The Antonian 2019

The Newsletter of St Antony’s College 2019

Antonians in Silicon Valley

Also in this issue: Greek Diaspora Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship at 25 Paul Collier and Minouche Shafik reflect

4 Prizes and Farewells

9 Professor Collier reflects

16 Student News

The Antonian 2019

Editor: Martyn Rush (MPhil Middle Eastern Studies, 2015)

18 25 Years of the Visiting

Parliamentary Fellowship

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20 Antonians in Silicon Valley

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22 Hilda Besse – heart of the College

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Letter from the Warden s I write this report, I can see temporary buildings – already affectionately dubbed the ‘Hilda Box’ by our students – that have emerged on the college lawn outside my office. This will be our home – with a dining hall, buttery, common rooms, fellows’ dining room and teaching rooms – for the next two years as the renovations of the Hilda Besse Building are undertaken.

While the closure of the Hilda Besse Building is something which has been forced upon us due to the deterioration of its infrastructure, it has also given the college a chance to reassess what makes St Antony’s distinctive and the role that the Hilda Besse Building plays in that distinctiveness. Allow me to quote from my own attempt to capture the ‘essence’ of St Antony’s (from one of the many applications for funding that we have submitted to trusts and foundations) in the hope that it strikes a chord with fellow Antonians: ‘St Antony’s has more than 500 students and over 300 senior members from around 75 countries in a wonderfully diverse academic community. The college is known for its distinctive structure of seven research centres, each focusing on the study of a different geographic region through an interdisciplinary (anthropology, economics, history, international relation, politics and sociology) approach. Each of these centres has their own physical space where some of the world’s best-known area studies scholars work on Africa, Asia, Europe, Japan, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia and South and Southeast Asia.

It is the Hilda Besse building, however, which we believe makes St Antony’s really special because it is the place which brings together scholars and students from across the research centres for some of the most exciting workshops, conferences and seminars. It is where Latin Americanists and Sinologists compare political systems; Africanists and Japanologists discuss patterns of family business; scholars who work on India, Russia and Western Europe interrogate each other’s migration policies. On average, the college hosts almost 400 academic events each year (around 16 per week during term time). These are open to audiences not only from across the university but also from the general public. Almost all of these events call on the resources of the Hilda Besse Building. In short, the building is the academic heart of St Antony’s. (We like to say that whatever story breaks around the world at breakfast, you will always be able to find someone who understands the background if you go to lunch in the Hilda Besse Building!) We believe this is best reflected in our alumni who go on to important roles across the world in diplomacy, business and the NGO sector from heads of state to ambassadors, global thinkers and award-winning journalists, distinguished academics and business leaders – and who draw on the interdisciplinary and inter-regional lessons they learnt at the college.’

The generosity of the St Antony’s community in supporting the renovation of the Hilda Besse Building

has been outstanding. Around £5 million towards the £9 million total costs of the project have been raised since we began the campaign to raise funds just a year ago.

The enthusiasm which has been shown by all members of the college staff, students and senior members for the project in other ways has been equally infectious. There is genuine excitement across the community about restoring the Grade 2 masterpiece which constitutes the Hilda Besse Building to its former glory. It was fitting that the very last event which took place in the Hilda Besse Building before it closed down was a Gaudy for those who were at St Antony’s in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

If the above account captures something of the essence of the college, I hope it also captures the way in which the college is always changing. This past year, for example, we were delighted to welcome close to fifty post-docs based in university departments as Senior Common Room members. We offer them free lunches in return for being college advisors to our students which have proven very popular with advisors and advisees alike. We also welcomed two new GB Fellows, Simukai Chigudu and Tim Vlandas. Sadly, at the end of the year we had to say goodbye to three of our most senior colleagues. Kirsten Gillingham has been an outstanding Bursar for the past eight years completing two major building projects and overseeing the strategic operation of every element of the college. Ian Neary has been Director of the Nissan Institute, Head of the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies and, most recently, a very successful Senior Tutor. Paul Collier has been a fellow of the college since 1986 and Sub-Warden in the mid2000s. Collectively we are all very much in their debt and I know that the many members of the St Antony’s community who have interacted with them over the years will want to join me in thanking them for all that they have contributed to the college.

Professor Roger Goodman

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Fellows’ Awards and Prizes

Former Warden Margaret MacMillan was awarded several honorary degrees

Fond Farewells

Professor Margaret MacMillan (Honorar y Fellow), our former Warden, has been made an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy.

Professor MacMillan was one of four elected to the Academy this year, in re c o g n it ion of he r a c a d e m ic achievements. Professor MacMillan was also this year awarded an Honorar y Degree from McGill University in Canada, for excellence in her field of history. In June, she was awarded an Honorary Degree from the American University in Paris.

Professor Ian Neary gave his valedictory lecture in May, 2019.

Professor Roger Owen was remembered in a Hilary Term event.

In the Middle East Centre, Professor Philip Robins retires, but will retain a desk in the Centre and will continue to contribute to its academic life.

Professor Ian Neary, a former Director of the Nissan Institute, Senior Tutor and Governing Body Fellow, retired in 2019, after delivering a valedictory lecture in May.

Roger Owen – In Memoriam Professor Gerry won a Student Union teaching prize.

Professor Christopher Gerry (Associate Professor of Russian and Eurasian Political Economy) won a teaching prize at the Oxford Student Union Teaching Awards of 2019. The award, voted on by Oxford’s students, included the citation ‘I think you would be hard pressed to find another supervisor at Oxford who is as dedicated as [Professor] Gerry.’

Professor Jan Zielonka (Professor Europea n Pol it ic s) won t he Universit y A ssociation for Contemporar y European Studies prize for best book of 2019, for his work CounterRevolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat. The panel of judges cited the book’s Professor Zielonka won a prize for his book ‘excellent contribution ‘Counter-Revolution’ to the current debate on European disintegration, the future of the liberal project, and how Europe can deal with the populist counter-revolution’.

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Further tributes a nd f uller obitua ries ca n be fou nd on t he Ne w s sec t ion of t he C ol lege website: sant.ox.ac.uk/about-st-antonys/obituaries

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n Wednesday 6 March the Middle East Centre met to remember the College’s former fellow and centre director Roger Owen, who died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 22 December 2018. The Warden opened the proceedings and welcomed Roger’s family and friends back to his college.

Professor Eugene Rogan drew on the correspondence exchanged between Roger and Albert Hourani to paint a portrait of Roger’s entry into Middle Eastern studies, a field he was to shape in the course of more than a half century teaching, researching and writing the books that influenced both the economic history and political study of the region profoundly.

A first panel of Roger’s friends and family shared their photos and memories: Roger’s sister Gill Barratt and nephew Tom Barratt, his childhood friend Luke Zander and his wife Ursula Owen. A second panel of Roger’s colleagues and students brought Margot Badran, Sami Zubaida, Charles Tripp and Eberhard Kienle to the stage. After an open mic exchange with the capacity audience of Roger’s many friends and colleagues, we retired to the Combined Common Room for a reception with whisky in Roger’s honour. The Centre will long feel the loss of Roger’s friendship and intellectual mentorship.

Further obituaries and notices can be found at: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/about-st-antonys/obituaries Professor Eugene Rogan, Director of the Middle East Centre, shares a memory of colleague and friend Roger Owen at the Centre’s memorial event.

Bursar Kirsten Gillingham with her partner Derek (left) and Warden Roger Goodman, with one of her parting gifts.

Our Bursar since 2011, Kirsten Gillingham, moved to join the University as Director of Finance Operations. Warden Roger Goodman paid tribute, saying ‘She has done an amazing job in her almost-eight years at St Antony’s and she leaves the College in superb shape to weather the challenges which we will doubtless be facing in the next few years. She has built a creative, hardworking and engaged staff team at all levels throughout the college with whom it is a pleasure and a privilege to work.’

Library Assistant, Eileen Auden, retired in July.

Professor Paul Collier reflected on his time at the College (see p9)

Professor Paul Collier, Professorial Fellow, also bids farewell to the College, having been a Fellow since 1986 and Sub-Warden of the College. His reflections are included on p9.

Finally, our Bursary Assistant Grace Sewell also left the College, after 12 years, and was given a warm send-off in the Gateway Buildings on 11 September.

Professors Paul Collier, Ian Neary and Philip Robins were all awarded Emeritus Fellow status by a meeting of the Governing Body in October 2019.

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Centre News

Podcasts of the lectures organised by the College Centres are available at: podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/st-antonys-college-podcasts

Centre News

Asian Studies Centre

European Studies Centre

Latin America Centre

Professor Faisal Devji, Director of the Asian Studies Centre, Professor of Indian History

Dr Hartmut Mayer, Director of the European Studies Centre

Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbo, Director of the Latin American Centre, Associate Professor of the History and Politics of Latin America

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n November the Centre jointly hosted a conference with the African Studies Centre and European Studies Centre on the subject of Nation, Minority, Sovereignty and Secession, this brought together over 20 speakers for two days.

This year’s Chun-tu Hsueh Distinguished Lecture in February saw Shaun Breslin (Warwick) give a lecture with the title, The Power to Change Minds? China’s Rise and ideational alternatives.

There was also much interest during the year in Korean Studies with the Centre supporting talks and seminars including Glyn Ford, director of Track2Asia on North Korea, an afternoon of events around the Korean Treasures of the libraries and museums of Oxford attended by the Ambassador and a day conference discussing the Unification of North and South Korea with speakers including former British Ambassadors HE Charles Hay and HE Alistair Morgan.

The Centre continued to host the South Asia Weekly seminars which now have a good following and involve some lively and interesting discussions.

The Centre welcomed new administrator Clare Salter to the post in November.

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he ESC has been busy this academic year, running over 65 events including seminars, workshops and conferences.

One of these was our flagship Annual Lecture, this year given by Nathalie Tocci (Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy).

Tocci spoke on ‘The Global Rationale for the European Project in the 21st Century, post Brexit.’

The Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom celebrated the 10th Anniversary of its annual lecture and colloquium and hosted an international conference at the College with Timothy Snyder (Yale University) as Keynote Speaker. His lecture was entitled “Europe’s Story: Phoenix or Phantom?” The Programme’s latest project on “Europe’s Stories” was also launched.

The annual SEESOX (South East European Studies at Oxford) lecture was given by Nikos Karamouzis on the Greek Economy.

The PEFM (Political Economy of Financial Markets programme) Annual Lecture was given by Thomas Wieser on Which model for Europe after the crisis and the Brexit saga. Due to lack of funds, PEFM will no longer function as a programme at the ESC. Charles Enoch, the last Director, has been elected a Visiting Fellow of the College. He will focus his research on European Political Economy.

President Masisi and Director of African Studies Centre, Professor Wale Adebanwi in discussion

Nathalie Tocci in conversation with Centre Director, Hartmut Mayer, during the Annual Lecture.

African Studies Professor Wale Adebanwi, Director, African Studies Centre, Rhodes Professor of Race Relations

The General Secretary of the OAS, delivering his inaugural address at the Nissan Lecture Theatre of St Antony’s College.

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he African Studies Centre inaugurated an International Advisory Board in Michaelmas 2018. The Board is chaired by Mr Tito Mboweni, South African Minister of Finance, and the Vice President of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, performed the formal inauguration. Osinbajo also presented a lecture entitled, ‘The Challenges of Human Development in 21st Africa.’

The Centre co-hosted five other current and former African presidents. In October 2018, the ASC and the Saïd Business School co-hosted the President of Botswana, President Mokgweetsi Masisi and the President of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, in succession. The ASC and Brasenose College cohosted the President of Sierra Leone, President Julius Bio, in June 2019. In May 2019, the Centre and the SBS co-hosted the former President of Ghana, President John Mahama. The Centre and the Africa-Oxford Initiative (AfOx) also co-hosted the former president of Mauritius, President Ameenah GuribFakim in May 2019.

On 7 June 2019, Professor Manthia Diawara of New York University presented the Centre’s annual lecture. The lecture was entitled ‘Edouard Glissant and the Right to Opacity: Some Trembling Thoughts on the State of Critical Theory in Francophone Africa.’

African Studies Centre Podcasts podcasts.ox.ac.uk/units/centre-african-studies 6

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he LAC academic year was inaugurated by the Secretary General of the Organisation of American States, Luis Almagro, who gave a Keynote Speech on the Venezuelan crisis to a packed audience at the Nissan Lecture Theatre in St Antony’s. Another highlight of the year was the workshop ‘Latin American Studies in Oxford and Berlin’, a conversation with German colleagues from the Freie Universitat and the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, attended by a significant group of Oxford colleagues from both the humanities and the social sciences.

Our intense programme also included events with former President of Colombia and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Juan Manuel Santos; the Vice-President of Bolivia, Alvaro García Linera; a delegation of the Inter-American Development Bank; and our annual conference on Brazil. We continue to hold a good number of joint events, including seminars with the Rothermere American Institute, the Sub-Faculty of Spanish, the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Adolfo Ibañez University in Chile and the Universidad del Pacífico in Perú.

European Studies Centre Podcasts podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/european-studies-centre

Latin American Centre Podcasts podcasts.ox.ac.uk/units/latin-american-centre

Middle East Centre Professor Eugene Rogan, Director of the Middle East Centre, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History

O Korean Unification was on the agenda this year for the Asian Studies Centre.

Asian Studies Centre Podcasts podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/asian-studies-centre

ut of a full year’s programme, two events were particularly memorable in 2019.

Thursday 7 Februar y marked the t wentieth anniversary of the passing of King Hussein of Jordan. The Warden was on hand to welcome HM Queen Noor and HRH Princess Basma bint Talal to College for a panel discussion with Professor Avi Shlaim. The speakers then met with students and faculty.

The following day, the Centre welcomed Sir John Chilcott for a seminar dedicated to his landmark 2016 Report of the Iraq Inquiry. Moderated by Centre Director Eugene Rogan, Sir John was questioned by students from the MPhil and MSc courses in Middle Eastern studies. Some of the questions,’ he claimed, ‘ask me to go into a degree of candour that would be quite irresponsible.’ He added – ‘of course I will’. The result was one of the most engaging seminars in recent Centre history, with the podcast of the on the record comments posted to the MEC website.

Sir John Chilcot delivered one of the most remarkable Friday seminars in recent memory, here flanked by MPhil and MSc students who asked him questions.

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Centre News

S t A n t o n y ’ s l o o k s at t h e w o r l d

Areas or Disciplines: St Antony’s fateful choice

Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies Professor Sho Konishi is the Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Associate Professor in Modern Japanese History

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he Nissan Institute had several landmark lectures and events this year, in addition to its regular Nissan Seminars. Notably, Sir Tim Hitchens, President of Wolfson College, Oxford, addressed the Institute in February on the first four years of Shinzo Abe’s rule as Prime Minister of Japan.

Previously, in January, there was an event to remember Ron Dore and reflect on his legacy. Professors Mari Sako (Saïd Business School) and Hugh Whittaker (St Antony’s), who were his last PhD students, led the remembrances, with further contributions from Warden Roger Goodman and Professor Ian Neary.

Professor Neary gave his valedictory lecture in May, on ‘Dōwa policy and the Japanese state’, with Professors Konishi and Whittaker convening.

Professor Paul Collier (Emeritus Fellow) reflected in his retirement speech on the choices made

by St Antony’s, compared to a similar College, Nuffield – but who made the better bet?

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Sir Tim Hitchens delivered a lecture reflecting on four years of Abe. Credit: UK in Japan - FCO

Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies Podcasts podcasts.ox.ac.uk/units/nissan-institute-japanese-studies

Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Professor Roy Allison, Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, Professor of Russian and Eurasian International Relations

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018-19 featured a wide range of events. At the core were the co-convened Monday seminars – Michaelmas term, Nation, Neighbours by Roy Allison and Dan Healey; Hilary term, Elites and Others: the Political and Moral Economies of Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe by Chris Gerry and Nicolette Makovicky: Trinity term, Literature, Society, History

by Oliver Ready, with input from Dan Healey. RESC collaborated with the Middle East Centre to hear the renowned director of Russia’s Institute of Oriental Studies, Vitaly Naumkin, in November.

In April a large student-led conference on Central Asia, supported by REES, including talks by regional ambassadors, was extremely well-received – as was a REES-RESC panel in May on the Ukraine presidential election. The University Consortium, directed by Julie Newton, continued to promote a vigorous but goodspirited debate on Russian-Western relations. Among many activities, it organised a conference in London in November, which brought students in contact with dozens of senior specialists, including some twenty Russian scholars and officials.

The student-led Central Asian Conference was a highlight of the year.

Here, Centre Director Professor Roy Allison joins the discussion.

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Russian and Eurasian Studies Podcasts podcasts.ox.ac.uk/keywords/russia

ome 60 years ago, Oxford’s two then-recent But in this, social science was unusual. In the hard sciences, postgraduate colleges made different choices. Both which were of course rather longer established, the research were dedicated to a similar range of subjects: social frontier was driving the 19th century specialisms together. What science and the related humanities, and many of their turned out to be needed were teams that commonly spanned an graduate students could have fitted in either. But assortment of people who might have started in chemistry, physics, the key difference was that Nuffield organised itself biology or engineering. In contrast, by the early 20th century, the around disciplines, whereas St Antony’s organised itself around siloed research of the various social sciences, digging ever deeper areas. I was at Nuffield as a student 1970–72. I was studying into the same patch of ground, was hitting bedrock. Meanwhile, economics and was supervised by two economist fellows of the it was becoming increasingly evident that the neglected areas College. Through good fortune I was also befriended by one of between these deeply-dug holes were home to many of the the politics fellows. From all three I learnt a lot, but what was vital unanswered puzzles in social science. Embarrassingly, as manifest was that each of Nuffield’s disciplines lived within its knowledge within each of the disciplines accumulated explosively own watertight compartment. Though at its peak the college between the innocence of the 1960s and the sophistication of the had an astonishing array of talent, current decade, the actual performance very little was made out of the fact of our societies came off the rails. Not that their related disciplines were all What I liked about St Antony’s just in Britain but around the Western clustered together. For example, there world, trust in the efficacy of public were scholars studying colonial history, was that it was organised policy had collapsed. We claimed to and scholars studying post-colonial know so much more, yet we found economy development, but as far as around the study of areas ourselves increasingly baffled by rising I could tell, they never interacted. social malaise.

There were scholars studying transport The funders of social science economics and scholars studying international trade, but they research, and heads of universities, are increasingly aware that the might as well have been separated by ten thousand miles as by the social science specialisms have ossified: the barriers between them ten yards across the quad. There were scholars working on labour need to be broken down. St Antony’s old bet on areas now looks relations, and scholars writing about employment contracts, but to be an advantage. Whether in work, politics or culture, spatial not a single instance of joint work. interaction is still the predominant form of human behaviour, and Shortly after I left Nuffield I became an Associate at St so the study of areas forms a compelling basis for the integration Antony’s. I liked what I got to know sufficiently that in 1986 I that has become so badly needed. migrated here, accepting a Fellowship in preference to the one I held at another college. What I liked about St Antony’s was that it was organised around the study of areas. Knowledge of the same area provided a common currency which enabled people in different disciplines to relate to each other. The University was organised into departments, but St Antony’s provided a rare organisational opportunity for focused interaction across disciplines. When I arrived, I was writing a book comparing the effect of oil on Nigeria and Indonesia. I found that while the Economics Department had precisely zero expertise in either, at a St Antony’s lunch I could readily find both. At its best, this was spectacularly successful: for example, the Russian and East European Centre provided Archie Brown with the multidisciplinary network through which he could spot that the emergence of Gorbachev was going to be fundamentally important.

Yet overall, until recently, Nuffield looked to have made the better bet. The various subjects, such as economics and politics, had only become distinct during the early 20th century, but as each subject deepened in complexity, and as the metric for career success became the evaluation of peers in the same discipline, the incentive for working productively with those in other disciplines diminished.

Professor Paul Collier reflected on his time at St Antony’s and the choices the College made.

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S t A n t o n y ’ s l o o k s at t h e w o r l d

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Greek Diaspora Project: The First Phase Dr Othon Anastasakis, Senior Research Fellow and Director of SEESOX, takes us through The Greek Diaspora Project.

The project is run out of SEESOX, in association with the Department Of Politics And International Relations (DPIR).

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he Greek Diaspora Project at SEESOX (South East Europea n Stud ies at Oxford) explores the relat ionsh ip bet ween Greece and its diaspora within the context of the recent economic crisis and beyond. The idea was born in the middle of the Greek economic crisis and in the context of an increasing wave of outward migration from Greece.

The project investigates how the Greek diaspora (old and new) can impact Greece’s political and economic transformation and explores ways for the Greek state, economy and society to interact with its diaspora. It was set up in 2016 by Principal Investigator, Dr Othon Anastasakis and Senior Adviser, Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis (Chair of SEESOX) with the overall aim to serve as a model of researching diasporas in moments of crisis in homeland,

The Greek Diaspora Map at seesoxdiaspora.org

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as well as a nexus between research and policy making.

During its first three years, the project has made a unique contribution, primarily in the domains of the new migration, political engagement and diasporic philanthropy. The project’s ground-breaking research is published in academic journal and edited volumes. It is further disseminated in the form of working papers, research and policy briefs and reports and has informed the policies and programmatic commitments of governments, associations, political parties and Greek legislation (http:// seesoxdiaspora.org/publications). The findings of the project’s research have received notable attention from various media outlets in Greece and internationally. Finally, the project has helped create powerful digital analytical tools and original survey instruments and methodologies, that dynamically facilitate diaspora and homeland relationships, and promote research in the patterns of such interactions. Three main original outputs have dominated the first phase of the project:

The New Greek Diaspora Digital Map

The Greek Diaspora Map, (http://seesoxdiaspora.org/thegreek-diaspora-map), managed by the AG Leventis Research Officer, Dr Foteini Kalantzi, is a dynamic tool that records and depicts the presence of Greek diasporic organisations worldwide and provides a platform for communication and interaction for global Hellenism. It currently includes approximately 4000 entries of Greek diasporic organisations and associations which were provided by the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Onassis Foundation, the Greek Ministry of Education, the Centre for the Greek Language and the SEESOX Diaspora team’s own research.

The data are categorised along cultural, religious, educational, philanthropic, professional and business criteria which are marked with different colors and signs, facilitating navigation and research. Results can also be filtered based on their connection to geographical origins in Greece, while graphs and download options are also available. The Greek Diaspora Map has generated considerable attention in the scholarly and Greek The findings of diasporic community.

puts forward a methodology that approximates a representative sample through an innovative sampling methodology based on the web-based ‘respondent driven sampling’.

Research on Philanthropy

In partnership with the Bodossaki Foundation in Greece, under the co-ordination of Antonis Kamaras, the representative of the project in Greece, SEESOX established a Commission on Greek Diaspora Philanthropy whose objective has been to update the latest research on the issue though interviews and synergies with leading institutions active in philanthropy in Greece, and to create a community of stakeholders. The report of the Commission highlights the successes of diaspora philanthropy in Greece, without overlooking the barriers limiting its activities. It puts forward practical recommendations which aim at the growth of diaspora philanthropy in Greece, whose stakeholder are the Greek state, to local government, to diaspora philanthropists and non-profit the project’s and state grantees.

Currently the SEESOX diaspora project is entering its second phase which research have received Survey on the Greeks in the UK will entail three components. First, the Under the stewardship of the examination of the Greek diaspora in the notable attention from Onassis Fellow at DPIR, and Deputy context of the post-crisis environment.

Co-ordinator of the Project Dr Manolis various media outlets in Second, the project’s research agenda will Pratsinakis, and with the support of be expanded in other parts of Europe as the Greek think tank DiaNEOsis, the Greece and internationally well as the USA, Canada and Australia.

SEESOX diaspora team carried out a Third, the project will engage in a large representative survey (GDU survey) comparative study of diasporas in South to assess and analyse the profile of the Greek communities in the East Europe (Turkey, Balkans, Cyprus) with other similar cases UK addressing the following two research questions: 1) What beyond the region (Israel, Ireland, Italy, Ukraine) focusing on is the socioeconomic, political and cultural profile of the Greek diaspora geopolitics and migration diplomacy. diaspora in the UK? 2) To what extent and under what conditions are Greeks in the UK willing and able to contribute to Greece For more information on the Greek Diaspora during the period of crisis and in the post-crisis period? GDU project, visit www.seesoxdiaspora.org is an innovative and pioneering survey that breaks new ground in terms of its thematic focus, the scope of the analysis and its The project is supported by a large consortium of private donors methodological set up. Specifically it is the first major survey including Philanthropic Foundations (AG Leventis, Bodossaki, focusing on the Greek diaspora in the UK, which has critically Capetan Vassilis, Latsis, Onassis, Stelios, Tsakopoulos), think expanded and highly diversified with the post-2010 crisis-driven tanks (diaNEOsis), private banks (Eurobank, Hellenic Bank emigration wave from Greece. In addition, GDU is the first study Association, National Bank of Greece,) and private companies that treats in a systematic way and through rigorous quantitative (Aegean Airlines, Athens International Airport, Eurolife, Greek methodology the issue of diaspora engagement with homeland — Telecommunications Organisations – OTE, Mytilineos, Raycap). an issue that is of critical importance for Greece’s post-crisis future.

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F e l l o w s B OOKS

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Books from Fellows Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (Research Fellow) and Dr Laurent Mignon (Associate Professor of Turkish) (co-editors) Women Writers of the Two Sudans The Sudanese Programme, 2019 The book is largely based on the contributions made by authors from Sudan, South Sudan and their diaspora at a conference on women’s literature in the two Sudans at St Antony’s in June 2017, organized by Dr Al-Shahi. The writers in question are Najat Idris Ismail, Amal Osman, Sara Hamza Aljack, Stella Gaitano, Marcelina Morgan and Rawda al-Hajj. The reproduced texts are of very different natures. There are texts that evoke the history of women’s literature, others are true manifestos for Sudanese literature. The book is bilingual in both English and Arabic and also contains Arabic poems and short stories by some of the Arabic-speaking contributors.

Professor Walter Armbrust ( Albert Hourani Fellow) Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution Princeton University Press, 2019 Martyrs and Tricksters approaches Egypt’s January 25th Revolution through martyr symbolism and the emergence of Trickster Politics in the liminal void created by the revolution, arguing that understanding revolution as a liminal crisis helps us to understand not just Egypt’s revolution, but the contemporary experience of both revolution and political crisis more generally. Armbrust shows that while martyrs became the primary symbols of mobilization, no one took seriously enough the emergence of political tricksters.

Tricksters appeared in media – not the vaunted social media of a “Facebook revolution” but television – and they paved the way for the rise of Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi.

Professor Paul Betts ( Professor of Modern European History) (co-editor) The Ethics Of Seeing: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History Bergahn, 2019 The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. Emphasizing the transformation of the visual arena and the ways in which ordinary people made sense of world events, these revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role.

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Professor Archie Brown (Emeritus Fellow) The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher and the end of the Cold War Oxford University Press, March 2020 In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War’s ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To understand the significance of the parts played by Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in East-West relations in the second half of the 1980s, Brown addresses several more specific questions: What were the values and assumptions of these leaders, and how did they evolve? What were the major influences on them? To what extent were they reflecting the views of their own political establishment or challenging them?

Would any of the realistically alternative leaders in the 1980s have pursued the same policies, leading to similar outcomes?

Professor Jane Caplan ( Emeritus Fellow) Nazi Germany: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press, 2019 In this ‘Very Short Introduction’, Jane Caplan’s insightful analysis of Nazi Germany provides a highly relevant reminder of the fragility of democratic institutions, and the ways in which the exploitation of national fears, mass political movements, and frail political opposition can lead to the imposition of dictatorship.

In this work which considers the emergence and popular appeal of the Nazi party, she discusses the relationships between belief, consent, and terror in securing the regime, alongside the crucial role played

by Hitler himself. Covering the full history of the regime, she includes an unflinching look at the dark stains of war, persecution, and genocide.

Dr Stephanie Cronin ( Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Research Fellow) (editor) Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa: The ‘Dangerous Classes’ Since 1800 IB Tauris, 2019 The concept of the `dangerous classes’ was born in a rapidly urbanizing and industrializing nineteenth century Europe. It described all those who had fallen out of the working classes into the lower depths of the new societies, surviving by their wits or various amoral, disreputable or criminal strategies. This included beggars and vagrants, swindlers, pickpockets and burglars, prostitutes and pimps, ex-soldiers, exprisoners, tricksters, drug-dealers, the unemployed or unemployable, indeed every type of the criminal and marginal. This book examines the `dangerous classes’ in the Middle East and North Africa, their lives and the strategies they used to avoid, evade, cheat, placate or, occasionally, resist, the authorities.

Malcolm Deas (Emeritus Fellow) Barco Vida y sucesos de un presidente crucial, y del violento mundo que enfrentó Taurus, Bogota 2019 Virgilio Barco, President of Colombia 1986-1990, had to confront the very severe threat of Pablo Escobar and the Medellin drug cartel. This work is a biography, which covers his childhood and youth, his early experiences of Colombian provincial politics in the violent late 1940s and his presidency. At the party he gave when leaving office, he asked Malcolm Deas jokingly what the historical verdict on his presidency would be. Deas replied that it was best not to worry, as it would be written by historians, a very unreliable lot. Nearly thirty years later his verdict is that he was a very courageous and admirable man.

Dr Kostis Kornetis ( Santander Fellow in Iberian Studies) (co-editor) Rethinking Democratization in Spain, Greece and Portugal Palgrave MacMillan St Antony’s Series, 2019 This edited collection explores the ways in which the 2008/2009 social and economic crisis in Southern Europe affected the interpretation of the transitional past in Spain, Greece and Portugal. Discussing topics such as public memory, Europeanism and uses of the past by grassroots movements, the volume showcases how the crisis challenged consolidated perceptions of the transitions as ‘success stories’. It revisits the dominant historical narratives around Southern European transitions to democracy more than forty years after the demise of authoritarian regimes, bringing together contributors from history, cultural studies, political science and sociology. It is co-edited

by Professor Maria Elana Cavallaro, herself a former Santander Fellow at the College.

Dr James McMullen (Emeritus Fellow) (editor) Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji: Philosophical Perspectives Oxford University Press, 2019 The Tale of Genji is commonly acknowledged as Japan’s greatest work of literature. It has been seen as the world’s first psychological novel, a feminist protest, and even as a post-modern masterpiece. This book explores the philosophical themes confronted in the work, such as the nature and exercise of political power, freedom, individual autonomy and agency, renunciation, gender, and self-expression.

Each essay in this collection reveals a part of this framework, situating individual themes within larger philosophical and historical contexts. In doing so, the essays both challenge prevailing views of the novel and each other.

Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis (Professor in International Relations) Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit Unbound, 2019 Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice offers a very different take on Brexit to those found in most news segments or opinion pieces.

‘Exodus’ makes Brexit a story about British exceptionalism; both a British problem and a testimony to the EU’s incapacity to accommodate exceptions. ‘Reckoning’ brings the story back to the EU’s shores, with Brexit a harbinger of terrible truths which we lump together under the easy label of euroscepticism. And ‘Sacrifice’ contends with the ironic possibility that after and perhaps because of Brexit, the EU will live up to the pluralist ideals that define both the best of Britain and the best of Europe.

Dr Oliver Ready ( Research Fellow in Russian Literature and Culture) (translator) Nikolai Gogol’s And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon Pushkin Press, 2019 Admired by writers from Nabokov to Bulgakov to George Saunders, Gogol is considered one of the more enigmatic of the Russian greats. He only wrote one novel, Dead Souls, and destroyed much of his later work, so his stories constitute his major output. In this collection, beautifully and skilfully translated by Oliver Ready, Gogol’s three greatest St Petersburg stories – ‘The Nose’, ‘The Overcoat’ and ‘The Diary of a Madman’ – are presented alongside three masterworks set in the Ukrainian and Russian provinces, demonstrating the breadth of Gogol’s work.

Gogol’s extraordinary work is characterised by his idiosyncratic, and often very funny, sensibility.

Professor Robert Service (Emeritus Fellow) Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin Picador, 2019 Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. Putin’s rule, whether as president or prime minister, has been marked by a steady increase in domestic repression and international assertiveness.

Kremlin Winter is aimed at fostering an understanding of that country, bearing on the man who leads it and on the elite that supports him. The book reveals a leader who cannot take his supremacy for granted, yet is determined to impose his will not only on his close associates but also on Russian society as Russia faces a blizzard of difficulties.

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Fellowship

News from the GCR A message from Kara Juul (DPhil Oriental Studies, 2016) & Nainika Dinesh (MPhil

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Modern South Asian Studies, 2018), GCR Presidents 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 more Antonians than ever, and the ambience of the Dining Hall during these dinners given a makeover.

Meanwhile, to the excitement of every weary student, the Welfare team brought back the serving of bespoke ‘Barefoot’ cake at the weekly tea & cake sessions. Everyone is pleased to support St Antony’s local businesses, particularly when doing so involves delicious cakes! Welfare tea every week was accompanied by small activities like mindfulness, and craft sessions for those wanting a break from academics.

The Academic tea m continued to deliver its popular roster of events including Jolly Good Fellows, Language The GCR committee immersion nights, and the Research in Progress Colloquiums. The academic team focused on providing as also organized a one day interdisciplinary conference themed ‘Ages of Disorder: many opportunities as Opportunities and Challenges’. This year also saw the introduction of exam possible for students to practice sessions to help students prepare for Oxford’s unique exam environment. mix and make memories Writing boot camps were also organized for those looking for a focused space to write without distraction.

Organised inside a beautiful yurt, Mental Health Awareness Week brought the Oxford community together to pause during a busy term and talk about mental health. St A ntony’s Mental Health Awareness Week, supported by the Antonian Fund, draws students from all colleges and has been recognised as an important and necessary annual event in Oxford. The week was packed with serious talks and discussions on anxiety, depression, and supporting friends to mix and make memories, flex their intellectual muscles, and and mindfulness sessions. We had a special guest, Lama Aria rest up during the fast pace of studying at St Antony’s. Some Drolma who visited from New York to discuss her journey from of the highlights included the return of the phenomenally supermodel to Buddhist lama and lead meditation sessions. popular bops (HalloQueen enjoying its 21st anniversary), Social activities like celidih, movie nights, comedy nights were Research in Progress conferences, and Mental Health Awareness very popular during the week. And of course, there were alpacas! week activities.

A ‘Kids BOP’ was introduced and well received by the parent The GCR Committee itself underwent a long-overdue population at Oxford and will be established as a regular St shakeup. Streamlining processes, consolidating positions Antony’s termly event. The GCR looks forward to packing in of responsibility (and adding much needed new ones), and good memories of fun events, and informative workshops in the overhauling the constitution. This has allowed us to build our Hilda Box next year. teams in a new way to ensure continuity even in a college with a high percentage of one-year masters students.

Continuing St Antony’s strong tradition of hosting social activities that draw fans from the entire Oxford college community, the social team held a record-breaking number of bops which filled the Hilda Besse and stretched over two floors.

The summer themed ‘Goodbye BOP’ bid farewell to the Hilda Besse and to students who were leaving Oxford at the end of Trinity term. Proceeds from these were funnelled into GCR Welfare activities. Formal dinners were expanded to include

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he 2018-2019 academic year marks the last spent in the ‘old’ Hilda Besse Building, and many of the activities were designed as a great send off for the building that has been home to generations of Antonians. To make sure our community stays strong as we move into more turbulent (yet exciting!) times the GCR committee focused on providing as many opportunities as possible for students

As well as organising events to give the Hilda Besse a good send off, there were regular pastoral and academic activities, including Barefoot cakes and Language Immersion nights.

The Hudson Fellowship Captain Chris O’Flaherty Royal Navy (Hudson Fellow, 2017-18)

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ne thread of St Antony’s 21st century history is that of the naval Hudson Fellows, elected annually to research on topics related to International Relations, politics and maritime policy.

A bequest in 1995 to Oxford University by the late Lieutenant Richard Guy Ormonde Hudson DSC RNVR stipulated that half-a-million pounds from his estate should be used ‘for the education of Royal Navy and Royal Marine Officers at the University.’ The details of how to enact this wish had vexed his executors until they approached Professor Bob O’Neill at All Souls College, who had informed the Royal Navy that whilst his own college would be unable to accommodate such wishes, he knew somewhere that may be ideal. To quote from one recollection, Professor O’Neill then ‘made a few telephone calls’, contacting some friends at St Antony’s College who had developed a particularly good programme for Visiting Research Fellows. The situation was thus explained to the Governing Body Fellows of St Antony’s.

Guy Hud son had st ud ied Jurisprudence for one year at St John’s College, matriculating just after the outbreak of World War II. Abandoning his studies in order to instead serve his country, he joined the Royal Navy in September 1940.

Quickly thrust into the action of a brutal war, Guy Hudson was assigned as an Ordinary Seaman ‘Coder’ in HMS Sikh, a Tribal Class frigate of 2,500 tons.

From the bridge he witnessed his ship torpedo the German Battleship Bismarck before she was sunk by the devastating gunnery of HM Ships King George V and Rodney. He then witnessed for himself the horrors of war when ordered to cease recovering survivors due to the presence of the German submarine U-74.

Selected for Officer training, Guy Hudson qualified to serve in Motor Torpedo Boats. However, he was also by now probably suffering from PostTraumatic Stress Disorder. Having turned to drink to suppress his dark memories, he was sent to the Mediterranean where he served with bravery and distinction, including an especially daring raid sailing into Kelibia Harbour on the Tunisian coast, whilst it was still occupied by Axis forces, to attack and sink the enemy

barges therein.

On returning to England, he used his operational experience to pioneer then execute radar control tactics that proved decisive in protecting the flanks of the D-Day landings in 1944. In November of that year he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, ‘for outstanding enterprise and skill in preventing the enemy from bringing supplies to and withdrawing troops from Le Havre.’

Since its inception there have been 28 UK Hudson Fellows and 19 US Hudson Fellows Guy Hudson then demobilised and qualified as a solicitor, concurrently refining his favourite tipple. Known as a ‘Hudson Heart Starter’, it was an especially strong version of a Gin and Tonic.

Supported by alcohol, he made a good living until drink consumed his life and he lost everything, including his wife. After being struck-off as a solicitor he found new love, dried himself out and then played the stock market to make the fortune that is now the Guy Hudson Memorial Trust.

A 1997 motion proposed to St Antony’s Governing Body by Professor Archie Brown agreed that the college would act as the primary host for the proposed Fellowship. The Royal Navy then nominated Captain (later Commodore) Guy Challands to be their first Hudson Fellow. Between October 1997 and September 1998 he developed a thesis titled ‘Sense about European Defence: affordable arms procurement through collaboration?’

He was succeeded as Hudson Fellow by Commodore (later Vice Admiral) Tim Laurence who, mentored by Warden Sir Marrack Goulding, published a paper on ‘Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance – an uneasy alliance.’ With the formidable reputation of the Royal Navy’s Hudson Fellowship spreading internationally, the United States Navy in 2000 wrote to St Antony’s; the Trustees of Hudson’s British Fellowship then agreed to share the name with our American counterparts, even though the US would fund their own Fellow.

Since its inception there have been 28 UK Hudson Fellows and 19 US Hudson

HMS Sikh, 1939. Credit: Medway Studios.

Fellows, with research ranging from piracy to people, and from maritime law to humanitarian relief. 42 Fellows have been hosted at St Antony’s College, making the College the mainstay of our Oxford Fellowship. And every year many now gather to continue collaboration and research as well as to remember our benefactor, with Gin and Tonic as one of our drinks of choice.

The biography of Guy Hudson and a full history of the Hudson Fellowship has been published by Choir Press and is available in the College Library, as well as from booksellers (ISBN 978-1-78963-062-6).

Crash Start: The Life and Legacy of Lieutenant Richard Guy Ormonde Hudson DSC RNVR. Gloucester: Choir Press, 2019.

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All of these activities were funded by the Antonian Fund, which is entirely alumni-funded.

For more details, see p28-9.

Women’s Division leads the way

Students lead major China conference

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t Antony’s students led a major conference on China in May 2019, on ‘Chinese Techno-Futures’. The workshops were organised by the ‘China Health, Environment and Welfare’ (CHEW) research group. Supported by the Antonian Fund, the conference took place over two days, and included a keynote addresses from Susan Greenhalgh of Harvard University and Xiang Biao, of Oxford. There followed several workshops, panels and round tables. Students had the opportunity to present, discuss and chair. The event was attended by students and faculty across the University.

We would have been unable to facilitate this event without the Antonian Fund, which provided a lunch for the attendees, as well as a room within the college.

Katrina Marina (MPhil Russian and East European Studies, 2018; President, St Antony’s Boat Club)

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t Antony’s Boat Club has had yet another incredible been very successful this year. The 1st boat showed fantastic season! The 2018-19 academic year proved to be full results during the Torpids Regatta (luckily, the unpredictable of excitement and new successes for our rowers and British weather and unexpected snowstorms did not prevent we are extremely proud of every SABC member. The us from rowing this year), and our 2nd boat proved to be the Open Division policy continues to flourish, with dark horse of the Summer Eights Regatta, steadily fighting its three Open Division boats taking part in the races way up the racing division. Moreover, our very own Oxford this year. We hope to increase this number on the river during University Women’s Lightweight rower and former Women’s the upcoming season, as we continue to promote our inclusive division Captain, Anneloes Hoff, received a silver medal at the and progressive gender policy.

2019 EUSA Championship in Jönköping, We are also very grateful to you for Sweden in September and at the BUCS your support with our boat purchase Regatta in Nottingham in May, as We love hearing from our endeavour – we finally have a new boat! well as winning the quarter-final at the Our newly acquired and shiny Hudson is alumni and seeing you all Henley Women’s Regatta in June. Many waiting for the new season to begin and congratulations to Anneloes and all her the Committee is incredibly excited to see at our events hard work! it in action on the river. The Boat Club Finally, please get in touch if you are would like to wholeheartedly thank you visiting Oxford! We love hearing from our for your generous donations towards this purchase, and for all alumni and seeing you all at our events. This year, at our annual the help and advice we received in the process. Alas, the hard Summer Eights formal dinner, we had a wonderful opportunity work continues. We are currently searching for an additional to host SABC founder and first Captain of Boats, Professor boat for the Women’s Division to provide our crews with bigger Geoffrey R.D. Underhill (DPhil Politics, 1987), who delivered and better opportunities. We would appreciate any and all the keynote speech and told us about the history of the Boat suggestions regarding this!

Club. It would be tremendous to see more of you at our regattas Speaking of the Women’s Division, the SABC ladies have and social events!

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Students led on a major China conference at St Antony’s.

STAIR, OMER and Gulf Affairs – Three Antonian journals

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he St Antony’s International Review (STA IR), which has run at the College since 2005, and Gulf Affairs, published by the Oxford Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies Forum (OxGaps) both published new issues this year. Gulf Affairs latest issue (Summer 2019) focuses on Finance policy and developments in the Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC). It includes an interview with the Governor of the Qatar Central Bank and several contributions from students and academics. STAIR’s February 2019 issue focused on ‘Individuals in Conflict’, exploring ‘Agency, Rights, and the Changing character of war,’ and featured an interview with Marissa Conway, Director of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy.

The Oxford Middle East Review secured further support from the Antonian Fund to continuing publishing into its third year. STAIR and Gulf Affairs have also been supported by the Antonian Fund, which has helped each journal to launch. The journals at St Antony’s are a vital way of reviewing and publishing student work and bringing our research into dialogue with policy.

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he St Antony’s Men’s Basketball Team won the finals of the Oxford College Basketball Championship, beating Wadham College 39-33. In the team were A ntonians Jonathon Madison (DPhil History, 2018), Owen Henkel (DPhil Education, 2017), Ollie Ballinger (MPhil Development Studies, 2017), Bill de la Rosa (MSc Migration Studies, 2017), Tirso Virgós Varela (MPhil Politics: European Politics and Society, 2017), Robert Gorwa (DPhil International Relations, 2017) and Michael Wu (MPhil Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation, 2017).

Members from other colleges who joined the college team were Robert Delfeld, Kevin Coakley, Philipp Schreiber, and Ammar Plumber.

A new Touch Rugby club was established, and the team won 5-0 in a match against Hertford College, and 11-1 against St Hilda’s, after beginning with a 3-1 win against Worcester. The team was captained

by George Carew-Jones (MSc Nature, Society and Governance, 2018) with Hamish Richardson (MSc Latin American Studies, 2018) as vice-captain.

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The Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Experts need to fight back

Professor Archie Brown (Emeritus Fellow) discusses the history and continued relevance of the VPF programme at 25

Dame Minouche Shafik (DPhil Economics, 1989 and Honorary Fellow) is the Director of the London

wo thousand and nineteen has been a year of constitutional crisis in Britain and a time in which successive governments (led by Theresa May and Boris Johnson) have been reminded of the power of Parliament. Those who dominated the campaign to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union made much of their desire to restore the full autonomy of Parliament – ‘making our own laws’ and having British judges adjudicate on them – but they have resisted actual assertions of parliamentary sovereignty and clear manifestations of judicial independence from the executive.

If, nationally, Parliament has become increasingly salient – in determining policy as well as holding the government to account – then, ‘locally’, the relevance of the Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship (V PF) at St A ntony’s has become correspondingly greater. We celebrated twenty-five years of this Fellowship at a gathering on 24 April 2019 in the Churchill Room of the Palace of Westminster. Starting in 1994, we have elected annually to these Fellowships two parliamentarians from opposing political parties – mostly from the House of Commons but, in recent years, predominantly from the Lords.

One of the aims of the Fellowship has been to facilitate interaction between political practitioners and academics (including, naturally, our students).

St Antony’s has a lot to offer British politicians, especia lly in terms of knowledge of international relations and of other countries.

Following conversations with Ralf Dahrendorf (Warden of St Antony’s from 1987 to 1997) and Patrick Cormack, a Conservative MP for forty years and a member of the House of Lords since 2010 (who was an enthusiastic proponent of establishing a link between Parliament and the College), I proposed to the Governing Body in May 1993 the creation of the VPF. That this Fellowship required relatively small sums (to pay for travel expenses and High Table meals) made it easier to get the recommendation endorsed.

The first two VPFs (1994-95) were Sir Patrick (now Lord) Cormack and Giles (since 2001 Lord) Radice, a Labour MP who was to become Chair of the Treasury

School of Economics (LSE). Reflecting on her time at St Antony’s and her journey into academic

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leadership with Helen McCombie, she makes a passionate case for expertise and knowledge

‘I A celebration of the first twenty-five years of the Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship was held in the House of Commons in April 2019.

Select Committee of the House of Commons from 1997 to 2001. Each term’s VPF seminar has a connecting theme. In the first such seminar in 1995 it was on ‘Accountability in British Politics’.

For many of those present, the most memorable of all the VPF seminars – and there have been many excellent ones – was in a series in 2004-05 on ‘Conflict Resolution’, when the two Parliamentary Fellows were Sir Brian Mawhinney, a Conservative MP (later a peer) who had been Minister of State in the Northern Ireland office and subsequently a Cabinet minister, and Martin O’Neill, a Labour MP (also subsequently a member of the Lords) who was for four years the chief Opposition spokesman on defence and for ten years Chair of the Commons Select Committee on Trade and Industry.

This riveting seminar was on Northern Ireland. On 15 February 1995 it brought together – for the first time ever on a shared platform – Peter Robinson of the Democratic Unionist Party and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein. The DUP were at that time still implacably opposed to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

Robinson, who later succeeded Ian Paisley as DUP leader, did not stay for High Table because McGuinness was dining. One of the two leaders of Sinn Fein, McGuiness had not denied Irish Republican Army membership, but he played a key role in bringing the IRA into the peace process. It was Sir Brian Mawhinney who succeeded in persuading these two major antagonists to share a platform with him and with each other. The atmosphere in the packed lecture theatre was electric and on the platform tense. Yet, in the passionate

exchanges, civilities were preserved, and the level of the debate was remarkably high. This event turned out to be one tiny, but not insignificant, step towards replacing conf lict by co-operation. In 2007, in a development unthinkable just a few years earlier, a power-sharing government of the DUP and Sinn Fein was formed in Northern Ireland. A dozen years later, the fragility of that successful exercise in conf lict-resolution has been tested to near breaking-point by Brexit.

It was Brexit, not surprisingly, which dominated both the 2018 and 2019 parliamentary seminars, with Simone (Baroness) Finn and Jonathan (Lord) Mendelson the Parliamentary Fellows in 2017-18 and George (Lord) Bridges and Stewart (Lord) Wood their successors in 2018-19. Pro-Brexit speakers included Nikki Da Costa from the Conservative Party and Claire Fox, now a Brexit Party MEP. Exceptionally eloquent and wellinformed presentations were given by Sir Ivan Rogers, former UK Permanent Representative to the EU, and by former Cabinet minister Hilary Benn, Chair of the Exiting the EU Select Committee of the Commons.

Perhaps by the time of the Hilary Term 2020 VPF seminar, the outcome of the long-running Brexit saga will be somewhat clearer. But, then again, perhaps not …

We shall, though, continue to rely on the Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship and its seminars to make important contributions to reasoned and well-informed argument on the major political and especially constitutional issues of the day.

didn’t have a plan’ reflects Dame Minouche as she society, she urges academics and policy makers to stand up. ‘We considers her rise to the Directorship of the LSE, ‘it need to fight back, make the argument for knowledge, reassert just evolved that way as opportunities arose to make our corner. The latest data says people do trust academics, a difference.’ Making a difference was always part of and their employers, polling and expertise much more than Dame Minouche’s outlook. At St Antony’s during the politicians and the media. This gives us hope that the current late 1980s, she was engaged in the ‘burning issues’, anti-expert feeling is transitory and we can change it.’ such as apartheid in South African, and graduated as the Berlin The challenge laid down for aspiring academics then, is Wall fell. The common room was the place where students not just to find solutions to the most pressing issues facing us, met and shared their research on world issues. ‘It was a very but to continue to defend their own legitimacy and rebuild exciting time,’ she remembers, ‘and I went on to work in global trust. Despite this challenging context, Dame Minouche has organisations for the rest of my life.’ straightforward advice for St Antony’s This included 15 years at the students – ‘enjoy every minute of your World Bank – where she worked on the time.’ After all, she was completely A fundamental issue today Bank’s first development report into absorbed with her experience at the the environment, as well as spells at College and could have happily stayed is distrust of expertise the UK Department for International much longer. ‘Its a special time in your Development (DFID), the International life, when you are free to learn, explore Monetary Fund (IMF) and a term as Deputy Governor of the and debate. That experience will sustain you for the rest of your Bank of England, not to mention teaching roles at Georgetown career’ she tells students, ‘it’s very difficult but it pays off not just and the University of Pennsylvania. ‘A career’, she muses, ‘is like for you, but for the world.’ climbing a tree, not a ladder.’ In all of her positions, what has counted has been how those organisations have acted to change the world, not just interpret it – from DFID playing a role in Making Poverty History, to the IMF navigating the global financial crisis and the Arab Spring; ‘It was,’ she describes, ‘all about working for the greater good.’

In 2017, Dame Minouche became Director of the LSE. This was a ‘really logical next step,’ but also an important one for shaping the causes that matter to her. ‘At the moment, the biggest questions revolve around the need for new economic and social models, and how to encourage new ideas and rigorous debate in the current climate. The LSE is an institution committed to evidence-based research and tries to answer the big questions.’ In this way, she continued, the LSE is very much like St Antony’s, and there are many links between the two across research projects and programmes; faculty and students.

‘Just like St Antony’s, the LSE has an incredibly international, global view,’ Dame Minouche begins, ‘but of course since the LSE is bigger and in the middle of the city, St Antony’s is perhaps more intimate and bucolic.’

This leads to a difference in the immediacy of the experience. ‘Lots of students and faculty commute into the LSE, and there are lots of people continually coming through, a steady stream of visitors to London. We are so close to Whitehall, lots of faculty are directly engaged in public policy. Oxford gives a bit of distance and a different perspective.’ Both institutions, in their own ways, have a track record of producing leaders in their fields.

However, it is a leadership that is under threat and needs to be reasserted. ‘A fundamental issue today is distrust of expertise,’ Dame Minouche warns, ‘and the fact-free nature of public discourse. Brexit produces huge challenges for research and collaboration.’ Rejecting any notion of becoming a more closed 19

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Antonians in Silicon Valley Antonians go on to change the world. In previous issues, we have looked at Antonian start-

in their stories, the key question is power - and where it is located. Antonians each have their

ups, diplomats, and ambassadors. This year, we look at Antonians who are shaking up Silicon

relationship with the power of technology, in some cases guiding it, in others, redistributing it.

Valley. Amongst great opportunity and emancipatory potential, a number of questions have been

Wouter te Kloeze, Development Director of St Antony’s, was in San Francisco, hearing the

asked of social media and disruptive technologies in recent years. As our graduates each testify

stories of four of our alumni at the cutting edge of this question. Here is his report.

Brian Brennan (MPhil Politics, 2003; DPhil Politics, 2005): Senior Vice President, Silicon Valley Leadership Group

Liana Pistell (MSc Forced Migration, 2007): Senior Marketing Manager Influencer Relations, LinkedIn

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he Silicon Valley Leadership Group, founded by David Packard of Hewlett Packard, is a public policy association shaping the innovation economy of Silicon Valley. Brian leads the Leadership Group’s recruiting efforts and works with each member firm to design customized engagement strategies that fit its priorities, size and culture.

Working at the intersection of democracy, technology and public policy and having focused his graduate research on comparative government, Brian is in an excellent position to see the successes and failures of concentration of power in Silicon Valley. What is important is that questions of accountability are answered in a way that would not destroy the innovation model of Silicon Valley.

However, it is important to think how corporates are governed: the economy has shifted and Silicon Valley’s impact is global but its accountability is not. Governance is still local; democratic and elected institutions have not adjusted accordingly. Calling Mark Zuckerberg to Congress and the House of Commons to testify has made managing data, privacy and misinformation pressing issues in the tech community. As customer trust is deteriorating, there is a business imperative to get these problems solved but it is not clear how. The social sciences and in particular political scientists have to play a role to find out what a political institution’s tool belt would look like.

Within Silicon Valley, the sentiment is that Facebook made a huge error. Too many different parts of the business were pushing into new territories and whilst Facebook was riding a wild horse, it was not able to anticipate how data could be misused. Privacy regulations are a completely new territory and further development of what is happening in Europe with GDPR might be the new normal.

One other question is how to keep up; the technological pace is too high. With the development of deep fakes and how facial recognition technology works, there is a need for new mechanisms to govern; what currently is in place is ill equipped to manage manipulated videos.

It is heartening that people are being thoughtful about the work they are doing. A conversation about the innovation of governance is what we all need, with the help of, and within the framework of, social sciences.

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Jonathan Dotan (MPhil International Relations, 2004): Fellow at Stanford’s Centre for Blockchain Research and writer, producer of HBO’s Emmy Award-winning series, Silicon Valley.

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y connecting his three great passions: technology, film and international affairs, Jonathan has found a way to build an exciting career. At St Antony’s he gained an understanding of international systems and norms. Now through his teaching at Stanford and writing for television, Jonathan has come full circle to apply his studies as he comments on the state of technology.

Drawing from the theories of Hedley Bull on international society, Jonathan believes we live in neo-feudal times, with state sovereignty eroded by transnational technology companies, such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon. As the internet crosses borders and different jurisdictions, Jonathan has been asking: where does the new balance of power lie?

Whilst in the early years of the internet revolution pioneering academics and tech firms pursued higher ideals and ethics; Silicon Valley has since been overrun with business models of surveillance capitalism that pass off reckless growth as altruism. Today the internet is in the hands of a few powerful companies that influence nearly every aspect of our lives.

Working on new technology frameworks, such as blockchain technology, Jonathan has been researching the prospects of a decentralised internet, or Web 3.0. If this movement is successful, centralised servers would be replaced by smaller nodes that harness users’ collective power across multiple sites, countries and institutions. This governance from within the community is, hopefully, part of a solution and a return to a more equitable international society.

Not only is Web 3.0 revolutionising the internet and business, it is also used to advance human rights and humanitarian programs. A good is example is Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation. Putting theory into action, Jonathan is helping the Foundation preserve testimony from survivors of genocides on a decentralised storage network backed by a tamperproof blockchain ledger. Of the over 55,000 testimonies in the archive, one of the more innovative is ‘The Last Goodbye’, a virtual reality testimony that Jonathan co-produced, which allows audiences to walk through Majdanek concentration camp alongside a survivor. The project, featured at the Tribeca and Venice Film festivals, is a vivid example of how emerging technologies can preserve evidence of the past to ensure histories, like the Holocaust, do not fade from our collective memory.

More information about ‘The Last Goodbye’ can be found here: https://sfi.usc.edu/lastgoodbye/film

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fter leaving St Antony’s, Liana embarked on a career at the World Bank, where she initially worked in East Africa on youth livelihoods and gender equality pilot programmes in postconflict countries. She then moved to the Bank’s headquarters, taking on its global corporate social media strategy. This proved to be the ideal stepping-stone to LinkedIn, where she led corporate social media strategy, and is now Senior Marketing Manager.

Working in the developing realm of social media, Liana is perfectly positioned to observe the influence of Silicon Valley on our daily lives. It has infiltrated our lives, with both positive and negative effect. She notes how it has the positive potential to connect and pave ways; it is more convenient than ever to stay connected with distant family and friends, share ideas, finances, and more. From a political perspective, it is easier than ever to mobilise, and we can now communicate with our politicians in a whole new way. And yet, social media can be superficial.

Vulnerable to manipulation, they enable the spread of fake news around the world, and can lead to a false sense of reality, creating anxiety and stress as users feel pressure to present a ‘perfect’ life.

LinkedIn however, Liana argues, with an awareness that she is not impartial, avoids many of these pitfalls. For the third year running, LinkedIn is the most trusted social media platform, according to the Digital Trust Report from Business Insider Intelligence. Its focus is text, and users are not prone to exaggeration. It is about jobs, networks, and opportunities, and can serve as a real catalyst in changing lives.

This is not limited to the corporate world of Silicon Valley.

Liana volunteers for the LinkedIn for Good programme, specifically working with the governments of Nordic countries, helping displaced people resettled in third countries. Compared with when she left St Antony’s in 2008, access to social media in refugee camps has grown hugely, enabling refugees to connect with data, social media, and check in with loved ones.

Liana helps with language training, creating profiles, finding employers, and gaining exposure to the job market. So, while many people have justifiable concerns about the growing ubiquity of social media, Liana is optimistic that if used with care, it can bring about enormous positive change in the lives of people across the globe.

More information about LinkedIn for Good can be found here: https://socialimpact.linkedin.com/

Toby Russell (MPhil Russian and Eurasian Studies 2001; DPhil International Relations, 2003): Co-CEO, Shift

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or Toby, Silicon Valley is a mission driven culture of active pursuit in intense human progress to improve the world for people through different means. In this sense, the last decades of technological advance compares with the cultural and scientific advances of the Renaissance of Florence, the improvement of civil rights of the 1960s in Washington DC, the relaxation of financial markets and subsequent creation of new financial instruments in London and New York in the 1980s and 1990s. Just as these historical examples had a broad impact, the silicon revolution is an inspiration for similar named locations around the world such as Silicon Wadi, Israel and Silicon City in Bangalore, India.

Shift is an innovation company, as most-start-ups currently are in Silicon Valley. It is the implementation of a concept or invention to make an impact; it applies existing technologies and the invention lies in pricing and evolution.

Toby’s nerve-racking experience of buying a second hand car made him decide to be part of start-up that eliminates current disadvantages so people can sell their car with no hassle. Previously, Toby was Managing Vice President of Digital at Capital One, where he led the bank’s technology transformation, including building the mobile capabilities that are now driving the majority of Capital One’s new customers.

In 2007 he co-founded Taxi Magic, the first on-demand mobile transportation booking technology. He also let an energy and efficiency investment program for the Obama Administration.

This combination of activities and with his entrepreneurial spirit allowed Toby to create something new and apply his passion for using technology to improve people’s daily lives.

He notes that ideas are cheap and the execution is everything.

Simplicity is the challenge when building a company around customers’ needs: what would make live better.

Many things come with being the CEO of a start-up: alongside attracting investors and developing your idea, human resources, finance and managing a team are part of the job. It was while rowing for St Antony’s Boat Club that learned Toby a very important lesson as it became clear that eight rowers rowing together synchronized rather than everybody doing their own thing. The boat will go much faster: one can’t do anything on one’s own.

Shift is an online used car marketplace, serving car buyers and sellers. It has built a software platform that lets customers shop for cars, get financing and schedule test-drives. Shift can be found here: shift.com/ 21

Hilda Besse

The Heart of St Antony’s Renovation of the Hilda Besse Building will bring vital improvements – and secure the Building’s future as the hub of the Antonian community.

Helen McCombie takes a look at its history and continued role in the life of St Antony’s College

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t has to be said that many Antonians have a love-hate relationship with the Hilda Besse Building. Brutalist architecture is not to everyone’s taste, and if we had a pound for every time it had been compared to a Soviet bunker we certainly wouldn’t need to fundraise for its restoration. But for all our ambivalence, there are few Antonians since its completion for whom it has not played an important role in their time here at St Antony’s. The social and intellectual core of the College, it is the hours spent in the Hilda Besse sharing meals, debating issues, dancing at bops, writing essays, and drinking late bars dry that make the building so special. It is our study centre, dining hall, seat of (Graduate Common Room) government, and ultimately the home of the Antonian community.

The building now hosts around 500 students and 330 Senior Members, but before it was opened in 1971 the College community was on a far humbler scale. What is now the Gulbenkian Reading Room served as the refectory. Plans to build in the College had first been conceived in the mid-1950s, and originally involved the demolition of the Main Building. Thankfully these plans were scaled down, and after a slightly strained commissioning process, St Antony’s accepted a design from Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis (HKPA), an architect’s practice who had gained a significant reputation through a proposed (but sadly unbuilt) design for the newly-founded Churchill College, Cambridge. Their architectural practice grew out of the intellectual melting pot of post-War London, where up-and-coming young architects played with continental ideas and new philosophies while grappling with the challenge of re-building the Blitz-scarred city. Lead architect for St Antony’s was John Partridge, a figure known for his innovative approach to concrete, the material of the moment. Concrete has become somewhat maligned in recent years, but at the time it represented an almost miraculous material, symbolic of the optimism and potential of the post-War period.

Partridge brought this to bear on a thoroughly modern design for an Oxford college building, perhaps embodied best of all in the Hall. A typical Oxford hall is decidedly inward-looking, with high windows, dark wooden panelling, and portraits of longdeparted alumni. It is a type that has grown out of the university’s medieval origins, and creates a sense of a tightly-knit, loyal community. But it is a community primarily concerned with its own affairs – the bickerings of Oxford colleges pepper our history books (and more recently our newspapers). St Antony’s is not an insular community. It looks out into the world, and plays its part in improving it. Partridge reflected this, opening up the Hall with vast windows, and a ceiling which, far from blocking out the world, lets light stream in on those dining below. He and the College must also be credited for having the foresight to build a hall which can comfortably accommodate 300 people – planning for a future at which the college has only recently arrived.

The Hilda Besse Building’s ingenuity was immediately recognised, and it won the UK’s most prestigious architecture

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prize, a RIBA award, in 1971, as well as a Concrete Society award, acknowledging the clever use Partridge put this material to throughout the building. Its appreciation was not short-lived: it helped to enshrine the high reputation of its creator, and continues to be venerated by architects. Partridge was appointed CBE in 1981 and made a Fellow of the Royal Academy in 1988 (relatively uncommon for an architect). Interest in his buildings, and the Hilda Besse in particular, has not subsided since his death in 2016.

Said to be the design of which he was most proud, it was the Hilda Besse Building which illustrated his obituaries in The Guardian and The Architects’ Journal. Geraint Franklin summarised critical appreciation for the Hilda Besse in the Guardian obituary when he described it as ‘an essay in how each part comes together to make an intricate yet ordered whole’.

However, we cannot rely on architecture critics alone to judge our buildings: we must listen to those who use them. In this regard, the Besse is not found wanting. The ‘jewel-box’ ceiling critics praise still wins over students, who have in the years since 1971 made the building their own. At each of our reunions we hear more stories of debates and parties, conversations held and friendships formed in the Hilda Besse. Our students are no less appreciative, even if they express this as much through Instragram posts as any other medium. The Hilda Besse Building has undoubtedly earnt its place in the hearts of generations of Antonians.

The Future of the Hilda Besse

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he Hilda Besse is set to begin a new phase of its life as it undergoes a major renovation. This presents a rare opportunity not only to repair, but to improve the building, and ensure that it continues to answer the developing needs of our academic community. Increased and upgraded teaching and study facilities, an environmentally friendly kitchen, new lift, and improved heating and infrastructure will make sure that the Building is fit to serve generations of future Antonians.

You can follow the project’s progress on our website at https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/events/hilda-besse-renovations/news.

The Hilda Besse renovation is a fantastic opportunity to rejuvenate the College’s intellectual and social core. However, it presents a financial burden the College is unable to meet from its existing income and capital. In order to reach the £9 million target, we know that we will need the help of the whole Antonian community. We are excited to being working with alumni year champions to ensure that all Antonians, no matter their means, can be acknowledged in the completed Hilda Besse Building when it reopens in two years. These alumni have kindly volunteered to rally the support of their contemporaries. All donations made in response to their letters are enormously appreciated, and gifts of £250 (given in a single or multiple instalments, which can be spread over a number of years) will be listed in the Hall on a matriculation year Donor Board in the completed Hall. The

College is keen that the life of the College is comprehensively represented, so other significant groups of Antonians, such as Old Antonian Rowers, and former members of the JCR/GCR Executive, will also receive recognition in this way.

In addition to this collective giving, there are a number of individual naming opportunities, listed below: Named Chair:

£1000

Named Table:

£5000

Student Room:

£20,000

Teaching Room:

£100,000

West Entrance:

£100,000

East Entrance:

£100,000

‘The Last Goodbye’ – the Gaudy of 2019 was among the final events held in the Hilda Besse before the renovation

Servery £100,000 Kitchen: £100,000 Old Fellows’ Teaching and Dining Room: £250,000 Buttery: £500,000 Foyer: £500,000 Senior Common Room:

£500,000

New Fellows’ Teaching and Dining Room: £500,000 Combined Common Room: First Quadrangle: Second Quadrangle:

£750,000 £1,000,000 £500,000

If any of these are of interest, please get in touch with the Development Team at alumni.office@sant.ox.ac.uk The College would like to thank all the alumni who have already generously donated in support of the Hilda Besse Campaign.

One of the final meals in the Hilda Besse’s grand Hall, which will be restored to the architect’s vision.

Construction underway on the ‘Hilda Box’, the temporary accommodation while the Hilda Besse is renovated

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A l u mn i N e w s

A l u mn i N e w s

In this section you will find a selection of Antonian updates. Due to our limited space, we could not publish all the updates;

Academic Roll of Honour Dr Ishtiaq Ahmad (Visiting Fellow, 2010-2015) is halfway through his tenure as the Vice Chancellor of Sargodha University, the second largest public sector university in the province of Punjab, and he has implemented major academic reforms.

Professor Alexander Betts (DPhil International Relations, 2007) has been appointed Associate Head (Graduate and Research Training) of the Social Science Division at Oxford.

Dr Robert Gascoigne (DPhil Politics, 1980) is a guest fellow at the Centre for Theological Inquiry, Princeton.

Dr Jun Han (DPhil Sociology, 2017) has become Senior Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

Dr Austen Ivereigh (DPhil History, 1993) has been appointed Fellow in Contemporary Church History at Campion Hall, Oxford.

Dr Stefan Kirmse (MPhil in Russian and East European Studies, 2003) is now a Senior Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, and Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Humboldt University, Berlin.

Professor Adam Komisarof (SAM, 2012-2013) has been voted the next president of the International Academy for Intercultural Research.

Vivek Krishnamurthy (MPhil International Relations, 2002) has recently been appointed the Samuelson-Glushko Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa and the new director of the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC).

Dr Louis Nthenda (DPhil Political Economy, 1970) in collaboration with Dr Yasuko Kusakari, PhD (Tokyo) is undertaking a study of ‘Capacity development through volunteer services in Africa : A Case study of Malawi.’

Professor Bertell Ollman (DPhil Politics, 1963) is teaching a new course this fall on ‘Climate Change - who and what are responsible and what can we do about it?’

Dr Kunle Owolabi (MPhil Latin American Studies, 2001) has been promoted to Associate Professor in Political Science at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, USA. He also begins a new role as graduate program director in political science.

Dr Felipe Roa-Clavijo (DPhil International Development, 2017) won an important research award in Colombia. The award was made by the Alejandro Angel Escobar Foundation.

Dr Nadim Shehadi (Hall Member, 1986-2003; Guest Member, 20032006) is now based in New York as Executive Director of the Lebanese American University’s Academic Centre.

Dr Zachary Shore (DPhil Modern History, 1999) has been appointed a Visiting National Security Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution for the academic year 2019-20. Professor Shore can be reached at ZacharyShore.com.

Dr Cristina Blanco Sío-López (Santander Fellow, 2017-2018) has been awarded with a EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship.

however, you will receive the complete list in our forthcoming e-newsletter.

Plus est en vous – Career updates A riana Adjani (MPhil Russian and East European Studies, 2005) has been appointed a Leadership Fellow at the Society of Leadership Fellows at St George’s House, Windsor Castle.

Dr João Cravinho (DPhil International Relations, 1995) has been Minister of Defence in Portugal since October 2018, following postings as Ambassador of the European Union to India and Brazil.

Kathleen DeRose (MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies, 2014) has joined the Board of Directors, as a non-executive director, of the London Stock Exchange Group.

Dexter Filkins (MPhil International Relations, 1984) is a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Dr Jessica Hallett (DPhil Oriental Studies, 1999) curated the exhibition ‘The Rise of Islamic Art: from the end of the Ottoman Empire to the Age of Oil’, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Calouste Gulbenkian. The exhibition ran throughout the summer at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, where Jessica is Curator of the Middle East Collection.

Myroslava Hartmond (MPhil International Relations, 2012) curated ‘A LIENation’, a retrospective exhibition of Swiss Oscar-winning artist HR Giger (1940 - 2014) to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the ‘Alien’ (1979) film. It took place at the Dovzhenko Centre in Kyiv, Ukraine, and was the first ever exhibition by HR Giger supported by the Swiss government.

Bill Josephson (Politics and Law, 1958) published Constitutionality of Excise Taxation of Exempt Organizations Senate Judicial Nominee Lobbying, 30 Taxation of Exempts No. 6 (May June 2019) and is finishing The Myth of National Popular Vote Presidential Elections and the Reality of Elector Unit Rule Voting. He continues to practice law in New York. His wife, Barbara Haws, retired after 34 years as the founding archivist/historian at the New York Philharmonic and is starting her second year of New College residence for the doctorate in music history. They have their first grandchild, Dexter, born March 18, 2019. Bill is frequently in Oxford.

Sic itur ad astra – Prizes, awards and other achievements Dr Katya Kocourek (MPhil East European, 1999) joined the Economist Group as a Managing Editor for Financial Services within the Group’s Thought Leadership division of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). She has worked for the EIU before - and was their country analyst for Central Europe in 2011-14.

Maria Mazzone (MSt Social Anthropology, 1995) is an Associate Managing Director of Accenture, and Lead of the Accenture Milan Innovation Centre, based in Milan.

Dr Neil Melvin (DPhil Politics, 1992) will become Director of International Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London from November 2019.

Dr Louis Nthenda (DPhil Political Economy, 1970) is a drummer in a Japanese traditional drum society. He performs 和太鼓 (Japanese large drums) at local Temple and Shrine festivals, obon and other dance festivals; and entertains at Old People’s Homes.

Professor Marilyn Booth (DPhil Oriental Studies, 1983) was co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize, with Omani author Jokha Alharthi, for her English translation of Alharthi’s novel, Celestial Bodies (Sandstone, 2018).

Professor Peter Burke (MA History, 1960) received an Honorary Degree from the University of Oviedo, his sixth Honorary Degree in total.

Professor George Dertilis (Research Fellow, 1992) was awarded the Palmes Académiques in France and won the Greek State Prize, and the ‘Nicos Themelis’ literary prize.

Dr Mohamed El-Erian (DPhil Economics, 1984) has been elected by the Fellows of Queens’ College, Cambridge to succeed Lord Eatwell as President starting in October 2020.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali (SAM, 1990-1991) won the 2019 Distinguished Africanist Award, bestowed by the New York African Studies Association.

Sarah Poralla (MPhil European Politics and Society, 1995) has been selected permanent volunteer juror at the district court of Cologne for 2019 until 2024.

Professor Joao Carlos Espada (DPhil Politics, 1994; SAM, 2005; Academic Visitor, 2015) received an Honorary OBE on 10 May 2019.

Dr Olli Rehn (DPhil International Relations, 1995) was appointed Governor of the Bank of Finland in 2018, in which capacity he is also a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank. His book Walking the Highwire – Rebalancing the European Economy in Crisis will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in February 2020.

Hon. John Godfrey (DPhil History, 1974) was made a Member of the Order of Canada in December 2018.

Professor Peter Slevin (MPhil International Relations, 1984) is associate professor at Northwestern University, where he teaches classes on US foreign policy and politics, and recently became a contributing writer at The New Yorker, covering American politics and the 2020 presidential campaign.

Levent Tuzun (Master of Public Policy, 2013) has been selected as David Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission for the 2019-2022 triennium. Levent continues to work at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), where he was promoted to Principal Economist in April 2019.

Sau Wai Law (MSc Economics for Development, 2006) works in DBS Bank in the Strategic Planning Department under the HK Management Office. He continued his academic journey in Economics and Law focusing on arbitration in the global private banking industry, an empirical research to study the behaviour of banker and clients in the following three perspectives: the role of regulator, contract law, and arbitration process.

Dr Jeya Wilson (DPhil International Relations, 1986) was the first and so far only Antonian to become President of the Oxford Union. She wrote an op-ed on what it was like to precede Boris Johnson in that role, which can be found in ‘ThePrint’.

Dr Sohail Hanif (DPhil Oriental Studies, 2018) won the BRAIS De-Gruyter prize in April 2019 for his thesis entitled: ‘A Theory of Early Classical Hanafism: Authority, Rationality and Tradition in the Hidāyah of Burhān al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 593/1197)’.

Professor Naotaka Kimizuka (DPhil Modern History, 1994) received the Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities which is one of the most authoritative awards of this area in Japan.

Dr Ben Noble (MPhil Russian and East European Studies, 2008) received a 2019 British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award for his project ‘Parliaments Under Fire.’

Professor Gianfranco Pasquino (Visiting Fellow, 2007) was awarded the 2019 Isaiah Berlin Prize by the Centro Internazionale di Studi Italiani.

The Rt Hon Professor Sir John Redwood, MP (History, 1971) received a Knighthood in the New Year Honour’s list.

Kryzsztof Szubert (Academic Visitor) was awarded the title of ‘Honorary Ambassador of Polish Economy’ by the Business Centre Club, under the patronage of the European Economic and Social Committee

Kryzysztof Szubert (Academic Visitor) published a policy brief, ‘Digital Technologies and the Transformation of Europe’.

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A l u mn i B o o k s

A l u mn i B o o k s

New books from Antonians In this section you will find a selection of the new books published by Antonians. Due to limited space, we could not publish all of the new publications – for journal articles and more books, please see the complete list in our forthcoming e-newsletter.

Professor Peter Alexander, ( Junior Research Fellow, 1995-1998; SAM, 2004) (co-editor) Making Sense of Mining History: Themes and Agendas Routledge, 2019 This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe.

Dr Anthony Elson, ( SAM, 2003) The United States in the World Economy: Making Sense of Globalization Palgrave MacMillan, 2019 This book examines the costs and benefits of globalization for the US Economy and proposes a number of reforms at the national and international levels to make it work better.

Dr Reshmi Banerjee, ( Academic Visitor, 2016-2017) Land Conflicts Across Frontiers: Contested Spaces in Myanmar and North East India Notion Press, 2018 This work compares Myanmar’s journey with North East India on the critical and contested issue of land.

Professor Michael Freeden, (DPhil Politics, 1972; Visiting Fellow, 1977-1978) (co-editor) In Search of European Liberalisms: Concepts, Languages, Ideologies Bergahn, 2019 This comprehensive study takes a fresh look at the diverse understandings and interpretations of the idea of liberalism in Europe, encompassing not just the familiar movements but also the intertwined historical currents of thought behind them.

Dr Benjamin Biard, ( Visiting Student, 2019) (co-editor) Do they make a difference? The policy influence of radical right populist parties in Western Europe ECPR Press, 2019 This book asks under which circumstances right wing populist parties are able to develop in contemporary Western Europe.

Professor Marilyn Booth, ( DPhil Oriental Studies, 1983) (editor) Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean Edinburgh University Press, 2019 Nine detailed case studies of translation between and among European and MiddleEastern languages and between genres.

Professor Audrey Donnithorne, (SAM, 1983) China in Life’s Foreground Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019 A memoir of a sharp-eyed observer of a changing Asian and Western world.

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Liam Halligan, ( MPhil Economics, 1991) Home Truths: The UK’s chronic housing shortage Biteback, 2019 Informed by deep economic research and concluding with eye-catching policy proposals of direct relevance to both Parliament and regional and national government.

Dr Austen Ivereigh, ( DPhil History, 1993) Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and the Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church Henry Holt, 2019 Following his critically acclaimed The Great Reformer, Austen Ivereigh’s colourful, clear-eyed portrait of Pope Francis takes us inside the Vatican’s urgent debate over the future of the church.

Dr Georgia Kaufmann, ( DPhil Social Anthropology, 1989) A Hard Fall Mulberry Publishing, 2018 The new novel by G L Kaufmann imagines a future of how a hard Brexit might play out.

Professor Dr Tobias Lenz, ( DPhil International Relations, 2012) (co-author) A Theory of International Organization Oxford University Press, 2019 This book explains the design and development of international organization in the postwar period.

Dr Rolando Ochoa, ( DPhil Sociology, 2012) Intimate Crimes: Kidnapping, Gangs and Trust in Mexico City Oxford University Press, 2019 Outlines the political and economic history of kidnapping in Mexico from the 1970s onwards, and analyses how people navigate the risk of being kidnapped.

Professor Emeritus Gianfranco Pasquino, ( Visiting Fellow, 2007) Bobbio e Sartori. Capire e cambiare la politica Università Bocconi Editore, 2019 A book devoted to Professor Pasquino’s two mentors who made invaluable contributions to the study of politics, democracy and parties.

The Rt Hon Professor Sir John Redwood, (History, 1971) We Don’t Believe You Bite-Sized Books, 2019 In this dramatic new book John Redwood gives us fresh insights into why the populist movements and parties have been winning elections.

Dr Frank Riess, ( SAM, 1974-75) The Journey of Deacon Bodo from the Rhine to the Guadalquivir: Apostasy and Conversion to Judaism in Early Medieval Europe Routledge, 2019 The story of Bodo begins in the ninth century around the time of the death of Charlemagne in 814. It centres on a young Aleman aristocrat and his conversion to Judaism in 838, followed by his flight to the Muslim world of Al-Andalus.

Dr Aaron Rock-Singer, ( MPhil Modern Middle Eastern Studies, 2008) Practicing Islam in Egypt: Print Media and Islamic Revival Cambridge University Press, 2019 Following the ideological disappointment of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, an Islamic revival arose in Egypt. Here, Rock-Singer looks beyond the artificial divide between state institutions and Islamic activists.

Dr Chris Saunders, ( DPhil Modern History, 1970; SAM, 2001) (co-editor) Southern Africa Liberation Movements and the Global Cold War `East’ De Gruyter, 2019 In Southern African Liberation Movements, authors from South Africa, Portugal, Austria and Germany ask: What role did actors in both Southern Africa and Eastern Europe play? What can we learn by looking at biographies?

Professor Emeritus Lewis Siegelbaum, (DPhil Modern History, 1975) Stuck on Communism, Memoir of a Russian Historian Cornell University Press, 2019 This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century.

Professor David Sorkin, (Research Fellow, 1986-1990; GB Fellow, 1990-1992) Jewish Emancipation: A History Across Five Centuries Princeton University Press, 2019 Jewish Emancipation reveals the lost contours of Jewish history over the past half millennium.

Professor Tony Stewart, ( SCR Member, 2016-2017) Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination University of California Press, 2019 Professor Stewart unearths the dazzling tales of Sufi saints to signal a bold new perspective on the subtle ways Islam assumed its distinctive form in Bengal.

David Thorpe, ( Visiting Fellow, 1997-1998) Who Loses Who Wins The Journals of Kenneth Rose, Volume Two, 1979-2014 Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2019 The second volume of Rose’s journals vividly portrays some of the most important events and people of the last century Roxane Zand, ( History, 1980) (co-author) Geometry and Art in the Modern Middle East Skira, 2019 In a groundbreaking volume about the use of Islamic geometry the authors explore ways in which traditional geometric legacies are applied and interpreted in new contexts.

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Development

Alumni Giving We look back on another year marked by the generosity and kindness of our alumni community, and at the important impact of philanthropy on the life of the College

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t Antony’s was founded thanks to a generous gift Donations to our buildings are increasingly important, from Antonin Besse, and its alumni continue and we are very grateful to those who have chosen to fund the to follow his example by generously supporting very fabric of our college. The Gateway Buildings have proven the College and its community, financially and to be a wonderful expression of the collective generosity of the otherwise. The College is enormously grateful to Antonian diaspora. Looking ahead, the Hilda Besse Building everyone who has chosen to renovation is a major challenge for the help fund the future of academic excellence College, but it has been wonderful to see at St Antony’s.

The College is enormously how many alumni have already rallied in Alumni follow their hearts and their support of the project, and we are sure that heads when choosing what to donate to grateful to everyone who they will be joined by many others by the in the College, and give to a great variety time the Building reopens in 2021. of projects. You can see in our ‘Student has chosen to help fund Our special thanks go to members News’ section how central The Antonian of the Leavers’ Society: those alumni Fund has become in financing academic who donate, at whatever level, within the future of academic and cultural activities in the College. two years of their graduation. It is very From sporting endeavours to conferences, excellence at St Antony’s heartening to see such new members of the travel and research grants and writing-up alumni community deciding to help their bursaries, the Antonian Fund plays a vital successors in this way. role in preserving and improving the health of our intellectual St Antony’s alumni prove the power of collective giving, community. Elsewhere in College, donations to the Malcolm whereby even small gifts, when grouped together, can bring Deas Fund have been of great help in continuing the important about incredible opportunities for our students. Thank you from work of the Latin American Centre and its students. The everyone at St Antony’s to all our donors – every day we see the continued support of the St Antony’s Boat Club by our Old difference your kindness makes to the College.

Antonian Rowers has enabled the purchase of a new boat, which If there is a project you would be interested in supporting, made its debut in this year’s Summer VIIIs Regatta. Alumni or you would like to know more about philanthropy support for the Warden’s Scholarships and Hourani Scholarship at St Antony’s, please contact the Development Office play an important part in ensuring that we can support all on alumni.office@sant.ox.ac.uk students at St Antony’s.

14 grants awarded to Academic Initiatives 15 grants awarded to Life at St Antony’s 27 Travel and Research Grants A total of £54,998 awarded from the Antonian Fund in 2018-19

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Spotlight on Warden’s Scholarships

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cholarships are incredibly important in maintaining the vibrant diversity of the College’s academic community.

St Antony’s is in the privileged position of being able to offer four Warden’s Scholarships. We are hugely grateful to the alumni and friends of the college who make this possible.

A scholarship can have a truly life-changing impact on its recipient, and we are committed to increasing the support we are able to offer. Here we’ll meet some of the current holders of the Warden’s Scholarships, and hear a little about the research they have been undertaking since joining St Antony’s. The Warden’s Scholarships are funded collectively by donations from alumni, and enable those awarded them to undertake their studies at St Antony’s free from the strain of financial worries.

Yung Au DPhil Information, Communication & Social Science 2018

With the invaluable support from the Warden’s Scholarship, I have been fortunate enough to pursue a DPhil at the Oxford Internet Institute.

It has allowed me to be part of a department that dedicates itself to the nexus between technology and society. During this first year, I have been fortunate enough to be involved in opportunities that range from engaging with civil societies in India about computational propaganda ahead of the 2019 elections, to leading an upcoming conference.

All College Scholarship holders 2018-19:

If you would be interested in donating towards a graduate scholarship, please get in touch with the Development Office at alumni.office@sant.ox.ac.uk.

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Andreas Björklund DPhil Anthropology 2018

3 Eni Scholarships

The St Antony’s Warden’s Scholarship has generously helped me fund living expenses during the academic year 2018/19, my first on the DPhil in Anthropology. Having no previous degree in anthropology, I have spent this year formally taking tutorials on key topics in the discipline, as well as contributing to a seminar series of relevance to my thesis. I have also submitted my Transfer of Status, and am thus hoping to embark on fieldwork during the summer 2019.

My research looks at how asylum-seekers attempt to prove their identities and handle communal relations in exile. I am also asking questions concerning the roles assumed and ethical dilemmas faced by a researcher interested in this topic, specifically with regard to trying to give the research a wider impact. The Warden’s Scholarship has enabled me to carry out this work and pursue my goal of a career in academia. It has also proved especially valuable as I have just become a parent! I am most grateful for this fantastic opportunity to study toward an advanced degree at St Antony’s College.

Rose Stevens DPhil Anthropology 2018

My research involves understanding variation in contraceptive side-effects in Ethiopia. I am generally interested in reproductive and sexual health and rights.

I am so grateful to have been given this opportunity, which the St Antony’s Warden’s Scholarship has helped me take up. It has helped me afford accommodation in Oxford particularly and generally allowed me to study an issue which I am immensely passionate about and hopefully help kick start a future career in reproductive health research and activism.

2 Elliott Scholarships

1 Hadid Scholarship 1 Hourani Scholarship 1 Oxford-Jusoor Scholarship 1 Oxford Swire-Foot Scholarship 1 Pachachi Scholarship 1 Scott Family Scholarship 12 Swire Scholarships 1 Swire-Kenya Scholarship 1 Wai Seng Scholarship 4 Warden’s Scholarships

Thupten Kelsang DPhil Anthropology 2018

My doctoral research in the department of Anthropology focuses on Tibet collections in museums (across UK). Being a stateless Tibetan as well as a mature student, I fall neatly outside the rigid purview(s) of national or region-based funding opportunities.

Hence this scholarship award at St Antony’s in collaboration with Clarendon Fund has enabled me to not only pursue my research unhindered, but also undertake crucial work with and for my community through creating and catalyzing museum projects.

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Antonian Donor Roll 2019

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e wish to thank all donors for their outstanding generosity and commitment to supporting St Antony’s College. Every single gift makes a real, tangible difference to life at the College, for all in our community.

The list of names recorded here is based on gifts received by St Antony’s College between 1 August 2018 and 31 July 2019.

We have tried to produce as accurate a list as possible, and apologise for any errors or omissions. Please note that donations are sometimes received with some delay, especially gifts from the United States, Hong Kong, Switzerland and Germany, so if you have made a donation recently and your name is not on the list rest assured that you will be included in the donor roll in next year’s edition.

Thank you to all who have chosen to donate to St Antony’s.

Dr Swarnali Ahmed Dr Nike Alkema Professor Joan Alker Miss Juliet Elizabeth Allan Dr John Allcock Professor Roy Allison Professor Yoav Alon Dr Paula Alonso Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi Mr Atef Alshehri Professor Abbas Amanat Ms Jennifer Angel Mr Toby Ash Miss Rutha Astravas Mrs Amy Babcock Mr Dylan Baker Mr Siddik Bakir Mr Richard Balfour Mr Victor Ban Mr Enrique Bargioni Mr Robert E Beaman Dr Michael Beaulieu Dr Jonathan Becker Ms Ozsel Beleli Ms Alexandra Issacovitch-Benaga Mr Adam Bennett Dr Michael Benson Mr Arian Berdellima Mrs Alexandra Horne Berven Miss Nicole Bogrand Dr Marie Bourke Mr Christopher Bredholt Ms Christina Brookes Professor Archibald Brown Reverend Julian Brown Mr Roger De Bruycker Mrs Aimee Burlakova Ms Erin Burns and Dr Giles Alston Mr Duncan Butler-Wheelhouse Dr Edric Cane Mr Yang Cao Mr Peter Carter Mr Sebastian Carter N Carter Sir Bryan Cartledge Dr Valerie Caton Ms Evelyn Chan Mr Jorge Chavez Miss Chuyi Chen Mr Robert Chenciner Dr Gordon Cheung Mr Yong-Hae Chi Dr Fu-Shin Francis Chong Mr William Clevenger

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Mr Tony Coleman Ms Cathy Ridge-Collins Dr Nathan Converse Professor Paul Corner Dr William Crawley Dr Valentin Danchev Dr Nigel Gould-Davies Mr Richard Davy Mr Frederick Deknatel Mr Mark Dieringer Ms Nainika Dinesh Dr Martin Doble Mr Felipe Krause Dornelles Mr Zapryan Dumbalski Mr Alex Duncan Mr Gaspard Dünkelsbühler Ms Maria Echavarria Dr Mark Echlin Ms Gillian Edgeworth Mr Geoffrey Elliott and Mrs Fay Elliott Ms Ebonique Ellis Dr Robert Elson Professor Ralph Elwood Dr Charles Enoch Mr José Escobar Dr Simon Escoffier Miss Emma Etheridge Dr Luis Fajardo Professor David Faure Dr Ilaria Favretto Mr Stewart Fleming Mr Daniel Fowler Mr Jeffrey Franks Professor Dr Rainer Fremdling Mr Adrian Fu Mr Alberto De La Fuente Mr Jonathan Fulwell Michael Gardiner John Garrard Ms Sara-Christine Gemson Ms Lotte Geunis Dr Heather D Gibson Professor Avner Giladi Colonel Dr Roy Giles Dr Paul Gillingham Ms Kirsten Gillingham Professor John Goldberg Mr David Golub Professor Roger Goodman Mr Donald Goodson Professor Nandini Gooptu Miss Sarah Grey Dr Yoo Jung Ha

Dr Richard Haass Mr Anis Haggar Dr Jun Han Professor Jens Hanssen Dr Helen Hardman Professor John Hattendorf Professor Bernard Haykel and Dr Navina Haidar Ms Sarah Hearn Mr John Hewko Dr Stephen Hickey Professor Renée Hirschon Dr R A Hitchman Professor Allan Hoben Professor Bruce Hoffman Professor Ik-joo Hwang Ms Jennifer Innes G Isard Ms Amrita Jairaj Mr John C James Dr Ha Won Jang Dr Sheridan Johns Mr Donald Johnson Mr Nicholas Jones Mr Richard Jones Mr Kevin Jones Professor Stephen Jones Professor Heather Joshi Mr Ozren Jungic Mr Oday Kamal Mr Ken Okamoto Kaminski Mr Edward Kamman Dr Man Yee Kan Mr Claudius Hengari-Kandjou Miss Vedica Kant Dr Zachary Karabell Dr Joanna Kavenna Ms Haley Kawaja Professor Harry Kedward Ms Bridget Kendall Dr Susannah Kennedy Mr Aidan Kennedy Dr Carol Amouyel-Kent Professor Philip Khoury Dr Dagmar Kift Dr Jungsup Kim Professor Christoph Kimmich Dr G Russell Kincaid Professor Charles King Dr Serra Kirdar Mr Anthony Kirk-Greene Professor Adam Komisarof Mr Takashi Kozu Dr Christopher Kutarna Mr Peter Kutzen Professor Huck-Ju Kwon Dr Katerina Lagos Mr Martin Landy Dr Patrick Lane Mr Martin Lausegger Dr Carol Leonard Ms Qin Li Dr Ivy Lim Dr Sang Hun Lim Dr Daniel Lincoln Mr Mark Little Sir Michael and Lady Colette Llewellyn-Smith Mr John Lloyd Mrs Anne Lonsdale Rabbi Asher Lopatin Professor Nicholas Ludlow Mrs Lindsay Levkoff Lynn Dr Fiona Macaulay Professor Roderick MacFarquhar

Professor Margaret MacMillan Mr Robin Madden Sir David Madden Mr Emmanuel Mahieux Ms Rozana Binte Abdul Majid Dr Bansi Malde Miss Scarlett Mansfield Professor Emeritus Moshe Ma’oz Professor Dr Bernd Martin Dr Mervyn Matthews Mr Michael McCain Ms Helen McCombie Ms Mary McCone Mr Robin McConnachie Dr J Kenneth McDonald Mr Michael McGeever Mrs Karen McLernon Dr Nigel Meir and Ms Shirin Narwani Mr Emmanuel van der Mensbrugghe Dr Martha Merritt Professor Richard Meyer Dr Kuniko Miyanaga Mr Sanjay Mody Ms Karen Monaghan Dr David Motadel Professor Eiichi Motono Mr Trilokesh Mukherjee Ms Danah Al-Mulla Mr Thomas Mundy Professor Rachel Murphy Dr Nicholas Murray Dr Denise Nadeau Dr John Nagl Mr Aharon Nathan Mr Timothy Nelson Mr Koichi Nezu Professor Jeremy Noakes Dr Muhammad Jawad Noon Mr Elchi Nowrojee Professor Stephen O’Connell Miss Diana Olaleye Dr Molly O’Neal Dr Patricia O’Neill Dr Kunle Owolabi Mrs Seung Yun Lee Oxley Dr Jonathan Paris Dr Jin Park Dr Hyun Park Commodore Graham Peach Dr Gordon Peake Mr Howard Pearce Mr Andres Penate Dr Pekka Pere Dr Matthew Eagleton-Pierce Mrs Roberta Pinnell Ms Christine Polzin Ms Sarah Poralla Dr Konstantinos Pouliakas Mrs Irena Powell Mr Timothy Price Professor Stanley Rabinowitz Dr Gustavo Perez Ramirez Dr Young Ju Rhee Mr Christopher Rickerd Mr Ralph Ricks Dr Armin-Detief Riess Dr Frank Riess Miss Alyeska Robbins-Juarez Dr Gregg Robins Ms Danielle Robinson Ms Taylor Robinson Dr Nayef Al Rodhan Professor Eugene Rogan

Dr Liat Radcliffe Ross Mr Kevin Rosser Mr George Roussopoulos Ms Amanda Rowlatt Professor Marilyn Rueschemeyer Dr Henry Ryan Mr Erik Sabot Dr Stuart Samuels Professor Joseph Sassoon Mr Jonathan Scheele Mr Christian Schmidt Professor David Schoenbaum in honour of Jerry Kuehl Dr Noa Schonmann Mr Wynn Segall Ms Jennifer Hooper Selendy and Philippe Selendy in Honour of Holly Wyatt-Walter Mr Francisco Serrano HE Ghassan I Shaker Mr David Shapiro Professor Marshall Shatz Dr Nadim Shehadi Mr George Sherman Mr Mark Shibata Professor Avi Shlaim Professor Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach Professor Pierre Siklos Dr Brendan de Silva Professor Mr Peter D Slevin Dr Julie E Smith Dr Paul E Smith Ms Deborah Soderholm Professor Robert Spencer Professor Brian Spooner Mr Neil Sternthal Professor Tony Stewart Mr Hugh Stokes Mr Rajesh Swaminathan Professor Richard Sylla

Dr Marc Szepan Dr Celia Szusterman Mr Mark Tashkovich Mr Wouter te Kloeze Dr Elizabeth Teague Dr Matthew Tejada Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya Mrs Agnes Thambynayagam Mr Robert Trimmer Professor Emeritus Tetsuo Tsuzaki Professor Ruel Tyson Dr Sean Tzeng Professor Dr Kozo Ueda Mr Nouri Verghese Mr Marco Vonhof Ms Suzy Wahba Professor Mourad Wahba The Reverend Teresa Waldron Professor Don Wallace Dr Richard Ware Mr Aaron Watanabe Professor Claude Welch Ms Anne-France White Mr Aart Wildeboer Dr Kieran Williams Dr Michael Willis Mr Barnaby Willis Dr Kenneth Wilson Professor Dr Peter-Christian Witt Dr Gernot Wittling Dr Leonard Wood Ms Felicity Wood Dr John Williamson-Wright Dr Yunjeong Yang Dr Ilcheong Yi Mr Andrew Zadel The Honorable Dr Dov Zakheim Ms Sylvie Zannier Dr David Zaret Ms Rachel Ziemba Dr Peteris Zilgalvis

Anonymous Donors and Gifts in Kind We would also like to thank our anonymous donors and those who have given gifts in kind to the College.

Deakin Society Members Judge William Birtles Professor James Clad Dr William Crawley Lady Ellen Dahrendorf Mr Alex Duncan Professor Rosemary Foot and Tim Kennedy Professor Dan Healey and Mark Cornwall Professor Caroline Kennedy-Pipe Dr Celia Kerslake Sir Michael and Mrs College Llewellyn-Smith Professor Margaret MacMillan Mr Paul Newman Professor Stanley Rabinowitz Mr Kevin Rosser Professor John Y Wong Leavers’ Society 2018/19 Members are those Antonians who make a gift in the first two years after their graduation. Membership is retained if they continue to make a gift each year, no matter the size of the donation. We are tremendously grateful to members for choosing to start helping St Antony’s so soon after leaving.

Mr Siddik Bakir Ms Ozsel Beleli Mr Duncan Butler-Wheelhouse Dr Simon Escoffier

Dr Jun Han Mr Peter Kutzen Mr Martin Lausegger Mr Emmanuel Mahieux Ms Scarlett Mansfield Dr Muhammad Jawad Noon Miss Diana Olaleye Miss Alyeska Robbins-Juarez Mr Marco Vonhof Mr Aaron Watanabe Mr Barnaby Willis Companies, Trusts, and Foundations The A.G. Leventis Foundation Aegean Airlines Basque Programme Diaineosis Foundation Eni Eurobank Greece Eurolife Financial Market Policies Foundation Greek Embassy Hellenic Bank Association Hudson Royal Navy Fellowship Hudson US Navy Fellowship Janus Henderson Foundation Jusoor Luca d’Agliano Trust LXL Universal Mytilineos Holdings SA NATO Nestar Foundation Raycap Europe Ltd Santander UK Plc Sino British Fellowship Trust Swire Charitable Trust United Health Group

Leaving a gift in your Will to St Antony’s

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t Antony’s has long benefitted from the generosity of its benefactors. It was after all founded thanks to the generous gift of a single person, Antonin Besse.

Since 1950 the Fellows, students and college environment have all received remarkable support from the Antonian community.

Legacies can have a truly transformative impact on the College, be it by establishing scholarships, supporting specific projects, or allowing the College to respond to developing needs as they arise. They offer a chance to make a difference that will be felt by generations of Antonians for years to come.

Your will provides for your family, friends and those organisations that have inf luenced and shaped your life.

Making a legacy provision in favour of St Antony’s is one of the most meaningful ways to support the College, and

is regarded as one of the greatest honours an individual can bestow on the College. By including St Antony’s in your will, you will play an important part in ensuring we can continue to attract leading scholarships and educate the best graduate students from all over the world.

It is very important when making a will to confirm that your wishes can be carried out as you intend. The Warden, Bursar or Development Director would welcome the opportunity to discuss with you the long-term priorities of the College, but it is essential to seek advice from your family and solicitor.

To recognise the generosity of those who name St Antony’s in their will, the College has founded a dedicated society named after the first Warden: Sir William Deakin.

The Society offers an opportunity for the College to thank everyone who remembers St Antony’s in their will.

If you would like to receive more information about legacy giving or if you wish to have a confidential conversation, please do not hesitate to get in touch with: legacy@sant.ox.ac.uk / +44 (0)1865 274496

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Antonian and University of Oxford Events Thank you to all our alumni who were able to join us at events across the world in 2018-19. We held events in Washington DC, New York, Hong Kong, and Brussels.

We also held a very successful Gaudy Weekend for alumni who attended St Antony’s in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

It is always a pleasure to be able to welcome Antonians back to the College.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to a new selection of global events in 2019-20. For all of our upcoming events, see: www.sant.ox.ac.uk/alumni-and-development/antonian-events To receive invitations to events in your area by email, visit: www.sant.ox.ac.uk/alumni-and-development/communications-preferences and opt-in to ‘Event invitations’.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact alumni.office@sant.ox.ac.uk All Antonians are entitled to a free High Table dinner every year.

These take place on Tuesdays and Fridays during term time, and will be unaffected by the renovation of the Hilda Besse Building.

If you would like to book, please get in touch with us at alumni.office@sant.ox.ac.uk

Date protection at St Antony’s College St Antony’s College is committed to protecting the privacy and security of personal data. Full information about how your data is held and used can be found in our Alumni, Donors and Supporters Privacy Notice, which is available here: sant.ox.ac.uk/about-st-antonys/how-we-use-your-data Please let us know if you would like a printed version of this Privacy Notice. If at any time you have any queries about the use of your personal data, or wish to change the fact of, extent of, or use of your personal data, please contact the Development team at alumni.office@sant.ox.ac.uk