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COLLEGE RECORD <strong>2019</strong>
WOLFSON<br />
COLLEGE<br />
RECORD<br />
<strong>2019</strong>
WOLFSON<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
INTRODUCTION<br />
The President’s Letter 7<br />
Alumni and Friends 12<br />
List of Donors 2018–19 14<br />
Chair of the General Meeting 19<br />
FEATURES<br />
Arise, Sir Tim 23<br />
Fingers on Buzzers 24<br />
Plastic in Paradise 27<br />
Celebrating Womanhood 30<br />
News Bulletin 34<br />
CLUBS & SOCIETIES’ REPORTS<br />
AMREF Group 36<br />
Arts Society 38<br />
BarCo 39<br />
Board Games 40<br />
Boat Club 40<br />
Choir 42<br />
Cricket 42<br />
Croquet 43<br />
Darwin Day 43<br />
Entz (external) 45<br />
Entz (internal) 45<br />
Environment 45<br />
Family Society 46<br />
Fotball Club 47<br />
Foxes Women’s Football 48<br />
Wolfson Goodenough Exchange 48<br />
Inter-Collegiate Quiz 48<br />
LGBTQIA+ Society 49<br />
Music Society 49<br />
Old Wolves and Archives 49<br />
Reading Group 50<br />
Romulus 50<br />
Running 51<br />
Squash 51<br />
Tennis 51<br />
Ultimate Frisbee 51<br />
Volleyball 52<br />
Winter Ball 52<br />
Yoga 52<br />
Learn more at wolfson.ox.ac.uk<br />
RESEARCH CLUSTERS’ REPORTS<br />
Ancient World Research Cluster 54<br />
Digital Research Cluster 57<br />
Law, Justice and Society 58<br />
South Asia Research Cluster 59<br />
Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre 61<br />
Oxford Trauma Cluster 62<br />
LECTURES & SEMINARS<br />
Annual Lectures 66<br />
Wolfson Lecture Series 66<br />
President’s Seminars 67<br />
THE RECORD<br />
<strong>College</strong> Officers and Membership 69<br />
President and Fellows 70<br />
Elections and Admissions 76<br />
Fellows 76<br />
Visiting Scholars 77<br />
Graduate Students 78<br />
Elected members of the<br />
Governing Body 82<br />
Scholarships, Awards and Prizes 2018–19 82<br />
Degrees & Diplomas 83<br />
Personal News 90<br />
Books published by Wolfsonians 90<br />
Gifts to the Library 94<br />
Obituaries 95<br />
In Memoriam 99<br />
MEMORIES OF WOLFSON<br />
The Glory of the Gardens 102<br />
Hans and Willy Schenk 106<br />
Naming of the Colin Kraay Room 110<br />
Caramanian plates in the Colin Kraay Room 114<br />
Peter Hulin and the Bristol Bus 116<br />
Editor’s Note 121
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The President’s Letter<br />
SIR TIM HITCHENS<br />
May I begin this annual letter to Wolfsonians<br />
around the world with thanks to you all,<br />
who make up the global Wolfson community.<br />
interviewed for the position by Isaiah Berlin<br />
himself. It brought the past very firmly to the<br />
present.<br />
‘The joke runs that you can<br />
tell the retired Ambassador<br />
because he or she gets into<br />
the back of the car and it<br />
doesn’t drive off.’<br />
When I last wrote I was a recently retired<br />
ambassador. The joke runs that you can tell<br />
the retired ambassador because he or she<br />
gets into the back of the car and it doesn’t<br />
drive off. I’m pleased to say that I now feel<br />
very much a part of the Wolfson furniture<br />
after over a year in place, and it is my trusty<br />
bike which serves me well to get to Broad<br />
Street for Conference of <strong>College</strong>s Meetings,<br />
to the Thames for the racing, or to the<br />
Warneford Site or the Old Road Campus if I<br />
need the exercise.<br />
This academic year was the fiftieth<br />
anniversary of our first Graduate Students<br />
arriving at Wolfson <strong>College</strong>, in October<br />
1968. I had the pleasure of joining George<br />
Smith, one of those pioneers, in visiting<br />
our original premises at 60 Banbury Road,<br />
now part of Kellogg <strong>College</strong> – where he<br />
showed me the room in which he had been<br />
Departures and arrivals<br />
Let me start with the sad business of<br />
recalling friends lost this year. I should pay<br />
tribute to Jyoti Raghu, studying for her DPhil<br />
in Theology, and one of the college’s Welfare<br />
Officers, who died tragically last summer.<br />
Other deaths include Professor Michael<br />
Metcalf, Professorial Governing Body Fellow<br />
from 1982–98; Dr John Mulvey, Governing<br />
Body Fellow from 1965 to 1984, and<br />
Maureen Marchant, <strong>College</strong> Staff from 1977<br />
to 2002, who some of you will remember<br />
became the House Manager.<br />
We have said thank you and farewell to Bill<br />
Conner as our long-serving Development<br />
Director, ably replaced by Huw David.<br />
A number of Governing Body Fellows<br />
are leaving us: we say farewell to Gillies<br />
McKenna, Jim Benson, Lucy Cluver, Ros<br />
Rickaby and Feliciano Giustino; the first<br />
two retiring from their departments after<br />
decades of service, the other three moving<br />
on to exciting new academic projects either<br />
here in Oxford or overseas. We welcomed<br />
Matthew Rushworth and Linda Mulcahy. And<br />
we will be welcoming two new Governing<br />
Body Fellows in Michaelmas Term: Loren<br />
Landau joins us from South Africa as a<br />
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specialist in Migration, and John Lowe will be<br />
Jim Benson’s successor in Sanskrit.<br />
We have said farewell to some well-known<br />
staff, among them Karl Davies, Angela Jones,<br />
Margit Kail, John Kirby, Victor Martinez,<br />
Darren McMahon, Juliet Montgomery, Louise<br />
Gordon and Jan Scriven. And we have<br />
welcomed several new faces in their place,<br />
who are now active around the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Achievements by Fellows,<br />
students and staff<br />
May I pay tribute to the outstanding<br />
academic work of our Fellows.<br />
Matthew Rushworth became a Fellow<br />
of the Royal Society; Elleke Boehmer a<br />
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature<br />
and recipient of a British Academy Senior<br />
Research Fellowship for 2020. Matt Costa<br />
was made an NIHR Senior Investigator.<br />
Frances Gardner won the Vice-Chancellor’s<br />
Innovation Award for ‘Parenting for Life Long<br />
Health’. Bettina Lange has benefited from a<br />
UNISA award to travel to South Africa next<br />
spring to discuss her research on governing<br />
water scarcity; Jonathan Pila gave the<br />
Hermann Weyl Lecture at Princeton; Ruben<br />
Andersson was one of several Fellows to<br />
publish this year – his book was ‘No Go<br />
World; how fear is redrawing our maps<br />
and infecting our politics.’ Huw David, our<br />
Development Director, published his first<br />
book, ‘Trade, Politics and Revolution: South<br />
Carolina and Britain’s Atlantic Commerce’,<br />
and we look to him to continue the flow<br />
of funds from the USA towards this part of<br />
the world. I should also mention the former<br />
Head Gardener and Chair of the Grounds<br />
Committee, Walter Sawyer, who this year<br />
was awarded an Honorary MA by the<br />
University.<br />
There have this year been building works<br />
which have changed the face of the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
The most important is the new Buttery,<br />
which has created a remarkable spacious<br />
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and light-filled environment. Do please visit if<br />
you haven’t yet. And we will also soon have<br />
a new Family Room for parents and children<br />
– especially important for those who live<br />
off-site and have families. This time last week<br />
we had our first, and very successful, formal<br />
dinner in Hall which included children.<br />
Tony and his kitchen staff have continued<br />
to offer us remarkable gastronomic events<br />
this year. I would mention in particular<br />
the Thai guest night, in collaboration with<br />
former Graduate Student and Master Chef<br />
finalist Nawamin Pinpathomrat; the Japanese<br />
Washoku dinner with chef Hayashi; and<br />
the Chinese New Year dinner, complete<br />
with fortune cookies. I was also pleased<br />
to see that the <strong>College</strong> organised an iftar<br />
dinner in June, especially for those students<br />
fasting during Ramadan. And the Tibetan and<br />
Himalayan cluster had about 400 people<br />
attend their Tibetan New Year event in<br />
February.<br />
Our students have as always been very<br />
impressive this year. As of May we had<br />
621 students here at Wolfson, born in 79<br />
different countries, 41 of them on Wolfson<br />
scholarships, active across all the divisions<br />
of the University. So let me turn to the<br />
intellectual life of the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Intellectual life of college, including<br />
lectures, seminars, cluster work<br />
It’s often said in Oxford that the problem<br />
isn’t finding the speakers, it’s finding the<br />
audiences. We have done extremely well<br />
this year in finding both, at very different<br />
scales. On the more modest end, I would<br />
point to the President’s Seminar in Trinity<br />
Term, where Matthew Rushworth spoke<br />
about how the brain takes decisions; Junior<br />
Research Fellow Naoya Iwata spoke about<br />
ideas of willpower in Plato and Socrates;<br />
and Graduate Student Alexis Toumi spoke<br />
about how laziness can create efficiency<br />
in machine learning. There have been too<br />
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Sir Tim Hitchens and Ambassador Tsuruoka<br />
for the Diplomacy for the 21st Century lecture<br />
series. Photo by John Cairns<br />
Sir Tim Hitchens in conversation with Dr David Passarelli, UNU Executive Officer, at the Meeting Minds<br />
weekend in Tokyo, Spring <strong>2019</strong>. Photo: United Nations University, Tokyo.<br />
many conversations and lectures to list, but<br />
among those I enjoyed in particular were an<br />
examination, in the Brexit context, of who<br />
the British actually are; a talk about Populism<br />
and Brexit; and Anne Deighton dared to talk<br />
about ‘Can we still bear to talk about Brexit?’<br />
We tried to bridge the divide between<br />
humanities and scientific method with a<br />
seminar on how far diversity might be a<br />
central principle in both. We welcomed the<br />
author Philip Pullman and quantum physicist<br />
Michael Niemann to talk about fantasising<br />
in fiction and physics. (This took place in<br />
the week when Emeritus Fellow David<br />
Deutsch was both honoured by the Chinese<br />
Micius prize for quantum computing, and<br />
his eponymous and sadly non-existent<br />
‘Deutsch proposition’ on time-travel was<br />
cited during the blockbuster film ‘Avengers:<br />
Endgame’. Wolfson gets everywhere.) We<br />
enjoyed several major speakers talking<br />
about diplomacy in its variety of forms.<br />
Our Creative Arts Fellow Carey Young<br />
gave a sparkling presentation on her back<br />
catalogue. And of our major named lectures,<br />
I would pick out Sir Venki Ramakrishnan’s,<br />
President of the Royal Society, on both how he<br />
mapped ribosomes and the quirks of success<br />
in science; Kathleen Coleman’s presentation<br />
on ‘Spectacular Diplomacy: Nero and the<br />
Reception of Tiridates of Armenia on the Bay<br />
of Naples’; and the talk by Paul Gilroy in Trinity<br />
Term on racism and liberalism – that last<br />
particularly significant because he has not often<br />
been invited to Oxford platforms.<br />
Our clusters continue to thrive. There has been<br />
so much this year that it is impossible to do<br />
it all justice. The Ancient World Cluster ran a<br />
special day in October showcasing its work,<br />
including a presentation by the Professor of<br />
Medieval Chinese History at Fudan University,<br />
Shanghai. The Digital Research Cluster has<br />
been working with other clusters on a ‘Lives<br />
in Medicine’ project, and is planning a launch<br />
event in Michaelmas Term to mark the new<br />
relationship with the Voltaire Foundation, on<br />
the development of a new digital archive of<br />
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Voltaire’s works. The Oxford Trauma Cluster<br />
has held eight events at the <strong>College</strong> this year,<br />
most recently in June a session which drew<br />
together translational science researchers<br />
and clinicians who have an interest in<br />
modulating the ways that fractured bones<br />
heal. The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing<br />
organises events week by week; I remember<br />
in particular a set of sparkling performances<br />
in St Clement Danes, the Strand, last term<br />
– which led in part to a significant gift<br />
to the Centre. The South Asia Research<br />
Cluster hosted nuclear physicist and public<br />
intellectual Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy to<br />
talk about the new Imran Khan government<br />
and its prospects. The Tibetan and Himalayan<br />
Studies Cluster has organised events ranging<br />
from Tibetan history and the worship of<br />
mountain deities to the role of magic rituals<br />
in Tibetan Buddhism.<br />
Alumni and Funders<br />
The life of the <strong>College</strong> also depends on<br />
the quality of our alumni networks and<br />
financial supporters. About a quarter of the<br />
cost of what we offer to our students at<br />
<strong>College</strong> comes from philanthropy; without<br />
it we could not function at anywhere near<br />
the level we currently can. I have enjoyed<br />
meeting colleagues in Hong Kong, mainland<br />
China, India, Pakistan, and Japan, and following<br />
up leads they have offered. We enjoyed an<br />
excellent alumni event at Lancaster House in<br />
London in December – I was able to show<br />
some of our students and alumni the rooms<br />
in which Malaysia and Zimbabwe had won<br />
independence. And this spring Tarje Nissen-<br />
Meyer gave the Wolfson London Lecture at<br />
Lincoln’s Inn on seismology, elephants, and<br />
why the BBC keeps inaccurately describing<br />
him as a predictor of earthquakes when<br />
that’s the one thing seismologists can’t and<br />
don’t do.<br />
I should also mention our campaign to<br />
house an at-risk academic and his or her<br />
family at Wolfson for six years – our first<br />
family arrived in June, led by Professor Alev<br />
Ozkazanc from Turkey, who studies the<br />
rise in sexual violence in Turkey. We also<br />
host the Global Young Science Leadership<br />
Programme for young academics at risk<br />
for a parallel six years, the first in summer<br />
<strong>2019</strong>. We raised more than £300,000 and<br />
encouraged many alumni to give to Wolfson<br />
for the first time.<br />
May I also say how important the events<br />
we run at cost here are to our reputation<br />
as well as to our books. The annual e-Bikes<br />
Summit which happens here; the recording<br />
of the BBC ‘Kitchen Cabinet’ programme;<br />
the annual Harry Potter Society weekend,<br />
broomsticks and all; as well as the weddings,<br />
conferences, and innumerable other special<br />
occasions.<br />
Sport, Art and Music<br />
I’ve also been keen that we keep the<br />
cultural life of the <strong>College</strong> vibrant. Many<br />
of you will have seen the contemporary<br />
African artwork, from Ghana, Benin and<br />
Ethiopia, generously shared with us by<br />
Chris and Florence Levitt. Our long-term<br />
partners AMREF, who work on health<br />
issues across Africa, have given us the two<br />
remarkable Dean Bradshaw photographs of<br />
Kenyan women you may have seen in our<br />
corridors and in the renovated Buttery. The<br />
Ashmolean have also agreed to lend us one<br />
of their outstanding Ganesha statues, which<br />
is both a beautiful work of art and will also<br />
pay tribute to our internationalism here in<br />
Wolfson.<br />
Our musical offering at the <strong>College</strong> remains<br />
strong, supported by a vigorous partnership<br />
with the Fournier Trio and the Oxford<br />
Lieder; a highlight of the musical year for me<br />
was the Anglo-German Friendship Concert<br />
performed by the visiting Berlin Youth<br />
Chamber Orchestra in May.<br />
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And I am delighted that we have a new<br />
tradition in the <strong>College</strong>: the May Day<br />
Concert on the morning of the First of May.<br />
My thanks to all those who took part this<br />
year, including some outstanding classical<br />
musicians in our midst; the pristine voices of<br />
our nursery children; the surprising expertise<br />
we have in Korean Taekwondo barehanded<br />
slate-smashing; and what I am confident is<br />
the first time the Haldane Room has seen<br />
pole dancing.<br />
Conclusion<br />
A short review like this by definition misses<br />
out so many other stories, which have<br />
together made up the life of Wolfson this<br />
year. We have packed a lot in. We are a<br />
home, and we are a family; our story is<br />
collective. My thanks to you all for the part<br />
you have played.<br />
My congratulations to those students who<br />
have won Sports Awards or Blues. And<br />
my particular congratulations to our Boat<br />
Club, who marked their fiftieth anniversary<br />
in Trinity Term; all our crews did well in<br />
Summer Eights, but the crown must go to<br />
the Women’s First Eight who for the first<br />
time in their history were Head of the<br />
River. We have plenty of debates in <strong>College</strong><br />
about when we should fly our <strong>College</strong> flag,<br />
but nobody can doubt that they deserved<br />
the honour, not just in getting to the top<br />
position on the second day of the Eights, but<br />
holding off the pressure from Pembroke for<br />
the following two days.<br />
Members of the Governing Body, <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Photo: Gillman & Soame<br />
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Alumni and Friends<br />
DR HUW DAVID<br />
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In 2018-19, the<br />
generosity and<br />
commitment of<br />
Wolfson’s alumni and<br />
friends were once again<br />
to the fore in <strong>College</strong><br />
life. A major fundraising<br />
effort appealed for<br />
donations to provide<br />
academics at risk with<br />
a temporary safe place<br />
at Wolfson to continue<br />
their academic work and<br />
research. Thanks to the support of more than 100<br />
alumni and friends and a substantial benefaction<br />
from an anonymous donor, the campaign raised<br />
more than £300,000 and will see Wolfson host<br />
at-risk academics for at least the next six years.<br />
The <strong>College</strong> also received major donations to<br />
support academic research in the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
Ancient World cluster and at the Oxford Centre<br />
for Life-Writing, and for scholarships in physics<br />
and quantum computing. A significant legacy from<br />
the estate of Andrew Watson helped the <strong>College</strong><br />
to refurbish the Buttery as a space for <strong>College</strong><br />
receptions, meetings, and meals.<br />
Events in Oxford and London brought alumni<br />
together to renew friendships and to hear about<br />
Wolfson’s cutting-edge academic research. At the<br />
annual London Lecture, Tarje Nissen-Meyer (GBF)<br />
conveyed the many applications of seismology<br />
to a rapt audience: from understanding how<br />
elephants communicate to determining the<br />
chances of extra-terrestrial life in Jupiter’s icy<br />
moon Europa. A Christmas drinks reception<br />
drew more than one hundred Wolfsonians<br />
to Lancaster House, home of the Foreign and<br />
Commonwealth Office. One a baking hot day<br />
in June, a record number of alumni returned to<br />
<strong>College</strong> for the annual Gaudy and Syme Legacy<br />
Society lunch, enjoying coffee and pastries in the<br />
President’s Garden, a tour of a special exhibition<br />
of nineteenth-century Japanese prints from Gillies<br />
McKenna (GBF), and a meal in the renovated and<br />
thankfully cool Buttery.<br />
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Further afield, Sir Tim Hitchens travelled to<br />
Shanghai and Shenzhen and returned to Tokyo,<br />
where he met alumni and friends at the Oxford<br />
University reunion and spoke on diplomacy, soft<br />
power and the reputation of Britain’s universities.<br />
In visits to Lahore, Mumbai and Delhi in January<br />
with Matthew McCartney (GBF), the President<br />
outlined to current and prospective donors<br />
Wolfson’s expertise in South Asia studies and the<br />
college’s ambitions to establish new scholarships<br />
for Indian and Pakistani students.<br />
In the Alumni and Development Office itself<br />
there was both continuity and change. Bill Conner<br />
retired as Development Director in April <strong>2019</strong><br />
after more than a decade of outstanding service.<br />
The well-wishers who filled the Common Room<br />
to bid him farewell and good luck in his move<br />
to Cambridge reflected upon the transformative<br />
effect of philanthropy at Wolfson during the past<br />
decade: the many new scholarships, the Academic<br />
Wing, the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, and<br />
the thriving research clusters, from the Ancient<br />
World to Quantum Physics. Kathie Mackay,<br />
Senior Development Office, and Clare Norton,<br />
Development Officer, continue to welcome<br />
alumni and friends to Wolfson, express the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s gratitude to our many generous donors,<br />
and to organise the superb events that bring<br />
Wolfsonians together in Oxford and beyond.<br />
Before I arrived at Wolfson in April, many friends<br />
and colleagues in Oxford told me that I would<br />
find it the most friendly and welcoming of<br />
colleges. Writing five months into my time here,<br />
I can affirm that they were exactly right: as its<br />
alumni, Fellows, staff and students already know,<br />
Wolfson is a very special place.<br />
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Photo: Thomas S. G. Farnetti<br />
STAY IN TOUCH<br />
The Alumni & Development<br />
Office is here to help keep you<br />
connected with the University<br />
after you leave. Don’t hesitate to<br />
contact Kathie Mackay (left) and<br />
Clare Norton (right) who are<br />
happy to help if you have<br />
any questions.<br />
: alumni.office@wolfson.ox.ac.uk<br />
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List of Donors 2018–19<br />
WOLFSON COLLEGE<br />
The <strong>College</strong> would like to thank the following people and organisations for their<br />
generous donations in the 2018-19 academic year.<br />
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THE ROMULUS SOCIETY<br />
Principal Gifts (£50,000+)<br />
The Augustus Foundation<br />
The Dorset Foundation<br />
Dr Simon Harrison<br />
Silicon Valley Community Foundation<br />
Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza<br />
Two anonymous donors<br />
PRESIDENTS FUND (£20,000+)<br />
The Edith and Ferdinand Porjes<br />
Charitable Trust<br />
The Estate of Professor Andrew Watson<br />
PATRON (£10,000+)<br />
Mrs Mary Bartkus<br />
Professor Julie Curtis<br />
Eutopia Foundation<br />
SPONSOR (£5,000+)<br />
Ms Catriona Cannon<br />
The Derek Hill Foundation<br />
Dr Anthony Wickett<br />
One anonymous donor<br />
MEMBER (£1,000+)<br />
2nd JA Littman Foundation<br />
Dr Moudhy al-Rashid<br />
Dr Stephen Donaldson<br />
Dr Anthony Gray<br />
Dr John Harris<br />
Professor Sir Charles Hoare<br />
Lady Jill Hoare<br />
Dr Ira Lieberman<br />
Professor Kevan Martin<br />
Professor Thomas Nagel<br />
Professor Patricia Nuttall<br />
Professor Andrew Prentice<br />
Dr Ken Tregidgo<br />
Ms Muhua Wang and Dr Wei Ren<br />
Professor Anthony Wierzbicki<br />
Three anonymous donors<br />
THE PRESIDENTS CLUB (£500+)<br />
Dr William Beaver<br />
Professor Derek Boyd<br />
Professor James Byrne<br />
Mr Chia-Kuen Chen<br />
Tim and Kathy Clayden<br />
Mr William Conner<br />
Mr Kent Gilges<br />
Sir Timothy Hitchens<br />
Professor Michael Hitchens<br />
Mr Morgan Hough<br />
Professor Clifford Jones<br />
Professor John Koumoulides<br />
Professor Helen Lambert<br />
Pattie Langton<br />
Dr Roland Littlewood<br />
Dr Gideon Makin<br />
Dr Thayne McCulloh<br />
Dr Jean-Louis Metzger<br />
Mrs Sarah Metzger-Court<br />
Professor Benito Müller<br />
Professor Andrew Neil<br />
Professor Maren Niehoff<br />
Professor Geoffrey Pasvol<br />
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The Paul and Edith Babson Foundation<br />
Professor Victoria Pease<br />
Mrs Judith Peters<br />
Professor Ineke Sluiter<br />
Sir David and Lady Smith<br />
Mrs Lindsay Stead<br />
Dr Leslie Tupchong<br />
Dr Peter Turner<br />
Four anonymous donors<br />
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INTRODUCTION<br />
JOIN THE<br />
CONVERSATION<br />
There are two General Meetings<br />
a term, at which all Members of<br />
Common Room are welcome:<br />
Wednesday of Weeks 2 and 7, at<br />
5.30 pm in the Upper Common<br />
Room. Find out more about how<br />
you can get involved in the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
committee structure at:<br />
wolfson.ox.ac.uk/becoming-committee-member<br />
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Chair of the General Meeting<br />
ETIENNE HANELT<br />
The General Meeting<br />
occupies a special<br />
place in Wolfson’s<br />
institutional structure.<br />
It transacts Common<br />
Room business<br />
(Statute VIII, 3),<br />
but also receives<br />
reports from <strong>College</strong><br />
committees and may<br />
be used to bring<br />
items before Governing Body (Regulations III,<br />
5). This dual purpose, and its being open to<br />
all members of <strong>College</strong> and Common Room,<br />
makes it unique and puts it at the heart of<br />
democratic and egalitarian Wolfson.<br />
The social and cultural centre of the <strong>College</strong><br />
is the Common Room. There is much to<br />
say about the many activities and events<br />
of the past year, and the many clubs and<br />
societies, but I will let those responsible for<br />
these amazing things speak for themselves<br />
in the ‘Clubs and Societies’ section of this<br />
<strong>Record</strong>. But here, I think, is the place to thank<br />
everyone who volunteered their time to<br />
make Wolfson such a special place.<br />
This year’s General Meetings were quite<br />
political gatherings. A few examples: members<br />
of <strong>College</strong> and Common Room debated<br />
two proposals for a new flag policy and<br />
came down in favour of one which regulates<br />
the flying of special flags rather than bans<br />
them altogether. Governing Body eventually<br />
followed the suggestion of General Meeting,<br />
over one favoured by the General Purposes<br />
Committee. Second, General Meeting<br />
repeatedly called for the <strong>College</strong> to sign<br />
up to the Oxford Living Wage. With some<br />
success, too. Governing Body approved<br />
paying the Voluntary National Living Wage,<br />
which gave members of staff on the lowest<br />
pay grade a steep and well-deserved pay<br />
rise. Third, with the backing of General<br />
Meeting, the <strong>College</strong> has started the<br />
tradition of a family-friendly formal hall. But<br />
General Meeting has not always prevailed.<br />
Despite student resistance, a requirement<br />
has been added to Battels that students<br />
need to top-up credit before incurring<br />
expenditure such as meals in Hall.<br />
Not all our work is public. Lobbying behind<br />
the scenes ensured that Governing Body<br />
agreed to increase transparency by ensuring<br />
that only the bare minimum of its agenda (as<br />
required by the Statutes) would be handled<br />
as reserved business in the absence of the<br />
elected members.<br />
It has been a dynamic year. Having many<br />
new people at the <strong>College</strong> presents both<br />
opportunity and risk. It is an opportunity<br />
to look afresh at our ways and procedures,<br />
to question the status quo. But it is also a<br />
risk: the loss of institutional memory means<br />
that it is all too easy to forget what is worth<br />
preserving. Our community defines itself not<br />
just by outcomes, but also by the process of<br />
consultation and egalitarian participation. A<br />
confident General Meeting will help Wolfson<br />
<strong>College</strong> steer its course firmly into the next<br />
year and into the future.<br />
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Highlights from<br />
our year<br />
Television appearances, helping<br />
the environment, charity work<br />
and a knighthood – it has been<br />
an eventful year for some of our<br />
Wolfsonians.
This academic year we welcomed<br />
our furriest, most adorable new<br />
staff member: Jack the Welfare Dog.<br />
Photo: Ayub Khan<br />
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Arise, Sir Tim<br />
Tim Hitchens receives a knighthood from the<br />
Queen at Windsor Castle. The President was<br />
honoured for his service to the Queen.<br />
The former Ambassador to Japan was honoured at an<br />
investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on 2 November 2018<br />
for his service to the Queen.<br />
Sir Tim said: ‘I’m delighted. It is a very nice recognition of the<br />
work done as one phase of my life comes to an end and<br />
another, here at Wolfson, begins.’<br />
FEATURES<br />
Photo: House of Windsor<br />
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Fingers on<br />
Buzzers<br />
FEATURES<br />
Wolfson took to the screen<br />
this Michaelmas term. The<br />
team consists of Mike Perrin,<br />
Mary Caple, Claire Jones<br />
and Ryan Walker, who will<br />
be battling it out against<br />
the rest of the brightest<br />
university students in BBC’s<br />
University Challenge.<br />
Tune in and cheer on<br />
our team.<br />
Sirius | The <strong>College</strong> wolf makes his<br />
first appearance on TV.<br />
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FEATURES<br />
Photo: ITV Studios<br />
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Plastic in<br />
Paradise<br />
Josephine Mahony, Ecology and Climate Science student at Wolfson <strong>College</strong>, returns<br />
from a successful mission to clean up plastic at the remote island of Aldabra. The<br />
project was to return the island to its pristine state by reducing plastic waste.<br />
Sir David Attenborough once commented that the Aldabra Atoll is ‘one of the world’s greatest<br />
surviving natural treasures’. Aldabra, the world’s second-largest coral atoll, is one of the<br />
Outer Islands of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. It has escaped many human threats over<br />
the centuries, but plastic pollution has found its way there. The project of clearing the<br />
island of man-made rubbish was launched in 2018, with generous sponsorship, corporate and<br />
individual. It has attracted growing international interest and was highlighted at the G7 Summit<br />
in 2018 by the President of the Seychelles. The team, seven from the Seychelles and five<br />
from Oxford, included Josephine Mahony, a fourth-year DPhil student at Wolfson in Ecology<br />
and Climate Science in East-Africa. On 16 February they went to Mahé, the largest island in<br />
the Seychelles, and on to Aldabra a week later, and only returned after five weeks of clearing<br />
the beaches from plastic.<br />
What was your first impression when you came to Aldabra?<br />
‘Oh, I cried. When you come closer to the island, you realise that there’s life everywhere.<br />
When we first arrived, there was an epic sunset, crabs all over the beach, sharks swimming in<br />
the water, and turtles nesting on the beach.’<br />
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And what about the plastic pollution?<br />
‘We were based in the south of the island, a part of Aldabra that is very inaccessible, which<br />
means that the plastic pollution there is hard to get rid of. There was a big difference between<br />
the amount of plastic on the beaches there compared with more northern beaches.<br />
In some places the plastic was two metres deep. It’s buried amongst the seaweed, but you’re<br />
pulling out entire chairs; we picked up about fifty thousand flip-flops, and a mass of lighters.<br />
We found just about everything you can think of that’s made of plastic.’<br />
Photo: Christian B<br />
Can you tell us a bit about the project?<br />
‘There were three different phases, the first one being the clean-up phase. This was the most<br />
physically intense part. The alarm went off at five in the morning, but it took a while to get<br />
ready. We were in camps with bunk beds and a cooker. If you wanted to go to the toilet,<br />
you had to work out when everyone else was going, and then walk a quarter of an hour<br />
past spiky rocks and deal with the mosquitoes. We had ten cups of water a day each for<br />
showering. All this meant we usually got started around 6:30. We’d walk to the nearest beach<br />
while carrying water and the sacks we needed, food, and lots of sun cream. We would create<br />
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a little shelter on the beach and then would start picking up plastic. There were set categories.<br />
One of us would be picking up flip-flops, a second plastic bottles or fishing gear, and the third<br />
was picking up miscellaneous items. On other days we’d just put everything in sacks and sort<br />
through it later, when it was too hot to be on the beach. Around nine o’clock it would get<br />
so hot that all the giant tortoises would disappear for shelter. From 11:30 to 14:30 the heat<br />
would get so intense it was hard to keep working. Imagine tropical temperatures, high humidity,<br />
no shade, the sand heating up, and your carrying heavy sacks full of plastic. It was like being in<br />
an oven. If we were close to our base, we would go back around noon, make some lunch and<br />
try to relax. Some people would sleep, but I found it too hot because my bunk was just underneath<br />
the corrugated iron roof. The heat would usually break around two, so we’d go and pick<br />
up plastic for another four hours. After that, we’d go back to base, cook dinner and get ready<br />
for the next day. Some nights we had to take baby turtles back to the sea, because our lights<br />
would accidentally attract them to our camp.<br />
During the second phase, I was part of a team of three that supported Sky News as they<br />
filmed a documentary for the Aldabra Clean Up Project. It meant helping the crew, setting up<br />
tents, cleaning up the nearby beaches, both on and off camera. We all were interviewed by Sky<br />
live on air.The other nine volunteers were moving the plastic we’d picked up along the coastline<br />
to central pick-up points on key beaches, helped by the Seychelles Coast Guard.<br />
FEATURES<br />
The final stage was getting all the plastic onto boats, which was where the Seychelles Coast<br />
Guard really helped: they had much more training and experience in dealing with big waves<br />
and boats in challenging situations. And there were a lot of them: an extra thirty people makes<br />
a huge difference. We would be sprinting up and down the beach dragging the plastic to them.<br />
It was like interval training, really. We had to be very quick, but the skippers knew what they<br />
were doing. So that was that; you’d finish a beach, go on to the next one, wait until the waves<br />
were right and start the process all over again.’<br />
What happened with the plastic after putting it on the boats?<br />
‘The 25 tonnes of plastic we cleared was put on containerships, which went back to Mahé to<br />
be stored in a warehouse there. The reason we separated the plastic into those different categories<br />
was because, before the project started, certain people and organisations were asked if<br />
they would be able to do anything with it when collected. A chunk of it was taken away to be<br />
used for educational outreach and art projects. The aim is to send PET plastics to a PET<br />
recycling factory on Mahé. Environmental charities were contacted to see if they could repurpose<br />
the fishing gear, for ships that want to fish in a sustainable way. But it has been a bit unclear<br />
what is happening to the rest of it. One of the problems is that recycling plastic is actually<br />
very difficult. Once it has been in the ocean and has started to break down, my understanding<br />
is that it can be almost impossible to recycle it. It’s much better for the plastic to be stored in a<br />
warehouse in Mahé than floating in the ocean, but we must decide what we want to do with<br />
it. Fortunately, there are a lot of conversations happening internationally, asking similar questions,<br />
now that the oceans are polluted. Even if you get the plastic out of the oceans, where<br />
does it go? It’s an ongoing issue, but at least people are talking about it.’<br />
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Working with the Coast Guard loading one of the smaller boats. Photo: Josephine Mahony<br />
How did this project influence your plastic usage?<br />
‘I’m definitely trying to cut down on plastic since I got back. At least I’ve learned what’s<br />
recyclable and what’s not, because I now know what the little codes on plastic packaging<br />
mean. I would also like to write letters to companies, to say that all this plastic isn’t necessary.<br />
I am hoping to join some campaigns to fight against single-use plastic. I tried taking a picture<br />
of everything that I touched in one day made of plastic, and it was just ridiculous. Almost<br />
everything around us is made of plastic. What happens next? The best thing we can do is to<br />
raise awareness.’<br />
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What advice would you give to Wolfsonians who are trying to cut down<br />
their plastic usage?<br />
‘I think people should check whether their fish (especially tuna) is caught using fish aggregating<br />
devices. They cause a lot of trouble when they wash up on islands in the Indian Ocean. They<br />
can weigh more than a tonne. This isn’t sustainable. It’s sad that the fishing gear used to catch<br />
our fish is turning into dangerous marine plastic litter on some of the most pristine ecosystems<br />
in the world.<br />
Everyone can look up the recycling codes which sit in the little triangle of arrows on plastic<br />
packaging. Everything that has 1 to 6 in it, can be recycled. But as soon as it’s 7 or higher, it<br />
can’t be recycled. It’s good to understand which products can come back into this closed<br />
system, and which can’t be reused.’<br />
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Magbalhi | 40 | member<br />
of women’s group |<br />
Rombo, Loitoktok<br />
FEATURES<br />
Celebrating<br />
Womanhood<br />
Two prints have been given to Wolfson <strong>College</strong> by<br />
Amref Health Africa, in recognition of decades of<br />
support. They come from a photo series by Los Angeles<br />
photographer Dean Bradshaw and portray women from<br />
Amref projects as they wish to be seen: as individuals –<br />
not victims. Their stories show the positive effect of good<br />
reproductive health.<br />
Fatima | 38 | Landlady |<br />
Kibera, Naoribi<br />
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AMREF AFRICA<br />
Wolfson <strong>College</strong> has<br />
supported Amref Health<br />
Africa since the late-1970s.<br />
The prints are currently on<br />
display in the ground-floor<br />
library corridor.<br />
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Lopan | 30 | Farmer | Elelea, Turkana<br />
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Lilian | 20 | Rombo, Loitoktok<br />
Nankalayiai |16 | Rombo, Loitoktok<br />
FEATURES<br />
Photos: Dean Bradshaw<br />
Rosemary | 55 | Birth Attendant | Rombo,<br />
Loitoktok<br />
Hellen | 30 | Seamstress | Turkana lakeside<br />
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News Bulletin<br />
FIFTY YEARS SINCE FIRST GRADUATES<br />
CAME TO WOLFSON COLLEGE<br />
In 2018 we celebrated fifty years since<br />
Wolfson opened its door to researchers and<br />
students.<br />
FIRST WORKSHOP IN HINDI AT THE<br />
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD<br />
The South Asia Research Cluster took part<br />
in a three-day Hindi Diaspora Literature<br />
workshop conducted entirely in Hindi, the first<br />
such academic workshop at the University of<br />
Oxford.<br />
WALTER SAWYER ADMITTED TO THE<br />
HONORARY DEGREE OF MASTER OF<br />
ARTS<br />
Walter Sawyer, Head Gardener of Wolfson<br />
from 1982 to 1991, was admitted to the<br />
honorary degree of Master of Arts at the<br />
University of Oxford.<br />
THE ACADEMICS AT RISK CAMPAIGN<br />
During Michaelmas 2018 the <strong>College</strong> raised<br />
over £300,000 to place academics at risk and<br />
their families at Wolfson.<br />
SIR THOMAS ALLEN IN CONVERSATION<br />
25 January <strong>2019</strong><br />
Wolfson <strong>College</strong> had the honour to welcome<br />
Sir Thomas Allen, on of the world’s most<br />
celebrated opera singers, for the second<br />
Weinrebe Lecture of the year. He performed<br />
and had a conversation with Radio 3 presenter<br />
Kate Kennedy and pianist Simon Over. The<br />
event was organised by the Oxford Centre for<br />
Life-Writing.<br />
WASHOKU DINNER HOSTED BY THE<br />
JAPANESE EMBASSY AT WOLFSON<br />
2 February <strong>2019</strong><br />
The Washoku dinner, hosted by the Japanese<br />
Embassy as part of the Japan UK Season of<br />
Culture <strong>2019</strong>–20, presented Japanese food in<br />
its social and historical context.<br />
WOLFSON STUDENT INVITED TO<br />
THE LAUNCH OF AMREF UK’S SPRING<br />
CAMPAIGN<br />
Amref UK invited DPhil student Ryan<br />
Walker as a representative to the launch<br />
of ‘Health in Her Hands’. The event was<br />
hosted by Amref’s long-time Patron, HRH<br />
the Prince of Wales.<br />
EBIKE SUMMIT <strong>2019</strong><br />
10 April <strong>2019</strong><br />
Wolfson <strong>College</strong> hosted the very first<br />
international business event for the<br />
eBike industry on Wednesday 10 April.<br />
Organised by sustainability media company<br />
Green.TV, the summit brought together<br />
business leaders, local and national<br />
government representatives, environmental<br />
activists and others to explore and<br />
promote this fast-growing sustainable<br />
mode of transport.<br />
SYMPOSIUM IN SILICON SOLAR CELL<br />
TECHNOLOGY<br />
15 and 16 April <strong>2019</strong><br />
The Oxford Symposium in Silicon Solar<br />
Cell Technology took place at Wolfson.<br />
Its aim was to bring together researchers<br />
from the University of New South<br />
Wales and institutions in Europe who are<br />
developing the technology for improved<br />
silicon solar cells.<br />
THE QUANTUM CLUSTER IN<br />
CONVERSATION WITH<br />
PHILIP PULLMAN<br />
Wolfson was honoured to welcome Philip<br />
Pullman, the novelist, for a conversation<br />
on the role of fantasising in creative<br />
thinking. Pullman was in conversation<br />
with Michael Nielsen, quantum physicist,<br />
science writer and computer programming<br />
researcher. Their topic was whether and<br />
how creativity is fuelled by fantasies in all<br />
sorts of different intellectual endeavours.<br />
Nielsen represented the point of view of<br />
science, whilst Pullman spoke for that of<br />
the humanities.<br />
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JAPAN’S ENERGY POLICY AFTER THE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER<br />
Wolfson welcomed Naomi Hirose, Executive Vice-Chairman for Fukushima Affairs at the<br />
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), for a lecture on Japan’s Energy Policy after the<br />
Fukushima disaster. Mr Hirose, who has worked for TEPCO for four decades, set out his<br />
views and answered questions about Japan’s current energy policy.<br />
A MASTERPLAN FOR WOLFSON<br />
As Wolfson begins to consider the next phase in its development, we have contracted awardwinning<br />
architects Penoyre and Prasad to produce an architectural masterplan. This will look<br />
several decades into the future, and give the <strong>College</strong> an architectural context for any future<br />
development proposals.<br />
GANESHA SCULPTURE ON LOAN FROM THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM<br />
A masterpiece of Indian sculpture is now on view in <strong>College</strong>, the elephant-headed god<br />
Ganesha sitting on a lotus throne. He sits at the entrance to the Buttery, opposite the Library<br />
display cases.<br />
FEATURES<br />
Alumnus George Smith (middle) revisited memories from his Wolfson days, 50 years ago,<br />
together with Sir Tim Hitchens and Jonathan Michie, President of Kellogg <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Have you published a book, won a prize, or achieved<br />
something noteworthy? We would like to hear<br />
about your achievements. Please send the details to<br />
communications@wolfson.ox.ac.uk<br />
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AMREF Group<br />
by Nameerah Khan<br />
In 2018 Wolfson celebrated<br />
forty years of supporting<br />
Amref, Africa’s leading health development<br />
organisation: it saves lives and improves living<br />
conditions in the most impoverished and<br />
marginalised communities. The anniversary<br />
was commemorated by the presentation<br />
of two wonderful photographs of African<br />
women taken by Los Angeles photographer<br />
Dean Bradshaw: they are now displayed<br />
in the corridor leading from the Café to<br />
the Old Lodge. At the ceremony Frances<br />
Longley, Amref UK CEO, and Sir Tim<br />
Hitchens spoke warmly of the long Wolfson-<br />
Amref association.<br />
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This year the Amref Group has had a<br />
record number of student representatives,<br />
with Aditi Agrawal, Sara Balte, Nameerah<br />
Khan and Ryan Walker jointly taking up<br />
the responsibility. The Sunday Coffee Shop<br />
restarted in Michaelmas, and has been<br />
an increasing success, with many people<br />
attending and volunteering baked goods.<br />
Bonfire Night was another great success for<br />
Amref – with the mulled wine bringing in<br />
£460, and bucket-shakers bringing in over<br />
£840. Amref pub quizzes were held in Hilary<br />
and Trinity terms, in conjunction with BarCo,<br />
raising £50 and £93 respectively. For the<br />
second quiz, three generous prizes were<br />
donated by local businesses: the Victoria<br />
Arms, TOAD Distillery and the Oxford<br />
Wine Company. And in June the President<br />
very kindly gave a talk in aid of Amref on<br />
the Japanese art of haiku poetry: £295 was<br />
raised that night from sales of his book of<br />
haiku, written when he was Ambassador to<br />
Japan. This year’s Summer Event included<br />
an Amref stall, for which various members<br />
of the college community baked delicious<br />
goods, helping to raise £62.<br />
On 8 March Ryan Walker represented<br />
Wolfson at the launch of Amref UK’s spring<br />
campaign ‘Health in Her Hands’, which was<br />
hosted by the Prince of Wales at Clarence<br />
House. ‘Health in Her Hands’ shines a light<br />
on the female health workers transforming<br />
lives across Africa, and Ryan had a chance to<br />
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Ryan Walker meeting the Prince of Wales at AMREF Africa launch of ‘Health in Her Hands’.<br />
discuss Amref’s work with Prince Charles,<br />
who is the charity’s long-time patron. Of<br />
his meeting with the Prince, Ryan recalls:<br />
‘I’m very grateful to Amref and Wolfson for<br />
providing me with that opportunity. I did my<br />
best to inform him of some of the excellent<br />
work that Wolfson does in supporting<br />
Amref. He was very interested in what I had<br />
to say, and was particularly impressed that<br />
the <strong>College</strong>’s relationship with AMREF has<br />
been just as long as his tenure as patron.’<br />
In April Wolfson donated £4,800 to<br />
‘Health in Her Hands’: we sent as much<br />
as we possibly could, knowing that the UK<br />
Government would match all the public<br />
funds donated to the project; this meant<br />
that Wolfson’s £4,800 became £9,600. We<br />
also gave £3,000 to fund the Wolfson-Amref<br />
Bursary, which supports students taking the<br />
charity’s flagship Diploma in Community<br />
Health.<br />
It has been a truly amazing year of<br />
fundraising. To everyone who has made<br />
these donations possible – a very warm and<br />
appreciative thank you.<br />
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Arts Society<br />
by Peter Stewart<br />
This year’s exhibition<br />
programme started with a<br />
subtle and humane evocation<br />
of two marginal areas of England by Steve<br />
Empson. ‘Two Communities on the Edge:<br />
Dungeness and Seal Sands’ looked for<br />
the resonances between these distantly<br />
separated landscapes in Kent and County<br />
Durham respectively (both as famous<br />
for their neighbouring nuclear power<br />
stations as for their natural beauty). We<br />
were hugely grateful to Steve for donating<br />
one of his works after the exhibition, the<br />
watercolour and pastel ‘Coltsfoot Behind the<br />
Dunes’, which currently hangs outside the<br />
Upper Common Room. In a shift of tone,<br />
Michaelmas Term was seen out by a series of<br />
new abstract paintings by Jon Rowland: ‘And<br />
Life is Colour’.<br />
<strong>2019</strong> opened with an unusual exhibition,<br />
a series of photographic reproductions<br />
of tapestries embroidered by Palestinian<br />
women as part of the Oxford-based<br />
Palestinian History Tapestry project (www.<br />
palestinianhistorytapestry.org). The tapestries<br />
are intended to show a neglected and<br />
often fragmented history of Palestine from<br />
antiquity to the present, a story which can<br />
never be apolitical and whose later chapters<br />
are particularly contested. We are very<br />
grateful to the organisers, Jan Chalmers<br />
and Lady English, for putting the tapestries<br />
and their messages in context, and the<br />
exhibition was well received. Samples of<br />
the textiles themselves were also exhibited,<br />
together with a historic British passport<br />
from the period of the Palestinian Mandate,<br />
which evoked the colonial and post-colonial<br />
historical fault-lines of the region.<br />
The tapestries were followed by a show<br />
of very different photographs, Jenny<br />
Blyth’s ‘Reflecting the Landscape’. Many<br />
of her photographs were taken through<br />
changing seasons in the grounds of Wolfson<br />
and in Port Meadow. She lived with the<br />
<strong>College</strong>, and the images of its buildings are<br />
sometimes almost abstract as she captures<br />
the angles and reflections of Powell and<br />
Moya glazing. We were delighted to be able<br />
to acquire one of these for the permanent<br />
collection.<br />
In April the Oxford-based painter and<br />
illustrator Tom Cross gave us ‘Shapes<br />
and Adventures’, an exhibition of some<br />
of his work since 2004, which traced his<br />
interest in different stylistic approaches<br />
as well as enduring concern with abstract<br />
compositions and colour combinations. Next<br />
up was the Ulster-born artist Naomi Litvack,<br />
whose ‘Field Notes’ presented evocative and<br />
sometimes unsettling landscapes in oil on<br />
panel, mostly painted in Wiltshire and the<br />
Scottish Highlands and Hebrides.<br />
The 2018/9 programme came to a close<br />
with a fascinating personal selection of<br />
Japanese Ukiyo-e (‘Floating World’) prints<br />
from the collection of Wolfson’s own<br />
Professor Gillies McKenna and Ruth Muschel.<br />
This rich and gorgeous exhibition captures<br />
the middle-class world of nineteenthcentury<br />
Japan, a time of superficial prosperity<br />
and relative isolation for the country. ‘The<br />
Golden Age of Japanese Prints: Kunisada,<br />
Kuniyoshi and Hiroshige’ exceptionally<br />
continuing through summer <strong>2019</strong>, to allow<br />
as many to see it as possible. We have<br />
also decided to host longer exhibitions in<br />
general, typically now for three weeks at<br />
a time, which is more economical of time<br />
and effort by the artists, more satisfying for<br />
their audiences, and makes Wolfson a more<br />
attractive venue for exhibition.<br />
The display case on the balcony above the<br />
Marble Hall has continued to put a spotlight<br />
on small, often exquisite art and craft<br />
exhibits. Among this year’s highlights were<br />
selected works by the virtuoso Londonbased<br />
glass-maker Jochen Holz.<br />
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The most important development in respect<br />
to the <strong>College</strong>’s own art collections was a<br />
very generous and exciting loan by Christian<br />
and Florence Levett, of four works. These<br />
stunning paintings in oil and acrylic, both<br />
abstract and semi-figural, are the product<br />
of different generations of leading African<br />
artists: the octogenarian Ghanaian painter<br />
Ablade Glover (a monumental figure in<br />
modern West African art), the Ethiopian<br />
Wosene Kosrof, and two works by Beninborn<br />
Dominique Zinkpe. The three larger<br />
paintings now hang in the Haldane Room,<br />
with the smaller, jewel-like Kosrof in the<br />
Upper Common Room. These loans are<br />
visually transformative and also stand<br />
powerfully for the global character of<br />
Wolfson. We are extremely grateful for the<br />
opportunity to display and live with them.<br />
The Arts Society has benefited this year from<br />
the advice and encouragement of the new<br />
Creative Arts Fellow, the visual artist Carey<br />
Young, who gave a lecture on her recent<br />
work in February, ‘Subject to Contract: An<br />
Artist’s Explorations of Business, Politics and<br />
Law’. But we have also been sorry to see<br />
two departures. In January Mark Norman<br />
stood down after more than nine years as<br />
Chair of the Arts Sub-Committee, and a<br />
few weeks later we said goodbye to him as<br />
he left the committee and headed for the<br />
Channel Islands. Mark’s calm wisdom and his<br />
experience as former Head of Conservation<br />
at the Ashmolean Museum were invaluable<br />
for the work of the Arts Society. It came<br />
as a tremendous shock to all of us to learn<br />
that Mark had died suddenly this autumn,<br />
only months after leaving Oxford. In January<br />
Jan Scriven retired as Arts Administrator, a<br />
role that she had performed for more than<br />
six years, after standing down as <strong>College</strong><br />
Secretary in 2013. We will miss Jan’s energy<br />
and expertise, but are delighted to welcome in<br />
her place Luisa Summers, who comes from a<br />
background in art history and administration at<br />
Modern Art Oxford and the Hayward Gallery.<br />
Luisa’s skills and vision have already made an<br />
impact as we plan ahead for <strong>2019</strong>/20.<br />
BarCo<br />
by Nameerah Khan<br />
The <strong>College</strong> Cellar Bar has<br />
had an eventful year. It began<br />
with Freshers’ Week, when<br />
we held several events including a pub<br />
quiz, karaoke, beer pong, and were part of<br />
a college pub crawl. This piqued interest in<br />
the bar among the freshers, many of whom<br />
joined the rota to be part of this amazing<br />
student-run bar, with inductions being held<br />
in both Michaelmas and Hilary. We hosted<br />
various events throughout the year, including<br />
several highly successful bops and a gig by<br />
a Lithuanian folk singer in conjunction with<br />
Wolfson Internal Entz. BarCo also hosted an<br />
open mic night, two charity pub quizzes for<br />
AMREF, a Star Wars-themed event for May<br />
the 4th, and a charity karaoke for the Nasio<br />
Trust.<br />
Trinity Term saw the formation of a new<br />
Bar Committee, and we have a full Social<br />
Sub-committee for the first time in years.<br />
We look forward to many more exciting<br />
events in coming months. Throughout the<br />
past year, BarCo has been taking suggestions<br />
to diversify our drinks collection: we now<br />
have a wide variety of new choices such as<br />
whiskies from India and Wales, beer from<br />
Jamaica, and several new non-alcoholic<br />
options (including two non-alcoholic beers).<br />
The bar is also being updated, with several<br />
old pieces of equipment being replaced by<br />
new and more efficient ones. Members of<br />
BarCo have come up with various signature<br />
cocktails – some of which were slightly<br />
more popular than others. Among the most<br />
beloved were the SpongeBob, the Dagobah<br />
and of course the Tincture of Wolfblood.<br />
We look forward to another exciting year<br />
ahead, and are always looking for ways to<br />
make the bar an inclusive, safe and fun place<br />
for the Wolfson community.<br />
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Board Games Society<br />
by Michael Slota<br />
Two years ago, Nicola Dotti<br />
and I founded the Wolfson<br />
Board Game Society. With<br />
the funds given by the <strong>College</strong> this year, we<br />
were able to extend our collection of board<br />
games which comprises simpler and more<br />
complex games, so that players without<br />
previous knowledge can have fun, but<br />
experts will still be challenged. The collection<br />
contains strategic and role-playing games,<br />
as well as social games for larger gatherings.<br />
Games are being played regularly, and<br />
we like to think they extend the range of<br />
entertainment possibilities in <strong>College</strong>. They<br />
are a great way to meet new people and<br />
have fun together.<br />
We hosted a big event at Fresher’s Week<br />
with more than twenty people attending.<br />
It was a lot of fun and a great success in<br />
recruiting new players.<br />
Boat Club<br />
by Sophie Schauman<br />
This year the Club celebrated<br />
fifty years since our first<br />
appearance in Summer Eights, and we did it<br />
with a BANG!<br />
2018/19 started like most years with a<br />
large intake of novices, many of whom soon<br />
found lots of fun, friends and fitness. The<br />
novice men finished the term with a win<br />
in Nephthys Regatta, and the women took<br />
second place in Christ Church Regatta.<br />
In Hilary the novice and senior squads<br />
merged to train together for Torpids.<br />
Wolfson entered more crews than any<br />
other college: five men’s crews and<br />
three women’s crews. Many members<br />
experienced bumping and getting bumped,<br />
but the bumps up outnumbered the bumps<br />
down. M4, consisting of recent alumni who<br />
wanted to row one last time, managed to<br />
bump every day and were awarded Blades.<br />
After Torpids, our sights were set on<br />
Summer Eights. Again, training meant<br />
early mornings on the river, blood, sweat<br />
and tears on the rowing machine. But<br />
training pays off, and at Summer Eights we<br />
again entered five men’s crews and three<br />
women’s. M4 (a beer boat out for fun and<br />
bumps) and M5 (a mixed crew that included<br />
three women) battled it out in the lower<br />
divisions. M4, which included many former<br />
first-crew rowers, had no problem catching<br />
the boats ahead and moved up six places.<br />
M5, on the other hand, got bumped every<br />
day and were awarded Spoons, but their<br />
spirits never faltered. Two of their members<br />
got their revenge when they joined M3, and<br />
bumped at every opportunity and were<br />
awarded Blades and the M3 Headship. W3<br />
also succeeded in maintaining their W3<br />
Headship, and bumped up 3 places. M2 and<br />
W2 both held their positions, both being<br />
bumped once and bumping once, with W2<br />
also holding the W2 Headship. M1 fought<br />
hard in the top end of men’s division 1, but<br />
unfortunately went down one place. But<br />
W1 succeeded, for the first time ever in the<br />
history of the Club (both men and women),<br />
in reaching the Headship, the highest<br />
position on the river of all colleges.<br />
The fiftieth anniversary and the new<br />
Headship were celebrated at an alumni<br />
dinner on the Saturday of Summer Eights,<br />
which hosted both recent alumni and alumni<br />
from earlier years, including members of the<br />
very first (1969) crew. Our achievements<br />
owe quite as much to the commitment of<br />
previous members as to that of current<br />
members.<br />
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HEAD OF THE RIVER<br />
A nail-biting Summer Eights finale<br />
saw the Wolfson and St Cross Women<br />
team winning the title of Head of<br />
the River. A fantastic end to a week<br />
filled with enthusiasm from rowers<br />
and their suppporters.<br />
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Wolfson Choir<br />
The Choir got off to an excellent<br />
start with a well-attended<br />
‘Choir and Cupcakes’ event<br />
during Wolfson Week, which introduced<br />
potential members, as well as old hands,<br />
to our new director, Caroline Lesemann-<br />
Elliott. There was an energetic but informal<br />
rehearsal in the Auditorium, followed by<br />
home-made cupcakes in the Café. A core<br />
group of about twelve members then met<br />
throughout Michaelmas Term – a mix of<br />
Wolfson students, post-docs, and visiting<br />
students, as well as a few from other<br />
colleges. At the end of Week 8, we put<br />
together a Christmas concert, on Sunday<br />
after the Winter Ball; a chance for members<br />
of Wolfson to gather for Christmas music<br />
ranging from the Coventry Carol to ‘Baby,<br />
it’s cold outside’. We were joined by cellist<br />
Kate Kennedy from the Oxford Centre for<br />
Life-Writing, with her son on percussion,<br />
making it a multi-generational celebration of<br />
Wolfson. Mince pies were munched happily<br />
afterwards, and donations taken for Amref.<br />
In Hilary our rehearsals moved to Mondays,<br />
and we spent the term preparing for a joint<br />
concert with St Cross, as part of their annual<br />
musical evening. The theme was ‘Folk music’,<br />
and each choir sang a few songs, before<br />
ending with a combined performance of<br />
‘Only in Sleep’, a beautiful setting by Ēriks<br />
Ešenvalds of a poem by Sara Teasdale. It<br />
was a wonderful opportunity to sing in<br />
a very different venue from usual, and<br />
with a new group of singers. A few of us<br />
were able to join St Cross at their formal<br />
dinner afterwards, where we discussed the<br />
possibility that this could become a regular<br />
collaboration.<br />
Trinity Term started with the May Morning<br />
Concert in Week 1: only a small group of<br />
us were able to take part, since several<br />
members had other commitments on a<br />
Wednesday morning, but we sang a highly<br />
appropriate mix of songs, from a round<br />
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which imitates the bells of Tom Tower at<br />
Christ Church, to ‘Sumer is a cumin’ in’, for<br />
which we all put on our best Old English<br />
accents.<br />
We hope to continue and to grow in the<br />
coming year.<br />
Cricket<br />
by Basil Nelis<br />
I took over the captaincy of<br />
the Wolfson / St Cross cricket<br />
team from Pascal Delany at<br />
the beginning of the season. I would like to<br />
thank Pascal, congratulate him on his time as<br />
captain, and express my enthusiasm at having<br />
the opportunity to take over the role. I<br />
would also like to thank Merton <strong>College</strong> and<br />
their head groundsman, James Lisle, for giving<br />
us permission to use their nets.<br />
The team entered two competitions this<br />
term, League and Cuppers. We faced Balliol<br />
II in our first league match of the season.<br />
A slick opening partnership from Laurie<br />
Hutchence (30) – whose promising innings<br />
was cut short by a shocking umpiring<br />
decision – and Navin Cooray (30) provided<br />
us with a good platform to build on. A slight<br />
collapse down the order ensued, and this<br />
set the stage for an inspired performance<br />
at number 8 from Quinn Larkin, a baseball<br />
player by trade making his bow on the<br />
cricket field. Quinn gave the innings a<br />
much-needed boost and looked on course<br />
for a maiden half-century before being<br />
caught behind, agonisingly, on 49. Balliol<br />
were set with a total of 184 which they<br />
failed to chase and Wolfson / St Cross were<br />
comfortable winners by 60 runs. In the<br />
first round of Cuppers we faced Queen’s,<br />
with the game taking place on an overcast<br />
afternoon at their beautiful grounds on<br />
the banks of the Thames. A brewing storm<br />
restricted us to a 15-over match and, despite<br />
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excellent bowling from Harkirat Singh,<br />
Queen’s were the better side and won by<br />
seven wickets. We were offered a reprise<br />
and were drawn against Trinity in a ‘Bowl’<br />
round of Cuppers, but we failed to profit by<br />
it and were knocked out definitively, losing<br />
a very close encounter in which Harkirat<br />
starred again with a magnificent five-wicket<br />
haul.<br />
The rest of the season was plagued by<br />
some dreadful weather which caused no<br />
fewer than four matches to be called off.<br />
Fortunately, the rain didn’t dampen the<br />
team’s spirit nor its enthusiasm. We await<br />
next season with impatience.<br />
Croquet<br />
by Etemitope Ajileye<br />
This year was characterised<br />
by two events that have long<br />
been part of the Wolfson<br />
Croquet team tradition, and something<br />
new: the substitution of the old hoops with<br />
new, sturdy tournament-grade ones. They<br />
combine with our croquet lawn (very few<br />
colleges have a dedicated lawn) to make<br />
Wolfson one of the best places to play in<br />
Oxford.<br />
The two highlights of the croquet calendar<br />
were Cuppers, between April and May,<br />
which saw the first team advance four<br />
rounds before it was eliminated by a very<br />
skilful team from Keble; and Cherwell Day,<br />
in June, which saw energetic participation by<br />
the competing teams despite the uncertain<br />
weather.<br />
The croquet team will continue its mission<br />
to popularise the game within the Wolfson<br />
community. With help from the gardeners<br />
and the <strong>College</strong> administration, it will<br />
continue to offer tournament-level fields and<br />
equipment to members of the <strong>College</strong> and<br />
their guests.<br />
Darwin Day<br />
This year’s traditional Wolfson-<br />
Darwin Sports Day was<br />
celebrated on 16 March, it being<br />
our turn to travel to Cambridge and meet<br />
the other side of the family. Forty-three of<br />
us woke up very early to get on the bus,<br />
and the trip was long enough for some of<br />
us to go on sleeping; but even if some of us<br />
started the day tired, we could all feel the<br />
excitement and competitiveness in the air.<br />
We were greeted on arrival by Mohamed<br />
Ali and Stephanie Metzger, the Darwin<br />
students in charge of organising the event,<br />
who made sure it all went smoothly.<br />
The day started with walking and punting<br />
tours around the city, which gave us all a<br />
chance to get to know this ‘other place’<br />
we keep hearing about. Unfortunately the<br />
weather was not at all nice, and we had to<br />
face very strong winds that made punting<br />
harder than usual, but our brave Darwin<br />
hosts managed to get us around and bring<br />
us back safely. The rowing competition had<br />
to be cancelled because of the wind, but,<br />
paddles aside, the day featured a lot of other<br />
sporting events, such as basketball, squash<br />
and football. They ended in a very tight score<br />
between the two colleges, the only casualties<br />
being a few cracked eggs.<br />
Other activities were board games (with<br />
special thanks to Stephanie, who went out<br />
of her way to buy a copy of Dominion after<br />
she heard it was a popular game among<br />
the visitors), Drink and Draw (which is<br />
exactly what it sounds like), and University<br />
Challenge of course, in which we defeated<br />
Darwin by miles, thanks to our amazing<br />
University Challenge team.<br />
Afterwards Darwin treated us to a very nice<br />
formal dinner at which the day’s winner was<br />
announced: Wolfson, by a narrow margin.<br />
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WOLFSON<br />
Student’s enjoying our Chinese<br />
New Year Celebration. If you are<br />
part of a University Club and such<br />
a club doesn’t exist at Wolfson,<br />
you’re entitled to claim 50% of the<br />
membership to a maximum of £25<br />
per annum per student.<br />
Photo: John Cairns<br />
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Because the old trophy had been lost by<br />
Darwin last year, they got us a new one,<br />
which we brought home with us and will<br />
fight to keep in future years.<br />
The day ended with a very special bop<br />
that featured a Darwin DJ and a great<br />
performance by the Darwin band ‘The<br />
Galapagogos’. Once again, regardless of<br />
who won (and we did, in case you ask), the<br />
event was enjoyed by all concerned and<br />
brought us closer to our sister college: we<br />
are all students living much the same life,<br />
and belong to the same family whichever<br />
place we come from. We look forward to<br />
welcoming our distant cousins here next<br />
year, and giving them just the same friendly<br />
experience they gave us, but not including<br />
the trophy.<br />
Good luck, Darwin. See you all next year!<br />
Entz (external)<br />
by Maysa Falah and Nicholas<br />
Michelarakis<br />
Another big year started with<br />
three exchange dinners in<br />
Michaelmas, with Lady Margaret Hall, Linacre<br />
and St Antony’s. We organised a trip to<br />
Bath and another to the ‘Lion King’ musical<br />
in London. In Hilary, three more exchange<br />
dinners were held, with Green Templeton,<br />
St Peter’s and Brasenose, as well as a wine<br />
and cheese exchange with Worcester and<br />
Regent’s Park. We made a trip to London to<br />
watch ‘The Book of Mormon’ musical, and<br />
we organised an event to support the Boat<br />
Race in April. Trinity came bringing good<br />
weather which we took advantage of, by<br />
enjoying exchange dinners with St Anne’s<br />
and Somerville, as well as a trip to Brighton<br />
and another to the last performance of<br />
the famous musical ‘Aladdin’. The year has<br />
been rich in enjoyable events, and we look<br />
forward to even more in Michaelmas <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Entz (internal)<br />
by Nameerah Khan<br />
An amazing year, with five bops<br />
and a concert. We started<br />
in Freshers’ Week with the Alphabop. In<br />
Hilary we hosted Bop Through the Ages,<br />
a history-themed bop which resulted in<br />
lots of creative, time-bending costumes<br />
and the birth of a new cocktail, Tincture of<br />
Wolfblood. We followed this up with a more<br />
relaxed event, an eclectig gig by Lithuanian<br />
folk singer Andy Vaic (St Anne’s) who chose<br />
the Wolfson Bar as the venue for his first<br />
solo performance in Oxford. Then came<br />
MmmBop, the biggest party of the year: this<br />
90s-themed bop in the Hall and Haldane<br />
Room is always a great success. The first bop<br />
in Trinity was cartoon-themed, with lots of<br />
colourful characters dancing about, and we<br />
ended the academic year like the true nerds<br />
we all are, with a fantasy-themed bop that<br />
turned Wolfson into a world of dragons,<br />
elves and wizards.<br />
Environment Team<br />
by Angelina Palmén<br />
The Environment (‘Green’) Team<br />
has continued its work as a forum<br />
open to all members of Common<br />
Room, meeting twice a term to raise<br />
and discuss ideas for new environmental<br />
initiatives, and to devise plans of how to<br />
work with different <strong>College</strong> departments to<br />
realise them.<br />
Improving communications has been one<br />
of our key initiatives. In Michaelmas, the<br />
Green Team made its presence known<br />
at the Freshers’ Fair with environmentalthemed<br />
giveaways and collecting sign-ups<br />
for food recycling bins. We have updated the<br />
‘Sustainability’ tab on the <strong>College</strong> website,<br />
moving it to a more logical area under<br />
‘Accommodation’ to give those living on site<br />
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easier access to the important information<br />
that it contains, for example about recycling.<br />
Facebook has been used regularly to reach<br />
the community with information updates<br />
and fun facts about living sustainably at<br />
Wolfson.<br />
In February this year, to promote action on<br />
climate change, the team hosted a film night<br />
screening the documentary ‘Tomorrow’<br />
(Demain, 2015). <strong>College</strong> members took part<br />
in the Climate Justice March in Oxford and<br />
the Extinction Rebellion in London.<br />
The <strong>College</strong> has taken some major steps in<br />
recycling and to combat single-use plastic.<br />
Additional recycling bins have been added in<br />
places including the Library, Café and Upper<br />
Common Room. Information stickers on<br />
bins have been refreshed, laminated new<br />
signs have been put up around public spaces,<br />
with infographics of recyclable items. The<br />
catering team has done a great job: plastic<br />
water bottles are no longer sold in hall, new<br />
water refill points have been added, multiuse<br />
bottles with the <strong>College</strong>’s own filtered<br />
water are now used for formal dinners<br />
and other events. Biodegradable hot and<br />
cold single-use cups have been trialled, with<br />
plans for their wider use in the near future.<br />
The Wolfson Nursery has likewise made<br />
great improvements, developing its system<br />
of waste disposal and teaching the children<br />
about environmentally friendly practices.<br />
funds towards replacing windows with<br />
double glazing in the next few years. In<br />
the meantime, we are looking into other<br />
ways to make heating and lighting more<br />
efficient, particularly in public areas such<br />
as the Library. A working group has been<br />
established across all Oxford colleges to<br />
see how best to collaborate in developing<br />
appropriate carbon reduction targets and a<br />
plan of works to achieve it.<br />
After the trials last year at making plantbased<br />
food more available in Hall, we can<br />
report that vegan options are now provided<br />
at every meal during term-time alongside<br />
vegetarian options, and consistently out<br />
of term-time. The informal meals menu<br />
is also now available online out of termtime,<br />
making meal planning a lot easier. The<br />
vegan burger has been so popular that one<br />
Member of Common Room even wrote a<br />
poem, shared on Facebook, entitled ‘An ode<br />
to the Vegan Burger’.<br />
In recognition of these and many other<br />
improvements during the past year, Wolfson<br />
was given the Silver Award in the NUS<br />
Green Impact Awards at the University’s<br />
annual Sustainability Showcase. I am<br />
proud to have served as Environment<br />
Representative for the last two years, and<br />
am confident of handing over the reins to a<br />
very capable successor at the beginning of<br />
Michaelmas <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Structural improvements are underway to<br />
improve the sustainability of our buildings.<br />
When roofs need repairing, they are being<br />
enhanced with insulation. Funds have been<br />
set aside to begin a long-term project of<br />
gradually replacing single-glazed windows<br />
with double-glazed ones for better efficiency.<br />
These funds will allow some prototype<br />
double-glazed windows to be made to<br />
match the existing appearance and to<br />
seek Building Protection Officer approval.<br />
Then the <strong>College</strong> hopes to raise further<br />
Family Society<br />
by Chigusa Yamaura<br />
The Society has had another<br />
great year. It began in October<br />
with our annual Meet and<br />
Greet Party, welcoming new and returning<br />
families. We also organised the always<br />
popular Pumpkin Carving event and<br />
Halloween Party. The children – dressed<br />
in all varieties of costumes – went trick-<br />
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or-treating with their parents all round the<br />
<strong>College</strong>, including the President’s house,<br />
and then finished the evening with a pizza<br />
party. We held a Winter Party in December,<br />
with cakes and teas. In the cold and dark of<br />
January we organised a movie afternoon in<br />
the TV room with popcorn. We also enjoyed<br />
a potluck lunch in March.<br />
One of the highlights of this term’s events<br />
was the children’s art event in February,<br />
organised by Theresa Hofer and Charlotte<br />
Kirchhelle. All the children who attended<br />
contributed to the final masterpieces, which<br />
were also displayed in the Hall. The second<br />
children’s art event was held during the<br />
Cherwell Day Summer Party in June. In June<br />
we also took advantage of the nice weather,<br />
organising a Sports Day / Picnic in the sports<br />
field, for families to enjoy running, jumping,<br />
and playing with kites, Frisbees and bubbles,<br />
or simply lying down under the blue sky.<br />
The Society has much appreciated the<br />
support of the <strong>College</strong>, which has continued<br />
to be very family-friendly. Early this academic<br />
year, we held a meeting with the President<br />
and Home Bursar to discuss the needs of<br />
families, which updated the guidelines for<br />
families in <strong>College</strong>. In June, at the initiative<br />
of Etienne Hanelt, the <strong>College</strong> held its first<br />
family-friendly formal dinner, which gave<br />
some families with small children their<br />
first chance of attending a formal dinner.<br />
Moreover, a new Family Room will open<br />
shortly, where members and their families<br />
can feel at home and socialise. The Society<br />
will continue its work of making <strong>College</strong><br />
members with families feel welcome and<br />
part of the Wolfson community.<br />
Football Club<br />
by Hamish Couper<br />
The Wolfson / St Cross football<br />
club had a successful season<br />
with more than forty players taking part,<br />
over half of them new freshman players.<br />
The first team maintained its position in the<br />
MCR first division, ending up in fifth place,<br />
12 points off the title. Top goal scorer was<br />
Hamish Couper, helped by a second-half<br />
hat trick against Keble. We also had a good<br />
Cuppers run, getting to the semi-finals<br />
which we lost in a tight match (0–1) against<br />
Corpus / Linacre. We only need two or<br />
three new players in key positions next year,<br />
to compete for the league and cup titles.<br />
The second team had a successful first<br />
season in its arrangement with Corpus /<br />
Linacre which will continue next year, thanks<br />
to our good relations with them despite<br />
being beaten by them in Cuppers. The team<br />
also finished in fifth place in the MCR third<br />
division, 9 points above the drop and only 4<br />
points off promotion, which promises well<br />
for the future.<br />
Wolfson / St Cross also ventured into Futsal,<br />
coming third in the inaugural league, and<br />
making the semi-final of Cuppers before<br />
another tight 0–1 loss, this time to St Hugh’s<br />
MCR. Player of the Season was Basil Nelis<br />
for the second team, and Ilo Zak for the first.<br />
Let me thank Matthew Mckernan and Elliot<br />
Abbott for their joint-captaincy this year, and<br />
wish Eoin Finnegan and Youssuf Saleh the<br />
best of luck as they take over the mantle of<br />
captains.<br />
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Foxes Women’s Football<br />
by Emilia Quinn<br />
The Foxes have had a triumphant<br />
season. We won the Hassan’s<br />
Cup with an 8–0 victory over St<br />
Hugh’s under the lights at Iffley. We topped<br />
the Women’s First Division league, winning<br />
all six of our games. We also topped the<br />
Futsal league, winning nine out of ten games,<br />
and won the Futsal Cuppers by being<br />
undefeated throughout the tournament.<br />
During Trinity we enjoyed casual five-asides<br />
at University clubs, and look forward<br />
to building and developing our team for<br />
<strong>2019</strong>/20.<br />
Wolfson Goodenough<br />
Exchange<br />
by Kerstin Frie and Jenny<br />
Vafeiadou<br />
Goodenough <strong>College</strong> is an educational<br />
charity rather like an Oxford or Cambridge<br />
postgraduate college in providing residential<br />
accommodation for talented British and<br />
international postgraduates and their families<br />
studying in London. It is a vibrant 700-strong<br />
international community drawn from 77<br />
countries, with dozens of sporting and<br />
cultural clubs, a library, a dining hall and a bar,<br />
which provides its members with much the<br />
same study experience as Wolfson does, but<br />
in London.<br />
This year we established a new bidirectional<br />
exchange with Goodenough, which in<br />
May brought ten of its students to Oxford<br />
for the day, and in June took ten of us to<br />
London for the day. The afternoon in Oxford<br />
included a tour around the city centre and<br />
Wolfson, followed by a well-deserved break<br />
for coffee and cake. We had a lovely punting<br />
trip to the Victoria Arms in the afternoon<br />
and a delicious formal dinner at Wolfson in<br />
the evening.<br />
Our itinerary in London included a tour<br />
around Goodenough itself and Bloomsbury,<br />
which allowed us to explore the college<br />
and its surroundings. We also had a picnic<br />
and played a game of croquet in the college<br />
quad. This was followed by a coffee break,<br />
featuring an impressive homemade Wolfson<br />
/ Goodenough-themed cake. The day was<br />
topped off with some prosecco and music<br />
in the quad and a delicious dinner in their<br />
Great Hall.<br />
On both days Wolfson and Goodenough<br />
students mingled and got to know each<br />
other; we all had a lot of fun. The exchange<br />
was an invaluable opportunity to meet<br />
postgraduate students in London, and to<br />
find out whether Goodenough might be a<br />
good place for further studies. We hope to<br />
repeat the exchange next year.<br />
Inter-Collegiate Quiz<br />
by Claire Jones<br />
The annual Inter-Collegiate<br />
Quiz is run by the University<br />
Quiz Society and features teams<br />
of four from different colleges competing<br />
at University Challenge-style questions.<br />
This year’s ICQ began in Hilary and ended<br />
with the semi-finals and final in Week 3 of<br />
Trinity. The three-person team from Wolfson<br />
– Mary Caple, Claire Jones and Grigore<br />
Gafencu – proved that reduced numbers<br />
were no handicap when they won their<br />
group outright by defeating Hertford A and<br />
Corpus Christi B, and were then awarded<br />
a bye in the first knockout round thanks<br />
to their excellent bonus conversion. After<br />
cruising past Lincoln and Magdalen A in<br />
the next two rounds, they faced last year’s<br />
champions, Merton A, in the semi-final; but<br />
a few incorrect answers from the other<br />
side meant that Mary’s decisive buzz on the<br />
final starter question sealed things for the<br />
Wolves, who went on to defeat Merton B<br />
in the final. For Mary and Claire, ICQ was<br />
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a sequel to recording Wolfson’s first-ever<br />
appearance in University Challenge, which<br />
goes out in July.<br />
LGBTQIA+ Society<br />
The Society began the<br />
academic year on 13<br />
November 2018 by screening<br />
the critically acclaimed movie Fire (1996),<br />
directed by Deepa Mehta and starring<br />
Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das. In Hilary, it<br />
marked Pride month by collaborating with<br />
the Library in a display of academic works<br />
on the articulation of sexuality across the<br />
world. On 19 February, in association with<br />
the <strong>College</strong> welfare officers, it organised<br />
a Welfare Tea at which rainbow tea and<br />
rainbow cakes were served. And on 23<br />
February, again with help from the welfare<br />
officers, it screened the movie ‘Birdcage’<br />
(1996), when pizzas and cold drinks were<br />
served.<br />
The Society thanks the <strong>College</strong> for its help<br />
and support, and will organise other such<br />
events in coming years. It invites suggestions<br />
and further participation by members of the<br />
<strong>College</strong>. Everyone is welcome.<br />
of Hamburg played one of its Anglo-<br />
German Friendships concerts at Wolfson,<br />
to celebrate the international ties of the<br />
<strong>College</strong>, the University and the country.<br />
Concerts have already been planned for<br />
next year, and we hope that in Michaelmas<br />
further musicians from our freshers will join<br />
the Music Society.<br />
Old Wolves and Archives<br />
by Liz Baird and Dr Ellen Rice<br />
The Old Wolves meet once a<br />
term for lunch, which is usually<br />
followed by a talk by one of our members.<br />
Membership is open to anyone – Fellows,<br />
students, staff, partners, widows and<br />
widowers – who enjoys reminiscing about<br />
the <strong>College</strong> and meeting others who do so<br />
too.<br />
On 1 October 2018, to mark the fiftieth<br />
anniversary of the arrival of Wolfson’s<br />
first students and junior research fellows,<br />
Professor George Smith – the second JRF to<br />
appear at Wolfson, in 1968 – was, with the<br />
President, welcomed back to the <strong>College</strong>’s<br />
first home at 60 Banbury Road by Jonathan<br />
Michie, President of Kellogg <strong>College</strong> which<br />
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Music Society<br />
by Felix Tennie<br />
Wolfson has once again seen a<br />
wide range of musical activities. As<br />
in previous years, the Oxford Lieder Festival<br />
and the Fournier Trio came here each term,<br />
staging well-received performances in the<br />
Auditorium. The choir has continued its<br />
work with a new conductor and gave a<br />
concert during Advent. It also performed at<br />
the May Day event, which saw a number of<br />
keen Wolfson musicians and guests joining<br />
forces to deliver an extraordinary range<br />
of different music styles. At the beginning<br />
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On 1 November, Stephen Grounds (GS<br />
1968) – marking his own birthday, as well<br />
as almost exactly fifty years since he came<br />
to Wolfson as one of our first intake of<br />
students and JRFs – gave an enjoyable<br />
illustrated talk about the little-known artist<br />
and forger, Joseph Lycett, whose life’s<br />
trajectory, from Birmingham to Australia<br />
and back again, Stephen and his wife Pauline<br />
found themselves emulating.<br />
On 3 November another Old Wolf, Walter<br />
Sawyer, received formal recognition of<br />
his service to the University when he<br />
was admitted to the honorary degree<br />
of Master of Arts. Walter was Wolfson’s<br />
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Head Gardener from 1982 to 1991, when<br />
he was appointed Superintendent of the<br />
University Parks (until 2017), and has been a<br />
Supernumerary Fellow since 2001.<br />
On 14 February <strong>2019</strong> Ben Simpson<br />
(Old Wolf and HMCR) gave us a most<br />
informative illustrated talk on the work<br />
and travels of one of his forebears, entitled<br />
‘Letters from America, 1865: An English<br />
Quaker’.<br />
On 9 May another of our early graduate<br />
students, Christopher Schenk (GS 1972),<br />
gave us a personal reflection on the<br />
experiences of his father Willy and his uncle<br />
Hans, who came to Britain as refugees<br />
from Prague during the Second World War.<br />
Hans Schenk is known to many Wolfsonians<br />
as one of our founding (Iffley) Fellows.<br />
Christopher has also contributed to this<br />
<strong>Record</strong> an article based upon his talk, which<br />
was recorded by his son Gabriel; the video<br />
may be accessed on YouTube at https://<br />
youtu.be/vg9fkAEOKrY<br />
One of our current graduate students,<br />
Shivangi Kaushik, worked with Ben Simpson<br />
and Christopher Schenk on book displays<br />
related to their talks, and both she and one<br />
of our Old Wolves, Mary Thomas, have<br />
been working as volunteers in the <strong>College</strong><br />
Archives this year. We are grateful to them<br />
both for so kindly giving us their time.<br />
On 18 June we welcomed back to the<br />
<strong>College</strong> Old Wolf Dr Hubert Zawadzki,<br />
with other members of the Abingdon Area<br />
Archaeological and Historical Society. We<br />
gave them an introduction to the history<br />
of the <strong>College</strong>, its architecture, and gardens,<br />
and – so far as the miserable weather<br />
permitted – a short walkabout. We are<br />
most grateful to those who assisted with<br />
this event, particularly Dr John Penney<br />
(EF), Walter Sawyer (SF) and the architects<br />
Marion Brereton and Alan Berman (HF).<br />
And thanks too to Professor Jim Kennedy<br />
(EF), who gave a quick impromptu talk on<br />
the fossils in the Stallworthy Grove, the<br />
colour and texture of which was beautifully<br />
highlighted against the drizzle.<br />
Reading Group<br />
by Jan Scriven<br />
The Reading Group was initiated<br />
by William Fiennes in 2005 when<br />
he was Creative Arts Fellow, and has met<br />
regularly ever since. Out of an extensive<br />
mailing list, a steady core of members attend<br />
our meetings which take place about every<br />
six weeks. This year we have read LaRose<br />
by Louise Erdrich; The Sympathizer by Viet<br />
Thanh Nguyen; Maurice by E M Forster;<br />
Wise Children by Angela Carter; The Ice<br />
Palace byTarjei Vesaas; Orlando by Virginia<br />
Woolf. Some may be more popular than<br />
others, but they are all books worth talking<br />
about.<br />
New members are always welcome, and<br />
we are pleased to extend membership to<br />
friends from outside the <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Romulus<br />
by Emese Végh<br />
Romulus is Wolfson’s literary<br />
magazine. There is a different<br />
theme each year, and this year’s<br />
was ‘Ritual’. It was introduced, together with<br />
last year’s Romulus, at an event in November<br />
in the <strong>College</strong> bar with live music,<br />
photography, discussion panels and readings<br />
by students from their own work. This year’s<br />
Romulus was published in June <strong>2019</strong>, and<br />
introduced at another popular event. Three<br />
members of the editorial team continued<br />
from last year, Eduardo Paredes Ocampo,<br />
Lisa Heida, and Emese Végh, and were<br />
joined this year by Rose Stair, Sofia Contino,<br />
Grigore-Aristide Gafencu and Yongchang<br />
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Chin. The team, despite its members coming<br />
from different disciplines, is united by a<br />
common passion for writing and literature. It<br />
received impressive numbers of high-quality<br />
submissions from <strong>College</strong> members in the<br />
form of poems, short stories, academic<br />
pieces, drawings and paintings. It was a joy<br />
editing this amazing work, and very hard to<br />
decide which pieces there was no space<br />
for. When the new theme is revealed in<br />
Michaelmas, we urge everyone to submit<br />
contributions to the next Romulus.<br />
Squash<br />
by Ravinda Gunaratne<br />
The Club has had a great<br />
year and, despite losing a<br />
couple of top players after graduation,<br />
it managed to field two teams of<br />
five in the college leagues. Despite<br />
an early Cuppers exit, the first team<br />
gained promotion to the top League in<br />
Michaelmas, only to be demoted again<br />
after a tough Hilary. But with many of<br />
our new players staying on, we hope<br />
to mount a fresh challenge next year.<br />
Running<br />
by Emily Warner<br />
The Club has enjoyed another<br />
successful year, building on the momentum<br />
created by Tom Carruthers during his time<br />
as President 2016–18. We have continued<br />
to meet twice a week for a social run and<br />
intervals session: the company of other<br />
Wolfson runners was particularly welcome<br />
during the dark winter evenings.<br />
Four members ran in the Oxford halfmarathon:<br />
Jon Connolly, Andreas Lauritzen,<br />
Kevin Schlegel and Lorel Scriven. We also<br />
entered a mixed team in the Teddy Hall<br />
Relays: Tom Carruthers, Peter Guevera, Emily<br />
Warner and Kim Fuellenbach. We were<br />
pleased to come tenth in our category, as<br />
the second-fastest mixed college team, with<br />
a strong run by Tom giving us our fastest leg.<br />
The Club continues to welcome runners of<br />
all abilities, and aims at providing a friendly<br />
and sociable environment for everyone to<br />
enjoy running. We have enjoyed exploring<br />
off-road routes around the Wolfson<br />
Meadows and in Port Meadow, and our pub<br />
runs have proved particularly popular. If you<br />
haven’t joined us already, then next year is<br />
your chance to get running.<br />
Tennis<br />
by Thomas Chen<br />
The Club welcomes<br />
beginners to the sport<br />
as well as advanced players, and<br />
regular players found Wolfson’s two<br />
courts remained in great condition<br />
throughout the year. As in previous<br />
years, the Club has organised weekly<br />
subsidised coaching sessions by a<br />
professional coach, an opportunity<br />
which has attracted many new<br />
members. A relatively small group of<br />
players participated in the University<br />
tennis league, where we play in the<br />
third division. We had some successes,<br />
and are currently in third position.<br />
Ultimate Frisbee<br />
by Edward Miller<br />
The University Ultimate<br />
Frisbee league is a weekly<br />
competition between<br />
colleges culminating in a single-day<br />
‘Cuppers’ in May. This year Wolfson<br />
combined with St Anne’s and did<br />
respectably, our team finishing fourth<br />
out of ten.<br />
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In Cuppers itself, Wolfson was able to recruit<br />
its own Frisbee team and reached a very<br />
respectable fourth place, playing the whole<br />
day without any substitutions.<br />
Volleyball<br />
by Alba Rosa Piacenti<br />
The University Volleyball team<br />
included three members<br />
from Wolfson (Pinar, Julia and Alba) and<br />
competed in the British Universities and<br />
<strong>College</strong>s Sports premier south, achieving<br />
fifth place against some of the best teams<br />
in England, and sixth place in the student<br />
cup. In the annual Varsity match they<br />
beat Cambridge 3–1, thanks to the many<br />
Wolfsonians who came to support their<br />
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Winter Ball<br />
by Carolina Rivas-McQuire<br />
This year’s Winter Ball on 1<br />
December was inspired by<br />
Alice in Wonderland. Tickets sold out within<br />
hours, and numbers were the highest ever,<br />
with 650 guests. It brought Wonderland’s<br />
favourite characters to life in a plethora of<br />
acts ranging from musicians to magicians,<br />
from acrobats to actors. The Committee<br />
is forever grateful to Tracy Fuzzard, Barry<br />
Coote and the <strong>College</strong> catering and<br />
maintenance staff, not to mention Sir Tim<br />
Hitchens, who lent us his own giant teacup<br />
for the evening. We must also thank all those<br />
who gave their time and dedication, by<br />
serving on the committee or by helping in<br />
other ways: more than 450 paper butterflies<br />
were made by hand for the occasion. We<br />
are proud of our achievement and can’t wait<br />
for next year.<br />
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Yoga<br />
by Kristine Homoki<br />
The Club holds classes throughout the<br />
year, in term and vacation. Most classes<br />
are flowing and dynamic, which is great for<br />
overall strength, joint health and flexibility,<br />
but there are days when we slow down<br />
and focus on relaxation and calming the<br />
mind. Students enjoy this variety of themes<br />
with no two classes quite the same, and<br />
being able to practise the many dozens of<br />
postures and flows they learn.<br />
Classes are open to the public also and the<br />
local community, on Wednesdays at 6.00<br />
pm and Saturdays at 12.15 pm. No previous<br />
experience is necessary, only the willingness<br />
to learn and be challenged in a fun and<br />
healthy way.<br />
REPORTS<br />
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Research<br />
Clusters<br />
Wolfson is home to a number of renowned research clusters, who are pushing the<br />
boundaries of knowledge. These are their reports for the past year.<br />
Ancient World Research Cluster (AWRC)<br />
by Janet DeLaine, Sarah Graham and Diana Rodríguez Pérez<br />
REPORTS<br />
The Cluster has again had a busy year, with a number of special events and new initiatives in<br />
addition to the regular programme. Our fundamental aim is to support <strong>College</strong> members<br />
working on Ancient World topics – currently over 120 – and to promote interdisciplinary<br />
working and exchange across different age groups and experience. Thanks to generous<br />
funding from Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza (HF), we are able to do this through grants,<br />
sponsorship of research events and the organisation of a variety of activities intended for<br />
both our members and the wider University and public. We also support projects which<br />
foster collaboration with other academic institutions, both within the University and around<br />
the world. The breadth of our members’ research interests is reflected in the wide variety of<br />
events we have been able to organise.<br />
SPECIAL EVENTS<br />
October saw an exciting afternoon on the theme of ‘Ancient and Modern: research in<br />
ancient world topics in the modern world’, presentations by senior members of the AWRC<br />
and those at earlier stages of their careers, in honour of the new President. It was followed<br />
by a special ‘In Conversation’ between Sir Richard Sorabji (HF) and John Sellers, a former<br />
JRF now at King’s <strong>College</strong> London, which concluded with a reception and dinner. To coincide<br />
with this event, the AWRC hosted a visit by Professor Xin Yu, Professor of Medieval Chinese<br />
History at Fudan University, who gave a presentation on research in ancient world topics at<br />
Fudan.<br />
Christian Levett (HF) gave a lively and well-attended ‘In Conversation’ event followed by an<br />
open audience question and answer session. Slade Professor Barry Flood gave a fascinating<br />
informal seminar on Islam and Images, chaired by Cluster member Professor Jeremy Johns.<br />
There was a book launch for Digital Imaging of Artefacts: Developments in Methods and Aims,<br />
edited by Kate Kelley and AWRC member Rachel Wood, and based upon a workshop held<br />
at Wolfson.<br />
NEW INITIATIVES<br />
The AWRC manned a stall at the Freshers’ Fair – a first for Wolfson Research Clusters –<br />
which attracted considerable attention and resulted in new members. We created a display<br />
of new publications by our members in the Library showcases on the first floor of the<br />
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REPORTS<br />
A research cluster in the <strong>College</strong><br />
gardens. Photo: Roger Tomlin<br />
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Academic Wing. The website has been updated with the notable addition of podcasts from<br />
the President’s Event and Chris Levett’s ‘In Conversation’. The AWRC, the Oxford Centre for<br />
Life-Writing and the Digital Research Cluster began discussions this year on possible areas<br />
of collaboration. The first result will be a joint seminar series between OCLW and AWRC<br />
during Michaelmas <strong>2019</strong> and Hilary 2020, on ‘Approaching Ancient Lives’.<br />
LUNCHES AND AFTER-LUNCH TALKS IN COLLEGE<br />
These bi-termly events continued to be well attended, and once again we were able to put<br />
on a rich and varied programme. Five of the six talks were from Cluster Members Stephanie<br />
Dalley, Michael McDonald, Elise Morero, John and Mary Brockington, and Martin Henig. The<br />
sixth was from Visiting Fellow Søren Handberg, Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology<br />
at the University of Oslo.<br />
REPORTS<br />
GRANTS AND AWARDS<br />
The AWRC has welcomed the new Lorne Thyssen Scholar, Greg Thompson, who is studying<br />
the coinage and economy of Boeotia in the fourth century BC for his DPhil. During the<br />
three terms since the start of Trinity 2018, it was able to give grants in support of seven<br />
workshops, conferences and seminar series to be held at Wolfson, organised by a welcome<br />
mixture of Fellows of different standing and student members. The wide-ranging topics<br />
included Science and Technology in Premodern Asia, Greek Architectural Repairs, Byzantine<br />
and Islamic Material Technologies, Assyriology, Sanskrit and Indology. Eleven research awards<br />
were made to graduate students for fieldwork or attending conferences, four to Fellows, and<br />
one to other members.<br />
THANK YOU<br />
We are grateful to Martin Goodman, Paul Roberts, David Taylor, Elizabeth Tucker, Peter<br />
Barber and former Director Jacob Dahl for their continuing help as members of our Steering<br />
Committee. Louise Gordon and her team in the Events Office, and Alex Messenger in the<br />
Accounts Office, continue to provide invaluable support.<br />
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Digital Research Cluster (DRC)<br />
by David Robey<br />
The DRC ran a workshop on 18 June 2018 with the Isaiah Berlin Legacy Project: ‘the Isaiah Berlin<br />
Digital Archive, a test case for the development of online research resources’. It was supported by<br />
the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, the Oxford e-Research Centre, and the Bodleian Libraries’<br />
Centre for Digital Scholarship.<br />
We have continued this line of collaboration with research clusters / centres in <strong>College</strong> through<br />
a joint project with OCLW and Dr Jacek Mostwin of Johns Hopkins University on ‘Lives in<br />
Medicine’. This small pump-priming project, supported by Dr Mostwin and the John Fell Fund,<br />
will serve to develop a major grant application based in OCLW and supported by the DRC. The<br />
major project will seek to improve the quality and ethical environment of medicine by directing<br />
the public, the medical and related professions, policy-makers and the medical industries, to engage<br />
with and learn from the lived experience of patients and practitioners. Combining medical, lifewriting<br />
and digital humanities expertise, it will create an extensive electronic archive of documents<br />
of lived experience in medicine, linked to a set of innovative research sub-projects and providing<br />
the platform for a multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional network for research, education and public<br />
engagement.<br />
We are currently planning a launch event in Michaelmas Term to mark the growing collaboration<br />
between the Voltaire Foundation and the <strong>College</strong>, on the development of a new digital archive of<br />
Voltaire’s works. We have initiated a series of termly DRC lunches.<br />
REPORTS<br />
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Law, Justice and Society (FLJS)<br />
By Denis Galligan<br />
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society enjoyed another productive year with its<br />
programme of lectures, workshops, book colloquia, and film screenings. In October, we held<br />
the fourth Max Watson Annual Lecture to commemorate the former FLJS Board Member<br />
and Wolfson Fellow, at which Emeritus Professor Denis Galligan considered what the rise of<br />
hardline populists tells us about the place of the people in the constitution.<br />
The Foundation’s film programme, FLJS Films, continued to attract wide audiences and<br />
prominent speakers. In February, we gave a UK premiere to the film ‘Golden Kingdom’, the<br />
acclaimed first international feature film to be produced in Myanmar since its reopening, with<br />
a post-screening talk with the film’s director Brian Perkins and South-East Asia expert Dr<br />
Mandy Sadan from SOAS.<br />
In Trinity we were pleased to invite Sir Tim Hitchens to open Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film ‘The<br />
Third Murder’. Sir Tim spoke of his experience in making the case against the death penalty<br />
in Japan during his time as Ambassador, before introducing a pre-screening talk by Tony Rayns,<br />
film critic and expert in East Asian cinema.<br />
REPORTS<br />
In Hilary we collaborated with the <strong>College</strong>’s new Creative Arts Fellow Carey Young, a<br />
conceptual and video artist examining language, behaviours, architectures and theoretical<br />
frameworks related to law and business. Carey gave an introductory talk and screened her<br />
video ‘Palais de Justice’ (2017), which features female judges at Belgium’s main courthouse,<br />
positing a speculative future in which women control the judicial system.<br />
Also in Hilary, we staged the third in our series of new Putney Debates at St Mary’s Church,<br />
Putney. This year we focused on the role of the courts in the wake of the ‘Enemies of the<br />
People’ controversy and politically charged judgments on Article 50.<br />
Our final lecture of the academic year also took on the thorny issue of Brexit, when<br />
Professor Neil Walker, University of Edinburgh, argued that the conflictual politics of Brexit,<br />
characterized by entrenched divisions between Leavers and Remainers, can be traced back<br />
to features of the British constitution.<br />
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South Asia Research Cluster (SARC)<br />
by Barbara Harriss-White (EF)<br />
SARC activity consists usually of small events on a shoestring – films, book launches,<br />
discussion with and lectures by visitors, work in progress, graduate student workshops – or in<br />
providing a location for large outside-funded conferences which need seclusion, for example<br />
in recent years, Rohingya, non-democratic politics, and the criminal economy.<br />
SPECIAL EVENTS<br />
• Professor Imre Bangha (GF) organised an animated debate on the history of Indian<br />
textiles and a workshop on diasporic writing in Hindi.<br />
• Professor Iftikhar Malik (MCR) launched his book From Orientalisation to Securitisation:<br />
Pashtun History and Politics, and generated a lively discussion on Afghan-Pashtun politics.<br />
• Dr Ali Jan (JRF) organised an international workshop on long-term village studies<br />
inspired by the new book by Himanshu (who presented), Peter Lanjouw and Nicholas<br />
Stern, How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics, based on the village<br />
of Palanpur in North India.<br />
• Dr Afiya Zia (JRF and Pakistani MP), helped by Dr Maryam Aslany (MCR), organised a<br />
fascinating book launch and discussion on Faith and Feminism in Pakistan.<br />
• Dr Tara van Dijk (VS and Marie Curie Fellow) organised an international workshop on<br />
the vernacular government of South Asian cities.<br />
• Professor Louise Tillin (KCL) discussed her Leverhulme-funded research on the history<br />
of South Asian social welfare.<br />
REPORTS<br />
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THANK YOU FROM TAHSC<br />
We would not have been able to facilitate these events<br />
and contribute to the Wolfson community without<br />
funding from the <strong>College</strong>, for which we are extremely<br />
grateful. In particular we thank Louise Gordon and her<br />
team in the Events Office for their support.<br />
Photo: Sanjay Hona<br />
REPORTS<br />
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Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Centre, (TAHSC)<br />
by Lama Jabb<br />
As in previous years, the cluster continued to host a broad range of academic and cultural<br />
events to which all members of the <strong>College</strong> were invited. The cluster organised guest<br />
lectures on a diversity of topics ranging from Tibetan history and worship of mountain deities<br />
to the role of magic rituals in Tibetan Buddhism and rediscovered Tibetan treasure literature.<br />
The speakers came from the UK and from universities abroad including Vienna, Bochum,<br />
Berlin, Jena and Paris.<br />
In Michaelmas 2018 we held the fourth annual Aris Lecture, established in 2015 in memory<br />
of Michael and Anthony Aris and their contribution to Tibetan and Himalayan Studies. This<br />
year’s lecture was delivered by Dr Sam van Schaik from the British Library before a packed<br />
audience in the Auditorium. It focused on ‘Magic, Healing, and Ethics in Tibetan Buddhism’<br />
and explored the role of books of spells in Tibetan Buddhism within the Buddhist ethical<br />
framework.<br />
Another annual highlight worthy of special mention was the ‘Losar’ party in early February.<br />
Once again we celebrated the Tibetan New Year with live Tibetan music, dancing and<br />
traditional food and drinks. This popular event was organised in previous years by our late<br />
colleague and former Wolfsonian Tsering Dhundup Gonkatsang (1951–2018), and this<br />
year it was celebrated in his honour. Once again it attracted members of Wolfson and the<br />
Unversity, together with Tibet enthusiasts, Tibetans and Mongolians from Oxford, London<br />
and elsewhere. These New Year parties have gathered momentum and are very popular<br />
with the Wolfson community, providing as they do a rare and jovial social space for students<br />
of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies and other Wolfsonians to interact with Tibetans and<br />
experience Tibetan culture.<br />
REPORTS<br />
In Hilary <strong>2019</strong> we were fortunate to entertain Yangten Rinpoche, the esteemed Tibetan<br />
Buddhist master, who came to Wolfson as a So-Wide visiting scholar. We organised a<br />
lecture by him on Tibetan monastic education at the Oriental Institute, where he also held<br />
a discussion on this topic with Dr Jonathan Samuel, the current Junior Research Fellow in<br />
Tibetan and Himalayan Studies at Wolfson. We also facilitated the translation of Rinpoche’s<br />
lecture, which was attended by cluster members and current Tibetan and Himalayan Studies<br />
students.<br />
Since Hilary <strong>2019</strong> cluster members Dr Robert Mayer and Anna Sehnalova have been<br />
running the Asian Treasure Traditions Seminar at Wolfson, consisting of several lectures given<br />
by a diversity of speakers from the UK and abroad. This ongoing seminar focuses on Tibetan<br />
and other treasure traditions within an interdisciplinary perspective, with the aim of coming<br />
to a better understanding of their possible origins.<br />
In June the cluster hosted Gesture, Body and Language in Tibet and the Himalayas, a workshop<br />
co-organised by our cluster member Dr Theresia Hofer and Professor Elisabeth Hsu. This is a<br />
cross-disciplinary exploration of the relationships between gesture and language, and the role<br />
of signifying embodied movements more broadly, in culturally Tibetan and related linguistic<br />
areas of the Himalayas.<br />
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Oxford Trauma Cluster<br />
by Xavier Griffin and Matt Costa<br />
Each term we hold two open-invitation meetings, preceded by lunch in <strong>College</strong>. They<br />
embody an educational session on aspects of trauma care and an open-invitation lecture of<br />
general interest.<br />
THIS YEAR’S WEDNESDAY SESSIONS AND LECTURES:<br />
3 October 2018, we invited our PPI (patient and public involvement) Members to discuss<br />
JLA Lower Limb and Upper Limb as well as PPIs experience.<br />
5 December, we hosted Professor Paul Kind, who is a founder member and past-President of<br />
the EuroQoL Group, a multinational research cooperative responsible for the development<br />
of EQ-5D, and who recently retired from its Scientific Executive after more than twenty<br />
years. Associate Professor Xavier Griffin also provided an exciting insight into Fracture<br />
Healing.<br />
23 January, our NDORMS Grants Team gave a talk on ‘The Journey from Ideas to Funding<br />
to Running / Reporting a Project’. Duncan Appelbe, another internal speaker, updated us on<br />
digitalising trials through REDCap. This session also gave us a valuable opportunity to discuss<br />
ways forward and to provide feedback for the Trauma Trials Day.<br />
REPORTS<br />
27 March, Peter Knapp, Senior Lecturer at the University of York, informed us about<br />
developments in online digital media and its use in clinical trials, which is particularly useful<br />
for informing patients and developing their understanding about taking part in clinical trials.<br />
Dr Anthony Howard, previously a barrister and now a trauma surgeon at the University<br />
of Leeds, presented his work on medical error and consent. Matt Costa also gave an<br />
entertaining interactive session on ‘Why we do RCTs at all and the hierarchy of evidence’.<br />
7 May was the PPI Framework Workshop, which we shared with the UK Musculoskeletal<br />
Trauma PPI Group and the HERG programme within the BRC. Its goal was to develop a<br />
framework that will support the delivery of PPI in research, and consider how to evaluate<br />
that work. This event brought together patients, carers, researchers and clinicians to see what<br />
PPI is already being done well and what might be improved, and to discuss how everyone<br />
would like it to work in their research area. The group will then work on a framework for<br />
carrying out and evaluating PPI, and how this framework is to be implemented.<br />
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8 May <strong>2019</strong> was BOA/FFN Hip # Review Day, a multi-disciplinary meeting that brought<br />
together leading experts from orthopaedics, geriatrics, anaesthesia, nursing, physiotherapy,<br />
rehabilitation and secondary fracture prevention, with the emphasis on discussion and<br />
shared-learning.<br />
15 May, we hosted the NIHR / Orthopaedic Trauma Society Musculoskeletal Trauma<br />
Research Network Meeting, to discuss new trials and those in the pipeline. There were<br />
about forty delegates, mostly researchers or chief investigators.<br />
On 19 June we brought together researchers and clinicians who have an interest in<br />
modulating the ways that fractured bones heal. They examined the issue from the different<br />
perspectives of basic and clinical science, with the cluster aiming to identify areas of<br />
common interest and new collaboration. The session raised awareness of the many ways<br />
of improving bone-healing, thus reducing the pain and disability associated with sustaining a<br />
fracture, and returning patients earlier to full function.<br />
FRAGILITY FRACTURE NETWORK (FFN)<br />
26 and 27 August saw pre-board meetings and workshops for the FFN Global Congress.<br />
The FFN has been founded as a global, multi-disciplinary network of experts in the<br />
improving of treatment and the secondary prevention of fragility fractures. It believes<br />
that useful changes in policy can only happen at a national level, and that the best way of<br />
achieving them is to build collaboration between as many countries as possible.<br />
REPORTS<br />
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INTRODUCTION<br />
Lost in<br />
thought<br />
This year we held several lectures including<br />
our three named lectures (the Ronald Syme<br />
Lecture, the Wolfson Haldane Lecture, and<br />
the Berlin Lecture), the President’s Seminar<br />
and our new series on Diplomacy.<br />
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Wolfson <strong>College</strong> was<br />
honoured to welcome Sir Venki<br />
Ramakrishnan, President of the<br />
Royal Society, to deliver this<br />
year’s Haldane Lecture. ‘The<br />
Quest for the Structure of the<br />
Ribosome: A Personal Voyage’<br />
INTRODUCTION<br />
Photo: John Cairns<br />
Missed any of our lectures?<br />
Discover more content at:<br />
podcasts.ox.ac.uk<br />
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Annual Lectures<br />
We held four annual lectures named in honour of key figures in the history of Wolfson.<br />
THE RONALD SYME LECTURE (1 NOVEMBER 2018)<br />
‘Spectacular Diplomacy: Nero and the Reception of Tiridates of Armenia on the Bay of Naples’<br />
Professer Kathleen Coleman, James Loeb Professor of the Classics, Harvard University<br />
THE ARIS LECTURE (15 NOVEMBER 2018)<br />
‘Magic, Healing, and Ethics in Tibetan Buddism’<br />
Dr Sam van Schaik, The British Library<br />
THE WOLFSON HALDANE LECTURE (7 FEBRUARY <strong>2019</strong>)<br />
‘The Quest for the Structure of the Ribosome: A Personal Voyage’<br />
Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society<br />
THE BERLIN LECTURE (16 MAY <strong>2019</strong>)<br />
‘Liberalism and the Resurgence of Fascism’<br />
Professor Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature, King’s <strong>College</strong> London<br />
FEATURES<br />
Other Lectures<br />
THE SARFRAZ PAKISTAN ANNUAL LECTURE (18 OCTOBER <strong>2019</strong>)<br />
‘The Fate of Pakistan – three ways in which things could really go wrong, and reasons for hope<br />
they may not’<br />
Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy<br />
Wolfson Lecture Series 2018–19:<br />
‘Diplomacy for the 21st Century’<br />
‘An Asian Perspective’ (11 October 2018)<br />
His Excellency Koji Tsuruoka, Japanese Ambassador to the UK<br />
‘An African Perspective’ (17 January <strong>2019</strong>)<br />
Her Excellency Yamina Karitanyi, High Commissioner for the Republic of Rwanda<br />
‘Twenty-first Century Diplomacy: A New Rule Book’ (2 May <strong>2019</strong>)<br />
Sir Tim Hitchens<br />
‘Expanding the Diplomatic Toolkit: The Further Evolution of Science Diplomacy’ (23 May <strong>2019</strong>)<br />
Sir Peter Gluckman, Former New Zealand Chief Scientific Advisor<br />
‘The End of the West: a US Perspective’ (31 October <strong>2019</strong>)<br />
Ambassador Nicholas Burns, former US Political Director and NATO Ambassador<br />
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President’s Seminars<br />
The President’s Seminar series provides a platform for the presentation and discussion of<br />
some of the fascinating and ground-breaking research that is carried out by Wolfsonians at<br />
all career stages. It is a chance for members of <strong>College</strong> to network, and to hear how other<br />
researchers plan, conduct, and complete their research projects.<br />
MICHAELMAS TERM: GRAVITY AND LEVITY<br />
Professor Wolfgang de Melo: ‘Gravity and levity in Varro, the Roman Grammarian’<br />
Dr Felix Tennie: ‘Gravity and what we (believe to) know about it’<br />
Mr Alexander Hardie-Forsyth: ‘Laurence Sterne’s line of gravitation’<br />
HILARY TERM: OPTICS, THE WAY WE LOOK AT THINGS<br />
Dr Paul Roberts: ‘Seeing in Pompeii’<br />
Dr Nir Shalev: ‘What we see and what we perceive’<br />
TRINITY TERM: DECISION MAKING<br />
Professor Matthew Rushworth: ‘Decision Making and the Brain’<br />
Dr Naoya Iwata: ‘The Weakness of Will in Greek Philosophy’<br />
Mr Alexis Toumi: ‘Complexity and Laziness in Human and Machine Thinking’<br />
FEATURES<br />
Wolfson Lecture Series <strong>2019</strong>/20:<br />
‘The Experience of Courts’<br />
The Experience of Courts is a new lecture series which aims to explore the socio-legal<br />
dimensions of our experience in courts, and other forms of legal proceedings. Find out<br />
more about our upcoming events at: wolfson.ox.ac.uk/events<br />
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THE RECORD<br />
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THE RECORD <strong>2019</strong><br />
COLLEGE OFFICERS<br />
President: Sir Tim Hitchens<br />
Vicegerent: Professor Jeremy Johns<br />
Bursar: Mr Richard Morin<br />
Senior Tutor and Dean of Welfare: Ms Emily Eastham<br />
Development Director: Dr Huw David<br />
Fellow for Archives: Dr Ellen Rice<br />
Fellow for Library: Ms Catriona Canon<br />
Deans of Degrees: Professor Wolfgang de Melo, Dr Imre Bangha,<br />
Dr Erica Charters, Dr Roger Tomlin<br />
Secretary to the Governing Body: Professor Jan Fellerer<br />
Research Fellows’ Liaison Officer: Professor Christina Redfield<br />
Visiting Scholars’ Liaison Officer: Professor Tarje Nissen-Meyer<br />
Data Protection Officer: Professor Jacob Dahl<br />
THE RECORD<br />
COLLEGE MEMBERSHIP<br />
ABBREVIATIONS<br />
Governing Body Fellows 57<br />
Honorary Fellows 38<br />
Emeritus Fellows 53<br />
Supernumerary Fellows 33<br />
Research Fellows 31<br />
Junior Research Fellows 72<br />
Visiting Fellows 1<br />
Graduate Students 640<br />
Members of Common Room 787<br />
EF<br />
EXF<br />
GBF<br />
GS<br />
HF<br />
HMCR<br />
JRF<br />
MCR<br />
RF<br />
RMCR<br />
SJRF<br />
SF<br />
VF<br />
VS<br />
Emeritus Fellow<br />
Extraordinary Fellow<br />
Governing Body Fellow<br />
Graduate Student<br />
Honorary Fellow<br />
Honorary Member of Common Room<br />
Junior Research Fellow<br />
Member of Common Room<br />
Research Fellow<br />
Research Member of Common Room<br />
Stipendiary Junior Research Fellow<br />
Supernumerary Fellow<br />
Visiting Fellow<br />
Visiting Scholar<br />
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THE RECORD<br />
70<br />
WOLFSON COLLEGE<br />
AT 1 OCTOBER <strong>2019</strong><br />
PRESIDENT<br />
Hitchens, Sir Tim,<br />
KCVO, CMG, MA<br />
(Cambridge)<br />
GOVERNING BODY<br />
FELLOWS<br />
Abramsky, Samson,<br />
MA (MA Cambridge, PhD<br />
London) Professorial<br />
Fellow, Christopher<br />
Strachey Professor of<br />
Computing<br />
Andersson, Ruben,<br />
(BA SOAS, MA City<br />
London, MSc, PhD LSE),<br />
Ordinary Fellow, Associate<br />
Professor in Migration and<br />
Development<br />
Austyn, Jonathan Mark,<br />
MA, DPhil, Ordinary<br />
Fellow, University Lecturer<br />
in Surgery: Transplantation<br />
Immunology, Professor of<br />
Immunobiology<br />
Aveyard, Paul N, (BSc,<br />
MB, BS London, MPH,<br />
PhD Birmingham)<br />
Professorial Fellow, Clinical<br />
Reader in the Department<br />
of Primary Care Health<br />
Sciences, Professor of<br />
Behavioural Medicine<br />
Bangha, Imre, MA<br />
(MA Budapest, PhD<br />
Santineketan)<br />
Ordinary Fellow, Associate<br />
Professor of Hindi<br />
Banks, Marcus John,<br />
MA (BA, PhD Cambridge)<br />
Ordinary Fellow, University<br />
Lecturer in Social<br />
Anthropology, Professor of<br />
Visual Anthropology<br />
Barrett, Jonathan, BA<br />
(MA, PhD Cambridge)<br />
Ordinary Fellow, Professor<br />
of Quantum Information<br />
Science<br />
Boehmer, Elleke,<br />
MPhil, DPhil (BA Rhodes<br />
University, South Africa)<br />
Professorial Fellow,<br />
Professor of World<br />
Literatures in English<br />
Chappell, Michael A,<br />
MEng, DPhil Ordinary<br />
Fellow, Associate<br />
Professor of Engineering<br />
Science<br />
Charters, Erica Michiko,<br />
MA, DPhil (BA Carleton,<br />
MA Toronto) Ordinary<br />
Fellow, University Lecturer<br />
in the History of Medicine<br />
Coecke, Bob, MA<br />
(PhD Free University of<br />
Brussels) Ordinary Fellow,<br />
University Lecturer in<br />
Quantum Computer<br />
Science; Professor of<br />
Quantum Foundations,<br />
Logics and Structures<br />
Costa, Matthew<br />
(MB, BChir, PhD East<br />
Anglia, MA Cambridge)<br />
Professorial Fellow,<br />
Professor of Orthopaedic<br />
Trauma Surgery<br />
Curtis, Julie Alexandra<br />
Evelyn, MA, DPhil<br />
Ordinary Fellow, Professor<br />
of Russian Literature<br />
Dahl, Jacob Lebovitch,<br />
MA (BAS Copenhagen,<br />
PhD California) Ordinary<br />
Fellow, Professor of<br />
Assyriology; Data<br />
Protection Officer<br />
David, Huw MA (MA<br />
Warwick) DPhil Ordinary<br />
Fellow; Development<br />
Director<br />
De Melo, Wolfgang<br />
David Cirilo, MPhil, DPhil<br />
(MA SOAS) Ordinary<br />
Fellow, Professor of<br />
Classical Philology<br />
Eastham, Emily, MA (MA<br />
Oxford Brookes) Ordinary<br />
Fellow; Senior Tutor and<br />
Dean of Welfare<br />
Fellerer, Jan Michael,<br />
MA (MA Vienna, Dr Phil<br />
Basel) Ordinary Fellow,<br />
Associate Professor of<br />
Non-Russian Slavonic<br />
Languages; Secretary to<br />
the Governing Body<br />
Gardner, Frances, MA,<br />
DPhil Ordinary Fellow,<br />
Professor of Child and<br />
Family Psychology,<br />
Reader in Child and Family<br />
Psychology<br />
George, Alain, MSt, DPhil<br />
(BSc LSE) Professorial<br />
Fellow, I M Pei Chair<br />
in Islamic Art and<br />
Architecture<br />
Giaccia, Amato (BA, PhD<br />
Pennsylvania) Professorial<br />
Fellow, Professor of<br />
Radiation, Oncology and<br />
Biology<br />
Goodman, Martin<br />
David, MA, DPhil, DLitt,<br />
FBA Professorial Fellow,<br />
Professor of Jewish<br />
Studies<br />
Harrison, Paul<br />
Jeffrey, MA, BM, BCh,<br />
MRCPsych, DM Ordinary<br />
Fellow, Clinical Reader<br />
in Psychiatry, Honorary<br />
Consultant Psychiatrist,<br />
Professor of Psychiatry<br />
COLLEGE RECORD <strong>2019</strong>
Howgego, Christopher<br />
John, MA, DPhil<br />
Professorial Fellow,<br />
Keeper of the Heberden<br />
Coin Room, Professor<br />
of Greek and Roman<br />
Numismatics<br />
Jarvis, R Paul (BSc<br />
Durham, PhD Norwich)<br />
Ordinary Fellow, University<br />
Lecturer in Plant Sciences,<br />
Professor in Cell Biology<br />
Johns, Jeremy, MA,<br />
DPhil Ordinary Fellow,<br />
University Lecturer in<br />
Islamic Archaeology,<br />
Professor of the Art and<br />
Archaeology of the Islamic<br />
Mediterranean; Vicegerent<br />
Jones, Geraint, MA,<br />
DPhil Ordinary Fellow,<br />
University Lecturer in<br />
Computation<br />
Landau, Loren (MSc<br />
London, PhD Berkeley)<br />
Ordinary Fellow, Professor<br />
of Migration and<br />
Development<br />
Lange, Bettina, MA<br />
(BA, PhD Warwick)<br />
Ordinary Fellow, Associate<br />
Professor of Law and<br />
Regulation<br />
Lewis, James Bryant,<br />
MA (BA University of the<br />
South, MA, PhD Hawaii)<br />
Ordinary Fellow, University<br />
Lecturer in Korean Studies<br />
Lowe, John, MA, DPhil<br />
Ordinary Fellow, Associate<br />
Professor of Sanskrit<br />
Maschek, Dominik,<br />
MA (MA, PhD Vienna,<br />
Habilitation, Darmstadt)<br />
Ordinary Fellow, Associate<br />
Professor of Roman<br />
Archaeology and Art<br />
Mathur, Nayanika<br />
(MA Delhi, MPhil, PhD<br />
Camb) Ordinary Fellow,<br />
Associate Professor in the<br />
Anthropology of South<br />
Asia<br />
McCartney, Matthew<br />
Howard, MPhil (BA<br />
Cambridge, PhD SOAS)<br />
Ordinary Fellow,<br />
Associate Professor in<br />
the Political Economy and<br />
Human development of<br />
South Asia<br />
Morin, Richard Antony,<br />
MA (MA KCL) Ordinary<br />
Fellow; Bursar<br />
Mulcahy, Linda (LLB<br />
Southampton, LLM, MA,<br />
PhD London) Professorial<br />
Fellow, Professor of Socio-<br />
Legal Studies<br />
Nissen-Meyer, Tarje<br />
(Diplom Munich, MA, PhD<br />
Princeton) Ordinary Fellow,<br />
Associate Professor of<br />
Geophysics; Visiting<br />
Scholars’ Liaison Officer<br />
Pila, Jonathan, MA (BSc<br />
Melbourne, PhD Stanford)<br />
Professorial Fellow,<br />
Reader in Mathematical<br />
Logic<br />
Probert, Philomen, MA,<br />
DPhil Ordinary Fellow,<br />
Professor of Classical<br />
Philology and Linguistics<br />
Redfield, Christina, MA<br />
(BA Wellesley, MA, PhD<br />
Harvard) Ordinary Fellow,<br />
Professor of Molecular<br />
Biophysics; Research<br />
Fellows’ Liaison Officer<br />
Rice, Ellen Elizabeth,<br />
MA, DPhil (BA Mount<br />
Holyoke <strong>College</strong>, MA<br />
Cambridge) Senior<br />
Research Fellow, Ancient<br />
History and Archaeology<br />
Riede, Moritz (MSc<br />
Cambridge, PhD<br />
Konstanz) Ordinary Fellow,<br />
Associate Professor<br />
of Soft Functional<br />
Nanotechnology<br />
Roberts, Paul<br />
Christopher, MA (BA<br />
Cambridge, MPhil<br />
Sheffield) Professorial<br />
Fellow, Sackler Keeper of<br />
Antiquities<br />
Roesler, Ulrike, MA (MA,<br />
PhD Münster, Habilitation<br />
Munich) Ordinary Fellow,<br />
Professor of Tibetan and<br />
Himalayan Studies<br />
Rushworth, Matthew,<br />
MA, DPhil, Professorial<br />
Fellow, Watts Professor of<br />
Psychology, FRS<br />
Schulting, Rick J,<br />
MA (BA, MA Simon<br />
Fraser, PhD Reading,<br />
PGCE Queen’s Belfast)<br />
Ordinary Fellow, Associate<br />
Professor of Scientific and<br />
Prehistoric Archaeology<br />
Stewart, Peter Charles<br />
N, (MA, MPhil, PhD<br />
Cambridge) Ordinary<br />
Fellow, Associate<br />
Professor of Classical Art<br />
and Archaeology<br />
Sud, Nikita, MA, MPhil,<br />
DPhil (BA Delhi, MA<br />
Mumbai) Ordinary Fellow,<br />
Associate Professor of<br />
Development Studies<br />
Taylor, David Guy<br />
Kenneth, MA, DPhil<br />
Ordinary Fellow, Associate<br />
Professor of Aramaic and<br />
Syriac<br />
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Vedral, Vlatko, MA<br />
(BSc, PhD Imperial)<br />
Ordinary Fellow, Associate<br />
Professor of Theoretical<br />
Quantum Optics<br />
Ventresca, Marc J,<br />
MA (AM, PhD Stanford)<br />
Ordinary Fellow, Associate<br />
Professor of Strategy<br />
Vevaina, Yuhan, S-D (BA<br />
Tufts, MA, PhD Harvard)<br />
Associate Professor of<br />
Sasanian Studies<br />
Wolff, Jonathan, BA,<br />
MPhil Professorial Fellow,<br />
Blavatnik Professor of<br />
Public Policy<br />
Woodruff, Christopher<br />
Marshall (BSc Chicago,<br />
MA California Los<br />
Angeles, PhD Texas)<br />
Professorial Fellow,<br />
Professor of Development<br />
Economics<br />
Yürekli-Görkay, Zeynep<br />
(BArch, MArch Istanbul<br />
Technical University, PhD<br />
Harvard) Ordinary Fellow,<br />
Associate Professor<br />
of Islamic Art and<br />
Architecture<br />
HONORARY FELLOWS<br />
Adams, John W (BA<br />
Rutgers, JD Seton Hall,<br />
LLM New York)<br />
Barnard, John Michael,<br />
MA, BLitt<br />
Berman, Alan Jay (MA<br />
Cambridge, Dip Arch UCL)<br />
Bostridge, Ian, MA, DPhil<br />
(MPhil Cambridge)<br />
Bradshaw, William<br />
Peter, the Rt Hon Lord<br />
Bradshaw (MA Reading),<br />
FCIT<br />
Brendel, Alfred, KBE<br />
Burgen, Sir Arnold<br />
(Stanley Vincent) (MB, MD<br />
London, MA Cambridge),<br />
FRCP, FRS<br />
Chan, Gerald Lokchung,<br />
(BS, MS California, SM,<br />
SCD Harvard)<br />
Davies, Kay Elizabeth,<br />
MA, DPhil Deutsch, David,<br />
MA, DPhil (MA Cambridge)<br />
Ekert, Artur, (MSc<br />
Krakow) DPhil<br />
Epstein, Sir Anthony,<br />
CBE, MA (MA, MD<br />
Cambridge, PhD,<br />
DSc London, Hon MD<br />
Edinburgh, Prague, Hon<br />
DSc Birm), Hon FRCP,<br />
FRCPath, Hon FRCPA,<br />
FRS,<br />
Hon FRSE, FMedSci<br />
Gellner, David Nicholas,<br />
BA, MPhil, DPhil<br />
Ghosh, Amitav, DPhil<br />
Halban, Martine, BA<br />
Sussex<br />
Halban, Peter, BA<br />
Princeton<br />
Hamilton, Andrew<br />
David, MA (BSc Exeter,<br />
MSc British Columbia,<br />
PhD Cambridge), FRS<br />
Hardy, Henry Robert<br />
Dugdale, BPhil, MA, DPhil<br />
Harrison, Simon John,<br />
(BSc London) DPhil<br />
His Holiness the Twelfth<br />
Gyalwang Drukpa,<br />
Jikmé Pema Wangchen<br />
Hoffman, Reid (BS<br />
Stanford) MSt<br />
Kennedy, Baroness<br />
Helena Ann, QC, FRSA<br />
Khalili, Nasser David<br />
(BA Queens, New York;<br />
PhD SOAS)<br />
Lee, Dame Hermione,<br />
DBE, MA, MPhil, FBA,<br />
FRSL<br />
Levett, Christian Clive<br />
(BTEC Durham)<br />
Lewis, David John<br />
Macdonald, Michael<br />
Christopher Archibald,<br />
MA<br />
Mance, Jonathan, the<br />
Rt Hon Lord Mance, MA<br />
Miller, Andrew, CBE, MA<br />
(BSc, PhD Edinburgh)<br />
Reed, Lord Robert (LLB<br />
Edinburgh, Hon LLD<br />
Glasgow) DPhil<br />
Rezek, Francisco (DipL<br />
LLB, DES Minai Gerais,<br />
PhD Paris)<br />
Robinson, Dame Carol,<br />
Vivien (MSc Wales, PhD<br />
Cambridge)<br />
Segal, Karen Ilona<br />
Marianne<br />
Sorabji, Sir Richard,<br />
CBE, MA, DPhil, FBA<br />
Thyssen-Bornemisza,<br />
Baron Lorne<br />
Vike-Freiberga,<br />
President Vaira, (MA<br />
Toronto, PhD McGill)<br />
Williams, Patricia, (MA<br />
Cambridge)<br />
Wood, Sir Martin, OBE,<br />
MA (BA Cambridge, BSc<br />
London), FRS<br />
EMERITUS FELLOWS<br />
Abraham, Douglas<br />
Bruce, MA, DSc (BA, PhD<br />
Cambridge)<br />
Allen, Nicholas Justin,<br />
BSc, BLitt, BM BCh, Dip<br />
SocAnthrop, MA, DPhil<br />
Anderson, David<br />
Lessells Thomson, MA<br />
(MA Cambridge, BSc,<br />
PhD St Andrews)<br />
COLLEGE RECORD <strong>2019</strong>
Benson, James William,<br />
MA (BA Macalester<br />
<strong>College</strong>, MA Minnesota,<br />
PhD Stanford)<br />
Briggs, George Andrew<br />
Davidson, MA (PhD<br />
Cambridge)<br />
Brock, Sebastian Paul,<br />
MA, DPhil (MA Cambridge,<br />
Hon DLitt Birmingham),<br />
FBA<br />
Brown, Harvey Robert,<br />
MA (BSc Canterbury New<br />
Zealand, PhD London)<br />
Bryant, Peter Elwood,<br />
MA (MA Cambridge, PhD<br />
London), FRS<br />
Buck, Brian, DPhil<br />
Bulmer, Michael<br />
George, MA, DPhil, DSc,<br />
FRS<br />
Bunch, Christopher, MA<br />
(MB, BCh Birmingham,<br />
FRCP, FRCP Edinburgh)<br />
Cerezo, Alfred, MA,<br />
DPhil<br />
Cluver, Lucie, MA Camb,<br />
MSc DPhil Oxf<br />
Conner, William James,<br />
MA (BA Grinnell)<br />
Cranstoun, George<br />
Kennedy Lyon, MA (BSc,<br />
PhD Glasgow), FRSC<br />
Davis, Christopher<br />
Mark, MA, DPhil (BA<br />
Harvard, MSA George<br />
Washington, PhD<br />
Cambridge)<br />
Deighton, Anne, MA,<br />
DipEd (MA, PhD Reading)<br />
Delaine, Janet, MA (BA<br />
PhD Adelaide)<br />
Dercon, Stefan, BPhil,<br />
DPhil (BA Leuven)<br />
Francis, Martin James<br />
Ogilvie, MA, DPhil<br />
Galligan, Denis James,<br />
BCL MA DCL (LLB<br />
Queensland, AcSS)<br />
Giustino, Feliciano,<br />
MA (MSc Torino, PhD<br />
Lausanne)<br />
Gombrich, Richard<br />
Francis, MA, DPhil (AM<br />
Harvard)<br />
Gordon, Alan<br />
Fleetwood, CBE, MA,<br />
FCMI<br />
Harriss-White, Barbara,<br />
MA (DipAgSc, MA<br />
Cambridge, PhD East<br />
Anglia)<br />
Hoare, Sir Charles<br />
Antony Richard, MA,<br />
DFBCS, FRS<br />
Isaacson, Daniel Rufus,<br />
(AB Harvard) MA, DPhil<br />
Jarron, (Thomas)<br />
Edward Lawson (MA<br />
Cambridge)<br />
Kennedy, William<br />
James, MA, DSc (BSc,<br />
PhD London)<br />
Kurtz, Donna Carol, MA,<br />
DPhil (BA Cincinnati, MA<br />
Yale), FSA<br />
Langslow, David<br />
Richard, MA, DPhil<br />
McDiarmid, Colin John<br />
Hunter, MA, MSc, DPhil<br />
(BSc Edinburgh)<br />
McKenna, William<br />
Gillies, MA (BSc<br />
Edinburgh, PhD, MD<br />
Albert Einstein)<br />
Mann, Joel Ivor, CNZM,<br />
DM (MBChB, PhD Cape<br />
Town), FFPHM, FRACP,<br />
FRSNZ<br />
Meisami, Julie Scott,<br />
MA (MA, PhD California<br />
Berkeley)<br />
Neil, (Hugh) Andrew<br />
Wade (MB, BS, DSc<br />
London, MA Cambridge)<br />
MA, FFPHM, FRCP, RD<br />
Penney, John Howard<br />
Wright, MA, DPhil (MA<br />
Pennsylvania)<br />
Perrins, Christopher<br />
Miles, MA, DPhil, (BSc<br />
London), FRS, LVO<br />
Ramble, Charles Albert<br />
Edward, MA, DPhil (BA<br />
Durham)<br />
Rawlins, (John)<br />
Nicholas Pepys, MA<br />
DPhil<br />
Rickaby, Rosalind, MA<br />
(MA PhD Cambridge)<br />
Robey, David John<br />
Brett, MA<br />
Robinson, Chase<br />
Frederick, MA (BA<br />
Brown, PhD Harvard)<br />
Sanderson, Alexis<br />
Godfrey James Slater,<br />
MA<br />
Shotton, David Michael,<br />
MA, DPhil (MA, PhD<br />
Cambridge)<br />
Sykes, Bryan Clifford,<br />
MA, DSc (BSc Liverpool,<br />
PhD Bristol)<br />
Tomlin, Roger Simon<br />
Ouin, MA, DPhil, FSA;<br />
Editor of the <strong>College</strong><br />
<strong>Record</strong><br />
Walker, Susan Elizabeth<br />
Constance, MA (BA, PhD<br />
London), FSA<br />
Walton, Christopher<br />
Henry, MA (MA<br />
Cambridge), MBE<br />
Watson, Oliver (BA<br />
Durham, PhD London)<br />
Watts, Anthony Brian,<br />
MA (BSc London, PhD<br />
Durham)<br />
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Wilkie, Alex James, MA<br />
(MSc, PhD London), FRS<br />
Wyatt, Derek Gerald,<br />
MA, DPhil<br />
SUPERNUMERARY<br />
FELLOWS<br />
Barber, Peter Jeffrey,<br />
BA, MPhil, DPhil<br />
Brockdorff, Neil (BSc<br />
Sussex, PhD Glasgow)<br />
Clemit, Pamela Anne,<br />
BA, MPhil, DPhil<br />
Coleman, John Steven,<br />
MA (BA, DPhil York)<br />
Collins, Paul Thomas,<br />
(MA, PhD UCL)<br />
Crabbe, Michael James<br />
Cardwell, FRGS, MA<br />
(BSc Hull, MSc, PhD,<br />
DSc Manchester), FRSA,<br />
FRSC, CChem, CBiol,<br />
FIBiol, FLS<br />
Cronk, Nicholas, BA,<br />
DPhil<br />
De Roure, David, (PhD<br />
Southampton)<br />
Ehlers, Anke, (Hab.<br />
Marburg) MA (PhD<br />
Tübingen)<br />
Ferreira, Pedro,<br />
(Licentiate Lisbon PhD<br />
Imperial)<br />
Griffin, Xavier Luke, BM,<br />
BCh (MA Cambridge, PhD<br />
Warwick)<br />
Hodges, Christopher,<br />
MA (PhD KCL)<br />
Kaski, Kimmo Kauko<br />
Kullervo, DPhil (MSc<br />
Helsinki)<br />
Kay, Philip Bruce, MA,<br />
MPhil, DPhil, FSA<br />
Key, Timothy James<br />
Alexander, DPhil<br />
(BVMandS Edinburgh,<br />
MSc London)<br />
Konoplev, Ivan<br />
Vasilyevich (BSc, MSc<br />
Nizhny Novgorod State,<br />
MPhil, PhD Strathclyde)<br />
Kurkchiyan, Marina<br />
(MSc Yereven, PhD Vilnius)<br />
Maltby, Colin Charles,<br />
MA<br />
Merrony, Mark<br />
Woodridge (BA Wales St<br />
David’s), MPhil, MSt, DPhil<br />
Mueller, Benito, MA,<br />
DPhil (Dip ETH Zürich)<br />
Nuttall, Patricia Anne,<br />
OBE, MA (BSc Bristol,<br />
PhD Reading)<br />
Paine, Jonathan, BA,<br />
MPhil, DPhil<br />
Perry, Dan, MBChB (PhD<br />
Liverpool)<br />
Pottle, Mark<br />
Christopher, MA, DPhil<br />
(BA Sheffield)<br />
Quinn, Catherine Ward,<br />
EMBA (BA Birmingham,<br />
MA Ohio State)<br />
Sawyer, Walter, MA<br />
Seymour, Leonard<br />
William, (BSc<br />
Manchester, PhD Keele)<br />
Sheldon, Benjamin<br />
Conrad, MA (MA<br />
Cambridge, PhD Sheffield)<br />
Toth, Ida, DPhil (BA,<br />
MPhil Belgrade)<br />
Tucker, Margaret<br />
Elizabeth, MA, DPhil<br />
Willett, Keith Malcolm,<br />
MA (MB BS London),<br />
FRCS<br />
Wright, James Gardner,<br />
(MPhil Yale)<br />
Zeitlyn, David, (MSc<br />
London) MA, DPhil (PhD<br />
Cambridge)<br />
RESEARCH FELLOWS<br />
Balzat, Jean-Sebastian,<br />
(BA Louvain-la-Neuve, MA<br />
Notts, PhD Newcastle)<br />
Bhaskaran, Harish, (BE<br />
Pune, MS, PhD Maryland)<br />
Bortone, Pietro, MPhil,<br />
DPhil<br />
Cantley, James, (BSc<br />
Soton, MSc Imperial, PhD<br />
UCL)<br />
Castello Palomares,<br />
Alfredo, (BSc, PhD<br />
Madrid)<br />
Cohn, Martin,<br />
(MSc Denmark, PhD<br />
Copenhagen)<br />
Dahlsten, Oscar, (MSc,<br />
PhD Imperial)<br />
Davison, Lucy Jane,<br />
(MA, VetMB Cambridge,<br />
PhD London)<br />
Devolder, Katrien, (DEA<br />
Bruxelles, MA, PhD Ghent)<br />
Duquette, Jonathan,<br />
(BSc Laval, MSc McGill,<br />
PhD Montreal)<br />
Gehmlich, Katja, (PhD,<br />
Dipl Potsdam)<br />
Georgieva, Antoniya,<br />
(BSc Technical Univ Sofia,<br />
PhD Portsmouth)<br />
Geurds, Alexander, (MA,<br />
PhD Leiden)<br />
Giubilini, Alberto, (MA,<br />
PhD Milan)<br />
Hofer, Theresia, (MSc,<br />
PhD London)<br />
Joudaki, Shahab, (MSc,<br />
PhD California)<br />
Kayachev, Boris, (Diplom<br />
Russia, PhD Leeds)<br />
Kennedy-Allum, Kate,<br />
(BA, PhD Cambridge,<br />
MA KCL, Dip RC Mus)<br />
Weinrebe Fellow in Life-<br />
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Leeson, Paul, (BSc St<br />
Andrews, MB, BChir, PhD<br />
Cambridge), FRCP<br />
Mahdi, Adam, (MSc<br />
Cracow, MSc, PhD<br />
Barcelona)<br />
Morero, Elise Hugette,<br />
(BA Amiens, MA, PhD<br />
Paris)<br />
Nimura, Courtney, (MA<br />
London, PhD Reading)<br />
Pattenden, Miles<br />
Alexander Frederick,<br />
DPhil (BA Cambridge, MA<br />
Toronto)<br />
Pusey, Matthew, (MRes<br />
PhD Imperial)<br />
Schilling, Christian,<br />
(Diplom Mainz, PhD<br />
Zürich)<br />
Slade, Eleanor<br />
Margaret, DPhil, (BSc<br />
Leeds, MSc Aberdeen)<br />
Smith, Olivia Freunolich,<br />
(BA UEA, MA, PhD<br />
London)<br />
Yasseri, Taha, (MSc<br />
Sharif Univ Tehran, PhD<br />
Göttingen)<br />
STIPENDIARY<br />
RESEARCH FELLOWS<br />
Ferrante, Marco (MA,<br />
PhD Rome Sapienza)<br />
Berggruen Research<br />
Fellow in Comparative<br />
Philosophy<br />
Herskowitz, Daniel (BA<br />
Israel, MA Hebrew), DPhil<br />
Jewish Studies<br />
Yu, Ying (BA Chong Qing,<br />
LLM Dalian Maritime, PhD<br />
Wuhan) Law, Justice and<br />
Society, Consumer Rights<br />
and Protections in China,<br />
the European Union, and<br />
Internationally<br />
STIPENDIARY JUNIOR<br />
RESEARCH FELLOWS<br />
Samuels, Jonathan,<br />
MSt, DPhil Tibetan and<br />
Himalayan Studies<br />
Yadin, Benjamin,<br />
MPhys, DPhil Constructor<br />
Theory and Quantum<br />
Thermodynamics<br />
JUNIOR RESEARCH<br />
FELLOWS<br />
Abdalla, Bakinaz, (MA<br />
Indiana, PhD McGill)<br />
Albuquerque-Wendt,<br />
Andreia, (MSc Lisboa,<br />
PhD Hanover)<br />
Al-Rashid, Moudhy,<br />
MPhil, DPhil<br />
Ashkenazi, Shaked,<br />
(MSc PhD Weizmann)<br />
Aslany, Maryam, MSc<br />
(PhD London)<br />
Bardelli, Martino, (MSc<br />
Switzerland, PhD London)<br />
Bongianino, Umberto,<br />
MPhil, DPhil<br />
Bonilla Osorio, Ruy<br />
Sebastian, (BS Los<br />
Andes, MPhil Cambridge),<br />
DPhil<br />
Bruche, Susann, (Diplom<br />
Leipzig, MRCS, PhD<br />
Imperial)<br />
Caballe, Anna, (MSc Univ<br />
Pompeu Fabra, PhD KCL)<br />
Chow, Sam, (MPhil<br />
Melbourne, PhD Bristol)<br />
Christoforo, Mark<br />
Greyson, (BA Notre<br />
Dame, MA Georgia Inst of<br />
Tech, PhD Stanford)<br />
Collins, Katherine, (MA,<br />
PhD West of England)<br />
Couto Mendonca, Luis<br />
Daniel, (MA Madrid, PhD<br />
Brussels) Wiener Anspach<br />
Dafinca, Ruxandra, MSc,<br />
DPhil (BSc Jacobs Bremen)<br />
Delaere, Christophe,<br />
(MA, PhD Brussels) Wiener<br />
Anspach<br />
Davense, Donald, (MSc<br />
UPMC Paris, PhD MNHN<br />
Paris)<br />
Doody, Brendan, (MA<br />
Lincoln, PhD Durham)<br />
Doyon, Jerome, (MPhil,<br />
PhD Sciences Po)<br />
Evans, Rhiannon Mari,<br />
(BSc, PhD Wales)<br />
Farguson, Julie, MA, MSt,<br />
DPhil<br />
Feyereisen, Justine,<br />
(MA, PhD Brussels) Wiener<br />
Anspach<br />
Genaro-Motti, Silvia, (MSc<br />
Sao Paulo, PhD Milano)<br />
Godin, Marie Veronique,<br />
MSc (PhD London)<br />
Goolam, Mubeen,<br />
(MA Cape Town, PhD<br />
Cambridge)<br />
Grecksch, Kevin, (MA<br />
Leipzig, PhD Oldenburg)<br />
Guida, Claudia, (MA Pisa,<br />
PhD Heidelberg)<br />
Hampton, Sam, BA, DPhil<br />
Hsiao, Yaling, (BA Taiwan,<br />
PhD Wisconsin)<br />
Ioannou, Stefanos, (MSc<br />
Newcastle, MPhil Athens,<br />
PhD Leeds)<br />
Iwata, Naoya, (MA Kyoto,<br />
PhD Cambridge)<br />
Kirchhelle, Charlotte,<br />
(MSc Munich), DPhil<br />
Kirchhelle, Claas, (MA<br />
Munich, MA Chicago), DPhil<br />
Koelling, Nils, (BSc<br />
Jacobs, PhD Cambridge)<br />
Krimsti, Feras, (BA Aleppo,<br />
MA, PhD Freie Berlin)<br />
THE RECORD<br />
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THE RECORD<br />
Lachman, Jamie, (BA<br />
Yale), MSc, DPhil<br />
Laigle, Clotilde, (MSc<br />
France, PhD Paris)<br />
Dennis Sciama Leng,<br />
Kuangdai, (PhD<br />
Tsinghua), DPhil<br />
Levy, Matthew Chase,<br />
(BS UCLA, MS, PhD Rice)<br />
Li, Wenbin, (MSc<br />
Pennsylvania, PhD<br />
Massachusets)<br />
Liu, Ruiliang, MSt, PhD<br />
Lundquist, Jesse, (BA<br />
Manchester, PhD Virginia)<br />
Malandraki-Miller,<br />
Sophia, (MSc Ioannina),<br />
DPhil<br />
Marletto, Chiara, DPhil<br />
(BA, MSc Torrino)<br />
Matke-Bauer, Anna-<br />
Katharina, (MA, PhD<br />
Oldenburg)<br />
Meyer, Robin, MPhil,<br />
DPhil<br />
Molina-Munoz, Adriana,<br />
(MA, PhD Illinois)<br />
Montes, Chloe, (BA<br />
Dublin), DPhil<br />
Poncé, Samuel, (MA,<br />
PhD Louvain)<br />
Pradhan, Uma, (MA<br />
Sussex), DPhil<br />
Queloz, Matthieu, (MA<br />
Zürich, PhD Basel)<br />
Rassi, Salam, (BA, MA<br />
SOAS), DPhil<br />
Rudgard, William, (MSc,<br />
PhD London)<br />
Scull, Margaret, (BA<br />
Boston, MA, PhD KCL)<br />
Sciuto, Ruggero, MPhil,<br />
DPhil Voltaire Foundation<br />
Shalev, Nir, (MA Tel-Aviv),<br />
DPhil<br />
Shenderovich, Yulia,<br />
MPhil (PhD Cambridge)<br />
Soares Barbosa, Rui<br />
Miguel de Sousa Martinho,<br />
MSc, DPhil<br />
Stanford, Mark Andrew,<br />
MSc, PhD LSE<br />
Suryasentana, Stephen,<br />
(BEng Western Australia),<br />
DPhil<br />
Tarruell, Cecilia, (MA,<br />
PhD Madrid)<br />
Tennie, Felix, DPhil<br />
(Diplom Hamberg, MASt<br />
Cambridge)<br />
Urzua-Torres, Carolina,<br />
MSc Chile, PhD Zürich<br />
Vatri, Alessandro, DPhil<br />
(Laurea Sapienza)<br />
Volonakis, George<br />
Mathieu, (MSc<br />
Thessaloniki)<br />
Winkler, Andreas, (BA,<br />
MA, PhD Uppsala)<br />
Woltering, Steffen,<br />
(MSc Gottingen, PhD<br />
Manchester)<br />
Wood, Rachel Katherine<br />
Lloyd, BA, MSt, DPhil<br />
Yamaura, Chigusa, (MA<br />
Chicago, PhD Rutgers)<br />
Zhao, Pu, (BSc Fudan,<br />
PhD Cambridge)<br />
CREATIVE ARTS FELLOW<br />
Young, Carey, (BA<br />
Brighton, MA RCA<br />
London)<br />
Find out more about our<br />
Creative Arts Fellow,<br />
Carey Young at:<br />
www.careyyoung.com<br />
ELECTIONS AND<br />
ADMISSIONS 2018–19<br />
GOVERNING BODY<br />
FELLOWS<br />
David, Huw MA (MA<br />
Warwick) DPhil<br />
Giaccia, Amato (BA, PhD<br />
Pennsylvania)<br />
Landau, Loren (MSc<br />
London, PhD Berkeley)<br />
Lowe, John, MA, DPhil<br />
Rushworth, Matthew,<br />
MA, DPhil<br />
EMERITUS FELLOWS<br />
Benson, James William,<br />
MA (BA Macalester<br />
<strong>College</strong>, MA Minnesota,<br />
PhD Stanford)<br />
Cluver, Lucie, (MA Camb)<br />
MSc DPhil<br />
Giustino, Feliciano,<br />
MA (MSc Torino, PhD<br />
Lausanne)<br />
McKenna, William<br />
Gillies, MA (BSc<br />
Edinburgh, PhD, MD<br />
Albert Einstein)<br />
Rickaby, Rosalind, MA<br />
(MA PhD Cambridge)<br />
SUPERNUMERARY<br />
FELLOWS<br />
Cronk, Nicholas, BA,<br />
DPhil<br />
HONORARY FELLOWS<br />
Reed, Lord Robert (LLB<br />
Edinburgh, Hon LLD<br />
Glasgow) DPhil<br />
RESEARCH FELLOWS<br />
Kayachev, Boris (Diplom<br />
Russia, PhD Leeds)<br />
Nimura, Courtney (MA<br />
London, PhD Reading)<br />
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Pusey, Matthew (MRes<br />
PhD Imperial)<br />
Schilling, Christian<br />
(Diplom Mainz, PhD<br />
Zürich)<br />
JUNIOR RESEARCH<br />
FELLOWS<br />
Abdalla, Bakinaz (MA<br />
Indiana, PhD McGill)<br />
Albuquerque-Wendt,<br />
Andreia (MSc Lisboa,<br />
PhD Hanover)<br />
Ashkenazi, Shaked<br />
(MSc PhD Weizmann)<br />
Aslany, Maryam<br />
(PhD London) MSc<br />
Bongianino, Umberto,<br />
MPhil, DPhil<br />
Chow, Sam (MPhil<br />
Melbourne, PhD Bristol)<br />
Couto Mendonca, Luis<br />
Daniel (MA Madrid, PhD<br />
Brussels) Wiener Anspach<br />
Doody, Brendan (MA<br />
Lincoln, PhD Durham)<br />
Feyereisen, Justine (MA,<br />
PhD Brussels) Wiener<br />
Anspach<br />
Genaro-Motti, Silvia,<br />
(MSc Sao Paulo, PhD<br />
Milano)<br />
Hampton, Sam, BA,<br />
DPhil<br />
Hsiao, Yaling (BA Taiwan,<br />
PhD Wisconsin)<br />
Leng, Kuangdai<br />
(PhD Tsinghua), DPhil<br />
Lundquist, Jesse (BA<br />
Manchester, PhD Virginia)<br />
Malandraki-Miller,<br />
Sophia (MSc Ioannina)<br />
DPhil<br />
Matke-Bauer, Anna-<br />
Katharina (MA, PhD<br />
Oldenburg)<br />
Molina-Munoz, Adriana<br />
(MA, PhD Illinois)<br />
Pradhan, Uma (MA<br />
Sussex), DPhil<br />
Queloz, Matthieu (MA<br />
Zürich, PhD Basel)<br />
Rudgard, William (MSc,<br />
PhD London)<br />
Sciuto, Ruggero (MPhil,<br />
DPhil Voltaire Foundation)<br />
Shenderovich, Yulia,<br />
MPhil (PhD Cambridge)<br />
Suryasentana, Stephen<br />
(BEng Western Australia),<br />
DPhil<br />
Urzua-Torres, Carolina,<br />
(MSc Chile, PhD Zürich)<br />
Zhao, Pu, (BSc Fudan,<br />
PhD Cambridge)<br />
STIPENDIARY JUNIOR<br />
RESEARCH FELLOWS<br />
Yadin, Benjamin,<br />
MPhys, DPhil Constructor<br />
Theory and Quantum<br />
Thermodynamics<br />
VISITING SCHOLARS<br />
IN RESIDENCE DURING<br />
THE ACADEMIC YEAR<br />
2018–19<br />
Amatmoekrim, Karin<br />
(MA Amsterdam)<br />
Bilak, Myroslava (BA,<br />
MA Kiev, PhD Moscow)<br />
Bursche, Aleksander<br />
(MA, PhD Warsaw)<br />
Cave, Penelope (GRSM<br />
Royal Academy of Music,<br />
PhD Southampton)<br />
Choi, In Hwa (BA, MA<br />
Pusan)<br />
Cormac, Joanne Emma<br />
(BA Nottingham, MMus,<br />
PhD Birmingham)<br />
Djagalov, Rossen (BA<br />
Williams <strong>College</strong>, PhD<br />
Yale)<br />
Doner, Fatma Nil (BA,<br />
MA, PhD Istanbul)<br />
Ebler, Daniel (BA, MA<br />
Zürich, PhD Hong Kong)<br />
Effe, Alexandra (BA, MA<br />
Freiburg, PhD London)<br />
Galnoor, Itzhak (BA<br />
Hebrew, MA, PhD New<br />
York)<br />
Gaston, Sean (BA, MA,<br />
PhD Melbourne)<br />
Gessel-Kalinowska Vel<br />
Kalisz, Beata (MA, PhD<br />
Warsaw)<br />
Griffin, Michael (BA<br />
Columbia, MPhil, DPhil<br />
Oxford)<br />
Hauser, Kitty (BA Oxford,<br />
MA London, DPhil Oxford)<br />
Hellings, Benjamin (BA<br />
Columbia DPhil, MPhil<br />
Oxford)<br />
Hopkins, John (BMus,<br />
MMus Cardiff, DPhil<br />
Sussex, MA Cambridge)<br />
Humphrey Michael (BA<br />
William Jewell, MA New<br />
York, PhD Colorado)<br />
Kalpakli, Mehmet (BA<br />
Istanbul, MA Mimar Sinan,<br />
PhD Istanbul)<br />
Karame, Alya (MA SOAS,<br />
PhD Edinburgh)<br />
Kozakli, Alev Ozkazanc<br />
(Ma Essex, PhD Ankara)<br />
CARA<br />
Mahmood, Zaad (BA,<br />
MA Calcutta, PhD SOAS)<br />
Majima, Shinobu (BA<br />
Keio, MSc, DPhil Oxford)<br />
Matsumoto, Katsumi<br />
(BS Browns, MS Chicago,<br />
PhD Columbia)<br />
THE RECORD<br />
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THE RECORD<br />
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Meretoja, Hanna<br />
(PhD Turku)<br />
Navratilova, Hana<br />
(MA, PhD Prague)<br />
Newsholme, Philip (BSc<br />
Birmingham, DPhil Oxford)<br />
Nkwi, Walter (BA, MA<br />
Buea, PhD Leiden)<br />
Persson, Fabian<br />
(BA, PhD Lund)<br />
Przepiorkowski, Adam<br />
(MSc Warsaw,PhD Poland)<br />
Rainhorn, Judith (MA<br />
Paris, PhD Tours)<br />
Rapport, Nigel (BA<br />
Cambridge, PhD<br />
Manchester)<br />
Salles, Ricardo (BA<br />
Mexico, MPhil, PhD<br />
London)<br />
Sclar, David (BA Arizona,<br />
MA Yeshiva, MPhil, PhD<br />
New York)<br />
Singh, Pritam (BA, MA<br />
Panjab, MPhil Jawaharlal<br />
Nehru, DPhil Oxford)<br />
Simonsohn, Uriel<br />
(BA, MA Tel Aviv, PhD<br />
Princeton)<br />
Swelim, Muhammad<br />
Tarek (Bsc Helwan, MA<br />
Cairo, PhD Harvard)<br />
Thebaud-Sorger, Marie-<br />
Aline (PhD Paris)<br />
Van Beek, Lucien<br />
Christiaan (MSc, MA,<br />
PhD Leiden)<br />
Verbruggen, Paul<br />
(LLM, MPhil Tilburg, PhD<br />
Florence)<br />
Von Hoffmann, Viktoria<br />
(MPhil, PhD Liège)<br />
Woollacott, Angela<br />
Mary (BA Adelaide, MA,<br />
PhD California)<br />
Woytek, Bernhard (MA,<br />
PhD Vienna)<br />
Xue, Janet Hui (BA<br />
China, MA Stockholm,<br />
PhD Macquarie)<br />
GRADUATE STUDENTS<br />
Adegbite, Adetola<br />
Oluseun (Master of<br />
Public Policy)<br />
Adriano Vieira,<br />
Vinicius (DPhil<br />
Paediatrics)<br />
Agrawal, Aditi (DPhil<br />
Systems Approaches<br />
to Biomedical Science<br />
(EPSRC and MRC<br />
CDT))<br />
Allen, Brandon (MSt<br />
Syriac Studies)<br />
Allievi, Elisa Gaia<br />
(MSc Pharmacology)<br />
Ampiah, Millicenta<br />
Kukua Mbeaba (MSc<br />
Clinical Embryology)<br />
Andersson, Ebba<br />
Margareta Gunilla<br />
(MPhil Development<br />
Studies)<br />
Andersson, Oskar<br />
Tobias (DPhil Classical<br />
Languages and<br />
Literature)<br />
Arriaga, Kristina Ana<br />
(DPhil Law (PT))<br />
Artinger, Brenna<br />
Grace (MPhil Buddhist<br />
Studies)<br />
Asselin, Marie Renee<br />
Madeleine (MSc<br />
Integrated Immunology)<br />
Backhaus, Sophia<br />
(DPhil Social<br />
Intervention)<br />
Bai, Chunsen (DPhil<br />
Organic Chemistry)<br />
Balte, Sara (MSc<br />
Social Anthropology)<br />
Bandara, Samantha<br />
Kumari (MPhil Visual,<br />
Material and Museum<br />
Anthropology)<br />
Bediako, Kofi (MSc<br />
African Studies)<br />
Berkman, Itzhak (DPhil<br />
Theology and Religion)<br />
Bica, Ioana (DPhil<br />
Engineering Science)<br />
Billington, Alice<br />
Theodora Alice (DPhil<br />
History)<br />
Bonner, Scott Edward<br />
(DPhil Interdisciplinary<br />
Bioscience (BBSRC DTP))<br />
Braddock, Sebastian<br />
(MPhil in History – Modern<br />
European History 1850–<br />
present)<br />
Braverman, Alexandra<br />
Jane (MSt English<br />
(1830–1914))<br />
Breslin, Bláthnaid<br />
Elizabeth (BCL)<br />
Bright, Phoebe<br />
Elizabeth (MSc Social<br />
Science of the Internet)<br />
Bullock, Garrett Scott<br />
(DPhil Musculoskeletal<br />
Sciences)<br />
Caple, Mary Alexandra<br />
(MSt History of Art and<br />
Visual Culture)<br />
Carr, Christie (MPhil<br />
Cuneiform Studies)<br />
Carrascosa Marzo,<br />
Rafael (DPhil Condensed<br />
Matter Physics)<br />
Castle, Simeon Dominic<br />
(DPhil Synthetic Biology<br />
Collab (EPSRC and<br />
BBSRC CDT))<br />
Chanto Viquez, Raquel<br />
(DPhil Politics)<br />
Chen, Bohan (DPhil<br />
Renewable Energy Marine<br />
Structures (EPSRC CDT))<br />
COLLEGE RECORD <strong>2019</strong>
Chen, Hsintsung (DPhil<br />
Pharmacology)<br />
Cherry, Peyton Julie<br />
(MSc Social Anthropology)<br />
Chin, Yong Chang<br />
(MPhil Sociology and<br />
Demography)<br />
Chipault, Pierre-<br />
Baptiste (MJur)<br />
Cipollitti, Patricia Elena<br />
(BPhil Philosophy)<br />
Collyer, Miltiades<br />
Michael Graham (MSc<br />
Social Science of the<br />
Internet (PT))<br />
Connolly, Jonathan<br />
Paul (DPhil Gas Turbine<br />
Aerodynamics (EPSRC<br />
CDT))<br />
Contino, Sofia<br />
Chiara Skye (MSt Film<br />
Aesthetics)<br />
Dai, Simin (MPhil<br />
Sociology and<br />
Demography)<br />
De La Vega Loza,<br />
Shakira Virginia (PGDip<br />
Diplomatic Studies)<br />
Delas Peñas, Kristofer<br />
Empuerto (DPhil<br />
Biomedical Imaging<br />
(EPSRC and MRC CDT))<br />
Ding, Yifu (DPhil<br />
Engineering Science)<br />
Do, Virginie (MSc Social<br />
Data Science)<br />
Dougall, Emma Victoria<br />
(MSt History – British and<br />
European History 1700–<br />
1850)<br />
Draghici, Bogdan-<br />
Gabriel (DPhil Oriental<br />
Studies)<br />
Duan, Chengchen<br />
(DPhil Women’s and<br />
Reproductive Health)<br />
Ebbinghaus, Mathis<br />
(MSc Sociology)<br />
Evans, Matthew<br />
Parry (MSt Classical<br />
Archaeology)<br />
Fàbregas Badosa,<br />
Didac (MSc Social<br />
Science of the Internet<br />
(PT))<br />
Farrar, Salim Ali (DPhil<br />
Theology and Religion<br />
(PT))<br />
Fawcett, Jamie<br />
Alexander (MSc Social<br />
Science of the Internet)<br />
Fehlig, Marie Karoline<br />
(MPhil General Linguistics<br />
and Comparative<br />
Philology)<br />
Fong, Chung Hang<br />
Edwin (DPhil Statistics)<br />
Foster, Alexander Louis<br />
Stuart (MPhil Medical<br />
Anthropology)<br />
Fuyal, Muna (DPhil<br />
Synthetic Biology<br />
Collaboration – (EPSRC<br />
and BBSRC CDT))<br />
Gafencu, Grigore-<br />
Aristide (DPhil Medical<br />
Sciences)<br />
Galdeano Solans,<br />
Mateo (DPhil<br />
Mathematics)<br />
Gallagher, Joshua<br />
James Morris (MSc<br />
Japanese Studies)<br />
Gardom, Clare (DPhil<br />
Ancient History (PT))<br />
Gautier, Anna Louise<br />
(DPhil Autonomous<br />
Intelligent Machines and<br />
Systems (EPSRC CDT))<br />
Gedikli Gorali, Naide<br />
(MPhil Islamic Art and<br />
Archaeology)<br />
Gergely, Károly (MSc<br />
Russian and East European<br />
Studies)<br />
Goodwin, Walter<br />
Thomas Rumbold (DPhil<br />
Engineering Science)<br />
Gosset, Camille (MPhil<br />
Development Studies)<br />
Grzempa, Gregory<br />
Edward (MSc Medical<br />
Anthropology)<br />
Gulati, Malvika (DPhil<br />
Musculoskeletal Sciences)<br />
Guy, Kaitlyn Anne (DPhil<br />
International Relations)<br />
Haith, Chelsea (DPhil<br />
English)<br />
Hall, Anthony Lawrence<br />
(DPhil Psychiatry (PT))<br />
Hallam, Michael<br />
Alexander (DPhil<br />
Mathematics)<br />
Hartmann, Denis (DPhil<br />
Synthesis for Biology and<br />
Medicine (EPSRC CDT))<br />
Heathcote, Karen Clare<br />
(DPhil Systems Approaches<br />
to Biomedical Science<br />
(EPSRC and MRC CDT))<br />
Heyen-Dube, Thomas<br />
Louis (DPhil History)<br />
Hodgson, Joshua Austin<br />
(MSt English (1700–1830))<br />
Holguin, Amy<br />
Louise Robson (MSc<br />
Archaeological Science)<br />
Howlett, Michael (DPhil<br />
Synthesis for Biology and<br />
Medicine (EPSRC CDT))<br />
Hrubinova, Martina (DPhil<br />
Paediatrics)<br />
Husain, Syed Munim<br />
(DPhil Psychiatry)<br />
Hussain, Saqib (DPhil<br />
Oriental Studies)<br />
THE RECORD<br />
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THE RECORD<br />
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Hutchence, Laurence<br />
Michael Jack (DPhil<br />
Archaeology)<br />
Hyslop, Andrew Michael<br />
(DPhil Engineering Science)<br />
Ibe, Lilian Chidimma (MSc<br />
International Health and<br />
Tropical Medicine)<br />
Jaderberg, Benjamin Ivor<br />
Myer (DPhil Atomic and<br />
Laser Physics)<br />
Jaffri, Syeda Yasmin<br />
Mariam (DPhil Theology and<br />
Religion (FT))<br />
Jagani, Devi Nileshkumar<br />
(BCL)<br />
James, Christopher Dillon<br />
(MSc Contemporary Chinese<br />
Studies)<br />
Ji, Caixuan (MSc<br />
Contemporary Chinese<br />
Studies)<br />
John, Michelle Keisha<br />
Lorraine (MSc Clinical<br />
Embryology)<br />
Jones, Claire Powell (MSt<br />
Global and Imperial History)<br />
Kang, Myunghoon (MSc<br />
Law and Finance)<br />
Kang, Jiewon (DPhil<br />
Biomedical Imaging (EPSRC<br />
and MRC CDT))<br />
Kaushik, Shivangi (DPhil<br />
International Development)<br />
Kelley, Jessica Rose (DPhil<br />
Biochemistry)<br />
Khan, Nameerah (DPhil<br />
Geography and the<br />
Environment)<br />
Kim, Woohee (MSc<br />
Education (Comparative and<br />
International Education))<br />
Kim, Richard Yoonho<br />
(MPhil Traditional East Asia)<br />
Kirkpatrick, Andrew Raj<br />
(DPhil Diamond Science and<br />
Technology (EPSRC CDT)<br />
–Materials)<br />
Klebolte, Kimberly (MSc<br />
Comparative Social Policy)<br />
Kokolaki, Maria (DPhil<br />
Structural Biology)<br />
Kroeger, Carolin (MPhil<br />
Development Studies)<br />
Kucera, Roman (DPhil<br />
Synthesis for Biology and<br />
Medicine (EPSRC CDT))<br />
Landman, Mattie Susan<br />
(DPhil Mathematics)<br />
Laudrain, Arthur Paul<br />
Bernard (DPhil Cyber<br />
Security (EPSRC CDT))<br />
Learey, Mark Scott (MSt<br />
Archaeology)<br />
Lewin, Thomas David<br />
(DPhil Interdisciplinary<br />
Bioscience (BBSRC DTP))<br />
Leygonie, Jacob (DPhil<br />
Mathematics)<br />
Lim, Jieyan (DPhil<br />
Organic Chemistry)<br />
Lindstrom Battle,<br />
Anya Lillemor (DPhil<br />
Biochemistry)<br />
Lippolis, Nicolas (DPhil<br />
Politics)<br />
Liu, Ryan (MSc Education<br />
(Higher Education))<br />
Liu, Zongyue (MPhil<br />
Economic and Social<br />
History)<br />
Loperfido, Rocco (MPhil<br />
Modern South Asian<br />
Studies)<br />
Lorenzini Aracena,<br />
Sebastian (MSt<br />
Diplomatic Studies)<br />
Luo, Ziying (MSc Applied<br />
Linguistics and Second<br />
Language Acquisition)<br />
Ma, Yue (DPhil Physical<br />
and Theoretical Chemistry)<br />
Maamri, Jouja (MSc<br />
Migration Studies)<br />
MacHado Rodríguez,<br />
Jonathan Gilbert Gilbert<br />
(MSc Mathematical and<br />
Theoretical Physics)<br />
Mandersloot, Mattho<br />
(MSt Korean Studies)<br />
Manning, Sinead Cecilia<br />
(MPhil Cuneiform Studies)<br />
Martin, Sarah Caitlin<br />
(DPhil Renewable Energy<br />
Marine Structures (EPSRC<br />
CDT))<br />
McDermott, Tiarnach<br />
Michael (DPhil Education)<br />
McKay, Francoise<br />
(MSc Education (Higher<br />
Education))<br />
McLean, Meaghan<br />
Corrie (MSc Applied<br />
Linguistics and Second<br />
Language Acquisition)<br />
Mei, Amanda (MPhil<br />
Tibetan and Himalayan<br />
Studies)<br />
Mergenthaler, Alicia<br />
Vashio Alicia (MSc Social<br />
Data Science)<br />
Meyer-Bothling, Elena<br />
Nasreen (MSt World<br />
Literatures in English)<br />
Miles, Marjotte (MSt<br />
History of Art and Visual<br />
Culture)<br />
Millions, Kristen Mary<br />
Elizabeth (DPhil Classical<br />
Archaeology)<br />
Mitsutake, Yuichiro<br />
(MSc Evidence-Based Soc<br />
Int and Pol Eva)<br />
Moldokmatova, Ainura<br />
(MSc International Health<br />
and Tropical Medicine)<br />
Moss, Charlotte Emily<br />
Elizabeth (MSc Education<br />
(Child Development and<br />
Education))<br />
COLLEGE RECORD <strong>2019</strong>
Munshaw, Sonali (DPhil<br />
Physiology, Anatomy and<br />
Genetics)<br />
Namwira, Johise Nsuli<br />
(MSc African Studies)<br />
Nasreddin, Nadia (DPhil<br />
Clinical Medicine)<br />
Nelis, Basil Leo<br />
Peter (DPhil Classical<br />
Languages and Literature)<br />
Neves Sarriegui, Juan<br />
Ignacio (DPhil History)<br />
Nguyen, Linh Thuy<br />
(MSt World Literatures in<br />
English)<br />
Norkunaite, Marija (DPhil<br />
Area Studies (Russia and<br />
East Europe))<br />
Ntata, Asante<br />
(Biomedical Imaging<br />
(EPSRC and MRC CDT)<br />
NOTTS)<br />
O’Donohoe, Heather<br />
Sylvia (MSc Criminology<br />
and Criminal Justice (PT))<br />
Ossorio Carballo, Laura<br />
(DPhil Plant Sciences)<br />
O’Sullivan, Jennifer<br />
(DPhil Medical Sciences)<br />
Oyanedel Diaz, Rodrigo<br />
(DPhil Zoology)<br />
Paja, William Fabio<br />
Zamora (MPhil<br />
Development Studies)<br />
Pavlova, Irina (DPhil<br />
Medieval and Modern<br />
Languages)<br />
Pefkianakis, Aris<br />
Therapon (MSt Greek<br />
and/or Latin Languages<br />
and Literature)<br />
Perro, Danielle<br />
Christina Irene<br />
(DPhil Women’s and<br />
Reproductive Health)<br />
Petersen, Charlotte<br />
(MSc Social Anthropology)<br />
Philbin, Michael Sean<br />
(MSc Latin American<br />
Studies)<br />
Pietzsch Amora,<br />
Raphael (DPhil Earth<br />
Sciences)<br />
Pinho-Gomes, Ana-<br />
Catarina (DPhil Women’s<br />
and Reproductive Health)<br />
Poh, Adeline Wern Jhin<br />
(DPhil Organic Chemistry)<br />
Poh, Daniel Leong<br />
Chern (DPhil Engineering<br />
Science)<br />
Polat, Ertugrul (DPhil<br />
Social Policy)<br />
Pretelt Harries, Daniela<br />
(MSc Criminology and<br />
Criminal Justice (PT))<br />
Price, Ilan (DPhil<br />
Mathematics)<br />
Pu, Xingyue (DPhil<br />
Engineering Science)<br />
Qiu, Zhenghui (DPhil<br />
Renewable Energy Marine<br />
Structures (EPSRC CDT))<br />
Rahardjo, Jessica<br />
Angelica Anne Bidari<br />
(DPhil History)<br />
Rendlova, Kristyna<br />
(DPhil Oriental Studies)<br />
Richardson, Josie (DPhil<br />
History)<br />
Rios, Ignacio Javier<br />
Ignacio (MPhil Law)<br />
Rowand, Michael<br />
Barclay (MPhil Modern<br />
Chinese Studies)<br />
S/O Haj Mohamed,<br />
Muhammad Azhar<br />
(Master of Public Policy)<br />
Saidani, Younes (MPhil<br />
Economics)<br />
Salvatori, Tommaso<br />
(DPhil Computer Science)<br />
Scanga, Chiara (DPhil<br />
Ancient History)<br />
Schonfield, Amos<br />
Judah (MSc Migration<br />
Studies)<br />
Sepulveda Penna, Carla<br />
Andrea (DPhil Law)<br />
Sharma, Angira (MSc<br />
Computer Science)<br />
Sheridan, Kathryn Ruth<br />
(MSc Comparative Social<br />
Policy)<br />
Shu, Yu (DPhil Materials)<br />
Sibiya, Lindokuhle Andile<br />
(MBA)<br />
Siddiqui, Ali Arsalan<br />
Pasha (MSc Modern<br />
South Asian Studies)<br />
Sikyta, Michal (MPhil<br />
International Relations)<br />
Simpson, Bridget<br />
Michelle (MSt Theology)<br />
Smarrelli, Gabriela<br />
Lina (DPhil International<br />
Development)<br />
Sonina, Snejina (MSt<br />
General Linguistics and<br />
Comparative Philology)<br />
Sonnenberg, Lukas<br />
(MPhil Politics: European<br />
Politics and Society)<br />
Stair, Elizabeth Rose<br />
(DPhil Theology and<br />
Religion)<br />
Steggles, Matthew<br />
(DPhil Condensed Matter<br />
Physics)<br />
Stockdale, William<br />
Thomas (DPhil<br />
Physiology, Anatomy and<br />
Genetics)<br />
Stricker, Miriam<br />
Katharina (DPhil Systems<br />
Approaches to Biomedical<br />
Science (EPSRC and<br />
MRC CDT))<br />
Strugale, Michael (DPhil<br />
Earth Sciences)<br />
THE RECORD<br />
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THE RECORD<br />
Su, Guanglong (DPhil<br />
Organic Chemistry)<br />
Swe, Myo Maung<br />
Maung (DPhil Clinical<br />
Medicine)<br />
Tang, Ziyao (MPhil<br />
Modern Middle Eastern<br />
Studies)<br />
Thokmay, Kunsang<br />
(DPhil Oriental Studies)<br />
Thompson, Gregory<br />
John (DPhil Ancient<br />
History)<br />
Tian, Chenghao (MPhil<br />
Cuneiform Studies)<br />
Tildesley, Robert<br />
William (DPhil History)<br />
Toumi, Alexis Naim<br />
Hubert (DPhil Computer<br />
Science)<br />
Trees, Victor Jacq<br />
Hugo (DPhil Atmospheric,<br />
Oceanic and Planetary<br />
Physics)<br />
Truslove, Katherine<br />
Stephanie (DPhil<br />
Comparative Philology<br />
and General Linguistics)<br />
Turner, Katelyn<br />
Elizabeth (MSc Evidence-<br />
Based Social Intervention<br />
and Policy Evaulation)<br />
van Amersfoort, Joost<br />
René (DPhil Computer<br />
Science)<br />
Van Beest, Marieke<br />
(DPhil Mathematics)<br />
Walker, Ryan James<br />
(DPhil Clinical Medicine)<br />
Wallersteiner, Imogen<br />
Helena Imogen (MSt<br />
World Literatures in<br />
English)<br />
Walshe, Thomas<br />
Joseph (DPhil Computer<br />
Science)<br />
Wang, Tzu-Hao (DPhil<br />
Earth Sciences) (MSc<br />
Criminology and Criminal<br />
Justice)<br />
Weiner, Jamie David<br />
(DPhil Area Studies<br />
(Middle East))<br />
Wicker, Matthew Robert<br />
Matthew (DPhil Computer<br />
Science)<br />
Wildi, William Trevor<br />
(MSc Social Data Science)<br />
Williams, Ella Daisy<br />
(MSc Modern Middle<br />
Eastern Studies)<br />
Wong, Yue Shun (MPhil<br />
Politics: Political Theory)<br />
Wright, Sabrina Bryony<br />
(MSc(Res) Surgical<br />
Sciences)<br />
Wuerzinger, Jonas (DPhil<br />
Particle Physics)<br />
Yang, Jichu (MPhil<br />
Buddhist Studies)<br />
Yang, Jingyi (DPhil<br />
Engineering Science)<br />
Yao, Bohao (DPhil<br />
Statistics)<br />
Yao, Ziqi (MSc<br />
Contemporary Chinese<br />
Studies)<br />
Yates, Malika Rae (MPhil<br />
Modern Middle Eastern<br />
Studies)<br />
Yin, Zi (MPhil Economics)<br />
Yu, Xiaotian (DPhil Law)<br />
Zak, Danilo Avram (MSc<br />
Refugee and Forced<br />
Migration Studies)<br />
ELECTED MEMBERS OF<br />
THE GOVERNING BODY<br />
Pietro Bortone (RF)<br />
Felix Tennie (JRF)<br />
Bogdan Draghici (GS)<br />
Etienne Hanelt (GS)<br />
Luis Hildebrandt<br />
Belmont (GS)<br />
Nameerah Khan (GS)<br />
SCHOLARSHIPS,<br />
AWARDS AND PRIZES<br />
2018-19<br />
David Thomas<br />
Scholarship in Ancient<br />
Documents<br />
Chiara Scanga<br />
Jeremy Black<br />
Clarendon Scholarship<br />
Taha Yurttas<br />
Géza Vermes Louis<br />
Littman Clarendon<br />
Scholarship<br />
Ursula Westwood<br />
Lorne Thyssen<br />
Scholarship<br />
Gregory Thompson<br />
Norman Hargreaves-<br />
Mawdsley AHRC<br />
Scholarship<br />
Juan Ignacio Neves<br />
Sarriegui<br />
Oxford Centre for Life-<br />
Writing Scholarship<br />
Hannie Lawlor<br />
Oxford Wolfson Ancient<br />
History Graduate<br />
Scholarship<br />
Thea Sommerschield<br />
Oxford Wolfson Marriot<br />
Graduate Scholarships<br />
Leah Taylor Kearney<br />
Mark Haskew<br />
Filip Bubenheimer<br />
Anna Rufas Blanco<br />
Kerstin Frie<br />
Tom Maltas<br />
82<br />
COLLEGE RECORD <strong>2019</strong>
Giovanni De Felice<br />
Katherine Hurst<br />
Gesa Jessen<br />
Anna Jungbluth<br />
Ronald Dekker<br />
Fuchsia Hart<br />
Vasileios Papadogiannis<br />
Helen Theissen<br />
Jessica Kelley<br />
Elizabeth Rose Stair<br />
Thomas Lewin<br />
Gabriela Smarrelli<br />
Naide Gedikli<br />
Katherine Truslove<br />
Marieke van Beest<br />
Syed Munim Husain<br />
Oxford Wolfson<br />
Reginald Campbell<br />
Thompson Assyriology<br />
Scholarship<br />
Lynn-Salammbô<br />
Zimmermann<br />
Oxford Wolfson<br />
Ullendorff Graduate<br />
Scholarship in Semitic<br />
Philology<br />
Vladimir Olivero<br />
Wolfson Guy Newton<br />
Clarendon Scholarship<br />
Onno Akkermans<br />
Garrett Bullock<br />
Wolfson Harrison<br />
UKRC Quantum<br />
Foundation<br />
Scholarship<br />
Alexis Toumi<br />
Wolfson Harrison<br />
UKRC Physics<br />
Scholarship<br />
Joey Tindall<br />
Jonas Wuerzinger<br />
Wolfson Isaiah Berlin<br />
Clarendon Scholarship<br />
Sophia Backhaus<br />
DEGREES AND DIPLOMAS<br />
CONFERRED DURING<br />
2018–19 (1 JULY 2018 – 31<br />
MAY <strong>2019</strong>)<br />
Adiku, Geraldine<br />
A (2013–19) DPhil<br />
International Development,<br />
‘The remittance debate<br />
reconsidered: Interrogating<br />
transnational transfers<br />
between Ghanaian<br />
migrants in the United<br />
Kingdom and their<br />
relatives in Ghana’<br />
Akhtar, Wasim M<br />
(2014–19) DPhil<br />
Organic Chemistry,<br />
‘The a-Alkylation of<br />
Ketones Using Hydrogen<br />
Borrowing Catalysis’<br />
Aloumpi, Myrto<br />
(2011–18) DPhil<br />
Classical Languages and<br />
Literature,‘The Civic Virtue<br />
of philotimia: Rhetoric,<br />
Ideology, and Politics in<br />
Democratic Athens’<br />
Alyacoubi, Said O S<br />
(2017–18) MSc Integrated<br />
Immunology<br />
Amin, Sanaz (2015–18)<br />
DPhil Surgical Sciences,<br />
‘An Investigation of<br />
Transit-time Flowmetry<br />
Parameters in Coronary<br />
Artery By-pass Grafting’<br />
Axon, Louise M<br />
(2014–19) Cyber<br />
Security (EPSRC CDT),<br />
‘Sonification for Network-<br />
Security Monitoring’<br />
Bai, Ying (2014–19)<br />
DPhil Biochemistry,<br />
‘Characterizing the<br />
function of the gene<br />
Arl15 and its role in the<br />
development of metabolic<br />
traits’<br />
Bencini, Gaia (2016–18)<br />
MPhil Egyptology<br />
Berg, Alina S (2017–18)<br />
MSc Social Anthropology<br />
Bernard, Giselle<br />
(2017–18) MSc Migration<br />
Studies<br />
Bin Ahmad, Mohamed<br />
F (2017–18) Master of<br />
Public Policy<br />
Bishnoi, Gazzal (2017–<br />
18) MSc Law and Finance<br />
Blower, Cassie E<br />
(2017–18) BCL<br />
Bongioanni, Alessandro<br />
(2014–19) DPhil<br />
Experimental Psychology,<br />
‘Mechanisms for novel<br />
multidimensional choices<br />
in prefrontal cortex –<br />
Behavioural, imaging<br />
and causal approaches<br />
to non-human primate<br />
decision-making’<br />
Book Jönsson, Joakim<br />
(2017–18) MSc Economic<br />
and Social History<br />
Bramley, Nat G (2017–<br />
18) MSt Late Antique and<br />
Byzantine Studies<br />
Brand, Robert C<br />
(2014–18) DPhil Clinical<br />
Neurosciences, ‘Chemical<br />
exchange saturation<br />
transfer methods<br />
for clinical magnetic<br />
resonance imaging’<br />
Brause, Saba R (2017–<br />
18) MSc Social Science of<br />
the Internet<br />
THE RECORD<br />
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THE RECORD<br />
Brennan, Conor<br />
(2017–18) MSt Modern<br />
Languages (German)<br />
Brown, Esther M (2017–<br />
18) MSc African Studies<br />
Brown, Sophie (2017–<br />
18) MSt History of Art and<br />
Visual Culture<br />
Buckley, Alexander S<br />
(2017–18) MSt English<br />
(1830–1914)<br />
Carels, Cees (2014–19)<br />
DPhil Particle Physics,<br />
‘Search for Dark Matter<br />
with the LUX-Zeplin<br />
Detector – acoustic<br />
sensor performance and<br />
detector response’<br />
Caspi, Jacqueline E<br />
(2017–18) MSc Law and<br />
Finance<br />
Chan, Hau Sun<br />
(2015–19) DPhil Organic<br />
Chemistry, ‘Oxonium<br />
ions, rearrangements and<br />
natural products’<br />
Chan, Yin Yat (2017–18)<br />
MSc Applied Linguistics<br />
and Second Language<br />
Acquisition<br />
Chetyrkina, Mariia<br />
(2017–18) MBA<br />
Chuang, Yu-Hsuan<br />
(2017–18) MSt World<br />
Literatures in English<br />
Combs, Joshua B<br />
(2014–19) DPhil Earth<br />
Sciences, ‘Geological and<br />
Metallogenic Evolution<br />
of the Palaeoproterozoic<br />
Adam Ahmed Mouloude<br />
Region of the Reguibat<br />
Shield, Western Sahara’<br />
Connolly, Sarah<br />
(2014–19) DPhil Materials,<br />
‘Manufacturing of oxide<br />
dispersion strengthened<br />
steels for nuclear<br />
applications’<br />
Curran, Kieran<br />
(2013–18) DPhil Earth<br />
Sciences, ‘Estimates<br />
of the size-fractionated<br />
primary production of<br />
phytoplankton in UK shelf<br />
seas from satellite’<br />
Dale-Harris, Hugo<br />
M (2017–18) MSc<br />
Comparative Social Policy<br />
Dalmaijer, Edwin<br />
S (2014–18) DPhil<br />
Experimental Psychology,<br />
‘The role of attention in<br />
working memory’<br />
Diffey, Charlotte<br />
J (2014–19) DPhil<br />
Archaeology, ‘Feeding the<br />
City: a comparative study<br />
of agricultural production<br />
in Bronze Age urban<br />
systems of Western Asia’<br />
Ding, Siming (2016–18)<br />
MPhil Development<br />
Studies<br />
Dixon, Sasha D T (2017–<br />
18) PGDip Diplomatic<br />
Studies<br />
Dmitriev, Phillip<br />
O (2017–18) MSc<br />
Pharmacology<br />
Domeisen, Natascha A<br />
(2017–18) MSt Medieval<br />
Studies<br />
Douah, Nesrine C<br />
(2017–18) MSc Modern<br />
South Asian Studies<br />
Draghici, Bogdan-<br />
Gabriel (2017–18) MSt<br />
Syriac Studies<br />
Duca, Valentina (2013–<br />
19) DPhil Oriental Studies,<br />
‘Exploring Finitude:<br />
Weakness and Integrity in<br />
Isaac of Nineveh’<br />
Enock, Florence<br />
E (2014–18) DPhil<br />
Experimental Psychology,<br />
‘Cognitive and Neural<br />
Foundations of Perceptual<br />
Biases for the Self and<br />
Social Groups’<br />
Foster, Brennan R F<br />
(2017–18) MSc Social<br />
Anthropology<br />
Francis, Elise A (2017–<br />
18) MSt Study of Religions<br />
Gaebler, Johann D<br />
(2017–18) MSc History<br />
of Science, Medicine and<br />
Technology<br />
Gallego Larrarte,<br />
Barbara (2014–19)<br />
DPhil English, ‘Reverse<br />
Intergenerational Influence<br />
between the World Wars:<br />
E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot,<br />
Virginia Woolf and their<br />
Networks’<br />
Gao, Lin (2017–18) MSc<br />
Education (Research<br />
Design and Methodology)<br />
Garratt, Luke D (2014–<br />
18) DPhil Computer<br />
Science, ‘Realistic,<br />
Strong and Provable Key<br />
Exchange Security’<br />
Gazak, James J (2017–<br />
18) MSc Archaeological<br />
Science<br />
Geddes, Georgina<br />
P T (2014–19) DPhil<br />
Psychiatry, ‘Predictors<br />
of individual psychotic<br />
experiences after trauma:<br />
a series of longitudinal<br />
studies’<br />
Goddard-Rebstein,<br />
Hannah (2017–18) MSc<br />
Comparative Social Policy<br />
Graham, Jack L<br />
(2017–18) MSt Study of<br />
Religions<br />
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Gray, Madeleine J B<br />
(2017–18) MSt English<br />
(1900–present)<br />
Grohn, Jan (2017–18)<br />
MSc Neuroscience<br />
Gurau, Corina (2013–18)<br />
DPhil Engineering Science,<br />
‘Predicting and Improving<br />
Perception Performance<br />
for Robotics Applications’<br />
Han, Mengyun (2017–18)<br />
MFA<br />
Hansrani, Sahil (2017–<br />
18) MSc Water Science,<br />
Policy and Management<br />
Heath-Whyte, George<br />
R (2017–18) MSt Oriental<br />
Studies<br />
Hernando, Ana M L<br />
(2017–18) MSt Diplomatic<br />
Studies<br />
Herskowitz, Daniel M<br />
(2014–18) DPhil Theology,<br />
‘Which God Will Save<br />
Us? Jewish Receptions<br />
of Martin Heidegger’s<br />
Philosophy’<br />
Heywood, Elizabeth<br />
J (2017–18) MSc<br />
Comparative Social Policy<br />
Holt-Martyn, James<br />
(2013–18) DPhil<br />
Cardiovascular Medicinal<br />
Chemistry, ‘Novel and<br />
Selective Small Molecule<br />
Inhibitors and Activators<br />
For The Prolyl Hydroxylase<br />
Domain Enzymes’<br />
Hopkins, Rachel J<br />
A (2014–19) DPhil<br />
Archaeological Science, ‘A<br />
Matter of Time – Towards<br />
an Absolute Chronology<br />
for the Middle-Upper<br />
Palaeolithic Biocultural<br />
Shift along the Danube<br />
Fluvial Corridor’<br />
Huang, Wenlei (2017–18)<br />
MSc Social Anthropology<br />
Iris (2016–18) MSc(Res)<br />
Oncology, ‘Effect of<br />
adenovirus infection on<br />
the Hypoxia-inducible<br />
factor 1 pathway’<br />
Jackson, Logan C<br />
(2017–18) Master of<br />
Public Policy<br />
Jarerattanachat,<br />
Viwan (2014–19)<br />
DPhil Condensed<br />
Matter Physics, ‘The<br />
Biophysical and Structural<br />
Mechanisms Underlying<br />
Mechanosensitivity of<br />
the TREK-2 Potassium<br />
Channel’<br />
Jenkins, Lyndsey V<br />
(2014–18) DPhil History,<br />
‘Sisters and Sisterhood:<br />
The Kenney Sisters,<br />
Suffrage and Social<br />
Reform, c. 1890 – 1970’<br />
Jiang, Mengyin<br />
(2013–19) DPhil<br />
Experimental Psychology,<br />
‘An investigation of the<br />
modulation and underlying<br />
mechanisms of the Self<br />
Bias Effect’<br />
Kao, Amy (2015–19)<br />
DPhil Psychiatry,<br />
‘Investigating the<br />
Molecular, Metabolic, and<br />
Cognitive Effects of a<br />
Prebiotic in Psychosis’<br />
Kappelmann, Kevin<br />
(2017–18) MSc<br />
Mathematics and<br />
Foundations of Computer<br />
Science<br />
Khan, Nameerah (2017–<br />
18) MSc Water Science,<br />
Policy and Management<br />
Khedun-Burgoine,<br />
Brittany (2017–18) MSt<br />
Korean Studies<br />
Khushi, Asmi (2017–18)<br />
MSc Economics for<br />
Development<br />
Kielbassa, Laura<br />
(2017–18) MSc<br />
Education (Learning and<br />
Technology)<br />
Kilcoyne, Sarah<br />
C (2015–18) MSt<br />
Legal Research,<br />
‘Restorative Justice<br />
and the Challenges for<br />
Young Offenders with<br />
Developmental Language<br />
Disorder’<br />
Kim, Hayeon (2017–18)<br />
MSc Migration Studies<br />
Kira, Beatriz (2017–18)<br />
MSc Social Science of<br />
the Internet<br />
Klein, Nina H (2013–19)<br />
DPhil Materials, ‘Vacuum<br />
Deposited Organic and<br />
Composite Charge<br />
Transport Layers for<br />
Photovoltaic Devices’<br />
Kroeger, Kyle J (2017–<br />
18) MSc Social Science<br />
of the Internet<br />
Kumar, Deepak (2017–<br />
18) MSc Modern South<br />
Asian Studies<br />
Lee, Thomas J (2017–<br />
18) MSc Modern South<br />
Asian Studies<br />
Li, Danyang (2017–18)<br />
MBA<br />
Li, Sha (2015–19)<br />
DPhil Materials,<br />
‘Nanostructured<br />
Molybdenum Disulfide<br />
Thin Film Based<br />
Electrocatalysts for<br />
Hydrogen Evolution<br />
Reaction’<br />
THE RECORD<br />
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THE RECORD<br />
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Liu, Xuan (2015–18)<br />
DPhil Mathematics, ‘Some<br />
Contribution to Analysis<br />
and Stochastic Analysis’<br />
Loharchalwala, Alifya M<br />
(2017–18) MSt Women’s<br />
Studies<br />
Lopez Martinez,<br />
David (2014–19)<br />
DPhil Biochemistry,<br />
‘Characterisation of novel<br />
phosphorylation sites on<br />
FANCD2 and their role<br />
in the Fanconi anaemia<br />
pathway’<br />
Low, Wee Suan<br />
(2014–19) DPhil Medical<br />
Sciences, ‘The effect of<br />
composition of dietary<br />
sugars on hepatic fatty<br />
acid synthesis and<br />
partitioning and insulin<br />
secretion and sensitivity’<br />
Luik, Elo (2014–18) DPhil<br />
Anthropology, ‘No strings<br />
attached: the expanding<br />
frontiers of low-cost<br />
transnational surrogacy’<br />
Lyons, Serina A (2017–18)<br />
BCL<br />
Machin, Kathryn<br />
E (2017–18) MSc<br />
Biodiversity, Conservation<br />
and Management<br />
Mao, Siyao (2016–18)<br />
MPhil Development<br />
Studies<br />
McIntosh, Emma<br />
J (2014–19) DPhil<br />
Geography and the<br />
Environment, ‘An<br />
evidence-based evaluation<br />
of systematic conservation<br />
planning’<br />
Mestel, David (2015–18)<br />
DPhil Computer Science,<br />
‘Quantifying information<br />
flow’<br />
Meyer, Sophie E<br />
(2017–18) MSc Education<br />
(Comparative and<br />
International Education)<br />
Michelarakis, Nicholas<br />
(2014–19) DPhil<br />
Biochemistry, ‘Towards<br />
dynamic pharmacophore<br />
models through the use of<br />
coarse grained molecular<br />
dynamic simulations’<br />
Miller-Friedmann,<br />
Jaimie L (2013–19) DPhil<br />
Education, ‘Repositioning<br />
the Gender Gap in UK<br />
Biology and Physics:<br />
Behind the Numbers’<br />
Milner, Kevin A<br />
(2013–18) Cyber Security<br />
(EPSRC CDT), ‘Detecting<br />
the Misuse of Secrets:<br />
Foundations, Protocols<br />
and Verification’<br />
Mohammad Mujahid<br />
(2014–19) DPhil Organic<br />
Chemistry, ‘Total synthesis<br />
of rubriflordilactone B and<br />
pseudo-rubriflordilactone<br />
B’<br />
Mohd Sadali, Najiah<br />
(2014–18) DPhil Plant<br />
Sciences, ‘Analysis of the<br />
roles of the plastidic E3<br />
ligases SP1 and SPL2 in<br />
tomato and wheat’<br />
Moise, Ionut (2012–18)<br />
DPhil Theology, ‘The<br />
Nature and Function of<br />
Vaiśeṣika Soteriology with<br />
particular reference to<br />
Candrānanda’s Vṛtti’<br />
Movsisyan, Ani<br />
(2014–18) DPhil Social<br />
Intervention, ‘Applying<br />
GRADE in Systematic<br />
Reviews of Complex<br />
Interventions: Challenges<br />
and Considerations for a<br />
New Guidance’<br />
Mustain, Paige P (2014–<br />
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of Digital Inequalities and<br />
Private Sector Involvement<br />
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Myttaraki, Evangelia<br />
(2017–18) MSc Clinical<br />
Embryology<br />
Nainani, Nitin R (2017–<br />
18) MSc Modern South<br />
Asian Studies<br />
Ng, Lydia (2016–18)<br />
MPhil Tibetan and<br />
Himalayan Studies<br />
Nguyen, Anysia (2017–<br />
18) MSc Evidence-Based<br />
Social Intervention and<br />
Policy Evaluation<br />
O’Gorman, Thomas<br />
J J (2013–18) DPhil<br />
Materials, ‘Architectures<br />
for Fault-Tolerant Quantum<br />
Computation’<br />
Ong, Hwei Ru (2016–18)<br />
MPhil Buddhist Studies<br />
Orlando, Cristiana (2017–<br />
18) MSc Comparative<br />
Social Policy<br />
Osei-antwi, Vonique A<br />
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Palmius, Niclas T<br />
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Innovation (RCUK CDT),<br />
‘Personalised Modelling of<br />
Geographic Movements in<br />
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Pandey, Ankita (2014–<br />
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‘Functional Diversity of<br />
Vascular Macrophages in<br />
Atherosclerosis’<br />
Park, Young Sun (2017–<br />
18) MSt World Literatures<br />
in English<br />
Pasquali, Giovanni<br />
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International Development,<br />
‘When Value Chains Go<br />
South: Governance and<br />
Upgrading of the Kenyan<br />
Leather Sector’<br />
Patel, Shyam N (2016–<br />
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Asian Studies<br />
Patel, Sunit K (2013–18)<br />
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and Religion in Eighteenth-<br />
Century North India: The<br />
Rise of Public Theology in<br />
Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism’<br />
Perombelon, Brice<br />
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‘Prioritising Indigenous<br />
representations of<br />
geopower: the case<br />
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Petralia, Lorenzo<br />
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‘Joshua and Judges:<br />
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of Hebrew Biblical War<br />
Narrative in its Ancient Near<br />
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Prew, George A<br />
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Computational Finance<br />
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and Modern Languages,<br />
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the fusion of French and<br />
Russian language and<br />
literature in the works of<br />
Gaito Gazdanov’<br />
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‘Hemispatial Neglect:<br />
An evaluation of novel<br />
assessment methods and<br />
rehabilitation’<br />
Rahardjo, Jessica A A B<br />
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and Archaeology<br />
Raheel, Sheza (2017–18)<br />
MSc Modern South Asian<br />
Studies<br />
Reza, Alexandra<br />
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‘African Literary Journals<br />
in French and Portuguese,<br />
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and form’<br />
Ribeiro Goncalves<br />
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methods social network<br />
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education programme’<br />
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Underlying Sustained<br />
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breakers towards<br />
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in British Adult Education,<br />
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Latin Grammarians on<br />
the Latin Accent<br />
Philomen Probert (GBF)<br />
Latin Grammarians on the Latin<br />
Accent offers a fresh perspective<br />
on a long-standing debate about<br />
the value of Latin grammarians writing about<br />
the Latin accent: should the information they<br />
give us be taken seriously, or should much of it<br />
be dismissed as copied mindlessly from Greek<br />
sources? This book focusses on understanding<br />
the Latin grammarians on their own terms:<br />
what they actually say about accents, and<br />
what they mean by it. Careful examination<br />
of Greek and Latin grammatical texts leads<br />
to a better understanding of the workings of<br />
Greek grammatical theory on prosody, and<br />
of its interpretation in the Latin grammatical<br />
tradition. It emerges that Latin grammarians<br />
took over from Greek grammarians a system<br />
of grammatical description that operated on<br />
two levels: an abstract level that we are not<br />
supposed to be able to hear, and the concrete<br />
level of audible speech. The two levels are<br />
linked by a system of rules. Some points of<br />
Greek thought on prosody were taken over<br />
onto the abstract level and not intended as<br />
statements about the actual sound of Latin,<br />
while other points were so intended. While<br />
this book largely sets aside the question<br />
whether the Latin grammarians tell us the<br />
truth about the Latin accent, focussing instead<br />
on understanding what they actually say, it<br />
begins to offer answers for those wishing to<br />
know when to ‘believe’ Latin grammarians in<br />
the traditional sense: the book shows which<br />
of their statements are intended – and which<br />
are not intended – as statements about the<br />
actual sound of Latin.<br />
Varro: De lingua Latina<br />
Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo<br />
(GBF)<br />
Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27<br />
BC) was the greatest polymath<br />
of the Roman Republic. During<br />
his lifetime he authored several<br />
hundred books, and though many of them<br />
dealt with linguistic topics, De lingua Latina<br />
(‘On the Latin language’), the first large-scale<br />
linguistic treatment of Latin, was by far his<br />
most significant work. Originally consisting of<br />
twenty-five volumes one introductory, followed<br />
by six on etymology, six on morphology, and<br />
twelve on syntax – only Books 5–10, treating<br />
etymology and morphology, have come down<br />
to us in a more or less complete form, though<br />
a fair number of fragments of other volumes<br />
have been transmitted in other authors.<br />
These two volumes aim to provide a<br />
comprehensive treatment of this highly<br />
technical text in a new critical edition<br />
accompanied by a clear, accurate translation<br />
and full commentary. In Volume I, an<br />
introductory study outlines Varro’s life and<br />
works, analysing his own linguistic usage<br />
and setting his insights about language in<br />
their historical and intellectual context. His<br />
etymology and morphology are contrasted<br />
with our own modern methods, yielding<br />
important and sometimes surprising insights<br />
into how an educated Roman looked at the<br />
history of his own language: although his<br />
etymology is, by current standards, prescientific,<br />
it is actually quite often in agreement<br />
with modern etymology, while his morphology<br />
also has much in common with a modern<br />
approach, focusing on the question of how<br />
regular language is and providing arguments<br />
against and in favour of regularity. Detailed<br />
discussions of these and other of Varro’s<br />
linguistic ideas are brought to the fore in the<br />
exhaustive commentary in Volume II, which also<br />
sheds much-needed light on the work’s textual<br />
problems, cultural background, and distinctive<br />
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Trade, Politics, and<br />
Revolution: South<br />
Carolina and Britain’s<br />
Atlantic Commerce,<br />
1730–1790<br />
Huw David (GBF)<br />
London’s ‘Carolina traders’, a little-known<br />
group of transatlantic merchants, played<br />
a pivotal but historically neglected role in<br />
the rise of tensions in the South Carolina<br />
lowcountry. Huw David delves into the<br />
lives of these men and explores their<br />
influence on commerce and politics in<br />
the years before and after the American<br />
Revolution. Beginning in the 1730s, a few<br />
select merchants in Charleston fuelled<br />
South Carolina’s economic rise, used their<br />
political connections to prosper in British-<br />
Carolinian trade, and then relocated to<br />
London, becoming absentee owners of<br />
property, plantations, and slaves. Using<br />
correspondence, business and slave trade<br />
records, newspapers and a wealth of other<br />
sources, David reconstructs the lives of<br />
these Carolina traders and demonstrates<br />
their shifting but instrumental influence<br />
over the course of the eighteenth century.<br />
Until the 1760s these transatlantic traders<br />
served as a stabilizing force, using their<br />
wealth and political connections to lobby<br />
for colonial interests. As the British Empire<br />
flexed its power and incited rebellion with<br />
laws such as the so-called Intolerable Acts,<br />
South Carolinians became suspicious of the<br />
traders, believing them to be instruments<br />
of imperial oppression. Trade, Politics, and<br />
Revolution offers a fresh understanding of<br />
trade in South Carolina’s early history and<br />
the shifting climate that led to the American<br />
Revolution, as well as reaching beyond the<br />
war to explore the reconstruction of trade<br />
routes between the newly founded United<br />
States and Great Britain.<br />
By focusing on one segment of transatlantic<br />
trade, David provides a new interpretative<br />
approach to imperialism and exposes the<br />
complex, deeply personal rift that divided<br />
the Carolina traders from their homeland<br />
and broke the colonies from the mother<br />
country.<br />
To the Volcano, and<br />
other stories<br />
Elleke Boehmer (GBF)<br />
This new collection of short<br />
stories by Elleke Boehmer<br />
tracks lives across continents<br />
from the perspective of<br />
the southern hemisphere – its light, its seas,<br />
its sensibilities. They are stories of people<br />
caught up in a world that tilts seductively,<br />
sometimes dangerously, between south<br />
and north, between ambition and tradition,<br />
between light and dark. Her characters are<br />
poised to leave or on the point of return;<br />
often caught in limbo, haunted by their<br />
histories and veering between possibilities.<br />
An African student in England longs for her<br />
desert home; a shy Argentinian travel agent<br />
agonises about joining her boyfriend in<br />
New York; a soldier is pursued by his past; a<br />
writer’s widow fends off the attentions of his<br />
predatory biographer.<br />
From story to story we walk through<br />
radically different worlds and journeys<br />
packed with hopes and ideals. Sharp, tender,<br />
and always arresting, these exquisitely<br />
written pieces crackle with luminous insights<br />
as characters struggle to come to terms –<br />
with their past, with one another, and with<br />
themselves.<br />
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In Search of Isaiah<br />
Berlin: A Literary<br />
Adventure<br />
Henry Hardy (HF)<br />
Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers<br />
of the twentieth century – a man who set<br />
ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and<br />
plurality was passionate and persuasive and<br />
inspired a generation. His ideas – especially<br />
his reasoned rejection of excessive certainty<br />
and political despotism – have become even<br />
more prescient and vital today. But who<br />
was the man behind such influential views?<br />
In Search of Isaiah Berlin tells the compelling<br />
story of a decades-long collaboration<br />
between Berlin and his editor, Henry<br />
Hardy, who made it his vocation to bring<br />
Berlin’s huge body of work into print. Hardy<br />
discovered that Berlin had written far more<br />
than people thought, much of it unpublished.<br />
As he describes his struggles with Berlin,<br />
who was almost on principle unwilling to<br />
have his work published, an intimate and<br />
revealing picture of the self-deprecating<br />
philosopher emerges. This is a unique<br />
portrait of a man who gave us a new way<br />
of thinking about the human predicament,<br />
and whose work had for most of his life<br />
remained largely out of view.<br />
A fuller appreciation of this book follows,<br />
for which we thank Christopher Schenk (GS<br />
1972–75)<br />
This delightful book contains intriguing<br />
insights into the character and personality<br />
not only of Isaiah Berlin but also of its author,<br />
Henry Hardy. Hardy begins by positing<br />
himself and Berlin as polar opposites: the<br />
genius, adept at delineating the bigger<br />
picture but careless with details, and the<br />
pedant, meticulous and punctilious about<br />
accuracy, to the point of obsession.<br />
As the story progresses, it becomes obvious<br />
that they have quite a lot in common. For a<br />
start, they are both good writers, masters of<br />
that dying literary art form, the long letter.<br />
More importantly, they are both remarkably<br />
candid about their thoughts and feelings. They<br />
do not dissemble: there is no guile in them.<br />
Nevertheless, their honesty is by no means a<br />
guarantee that their accounts of themselves are<br />
accurate.<br />
Hardy writes to Berlin in 1976, ‘You have a<br />
refreshing candidness and directness about<br />
dissenting from received opinion’. Hardy’s own<br />
honesty is described as ‘directness’, though ‘to<br />
be direct’ in this sense seems to be one of those<br />
irregular verbs: I am direct, you are tactless, he is<br />
rude.<br />
As a graduate student in the early days of<br />
Wolfson, Hardy was remarkably busy and<br />
productive. As well as completing two degrees,<br />
he founded and edited Lycidas, Wolfson’s first<br />
magazine; he set up his own publishing imprint<br />
using his middle names of Robert Dugdale; he<br />
played the organ at St Frideswide’s, directed<br />
a choir, ran the <strong>College</strong> music society, and<br />
composed a number of short pieces; he even<br />
found time to teach Ancient Greek to Cecilia<br />
Dick’s younger daughter, Cressida, who is now<br />
the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. It<br />
was at this time that, with the encouragement<br />
of Sam Guttenplan, he embarked on what was<br />
to become forty years of work, to give the lie to<br />
Maurice Bowra’s famous quip that ‘like Our Lord<br />
and Socrates, Isaiah does not publish much.’<br />
In those heady days before the <strong>College</strong> moved<br />
to Linton Road, Wolfson was a remarkably<br />
egalitarian institution. Stephen Grounds tells the<br />
story of how he introduced himself to the older<br />
man standing next to him in the queue for lunch<br />
at 60 Banbury Road, with the words ‘I’m Stephen<br />
Grounds and I come from Birmingham’, to be<br />
greeted with the rejoinder ‘I’m Isaiah Berlin and<br />
I come from Riga.’ Berlin involved himself with<br />
the graduate students in a number of ways, for<br />
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example, by organising, with Jerome Bruner,<br />
a seminar that brought together graduate<br />
students in philosophy, like Hardy and myself,<br />
with graduate students in psychology like<br />
Andrew Meltzoff. Berlin also began friendships<br />
with other graduate students who played<br />
important parts in Hardy’s endeavours, notably<br />
Roger Hausheer and Aileen Kelly. Hardy sums<br />
up Berlin’s egalitarianism when he comments<br />
that ‘despite the large differences in age and<br />
status between us, he never pulled rank, and<br />
mostly treated my enquiries and suggestions<br />
and disagreements as if they were those of an<br />
intellectual equal.’<br />
The first part of the book, chapters 2 to 8, tells<br />
the story of how Hardy coaxed Berlin to agree<br />
to the republication of large numbers of his<br />
essays and lectures, at first into four volumes<br />
of his Selected Writings, and later into several<br />
more. This was no easy task, working against<br />
Berlin’s almost pathological self-depreciation<br />
and fear of adverse criticism, as well as his<br />
alarming tendency to change his mind and<br />
go back on previous agreements. The most<br />
outrageous example of this was in 1976 when<br />
he suddenly withdrew his approval of the<br />
volume containing his philosophical essays.<br />
Hardy eventually managed to persuade him to<br />
rescind his veto, so that most, but not all, of the<br />
essays were republished.<br />
After a rebuff like this, it is not surprising that<br />
Hardy did his best to avoid a recurrence.<br />
Even so, Hardy’s chutzpah on occasions<br />
is breathtaking, for example when he<br />
commissioned Noel Annan to write an<br />
introduction to the volume of Personal<br />
Impressions, without telling Berlin, still less<br />
asking permission from him.<br />
The second half of the book, chapters 9 to<br />
11, is about that aspect of the voluminous<br />
correspondence between Hardy and Berlin<br />
in which Hardy probed Berlin’s ideas and<br />
sought, not always successfully, to give them<br />
greater clarity. I am particularly interested<br />
in the chapter on Pluralism and Religion,<br />
having spent a good deal of my working life<br />
inspecting independent religious schools for<br />
the Department of Education (and Science)<br />
as a representative of an ostensibly pluralist<br />
state, seeking to persuade Jewish, Muslim<br />
and Evangelical Christian proprietors to<br />
espouse a more liberal approach without<br />
abandoning their deeply-held beliefs. As<br />
the laws governing independent schools<br />
tightened up, it was no longer just a matter<br />
of persuasion: schools, rather paradoxically,<br />
can now be compelled to be liberal. A<br />
definition of ‘Fundamental British Values’ first<br />
surfaced in the Prevent strategy and was<br />
then incorporated into secondary legislation<br />
in the Independent School Regulations<br />
which specify that proprietors must actively<br />
promote ‘the fundamental British values of<br />
democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty,<br />
and mutual respect and tolerance of those<br />
with different faiths and beliefs.’ While there<br />
is nothing exclusively British about these<br />
values, they are undoubtedly liberal.<br />
For understandable biographical reasons,<br />
Hardy’s view of religious adherence is rather<br />
narrow. He writes as if people join a religion<br />
by giving intellectual assent to a series of<br />
theological propositions, and are then bound<br />
to accept all the logical consequences of<br />
these propositions. While Berlin avows that<br />
he is tone-deaf to religious sentiment, his<br />
understanding of religion is much broader:<br />
even if religion may be theologically empty, it<br />
is anthropologically of great significance.<br />
In a book peppered with accounts of<br />
Berlin forgetting events and conversations<br />
completely, and even denying that he<br />
had ever written essays and lectures that<br />
Hardy brought to light, I feel myself in<br />
good company when I say that I have no<br />
recollection whatsoever of the conversation<br />
with me that Hardy reports (pp. 48 and 49),<br />
though I remain flattered that he thought<br />
my opinion might cut some ice with Berlin.<br />
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However, I do remember some things from<br />
that time. Hardy’s reputation for meticulous<br />
accuracy is well deserved, so it is with<br />
some satisfaction that I avail myself of the<br />
unusual opportunity to correct one of his<br />
end-notes. He writes (p. 270) that ‘Schenk<br />
(a Roman Catholic) and I (a non-believer)<br />
became churchwardens of St Frideswide’s.<br />
When the Archdeacon of Oxford … heard<br />
of this, he had us removed.’ Although I was<br />
brought up as a Roman Catholic, I had<br />
become an Anglican by the time I was a<br />
churchwarden. I also doubt whether, in the<br />
checks and balances of the pluralist Church<br />
of England, an archdeacon has the power<br />
to have churchwardens removed. In any<br />
event, the truth is more prosaic. We both<br />
resigned after Arnold Mallinson had left the<br />
parish, with the agreement of the retired<br />
priest who took temporary charge of St<br />
Frideswide.<br />
Gifts to the Library<br />
The Library welcomes gifts of books<br />
from all its members, past and<br />
present, which enhance its academic<br />
collections and add to the pleasure of<br />
its readers. This year the Library has<br />
received two separate collections in<br />
Ancient History from Professor Donna<br />
Kurtz and Professor Janet Delaine. Dr<br />
Stephanie Dalley notably donated an<br />
eighteenth-century edition of Josephus<br />
as well as other books. Books have<br />
also been generously donated by those<br />
whose names appear above, authors<br />
or contributors being identified by an<br />
asterisk.Thank you all.<br />
DONORS TO THE LIBRARY<br />
Professor Ruben Andersson*<br />
Professor Marcus Banks*<br />
Professor Pamela Clemit*<br />
Dr Geoff Cottrell*<br />
Dr David Cranston*<br />
Dr Stephanie Dalley*<br />
Dr Huw David*<br />
Professor Anne Deighton*<br />
Downing <strong>College</strong>, Cambridge*<br />
Dr Elena Draghici-Vasilescu*<br />
Jacob G. Ghazarian*<br />
Dr Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz*<br />
Dr Tony Grey*<br />
Rev Dr Martin Henig*<br />
Sir Tim Hitchens*<br />
Sally Horovitz<br />
John R. Kirby*<br />
Matthew Landrus*<br />
Dr James Bryant Lewis*<br />
Professor Rosalind Marsh*<br />
Dr Dario Nappo*<br />
Young Sun Park<br />
George Pattison<br />
Dr John Penney<br />
Dr Olivera Petrovich*<br />
Professor Tariq Rahman*<br />
Dr Alan J. Ross*<br />
Priscilla Moir Sharp*<br />
Dr Clive Sherlock<br />
Michael Strugale*<br />
Professor Bryan Sykes*<br />
Professor John Sutton*<br />
Dr Rachel K.L. Wood*<br />
Fiona Wilkes, Librarian.<br />
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PERSONAL NEWS<br />
Obituaries<br />
Bryan Magee<br />
(1930-<strong>2019</strong>)<br />
(VS 1991–3, VF 1993–4, MCR 1994–2018)<br />
philosopher, writer, broadcaster, politician,<br />
died at St Luke’s Hospital, Headington, on<br />
26 July <strong>2019</strong> aged eighty-nine.<br />
Bryan was born a Cockney in 1930 in<br />
Hoxton, the son of a gentleman’s outfitter<br />
who instilled in him a love of music and<br />
theatre that came to be dominant passions.<br />
He was educated at Christ’s Hospital and<br />
at Keble <strong>College</strong>, Oxford, where he took<br />
degrees in History (1952) and PPE (1953),<br />
and was President of the Oxford Union<br />
(1953). After a few years in temporary<br />
academic posts and a spell working for<br />
Guinness, he became an author and<br />
television presenter, fronting the ITV current<br />
affairs programme This Week, making<br />
documentaries about social issues, and<br />
writing books, notably the hugely successful<br />
Popper (1973) for Fontana Modern Masters.<br />
In 1974 he was elected as Labour MP for<br />
Leyton, but in 1982 defected to the SDP,<br />
losing his seat in 1983. He then returned to<br />
full-time writing and broadcasting, notably<br />
interviewing philosophers with marked<br />
success in the radio series Modern British<br />
Philosophy and in the TV series Men of<br />
Ideas (1978) and The Great Philosophers<br />
(1987). Books on Wagner and Schopenhauer<br />
followed (he regarded the latter as his<br />
principal contribution to philosophy).<br />
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Bryan had links to a number of Oxford<br />
colleges through his life, but it was Wolfson<br />
that provided him with his main base for<br />
his last three decades. He first came to the<br />
<strong>College</strong> for two years in 1991 as a Visiting<br />
Scholar at the suggestion of its founding<br />
President, Isaiah Berlin, whom he had<br />
befriended in 1972, when he conducted a<br />
discussion with him and Stuart Hampshire<br />
on nationalism for Thames Television. In<br />
1993 he became a Visiting Fellow for a<br />
year, and in 1994 a permanent Member of<br />
Common Room. In these early Wolfson<br />
years he was working on his celebrated<br />
intellectual-autobiography-cum-introductionto-philosophy,<br />
Confessions of a Philosopher,<br />
published in 1997.<br />
In 2000 he left London, where he had lived<br />
until then, buying a flat in Bardwell Road<br />
so as to be close to Wolfson. He became a<br />
familiar figure and almost daily presence in<br />
<strong>College</strong>, walking up for lunch after a morning<br />
of writing, and holding court in the Common<br />
Room over coffee. He was a superb talker,<br />
and his multi-faceted life provided a great<br />
deal of matter for him to talk about. Many<br />
Wolfsonians got to know him well, and he<br />
was a widely valued personal and intellectual<br />
resource in <strong>College</strong>. He continued to have<br />
short-term academic attachments elsewhere<br />
– in Oxford, Cambridge and Otago – but<br />
Wolfson was the home he returned to,<br />
sustaining him as he wrote The Story of<br />
Philosophy, Wagner and Philosophy, Ultimate<br />
Questions, and three volumes of personal<br />
autobiography, Clouds of Glory: a Hoxton<br />
Childhood, Growing Up in a War and finally<br />
Making the Most of It, published last year.<br />
Bryan was a man of many parts who<br />
cannot be summed up by a single label, but<br />
perhaps his most enduring achievement<br />
will turn out to be his brilliant explanation<br />
of philosophy to non-specialists. He made<br />
the subject exciting and accessible without<br />
condescension or dumbing down, and<br />
was surely one of the most articulate and<br />
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engaging expositors who ever lived.<br />
He is survived by his Swedish daughter<br />
Gunnela and her children and<br />
grandchildren.<br />
Henry Hardy (HF)<br />
Michael Metcalf<br />
(1933-2018)<br />
David Michael Metcalf, numismatist, born<br />
8 May 1933; died 25 October 2018.<br />
Michael Metcalf, who has died aged 85,<br />
understood the quantitative significance of<br />
medieval coins long before historians or<br />
other numismatists appreciated it.<br />
His detailed study in the 1960s of the<br />
coins of Offa, the eighth-century king<br />
of Mercia, enabled him to assert that<br />
these coins were struck in much greater<br />
numbers than anyone had realised. This<br />
in turn suggested that early Anglo-Saxon<br />
coins were far too numerous to have<br />
been reserved for the use of an elite.<br />
Instead the numbers argued for a much<br />
greater degree of Dark Age monetisation<br />
than previously assumed. Unsurprisingly,<br />
the established orthodoxy took some<br />
time to come to terms with this, and the<br />
ensuing debates ruffled feathers. One<br />
particular exchange in Oxford in 1966<br />
was sufficiently robust to have been<br />
reported in the national press.<br />
With characteristic grit, Michael resisted<br />
the vigorous criticism of the most<br />
influential scholars, until the advent of<br />
the metal detector in the 80s began to<br />
confirm Michael’s arguments through<br />
the discovery of very large numbers of<br />
medieval coins from all over the country.<br />
Metal detecting was itself then shunned<br />
by archaeologists, who, reasonably enough,<br />
feared the destruction of important<br />
sites, but gradually a more positive attitude<br />
to responsible metal detecting developed.<br />
Nowadays the Portable Antiquities Scheme<br />
records thousands of coin finds reported<br />
by detectorists every year, and the degree<br />
of monetisation in medieval England is no<br />
longer doubted.<br />
The evidence of single coin finds was also<br />
used by Michael to map and quantify the<br />
early Anglo-Saxon gold coins (thrymsas) and<br />
silver pennies (sceattas) of the seventh and<br />
eighth centuries, resulting in his three-volume<br />
work Thrymsas and Sceattas in the Ashmolean<br />
Museum (1993–94). He had energetically<br />
collected the new finds emerging in the 80s<br />
to make the collection of the Ashmolean<br />
Museum in Oxford, where he was Keeper<br />
of the Heberden Coin Room (1982–98), a<br />
leader in this field.<br />
While Michael located the principal areas<br />
in which each type was struck and used, he<br />
also demonstrated that over a quarter of<br />
the English money stock consisted of similar<br />
silver pennies struck in the Low Countries,<br />
testifying to a huge balance of payments<br />
surplus probably attributable to wool exports<br />
as early as the eighth century. Anglo-<br />
Continental trade links were fundamental<br />
to English wealth from at least the eighth<br />
century until our own times.<br />
He also applied his spatial awareness and<br />
statistical skills to the late Anglo-Saxon<br />
coinage from King Edgar’s coinage reform of<br />
973 to the Domesday Book survey of 1086.<br />
This period featured repeated reminting of<br />
the entire national currency, as well as the<br />
export to Scandinavia of huge numbers of<br />
coins as Danegeld. The coin hoards found<br />
above all in Sweden provide numerically<br />
impressive samples, though comparison with<br />
English hoards is essential.<br />
Moreover Michael analysed more than<br />
600 English single finds from this period<br />
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in an attempt to answer a number of key<br />
questions about the nature of the circulation<br />
and the structure and distribution of the<br />
coinage in England.<br />
Nick Mayhew<br />
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Courtesy of Guardian News and Media Ltd.<br />
excelled academically at Lichfield grammar<br />
school and in 1949, aged 17, he went to<br />
Bristol University to study physics. There<br />
he met a fellow-student, Judith Marshall,<br />
whom he married in 1957. After graduating,<br />
Peter undertook a PhD, supervised by the<br />
Nobel physics laureate Cecil Powell, before<br />
(in 1955) becoming a scientific officer at<br />
Harwell and working his way up within the<br />
organisation.<br />
Peter Iredale<br />
(1930-<strong>2019</strong>)<br />
My father Peter Iredale, who has died aged<br />
87, was the last director of the UK Atomic<br />
Energy Authority’s Harwell laboratory in<br />
Oxfordshire, a pioneering institute that<br />
housed Europe’s first nuclear reactor.<br />
Having joined Harwell in the late 1950s as<br />
a scientific officer, Peter progressed through<br />
various scientific and leadership positions<br />
there, with a focus that eventually expanded<br />
to embrace non-nuclear energy technologies<br />
such as wind and wave power. At one stage<br />
he led the marine and technology support<br />
unit at Harwell, and from 1979 to 1984<br />
he chaired the UK wave energy steering<br />
committee.<br />
He was appointed deputy director at Harwell<br />
in 1986 and then director the following year.<br />
However, in 1990, following a ministerial<br />
decision – the implications of which were<br />
not known at the time of his appointment<br />
– drastic cuts in government funding led<br />
to a radical restructuring. It fell to Peter to<br />
preside over the ending of Harwell’s role<br />
as a homogenous research establishment.<br />
Before stepping down in 1992 he produced<br />
a plan to develop the campus as a centre for<br />
scientific innovation, and this came to fruition<br />
in the form of what is now the Harwell<br />
science and innovation campus.<br />
After leaving Harwell, Peter sought another<br />
strategic role to satiate his intellectual<br />
restlessness, and found fulfilment as chair of<br />
Oxfordshire area health authority, a position<br />
he held from 1992 until 2001. In that role he<br />
managed several large NHS reorganisations,<br />
including the merger of all the main<br />
Oxfordshire hospitals into one trust; a<br />
process fraught with difficulty. Navigating<br />
these complexities while maintaining stability<br />
in the local health system required great<br />
fixity of purpose, clarity of strategic vision<br />
and an outstanding ability to persuade<br />
people to work together.<br />
In parallel, Peter recognised the importance<br />
of building a stronger relationship between<br />
the Oxfordshire health sector and the<br />
University of Oxford, and his work in that<br />
direction led to the creation of several world<br />
class clinical research institutes, including the<br />
Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology<br />
and Metabolism and the Centre of Functional<br />
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain.<br />
In his spare time he enjoyed gardening and<br />
operatic music. He is survived by Judith, their<br />
four children (John, Susan, Helen and Alison),<br />
and 13 grandchildren.<br />
John Iredale<br />
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Courtesy of Guardian News and Media Ltd.<br />
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(née Kirby), a maid, and Henry, a grocer, Peter<br />
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In memoriam 2018–19<br />
Andreason, Magnus (MCR and<br />
HMCR 1984-<strong>2019</strong>) on 6 June <strong>2019</strong><br />
Asquith, Mark (GS 2005-2010,<br />
MCR 2010-2011) on 6 June <strong>2019</strong><br />
Ikegami, Tadahiro (MCR 1971-<br />
1972, VF 1986, MCR 1988-1990,<br />
VS 1992-1993, MCR 1994-2018)<br />
on 20 November 2018<br />
Iredale, Peter (MCR 1988-1991,<br />
SF 1991-2000, MCR 2000-<strong>2019</strong>)<br />
on 10 July <strong>2019</strong><br />
Krishna, Gopal (VF 1975-1976,<br />
RF 1976-1981, MCR 1981-1999,<br />
GS 1999-2012) on 21 April <strong>2019</strong><br />
Magee, Bryan (VS 1991-1993, VF<br />
1993-1994, MCR 1994-2018) on<br />
26 July <strong>2019</strong><br />
Metcalf, Michael (GBF 1982-<br />
1998, EF 1998-2018) on 25<br />
October 2018<br />
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Millar, Fergus (MCR 1977-<strong>2019</strong>)<br />
on 15 July <strong>2019</strong><br />
Mulvey, John (GBF 1965-1984,<br />
SF 1984-1996, EF 1996-2018) on<br />
10 September 2018<br />
Roberts, Anne (HMCR 2010-<br />
<strong>2019</strong>), wife of Julian Roberts (PF,<br />
EF) on 13 January <strong>2019</strong><br />
Robinson, Daniel (MCR 2010-<br />
2018) on 17 September 2018<br />
Ullendorff Dina, wife of Edward<br />
Ullendorff (MCR 1981-2006) on 26<br />
March <strong>2019</strong><br />
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FEATURES<br />
Memories<br />
of Wolfson<br />
We celebrate Wolfson’s beautiful setting<br />
and recall three of its founding Fellows,<br />
Hans Schenk (1912–79), Colin Kraay<br />
(1918–82) and Peter Hulin (1923–93).<br />
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FEATURES<br />
Detail from one of the<br />
Caramanian Plates displayed in<br />
the Colin Kraay Room. For the<br />
full story, see pp. 114–15.<br />
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The Glory of<br />
the Garden<br />
by W. M. (Peggy) Morgan<br />
(MCR, Lecturer in the Faculty of<br />
Theology and Religion)<br />
Kipling’s appreciative phrase, if not all the<br />
sentiments in his poem, including his assumption<br />
that the gardeners are all men and boys, is not<br />
inappropriate to Wolfson’s own collection of<br />
gardens. I am a near neighbour with a tiny garden<br />
of my own, so one of the many privileges of<br />
my <strong>College</strong> membership is being able to walk<br />
round all parts of Wolfson Gardens regularly. I<br />
find the team of gardeners working hard in the<br />
different areas all display Wolfson’s characteristic<br />
friendliness in responding to my questions, and<br />
they do wonderful work to keep such large and<br />
varied areas looking so attractive. The gardens are<br />
one of Wolfson’s many works of art.<br />
As I started to think about writing this it was mid-<br />
April. The pear blossom was out in the Bishop’s<br />
Garden, the apple blossom was emerging and<br />
the rhubarb sprouting. There is still a strong sense<br />
of the original use of the garden strips which<br />
provided produce for the adjoining house and<br />
were presumably gardened by a team of Victorian<br />
gardeners. The last of the scattering of primroses<br />
were still about, whilst blue and white anemones<br />
graced the wild garden and much else was<br />
emerging. Wild garlic later gave its own distinctive<br />
aroma as I walked, and bluebells filled the space<br />
at the base of the much-anticipated wisteria<br />
which was out in April 2015 when this garden<br />
was opened to members of Wolfson, an event<br />
photographed and recorded in the 2015 <strong>Record</strong>.<br />
The wisteria is singularly magnificent in its stature<br />
and perfume. It has been pruned this year, so it<br />
was late flowering, but its companion is heading<br />
over the pergola and nearby conifer in profusion.<br />
Careful pruning of shrubs at the end of the front<br />
lawn has opened up what Kipling would call a<br />
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‘stately view’, a view of the new bird bath in the rose garden. Opening up views like this is an<br />
activity worthy of the best of gardeners. The roses were carefully chosen by Mike Pearson and<br />
newly planted last year, and Mel Constantino wrote about them in the last <strong>Record</strong>. When the<br />
rose garden had been hoed to prepare for the new growth, I decided it was the right place to<br />
scatter the last dried rose petals from my sister’s coffin spray. She was a considerable gardener,<br />
so this seemed an appropriate act. I love this varied, peaceful and reflective space in which<br />
I usually linger at the completion of my walk. Another joy is the wonderful tulips, a photo of<br />
which graced the front of the 2015 <strong>Record</strong>. They can be found not only in the Bishop’s Garden<br />
but also in the magnificent tubs at the front of the main building and in the Berlin Quad, in<br />
<strong>College</strong> colours to greet the spring.<br />
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Gardens are always evolving, and in the 2015 <strong>Record</strong> Jacqueline Piper gave us a very<br />
informative article about the creation of the Wolfson garden landscape. For example, I am<br />
always excited to see what will emerge whenever the latest version of the herbaceous border<br />
starts to grow at the far end of the lavender path by the croquet lawn. It is an inviting part of<br />
the walk towards yet another pergola with its double beauty of rose and wisteria, and a bench<br />
to invite the stroller to bring a book or just enjoy the reflective peace of the arbour. This year<br />
the hard landscaping of the pergola path has been renewed and contributes to the beauty<br />
of the space. As I write, the formal garden is being replanted with plants with an ‘Eastern<br />
connection’. At its centre is the significantly inscribed sundial which was a gift by Sir Henry<br />
Fisher when he retired from the Presidency in 1989; his initials accompany a quotation from<br />
Horace: INTER SILVAS ACADEMI QUAERERE VERVM (‘To seek Truth within the groves of<br />
Academe’). The original garden-planting had a Chinese and Japanese theme, hence the dragon<br />
on the sundial.<br />
After a side glance at the practical provision of allotment growing-spaces for <strong>College</strong> members,<br />
the variety of the gardens continues in the winding woodland path. This ends in the view of<br />
the river and bridge as one descends by the side of the cascade and wet garden with its exotic<br />
plants. The bridge has become my younger daughter’s favourite standing and thinking place, but<br />
I was startled the very first time I saw it as it disappeared into a lake in a year when the water<br />
meadow beyond was fully submerged.<br />
A relatively new work of art is Roger Cheney’s ‘Transformed Triangle’ (1974), which startles<br />
my visitors as we take the path back from the river and admire the pinnacle in the Winter<br />
Garden bearing a second inscription, set on a plaque: TRADIDIT HVNC LAPIDEM LYCIDAE<br />
MERTONIA DONVM (‘Merton handed this stone to Lycidas as a gift’ – after all, this is<br />
Oxford!). The pinnacle always attracts the interest of friends as they walk with me, together<br />
with my comment that it was in fact found ‘in a builder’s yard’ (2015 <strong>Record</strong>, p. 112) and taken<br />
to Wolfson, before being formally captioned by agreement with Merton. Most traditions have<br />
multiple lives and versions, and this is no exception.<br />
As I continue my walk, and at the appropriate season, I seek out areas across the gardens<br />
where there are displays of snowdrops and daffodils and winter crocus, and where I have<br />
learned they will be blooming in early spring, a favourite time.<br />
I have learned that the interesting Catalpa in the Gandy Quad which spreads over yet another<br />
well-positioned bench is also called an Indian Bean Tree. Another ‘stately view’, this time<br />
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towards the Gandy Quad, gives an additional vista to my walk, though I should like to see<br />
the fountain at work, to complete its Islamic feel. When I sit on the bench under the tree, the<br />
delightful and soothing sound of trickling water would add to the experience.<br />
My subject is the study of religions, and I once taught a course on flowers and religious<br />
traditions for which I enjoyed using as a core text the Cambridge anthropologist Jack<br />
Goody’s wonderful and wide-ranging book The Culture of Flowers (1993). Research for the<br />
course covered the visual arts as well as poetry; the history and symbolism of Japanese Zen<br />
gardens; lotuses and roses, lilies and tulips. While I was writing this piece, I remembered a<br />
passage from Annemarie Schimmel’s famous Mystical Dimensions of Islam (1975):<br />
‘Every flower in the garden becomes, for the mystic poets of the late twelfth century, a<br />
tongue to praise God; every leaf and petal is a book in which God’s wisdom can be read,<br />
if a man (sic) will only look. God has put signs on the horizon and in man’s soul (Sura 41:<br />
53); man has only to look at them. The lily praises God, silently, with ten tongues; the violet<br />
sits modestly in its dark blue Sufi garb, its head on the ‘knee of meditation’. Red tulips with<br />
their dark scars in their ‘hearts’ may grow out of the burned hearts of lovers, or they may<br />
remind the mystic of black-hearted hypocrites. The narcissus looks, with languid eyes, toward<br />
the creator or makes the lover think of the friend’s half-closed eyes, and the purple curly<br />
hyacinth resembles the tresses of the beloved ... the eye of the mystic who is enraptured<br />
in love sees traces of eternal beauty everywhere and listens to the mute eloquence of<br />
everything created.’ (pp. 308–9)<br />
Thank you, Wolfson, and your gardeners, for this enhancement of your site and the joy it<br />
brings me. Let me acknowledge, in Kipling’s words, that ‘gardens are not made by singing “Oh<br />
how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade’; and that ‘the Glory of the Garden it abideth not in<br />
words.’<br />
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‘The Glory of The Garden’<br />
was first published in<br />
1911 in A School History of<br />
England by C. R. L. Fletcher<br />
and Rudyard Kipling<br />
Newly planted formal Garden. Photo: Mel Constantino.<br />
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Hans and Willy<br />
Schenk: two<br />
refugees from<br />
Prague in<br />
war-time Britain<br />
by Christopher Schenk<br />
(GS 1972–75)<br />
Hans Schenk, one of the original Iffley<br />
Fellows of Wolfson, arrived in Harwich on<br />
17 March 1939 as an asylum-seeker, with<br />
his younger brother Willy. Both of them had<br />
Czechoslovakian nationality but they were<br />
not Czechs, nor were they Slovaks.<br />
The photograph (on p. 109) of Hans aged<br />
ten and Willy aged four, with their mother,<br />
Ilse, and their nanny, Lissy, reveals their true<br />
ethnicity. They were born subjects of the<br />
Austro-Hungarian monarch: Hans on 6<br />
April 1912, when the Emperor Franz Joseph<br />
was in the 64th year of his reign, and Willy<br />
on 26 July 1918, during the short reign of<br />
the Emperor Charles, the last monarch of<br />
Austria-Hungary. Before the war they were<br />
part of the German-speaking minority in<br />
Prague. It was a substantial minority and<br />
Prague was a bilingual city with parallel<br />
Czech and German institutions,<br />
including universities.<br />
Ferdinand, Hans and Willy’s father, was a<br />
Professor of Gynaecology and Obstetrics<br />
in the German University in Prague. He<br />
was born into a Jewish family but became<br />
a Roman Catholic in order to marry Ilse in<br />
Vienna in 1911. She was a good linguist and<br />
spoke fluent Italian, and good English and<br />
French.<br />
In pre-war Prague, Hans made a name<br />
for himself as a strong chess player. In the<br />
1970s he wrote an article for Lycidas called<br />
‘Chess Reminiscences’, which recalls that<br />
in 1929, when he was 17, he was one of<br />
thirty players taken on in Prague by Aron<br />
Nimzovitch in a simultaneous exhibition.<br />
‘I happened to be the last player left after<br />
the other 29 games had been finished’, he<br />
writes, ‘so Nimzovitch sat down to play the<br />
end game against me. Although I had a<br />
slight disadvantage, I managed to hang on<br />
for a draw.’ He went on to even greater<br />
things in the 1930s when he defeated<br />
José Capablanca, in another simultaneous<br />
exhibition.<br />
In 1935, Hans was awarded a doctorate in<br />
law and was appointed as an assistant at the<br />
Institute of Political Science at the German<br />
University. He worked closely with Professor<br />
Hans Kelsen, an eminent legal and political<br />
philosopher, who was an outspoken critic<br />
of the Nazis. During Kelsen’s short time in<br />
Prague, from October 1936 to February<br />
1938, he had many difficulties with Nazisupporting<br />
students. In a testimonial written<br />
in 1947, when Kelsen was Professor of<br />
Political Science at Berkeley, he says of Hans:<br />
‘In my conflict with the Nazi students in<br />
Prague, he firmly and courageously stood on<br />
my side, in spite of all disadvantages he had<br />
to endure as a consequence of his attitude.’<br />
The first disadvantage was that his university<br />
post was not renewed at the end of 1937,<br />
so in January 1938 he started working<br />
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Photo: Christopher Schenk
for the Czechoslovak Civil Service as an<br />
official in the Ministry of Social Welfare. In<br />
September 1938, the Sudetenland, the area<br />
near the border where German speakers<br />
were in a majority, was ceded to Germany,<br />
endorsed by the Munich Agreement. Hans’<br />
job at the Ministry involved welfare for<br />
anti-Nazi refugees from the Sudetenland,<br />
amid an atmosphere of growing support<br />
for the Nazis among the German-speaking<br />
community in Prague. On 9 January 1939,<br />
he was given notice of dismissal from the<br />
Ministry, to take effect in March. No reason<br />
was given, but it was undoubtedly because<br />
of his political views and his active support<br />
for the anti-Nazi Social Democratic Party,<br />
expressed for example in an article he<br />
published in 1938 entitled Aufbau und Schutz<br />
der Demokratie (Building and Protecting<br />
Democracy).<br />
So, from January 1939, Hans and Willy<br />
accelerated their plans to leave for Britain<br />
in March. Hans wrote to the Society for<br />
the Protection of Science and Learning in<br />
London. This was an organisation that had<br />
been founded in 1933 with the express<br />
purpose of giving support to academics<br />
who had been forced to leave Germany,<br />
and later Austria and Czechoslovakia, by the<br />
Nazis. SPSL sent a letter to Hans, which he<br />
hoped would help him to be allowed to<br />
enter Britain. Willy registered as an external<br />
student at London University and wrote to<br />
his English penfriend, Donald, who enlisted<br />
the help of his father, Barclay Baron, a<br />
liberal-minded social reformer, who played a<br />
prominent part in Toc H.<br />
They planned to leave by an early train on<br />
Wednesday, 15 March. On the day before,<br />
Slovakia declared its independence. Emil<br />
Hácha, the President of Czechoslovakia,<br />
was in a very weak position with regard<br />
to Germany since the annexation of the<br />
Sudetenland had stripped Czechoslovakia of<br />
its defences. Hitler forced him into agreeing<br />
to a German takeover of the Czech lands.<br />
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This agreement was signed at four o’clock in<br />
the morning of 15 March, and by six o’clock<br />
German troops began pouring over the<br />
border and took possession of the country<br />
while the Czech military was commanded to<br />
step down and allow them to enter.<br />
Hans and Willy were on the train that<br />
left Prague station at about seven o’clock,<br />
so they would have seen the advancing<br />
German army out of the train’s windows<br />
as it travelled towards the border with<br />
Germany. They reached the border much<br />
more quickly than a traveller would today,<br />
because the border had moved, with the<br />
annexation of the Sudetenland. The stamp<br />
in Hans’ passport shows that the bordercrossing<br />
certificate was issued in Lobositz,<br />
a small town on the left bank of the River<br />
Elbe, now known by its Czech name of<br />
Lovosice, some forty miles north-west of<br />
Prague, and these days at least another forty<br />
miles away from the border.<br />
On 16 March, they reached the Dutch<br />
border at Oldenzaal. On the German side<br />
of the border, they were asked by German<br />
officials whether they were Jews. They<br />
could honestly answer ‘No’ despite their<br />
father, because by Jewish halacha Jewishness<br />
can only be transmitted matrilineally. They<br />
caught the night ferry from Hook of Holland<br />
and landed in Harwich early the following<br />
morning. Barclay Baron wrote: ‘They landed<br />
in England on 17th March 1939 with no<br />
visible means of support whatever. I met<br />
them on arrival, arranged hospitality and<br />
provided them from my personal funds with<br />
immediate necessities. I had already signed a<br />
guarantee to the Home Office that I would<br />
be responsible for their support so that no<br />
charges, in the event of their sickness or<br />
unemployment, would fall on British public<br />
funds.’<br />
Barclay Baron was comfortably off and<br />
well-connected, but by no means rich. He<br />
arranged for Hans to be given hospitality<br />
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for short periods by a succession of his<br />
friends and acquaintances. As Hans wrote<br />
to the SPSL in April 1940: ‘I have managed<br />
to find some hospitality between March<br />
and Christmas 1939, but altogether I had to<br />
move more than twenty times from place<br />
to place.’ That works out to moving about<br />
once a fortnight. Willy was more fortunate.<br />
Through his pen-friend Donald Baron he<br />
was given residency in Pusey House, Oxford,<br />
for the two months of Trinity Term.<br />
By the time the war broke out, on 3<br />
September 1939, Willy and Hans were back<br />
together and made strenuous efforts to<br />
contact their parents, with a view to finding<br />
a way to get them out. Surprisingly, despite<br />
the war, a letter dated 14 September got<br />
through to them from Ferdinand saying: ‘My<br />
dearest children, we got your messages and<br />
we are very happy to hear that you both<br />
are well and live together. We had to take<br />
a new flat of two rooms and kitchen. It is<br />
a very nice flat with modern comfort.’ For<br />
all Ferdinand’s upbeat manner, it was clearly<br />
a step down in the world. Their spacious<br />
apartment in the centre of town had been<br />
commandeered by the Germans, and their<br />
small new flat in the suburbs was rented in<br />
Lissy’s name, so that it would not be taken<br />
away from them because of Ferdinand’s<br />
Jewish origins.<br />
In late December 1939, Hans finally made<br />
it to the Hastings Chess Congress. It was a<br />
mere shadow of its former self with only<br />
eight players, seven of whom were British,<br />
so Hans single-handedly made it into an<br />
International Congress.<br />
1940 was a better year for Hans. He<br />
decided to take another doctorate, this<br />
time a DPhil at Oxford. He contacted the<br />
Postgraduate Aid Committee, chaired by the<br />
Master of Balliol, and renewed his requests<br />
for help from the SPSL.<br />
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A letter from Ronald Bell, Fellow and Tutor<br />
in Chemistry at Balliol, who was secretary<br />
of the Postgraduate Aid Committee, to<br />
Miss Simpson, the secretary of SPSL, makes<br />
it clear why Hans’s case was particularly<br />
difficult. ‘Though young,’ he writes of Hans,<br />
‘he is considerably more experienced than<br />
most of the people with whom we have to<br />
deal, and it seems to me that he rather lies<br />
in the No Man’s Land between the SPSL and<br />
this committee. At this end I have managed<br />
to persuade Exeter <strong>College</strong> to admit him<br />
with remission of all fees, and this would also<br />
exempt him from any University dues. On<br />
the other hand, we are not able to make any<br />
direct financial grant to him for maintenance.’<br />
Hans’s own letters to Miss Simpson give<br />
interesting insights into his precarious<br />
financial situation. In April 1940, he writes<br />
that he has ‘found a room with full board<br />
and everything included for 27 shillings a<br />
week.’ Eventually, the SPSL agreed to fund<br />
him at a rate of £100 a year, but only for<br />
three months at a time pending a further<br />
application, so his money worries continued.<br />
He matriculated as a graduate student<br />
at Exeter <strong>College</strong> on 4 May 1940 and<br />
soon afterwards received his first monthly<br />
payment from SPSL of £8 6s 8d. His<br />
supervisor was G. D. H. Cole, then at Univ.<br />
Hans first proposed a broad subject for his<br />
thesis, building on his work in international<br />
law and political science: a comparison of<br />
attempts at international co-operation from<br />
the Concert of Europe up to and including<br />
the League of Nations. In the manner of<br />
DPhil supervisors, Cole urged Hans to<br />
focus more narrowly, suggesting the earlier<br />
period. As a result, Hans’s transition from<br />
international lawyer to historian came about<br />
more by chance than by conscious choice.<br />
By 1942, Hans had begun to earn some<br />
money, lecturing twice a week in Exeter<br />
<strong>College</strong> on European Economic History<br />
1815–48. In Michaelmas Term, he began<br />
to give tutorials to students in LMH and<br />
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St Hilda’s. Joyce Marjorie Hazell, generally<br />
known as Hazel, was reading Classics at St<br />
Hilda’s; they met and were married on 12<br />
April 1944. With Hans’ obsessive interest in<br />
dates, he calculated that his wife was exactly<br />
seven years, one month and three days<br />
younger than him.<br />
On 17 May 1945, just nine days after Victory<br />
in Europe was declared, Ferdinand died in<br />
Prague of natural causes at the age of 75.<br />
By this time Willy was serving in the British<br />
army, so it fell to Hans to try to find a way<br />
for Ilse and Lissy to join him in England. To<br />
the credit of Ilse and Hans, neither of them<br />
would contemplate leaving Lissy behind.<br />
She had worked for the family for decades,<br />
always on the understanding that she would<br />
be looked after in her old age.<br />
After much lobbying, they were both given<br />
visas and flew from Prague to Croydon<br />
Aerodrome on 18 April 1946. This date<br />
provided Hans with his own personal proof<br />
of the existence of God. The time between<br />
his emigration and that of his mother was<br />
seven years, one month and three days,<br />
exactly the same as the interval between his<br />
birth date and that of Hazel. To Hans’ logical,<br />
chess-playing mind this was conclusive<br />
evidence of the work of an all-powerful<br />
deity; it was simply inconceivable that such<br />
symmetry could be the product of mere<br />
coincidence.<br />
Photograph of Hans aged ten and Willy aged<br />
four, with their mother, Ilse, and their nanny,<br />
Lissy.<br />
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Hans became a University Lecturer in 1947,<br />
but he had to wait for many years, until the<br />
founding of Iffley <strong>College</strong>, the precursor<br />
of Wolfson, before he gained an Oxford<br />
<strong>College</strong> Fellowship. He remained a Fellow of<br />
Wolfson until his death in August 1979.<br />
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Naming of the<br />
Colin Kraay Room<br />
By Professor Chris Howgego (GBF, Keeper of the Heberden Coin<br />
Room), from his speech at the Iffley Dinner on Friday, 26 April <strong>2019</strong><br />
The Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean<br />
Museum, with its more than 300,000 objects,<br />
is one of the ten leading coin collections in the<br />
world. It is an important centre for teaching<br />
and research in numismatics and monetary<br />
history, and now also for digital numismatics.<br />
Wolfson’s close connection with the<br />
Ashmolean goes back to its foundation as part<br />
of the University’s response to the increasing<br />
number of graduate students and the need<br />
to create college attachments for senior<br />
academics without colleges. Museum curators<br />
were exactly the kind of academics without<br />
fellowships in the 1960s, representing as they<br />
did disciplines then without the undergraduate<br />
teaching requirements which attracted<br />
fellowships at the traditional undergraduate<br />
colleges. The heads of two of the Ashmolean’s<br />
five curatorial departments have fellowships at<br />
Wolfson – the other is Paul Roberts, Keeper<br />
of Antiquities – and there are many other<br />
connections.<br />
I should like to pause at this point to<br />
remember Michael Metcalf, who sadly died on<br />
25 October last year. Michael, a very eminent<br />
Byzantine and medieval numismatist, was<br />
Keeper of the Heberden Coin Room and<br />
Fellow of Wolfson from 1982. He published<br />
prolifically, including almost 250 scholarly<br />
articles, and some 23 books. I owe to him<br />
my own recruitment to the Heberden<br />
Coin Room. Michael regularly took lunch at<br />
Wolfson. He memorably described his long<br />
and loving marriage to Dorothy, who died<br />
just before him last year, as ‘For better, for<br />
worse, but not for lunch’. Michael’s academic<br />
archive and a somewhat implausible bronze<br />
bust are now in Ashmolean.<br />
The Coin Room has a particularly close<br />
connection with Wolfson as together we<br />
run three visiting fellowship and scholarship<br />
programmes to invite numismatic scholars<br />
from all over the world to research in<br />
Oxford for one month each year. These<br />
initiatives have made a huge impact, laying<br />
the ground for the extensive network of<br />
collaborators on current research projects.<br />
The earliest of these schemes was set up in<br />
1977. Two are now named after Colin Kraay:<br />
the Kraay Visitorship for those of professorial<br />
standing and the Kraay Travel Scholarship for<br />
early career researchers.<br />
Colin Kraay joined the Heberden Coin<br />
Room in 1948, acting as Keeper from 1975<br />
until his untimely death in 1982. He was at<br />
first a Fellow of Iffley <strong>College</strong> and then of<br />
Wolfson, acting as Vicegerent from 1971 to<br />
1973. He is my principal subject, since we<br />
have just been celebrating the re-naming of<br />
President’s Dining Room as the Colin Kraay<br />
Room. This room has long been hung with<br />
images (mostly prints, with one painting)<br />
and ceramics paired with these images. They<br />
are some of the earliest representations<br />
of the Eastern Mediterranean by western<br />
travellers. They were originally commissioned<br />
Photo: Wolfson Collge<br />
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by Sir Robert Ainslie, British ambassador to<br />
Turkey between 1776 and 1792, and were<br />
published as Views in the Ottoman Empire<br />
in 1803. The ceramics manufacturer Spode<br />
copied the imagery for their Caramanian<br />
dinnerware series. It is a nice coincidence<br />
that what will still be the President’s<br />
Dining Room in all but name is decorated<br />
by images commissioned by another<br />
ambassador.<br />
This collection has a romantic background. It<br />
was put together by Colin Kraay and his wife<br />
Peggy. Together they sought out the prints or<br />
ceramics in trips around antiques shops in<br />
the Cotswolds and elsewhere. It must have<br />
been more challenging and more fun trying<br />
to make the pairings in the days before<br />
the internet. They displayed their collection<br />
in their elegant home at Hampton Poyle,<br />
where I first saw it. Peggy subsequently<br />
donated the collection to the <strong>College</strong>. If<br />
you want to know more, the Archivist is<br />
collecting material, but otherwise I suggest<br />
the informal motto of the <strong>College</strong>: ‘Ask John<br />
Penney.’<br />
Colin Kraay was a leading Greek and Roman<br />
numismatist, so I will turn now to coins.<br />
Wolfson was founded before decimalisation<br />
(1971). At that time the coins in your<br />
pocket routinely included coins going back a<br />
century to Queen Victoria. Coins really were<br />
history in your hand. If you were then to<br />
have taken from your pocket and examined<br />
closely a coin of George V, you would have<br />
seen on the neckline of the portrait the<br />
tiny letters ‘BM’. These are the initials of the<br />
designer of the portrait, the Australian-born<br />
sculptor Bertram MacKennal, who was<br />
Colin’s maternal grandfather. It is not too<br />
much a stretch of the imagination to see<br />
this as the source of Colin’s early interest in<br />
coins. His own second initial, the ‘M’ in C. M.<br />
Kraay, stood for ‘MacKennal’.<br />
There is an excellent obituary of Colin<br />
in the Proceedings of the British Academy<br />
1982, penned by his predecessor as Keeper of<br />
the Heberden Coin Room, Humphrey Sutherland,<br />
who was brother of the artist Graham Sutherland.<br />
Colin’s bibliography runs to 80 items. Its highlight<br />
is the magisterial Archaic and Classical Greek Coins<br />
(1976) which has stood the test of time despite an<br />
ever-changing material record, particularly in the<br />
form of new hoards. This bears witness to Colin’s<br />
outstanding judgement, and it is interesting that his<br />
wartime <strong>Record</strong> of Service had already noted that<br />
‘His judgement is thoroughly sound and reliable’.<br />
I will not recap the Academy obituary here, but<br />
confine myself to three reminiscences. The first<br />
is personal. I first met Colin when I was 15. I had<br />
written a school project on the eastern bronze<br />
coinage of the emperor Augustus. My Latin master<br />
sent this to Colin, with whom he had been at school.<br />
Colin not only invited me to Oxford but spent<br />
the entire day with me. He took me to lunch in<br />
Wolfson, which in 1973 was still in its first premises<br />
at 60 Banbury Road. I am not the only Fellow still<br />
alive to have lunched there, but I think I must be the<br />
youngest. Colin allowed me to study the Ashmolean’s<br />
collection of Julio-Claudian coinage, including the<br />
spectacular Roman gold, but he advised me to<br />
develop my interest in what was then called Greek<br />
Imperial coinage: ‘No one is interested in those.’<br />
He thus directed me early to what was going to<br />
be the subject of my own doctoral research. This<br />
area of numismatics, under its new name of ‘Roman<br />
Provincial Coinage’, is now the subject of a major<br />
research project based in Oxford. At the end of the<br />
day Colin gave me a pile of Humphrey Sutherland’s<br />
offprints on Roman Coinage. The experience<br />
determined me to try to have his job one day. Which<br />
I now do.<br />
Second, and especially at Wolfson, it would be<br />
impious not to quote what Isaiah Berlin had to say<br />
about Colin: ‘It was not merely that he was charming,<br />
courteous, distinguished, gay, exhilarating: he was all<br />
these things, but apart from that I simply lived, was<br />
made happier, by his presence anywhere. Colin was a<br />
wonderful colleague – just, honourable, sensible, kind<br />
– an ideal member of an academic or indeed any<br />
society.’ I do not imagine that Isaiah was lightly parted<br />
from such words.<br />
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My final reminiscence comes from a book by Margaret Pawley, In Obedience to Instructions: FANY<br />
with the SOE in the Mediterranean (1999). FANY stands for ‘First Aid Nursing Yeomanry’ and<br />
SOE for ‘Special Operations Executive’. Colin served in the SOE as Air Operations Officer in<br />
support of Italian partisans in 1944–5. While in Italy, he met Peggy, who was his FANY secretary.<br />
They got married immediately after the war. Before joining the SOE, Colin had served in India,<br />
Persia and North Africa, and taken part in the landings at Salerno and Anzio. This anecdote will<br />
be found on page 84 of Pawley’s book: ‘Two officers of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry<br />
were lying side by side in the mud during a lull in one of the Anzio battles. Colin Kraay, who<br />
joined the army as an undergraduate at Magdalen <strong>College</strong>, Oxford, had a considerable interest<br />
in ancient coinage. As he dug in the undergrowth he uncovered a Roman coin, whose history<br />
he expounded to his companion …’ This is a wonderful picture of enthusiasm for one’s subject<br />
in challenging circumstances. And curators, like many academics, are often those who have not<br />
grown out of their youthful enthusiasms.<br />
The current political situation, without wanting to mention the ‘B’ word, is perhaps not ideal<br />
for an international college such as ours. My own experience, for what it is worth, has been<br />
that scholars are even more ready to collaborate internationally when they can defy political<br />
uncertainty; but if it seems that things are difficult now, it may be worth remembering that Colin<br />
retained his own enthusiasm even while lying in the mud at Anzio.<br />
There is, I think, a moral here for all members of the <strong>College</strong>, and indeed for the <strong>College</strong> itself,<br />
which was fifty years young only the other day. And that is, whatever the circumstances, never<br />
lose that youthful enthusiasm.<br />
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Coins from Ashmolean Museum’s Heberdeen Coin Room. Leucaspis (left) and Head of<br />
Athena (right). Photo: The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford<br />
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Details of two plates from the Colin Kraay Room. Photo: Roger Tomlin and Lisa Heida.<br />
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Caramanian plates in the<br />
Colin Kraay Room<br />
by Dr Ellen Rice (Fellow Archivist)<br />
The President and Governing Body decided to change the name of the President’s<br />
Private Dining Room to ‘the Colin Kraay Room’. His collection of lithographs and<br />
matching plates graces its walls.<br />
Colin Kraay (1918–82) was a founding Fellow of the <strong>College</strong> and Keeper of the<br />
Heberden Coin Room (1975–82). His wife Margaret (Peggy) gave a talk on 19 June 1994<br />
about the collection, which she presented to the <strong>College</strong> in memory of her husband.<br />
Their son, Tim, was invited by the President to this year’s Iffley Dinner, at which Chris<br />
Howgego spoke about his father.<br />
Here is a description of one of the scenes depicted in both plate and print (‘The Castle<br />
of Boudron in the Gulf of Stancio’), based upon notes by Peggy Kraay.<br />
The medieval Castle of St Peter, built by the Knights of St John from 1402, dominates the<br />
entrance of the natural harbour of Bodrum (ancient Halicarnassus) in southwest Turkey.<br />
It is depicted on the print and plate, where the headless male statue and the sculptures<br />
on the walls indicate earlier remains, those of the famous Mausoleum which once stood<br />
above the harbour. This was the great tomb built in the fourth century BC by Queen<br />
Artemisia of Caria for her husband King Mausolus, whence comes the modern term<br />
‘mausoleum’. The Knights quarried its ruins for their building materials. Parts of the frieze<br />
and some of the lions were thus preserved, by being used to adorn the Castle.<br />
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The Mausoleum stood halfway up the hill, in the middle of a spacious square, and was<br />
the most magnificent tomb of Antiquity, one of the ‘Seven Wonders of the World’. Its<br />
pyramid was surmounted by a quadriga (a four-horse chariot) which would have been a<br />
landmark far out to sea.<br />
Seventeen slabs of the frieze of the Mausoleum are now in the British Museum. Their<br />
subject matter is continuous and represents the war between the Greeks and Amazons.<br />
Over-lifesized statues probably of Mausolus and Artemisia, and other architectural<br />
elements, are also displayed in the Museum.<br />
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Peter Hulin and<br />
the Bristol Bus<br />
by Roger Hausheer and Anthony Moyes<br />
(as recorded by the Archivist, Liz Baird)<br />
Keen students of the <strong>College</strong>’s history may remember the entertaining description of<br />
one of our founding Fellows, Peter Hulin (1923–93), by Roger Hausheer (GS 1969–79, VF<br />
1991–2) in John Penney and Roger Tomlin (eds), Wolfson <strong>College</strong> Oxford: The First Fifty Years<br />
(2016), 25–31, which also described his fascination for the Bristol Bus. For those who have<br />
not yet read it, here is a shortened version:<br />
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‘A tall, stooped figure, like a giant weather-beaten vulture, with a wild shock of light gingery<br />
hair, who was clad in and out of season in a somewhat creased and baggy summer jacket,<br />
open shirt, and billowing light trousers, I early learned to identify as Peter Hulin from the<br />
Oriental Institute, a man deeply learned in Akkadian. I believe a great many senior Fellows<br />
went in terror of him. I soon found that the disposition of this outwardly terrifying figure<br />
was charming and gentle to graduate students, and indeed anyone at all whom he did not<br />
identify with authority and power. His <strong>College</strong> advisees, to whom he was very kind and<br />
whom he entertained generously, returned from their visits to his house with shining eyes<br />
and fervent tales of a plethora of intriguing bric-à-brac, model railway trains that ran all over<br />
the house through holes in walls, and, above all, a kind of vast museum (or shrine) dedicated<br />
to a now extinct species, the Bristol Bus. On this subject, apparently, their host was in every<br />
sense inexhaustible.<br />
In 1987 I was invited to dinner at Christ Church. To our pleasant surprise, Peter Hulin had<br />
come to dine at his old <strong>College</strong>, and in the common room afterwards he joined us. Within<br />
no time the conversation flowed smoothly and automatically into the desired course. Yes,<br />
he had devoted a lifetime of study to the Bristol Bus. Why? During an unhappy period of<br />
his Bristol boyhood, he told us, he had found himself, together with his sister, confined by his<br />
parents for several months at a time in an upstairs room that looked out on a major Bristol<br />
thoroughfare. From this vantage-point, and no doubt to employ the energies of his acute<br />
and active mind, he made an exhaustive catalogue of every single Bristol Bus.<br />
Later, armed with his list of registration numbers, he had, with great tenacity, extracted from<br />
a submissive Bristol Bus Company all the chassis numbers, body numbers, and engine numbers,<br />
too. Then began the Quest of the Holy Grail of his entire adult life. That was to track<br />
down, and see again, every single one of these beloved companions of his youth.<br />
Many, perhaps most, of his old familiars had been callously sold off as job lots to Third<br />
World countries. This entailed a prodigious odyssey which took in places from Upper Volta<br />
to Borneo. Luckily, such pilgrimages could be combined with giving learned papers in<br />
Akkadian to the cognoscenti of these countries.<br />
But what in the world was a bus? When was the same bus no longer the same bus? What<br />
really counted for bushood – the engine number, the chassis number, or the body number?<br />
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And what, precisely, was the relation of any or all of these to the original Bristol registration<br />
number? Buses had been unfeelingly butchered and carved up, the chassis of one being<br />
combined with another’s body, and engines endlessly dispersed. The task he had set himself<br />
was to trace every single integral part of every single bus, and to redeem so far as he could,<br />
at least on paper, the lost identity of each. There followed a rigmarole of labyrinthine<br />
complexity involving numbers, parts and far-flung places.<br />
The eloquent chronicler of the lives of these mute creatures developed an almost<br />
Dantesque intensity and sweep as his litany droned on. His eyes shone and flashed as one<br />
possessed, and it became clear that the very quiddity of bushood was somehow at stake<br />
in some vast cosmic drama into which, unaccountably, we were being permitted to peep,<br />
but which we could never hope to understand. Yet there was some kind of consummation:<br />
only last year, on a trip to – was it Singapore? – he had traced the last chassis, the circle had<br />
closed, the mission was now complete. Then, at midnight, he suddenly rose, and stalked out<br />
with all the inscrutable mystery of a high-priest.’<br />
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There is now a postscript to this article. The <strong>College</strong> Archives were contacted by Anthony<br />
Moyes, who informed us that Peter Hulin’s great work on the Bristol Bus – his photographic<br />
catalogue – was now complete. Mr Moyes kindly sent us some notes, together with a few<br />
photos. Some (slightly revised) extracts from his notes appear below.<br />
Peter Hulin was a founder member of the Bristol Interest Circle, in 1938. This was a group of<br />
people who admired the buses manufactured in his native city of Bristol. ‘Bristol’ buses were<br />
quite successful in the British market. Eventually the bus side of the Bristol company was<br />
absorbed into British Leyland in 1968.<br />
Many ‘Bristol’ vehicles survive in preservation because they were well-engineered, economical,<br />
more than fit for the purpose, aesthetically pleasing, and consequently long-lived and<br />
widely respected. The Bristol Vintage Bus Group was formed in 1972; it is the BVBG which<br />
compiled the catalogue.<br />
From the 1930s particularly, many ‘Bristol’ buses were sold to businesses and municipal<br />
operators all over Britain. So, for someone keen to see every ‘Bristol’ bus made, quite a lot of<br />
travel would be needed.<br />
The first 150 entries in the Hulin catalogue give few details of where or when he photographed<br />
them, and it appears to have started in the early 1940s. But from 1951, he began<br />
to record where and when he took each photograph. The catalogue gives a good idea of his<br />
pilgrimages, which would take him to places not generally on tourist circuits.<br />
From the later 1940s, Bristol buses started to be exported outside the UK, and Peter<br />
documented many of these on his travels as a Near Eastern archaeologist. The largest single<br />
delivery was of 100 chassis to the Nizam of Hyderabad’s State Railways in India, in 1948.<br />
Over 100 were also exported to South Africa. In June and July 1972 he was able to see the<br />
last survivors of these machines. His last South African bus pictures, in August 1975, show<br />
‘Bristol’ single deckers only in scrapyards. Peter also encountered some in places such as<br />
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Cyprus, Iraq and Kathmandu. His final overseas photograph in the catalogue is from<br />
Famagusta in September 1983.<br />
Increasingly from the early 1970s, he took photographs of ‘Bristol’ buses bought by the<br />
widening range of British operators who chose them once previous restrictions on their<br />
sale were removed. So, new locations began to figure in the catalogue; he would still search<br />
out new deliveries, and visit new places where second-hand ‘Bristols’ could be found. He<br />
must have enjoyed going to bus rallies where preserved ‘Bristols’ often gathered. Indeed, it<br />
was from one such occasion, in Bristol itself on 16 June 1987, that we have his last catalogue<br />
entry, showing a double decker that had evaded his camera on several previous visits to its<br />
second-hand home in Pembrokeshire.<br />
Peter’s intention was visually to record his beloved Bristol-made buses as carefully as possible.<br />
Usually there would be views of both three-quarter nearside and offside, sometimes also<br />
frontal or rear views. Ideally the picture would be as uncluttered as possible: no obstructing<br />
human beings, a minimum of background. For the bus enthusiast, this can be admirable and<br />
valuable. Perhaps the opportunities to make them documents of social history were underplayed.<br />
But they do contain messages if one is prepared to look for them. The South African<br />
single deckers almost all display their owner’s fleet-names bilingually, generally in Afrikaans on<br />
the offside, English on the nearside, as was then the practice there. The Indian-owned ‘Bristols’<br />
were deliberately worked hard because their owners were under recurrent threat from<br />
being squeezed out of business by local or state corporations – which indeed took place in<br />
Durban in the 1970s. That’s why he saw only one there in 1964.<br />
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