19.03.2021 Views

Wolfson Plans & Prospects 2019

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

Events and activities 2018-<strong>2019</strong><br />

Lancaster House<br />

hosts Annual<br />

Alumni Drinks<br />

<strong>Wolfson</strong> alumni and friends were<br />

thrilled to be invited to Lancaster<br />

House for the 2018 Christmas drinks<br />

party, thanks to the good offices of<br />

College President, Sir Tim Hitchens.<br />

Managed and run by the Foreign and<br />

Commonwealth Office, Lancaster<br />

House has often been the location<br />

for major national and international<br />

conferences – and as a film location,<br />

including in Netflix’s The Crown. n<br />

Isaiah Berlin on Liberty<br />

The annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture, generously supported<br />

by the Rothschild Foundation, was given on<br />

8 November 2018 by Dr Aileen Kelly, Fellow of Kings<br />

College, Cambridge. An expert in nineteenth- and early<br />

twentieth-century Russian intellectual history, Dr Kelly’s<br />

talk was entitled ‘Isaiah Berlin on Liberty’. n<br />

Royal Society President<br />

gives Haldane Lecture<br />

The College was delighted to welcome Sir Venki<br />

Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, to<br />

give the <strong>2019</strong> Haldane Lecture on 7 February. His<br />

topic: ‘The Quest for the Structure of the Ribosome: A<br />

Personal Voyage’. n<br />

WOLFSON COLLEGE OXFORD . PLANS & PROSPECTS . <strong>2019</strong> . 21

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!