Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021 - Voicing the Self

20th May 2021, 5:00 pm

Voices that Matter: Kurdish Women and the Dilemmas of Representation in Contemporary Turkey

Voicing the Self

Kurdish women have captured unprecedented global attention as combatants deployed at frontlines in Syria, Iraq and Turkey. In much public discourse, these women are portrayed as unexpectedly yet courageously defying their own society’s putative attempts at silencing them. Kurdish women, it is alleged, are finally "raising their voices." Rather than judging whether Kurdish women have finally acquired voice or are still being silenced, this series of lectures questions the commonplace association between silence and repression, voice and agency. Instead, focusing on the struggles of Kurdish female singers, poets and women's activists to raise their voices in eastern Turkey, the lectures ask how the voice has become such a central site for determining Middle Eastern women's empowerment and agency, and how this animates the voice as a powerful nexus of governmental control and intervention, subaltern desire and resistance.

The lecture will take place at 5 p.m. on Microsoft Teams. Please join using this link.

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Evans-Pritchard Lectures 2021 - Voicing Affect

13th May 2021, 5:00 pm

Voices that Matter: Kurdish Women and the Dilemmas of Representation in Contemporary Turkey

Voicing Affect

The lecture will take place at 5 p.m. on Microsoft Teams. Please join using this link.

Other events this month

All Souls wins award from the Oxford Preservation Trust

The Oxford Preservation Trust has awarded an 'Outstanding contribution to Oxford' award to All Souls College for the 'Restoration of its public facing façade, including replacement of intricate stone chimneys'.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Elections

The Warden and Fellows of the College have elected to Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships:

Alison John (Ghent; Classics)

Rustam Jamilov (London Business School; Economics)

Christopher Scambler (New York University; Philosophy)

Alexandros Hollender (Oxford; Theoretical Computer Science)

Takato Yoshimura (Tokyo Institute of Technology; Theoretical Physics)

Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie

Chichele Professor of Economic History

History

Economics

FBA

University Academic Fellow since 2020

My research explores how social institutions – the formal and informal constraints on economic activity – shaped economic development in Europe between the Middle Ages and the present day. In recent years my publications have analysed guilds, serfdom, communities, the family, gender, human capital investment, consumption, and state capacity.

Contact:sheilagh.ogilvie@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

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Background

Chichele Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford (from 2020)
University Academic Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (from 2020)
University Assistant Lecturer (1989-1992); University Lecturer (1992-1999); Reader in Economic History (1999-2004); then Professor of Economic History (2004-2020), Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (from 1984 to 1988)
Postgraduate, University of Chicago (1992)
Postgraduate, University of Cambridge (1985)
Undergraduate, University of St Andrews (1979)

Research Interests

Economic history; institutions; economic growth; epidemics; human capital; state capacity; demography; gender; guilds; serfdom; merchant associations; consumption; central and eastern Europe

Selected publications

Other professional memberships and roles

Fellow of the British Academy
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research
Fellow of the Collegium Carolinum
Fellow of CESifo
Editor, Bohemia
Editorial Board, Journal of Economic History
Editorial board, Research in Economics
Editorial board, Historická Demografie
Editorial board, Paginae historiae
Academic Advisory Board, WINIR
International Advisory Board, Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
Board of Trustees, Economic History Association
Scientific Committee, Datini Institute
Advisory Board, Network for History in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Advisory Board, CAGE, University of Warwick
Advisory Board, Gender and Work Project, University of Uppsala

Teaching

Note: the following courses will be paused for 2024-7 due to the award of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, but will resume in Michaelmas 2027.

Convenor of the M.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees in Economic and Social History
Coordinator of M.Phil. Core Course 'What Happened and Why'
Advanced Paper on 'Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective'
I am happy to supervise Ph.D. students working on my research interests

Research awards and grants

Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship: Serfdom and Economic Growth, c. 1000 - 1861
Gyorgi Ranki Prize for book, The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis (2021)
British Academy Wolfson Trust Research Professorship: Human Capital and Economic Outcomes in a European Developing Economy, c.1600-c.1900 (from 2013 to 2016).
ESRC Major Research Grant: Human Well-Being and the 'Industrious Revolution': Consumption, Gender and Social Capital in a German Developing Economy, 1600- 1900 (from 2008 to 2012).
British Academy Research Grant: Economic Structures in Early Modern Central Europe: The Czech Lands in the Seventeenth Century (from 2010 to 2011).
Dame Elizabeth Hill Fund: The Czech Lands in the Seventeenth Century (from 2010 to 2011).
Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship: Social Capital and History (from 2008 to 2010).
Stanley Z. Pech Prize for article, "'So That Every Subject Knows How to Behave': Social Disciplining in Early Modern Bohemia" (2008).
Leverhulme Major Research Grant: Economy, Gender and Social Capital in the German Demographic Transition (from 2005 to 2007).
René Kuczynski Prize for book, A Bitter Living: Women, Markets and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany (2004).
Anton Gindely Prize for Research Project on "Social Structures in Bohemia, 1500-1800" (2004).
British Academy Research Readership: Social Structures in Bohemia, 1500-1700 (from 2000 to 2004).
Gyorgy Ranki Prize for book, State Corporatism and Proto-Industry (1999).
Volkswagen Foundation Project Grant: Soziale Strukturen im frühmodernen Böhmen (from 1997 to 2000).

Professor Timothy Endicott

Vinerian Professor of English Law

Law

University Academic Fellow since 2020

I work on the doctrine and the theory and the history of United Kingdom constitutional and administrative law. I have written about the constitutional law of India, Canada, and the United States, and about human rights law. I also work in general jurisprudence, with particular interests in legal interpretation and in the relation between adjudication and the law.

Contact:timothy.endicott@law.ox.ac.uk

Background

Fellow in Law, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1999 to 2020)
Fellow, St Catherine’s College, Oxford (from 1998 to 1999)
DPhil in Law, University of Oxford (1997)
LLB, University of Toronto (1988)
MPhil in Comparative Philology, University of Oxford (1985)
AB, Harvard College (1983)

Research Interests

Constitutional law
Administrative law
Philosophy of law

Selected publications

Dicey + 100: Alfred Venn Dicey, a Centennial Commemoration, Andrew Dickinson, Timothy Endicott, and Wolfgang Ernst, eds (Intersentia 2024)
Philosophical Foundations of Precedent, Timothy Endicott, Hafsteinn Dan Kristjánsson, and Sebastian Lewis, eds (OUP 2023)
‘The Rule of Justice’ (2022) 20 International Journal of Constitutional Law 1851–1873
‘The Death of Law? Computationally Personalised Norms and the Rule of Law’, co-authored with Karen Yeung, (2022) 72 University of Toronto Law Journal 373-402
‘Law and Language’, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
Administrative Law (OUP) 5th ed 2021
Publications (External Link)

Other professional memberships and roles

Academic Bencher, Inner Temple

Teaching

Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, Administrative Law, Jurisprudence and Political Theory

Professor Miriam Meyerhoff

Linguistics

MA, PhD

Senior Research Fellow since 2020

My research examines the sociolinguistic constraints on variation, principally in communities characterised by language or dialect contact. I am currently engaged in a long-term project with the Nkep-speaking community in Vanuatu to document their language. Much of my work has been on Creoles – a particularly rewarding area for (socio)linguistic study. Their (typical) lack of standardisation means there is a lot of variation and change at all levels of linguistic structure. They are generally used in post-colonial communities with long histories of struggles over identity and in which globalisation raises new questions over cultural and linguistic differentiation. I have published descriptive and variationist papers on features at virtually all levels of linguistic structure, but my primary interest remains syntactic and discourse factors. These features shed light on the universality of linguistic theory and have also proved important indicators of the role of language as a symbolic resource in the construction of gendered and other social identities.

Contact:miriam.meyerhoff@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Background

Professor of Linguistics, Victoria University of Wellington (from 2014 to 2020)
Professor of Linguistics, University of Auckland (from 2010 to 2014)
Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Sociolinguistics, University of Edinburgh (from 2001 to 2010)
Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Hawai’i at Manoa (from 1997 to 2000)
Postgraduate, University of Pennsylvania (1997)
Postgraduate, Victoria University of Wellington (1986)
Undergraduate, Victoria University of Wellington (1984)

Research Interests

Sociolinguistic variation and change
Sociolinguistics and Pacific languages, especially the languages of Vanuatu
Creoles
Language and gender

Selected publications

2023 Speakers, norms and the creole continuum. (James A. Walker & Miriam Meyerhoff). Complementation and the creole continuum in the Eastern Caribbean. World Englishes, 42 (1): 9–26. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12610
2023 Responses to CAT at 50: Reflections on accommodation from a sociolinguist. Language Sciences. 99. doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2023.10157
2022 Babysteps in decolonising linguistics: Urban language research. In Heike Wiese & Paul Kerswill (eds.)Routledge Handbook of Urban Contact Varieties. London: Routledge. 145-157. doi:10.4324/9780429487958-11
2022 Aesthetics in styles and variation: A fresh flavor. (Miriam Meyerhoff & Norma Mendoza-Denton) Annual Review of Anthropology. 51: 103-120. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-101819-110056
2022b “I’m a big boy, you’re a baby”. Boundaries and belonging with individual and group identities in an early childhood centre. (Anna Strycharz-Banas, Carmen Dalli & Miriam Meyerhoff). International Journal of Early Years Education. 30:41-54. doi.org/10.1080/09669760.2021.1998886 <http://doi.org/10.1080/09669760.2021.1998886> [Reprinted in In Sheila Degotardi, Shelley Stagg Peterson and Jiangbo Hu (eds.) Young Children’s Language in Context. Abingdon: Routledge.]
2021 Status and Variation. (Miriam Meyerhoff & Steffen Klaere). In Marcos Zampieri and Preslav Nakov (eds.) Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects: A Computational Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 27-50.
2021 Nvaatwarwülwül Nkep / First Dictionary of Nkep / Fes Diksoneri blong Nkep (Nkep-English-Bislama). (Manasseh Vocor, Anathiel Loyalty Karpüs, Lidia Wass, Marie Tain Ali, John Turan, Thukula Noel, Wass Iavro, Bob Vocor, George Nial, Ian Prenter & Miriam Meyerhoff) Port Vila/Hog Harbour/Oxford. Pp258
2021 The Auckland Voices Project: Language change in a changing city. (Miriam Meyerhoff, Elaine Ballard, Helen Charters, Alexandra Birchfield and Catherine I. Watson). In Pam Peters & Kate Burridge (eds.) Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-first Century: Language, society and culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 345-368.
2020 The Routledge Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Languages. (Umberto Ansaldo and Miriam Meyerhoff, eds.). London: Routledge. pp xx+519, index. 9781138557789

Other professional memberships and roles

Fellow, Royal Society of New Zealand Te Aparangi
Fellow, Linguistic Society of America
Associate editor, Asia-Pacific Language Variation
Scientific Advisory Board, MPI-Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Member, Agder Vitenskapsakedemi/Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters

Research awards and grants

A Grammar of ‘Oroha. Endangered Language Documentation Project. (Darren Flavelle, Miriam Meyerhoff, Victoria Chen) (from 2019 to 2021).
Development of tonal metacognition in Vietnames and Me’phaa. Royal Society of New Zealand. (Rolando Coto-Solano, Miriam Meyerhoff) (from 2019 to 2021).
Banam Bay Language: documentation and endangered language maintenance. Endangered Language Documentation Programme. (Brittany Hoback, Miriam Meyerhoff) (from 2018 to 2020).
War and peace in the nursery: How do young children negotiate conflict to establish belonging and well-being in a multi-ethnic NZ early childhood centre? Royal Society of New Zealand. (Carmen Dalli, Miriam Meyerhoff, Anna Strycharz-Banas) (from 2017 to 2020).
Rethinking language variation in a super-diverse city (the 'Auckland Voices' project). Royal Society of New Zealand. (Miriam Meyerhoff, Catherine Watson, Elaine Ballard, Helen Areta Charters) (from 2016 to 2018).
Documentation of Nkep (north Vanuatu): Structure and variation. Endangered Language Documentation Programme (from 2011 to 2014).
Sociolinguistics and immigration: linguistic variation among adolescents in London and Edinburgh. ESRC. (Miriam Meyerhoff, Erik Schleef) (from 2009 to 2010).
Research Excellence Award, Victoria University of Wellington (2019).
Hudson Medal, Royal Society of New Zealand (2018).

Dr Rima Dapous

Domestic Bursar

MPhil, DPhil

Quondam Fellow since 2023

Background

Director Education, EIT RawMaterials (European Institute of Innovation & Technology) (from 2016 to 2020)
Head of Education & Business Development for the EU region, British Council (from 2009 to 2016)
Latterly Administrator and Fellowship Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford (from 2006 to 2009)
Managing Director, Institute for Law and Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (from 2002 to 2006)
Executive Assistant to the President, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (from 2001 to 2002)
Postgraduate, Linacre College, Oxford (from 1995 to 1999)
Postgraduate, St John’s College, Oxford (from 1993 to 1995)
Undergraduate, Aberystwyth University (from 1990 to 1993)

Other professional memberships and roles

External expert for the European Commission

Professor Vladimir Markovic

Mathematics

FRS

Quondam Fellow since 2025

Background

Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2020 to 2025)
John D. MacArthur Professor of Mathematics, Caltech, USA (from 2013 to 2020)
Sadleirian Professor, University of Cambridge (from 2013 to 2014)
Professor of Mathematics, Caltech, USA (from 2011 to 2013)
Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick (from 2006 to 2011)
Lecturer/Reader, University of Warwick (from 2002 to 2006)

Research Interests

Low dimensional geometry, topology and dynamics
Functional and geometric analysis

Selected publications

Harmonic Maps and the Schoen Conjecture. Journal of American Mathematical Society 30 (2017), no. 3, 799-817
The good pants homology and a proof of the Ehrenpreis conjecture. Annals of Mathematics (2) 182, No. 1, 1-72 (2015) (with J. Kahn)
Harmonic maps between hyperbolic 3-spaces. Inventiones Mathematicae. 199, No. 3, 921-951 (2015)
Immersing almost geodesic surfaces in a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold. Annals of Mathematics (2) 175 (2012), no. 3, 1127–1190. (with J. Kahn)
Realization of the Mapping class group by homeomorphisms. Inventiones Mathematicae 168, no. 3, 523–566. (2007)
Quasisymmetric groups. Journal of American Mathematical Society 19, no. 3, 673–715 (2006)
The logarithmic spiral: A counterexample to the K=2 conjecture. Annals of Mathematics 161, no. 2, 925–957 (2005) (with D. Epstein)
Quasiconformal homeomorphisms and the convex hull boundary. Annals of Mathematics 159, no. 1, 305–336 (2004) (with D. Epstein, A. Marden)

Research awards and grants

Simons Investigator Award (2016).
ICM Invited Speaker, Korea (2014).
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (2014).
Research Merit Award, Royal Society (2014).
Clay Research Award, awarded by Clay Institute (2012).
Whitehead Prize, awarded by LMS (2004).
Leverhulme Prize, awarded by Leverhulme Trust (2004).
Distinguished Lectures: Distinguished Lectures at University of Indiana, 2020; Namboodiri Lectures at University of Chicago, 2019; Ordway Lectures at University of Minnesota, 2013.

Dr Alexander Georgiou

Law

BCL, MA, DPhil

Examination Fellow since 2019

My research spans doctrinal and philosophical concepts in private law. I have broad research interests across the laws of contract, tort, trusts, and unjust enrichment. I am particularly interested in the remedial aspects of private law, as well as the intersection of linguistics and law, and wider questions of moral and political philosophy in the context of the law and civil justice systems.

Background

Postgraduate (DPhil) at All Souls College, Oxford (from 2020 to 2025)
Postgraduate (BPTC) at BPP University, London (from 2019 to 2020)
Postgraduate (BCL) at Brasenose College, Oxford (from 2018 to 2019)
Undergraduate (BA, Jurisprudence) at Brasenose College, Oxford (from 2014 to 2017)

Research Interests

The law of obligations
The law of trusts

Selected publications

Chapters

‘Statutory trusts and co-ownership’ in Martin Dixon and Emma Lees (eds), Modern Studies in Property Law vol. 15 (Hart Publishing 2025) (with Professor William Swadling) (forthcoming).
‘Remedies and the public interest’ in Andrew Robertson and Jason Neyers (eds), Private Law and the State (Hart Publishing 2024) (with Professor Sandy Steel).

Articles

‘Are equitable remedies discretionary?’ (2025) 18 Journal of Equity 246 (with Dr Timothy Liau).
‘Making contract-breakers pay’ (2025) 141 Law Quarterly Review 104.
‘Mistaken payments, quasi-contracts, and the “justice” of unjust enrichment’ (2022) 42 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 606.
‘Taking trusts seriously’ (2021) 137 Law Quarterly Review 305.

Case notes

‘Property damage, remoteness, and consequential contractual liabilities’ [2024] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 386.
‘Knowing receipt: continuing trusts and conscionability’ (2022) 86 Modern Law Review 276.
‘Between rocks and hard places: limitation, privilege, and mistakes of law’ (2022) 138 Law Quarterly Review 535 (with Emma Rawkins)
‘Interest and enrichment, again’ (2022) 138 Law Quarterly Review 186 (with Emma Rawkins).
‘What’s “unjust” about unjust enrichment: an answer at last?’ [2021] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 63.
‘In defence of Sempra’ [2019] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 38.
‘Marr v Collie: The ballooning of the common intention constructive trust’ (2019) 82 Modern Law Review 145.

Book reviews

‘Review of Standing in Private Law: Powers of Enforcement in the Law of Obligations and Trusts by Timothy Liau’ (2024) 83 Cambridge Law Journal 184.

Other professional memberships and roles

Academic Fellow of the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business, National University of Singapore (2024–present).

Teaching

Contract (FHS).
Tort (FHS).
Trusts (FHS).
Restitution of Unjust Enrichment (BCL/MJur).
Commercial Remedies (BCL/MJur).

Research awards and grants

Temple Chambers BCL Scholar (2018).
Martin Wronker Prize (2017).
Gibbs Prize, Proxime Accessit (2017).

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