Critical Thinking Communities: making connections by

Oxford Democracy Network

2024-07-25 14:23:23 UTC

This network aims to produce interdisciplinary discussions on democracy around the broader themes including but not limited to cultures of democracy, civil society, institutes and infrastructure of democracy . Legal, political, educational, artistic, historical, philosophical, theological works are needed to discuss across disciplines what shapes the rise and fall of democracies. If interested please reach out sumeyye.kocaman@stcatz.ox.ac.uk

Oxford Critical Food Studies Network

aryehibhushan — 2024-07-25 17:25:48 UTC

This network is interested in interdisciplinary and transnational/cultural approaches to the study of food and related issues of commensality and consumption. Discussions would bridge across both the material aspects of food production, distribution and consumption and more metaphorical considerations of food as a rhetorical and imaginative tool. A full consideration of the role that food plays in shaping our lives and communities requires investment in, and connections across, literary, artistic, philosophical, legal, geographical, historical and political approaches, amongst countless others. If interested in discussing the shape and aims of this network further, please email me at aryehi.bhushan@wolfson.ox.ac.uk :)

Oxford Network for Etymological Thought

2024-07-26 13:06:53 UTC

The network would connect researchers who work on the varied applications of etymology and appeals to the significance of resemblances/interconnections between words.

The group would facilitate an interdisciplinary context in which to share work on etymology as a literary/poetic, philosophical, scholarly and/or rhetorical tool, across different time periods, regions, languages and literary forms. It would encourage in particular a discussion of the role of etymology and etymological argumentation prior to the emergence of modern philological methods, and the value ascribed to conjectures about word origins.

If this would interest you, please email megan.bowler@chch.ox.ac.uk.

Literature and Theology

easasaad — 2024-07-29 10:32:03 UTC

This network aims to connects scholars concerned with how the study of literature and theology, broadly defined, are mutually enriching enterprises. Central is how the close reading of texts considered 'literary' can enrich the exploration of theological questions, and how theological and/or philosophical commitments inform one's engagement with these texts.

We will consider material from a range of religious traditions and across time periods and will be open to approaches from literary studies, theology, philosophy, anthropology, intellectual history, psychology and others. If this appeals to you, please email easa.saad@wolfson.ox.ac.uk