Relevant Links
Wolfson is the largest graduate college in Oxford. Our diverse student body has a wide spread of disciplines and nationalities. The College is both traditional and unconventional, forward thinking and friendly.
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | Creative Commons | Looking back; Moving Forwards: The History of Black Lives Matter | Wolfson College marks Black History Month 2020 with an engaging discussion with Britain's foremost experts on the history of black lives and communities in Britain. | Olivette Otele, Hakim Adi | 05 Nov 2020 |
| 71 | Creative Commons | If biodiversity is the medicine, then what are its active ingredients? | In this year's Haldane lecture, Professor Kathy Willis examines the newly emerging 'green health' scientific evidence-base. The lecture is introduced by the College President, Sir Tim Hitchens. | Kathy Willis | 18 Feb 2020 |
| 70 | Creative Commons | The Experience of Courts: A Tale of Two Europes | This Wolfson College Lecture Series aims to explore the socio-legal dimensions of our experience in courts, and with other forms of legal proceedings. In this lecture entitled "A Tale of Two Europes", The Rt Hon Lord Reed focuses on Law and Europe. | Robert Reed | 25 Nov 2019 |
| 69 | Pakistan women on the frontlines | Oscar-winning journalist, filmmaker and activist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy delivers the Sarfraz Pakistan Lecture. The lecture is introduced by Sir Tim Hitchens, College President. | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy | 21 Nov 2019 | |
| 68 | Spoken memoir of Professor Jon Stallworthy | A speech given by Sir Richard Sorabji at the launch party for the Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize Campaign. | Richard Sorabji | 21 Nov 2019 | |
| 67 | Alexandria in the Roman Empire: Politics, Commerce and Culture | The 2019 Ronald Syme lecture was presented by Professor Alan Bowman and introduced by Sir Tim Hitchens. | Alan Bowman | 13 Nov 2019 | |
| 66 | Creative Commons | Diplomacy for the 21st Century: The Future of the Democratic West | Ambassador Nicholas Burns, former US Political Director and NATO Ambassador, delivered the final lecture in the Wolfson Lecture Series: Diplomacy in the 21st Century. He is introduced by Sir Tim Hitchens, College President. | Nicholas Burns | 13 Nov 2019 |
| 65 | Creative Commons | Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Expanding the diplomatic toolkit: the further evolution of science diplomacy | Sir Peter Gluckman, Former New Zealand Chief Scientific Advisor, presented the fourth Wolfson College Lecture in this series on modern diplomacy. The lecture was introduced by Sir Tim Hitchens. | Peter Gluckman | 13 Nov 2019 |
| 64 | Creative Commons | Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Twenty-first century diplomacy: a new rule book | In the third 'Diplomacy for the 21st Century' Lecture, Sir Tim Hitchens concentrates on 21st-century diplomacy, and how it differs from 20th-century diplomacy | Tim Hitchens | 13 Nov 2019 |
| 63 | Diplomacy for the 21st Century: An African Perspective | The second Wolfson College Lecture in Diplomacy for the 21st Century was presented by Yamina Karitanyi, the current High Commissioner for the Republic of Rwanda to the United Kingdom . The lecture was introduced by College President, Sir Tim Hitchens. | Yamina Karitanyi | 11 Feb 2019 | |
| 62 | The Quest for the Structure of the Ribosome: A Personal Voyage | The 2019 Haldane Lecture was delivered by Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, on February 7th at Wolfson College, Oxford. The lecture was introduced by College President Sir Tim Hitchens. | Venki Ramakrishnan | 11 Feb 2019 | |
| 61 | Diplomacy for the 21st Century: An Asian Perspective | Wolfson College was honoured to have Koji Tsuruoka, Ambassador of Japan, to present this year's Wolfson Lecture Series in Diplomacy for the 21st Century. The lecture was introduced by College President Sir Tim Hitchens. | Koji Tsuruoka | 06 Dec 2018 | |
| 60 | Magic, Healing, and Ethics in Tibetan Buddhism | The 4th Aris Lecture in Tibetan and Himalayan Studies was delivered by Dr Sam van Schaik (British Library) on 15th November 2018 at Wolfson College, Oxford. The lecture was introduced by Professor Ulrike Roesler. | Sam van Schaik | 06 Dec 2018 | |
| 59 | The Fate of Pakistan - three ways in which things could really go wrong, and reasons for hope they may not | The 2018 Sarfraz Pakistan Lecture was delivered by nuclear physicist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy on October 18th at Wolfson College, Oxford. The lecture was introduced by College President Sir Tim Hitchens. | Pervez Hoodbhoy | 06 Dec 2018 | |
| 58 | Spectacular Diplomacy: Nero and the Reception of Tiridates of Armenia on the Bay of Naples | The 2018 Ronald Syme Lecture was delivered by Professor Kathleen Coleman, James Loeb Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, on 1st November. The lecture was introduced by Wolfson College President Sir Tim Hitchens. | Kathleen Coleman | 06 Dec 2018 | |
| 57 | Creative Commons | A Stroke of Bad Luck - Understanding Brain Disease | The 2018 Wolfson Haldane Lecture was delivered by Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell and introduced by Professor Philomen Probert. | Nancy Rothwell | 09 Feb 2018 |
| 56 | Migration and the Metropolis: How ancient Rome stayed great | Professor Greg Woolf, Director of the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London, gave this year's Ronald Syme Lecture at Wolfson College, Oxford. The lecture was introduced by Professor Philomen Probert. | Greg Woolf | 03 Nov 2017 | |
| 55 | Rule of Law and Democratic Development in Pakistan | Human rights lawyer and social activist Asma Jahangir gives the fourth annual Sarfraz Pakistan lecture. The lecture is introduced by Matthew McCartney. | Asma Jahangir | 20 Oct 2017 | |
| 54 | The Koh-i-Noor: the Real Jewel in the Crown | Writer and historian William Dalrymple gives the third annual Sarfraz Pakistan lecture. The lecture is introduced by Matthew McCartney. | William Dalrymple | 28 Feb 2017 | |
| 53 | Why the 'Boring Billion' is the most interesting billion years in Earth History | Raymond Pierrehumbert, holder of the Halley Professorship of Physics at Oxford, gives the 2017 annual Wolfson Haldane Lecture. The lecture is introduced by Hermione Lee, College President. | Raymond Pierrehumbert | 28 Feb 2017 | |
| 52 | What is the point of universities? | Lord Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, gives the opening talk at Wolfson College's 50th Anniversary celebration weekend | Chris Patten | 15 Aug 2016 | |
| 51 | The US – Pakistan Relations under Obama: Resilience of Clientelism? | The Annual Sarfraz Pakistan Lecture, Wolfson College, Oxford, 30 Nov 2015 | Christophe Jaffrelot | 02 Dec 2015 | |
| 50 | Creative Commons | The Councillor and the Clerk | Ronald Syme Annual Lecture 2015 | Roger Bagnall | 18 Nov 2015 |
| 49 | What is e-Research? Introducing the Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster | Introducing a new strategic collaboration between Wolfson College and the Oxford e-Research Centre. | Christina Redfield, David De Roure, Andrew Richards, Wesley Armour | 16 Nov 2015 | |
| 48 | Creative Commons | Is there another economic crash on the way? | Sir Vince talks about some of the issues raised in his latest book 'After the Storm' | Vince Cable | 29 Oct 2015 |
| 47 | The nature of the beast: Genetic evidence for Yeti, Bigfoot and other mystery creatures | Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics, describes how he located and analysed as many DNA samples as possible with links to the Yeti. In doing so, he found himself entering a strange world of mystery and sensationalism, fraud and obsession. | Bryan Sykes | 10 Jul 2015 | |
| 46 | Creative Commons | The Origin of Our Species | Professor Chris Stringer, Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum, London, gave the 2015 Haldane Lecture at Wolfson College, Oxford. He discusses how we are mostly, but not entirely, 'Out of Africa'. | Chris Stringer | 10 Mar 2015 |
| 45 | The Rhetoric of 'The Roman Revolution' | A lecture given by Professor Christopher Pelling, Oxford Regius Professor of Greek, is the first annual Syme Lecture to address the work of the great historian of Ancient Rome himself. | Christopher Pelling | 14 Nov 2014 | |
| 44 | Pakistan is a viable and not a failed state if...? | Mehmood Khan Achakzai, Leader and the Chairman of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, delivered the inaugural Sarfraz lecture on October 30th 2014, at Wolfson College, Oxford. | Mehmood Khan Achakzai | 14 Nov 2014 | |
| 43 | The First Fall of the Roman Empire | Walter Scheidel, Professor of Classics & History at Stanford University, gave the 2013 annual lecture held in memory of eminent Roman historian Sir Ronald Syme Lecture. The lecture was introduced by College President, Hermione Lee. | walter scheidel | 28 May 2014 | |
| 42 | Creative Commons | Who buried the bodies? | Kamila Shamsie, the Pakistani-born author of books including In the City by the Sea and Burnt Shadows, gives a talk as part of the 2014 Wolfson Lecture series on 'New Challenges for South Asian Writing in the 21st Century'. | Kamila Shamsie | 28 May 2014 |
| 41 | Creative Commons | Janus: At the mirror wall | Romesh Gunesekera, the celebrated British/Sri Lankan author of the Booker-prize nominated 'Reef', presents the first of the 2014 Wolfson Lecture series on 'New Challenges for South Asian Writing in the 21st century'. | romesh gunesekera | 28 May 2014 |
| 40 | Creative Commons | DNA USA: a genetic portrait of America | Based on his latest book, Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford University, gave a public lecture at Wolfson College exploring the rich ancestral tapestry of the American nation. | Bryan Sykes | 28 May 2014 |
| 39 | From Memory: Isaiah Berlin, Literary Encounters and Life-Stories | Wolfson's President, Professor Hermione Lee, gave an evocative lecture at Lincoln's Inn, London, entitled 'From Memory: Isaiah Berlin, Literary Encounters and Life-Stories' | Hermione Lee | 01 May 2014 | |
| 38 | Creative Commons | In conversation with Steven Pinker | Experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist, and popular science author Steven Pinker fields questions from Graduate students at Wolfson College. | Steven Pinker, Charumati Raghavan, Mengyin Jiang, Florence Enock | 11 Mar 2014 |
| 37 | Creative Commons | The better angels of our nature: A history of violence and humanity | Steven Pinker gives a compelling account of the unacknowledged worldwide decline of violence in the 2014 Haldane Lecture | Steven Pinker | 06 Mar 2014 |
| 36 | Creative Commons | Living in a Quantum World | Wolfson Fellow Professor Vlatko Vedral delivered a lecture on March 12th 2013 at the Royal Society in London. His presentation includes discussion of the applications of quantum physics in other areas of science and technology. | Vlatko Vedral | 04 Apr 2013 |
| 35 | Creative Commons | Making Science Work | Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, presents the 2013 Wolfson Haldane Lecture. The speaker is introduced by College President, Hermione Lee. | Paul Nurse | 18 Feb 2013 |
| 34 | Creative Commons | "Bright Metal on a Sullen Ground": The idea of true character in English writing and portraiture | Historian Stella Tillyard delivers the fourth Weinrebe Lecture in Life-Writing and Portraiture. The talk is introduced by College President Hermione Lee. | Stella Tillyard | 18 Feb 2013 |
| 33 | Creative Commons | The real Jane Austen: A life in small things | Biographer Paula Byrne (Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson and Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead) delivers the second Weinrebe lecture on Life-Writing and Portraiture. | Paula Byrne | 01 Feb 2013 |
| 32 | Creative Commons | Man with a blue scarf: On sitting for a portrait by Lucian Freud | Art critic Martin Gayford (A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney and Man With a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud) delivers the first annual Weinrebe lecture on Life-Writing and Portraiture. | Martin Gayford | 01 Feb 2013 |
| 31 | Hidden Worlds: Art within Science | Do science and art have anything in common? Do artists and scientists share practices - from practicalities to ways of looking at the world? | Katalin Hausel, Mirja Koponen, Lizzie Burns, Paul Matthews | 10 Dec 2012 | |
| 30 | Creative Commons | Freud's Impossible Life | Renowned psychologist, literary critic and essayist Adam Phillips delivers a public lecture at Wolfson College on his work on 'Freud's Impossible Life'. The lecture is introduced by the College President, Hermione Lee. | Adam Phillips | 22 Nov 2012 |
| 29 | Creative Commons | 'Containing multitudes': writing about Pevsner | Biographer Susie Harries delivered this Oxford Centre for Life-Writing lecture on her acclaimed biography, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life. | Susie harries | 08 Nov 2012 |
| 28 | Creative Commons | The Sun King and his Court: from Rome to Versailles and back | The 2012 Wolfson College Ronald Syme Lecture was given by Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Master of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. The speaker is introduced by College President Professor Hermione Lee. | Andrew Wallace-Hadrill | 08 Nov 2012 |
| 27 | Creative Commons | Climate change and two concepts of liberty | The final lecture in the series entitled Climate Connections was presented by Dr Myles Allen who currently heads the Climate Dynamics Group in the Department of Physics, University of Oxford. | Myles Allen | 24 May 2012 |
| 26 | Creative Commons | Climate change: making the best use of scientific information | Thomas Stocker discusses the challenges that are posed to climate scientists when communicating with the public. Professor Stocker is at the laboratory for Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Berne, Switzerland. | Thomas Stocker | 11 May 2012 |
| 25 | Creative Commons | Why is climate change so difficult to understand? | The second lecture of a series entitled 'Climate Connections' was presented by Carl Wunsch, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | Carl Wunsch | 04 May 2012 |
| 24 | Creative Commons | The public and private ethics of climate change | This first lecture of a series entitled 'Climate Connections' is presented by John Broome, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. | John Broome | 02 May 2012 |
| 23 | Creative Commons | Scholarship Opportunities at Wolfson | Professor Andrew Neil, Nicholas West and Bonnie Lander talk about the different scholarship opportunities offered at Wolfson College. | Andrew Neil, Nicholas West, Bonnie Lander | 07 Mar 2012 |
| 22 | Creative Commons | "Oh, you liar, you storyteller": On Fibbing, Fact and Fabulation | The first Weinrebe lecture in life-writing was given by Michèle Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. The lecture is introduced by Professor Hermione Lee. | Michèle Roberts | 07 Mar 2012 |
| 21 | Creative Commons | The closest exit may be behind you | The British-Libyan author Hisham Matar describes to a packed audience at Wolfson College the 'existential crisis' at the heart of contemporary Libyan national identity. The talk is introduced by Hermione Lee. | Hisham Matar | 24 Feb 2012 |
| 20 | Creative Commons | Trying to do more good than harm in health care | The 2012 Wolfson College Haldane Lecture was given by leading health services researcher Sir Iain Chalmers, currently Coordinator of the James Lind Initiative, Oxford, UK. | Iain Chalmers | 21 Feb 2012 |
| 19 | Creative Commons | Where may truth lie? Fiction in memory, memory in fiction | The award-winning author and memoirist Candia McWilliam attests to the edifying power of fiction and biography in the third lecture in the Weinrebe series from the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. | Candia McWilliam | 20 Feb 2012 |
| 18 | Creative Commons | What can I say? Secrets in fiction and biography | Booker Prize winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst discusses fiction and biography in conversation with Hermione Lee at Wolfson College's Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW). | Alan Hollinghurst, Hermione Lee | 08 Feb 2012 |
| 17 | Creative Commons | The Work of Music: Music and Mathematics | A talk given at Wolfson College as part of a lecture series entitled "The Work of Music". | Timothy Gowers | 06 Feb 2012 |
| 16 | Creative Commons | The Work of Music: Music and Psychology | A talk given at Wolfson College as part of a lecture series entitled "The Work of Music". | Eric Clarke | 06 Feb 2012 |
| 15 | All About His Mother: Reading Proust's Letters | The inaugural lecture of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing was delivered by Micahel Wood, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He was introduced by Hermione Lee, President of Wolfson College and Director of the Centre. | Michael Wood | 16 Nov 2011 | |
| 14 | Creative Commons | Sir Anthony Caro in conversation with Tim Marlow | Wolfson College was privileged to welcome back esteemed honorary fellow Sir Anthony Caro on 2nd November, who, 'in conversation' with art historian Tim Marlow, recounted his fifty-year career as one of the key figures in contemporary sculpture. | Sir Anthony Caro, Tim Marlow | 08 Nov 2011 |
| 13 | The contact zone: the creation of a Roman literature | The 2011 Wolfson College Syme Lecture was given by Denis Feeney, Giger Professor of Latin and Professor of Classics, Princeton University. The speaker is introduced by College President Prof. Hermione Lee. | Denis Feeney | 08 Nov 2011 | |
| 12 | CLAROS - A virtual Greek and Roman Art collection | CLAROS is an international federation of European universities, museums and archives led by Oxford. 2,000,000 records and images of Greek and Roman art held at six sites in four European countries are linked virtually, using semantic web tools. | Donna Kurtz, Sebastian Rahtz | 29 Jun 2011 | |
| 11 | Creative Commons | Applied Logic | The 2011 Wolfson College Haldane Lecture was given by Sir Tony Hoare, Emeritus Professor at Oxford University Computing Laboratory and a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. | Sir Tony Hoare | 14 Mar 2011 |
| 10 | Empire, Empires, and the End of Antiquity | The 2010 Wolfson College Syme Lecture was given by Oxford Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History, Dame Averil Cameron. The speaker is introduced by College President Prof. Hermione Lee. | Dame Averil Cameron | 14 Mar 2011 | |
| 9 | Creative Commons | War and Civilization Series Lecture 4: War and Liberation | Ian Buruma is a writer and lecturer focussing on Asian (esp. Japanese) culture. He is currently Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, New York. | Ian Buruma | 24 May 2010 |
| 8 | Creative Commons | War and Civilization Series Lecture 3: War and Pity | Marina Warner is a writer of fiction, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of myths, symbols, and fairytales. She is currently Professor at Essex University. | Marina Warner | 24 May 2010 |
| 7 | Creative Commons | War and Civilization Series Lecture 2: War and Poetry | Geoffrey Hill is currently Professor of Literature and Religion at Boston University and in 2009 his Collected Critical Writings won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. | Geoffrey Hill | 24 May 2010 |
| 6 | War and Civilization Series Lecture 1: War and Finance | Niall Ferguson is currently Professor of History at Harvard University and Professor of History and International Affairs at the London School of Economics. | Niall Ferguson | 24 May 2010 | |
| 5 | Acrylic Variations 5-8 | Parts 5-8 of a short film, featuring Mark Rowan-Hull and Neil Heyde and Christopher Regate of the Royal Academy of Music. The film shows a collaborative art project of Rowan-Hull's painting and Heyde and Regate's music. Produced by Rowan-Hull and Heyde. | Mark Rowan-Hull, Neil Heyde, Christopher Regate | 27 Jan 2010 | |
| 4 | Acrylic Variations 1-4 | Part 1 to 4 of a short film, featuring Mark Rowan-Hull and Neil Heyde and Christopher Regate of the Royal Academy of Music. The film shows a collaborative art project of Rowan-Hull's painting and Heyde and Regate's music. Produced by Rowan-Hull and Heyde. | Mark Rowan-Hull, Neil Heyde, Christopher Regate | 27 Jan 2010 | |
| 3 | Correspondence: Performance, Visual Art and the Senses | Recently appointed Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College, artist Mark Rowan-Hull, gives a talk on his work, in particular, the collaborative works between him and musicians. | Mark Rowan-Hull | 27 Jan 2010 | |
| 2 | The East Side story: How executive uncertainty created an accession conditionality that never was | A presentation given by Research Fellow Cristina Parau at Wolfson College on February 24th 2009. Dr Parau is also a member of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in Oxford. | Cristina Parau | 19 Mar 2009 | |
| 1 | The long hard road to democracy and social justice | A lecture given by retired Labour MP Tony Benn at Wolfson College, Oxford. The lecture is introduced by Prof Richard Sorabji. | Tony Benn | 11 Dec 2008 |