***Registration for this trip is now closed...all spots have been filled.***

The Fulbright Association is offering an optional day trip to Oxford on Sunday, October 21, 2012 as part of the 35th Annual Conference. See below for the schedule and details.

If you have already registered for the conference and wish to add this day trip, please contact us at info@fulbright.org or 202.775.0725. To include this in your regular registration, please mark the appropriate place on your registration form.

Details

Cost: $90 (includes lecture, lunch, visit to Rhodes House, tea at Pembroke, and bus round trip) Not included: optional food and beverage at the 600 year-old Oxford must visit, the Turf Tavern.

Schedule

8:30 a.m. (approximate) - Leave Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel by bus to Oxford. 

11:15 - 11:45 a.m. - Arrive Oxford and join the British Fulbright Scholar (Alumni) Association for their annual lecture and lunch at Kellogg College.   Tea/coffee at Lecture venue with our host, Dr. Anna Beer.

11:45 a.m. -12:45 p.m. - BFSA Annual Lecture by Sir John Holmes, Director of the Ditchley Foundation http://www.ditchley.co.uk/

1:00-2:00 p.m. Three course lunch with beverage at Kellogg College with British Alumni.

2:00 p.m. - Depart Kellogg for walking Tour of University Parks. 

2:30 p.m. - Arrive Rhodes House. Host: Don Markwell, Warden of Rhodes House.

3:30 p.m. - Arrive Pembroke College:  Tea and cake in Hall with brief remarks about Fulbright connection by Andrew Seton, Fellow, Strategic Development Director and tour.

5:00 p.m. - Arrive at Turf Tavern with its 600-year reputation. Food and drink at individual discretion.

7:00 p.m. - Return by bus to London and the Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel.