The OXFORD September 6-19, 2015 A two-week travel/study program at experience The University of Oxford Sponsored by Duke Alumni Association and the UNC General Alumni Association The pubs of this medieval university town. Each collections of art in England, the Oxford OXFORD class will have both a full-day and a half-day Botanic Garden – the oldest in England – set aside for class field trips. and Evensong at Christ Church Cathedral. experience You will lodge in the historic heart of Oxford During the first week, there will be a visit to at the Kellogg Residential Centre in Rewley he Oxford experience is your opportunity Oxford University Press and a full-day plenary House, with twin-bedded rooms with private to study at the oldest university in the T excursion to Sudeley Castle, with its long and bath, dining room, laundry facilities, common English-speaking world. Founded in the complicated history. Plenary lectures will room, computer room, bar, lecture and reading ninth century and known for its academic be presented by popular Oxford tutor Janina rooms. All meals at Rewley House are included. excellence, extraordinary art and architecture, Ramirez on History and the Media and by and numerous cultural offerings, Oxford Programme Director Angus Hawkins on The Duke University and The University of is one of the world’s foremost centers of State We Are In. Enjoy half-day and full-day North Carolina have collaborated for more thought and enlightenment. field trips with your classes and a final than 20 years to bring our alumni and friends In our two-week program, participants enroll reception and dinner at Brasenose College. together for this educational opportunity. in one of four noncredit enrichment courses Join us in September for an unforgettable led by Oxford tutors. A typical day consists of Immerse yourself in the joys and centuries Oxford experience! stimulating classes in the morning and a field old traditions of learning and community trip in the afternoon. Evenings offer time on in this historic setting of towers, spires, “ What is particularly special is your own to explore the theatre and music and gargoyles. Don’t miss the Ashmolean Oxford itself–a most charming and scene, take in lectures and films, or enjoy the Museum, one of the most magnificent fascinating city.” – Diane Summey ’11, ’12, ’13, ’14 Sponsored by Duke Alumni Association and the UNC General Alumni Association page 2 Each participant chooses one of Enrichment Courses the four enrichment courses. The Court of Elizabeth I Elizabeth I’s reign was marked by religious TUTOR: Dr. Tracey Sowerby is a Research division, political conspiracies, and threatened Fellow at Keble College, Oxford and a Fellow invasions, yet the queen survived these threats of the Royal Historical Society. She studied due to the relationships she forged with her History as an undergraduate at Merton College, leading courtiers and politicians. This course Oxford before undertaking doctoral research will use Elizabeth’s court and courtiers to at Oxford. She has written a biography of explore the history of her reign. Robert Dudley Henry VIII’s most prolific propagandist, Richard and William Cecil will introduce you to politi- Morison (Renaissance and Reform in Tudor cal factions and government, while Elizabeth’s England), and has published articles and essays ‘spymaster’ Francis Walsingham will introduce on Tudor print culture, politics, diplomacy, you to Tudor espionage. By studying several translation, and religion. She has held teaching other courtiers, you will explore Elizabethan posts at the University of Oxford, King’s College chivalry, privateering and overseas expansion, London, and the University of Reading and and religion. You will also study the exciting in 2006 was awarded a prestigious British cultural life of the court through sessions Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship. on court ceremony, Elizabethan art, court literature and the queen’s progresses. We will FIELD TRIPS: look at whether there was a ‘myth’ of Elizabeth Full-day field trip:Hatfield House and how this shapes our perceptions of the Half-day field trip: Hampton Court queen today. “ I am proud that the UNC-Duke program is the longest-running summer school in Kellogg College – may it continue for a long, long time!” – Eva May Lewis Walker ’05, ’08, ’09, ’10, ’11, ’12, ’13,’14 Sponsored by Duke Alumni Association and the UNC General Alumni Association page 3 Each participant chooses one of Enrichment Courses the four enrichment courses. Sir Christopher Wren and his Times Sir Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was an FIELD TRIPS: architect, an astronomer, and a cultural icon Full-Day field trip:St. Paul’s Cathedral, – both a creation and a creator of the world London and some of Wren’s churches in which he lived. In this interdisciplin- in the City of London ary course Adrian Tinniswood explores that Half-Day field trip:Hampton Court world in detail, using Wren’s life as a focus to investigate the major historical events of the 17th century – the English Civil War, the Plague, the Great Fire of London, the Glorious Revolution – and the arts, architecture, music, literature, and science of the period. TUTOR: Adrian Tinniswood, O.B.E. is Visiting Fellow at Bath Spa University. Tinniswood is a native of Derby in the UK. Born in 1954, his career has combined work with heritage institutions such as the National Trust and the Heritage Lottery Fund with lecturing for English and American universi- ties, including Bristol, Oxford, Nebraska and Cal-Berkeley. He is the author of twelve books on architectural and social history, including His Invention So Fertile: A Life of Christopher Wren (2001) and is well-known as an author, lecturer and broadcaster in Britain and Ameri- ca. Adrian is Chair of the Royal West of England Academy and serves on the boards of a number of museums and heritage bodies. “ Once again, this has been a really wonderful experience, both educationally and socially.” – Jim Gallaher ’00 - ’14 (consecutively) Sponsored by Duke Alumni Association and the UNC General Alumni Association page 4 Each participant chooses one of Enrichment Courses the four enrichment courses. The Nineteenth Century Novel in Context: 1837 – 1872 In this course we will study and discuss TUTOR: Dr Emma Plaskitt is a graduate exciting and intellectually stimulating works of McGill University and Merton College, by the most important and popular novelists Oxford, where she wrote her doctoral thesis of the Victorian Age, focusing on themes of on female sexual reputation in the novels major significance to contemporary readers of Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, and such as class, gender, empire, religion, and Frances Burney. Though a specialist on the art. The course will cover works by major literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth writers including Dickens, Gaskell, the Century, her research interests include Brontës, Collins, and Eliot and will demonstrate Early Women Writers, the Victorian novel – FIELD TRIPS: how writers used the novel form to address the particularly the gothic novel and novel of Full-day field trip: Dickens Museum chief issues of the day, including the Individual sensation – and children’s literature. While and the City of London Museum in Society, the “Woman Question”, Industrial- completing her doctorate, Emma worked as an Half-day: Oxford venues ism, the Public versus the Private sphere, the editor on the Oxford Dictionary of National Crisis of Faith, Aestheticism and Decadence. Biography, where she was responsible for writing many articles on eighteenth-century women writers. She is now an Overseas Lecturer for Stanford University and is also Photos courtesy of: Siobhan Doran a Seminar Tutor and Lecturer in English for Photography © Charles Dickens Museum the SCIO Study Abroad Programme based at Wycliffe Hall. In 2010 she was awarded Stanford’s Annual BOSP Teaching Award for excellence in teaching. “ What a great class, great program and people!” – Peg O’Connell ’11, ’12, ’13, ‘14 Sponsored by Duke Alumni Association and the UNC General Alumni Association page Photo courtesy of: Matt Neale 5 Each participant chooses one of Enrichment Courses the four enrichment courses. The Dying of the Sun: English Politics and the Dawning of WWI, 1906-1924 This course examines the nature of English Key themes to be addressed will include the politics and society during the turbulent and widespread political challenges facing England often traumatic years of the early twentieth in this critical period, from the rise of New century. An era which began in the sunshine Liberalism and its reforming ambitions, to of Edwardian supremacy, yet ended with the the franchise struggles of the Suffragettes and dark clouds of international war. An era where Labour. The principal focus, though, will be on industrial strength was replaced by economic the one key event which did so much to shake depression, and where imperial power gave way England to its core – the outbreak of War. A to colonial unrest. Above all, perhaps, an era of concluding examination of the nature of Eng- national uncertainty, as the once mighty state land in the wake of that war will ask just how was left struggling to find, or even understand, much society had been transformed at home and FIELD TRIPS: its place in the new post-war world. abroad – and how well prepared for the daunting Full-day field trip: Imperial War Museum, challenges to come. London Half-day field trip: Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere TUTOR: Dr. Kate Watson teaches for the Department of Continuing Education, the Open University, and various other university programmes. She has a DPhil in modern European History and has widely lectured and published on modern ideological and revolutionary experiences. “Excellent Course! Tutor superb! I am now inspired!” – Anne Wright, ’13 Sponsored by Duke Alumni Association and the UNC General Alumni Association page 6 Included Plenary Excursion Week One: Sudeley Castle Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Cotswolds, Sude- Sudeley Castle & Gardens is now the home of Elizabeth, ley Castle and Gardens has played an important role in the Lady Ashcombe and her son, daughter and their families.