Lectures
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INAUGURAL LECTURES
Chichele Professor of Medieval History
PROFESSOR R.R. DAVIES will deliver his inaugural lecture at 5 p.m. on
Thursday, 29 February, in the Examination Schools.
Subject: `The matter of Britain and the matter of
England.'
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Clifford Chance Professor of European Law
PROFESSOR B.S. MARKESINIS will deliver his inaugural lecture at 5
p.m. on Friday, 23 February, in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, the
St Cross Building.
Subject: `The comparatist (or a plea for a broader legal
education).'
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Flick Professor of European Thought
PROFESSOR J. BURROW will deliver his inaugural lecture at 5 p.m. on
Tuesday, 7 May, in the Examination School.
Subject: `A common culture? Nationalist ideas in
nineteenth-century European thought.'
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Professor of the History of Art
PROFESSOR M.J. KEMP will deliver his inaugural lecture at 5 p.m. on
Thursday, 7 March, in the Examination Schools.
Subject: `The Mona Lisa: from science into
myth.'
Note: this lecture will be given in the Schools, not in
the Ashmolean Museum, as previously notified.
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COOKSON PROFESSORIAL LECTURE
PROFESSOR B. CANTOR will deliver the Cookson Professorial Lecture at
5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 22 February, in the Bernard Sunley Lecture
Theatre, St Catherine's College.
Subject: `Materials processing and component design.'
Note: in the Gazette of 15 February (p.
763), this lecture was incorrectly listed as an inaugural lecture.
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CHERWELL-SIMON MEMORIAL LECTURE 1996
PROFESSOR U. AMALDI, University of Milan and European Laboratory for
Particle Physics, CERN, will deliver the Cherwell-Simon Memorial
Lecture at 4.30 p.m. on Friday, 24 May, in Lecture Theatre A, the
Zoology/Psychology Building.
Subject: `When nothing is something: a history of the
vacuum.'
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HALLEY LECTURE 1996
PROFESSOR D. GOUGH, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge,
will deliver the Halley Lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 7 May, in the
Lecture Theatre, the University Museum.
Subject: `The seismic structure of the sun.'
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JAMES FORD SPECIAL LECTURE IN BRITISH
HISTORY
DR M. ASTON, FBA, FSA, F.R.HIST.S., will deliver a James Ford Special
Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 10 May, in the Examination Schools.
Subject: `Obliteration and memory in the English
Reformation.'
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JASPARS MEMORIAL LECTURE
PROFESSOR W. DOISE, Geneva, will deliver the Jaspars Memorial Lecture
at 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 5 March, in Lecture Theatre C, the
Department of Experimental Psychology.
Subject: `Social psychology and human rights.'
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ANTHROPOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY
Social Geography Seminars
The following seminars will be held at 9.15 a.m. on Fridays in the
School of Geography.
Conveners: G.C.K. Peach, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Social
Geography, C.G. Clarke, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer in
Urban/Social Geography, and A. Lemon, MA, D.Phil., University
Lecturer (CUF) in Geography.
PROFESSOR S. SMITH
23 Feb.: `Public housing versus social justice.'
DR A. ROGERS
1 Mar.: `1991 Census SARs (Samples of Anonymised
Records): workplace, residence, and ethnicity.'
DR A. CHARLESWORTH, Cheltenham and Gloucester College
8 Mar.: `The topography of Claude Lanzmann's
Shoa: landscape of the Holocaust.'
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CLINICAL MEDICINE
Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
DR TADASHI KIMURA will lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 28 March, in
the Anne Anderson Lecture Theatre, Level 3, Nuffield Department of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Women's Centre, the John Radcliffe
Hospital.
Further information may be obtained from Dr Sylvain Phaneuf
(telephone: Oxford 221022, e-mail: sphaneuf@immsvr.jr2.ox.ac.uk).
Subject: `Oxytocin receptor investigation: basic
molecular research associated with clinical phenomenon.'
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LITERAE HUMANIORES
PROFESSOR M. GHINS, Université Catholique de Louvain, will
lecture at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday, 29 February, in the Ryle Room, the
Philosophy Centre.
Convener: H.R. Brown, MA, University Lecturer in the
Philosophy of Physics.
Subject: `A defence of selective scientific realism.'
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ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM
William Cohn Memorial Lecture
DR MILO C. BEACH, Director, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M.
Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC, will deliver the thirty-first
William Cohn Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 6 March, in the
Lecture Theatre, the Ashmolean Museum.
Subject: `The Windsor Castle Padshahnama:
Shah Jahan's artists and their images of Mughal India.'
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
Victor Cook Memorial Lectures
Education, values, and religion
DR JONATHAN SACKS, Chief Rabbi, and PROFESSOR SIR STEWART SUTHERLAND,
FBA, Principal, University of Edinburgh, will deliver the 1996 Victor
Cook Memorial Lectures at 5.15 p.m. on the following days in the E.P.
Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green College. The lectures are open to the
public.
Further information may be obtained from Professor Richard Pring,
Department of Educational Studies.
DR SACKS
Wed. 28 Feb.: `Religion and civil society.'
Thur. 29 Feb.: `Education and a community of value:
the Jewish experience.'
PROFESSOR SUTHERLAND
Tue. 12 Mar.: `Diagnosis?'
Wed. 13 Mar.: `Prognosis? Cure?'
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MAISON FRANÇAISE
PROFESSOR N. SCHAPPACHER, Université de Strasbourg I
(Université Louis Pasteur), will lecture at 5.45 p.m. on
Monday, 26 February, in the Maison.
Subject: `Some remarks on the history of Fermat's Last
Theorem.'
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WELLCOME UNIT FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
The medical sciences and medical refugees in Britain
1930s–1950s
The following symposium will be held on Friday, 1 March, in the
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 47 Banbury Road.
Convener: P.J. Weindling, MA, University Research
Lecturer.
Persons interested in attending the symposium should contact Dr K.
Decker (telephone: Oxford (2)74609), or Dr Weindling (telephone:
Oxford (2)74603).
10 a.m.:
DR WEINDLING: ` "Up hill and down dale":
aims and achievements of the Medical Refugees Project.'
10.15 a.m.–11.15 a.m.:
DR K. DECKER: `Privileged refugees? Medical
scientists and the Society for the Protection of Science
and Learning.'
DR D. PYKE, Royal College of Physicians: `Ludwig
Guttmann: a case study.'
11.30 a.m.–1 p.m.:
DR T. TANSEY, Wellcome Institute for the History of
Medicine, London: `Henry Dale and the support of
medical research.'
DR H. KAMMINGA, Cambridge Institute for the History of
Medicine: `Refugees and Cambridge biochemistry.'
2–3 p.m.:
DR J. HARWOOD, University of Manchester:
`Using the émigré scholars' experience to
illuminate academic cultures.'
DR G. BEALE, Edinburgh: `Charlotte Auerbach and the
discovery of mustard gas mutagenesis.'
3.15–4 p.m.:
DR J. STEWART, Oxford Brookes: `Medical
refugees and the Socialist Medical Association.'
4.15–5.15 p.m.:
DR M. HUBENSTORF, Free University, Berlin, and DR
WEINDLING: `The involvement of refugee biologists and
physicians in eugenics and sexology.'
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MANSFIELD COLLEGE
PROFESSOR N. BROWN will lecture at 8.30 p.m. on Monday, 4 March, in
the chapel, Mansfield College.
Professor Brown is the Academic Consultant to the Government's
thirty-month comprehensive review, to be completed in the autumn, of
Britain's BMD options.
Subject: `Ballistic missile defence for Britain?'
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NUFFIELD COLLEGE
Centre for European Studies
Institutional change in Europe: the Intergovernmental Conference
1996
The following lectures will be given at 10 a.m. on Fridays in the
Chester Room, Nuffield College.
Convener: J.J. Hesse, MA, Jean Monnet Professor of
European Institutions and Politics.
G. MATHER, MEP, Director, European Policy Forum, Strasbourg/London
23 Feb.: `The Intergovernmental Conference: the
European Parliament's perspective.'
U. KALBFLEISCH-KOTTSIEPER, Committee of the Regions, Brussels
1 Mar.: `Representing sub-national interests in the
European Union: the Committee of the Regions.'
W. HUTTON, Assistant Editor, the Guardian
8 Mar.: `Monetary union: risks and options.'
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ST ANTONY'S COLLEGE
European Studies Centre
Portuguese Studies Workshop
The workshop will be held on Saturday, 24 February, 9.30 a.m.–5
p.m., in the European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road.
Conveners: D.B. Goldey, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer
(CUF) in Politics, and H.G. Martins, MA, University Lecturer in the
Sociology of Latin America.
MANUEL VILLAVERDE CABRAL, Instituto de Ciências Sociais
9.30 a.m.: `Political change in contemporary
Portugal.'
DR GOLDEY
11.15 a.m.: `The recent parliamentary and
presidential elections.'
LUÍS REIS TORGAL, Universidade de Coimbra
2 p.m.: `Cinema e propaganda no Estado Novo.'
R. ROBINSON, Birmingham
3.30 p.m.: `The CDS/PP.'
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OXFORD INNOVATION SOCIETY
PROFESSOR C. LEAVER will lecture to the Oxford Innovation Society at
6 p.m. on Thursday, 14 March, in the Department of Pharmacology.
Admission will be by ticket only, obtainable from Isis Innovation
(telephone: Oxford (2)72411).
Subject: `Transgenic plants: the next green revolution?'
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OXFORD MEDIEVAL SOCIETY
PROFESSOR H. DUGGAN, Charlottesville, Virginia, will lecture at 8.30
p.m. on Thursday, 29 February, in Bostar Hall, University College.
Wine will be served from 8.15 p.m. New members are welcome.
Subject: `Textual scholarship in cyberspace: editing
Piers Plowman with computers.'
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