Talking Sense Podcast
1) Episode 16: 'The Rough and the Refined: Sensing the Luxurious and the Everyday' – PART 2
Dr Juanjo García-Granero (Postdoctoral Researcher, Archaeology) explores the senses in grand and ordinary living, through examining a Minoan cooking vessel. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseox...Show More
Episode 16: 'The Rough and the Refined: Sensing the Luxurious and the Everyday' – PART 2
10:19 | Jul 12th, 2019
2) Episode 15: 'The Rough and the Refined: Sensing the Luxurious and the Everyday' – PART 1
Clare Gardom (DPhil Student, Classics) explores the senses in grand and ordinary living, through examining textiles from Classical Egypt. Further reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. O...Show More
Episode 15: 'The Rough and the Refined: Sensing the Luxurious and the Everyday' – PART 1
13:20 | Jul 12th, 2019
3) Episode 14: 'Making Sense of Death' – PART 2
In this episode, Alexis Gorby (DPhil Student, Archaeology) looks at glass from the Roman catacombs to explore how ancient and contemporary cultures use the senses to make sense of death. Further readi...Show More
4) Episode 13: 'Making Sense of Death' – PART 1
Dr Carrie Ryan (Postdoctoral Researcher, Anthropology) uses Angela Palmer’s Ashmolean Mummy Boy 3 to explore how ancient and contemporary cultures use the senses to make sense of death. Further readin...Show More
5) Episode 12: 'Stripping Back to Sharpen the Senses: A Holy Face and a Waterfall Vase' – PART 2
Yayoi Teramoto Kimura (DPhil Student, Computational Neuroscience) focuses on a twentieth-century Japanese vase to demonstrate how artists can engage our senses through a pared down approach. Further r...Show More
6) Episode 11: 'Stripping Back to Sharpen the Senses: A Holy Face and a Waterfall Vase' – PART 1
Eleanor Townsend (DPhil Student, History of Art) focuses on a seventeenth-century Spanish painting to demonstrate how artists can engage our senses by focusing on a pared down approach. Further readin...Show More
7) Episode 10: 'Sights for Sore Eyes: Reading the Senses in Religious and Cultural Pilgrimage' – PART 2
Jasmine Proteau (DPhil Student, History) uses an eighteenth-century carriage clock to explore the significance of the senses in reading and travelling to centres of culture and spiritual salvati. Furt...Show More
8) Episode 9: Sights for Sore Eyes: Reading the Senses in Religious and Cultural Pilgrimage' – PART 1
Raphaela Rohrhofer (DPhil Student, English) uses the Alfred Jewel and the reliquary casket of St Thomas Becket to explore the significance of the senses in reading and travelling. Further reading: htt...Show More
9) Episode 8: 'Altered States of Body: The Power of the Senses in Ritual and Revelry' – PART 2
In this episode, Helena Guzik (DPhil Student, History of Art) analyses Indian pilgrim stamps to show how objects have the power to transform us, engaging the senses to alter the body. Further reading:...Show More
10) Episode 7: 'Altered States of Body: The Power of the Senses in Ritual and Revelry' – PART 1
In this episode, Dr Hugo Shakeshaft (Postdoctoral Researcher, Classics) analyses a Greek symposium cup to show how objects have the power to transform us, engaging the senses to alter the body. Furthe...Show More