The next Oxford Trauma and Emergency Care Cluster meeting will be held on Wednesday 29 March. The agenda will include an update from Dr David Keene on the new PROMOTE study, a presentation from Lydia Underdown on Information Governance and an update on the current and upcoming WHiTE trials from Prof Matt Costa.

Wolfson Feminist Society is proud to present the panel discussion on 'Women in Academia : Evaluating the Present and Envisioning the Future'.

Professor Dame Hermione Lee will give the welcoming words (pre-recorded). This will be followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Xin Xu and Dr. Aliya Khalid.

Dr. Xu teaches the MSc Higher Education pathway at the Department of Education, University of Oxford. She specialises in research on research including study on research policies, evaluation, international academic mobility and other dynamics.

Dr. Khalid is a lecturer at the MSc Comparative and International Education pathway in the Department of Education. Her study explores complexities of gender in international education and decolonisation of educational practices. Her research focuses on South Asia and ethnically diverse communities in England.

The event will be live streamed via our YouTube Channel here.

Wolfson College Music Society presents Fournier Trio



Programme:



Beethoven - Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No 1. ‘Ghost’

Tchaikovsky - Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50



£15 | £10 Wolfson Members | Students Free

Tickets available on the door of the event.

We're thrilled to celebrate the launch of a new book by Leah Broad: Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World. Already well known to Oxford Lieder audiences, Leah is an acclaimed writer, music historian, broadcaster and BBC New Generation Thinker .



Quartet has been described by Antonia Fraser as 'riveting' and by Andrew Motion as 'pioneering'. It explores the lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing careers of four extraordinary women composers. Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Doreen Carwithen and Dorothy Howell were all celebrities in their time. They composed some of the century’s most popular music and pioneered creative careers; but today, they are ghostly presences, surviving only as muses and footnotes to male contemporaries like Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten – until now. This magnificent group biography resurrects these forgotten voices, recounting lives of rebellion, heartbreak and ambition, celebrating their musical masterpieces, and lighting up a panoramic sweep of British history over two World Wars.



Leah will introduce the four composers alongside a selection of their finest songs, performed by the mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons. Praised for her “warm mezzo” and “velvet-voice” (The Telegraph), Marta has recently made critically acclaimed house and role debuts at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Siébel in David McVicar's production of Faust and creating the role of Hel in the world premiere of Gavin Higgins’ The Monstrous Child. In recent years, she has given several sensational performances at the Lieder Festival.

In collaboration with the Wolfson Feminist Society, the Film Society is pleased to invite you to a special screening of The Home and the World (1984) by Satyajit Ray.



Both a romantic-triangle tale and a philosophical take on violence in times of revolution, The Home and the World, set in early twentieth-century Bengal, concerns an aristocratic but progressive man who, in insisting on broadening his more traditional wife’s political horizons, drives her into the arms of his radical school chum. Satyajit Ray had wanted to adapt Rabindranath Tagore’s classic novel to the screen for decades. When he finally did in 1984, he fashioned a personal, exquisite film that stands as a testament to his lifelong love for the great writer.

Wolfson College Music Society presents CONCERT FOR UKRAINE, performed by Magdalene Ho.



Programme:

Bach Die Kunst der Fuge Contrapunctus I

Schumann Novelette no 8

Liszt Transcendental étude no. 12 “Chasse-Neige”

Bach Die Kunst der Fuge Contrapunctus II

Schumann Sonata no. 2

Bach Die Kunst der Fuge Contrapunctus III

Scriabin Sonata no. 7





Admission is free but donations welcome. All donations from the concert will go to Save the Children Ukraine Humanitarian Winter Appeal.

Developments in AI research suggest that it is increasingly hard to distinguish human and machine as the composer of a piece of music. Is AI set to replace the human composer? Through a series of works and performances, we have demonstrated a different approach: that AI can be a collaborator in co-creating new music. In this talk we welcome Dr Robert Laidlow, whose recent work Silicon was performed by the BBC Philharmonic last October, billed by New Scientist as "BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Performs with AI for the First Time". David De Roure will also talk about a recent collaboration in Oxford exploring the future of music and technology through hip hop. Robert and David have collaborated in their AI research through the Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music (PRiSM) at the Royal Northern College of Music, and The Alan Turing Institute.

In celebration of King Charles III's coronation, the Film Society is pleased to invite you to a special screening of Kind Hearts and Coronets, which tells the story of how a distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

In collaboration with the Wolfson Feminist Society



Both a romantic-triangle tale and a philosophical take on violence in times of revolution, The Home and the World (Ghare Baire), set in early twentieth-century Bengal, concerns an aristocratic but progressive man who, in insisting on broadening his more traditional wife’s political horizons, drives her into the arms of his radical school chum.



Satyajit Ray had wanted to adapt Rabindranath Tagore’s classic novel to the screen for decades. When he finally did in 1984, he fashioned a personal, exquisite film that stands as a testament to his lifelong love for the great writer.



Nominated for the Palm d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.

Dr Zawadzki’s parents met in a Scottish hospital at the end of World War 2, after their epic wartime journeys, from Poland to Siberia, via Soviet labour camps, the Middle East, and finally Britain. This talk is on Dr Zawadzki’s reconstruction – through documents, photographs and official records, as well as their own accounts – of their experiences.



(It follows on from Dr Zawadzki’s 2015 talk for the Old Wolves on his mother’s wartime deportation and journey to the UK. Her story has been published: A Polish Woman’s Experience in World War II: Conflict, Deportation and Exile, by Irena Protassewicz, ed. H. Zawadzki et al, 2020. It is also available in Polish).



Dr Hubert Zawadzki (Wolfson 1968-73, 1973-76; MCR 1976-) is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He taught history at Abingdon School until 2006. He is the joint author of A Concise History of Poland (2019) and has appeared on the BBC television series Who do you think you are?



This talk is part of the series arranged for Old Wolves, but it is open to all.