A period of leave spent as Visiting Fellow at the Fondazione Cini (Venice) in 2013 suggested to me that there was an excellent opportunity for Oxford Humanities to collaborate with the Cini. The John Fell OUP Research Fund is now funding for a three-year period (2014-17), via TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities), a variety of individual and collective collaborations involving the dissemination of academic research and artistic performance related to that research.