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Academic Wing. The website has been updated with the notable addition of podcasts from
the President’s Event and Chris Levett’s ‘In Conversation’. The AWRC, the Oxford Centre for
Life-Writing and the Digital Research Cluster began discussions this year on possible areas
of collaboration. The first result will be a joint seminar series between OCLW and AWRC
during Michaelmas 2019 and Hilary 2020, on ‘Approaching Ancient Lives’.
LUNCHES AND AFTER-LUNCH TALKS IN COLLEGE
These bi-termly events continued to be well attended, and once again we were able to put
on a rich and varied programme. Five of the six talks were from Cluster Members Stephanie
Dalley, Michael McDonald, Elise Morero, John and Mary Brockington, and Martin Henig. The
sixth was from Visiting Fellow Søren Handberg, Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology
at the University of Oslo.
REPORTS
GRANTS AND AWARDS
The AWRC has welcomed the new Lorne Thyssen Scholar, Greg Thompson, who is studying
the coinage and economy of Boeotia in the fourth century BC for his DPhil. During the
three terms since the start of Trinity 2018, it was able to give grants in support of seven
workshops, conferences and seminar series to be held at Wolfson, organised by a welcome
mixture of Fellows of different standing and student members. The wide-ranging topics
included Science and Technology in Premodern Asia, Greek Architectural Repairs, Byzantine
and Islamic Material Technologies, Assyriology, Sanskrit and Indology. Eleven research awards
were made to graduate students for fieldwork or attending conferences, four to Fellows, and
one to other members.
THANK YOU
We are grateful to Martin Goodman, Paul Roberts, David Taylor, Elizabeth Tucker, Peter
Barber and former Director Jacob Dahl for their continuing help as members of our Steering
Committee. Louise Gordon and her team in the Events Office, and Alex Messenger in the
Accounts Office, continue to provide invaluable support.
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