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Humanitas is a series of Visiting Professorships at Oxford and Cambridge intended to bring leading practitioners and scholars to both universities to address major themes in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Created by Lord Weidenfeld, the Programme is managed and funded by the Institute for…

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    Interview with Tom Stoppard

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2016 2:08


    Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard talks about the role of diversity in theatre Award-winning playwright and Humanitas Visiting Professor in Drama 2015-2016 Tom Stoppard discusses the role of diversity in theatre and the power of art to change people's attitudes.

    Tom Stoppard Q&A

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2016 51:34


    Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard Q&A with Professor Dame Hermione Lee. Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard Q&A with Professor Dame Hermione Lee (President of Wolfson College). Professor Dame Hermione Lee asks Tom Stoppard about his past and they explore memories of his working life as part of his Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Drama 2015-2016.

    Tom Stoppard Lecture

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2016 60:14


    Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard delivers a public lecture Award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard delivers a lecture on theatre. He explores the differences between attitudes in German and English theatre and playwrights, discusses Oscar Wilde's work, and talks about the satisfaction that is gained through collaboration.

    Simon Schama on Public History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2016 91:15


    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. http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/humdiv/humanitas/2016-05-01-humdiv-torch-schama-past-publics-2.mp4 http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/humdiv/humanitas/2016-05-02-humdiv-torch-schama-public-history-2.mp4

    The Past and its Publics

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2016 80:13


    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 (Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University), Craig Clunas (Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford) and Margaret MacMillan (Professor of International History, University of Oxford)

    Kapellmeister or Conductor

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 109:39


    Part of the Christian Thielemann Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies 2015-2016 Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies 2015-2016 Christian Thielemann in conversation with Roger Allen.

    Performing Opera

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 78:39


    Part of the Christian Thielemann Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies 2015-2016 Roundtable discussion with Roger Allen, Matthew Reese, Peter Franklin, Barry Millington, Christian Thielemann, and Barbara Eichner.

    Regietheater Revisited

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2016 78:50


    Part of the Christian Thielemann Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies 2015-2016 Roundtable discussion with Peter Franklin, Barry Millington, and Suzanne Aspden as part of the Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Opera Studies 2015-2016.

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    A Conductor's Point of View

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2016 72:28


    A lecture by Christian Thielemann Humanitas Visiting Professor in Opera Studies 2015-2016 Christian Thielemann discusses the commonalities and differences between Wagner and Strauss at a lecture on 21 January 2016.

    Humanities. Are they important?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2015 2:50


    Humanitas Visting Professor Stephen Greenblatt discusses whether humanities are important. Humanitas Visiting Professor in Museums, Galleries, and Libraries 2015-2016, Stephen Greenblatt, discusses whether humanities are important in a time when they are most pervasive in society, and when there seems to be a shrinking of public support for them.

    Between Art and Architecture

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2015 66:14


    A lecture by celebrated artist Maya Lin Celebrated artist Maya Lin discusses the relationship between her art, architecture and memorials; the inspiration behind her work; her experiments with scale; and her engagement with the natural world.

    Rationality versus emotionality in the century of extremes

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2015 40:31


    Professor Ute Frevert discusses rationality vs emotionality with a response from Professor Barbara Rosenwein Professor Ute Frevert talks "Rationality versus emotionality in the centry of extremes"

    How can there be a history of emotions?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2015 76:30


    Professor Barbara Rosenwein explores the history of emotions Humanitas Visiting Professor Barbara Rosenwein explores the history of emotions, with a response from Professor Ute Frevert

    Challenges Facing American Intelligence

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2015 67:33


    Professor John McLaughlin discusses Challenges facing American Intelligence

    An Intelligence Officer Looks at Terrorism: Where it's Been, Where it's heading

    Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2015 48:45


    Professor John McLaughlin looks at Terrorism in the 21st Century Humanitas Visiting Professor in Intelligence Studies John McLaughlin discusses Terrorism: Where it's been and his views on where it is heading.

    Generations of Feeling

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2015 46:49


    Barbara Rosenwein discusses the generations of feeling Humanitas Visiting Professor Barbar Rosenwein concludes her series on the "History of Emotions" with this lecture on the generation of feeling

    Between the artist and the museum

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2014 66:41


    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)

    Class dismissed... Art, creativity and education

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2014 80:43


    A lecture by Vik Muniz, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Contemporary Arts

    Renée Fleming, "In Conversation"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2014 46:45


    Humanitas Visiting Professor in Opera Studies Renée Fleming, in conversation with Edward Seckerson.

    Kelly Reichardt "In Conversation"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2014 78:13


    Filmmaker and Humanitas Visiting Professor in Film and Television, Kelly Reichardt, in conversation about her films. American landscapes and narratives of the road are themes that run throughout Reichardt’s five feature films: River of Grass (Strand Releasing, 1994), Old Joy (Kino International, 2006), Wendy and Lucy (Oscilloscope Pictures, 2008), Meek’s Cutoff (Oscilloscope Pictures, 2010) and Night Moves (Cinedigm, 2013); and the short narrative Ode (1999). Kelly has taught at School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York University and is currently an artist-in-residence at Bard College.

    Histories of the Self

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2014 46:26


    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).

    The French Revolution in a Global Perspective

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2014 52:20


    A lecture by the Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography, Lynn Hunt.

    Do Human Rights Need a History?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2014 56:36


    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)

    Michael Govan lecture - "A View from the Pacific: Re-envisioning the Art Museum"

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2014 57:02


    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).

    General Hayden, Lecture: "Terrorism and Islam's Civil War: Whither the Threat?"

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2014 61:40


    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

    General Hayden, Lecture: "My Government, My Security and Me"

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2014 45:54


    Former Director of the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency General Hayden gives a talk for the Humanitas visiting professorship in Intelligence Studies

    Rowan Williams, Lecture: ‘Faith and Human Flourishing: religious belief and ideals of maturity’?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2014 85:51


    Rowan Williams, visiting professor in Interfaith Studies, gives a lecture on religious beliefs and human flourishing

    Rowan Williams, In Conversation with Jon Snow

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2014 12:21


    Rowan Williams, visiting professor in Interfaith Studies, in conversation with Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow

    Rowan Williams; Faith, Force and Authority: does religious belief change our understanding of how power works in society?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2014 3:49


    Dr Williams, Master of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, gives a talk on religious belief and how it relates to power in sociey

    Imogen Cooper In Concert: Recital: Schubert

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2013 101:42


    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: Masterclass

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2013 150:32


    Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Classical Music and Music Education, Imogen Cooper, gives a piano masterclass to students.

    In conversation: Music theatre between opera and drama - Contemporary opera, modern staging, bad or good public.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2013 86:27


    Gerard Mortier in conversation with Ashutosh Khandekar, Editor of Opera Now followed by a roundtable discussion with Hugo Shirley, Deputy-Editor of Opera magazine.

    In conversation 'Mozart, our contemporary'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2013 94:07


    Gerard Mortier in discussion with Adeline Mueller, Weston Junior Research Fellow (Music), about Mozart and his influence on Classical music as part of the Humanitas lecture series on Opera Studies.

    The Salzburg Festival - circa 100 years after Hofmannsthal's idea about the festival

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2013 65:28


    Gerard Mortier gives a lecture about Opera for the Humanitas lecture series on Opera Studies.

    Acting Masterclass: "Lend me your ears"

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2013 67:49


    A practical Masterclass with Greg Doran from the Royal Shakespeare Company on how Shakespeare spins rhetoric for the actor, with Sam Leith, journalist and writer, and author of 'You Talkin' to Me'. Students from Oxford University Drama Society take part.

    Acting Masterclass: 'Pyramus, you begin'

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2013 95:04


    A practical Masterclass looking at what clues Shakespeare puts into the verse for the actor. Students from Oxford University Drama Society will take part in the masterclass with an audience.

    The Domain of the Poem: Lyric, Sign, Meaning and Rhythm in Contemporary Ars Poetica (1)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 65:00


    Don Paterson, acclaimed poet, gives a lecture for Humanitas lecture series on Comparative European Literature.

    Film Workshop: the cinema of Michael Winterbottom

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 85:26


    Filmmaker Michael Winterbottom hosts a workshop on Film for the Humanitas lecture series on Film and Television.

    Michael Winterbottom in Conversation: Genres, Adaptation and Contemporary Cinema

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 77:42


    Filmmaker Michael Winterbottom gives a talk for the Humanitas lecture series on Film and Television.

    Our Religious Traditions in a long Historical Perspective

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 89:37


    Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Interfaith Studies.

    Two Concepts of Sharia?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 46:26


    Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Interfaith Studies.

    One Century of 'Liberal islam': Where do we find ourselves now?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 77:45


    Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Interfaith Studies.

    Resisting Apologetics: What can we learn from Ibn Rushd and our contemporaries?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 62:59


    Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Interfaith Studies.

    Performance - interpretation or identification? Symposium

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 84:07


    Symposium with Imogen Cooper actor, Simon Callow, musicologist, Professor Eric Clarke and Professor Jason Stanyek.

    The Hidden Power of the Re-Creative Process in Music

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 50:38


    Imogen Cooper, 'Recognized worldwide as a pianist of virtuosity and poetic poise', gives a lecture for the Humanitas lecture series on Classical Music and Music Education.

    Albert Hourani Revisited: Arabic and Indian thought in the Liberal Age

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 60:42


    Professor Sir Christopher Bayly gives a talk for the Humanitas Lecture series on Historigraphy.

    Marshall G S Hodgson, Islam and World History

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 74:50


    Professor Sir Christopher Bayly gives a talk for the Humanitias lecture series in Historiography with a response from Dr Faisal Devji.

    Pictures and Texts

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 59:57


    A symposium with William Kentridge, Ivo Mesquita and Estrella de Diego Otero, chaired by Shearer West on Thursday 9 May 2013 in the Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, Oxford.

    Thinking on one's feet and Museums: experience versus numbers

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 128:08


    Double inaugural lecture with William Kentridge and Ivo Mesquita, chaired by Seamus Perry.

    In Conversation: Writing the History of Reason

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 34:10


    Professor Lorraine Daston in conversation with Professor Sally Shuttleworth.

    Symposium - The New History of Scientific Experience: Observing, Experimenting, Collecting, Representing and Reading in Early Modern Europe

    Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 64:22


    With Professor Lorraine Daston, Dr Simon Werrett (UCL), Dr Rhodri Lewis (Oxford), Dr Sachiko Kusukawa (Cambridge) and Prof Martin Mulsow (Erfurt), chaired by Prof Laurence Brockliss (Oxford).

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