker: Dr Madeleine Wood (Queen Mary University of London).
Fireside Tales
5:30-6:30pm | Old Library, University Church, High Street, Oxford, OX1 4BJ
A creative writing workshop exploring the oral tradition in the pre-digital age
Thursday 29 October
Early Career Writers' Workshop
4:30-6:30pm | The Royal Oak, Woodstock Road
A friendly, constructive forum for sharing work-in-progress with other early-career academics from across the Humanities Division.
Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Music
5:00-7:00pm | Wharton Room, All Souls College, Oxford, OX1 4AL
Speaker: Matthew Thomson (University of Oxford)
The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien’s Legacy
5:00-6:00pm | Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG
A display and panel discussion to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of the final volume of Tolkien’s fantasy epic
Friday 30 October
Writing on Race: roundtable discussion
12:45-2:00pm | Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford
Seminar hosted by the Race and Resistance TORCH Network
Colliding Worlds
5pm | St Cross College, Oxford
'How Cutting Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art' with Professor I. Miller
Ashmolean Dead Friday
7:00-10:30pm | Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford
Over 25 TORCH academics give bite-size talks as part of the Ashmolean’s Halloween Live Friday
Saturday 31 October
Argentine Independent Film Event
10:00am – 6:00pm | Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford
Argentinian director Raúl Perrone in Focus
Week 4
Monday 2 November
Adele Thomas and Rory Mullarkey in conversation
2:15pm | Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, Oxford
Discussing the Globe Theatre's Oresteia
Fireside Tales
5:30-6:30pm | Old Library, University Church, High Street, Oxford, OX1 4BJ
A creative writing workshop exploring the oral tradition in the pre-digital age
Tuesday 3 November
The Sublime Meets the Grotesque: Caleb Williams And Frankenstein
2:00-3:00pm | New Douce Room, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford
with Lesley Thulin (Mst English Literature, University of Oxford)
Byzantium: Still Surprising in 2015?
5:00-7:30pm | Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford
Inaugural event hosted by the British Byzantine Postgraduate Network
Sanctity and Society in Sixth-Century Antioch: The Cult Of Symeon Stylites the Younger
5:30-7:00pm | Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford
Speaker: Lucy Parker (Lincoln College, University of Oxford)
Neurobiological Materialism Collides with the Experience of Being Human
6:00-8:00pm|Magdalen College, Longwall Street, Oxford
Part of the ‘Theoretical Challenge of Modern Psychiatry: No Easy Cure’ series
Wednesday 4 November
Comparative Encounters Between Artaud, Michaux And The Zhuangzi
12:45-2:00pm|Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford
A Book at Lunchtime discussion with Amy Li, Marina Warner, Geoffrey Lloyd, and Michael Sheringham.
OCCT Discussion Group
12:45-2:00pm | St Anne’s College, Oxford
Fortnightly meeting of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation discussion group
Barbarisms: Multilingualism and Modernity in Narratives of the Spanish-Speaking World
4:00-6:00pm | Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford
Speaker: Laura Lonsdale (Queen's College, University of Oxford). Respondent: Jane Hiddleston (French, University of Oxford).
Thursday 5 November
Social Mobility as a Prescription for Obesity Prevention
12:00-1:00pm | Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford
An analysis of policy and popular media discourses. Speaker: Karin Eli (Anthropology, University of Oxford)
Practical Architectural History Seminar
5:00-7:00pm | Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford
In partnership with Purcell
Poetic Battlefields: The First World War in Poetry
5:30pm | St Hilda’s College, Oxford, Cowley Place, Oxford OX4 1DY
The two-part performance Poetic Battlefields brings together historical and contemporary perspectives on the poetry of the First World War
Friday 6 November
Presentation by Campaign For Racial Awareness And Equality (Crae)
12:45-1:45pm| Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford
Seminar hosted by the Race and Resistance TORCH Network
The Oxford Song Network: Poetry and Performance Seminar
2:00-5:00pm | Knowles Room, Wadham College, Parks Road, Oxford
The first seminar hosted by the TORCH Network The Oxford Song Network: Poetry and Performance
Saturday 7 November
Silence in the Archives
All day | Wolfson College, Oxford
Censorship and suppression in Women's Life Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
Dignity and the Novel since 1948
10:30-5:30pm | St Cross Building, Oxford
One-day interdisciplinary symposium to launch the Fiction and Human Rights TORCH network
Monday 9 November
Peter Wiseman in Conversation
2:15pm|Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, Oxford
Discussing Rhinthon and the Roman Audience
Tuesday 10 November
Exchanging Natural Objects
12:30-2:00pm| Department of History of Art, Littlegate House, St Ebbes
The Performance of Nature in Edwardian Natural History and Photography. Speaker: Damian Hughes (De Montefort University).
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