Spring 2008
St Antony’s
College
newsletter
Inside:
Warden’s Letter 2
Major events and prominent visitors 3
The St Antony’s Day Service
3
News from the Middle
East Centre Archive 4
Fundraising success from MEC
Jubilee Gaudy
4
Dr Sofia Shwayri, Centre for
Lebanese Studies Visiting Fellow 5
Dr Raffaella A. Del Sarto, Research
Fellow in Israel Studies 6
New Directions for Japanese
Studies in Oxford 6
Return of a Silver Salt Bowl 6
College Departures
7
St Antony’s Ball 8
The William and
Nona Heaslip Trinity 8
JCR President’s Report 9
Sport 10
Old Antonian Rowers (OAR) 11
Boat Club Appeal 12
Publications by Current Members 12
Oxford Alumni Weekend 13
Did you Matriculate in October
1998? It’s reunion time! 13
Governing Body News 13
Antonian News 14
Current Members Awards
and Elections 17
Deaths
17
Professor Geoffrey Lewis 18
Antonian Liaison Officers
around the world
19
Antonian Liaison News
and Group Events 20
Welcome to our
new Liaison Officers 20
Future Events
20
On 11 October 2007 the European Studies Centre's Annual Lecture was given by
Mr José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission. He spoke on
‘Britain’s Role in a Global Europe’. See page 3 for further events.
(Photos: Rob Judges)
Warden’s Letter
Warden’s Letter
March 2008
Photo: Greg Smolonski
W
hen the College’s Governing Body
interviewed me for the position
of Warden, one of the questions
I found easiest was about how I saw the future
of the College. What changes did I intend to
make? In a word, very few. The College – and
this was why I wanted to come here – to my
mind was and is a great success story. It brings
together fellows and students with many
different backgrounds and interests yet who
have one thing in common and that is a lively
curiosity about the world. St Antony’s provides
them with a place to work and to learn and,
equally important, to meet each other. Through
its centres, it promotes understanding of
other continents, countries and cultures. Why
change something that works so well?
I arrived here at the start of July 2007,
in time for a Gaudy to celebrate the 50th
anniversary of the Middle East Centre. It was
a marvellous few days, with panels on every
sort of subject from the occupation in Iraq to
oil. The speakers ranged from political leaders
such as Hanan Ashrawi, to journalists such as
Tom Friedman, to leading academics. That,
as I have come to realize, was a good foretaste
of the lively intellectual life of the College.
Every centre has its own programme and we
frequently have special lectures or seminars. In
Michaelmas term, just to take a few examples,
the College was host to José Manuel Barroso,
President of the EU Commission, and to Dora
Bakoyannis, the Foreign Minister of Greece.
The calendar is crammed: Hindu nationalism, the recent Kenyan elections, the Putin
presidency in Russia, the politics of democracy
in Latin America, geostrategy and energy, the
politics of Japanese broadcasting or Turkey
and the European Union. The only frustrating
thing is that it is impossible to go to them all.
I am slowly meeting our over 400 students
and have found the experience a fascinating
and humbling one. They are more highly
motivated, competent, and well-informed
than I remember being when I was a student
here. Their research, whether they are in the
older disciplines such as history, economics, or
politics or in the newer areas such as development or refugee studies, covers a wide range
of subjects and much of the world. Many of
them worked, as journalists, for example, or
in NGOs or in government before they decided
to come here and continue their more formal
education. Hard-working though they are,
our students also find time for an energetic
social life and for all sorts of sports. Our men’s
football team won the Middle Common Room
championship in Michaelmas Term and in
Hilary the men’s first boat won Blades, which
means, I have now learned, that they caught
up the boat in front of them on the river on
four days in succession. Our women’s team
almost matched them, ‘bumping’ other boats
on three days.
I am also getting some sense of how the
University of Oxford works. Perhaps it helps
that I come from a country with a federal
structure and from a university, Toronto,
which also had strong colleges. There have
been and are tensions between the Colleges
and the University, something which is almost
inevitable when you get bodies whose interests
not only overlap but also clash. The last
few years have been a time of considerable
changes in the University’s administration
and, while many of these have gone through
without comment, others have produced much
heated debate. In general, opinion in this College has favoured reform on the grounds that
Oxford cannot afford to stand still. The current
hot issue, which is important to us, is how the
University and the colleges will divide up the
funding, including that from the government,
which flows through to us. Will it be on the
basis of numbers of students, as a number of
the primarily undergraduate colleges prefer?
Or will the division recognize research as well?
For St Antony’s, where fellows spend a good
deal of their time on research as well as on
teaching, the latter course makes more sense
– and it would help us financially. Finances,
you will not be surprised to learn, are always a
concern for us.
If I hope to do anything in my time as
Warden, it is to strengthen the College so that
it goes on doing what it does, only better. I
have now been here for almost a year, time
enough to think about how I might usefully
help with that. It is clear that we need more
and better facilities. We would also like to
have the flexibility to have new fellows when
the chance comes along to add someone who
would contribute to the College and enhance
its academic reputation. We ought to have
more student bursaries and scholarships so
that the best students can apply here without
worrying that they won’t be able to afford it.
We have plans, ambitious but necessary ones,
for buildings which will provide us with more
library space, seminar rooms, lecture halls,
offices and student accommodation. We have
started construction to expand the Russian
Centre’s library. Three new buildings--the
Middle East Centre’s new building, designed by
the extraordinary architect Zaha Hadid, and
the two Gateway buildings by the distinguished
firm of Bennetts Associates are wending their
way through the Oxford Planning Process as
we keep our fingers crossed.
If I can be sure of one thing, that is that I
shall be doing a lot of fundraising in the next
years – and that I shall be calling on you, our
alumni and friends for help and advice. As
they say on the radio, stay tuned. And, when
you can, please come and see us.
Mrs Dora Bakoyannis, Foreign Minister of Greece, with Dimitar Bechev (JRF) and Othon Anastasakis (Director of SEESOX) (Photo: Rob Judges)
Major events
and prominent visitors
26 October 2007 - JCR Special Seminar
- Former President of Mexico, Dr Carlos Salinas
de Gortari, spoke on the subject of ‘Mexico:
After NAFTA, Average Growth of 3%. The Missed
Opportunity’ at a JCR Special Seminar. Mr
Carlos Salinas was president of Mexico between
1988 and 1994. During his government the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
was negotiated and signed. The seminar was
chaired by Professor Laurence Whitehead,
Official Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College.
The event was sponsored by the St Antony’s JCR
and the Oxford University Mexican Society.
6 Nov 2007 - Mrs Dora Bakoyannis,
Foreign Minister of Greece, gave the SEESOX
Annual Lecture. Her topic was ‘Does Europe
have a message for the world?’ SEESOX
(South East European Studies at Oxford) is
part of the European Studies Centre.
20 November 2007 - St Antony’s JCR
Ambassadorial Seminar - HE Dr Yoon-je
Cho, South Korean Ambassador to the United
Kingdom, spoke on ‘Recent Developments on
the Korean Peninsula’.
27 November 2007 – HE Mr Ron Proser,
Israeli Ambassador to the UK, spoke on ‘Ninety
Years to the Balfour Declaration: Where Do We
Go from Here?’
Margaret MacMillan
18 Feb 2008 – Dr George Alogoskoufis,
Greek Minister of Economy and Finance,
spoke on ‘Globalisation and the European
Social Model’. He urged that all countries
in Europe should find solutions to improve
the functioning of the European Social
Model and make it more sustainable. He saw
globalisation not a threat to Europe but as a
challenge and an opportunity.
4 Mar 2008 – The Chancellor’s Seminar
– The Rt Hon Lord Christopher Patten,
Chancellor of Oxford University, was in
conversation with Güler Sabancı, Chairperson
of Sabancı Holding and Founder of Sabancı
University, Turkey, on the subject of ‘Bridging
Worlds’.
The Rt Hon Lord Christopher Patten with
Güler Sabancı (Photo: Rob Judges)
The St Antony’s Day Service
On 11 January 2008 the College held
its annual service of celebration and
thanksgiving. This year we were pleased to
welcome the Reverend Dr Andrew Bunch,
Vicar of St Giles, Oxford, as celebrant, and the
Reverend Canon Andrew White, President of
the Foundation for Relief and Reconciliation
in the Middle East and Anglican Chaplain for
Iraq, who gave an address on the subject of
‘Peace – Re-Imagining the World’.
The photograph shows Canon White
with Megan Prince, aged 10, granddaughter
of Mrs Denise Line of the European Studies
Centre. Canon
White made a point
of coming to St
Antony’s to thank
Megan for her
efforts in raising
over £1,000 for
the children of his
congregation in
Baghdad. During an inspiring address he
spoke about his congregation and his hopes
for peace. The service was followed by dinner
in Hall.
College Activities
College Activities
The Helen Lotbinière Collection, kindly given
by Virginia Forbes, has a St Antony’s College
connection. The Collection consists of a scrap
book containing photographs, extracts from
letters, diaries entries and later accounts by
Helen Joly de Lotbinière describing her struggle
to join her husband in Aden and her life and
work in Aden from October 1939 to March 1941.
Helen Lotbinière was a friend of the founder of
St Antony’s College, Antonin Besse, and the scrap
book contains photographs of him with the
Lotbinières.
Charles Butt Collection Iraq no. 164. Marshes, Village houses and scenes, 20 March 1981.
News from the Middle East
Centre Archive by Debbie Usher, Archivist
The Middle East Centre Archive is an active
collecting Archive and receives many new
collections or additions to existing collections
every year. The purpose of the Archive is to
preserve and make available to research the
papers and photographs of people who have
lived and served in the Middle East. Every
January a summary of new accessions over the
past twelve months is submitted to the National
Register of Archives based at UK’s The National
Archives. Whilst there is not sufficient space
in this article to detail all our new accessions,
here are some of the highlights from our new
accessions in 2007.
The Archive has received on loan, from Mr
Griffiths Lawson-Hall, the Alexandro Buccianti
journal recording in Italian the invasion of Egypt
by Napoleon covering the period 1796-1801
with an English translation of the journal made
by Alfred Hall in 1901. The journal has never
before been in the public domain and is new
to scholarship as a primary source account of
Napoleon’s conquest.
The Charles Butt Photographic Collection,
received as a bequest in May 2007, has added
substantially to the Archive’s photographic
Collection. Charles Butt served in the Sultan’s
Armed Forces (Oman) from 1966 to 1978 and
this new accession of about ten thousand 35mm
colour slides includes some outstanding military
and landscape images of Oman as well as images
covering the Gulf States, Iraq, Iran, Jordan,
Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Sudan and Turkey
from the 1960s to 1980s. Work has begun on
digitising this slide collection and photo galleries
of Charles Butt’s Jordan and Saudi Arabian slides
are available online.
Continuing the theme on Oman there have
been several significant additions to our excellent
collection of military papers relating to Oman in the
1970s, most notably the gift by Charles Hepworth of
his private papers covering his service in the Sultan’s
Armed Forces in 1971 including his memoirs, training and mission papers.
The Rosalind Ramirez Collection, kindly
given by Alison Warner, consists of the papers
and photographs of Rosalind Ramirez who was
Governess of King Feisal II of Iraq and includes
correspondence from the young King Feisal II
which gives a remarkable and poignant insight
into the life of Iraq’s short-lived royalty.
There have also been some significant
additions to existing collections such as further
papers of Sir Reader Bullard (who was ConsulGeneral in Rabat, Jedda and Tehran between 1934
and 1946) kindly given by Lady Bullard. Also
further papers for Raymond Cafferata (who served
in the Palestine Police from 1922 to 1948) kindly
given by Christopher Cafferata, the correspondence
of Dame Violet Dickson (wife of Harold Dickson,
Political Agent in Kuwait) kindly given by Mrs
Dickson, and further colour slides of Iran and
Yemen kindly given, with copyright assigned to the
Archive, by the photo journalist Bini Malcolm.
The Middle East Centre Archive would like to
thank all the donors to the Archive in 2007. With
an average of over 30 new accessions per year we
are grateful to the generosity of our donors and
reminded of the pressing need for the new Middle
East Centre building.
Correction to last newsletter
Fundraising success from MEC Jubilee Gaudy
As those who attended may remember, 5 volunteers representing each decade (1957
- 1966, 1967-76, 1977-1986, 1987-1996 and 1997 - present day) spearheaded a fundraising
campaign and this was celebrated on the Saturday evening, with prizes going to Foulath
Hadid (for the most money raised by 1997-present day cohort), Matteo Legrenzi (for the
highest number of donors in the 1987-1996 cohort) and Patrick Seale (for the highest
participation rate for 1957-1966 cohort). We were delighted to announce the establishment
of the Hadid Scholarship as a fully endowed bursary, and the creation of a new Hourani
Scholarship that will be sustained by old members’ donations.
Dr Sofia Shwayri,
Centre for Lebanese Studies
Visiting Fellow
The Centre
for Lebanese
Studies was
established
in Oxford in
1984 as an
independent
institute
affiliated to the
Middle East
Centre. For
over 20 years, the CLS hosted conferences,
workshops and visiting scholars, and
published a series of books and papers that
set the standard for the study of modern
Lebanon. The Centre closed its Oxford
premises in 2005. To preserve the special
relationship between the CLS and the
Middle East Centre, the Governors agreed
to establish a new visiting fellowship to
enable outstanding scholars of Lebanon to
come to St Antony’s for an academic year.
The CLS Visiting Fellows are expected to
conduct research and promote knowledge
on Lebanon through public speaking and
by organizing a workshop or conference in
Oxford in the course of their attachment.
The Middle East Centre is enormously
grateful to George and Alexandra Asseily,
and the Governors of the Centre for
Lebanese Studies, for their generosity in
funding this new Visiting Fellowship.
The first CLS Visiting Fellow was elected
for the 2007/08 academic year. Dr Sofia
Shwayri came to St Antony’s from New
York University. She has summed up her
experiences to date, from Beirut to Oxford,
in verse.
Since then, we have seen continued contributions to both the Hourani Fellowship Fund
and the Hourani Scholarship fund. The Fellows and students of the Middle East Centre
extend their thanks to all contributors. Anyone interested in pledging a gift to these funds,
please contact the Development Office at the usual address.
Charles Butt Collection Iraq no. 95. Kerbala, Market & Imam Hussain Ali shrine, 6 March 1981.
The Learned Lebanese Fellow
My name is Sofia Shwayri,
I hail from Beirut.
I’m an architect by training
Via an archeology route.
I grew up during a Civil War,
Was fired on once or twice
So to try and understand this more
Went to Berkeley (very nice).
There my dissertation
Was on my city in time of war,
A detailed explanation
Of things gone on before.
Since gaining there my doctorate
I moved to NYU
Where in the Draper program
Studies in this theme grew.
So then I had a global view
Of cities that know no peace,
How they endeavour to renew
Destruction, piece by piece.
My fieldwork, going from site to site,
Allowed me to take a look
And set the framework so I could write
These studies as a book.
Now I am at St Antony’s,
As a Fellow for just one year
Where I will focus on Beirut
While enjoying the local beer.
I’ll set up a conference late next term
Which will attempt to start a chain
Of events that will once more return
My city to peace again.
Dr Raffaella A. Del Sarto,
Research Fellow in Israel Studies
Dr Raffaella A. Del Sarto is the new Research Fellow in Israel Studies
at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, a joint post with
the Middle East Centre of St Antony’s College. The Research Fellowship
in Israel Studies has been re-established after a one-year hiatus thanks
to the generous support of the Pears Foundation and the Marc Rich
Foundation. It has served as a means for collaboration between the
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Middle East
Centre to promote scholarship, knowledge and exchange on modern
Israel in Oxford.
As my name reveals, I am Italian – in spite of
not having an Italian accent when speaking
English (unfortunately, I must say). Before
coming to Oxford, I was a Jean Monnet Fellow
and subsequently a Marie Curie Research
Fellow at the European University Institute in
(sunny) Florence, Italy. I previously taught
courses on international relations at the
University of Bologna. But this is where the
Italian part of my academic curriculum ends.
I obtained my PhD in International Relations
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2003.
In the years I lived in Israel, I learned Hebrew
and worked at the Israel Democracy Institute
for a while. My doctoral research focused
on the impact of domestic factors on EuroMediterranean regional relations and involved
field research in Israel, Egypt, and Morocco.
But I also worked as a project manager with
a German foundation in East Jerusalem for
two years, and my main task was to set up the
local management structures of a German
government fund in support of Palestinian
civil society projects. Pursuing a PhD at the
Hebrew University and concomitantly working
with Palestinian civil society during the years
of the Oslo process gave me the precious
opportunity to get acquainted with political
realities on both sides of the conflict, along
with frequent headaches, that is. My ‘German
connection’, on the other hand, has to do with
the fact that I previously lived in Germany,
where I also obtained my Master’s degree in
Political Science (University of Freiburg).
Reflecting very much my personal journey
and experiences, my research interests include
Euro-Mediterranean and EU-Israeli relations,
Middle East politics, and, obviously, the
politics, society, and foreign relations of Israel.
I also belong to that group of strange people
who like theory, International Relations theory
in my case. In this realm, I am particularly
interested in the relationship between identity
and security and the domestic-foreign policy
nexus. My passion for Karate and sushi, on the
other hand, has not much to do with Europe
or the Middle East. But since I am dealing with
a troubled area, practising Karate significantly
contributes to my serenity and peace of mind
– and teaches me how to deal with critics if
necessary!
During my Fellowship, I will be teaching a
course on Israel’s politics, society, and identity,
and hence assist students of both institutions
who wish to deepen their knowledge on
modern Israel and engage in research on
this topic. Reflecting my interest in EuroMediterranean affairs, I am also involved in
the RAMSES network of Research Centres in
the Mediterranean Area through the European
Studies Centre. And I wish to pursue my own
research project, which aims at exploring the
contribution – and failures – of International
Relations theory in explaining the persistence
of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Theory meets
practice, so to speak.
The Research Fellowship in Israel Studies is
challenging for at least two reasons: First,
the required specialisation on modern Israel
lies on one end of the research spectrum of
both institutions with which I am associated.
Secondly, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and
Israel’s relations to Europe are, for obvious
reasons, emotionally laden subjects, which
lend themselves to biased arguments and
polemics of different flavours. But political
realities are far more complex than that.
Therefore, the main goal I wish to achieve
during my Fellowship is to contribute to
academia’s most important purpose: to
advance knowledge, for which informed
research and serious efforts of attaining the
benchmark of objectivity are crucial.
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College Activities
New Directions for Japanese Studies in Oxford
T
By Ian Neary, Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
his year has seen Japanese studies in
Oxford and particularly in St Antony’s
move in two new directions.
Firstly we began teaching a new masters
programme in modern Japanese studies.
This is a joint operation made possible by
the cooperation of colleagues in the Oriental
institute. We have fourteen students on the
programme, seven of them based in our
college. Five of them are native speakers or
have native speaker competence in Japanese.
The other nine are taking an intensive
language programme. All students take the
research methods course and everyone does at
least two courses about Japan. Those who are
not doing the language take three. Our focus
is on social science but it is also possible to
do courses on law, linguistics and literature
and we hope in the near future to be able to
include art history too. Most of this cohort will
be with us for just one year, leading to an MSc,
but a few of them will be staying another year
to complete an MPhil and some of these, we
hope, will go on to complete a doctorate.
Return of a Silver Salt Bowl
by a student “who should
have been more inquisitive
than acquisitive” (sic)
Many thanks to the anonymous
Antonian who returned our silver salt
bowl and spoon, which had accompanied
them home after a High Table many years
ago. Thank you too for the kind donation.
The salt bowl is now safely restored to its
partner and the donation will go towards
the Annual Fund, to support current
projects benefiting students and academics
(we will provide more detail in the next
newsletter).
If the Antonian would like to contact
us we would be glad to welcome them for
the annual free dinner which we offer all
Antonians and they will be able to see the
salt bowl in situ.
On this new programme Roger Goodman
has taught his course on the social
anthropology of Japan and we have also
had Sharon Kinsella teach a course on the
sociology of Japanese culture. Sharon is with
us during 2007/8 as a departmental lecturer.
She has written about many aspects of popular
culture including manga but at present is
completing a book on girls in contemporary
culture.
Many people both in this country and
Japan, while welcoming the interest being
taken in China, have been worried that this
has meant that Japanese studies has been
eclipsed. Several university programmes or
departments have been closed down and even
in the established centres there were few new
appointments. Responding to these concerns
the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation,
aided by its sister organisation the Nippon
Foundation, decided to provide some £2.5
million over five years to fund new posts. The
aim is to refresh and to broaden the scope of
Japanese studies by appointing younger people
to new posts which will focus on aspects of
contemporary Japan, covering such fields as
politics, economics, international relations,
culture, media and society. Thirteen new jobs
will be created by the start of next academic
year at universities across England and Wales.
Oxford was successful in applying for
one of these posts and we will appoint
Ekaterina Korobtseva to a lectureship in the
sociology of modern Japan located jointly
in the Department of Sociology and Nissan
Institute. Katya is a graduate of St Antony’s
(2003-07). She has been working on single
mothers and is presently completing a book
on that topic but will then move on to look at
dating. Meanwhile we will also be appointing
Professor Takehiko Kariya who will come
to us from the Department of Education at
Tokyo University. He was a SAM (2005-06)
and has produced a large amount of work on
the sociology of education in Japan both in
Japanese and English. He too will be a joint
appointment with the Department of Sociology
and he will be based in the Nissan Institute.
Both of these new colleagues will start in
September 2008.
Japanese studies in Oxford can be traced
back to the late nineteenth century. The Nissan
Institute was founded in 1980. With these
two new appointments in sociology and the
prospect of a continued flow of postgraduate
students we will be able to build on the
foundations laid down by previous generations
of scholars in this college and university.
College Departures
St Antony’s says a sad goodbye to
the following members of staff
• Graham
Jowett,
the College
Accountant, left in
February 2008. The
new Accountant is
Fiona Shickle
• Jackie Willcox, the Secretary and
Librarian of the Russian and Eurasian Studies
Centre, retired at the end of 2007 after more
than 25 years with the College. She continues
in a part-time capacity looking after the
Parliamentary Fellows Programme. We
welcome in her place Richard Ramage.
Photo: Agnes Thambynayagam
• Jill Flitter, (above) our College
Secretary of 21 years has also retired.
Margaret Couling has taken over her role
under the new title of College Registrar.
• Janet Pearson, Senior Members’
Assistant, has worked in a variety of
roles around the College. Julie Irving,
has taken over as Senior Members’
Administrator.
Jackie singing with her successor, Richard Ramage,
and Alex Pravda on guitar. (Photo: Kathie Mackay.)
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• Hilary Maddicott, Library Assistant for
more than 17 years, has retired from fulltime work. She has returned to College on a
part-time basis to catalogue the Deakin Gift.
JCR President’s Report
Ken Wilkinson’s Farewell Speech
Ken Wilkinson, one of our longest-serving Lodge porters, retired at the
end of January 2008. Malcolm Tyrrell has joined the team in his place. Ken
has kindly given us permission to reproduce his farewell speech, below.
Warden (Margaret), Fellow
Antonians, Work Colleagues past and
present, Whilst reading a Dear John letter
telling me I hadn’t got the porter’s job at St
Antony’s in May 1996, I received a phone call
offering me a month’s trial. Today, some 12 ½
years later, old age has deemed I must move on
to retirement.
My background was as a metallurgist in the
iron and steel industry, before moving to the
motor industry in 1969, to Pressed Steel Fisher
(yes, that factory up the road). I was elected the
Corresponding Member of a Staff Union just
as the Cowley factories were about to embark
on monumental changes. Meetings with the
Chairman of the Company and European
Commissioners were to stand me in good stead
for working in the Lodge.
There have been many changes in the
Lodge over the years. I was the last of the
‘sleeping porters’, from the days when the bar
shut at 11pm and the porters slept on site from
midnight to 6am. The biggest change has been
a new invention called email; team captains
now notify the students of their selections by
pressing the right key in the quiet of their own
rooms.
The Lodge can be likened to the ‘hub of a
wagon wheel’ with its spokes going out to the
Centres and the Bursary staff. It is looked upon
as a safe haven for all where one can find a
sympathetic audience for problems and help
provided by a quiet word in the right ear.
The porter sorts all the post, takes phone
calls from all over the world, carries out First
Aid and maintains security. The job was best
summed up by a SAM in a newspaper article:
“These chaps have really formed a ring of steel
around me. I’ve learned new lessons about
professionalism, dignity, a sense of tradition and
power from them.”
St Antony’s Ball
May 24th 2008
Tickets: £60/£50
Arabian Nights
Tease your Tastebuds, Test your Tarots, and
Take a Camel Ride Under the Stars
www.st-antonysball.com
Ken with a few of his fans
On a personal note, I received love and
prayers to Almighty God and Buddha from
all sections of the College when I was at my
lowest prior to an operation in August 2006,
from which I am now fully recovered. Yes,
there really were many acts of kindness, over
75 get well cards, numerous emails and visits
whilst in hospital. I can simply say thank you
from the bottom of my heart.
To the students, I hope the legacy of the
key register will help you to get in when you
lock yourselves out, for years to come. Please
also remember the love and friends made at
St Antony’s when you go out into the world to
follow your own careers in whatever discipline
you have been called to. They are worldwide
and can be contacted by any laptop, as I
myself discovered in Canada last year.
“A wonderful thing about St Antony’s is that you have people at college from all over the
world, and such an impressive variety, in both breadth and depth, of international experience.”
Ken Wilkinson: [email protected]
The William and Nona
Heaslip Trinity - St Antony’s
Scholarship in International
Relations
St Antony’s is delighted to announce this new scholarship,
which starts in 2008. It will be available to an outstanding
student of Canadian nationality who has already been accepted
to study International Relations at St Antony’s College and who
has studied International Relations at the University of Toronto,
with preference given to those at Trinity College.
William Heaslip was a successful Canadian businessman
and a philanthropist. With his wife Nona, he made significant
contributions to Canadian universities. Although he did not go
to university himself, he believed strongly in the importance
of education and set up a series of generous undergraduate
scholarships across Canada. His Foundation, which his widow
now runs, has created this scholarship, the first it has awarded
to a student studying outside Canada. It is intended to link
the International Relations Programme at the University of
Toronto, which is considered the leading one of its kind in
Canada, with the College.
For more details, please check the scholarships section of
our website or contact the College Registrar, Margaret Couling
at: [email protected].
International experience is perhaps the
defining personality trait of St Antony’s – both
that which the students bring to the college
and that which they gain from it. Our JCR
committee is a small sample of such diversity,
with a team that spans from Canada to Serbia,
South Africa to Germany, Ireland to Zimbabwe,
The Netherlands to Mexico, Serbia and, indeed,
England itself!
It is customary to conclude reports of this
kind with a word of thanks to the incredible
team of students who make this vibrant
community possible, but considering that I
have introduced it with them, I am going to
proceed with praises upfront and thank the
JCR committee (Karlin Younger, Stefano Caria,
Allegra Fusten, Giselle Aris, Frederik Beelitz,
Janice Winter, Laura Valadez, Diarmuid Torney,
Michiel Paris, Penelope Julian, Sarah Hannan,
Adam Berry, Thais Bessa, Dominik Piech,
Elisabeth Becker, Emanuela Paoletti, Heather
Kincaide, Charlotte Bruckerman, Joseph Rowsell
and Milos Damnjanovic) among many others
who make St Antony’s all that it is.
Academically, socially and – particularly
appropriate for the pun – in the sports arena,
St Antony’s has hit the ground running this
academic year with many achievements and
new initiatives already accomplished.
The cause for most vocal celebration has been
our first-ever victory of the MCR football League
this year. We started the season as relegation
battlers, but managed an unbeaten run of games
that secured us the league title in the very last
match. While we have a sterling reputation in
the social and cultural spheres, our all-graduate
college is not really renowned for sporting
achievements, which made our victory even
sweeter. Beyond the achievement itself, the victory
awarded new students (both players and the
amazing supporters) a sense of belonging to the
college and amazing team memories.
What is not new, but certainly enduring at
St Antony’s, is our seemingly innate ability as a
college to create great reasons to play hard as we
work hard. We have had an action-packed term
card with popular events varying from potluck
dinners to poker evenings, karaoke idols to salsa
nights, football in London to formal dinners.
And, of course, our legendary bops live on. The
Australian Bop earlier this Hilary term proved
particularly successful for both the Australians
(who left the party less clad than they had
arrived), and the rest of us (who left with
wonderful Facebook blackmail material!)
A new initiative we are proud to announce
is the establishment of the St Antony’s Women’s
Committee, which offers a lively space for
women to interact, socialise and dialogue on
a range of diverse issues. While in its infancy,
this committee is already highly active, with
programmes planned throughout the term.
Another pioneering project is our new Fellows
Drinking Plan (what a great name!), which
offers a limited number of small subsidies to
students who wish to take a Fellow out for coffee
or a pint. Through this small gesture, we hope
to offer a more convivial context for one-on-one
conversations between graduates and fellows,
thus creating a greater sense of community
between all members of St Antony’s.
It is precisely this threefold thriving of
the scholastic, sporting and socialising that
makes St Antony’s such an amazing home to
its students. From incredible discussions on
international politics to football, yoga and
rowing to coffee in the CCR, brewing your own
beer or a less time-consuming drink in the Late
Bar, St Antony’s provides something (and often
too much!) for everyone. There are plenty more
plans in the pipeline which I look forward to
sharing with you in my next newsletter. But let’s
first linger a little in this term and enjoy all it
has to offer before moving on to Trinity.
Sport . . .
Successful MCR League 2007/08 for
St Antony’s Men’s football teams (by Kai Hebel)
Dancesport (by Hart Feuer and Andrew Baldwin)
Antonians represent the University on both
the Featherwaits Dancesport Team (Andrew
Baldwin and Hart Feuer) and the Oxford Main
Team (William Lee). In Hilary term Hart
Feuer and Chloe Morris (St Anne’s) made the
Intermediate Latin finals in Bath as well as the
Advanced Latin and Ballroom finals at Leeds
and Keele respectively. Andrew Baldwin and
Naomi Hawkins (Magdalen) made the semifinals in Ballroom and Latin at Warwick,
out-dancing some of the best on the
Oxford Main Team. William Lee
and Helen Pearce (Keble)
took first place in Intermediate Tango,
Jive and Rumba in Warwick and second
in Waltz. At Sheffield, William and Helen
took sixth in Viennese Waltz, while in
Nottingham they made first in Salsa,
second in Intermediate Ballroom, and
third in Advanced Latin overall. Real stars!
The Featherwaits (an alternative team run by Oxford students) also do public dance demonstrations, traveling as far afield as the Côte d’Azur.
Training on Dorney Lake, an artificial, olympic
quality lake owned by Eton College.
Rowing
(by Marco Vonhof)
In Hilary term, the Boat Club trained for
‘bumps’ races during the Torpids regatta in
which crews pursue the boat ahead with the
goal of literally bumping into them. The goal is
to win blades – four bumps over the four days
of racing.
Weather and the holidays have conspired to
make river training lamentably rare. Nevertheless, progress has been made. Many boat club
members trained individually throughout the
holiday break, and participated in the dreaded
2-kilometer erg tests (time trial sprints on the
rowing machines). Weight circuits and team
erging have served to bring the rowers to higher
levels of fitness, and to facilitate team bonding.
Hart Feuer and Chloe Morris (St Anne’s)
William Lee and Helen Pearce (Keble)
Spates of rainy weather raised the river level
on the Isis for long periods throughout the
holidays and Hilary term, preventing the Boat
Club from taking to the water in Oxford. Two
weekend trips to the Eton College Rowing Center
at Dorney Lake in Windsor – venue for the
2012 London Olympics boat racing competition
– allowed both the men’s and women’s crews
to train on the water and experience a worldclass rowing facility. In mid-Hilary, river levels
returned to normal.
Preliminary crews for Torpids were selected
in fourth week, and renewed training on the
water resulted in ever-improving technique and
crew cohesion in the boats. Torpids ended on a
high with bumps for all three crews on the final
day and blades for our first men’s boat, securing
the College’s reputation as the fastest climbing
boat club in Oxford. We hope to build on that
success with further achievement in the Summer Eights competition in Trinity term.
The Men’s football team has had a very successful season in several respects. First, for the
first time ever in College history, we won the MCR League Championship Title in Michaelmas
Term, making us the best graduate football team of Oxford University. Captained by Tobias
Lenz and Kai Hebel, the team showed great morale, which has been one of its main strengths.
The team’s determination and perseverance were thoroughly tested in the last game of the
season against Green College/Osler. Having equalized three times during a highly dramatic
and turbulent game, we secured the League title in the 87th minute when scoring the fourth
and final goal. The team remained undefeated throughout the season, finishing with a record
of five wins and one draw. Second, we had an unprecedented intake of ‘footballophile’ Freshers
last year, both in terms of quality and quantity. This allowed us, for the first time ever, to field
two St Antony’s teams. Competing in the third MCR division, the second team has provided
an unprecedented amount of players with the experience of playing competitive football against other graduate college teams. Third, St Antony’s
dominated the annual five-a-side tournament organized by Mansfield Road University Club. Having entered two teams in the tournament, St
Antony’s teams actually faced each other in the semi-final before the successful team won the competition with a clear 5-0. Instead of a trophy,
three bottles of champagne were our well-deserved and well-received price. Fourth, we are currently on track for securing the ‘double’. Having won
the League championship, we aspire to also remain victorious secure in the Cuppers competition. Cuppers takes place in Hilary Term and pitches
all the MCR teams of the university against each other in a group phase with a subsequent knock-out round. So far, we are top of our group and
bound to face Oxford’s toughest graduate teams in the upcoming knock-out stage.
Old Antonian Rowers (OAR)
(This letter first appeared on the College website.)
Old Antonian Rowers (OAR) is a new
group set up by several St Antony’s alumni.
Our aim is to give Old Rowers a community
to keep everyone in touch with the sport that
played a part in our Oxford experience and the
friendships we forged on and off the water for
the College crews.
We held our first reunion dinner at the
Oxford & Cambridge Club on 29 March, the
evening of the 2008 Boat Race. Sir Marrack
(now retired Warden) reflected on the boat
club’s success. Many old friends found the time
to join us for an evening of good food, drink
and above all the excellent company of fellow
Antonians. More events will follow in London,
Oxford and further afield in an excuse to see
old friends and connect the famed Antonian
Diaspora.
First, we are publishing a termly newsletter
specifically for Boat Club’s achievements;
so far cramming it all into a few pages is a
real challenge! Second, we have also set up a
Facebook group – Old Antonian Rowers – and
finally a blog http://stantonysboatclub.vox.
com/ – for e-updates that are nearly as fast
as the men’s and women’s blade tallies. We
hope these ‘e-villages’ will become home for
everyone’s rowing stories and plenty of banter.
These are early days for OAR so we hope
that every rower, no matter how long they
If you would like to know more about who
we are please drop me an e-mail at
[email protected]. It will be a
pleasure to hear from you, add you to the
mailing list and (with luck) see you att one of
our future reunion dinners.
Many Old Members scatter to the corners of
the globe on graduation so we are also looking
for the best ways to connect everyone. So far we
have set up three ways.
Bon appétit,
Graham Harvey
Andrew Baldwin and Naomi Hawkins (Magdalen)
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took to the water, will join. We’re here to help
cement the links between old crews and the
current Boat Club and Old Members. From the
responses so far we think that the community
will thrive for years to come.
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Boat Club Appeal By Erin Court
The Boat Club has traditionally been a strong
presence within St Antony’s College. Not only are
we the largest club in terms of our membership
– and easily recognizable by the red, yellow and
black splashtops we sport on and off the water
– we are also a significant social presence for the
broader college community. During Summer
Eights, Oxford’s biggest rowing regatta, St
Antony’s members come down to Isis to cheer on
our women’s and men’s crews competing against
other colleges. Post-race celebrations are always a
social highlight!
The first men’s boat Torpids 2006
Our women’s crews have historically done
very well and, more recently, the men have been
achieving impressive results, winning blades
last Trinity Term at Summer Eights. In fact, our
men’s and women’s first boats have won blades
– the highest achievement in Oxford regattas – a
combined 12 times in just 7 years in the Torpids
and Summer Eights regattas! Our blades from
past years adorn the Late Bar as a testament to
these impressive achievements.
The better we do, the further we move ahead
within our division and the stiffer the competition
we face. We are at a point now where the boat we
row in makes a huge difference to how fast we
row and how well we compete. Because of this we
have begun actively fundraising to purchase new
boats for our club for our women and men to row
in, as our men’s boat is aging and our women
are currently renting a boat from another college.
With contributions already received from alumni,
current students, and the college, we are on our
way to meeting our funding target. This is an
achievable goal and with one last push, we hope to
be in a position to purchase two new boats and it
would be great to have them in time for Summer
Eights in Trinity. It promises to be a great four days
of competition and is sure to bring together the
college community to support our hard-training
rowers!
If you are able to help us complete our
fundraising for these new boats, please contact
Emma Tracy, St Antony’s Development Director, at
[email protected].
Publications by Current Members
News of
Margaret
MacMillan’s
publications
The Warden,
Professor Margaret
MacMillan, is one
of five finalists for
the 2007 Los Angeles
Times Book Prize in the History category.
This is for her book, Nixon and Mao: The
Week that Changed the World. The winner
will be announced on April 25 at the annual
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
Her earlier work, Paris 1919 (Peacemakers
in the UK) was awarded the Prix Jean-Michel
Gaillard, 2007, by the Institut de Relations
Internationales et Stratégiques, France (IRIS).
Mr Richard Clogg (Emeritus Fellow)
has edited the latest in the St Antony’s series:
Bearing Gifts to Greeks: Humanitarian Aid
to Greece in the 1940s (Palgrave Macmillan,
2008).
Professor Jack Hayward (Emeritus
Fellow) has published Fragmented France:
Two Centuries of Disputed Indentity (OUP,
2007) and an edited volume, Leaderless
Europe (OUP, 2008). Since retiring from St
Antony’s he has been a Research Professor of
Politics at the University of Hull.
Dr Homa Katouzian (Research Fellow)
- On 13 February 2008, the Middle East Centre
hosted a launch for his two most recent books.
The first was Iran in the 21st Century:
Politics, Economics and Conflict edited
by Homa Katouzian and Hossein Shahidi
(London: Routledge, 2008). The second
book was Sadeq Hedayat: His Work and his
Wondrous World edited by Homa Katouzian
(London: Routledge, 2008).
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Lady Elizabeth Roberts (Guest Member)
has published Realm of the Black Mountain:
A History of Montenegro (Cornell University
Press, 2007). SEESOX was co-sponsor of a
book launch held in Trinity College, Oxford.
Dr Eugene Rogan and Professor
Avi Shlaim’s edited volume The War for
Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 has
been published in paperback as a second edition
(CUP, Cambridge Middle East Studies, 2007).
Professor Avi Shlaim’s Lion of Jordan:
the life of King Hussein in war and peace
(London: Allen Lane, 2007) was given an
official launch on 23 November 2007 at the
Middle East Centre Library. Reviews of Lion of
Jordan can be found through the Middle East
Centre’s website at www.sant.ox.ac.uk/mec/
book-launch-shlaim2007.html.
Dr Steve Tsang – has published
Governing Hong Kong: Administrative
Officers from the Nineteenth Century to the
Handover to China, 1862-1997 (Hong Kong
University Press, 2007; IB Tauris, Feb 2008).
Oxford Alumni Weekend Meeting Minds: Global
Oxford
19 – 21 September 2008
The Oxford Alumni Weekend offers a busy programme
of events which aim to recognise Oxford’s achievements as
a collegiate institution, both past and present. In 2008, the
Weekend will be focusing on the theme of Global Oxford,
celebrating the part played by the modern-day University
in the international community of the 21st century. The
programme will include sessions covering all types of global
issues, as well as talks by leading alumni in a range of fields
from drama to medicine to the political sphere. There is also
the opportunity for alumni to explore the hidden gems of
the University’s buildings and collections and to revisit their
favourite Oxford places.
Programme and booking details are available from
www.alumniweekend.ox.ac.uk. Please note that it is
necessary to book for this event. Booking (online and post)
will open on 15 May and will close on 22 August. Some of
the more popular events fill up before the deadline so if you
are thinking of coming it is advisable to book early.
Did you Matriculate in
October 1998?
It’s reunion time!
This autumn marks ten years since
we began our post-graduate studies at St
Antony’s. In commemoration of all the late
bar nights, poker tournaments, sporting
competitions, formal halls and even a few
lectures, we’re holding a reunion.
The reunion will be over 17-19 October
2008. There’ll be a high table on Friday
evening (free for alumni, cost TBD for
partners), followed by reminiscing in the
late bar. Further weekend events to be arranged depending on numbers. Children
are welcome; we’re sorting out shared childcare arrangements for Friday’s
dinner. Accommodation will likely be “arrange your own”. This is the first time
a reunion of this sort has been held at St Antony’s so the class of 1998 are the
guinea pigs. It won’t be a really formal weekend, just a chance for everyone to
catch up again.
To reserve your place, contact Eliza Reid at [email protected]. Also feel free
to suggest activities for the weekend that may need to be organised in advance.
Eliza Reid (’98)
Governing
Body News
Paul Collier wins the 2008 Lionel Gelber Prize
Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for the Study of
African Economies and Professor of Economics, has
been awarded the 2008 Lionel Gelber Prize for his
book, ‘The Bottom Billion: Why the poorest countries
are failing and what can be done about it’ (Oxford
University Press, 2007). The Prize is awarded annually
by The Lionel Gelber Foundation in partnership with the
Munk Centre for International Studies at the University
of Toronto and Foreign Policy magazine. It honours the world’s best books on
international affairs and has been described by The Economist as “the world’s
most important award for non-fiction.”
Paul Collier formerly served as Director of Research at the World Bank and as
an advisor to the British Government’s commission on Africa. The Centre for
the Study of African Economies (CSAE) has been undertaking research on Africa
for more than a decade, and has one of the largest concentrations of academic
economists and social scientists working on Africa outside the continent itself.
In The Bottom Billion, Professor Collier sees 980 million people around the
globe living in ‘trapped countries clearly heading towards a black hole.’ Many
of these people are in Africa, but there are large pockets of severe poverty in such
places as Bolivia, Cambodia, East Timor, Haiti, Laos, North Korea, Myanmar,
Yemen, and elsewhere.
Professor Collier received the $15,000 award at the Munk Centre in Toronto on
1 April. He then delivered the annual Lionel Gelber Lecture.
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Photo: Agnes Thambynayagam
David Washbrook,
University Reader in Modern
South Asian History and
Professorial Fellow, resigned
from the Governing Body at the
end of Michaelmas term to take
up a position at Trinity College,
Cambridge. He is to retain his
association with St Antony’s as a
Visiting Fellow until the end of
2008.
Two further fellows will retire at the end of this academic
year: Rosemary Thorp, Reader in the Economics of Latin
America, and Malcolm Deas, Director of Graduate Studies at
the Latin American Centre, University Lecturer in the politics
and government of Latin America, and Senior Fellow.
We are pleased to welcome three new fellows. Professor
Takehiko Kariya (University Lecturer in Japanese Sociology),
Dr Ekaterina Korobtseva (Career Development Fellow in
Japanese Sociology) and Dr Diego Sanchez (University
Lecturer in the Political Economy of Latin America). Further
appointments are expected in Latin American and South
Asian studies.
Antonian News
George Gomori (’57) was the first Hungarian
student in St Antony’s. Having retired from
teaching in Cambridge, he has been awarded one
of Hungary’s highest distinctions, the Commander’s
Cross of the Hungarian Republic.
David Watson (’58) notified us of the following
publications: ‘France, Europe and the World:
International politics since 1880’ in Short Oxford
History of France (OUP, 2003); ‘Clemenceau’s
contacts with England’ in Clemenceau et le
monde Anglo–Saxon (Geste Editions, 2005)
and ‘French Assistance to Russian Armaments
Production’ in Arms and Disarmament in
Diplomacy(Vallentine Mitchell, London, 2008)
Professor Zdzislaw Najder (’60) – his Joseph
Conrad: A Life, first published by Cambridge
University Press in 1983, was twice republished last
year, in English by Camden House (second English
edition) and in Polish by Gaudium, Lublin (third
Polish, sixth edition altogether).
Professor Miklos Veto (’60) has been elected an
external member of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences. He also notified us of two publications:
• La Pensée de Jonathan Edwards avec
une concordance des différentes éditions
de ses Oeuvres. Revised edition (L’Ouverture
Philosophique, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2007)
• Historia Philosophiae. Hommage à Alexis
Philonenko. Sous la direction de Miklos Vetö
(L’Ouverture Philosophique, L’Harmattan, Paris,
2007).
Didier Lancien (’61) has co-written with
Monique de Saint Martin Anciennes et Nouvelles
Aristocraties de 1880 à nos jours, postface by
Pierre Bourdien (Editions de la Maison des sciences
de l’homme, Paris, 2007).
Montek Singh Ahluwalia (’66), Economist and
Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission,
Government of India, is to receive an Oxford
University Degree of Doctor of Civil Law, honoris
causa, at Encaenia in June. He has been extensively
involved in India’s economics reforms as Commerce
Secretary and in posts at the Ministry of Finance and
Department of Economic Affairs. He was also the first
Director of the Independent Evaluation Office at the
International Monetary Fund.
Dr Fred Hohler (’66) is founder and Chairman
of the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF - www.
thepcf.org.uk). The PCF is publishing a national
series of fully illustrated catalogues of oil paintings
in public ownership in the UK. Twenty have been
published to date, including The Government Art
Collection and The Victoria and Albert Museum.
Oxford is currently in production.
The Hon John Godfrey (’67) - After serving as a
Member of the Canadian Parliament for over 14
years, including as Minister of Infrastructure and
Communities in Prime Minister Paul Martin’s government, he will become Head of the Toronto French
School for a five-year term, starting 1 July 2008.
Francis Ghilès (’69) is a Senior Fellow with
the European Institute of the Mediterranean.
In May 2006 he coordinated a conference in
Madrid entitled ‘del Coste del no Magreb, al Tigre
Norteafricano.’ In February 2007 he organized a
workshop jointly with NATO entitled ‘Promouvoir
le Role des Entrepreneurs Binationaux pour
Construire des Ponts Economiques avec le
Maghreb’ and in November 2007 he coordinated a
conference on ‘L’Afrique du Nord et l’Europe; Une
interdépendance recherchée et acceptée.’ Amongst
other publications, he wrote ‘Algeria, a strategic
gas partner for Europe’, published in ‘Politica
Exterior’, July/August 2007. He will be coordinating
a study on Maghreb Economic Integration for the
Peterson Institute in Washington planned to be
ready by early summer 2008. His contact details are
[email protected] or tel +34 93 55 29 076.
Michael Whitehead (’70) – After 9 ½ superb years
in Tokyo, he has been appointed Regional Manager
for Turkey, Middle East and Africa for Air Astana
and has moved to Istanbul.
Dr Milan Hauner (’71) of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison returned to St Antony’s to give
a talk on ‘Benes and Churchill: Two StatesmenMemoirists in two World Wars’ at the International
History Workshop in the European Studies Centre
in January 2008. His critical edition of President
Edvard Beneš’s Memoirs 1938–45 (3 vols), was
published in Prague by Academia in September 2007
Juergen Dunsch (’73) has moved to Switzerland.
He is now the Swiss Correspondent for Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) Contact: [email protected].
Mr Pierre Bauchet (’74) has just published
Régulation et mondialisation, le modèle
américain revu par l’Europe (Editions
l’harmattan, Paris, January 2008.)
Dr Ruth Thompson (’74) is Director General,
Higher Education in the Department of Innovation,
Universities and Skills, London.
Dr Brian McBeth (’75) has published
Dictatorship, Politics, Intrigue, Betrayal and
Survival in Venezuela, 1907–1935 (University of
Notre Dame Press).
Professor Kuang-Huan Fan (’75) has been
appointed Chair Professor of International
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Professor DBG Heuser (’83) - Beatrice Heuser
was appointed to a Chair in International Relations
at the University of Reading in late 2007.
Relations at Diwan University, Taiwan, while
maintaining Adjunct Professorship at the Graduate
School of Political Economy, National Cheng Kung
University.
Philip Walker (’84) - During 2007, Phil wrapped
up a project in Egypt to strengthen the family
courts, and also spent some time in Afghanistan
working with the Afghan Foreign Ministry. He is
back in NH, and would welcome calls or visits from
old friends.
Professor Jonathan Osmond (’76) has been
appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) at
Cardiff University and as a member of the Board of
Trustees of Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum
Wales.
Dr Benny Morris (’85) has edited Making Israel
(Michigan University Press, 2007) and 1948
A history of the first Arab-Israeli War (Yale
University Press, 2008).
Sir Leslie Fielding (’77) has written Before
the Killing Fields: Witness to Cambodia and
the Vietnam War (IB Tauris, Nov 2007). This
is an autobiographical account of the failed
peacemaking process in the 1960s, which led on to
the Pol Pot genocide of 1975-1979. The Chancellor,
Lord Patten, wrote the preface.
Dr Sandra Ott (’79) has published ‘The
Informer, The Lover and The Gift Giver: Female
Collaborators in Pau, 1940-1946’ in ‘French
History’ (OUP, March 2008). This forms part of
a research project on Basque-Franco-German
relations during the two world wars. In April 2008,
the University of Nevada Press launches her new
monograph, War, Judgment, and Memory in
the Basque Borderlands 1914-1945. The book
explores the impact of war and occupation upon
four different French Basque communities. In
2007, she won the Millstone Prize in French history.
The University of Nevada, Reno, granted her tenure
in 2008 as an associate professor in Basque Studies.
Daniel Szechi (’79) - Daniel and Jan Szechi are
now back in the UK permanently after 18 happy
years in Alabama. Daniel is adapting to the new
regime he finds himself under as Professor of Early
Modern History at Manchester quite well, sustained
by long hill walks in the Peak District starting from
their home in New Mills, and the excellent beer
served by the local country pubs.
Dr Charles Powell (‘81), currently Associate
Professor of Spanish History at Madrid’s San Pablo
CEU University, has recently jointly edited Del
autoritaristmo a la democracia: estudios de política
exterior, a collection of essays on international
aspects of Spain’s transition to democracy. For
more information, see: www.silexediciones.com/
Shop/Detail.asp?IdProducts=194.
Catriona Kelly (’82), now Professor of Russian
at New College, Oxford, was elected to the British
Academy.
Martin Meredith (’82 Alistair Horne Fellow) has
published Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making
of South Africa (Simon and Schuster, 2007).
Matthew Jeffries (’86) has written Contesting the
German Empire, 1871-1918 (Blackwell, Dec 2007).
Professor Masamichi Komuro (’86) was chosen
as Dean of Graduate School of Economics in KEIO
University last October. The term of office is two years.
Dr Nemat Shafik (’87) former vice-president of
the World Bank, has been appointed Permanent
Secretary at the Department for International
Development in London.
Surender Bhutani (’90) has written Modern India:
Challenges for Development in the Polish language
with the help of Professor Stanislaw Tokarski. His Urdu
Rubiyat has been translated into Polish.
Ruohong Li (’90) – is Visiting Scholars Program
Manager at the Harvard Yenching Institute, a
nonprofit foundation dedicated to the advancement
of higher education in the humanities and social
sciences, with an emphasis on culture, in East and
Southeast Asia.
Dr Sin Yi Cheung (’90) is now Senior Lecturer
in the Sociology Department at the University of
Birmingham and has edited a book with Anthony
F Heath, Unequal Chances: Ethnic Minorities
in Western Labour Markets (Proceedings of the
British Academy, Volume 137, Oxford University
Press, 2007.)
Andrzej Podraza (‘90) has written The European
Union in the process of Treaty reforms (Lublin,
2007, in Polish) and edited The European
Union policy towards Ukraine: partnership or
membership? (Lublin, 2006, in English, Polish and
Ukrainian).
Professor Thanos Veremis (’93) was elected
for another three-year term as President of
the National Board of Education by the Greek
Parliament in 17 February 2008. He has written
Greece: The Modern Sequel from 1821 to the
present with John S Koliopoulos (Hurst and Co,
London, 2007) and The Contemporary Western
World 20th - 21st Centuries (Gutenberg, 2007).
Frédéric Charillon (’94) has edited (with Bernard
Rougier) Afrique du Nord Moyen-Orient:
Le Moyen-Orient en Crise 2006-2007 (La
Documentation française). He is also leading a
group of young scholars working on Franco-British
relations within the French International Studies
Association and spoke on ‘Visions britanniques du
mondeau 20ème siècle’ at a recent conference at
the Université Paris Diderot.
Asheesh Advani (’94) - The company he founded,
CircleLending, was acquired by Richard Branson’s
Virgin Group, and he is now CEO of Virgin Money,
USA. He continues to live in Boston with his wife,
Helen, and the twin boys.
President José Ramos-Horta (SAM ’88) was shot
on 11 February in an alleged assassination attempt.
We wish him a speedy recovery.
Professor Geeta Kingdon (‘88) was appointed
in October 2007 as Chair of Education and
International Development at the Institute of
Education, University of London. She continues to
do work in Education Economics.
John Laughland (’88) has written A History
of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam
Hussein (Peter Lang, June 2008); Schelling versus
Hegel: from German Idealism to Christian
Metaphysics (Ashgate, November 2007); and
Travesty: The Trial of Slobodan Milosevic and
the Corruption of International Justice (Pluto,
January 2007). He has also edited ‘Sovereignty’,
‘The Monist’, Vol 90 No 1 (January 2007); Shia
Power: next target Iran? (co-edited with Michel
Korinman, Vallentine Mitchell, January 2007); The
Long March to the West: Migration in Europe
and the Greater Mediterranean Area (co-edited
with Michel Korinman, Vallentine Mitchell, May
2007); Israel on Israel (co-edited with Michel
Korinman, Vallentine Mitchell, October 2007); and
Russia: A New Cold War? (co-edited with Michel
Korinman, Vallentine Mitchell, January 2008). He
also had a daughter, Lydia, born in April 2007.
Susan Tamondong (’92) married Patrick Giraud
on 3 January 2008 (above). It was a fabulous
wedding held in a beautiful exclusive seaside resort
Punta Fuego in Batangas, two hours from Manila,
overlooking the mountains and the sea. Guests came
from all over the world from Sweden to Addis Ababa
for two days of fun-filled celebration that concluded
with a beach party (wonderful weather!). Patrick
is French, an alumnus of the Sorbonne in Paris,
and a leading expert in infrastructure in the private
sector and Adviser to the Vice-President of the Africa
Development Bank, based in Tunisia. Susan’s home is
now in Sidi Bou Said, Tunis, near the palace grounds
on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Susan
has also written a chapter in Can Compensation
Prevent Impoverishment? (OUP, 2008).
Dr Christian Leitz (’89) – With apologies for
the incorrect information in the last Newsletter.
Christian now works for one of the major global
banks, UBS. Based in Switzerland, he looks
after corporate responsibility strategy and issue
management for the firm, in addition to being the
company’s historian. He was recently promoted to
Executive Director.
Jens R Hentschke (‘93) was promoted to Professor
of Latin American History and Politics at Newcastle
in 2005. He has edited Vargas and Brazil: New
Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and
published the monographs Positivism gaúchoStyle (VfW Berlin, 2004) and Reconstructing the
Brazilian Nation: Public Schooling in the Vargas
Era (Nomos, 2007).
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Géraldine Dunbar (’94) - In 2004 she made a
solitary four-month, 12,000-mile journey across
Siberia on the Transsiberian Railway and wrote
an illustrated book about it entitled Seule sur le
Transsibérien: Mille et une vies de Moscou à
Vladivostok (Alone on the Transsiberian, 1001
lives from Moscow to Vladivostok - Transboreal,
France, 2006). She is currently looking for a British
publisher for the English edition. Her son, Tolstoy,
(above) celebrated his first birthday on March 25th.
Serena Hoy (’94) went to law school after Oxford,
became an immigration lawyer for a couple of
different non-profit organizations and now works
as an advisor to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
on a number of fun and controversial issues.
Dr Jeffrey Kahn (’94) was appointed Assistant
Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University
(Dallas, Texas) in August 2006, where he teaches
and researches American constitutional law,
Russian law, human rights and counterterrorism.
He was recently awarded the honor of being
named the 2007-2008 Teaching Fellow for the
Cary M Maguire Center for Ethics and Professional
Responsibility at Southern Methodist University. Antonian News
Nicholas Mead (’94) and his wife Lisa announce
the birth of identical twin daughters. Scarlett
Elizabeth Mead and Poppy Georgina Mead (see
above) were born on 16 January 2008, sisters to Ellie.
Dr Geoff Sloan (’94) has been appointed Lecturer
and Director of the Graduate Institute for Political
and International Studies at Reading University.
Dr Roy Hora (’95) has been made Associate
Professor at Universidad de San Andrés. Manuel,
his second son, was born on 16 March 2006.
Emanuele Ottolenghi (’95) is proud to announce
the birth of his son, Eitan, born on 29 September
2007.
Dr James Onley (‘96) has published his first
book, The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj:
Merchants, Rulers, and the British in the
Ninetieth-Century Gulf (Oxford University Press,
2007).
Kevin Rosser (’96) has been appointed Social
Performance Advisor at Shell International in the
Hague.
Jon Wilson (’96) has written The Domination
of Strangers: Modern Governance in Eastern
India, 1780-1835 (Palgrave MacMillan, August
2008).
Tomila Lankina (’96) has written (together with
Anneke Hudalla and Hellmut Wollmann) Local
Governance in Central and Eastern Europe:
Comparing Performance in the Czech Republic,
Hungary, Poland and Russia (Palgrave
Macmillan, St Antony’s Series, 2008).
Laura Kaupilla (’97) is working in an NGO that
funds development projects by and for disabled
people, where she is responsible for the CIS and
Latin American countries.
Charlotte Opal (’97) is working at the Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, coordinating
a global stakeholder initiative to create standards
for sustainable biofuels, called the Roundtable on
Sustainable Biofuels. She also chairs the Standards
Committee for Fairtrade certification and labelling
(FLO), headquartered in Bonn.
Members Awards
Eliza Reid (’98) and
her husband, Dr
Gudni Johannesson
(also ’98), had
a son, Duncan
Tindur Gudnason,
on 2 October 2007.
They now live in
Reykjavik, Iceland.
Eldar Subasic (’99) works in Sarajevo
as Spokesperson for the EU Special Representative
in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dr James Boughton (’00) is Assistant Director
of the IMF’s Policy Development and Review
Department (since 2001) and Historian of the IMF
(since 2004).
Dr Elisabeth Kendall (’00) – since January
2008 she has been Director of the Centre for the
Advanced Study of the Arab World, a collaborative
initiative run out of the University of Edinburgh.
Fatima Shah (’00) married Babar Ahmed on 27
November 2004.
Stina Torjesen (’01) works as a senior research
fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International
Affairs. She is currently working on issues related
to the political economy of Afghanistan as well as
regime and energy developments in Kazakhstan.
Together with her colleague Dr Elana Wilson
Rowe she has edited the book The Multilateral
Dimension in Russian Foreign Policy
(forthcoming, Routledge, 2008).
Dr William K Barth (’02) was awarded his DPhil
(Politics) at Oxford’s graduation ceremony last
July, 2007. Since graduation, Dr Barth has served as
Associate Fellow at Oxford’s Rothermere American
Institute. He recently published ‘Cultural Rights:
A Necessary Corrective to the Nation-State’
in Francesco Francioni and Marin Scheinin
eds, Cultural Human Rights (Leiden, Martinus
Nijhoff Publishers, 2008) and ‘Minority Rights,
Multiculturalism and the Roma of Europe’,
Nordic Journal of International Law 76(4) 2007:
363-406. His upcoming publication is On Cultural
Rights: The Equality of Nations and the Minority
Legal Tradition, diss, U of Oxford, 2006.
Sandra Aguilar-Rodríguez (‘02) has published
‘Cooking Modernity: Nutrition Policies, Class,
and Gender in 1940s and 1950s Mexico City’ in
The Americas 64:2 (October 2007).
Jean-Pierre
Massias (’02) and
his wife Lisa are
proud to announce
the birth of David
Antton Massias on
18 October 2007.
Dr Kerstin Wilsch (’97) has moved to Jordan
in September to start a Translation Programme
for Arabic, German and English at the GermanJordanian University
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Lawrence Saez (‘02) is a Senior Lecturer in
Comparative and International Politics at the
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He
was also recently elected to be the Secretary of the
British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS).
Anthony Elson (’03) has been appointed the AGIP
Professor of International Economics for academic
year 2008/09 at the Bologna Centre of the John
Hopkins School for Advanced International
Studies. He is currently a Senior Associate with the
Centennial Group, Senior Economics Consultant
with the World Bank and visiting Lecturer in Public
Policy Studies at Duke University.
Dr Xabier Arzoz (’04) has recently edited
Respecting Linguistic Diversity in the European
Union (Studies in World Language Problems)
(John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia,
2008.) The origins of this book lie in a workshop
organised in May 2005 in St Antony’s College
sponsored jointly by the Basque Studies Society
and the European Studies Centre. It addresses the
challenge of respecting linguistic diversity within
the EU and is intended as an introduction to the
issue for those not already familiar with EU law.
Brock Dahl (’04) became engaged to Jessica, his
girlfriend of two years on 18 Dec 2007. She is also
from Kansas, but they met while he was at Oxford.
Makoto Onaka (’04) married Naoco Comuro on
19 November 2006 in Tokyo.
Agnes Thambyunayagam (’04) has moved back
to the Texas area to join her husband. She will
continue working on the impact of Portuguese,
Dutch, and early British rule on the society of Sri
Lanka, 1498-1833.
Current Members
Awards and Elections
Robert Cassen, Emeritus Fellow and Professor
of the Economics of Development, was
awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
for services to education in the 2008 New Years
Honours List.
Paul Chaisty was awarded a Nuffield
Foundation Social Sciences Small Grant
to support his project ‘Particularism and
Legislative Behaviour in the Russian
Federation’.
Elizabeth Cooper (DPhil, Social and Cultural
Anthropology) has been awarded a Peter
Fitzpatrick Scholarship towards her fieldwork
in Tanzania.
Christopher de Bellaigue, Alistair Horne
Fellow, has been awarded a British Academy
Small Research Grant for his biography of
Muhammad Mossadegh.
Valpy Fitzgerald was awarded the Gabarrón
Foundation International Prize in Economics
2007 for his contributions to economic
research in the area of international
development, particularly his work on
the impact of capital movements on the
macroeconomic behaviour of emerging
markets.
Deaths
We are sad to report the deaths of the
following Antonians:
Avi Spiegel (’05) and his wife Adina are proud to
announce the birth of their daughter, Lilia Claire
Spiegel.
Andrés Schipani (’06) is Bolivia contributor for
the BBC and contributor on Latin American issues
for newspapers such as The Guardian and The
Financial Times.
Alvaro Herrero (’07) is the Director for Justice
Programs at the Buenos Aires-based Association for
Civil Rights (Argentina).
Roger Goodman, recent Acting Warden of St
Antony’s, has been appointed Head of Oxford
University’s Social Sciences Division with effect
from 1 April 2008.
Walter Blackburn, who worked in the
maintenance department from 1978 to 2000,
died on 24 March 2008.
Elisabeth Fox (née Grey), DPhil student
1970-3, died in 2001.
Geoffrey Lewis, Emeritus Fellow, died on 12
February 2008.
Ambassador Torsten Orn, SAM 1979-84
and a frequent Senior Visitor, died on 24
September 2007. He was a former Head of the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in
Europe’s Mission to Latvia.
Jaideep Gupte receiving his award from former
President of Mexico, Earnesto Zedillo, in Brisbane.
Jaideep Gupte’s doctoral research on extralegal
security and urban vulnerability in Mumbai
has been awarded the 2007 Global Development
Network Medal for Outstanding Research. The
GDN Research Medals and Awards form the
largest worldwide competition for research on
development issues. Jaideep’s paper, entitled
‘Linking Urban Vulnerability, Infra-power and
‘Communal’ Violence: extralegal security and
policing in Nagpada, Mumbai’ was shortlisted
under the category of Rule of Law: Providing
Security for Development.
John Loughlin, Visiting Fellow 2006-7
and currently SCR member, was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in
January 2008 and in February was elected
as a Distinguished Academician of the UK
Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Loughlin
is Chair of the Advisory Group of Experts on
Decentralisation for the United Nations Human
Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), which
has produced a set of Guidelines on Effective
Decentralization. In this role he recently met
with the Indian government to discuss how
local people can have a greater say in the way
their community is governed.
Robert Mabro, Emeritus Fellow and former
Director of the Oxford Institute for Energy
Studies, was presented with a Petroleum
Research Award by the King of Saudi Arabia in
November 2007.
Philip Robins has been elected Proctor for the
year starting March 18 2009.
Anne Roemer-Mahler (DPhil, Development
Studies) has been awarded the Holly Wyatt
Walter Scholarship for fieldwork in India.
Adam Higazi has been awarded the Archibald
and Helen Callaway Prize in African Studies.
Shohei Sato (DPhil, International Relations)
has also been awarded a Peter Fitzpatrick
Scholarship for fieldwork in the UAE. Noble Power, former Canadian Ambassador
to Barbados, died in 2002 while playing tennis.
He was a SAM, 1991-1993, in the field of
Commonwealth Studies.
research into cultural and linguistic
diversity in Australia, developing a theory of
multiculturalism which became the basis of
policy for state and federal governments. He
died in 2006.
Bogdan Ryhajlo, who was a scout for a
remarkable 36 years, died in November 2007.
Reverend Max Saint, a member of the SCR
1972-87, died in 2007 at the age of 97. As Vicar
of the nearby ‘Phil and Jim’ church, he was
a founding member of the St Antony’s Day
Service Committee. His particular academic
interest was Sarawak, 1848-68.
Dr Winfried Scharlau, DPhil 1961-3, former
journalist, died in 2005.
Professor George Smolicz, SAM 1983, was
Director of Education at the University of
Adelaide where he conducted pioneering
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William Sturtevant, SAM 1967-8, died 2 March
2007. He was Curator of North American
Ethnology at the Smithsonian.
Stanley Trapido, SCR member 1987-88 and
1991-99 and one of the foremost historians of
South Africa, died 12 January 2008.
Otto von der Gablentz died on 13 July 2007.
He studied for a BPhil, 1953-55, and was
an SCR member 1968-74. As a diplomat,
he served as the German ambassador to the
Netherlands (1983-1990), Israel (1990-1993)
and Russia (1993-1995). He was Rector of the
College of Europe from 1996 until 2001.
Deaths
Professor Geoffrey Lewis,
We were all saddened to hear of Professor
Geoffrey Lewis’ passing on. For so many
people, Geoffrey was a constant presence at the
College – and several people have asked how
they may best remember his quiet humour
and dedication to scholarly learning.
His list of achievements and awards reflect
this: he was a Fellow of the British Academy
and awarded the CMG for the furtherance
of Anglo-Turkish relations. He was elected
President of the Anglo-Turkish Society and
President of the British Society for Middle
Eastern Studies.
He was also recognized many times by
the Turkish state – first with the Turkish
Government Certificate of Merit in 1973,
then the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Exceptional Service Plaque, 1991. The Order
of Merit of the Turkish Republic was presented
to him by the Turkish Ambassador on his 80th
birthday.
1920-2008
He was a regular and greatly welcomed
visitor in Turkey and other educational
institutions: he was Visiting Professor at
Robert College, Istanbul, 1959-68; in 1970
he was based at the Prime Minister’s Office
in Ankara, before spending a year as Visiting
Professor at Princeton. He was invited to the
50th anniversary celebrations in Turkey in
1973, before going to Princeton and UCLA as
Visiting Professor. After retiring in 1988, he
was still invited to lecture around the world: at
Cambridge, Princeton, Columbia, NYU, UCLA,
Ankara, Uppsala University in Sweden. Even
in 2002, some 15 years after he retired, he
was invited to be the Gunnar Jarring Lecturer
in Stockholm. In academic recognition, he
was an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College,
Oxford, and awarded Honorary Doctorates at
University of the Bosphorus, Istanbul, and the
University of Istanbul.
With the blessing of Geoffrey and Raff’s
son, Jonathan Lewis, and other members of his
family, we are establishing the Geoffrey Lewis
Memorial Fund. With the money raised, we
hope to identify a scholar of Turkish studies
who best fits Geoffrey’s own qualities of a love
of learning, great analytic skills and lucid
exposition. He had a style of learning that
combined erudition with wit, sympathy and
an old-fashioned breadth of education and
this fund will help St Antony’s continue that
tradition.
Anyone interested in making a contribution
to Geoffrey’s fund may contact the Development Office on [email protected] or
44.(0)1865.274497. Alternatively, cheques
made out to St Antony’s College, with an
accompanying note to make it clear that the
contribution is intended for the Geoffrey Lewis
Memorial Fund, will be gratefully received.
Further details can be found on our website,
under the section “Giving to St Antony’s”.
Professor Geoffrey Lewis, 1920-2008
Celia Kerslake, Faculty Fellow of St Antony’s College and University Lecturer in Turkish, writes:
Geoffrey Lewis, who had been a
Governing Body Fellow of the college
from 1961 until his retirement in 1987,
was (from 1950) Oxford’s first University
Lecturer in Turkish, and the person
more than anyone else responsible for
the development of Turkish studies into
a fully-fledged degree subject (1964)
within the Honour School of Oriental
Studies. He was also recognized within
the UK as a whole, as well as in the wider
world, as a pioneering scholar of Turkish
language and culture, who made major
contributions to our understanding of
that country and its people. As scholarly
and popular interest in Turkey grew in
the decades after the Second World War,
Geoffrey Lewis’s Teach Yourself Turkish
(1953) made this fascinating language
readily accessible to English-speakers in
a way that it had not been before. Two
years later his Turkey (1955), in Ernest
Benn’s Nations of the Modern World series,
gave the general reader a similarly lucid
presentation of Turkey’s modern history,
geography, demography and culture. Both
these works went into revised editions, Teach
Yourself Turkish in 1989 and Turkey in 1959,
1965 and (this time as Modern Turkey) in
1974. Lewis’s scholarly publications were
initially in the Arabic studies field (in which
he had done his D.Phil.), but his Turkish
Grammar (1967) was to see him well and
truly established as a world authority on the
language that had become his real love. Well
into his retirement The Turkish Language
Reform: A Catastrophic Success (1999)
brought together the fruit of many years’
work on the linguistic purification that, for
better or worse, has been such an integral
part of the process of modernization in
Turkey. The gentle humour that is such an
appealing characteristic of all Lewis’s writings
here has full rein in exposing the more
outrageous claims made by the mid-20thcentury language engineers about some of the
neologisms promulgated in the name of “pure
Turkish”.
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As a person, Geoffrey Lewis will
be remembered for his kindness, his
determination to see the best in others, and
his love of jokes. Inevitably his memory
will always be linked with that of his wife
Raphaela (Raff), whose sudden death four
years ago had been such a bitter blow to
Geoffrey, depriving him of a partnership
going back over more than sixty years. After
the tragic death of their daughter Lally, in
1976, Geoffrey and Raff had played a very
special role in the lives of her two children,
one of whom made a moving tribute at
the funeral. In their latter years Geoffrey
and Raff lived just opposite St Antony’s,
in Woodstock Road, in the same house
that they had rented from St John’s in the
early years of Geoffrey’s career in Oxford.
Geoffrey was therefore a familiar figure in
college right up to the end of his life. He will
be sadly missed in Oxford, in the Turkish
studies community in Britain and overseas,
and in Turkey itself, where he was held in
great affection and esteem.
Antonian Liaison Officers around the world
If you would like to get in touch with other
Antonians in your part of the world, please
contact the liaison officers named below. If
there is no liaison officer for your area,
volunteers are always welcome.
Argentina - Dr Klaus Gallo (’87), Universidad
Torcuato di Tella, Miñones 2159/77,
1428 Buenos Aires.
Tel +541.784.0080 or +541.805. 8878,
Fax +541.784.0089, Email: [email protected]
Australia - Prof. Leslie Holmes (’87), Dept of
Politics, Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3052,
Tel +61.3.9344.6565, Fax+61.3.9344.7906,
Email: [email protected]. edu.au
Austria - Sebastian Cody (’04)
Email: [email protected]
Barbados – Andy Crawley (’82)
Email: [email protected]
Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands - Lasse
Michael Boehm (’01) European Parliament Office:
ASP 4H349 1047 Brussels, Belgium, Mob: (+32)
(0)484 656 897,
Email: [email protected]
Brazil - Renato Perim Colistete (’94),
Departamento de Economia – FEA, Universidade de
São Paulo – USP, Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 908,
Cidade Universitária, 05508-900, São Paulo – SP,
Brasil. Email: [email protected].
Canada - Rutha Astravas (’01),
Email: [email protected]
Tel (H)1 613.234.2253, (W)1 613.941.9179
Chile - Alvaro González (’78), González &
Associates Attorneys at Law. Don Carlos 3255 - A
Las Condes, Santiago Chile.
Tel 56 2 334 7 842, Fax 56 2 233 8207,
Email: [email protected]
China - Beijing: Professor Daniel Bell (‘86),
Email: [email protected]
China - Hong Kong - Mr C.Y. Leung (’78), Baker
& McKenzie,14th Floor, Hutchison House, 10
Harcourt Road Hong Kong.
Tel +852.2846.1733, Fax+852.2868.4959,
Email: [email protected]
China - Shanghai: Professor Dr Jikang Zhang
(’95) Fudan Univ, Centre for European Studies,
Shanghai, Tel +86.21.65642668,
Fax +86.21.65646456,
Email: [email protected]
Colombia - Cesar Caballero (’97)
Cr 9b # 123-81 apt504, Bogota,
Tel 57-1-637-08-82,
Email: [email protected]
Denmark - Elzbieta (Elizabeth) Tromer (’84),
Pederstrupvej 55, 2750 Ballerup, Copenhagen.
Tel (+45) 4466 8977,
Email: [email protected]
Egypt - Dr Jill Edwards (’95) Dept of
History, American University in Cairo,
113 Sharia kasr el Aini, PO Box 251, Cairo.
Tel 357.5061, Email: [email protected]
Finland - Juhana Aunesluoma (’94)
Tel 358.9.19124939,
Email: [email protected]
France - Frédéric Charillon (’94) IEP de Paris, 27
rue Saint-Guillaume, Paris 75337
Tel (33-1) 40 52 73 88
Email: [email protected]
Germany - Dr Wolfgang Krieger (’75) Universität
Marburg, Biegenstrasse 10, Marburg 35032,
Tel: x49-89-33 03 72 35
Email: [email protected]
Greece - Dr Andreas Papatheodorou (’95),
Department of Business Administration, University
of Aegean, Chios, 82100.
Tel +30 6977 64 68 36,
Email: [email protected]
Hungary - Gergo Hudecz (‘06), Torocko utra 17,
Budapest, 1026-H, Hungary,
Tel +36 70 3125081, Email gergely.hudecz@
budapesteconomics.com
India - Dr Suranjan Das (’84), Dept of History, Univ
of Calcutta, 1, Reformatory St, Calcutta 700027. Tel
33 439 8645.
Email: [email protected]
Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore - Reuben
Wong (’99) Dept of Political Science, National
University of Singapore, AS1,
11 Arts Link, Singapore 117570,
Tel +65-6516 3979, Email: [email protected]
Ireland - Dr. Laurence Davis (‘90),
Tel: 353-1-473-2083,
Email: [email protected]
Israel - Vacant
Italy - Emanuela Poli (’93),
39.06.85 35 17 76, email [email protected];
and Maria Mazzone (’95),
Via Abbadesse 46 20124 Milano Italy,
Email: [email protected]
Japan - Dr Yukinobu Kitamura (’82), Hitotsubashi
University,
Institute of Economic Research,
Naka 2-1, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-8603, Japan
Tel 81-42-580-8394, fax 81-42-580-8400, Email:
[email protected]
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Korea - Dr Jung Hoon Lee (’87) Yonsei University,
Graduate School of International Studies, 134
Shinchon-Dong, Sodaemoon-ku, Seoul 120-749.
Tel 82-2-2123-4086; Fax 82-2-392-3321;
Email: [email protected]
Malta - Nicole Lungaro-Mifsud (‘04),
Email: [email protected]
Mexico - Vacant
Namibia - Vacant
New Zealand - Dr Chris Tremewan (’91),
University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019,
Auckland, Tel 64.9.373.7599 ext 6934,
Email: [email protected]
Norway - Dr Iver B. Neumann (’87), Norwegian
Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), P.O. Box
8159 DEP, N -0033 Oslo, Norway.
Email: [email protected]
Pakistan - Dr Salam Memon (’79),
Email: [email protected]
Peru - Flavio Ausejo (’98) Psj Sucre 183,
Flat 402 Miraflores, Lima 1, Lima,
Tel (511) 446 9122, Email: [email protected]
Poland - Professor Zdzisław Najder (’60), address:
ul. Jadźwingów 22a m. 18, 02-692 Warszawa,
Poland. Tel. (48) 22 844 85 36,
E-mail [email protected]
Portugal - Dr João Espada (’90) Instituto
de Estudos Políticos, Universidade Católica
Portuguesa, Palma de Cima, 1649-023 Lisboa, Tel:
351-21-721 41 29, Fax: 351-21- 727 18 36, Email:
[email protected]
Russia - William Flemming (’96),
Tel: +7 495 775 8221,
Email: [email protected]
Scotland - Mrs Sally Stewart (‘86), Broich House,
Crieff, Perthshire PH7 3RX, Scotland, UK. Home
Phone 01764 652544; Home Fax 01764.656118;
Email: [email protected].
Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia - Reuben
Wong (’99) Dept of Political Science, National
University of Singapore, AS1, 11 Arts Link,
Singapore 117570, Tel +65-6516 3979,
Email: [email protected]
South Africa - Dr Christopher Saunders (’67)
University of Cape Town, Dept of History,
Rondebosch, Tel 27.21 650 2953,
Fax 27.21 689.7581,
Email: [email protected]
Spain - Dr Julio Crespo MacLennan (‘93), Camino
de Malatones 73, Chalet 1, 28010 Algete, Madrid,
Spain, Tel: 0034 606296727. Email: cremaclen@
yahoo.com.
Antonian Liaison Officers around the world
North Spain, Dr Judith Clifton (‘93) Universidad
de Cantabria, Email: [email protected]
Switzerland - Dr Markus G. Schmidt (’82),
U N Office of Commissioner for Human Rights,
Palais Wilson, CH - 1201 Genève, Switzerland.
Tel 41-22-917 9258 / 9131.
Fax 41-22-917 9022,
Email: [email protected]
Taiwan - Prof. Kuang-Huan Fan (’75) National
Cheng-Kung Univ, Graduate School of Political
Economy, 1 University Road, Tainan, Taiwan
(ROC) Tel +6.237.4461,
Fax +6.276.6498,
Email: [email protected]
Turkey - Dr Bahri Yilmaz (’94), Sabanci Univ,
Bankalar Cad. 2, 80020 Karaköy, Istanbul,
Turkey. Tel (90) 212,292,4940-1597, Fax (90)
212.252.32.93, [email protected]
U.A.E/Gulf - James Onley (’96), Visiting Professor
at the American University of Sharjah, UAE (every
Mar.–Apr.), Email: [email protected]
UK tel: 44-1392-264030 (University of Exeter).
Professor Kenneth Christie (‘05), Social and
Behavioural Sciences, P.O. Box 19282, Zayed
University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Tel: 00971 4 402 1318. Fax: 00971 4 4021018.
Mob: 00971 50 475 2848.
Email: [email protected] or j.onley@
exeter.ac.uk
UK - London - Aidan Kennedy (’96 )
Tel 0207 901 0483 or
Email: [email protected]
International Spy Museum, 800 F Street, NW,
Washington, DC 20004 USA.
Email: [email protected]
USA - Boston - Dr Roger Owen (’60), Harvard
Univ, Middle Eastern Studies,
1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138,
Tel 617.495.2817, Fax 617.496.858,
Email: [email protected]
Yugoslavia (former) - Dejan Keserovic (’99),
email: [email protected]
USA - California - Laura Ann Hutchison (Jones)
(’97), 850 Beech Street, Apt. 517, San Diego, CA
9210, tel (619)990.3073, email Laura.Jones@
Sloan.MIT.edu, and Vicky Shields (Gaitanis) (‘00)
211 S. Guadalupe #3, Redondo Beach, CA90277,
Tel 310-376 3839,
Email: [email protected]
Zimbabwe - Dr Bill Kinsey, Institute of
Development Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Tel
+263-4-30 28 12,
Email: [email protected]
Mexico
Many thanks to Barbara Gonzalez who is
stepping down to return to Oxford as a DPhil
student.
USA - New York - Leland Miller (’99)
Email: [email protected] and Sanjay Mody (’95)
USA - Mid-West - Stephanie Mitchell (’97)
Director, Women’s and Gender Studies Program,
Carthage College, WI 53140-1994,
Tel 262 551-5882,
Email [email protected]
USA - Texas - Agnes Thambynayagam (’04), 57
Inverrary Lane, Sugar Land, TX 77479, USA. Tel:
281-302-5763. Email [email protected]
USA - Washington DC - Dr Lori Plotkin Boghardt
(’98) and Dr Thomas Boghardt (’98) , The
Antonian Liaison News and Group Events
Hungary – Gergo Hudecz organized a
couple of meetings last year which prompted
fascinating discussions about life at St
Antony’s over the years. There are plans
for a further dinner in the near future. Any
Antonians who are not already in touch with
Gergo are encouraged to contact him on
[email protected].
Canada – Paul Collier, Director of the Centre for
the Study of African Economies, gave a lecture
at the Munk Centre for International Studies in
Toronto on 1 April while collecting the Lionel
Gelber Prize. The Warden will be speaking at
the University of Ottawa in mid-September and
an Antonian gathering is planned to coincide
with this.
Chile – Alvaro González is planning a
meeting for April or May. As newly elected
President of Chilean Athletics he was involved
in bringing a couple of members of the Oxford
University Cross Country teams to train in
Osorno, the Chilean Lake District, during
February, when British weather is typically at
its worst.
US – Washington – About 60 Washington
Antonian alumni gathered for the chapter’s
annual meeting on 4 November 2007.
Professor Bruce Hoffman (’78) of Georgetown
University delivered an insightful and lively
lecture on ‘Al Qaeda’s Renaissance.’ Bruce’s
talk was followed by a spirited discussion over
drinks and hors d’oeuvres.
News for the Newsletter?
Contact: Vanessa Hack, The Development Office, St Antony’s College, Oxford OX2 6JF
tel 44.(0)1865.274496 fax 44.(0)1865.274526
mail [email protected] www.sant.ox.ac.uk
Welcome to our new
Liaison Officers
Barbados – Andrew Crawley (’82) has
offered to act as a contact point for any Antonians lucky enough to be visiting the country.
Brazil - Renato Perim Colistete (’94)
is the new Liaison Officer for Brazil. He
is a professor of Economic History at the
Department of Economics, Universidade de
São Paulo (USP).
Poland - Professor Zdzisław Najder has
kindly offered to take on the role. He was
a student at St Antony’s in the early 1960s
and returned as a SAM and as Max Hayward
Research Fellow.
USA - Texas - Agnes Thambynayagam
(’04), recent stalwart of the table tennis club,
is the new Antonian liaison officer for Texas.
Anyone who is newly arrived in the area is
welcome to get in touch with Agnes for local
information and advice on settling in.
Future Events:
n19–21 September 2008 - Oxford
Alumni Weekend - Meeting Minds:
Global Oxford
n17-19 October 2008 - 10-year
reunion in Oxford for anyone
who matriculated in (or around)
October 1998
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