The World in a Box: Cabinets of Curiosity

Professor Das tells the story of the age when Britain first learnt
how to collect, and of how that obsession with discovering secrets
and collecting curiosities transformed the way we see the world and
our place within it. Professor Nandini Das, Early Modern English
Literature and Culture The World in a Box: Cabinets of Curiosity -
Professor Das tells the story of the age when Britain first learnt
how to collect, and of how that obsession with discovering secrets
and collecting curiosities transformed the way we see the world and
our place within it. It begins, as good stories often do, with the
opening of a box – a Cabinet of Curiosities. Humanities Light Night
– Oxford Research Unwrapped! As part of the national Being Human
Festival, and Oxford’s Christmas Light Festival, Humanities Light
Night - Oxford Research Unwrapped! was a spectacular explosion of
colour, sound and activity for all, including a huge video
projection onto the 3-storey Radcliffe humanities building,
premiering SOURCE: CODE which featured the work of Oxford
Humanities Professors Jacob Dahl, Richard Parkinson and Armand
D'Angour, and co-created by Oxford Humanities researchers and The
Projection Studio, world-class projection and sound-artists. A
series of talks took place during the evening, relating to the
theme ‘Discovery’. This event was part of the Humanities Cultural
Programme.