Wolfson College Podcasts

Wolfson College marks Black History Month 2020 with an engaging discussion with Britain's foremost experts on the history of black lives and communities in Britain. In this panel discussion we look at the deep and fascinating history of black individuals and communities in the UK, and how this history connects with and informs the concerns and goals of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Olivette Otele PhD, FRHistS is a Professor of History of Slavery and Memory of enslavement at the University of Bristol. She is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Historical Society. Hakim Adi is a Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichester. He was a founder member in 1991 of the Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA), which he chaired for several years.

Introducing a new strategic collaboration between Wolfson College and the Oxford e-Research Centre. A series of short informal talks to introduce members of the College to the range of work across the disciplines at the OeRC, with Acting President of Wolfson College, Christina Redfield The Wolfson Digital Research Cluster (Donna Kurtz, Director, Digital Research Cluster) The Oxford e-Research Centre (David De Roure, Director of the OeRC) Signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Collaboration by the Acting President and David De Roure Self-Introductions: three OeRC Associate Directors who have recently joined the College will talk briefly about their work Andrew Richards: e-Infrastruture, High Performance Computing, Supercomputing for Research Wesley Armour: Novel Architectures, Scientific Computing, Models and Simulation Susanna-Assunta Sansone: Data Curation, Management and Publication More current research at the OeRC Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller: Linked Data for Musicology Sarah Sparrow: Volunteer Computing to Simulate Climate and Extreme Weather

Wolfson's President, Professor Hermione Lee, gave an evocative lecture at Lincoln's Inn, London, entitled 'From Memory: Isaiah Berlin, Literary Encounters and Life-Stories' Professor Lee presented a lecture in the Old Hall concerning encounters between great men and women, and how they are remembered, narrated, and turned into legend. Professor Lee focused on an encounter between Wolfson College founder Isaiah Berlin and the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, which took place in Leningrad in 1945. Drawing on her research as one of our most renowned literary biographers, she recounted a number of other literary encounters, in order to explore questions about remembering and storytelling, disputed rival accounts, and how encounters can harden into myth. In dealing with life-writing, memory, and versions of the truth, the lecture addressed isues at the forefront of the College's Oxford Centre for Life Writing, one of a series of new research clusters at Wolfson

Experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist, and popular science author Steven Pinker fields questions from Graduate students at Wolfson College.

Professor Andrew Neil, Nicholas West and Bonnie Lander talk about the different scholarship opportunities offered at Wolfson College.