New College Diversity Dinner, Saturday 1 February 2025

The closing date for this dinner was Wednesday 22 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.

New College very much looks forward to welcoming its Old Members to the annual Diversity Dinner: Celebrating Faith and Ethnic Minorities on Saturday 1 February 2025, at New College.

The evening will begin at 6.30pm with a drinks reception in the Founder's Library, followed by dinner, in Hall at 7.15pm.

We are delighted to confirm that New College Old Member, Miss Alev Scott (2005 Literae Humaniores) (pictured below), will be the guest speaker.

The cost of the dinner is £80.00 per person.

The dress code is lounge suits or equivalent.

If you have any enquiries, please contact the New College Development Office on oldmembers@new.ox.ac.uk

Elianne Gasper, JCR Faith and Ethnic Minorities Officer and Aniket Chakravorty, MCR Equality and Diversity Officer

About the speaker:
Alev Scott studied Classics (Literae Humaniores) at New College and matriculated in 2005. Soon after graduating, she moved from her hometown of London to Istanbul, where she taught Latin at Bosphorus University. She now works as a freelance journalist. She has written two books of nonfiction: ‘Turkish Awakening’ and ‘Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire’. She has also co-written a third book: ‘Power and People: Five Lessons from the Birthplace of Democracy’. Her work has focussed primarily on Turkey, Greece, and the Post-Ottoman world; however, she is currently writing a book on the commercialisation of motherhood.