Wolfson College

Wolfson College

Wolfson is the largest graduate college in Oxford. Their diverse student body has a wide spread of disciplines and nationalities. The College, founded in 1966 by Isaac Wolfson under the presidency of Isaiah Berlin, is both traditional and unconventional, forward-thinking and friendly.

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Title	Description	People	Date	Captions
The closest exit may be behind you	The British-Libyan author Hisham Matar describes to a packed audience at Wolfson College the 'existential crisis' at the heart of contemporary Libyan national identity. The talk is introduced by Hermione Lee.	Hisham Matar	24 February, 2012
Trying to do more good than harm in health care	The 2012 Wolfson College Haldane Lecture was given by leading health services researcher Sir Iain Chalmers, currently Coordinator of the James Lind Initiative, Oxford, UK.	Iain Chalmers	21 February, 2012
Where may truth lie? Fiction in memory, memory in fiction	The award-winning author and memoirist Candia McWilliam attests to the edifying power of fiction and biography in the third lecture in the Weinrebe series from the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing.	Candia McWilliam	20 February, 2012
What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography	Booker Prize winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst discusses fiction and biography in conversation with Hermione Lee at Wolfson College's Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW).	Alan Hollinghurst, Hermione Lee	8 February, 2012
The Work of Music: Music and Mathematics	A talk given at Wolfson College as part of a lecture series entitled "The Work of Music".	Timothy Gowers	6 February, 2012
The Work of Music: Music and Psychology	A talk given at Wolfson College as part of a lecture series entitled "The Work of Music".	Eric Clarke	6 February, 2012
All About His Mother: Reading Proust's Letters	The inaugural lecture of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing was delivered by Micahel Wood, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He was introduced by Hermione Lee, President of Wolfson College and Director of the Centre.	Michael Wood	16 November, 2011
Sir Anthony Caro in conversation with Tim Marlow	Wolfson College was privileged to welcome back esteemed honorary fellow Sir Anthony Caro on 2nd November, who, 'in conversation' with art historian Tim Marlow, recounted his fifty-year career as one of the key figures in contemporary sculpture.	Sir Anthony Caro, Tim Marlow	8 November, 2011
The contact zone: the creation of a Roman literature	The 2011 Wolfson College Syme Lecture was given by Denis Feeney, Giger Professor of Latin and Professor of Classics, Princeton University. The speaker is introduced by College President Prof. Hermione Lee.	Denis Feeney	8 November, 2011
CLAROS - A virtual Greek and Roman Art collection	CLAROS is an international federation of European universities, museums and archives led by Oxford. 2,000,000 records and images of Greek and Roman art held at six sites in four European countries are linked virtually, using semantic web tools.	Donna Kurtz, Sebastian Rahtz	29 June, 2011
Reasoning and Disagreement	Nobel Prize winner Amaryta Sen delivers theh 2011 Isaiah Berlin Lecture on Reasoning and Disagreement.	Amartya Sen	8 June, 2011
Applied Logic	The 2011 Wolfson College Haldane Lecture was given by Sir Tony Hoare, Emeritus Professor at Oxford University Computing Laboratory and a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK.	Sir Tony Hoare	14 March, 2011
Empire, Empires, and the End of Antiquity	The 2010 Wolfson College Syme Lecture was given by Oxford Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History, Dame Averil Cameron. The speaker is introduced by College President Prof. Hermione Lee.	Dame Averil Cameron	14 March, 2011
Senses of Reality: Writing the Biography of a Revolutionary Generation	The annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture given at Wolfson College on May 27th 2010.	Roy Foster	8 June, 2010
War and Civilization Series Lecture 4: War and Liberation	Ian Buruma is a writer and lecturer focussing on Asian (esp. Japanese) culture. He is currently Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, New York.	Ian Buruma	24 May, 2010
War and Civilization Series Lecture 3: War and Pity	Marina Warner is a writer of fiction, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of myths, symbols, and fairytales. She is currently Professor at Essex University.	Marina Warner	24 May, 2010
War and Civilization Series Lecture 2: War and Poetry	Geoffrey Hill is currently Professor of Literature and Religion at Boston University and in 2009 his Collected Critical Writings won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.	Geoffrey Hill	24 May, 2010
War and Civilization Series Lecture 1: War and Finance	Niall Ferguson is currently Professor of History at Harvard University and Professor of History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics.	Niall Ferguson	24 May, 2010
Acrylic Variations 5-8	Parts 5-8 of a short film, featuring Mark Rowan-Hull and Neil Heyde and Christopher Regate of the Royal Academy of Music. The film shows a collaborative art project of Rowan-Hull's painting and Heyde and Regate's music. Produced by Rowan-Hull and Heyde.	Mark Rowan-Hull, Neil Heyde, Christopher Regate	27 January, 2010
Acrylic Variations 1-4	Part 1 to 4 of a short film, featuring Mark Rowan-Hull and Neil Heyde and Christopher Regate of the Royal Academy of Music. The film shows a collaborative art project of Rowan-Hull's painting and Heyde and Regate's music. Produced by Rowan-Hull and Heyde.	Mark Rowan-Hull, Neil Heyde, Christopher Regate	27 January, 2010
Correspondence: Performance, Visual Art and the Senses	Recently appointed Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College, artist Mark Rowan-Hull, gives a talk on his work, in particular, the collaborative works between him and musicians.	Mark Rowan-Hull	27 January, 2010
A Very Personal Impression: Isaiah Berlin	This talk was given at Wolfson College on 28 May 2009 as part of the 'Lives and Works' series of lectures	Alan Ryan	3 June, 2009
Editing early Eliot	The 1995 Isaiah Berlin Lecture given at Wolfson College on May 18th by CB Ricks, Professor of English at Boston University.	Christopher Ricks	19 May, 2009
From Communism to Zionism: Moses Hess (1957)	1957 Lucien Wolf Memorial Lecture. Lecture on the Jewish philosopher Moses Hess, one of the founders of Zionism and a committed Socialist. Berlin also discusses Hess’s evolution as a philosopher, from International Socialism to Zionism.	Isaiah Berlin	15 April, 2009
A Fire at Sea (1957)	Isaiah Berlin introduces and reads his translation of Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev's short story 'A Fire at Sea', in which Turgenev recounts an embarrassing episode from his youth. Originally broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 23 July 1957.	Isaiah Berlin	15 April, 2009
Alexander Herzen: His Opinions and Character (1955)	Lecture on Alexander Herzen, philosopher and founder of Russia’s first free press. Berlin discusses Herzen’s passionate belief in individual liberty and his distaste for the new violent radicalism in the Russia of his time.	Isaiah Berlin	15 April, 2009
Freedom and Its Betrayal: 2 – Jean Jacques Rousseau (1952)	Berlin lectures on Rousseau's 'On the Social Contract' and discusses his anti-intellectualism, his idealism of Nature, and the worryingly authoritarian implications of his philosophy. Originally broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in 1952.	Isaiah Berlin	14 April, 2009
The East Side story: How executive uncertainty created an accession conditionality that never was	A presentation given by Research Fellow Cristina Parau at Wolfson College on February 24th 2009. Dr Parau is also a member of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in Oxford.	Cristina Parau	19 March, 2009
The long hard road to democracy and social justice	A lecture given by retired Labour MP Tony Benn at Wolfson College, Oxford. The lecture is introduced by Prof Richard Sorabji.	Tony Benn	11 December, 2008
Isaiah Berlin and the Challenge of Multiculturalism Part 2	Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford gave a lecture entitled 'Isaiah Berlin and the Challenge of Multiculturalism'.	Timothy Garton Ash	3 July, 2008
Isaiah Berlin and the Challenge of Multiculturalism Part 1	Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford gave a lecture entitled 'Isaiah Berlin and the Challenge of Multiculturalism'.	Timothy Garton Ash	3 July, 2008