Highly acclaimed soprano Olivia Boen performs music by Smyth, Berg, Strauss, Debussy, Poulenc and others, accompanied by pianist Sholto Kynoch. This concert is part of the popular Oxford Lieder 'Song at Wolfson' series. Find out more via the Oxford Lieder website: www.oxfordlieder.co.uk. Special ticket prices for students and Wolfson staff may apply, please contact the Box Office for further information.

In this OCLW Weinrebe Lecture, Helen Mort will discuss her forthcoming book, A Line Above the Sky, which melds memoir and nature writing to explore mountains and motherhood. Helen Mort is a poet and novelist. Her collection Division Street is published by Chatto & Windus and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her second collection ‘No Map Could Show Them’ was shortlisted for the Banff Mountain Literature Award.



Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/weinrebe-lecture-a-line-above-the-sky-with-helen-mort-tickets-255494850977

The poet and novelist Helen Mort leads a writing workshop titled Nothing But The Truth: poetry, fiction and life writing.

This workshop will explore the value of lying in order to tell the truth and in truths that prove stranger than fiction. We'll reflect on 'confessional' poetry and fictionalising processes in memoir and life writing.

Wolfson College Music Society presents

Soojin Han (violin) & Chiao-Ying Chang (piano)



Biber Passacaglia

Mozart Violin Sonata in F Major, K. 376

Beethoven 6 Bagatelles, Op. 126

Franck Violin Sonata in A Major

Tchaikovsky Mélodie in E flat Major, Op. 42

Wieniawski Polonaise de Concert in D Major, Op. 4



5pm Sunday 27 February 2022



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



£15 | £10 Wolfson Members | Students Free



Tickets available on the door of the event. Spaces are limited to 70 people and sold on a first come, first served basis.



Face coverings must be worn at all times during the performance and 1 metre social distancing must be observed.
 

Wolfson Arts Society invites you to a Virtual Art Class.

Tuesday 8 February 2022 at 6pm via Zoom.



An online live charcoal drawing demonstration with Stacey Gledhill.



To register please contact buki.fatona@wolfson.ox.ac.uk from your Wolfson email address.



The class is restricted to members of Wolfson College and there is no cost to attend.

Professor Sir Chris Whitty will deliver the 2022 Haldane Lecture entitled "The role of science in national and international emergencies".

The lecture will take place in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium (LWA). The lecture will also be livestreamed on YouTube here.

Booking is not required but please note that the College operates a mandatory indoor face coverings and one-metre social distancing policy. We can therefore offer up to 70 seats in the LWA with additional overflow seating in the Buttery. Please note that In-person attendance is restricted to University and College members and their guests; attendees should bring their University card with them on the night. 

The Haldane Lecture is given by a speaker of international standing in the field of science each Hilary Term. It is named after J. S. and J. B. S. Haldane, who carried out a number of pioneering experiments in the house that formerly stood on the College site.

Please see lecture abstract below:

Predicting, preventing and responding to major emergencies requires a strong scientific basis in addition to well executed operational capacity. Emergencies are the time governments and agencies most predictably turn to scientific advice, and a well executed operational response to an emergency will fail if is it based on incorrect technical understanding. This is particularly the case of natural emergencies including physical (earthquakes, tsunamis), metrological (floods, storms and droughts) and infectious epidemics. Science advice in emergencies generally has to operate in a framework of considerable uncertainty. This lecture will consider different types of emergency, and the scientific underpinnings of a response including examples of different types of emergency from the last 2 decades.

Although Turkey has a relatively long democratic tradition, its democracy has never been consolidated. This session will outline causes for such a failure in order to discuss its future. Cultural, political, and ideological legacies of Ottoman Empire have significant effects on current political culture and party system in Turkey. Nation building and consequent understanding of national security creates another important obstacle in terms of respect for minority and human rights. It is also struggling with economic development and a vicious cycle of financial crises. How does the future look for Turkish democracy under such conditions? Is there still hope for it?

After finishing his PhD at University of Sheffield, Dr. Murat Coskun has worked for Turkish Universities as a researcher. His research focuses on democratic transformation of Turkey and reveals how internal and external factors interact to create variances in democratization process in Turkey. Currently, he is carrying out his post-doctoral research at Wolfson College. He is working on a project that aims at comparing democratic backsliding cases in Hungary, Poland and Turkey with a special focus on rule of law.