On Saturday 12 June 2010 the College celebrated its Charter with a Garden Party for students, fellows, staff, former trustees and guests including the Vice-Chancellor, Dame Alison Richard who welcomed Homerton as a full College of the University of Cambridge.
A highlight of the event was the performance by the College’s Charter Choir of a composition by the Master of the Queen’s Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, setting to music a poem to commemorate the Charter written by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Both Sir Peter and Ms Duffy are Honorary Fellows of the College. Students provided entertainment for the afternoon, including performances by the jazz band, rock band, steel band, the College Choir and comedy acts. The weather was kind, the College and grounds looked superb, and the event provided a very relaxed and enjoyable celebration for those who had been involved with the College’s journey to collegiate status.
On a recent visit to the US, Dr David Garrow, Senior Research Fellow, delivered two key lectures, speaking on 'Barack Obama's Teachers' to the Annual Meeting of the American Historicial Association, and on 'The Spiritual and Political Evolution of Dr King' at Rochester, New York's city-wide event to mark the birth of Dr Martin Luther King Jr., an event hosted by Nazareth College. See www.davidgarrow.com for all Dr Garrow's published articles.
On Monday 21 June 2010 His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Visitor of the College, visited Homerton to mark the Charter and the College’s achievement of full collegiate status in the University of Cambridge. The Chancellor unveiled a plaque in the Combination Room to commemorate the event, and met with Fellows and graduate research students.
Dr Peggy Watson has been awarded funding from FSHI (Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness) and CRASSH(Centre for Reasearch in Arts, Social Sciences and the Humanities) for the purpose of organising an international conference entitled: Health Care and Change: The US, China and Postcommunist Europe in a Reconfiguring World. The conference will take place at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, on June 24-25, 2011.
