2015年11月9日 星期一

Wolfson College, University of Oxford

因為熟讀過Isaiah Berlin (牛津大學Wolfson  College創始院長Founding President,1909-97) 的傳記和某些作品, 所以感覺此地很親切。
Wolfson  College 網頁的 College History 特別介紹Berlin 院長:https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/history/berlin
很意思有的是,網頁似乎完全沒說建物捐贈者家族:內行人知道, Wolfson  College 的 Wolfson家族是也: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/history/berlin
幾年前,聽許達然學長說,他見過Berlin,可惜談什麼都忘記了。
雖然介紹該學院重視自然科學和技術,不過2015.11.9 參訪學院網頁,知道她有西藏/喜瑪拉雅研究的年度演講:

Professor Janet Gyatso gave the first annual Aris lecture on Thursday October 22 for the Tibetan and Himalayan...



Coming up to its 50th anniversary,Wolfso College is one of the youngest colleges in Oxford and prides itself on a non-hierarchical structure, where students and professors eat and talk side-by-side.
The college motto, 'humani nil alienum', is from a quote by the Roman playwright Terence that translates as: 'Nothing to do with human beings is foreign to me.'
Wolfson is the largest graduate-only college at Oxford, with around 500 graduate students.

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