Humanities Cultural Programme - Funding Awards Announced

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As part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, TORCH is delighted to announce that the following funding applications have been successful, and granted funding for their exciting projects and visiting fellowships. Keep up to date with activity over the next few months by signing up to the TORCH Newsletter.

 

For full information on the Humanities Cultural Programme, and upcoming funding application deadlines please click here.

2019-2020 Humanities Cultural Programme Funding Awards

 

Project Fund (in order of date awarded)

Dr Alexandra Lloyd (Medieval & Modern Languages & Literature Faculty)

Voices from the Past: Remembering the White Rose Project
Performance with Sansara

 

Dr Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey (Music Faculty)

Oxford Schools Intercultural Music Exchange Project
Performance series with Orchestra of St John’s, Oxford Spires Academy and Magdalen College School and Oxford Festival of the Arts

 

Shawanda Corbett (Ruskin School of Art)

Women in Craft Project

Talk and performance series

 

Professor Catriona Seth (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages); Laura Tunbridge (Faculty of Music) and Frédéric Thibault-Starzyk (Maison Française)

#OxOnSong

Talk and Performance series with Maison Française

 

Dr David de Roure (Department of Engineering Science)

EXPO: Nature

Festival and Performance

 

Professor Emma Smith (English Faculty)

Sensational Books Sound Project

Workshops, Exhibition & Performance with Fusion Arts

 

Professor Karen Leeder (Medieval & Modern Languages & Literature Faculty)

Multilingual Landscapes: LANDSCHAFT in the UK

Workshops, Performance, book launch

 

Yizhou Liu (Oriental Studies Faculty)

The Madhyamavyyoga: A Sanskrit Play in the Ancient Dramaturgical Tradition

Performance

 

Caroline Elliott (English Faculty)

The Gentlewomen: An Opera Collage

Performance with Dr Laurie Stras, Huddersfield University

 

Professor Ian Thompson (Oxford Martin School)

Acting Outside the Box

Knowledge Exchange workshops with Mandala Theatre Company

 

Professor Martyn Harry (Music Faculty)

Vehicles: Can Opera Inspire Creativity and Innovative Thinking in Young People?

Workshop and performance series

 

Professor Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci (History Faculty)

Syria and Silence

Pop-up Library and Public Engagement Series

 

Visiting Fellowship Fund:

Sophie Jai, Author of Wild Fires

Writer in Residence, St Edmund Hall (Hilary 2020)

 

Assoc. Prof Justin Torres – Author of We the Animals

Writer in Residence, St Edmund Hall (Michaelmas 2020)

 

Details of project related events will be announced in the events section.

Successful applications to the Humanities Cultural Programme Project Fund and Visiting Fellowship Fund will be announced regularly each year.