Humanities Division

The Humanities Division is one of four academic divisions in the University of Oxford, bringing together the faculties of Classics; English; History; Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics; Medieval and Modern Languages; Music; Oriental Studies; Philosophy; and Theology, as well as the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. The Division offers world-class teaching and research, backed by the superb resources of the University’s libraries and museums, including the famous Bodleian Library, with its 11 million volumes and priceless early book and manuscript collections, and the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Such historic resources are linked to cutting-edge agendas in research and teaching, with an increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary study. Our faculties are among the largest in the world, enabling Oxford to offer an education in Arts and Humanities unparalleled in its range of subjects, from music and fine art to ancient and modern languages.

Humanities Division

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Title	Description	People	Date
Medingen Manuscripts	For the launch of the Polonsky Foundation funded digitisation project of Manuscripts from the German Speaking Lands, Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford) talks about manuscripts from the Cistercian Abbey of Medingen (Lower Saxony).	Henrike Lähnemann	27 March, 2019
Second part of the masterclass: The Medingen Manuscripts in the Bodleian	Masterclass for the Leverhulme Doctoral Students with Henrike Lähnemann, filmed by Natascha Domeisen.	Henrike Lähnemann	27 March, 2019
Trailer: Medieval Manuscripts in the Bodleian	A film of a class for 'Publication Beyond Print', the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre. Filmed at the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, by Natascha Domeisen.	Daniel Wakelin, Henrike Lähnemann	27 March, 2019
Research behind... Understanding Misunderstanding	A podcast about a song about the parallels of fake news today and satire in the 18th Century based on research by Prof Abigail Williams at the University of Oxford	Abigail Williams	9 January, 2018
Research Behind... The Great Vape Debate	A podcast about a song about vaping based on the latest evidence from research from Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce at the University of Oxford	Jamie Hartmann-Boyce	9 January, 2018
Research Behind... Stomach is the Monarch	The research behind a song about how Victorians saw the conversation between the gut and mood, featuring an interview with researcher Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown at the University of Oxford	Emilie Taylor-Brown	9 January, 2018
Research Behind... Use the Digital to Make the World you Want to See	The research behind a song about mapping the internet and how it links to our physical world, based on research by Prof Mark Graham at the University of Oxford.	Mark Graham	8 January, 2018
Research Behind... Mars Quakes	The research behind a song about the quest to hear Marsquakes based on research by Dr Neil Bowles at the University of Oxford.	Neil Bowles	8 January, 2018
Marsquakes	A song about the quest to hear Marsquakes based on research by Dr Neil Bowles at the University of Oxford	Neil Bowles	16 October, 2017
Understanding Misunderstanding	A song about the parallels of fake news today and satire in the 18th Century based on research by Prof Abigail Williams at the University of Oxford	Abigail Williams	16 October, 2017
The Great Vape Debate	A song about vaping based on the latest evidence from research, from Dr Jamie Hartmann-Boyce at the University of Oxford	Jamie Hartmann-Boyce	16 October, 2017
Stomach is the Monarch	A song about how Victorians saw the conversation between the gut and mood, based on research by Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown at the University of Oxford	Emilie Taylor-Brown	16 October, 2017
Use the Digital to Make the World you Want to See	A song about mapping the internet and how it links to our physical world, based on research by Prof Mark Graham at the University of Oxford.	Mark Graham	16 October, 2017
2017 Closing Keynote: What Happens When the Internet of Things Meets the Humanities?	Andrew Prescott, University of Glasgow and AHRC Theme Leader Fellow for Digital Transformations, gives the closing keynote for the 2017 DHOXSS.	Andrew Prescott	7 July, 2017
Wikimedia: Wikipedia's sister projects as platforms for Digital Humanities	Martin Poulter, Oxford's Wikimedian in Reseidence, gives a masterclass in using Wikimedia for digital research.	Martin Poulter	7 July, 2017
Working with very large corpora: Building your worksets in the HathiTrust	Kevin Page, Iain Emsley and David Weigl talk about using The HathiTrust Digital Library to conduct research in this interstice workshop.	Kevin Page, Iain Emsley, David Weigl	7 July, 2017
Ada Lovelace: Creative computing and an experimental humanities	Pip Willcox and David De Roure give a presentation on Ada Lovelace, one of the early pioneers in computing.	Pip Wilcox, David De Roure	7 July, 2017
Big Data and the Humanities: How digital research, computational techniques and big data contribute to knowledge	Professor Ralph Schroeder, Senior Research Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute and Laird Barrett, Senior Digital Product Manager for the Taylor and Francis Group, give a talk for DHOXSS 2017.	Ralph Schroede, Laird Barrett	6 July, 2017
The Quill Project: Modelling and Visualizing the Creation of the American Constitution	Dr Nicholas Cole and Dr Alfie Abdul-Rahman discuss the Quill Project, a software platform developed to aid research and teaching of the history of Parliamentary-style negotiations, and particularuarly the creation of the Constitution of the United States.	Nicholas Cole, Alfie Abdul-Rahman	5 July, 2017
Seeing is Believing: Computer vision and machine learning for image collections	Giles Bergel gives a talk on using new technologies to understand the history of books and printing.	Giles Bergel	5 July, 2017
15cBOOKTRADE: The visualization of the circulation of books over time and space and image-searching tool: how we got there	Cristina Dondi and Matilde Malaspina of the 15C BOOKTRADE project, give a talk for the 2017 DHOXSS.	Cristina Dondi, Matilde Malaspina	4 July, 2017
Bringing order to chaos: Using Face and Pattern Recognition on Photo Archives	This talk explains how David has been using Face and Pattern Recognition on an otherwise undocumented photographic archive from Cameroon to identify patterns and connections between images. Similar approaches are possible online.	David Zeitlyn	4 July, 2017
Encoding and Encoded Texts	Panel chaired by Pip Wilcox, with Barbara McGillivray, Megan Senseney and Nicholas Cole.	Pip Wilcox, Barbara McGillivray, Megan Senseney, Nicholas Cole.	4 July, 2017
2017 Opening Keynote: Jack of all Trades, Master of One: the Promise of Intermethodological Collaboration	Dr Diane Jakacki, Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Faculty Teaching Associate in Comparative Humanities, Bucknell University , gives the opening keynote to the 2017 Digital Humanities at Oxford Seminar School.	Diane Jakacki	4 July, 2017
Interview with Tom Stoppard	Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard talks about the role of diversity in theatre	Tom Stoppard	19 July, 2016
Tom Stoppard Q&A	Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard Q&A with Professor Dame Hermione Lee.	Tom Stoppard, Hermione Lee	11 July, 2016
Closing Keynote: Open Access and Digital Humanities – Opening up to the World	Isabel Galina, (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) gives the closing keynote for the 2016 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.	Isabel Galina	8 July, 2016
Tales of the Bodleian's First Folio	Pip Wilcox, Curator of Digital Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the 2016 DHOXSS on Shakespeare's First Folio, held by the Bodleian.	Pip Wilcox	8 July, 2016
Building and Analyzing a Semantic Network	Maria Telegina, (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the 2016 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.	Maria Telegina	8 July, 2016
An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance	Cristina Dondi, (Modern Languages, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the 2016 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.	Cristina Dondi	8 July, 2016
Graphic Motifs as an Aid to Handwritten Archive Transcription and Searching	Chris Powell, (The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the 2016 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.	Chris Powell	7 July, 2016
Linked Data and Leitmotifs – Digitally Researching the Reception of Richard Wagner’s Music-Dramas	Carolin Rindfleisch, (Faculty of Music, University of Oxford), gives a talk for the 2016 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.	Carolin Rindfleisch	7 July, 2016
Imaging Beyond the Institution: How DIY Digitization Impacts Research	Judith Siefring, (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the 2016 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.	Judith Siefring	6 July, 2016
Big Data and the Humanities	Ralph Schroeder, (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford) and Laird Barrett (Taylor & Francis) give a talk for the DHOXSS 2016.	Ralph Schroeder, Laird Barrett	6 July, 2016
Hidden Museum: Connecting Collections in Context	Scott Billings, (Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford), Theodore Koterwas, (IT Services, University of Oxford), Jessica Suess, (Oxford University Museums, University of Oxford), give a talk for the DHOXSS 2016.	Scott Billings, Jessica Suess, Theodore Koterwas	6 July, 2016
ViTA: Visualization for Text Alignment	Alfie Abdul-Rahman, (Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford) gives a talk for the 2016 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.	Alfie Abdul-Rahman	6 July, 2016
Tom Stoppard Lecture	Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard delivers a public lecture	Tom Stoppard	5 July, 2016
Opening Keynote: Identifying the point of it all: Towards a Model of "Digital Infrapuncture",	Deb Verhoeven, (Deakin University) gives the opening keynote talk for the 2016 Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.	Deb Verhoeven	5 July, 2016
Simon Schama on Public History	What does hip hop have in common with Herodotus? In this lecture celebrated historian Simon Schama explores the tradition of public history drawing on Walter Scott, Thomas Carlyle, Winston Churchill and Lin-Manuel Miranda.	Simon Schama	20 May, 2016
The Past and its Publics	Simon Schama, Craig Clunas and Margaret MacMillan tackle the thorny question of how the past should interact with the public, or publics, who consume it.	Simon Schama, Margaret MacMillan, Craig Clunas	20 May, 2016
Kapellmeister or Conductor	Part of the Christian Thielemann Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies 2015-2016	Christian Thielemann, Roger Allen	23 February, 2016
Performing Opera	Part of the Christian Thielemann Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies 2015-2016	Christian Thielemann, Roger Allen, Matthew Reese, Peter Franklin, Barry Millington, Barbara Eichner	23 February, 2016
Regietheater Revisited	Part of the Christian Thielemann Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies 2015-2016	Christian Thielemann, Peter Franklin, Barry Millington, Suzanne Aspden	23 February, 2016
A Conductor's Point of View	A lecture by Christian Thielemann	Christian Thielemann	22 February, 2016
Masterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Abbess Bärbel Görcke (Mariensee): The Prayer-Book of Abbess Odilia	Multiple presentations from the German Studies Staff	Henrike Lähnemann, Abbess Bärbel Görcke	22 February, 2016
Masterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Ulrike Hascher-Burger (Utrecht): Musical Notation	Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts	Henrike Lähnemann, Ulrike Hascher-Burger	22 February, 2016
Masterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Alan Coates (Oxford): The Incunable Traces	Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts	Henrike Lähnemann, Alan Coates	22 February, 2016
Masterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Nigel F. Palmer (Oxford): Cistercian Punctuation	Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts	Henrike Lähnemann, Nigel Palmer	22 February, 2016
Masterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Andrew Honey (Oxford): The Plaque in the Psalter and the Bindings	Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts	Henrike Lähnemann, Andrew Honey	22 February, 2016
Masterclass Medingen Manuscripts: Henrike Lähnemann (Oxford): Introduction	Presentations about the Medingen Manuscripts	Henrike Lähnemann	22 February, 2016
Humanities. Are they important?	Humanitas Visting Professor Stephen Greenblatt discusses whether humanities are important.	Stephen Greenblatt	17 November, 2015
Uneasy Dreams: the Becoming of Digital Scholarship	James Loxley, University of Edinburgh, gives the final keynote in the DHOXSS 2015.	James Loxley	10 August, 2015
The Online Corpus of Inscriptions from Ancient North Arabia	Daniel Burt, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the DHOXSS 2015.	Daniel Burt	10 August, 2015
If a Picture is Worth 1000 Words, What's a Medium Quality Scan Worth?	David Zeitlyn, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the DHOXSS 2015.	David Zeitlyn	10 August, 2015
Crowdsourced Text Transcription	Victoria Van Hyning, Zooniverse, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the DHOXSS 2015.	Victoria Van Hyning	10 August, 2015
Let Your Projects Shine: Lightweight Usability Testing for Digital Humanities Projects	Mia Ridge, Digital Humanities, Open University, gives a talk for the DHOXSS 2015.	Mia Ridge	10 August, 2015
Networking⁴: Reassembling the Republic of Letters, 1500-1800	Howard Hotson, Faculty of History, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the DHOXSS 2015.	Howard Hotson	10 August, 2015
Mapping Digital Pathways to Enhance Visitor Experience	Jessica Suess, University of Oxford Museums and Anjanesh Babu, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, give a talk for the DHOXSS 2015.	Jessica Suess, Anjanesh Babu	10 August, 2015
Digital Image Corruption - Where It Comes From and How to Detect It	Chris Powell, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the 2015 DHOXSS.	Chris Powell	10 August, 2015
Digital Transformations	Panel discussion for th DHOXSS 2015.	David De Roure, Lucie Burgess, Tim Crawford, Jane Winters, Andrew Prescott	10 August, 2015
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Digital	Jane Winters, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, gives the opening keynote talk for the 2015 DHOXSS.	Jane Winters	10 August, 2015
Between Art and Architecture	A lecture by celebrated artist Maya Lin	Maya Lin	6 August, 2015
Rationality versus emotionality in the century of extremes	Professor Ute Frevert discusses rationality vs emotionality with a response from Professor Barbara Rosenwein	Ute Frevert, Barbara Rosenwein	19 May, 2015
How can there be a history of emotions?	Professor Barbara Rosenwein explores the history of emotions	Barbara Rosenwein, Ute Frevert	19 May, 2015
Challenges Facing American Intelligence	Professor John McLaughlin discusses Challenges facing American Intelligence	John McLaughlin	19 May, 2015
An Intelligence Officer Looks at Terrorism: Where it's Been, Where it's heading	Professor John McLaughlin looks at Terrorism in the 21st Century	John McLaughlin	19 May, 2015
Generations of Feeling	Barbara Rosenwein discusses the generations of feeling	Barbara Rosenwein	18 May, 2015
Between the artist and the museum	A symposium with Vik Muniz and Michael Govan (Chief Executive Officer and Wallis Annenberg Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Chaired by Paul Hobson (Director, Modern Art Oxford)	Vik Muniz, Michael Govan, Wallis Annenberg, Paul Hobson	11 August, 2014
Class dismissed... Art, creativity and education	A lecture by Vik Muniz, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Contemporary Arts	Vik Muniz	11 August, 2014
Ukiyo-e to Emoji: Museums in the Digital Age	Martin Roth, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, delivers the annual TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) open lecture at the DHOxSS 2014.	Martin Roth	4 August, 2014
Beyond Digital Humanities: Skills, Application and Collaboration	A thought-provoking closing keynote given by Melissa Terras, University College London, at DHOxSS 2014.	Melissa Terras	24 July, 2014
Electrifying the 'Via Lucis': communication technologies and republics of letters, past, present and future	A talk given by Howard Hotson, University of Oxford, at DHOxSS 2014.	Howard Hotson	23 July, 2014
Creating and Sustaining DH Teams: Scaling from the Smaller to the Larger, from the Individual to the Institution and Beyond	A talk given by Lynne Siemens, University of Victoria at DHOxSS 2014.	Lynne Siemens	23 July, 2014
Ancient Lives: Classics and Digital Humanities at Oxford	James Brusuelas from the Faculty of Classics, Oxford University, gives a talk at DHOxSS 2014, around the Ancient Lives project.	James Brusuelas	23 July, 2014
Panel - The Future of Data Access and Preservation	This panel discussion will bring together those working in the area of data access and preservation to discuss the numerous problems and future possibilities of data curation, preservation, and long-term access.	David De Roure, William Kilbride, Christine Madsen, Carole L. Palmer, Allen H. Renear, Kenji Takeda	23 July, 2014
Obtaining the Unobtainable: The Holy Grail of Seed Funding for Small-Scale Digital Projects	A talk given by Emma Goodwin, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Oxford, at DHOxSS 2014.	Emma Goodwin	23 July, 2014
If a picture is worth 1000 words what's a medium quality scan worth?	This presentation from DHOxSS 2014 is based on the practical experience of archiving 46 thousand (plus) images taken by a Cameroonian studio photographer over a 30 years period as part of the British Library ‘Endangered Archive Programme' (EAP).	David Zeitlyn	23 July, 2014
Panel - Scholarly Digital Editing	This panel discussion will bring together those working in the area of scholarly digital editing to examine how and why such editions should and are being made and what issues and assumptions we bring to the creation of scholarly digital editions.	Pip Wilcox, Lou Burnard, Eugene Giddens, Eleanor Lowe, Judith Siefring, Ray Siemens	23 July, 2014
Community, Community of Practice, and the Methodological Commons	This talk considers notions of community, community of practice, and the methodological commons as it applies to the digital humanities. A keynote by Ray Siemens, University of Victoria from DHOxSS 2014.	Ray Siemens	23 July, 2014
Renée Fleming, "In Conversation"	Humanitas Visiting Professor in Opera Studies Renée Fleming, in conversation with Edward Seckerson.	Renée Fleming, Edward Seckerson	10 July, 2014
Kelly Reichardt "In Conversation"	Filmmaker and Humanitas Visiting Professor in Film and Television, Kelly Reichardt, in conversation about her films.	Kelly Reichardt	12 June, 2014
Histories of the Self	A roundtable discussion with Lynn Hunt (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography), Lyndal Roper (Regius Professor of History) and Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English).	Lynn Hunt, Lyndal Roper, Elleke Boehmer	29 May, 2014
The French Revolution in a Global Perspective	A lecture by the Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography, Lynn Hunt.	Lynn Hunt	29 May, 2014
Do Human Rights Need a History?	Lynn Hunt (Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography) in discussion with Sandra Fredman (Rhodes Professor of Law & Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations)	Lynn Hunt, Sandra Fredman	29 May, 2014
Michael Govan lecture - "A View from the Pacific: Re-envisioning the Art Museum"	The Director of the Los Angeles County Museum gives a talk for the Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Museums, Galleries and Libraries. Chaired by Christopher Brown (Director, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford).	Michael Govan, Christopher Brown	28 May, 2014
The Bodleian First Folio: A Story of Digital Engagement	This talk presents an overview of the 2012 campaign that took up the story of the Bodleian First Folio (a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio), the collaboration that made it possible, its outreach activity, and its future.	Pip Wilcox	1 April, 2014
Crowdsourcing Community Collections: The Oxford Community Collection Model	In this presentation Kate Lindsay introduces the Oxford Community Collection Model, part of the Community Collections and Crowdsourcing Service based at the University of Oxford.	Kate Lindsay	1 April, 2014
Digital Humanities Research Support and Training in Oxford	James surveys the kinds of support provided for digital humanities by the University of Oxford for those inside and outside the University.	James Cummings	1 April, 2014
Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Interdisciplinarity	Kathryn Eccles talks about her research around the virtual art collection Your Paintings, and talk about what interdisciplinary insights can be gleaned from crowdsourcing platforms such as Your Paintings Tagger.	Kathryn Eccles	1 April, 2014
Poetry Visualisation on the Web	Alfie presents an example of how existing web tools can be used to create a visualization application for poetry.	Alfie Abdul-Rahman	1 April, 2014
Launch of Crowd Map The Crusades	Pat presents Crowd Map The Crusades, a proof-of-concept transcription and mapping project, which is affiliated with the ‘Promoting Interdisciplinary Engagment in the Digital Humanities’ (dhAHRC) project and hosted at www.dhcrowdscribe.com.	Patrick Lockley	1 April, 2014
Introduction to dhAHRC and Launch of Crowd Map The Crusades	Emma introduces the series and Crowd Map The Crusades, a proof-of-concept transcription and mapping project, which is affiliated with the ‘Promoting Interdisciplinary Engagment in the Digital Humanities’ (dhAHRC) and hosted at www.dhcrowdscribe.com.	Emma Goodwin	1 April, 2014
General Hayden, Lecture: "Terrorism and Islam's Civil War: Whither the Threat?"	Former Director of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency General Hayden gives a talk for the Humanitas visiting professorship in Intelligence Studies and Islamism	Michael Hayden	25 February, 2014
General Hayden, Lecture: "My Government, My Security and Me"	Former Director of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency General Hayden gives a talk for the Humanitas visiting professorship in Intelligence Studies	Michael Hayden	25 February, 2014
Rowan Williams, Lecture: ‘Faith and Human Flourishing: religious belief and ideals of maturity’?	Rowan Williams, visiting professor in Interfaith Studies, gives a lecture on religious beliefs and human flourishing	Rowan Williams	12 February, 2014
Rowan Williams, In Conversation with Jon Snow	Rowan Williams, visiting professor in Interfaith Studies, in conversation with Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow	Rowan Williams, Jon Snow	12 February, 2014
Rowan Williams; Faith, Force and Authority: does religious belief change our understanding of how power works in society?	Dr Williams, Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, gives a talk on religious belief and how it relates to power in sociey	Rowan Williams	12 February, 2014
Imogen Cooper In Concert: Recital: Schubert	Imogen Cooper, Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Classical Music and Music Education gives a recital of Schubert's 4 Impromptus D899, Sonata in a minor D784, 11 Ecossaises D781, Sonata in D major D850.	Imogen Cooper	17 September, 2013
Imogen Cooper: Masterclass	Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Classical Music and Music Education, Imogen Cooper, gives a piano masterclass to students.	Imogen Cooper	17 September, 2013
13.Bodleian Ballads Online: engagement for performance, teaching and research.	Cultural Connections talk by Giles Bergel. Part of the Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School 2013.	Giles Bergel	8 August, 2013

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