Old Library, All Souls College
University of Oxford, OX1 4AL

All Souls College, Hovenden Room

David Lloyd Dusenbury (Danube Institute) 

All welcome

For further details please contact fitzroy.morrissey@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Britain’s Paraconstitution: a colloquium

Hovenden Room, All Souls College

Friday 10 March, 2– 6 pm

Programme:

2 pm Welcome – Jesse Norman and Colin Kidd

2.05 Jesse Norman, ‘The Paraconstitution: A Brief Introduction’

2.20 Colin Kidd, ‘The Invisible Union and the British Constitution’

Discussant: Michael Lobban

General Discussion

3.30 Tea in the Bursar’s Study

4 pm Jesse Norman and Colin Kidd, ‘Arrangements for Electing Party Leaders’

4.20 James Harding and Alan Payne KC, ‘Tortoise Media and the Conservative Party’

Discussant: Lord Norton

General Discussion

If you would like to attend, please email: events@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Examination Fellowships 2023: OPEN EVENING FOR WOMEN

Friday 3 March (Week 7) at 5pm in the Hall, All Souls College

All Souls holds an exam every autumn for students who have recently graduated from, or are registered for a higher degree at, the University of Oxford. Candidates may choose to sit papers in Classics, Economics, English Literature, History, Law, Philosophy or Politics, and there is also a General component. The Fellowship lasts for seven years. Those elected receive a generous stipend, accommodation and career support, and may either choose to pursue an academic career, or to contribute to wider academic life while pursuing a non-academic career.

The Open Evening is an opportunity to learn about the Examination Fellowship – to find out more about the exam process, and to meet some members of the College. Women, non-binary, and gender nonconforming students are welcome to attend.

All Souls is committed to attracting candidates from all backgrounds, and welcomes enquiries about the Examination Fellowship from anyone.

Further information is available on our website: https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/examination-fellowships

Join remotely on Teams:

Click here to join the lecture online

Meeting ID: 323 718 353 141
Passcode: tPcDCC

All welcome

Please note that this event will be recorded

Medium of the infant god Latinath, Darchula, Far Western Nepal

When considering practices of spirit possession in Nepal, there is neither a starting point nor an endpoint, but rather a series of observable transformations that can be apprehended only in what is necessarily an arbitrary manner. Misunderstandings and misperceptions arise either because possession is approached on the basis of predetermined categories, derived from a supposedly universal anthropological worldview, or because, at the other end of the spectrum, the analysis is wholly dependent on vernacular categories, the validity of which may be restricted to a few individuals only. Alternatively, problems may arise because these practices are approached through an arbitrary selection of facts and practices in time or space. I will address the remarkable versatility of spirit possession in Nepal and the difficulties in trying to generalize about it, whether along a geographical axis, on the one hand, or along a temporal one, on the other, by paying attention to the vocabulary, the experiences as they are recounted by participants or others, and the context of occurrence.

Examination Schools, 5 pm

All Souls College is delighted to announce the inaugural lecture in the annual series, Atlantic Slavery and its Aftermaths, to be given by Professor Paul Gilroy FRSL FBA (UCL) on ‘Race-thinking and the Half-life of Atlantic Slavery’.

The event is open to the public, but reservations are required.

Please register following this link: https://forms.office.com/e/19wMzgRb8M