Summer 2010 Highlights

The 2010 Summer School will include approximately twenty-four lectures and discussion sessions by members of St Hugh’s College and other colleges with the University of Oxford on subjects ranging from art and architecture to the history of science. Lectures and discussions sessions are intended to explore the central theme of the Summer School: the view that “Oxford is not a place – it is an idea.”

Featured speakers will include:

Dr Margaret Clerici, Shakespeare scholar and tutor in Literature
Mr Colin Dexter, OBE, author of the celebrated “Inspector Morse” mystery novels
Mr Andrew Dilnot, CBE, Principal of St Hugh’s College
Dr Martin Holmes, Former Lecturer in Politics, St Hugh’s College
Dr John Iles, Fellow of St Hugh’s College and tutor in Biological Sciences
Dr Peter McDonald, Fellow of St Hugh’s College and tutor in Literature
Dr Peter Mitchell, Fellow of St Hugh’s College and tutor in
    Archaeology/Anthropology*
Dr Adrian Moore, Fellow of St Hugh’s College and tutor in Philosophy*
Dr Nicholas Perkins, Fellow of St Hugh’s College and tutor in English
Miss Deborah Quare, Former Librarian, St Hugh’s College
Dr David Robertson, Fellow of St Hugh’s College and Tutor in Politics*
Dr Henry Speck, Director of Extramural Programmes, St Hugh’s College
Dr John Traill, Lecturer in Music, St Catherine’s and St Ann’s colleges; conductor
Dr Rob van der Hart, Platonist and tutor in Philosophy
Mrs Shelagh Vainker, Additional Fellow of St Hugh’s College, Curator of Chinese Art
    in the Ashmolean Museum and University Lecturer in Chinese Art

*These individuals are also University Professors.

In addition to tutorials, lectures and discussion sessions, participants will visit Oxford’s famous colleges, monuments, museums, bookstores and markets, wander the city’s beautiful parks, meadows and gardens, attend a musical performance in Sir Christopher Wren’s Sheldonian Theatre and a performance of a Shakespeare play in the gardens of Wadham College.

Other highlights include three full day excursions into the English countryside to such historical sites as Salisbury Cathedral, Tintern Abbey and Blenheim Palace.

The centerpiece of the Summer School remains the Oxford tutorial. Each student will have weekly tutorials in an approved academic discipline of their own choosing. All tutors are members of St Hugh’s College or another constituent college within the University of Oxford.