All Balliol students and academic/non-academic staff are warmly invited to join a free, informal taster session that will introduce you to mindfulness. Register here.
Professor Meg Russell, Professor of British and Comparative Politics and Director of the Constitution Unit, University College London: ‘Brexit and the Political Constitution’. Please see further information here.
The College is delighted that pianist Sir András Schiff (Supernumerary Fellow of Balliol) will be giving a concert in Balliol Hall. Open to all. Free admission. No booking needed: first-come-first-served until the Hall is full.
Asang Wankhede (Balliol 2021, DPhil Law) invites you to a launch and discussion about his book Affirmative Action for Economically Weaker Sections and Upper-Castes in Indian Constitutional Law: Context, Judicial Discourse, and Critique (Routledge, 2022). Please register here.
Professor Brian Lewis (Oliver Smithies Lecturer) will give the first of his Oliver Smithies Lectures entitled: ‘Greek to the Soul: George Ives and Homosexuality in Britain from Wilde to Wolfenden’
David Edmonds, philosopher, presenter of the Philosophy Bites podcast and author of a new biography of Derek Parfit (Balliol 1961), will talk about Parfit’s life and work. Open to all Oxford students, and tickets are free, but sign-up required here.
Balliol College Chapel Choir will sing from the Salvin Tower at 7.45am on Monday 1 May 2023. All are warmly invited to listen to the choir from Front Quad as part of their celebrations for May Day.
Dr Shashi Jayakumar (Oliver Smithies Visiting Lecturer) will give a lecture entitled ‘Disinformation and Hybrid Threats – The Singapore Perspective’.
Preacher: Revd Dr Michael Lloyd, Principal, Wycliffe Hall.
Preacher: Gillian Hamnett, Director of Student Welfare, University of Oxford.
Preacher: Revd Peter Godden, Vicar of St Dunstan’s Church, Monks Risborough.
Preacher: Oliver Wright, Keble College, Oxford.
Preacher: Dr Chloë Reddaway, Research Associate, Arts and the Sacred, King’s College London.
Professor Lawrie Balfour (John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government), ’ “Modern Life Begins with Slavery”: Toni Morrison and the Imagination of Freedom’. If you would like to attend, please contact the Development Office: see event details.
Balliol Members’ Concert: featuring a variety of works performed by Balliol members and friends.
Armand Djikoloum (oboe) and Iyad Sughayer (piano).
On the third anniversary of the death of Professor Stefano Zacchetti (16 January 1968–29 April 2020), Yehan Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies and Professorial Fellow of Balliol 2012–2020, we invite you to join us via Zoom for a short commemoration of his life, friendship, and contribution to scholarship, and to celebrate the launch of the volume of his collected articles translated into Chinese. Please register via this link.
Professor Martin Burton (Professor of Otolaryngology, Director of Cochrane UK and Research Fellow in Clinical Medicine): ‘Who, What, Why? Making Better Decisions About Health Care’. Register here.
Professor Seamus Perry (Professor of English Literature, Massey Fellow and Tutor in English), ‘W.H. Auden: Early and Late’. Members of the Common Room only.
Sir Vernon Bogdanor will give a talk on ‘The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain’. Free to attend for all members of the University, but sign-up is required via this link.