OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
This qual hub is based around a new BA/Leverhulme funded project ‘The Gujarati Navigator: exploring journeys of information, knowledge and expertise’ that is working to re-explore the archival evidence of the Gujarati Navigator who guided Vasco Da Gama across the Arabian sea. Archival research plays a relatively small role in educational research, but critical work on the archives has the potential to shed new light on old stories and lead to quite different and more expansive re-tellings of narratives about subjects and disciplines. By re-examining archives in Mombasa, Kerala and the Bodleian, the project hopes to expand our understandings of the circulation of knowledge and expertise at the time, and to contribute to ongoing efforts to rethink the origin stories that are told about the subject of geography. It will offer an introduction to critical archival research and the concept of ‘unsettling’ the archives before reflecting on wider interactions between educational research and critical archival work.
