Talking Sense Oxford University

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.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. Originally delivered as the first half of a gallery talk in partnership with Clare Gardom (DPhil Student, Classics). Listen to Episode 15 for the first half of the talk.

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. Originally delivered as the first half of a gallery talk in partnership with Dr Juanjo García-Granero (Postdoctoral Researcher, Archaeology). Listen to Episode 16 for the second half of the talk.

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 reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. Originally delivered as the first half of a gallery talk in partnership with Dr Carrie Ryan (Postdoctoral Researcher, Anthropology). Listen to Episode 13 for the first half of the talk.

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 reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. For an image of Mummy Boy 3, visit the artist's website: https://www.angelaspalmer.com/eygptology?lightbox=dataItem-iwcbwop81. Originally delivered as the first half of a gallery talk in partnership with Alexis Gorby (DPhil Student, Archaeology). Listen to Episode 14 for the second half of the talk.

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 reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. Originally delivered as the first half of a gallery talk in partnership with Eleanor Townsend (DPhil Student, History of Art). Listen to Episode 11 for the first half of the talk.

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 reading: https://www.talkingsenseoxford.com/podcast. Originally delivered as the first half of a gallery talk in partnership with Yayoi Teramoto Kimura (DPhil Student, Computational Neuroscience). Listen to Episode 12 for the second half of the talk.