JESUS COLLEGE OLD MEMBERS’ DAY

Saturday 22nd June 2024

Old Members’ Day is in its usual slot in June, and we are looking forward to seeing many of you on the day.

We have three elements to the day.  At the outset we are really pleased to have the Principal with Ge Wang (a DPhil student) talking to us about their recently published paper (with others) concerning the ethical principles in the development of AI for children.

The second half of the morning is a nod to the 100^th anniversary of the death of Franz Kafka.  Vice Principal Professor Katrin Kohl who is a co-curator of the Kafka Exhibition (Kafka Making of an Icon) at the Bodleian and Professor Leah Tomkins who is about to launch her new book (Franz Kafka and the Truths of Leadership) will introduce very different takes on Kafka. For both parts of the morning there will be plenty of time for questions

We will have lunch in Hall and as usual it will give an opportunity to chat and catch up with old friends.

In the afternoon there will be the chance to go to the free Kafka Exhibition in the Weston Library at the Bodleian.

The programme is open to all old members and their guests and is organised by Jesus College Old Members’ Group (XL Network) and is timetabled as follows:

10.15   Coffee and tea in Ship Street

            10.45   Ethics of the Development of AI for children with the Principal and Ge Wan

            11.30   Reflections on Kafka with Prof. Katrin Kohl and Prof. Leah Tomkins

            12.35   Pre-lunch drink in the Bastion Ship Street

            13.00   Lunch in Hall

Cost per person is:      £30.00 for coffee, talks, pre-lunch drink, & lunch

At lunchtime guests can buy their own wine at the table.

Please book here as soon as possible (Click for the attached form).

Closing date Tuesday 11^th June.

We look forward to seeing you on 22^nd June for what should be an enjoyable day.

Peter May (Chair JOMG)        Chris Hicks (Treasurer JOMG)        Email: events@jomg.org

 

Jesus College Alumin Department is pleased to invite you to their summer ‘Local Social’, for alumni local to Oxford and surrounding counties.

 

We will be visiting the Hospital of St Cross and Almshouse of Noble Poverty in Winchester on Thursday 6 June 2024. Described by Simon Jenkins as ‘England’s most perfect Almshouse’ and one of the oldest in the country.

 

The Hospital was founded to support thirteen poor men, so frail they were unable to work, and feed one hundred men at the gates every day. The thirteen became the Brothers of St Cross. Then, as now, they are not monks and St Cross is not a monastery but a secular foundation. In the fifteenth century, Cardinal Beaufort created the Order of Noble Poverty adding the Almshouse to the existing Hospital buildings and giving St Cross the look it has today.

 

We will be given a tour of this spectacular and historically fascinating site by Brother John, one of today’s Brothers who resides on site. Our thanks to alumna and Winchester resident, Sue Woodward (1976) for facilitating this trip.

  

Schedule for the day:

 

10.15am – meet for a tour of the Hospital and Almshouse leaving promptly at 10.30am.

 

11.45am – Tea and cakes in the Hundred Men’s Hall.

 

12.30pm – 1.15pm – Lunchtime concert at the Hospital of St Cross. Megan Humphries, Harpist. (optional and free to attend but donations welcome)

 

Afternoon – free time to enjoy exploring the gardens and water meadows.

 

2.30pm/3pm – walk to Winchester Cathedral (30mins via water meadows) optional, tickets purchased on arrival.

  

If you would like to attend the next ‘Local Social’ please email georgina.plunkett@jesus.ox.ac.uk before 27 May 2024. Please state the number of tickets you would like for St Cross. (£7.50 adults, £5 senior citizens & students, £4 under 13 yr olds).

 

 

Thank you to all those who made previous ‘Local Socials’ such a success. I hope you will be joining us again for our summer meet-up!