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Monday’s episode of University Challenge (BBC Two) saw a talented team from Christ Church go head to head with the University of Southampton’s top quizzers in a nail-biting first-round match. 

The inaugural International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) kicked off last month in Beijing, launched with the mission of promoting and celebrating groundbreaking research in fundamental science and applied mathematics. Among the research celebrated this year was that of Yuji Nakatsukasa, member of Christ Church and Associate Professor in the Oxford University Mathematical Institute.

Professor Brian Parkinson has been named one of a team of three new co-editors of the academic journal Emotion Review. He will be joined in his new role by Giovanna Colombetti (Professor of Philosophy, University of Exeter) and Bradley J. Irish (Associate Professor of English, Arizona State University).

Professor Jonathan Cross, Official Student in Music, and Professor Mark Edwards, Official Student in Theology and Religion, have been elected as Fellows of the British Academy in recognition of their distinguished contribution to research.

Remembering the life of Peter Parsons, Regius Professor of Greek at Christ Church 1989–2003.

The recent addition to Christ Church Library’s Dodgson material consists of a selection of letters written to the family of the Reverend James and Sarah Anne Thresher. 

In a paper titled The Curse Of Recursion: Training On Generated Data Makes Models Forget, two Christ Church computer scientists raise concerns about the future of advanced text-based systems like ChatGPT.

Chiu Jung (Hebe) Yu, second-year English student at Christ Church has been awarded this year's Chancellor's English Essay Prize.

Christ Church men’s rugby team beat Queen’s to secure the Rugby Cuppers Bowl in a strong final performance that saw them take a 31 points to 7 victory.

The Christ Church team overcame a strong Pembroke side in extra time to win cuppas – the culmination of a hard-fought campaign.

The Library has recently acquired a rare copy of Benjamin Britten’s opera, Gloriana, originally commissioned for the Coronation of Elizabeth II.

The symposium sets out to explore the ways in which lyric poetry enabled or imagined community formation from the 11th to 17th centuries in both European and Middle Eastern worlds.

A ‘traditional Chinese’ edition of Belinda Jack’s Reading (in the Very Short Introduction series) has been published by Oxford University Press in Hong Kong.

Dr Felicity Brown, Lecturer in English at Christ Church, has won the prestigious Derek Brewer Essay Prize for a work on Arthurian literature.

The memorial service for Peter Pulzer, lecturer in Politics from 1957 to 1962 and Official Student in Politics from 1962 until 1984 at Christ Church and Gladstone Professor of Government 1985–1996.

Christ Church, University of Oxford is delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition, the most lucrative prize for young British poets. This year’s theme, ‘The Planets’ inspired more than 1700 poems.

Over the Easter break, Christ Church DPhil student and Stone-Mallabar scholar Judith Valerie Engel was invited to give a series of lecture recitals and a guest lecture in India. 

Professor Chris Breward, Lecturer in Mathematics at Christ Church, has been appointed as the inaugural Scientific Director of the UK’s new Knowledge Exchange Hub for Mathematical Sciences (KE Hub).

Christ Church's statue of Mercury, located in Tom Quad, has recently undergone a careful restoration.

Research ahead of a major exhibition suggests two Christ Church drawings could be studies for Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli's early panel paintings.

Dr Clare Rees-Zimmerman, a Christ Church Junior Research Fellow in Chemical Engineering, has won the 2023 IMA (Institute of Mathematics and its Applications) Lighthill-Thwaites Prize.

Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Senior Research Fellow at Christ Church and the Faculty of Classics hosted a workshop in Oxford for policy officials and analysts from the Department for Education and the cross-Whitehall languages group to explore academic-policy collaboration.

Dr Alexander Vasudevan, Associate Professor of Human Geography at Christ Church, is to speak at the Madrid Literary Festival, Capitulo Uno, this weekend.

The King has approved the appointment of Rev Canon Professor Sarah Foot PhD, FRHistS, FSA as Dean of Christ Church, Oxford.

Dr Hugo Shakeshaft, Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Christ Church, has been awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize by the College of Art Association for his article, Beauty, Gods, and Early Greek Art: The Dedications of Mantiklos and Nikandre Revisited.

Dr Pranav Prakash, a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, organised a workshop on the history of the book in South Asia at the British Library in London.

Fabian Pregel has won the MIND Graduate Essay Prize. Mr Pregel, currently a Stipendiary Lecturer in Philosophy at Christ Church, will take up a new position of Career Development Fellow in Philosophy at the college in April.

Peter Pulzer was a Lecturer in Politics at Christ Church and Magdalen from 1957 to 1962 and an Official Student and Tutor from 1962 to 1984.

Kian Swingler, a first-year Fine Art student, is to hold an exhibition of his work in the Chapter House from 2-4pm on Tuesday 28 February.