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Subject: `The language of history and the history of language.'
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Subject: `Shaping forces in American foreign policy.'
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Subject: `The UN Security Council and weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.'
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Subject: `Superconductivity, eighty-seven years on—where's it going?'
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Mon. 27 Apr.: `Matching phenomena in labour markets.'
Tue. 28 Apr.: `Some engineering aspects of the design of labour markets.'
Fri. 1 May: `Learning and fairness.'
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Tue. 5 May: `The knowledge economy and
intellectual
capital management.'
Wed. 6 May: `Innovation and business organisation.'
Thur. 7 May: `Intellectual property, technology strategy, and public policy.'
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30 Apr.: `The open society and the challenge of religious diversity.'
7 May: `Christ and the question of criteria.'
14 May: `The body of Christ and the reconciled mind.'
21 May: `The Church and the mediation of the open society.'
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27 Apr.: `Paul the apostle.'
4 May: `Paul the charismatic.'
11 May: `Paul the possessed.'
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Mon. 4 May: `The two basic values of the primitive Christian ethic: love of neighbour and renunciation of status.'
Tue. 5 May: `Dealing with power and possessions in primitive Christianity.'
Wed. 6 May: `Dealing with wisdom and holiness in primitive Christianity.'
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Thur. 21 May: `Gaeilge, Gàidhlig, Gaelg—the origins of Manx.'
Fri. 22 May: `Nebbaz Gerriau dro tho Carnoack—a few words about Cornish.'
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Subject: `Policing poetry in Paris, 1749.'
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Subject: `What Halley didn't know about the universe.'
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Wed. 29 Apr.: `Baniyas, Chettiars, and Dubashis: mercantile contributions to India's construction.'
Mon. 4 May: `Sepoys, Naukars, and Sawars: military contributions to India's conquest.'
Mon. 11 May: `Nayakas, Rayats, and Zamindars: political contributions to India's constitution.'
Mon. 18 May: `Munshis, Pandits, and Vakils: cultural contributions to India's consolidation.'
Wed. 20 May: `Mandalas, Mamul, and Namak: ideological contributions to India's consensus.'
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Subject: `Clytemnestra's apology.'
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14 May: `D.H. Lawrence.'
21 May: `Robert Lowell.'
28 May: `Ted Hughes.'
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Subject: `Greek epigraphy and Achaemenid history: from Sardis to Xanthos.'
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29 Apr.: `Critical philosophy within science.'
6 May: `On what there isn't.'
13 May: `Idealisation and representation.'
20 May: `Theoretically fundamental idealisations.'
27 May: `Transience and belief.'
3 June: `Theories about theories.'
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PROFESSOR M. ALBROW, Roehampton Institute
8 May: `Frames and transformations in
transnational
studies.'
PROFESSOR S. STRANGE, Warwick
15 May: `Mad money: transnational financial
connections.'
PROFESSOR L. SKLAIR, LSE
22 May: `Transnational practices and the
analysis of
the global system.'
PROFESSOR A. PORTES, Princeton
29 May: `Globalisation from below: the rise of
transnational communities.'
PROFESSOR Z. BAUMAN, Leeds
5 June: `Ethic networks in a networked
world.'
PROFESOR S. CASTLES, Wollongong
12 June: `New migrations, ethnicity, and
nationalism
in south-east and east Asia.'
PROFESSOR R. COHEN, Warwick
19 June: `Transnational social movements: an
appraisal.'
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PROFESSOR P. SINGER, Monash
Thur. 14 May, 4 p.m.: `Ethics and the treatment
of
animals.'
DR H. KAMMINGA, Cambridge
Tue. 19 May, 5 p.m.: `Medical models of
causation:
the case of the discovery of vitamin deficiency diseases.'
PROFESSOR J. DURANT, Imperial College, London
Tue. 26 May, 5 p.m.: `Public participation in
science policy making: the case of the new genetics.'
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The following lectures will be given at 11.30 a.m. on Fridays in the Witts Lecture Theatre, the Radcliffe Infirmary.
DR F. COWAN, Imperial College School of Medicine
DR D. STEVENS, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
15 May: `Neurology services in the twenty-first
century.'
DR J. LAND, the National Hospital
12 June: `The mitochondrial electron transport
chain, the final common target in neurodegenerative
disease?'
DR G.D. SCHOTT, National Hospital
17 July: `Managing central pain.'
PROFESSOR R. DOLAN, Institute of Neurology
18 Sept.: `Neurobiology of human
emotion—perspective from functional imaging.'
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Convener: A.J. Bron, FRCS, Professor of Ophthalmology and Head of Department.
MR B. JAMES, Stoke Mandeville Hospital
27 Apr.: `Vascular factors in glaucoma.'
MISS B. BILLINGTON, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading
11 May: `Making the most of residual sight.'
MR T.J. FFYTCHE and MR D.H. FFYTCHE, London
18 May: `A coherent and functional examination
of
the visual system.'
DR G.A. SHUN-SHIN, Wolverhampton Eye Infirmary
8 June: `Light at the end of the
tunnel—endoscopic.'
MR M. POTTS, Bristol Eye Infirmary
15 June: `Thyroid eye disease.'
MR J. SHILLING, St Thomas's Hospital, London
22 June: `Veins I have seen.'
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Convener: J.J. Harding, MA status, Professor of Ocular Biochemistry.
DR M. NASH
5 May: `Effect of NMDA on expression of retinal
protein: growth factors and cyclooxygenases.'
MR J. SALMON
18 May: `Glaucoma.'
DR R. SAFA
1 June: `Effects of ischaemic-like insults to
the
retina.'
DR J. WOOD
8 June: `The influence of zinc on cultured
human
retinal pigment epithelium.'
DR B. DERHAM
15 June: `[alpha]-crystallin: a molecular
chaperone.'
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P. OPENSHAW, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College
School of Medicine at St Mary's, London
28 Apr.: `T cells and virus-induced lung
disease.'
K. MAINPRIZE, Wrexham Park Hospital
5 May: `Immunological and prognostic factors
in
colorectal cancer.'
J. PHILLIPS-HUGHES
12 May: `Bedside insertion of tunnelled central
venous catheters.'
H. CHEN
19 May: `Control of neuroendocrine
differentiation
in medullary thyroid and small cell lung tumours.'
DR A. MCKENZIE, Cambridge
26 May: `Interleukin-13 in Th2 cell
responses.'
G. SADLER
2 June: `What's new in endocrine surgery.'
R. CORNALL
9 June: `Signalling in B cell tolerance
induction.'
A. MOWAT, Glasgow
16 June: `Antigen presentation and the
induction of
oral tolerance.'
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DR C.H. POYNTON, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
5 May: `Biophenotypic leukaemia—a
redundant
term?'
PROFESSOR A.V. HOFFBRAND, Royal Free Hospital, London
12 May: `Iron chelation: recent advances.'
DR A. GRAY, Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon
19 May: `Liposomes in haematology—promise
and
practice.'
PROFESSOR H.G. PRENTICE, Royal Free Hospital, London
26 May: `Immunotherapy of leukaemia.'
DR P. BOLTON-MAGGS, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool
9 June: `Management of childhood ITP.'
DR P.L.F. GIANGRANDE, Oxford Haemophilia Centre
16 June: `Management of pregnancy in carriers
of
haemophilia.'
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Convener: H. Waldmann, BM, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Pathology.
DR J. MCCAFFERTY, Cambridge
30 Apr.: `Antibodies from phage display as
genomics
tools and therapeutic agents.'
DR T. OEGESCHLAGER, Marie Curie Research Institute
7 May: `Regulation of transcription initiation
by
RNA polymerase II.'
PROFESSOR Z. WERB, UCAL, San Francisco
14 May: `Matrix metalloproteinase gelatinase
B, a
key regulator of angiogenesis and apoptosis.'
S. BALCH and DR J. MAHONEY
21 May: `New macrophage molecules on
display.'
PROFESSOR J. COLLINGE, Imperial College School of Medicine
28 May: `Molecular biology of human prion
disease.'
PROFESSOR R. WEISS, Institute of Cancer Research, Chester Beatty
Laboratories
11 June: `Novel human and pig retroviruses.'
DR G. MACPHERSON
18 June: `Antigen uptake and delivery to T and
B
cells by dendritic cells: activation or tolerance?'
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Conveners: A.E. Morpurgo Davies, MA, Professor of Comparative Philology, and J.H.W. Penney, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer in Classical Philology.
Subject: `Morphology and mothers-in-law: you and thou in Early Modern English.'
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Conveners: J.T. Higginbotham, MA, Professor of General Linguistics, and D.F. Cram, MA, University Lecturer in Linguistics.
PROFESSOR P. BLOOM, Arizona
1 May: `How children learn the meanings of
words.'
PROFESSOR S. LAPPIN, SOAS
8 May, 2 p.m.: `An underspecified
constraint-based
semantics for vague quantifiers.'
DR D. LEWIS
15 May: `From modal adverbial to discourse
connective in present-day English.'
PROFESSOR P. TRUDGILL, Lausanne
22 May: `Language contact and the function of
linguistic gender.'
PROFESSOR R. HICKEY, Essen
29 May: ` "It takes all types": on
special
kinds of language change.'
PROFESSOR K. HALE, MIT
5 June: `The Misumalpan causative construction
and
s-structure argument fission.'
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DR D. WORRALL, St Mary's University College Tue. 28 Apr.: `Tom and Jerry meet The Castle Spectre: the cultural politics of Romantic Period Gothic drama.'
DR N. LEASK, Cambridge
Thur. 14 May: `Southey's Madoc:
the
Romantic epic and imperialism.'
PROFESSOR J. BATE, Liverpool
Wed. 27 May: `Nest and shells: towards a
phenomenological ecopoetics.'
DR T. FULFORD, Nottingham–Trent University
Wed. 10 June: `Sex, scandals, and imperial
heroes:
the army and navy in Coleridge, Southey, and Austen.'
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Conveners: Dr G.S. Goodwin-Gill, MA, D.Phil., Rubin Director of Research, Dr A.J. Hurrell, MA, M.Phil., D.Phil., University Lecturer in International Relations, and E.A. Roberts, MA, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations.
PROFESSOR FRIEDRICH KRATOCHWIL,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität,
München
28 Apr.: `The nature of international
iorms.'
PROFESSOR BENEDICK KINGSBURY, New York University
5 May: `Is the sovereign state in decline in
international law?'
PROFESSOR JOHN JACKSON, University of Michigan
12 May: `The World Trade Organization and
sovereignty.'
D. BETHLEHEM, London School of Economics and Political Science
19 May: `Law and politics in the International
Court
of Justice's 1996 Advisory Opinion on Nuclear Weapons.'
DR GUY GOODWIN-GILL, PROFESSOR ROBERTS, and DR MATTHEW GIBNEY
26 May: `International refugee law and the
refugee
problems of the 1990s.'
MS JILL BARRETT, Office of Legal Adviser, Foreign and
Commonwealth
Office
2 June: `The realities of law-making at the
United
Nations.'
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Convener: M. Winterbottom, MA, D.Phil., Corpus Christi Professor of Latin.
PROFESSOR NIKLAS HOLZBERG, Munich
Thur. 30 Apr.: `Ter quinque
volumina as
carmen perpetuum: the division into books in
Ovid's
Metamorphoses.'
DR A. VARDI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mon. 4 May: `An anthology of early Latin
epigrams? A
ghost reconsidered.'
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Subject: `Simple truth and alethic realism.'
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Conveners : S.J.Harrison, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer (CUF) in Classical Languages and Literature, and M.Winterbottom, MA, D.Phil, Corpus Professor of Latin.
Subject: ``Virgil in a Cold Climate: Europe's Poet in Europe's Crisis.'
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Conveners: P. Clifford, MA, Reader in Mathematical Statistics, and A.M. Etheridge, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer (CUF) in Mathematics
DR M. STEPHENS
30 Apr.:`Bayesian analysis of mixtures with an
unknown number of components: an alternative to reversible
jump
methods.'
DR A.M. ETHERIDGE
7 May.:`A probabilistic approach to some
explosive
semilinear heat equations.'
PROFESSOR P. GRAMBSCH, Minneapolis
14 May.:`Luteinizing hormone pulsatility in
depressed women: comparison of data analysis methods.'
PROFESSOR L.N. TREFETHEN 21 May.:`Eigenvalues and card shuffling: the cutoff phenomenon in Markov chains.'
PROFESSOR M. KIMMEL, Rice
28 May. :` Population dynamics coded in DNA:
history
of growth and migrations of modern humans.'
PROFESSOR E.B. HOOK, Berkeley
4 June.:`Applications of capture--recapture
analysis
to epidemiology.'
PROFESSOR R. HARTLEY, Keele
11 June.: `Modelling the demand for lottery
tickets.'
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PROFESSOR A. NEWELL, Warwick
30 Apr.: `Semiconductor lasers and Kolmogorov
spectra.' (Differential Equations, Computational
Mathematics and Applications joint OCIAM/NA Group
Seminar)
PROFESSOR J. NOHEL, ETH, Zurich
7 May: `The dynamics of degenerate
reaction–diffusion equations modelling flows of certain
non-
Newtonian fluids.'
PROFESSOR M.J. WARD, UBC
14 May: `Metastability: analysis and
applications.'
PROFESSOR P. BLYTHE, visiting DAMPT, Cambridge
21 May: `Flame paths and the Clarke
equation.'
PROFESSOR J.-M. VANDEN-BROECK, Wisconsin
28 May: `Some effects of surface tension on
nonlinear free-surface flows.'
DR P. VAINSHTEIN, visiting University College, Dublin
4 June: `Streaming at large Reynolds number and
its
effects on shear flow, heat transfer, and ignition.'
PROFESSOR A.M. STUART, Stanford
11 June: `Ergodic properties of numerical
approximations to Markov chains.'
PROFESSOR L.M. HOCKING, University College, London
18 June: `Spreading in a porous medium.'
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Convener: J.R. Woodhouse, MA, D.Litt., Fiat–Serena Professor of Italian Studies.
Subject: `Human vices and humanity's virtues in Dante's Comedy.'
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Conveners: I.D.L. Michael, MA, King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies, and D.G. Pattison, MA, D.Phil., Reader in Spanish.
E.A. SOUTHWORTH
28 Apr.: `Lorca and theatre architecture'
(illustrated).
DR J. LONDON
5 May: `The Fascist Lorca.'
PROFESSOR A. ANDERSON, Michigan
19 May: to be announced.
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Conveners: K.F. Hilliard, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer in German Literature, and C.J. Wells, MA, University Lecturer in Germanic Philology and Medieval German Literature.
Subject: `Kleist's bodies.'
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Conveners: T.M. Kuhn, MA, and K.J. Leeder, MA, Faculty Lecturers in German.
DR D. CONSTANTINE
30 Apr.: `Brecht's sonnets.'
DR D. MIDGLEY, Cambridge
7 May: `The poet in Berlin: Brecht's city
poetry of
the later 1920s.'
MRS H. BROWN
14 May: ` "cVom ertrunkenen
Mädchen" / "The drowned girl" in
Baal and the Hauspostille.'
PROFESSOR R. SPEIRS, Birmingham
21 May: ` "Vom armen bb" /
"Of poor bb" and others.'
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The following seminars will be held at 2.30 p.m. on Mondays in the European Studies Centre (70 Woodstock Road), St Antony's College.
DR M. BERKOWITZ, University College, London
PROFESSOR D. CESARANI, Institute of Contemporary History and
University of Southampton
11 May: `Arthur Koestler and the Jewish
Question.'
DR D. FELDMAN, Birkbeck College, London
18 May: `Jews and the state in Britain,
1830–1930.'
E. PEDERSEN
25 May: `German Jewish identity in exile,
1933–45: the case of Henry William Katz.'
DR A. KUSHNER, Southampton
1 June: `Politics and the memory of the
Holocaust.'
PROFESSOR M. GALCHINSKY, Millsaps College
8 June: `Engendering liberal Jews: Jewish women
in
Victorian England.'
DR D. ARIELI-HOROWITZ, Tel Aviv
15 June: `The Jew as "destroyer of
culture" in Nazi ideology.'
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Conveners: R. Harris, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History, and M.A. Vaughan, MA, Professor of Commonwealth Studies.
M. CONWAY
28 Apr.: `National myths, public remembrance,
and
private memory: the case of Belgium, 1930–50.'
I. HACKING
5 May: `Travellers without memory.'
Z. WAXMAN
12 May: `The witness in testimony: World War
I to
the Holocaust.'
PROFESSOR VAUGHAN
19 May: `Slavery and Creole memory.'
R. GILDEA
26 May: `The Resistance myth, the
Pétainist
myth, and other voices.'
A. GREGORY
2 June: `Good wars and bad wars: ceremonies of
commemoration in Britain since 1945.'
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Conveners: R. Briggs, MA, Special Lecturer in Modern History, and F. Dabhoiwala, MA, D.Phil., Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College.
PROFESSOR O. HUFTON
28 Apr.: `The widow's mite and other
strategies:
funding the Catholic Reformation.'
DR M. LAVEN, Cambridge
5 May: `Nuns and sex in Counter-Reformation
Venice.'
PROFESSOR J. DE VRIES, Berkeley
12 May: `Did a consumer culture emerge before
the
Industrial Revolution?'
PROFESSOR R. DARNTON, Princeton
19 May: `Policing a poem in Paris, 1749.'
DR G. HUDSON, Wellcome Institute, London
26 May: `The body and the state in early modern
England.'
MS A. SHEPHARD
2 June: `Manhood, patriarchy, and economic
status in
early modern England.'
DR N. KENNY, Cambridge
9 June: `Curiositas in German university
disserations, 1652--1714.'
R. WALINSKI-KIEHL, Portsmouth
16 June: `Men as witches and male witch-hunting
in
early modern Germany.'
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8 p.m.: `Beethoven, Thomas Mann, and the mystery of Op. 111.'
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Subject: `Criticising pop.'
Note: for details of an opera by Professor Scruton, also to be performed on 1 May, see `Notices' above.
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Convener: G. Abramson, MA, Cowley Lecturer in post- Biblical Hebrew.
Subject: `Nostalgia and Levantine Jewish writers.'
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Convener: M.D. Goodman, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Jewish Studies.
DR R. ELIOR, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
28 Apr.: `The priestly origins of hekhalot
literature.'
DR J. WEINBERG, Leo Baeck College
5 May: `The concept of the persecuted in
Pesikta
Rabbati.'
DR B. BITTON-ASHKELONY, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
12 May: `Penitence in monastic literature in
late
antiquity: Christians and Jews.'
PROFESSOR L. GRABBE, Hull
19 May: `The reality of prophecy in the Second
Temple period.'
PROFESSOR P. ALEXANDER, Manchester
26 May: `Community rules—Jewish,
Christian, and
pagan: the problem of genre and function in the Serek ha-
Yahad.'
DR D. FALK
2 June: `Community order in the parabiblical
texts
at Qumran.'
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Convener: D. Sherrington, MA, Wykeham Professor of Physics.
PROFESSOR A. BRANDENBURG, Newcastle
1 May: `Turbulence and dynamos from the
Balbus–Hawley instability.'
DR T. HOLLOWOOD, Swansea
15 May: `Life on the Brane.'
PROFESSOR J.B. PENDRY, Imperial College
29 May: `Quantum friction.'
PROFESSOR W.E. LAMB, Arizona
12 June: `Super-classical quantum mechanics.'
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Convener: M.L.H. Green, MA, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry.
DR A. HARRISON, Edinburgh
27 Apr.: `Model magnetic materials.'
PROFESSOR R.J.P. WILLIAMS
11 May: `The logical connection between
chemistry
and biology.'
DR M. HANNON, Warwick
18 May: `Supramolecular assembly using a simple
approach; from holes in materials to biomolecular
arrays.'
PROFESSOR P. TASKER
1 June: `Co-ordination chemistry at work in the
winning and working of metals.'
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DR M.C. MCCARTHY, Harvard
27 Apr.: `Carbon chains and rings in the
laboratory
and in space.'
PROFESSOR T.A. MILLER, Ohio State
4 May: `High resolution spectroscopic studies
of
reactive chemical intermediates and the breaking of their
bonds.'
(RSC Bourke Lecture)
PROFESSOR M.H. ALEXANDER, Maryland
11 May: `Non adiabaticity in chemical
dynamics.'
DR T. COOK, Isis Innovation Ltd.
18 May: ` "Spinning out"—factors
to
consider when starting a spin-out company.'
DR J. WILDT, Institut fur Chemie der Belasteten Atmosphare,
Julich
25 May: `Emissions of volatile organic
compounds
from plants.'
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Convener: P.R. Wilshaw, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer in the Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Materials.
DR J.P. NORTHOVER
30 Apr.: `The life and death of an
artefact—application of metallography in
archaeology.'
PROFESSOR D. BATCHELOR, Leeds
7 May: `Raman microscopy of polymers: confocal,
direct imaging, and scanning near field.'
(Interdepartmental Polymer Seminar)
DR J. GREGG
14 May: `The art of hybrid spin electronics.'
(Interdepartmental Condensed Matter Seminar)
PROFESSOR A.-M. SASTRY, Michigan
21 May: `Transport, mechanics, and damage
tolerance
of porous fibrous structures: theory and application.'
PROFESSOR D. PEROVIC, Toronto
28 May: `Control of misfit dislocation
formation at
semiconductor interfaces.'
DR R. FALSTER, MEMC, USA
4 June: `Defect engineering in silicon
substrates
for the giga-bit DRAM era.' (Interdepartmental
Condensed
Matter Seminar)
PROFESSOR M. MCLEAN, Imperial College
11 June: `Anisotropic creep in single crystal
superalloys: mechanisms, models, and validation.'
DR K.-L. CHOY, Imperial College
18 June: `Innovative processing of ceramic
coatings.'
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Convener: B.E. Parsons, MA, Reader in Geodesy.
DR R. ARMIJO, Institut de Physique de Globe, Paris
27 Apr.: `What can palaeogeodesy tell us about
deformation in the Anatolia–Aegean region?'
PROFESSOR A. WINTLE, Aberystwyth
11 May: `Luminescence dating—a brief
history of
time from a grain of sand.'
DR P. KILLWORTH, Southampton Oceanography Centre
18 May: `What's going on in ocean
modelling?'
DR S. RUSSELL, Natural History Museum
1 June: `Early solar system time-scales:
evidence
from meteorites.'
PROFESSOR J. PARKES, Bristol
8 June: `A deep bacterial biosphere in marine
sediments.'
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Convener: J.C. Ellory, D.Sc., Professor of Physiology.
DR S. BRICKLEY, University College, London
29 Apr.: `Developmental changes in GABA A
mediated
synaptic transmission in the cerebellum.'
(McDonnell–Pew Seminar)
DR R. NAVARETTE, Imperial College School of Medicine
6 May: `The role of excitotoxic mechanisms in
motoneuron degeneration.' (McDonnell–Pew
Seminar)
DR L.M. HENDERSON, Bristol
13 May: `The proton channel of neutrophilis:
understanting function via mutagenesis.' (Seminar
sponsored
by the Physiological Society)
PROFESSOR E. FRÖMTER, Frankfurt
20 May: `NaHCO
DR D. PRICE, Edinburgh
27 May: `Regulation of forebrain development.'
(Jenkinson Seminar)
PROFESSOR M. ARMSTRONG-JAMES, Queen Mary and Westfield College,
London
3 June: `Plasticity of adult barrel cortex.'
(McDonnell–Pew Seminar)
PROFESSOR B. HENDRY, King's College, London
10 June: `Ras superfamily GTPases and
progressive
renal fibrosis.' (Seminar sponsored by the
Physiological
Society)
PROFESSOR S. BROWN, MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit and Mouse Genome
Centre
17 June: `The genetics of
deafness—dissecting
the inner ear function.' (Seminar sponsored by the
Physiological Society)
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Convener: K.E. Davies, MA, D.Phil., Dr Lee's Professor of Anatomy.
PROFESSOR J. HERBERT, Cambridge
1 May: `The stressed brain: synthesising cell
biology, physiology, and behaviour.'
DR S. WILSON, University College, London
8 May: `Regulation of neurogenesis and axon
pathway
formation in the embryonic zebrafish forebrain.'
(Jenkinson
Seminar)
DR S. WARD
15 May: `Retinol uptake and production of
retinoic
acid in mammalian embryos; the nuts and bolts of a
morphogenetic
signal?'
DR D. WELLS, Imperial College of Medicine, Charing Cross
Hospital,
London
22 May: `Optimisation of gene transfer into
skeletal
muscle.'
DR D. ISH-HOROWICZ, ICRF, Mill Hill, London
29 May: `Gradients and clocks: mechanisms of
segmentation in flies and vertebrates.' (Jenkinson
Seminar)
PROFESSOR C. TICKLE, University College, London
5 June: `Vertebrate limb development—from
start
to finish.' (Jenkinson Seminar)
MRS R. DEECH, St Anne's
12 June: `Sex, sheep, and ethics.'
DR J. UNEY, Bristol
19 June: `Adenoviral vectors as gene therapy
agents
and to study the mechanisms underlying excitoxic nerve cell
death.'
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PROFESSOR A. GEAR, Virginia
28 Apr.: `Blood platelet function: regulation
by
cyclic nucleotides and fluid shear forces.'
PROFESSOR W.A. LARGE, St George's Hospital Medical School, London
12 May: `Properties and roles of chloride
channels
in smooth muscle.'
PROFESSOR H. PERRY
19 May: `The regulation of immune mediated
inflammation in the brain.'
PROFESSOR A. BROWN, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio
26 May: `Novel peptide modulators of potassium
channels.'
PROFESSOR S. NAHORSKI, Leicester
2 June: `Regulation of metabotropic receptor
mediated Ca2+ signalling in model cells.'
DR R. GREENE
9 June: `Electroneuropathology:
electrophysiology in
models of neuropsychiatric disease.'
DR L.H. CLAPP, University College, London
16 June: `Mechanisms underlying changes in
vascular
reactivity induced by bacterial endotoxin.'
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Conveners: S.D. Iversen, MA, Professor of Psychology, and P.E. Bryant, MA, Watts Professor of Psychology.
PROFESSOR F. FINCHAM, Cardiff
28 Apr.: `Psychology and marriage: a match made
in
heaven or hell?'
PROFESSOR M. ZIMMERMAN, Heidelberg
5 May: `The pathogenesis of chronic pain:
dysregulation of the nervous system from molecular to
psychological levels.' (McDonnell–Pew
Seminar)
DR P. HARRIS
12 May: `From pretence to fiction.'
PROFESSOR J. AGGLETON, Cardiff
19 May: `Reanalysing the anatomy of amnesia.'
(McDonnell–Pew Seminar)
PROFESSOR J. SIEGEL, Delaware
26 May: `Augmenting and reducing of visual
evoked
potentials in high and low sensation seeking humans, cats,
and
rats.' (McDonnell–Pew Seminar)
DR A. ROUTTENBERG, Northwestern University, Illinois
2 June: `Enhanced learning and synaptic
plasticity
in transgenic mouse over-expressing growth protein GAP-43.'
(McDonnell–Pew Seminar)
DR J. TEASDALE, Cambridge
9 June: `Mindfulness, self-attention, and the
prevention of depression.'
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Convener: B.E. Shafer, MA, Mellon Professor of American Government.
Tue. 5 May: `The centre cannot hold? Party location and electoral success.'
Thur. 7 May: `How a party system unravels.'
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Conveners: W. Beinart, MA, Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, A.R. Mustapha, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer in African Politics, and G.P. Williams, MA, M.Phil., University Lecturer (CUF) in Politics.
A. QUAYSON, Cambridge
30 Apr.: `Teaching literature; thinking
politics. A
note on methods.'
K. MEAGHER, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
7 May: `The Alhazai of modernity: cross-border
trade
and northern Nigeria.'
DR P.N. KOK, Max Planck Institute
14 May, Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College: `Islam
and
the nation state in Africa.' (African Studies
Lecture)
R. CLINE-COLE, Centre for West African Studies, Birmingham
21 May: `Redefining forestry space: threatened
livelihoods and contrasting landscape visions in colonial
Northern Nigeria, 1939–50.'
M. GOULDING, Warden of St Antony's
28 May: `Peace-making and peace-keeping in the
post-
Cold War Africa.'
R. MARSHALL, SOAS
5 June: `Mediating the global and the local in
Nigerian Pentecostalism.'
R. WATSON
12 June: `The Cloth of the Field of Gold:
material
culture and civic politics in colonial Ibadan.'
A. MAMA, Centre for Research and Documentation, Kano
19 June: `Kakhi in the family: women's
responses to
military authoritarianism in Nigeria.'
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G. WILLIAMS
27 Apr.: `The KWV, the minister, and the
champagne.'
L. WOTSHELA
4 May: `Homeland consolidation, settlement
planning,
and community dynamics in the Northern Ciskei.'
J. EWERT, Stellenbosch
11 May: `Taking a reluctant step into
modernity: the
changing labour regime in the South African wine
industry.'
J. HAMMAN, Centre for Rural Legal Studies, Stellenbosch
18 May: `Harbingers of a new future or islands
in an
ocean: land reform initiatives in the South African wine
industry.'
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Conveners: M. Bacharach, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Economics, D. Gambetta, MA, Reader in Sociology, and G. Mackie, MA, Junior Research Fellow in Politics, St John's College.
PROFESSOR BACHARACH
30 Apr.: `The problem of trust: a
signal-theoretic
approach.'
T. YAMAGISHI, Hokkaido University
7 May: `Trust as a form of social
intelligence.'
DR MACKIE
14 May: `Marriage conventions and social
trust.'
J. ELSTER, Columbia University
Fri. 22 May, 10 a.m.: `Trust and the emotions.'
D. HAUSMAN, University of Wisconsin
28 May: `Incorporating fairness and trust in
game
theory.'
A. KACELNIK
4 June: `Should you trust your children?
Parent--
offspring conflict and signals of need in young birds.'
P. SEABRIGHT, Cambridge
11 June: `Uniforms and whips: reasons to
trust.'
DR GAMBETTA
18 June: `Trust in signs.'
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Conveners: A.C. Stepan, MA, Gladstone Professor of Government, and D.A. Washbrook, MA, D.Phil., Reader in Modern South Asian History.
Subject: `India after the elections.'
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Conveners: P.A. David, MA, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, C.H. Feinstein, Chichele Professor of Economic History, J.S. Foreman-Peck, MA, University Lecturer in Economic History, and A. Offer, MA, D.Phil., Reader in Recent Social and Economic History.
B. SANCHEZ ALONSO, San Pablo, Madrid
28 Apr.: `Movers and Stayers: Explaining
Regional
Emigration from Spain 1880–1914.'
O. GRANT
5 May: `German migration to the United States
1870–1913.'
P. LAINS, Lisbon
12 May: `Portugal's African Empire
1820–1975.'
A. GODLEY, Reading
19 May: `Enterprise and Culture: Jewish
Immigrants
in London and New York, 1880–1914.'
S.R. EPSTEIN, London School of Economics
26 May: `Craft Guilds, Apprenticeships and
Technological Change in Pre-industrial Europe.'
I. PEPELASIS MINOGLOU, Athens
2 June: `Industrialisation and
Deindustrialisation
in Greece.'
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Conveners: A. Offer, MA, D.Phil., Reader in Recent Social and Economic History, and G.L. Mackie (MS Oregon), Junior Research Fellow in Politics, St John's College. For further information, telephone Oxford (2)785979, or e-mail: avner.offer@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.
Friday, 22 May: Large Lecture Room, Nuffield College
PROFESSOR A. KACELNIK 4–4.30 p.m.: `Rationality, Risk Sensitivity and Myopic Discounting in Animal Choice.'
PROFESSOR G. AINSLIE, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Coatesville, Pa, USA 5–6 p.m.: `Myopic Choice: What Good are Other People?'
Saturday, 23 May—morning session: Large Lecture Room, Nuffield College
PROFESSOR S. LEA and DR P. WEBLEY, University of Exeter 9 a.m.: `The Economic Self.'
PROFESSOR M. CASSON, Reading 10 a.m.: `Myopic Choice and the Economics of Decision-making.'
PROFESSOR J. ELSTER, Columbia/Paris 11.30 a.m.: `Resisting temptation.'
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Afternoon session: New Seminar Room, St John's College
PROFESOR C. BRADSHAW, Nottingham 2.15 p.m.: `Prospects for Developing a Psychopharmacology of Self-Control.'
MR MACKIE 3.15 p.m.: `On the binding nature of promises.'
DR OFFER 4.15 p.m.: `Self-control and Well-being in the USA and UK since 1945.'
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Conveners: J.S.K. Ward, B.Litt., MA, Regius Professor of Divinity, and W.M. Morgan, MA, Lecturer in World Religions, Mansfield and Westminster Colleges.
DR S. VERTOVEC
1 May: `Three meanings of diaspora and Hinduism
outside India.'
DR G. TER HAAR, Utrecht and Leiden
8 May: `The African religious diaspora in
Europe:
migration and identity.'
RABBI DR NORMAN SOLOMON
15 May: `The dialectic of universal and
particular
in modern Judaism.'
PROFESSOR P. CLARKE, King's College, London
22 May: `Japanese Millenarian movements in
global
perspective.'
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DR K. SHARPE, Cincinatti
30 Apr.: `Human behaviour, genetics, and
theology.'
DR J. POULTON, University Research Fellow (Royal Society),
Paediatric
Department, the John Radcliffe Hospital
14 May: `Mitochondrial DNA, evolution, and
genetic
counselling: doctrinal and ethical dilemmas.'
DR N. MESSER, Queen's College, Birmingham
28 May: `Human cloning and genetic
manipulation:
some theological and ethical issues.'
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DR T. FREEMAN
30 Apr.: `The Devil and John Foxe: the genesis
of
Puritan exorcism.'
DR C. WALKER, Newcastle, New South Wales
7 May: ` "Our Prayers are dayly
offered":
Charles II and the Benedictine nuns of Ghent.'
DR A. FORD, Durham
14 May: ` "Making Dead Men Speak":
manipulating the memory of Archbishop James Ussher.'
DR J. DAWSON, New College, Edinburgh
21 May: `Clan Campbell and the Scottish
Reformation.'
DR C. HOLMES
28 May: `James VI and I, the Church of England,
and
witchcraft.'
DR V. BAINBRIDGE
4 June: `The Bridgettines of Syon Abbey and
major
trends in fifteenth and sixteenth century devotion.'
DR C. DURSTON, St Mary's University College, Twickenham
11 June: ` "Setting the Hearts and
Quieting the
Minds of All Good People": the Major Generals, and the
Puritan minorities of Interregnum England.'
DR S. PINCUS, Chicago
18 June: ` "To Protect English
Liberties":
nationalism and religion in the Revolution of 1668–9.'
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Conveners: E.M. Jeffreys, B.Litt., MA, Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, J.D. Howard-Johnston, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies, and M.C. Mundell Mango, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer in Byzantine Archaeology and Art.
DR I. BUGAR, Budapest
27 Apr.: `Epiphanius of Salamis: Origenist and
Iconoclast?'
R. PALLAS-BROWN
4 May: `East Roman perceptions of the Avars in
the
mid- and late sixth century.'
DR A. POULTER, Nottingham
11 May: `Defending Constantinople from
space.'
D. MILSOM, and others
18 May: Demonstration of work done by the
project to
computerise the Tchalenko and Creswell Archives.
DR MANGO
25 May: `The Triumphal Avenue of
Constantinople.'
PROFESSOR A. CUTLER, Pittsburg
Friday, 5 June: `True and false: recently
discovered
Byzantine ivories.'
DR MANGO
15 June: `The commercial map of
Constantinople.'
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Subject: `World War II code-breaking with the Bombe and the Colossus.'
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S. KEWLEY
26 Apr.: `Japan's foreign economic policy to
the
EU.'
A. AND T. STENHOUSE
17 May: `Impressions of the fifty-three
stations of
the Tokkaido', with demonstration of Japanese calligraphy.
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Convener: R.H. Hood, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Criminology.
DR L. ZEDNAR
29 Apr.: `The dynamics of security.'
PROFESSOR R. SPARKS, Keele
6 May: `Penal policy in the 1990s.'
P. CAVADINO, Director of Communications, Penal Affairs
Consortium,
NACRO
13 May: `The new approach to juvenile
justice.'
PROFESSOR J. BALDWIN, Birmingham
20 May: `The Crown Prosecution Service: what
research has revealed.'
DR B. BOWLING, Cambridge
27 May: `Violent racism.'
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DR S. WILSON, author of Sigmund Freud
29 Apr.: `Is there an Oedipus Complex?'
DR G. KHAN, Cambridge
6 May: `The rise of Hebrew grammatical thought
in
the Middle Ages.'
DR A. ARIELI-HOROWITZ, Tel Aviv, P. COCKBURN, The
Independent, DR E. HOROWITZ, Bar-Ilan, and PROFESSOR A.
SHLAIM
13 May: `Israel's next fifty years: a
symposium.'
R. NETTLER, OCHJS, and DR S. TAJI-FAROUKI, Durham
20 May: `Intellectual traditions and modern
politics.' (Book launch: Muslim–Jewish
Encounters)
DR C. BERLIN, Harvard University Library
27 May: `Hebrew and Yiddish collections in the
Harvard College Library.'
DR N. DE LANGE, Cambridge
3 June: `The life and thought of Ignaz
Maybaum.'
(Louis Jacobs Lecture Series)
PROFESSOR H. SOLOVEITCHIK, Yeshiva University
10 June: `Responsa as an historical source.'
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DR S. SCHAFFER, Cambridge
29 Apr.: `Collection, curiosity, and Newton's
Principia.'
DR M. WINTROUB, Michigan
6 May: `Museum genealogies and rituals of
power.'
DR S. MUELLER-WILLE, Max Planck Institute, Berlin
13 May: `Collectors, system-builders and
world-wide
commerce: the epistemic functions of collection in Linnaean
botany.'
PROFESSOR I. PETERSON, Mount Holyoke College
20 May: `King Serfoji's Cabinet of Experimental
Science: The German Kunstkammer in eighteenth-century
India.'
PROFESSOR M.H. KAUFMAN, Edinburgh
27 May: `The museum collection of the Edinburgh
Phrenological Society.'
N. WILDING, European University Institute, Florence
3 June: `The collection and the catalogue:
Musaeum
Regalis Societatis and Musaeum Kircherianum.'
D. HARLEY
10 June: `The species of disease and the
destruction
of learned medicine.'
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Subject: `Post-election India.'
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DR S. WRIGHT, Birmingham
6 May: `Participation in pre- and
post-revolutionary
Iran: a comparative study.'
DR M. WASIM
13 May: `Sectarianism in Pakistan: the
Shia–Sunni conflict.'
PROFESSOR I. NETTON, Leeds
20 May: `Indiana Jones and the orientalists'
dilemma.'
DR S. VERTOVEC
27 May: `Muslim European youth.'
DR N. LINDISFARNE, SOAS
3 June: `Fencing in Damascus: writing
ethnography,
writing fiction.'
DR P. DRESCH
10 June: `Sectarianism in Yemen: is there such
a
thing?'
PROFESSOR N.A. ZAHRA
17 June: `Egyptian memory and Al-Sayyida Zaynab
in
Cairo.'
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LORD JENKINS OF HILLHEAD
Mon. 27 Apr., 8 p.m.: `The idea of Monetary
Union: its origins and development' (meeting of the
Oxfordshire Branch of the European Movement).
M. BUTOR, writer
Tue. 28 Apr.: `Peinture et écriture.'
(Linked to exhibition of original manuscripts,
`Vanité au miroir', by Daniel Grasiewicz)
T. HUNKELER, Zurich
Wed. 6 May: `La paille des mots et le grain des
choses: stratégies de dévalorisation chez
Beckett.'
R. RASHED, CNRS
Mon. 11 May: `Arab science and classical
modernity.'
Tue. 12 May: `Descartes entre al-Khayam et
Newton.'
PROFESSOR J.-C. COLLIARD, Paris I
Fri. 5 May: `Les quarante ans de la
Cinquième République: La
Cohabitation—trois expériences.'
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D. RIBARD, Paris III, and A. VIALA
Wed. 13 May, Maison Française:
`Fontenelle au carrefour: histoire, philosophie, sciences
et
littérature.'
N. SHAPIRA, Paris I, and M. BOMBART, Paris III
Thur. 14 May, Keble College: `L'étrange
Balzac (Jean-Louis Guez de) et l'histoire.'
C. JOUHAUD, EHESS–Paris, and D. BLOCKER, Rouen
Fri. 15 May: `History and literature:
prospects.'
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N. MAYER, CNRS: `Nouveaux mouvements sociaux en France: le cas du mouvement anti-Front National.'
S. WATERS, Leeds: `Les nouveaux mouvements sociaux: vers une nouvelle forme de citoyenneté.'
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Sat. 16 May–Sun. 17 May, Maison Française: `Révolution: arts, sciences, politique' (Franco-British colloquium).
Sat. 30 May, Maison Française: `Pratiques et approches: l'histoire des sciences en action' (organised with the Museum of the History of Science).
Sat. 20 June, St Hugh's College: `Psychoanalysis and translation' (organised with Translation Research in Oxford and the European Humanities Research Centre; details from Edith McMorran, St Hugh's, (2)74996, or Sue Robinson, Maison Française, (2)74220).
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PROFESSOR E. HARARI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1 May: `Japan, Israel, and their neighbours:
towards normal peace?'
PROFESSOR MIYAKO SUDA, Gakushuin University
8 May: `Japan's Big Bang: why now? What
effect?'
PROFESSOR K.J. RUFF, Harvard
15 May: `The monarchy of the masses: a theory
of
the post-war Japanese monarchy.'
PROFESSOR B.-A. SHILLONY, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
22 May: `Divinity and gender: the riddle of the
Japanese monarchy.'
S. KEWLEY
29 May: `From crisis to co-operation: the
relationship between the EU and Japan from 1965 to the
present day.'
DR R. KERSTEN, Sydney
5 June: `Neo-nationalism and the "Liberal
School of History".'
DR KWEKU AMPIAH, Stirling
12 June: `In search of heroes: Noguchi Hideo
and
nation-building in Japan.'
PROFESSOR T.J. PEMPEL, University of Washington, Seattle
19 June: `Structural gaiatsu:
international finance and the Japanese political economoy.'
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Conveners: Dr B. Harriss-White and Dr N. Gooptu.
S. ANANDHI, Indian Social Institute, Bangalore: `Dalits and the discourse of land rights in Tamilnadu.'
K. SEETA PRABHU, Mumbai: `Social sectors during economic reforms: the Indian experience.'
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Conveners
: Dr B. Harriss-White and Dr N. Gooptu.
9 a.m.
S.A. ZAIDI, Karachi: `The failure of local government in Pakistan: is democracy responsible?'A. NIGAM, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi: `Marxism and the post-colonial world: the long march of a secular doctrine.'
11.15 a.m.
R. CHAKRAVARTY, Sussex: `Globalisation and imaginations of the nation, state, and market: popular music in India.'D. MEHTA, Delhi: `Circumcision, body, masculinity: ritual wound and sectarian violence.'
2.15 p.m.
I. HIRWAY, Gandhi Labour Institute, Ahmedabad: `Liberalisation and industrialisation in the regional context—a study in India.'M. SWAMINATHAN, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Bombay: `Economic growth and the persistence of child labour: evidence from an Indian city.'
4.30 p.m.
A. SIDDIQA-AGHA, Military Accountant-General's Department, Pakistan: `Prospects of converting military resources for human development in a militaristic society: a case study of India and Pakistan.'
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DR A.M. GOETZ, IDS, Sussex
30 Apr.: `Getting institutions right for women
in development.'
DR C. AWLL-DAVIES, Swansea
7 May: `Women in management in Wales.'
DR C. CONNAL
14 May: `The Devi and the Bandit Queen: a
cross-
disciplinary approach to the question of women's roles.'
DR R. CHOWDREY, Jammu University, India
21 May: `The Indian women's movement and gender
discourse: emerging tensions and responses.'
DR A. MAMA, Rhodes Visiting Fellow
28 May: to be announced.
E. CARY, New Mexico
4 June: `Cooks, rebels, secretaries, and
guerrillas: gender and 1968: Mexico.'
PROFESSOR A. COHEN
11 June: `Politics and the stability of
marriage.'
AKIKO ISHIKAWA
18 June: `Japanese marriage and gender roles: investing
it with new meanings.'
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Subject: `A mosque of one's own—Chinese women, Islam, and sexual equality (nan-nu pingdeng).'
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PROFESSOR C. ROZAKIS, Member, European Commission of Human Rights
Mon. 27 Apr.: `The prohibition of torture,
inhuman and degrading treatment (Article 3 of the
Convention).'
PROFESSOR S. TRECHSEL, President, European Commission of Human
Rights
Fri. 8 May: `Protection of the right to life
(Article 2 of the Convention).'
(a)PROFESSOR ROZAKIS; (b) PROFESSOR A.
FRANGOUDAKI AND PROFESSOR T. DRAGONAS, Athens
Fri. 15 May:
(a) The case law.
(b) `A case study of the
educational system applying to the Muslim minority in
Greece.'
DR S. STAVROS, Legal Officer, European Commission of Human Rights Mon. 1 June: `Freedom of religion and conscience (Article 9 of the Convention).'
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Tue. 12 May: `Markets, morals, and the public sphere.'
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Subject: `How myth uses us: Greek "Guyville" and women's rock music.'
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DR H. WRIGHT, Oxford Forestry Institute: `Participatory research—involving the local people.'
MR P. WIFFIN, Regional Pharmaceutical Adviser, Oxford: `Doing the homework—finding the evidence.'
MR J. CHURCH, orthopaedic surgeon, Oxford: `Maggots in medicine—showing they are acceptable to the developed world.'
DR L. DULEY, obstetric epidemiologist, Oxford: `Gaining experience together—multicentre trials.'
DR P. BACON, Oxford Forestry Institute: `Working together—involving host country institutions.'
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Subject: `The floppy infant: from the cradle to the genes.'
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Subject: `The consequences of implied and denied consent.'
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J. MASON, author, An Unnatural Order and
Animal Factories; activist and attorney
28 Apr: `The animal powers and some
repercussions of domestication.'
THE REVD JONATHAN CLATWORTHY, Vicar of Denstone and Manchester
University
5 May: `Theology and the value of the
world.'
(first of three seminars on Ecology and Theology)
R. ATTFIELD, Cardiff
12 May: `Environmental sensitivity and the
critiques of stewardship.' (second of three seminars
on
Ecology and Theology)
I. BRADLEY, Aberdeen
19 May: `God is Green—or is He? Thoughts
on
Christianity, the churches, and the environment.'
(last
of three seminars on Ecology and Theology)
C. RODGERS, Aberystwyth
2 June: `Legal mechanisms for promoting nature
conservation in the countryside.'
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Subject: `Government, ethics, and the law.'
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Subject: `Unwelcome traditions: the debate about the "Völkish" roots of social history in Germany.'
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Conveners: Professor Judith Brown, Nandini Gooptu.
Session I, 9–10.30 a.m.
: Historiography and narrativesR. O'HANLON, Cambridge: `Approaches to the study of gender in pre-colonial India.'
P. MUKTA, Warwick: `Narratives of poverty.'
Session II, 10.45 a.m.–1 p.m.: Politics
P. JEFFERY, Edinburgh: `Feminist agendas and women's activism in South Asia.'
S. THAPAR, Warwick: `The domestication of the public sphere and politicisation of the domestic sphere.'
R.S. RAJAN: `In India: women, citizenship, and the crisis of the state.'
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Session III: Identities
J. LIDDLE, Warwick: `Feminist orientalism and the Indian woman: linking the historical to the contemporary.'
S. ANSARI, Royal Holloway College, London: `Gender, partition, and Pakistan.'
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Session IV, 3.35–5 p.m.: Bodies (To be followed by general discussion, 5–5.30 p.m.)
S. ANANDHI: `Reproductive bodies and regulated sexuality: birth control debates in colonian Tamilnadu.'
M. THAPAN, Delhi: `The body in the mirror: women and representation in contemporary India.'
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Subject: `Fin de siècle: reflections at the close of the twentieth century.'
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Subject: `The imagery of government in the Italian Renaissance.'
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Subject: `Mystery and mayhem: the craft of the detective story.'
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Subject: `The work of an American constitutional judge.'
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(telephone: Oxford 288140 fax: 288121, e-mail: alan.kreider@regents.ox.ac.uk).
A. BRADSHAW, Royal College of Nursing
Thur. 30 Apr.: `The virtue of nursing: the
covenant of care.'
C. TREVETT, Cardiff
Wed. 6 May: `Creating and using the
"heretical" woman: Firmilian's female
ecstatic.'
N. WOOD
Wed. 20 May: `Inculturating Christianity in
post-modern Britain.'
D. FRIESEN, Bethel College, Kansas
Wed. 27 May: `Artisans, citizens, philosophers:
singing God's song in a foreign land as a model for a
theology of culture.'
M. ELLIS, Harvard
Thur. 28 May, 4 p.m.: `Unholy alliance:
religion
and atrocity in our time.'
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Sandwiches and wine will be served after the lectures at a cost of £2.50 per person, for which bookings should be made in advance with Mrs P.M. Sturgis, Membership Secretary, Friends of the Bodleian, Bodleian Library, Oxford OX1 3BG (telephone: Oxford (2)77234).
R. CARR
29 Apr.: `The Brotherton Collection: "in
trust for the nation".'
C. FRANKLIN
13 May: `The Bowdlers and their family
Shakespeare.'
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Subject: `Rethinking university teaching post- Dearing.'
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J. DARBY, Director, Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning
(TALL), Department for Continuing Education, and R. MCINTYRE,
Information Manager, TALL
30 Apr.: Introduction and overview.
DR B. BARNETT, Vice-President, Paul G. Allen Virtual Educational
Foundation, Washington, USA
7 May: `Virtual learning.'
J. DARBY
14 May: `Continuing Education's Technology-
Assisted Lifelong Learning programme.'
N.S. GARDNER and DR M. NEWDICK, Department for Continuing
Education
21 May: `North American case studies.'
S. MURISON-BOWIE, Director, Interactive Learning, Oxford
University Press
28 May: `A publisher's perspective.'
R. MCINTYRE
11 June: `How to create an Internet course.'
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