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.

The Health System of India: Learning from disarray under Covid-19 and ‘building back better’?

This is a zoom webinar on health policy lessons from India’s Covid experience, from Wolfson’s South Asia Research Cluster.

Two Indian public health experts discuss structural flaws in India’s private-public health system revealed by the covid pandemic and the pandemic response. They debate the question whether Covid-19 may also be viewed as a historic opportunity for re-imagining public engagement and building universal health-care with a variety of providers. All are welcome.

We are pleased to announce that Wolfson alumna Diana Amoa will be back on our stage soon. Amoa, who attended Oxford for her MSc and MBA as a Rhodes Scholar, is a leading figure on Wall Street and will talk about her career and the importance of building strong intercultural connections to tackle global issues. The event will take place next Tue Oct 26th 7 pm GMT.

Paulo de Souza’s research focuses on governance of the Amazon rainforest, & its impacts on conservation & climate.

Paulo has a degree in civil engineering & business administration, & a masters in strategic planning for sustainable development. After a multi-national corporate career in this field, & 10+ years teaching at MBA level, Paulo is now a doctoral student at Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment.

Fascinated by the effects of decent governance (or lack of it) on the environment, Paulo is a diehard advocate of a harmonious co-existence between society and nature. He is Chair of Wolfson’s Green Team.

For an invitation, contact archives@wolfson.ox.ac.uk by 12 noon on Tuesday 2 November.

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

This event is organised as part of the Old Wolves series but is open to everyone. All are welcome.

The Academic Office Team have arranged yoga and meditation classes as part of the Mental Health Awareness week. There is no need to book, just join the class(es) of your choice on the day. 

Zoom link
Meeting ID: 840 1541 5745
Passcode: Namaste

The Academic Office Team have arranged yoga and meditation classes as part of the Mental Health Awareness week. There is no need to book, just join the class(es) of your choice on the day. 

Zoom link
Meeting ID: 343 750 1247
Passcode: omsweetom

This is a workshop on Byzantine iconography.

It takes place on Zoom. Its details are as follows:

Click here for Zoom

Meeting ID 762 7316 8290

Passcode Bx7CDW
 

As part of this termly series of Seminars, three Wolfson academics describe their research into a topic. This time, we look at three different kinds of rarity: languages which are ancient; languages which are endangered; and languages which are unspoken. Join us to hear three short presentations, then a 30 minute conversation with the speakers.

The International and Multidisciplinary Conference "Utopia and Migration" aims to contribute to the analysis of the borders imagination in the context of international migrations in the 21st century. It will raise the more specific question of how contemporary literature deals with the current issues related to borders from the perspective of utopia. What are these other ways that utopia traces to denounce and overcome discursive, media and state strategies aimed at making invisible, spoiling or stigmatising migrants, and thus strengthening borders? What alternatives to current border experiences can be explored through fiction? In what forms do they take place in the literary text? Which borders are targeted, those of the dream continent or the left one? How do these imaginative practices shed light on, or challenge, the relationship of contemporary societies to human mobility, to hospitality? The Conference invites the literary scientific field to a discussion with the Social Sciences in order to adequately address an issue whose study can contribute to rethinking the definitions of utopia, and in particular utopia as a literary genre, and to enriching migration studies.


A more detailed description is available on Fabula.