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.
 

The range of Lara Feigel’s writing as critic, literary historian and novelist has produced a remarkable oeuvre in which questions of life-writing continually surface and take on new directions. Lara and Hermione’s conversation will range across Lara’s non-fiction (which includes Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing and The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War) and fiction (The Group). It will draw out vital concerns about the construction of the self, the relationship between life and work, the relationship between the individual and the collective, and issues of female identity.



Professor Lara Feigel is a writer and cultural historian teaching in the English department at King’s College London.

Professor Dame Hermione Lee is a biographer and Emeritus Professor of English Literature in the English Faculty at Oxford University.



This event will take place in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium (LWA) (accessibility information). Wolfson College currently operates a mandatory indoor face coverings and one-metre social distancing policy, and we can therefore offer 75 spaces are in the LWA.

Tom is an award-winning theatre director, playwright, and occasional actor. His company, The Wardrobe Ensemble is an associate company of Complicite, Shoreditch Town Hall and Bristol Old Vic. Tom’s work with the company has been performed at The National Theatre, Almeida Theatre and Trafalgar Studios among many other venues across The UK and USA. Tom is also an associate artist of the North Wall Arts Centre here in Summertown, Oxford.

Two Day International Conference on Counting Caste: Breaking the Caste Census Deadlock

Saturday, 5 February 2022 - 10:00am to Sunday, 6 February 2022 - 5:00pm

The conference hopes to discuss how a caste census in India could take forward conversations on representation, access to resources, wealth distribution, and participation of marginalised caste groups in governance and electoral politics. Through six panels with notable names in academia, politics, activism, and performance, the conference aims to raise questions about how the “majority” and “minority” have been constructed in Indian politics, academic writing, and popular culture. It is being organised at the University of Oxford by the South Asia Alternative Forum (St Antony’s College), with the support of the department of Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, The Asian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, the South Asia Research Cluster (Wolfson College) and the South Asian Society.

Full Schedule below:

Saturday 5 February

Keynote Speaker : Sonajhariya Minz (Vice Chancellor, Sido Kanhu Murmu University)
10 am GMT | 3.30 pm IST

Panel 1 | Rethinking Majority and Minority in India: The Question of Caste Census
10.30 am to 12.30 pm GMT | 4.00 to 6 pm IST
Dilip Mandal - Public Intellectual, Former Managing Editor of India Today
Kanimozhi Karunanidhi - Member of Parliament
Satish Deshpande - Professor, Delhi University
Grace Banu - Activist, Trans Rights Now Collective
Moderator: Asha Singh - Assistant Professor, CSSSC.

Panel 2 | Census and the colonial construction of Hinduism
1 pm to 2.30 pm GMT | 6.30 pm to 8 pm IST
Gopal Guru - Editor, Economic & Political Weekly; Retired Professor, JNU
Anupama Rao - Associate Professor History, Columbia University.
Carmel Christy - Assistant Professor, Delhi University
Moderator: Nidhin Donald - Independent Researcher

Rap Performance: Arivu
3 pm GMT | 8.30 pm IST

Panel 3 | Whose Culture is it?: Decoding Caste within 'Popular' Culture
3.30 to 5 pm GMT | 9 pm to 10.30 pm IST
Pa Ranjith - Filmmaker
Sylvia Karpagam - Doctor and Public Health researcher
Nrithya Pillai - Hereditary Bharatnatyam dancer
Meena Kotwal - Editor, Mooknayak
Moderator: Vijeta Kumar - Lecturer, St Joseph's College, Bangalore

Sunday 6 February

Keynote Speaker: Bharat Patankar - Activist, President Shramik Mukti Dal
10 am GMT | 3.30 pm IST

Panel 4 | From Colonial to the Everyday: Hindutva’s Caste Ambiguity
10.30 am to 12 pm GMT | 4.00 pm to 5.30 pm IST
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd - Retired director, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad
Sagar - Staff writer, Caravan Magazine
Christophe Jaffrelot - Professor, Sciences Po
Moderator: Nandini Sundar - Professor, Delhi School of Economics

Panel 5 | Caste Census and the 'Muslim Question'
1 to 2.30 pm GMT | 6.30 to 8.00 pm IST
Khalid Anis Ansari - Associate Professor, Azim Premji University
Srinivas Goli - Assistant Professor, JNU
Ali Anwar - Journalist, Former Member of Parliament
Faisal Devji - Professor, University of Oxford
Moderator: Shireen Azam - DPhil researcher, University of Oxford

Panel 6 | Race and Caste: How do Oppressive Systems Count?
3.30 pm to 5 pm GMT | 9 to 10.30 pm IST
Ellis Monk - Associate Professor, Harvard University
Meena Dhanda - Professor, University of Wolverhampton
Kamala Visweswaran - Professor, Rice University
Moderator: Suraj Yengde - Senior Fellow, Harvard University

We would like to invite all Wolfsonians and Friends to Lincoln's Inn for our 2022 Wolfson London Lecture on 1 March 2022 at 6pm.

This year’s lecture, 'How Epidemics End' will be given by Professor Erica Charters, Director of the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology and a Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson.

Professor Charters' research focuses on the history of disease, war, and empires, and how these interact. In her highly topical lecture, she will speak about her current research project, 'How Epidemics End', in which she works with a range of scholars comparing and analysing how epidemics have ended across previous eras and locations, and which has garnered international press coverage.

To book your place please click the Eventbrite link above.
Venue: The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London, WC2A 3TL