JESUS COLLEGE OLD MEMBERS’ DAY
Saturday 24th June 2023
We look forward to seeing many of you on 24th June for what I am sure will be an enjoyable day. This year we will be entirely College based. We have two very different speakers in the morning who will be pleased to receive questions after their presentations.
Our first speaker is Kelsey Inouye, who is a Supernumerary Fellow in Education at the College. She will speak on ‘Closing the Gap’, her research project which seeks to find a route to transform PhD selection and admissions processes at Oxbridge and thereby make research culture more inclusive.
Our second speaker is Andrew Shapland, who is a Jesus College Supernumerary Fellow in Archaeology. Andrew as co-curator has spent much of the last year preparing the exhibition at the Ashmolean on Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality. The exhibition has many fascinating exhibits and some loan items from Knossos are in the UK for the first time. There will be an opportunity for members to go to the exhibition at the museum in the afternoon after lunch. Andrew advises that you need to book in advance at onlinetickets@ashmus.ox.ac.uk as weekends are busy. The entry cost is £14.30 for seniors or £7.65 for Art Pass holders.
Old Members’ Day is very much a social occasion and a chance to catch up with old friends. Drinks will be served at the end of the morning followed by our usual convivial lunch in Hall.
The day is organised by the Old Members’ Group (XL Network) and is open to all old members and their guests. The programme for the day is as follows:
10.15 Arrival and coffee in the Ship Street Centre
10.45 Welcome by Peter May (Chair of JOMG)
10.50 Kelsey Inouye will talk on ‘Closing the Gap’.
11.30 Andrew Shapland will speak on Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality.
12.30 Pre-Lunch drinks
13.00 Lunch in Hall
14.30 End of the formal events but a chance for those interested to visit the Ashmolean Museum for the Exhibition Andrew Shapland has co- curated.
The cost of the day is £30.00 per person including drinks and lunch, (but excluding exhibition entry).
Please book as soon as possible using this link, but by 14th June at the latest.
Peter May (Chair of JOMG) George Reah (Treasurer of JOMG) (email: events@jomg.org)