| Silences |
Silences explores what we mean by silence and what silence means to us. Interweaving silences, sounds and voices, it reveals the rich pleasures and mysteries of experiences without noises or words. |
Kate McLoughlin, Ariane Jeßulat, Sylee Gore, Thorsten Weigelt, Kirsten Reese, Fritz Schlueter, Alberto de Campo |
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| Out of Silence 1: William Shakespeare |
From the Silence Hub Network. Professor Alexandra Harris discusses Shakespeare's sonnet 23, communication in lockdown, body language and masks with Professor Kate McLoughlin. |
Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Out of Silence 2: Virginia Woolf |
From the Silence Hub. Professors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin discuss Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, how the lockdown makes us feel self-conscious and what it feels like to live in momentous historical times. |
Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Out of Silence 3: DH Lawrence |
From the Silence Hub Network. Professors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin read D. H. Lawrence's poem 'Silence' and discuss the beauty and terror of silence, sex and death wishes. |
Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Out of Silence 4: William Cowper |
From the Network. Silence HubProfessors Alexandra Harris and Kate McLoughlin read lines from The Task by the eighteenth-century poet William Cowper and discuss the value of staying at home and not doing very much. |
Alexandra Harris, Kate McLoughlin |
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| The First World War, India and Empire |
Professor Santanu Das discusses the complexity of commemoration, the messiness of history and the role of scholarly emotion with Kate McLoughlin. |
Kate McLoughlin, Santanu Das |
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| Veteran Poetics |
Book at Lunchtime: Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 |
Suzan Kalayci, Kate McLoughlin, Santanu Das, Elleke Boehmer |
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| What is a War Poem? |
Kate McLoughlin explores how we might define a war poem. |
Kate McLoughlin |
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| Singing in the Age of Anxiety |
Laura will be joined an expert panel to discuss the book and its themes; Dr Benjamin Walton (Jesus, Cambridge), Professor Kate McLoughlin (Harris Manchester, Oxford). Chaired by Professor Philip R. Bullock (Wadham, Oxford). |
Laura Tunbridge, Kate McLoughlin, Philip Bullock, Benjamin Walton |
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| Interview with Lord William Wallace |
Lord William Wallace, member of the Parliament Choir, talks to Professor Kate McLoughlin about the centenary commemorations of the First World War. |
William Wallace, Kate McLoughlin |
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| John Dunston speaks to Kate McLoughlin |
John Dunston and Kate McLoughlin explore varieties of religious silence and the relationship between silence and commemoration. |
John Dunston, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Jonathan Dove speaks to Kate McLoughlin |
Composer Jonathan Dove talks to Kate McLoughlin about commemorating through music and music’s power to make us remember in the wake of individual and mass loss. |
Jonathan Dove, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Laura Hassler speaks to Kate McLoughlin |
Laura Hassler, Founding Director of Musicians without Borders, talks to Kate McLoughlin about her vision for the organisation and music’s potential in giving voice, recognition and empowerment to post-conflict communities. |
Laura Hassler, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Pfarrerin Dr Cornelia Kulawik speaks to Kate McLoughlin |
Pfarrerin Dr Cornelia Kulawik, Pastor of Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Berlin-Dahlem, and Kate McLoughlin discuss changing modes of commemoration in Germany and the role of the church in reconciliation past and present. |
Cornelia Kulawik, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Jane Potter speaks to Kate McLoughlin |
Dr Jane Potter, Reader in Arts at Oxford Brookes University, talks to Kate McLoughlin about textual and material commemorative cultures and the central role of words and language in the reconstruction and renegotiation of memory. |
Jane Potter, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Elleke Boehmer speaks to Kate McLoughlin |
Elleke Boehmer talks to Kate McLoughlin about her most recent novel, The Shouting in the Dark, the language of reconciliation in South Africa, and the creative potential for the work of both fiction and literary criticism. |
Elleke Boehmer, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Philippe Sands speaks to Kate McLoughlin |
Philippe Sands, QC, international human rights lawyer and author of East West Street, talks to Kate McLoughlin about the law-court as a place of commemoration and what he came to understand outside the city of Lviv. |
Philippe Sands, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Literature and Silence |
Research into multiple Quaker congregations. |
Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Humanities Knowledge Exchange Showcase |
Knowledge Exchange is the mutually beneficial sharing of ideas, data, experience, and expertise, and involves collaboration between researchers and external organisations or the public. |
Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Toby Young, Kate McLoughlin |
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| Hemingway vs Gellhorn: A Famous D-Day Rivalry |
Kate McLoughlin offers an intriguing case study of the gendering of writerly fame. |
Kate McLoughlin |
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