College Record 2017

of London’s First Voices, and Louise Calder of Wolfson. Other grants were awarded
to Nina Schneider, a DPhil student of Homeric Greek, to make valuable academic
contacts in the USA; to Michael Macdonald for the Badia Epigraphic Survey; to Dr
Jacob Dahl for helping students attend a conference on the earliest cuneiform writing
tablets in Teheran; to Dr Maria Kopsacheili for field survey in a little-known area
of north-west Greece; to Adam Howe, DPhil student in cuneiform studies, to attend
a conference in Beirut; to Parsa Daneshmand, DPhil student in cuneiform studies,
to facilitate travel for overseas participants in the sixth annual Oxford Postgraduate
Conference in Assyriology held at Wolfson in April 2017; to Professor Philomen
Probert and Dr Stefanie Roussou for ground-breaking new research on the use of
enclitics in ancient Greek; and to Professor Sir Richard Sorabji towards the cost
of publishing future volumes in the series of English translations of documents
illuminating the history of the Aristotelian tradition of philosophy in late antiquity
and medieval times. We are still in the process of appointing a Lorne Thyssen
Scholar, and in the early stages of developing a major initiative to strengthen existing
academic exchanges with the Wiener-Anspach Foundation in Brussels, recently
approved by the Academic Committee.
Susan Walker and Peter Barber
(Co-Directors, who stepped down at the end of Trinity Term)
Digital Research Cluster
On 27 September 2016 the Cluster, in collaboration with IT Services and the
University’s e-Research Centre (OeRC), held a day-long event to celebrate the life
and work of one of its founder members, Sebastian Rahtz. SPQR a digital legacy:
what Sebastian Patrick Quintus Rahtz did for us attracted a large audience from
Oxford and further afield, and is now available in podcasts (https://podcasts.ox.ac.
uk/series/sebastian-rahtz-celebration-his-work).
In Hilary Term on 28 February, Supercomputers: what are they and what can they do
for research brought together members of the College with staff of the University’s
Advanced Research Computing unit and OeRC, and the Head of Scientific
Computing at Diamond Light Source. Collaboration between the College and OeRC
was strengthened by electing three of its staff, Dr Ian Bush, Dr Kevin Page and Dr
Sarah Sparrow, to Research Membership of Common Room.
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