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TORCH

We are TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
Part of the Humanities Division - a hub for multi-disciplinary research projects and research engagement at the University of Oxford

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Research Hubs and Networks

We seed and incubate interdisciplinary Research Networks and support strategic interdisciplinary Research Hubs

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International

We support researchers in International engagement, through strategic partnerships, projects, and fellowships

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Knowledge Exchange

Mutually beneficial collaborations between researchers and organisations external to the University

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Public Engagement with Research

Collaboration and co-creation with the public through research

10 Oct

Adventures in Consciousness

Various Locations

16 Oct

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group MT2024

Meeting Room 4, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG

25 Oct

APGRD term card: Michaelmas '24

Events in various locations

7 Nov

A Flat Place

Blackwell's Bookshop, Oxford, 48-51 Broad Street, OX1 3BQ

7 Nov

Hurrian mythology in a Hittite political context

Faculty of Classics, 66 St. Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU

Seminar

7 Nov

Fiction and Other Minds: Contingent Minds: Companions, Proxies and Nobodies in Literary Writing

Sultan Nazrin Shah Auditorium, Worcester College

7 Nov

The Outlawed Workers: In conversation with the English Collective of Prostitutes

Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College, Oxford, OX1 3JP - Registration required

8 Nov

Environmental Humanities Reading Group - Collaboration with EEHN

Online - registration required

8 Nov

Digital Spaces & Creative Methodologies Panel

Colin Matthew Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG

11 Nov

Fantasy Futures: Guardians of Oxford

1 George Street Oxford OX1 3EZ

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12 Nov

AI, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation: The First Symposium

Seminar Room 10 and Outreach Room, St Anne's College

13 Nov

Book at Lunchtime: The Life of Nuns

Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford

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TORCH Talks

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TORCH

What we do

Research Hubs and Networks

International

Knowledge Exchange

Public Engagement with Research

What's on

Adventures in Consciousness

Medical Humanities Early Career and DPhil Writing Group MT2024

APGRD term card: Michaelmas '24

A Flat Place

Hurrian mythology in a Hittite political context

Fiction and Other Minds: Contingent Minds: Companions, Proxies and Nobodies in Literary Writing

The Outlawed Workers: In conversation with the English Collective of Prostitutes

Environmental Humanities Reading Group - Collaboration with EEHN

Digital Spaces & Creative Methodologies Panel

Fantasy Futures: Guardians of Oxford

AI, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation: The First Symposium

Book at Lunchtime: The Life of Nuns

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