“Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.” ~ Samuel Johnson JOIN US IN BOSTON! — For a uniquely Pembrokian discussion about misinformation! From Relics to Reality —Fake News, Fact Checks, & Why We Want to Believe in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary Desk (Speaker – Professor Lynda Mugglestone, Pembroke College, Oxford) November 14th / 7pm @ The […]

Come celebrate Pembroke’s 400th in NYC! Join your fellow Pembrokians for this once-every-four-century, black tie event @ the Cornell Club NYC (6:30pm) Special guests will include the Master, Dr Nicholas Cole, Professor Andre Furger, and Development Director Jacob Ward.  Here’s the link to book your place…and a “plus one” or two. https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/event/400th-anniversary-dinner-new-york The more the merrier, […]

Walter Isaacson: Lessons of the great innovators, from Leonardo da Vinci to Elon Musk 5th September, 1pm EST Live-streamed from the Pichette Auditorium, Pembroke College, Oxford Join Walter Isaacson (1974), renowned author, biographer, journalist and professor, for an engaging discussion on what can be learnt from the greatest innovators in history, as part of our series of anniversary […]

  June 1st @ 3pm Join Pembroke’s Boston Alumni Ambassadors, Kevin Higgins (2015, DipOL) and Samantha Renard (2021, Visiting Student Chemistry) as John Hattendorf (1973, DPhil, DLitt. Modern History) guides Pembrokians on this walking tour around 18th-century colonial Newport. John will host drinks after the tour and the group will go out for dinner following the event. […]

To celebrate Pembroke’s 400th anniversary, the College invites all alumni to return to Pembroke to join their peers for special, events and themed dinners — so they can take part in the celebrations and make their mark on this unique moment in Pembroke’s history. One such event is the Baddeley dinner–open to all Visiting Students from Pembroke’s past and […]

Get in the holiday spirit with Pembroke’s Nine Lessons and Carols Service — performed on November 26th and 27th, 2023. You can watch them at your convenience, here via YouTube.

It is no surprise that Walter Isaacson’s latest book – his biography of Elon Musk – is already a best-seller in its first week of publication. I caught up with Walter on his book tour recently in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was interviewed by his friend and able interlocutor David Rubenstein. “Why do you write biography?” Rubenstein […]

New Jersey Alumni Event: Tea Tasting at the Village Tea Shop Where:  The Village Tea Shop Dates: Wednesday 25th January Time: 6pm Your local Alumni Ambassador, HyunJu Kwak, invites you to join your fellow Pembroke alumni and guests for tea tasting at the Village Tea Shop in Ridgewood, NJ. For more details and to register email: hyunjukwak@hotmail.com

Register here for a FREE and uniquely transatlantic perspective on the US Constitution, hosted by the National Constitution Center. Watch Pembroke’s own Dr. Nicolas Cole, Director of The Quill Project join Richard Albert of the University of Texas, Austin and Alison Lacroix of the University of Chicago Law School for a lively conversation comparing the US […]

GET MERRY Let Pembroke help you get in the holiday spirit this year! Sing in the Season and join us for a FREE virtual Carol Concert via YouTube LIVE from Pembroke College, Oxford As 2021 draws to a close, it seems more important than ever that we come together to celebrate the world-wide Pembroke community […]