New College History Society Dinner
We are pleased to invite former New College Historians to a dinner at New College on Saturday 26 February to launch the New College History Society, a student-led initiative which aims to strengthen the community of historians past and present.
The evening will begin with a lecture from guest speaker, Professor Sir Noel Malcolm, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, in the McGregor Matthews Room at 6.00pm, followed by a reception at 6.45pm and Dinner at 7.15pm in the Founder's Library.
Professor Malcolm will be speaking on ‘Homosexuality in the early modern Ottoman Empire and the West: perceptions and reality’. He started his academic career as a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, before becoming Foreign Editor of The Spectator. He was a Visiting Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford in 1996, and a lecturer at Harvard three years later; he gave the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford in 2001 and the Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge in 2010. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and received a knighthood for services to scholarship and European history in 2014. He has published widely on early modern philosophy – his edition of Hobbes’ Leviathan won a British Academy Medal in 2013 – and on Western interactions with the Ottoman world.
If you would like to attend, may we ask you to purchase your ticket through the secure University of Oxford Online Store here. The cost is £60 per person.
Attire is lounge suits or equivalent.
The Society aims to put on a number of events over the year.
- Hilary Term: Society Annual Dinner
The Society’s annual dinner will be open to New College History undergraduates, fellows, and Old Members, bringing together all generations of New College historians.
- Michaelmas Term and Trinity Term: Speaker Series
The Society will host a world-leading academic to discuss their most recent work. These lectures will be open to all current New College historians.
We also hope that you might consider supporting the Society with a regular contribution. The financial needs are not great, but such support will:
- cover travel costs and drinks associated with the Speaker Series
- subsidise the costs of dinner for students who might otherwise not be able to attend
- provide funds for future events to connect Old Members and undergraduates
We greatly appreciate any support you can offer and, if you wish to make a gift, you can download a form here.
With best wishes,
Max Mutkin and Joey Ricciardiello
Co-Presidents of the New College History Society
Covid-19: for all of our events we will of course be mindful of any Government guidance or restrictions and come back to you if circumstance change; we would also ask those planning to come to events to take a lateral flow test before arrival.
