Date: Thursday, 19 October 2017
Time: 6PM for 6-30PM start
Venue: Francis Hotel, Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HH (map)
Dress Code: Smart Casual
The 2017 AGM of OUSoc Bristol and Bath took place at 6:30pm at the Francis Hotel in Bath.
The topic of the annual dinner speech was:
"The truth, the post-truth and the death of truth: Some reflections on the crisis in public life."
The speech was delivered by Professor Robert Vilain, who is Lecturer in German at Christ Church as well as Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol and Warden of Wills Hall.
The following officers and general comittee members were elected, all of them unanimously:
Richard Barnfield, Chair
Christophe Fricker, Secretary
Derek Hawkins, Treasurer
Oleksandr Zhurakovskyi, Web Officer
Bianca Ambrose-Oji
Nicolette Boater
Iain Clamp
Elizabeth Cunningham
Clair Hall
Gemma Pouncy
Our monthly meetup for a chat over coffee or a drink has restarted.
Date and time: Thursday 21 October, 6 p.m.
Venue: Online (Zoom)
Book: What We Owe Each Other, Minouche Shafik
Date: Tuesday 5th October
Venue: online (Zoom)
Book: Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
Date and time: Sunday September 19th, 2.30-4.30 and Sunday October 3rd, 2.30-4.30
Free event (registration required)
Paul Brett takes us round 5 of Bath’s 7 Georgian Crescents, 2 Squares and the Circus. We'll stop to discuss many interesting features along the way.
OUSoc Bristol & Bath is an autonomous group for alumni of the University of Oxford living in Somerset, Wiltshire, and Bristol areas. The group operates independently of the University. Responsibility for this website and any and all activities associated with it are the full responsibility of the group and its organising committee. This website is not maintained, monitored, or in any way under the control of the University of Oxford.
Background images, CC-BY-SA Asierog (Bath), Gothick (Bristol), David Iliff (Duke Humfrey's Library).
