Humanities Beyond Academia: Exploring Innovation and Entrepreneurship through the Humanities
Oxford Edge, TORCH.
This seminar series introduces students and early career researchers to the challenges and opportunities of humanities-oriented ventures. Talks by innovative speakers from academia and industry, who apply an entrepreneurial approach to their ventures, will be combined with skill-based workshops.
A range of seasoned professionals will be invited to deliver the seminars and skill-based workshops. The programme will be coordinated by Dr Sylvia Alvares-Correa at Oxford Edge, with sessions hosted in association with TORCH.
Three seminars and corresponding skill workshops will run in both Michaelmas and Hilary Terms.
Michaelmas
SESSION 1: Inaugural talk (Ertegun House, 37a St Giles’, Week 2, Thursday 23 October, 5pm-6.15pm)
The first session will introduce ‘Humanities Beyond Academia’ with a talk that explores how an entrepreneurial approach can be applied across academic and industry settings, followed by a Q&A. It will be co-hosted with Ertegun House as part of their Ertegun Futures series.
Toby Mather: Co-founder & CEO of Lingumi (https://lingumi.com), making learning English affordable, effective, and fun for the next 500 million young learners. Formerly: Oxford Mod Langs, Entrepreneur First.
Chair: Prof Jonathan Cross, Head of Ertegun House and Professor of Musicology at Oxford
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