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FEATURES<br />
34<br />
News Bulletin<br />
FIFTY YEARS SINCE FIRST GRADUATES<br />
CAME TO WOLFSON COLLEGE<br />
In 2018 we celebrated fifty years since<br />
Wolfson opened its door to researchers and<br />
students.<br />
FIRST WORKSHOP IN HINDI AT THE<br />
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD<br />
The South Asia Research Cluster took part<br />
in a three-day Hindi Diaspora Literature<br />
workshop conducted entirely in Hindi, the first<br />
such academic workshop at the University of<br />
Oxford.<br />
WALTER SAWYER ADMITTED TO THE<br />
HONORARY DEGREE OF MASTER OF<br />
ARTS<br />
Walter Sawyer, Head Gardener of Wolfson<br />
from 1982 to 1991, was admitted to the<br />
honorary degree of Master of Arts at the<br />
University of Oxford.<br />
THE ACADEMICS AT RISK CAMPAIGN<br />
During Michaelmas 2018 the <strong>College</strong> raised<br />
over £300,000 to place academics at risk and<br />
their families at Wolfson.<br />
SIR THOMAS ALLEN IN CONVERSATION<br />
25 January <strong>2019</strong><br />
Wolfson <strong>College</strong> had the honour to welcome<br />
Sir Thomas Allen, on of the world’s most<br />
celebrated opera singers, for the second<br />
Weinrebe Lecture of the year. He performed<br />
and had a conversation with Radio 3 presenter<br />
Kate Kennedy and pianist Simon Over. The<br />
event was organised by the Oxford Centre for<br />
Life-Writing.<br />
WASHOKU DINNER HOSTED BY THE<br />
JAPANESE EMBASSY AT WOLFSON<br />
2 February <strong>2019</strong><br />
The Washoku dinner, hosted by the Japanese<br />
Embassy as part of the Japan UK Season of<br />
Culture <strong>2019</strong>–20, presented Japanese food in<br />
its social and historical context.<br />
WOLFSON STUDENT INVITED TO<br />
THE LAUNCH OF AMREF UK’S SPRING<br />
CAMPAIGN<br />
Amref UK invited DPhil student Ryan<br />
Walker as a representative to the launch<br />
of ‘Health in Her Hands’. The event was<br />
hosted by Amref’s long-time Patron, HRH<br />
the Prince of Wales.<br />
EBIKE SUMMIT <strong>2019</strong><br />
10 April <strong>2019</strong><br />
Wolfson <strong>College</strong> hosted the very first<br />
international business event for the<br />
eBike industry on Wednesday 10 April.<br />
Organised by sustainability media company<br />
Green.TV, the summit brought together<br />
business leaders, local and national<br />
government representatives, environmental<br />
activists and others to explore and<br />
promote this fast-growing sustainable<br />
mode of transport.<br />
SYMPOSIUM IN SILICON SOLAR CELL<br />
TECHNOLOGY<br />
15 and 16 April <strong>2019</strong><br />
The Oxford Symposium in Silicon Solar<br />
Cell Technology took place at Wolfson.<br />
Its aim was to bring together researchers<br />
from the University of New South<br />
Wales and institutions in Europe who are<br />
developing the technology for improved<br />
silicon solar cells.<br />
THE QUANTUM CLUSTER IN<br />
CONVERSATION WITH<br />
PHILIP PULLMAN<br />
Wolfson was honoured to welcome Philip<br />
Pullman, the novelist, for a conversation<br />
on the role of fantasising in creative<br />
thinking. Pullman was in conversation<br />
with Michael Nielsen, quantum physicist,<br />
science writer and computer programming<br />
researcher. Their topic was whether and<br />
how creativity is fuelled by fantasies in all<br />
sorts of different intellectual endeavours.<br />
Nielsen represented the point of view of<br />
science, whilst Pullman spoke for that of<br />
the humanities.<br />
COLLEGE RECORD <strong>2019</strong>
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