Academic Staff Seminars: places should be booked in advance through the Staff Development Office, University Offices, Wellington Square (telephone: (2)70086).
For the full list of courses, see the Staff Development Programme supplement.
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DR R. BREGER: `Japanese responses to German media stereotyping' (Ethnicity and Identity seminars: `Racist debates in contemporary Europe'), Institute of Social Anthropology, 11 a.m.
DR B. HILTON: `The politics of nature and the nature of politics in the early nineteenth century' (James Ford Special Lecture in British History), Schools, 5 p.m.
PROFESSOR L. JACOBS: `Sexual differentiation and cognitive function' (Herbert Spencer Lectures: `Gender and society'), Lecture Theatre A, Zoology/Psychology Building, 5 p.m.
PROFESSOR O. BLANCHARD: `Economics of transition in eastern Europe (part III)' (Clarendon Lectures in Economics), Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, St Cross Building, 5 p.m.
DR A.D.C. SIMPSON: `Sharp practice or customary measure: a cautionary tale of European marketplace tradition' (final talk in series linked to exhibition `The Measurers: a Flemish image of mathematics in the sixteenth century'), Museum of the History of Science, 6 p.m.
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PROFESSOR J. BEDDINGTON: `Fishing limits and the limits to fishing' (Environmental Change Unit seminar), Main Lecture Theatre, School of Geography, 4.30 p.m.
DR J. DEATHRIDGE: `Wagner, Hitler, and the musical imago of power' (lecture series: `Music and power'), Schools, 5.15 p.m.
N. PELLEGRIN: `Le costume, fait social total. Études récentes sur les pratiques vestimentaires dans la France d'Ancien Régime' (lecture), Maison Française, 5.15 p.m.
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ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `Music and dance in art', 1.15 p.m. (Cost: £1.50. Tel. for bookings: (2)78000.)
PROFESSOR D. WINCH: `Economists versus human beings' (Carlyle Lectures: `Secret concatenations: riches and poverty, Mandeville to Malthus'), Schools, 5 p.m.
SIR WALTER BODMER: `The Book of Man: the complete catalogue of our genes will revolutionise our ability to deal with disease and to understand our origins' (Romanes Lecture), Sheldonian, 5.45 p.m. (tickets not required).
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R. RYSCAVAGE: `The Church's response to the genocide and its aftermath' (Refugee Studies Programme Seminars on Forced Migration: `Responding to an emergency: the Rwanda case'), Library Wing Seminar Room, Queen Elizabeth House, 5 p.m.
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DR B. MOORE: `Dictionaries and nationalism' (OED Forum), Rewley House, 5 p.m.
DR J. RABY: `Much Binding in the March: the fall of Constantinople and the transformation of the Turkish book' (Oxford Bibliographical Society lecture), Taylor Institution, 5.30 p.m.
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ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `The ornamental watch', 1.15 p.m. (Cost: £1.50. Tel. for bookings: (2)78000.)
PROFESSOR M. LE DOEUFF: `Women and intellectual work' (Herbert Spencer Lectures: `Gender and society'), Lecture Theatre A, Zoology/Psychology Building, 5 p.m.
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DR S.D. HOWISON: `Risk and reward: the role of mathematics in finance' (Alan Tayler Lecture), Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine's, 5 p.m.
DR R. PARKER: `Verdi, politics, and the insidious mastery of song' (lecture series: `Music and power'), Schools, 5.15 p.m.
A. RAYMOND: `Ville musulmane, ville arabe: conceptions orientalistes et vues récentes' (lecture), Maison Française, 5.15 p.m.
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PROFESSOR R. BOUDON: `The moral sense' (Sidney Ball Lecture), Old Library, All Souls, 5 p.m.
PROFESSOR HARRY HONGDA WU delivers the Annual Human Rights Lecture of the Refugee Studies Programme, Schools, 5 p.m.
THE ALLEGRI QUARTET play Schubert's Octet in F (D.803), Holywell Music Room, 1.15 p.m. (tickets £5/£4/£2.50, from Blackwell's Music Shop).
R. VON BERNUTH: `The voluntary agency response and the challenge of co-ordination' (Refugee Studies Programme Seminars on Forced Migration: `Responding to an emergency: the Rwanda case'), Library Wing Seminar Room, Queen Elizabeth House, 5 p.m.
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PROFESSOR C. BLAKEMORE: `How the environment builds the brain' (Linacre Lectures: `Mind, brain, and the environment'), Lecture Theatre A, Zoology/Psychology Building, 5.30 p.m.
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ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `Music and musical instruments', 1.15 p.m. (Cost: £1.50. Tel. for bookings: (2)78000.)
DR GERMAINE GREER: `Victims no longer: feminism and the reform of the criminal law' (Herbert Spencer Lectures: `Gender and society'), Lecture Theatre A, Zoology/Psychology Building, 5 p.m.
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PROFESSOR A. GOEHR: `Music without power: the institutionalisation of modern music' (lecture series: `Music and power'), Schools, 5.15 p.m.
J. COMMAILLE: `L'esprit sociologique des lois' (lecture), Maison Française, 5.15 p.m.
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CONGREGATION meeting, 2 p.m.
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