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

Dominic Grieve KC has completed his independent review of the governance of Christ Church and a report setting out his recommendations to the Governing Body. 

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.

Hundreds of people filled Christ Church Cathedral on Friday 5 May 2023 to attend a special Service of Thanksgiving on the eve of the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

The Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire and the Chapter of Christ Church are delighted to welcome members of the public, along with Civic and religious leaders from across the city and county, to a special Service of Celebration.

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.

Residents, visitors, staff and students will have noticed a significant amount of tree work around Christ Church Meadow recently.

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.

The Christ Church Picture Gallery will host the launch of A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian Poetry (Cambridge: Legenda, 2022) on 22 February 2023.

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.

Colleagues, old Members and friends of Christ Church will be saddened to learn that following a long illness, Simon Offen, Deputy Development Director died on Friday night.

On Wednesday 1 February, Christ Church Cathedral welcomed nine new guides, and six existing guides, to the first session of a brand-new bespoke training programme. 

Christ Church Junior Research Fellow Leah Broad is to publish a new book next month. Quartet is a group biography of four women composers – Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen.

In December, Professor Geraldine Johnson gave an invited lecture on women patrons in Renaissance and Baroque Europe to an online audience of nearly 5,000.