Roger Garside served as a British diplomat for over twenty years, but his career also included the World Bank, the London Stock Exchange and running his own company advising countries making the transition to a market economy on how to develop stock exchanges, etc. He had two diplomatic postings in Beijing and has published two books on China.

At Wolfson College he will present his new book China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom, which is part factual analysis and part semi-fiction. The factual three-quarters of the book show why China’s dictatorship will soon end; the semi-fictional one-quarter shows how this may happen, as Xi Jinping is overthrown in a coup d’état carried out by real-life rivals, who then launch a transition to democracy.
 

Professor Charters will talk about using archives for her research into disease, and her use of historical evidence, particularly in the case of epidemics.



Wolfson College Fellow Erica Charters is Professor of the Global History of Medicine, Director of both the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, and of the Oxford Centre for Global History.



Prof Charters’ Disease, War, and the Imperial State: The Welfare of British Armed Forces during the Seven Years War (Chicago, 2014) was awarded the AAHM 2016 George Rosen Prize and the SAHR 2014 Best First Book. She coordinates the Oxford and Empire project, is Senior Vice President of the Navy Records Society and Executive Committee Member of the Society for the History of War.

She is now coordinating a multidisciplinary project on How Epidemics End.



This talk will be via Zoom.

For the link, please contact archives@wolfson.ox.ac.uk by 12 noon on Tues. 1 February.

Download Zoom here: https://zoom.us/download

Enquiries: College Archivist Liz Baird archives@wolfson.ox.ac.uk



Image: Colyton parish burial record Nov. 1646. Devon Record Office, UK, ref DHC 3483A/PR/1).

Left margin note reads: ‘here ye sickness ended.’ By kind permission of the Rector and PCC of Colyton.


 

Oxford Lieder continue their popular Wolfson concert series, welcoming Caspar Singh (tenor) and Sholto Kynoch (piano) to perform Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin.

British-Indian tenor Caspar Singh is currently a member of the Ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. In 2018, aged 21, he gained a place in the two year Opernstudio at the Bayerische Staatsoper. He recently received a first class degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied under Adrian Thompson and Susan Waters.

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This performance will be given to a reduced audience capacity to allow for social distancing, and masks are required unless you are exempt.

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Oxford Lieder continue their popular 'Song at Wolfson' concert series, welcoming renowned mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries for a programme of Scandinavian and German song. She and Sholto Kynoch include Grieg's stunning, folk-infused cycle Haugtussa.

Joanna Harries is a 2021/22 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio in London. She was a choral scholar at the University of Cambridge and went on to train at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Alexander Gibson Opera Studio at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is also co-founder of SongPath and led one of the wonderful SongPaths at the Botanic Garden at the 2021 Lieder Festival.

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I study insect biodiversity, morphology, and mechanics. My mission is to document, discover, and protect insect species across the planet, and to understand the myriad of ways evolution has molded their body plan to fit different mechanical needs – be it flight, running, or singing. In an era of rapid biodiversity loss, my research is particularly relevant in documenting and preserving the book of life for generations to come. My ongoing postdoctoral research investigates the mechanics and evolution of sound producing organs in cicadas and their allies (Hemiptera). Using state-of-the-art techniques such as synchrotron X-ray microtomography, I study the sound-producing organs of both living hemipterans as well as their extinct relatives fossilised in amber, which will provide invaluable insights on the evolution of acoustic communication as a whole - including our own. I have taught animal anatomy, diversity, physiology, field techniques, and arthropod identification in all undergraduate levels at the University of Oxford and abroad.

Wolfson College and the English Faculty are delighted to announce the award event for this year's poetry competition for Oxford University postgraduate students.

Please join us for the online award ceremony to hear readings of the shortlisted poems and the comments of the Poetry Prize judges, Oxford University’s Professor of Poetry Alice Oswald, and Professor Bernard O’Donoghue. The link is: https://youtu.be/imlR8FmtHg4

The Poetry Prize was set up in memory of the late Professor Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014), poet and Fellow of Wolfson College. The prize, worth £1000, will be awarded for the best poem on the subject of 'Sleep-cycles' submitted by last December’s deadline.

I am an astronomer hunting for planet signals in RV and photometric time series, especially for active stars.