Humans in Humanities Network

Without humans, there would be no humanities. Yet, paradoxically, the human often sits uneasily within the humanities’ ways of knowledge-making. We, as researchers, are human. Our research engages with humans. Knowledge in the humanities is grounded in the world that humans both inhabit and create. Yet how much of the “human” is allowed into our research? What kinds of humans are reconstructed through our knowledge? What do the humanities tell us about what it means to be human?

The Humans in Humanities Network aims to facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue among humanities researchers on how the human is imagined and represented, recognised and theorised, and engaged and interrogated across the humanities, and to create a reflective space for rethinking what it entails to conduct humanities research in a way that allows people to be seen, heard, and understood.

For general queries, please contact: human-ities@torch.ox.ac.uk

To join our mailing list and receive updates on network events, simply send a blank email to: human-ities@torch.ox.ac.uk

Our X handle:@human_ities_ox

While the network foregrounds questions in a humanities context, researchers from the sciences and social sciences are also welcome to join discussions and events.

Convenors:

Lorane Prevost (DPhil in Music, Faculty of Music, lorane.prevost@chch.ox.ac.uk)

Robert James Taylor (DPhil in History, Faculty of History, robert.taylor@new.ox.ac.uk)

Faojia Sultana (DPhil in Clinical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, faojia.sultana@ndm.ox.ac.uk)

Huishu Wang (DPhil in Music, Faculty of Music, huishu.wang@stx.ox.ac.uk)

Rose Flanigan (MSc in History of Science, Medicine and Technology, Faculty of History, rose.flanigan@stx.ox.ac.uk)

Humans in Humanities Network is part of TORCH Student Networks