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These distinguished individual appearances have been matched by the vigorous<br />
activity of our research clusters. There has been too much going on for me to<br />
describe it all here, but I pick out, for the South Asia cluster, numerous workshops<br />
and the securing of funding for an annual lecture on Pakistan; for Himalayan and<br />
Tibetan studies, a workshop on Samten Karmay’s translation of the autobiography<br />
of the fifth Dalai Lama; for the Ancient World, Sir Richard Sorabji’s colloquium<br />
on the re-interpretation of Aristotle and his influence, and an international<br />
postgraduate conference on Assyriology; some brainstorming meetings in the<br />
Mind, Brain and Behaviour cluster; an all-day workshop on e-publishing in the<br />
Digital Research cluster; and at OCLW, our Life-Writing Centre, an international<br />
three-day conference on ‘The Lives of Objects’, a year-long programme of visiting<br />
writers, including Edward St Aubyn, Marina Warner and Richard Holmes, and a<br />
conference on Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment.<br />
Music is thriving in <strong>College</strong>, with our Creative Arts Fellow John Duggan directing<br />
the Isaiah Choir, writing a commissioned piece for our wonderful Fournier Trio,<br />
and creating an audio-visual collage of Wolfson sounds, Wolfscapes, and an<br />
‘Innocent Ear’ listening project. Our beautiful small-size Steinway, a generous loan<br />
from Erich Segal’s widow Karen Segal while we continue to fund-raise for a fullsize<br />
grand, has been much in use and much enjoyed in the LWA. We have a new<br />
Poetry Society, the Arts Society is creatively busy, and our AMREF activities go<br />
from strength to strength under the careful stewardship of Andy Cutts. All these<br />
activities in Art and Music are made possible by the unflagging support of Jan<br />
Scriven.<br />
In sport, Wolfsonians have been victors, heroes and heroines: winners of High<br />
Profile and Blues Awards; excelling in football with, now, two Wolfson / St Cross<br />
teams; and sharing an outstanding year with St Cross in cricket, at the top of the<br />
table and winning the league title in their final match against St Peter’s. Wolfson<br />
gloriously retained the cup on Wolfson-Darwin day. And our rowers did famously<br />
on the river in Eights Week, with particular honours going to M3, who bumped<br />
every day and won blades, and achieved M3’s highest-ever position in Summer<br />
Eights.<br />
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