• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: TORCH (University of Oxford )
• Timing: Tuesdays from 12:30-14:00; bring your lunch
• Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Raptor: A Journey through Birds.
  James Macdonald Lockhart (editor, Archipelago)

Tuesday 13 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - 'The Berwick Church Murals: Adjusting Our Gaze to the “local and particular"
  Dr Hana Leaper (Art History, Liverpool John Moores)

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - 'Lyric and Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Russian Song’
  Professor Philip Bullock (Director, TORCH)

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - 'Geometry of Narrative Spaces : Built Environment and Modern Prose’
  CANCELLED
  Michal Krenz (Brasenose)

Tuesday 6 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - ‘ I HATE THE LAKE DISTRICT’
  CANCELLED
  Professor Charlie Gere (Lancaster)

Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - 'WHY I HATE THE LAKE DISTRICT’
  Professor Charlie Gere (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts)

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - 'Nature’s Flights of Fancy: Natural Beauty as Environmental Self-Expression’, and Michal Krenz (English, Brasenose), 'Geometry of Narrative Spaces : Built Environment and the Modern Prose'
  Dr André Krebber (IASH Edinburgh)

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Roundtable—new graduate/ECR work in the environmental humanities
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 29 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - 'The Dim Heart of the Deep Sea': an ecocritical approach to medieval whale poetry
  Dr Alexandra Paddock (English, Keble)

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Professor Stephanie Dalley (Oriental Studies, Somerville)

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Environmental Humanities Social: a general get together to meet students, researchers, and artists working in the field—please do encourage students, colleagues, and artists to come.
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - ‘"The Dim Heart of the Deep Sea": an ecocritical approach to medieval whale poetry'.
  Dr Alexandra Paddock (English, Keble)

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - 'Taking it with you when you go: The case of the flying house of Loreto’
  Professor Dame Marina Warner (Quondam Fellow, All Souls)

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - On searching for DNA on ancient shipwrecks
  Dr Elizabeth Briggs (Somerville, Archaeological Science)

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - 'The Porous Barrier: Artist as Landscape or Landscape as Artist’.
  Anya Gleizer (Ruskin School of Art, St Edmund’s Hall)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The emotional histories of rabies in nineteenth-century London, New York and Paris
  Dr Chris Pearson (History, Liverpool)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The Sky as Mirror of the Mind: Exploring the Role of Light and Weather for Emotional Expression in Northern European Landscape Painting
  Dr Sophie Dietrich (Art History, Aberdeen)

Tuesday 19 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The Feel-Bad Environment in Contemporary Experimental Film
  Professor Nikolaj Lübecker (French and Film Studies, St John’s)

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

• 12:30 - Myth in the modern landscape
  Felix Taylor (English, St Hugh’s)

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - '"The lark was my companion all the way": Linnaeus as Lyricist'
  Dr Christy Edwall (New College)

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - ‘"After all, anybody is as their land and air is . . .": The Ground of the Modern English Novel'
  Professor Vince Pecora (University of Utah)

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - 'Landscapes of the Mind in Scandinavian Landscape Painting’
  Please note this talk has been moved to 11 June. There will not be a talk on 21 May.
  Dr Sophie Dietrich (Aberdeen)

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - 'Post-Global Aesthetics and the "Planetary Turn"'
  Dr Alexis Radisoglou (Lincoln College)

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - 'Landscapes of the Mind in Scandinavian Landscape Painting’
  Dr Sophie Dietrich (Aberdeen)

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Oxford: Winter Evenings, Lighted Windows
  Professor Peter Davidson (Campion Hall)

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Dr Nina Kruglikova leads a lunchtime walk
  N/A

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

• 12:30 - Curating (in) a Crisis: Looking at Contemporary Art in an Era of Ecological Breakdown
  This talk has been postponed until next term.
  Anna Souter (Art History)

Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - What's in a Village? - Tracing Landscape and Settlement Change across the Elgeyo Escarpment of Northwest Kenya
  This talk has been postponed until Hilary Term
  Samuel Lunn-Rokliffe (Archaeology, St Hugh’s), David Kay (Archaeology, Cambridge)

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

• 12:30 - Lunchtime walk
  This event has been postponed until Hilary Term
  N/A

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Curating (in) a Crisis: Looking at Contemporary Art in an Era of Ecological Breakdown
  Anna Souter (Art History)

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Latitudinal Landscapes: Art and Environment in the Circumpolar North
  Dr Isabelle Gapp (Art History)

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - 'A thousand wild flowers shone there without order or symmetry - restoring Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s vision of Elysium
  Timothy Walker (Biology, Somerville)

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Bernhard Schirg (University of Erfurt, Freigeist Fellow, Bodleian Visiting Fellow)

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA

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

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  CANCELLED: Please note, this lecture has been cancelled
  Henry Weikel (English, University College)