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The Annual OUSL Freshers Dinner at Chiche! Thursday 17 September 2026 at 19h30

In line with our long-established tradition we will invite our new freshers for our an informal Dinner at Chiche! together with committee members, mock-interviewers and other who have helped with education and outreach.

As a new feature, however, we are delighted to extend invitations also to Camsoc’s freshers, members of their committee and representatives from their Outreach team.

This is an informal and congenial evening where we get to toast the new students and wish them all the best for their forthcoming studies. We also hope to foster a bond so that we can stay in contact with the students and reconnect when/if they return to Luxembourg.

This year, the main organiser of the OUSL Freshers Dinner will is our committee member for Outreach, Dan Schmidt. Should you have any questions please contact events@oxford.lu

Snapshot of our convivial Freshers Dinner 2025, with some of our freshers and members of the OUSL Committee and mock interviewers.

Saturday 12 Sep: The acclaimed Duo Natalia will be back and regale us at a dinner-concert at Cercle Münster

You know them from their many concerts and recordings and we had a ten-minute taster of their art at the Tripartite Dinner last year at the Golf Club Grand-Ducal. I promised you then to broker a proper concert and this is now done. So put a large tick in your calendars for Saturday 12 September 2026, late afternoon, followed by apéro and three-course dinner into the evening.

Please see their recent review from a concert in Vienna – higher acclaim cannot be given: Duo Natalia at Bösendorfer Salon, Wien

Invitations are under preparation, but feel free to drop me a line on chair@oxford.lu if you wish to register your presence already now.

Talk & reception with Nobel Laureate at Hotel Royal 9 July 2026

We are delighted to offer you the opportunity to attend an upcoming talk and cocktail reception in Luxembourg with 2025 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor Joel Mokyr. This invitation-only event is being organized by the Luxembourg School of Business. Members of our society can express interest in attending. We will then facilitate an invitation. Kindly be reminded that should you receive an invitation, you are expected to fulfill the commitment of attending.

Date: Thursday, 09 July 2026

Time: 18:00 – 21:00

Location: Le Royal Hotel Luxembourg

Sign-up with Mette Ahlefeldt-Laurvig. no later than 18 June.

Cost: the event is free, but sign-up is obligatory

Professor Joel Mokyr is an economic historian and the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. His work is highly relevant to Luxembourg, as it champions the strength of public and private institutions, density of knowledge workers, and openness to the world as critical elements to economic growth. Luxembourg exemplifies many of the very dynamics Professor Mokyr has spent his career explaining. 

Nobel Prize Banquet Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wlzkpmgsck

The talk will be followed by a social cocktail reception, where attendees can reflect on the ideas shared and connect with other guests who will represent a wide array of public and private sector interests in the Benelux region. Confirmed guests include ambassadors, central bank governors, c-level executives and academic leaders.

TWO Summer invitations: 3rd and 4th July 2026: opening of Turner Exhibition; and picnic and opera

3 July at 18h: Invitation to the opening of the Exhibition: Grand Tourists to Turner: British Artist in Europe, 1750-1850. The Museum Director, Guy Thewes, is very kindly inviting all members of OUSL to come for the opening – and indeed to visit the exhibition for its duration (4 July – 11 October 2026). 

To register for the opening evening 3 July, please please write to: info@2musees.vdl.lu, or ring: +352 4796 4566.


4 July: Join ’the other place’ for a relaxed picnic while enjoying the ‘Summerconcert op der Kinnekswiss’. 

John speed writes:

On Saturday 4 July, 2026 the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra will hold its magnificent end-of-the-season outdoor Summerconcert on the Kinnekswiss, starting at 21h00. Martin Rajna, the new conductor of the orchestra will take the baton for the first time, in a concert entitled “Bella Notte: Puccini and Verdi”.Last year the Society occupied a patch on the grass of the Kinnekswiss for the members of the Society and their friends and families, and it was such a fun evening that we are doing the same thing this year.So come along, with your picnic blankets and cushions, low-folding chairs, and your picnic, whatever you fancy.

Click https://www.philharmonie.lu/fr/programme/2025-26/bella-notte-puccini-verdi-000000e9001a049ahere for the Concert programme

Click here for the Concert programme
What should I bring?Your picnic and drinks. Bring what you want for yourselves, it’s also nice to have some things that you can share with the other participants, as we do at the Boat Races events, it makes the event more convivial. So perhaps some salady things, or a cake? All sorts of drinks are allowed, alcoholic and soft. And don’t forget your (picnic) cutlery, plates, and “glasses”;Something to sit on, i.e. picnic rugs/blankets, cushions, low folding chairs (but not high-backed deckchairs, they tend to annoy the neighbours behind!)suitable clothing for the weather conditions. Watch the weather forecast. And remember that even if it is warm at the beginning of the evening, it can get chillier later, especially if there is a breeze.Remember that at the end of the evening you must take everything away with you, we have to leave the space clean and tidy.RegistrationSo that we know roughly how many people are coming, we would like you to register by completing the form below. The event is open to friends and family members, and we are also inviting our Dark Blue colleagues from “The Other Place” to join us.Click here to RegisterWhere will we be?We will be where we were last year, on the right-hand side of the Kinnekswiss looking towards the stage, where the ground slopes upwards. We will aim to have some identifying items so that you can find us easily.The concert begins at 21h00, but in order to bag a place we will be there at 19h30, and we recommend that you come along from 20h00 onwards so that we occupy the space. If you can, you should be there by 20h45 so that you don’t have to trample over other spectators when the concert starts.Any Questions?If you have any questions, please send an email to Rakesh Bhana at rakeshbhana@yahoo.com, with a copy to me at President@cambridgesociety.luThis is a great event in the Luxembourg summer calendar, and it is very popular. There will be a good crowd, of that we can be assured.I hope to see lots of you there, enjoying the outstanding entertainment.John Speed
President