Earlier this year, a generous, anonymous benefactor underwrote a strategy session that would help Pembroke College, Oxford craft bold plans for the decades ahead. On a weekend in early May, more than 50 Pembrokians from around the world assembled at historic Ditchley Park for the Pembroke College Strategy Forum.  Participants were invited to put their heads […]

                      Houston was recently graced with the presence and creative energy of two world-famous Pembrokians – New York-based composer Tarik O’Regan, and San Francisco-based artist Jeremy Sutton. Tarik’s new opera, The Phoenix had its world premiere at Houston’s Wortham Center on April 26. The Phoenix, […]

A Return to Pembroke College, for the 12th Annual Oxford Alumni Weekend, 2018  by Terry Slesinski-Wykowski Whenever I return to my “second home”, Pembroke College, for the Oxford University Alumni “Meeting of Minds” Weekends, I find inspiration for my life and my work! It may have come in the past at a dinner at Pembroke sitting […]

Two terrific Pembroke gatherings highlighted the 2018 Oxford University North American reunion in San Francisco April 6-7, 2018.                             On Saturday, April 7, Master Lynne Brindley hosted a dinner for over 30 Pembrokians and friends at the historic Mark Hopkins Hotel atop […]

  Alumni Weekend – Pembroke College Oxford Reunion Dinner, Saturday 16th of September (only few spaces left!)     Pembroke on the Sofa – Frontline Club, London Thursday 5th of October ‘Storytellers of Fact and Fiction’       Annual London Reception – Saatchi Gallery Tuesday 7th of November           For further information […]

Pembrokians…YOU ARE INVITED… Monday, November 14th at 7pm Book Culture 450 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10024. Harper’s Magazine and The Authors Guild invite all North American Pembrokians to join them on Monday, November 14th at 7pm for a special discussion with Maurice E. Stucke & Pembroke Fellow Ariel Ezrachi, authors of the new book Virtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy. Mary Rasenberger, Executive Director […]

  Pembroke College was heralded as the Smithsonian Institution’s “Gateway to Oxford University” at a gala reception held the evening of October 19 at the Smithsonian Castle in Washington. Julian Raby, the distinguished Director of the Smithsonian’s Sackler and Freer Galleries of Art, in the evening’s keynote remarks praised the close and growing relationship between […]

Pembroke Fellows Nicholas Cole (left) and Peter Claus (right) visited Boston on September 6 and met for lunch with Pembroke College Foundation President Tom Herman (center). Nicholas reported great progress on his U.S. Constitutional Convention digitization project, based at Pembroke, which will be publically launched in Oxford on October 14, 2016. In addition to his […]

  Pembroke College Emeritus Fellow Zbigniew “Zbyszek” Pelczynski OBE celebrated his 90th birthday at a black-tie dinner hosted by Master Lynne Brindley in College on December 4. Pelczynski, Pembroke’s storied politics professor from 1957 to 1992, was tutor to scores of Americans, including former president Bill Clinton.                 […]

Some thirty Pembroke alumni and friends in gathered in San Francisco on July 27, 2015, to welcome three Pembroke Fellows —  Prof. Mark Fricker (Plant Science), Prof. Hannah Smithson (Experimental Psychology), and Strategic Development Director Andrew Seton – to learn of their latest research, and to be treated to a briefing on current College achievements […]