October 2023
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‘My return to Balliol has been accompanied by excitement and surprise. My Oxford undergraduate and DPhil student selves would never have believed I’d be back as the Boden Professor of Sanskrit. Weeks 0 to 2 have flown past in a whirl of Freshers' Dinners, my swearing in at College Meeting, and lectures and tutorials with brilliant students. Oh, and a nasty dose of “Freshers’ flu”, which is rampant. I have resurfaced from that and can’t wait for the weeks, terms and years ahead.’
Professor Jim Mallinson
(1995, Boden Professor of Sanskrit and Professorial Fellow)
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Three new Professorial Fellows – the Professor of Sanskrit, the Keeper of Western Art, and the Professor of Philosophy of Law - are among the nine new academics newly elected to the Fellowship this term.
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We are saddened by the death of Professor Natalie Zemon Davis CC, George Eastman Visiting Professor in History 1994-1995 - the first woman to hold the role.
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Diana Berruezo-Sánchez (Career Development Fellow in Spanish 2018–2021) has been appointed Audrey Lumsen Kouvel and Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
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On the theme of ‘touch’, the latest edition of Inscription, the journal of material text by Professor Adam Smyth (Tutorial Fellow in English), has just come out.
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The Cambridge Companion to Sappho, edited by Adrian Kelly (Fellow and Tutor in Ancient Greek Language and Literature), is on Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles 2022: LGBTQ+ Pride list.
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Thanks to two generous benefactors, Lecture Room 23 is undergoing long-overdue renovation, and the Music Room and music facilities are being transformed.
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The Balliol College Annual Record 2023 is available online now. Printed copies will be despatched soon to those who requested one.
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Martin Edwards (1974) has won the Best Mystery Critical/Biographical Macavity Award for his book The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators.
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Seaside Special, a documentary by the German filmmaker Jens Meurer (1984) about the town of Cromer in Norfolk as it prepares for its end-of-the-pier variety show, is to be released in cinemas in UK and Ireland.
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Norman Daniels (1964) has received the Hastings Center’s 2023 Bioethics Founders’ Award for his ‘pioneering work that has addressed justice in health care’.
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A composition by Ned Bigham (1985) has been nominated for one of the Ivors Classical Awards 2023 in the ‘Best Community and Participation Composition’ category.
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PUBLICATIONS
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Charles Geisst (1977), Just Price in the Markets: A History (Yale University Press, 2023)
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James Nye (1980), Clockmaking on Lothbury: Craft, Community and Conflict in Pre-Fire London (Antiquarian Horological Society, 2023)
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Kym Bills (1981) et al: ‘Major aviation accident investigation methodologies used by ITSA members’, Safety Science, vol. 168, December 2023; ‘Barry Turner: The Under-Acknowledged Safety Pioneer’, MDPI, Safety 2023
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Sean Wyer (2010 and Lecturer in Italian), ‘Gourmet and the Ghetto: The “Foodification” of Rome's Historic Jewish Quarter’, Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, 2023; with Maggie Neil, ‘“Sicily Can Be Very Seductive”: The White Lotus and the Transnational “Making” of the Mediterranean’, The Italianist, 2023
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Mirela Ivanova (2015) and Benjamin Anderson (eds), Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Toward a Critical Historiography (Penn State University Press, 2023); discount for Balliol alumni from PSU Press: 30% off using the code NR23
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Geoff Sedlezky (2017), The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Parochial Churches and Chapels (Archaeopress, 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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