George Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental activist, whose books include Feral: Rewilding the land, sea and human life, Heat: how to stop the planet burning, and Out of the Wreckage: a new politics for an age of crisis. George cowrote the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness with musician Ewan McLennan, and has made several viral videos, including How Wolves Change Rivers (adapted from his 2013 TED Talk) and Nature Now (co-presented with Greta Thunberg). George’s latest book, Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet, was published in May 2022. George became an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson in 2022. You are welcome to contact him at george@monbiot.info.

Heidi Stalla is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore where she teaches literature and creative writing courses. She joins Wolfson College as a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing to work on an object-biography of modernist writer Ling Shu Hua’s Friendship Scroll (now at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford), which Ling first sent to England with poet Xu Zhimo in 1925. She has also published work on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group; collaborated on audio essays that use modernist texts to comment on current events; and written creative nonfiction for The Wilson Quarterly and Speculative Nonfction.

The Film Society and College Diversity Representatives invite you to a series of screenings in June to celebrate pride month at the college.



Wed, June 29: And then we danced

Levan Akin (2020)



Passionate about dance, young Merab has trained at the National Georgian Dance Ensemble since childhood. When a talented male dancer, Irakli, joins his group, Merab fears the newcomer will stand between him and his dreams. As they compete, Irakli becomes both Merab's fiercest rival and strongest desire, a desire that, in conservative Georgian society, threatens to throw his life into turmoil.
 

The Film Society and College Diversity Representatives invite you to a series of screenings in June to celebrate pride month at the college.



Wed, June 15: The Heiresses

Marcelo Martinessi (2019)



Chela and Chiquita, both descended from wealthy families, have been together for over 30 years. But recently, their financial situation has worsened, and they begin to sell off their inherited possessions. When their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela begins to provide a local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies, and is forced to face a new reality.