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Wolfson College Record 2010 WOLFSON COLLEGE RECORD 2010 Contents page page President and Fellows 5 Meditation 81 College Officers and Membership 12 Middle Eastern Dance 82 The President’s Letter 15 Music Society 83 Martin Francis, Senior Tutor Romulus 86 2001–10 by John Penney 24 Wine Society 87 Obituaries26 Winter Ball 88 Alumni Relations and Development Yoga 89 2009–10 38 Life Stories event, 1 June 2010 List of Donors 40 by Nisha Manocha 90 Gifts to the Library 45 AMREF, the College Charity Degrees and Diplomas 46 by John Sutton 91 Elections and Admissions 58 Chinese literati music and poetry Fellows 58 come to Wolfson by Jay Lewis 96 Visiting Scholars 59 To Russia, with love by Julie Curtis 100 Graduate Students 60 But not to zero! A case for nuclear Elected members of the weapons — a personal view Governing Body 68 by Edward Jarron 102 Benefactions to support research 69 The Oxford factor in post-Communist Clubs and Societies 70 Eastern Europe by Cristina Parau 108 Arts Society 70 The wind in the webs: orb-weavers and their silk constructions by Thomas Basketball 73 Hesselberg 111 BarCo 73 Wolfson gardens by Walter Sawyer114 Bharatanatyam/Kalari Dance 74 The Record 121 Boat Club 75 Births 121 Bijunkan Club 78 Deaths 121 Entz 79 Professional News 122 Family Society 79 Books published by Wolfsonians 124 Football Club 80 Wolfson College at 1 October 2010 Visitor The High Steward of the University President Lee, Hermione, CBE, MA, MPhil, FBA, FRSL Fellows Abramsky, Samson, MA, (MA Boehmer, Elleke, MPhil, DPhil (BA Cambridge, PhD London) Professorial Rhodes University, South Africa, Fellow, Christopher Strachey Professor of Professorial Fellow, Professor of World Computing Literatures in English Allen, Myles Robert, MA, DPhil Brown, Harvey Robert, MA (BSc Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Canterbury, New Zealand, PhD Physics: Oceanography London) Ordinary Fellow, University Austyn, Jonathan Mark, MA, DPhil Lecturer in the Philosophy of Physics, Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Professor of Philosophy of Physics Surgery: Transplantation Immunology, Charters, Erica Michiko, MA, DPhil Professor of Immunobiology (BA Carleton, MA Toronto) Ordinary Bangha, Imre, MA (MA Budapest, Fellow, University Lecturer in the History PhD Santineketan) Ordinary Fellow, of Medicine University Lecturer in Hindi Cluver, Lucie, DPhil (MA Cambridge) Banks, Marcus John, MA (BA, PhD Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Cambridge) Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Professor Evidence-based Social Intervention of Visual Anthropology Coecke, Bob, MA (PhD Free Benson, James William, MA (BA University of Brussels) Ordinary Fellow, Macalester College, MA Minnesota, University Lecturer in Quantum Computer PhD Stanford) Ordinary Fellow, Science; EPSRC Advanced Research University Lecturer in Sanskrit Fellow 5 Conner, William James, (BA Galligan, Denis James, MA, BCL, Grinnell) Ordinary Fellow, Development (LLB Queensland), DCL, AcSS Director Professorial Fellow, Professor of Socio- Curtis, Julie Alexandra Evelyn, Legal Studies; Vicegerent MA, DPhil Ordinary Fellow, University Gardner, Frances, MA, DPhil Lecturer in Russian; Secretary to the Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Child and Governing Body Family Psychology, Reader in Child and Dahl, Jacob Lebovitch, MA (BAS Family Psychology Copenhagen, PhD California) Ordinary Giustino, Feliciano, MA (MSc Fellow, University Lecturer in Assyriology Torino, PhD Lausanne) Ordinary Davis, Christopher Mark, MA, Fellow, University Lecturer in Materials DPhil (BA Harvard, MSA George Washington, PhD Cambridge) Ordinary Modelling Fellow, University Lecturer in Russian and Goodman, Martin David, MA, DPhil, East European Political Economy, Reader FBA Professorial Fellow, Professor of in Command and Transition Economics Jewish Studies Deighton, Anne, MA, DipEd (MA, Harrison, Paul Jeffrey, MA, BM, PhD Reading) Ordinary Fellow, BCh, MRCPsych, DM Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in European Clinical Reader in Psychiatry, Honorary International Politics, Professor of Consultant Psychiatrist, Professor of European International Politics Psychiatry DeLaine, Janet, MA (BA, PhD Harriss-White, Barbara, MA Adelaide) Ordinary Fellow, University (DipAgSc, MA Cambridge, PhD East Lecturer in Roman Archaeology Anglia) Ordinary Fellow, University Dercon, Stefan, MA, MPhil, DPhil Lecturer in Agricultural Economics, (BPhil Leuven) Professorial Fellow, Professor of Development Economics Professor of Development Studies Fellerer, Jan Michael, MA (MA Howgego, Christopher John, MA, Vienna, Dr des Basel) Ordinary Fellow, DPhil Ordinary Fellow, Keeper of the University Lecturer in Non-Russian Heberden Coin Room, Professor of Greek Slavonic Languages and Roman Numismatics 6 Isaacson, Daniel Rufus, MA, DPhil DSc London), FFPHM, FRCP, RD (AB Harvard) Ordinary Fellow, Ordinary Fellow, Professor of Clinical University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Epidemiology, Honorary Consultant Mathematics Physician; Senior Tutor/Tutor for Jarron, (Thomas) Edward Lawson, Admissions; Wine Steward (MA Cambridge) Ordinary Fellow; Noble, (Julia) Alison, BA, DPhil Bursar Ordinary Fellow, Director of the Institute Johns, Jeremy, MA, DPhil Ordinary of Biomedical Engineering Fellow, University Lecturer in Islamic Penney, John Howard Wright, MA, Archaeology, Professor of the Art and DPhil (MA Pennsylvania) Ordinary Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean Fellow, University Lecturer in Classical Jones, Geraint, MA, DPhil Philology Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Pila, Jonathan, (BSc Melbourne, PhD Computation Stanford) Professorial Fellow, Reader in Kurtz, Donna Carol, MA, DPhil (BA Mathematical Logic Cincinnati, MA Yale), FSA Ordinary Probert, Philomen, MA, DPhil Fellow, University Lecturer in Classical Ordinary Fellow, University Lecturer in Archaeology, Professor of Classical Art Classical Philology and Linguistics Lange, Bettina, MA (BA, PhD Rawlins, (John) Nicholas Pepys, Warwick) Ordinary Fellow, University MA, DPhil Professorial Fellow, Watts Lecturer in Law and Regulation Professor of Psychology Lewis, James Bryant, MA (BA Redfield, Christina, MA (BA University of the South, MA, PhD Wellesley, MA, PhD Harvard) Ordinary Hawaii) Ordinary Fellow, University Fellow, BBSRC Advanced Research Lecturer in Korean Studies Fellow, Oxford Centre for Molecular McKenna, William Gillies, MA Studies, Reader in Molecular Sciences (BSc Edinburgh, PhD, MD Albert Rice, Ellen Elizabeth, MA, DPhil Einstein)Professorial Fellow, Professor of (BA Mount Holyoke College, MA Radiation Biology Cambridge) Senior Research Fellow, Neil, Hugh Andrew Wade, MA Ancient History and Archaeology; Fellow (MA Cambridge, MB BS, MSc, for Library and Archives 7 Rickaby, Rosalind, MA (MA, PhD Theoretical Quantum Optics Cambridge) Ordinary Fellow, University Ventresca, Marc J, MA (AM, PhD Lecturer in Biogeochemistry Stanford) Ordinary Fellow, University Roesler, Ulrike, (MA, PhD, Münster, Lecturer in Strategy Habilitation Munich) Ordinary Fellow, Walker, Susan Elizabeth Constance, University Lecturer in Tibetan and MA (BA, PhD London), FSA Ordinary Himalayan Studies Fellow, Keeper of Antiquities, Ashmolean Schulting, Rick J, MA (BA, MA Museum Simon Fraser, PhD Reading, PGCE, Watts, Anthony Brian, MA (BSc Queen’s Belfast) Ordinary Fellow, London, PhD Durham) Professorial University Lecturer in Scientific and Fellow, Professor of Marine Geology and Prehistoric Archaeology Geophysics Sheldon, Ben C, MA (BA Cambridge, Willett, Keith Malcolm, MA (MB, BS PhD Sheffield) Professorial Fellow, Luc London) Professorial Fellow, Professor of Hoffman Professor in Field Ornithology Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery Shotton, David Michael, MA, DPhil Yürekli-Görkay, Zeynep, (BArch (MA, PhD Cambridge) Ordinary Fellow, MArch Istanbul Technical University, University Lecturer in Zoology, Reader in PhD Harvard) Ordinary Fellow, Image Bioinformatics University Lecturer in Islamic Art and Stallworthy, Jon Howie, BLitt, MA, Architecture FBA, FRSL Extraordinary Fellow, English Literature Sykes, Bryan Clifford, MA, DSc (BSc Honorary Fellows Liverpool, PhD Bristol) Senior Research Berlin, Lady (Aline) Fellow, Professor of Human Genetics; Bradshaw, William Peter, the Rt Hon Dean of Degrees Lord Bradshaw (MA Reading), FCIT Taylor, David Guy Kenneth, MA, Brock, Michael George, CBE, MA, DPhilOrdinary Fellow, University DLitt, FRHistS, FRSL Lecturer in Aramaic and Syriac Burgen, Sir Arnold (Stanley Vincent), Vedral, Vlatko, MA (BSc, PhD (MB, MD London, MA Cambridge), Imperial) University Lecturer in FRCP, FRS 8 Caro, Sir Anthony, OM, CBE Wood, Sir Martin, OBE, MA (BA Epstein, Sir Anthony, CBE, MA (MA, Cambridge, BSc London), FRS MD Cambridge, PhD, DSc London, Hon MD, Edinburgh, Prague, Hon DSc Birm), Hon FRCP, FRCPath, Hon Emeritus Fellows FRCPA, FRS, Hon FRSE, FMedSci Abraham, Douglas Bruce, MA, DSc Floersheimer, Stephen H, DPhil (BA (BA, PhD Cambridge) Missouri, DHL Yeshiva) Allen, Nicholas Justin, BSc, BLitt, BM Goff, Robert Lionel Archibald, the Rt BCh, Dip SocAnthrop, MA, DPhil Hon Lord Goff, DL, FBA Anderson, David Lessells Thomson, Goodenough, Frederick Roger, MA MA (MA Cambridge, BSc, PhD St (MA Cambridge) Andrews) Hamilton, Andrew David, MA (BSc Ashton, John Francis, MA, DLitt (STL Exeter, MSc British Columbia, PhD Lyons, LSS Rome) Cambridge), FRS Booker, Graham Roger, MA, DPhil Khalili, Nasser David, (BA Queens, (BSc London, PhD Cambridge) New York; PhD SOAS, London) Briggs, George Andrew Davidson, MA Mack Smith, Denis, CBE, MA (MA (PhD Cambridge) Cambridge) FBA, FRSL Brock, Sebastian Paul, MA, DPhil, Miller, Andrew,
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