November 2023
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‘My first steps as an Early Career Fellow at Balliol have been stunning and beyond all my expectations. This role allows me to fully dedicate myself to research while living the complete Oxford experience. The warm welcome from everyone has been delightful, and I’ve had the immense privilege of connecting with Fellows from diverse disciplines during various events. These encounters have been profoundly enriching, broadening my perspectives. Being part of one of Oxford’s oldest colleges is truly an honour. Although the journey is just beginning, I sense the upcoming years will be among the most productive and memorable of my life . . .’
Romain Ruzziconi (Walker Early Career Fellow in Mathematical Physics)
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The Balliol Sanctuary Fund has been launched to provide a secure home for students fleeing conflict and repression. The ambition is to fully fund one undergraduate and postgraduate at Balliol on an ongoing basis.
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Professor Alison Young (Fellow and Tutor in Law, Balliol 1997—1999) has been appointed as the Law Commissioner for Public Law and the Law in Wales.
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Two Emeritus Fellows — Professor Nick Trefethen and Professor Chris Minkowski — have taken up academic appointments in the US.
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It was a day of pride and pleasure as 55 Balliol graduands had their degrees conferred at the Sheldonian Theatre and afterwards celebrated at Balliol.
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Professor Elena Lombardi (Paget Toynbee Lecturer in Italian Medieval Studies, Fellow and Tutor in Italian) has published a new book, Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories.
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Professor John Tasioulas (Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI) has been appointed to the High Level Advisory Committee for Artificial Intelligence (AI) recently established by the Greek government.
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Maria Czepiel (Lecturer in Spanish) has won the 2023 SNLS Ann Moss Early Career Essay Prize for her essay ‘Jewish Scholarship in the Lyric Poetry of Benito Arias Montaño (ca.1525—1598)’.
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A recording of the Library’s annual Halloween ghost story evening is now available, including readings of the stories by the runners-up and winner in the ghost story competition.
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Postgraduate student Carol Jones (2018, DPhil Music Composition) has had two more musical works performed.
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Halik Kochanski (1985) has won the Wolfson History Prize 2023, regarded as the UK’s most prestigious history prize, with her book Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939—1945.
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The Tobacco-Free Generation (TFG) proposal by Professor Jon Berrick (1969) has been adopted by the UK government in its plan to introduce a law to protect young people from the harms of smoking.
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Jared Duker Lichtman (2019) has achieved a new world record for prime numbers by going ‘23% beyond the Riemann Hypothesis’.
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News and Notes
We would love to hear from Balliol alumni for next year's edition of News and Notes (for publication in Floreat Domus 2024): please send your news by email before 31 January 2024.
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PUBLICATIONS
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- Professor Leslie Green (Emeritus Fellow), The Germ of Justice: Essays in General Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press, 2023)
- Professor Sir Drummond Bone (1968, Master 2011—2018), The Cambridge Companion to Byron: Second Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
- David Hindley (1952), posthumous editions of musical scores of bird-inspired works (Composers Edition, 2023)
- Sir Mathew Thorpe (1957), Marking Time: My Family and I (Henmarsh Farm Editions, 2023)
- Philip Snow (1970), China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord (Yale University Press, 2023)
- Clare Lewis (1989) and Gabriel Moshenska (eds), Life Writing in the History of Archaeology: Critical Perspectives (UCL Press, 2023)
- Mia Jeronimus (2019),‘Suffering and Survival: The Experience of Dutch Women in Japanese Internment Camps in Java, 1941—45’(Human Rights Quarterly, vol. 45. No. 4, November 2023)
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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