Wednesday 11 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Simon Schama on The Past and Its Publics
  Craig Clunas (Oxford), Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Simon Schama (Columbia University)
  Humanitas

Wednesday 25 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sérgio and Odair Assad In Conversation
  Sérgio Assad, Odair Assad, Jason Stanyek (University of Oxford)
  Humanitas
• 17:00 - Sérgio and Odair Assad Rectial
  Sérgio Assad, Odair Assad
  Humanitas

Tuesday 21 June 2016 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:30 - Speaking in Absence: Letters in the Digital Age
  Professor Howard Hotson (University of Oxford), Dr Robert McNamee (University of Oxford), Dr Alison Pearn (University of Cambridge), Miranda Lewis (University of Oxford, History Faculty), Dr Daniel Starza Smith (University of Oxford), Mike Webb (Bodleian Libraries), Rupert Mann (Oxford University Press), Dr Philip Beeley (University of Oxford), Kieron Smith (Blackwell's Digital Department), Professor Christopher Ricks (Boston University), Jacqueline Norton (OUP Academic)

Monday 24 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - “What does neuroscience tell us about freedom of the will?”
  Professor Adina Roskies (Dartmouth College)

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Callaloo Conference
  Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Margo Crawford (Cornell University), Vievee Francis (Dartmouth College), LeRonn Brooks (City University of New York), Dagmawi Woubshet (Cornell University), John Akomfrah, Anthony Bogues (Brown University), Joan Anim-Addo (Goldsmiths University of London), Nicole King (University of Reading), Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt University), Robert Reid-Pharr

Monday 24 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - LGBT+ 101
  Dr Clara Barker (University of Oxford)
  Humanities & Identities

Thursday 27 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: "Readers and Readings"
  Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Erica Lombard (University of Oxford)
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Thursday 4 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: Kamila Shamsie
  Kamila Shamsie, Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: Bernardine Evaristo
  Bernardine Evaristo, Zoe Norridge (KCL), Marsha Hutchinson (University of Oxford)
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: Daljit Nagra
  Daljit Nagra, Rachael Gilmour (QMUL)
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: D-Empress Dianne Regisford (performance)
  Dianne Regisford, Erica Lombard (University of Oxford)
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Thursday 1 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: Nadifa Mohamed
  Nadifa Mohamed, Kate Haines
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Thursday 8 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: Aminatta Forna
  Aminatta Forna, Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Thursday 15 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: Editors and contributors, The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing
  Various Speakers
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Thursday 5 October 2017 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Migration and Mobility Network 'Academic Speed-Dating' Network Lunch
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 17 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Performing Innocence: Belated
  Professor Emily C Burns (Auburn University), Moderator: Peter Gibian (McGill Universty)
  Terra Lectures in American Art 2021: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914

Thursday 12 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - ‘Speculation in the Anthropocene: Contemporary Turkey’
  Dr Emrah Atasoy (English Faculty, Oxford)
  TORCH Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Missing, Remembering, Revival
  Krikor Momdjian (Artist and poet)
  Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History

Friday 9 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Rethinking traumatic silence through materiality in contemporary Armenian art
  Tsovinar Juiumchian (St Peter's College, Oxford)
  Silence and Visuality Seminar Series in Armenian Art and History

Saturday 22 April 2023 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Medieval Mystery Cycle
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Book at Lunchtime: The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
  TBA
  TORCH Book at Lunchtime: Conquered; The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England

Wednesday 31 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Authorship, Activism and Celebrity
  Sandra Meyer (TORCH), Dr Ruth Scobie (Early Career Research Fellow, TORCH)
  Book At Lunchtime

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Ars Memoriae - Memory Studies Reading Group (Trinity Term 2024, Session 2)
  Please find the readings here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1sISUD-m3pChCXdl4I8mcnT_tm3hwgL1a
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Ars Memoriae - Memory Studies Reading Group (Trinity Term 2024, Session 3)
  Please find the readings here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1sISUD-m3pChCXdl4I8mcnT_tm3hwgL1a
  Various Speakers

Monday 10 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Ars Memoriae - Memory Studies Reading Group: Reading with Sally Bayley
  Dr Sally Bayley (Lady Margaret Hall)

Monday 4 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Ars Memoriae - Memory Studies Reading Group (Michaelmas Term 2024, Session 2)
  Access the readings here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pJYLlp22gpCU2dzLxM2YzZrsv1a-ZE0_?usp=sharing
  Various Speakers

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Ars Memoriae - Memory Studies Reading Group (Michaelmas Term 2024, Session 3)
  Access the readings here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pJYLlp22gpCU2dzLxM2YzZrsv1a-ZE0_?usp=sharing
  Various Speakers

Monday 9 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Simon Schama Lecture
  Simon Schama (Columbia University)
  Humanitas

Wednesday 11 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Simon Schama on The Past and Its Publics
  Craig Clunas (Oxford), Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Simon Schama (Columbia University)
  Humanitas

Wednesday 25 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Sérgio and Odair Assad In Conversation
  Sérgio Assad, Odair Assad, Jason Stanyek (University of Oxford)
  Humanitas
• 17:00 - Sérgio and Odair Assad Rectial
  Sérgio Assad, Odair Assad
  Humanitas

Monday 13 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Environmental NGOs at a Crossroads
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 11 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - What We Cannot Know- a 'Book at Lunchtime' evening discussion
  Marcus du Sautoy (University of Oxford), Dr Anita Avramides (University of Oxford), Chrystalina Antoniades (University of Oxford), Professor Alister McGrath (University of Oxford), Professor Ben Morgan (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Callaloo Conference
  Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Margo Crawford (Cornell University), Vievee Francis (Dartmouth College), LeRonn Brooks (City University of New York), Dagmawi Woubshet (Cornell University), John Akomfrah, Anthony Bogues (Brown University), Joan Anim-Addo (Goldsmiths University of London), Nicole King (University of Reading), Hortense Spillers (Vanderbilt University), Robert Reid-Pharr

Wednesday 25 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - What Does Diversity Mean to Me?
  Professor Miles Hewstone (University of Oxford), Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, Professor Deborah Cameron (University of Oxford), Dr Maria Misra, Mayor Marvin Rees, Dr Jay Stewart
  Humanities & Identities

Thursday 28 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - The Making of the Humanities VI
  Prof. Elisabeth Décultot (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Dr Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town), Professor Peter Mandler (Professor of Modern Cultural History, University of Cambridge )

Tuesday 10 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Hidden Beneath the Surface: Untold Tales of Neurodivergence and Mental Difference in Oxford
  Dan Holloway, Sonia (Boué), Miranda Reilly (University of Oxford)
  Humanities & Identities

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Representing the Dead: Epitaph Fictions in Late-Medieval France
  Helen Swift, Jessica Goodman (St Catherine’s College), Neil Kenny (University of Oxford), Michele Aaron (University of Warwick)
  Book at Lunchtime

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Late Victorian into Modern
  Professor Laura Marcus (New College, Oxford), Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Philip Bullock, Michael Bentley (University of St Andrews), Dr Charlotte Jones (University of Oxford)
  Book at Lunchtime

Friday 3 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - 'Divided Cities II: Culture, Infrastructure and the Urban Future'
  Various Speakers

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Una, 'Drawing Stories: Comics as Life-Writing'
  Una (Comics Artist)
  TORCH Network, 'Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form'

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Case Studies in Collaboration: Oxford University
  TBA

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Unlocking the Church
  William Whyte (St John’s College), Professor Mark Chapman, Dan Hicks (Oxford), Julia Smith (All Souls College)
  Book at Lunchtime

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Valuing Women with Disabilities; Infantilised, Medicalised, Pauperised?
  Dr Helen Brookman (King's College London), Julie Jaye Charles (Equalities National Council)

Thursday 5 July 2018 (11th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - Shakespeare and technology: digital creativity at the Royal Shakespeare Company Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development, Royal Shakespeare Company
  TBA

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - BEING HUMAN FESTIVAL 2018: Victorian Light Night
  No Speaker, screening only

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The Trio Owon - Lunchtime Concert
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - India’s Tipping Point? The 2019 Elections and the Modi Landslide
  Professor Rana Mitter, Dr Louise Tillin (King’s College London), Nur Laiq (TORCH - Humanities Division), James Manor (School of Advanced Studies), Pragya Tiwari

Saturday 19 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Writing for the Stage Workshop
  Sudha Bhuchar

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - TORCH Workshop: Collaborating with Theatres
  TBA

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Curating (in) a Crisis: Looking at Contemporary Art in an Era of Ecological Breakdown
  Anna Souter (Art History)

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - In Conversation with Robert Icke
  Professor Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford), Robert Icke
  Theatre and Performance Network

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - [CANCELLED] Lunchtime Walk
  EVENT CANCELLED
  TBA

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:15 - CANCELLED - Pain, Emotion and Embodiment in Old Norse Literature
  This event has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Sif Ríkharðsdóttir (University of Iceland)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - Soviet Cinema in Transnational Perspective Conference
  Various Speakers
• 16:30 - Reinventing Peace In an Age of Disorder
  Peter Frankopan (University of Oxford), Nur Laiq (TORCH - Humanities Division), Michael Scott (University of Warwick), Ricardo Soares de Oliveira

Monday 25 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Regarding the Portrait: The Primers
  Amy M Mooney (Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art), Moderator: Professor Alastair Wright (HoA, Oxford)
  Terra Lectures in American Art: Regarding the Portrait

Monday 1 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Regarding the Portrait: The Photographers
  Amy M Mooney (Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art), Moderator: Professor Deborah Willis (University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University)
  Terra Lectures in American Art: Regarding the Portrait

Monday 8 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Regarding the Portrait: The Progressives
  Amy M Mooney (Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art), Moderator: Melanie Chambliss (Assistant Professor in the Humanities, History, and Social Sciences at Columbia College Chicago)
  Terra Lectures in American Art: Regarding the Portrait

Wednesday 10 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - TORCH book at lunchtime: Prismatic Translation
  Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford)

Friday 19 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Contagion Cabaret: Post-show Decontamination Discussion
  Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford), Professor Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford), Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford)

Friday 16 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Online Study Day: Young Rembrandt and his works on paper
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 12 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of my City
  Professor Karen Leeder (University of Oxford), Professor Patrick Major (University of Reading), Edmund de Waal, Durs Grünbein
  Book at Lunchtime

Wednesday 9 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Book at Lunchtime: Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism
  Professor Abigail Green (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Levis Sullam (University of Oxford), Professor Adam Sutcliffe (University of Oxford), Dr Kei Hiruta (University of Oxford)
  Book at Lunchtime

Monday 14 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - Uprooting the Anthropocene: (re-)centring trees in tree-human relationships
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 13 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Book at Lunchtime: Living I Was Your Plague
  Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Kathryn Murphy (University of Oxford), Filippo de Vivo (University of Oxford)
  Book at Lunchtime

Thursday 3 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Race, Justice, and the Ecological Legacy of the Plantation in Southern Louisiana
  Justin Hosbey (Emory University)

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Discussion Group | The British Left and Anti-Imperialism: Networks of Empire, Networks of Resistance
  TBA

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - This event will be postponed to a later date | Aftermath: Preti Taneja in conversation
  TBA

Tuesday 29 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Medical and Digital Humanities | Lunchtime Workshop
  TBA

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - TORCH and DiSc Video Games and Academia panel series: Music and Sound in Games
  Various Speakers

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Indigenous Climate Knowledge in Africa and the Need for Global Climate Justice
  Professor Workineh Kelbessa (Addis Ababa University)

Tuesday 23 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network | Seminar 1
  Peter Sebastian Hatlebakk (University of Bergen), Lesley McKay ((University of the Highlands and Islands)
  Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network Seminars

Wednesday 31 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Authorship, Activism and Celebrity
  Sandra Meyer (TORCH), Dr Ruth Scobie (Early Career Research Fellow, TORCH)
  Book At Lunchtime

Monday 5 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 2
  Various Speakers
  Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group

Tuesday 6 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network | Seminar 2
  Tzen Sam (University of Oxford), Marie Martine (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network Seminars

Monday 19 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 3
  Various Speakers
  Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group: Session 4
  Various Speakers
  Ars Memoriae – Memory Studies Reading Group

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Politics of Memory: The Reimagination of Medieval India
  Fouzia Farooq AhmedAzam (Oxford/Quaid-i- University, Islamabad), Professor Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London), Nandini Chatterjee (Oxford), Moin Nizami (OxCIS)

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Locating Silences: The Status and Agency of Women in the Delhi Sultanate
  Fouzia Farooq AhmedAzam (Oxford/Quaid-i- University, Islamabad)