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INAUGURAL LECTURE
Professor of Biological
Anthropology
PROFESSOR R.H. WARD will deliver his inaugural lecture at
5 p.m. on Friday, 23 May, in the Examination Schools.
Subject: `Golden Apples and a Golden Bough:
future prospects for
biological anthropology?'
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SIR JOHN HICKS LECTURE 1997
PROFESSOR C. KNICK HARLEY, University of Western Ontario,
will deliver the Sir John Hicks Lecture at 5 p.m. on
Friday, 30 May, in the Social Studies Faculty Centre,
George Street.
Subject: `Globalisation and the Industrial
Revolution in Britain and America.'
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COMMITTEE FOR COMPARATIVE
PHILOLOGY AND GENERAL LINGUISTICS
PROFESSOR R. LASS, University of Cape Town, will lecture
at 5 p.m. on Monday, 26 May, in the Centre for
Linguistics and Philology, Walton Street.
Convener: A. Morpurgo Davies, MA, Professor
of Comparative Philology.
Subject: `A sweet disorder: competing stress
systems in Early Modern English.'
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
PROFESSOR R. CHARTIER will lecture at the times shown in
the St Cross Building.
Convener: Dr P. McDonald, St Hugh's
College.
Tue. 3 June, 5 p.m., Lecture Theatre 2:
`Foucault's chiasmus: authorship between science and
literature.' (second annual D.F. McKenzie
Lecture)
Wed. 4 June, 12 noon, Room 10: Sociology of
the Text/Book History Seminar.
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MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES
PROFESSOR U. LANGER, University of Wisconsin, will
lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 29 May, in the Old
Bursary, Trinity College.
Convener: G.J. Mallinson, MA, University
Lecturer (CUF) in French.
Subject: `Narrative and justice: the
Renaissance novella.'
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MODERN HISTORY
Public lecture
PROFESSOR HANS MOMMSEN, Bochum, will lecture at 5 p.m. on
Wednesday, 18 June, in the New Lecture Theatre, St
Antony's College.
Subject: `The German resistance against
Hitler. Between nation state and European community.'
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MUSIC
MARIO BARONI and ROSSANA DALMONTE, University of Bologna,
will lecture at 5.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 4 June, in the
Holywell Music Room.
Subject: `Giovanni Legrenzi and his double: a
computer-aided grammar of Italian arias of the
seventeenth century.'
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SOCIAL STUDIES
Co-operative Reasoning (Seminar)
The following seminars will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesdays
in the New Seminar Room, St John's College.
Further information and schedule updates may be found at
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~econojb/seminar.html.
Conveners: M. Bacharach, MA, D.Phil,
Professor of Economics, and G. Mackie, MA, John Research
Fellow in Politics, St John's College.
M. GILBERT, Connecticut
27 May: `What is it for Us to
Intend?'
M. MULFORD, London School of Economics
3 Jun.: `Expectations, projection, and
co-operation in dilemma interactions.'
PROFESSOR BACHARACH
10 Jun.: `We equilibria.'
R. SUGDEN, University of East Anglia
17 Jun.: `Thinking as a team.'
G. MACKIE
Date to be announced: `Communication and
commitment in social dilemmas.'
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RESEARCH LABORATORY FOR
ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF ART
DR V. SERNEELS, Lausanne, will give a seminar at 10.30
a.m. on Thursday, 5 June, in the Library, the Research
Laboratory for Archaeology.
Convener: M.S. Tite, MA, D.Phil., Professor
of Archaeological
Science.
Subject: `Iron archaeology in Switzerland.'
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DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING
EDUCATION
SARA PARETSKY, crime writer, currently Visiting Scholar,
Wolfson College, will lecture at 5.45 p.m. on Wednesday,
28 May, in the Lecture Theatre, Rewley House.
Subject: `My quest for heroes.'
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NISSAN INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE
STUDIES
Amendment to published seminar list
PROFESSOR JIRO YAMAGUCHI, Hokkaido University, will give
a seminar at 5 p.m. on Friday, 6 June, in the Seminar
Room, the Nissan Institute. This replaces the previously
announced seminar.
Subject: `Why no Blair revolution in Japan.'
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PHONETICS LABORATORY
PROFESSOR JOAN BYBEE, University of New Mexico, and Astor
Visiting Lecturer 1997, will lecture at 2.15 p.m. on
Tuesday, 10 June, in Room 2, the Taylor Institution.
Subject: `The reduction of "don't"
in American English: frequency, constituency, and
processing units.'
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CENTRE FOR SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays
in the Buttery, Wolfson College.
DR W. LEONARD, formerly of Harvard Law School; President,
Fisk University
26 May: `The ghosts of Roger Brooke
Taney: cavorting with apparitions of Dred Scott. A
glimpse of race and law in the United States.'
PROFESSOR L. SEBBA and MS V. SCHIFFA, Hebrew University
of Jerusalem
2 June: `Closed communities and the
right to education: the case of Israel (Haredim).'
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GREEN COLLEGE
Reuter Foundation Programme
Iain Walker Memorial Lecture 1997
HAROLD EVANS, former Editor of The Times and
The Sunday Times, will deliver the Iain
Walker Memorial Lecture at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 28
May, in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College.
Subject: `Prometheus unbound: what the media
can do with freedom.'
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PEMBROKE COLLEGE
Blackstone Lecture 1997
JUSTICE R.J. GOLDSTONE will deliver the twenty-first
Blackstone Lecture at 11.30 a.m. on Saturday, 7 June, in
the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, the St Cross Building.
Subject: `Justice and peace—the UN War
Crimes Tribunals and the South African Truth Commission.'
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ST ANTONY'S COLLEGE
Elliott Lecture
MR DOUGLAS HURD, formerly Foreign Secretary, will deliver
the Elliott Lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 11 June, in
the New Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College.
Subject: `Living with the new Russian.'
Asian Studies Centre
PROFESSOR HYUN-SIK CHUNG will lecture at 5 p.m. on
Tuesday, 27 May, in the New Room, the Hilda Besse
Building, St Antony's College.
Subject: `Greenhouse gas emission in China,
Japan, and Korea: estimation and comparison.'
MR XIA LIPING, Shanghai Institute for International
Studies, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 13 June, in
the New Room, the Hilda Besse Building, St Antony's
College.
Subject: `Some views on multilateral security
co-operation in East Asia.'
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WOLFSON COLLEGE
Isaiah Berlin Lecture 1997
PROFESSOR SIMON SCHAMA, Columbia University, will deliver
the annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday,
29 May, in the Hall, Wolfson College.
The lecture is open to the public.
Subject: `History and the literary
imagination.'
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OXFORD MEDIEVAL SOCIETY
PROFESSOR P. STROHM, Bloomington, Indiana, will lecture
at 8.30 p.m. on Thursday, 29 May, in the Lee Building,
Christ Church. Wine will be served from 8.15 p.m. New
members are welcome.
Subject: `Hoccleve's locked box: the imagery
of usurpation in Lancastrian England.'
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OXFORD IMMUNOLOGY GROUP
DR A. O'GARRA, DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and
Cellular Biology Inc., Palo Alto, USA, will lecture at 6
p.m. on Wednesday, 28 May, in Lecture Theatre 1, the
Academic Block, the John Radcliffe Hospital. The meeting
will be chaired by Dr Fiona Powrie.
Subject: `Regulation of T helper cell
responses in TCR-transgenic mouse models.'
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SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF
MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE
DR HÉLÈNE LA RUE will lecture at 2.45 p.m.
on Saturday, 14 June, in the Wellcome Unit for the
History of Medicine.
Subject: `The Cymbala: technology out of
proportion?'
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OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
FORUM
KATHERINE BARBER, Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Dictionaries,
OUP Canada, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 28 May,
in Rewley House.
Subject: `The wages of SIN: writing a
Canadian dictionary.'
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