Scholarships, prizes and awards

International Criminal Court/Trust Fund for Victims symbolic reparations ceremony held in Bamako, Mali. Dacia has also been collaborating closely with the Korean National Commission for UNESCO as part of a working group aimed at developing guidelines for the World Heritage Committee and World Heritage Site managers on interpretation plans and principles. Her publications have included a chapter entitled ‘Cultural Violence Against Heritage: Process, Experience and Impact’ in the British Academy’s report Experiencing Violence (2021).

Dr Robert Whitaker has drawn over 900 images with Adobe Illustrator for use in lectures and supervisions during thirty years of teaching human anatomy at Selwyn and for the University. These have been put together as A Visual Guide to Clinical Anatomy, published by Blackwell Wiley in 2020. Each illustration is designed to provide a summary of key anatomical and clinical information of a specific topic or clinical condition.

Dr Vicky Young has published two articles this academic year. ‘Beyond “Transborder”: Tawada Yoko’s Vision of Another World Literature’, Japanese Language and Literature, 55 (2021) 1-33, presents a critical examination of the concept of ‘transborder’ fiction, which has emerged in recent decades as a means of breaking down the boundaries of Japanese literature that assume agreement between the nationality of a writer and the language of her text. ‘Inciting the Past: Okinawan Literature and the Decolonising Turn,’ Japan Forum, 32 (2020) 577-600, reads contemporary Okinawan literature in relation to the increasingly urgent question of decolonisation, focusing on the writing of Sakiyama Tami. Vicky is also working hard to complete the manuscript of her first book.

NEWS OF HONORARY FELLOWS

Lord (Richard) Harries has published Hearing God in Poetry: 50 Poems for Lent and Easter (London: SPCK, 2021), which invites the reader to take a closer look at fifty great poems by some of the finest poets in the English language, from Maya Angelou and W H Auden to Phyllis Wheatley and T S Eliot.

Hugh Laurie visited the College in May 2021 for a recording session with the choir for his adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, to be broadcast in 2022. He also starred as the justice minister in Roadkill, a television thriller written by David Hare, broadcast on BBC 1 and on PBS in the United States.

Professor Vivian Nutton, although prevented from travelling abroad, has given a series of lectures around the world via videolink, from Beijing and Moscow to California. He also served on two British Academy committees preparing a report for the government on non-medical aspects of Covid. His Galen: a Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome (London: Routledge, 2020) was the distillation of work that he began fifty years ago as a Fellow of Selwyn. He also was joint editor of a volume of essays, Ancient Medicine, Behind and Beyond Hippocrates: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Craik (Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2020), as well as contributing a variety of papers to publications in Germany, Italy and the UK. Friends and students presented him with a collection of essays, Medicine and Markets in the Graeco-Roman World and Beyond: Essays on Ancient Medicine in Honour of Vivian Nutton, edited by Laurence M V Totelin and Rebecca Flemming (Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2020), building on some of his early comments about the drug-trade in Antiquity. The past year has been spent in writing a history of European medicine in the sixteenth century, to be published in 2022.

Lord (John) Sentamu retired as Archbishop of York in June 2020 and was elevated to the peerage as Baron Sentamu of Lindisfarne in the County of Northumberland and of Masooli in the Republic of Uganda.

Sir Peter Williams has retired as chairman of the Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, where he had been a trustee for twelve years and chairman for eight of them, and he has also retired from the chairmanship of Kromek plc, a listed company active in diagnostic imaging and nuclear terrorist threat detection.

Dr Sophie Wilson was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, one of a number of such Fellowships awarded to worldleading engineers and technologists for their outstanding contribution to the engineering and technology industry, to mark the Institution’s 150th anniversary. Sophie’s recognition was for her contribution to the design of the ARM architecture and the development of ARM microprocessors. She was also awarded a Distinguished Fellowship of the British Computer Society. Earlier award winners include Tim BernersLee and Bill Gates, and Sophie is seen here outside the Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology with the two previous winners Eben Upton (left) and Simon Peyton Jones. Sophie gave the Department of Computer Science’s Wheeler Lecture on ‘The future of microprocessors’ and repeated the talk for Selwyn alumni, both delivered remotely – and she comments that ‘it is certainly a stringent test to talk continuously without any feedback from an audience’.

NEWS OF BYE-FELLOWS

Jon Beard, Director of the Cambridge Admissions Office, has been appointed as Director of Admissions and Enrolment at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, a young but ambitious university focussed on postgraduate education and research.

Dr Peter Wilkinson has led the technical programme of the Department of Engineering’s spinout ROADMap Systems through successful acquisition by the Swiss telecom multinational HUBER+SUHNER. Since its founding in 2014 by Selwyn Fellow Professor Daping Chu, ROADMap has developed the next generation of high-capacity telecom optical switches, based on holographic beam-steering technology developed in the Department’s Photonics and Sensors Group. These switches provide significantly increased data capacity over current systems, which is critical for meeting the everincreasing demand for internet bandwidth. Peter has joined the Cambridge-based HUBER+SUHNER Polatis as Head of Engineering, where he and his team will develop the first commercial product based on their proprietary technology.

NEWS OF FORMER FELLOWS AND BYE-FELLOWS

Professor Akbar Ahmed (SE 1964, Fellow 1988-99) has published The Flying Man: Aristotle, and the Philosophers of the Golden Age of Islam: Their Relevance Today (Beltsville, MD: Amana Publications, 2021).

Professor Sarah Bridle (Fellow 2001-2004) has published Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air: Change Your Diet: The Easiest Way to Help Save the Planet (UIT Cambridge, 2020), a book aimed at the general public showing how different foods contribute to climate change. Sarah is Professor of Astrophysics at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester. Her husband, Keith Grainge (Fellow 2004-13), and Anna Scaife (Fellow 2008-9) are also professors in the same department.

Professor Jonathan Culler (Fellow 1969-74) has been elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

The Reverend Professor Richard Griffiths (Fellow 1960-66) has had two books published: Révolution à rebours: le renouveau catholique dans la littérature française (18701914) (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020) and France’s Purveyors of Hatred: Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence, 1918-1945 (London: Routledge, 2021). He was also a member of a jury for a doctorate at the Sorbonne, Paris, in April 2021 (by Zoom). Dr John Walker (Fellow 1988-94) retired in 2020 as Emeritus Reader in German at Birkbeck College London. He is completing a book on intercultural and inter-faith dialogue.

Dr Yvonne Zivkovic (Fellow 2018-19) has won one of the prestigious Marie SkłodowskaCurie Fellowships at the Field of Excellence and Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz in Austria, where she will conduct research on ‘Migrant Authors from Southeastern Europe and the Transfer of Intangible Heritage’.

Named bricks in the new Quarry Whitehouse Auditorium wall