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DPIR STUDENT NEWSWIRE, TRINITY TERM 2014 Page 1 Welcome Welcome to the Trinity Term edition of the DPIR Student Newswire. Another academic year draws to a close, and hopefully a long hot summer will be enjoyed before we all go back and start it all over again. Leavers, we wish you all the very best for wherever you go next, and hope you’ve enjoyed your time with us. Do please stay in touch! Trinity has been an excellent term for distinguished events, and in this edition you can read about Professor Joseph Stiglitz’s Fulbright lecture on inequality in society, Professor Christopher Hood’s analysis of 30 years of makeovers in Central Government, and Professor Derek Penslar’s inaugural Israel Studies lecture, as well as the usual news, views and careers advice. If you have any news that you feel would be worth sharing with the Department’s student community, do please put it in an email to [email protected] Have a great summer! TRINITY 2014 Click below to link: Welcome What's New Recent Highlights People Careers Advice Stay in touch! List of Student Societies CONTENTS

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Welcome Welcome to the Trinity Term edition of the DPIR Student Newswire. Another academic year draws to a close, and hopefully a long hot summer will be enjoyed before we all go back and start it all over again. Leavers, we wish you all the very best for wherever you go next, and hope you’ve enjoyed your time with us. Do please stay in touch! Trinity has been an excellent term for distinguished events, and in this edition you can read about Professor Joseph Stiglitz’s Fulbright lecture on inequality in society, Professor Christopher Hood’s analysis of 30 years of makeovers in Central Government, and Professor Derek Penslar’s inaugural Israel Studies lecture, as well as the usual news, views and careers advice. If you have any news that you feel would be worth sharing with the Department’s student community, do please put it in an email to [email protected] Have a great summer!

TRINITY 2014

Click below to link:

Welcome

What's New

Recent Highlights

People

Careers Advice

Stay in touch!

List of Student Societies

CONTENTS

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What's New

Graduate Students’ Professional Training

Professor Ben Ansell has taken on the role of the Department’s Director of Graduate Students’ Professional Training. His responsibility will be to help graduate students prepare for the realities of working professionally in academia. One example of what this is entails is a recent afternoon session that Ben held on 11th June entitled Preparation for Academic Practice. This covered a range of aspects of preparing for the future: with sessions on jobs in academic life; publishing books and journal articles; conference attendance and organization and networking, as well as an opportunity for students to ask questions and discuss answers. Watch this space for more from Ben on this crucial area of graduate education!

Finals Drinks Party

It is hard to believe, but Trinity Term is coming to an end (please insert here ‘not for the DPhil students’). Come and celebrate the end of the academic year and say goodbye to some of your peers. (Apologies also to the undergrads, but we hope your colleges will be providing suitable end of term celebrations.)

… and Alumni Cards!

Kate Candy will be distributing alumni cards to any leavers at this party – do remember to ask her for one (or pick one up from her at her office, Room 197, if you can’t make the party).

Invitation

to

Department of Politics and International Relations

Finals Drinks Party

for All Graduate Students and Staff

Come and celebrate the end of the academic year

on Friday, 20th June 2014

from 5-7pm

in the Common Room, Manor Road Building

No RSVP necessary

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Graduate Film Society

The DPIR Film Society kicked off this term's programme with Hany Abu-Assad's gripping, fast-paced drama: 'Paradise Now' (2005), the first Palestinian film to receive an Academy Award Nomination. This also was presented with an introduction from Dr Noa Schonmann, a Fellow in Politics, Pembroke College, who specialises in the field of Middle East studies. In Nablus, a city in the northern West Bank, Said and Khaled, who have volunteered to be suicide bombers, receive word it will be tomorrow -- the cell's first operation in two years. They're shaven and shorn, dressed in black suits to pose as settlers in Tel Aviv for a wedding. Something goes wrong at the crossing, they're separated, and the action is postponed, long enough for renewed questioning of what they're about to do. Suha, the well-educated and well-travelled daughter of a martyr, challenges the action. She likes Said and has her own ideas. "Under the occupation, we're already dead," is Khaled's analysis. Fate and God's will seem to drive Said. We must be moral, argues Suha. Can minds change? You can watch a trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi9yiGePxKw This was followed on 22nd May by a screening of Raoul Peck’s ‘Lumumba’ (2000), with an introduction from Dr Julia Amos, Peter J Braam Junior Research Fellow in Global Wellbeing at Merton College, whose research is on civil war, investigating the impact of how non-state armed groups are organised on how such conflicts can best be countered and resolved. Made in the tradition of such true-life political thrillers as Malcolm X and JFK, Raoul Peck’s award-winning epic dramatizes the rise and fall of legendary African leader Patrice Lumumba. When the Congo declared its independence from Belgium in 1960, the 36-year-old Lumumba became the first Prime Minister of the newly independent state but would last just months in office before being brutally assassinated. Watch the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLh4LGadxoU On 5th June, Dr Hugo Slim (ELAC) presented ‘Pray the Devil Back to Hell’ (2008). ‘Pray the Devil Back to Hell’ is a documentary film directed by Gini Reticker. It chronicles the remarkable story of the courageous Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country. Their demonstrations culminated in the exile of Charles Taylor and the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first female head of state, and marked the vanguard of a new wave of women taking control of their political destiny around the world.

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The film premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Documentary. It is part of a ground-breaking special series WOMEN, WAR & PEACE, which aired in 2011 on PBS in the US. Plans for a worldwide global outreach campaign in 2012 are now underway. Dr Hugo Slim is a leading international academic in humanitarian studies. His work has a particular focus on the ethics of war, the protection of civilians and the morality and practice of humanitarian action.

For more information on the DPIR Graduate Film Society, why not visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/dpir.filmsoc If you have any queries about the Society, would like to get involved, or have suggestions for future speakers, please contact Myro Halushka ([email protected]).

New Department Website

The Department is renewing its website and including new content on knowledge exchange and the impact of our research. We are looking for your help to tell us about:

knowledge exchange activity: that is engagement with organisations and individuals outside the University (this could include collaborations, joint events, the creation of networks bringing together policy-makers, writers, practitioners, media producers, publishing or visualisation projects);

Stories about the impact of research (for example, informing policy, practice, social change or contributing to ideas and concepts taken up more widely).

Please do let us know whether you may have ideas or content to contribute. We also require Research Assistant help with tasks associated with the website (e.g. writing copy, editing, proof-reading, picture research). Please get in touch with us to register your interest if you are available over the summer. Please contact Liz Greenhalgh ([email protected]) or Kate Candy ([email protected]).

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Latest news from Politics In Spires

The latest special series from the Oxford DPIR and Cambridge POLIS blog is entitled: Co-ops and Mutuals: a better way? A debate is emerging in the UK and elsewhere about the possible role of cooperatives and mutuals in building a better economy. But what makes for good performance by a co-op or mutual? What values should enterprises of this kind seek to embody or promote? How can they do it? These questions are, in part, questions about the underlying moral and political philosophy of co-operativism and mutualism. A British Academy-funded research project, currently being run at Kellogg College’s Centre for Mutual and Employee-Owned Business, aims to explore these questions and develop a framework for evaluating cooperative and mutual performance. The research team would like to know what you think of their ideas. We invite your comments below each article. You can find out more about this series by clicking here: http://politicsinspires.org/special-series/co-ops-and-mutuals/

OXPO Activity Report

The Oxford-Sciences Po Research Group (OXPO) has just published a report outlining the research centre’s many achievements from 2011 to now. You can download a copy here: http://oxpo.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/OXPO%20Steering%20Report%202011-14%20on%2011%20June.pdf

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Pavry and Winchester Thesis Prizes

The Social Sciences Board proposes to award two prizes in Michaelmas Term 2014, provided that there are candidates of sufficient merit. Both of these prizes are awarded for successful theses (MPhil, MLitt, or DPhil) in the faculties of Social Studies, Law, or Modern History that have been passed by the examiners within the current academic year. The Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Prize (£500) is for a thesis on a subject in the area of international peace and understanding. The Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Prize (£500) is for a thesis on international relations, with particular reference to the area of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Applications should be made by email to [email protected] no later than noon on Friday, 31 October 2014 and must comprise a short abstract, a copy of the examiners’ report(s) and a letter supplying (a) the candidate's name, college, and degree; (b) the names of the candidate's examiners (not applicable to MPhil candidates) and supervisor(s); (c) a clear indication for which prize(s) the candidate is applying; (d) an email address for communication should the candidate not be returning to the University in Michaelmas Term. Congratulations to last year’s winners: Ida Danewid, who has won the 2013 Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Thesis Prize for her MPhil thesis entitled 'Reconstructing Ethics: Judith Butler, Poststructuralism and Ethical Theorising in International Relations'. Dr Amy King, a Lecturer in the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University, who has been awarded the 2013 Dasturzada Dr Jal Pavry Memorial Prize for her DPhil thesis entitled 'Imperialism, Industrialisation and War: The Role of Ideas in China’s Japan Policy, 1949-1965'. Amy’s research focuses on Sino-Japanese relations, the economic-security nexus, and the legacy of war, imperialism and late industrialization in Asia. She is currently working on a book that examines China’s foreign economic policy towards Japan during the Cold War based on hundreds of recently declassified documents from the Chinese Foreign Ministry Archive.

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Recent Highlights

Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies 2014, Saïd Business School, Oxford Tuesday 29 April, Wednesday 30 April and Thursday 1 May

Professor Mauro Guillen – The Architecture of Collapse: The Global System in the 21st Century

Oxford University Press and the Saïd Business School hosted the Clarendon Lectures in

Management Studies 2014.

Professor Mauro Guillen, Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute at the Wharton School,

University of Pennsylvania, presented a series of three lectures entitled The Architecture of

Collapse: The Global System in the 21st Century at the Saïd Business School, Oxford on Tuesday

29 April, Wednesday 30 April and Thursday 1 May.

The global system is both highly structured and predictable. And yet, crises and other episodes of

abrupt change do occur rather frequently. These three lectures will develop a new theoretical

framework to think about the evolution of the global system in terms of its interactive

complexity and degree of coupling. These two variables will be examined at the level of the

global network of nation-states, and within countries. Economic, political and social factors will

be taken into consideration when it comes to assessing the structure of the global system and its

evolution over time. The lectures will show how management theory and organizational

sociology can be used to understand dynamics at the global level.

Guillen’s three lectures were:

Complexity and Coupling in the Global System Tuesday 29 April

Two Intriguing Cases of Complexity & Coupling: The Eurozone and the U.S./China Relationship Wednesday 30 April

Isomorphism, Impermeability, and Institutional Diversity Thursday 1 May

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Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective 2-3 May, 2014

The Coalitional Presidentialism Project headed by Paul Chaisty, Nic Cheeseman and Timothy

Power held an International Conference “Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective:

Dynamics of Executive-Legislative Relations in Africa, Latin America and the Former Soviet

Union” on 2-3 May, 2014 at the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St. Antony’s College.

More info can be found here:

http://www.area-studies.ox.ac.uk/presidentialism

Martin Sixsmith – Broadcast, Journalist and Author

On 14 May 2014 at 6 pm Martin Sixsmith came to speak at St.

Peter’s College Chapel to talk about his life and work as a

journalist, Foreign correspondent to Moscow and author. He

spoke on Russia as well as the acclaimed film ‘Philomena’

based on his book ‘The lost child of Philomena Lee’.

More information can be found at:

http://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/event/22/363/martin_sixsmith_briti

sh_journalist_and_author.html

Media training workshop Friday 9 May DPIR offered a media training workshop to be run by Maria Coyle (Press Officer) from the

University’s Press Office. This was a practical session on how to conduct interviews about your

research with broadcast media.

The session covered how to:

deal with approaches by media organisations;

prepare for media interviews;

get your messages across; and

how to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls.

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The Fourth Annual Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lecture in International Relations Friday 23 May 2014

Professor Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia University) delivered the Fourth Annual Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lecture on International Relations at the University of Oxford on 23 May 2014 on 'Causes and Consequences of Growing Inequality - and what can be done about it'. In the lecture Professor Stiglitz discussed the growing levels of inequality in societies like the United States and Britain, why inequality is a problem, and how the levels of inequality can be reduced. The event was hosted by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, in association with the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the Embassy of the United States of America, Pembroke College and the Lois Roth Endowment. You can see a video and download a podcast of the event by clicking here: http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/podcasts/causes-and-consequences-of-growing-inequality-and-what-can-be-done-about-it.html

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‘Thirty Years of Makeovers in UK Central Government – Did it Work Better and Cost

Less?’ given by Christopher Hood, Gladstone Professor of Government

Drawing on Leverhulme-funded research to be presented in a forthcoming book, Christopher Hood looked at what happened to UK central government during thirty years of makeovers ostensibly designed to improve efficiency and services to users. Together with Dr Ruth Dixon, Christopher Hood looked at how government costs and public satisfaction changed over that time. Does the observed pattern suggest that in executive government, as in other things in life, ‘you get what you pay for’? Does it bear out the hopes and expectations of the reformers that costs can be cut and better service provided at the same time, or the views of their pessimistic critics? What lessons might be drawn for future reforms? You can also read a Politics in Spires blog post on this event by clicking here: http://politicsinspires.org/central-government-makeovers/ Valedictory Lecture: 9 June 2014, 12pm, Old Library, All Souls College

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Inaugural Lecture: ‘What is Israel Studies?’ Tuesday 3 June 2014

Professor Derek J Penslar, Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled 'What is Israel Studies', co-hosted by the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, the Department of Politics and International Relations, and St Anne's College. Over the past decade, faculty positions in Israel Studies have been created at universities throughout the English-speaking world. This burst of growth has been fed in part by serious academic interest in a small yet highly visible country and in part by political controversies surrounding the country and the way it is represented on university campuses. The proliferation of Israel Studies positions has, ironically, only intensified those controversies. This lecture discussed what it means for Israel Studies to be an academic discipline and how it can best be integrated into the university environment. The lecture demonstrates the contributions Israel Studies can make to public discussion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its possible resolution. At the same time, it argues that scholarship on Israel must have a life of its own and must not be boxed in by political dictates or mobilized in the service of a moral cause. You can listen to and download a podcast of the event by clicking here: http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/podcasts/what-is-israel-studies.html

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People

Arrivals & Departures

The Department wishes the following leavers well:

Ms Hannah Bond - Undergraduate Studies Coordinator

Ms Rebecca Edwards – Administrative Assistant, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

The Department would like to welcome the following new visitors:

Professor Cecilia Albin – Uppsala University (VRF)

Mr Yevgen Lantsuzovskyy – Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt (VDS)

Ms Salome Minesashvili – Tbilisi State University (VDS)

Dr Victor Teo – University of Hong Kong (VRF)

Professor David Weinstein – Wake Forest University (VRF)

Profiles: Beverly Loke

I started my new position as Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in International Relations in February 2014, after completing a PhD in International Relations from the Australian National University. My research interests revolve around great power responsibility, international order and the international relations of the Asia-Pacific, and I have published on these areas in Diplomacy & Statecraft, Australian Journal of International Affairs (co-authored with Professor William Tow) and Asian Security. Currently, I am focusing on two main projects. The first is a project entitled Power and Region in a Multipolar Order (PRIMO), which involves a global network of institutions investigating the emergence of regional powers and its impact on international politics. Oxford’s role in this collaborative project is to develop a conceptual and analytical framework for the systematic study of emerging powers and I am very privileged to be working for Professor Andrew Hurrell here in DPIR. At present, I am working on a ‘state of the field’ review article on power and a co-authored article on the power-value nexus in global governance. I will also be contributing to several workshops and doctoral training sessions, and I am looking forward to travelling to Hamburg for some of these! The second project involves turning my doctoral research into a book manuscript. My PhD thesis takes as its starting point the need to unpack great power responsibility and explore how great powers understand the concept. It investigates how China and the United States have conceptualised, responded to and practiced notions of great power responsibility, and examines to what extent

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their understandings have converged or diverged. I historicise the question of responsibility and analyse three critical junctures in the context of US-China relations and order-building endeavours: institutional construction during World War II; institutional accommodation in the Cold War; and institutional renovation in the post-Cold War. Everyone has been most welcoming and I look forward to meeting even more members of the department and the university during my time here.

Careers Advice

For those about to graduate:

The Careers Service can provide you with lifelong, impartial, comprehensive support in your career planning and management. As an Oxford Alumnus you can attend careers events, fairs, workshops and company presentations. Your student account on CareerConnect will switch to an alumni account when your Bod card expires, ensuring you stay up-to-date

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with job vacancies, events, skills sessions, fairs and resources on job sectors, applications and international opportunities. The most useful act you can take is to register as an alumnus on the Oxford Careers Network (OCN) Oxford Careers Network. This is a global network of 2,500 alumni who have volunteered to share their experiences of life after Oxford. Being part of this network not only helps students following on behind you with their career choices but also, when your moment arrives to research another employment sector you have a ready-made network to access for advice and information. Volunteers represent a broad range of occupations, so there is something for everyone. To complement OCN be sure to keep you LinkedIn profile up to date and join the University of Oxford Alumni group. At university.linkedin (http://university.linkedin.com/career-services/resources#videos) you will find six five-minute videos which will help you to strengthen you profile and demonstrate the latest networking and job-finding tools." The secret to employment remains to network, network and network – not something that comes easily to all. A few useful tips on networking and other employment skills may be found at www.youtube.com/oxfordcareersservice. Most alumni will change jobs within 3 years of graduation so join your local Oxford10 alumni group (www.oxford10.com) or the mailing list to keep in touch at www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/oxford10. A series of sector-specific Professional Networking Events are also offered by the Alumni Office to help connect you with alumni working in your field of interest. Do continue to monitor CareerConnect (at www.careers.ox.ac.uk) and keep current with ongoing careers matters through social media either at Twitter.com/OxfordCareers, or our discussion group at LinkedIn/OxfordCareers. If employment still evades you, then the Careers Service run a ‘Kickstart’ session for alumni to freshen up their job hunting skills – either book through CareerConnect or for more details contact the Careers Service ([email protected] or +44(0) 1865 27 46 46.

Links http://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/

http://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/jobs/

http://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/alumni/mentoring-and-offering-advice/the-oxford-careers-

network/

http://www.youtube.com/oxfordcareersservice

http://www.oxford10.com/

https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/oxford10

https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/page.aspx?pid=879

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Stay in touch! I’d like to offer those of you who are leaving this term a very warm welcome to the DPIR alumni community! The alumni relations programme at the department is increasingly busy, with an annual magazine, newsletter, social networking and bespoke events. Here are some of the ways you can stay connected:

Join the DPIR social networking groups on LinkedIn and Facebook – you can do this now, so no need to wait until you graduate;

Update your contact (especially email) and professional details on the University’s database, DARS (Development and Alumni Relations System) https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/oao* This will ensure you receive DPIR alumni publications and alumni event notifications;

Look out for DPIR alumni events announcements, and sign up to the weekly events mailing list if you are going to stay in the Oxford area (contact [email protected]);

Let others know what you are doing: o Send us a short(600 word maximum) profile and photo for the alumni

website: http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/alumni/profiles.html o Send details of your publications for us to publicise on the website and in

alumni publications; o Send us up to 50 words on your professional or personal news for inclusion

in the ‘Class notes’ section of the next DPIR Alumni Newswire : please also give your name, college, matriculation year.

Again, we very much hope to stay in touch with you after you leave. If you have any questions at all, please email [email protected]. Kate Candy, Communications and Alumni Relations Manager * Please see www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/data_protection for information on the way in which your personal data are held and used in the University's Development and Alumni Relations System (DARS). If you no longer wish to be contacted by the University Alumni Office by email, or wish to alter the way in which your data are held and used, please send a suitably worded email to [email protected]

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List of Student Societies

Club/Society

Club Secretary Secretary Email Senior Member

Africa Society OU Olayinka Oduwole [email protected] Dr A.R. Mustapha

Aid to the Balkans, Oxford (OXAB)

Dunja Janjic [email protected] Prof Matthew Leigh

Alternative Singing Society

Edward Crawford [email protected] Dr Peta Fowler

Amnesty International, OU

Joanna Hynes [email protected] Dr Jane Garnett

Animal Ethics Society, O.U.

Jennifer Clements [email protected] Revd. Prof. Andrew Linzey

Anthropological Society, OU

Sonia Lam [email protected] Prof Marcus Banks

Archaeological Society, OU

Claudia Sanchez Jimenez

[email protected]

Dr Mark Robinson

Armenian Society, Oxford

Varduhi Yeghiazaryan [email protected] Prof Theo van Lint

Australian & New Zealand Club, OU

Alexandra Bridges [email protected] Dr Michael Burden

Baha'i Society, Oxford Collis Tahzib [email protected] Dr Nazila Ghanea-Hercock

Ballet Society, O.U. Amanda Shrirwise [email protected] Dr Fiona Macintosh

Bangladesh Society Tania Khaleque [email protected] Prof Tipu Aziz

Belarusian Society, Oxford

Guy Bud [email protected] Dr Thomas Adcock

Belgo-Luxembourgish Society, OU

Guy Bud [email protected] Dr Laurent Mignon

Bibliophiles, Society of Melinda Letts [email protected] Mr Richard Ovenden

Biological Society, Oxford

Douglas Cameron-Hobbs [email protected] Dr Martin Speight

Biomedical Sciences, OU Society of

Rakesh Dodhia [email protected] Dr Robert Wilkins

Blind Tasting Society, O.U.

James Hogarth [email protected] Ms Hanneke Wilson

Brass Band, OU Florence Spaven [email protected] Professor Peter Franklin

Broad Street Dancers, The

Iona Teague [email protected] Dr Eveline Ramaekers

Byzantine Society, OU Theofili Kampianaki [email protected] Prof Marc Lauxtermann

C.H. Dodd Society Isabella Aust [email protected] Dr Joel Rasmussen

Catalyst Jacqueline Habegger [email protected] Prof Dermot O'Hare

Ceilidh Band, OU Katie (Kathleen) Doig [email protected] Mr William Poole

Chabad Society, OU Anatolij Gelimson [email protected] Dr Abigail Green

Chamber Music Society, Oxford Students

Olivia (Suzanne) Foster Vander Elst

[email protected] Professor Robert Saxton

Change Ringers, OU Society of

Isobel Fray [email protected] Dr Stephen Cameron

Chemistry Society, Oxford

Ana-Paola de Sousa [email protected] Proessor D.E. Logan

ChGK Club, Oxford Victor Fedyashov [email protected] Alexander Schekochihin

Chinese Society, OU Xiaofan Ji [email protected] Dr Sheung Tsun Tsou

Chinese Student & Scholar Association, Oxford

Xiang Liu [email protected] Prof Zhanfeng Cui

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Chorus, OU Philippa Kiralfy [email protected] Dr Mark Wormald

Colombian Society, Oxford

Juan José Mendoza Arenas

[email protected] Dr Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Computer Society OU Gregory O'Connor [email protected] Mr Dominic Hargreaves

Conservative Association, OU

Rupert Cunningham [email protected] Dr M. Whittow

Contract Bridge Association, OU

James Dow [email protected] Dr Denis Talbot

Cortex Club, OU Seoho (Michael) Song [email protected] Prof. Zoltan Molnar

Cymdeithas Dafydd ap Gwilym (Welsh Society)

Manon Roberts [email protected] Dr Rosalind Temple

Czech and Slovak Society, OU

Jakub Langr [email protected] Dr Monika Gullerova

Dance Society, OU Amalia Feld [email protected] Prof Colin McDiarmid

Development Abroad, Oxford

Richard Stone [email protected] Prof Susan Bright

Doctor Who Society John Salway [email protected] Dr Todd Huffman

Dramatic Society, OU Molly Brown [email protected] Dr Sos Eltis

Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme, OU

Fariyo Abdullahi [email protected] Dr Rob Paton

Edgar Wind Society for Art History, The

Joshua Hill [email protected] Dr Gervase Rosser

Energy Society, Oxford Rosalie Shepherd [email protected] Prof Nick Jelley

Engineering Society, OU Thomas Purdy [email protected] Prof Constantin Coussios

Entrepreneurs, Oxford Yuning Chai [email protected] Mr Tom Hockaday

Exeter College Vacation Proj.

Phil Kennedy [email protected] Dr Maureen Taylor

Females in Engineering, Science and Technology (OxFEST). OU

Mao Isobe [email protected] Dr Laura Herz

French Law Society, OU Catherine Yuen [email protected] Mr Nicholas Barber

French Society Delphine Fayard [email protected] Dr Caroline Warman

Gargoyles, The Oxford Emma Fox [email protected] Revd Dr Jonathan Arnold

Geological Society, OU Bethan Gregory [email protected] Dr Matt Friedman

Geology for Global Development (Oxford Group)

Ana Heureux [email protected] Prof Barry Parsons

Georgian Society, OU Irakli Kotetishvili [email protected] Prof Neil MacFarlane

German Forum Society, Oxford

Bernd Weber [email protected] Dr Hartmut Mayer

German Society, OU Johannes Osterrieth [email protected] Prof Katrin Kohl

Gilbert and Sullivan Society, OU

Alexander Doody [email protected] Benjamin Thompson

Graduate Christian Union, OU

Joshua Roe [email protected] Dr Ard Louis

Greek Society, OU Ioannis Choupas [email protected] Dr Achillefs Kapanidis

Gregorian Chant Society, OU

George de Voil [email protected] Dr Joseph Shaw

Harry Potter Society, OU Sophie Jaquet Bennett [email protected] Fabrice Birembaut

Hindu Society, OU Priya Shah [email protected] Prof Gavin Flood

Historical Re-enactment Society, OU

Sophie-Charlotte Wolfert [email protected]

Dr Stuart Lee

History Society, OU Thomas McPherson [email protected] Dr L. Brockliss

Hong Kong Public Affairs & Social Services Society

Catherine Yuen [email protected] Prof John Quah

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Hong Kong Society, OU Canon Sun [email protected] Prof S C E Tsang

Hugh Cairns Surgical Society

Lok Man Shirley Yick [email protected] Mr Ashok Handa

Hungarian Society, Oxford

Ilona Kappanyos [email protected] Professor R.J.W. Evans

Indian Society, Oxford Shriman Narayan Sai Raman

[email protected] Prof Subir Sarkar

Inter-Collegiate Christian Union

Alison Hill [email protected] Dr Steven Gunn

Invariant Society OU Andrius Vaicenavicius [email protected] Prof Anne Henke

Italian Society, OU Alberto Merchante Gonzalez

[email protected]

Dr Marina Bazzani

Jacari Elizabeth Sherlock [email protected] Ms Lucy Hawkins

Japan Society, OU Navya Anand [email protected] Prof Takehiko Kariya

Jazz Orchestra, OU Kevin Sliwoski [email protected] Dr S. Tuck

Jazz Society, OU Alexander Cowan [email protected] Prof Valentine Cunningham

Juggling Club Ross Atkins [email protected] Dr Rob Adlington

KEEN (Kids Enjoy Exercise Now)

William Hallan [email protected] Dr Nick Brown

Labour Club, OU Nikhil Venkatesh [email protected] Dr Stewart White

Latin American Society, Oxford

Johannes Noller [email protected] Dr Isabel Ruiz Olaya

Latvian Society, Oxford Aiko Morii [email protected] Dr Francis Leneghan

Law & Religion, OU Society for

Romylos Knezevits [email protected] Revd Dr Douglas Dupree

Law Beyond The City Society, Oxford

Rebecca Fox [email protected] Prof Simon Gardner

Lawyers Without Borders Rachel Stables [email protected] Mr Dapo Akande

LDS Student Association, Oxford

Pascal Hofmann [email protected] Prof Teppo Felin

Le Cercle Français Darya Shchepanovska [email protected] Dr Ben Morgan

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer and Questioning Society, OU

Ian Headley [email protected] Dr Ian Archer

Lewis C.S. Society, OU Katherine Clough [email protected] Dr Judith Wolfe

Liberal Democrats, OU Sam Rakestrow [email protected] Mr Tony Brett

Light Entertainment Society, O.U.

Efi Gauthier [email protected] Dr Neil McLynn

Lincoln College Music Society

Marion Bettsworth [email protected] Dr Louise Durning

Lincoln College Vacation Project

Josie Oliver [email protected] Mr Tim Knowles

Lithuanian Society, OU Tadas Kriščiūnas [email protected] Dr Skirmantas Kriaučionis

Lyceum, The Oxford Adam Coates [email protected] Dr Joanna Ashbourn

Malaysia Club, OU Zhai Gen Tan [email protected] Mr Afifi Al-Akiti

Malaysian & Singaporean Students' Association, OU

Yu-Jia GAN [email protected] Dr Simon Benjamin

Materials Society, OU Calum McLellan [email protected] Dr Adrian Taylor

Medical Students Society David McGinn [email protected] Dr Jeremy Taylor

Migration Studies Society Catherine Crooke [email protected] Dr Nicholas Van Hear

Morris Men, OU Guy Jackson [email protected] Mr Gerard Robinson

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Music Society, OU Nick Graham [email protected] Dr Robert Saxton

Musical Theatre Society, Oxford

Mattias Carlberg [email protected] Mr Enrico E. Prodi

Nepal Society, Oxford Pramila Rijal [email protected] Prof Alain Townsend

Newman Society: the Oxford University Catholic Society

Joshua Clark [email protected] Fr. James Hanvey SJ,

Nightline (Oxford) Jamie Beacom [email protected] Dr Huw Dorkins

Opera, Oxford Johanna Harrison [email protected] Ms Kathryn Murphy

Orchestra, OU Alice Angliss [email protected] Dr Andrew Ker

Orthodox Christian Student Society, Oxford

Georgiy Grebnyev [email protected] Dr Brandon Gallaher

Osler House Club Katie Myint [email protected] Dr Timothy Lancaster

Paediatrics, Oxford Society of

Kaylita Chantiluke [email protected] Dr Peter Sullivan

PEN, Oxford Student Nicholas Hobouse [email protected] Prof Elleke Boehmer

Philharmonia, O U Yasmin Hemmings [email protected] Dr Martyn Harry

Phoenix Numismatic Society, OU

Ivan Bonchev [email protected] Judith McKenzie

Physics Society, O.U. Maciej Malinowski [email protected] Dr Todd Huffman

Polish Society, O.U. Maria Wilczek [email protected] Dr Pawel Swietach

Portuguese Society, OU Marianna Clare [email protected] Dr Stephen Parkinson

Psychology Society, O U Sean Mills [email protected] Dr Chris Summerfield

Quidditch Club, Oxford Abigail Whiteley [email protected] Dr Simon Cowan

Quiz Society, OU Joseph Hackett [email protected] Ms Gail Trimble

Real Ale Society, The OU

Oliver Tozer [email protected] Tim Guilford

Rock Music Society, OU (ROCKSOC)

Jonathan Smith [email protected] Dr Chris Norbury

Role Playing Games Society, OU

Eleanor Hanson [email protected] Dr Mason Porter

Salsa Society, OU Ana Namburete [email protected] Mr Colin Akerman

Schola Cantorum of Oxford

Eleanor Hicks [email protected] Sir Jonathan Phillips

Scientific Society, OU Aimee Guha-Roy [email protected] Prof Kay E. Davies

Scottish Dance Society, OU

Sarah Hopkin [email protected] Dr Eva Wagner

Scout and Guide Group, OU

Joshua O'Shaughnessy [email protected] Prof Nicholas Harberd

SIAM Student Chapter, O.U.

Savina Joseph [email protected] Dr Mason Porter

Sikh Society Rajpreet Hayre [email protected] Dr Devinder Sivia

Sinfonietta, OU Sarah Johnson [email protected] Prof Robert Saxton

South Slavic Society, Oxford

Andrea Grozdanic [email protected] Professor Richard Caplan

Space and Astronomical Society, OU

Ryan MacDonald [email protected] Prof. John Eland

Speculative Fiction Group, OU

Alethea Hutchison [email protected] Prof Alex Rogers

Strategic Studies Group, OU

Hanna Notte [email protected] Prof Hew Strachan

Student Life Sam Taylor [email protected] Dr Steven Young

Students for Life Josephine Jackson [email protected] Dr Michael Ward

Symphonic Band, OU George Prew [email protected] Ms Juliane Kerkhecker

SynOx (Society for Synthetic Biology)

Phelim Bradley [email protected] Prof Manuela Zaccolo

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Table Football Club, Oxford

Kristina Christova [email protected] Dr Cas Cremers

Tabs Are For Flying, OU Stephen Green [email protected] Dr Graham Nelson

Taiwanese Students' Society, OU

Chung-Wei Chiu [email protected] Dr Sarah Eaton

Tango Club, Oxford Ines Usandizaga Fores [email protected] Dr Ben Morgan

Tea Appreciation Society, O.U.

Ben Jarvis [email protected]` Dr Luke Pitcher

Thai Society, The Oxford Susama (Fay) Kitiyakara [email protected] Dr Ulrike Roesler

Tolkien & Classic Fantasy Society, Oxford

Hebe Stanton [email protected] Dr Martin Grossel

Turkish Society, OU Ozlem Akkurt [email protected] Dr C J Kerslake

Ukrainian Society, OU Olga Tkachenko [email protected] Dr Jan Fellerer

United Nations Association, O.U.

Marielena Doeding [email protected] Prof Richard Caplan

Vietnamese Society in Oxford

Nguyet Anh Nguyen [email protected] Dr Gerard Bodeker

William Sweet Society, Oxford

Fiona Britton [email protected] Dr Tim Lancaster

Wind Orchestra, OU Thomas Dixon [email protected] Prof Peter Franklin

World Music Society, Oxford

Vincent Ooi [email protected] Prof Louis Mahadevan

Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa, Oxford

Anne Makena [email protected] Dr Abdul Raufu Mustapha

Publications

Club Secretary SecretaryEmail SeniorMember

Sophist, The Alexander Siantonas [email protected] Prof Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

St Antony's International Review, OU Aleenah Mehta [email protected] Prof Margaret MacMillan