New College Classics Society Reception and Dinner, Saturday 25 January 2025

The closing date for this dinner was Wednesday 15 January 2025. If you find that you are now able to attend please contact oldmembers@new.ox.ac.uk to check if last minute places might be available.

The New College Classics Society very much lookts forward to welcoming you to its annual reception and dinner on Saturday 25 January 2025.

The evening will begin with a pre-dinner talk at 6.00pm in the McGregor Matthews room, followed by a drinks reception at 6.45pm in the Founder’s Library and a three-course dinner in Hall at 7.15pm.

The Society is delighted to confirm that the guest speaker will be Professor Llewelyn Morgan, Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. Professor Morgan who will speak on “Some Greek and Latin from the Fin de Siècle.”

This dinner is one of the main times in the year when students have the opportunity to meet and talk with Old Members, to share their experiences of Classics at New College.

Dress code is lounge suits or equivalent. 

About the speaker:
Professor Llewelyn Morgan is a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, where he has taught since 1997. After studying in Oxford, and obtaining his PhD in Cambridge, he worked both in Pennsylvania and in the Republic of Ireland, before returning to Oxford. Professor Morgan specialises in Latin literature and has published works on a wide range of Roman authors, including his contributions to Oxford’s Very Short Introduction series, on Ovid and Horace. Aside from Roman literature, he has wider interests including Afghanistan, and Latin literature of the modern period, and he will be speaking on various aspects of a late-nineteenth-century Latin-language newspaper.

Thank you for your support

Whether or not you are able to attend the dinner, contributions to the New College Classics Society would be greatly appreciated and will be used to help subsidise the cost of the dinner for students, to cover the expenses for guest speakers invited by the Society and help to subsidise the annual New College Classics reading trip to Euboea for those that would otherwise not be able to participate. We greatly appreciate any support you can offer and, if you wish to make a gift, please complete the donation form.

We are extremely grateful to those Old Members who currently contribute; thank you for your continued support.

Kind regards,

Miranda Thomas
President of the New College Classics Society