Guest Night dinners are elaborate, served formal dinners, with wines. They provide a convivial atmosphere and the chance to meet other Wolfsonians. Dress code is smart, academic gowns are not worn, and ties are optional.

Guest Night dinners usually take place every Thursday during weeks 1-8 of term. Pre-dinner drinks are normally at 7.00 pm, followed by dinner at 7.30 pm.

The cut-off time for bookings, changes, cancellations and seating requests is 9am on the Monday before each guest night, when the booking list closes.

Book for guest nights using your single-sign-on via the Wolfson Gateway.

Guest Night dinners are elaborate, served formal dinners, with wines. They provide a convivial atmosphere and the chance to meet other Wolfsonians. Dress code is smart, academic gowns are not worn, and ties are optional.

Guest Night dinners usually take place every Thursday during weeks 1-8 of term. Pre-dinner drinks are normally at 7.00 pm, followed by dinner at 7.30 pm.

The cut-off time for bookings, changes, cancellations and seating requests is 9am on the Monday before each guest night, when the booking list closes.

Book for guest nights using your single-sign-on via the Wolfson Gateway.

The Berlin Lecture will be delivered in 2024 by Professor Margaret MacMillan and livestreamed on YouTube.

Abstract

We like to think of war as an aberration, as the breakdown of the normal state of peace. This is comforting but wrong, as we are realizing yet again today.  War after all is deeply woven into the history of human society, even liberal ones, and at times has changed the course of history. It has helped to shape our institutions, our societies and culture and the international order. We should neither ignore nor glorify war but we ought to think about it. This lecture examines ideas about war, whether from strategists, historians, theologians, philosophers or artists. It will focus mainly on the period since the start of the 19th century when war became ever more destructive and far-reaching, and will conclude with the wars of the present.   

Keynote Lecture, as part of the Sustainability Careers Workshop:



Greenwashing refers to a corporate practice of making false or misleading claims about environmental sustainability in advertising, making a company appear ‘greener’ that it really is. Greenwashing is influencing consumer decisions and is distracting the public from the environmental harm many of the companies engaging in this type of advertising are causing.



ClientEarth and other NGOs are therefore taking action to combat these harmful practices. On the basis of consumer protection legislation, we file lawsuits against companies that engage in greenwashing. We then realise media campaigns to publicly rectify falsely made claims.



In this keynote lecture, I will explore how tackling greenwashing as type of climate action requires the involvement of professionals from multiple disciplines to succeed. We will look at successful court cases, such as a recent judgment against KLM. We will also learn why many files never make it to court and explain what you can do to address greenwashing.



Speaker:

Natascha Kersting is a Law and Policy Advisor at ClientEarth. She works on ecosystem governance, developing and implementing strategies to prevent deforestation and encourage reforestation in West and Central Africa. She also supports strategic litigation, currently an OECD complaint against Cargill. Natascha is also Senior Research Fellow at Cambridge Governance Labs where she leads a project on Responsible AI Governance. She holds an LL.M. in public international law from the University of Cambridge and law degrees from Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris and the University of Cologne.

Wolfson College Music Society presents Asaka Quartet



Programme -

Schubert - Quartettsatz

Beethoven - Opus 18, No. 2 in G major

Danish String Quartet - Unst Boat Song

Brahms - String Quartet No. 1 in C minor



5pm Sunday 5 May 2024



Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD



£15 | £10 Wolfson Members | Students Free

Tickets available on the door of the event (cash only).

Celebrating Australian Music (CAM) celebrates Fauré Anniversary



6.30-7pm Talk by Dr Roy Howat, ‘Rediscovering Fauré’

7.30-8.30pm Recital of music by Fauré and Australian composers



Programme –

Wendy Hiscocks – Explorer goes East

Peter Sculthorpe – Mountains

Peggy Glanville-Hicks – Prelude to a Pensive Pupil

Gabriel Fauré – Music for cello & piano, Madrigal & Pavane



Saturday 11 May 2024



The Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD.



Free Admission. Seats can be reserved by visiting www.celebratingaustralianmusic.com

Wolfson College Music Society presents AMREF HEALTH AFRICA CONCERT. Performed by Nima Farahmand Bafi



Programme -

Nima Farahmand Bafi - Persian fantasy

Leoš Janáček - Piano Sonata 1.X.1905

Nima Farahmand Bafi - Jin - Jiyan – Azadi (Woman – Life – Freedom)

Frédéric Chopin - Polonaise Op. 53

Nima Farahmand Bafi - Poems without words

Ernest Bloch - Nigun from Baal Shem (arr. Nima Farahmand Bafi)

Nima Farahmand Bafi - Concert paraphrase on "Chahargah" by H. Kassai



5pm Sunday 21 April 2024



Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD



Free Admission. Donations welcome (cash only).

All donations from the concert will go to Amref Health Africa