January 2024
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‘Balliol has a long, proud history of offering sanctuary to scholars fleeing war and persecution in their home countries. Many alumni will have heard this sentence, and more like it, during this year’s telethon, when I was one of the callers. That so many alumni were passionate about giving to support scholarships for students seeking sanctuary made this telethon so rewarding. The joy we got from connecting with Old Members, hearing their stories and noting down their advice, strengthened the bond between students and alumni. Thank you to everyone for taking the time to speak with us and for so generously supporting Balliol students.’
Ben Falconer (2021, Ancient and Modern History)
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Balliol people have received awards in the New Year Honours List 2024 and in the Resignation Honours 2023.
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We are greatly saddened to learn of the death of Professor Robert Solow, George Eastman Visiting Professor and Fellow 1968–1969, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics 1967.
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Research co-authored by Helen Gittos (Colyer-Fergusson Fellow and Tutor in Early Medieval History) presents a new explanation for why the Cerne Abbas Giant was carved on a Dorset hillside.
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Linda Eggert (Early Career Fellow in Philosophy) has been awarded the 2023 Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize by the American Philosophical Association for a monograph on the philosophy of war and peace.
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Poet and Honorary Fellow Gwyneth Lewis (1985) has come back to College as Artist in Residence. She invites Balliol people, including alumni, who are interested in talking about creative or academic writing to come along for a chat.
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Postgraduate student Jeffrey Tse (2021, DPhil Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning - CDT) won a prize in the UCL Statistical Science poster competition.
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Dhruv Sengupta (2019) has been selected as the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate for the Feltham and Heston constituency in London.
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Last call for News and Notes
Have you sent in your news for News and Notes 2024? If not, we can hold on until Monday 5 February (no later) if you'd like to send it by email (250 words max, photos welcome). We look forward to hearing from you.
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BALLIOL ON THE WEB
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- Obituary:
· James Robertson (1946): The Times
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- Professor Anna Deavere Smith (George Eastman Visiting Professor MT2023): Causing a Scene/Scene-ing a Cause - Faculty of English workshop review
- Professor Amrita Narlikar (1996): interview, E-International Relations
- Christopher Hitchens (1967): Remembering Christopher Hitchens - BBC Radio 4, Archive on 4
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PUBLICATIONS
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- Gordon Barthos (1976), The Life of St Brendan and His Prayer, translating the Vita Sancti Brendani and the Oratio Sancti Brendani (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, 2024)
- Richard Soare (1982) et al (eds), Ices in the Solar-System: A Volatile-Driven Journey from the Inner Solar System to its Far Reaches (Elsevier, 2023)
- Aileen Kavanagh (1995), The Collaborative Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
- Jacob Lloyd (2014), Coleridge's Political Poetics: Radicalism and Whig Verse 1794–1802 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
- Shamir Montazid (2018), ‘Adult stem cell activity in naked mole rats for long-term tissue maintenance’ (Nature, December 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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