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On 28 November St Antony's Rowing crew ( M1 boat) won the Men's final race at the Christ Church Regatta 2011. See the race on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/ourcs. St Antony's is the boat on the right.
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Sir Alistair Horne's new publication " But What Do You Actually Do?" features information about the founding of the St Antony's College Alistair Horne Fellowship. ISBN: 9780297848950/Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Slovakian Prime Minister Iveta Radičová spoke in College on Friday 11 November. The subject of the lecture was "Restoring Trust" - a talk on Slovakia and the current European Economic Crisis.
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The Professor Valpy Fitzgerald is getting a Team Project Award for work carried out at the Department for International Development.
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Professor Norman Davies has a new publication :
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Professor Jane Caplan was on BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour on Weds October 19th taking part in a feature on women and tattoos.
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Professor James Clad has been honoured by Her Majesty the Queen and appointed as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in recognition of his services to New Zealand - United States of America relations.
- The Warden and Fellows are delighted to announce the appointment of Ms Kirsten Gillingham as the next Bursar of St Antony's, succeeding Allan Taylor who retires this autumn. Ms Gillingham joins us from Kellogg College where she was Estates Bursar.
- One of our former DPhils, Abdel Takriti, is joint winner of the BRISMES Leigh Douglas Prize for best thesis in Middle East Studies. He shares it with another of our students, Elvire Corboz.
- Nina Hall completed a relay swim of the English Channel on Sunday 25th Sept. The team of Oxford Rhodes Women are fundraising for the Acid Survivors Foundation http://acidsurvivorspakistan.org/about To donate please follow link: http://www.justgiving.com/teams/oxchannelswim
- Maria Jesus Gonzalez Hernandez has a review of her latest publication on former Warden Sir Raymond Carr in The Times Literary Supplement:
- Mr James Barr has recently published his latest book " A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East" Read the first chapter at : http://www.jamesbarr.org.uk
- Dr Rachel Murphy was interviewed on BBC4 Woman's Hour talking about reforms to China's family planning policies. It is available on :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012qs5z
- Mr Christopher Hoskin ( IT Manager) has co-authored a paper published "THE BANACH-LIE *-ALGEBRA OF MULTIPLICATION OPERATORS ON A W*-ALGEBRA " in Asian-European Journal of Mathematics: http://www.worldscinet.com/aejm/04/0402/S1793557111000198.html
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It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Dr John Bailey. Mr Bailey was Bursar from 1984 - 1989 and a Member of the Senior Common Room from 1990 - 2005.
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Professor Zbynek Zeman, a former College member from the 1950s/1960s and former University research professor/historian, died on Wednesday 22 June in Prague. His funeral was held on 1 July, also in Prague.
- Henning Tamm submitted the MPhil thesis with the highest mark in 2010 and was awarded the Deirdre and Paul Malone Thesis Prize in International Relations. He later also received the Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Thesis Prize ("for a thesis on a subject in the area of international peace and understanding").
- Nayef Al-Rodhan has new book published: " The Politics of Emerging strategic Technologies : Implications for Geopolitics, Human enhancement and Human Destiny "
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Politics-Emerging-Strategic-Technologies-Implications/dp/0230290841/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1308816816&sr=8-3
- Dr David Tsui released from Guangzhou Prison in southern Guangdong province's capital city.
- Professor Rosemary Foot speaks with co-author Andrew Walter on their latest book " China, The United States and the Global Order" at Chatham House on 27 June.
- Dr Christopher Tremewan of The University of Auckland has been appointed to head one of the world’s most influential university associations. In June he will take over as Secretary General of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities based in Singapore. His appointment was recently announced in Beijing by Chancellor Henry Yang of the University of California, Santa Barbara who is also the chair of APRU.
- Professor Bob Service attended the Tallinn Literature Festival on Sunday 29 May for a session where Mart Laar, Minister of Defence and - since that weekend - Acting Prime Minister, interviewed him about the communist historical experience in the USSR and the rest of the world. Tallinn is the 2011 European City of Culture.
- Dr Marwa Daoudy comments on the situation in Syria on the DPIR website. http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/news/dr-marwa-daoudy-on-syria.html
- The College has pleasure in announcing that as of Trinity Term, the New Room in the Hilda Besse Building will be renamed The Hadid Room. This renaming is a mark of distinction for Mr Foulath Hadid, Honorary Fellow and Special Advisor to the Warden - it recognizes his exceptional contribution to St Antony's during his period of association with the College.
- Professor Avi Shlaim awarded the Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal in recognition of his contribution to knowledge and Understanding of the Middle East, and in particular of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Professor Chimen Abramsky, former Fellow of the College, sadly passed away last year. An obituary wiriiten by St Antony's Emeritus Fellow Harry Shukman, is at this link.
- Professor Timothy J. Colton, head of the Department of Government at Harvard University, and former Senior Associate Member and Visiting Fellow of St Antony's, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy section.
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Professor Sir Adam Roberts, Honorary Fellow of St Antony's and President of the British Academy, has been elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Political Science, International Relations, and Public Policy section.
- Professor Roger Louis, Honorary Fellow of St Antony's and head of British Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the History section.
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Archie Brown, Emeritus Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Politics, who has already received the W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize for best political science book of the year from the Political Studies Association of the UK for The Rise and Fall of Communism (Bodley Head, 2009; Vintage paperback 2010), has been awarded also the Alexander Nove Prize of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies for the most outstanding book in Russian, Soviet or post-Soviet studies. The judges observed that The Rise and Fall of Communism ‘combines erudition, scholarship and a clear, engaging style of writing’ and described the book as ‘a work of great scope and subtlety’.
- Dr W D Halls who joined the Department in 1959 and retired in the mid-1980s, died in Oxford on 23 March, aged 92. Bill was a distinguished French scholar who originally trained modern linguists and played an important role in comparative education, especially in the 1960s and 70s; he started the MSc course in the governance of education and was the first editor of the Oxford Review of Education.
- Dr Stephanie Hare has her research on Maurice Papon, "Duty, Death and the Republic: The Career of Maurice Papon from Vichy France to the Algerian War" featured in a documentary shown on French national television (France 2) on April 14:
Maurice Papon, itinéraire d'un homme d'ordre:
http://www.playtv.fr/programme/132305-maurice-papon-itineraire-d-un-homme-d-ordre.html
- Mr Gordon Wasserman was introduced into the House of Lords as Lord Wasserman, of Pimlico in the City of Westminster on 13 January
- Professor Bob Service contributes towards making the Radio 4 "Document" programmme on Monday 21 March 2011. file://///sant-store0/staff-redirected$/sant2330/Desktop/Document_21_03_2011.htm
- Dr Harold Shukman and Mr Geoffrey Elliott published a book in 2002 on the National Service Russian Course that they both did, at different times in the 1950's, called Secret Classrooms. It is being re-issued as a print-on-demand book by Faber in a list called FaberFinds. http://faberfinds.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/secret-classrooms-or-how-britains-brightest-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-russian-tongue/
- Professor Archie Brown has written and article for openDemocracy, an online journal, on 'Gorbachev at Eighty: Evaluating his Achievements'
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Mr Matthew Carr, died at Hammersmith Hospital, 23rd February 2011, aged 58. Much loved and loving husband to Anne and devoted father to Ella. Funeral will take place at 2.30 on 7th March at St Michael and all Angels Church, Badminton. Family flowers only please but donations welcome to www.leuka.org.uk. 12.30 train from Paddington will be met at Chippenham station.
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The latest issue of the St Antony’s International Review (Volume 6, Number 2, February 2011) features a themed section on “China’s Rise and Adapting Global Structures,” including an article by Professor Rosemary Foot and an interview with Lord Patten (Chancellor of the University of Oxford). This issue also contains a general section, featuring an article by Professor Richard Ned Lebow (Dartmouth College).
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Professor Klaus-Jürgen Müller, who was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande and was an Officier dans L'Ordre des Palmes Académiques has died. An Emeritus Professor at the University of the Armed Forces in Hamburg, he was a specialist in German military history and the history of German-French relations. He was a German Visiting Fellow at St. Antony's in the academic year 1991-92. He died on 31 January 2011 and his funeral took place in Hamburg on 11 February
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