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St Hugh's College St Hugh’s College Oxford The St Hugh’s Magazine, keeping you in touch with our news, research and events Inside this issue » Headline Acts: Shakespeare and the political cartoon » Saving mothers’ lives in South Sudan » The remarkable story of Kofoworola Moore » The St Hugh’s Coast Run » Interview with Sarah Outen MBE » City life under the magnifying glass ST HUGH’S COLLEGE, OXFORD Contents Editorial Message from the Principal 1 We hope you enjoy reading of your College in these FEATURES pages with fond memories of your own time at St Hugh’s, and that you find the research of our academics to be as Headline Acts: Shakespeare and the political cartoon 2 interesting as we have done. The remarkable story of Kofoworola Moore 8 Interview with Sarah Outen 10 This year we have combined the Chronicle and Magazine in Saving mothers’ lives in South Sudan 14 a new prototype publication, with contributions and news Language reclamation 17 from the College and our alumni, and we welcome your City life under the magnifying glass 20 thoughts and comments on the new publication. Economics and the Bank of England’s 22 communication revolution We would be pleased indeed to share your news across My DPhil research in 50 words 26 our alumni network in the next issue, so please do write My time in Japan 28 to us! Obstetrics and gynecology in Sri Lanka 30 Benjamin Jones COLLEGE NEWS Editor & Communications Manager The St Hugh’s Coast Run 32 Olga Borymchuk JCR report 34 Alumni Association Editor The May Ball 2019 38 MCR report 40 Senior Tutor’s report 42 Chapel report 43 Library and Archive News 45 Using AI to recognise chimps in the wild 49 Congratulations to our prize winners 49 News from our Academics 50 The Musical Life of the College 52 DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI RELATIONS The Year in Review 2018-19 54 St Hugh’s Awards and Recognition 62 Alumni Association Report 64 Alumni News 66 North American Alumni Association Report 68 OBITUARIES Fellows and Academics 70 Alumni 72 Notifications of Deaths 74 RECORDS List of Fellows 76 Undergraduate Matriculation 2018 78 Graduate Matriculation 2018 80 Associate Members 83 Earth of Maria 86 Front cover photograph: Hannah Martin (Biomedical Science) Credit: Kinga Lubowiecka © St Hugh’s College 2019 WWW.ST-HUGHS.OX.AC.UK MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL Message from the Principal The Rt Hon Dame Elish Angiolini DBE QC FRSE Our College has a proud We also mourn the loss of Dr John Iles, Tutor in Zoology, history, and has always been former Vice-Principal and Senior Tutor, who was an forward-looking. outstanding academic and a tremendous support to me in my first four years at St Hugh’s. Achieving a rich diversity of brilliant students, Fellows One Fellow who merits a special mention is Mrs Susan and staff continues to be an Wood. In January 2019 a celebratory dinner was held to important objective of the honour the 65th anniversary of her election as a Fellow of Governing Body. St Hugh’s. We were delighted to present her with a book of messages from former students, having received a vast In this year’s issue of the volume of warm wishes, recollections and happy memories Chronicle we are delighted to once the dinner was announced and the invitation sent. celebrate the life of Kofoworola Moore (English, 1932), the first There are many student successes to celebrate, including the black African woman to achieve a degree from Oxford, and 14 Gibbs prizes awarded to our students. I would also like an alumna of St Hugh’s. to draw your attention to Hannah Foxton (English, 2014) for the publication of her dissertation in a peer-reviewed In that same spirit we hosted an exhibition recently involving journal, and Antonia Kendrick (Law with German Law, 2015), several of our students, called ‘Riot Squad’, celebrating black who won the ‘Best Private Law Submission’ to the Oxford and ethnic minority women and non-binary individuals in University Undergraduate Law Journal. the University today. Making sure talented people from all backgrounds seek to apply to Oxford is a cause to which we Meanwhile, we are investing substantial time and effort on as a College are absolutely dedicated. updating the Wolfson Building, with an ambitious project taking shape that will refresh our grounds and be of This new magazine now adopts the title of our former alumni enormous benefit to our students. publication ‘The Chronicle’ and encompasses news of the research and study of both our Fellows and students, along This year we said farewell to our Bursar Vicki Stott. She with articles about the life and work of alumni, contributed provided immensely valuable leadership for 7 years and by our Alumni Association and its members. It includes an we were very sad to lose her. I am pleased however to article by Dr David Taylor, giving fascinating insight into the announce the appointment of Mr Harry Myring as her rich history of political cartoons invoking Shakespeare, a successor. Sarah Carthew, our Director of Development, is timely article all the more powerful given our own turbulent also moving on after 5 years. I would like to thank her for times. all the hard work she has invested in St Hugh’s and wish her well at Newnham College, Cambridge. I would also like to draw your attention in particular to the remarkable work of Dr Chuor de Garang Alier (Clinical I would end by writing that our alumni are always very Embryology, 2018). He recounts stories from his time welcome to return to St Hugh’s. You are as much a part working as an obstetrician and gynaecologist in South Sudan, of our College community now as you ever were. We are in immensely challenging conditions. always delighted to see you. I’m delighted the Chronicle features an interview with our outstanding alumna Sarah Outen MBE (Biological Sciences, 2004). Samples of our students’ research can be read in the popular ‘My DPhil in 50 Words’ feature which this year has a distinctly scientific flavour. Sad news came last year with the death of Dr Ann Soutter FRSA (Modern Languages, 1953). Everybody who met and spent time with her will have fond memories of Ann. She was utterly dedicated to the College throughout the entirety of her life, and had been elected by Governing Body as a Distinguished Friend of the College. She is deeply missed. Graduate students attend a pasta-making class in the Principal’s Lodgings. WWW.ST-HUGHS.OX.AC.UK 1 ST HUGH’S COLLEGE, OXFORD Headline Acts: Shakespeare and the political cartoon by Dr David Taylor, Tutorial Fellow in English Obama is Hamlet. He’s the picture of puzzlement, of indecision. Dressed in black, he clasps a skull in one hand and scratches his head with the other. But the skull he’s contemplating is that, not of “poor Yorick”, but rather of Syria, and behind him we see a landscape of death and desolation: the bombed- out shells of tower blocks and a grotesque mound of human skulls that rises out of view, as if without end. The image I’ve just described is a political cartoon by Peter Schrank (fig. 1), published in the Independent on Sunday in 2013. At that time, the increasingly internecine civil war in Syria had escalated into a full-blown international incident and a humanitarian crisis, but President Obama remained uneasy about the United States intervening in the conflict (though he would finally offer military aid to the anti-government rebels). Dr David Taylor. How and why does Schrank invoke Shakespeare to to act (look, once more, at the towering pile of respond to this issue? skulls). Hamlet is a tragedy: by the end of the play Schrank’s cartoon is strikingly simple in visual terms the stage is strewn with corpses, including Hamlet’s and, apart from the skull that Obama clutches own. Shrank marshals Shakespeare as a way not (labelled “Syria” in blood red), it’s also wordless. only of representing present political crisis but also By drawing on Shakespeare’s legendarily long and of imagining one possible future towards which the difficult play it’s able to make a complex satirical present might lead us. statement with remarkable economy. In particular, What Schrank’s cartoon shows us is just how Hamlet provides the solution to a real conundrum. deeply indebted to, and immersed in, Shakespeare What does indecision look like? How can we depict our political culture is. Yes, Shakespeare is theatre, it? For all that professional literary critics (like me!) is poetry, is the book we were forced to read at might harp on about how Shakespeare’s famous school well before we could understand a word Danish prince is a study in introspection, an attempt of it. But Shakespeare is also something more than to get at the paradoxes of the human ‘self’, the words printed on a page or spoken on a stage. His character is also perhaps the best-known image of works are part of our vocabulary of politics. They indecision our culture possesses. His most famous are, we might say, something like a mythology: a line – the one line of Shakespeare surely everyone set of personalities and stories through which we can recite – is a question, a question moreover make sense of what’s going on in the world around that he never really answers. “To be or not to be?” us – most especially the always slippery, frantic, When we think about Hamlet, we think first and disorienting, unpleasant world of politics.
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