College Record 2022/23

Three grants were made to support the organisation of a conference and workshop in
Oxford, and a conference session abroad. They were ‘Oxford Postgraduate Conference
in Assyriology’ at St John’s; ‘Games, Gaming and the Ancient World’ at Wolfson;
‘Cuneiform in the Age of Digital Archaeology’ in Copenhagen.
Three grants were made to support the publication of research. Imaging and translation
costs for the forthcoming monograph Landscapes of the First Farmers, Cities and States on
the Konya Plain, Turkey: Results of the Konya Regional Archaeological Survey Project; printing
and publication costs for the forthcoming edited volume Architectures of the Roman
World: Models, Agency and Reception; printing and publication costs for the forthcoming
monograph Trattati greci sui tropi. Introduzione ed edizione critica.
Five grants were made to support travel to present research at conferences. The papers
were called ‘Where’s the chief? Household autonomy and matriarchal authority in ’Ubaid
Mesopotamia (Edinburgh)’; ‘A Survey of Neuroanatomical Networks in Early Medieval
Period via St Augustine’s Philosophy of Mind’ (Leeds); ‘Staging the Near Eastern Goddess
in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé’ (Sacramento); ‘Carian chiefs, Hittite heads, and other Anatolian
etymologies’; ‘Building Materials and Construction Techniques in Antiquity’ (Belfast).
Other initiatives
The AWRC supported the transfer and custodianship of the Manar al-Athar Library from
the Ioannou Centre to the College Library. The library comprises some 2,500 books and
offprints and 100,000 images, relating mostly to the architecture and archaeology of the
Middle East and North Africa from the Hellenistic, Roman and Islamic periods.
RESEARCH CLUSTERS
Running the Cluster
The AWRC developed a new website which went live in
Michaelmas 2022, with information about the Cluster, member profiles, information
on AWRC grants and awards, and an Events page. The administrator is developing a
‘Member Activity’ page that features the research projects and media activities of Cluster
members, including an interactive map.
Martin Goodman (Director)
Christoph Bachhuber (Administrator)
LAW IN SOCIETIES
This is a new Research Cluster, led by Dr Marina Kurkchiyan and Professor Linda Mulcahy,
which provides an opportunity for members of Wolfson, external speakers and a mixed
academic and public audience to explore various facets of law and legal phenomena. Its
launch continues the long tradition of socio-legal scholarship and engagement at Oxford,
where the UK’s first Centre for Socio-Legal Studies was launched fifty years ago and was
based at Wolfson for more than twenty years. The new cluster is generously supported by
the College and by John Adams, a longtime friend and Honorary Fellow of Wolfson.
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