Academic Staff Seminars: places should be booked in advance through the Staff Development Office, University Offices, Wellington Square (telephone: (2)70086).
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PROFESSOR SUSAN GREENFIELD: `The perception of women researchers in science' (Women Tutors' Group meeting), Merton, 12.30 p.m.
ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `Egypt: amulets and jewellery' (one of a series of in-depth talks on aspects of Egypt), 1.15 p.m. (Cost: £1.50. Tel. for bookings: (2)78015, 9.30 a.m.--12.30 p.m.)
PROFESSOR J. BERGIN: `The churches of Counter- Reformation Europe and their bishops' (Faculty of Modern History: Special Faculty Lecture), Schools, 5 p.m.
PROFESSOR RICHARD EYRE: `Theatre today', Oxford Playhouse, 5 p.m.
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MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES Faculty Board election, 18 December (one ordinary member): nominations by two electors to be received at the University Offices by 4 p.m.
SOCIAL STUDIES Faculty Board election, 18 December (one ordinary member): nominations by two electors to be received at the University Offices by 4 p.m.
PROFESSOR L.N. TREFETHEN: `Eigenvalues: what they do and do not tell us about dynamics' (Alan Tayler Lecture), Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine's, 5 p.m.
PROFESSOR P. BOUVERESSE: `Musil et le destin de l'Europe' (lecture), Taylor Institution, 5 p.m.
PROFESSOR KAY DAVIES: `Challenges of muscular dystrophy' (Association for Women in Science and Engineering: Oxford Science Lecture Series), University Museum of Natural History, 5 p.m. (admission £1.50, payable at the door, or to book, contact Dr Elizabeth Griffin: remg@astro.ox.ac.uk; (2)73345).
PROFESSOR JANE LEWIS: `Contracting for social care' (seminar series: `Government by contract'), the Buttery, Wolfson, 5 p.m.
THE BRENTANO QUARTET perform works by Haydn, Gyorgy Kurtag, and Mendelssohn, Garden Quadrangle Auditorium, St John's, 8.30 p.m. (free tickets available one week in advance from Porters' Lodge).
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ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `Rings for fingers: fourteenth to nineteenth centuries', 1.15 p.m. (Cost: £1.50. Tel. for bookings: (2)78015, 9.30 a.m.--12.30 p.m.)
ACADEMIC STAFF SEMINAR: `Creating knowledge—scholars, tutors, and learning processes' (last of three meetings on this theme), Schools, 2.30 p.m. (see information above).
MODERN HISTORY Faculty Board election, 4 December (one ordinary member): nominations by six electors to be received at the University Offices by 4 p.m.
C. CAMPBELL: `Consuming goods and the good of consuming' (Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society seminars), Council Room, Mansfield, 5 p.m.
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DR P. ROWLEY-CONWY: `Hunter-gatherers and the original affluent society' (Meyerstein Lecture), Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean, 5 p.m.
DR K. NABULSI: `Killings and just wars' (Refugee Studies Programme Seminars on Forced Migration), Library Wing Seminar Room, Queen Elizabeth House, 5 p.m.
PENNY SILVA: `Dictionaries "for Africa": righting the wrongs for SA languages' (OED forum), Rewley House, 5 p.m.
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COLLOQUIUM: `Conversos, the Church, and martyrdom in late medieval Spain: historical and literary perspectives', the Buttery, Wolfson, 2.30–6 p.m.
DR W. HASSELKUS: `The strategic development of Rover' (Maurice Lubbock Lecture in Management Studies), Schools, 5 p.m.
C. PATTIE: `The geography of voting in Britain' (lecture), Maison Française, 5 p.m.
THE RT. HON. DR JOHN REDWOOD, MP: `Is Europe my country or my continent?' (All Souls Foreign Policy Studies Programme: special seminar), Old Library, All Souls, 5 p.m.
UNIVERSITY VIDEO-CONFERENCING SERVICE launch, Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean, 5–7 p.m. (admission by ticket only, from ETRC: tel. (2)70526).
THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PHILHARMONIA perform Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky (with the Oxford University Chorus), and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Sheldonian, 8 p.m. (admission £7/£4).
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ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `Gerald Reitlinger: collector of Oriental ceramics', 1.15 p.m. (Cost: £1.50. Tel. for bookings: (2)78015, 9.30 a.m.--12.30 p.m.)
J. GREEN: `Education and the challenge to ethnicity and identity in Taos, New Mexico, USA' (Ethnicity and Identity Seminars: `Education and the resolution of conflict'), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 11 a.m.
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PROFESSOR N.W. POLSBY (John M. Olin Visiting Professor in American Government): `A revolution in Congress?' (inaugural lecture), Schools, 5 p.m.
PROFESSOR BILL BRADSHAW and
MR T. WINSOR: `Can contracts deliver better services in the "New Railway"? ' (seminar series: `Government by contract'), the Buttery, Wolfson, 5 p.m.
M.C. CHAIMOWICZ: `Pendulum' (on the theme of dual nationality), Maison Française, 5.15 p.m.
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CONGREGATION meeting, 2 p.m.
M. GRANT: `Environmental dispute resolution' (Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society seminars), Council Room, Mansfield, 5 p.m.
JOSÉ RAMOS HORTA: `East Timor and the struggle for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law in the Asia Pacific', New Lecture Theatre, St Antony's, 5 p.m.
HELEN FAIRER: piano recital of works by Haydn, Schumann, Debussy, and Brahms, Garden Quadrangle Auditorium, St John's, 8.30 p.m. (admission free).
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B. CAUTRES: `The geography of voting in France' (lecture), Maison Française, 5 p.m.
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