Join Dr Nick Dickinson (Bingham Early Career Fellow in Constitutional Studies) for his lecture ‘From Representation to Meritocracy: Understanding Professionalisation of the Political Class Through UK Parliamentary Pay Debates, 1911−2011’. Book online here.
Drawing on extensive research into the thousands of students who matriculated at the College between 1820 and 1920, Dr Sebastian Raj Pender (Research Associate, Balliol and Empire Project) will present an overview of how Balliol alumni interacted with European imperialism over this period. Members of College only.
Join Balliol JCR in Camelot for a night of merriment, medieval madness, mysterious music and malevolent monks. 1263 Knights of the Square Table will run for four nights, with all proceeds from ticket sales going to charity. Booking is open: details are here.
Join Professor Sir Charles Godfray (Professorial Fellow of Balliol and Director of the Oxford Martin School) and Professor Tim Palmer (Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professor) as they discuss how modelling climate change can inform decisions made by scientists, policy makers and business managers, and ask how robust are the predictions and logistically how can this information be shared? Register in person or online here.
Professor Clemens Puppe (Oliver Smithies Visiting Fellow): ‘Condorcet Solutions in Frugal Models of Budget Allocation’ (joint work with Klaus Nehring). Economic Theory Lunchtime Workshop — open to members of College and faculty on Zoom.
Dr Mahroo Moosavi (Oliver Smithies Visiting Lecturer): ‘From the Conspicuous to the Contingent: The Intertext of the Early Modern Persian Islamic Art’.
Marwan Safar Jalani (Balliol 2020, MPhil Politics: Comparative Government), President of Oxford Syria Society, will be hosting this Oxford Syria Society Event with Ibrahim Olabi. Register here.
Preacher: Dr Edward Howells
Preacher: Revd Professor Judith Brown (Emeritus Fellow)
Preacher: Dr Bethany Sollereder
Preacher: Revd Dr Alexandru Popescu (Balliol 1994)
Intercollegiate Service at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin. No service in Balliol Chapel.
Preacher: Revd Professor Judith Brown (Emeritus Fellow)
Preacher: Revd Dr William Lamb (Balliol 1988), Vicar of the University Church
Does power corrupt, or are corrupt people drawn to power? Dr Brian Klaas will explore such questions in ‘Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Corrupts Them’. Hosted by Balliol Fellows Nicholas Dickinson and Lauren Burgeno. Zoom webinar event link here.
Jason Lotay (Professor of Pure Mathematics and Tutorial Fellow in Mathematics), ‘Knotty Problems’. Members of the Common Room only.
Nick Dickinson (Bingham Early Career Fellow in Constitutional Studies), ‘From Representation to Meritocracy: Understanding Professionalisation of the Political Class Tthrough UK Parliamentary Pay Debates, 1911–2011’. Members of the Common Room only.
The Snell Dinner commemorates the 17th-century benefaction of John Snell that enables students of the University of Glasgow to pursue postgraduate degrees at Balliol to this day. By invitation only.
Professor Adom Getachew, University of Chicago, ‘Africa for the Africans: A history of Self-Determination before Decolonization’. Registration required.
Preacher: Revd Professor Judith Brown (Emeritus Fellow). Followed by Chapel Supper in the Old Common Room.