President’s Seminar with Sir Tim Hitchens – Democracy and the State

Every term, Wolfson College’s President hosts a Seminar in which three members of the College of different academic levels (a Governing Body Fellow, a Junior Research Fellow, and a Graduate Student) present on a general theme from the point of view of their own research or field of study.

The President’s Seminar presents a unique opportunity to bring Wolfson members from different areas and expertise to discuss topics that can be broad and approached diversely by different disciplines. This format, though more informal in nature, provides an auspicious environment for friendly and innovative discussions that may otherwise not occur in more specialised academic environments, seasoning the experience with rich and new ideas, a sense of discovery, as well as an opportunity for different perspectives to collide and conspire together to broaden horizons and provide views that may be different from what one is accustomed to.