Professor Catriona Seth, Fellow of All Souls College, and Professor Sir Hew Strachan, Emeritus Fellow, have been elected Fellows of the British Academy.

It is with great sadness that the College reports the death on 11 July of Denis Mack Smith, who was a Senior Research Fellow from 1962 until his retirement in 1987, when he became an Emeritus Fellow.

A memorial service will take place on Saturday, 18 November, at 2.30pm in the Codrington Library.

Applications may now be made for Senior Research Fellowships in Classics (Language and Literature); Literature in English; and Theoretical Physics tenable from October 2018.  See Further Particulars and Online Application Form.

Closing date for applications: Friday, 15 September 2017, 12 noon (UK time). 

Applications may now be made to sit the examinations to be held on  28-29 September 2017 (and 30 September for some candidates).  The Fellowships by Examination will be tenable from November 2017.  See Further Particulars and Online Application Form.

Closing date: Monday, 4  September 2017, 4pm (UK time). 

It is with great sorrow the College announces the death on 15 January 2017 of Professor John Davis FBA, Warden of All Souls from 1995-2008. He was Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford from 1990-95, and previously taught at the University of Kent, where he started his academic career in 1966.

A memorial service will be held in the Codrington Library at 2.30pm on Saturday, 24 June.

It is with great sadness that the College records the death on 1 January of Derek Parfit FBA, the Philosopher, who was at All Souls from his election as a Prize Fellow in 1967 to his retirement as a Senior Research Fellow in 2010, when he became an Emeritus Fellow. A Memorial Meeting will be held on Saturday, 3 June.

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The College is pleased to announce that the following have accepted offers of Visiting Fellowships for the 2017 – 2018 academic year:

Dr David Ben-Zvi (University of Texas, Trinity Term)

Ambassador William J. Burns (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Michaelmas Term)

Professor Anthony Corbeill (University of Kansas, Michaelmas Term)

Mr Bill Emmott (Independent Researcher, Michaelmas and Hilary Terms)

Professor David Feldman (Birkbeck, University of London, Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Mr Simon Gleeson (Clifford Chance, Hilary Term)

Dr Hilla Halla-aho (University of Helsinki, Michaelmas Term)

Professor Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck, University of London, Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Professor Eva Jakab (Szeged University, Michaelmas and Hilary Terms)

Dr David Malone (United Nations University, Trinity Term)

Professor Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo (University of the Basque Country, Trinity Term)

Professor Peter Railton (University of Michigan, Trinity Term)

Dr Lydia Schumacher (University of Edinburgh, Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Professor Alexandra Walsham (University of Cambridge, Hilary Term)

Professor Peter Wilson (University of Sydney, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Professor Nuala Zahedieh (University of Edinburgh, Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms)

Christopher Hood, an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, has with Ruth Dixon been awarded the W. J. M. Mackenzie Book Prize by the Political Studies Association, for their book A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government.

Dr Margaret Bent CBE FBA, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, has been awarded the Derek Allen Prize for Musicology by the British Academy. This prize commemorates Derek Allen FBA (1910–1975), a former Secretary and Treasurer of the Academy. Annual awards are made in turn in musicology, numismatics and Celtic studies. 2016 is the turn of musicology. Margaret has been honoured for her contribution to the field of musicology, in particular English, French and Italian music from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.

Professor Catherine Morgan, Fellow of All Souls College, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.