College Record 2017

Visiting Scholars
by Dan Isaacson (EF), Visiting Scholars’ Liaison Officer
In the past year the College has had 53 Visiting Scholars and 70 Research Members
of Common Room. Current numbers are 21 and 45 respectively. In each term I
have organized three events for Visiting Scholars, to which I have also invited the
proposers and seconders of current Scholars and the Research Members of Common
Room. Two events consisted of drinks followed by lunch in Hall, the other has
been an evening of short talks by three Visiting Scholars and Research Members
of Common on their current research; this was publicised and open to anyone in
College. Here are the nine presentations, arranged in sequence.
Michaelmas Term
Chulhee Lee (Visiting Scholar from the Department of Economics, Seoul National
University), ‘U.S. Civil War Soldiers in War and Peace: Military Experiences and
Post-Service Socio-economic Mobility.’
Georgi Parpulov (Research Member of Common Room and member of the Empires
of Faith research project based in the British Museum), ‘The Afterlife of a Byzantine
Ivory Relief.’
Tara Hurst (recent Research Member of Common Room, now Visiting Academic
in the Department of Zoology, Oxford), ‘Human endogenous retroviruses and the
immune response.’
Hilary Term
Peter Ackers (Visiting Scholar and Professor in the Faculty of Business and Law, De
Montfort University), ‘Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of
Labour in the Twentieth Century.’
Theresia Hofer (Research Member of Common Room, and Wellcome Fellow,
University of Oxford Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology). ‘Tibetan Sign
Language and Professional Identities among Deaf Tibetans in Contemporary Lhasa.’
Masue Yamagata (Visiting Scholar, and Professor in the College of Arts, Graduate
School of Christian Studies, Rikkyo University), ‘The Transformation of Garden
Painting in Late Antiquity (For people who love the rich natural garden of Wolfson
College as locus amoenus!).’
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