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We are delighted to announce that the Three Capitals Series a collaboration with our colleagues at Oxford in Mexico and Oxford University Society of Washington, DC will host a panel discussion at the Oxford Alumni's upcoming Meeting Minds Global 2021. We will bring together exceptional leaders, from entirely different walks of life, to address the question, What did your time at Oxford mean to your personal development as a leader, and how did it enable you to exercise l...eadership in North America? Our panel will be at 17h30 EDT, on Monday 12 April. https://oxonian.ca/2021/04/09/meetingmindsglobal/

Hear from three of our wonderful Oxford North America alumni group leaders at #MMGlobal2021! The alumni groups of Mexico, Ottawa, and Washington, DC have teamed... up to put on this session, and they will each interview a prominent Oxonian currently living in each city. Register now! tinyurl.com/MMGlobal2021 See more

Save the date: This year's Oxford Alumni Meeting Minds Global gathering will be online this year, on 12-17 April 2021. https://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/events/meeting-minds

The Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and Classic FM mounted a lovely online Christmas concert, in celebration of the work of the University of Oxford's vaccine scientists. It features a new, original carol by John Rutter.

The video of our recent webinar with Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, is now available at our web site. Climate change is a notoriously incendiary subject, one at the conjunction of science and politics, where the burdens and benefits of action and inaction are bitterly contested. We are grateful for Mr Carney for offering his views to us, with warmth and thoughtfulness. https://to.oxonian.ca/mark

The new Oxford Climate Society Alumni Network (OxCAN) will launch online, on 08 September 2020. OxCAN is a collaborative initiative by the Oxford Climate Society, Oxford alumni, the Oxford Environmental Change Institute, and academics across University departments. http://to.oxonian.ca/oxcan

The Oxford Alumni groups in Ottawa, Mexico City, and Washington DC will hold the second of our Three Capitals Webinars this week. Dr Moritz Kraemer will join us from the University, to discuss their work tracking the pandemic and developing the Oxford viral vector vaccine against coronavirus. Thursday 27 August 2020, 10h00 EDT / 09h00 CDT

The Oxford University Societies in Mexico City, Ottawa, and Washington DC are joining hands to host a new "Three Capitals" webinar series. The first will be a talk on heraldry at Oxford, led by John Tepper Marlin, author of Oxford College Arms. He reveals how for centuries, the Colleges' heraldic bearings have told the intriguing and irreverent story of the University and the arc of history itself. Thursday, 20 August 2020... 18h00 EDT / 17h00 CDT https://oxonian.ca/2020/08/18/three-capitals/ See more

We met by videoconference, to plan a set of physically-distant alumni activities. Over the last 900 years, Oxford's members have had to craft plans to weather the Black Death of 1347 and the Great Plague of 1665. We feel (reasonably) confident that we will burn fewer people at the stake during the Pandemic of 2020.

I was the first non-European President of the Oxford University Student Union (Oxford SU). The experience gave me an unvarnished perspective on the clash in Br...itain, between those eager to embrace the future and those locked in a jealous embrace with the past. #Brexit is the outcome of that conflict. I wrote my article in the Oxford Alumni magazine, hoping that Oxford’s thousand-year history of uniting peoples across borders will survive the next four weeks. https://maharaj.ca/brexit