²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Diversity Dinner, Saturday 1 February 2025
²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Old Members are warmly invited to attend the ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Diversity Dinner: Celebrating Faith and Ethnic Minorities on Saturday 1 February 2025, at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ.
The evening will begin at 6.30pm with a drinks reception, followed by dinner, at 7.15pm, both in the Founder’s Library.
We are delighted to confirm that ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Old Member, Miss Alev Scott (2005 Literae Humaniores) (pictured below), will be the guest speaker.
The cost of the dinner is £80.00 per person.
You can book your place securely via our
Please RSVP by Wednesday 22 January 2025 to confirm your place.
The dress code is lounge suits or equivalent.
If you have any enquiries, please contact the ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Development Office on oldmembers@new.ox.ac.uk
Elianne Gasper, JCR Faith and Ethnic Minorities Officer and Aniket Chakravorty, MCR Equality and Diversity Officer
About the speaker:
Alev Scott studied Classics (Literae Humaniores) at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ and matriculated in 2005. Soon after graduating, she moved from her hometown of London to Istanbul, where she taught Latin at Bosphorus University. She now works as a freelance journalist. She has written two books of nonfiction: ‘Turkish Awakening’ and ‘Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire’. She has also co-written a third book: ‘Power and People: Five Lessons from the Birthplace of Democracy’. Her work has focussed primarily on Turkey, Greece, and the Post-Ottoman world; however, she is currently writing a book on the commercialisation of motherhood.
