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
Talking Sense is a research project at the University of Oxford, hosted in partnership with the Ashmolean Museum and funded by the AHRC-TORCH Graduate Fund. The project brings together a group of doctoral students and early career researchers from different academic disciplines across the humanities and the sciences to explore the subject of the senses. This series of interdisciplinary gallery talks brings the latest academic research and ideas by Oxford students to the wider public.
During the 2018–19 academic year, researchers held in-depth conversations about their own research on the senses and about how objects in the Ashmolean’s collection can be used to understand the significance of the senses at different times and places. Some of the project’s central questions include: how are the senses used in different areas of life to construct meaning and value? How does their use and understanding vary across time and place? How can objects offer insights into the sensory worlds of different societies?
