• Type: Seminar Series
• Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)

Friday 20 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘On Madness and Expertise: the Atomic bomb and visions of Global order in the 1940s’
  Dr Or Rosenboim (Cambridge)

Monday 23 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Crises in science and a crisis for science’
  Professor Alexander Bird (Bristol)

Friday 3 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Language, crisis and affect: Muted emotions in Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kolhaas’
  Dr Tobias Heinrich (Oxford, German)

Monday 13 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘The Concept of the Transformational Leap in Russian Culture’
  Professor Andrei Zorin (Oxford, Russian)

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Emergency, Imagination and Management’
  Professor Steven Connor (Cambridge)

Tuesday 25 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - EXTREME PIETY AND FUNDAMENTALISM
  TBA

Thursday 27 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:15 - DYSTOPIA TODAY
  Professor Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Friday 28 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Robespierre and the Politicians' Terror
  Professor Marisa Linton (Kingston University))

Monday 8 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Terminus or Renovation? Francis Bacon and Crisis in Early Modern Kowledge
  Dr Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge)

Tuesday 16 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - A GENRE IN CRISIS: THE NOVEL IN 1940S FRANCE
  Professor Ann Jefferson (French)

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - SATTELZEIT AS ENDZEIT? MAKING SENSE OF CATASTROPHIC CHANGE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  Professor Joachim Whaley (Cambridge)
• 17:00 - SATTELZEIT AS ENDZEIT? MAKING SENSE OF CATASTROPHIC CHANGE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  Professor Joachim Whaley (Cambridge)
• 17:00 - Sattelzeit as Endzeit? Making Sense of Catastrophic Change in the Nineteenth Century
  Professor Joachim Whaley (Cambridge)

Friday 19 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - A Genre in Crisis: The Novel in 1940s France
  Professor Ann Jefferson (French)
• 13:00 - Workshop- Sacrifice Revisited
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - SACRIFICE REVISITED
  Dr Faisal Devji
• 13:00 - SACRIFICE REVISITED
  Dr Faisal Devji, Dr Jonathan Leader Maynard (Oxford)

Thursday 1 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - FASCISM, FAKE NEWS, AND THE NATURE OF SOCIAL EXTREMOPHILIA
  Professor Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford))
• 17:00 - Fascism, Fake News, and the Nature of Social Extremophilia
  Professor Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford))

Monday 5 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Between Historiography and literature: "Gershom Sholem's intellectual biography"
  Dr Amir Engel (Hebrew University)
• 17:00 - Gershom Scholem
  Dr Amir Engel (Hebrew University)

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Workshop: Crisis of Meaning and Political Theology
  Various Speakers

Monday 12 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - How the Mouse Lost its Tail, or Lamarck's Dangerous Idea
  Professor Jessica Riskin (University of Stanford)
• 17:00 - HOW THE MOUSE LOST ITS TAIL, OR, LAMARCK'S DANGEROUS IDEA
  Professor Jessica Riskin (University of Stanford)

Tuesday 13 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Early Career Conference: Rethinking Crisis
  Keynote: Professor Simon Glendinning (LSE)