May 2022
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‘May Day morning means many things: summer, Morris Dancers, gorgeous choral song from the top of Magdalen tower, and for many undergraduates, a hangover. The return of this tradition was the perfect illustration of the city revitalised. Summer events are back in full swing, as is Balliol’s William Westerman Pathfinders scheme, thanks to which I now find myself in the enviable position of balancing DPhil dissertation work with my preparations to travel all around America, talking to people about the impact of political satire, and hopefully meeting lots of Balliol alumni!’
Holly Hunt (2020, DPhil Classical Languages and Literature)
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With sadness we report the death of Professor Joseph Raz: Fellow and Tutor in Law 1972-1985; Professor of Philosophy of Law, Oxford, and Professorial Fellow, Balliol, 1985-2006; and Emeritus Fellow from 2006.
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Professor James Kwan (Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science) has, with colleagues, been awarded a £1 million EPRSC grant for a research project that seeks to achieve a sustainable route to clean hydrogen production.
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Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the Balliol community, the Balliol Ukraine Crisis Appeal Fund has got off to a flying start. Now the College hopes to raise more to support a scholar and a researcher from Ukraine for a second year.
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The Master’s Field Development has won both a RIBA South Award 2022 and the RIBA South Project Architect of the Year 2022.
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A portrait of Professor Karma Nabulsi (Balliol 1989 and Fellow and Tutor in Politics at St Edmund Hall) by Nina Mae Fowler has been unveiled in the Master’s Dining Room.
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A prestigious Leverhulme award for Brian Foster (Donald H. Perkins Professor of Experimental Physics) will enable him to carry on his research on plasma-wave acceleration.
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Tutors in Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics and English talk about tutorials at Balliol in five new videos for prospective undergraduate applicants.
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An innovative digital tool for early printed books, created by Christopher Palmer (Lecturer in Physics) and others with the support of the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute, is now being widely used by scholarly editing projects.
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If you were unable to attend this event, you can now watch ‘Parliament Under Strain: Culture, Norms and Rule-breaking in the House of Commons since 2009’, by Professor Emma Stone of SOAS, on YouTube.
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Honorary Fellow Michael Winterbottom (Balliol 1979) has directed Eleven Days in May, a film about Gaza and the children who have died in the war there.
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PUBLICATIONS
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Alan Knight (1965), Bandits and Liberals, Rebels and Saints: Latin America Since Independence (University of Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Robert M. Wallace (1965), Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)
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Philip Mansel (1970), King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV (Allen Lane, 2019)
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David Lewisohn (1973): ‘Has International Copyright Law Hindered Educational Progress in the Developing World?’ (SSRN, open access, 2020)
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Dilip Melon (1984): Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South (Routledge, 2022) and Ocean as Method (Routledge, 2022)
If you would like us to mention any significant work published this year or last, please send details to Anne Askwith. Previously submitted publications are listed on the alumni publications page.
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