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DR B. YORKE, King Alfred's College, Winchester
6 Nov.: `The secular context of early Anglo-
Saxon nunneries.'
PROFESSOR L. COLLEY, Yale
13 Nov.: `Going native, telling tales:
captivities and collaborations in an age of empire.'
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Further information may be obtained from Georgina Denn, Said Business School (telephone: Oxford (2)88654, e-mail: george.denn@obs.ox.ac.uk).
Subject: To be announced.
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Professor Oz will also give seminars at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 20 October, and Tuesday, 27 October, in Lecture Room 1, St Anne's College.
12 Oct.: `But what actually existed before the Big Bang?'
15 Oct.: `On the beginning of Effie Briest by Theodore Fontane.'
19 Oct.: `On the beginning of In the Prime of Her Life by S.Y. Agnon.'
22 Oct.: `On the beginning of The Nose by Nikolai Gogol.'
26 Oct.: `On the beginning of A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka.'
29 Oct.: `On the beginning of Rothschild's Fiddle by Anton Chekhov.'
2 Nov.: `On the beginning of The Autumn of the Patriarch by G. Garcia Marquez.'
5 Nov.: `On the beginning of Nobody Said Anything by Raymond Carver.'
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DR F. PIEKE
22 Oct.: `The overseas Chinese and the world
system; new configurations of an "old"
diaspora.'
DR M. STEWART, University College, London
29 Oct.: `Hungarians in Romania: from mother
tongue education to regional autonomy.'
DR S. PATTIE, University College, London
5 Nov.: `New homeland for an old diaspora? The
Armenian world in transition.'
DR G. PREVELAKIS, Institut de Géographie, Paris
12 Nov.: `Finis Graeciae or the
return of the Greeks? State diaspora in the context of
globalisation.'
R. SEGAL, writer
19 Nov.: `Globalisation and the black
diaspora.'
PROFESSOR A. ACTON, Greenwich
26 Nov.: `Globalisation, Romani communities,
and Gypsy politics.'
DR J. WEBBER
3 Dec.: `Transnationalism and the problem of
static models: some reflections on the Jewish case.'
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Convener: Dr Soraya Tremayne.
DR L.E. BELAUNDE, Durham
15 Oct.: `The responsibility of men: birth
spacing and the couple's love amongst the Airopai of
Amazonian Peru.'
DR B. WOLFF, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
22 Oct.: `Mixing qualitative and quantitative
methods in the study of couple decision-making on sex,
condoms, and contraceptive use in Uganda.'
DR H. MONTGOMERY
29 Oct.: `Adulthood, sexuality, and
prostitution among children in Thailand.'
R. MCKECHNIE, Bath Spa
5 Nov.: `Ageing, fertility, and
sexuality—personal meanings of menstrual losses.'
DR S. DAY, Goldsmiths' College, London
12 Nov.: `In/fertility among London sex
workers.'
K. HAWKINS, Swansea
19 Nov.: `From policy to local reality: social
context of reproductive health—a case study from
Bolivia.'
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Convener: K.E. Davies, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Genetics.
DR MICHAEL SOFRONIEW, Cambridge
16 Oct.: `Conditional ablation of astroglial
cells in adult transgenic mice reveals essential
neuroprotective and other functions in the bowel.'
PROFESSOR DENIS NOBLE
23 Oct.: `Genes as physiological prisoners.'
PROFESSOR ED SOUTHERN
30 Oct.: `Antisense oligonucleotides as gene
knockdown reagents.'
PROFESSOR STEVE OLIVER, UMIST
6 Oct.: `Systematic functional analysis of the
yeast genome.'
PROFESSOR JONATHAN F. ASHMORE, London
13 Nov.: `Hair cells and the molecular
mechanism of the ear's own hearing aid.'
PROFESSOR IAIN C.A.F. ROBINSON, National Centre for Medical
Research, London
20 Nov.: `Neuroendocrine transgenes: tall tales
from short tails.'
PROFESSOR DAVID J. PORTEOUS, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
27 Nov.: `Cystic fibrosis: from gene to
treatment—the paradigm and the problem.'
DR ELIZABETH JONES, Warwick
4 Dec.: `Molecular studies on the development
and specificaton of the pronephros, the larval excretory
organ in Xenopus.' (Jenkinson
Seminar)
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DR D.B. ROBERTS
15 Oct.: `Drosophila 1910–45:
from the principles of transmission genetics to the
beginnings of molecular biology.'
DR E.J.C. MELLOR
29 Oct.: `Fifty years of genes: from the
Neurospora revolution to the complete yeast genome
sequence.'
PROFESSOR J. ERRINGTON
12 Nov.: `Bacterial genetics: from Lederberg to
the whole genome sequence and beyond.'
DR G.K. BROWN
26 Nov.: `Human genetics and variation: from
Galton to the genome project.'
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DR M. VAN HEUVEL
4 Feb.: `Drosophila genetics: the
making of an egg.'
PROFESSOR R.L. GARDNER
18 Feb.: `Transgenesis in the study of mouse
development.'
DR J.A. LANGDALE
4 Mar.: `Plant developmental genetics: from
transposons to proteomes.'
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PROFESSOR C.J. LEAVER
13 May: `Transgenic plants: the next green
revolution?'
DR M. EDWARDS, Oxagen
27 May: `Biotechnology in medicine.'
PROFESSOR B.C. SYKES
10 June: `Genetics and medicine—the golden
age.'
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DR P. SALKOVSKI
16 Oct.: `Treatment of somatisation and
hypochondriasis.'
MISS L. HANDS
13 Nov.: `Carotid surgery—a surgeon's view.'
PROFESSOR C. WARLOW, Western General Hospital
11 Dec.: `Stroke-rational therapy.'
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D. DRAGUN, Max Delbruch Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin
6 Oct., 1 p.m.: `ICAM-1 antisense
oligonucleotides block ischaemic injury in long-term
surviving kidney allografts.'
K. CHANNON
13 Oct., 5 p.m.: `Gene transfer in vein graft
atherosclerosis.'
N. BORLEY
20 Oct., 5 p.m.: `Are there two types of
Crohn's disease?'
A. HANDA
27 Oct., 6 p.m.: `After aspirin? Anti-platelet
agents in peripheral vascular disease.'
T. COOK
3 Nov., 5 p.m: `Properties and pharmacology of
the anal sphincter.'
S. DEMEESTER, Johns Hopkins Fellow
10 Nov., 5 p.m.: `Mechanisms of cell death in
organ failure.'
P. GARSIDE, Glasgow
17 Nov., 1 p.m.: `Revealing T and B lymphocyte
interactions in vivo.'
S. ANDERTON, Bristol
24 Nov., 1 p.m.: `Peptide-inducing T cell
tolerance in autoimmunity.'
D. ADAMS, Birmingham
8 Dec., 1 p.m.: `Tissue specific signals that
regulate lymphocyte recruitment to the human liver.'
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DR C. MITCHELL
13 Oct.: `Treatment of paediatric
malignancies.'
DR P. MARTIN
20 Oct.: `Thromboelastography: reinventing the
wheel.'
DR O. SMITH, St James' Hospital, Dublin
27 Oct.: `Protein C activation pathway:
bridging the gap between inflammation and coagulation.'
DR P. COLLINS, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
3 Nov.: `Adhesion and haemostasis.'
PROFESSOR E. BENZ, Johns Hopkins
10 Nov.: `Management of sickle cell
disease.'
MR D.L. ECONOMIDES, Royal Free Hospital, London
17 Nov.: `Inherited bleeding disorders in
obstetrics and gynaecology.'
DR M. MURPHY, National Blood Service, Oxford Centre
24 Nov.: `Is blood transfusion safe?'
DR I. HANN, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
1 Dec.: `Results from recent UKALL trials.'
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Convener: A.J. Bron, MA, Clinical Professor and Margaret Ogilvie's Reader in Ophthalmology.
MR L. BENJAMIN, Stoke Mandeville Hospital
12 Oct.: `Early diabetic vitrectomy and field
survival.'
PROFESSOR J. MARSHALL, St Thomas's Hospital
19 Oct.: `Wound healing and corneal surgery.'
(Litchfield Lecture)
DR B. SHEPSTONE
26 Oct.: `Some direct and some indirect links
between ophthalmology and nuclear medicine.'
MR R. SMITH, Stoke Mandeville Hospital
2 Nov.: `New developments in
electroretinography.'
DR C. FINK, Birmingham
9 Nov.: `Molecular diagnostic techniques for
infection: a real advance for ophthalmologists?'
MR R. PACKARD, Prince Charles Eye Unit, Windsor
16 Nov.: `Dealing with broken capsules during
phakoemulsification.'
MR KANSKI, King Edward VIIth Hospital, Windsor
23 Nov.: `Uveitis in children.'
MR R. WELHAM, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading
30 Nov.: `Lacrimal surgery in children.'
MR A. RICHARDS, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading
7 Dec.: `Eye care resources in developing
countries.'
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Convener: J.M. Tiffany, MA, University Lecturer in Ophthalmological Biochemistry.
DR A. HILL
12 Oct.: `Colour vision.'
DR A. KOSMIN
19 Oct.: `Development of the human retina.'
J. MELENA
26 Oct.: `Intraocular pressure Part I: calcium
channel blockers.'
A. KING
2 Nov.: `The fate of some common metabolic
enzymes in the aged human lens.'
DR J. LAWRENSON, City University, London
9 Nov.: `Studies of brain and retinal
microvasculature.'
DR G. GEERLING, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London
16 Nov.: `Transplantation of the autologous
submandibular gland for most severe keratoconjunctivitis
sicca.'
HSIAO-MING CHAO
23 Nov.: `Clonidine: evidence for its being a
neuroprotective agent.'
G. CHIDLOW
30 Nov.: `Intraocular pressure Part II: serotonergic
drugs.'
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Convener: B.C.A. Morison, B.Phil., D.Phil., Junior Research Fellow in Ancient Philosophy, Corpus Christi College.
PROFESSOR T. SMILEY, Cambridge
14 Oct.: `Ideas of validity.'
T. REINHART
21 Oct.: `Rhetoric in the Fourth Academy.'
DR P. CRIVELLI, Edinburgh
28 Oct.: `Aristotle on contradiction and the
square of opposition.'
PROFESSOR C. CAREY, Royal Holloway College, London
4 Nov.: `Forensic fiction.'
PROFESSOR J. BARNES, Geneva
11 Nov.: `Genuflecting to Galen.'
DR S. BOBZIEN
18 Nov.: `Propositional logic and argument.'
DR K. IERODIAKONOU, Athens
25 Nov.: `Examples in ancient logic.'
DR C. ATHERTON
2 Dec.: `Chrysippus' logical questions.'
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Convener: R.G. Osborne, MA, Professor of Ancient History.
DR R. FLEMMING, Wellcome Institute
13 Oct.: `Gender, purity, and danger: medicine
and female pollution in the Roman world.'
DR T. MORGAN
20 Oct.: `The gnomic woman.'
DR R. SCHNEIDER, Cambridge
27 Oct.: `Laughing satyrs and Hellenistic
kings.'
DR J. DAVIDSON, Warwick
3 Nov.: `Dover, Foucault, and Greek
homosexuality.'
DR J. BLOK, Utrecht
10 Nov.: `Gender and the citizen.'
DR T. HARRISON, UCL
17 Nov.: `Persian dress and Greek freedom.'
PROFESSOR W. HARRIS, Columbia
24 Nov.: `The gender of anger.'
DR K. STEARS, Edinburgh
1 Dec.: `Women and textiles.'
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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 G.P. NASON, Bristol
15 Oct.: `Time-scale analysis.'
DR J. CUZICK, ICRF, London
22 Oct.: `Statistical problems in cancer
prevention and screening.'
PROFESSOR A.F. HEATH
29 Oct.: `Statistics for survey research.'
DR M.A. HURN, Bath
5 Nov.: `Identifying objects in microscope
slides.'
PROFESSOR R.L. SMITH, North Carolina
12 Nov.: `Predictive inference.'
DR D. FIRTH
19 Nov.: To be announced.
DR R.C. GRIFFITHS
26 Nov.: `Inference in ancestral stochastic
processes.'
DR J. STANDER, Plymouth
3 Dec .: `Markov chains for simulating from
Gaussian and non-Gaussian fields.'
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Conveners: C.H. Griffin, MA, D.Phil., Lecturer in Latin American Literature, and R.W. Truman, MA, D.Phil., Lecturer in Spanish.
PROFESSOR SIR RAYMOND CARR, FBA
13 Oct., public lecture, Room 3: `1898: before
and after.'
DR R.W. FIDDIAN
20 Oct.: `Valera, Unamuno, y
América.'
PROFESSOR L.P. HARVEY
3 Nov.: ``Terminación de la Guerra de
Filipinas', literatura de cordel in the service
of Sagasta.'
DR R.W. TRUMAN
10 Nov.: `Spain 1898, France 1870.'
DR S.G.H. ROBERTS, Nottingham
17 Nov.: `Unamuno and the restoration political
system.'
PROFESSOR J. BUTT, London
24 Nov., public lecture, Room 3: `Violence in
the poetry of Antonio Machado.'
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Conveners: R.R. Davies, MA, D.Phil., Chichele Professor of Medieval History, and J.R.L. Maddicott, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History.
BROCK HOLDEN
12 Oct.: `King John and the Marchers.'
DR CAROLINE BARRON, London
19 Oct.: `The gentrification of the London
merchant class, 1300–1500.'
DR STUART AIRLIE, Glasgow
26 Oct.: `Sticking to the script: actors,
rituals, and texts in Charlemagne's conquest of Bavaria.'
ALASTAIR DUNN
2 Nov.: ` "One king over all": the
English magnates and the tyranny of Richard II.'
PROFESSOR CHRIS GIVEN-WILSON, St Andrews
9 Nov.: `English chroniclers of the fourteenth
century.'
TOM FAIRBROTHER
16 Nov.: `The Thames Valley in the Wars of the
Roses.'
DR SIMON KEYNES, Cambridge
23 Nov.: `The cult of King Alfred the
Great.'
EMILY O'BRIEN
30 Nov.: `Sacred establishment and sacred
subversives: the saintly milieu of medieval England.'
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PROFESSOR P.K. O'BRIEN, Institute of Historical Research, London
16 Oct.: `Reflections on attempts to analyse
the costs and benefits of European empires,
1415–1974.'
DR AVNER OFFER
23 Oct.: `Costs and benefits, peace and war,
1870–1914.'
DR IAN BROWN, SOAS, London
30 Oct.: `Rural Burma in the economic crisis of
the early 1930s.'
DR IAN PHIMISTER
6 Nov.: `Speculations and share mania: Nigerian
tin-mining and the City of London, 1908–14.'
DR BERNARD ATTARD, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London
13 Nov.: `Market or empire? British settler
societies in the international economy before 1914.'
PROFESSOR B. ALFORD, Bristol
20 Nov.: `Imperial aspects of Anglo-American
economic relations in the twentieth century.'
PROFESSOR WILLIAM BEINART
27 Nov.: `Settlers and sheep in the Cape.'
PROFESSOR ROBIN LAW, Stirling
4 Dec.: `The ending of the slave trade and the
origins of imperialism: Britain and Dahomey in the
nineteenth century.'
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Conveners: D.A. Parrott, MA, D.Phil., and J.C. Robertson, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturers (CUF) in Modern History.
PROFESSOR T.C.W. BLANNING, Cambridge
16 Oct.: `The musical origins of the French
Revolution.'
DR C. PETERS
22 Oct.: `Lutheranism and locality: how
distinctive were the Saxons of Transylvania?'
THE REVD DR M.A. SCREECH
29 Oct.: `The religion of Rabelais: Lucien
Febvre and the problem of unbelief in the sixteenth
century.'
DR S.R. DITCHFIELD, York
5 Nov.: `In search of local knowledge:
rewriting early modern Italian religious history.'
R. IVES
12 Nov.: `The Gournay circle and the advent of
French political economy.'
P. WILLIAMS
19 Nov.: `Piracy and naval activity in the
western Mediterranean, 1589–1608.'
C. ALVAREZ DE TOLEDO
26 Nov.: `Archbishop Palafox, colonial society,
and the Spanish monarchy in the seventeenth century.'
A. MALCOLM, Manchester
3 Dec.: `Holding on to power: don Luis de Haro
and the management of political patronage in the Spanish
monarchy, 1643–51.'
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Conveners: T.C. Buchanan, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer in Modern History and Politics, and M.H. Conway, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History.
R. KEDWARD, Sussex
15 Oct.: `Resistance: a personality disorder?
The discourse of heroism.'
M. JONES, Cambridge
22 Oct.: ` "Gallant gentlemen all":
the public commemoration of Captain Scott's last
expedition.'
L. RIALL, Birkbeck College, London
29 Oct.: `Garibaldi and the power of
personality in the Risorgimento.'
D. LOWRY, Oxford Brookes
5 Nov.: `Heroes of liberty: European admiration
for the Boers in the South African War.'
O. LOGAN, East Anglia
12 Nov.: `Papal cult in Italy,
c.1860–1958.'
A. SCHWARZENBACH, Zurich
19 Nov.: `Dreaming the queen: the sudden death
and cult of Queen Astrid of the Belgians (1905–35).'
P. LANFRANCHI, De Montfort University
26 Nov.: `Mekhloufi, Minoun, and El Ouafi: the
difficulty of being a French sporting hero.'
S. GUNDLE, Royal Holloway College
3 Dec.: `Glamour and modern celebrity.'
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Conveners: J.S. Foreman-Peck, MA, University Lecturer in Economic History, C.H. Feinstein, MA, Chichele Professor of Economic History, and A. Offer, MA, D.Phil., Reader in Recent Social and Economic History.
DR OFFER
14 Oct.: `The two epidemics of affluence: over-
eating and dieting in the USA and Britain since 1945.'
SIMON SZRETER, Cambridge
21 Oct.: `The perverse relationship between
economic growth and health: evidence for the importance of
social capital?'
LYNDEN MOORE
28 Oct.: `Britain's transformation from a
manufacturing to a service economy—the contribution of
trade agreements and North Sea oil.'
SIMON SMITH, York
4 Nov.: `The early diffusion of coffee drinking
in England.'
GEORGE SPEIGHT
11 Nov.: `Re-interpreting the building boom,
1933–5: an analysis of building society behaviour.'
DAVID J. JEREMY, Manchester Metropolitan
18 Nov.: `Business leaders and board-room
cultures in the north-west of England, 1900–1980s.'
LEIGH SHAW-TAYLOR, Cambridge
25 Nov.: `Did agricultural labourers have
common rights?'
SUSANNAH MORRIS
2 Dec.: `The fallacy of philanthropy? Model
dwellings companies and the five per cent return.'
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Fri. 16 Oct., 6 p.m., Holywell Music Room: MORTON SUBOTNICK.
Sat. 17 Oct., 6 p.m., Denis Arnold Hall, Music Faculty: JOAN LA BARBARA.
Wed. 4 Nov., 5 p.m., Denis Arnold Hall: JUDITH WEIR.
Mon. 16 Nov., 5 p.m., Holywell Music Room: BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH.
Wed. 25 Nov., 4.30 p.m., Holywell Music Room: ALLA SIRENKO.
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Conveners: J.S. Meisami, MA, University Lecturer in Persian, and W.L. Treadwell, MA, Samir Shamma Lecturer in Islamic Numismatics.
DR A. NYMARK, Berlin
13 Oct.: `City life on the Silk Road: the case
of Sogdiana.'
DR TREADWELL
20 Oct.: `Images of Iranian kingship: royal
medallions from the Buyid and Samanid courts.'
PROFESSOR Y. MICHOT
27 Oct.: `Islam's planet: Venus or Jupiter? Ibn
Taymiyya on astrology.'
PROFESSOR R. BULLIET, Columbia
3 Nov.: To be announced.
PROFESSOR B. LAWRENCE, Duke University
10 Nov.: `Revisiting the Ternary Myth: does the
classical–medieval–modern periodisation fit the
evidence of South Asian Sufism?'
DR F.M. CORRAO, Naples
24 Nov.: To be announced.
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Conveners: S.P. Brock, MA, D.Phil., Reader in Syriac Studies, and K.T. Ware, MA, D.Phil., Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Orthodox Studies.
DR BROCK
21 Oct.: `Holy Spirit, or wind? St Basil's
Syrian, St Ephrem and the disputed interpretation of Gen.
1:2.'
PROFESSOR R.W. THOMSON
4 Nov.: `Secular and ecclesiastical law in the
Code of Mekhitar Gosh.'
M. PLESTED
18 Nov.: `What use did Diadochus of Photice
make of the Macarian writings?'
DR WARE
2 Dec.: `Philip Sherrard: Greece, Orthodoxy,
and sacred tradition.'
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Convener: J.C. Ellory, MA, D.Sc., Professor of Physiology.
DR T.D. GRIFFITHS, Newcastle
14 Oct.: `Spatial and temporal sound processing
in humans. Cognitive neurology and imaging.'
(McDonnell-Pew Centre Seminar)
PROFESSOR OLE H. PETERSEN, Liverpool
21 Oct.: `Calcium signalling mechanisms
explored from the inside of cells using the patch clamp
technique.' (Seminar sponsored by the Physiological
Society)
DR JULIAN PATON, Bristol
28 Oct.: `Differential peptidergic modulation
of cardiorespiratory reflexes in the solitary tract
nucleus.' (Seminar sponsored by the Physiological
Society)
DR LEON LAGNADO, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
4 Nov.: `Exocytosis and endocytosis at the
synaptic terminal of a retinal neuron.' (Jenkinson
Seminar)
DR STEVE WATSON
11 Nov.: `Regulation of phospholipases Cgamma2
by collagen in platelets and megakaryocytes: role of PI 3
kinase.' (Seminar sponsored by the Physiological
Societyc)
PROFESSOR S.J. REDMAN, Canberra
18 Nov.: `Quantal analysis and plasticity.'
(McDonnell-Pew Centre Seminar)
DR DANIEL WOLPERT
25 Nov.: `The role of signal-dependent neuronal
noise in motor planning.' (McDonnell-Pew Centre
Seminar)
PROFESSOR THOMAS JENTSCH, Hamburg
2 Dec.: To be announced. (Seminar
sponsored by the Physiological Society)
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Conveners: Sir John Coles, MA, Dr A. Hurrell, MA, M.Phil., D.Phil., Professor R. O'Neill, MA, D.Phil., and Professor A. Roberts, MA.
DR M. KALDOR, Sussex
16 Oct.: `New and old wars.'
PROFESSOR N. MYERS
23 Oct.: `Environment and security.'
DR J. PILAT, International Institute for Strategic Studies,
London
30 Oct.: `Emerging terrorist threats:
continuity and change.'
DR F. VARESE
6 Nov.: `Crime and mafias.'
PROFESSOR Y. EVRON, Tel Aviv, and PROFESSOR O'NEILL
13 Nov.: `Proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction.'
DR J. CHIPMAN, IISS, London
20 Nov.: `The security implications of economic
crises.'
PROFESSOR L. FREEDMAN, King's College, London
27 Nov.: `War in the information age.'
THE CONVENERS
4 Dec.: Conclusions.
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14 Oct.: `The nature of the American presidency: some perspectives.'
21 Oct.: `Historical development of the American presidency.'
28 Oct.: `All presidents are not created equal. Some are not created at all.'
4 Nov.: `The president, the public, and the press.'
11 Nov.: `Creating a White House.'
18 Nov.: `Mandates, agendas, and working with Congress.'
25 Nov.: `The Clinton presidency: risk, restoration, and re-election.'
2 Dec.: `The presidency in the twenty-first century.'
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Conveners: C.O. Jones, Olin Professor of American Government, and B.E. Shafer, Mellon Professor of American Government.
PROFESSOR JONES
20 Oct.: `Passages to the presidency: from
campaigning to governing.'
DR N.P. BOWLES
3 Nov.: `The politics of Congressional conflict in
the Nixon presidency.'
PROFESSOR A. BRINKLEY
17 Nov.: `Henry Luce and the missionary impulse in
American politics.'
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Details of the 25 November meeting will be announced later.
Conveners: K.T. Ware, MA, D.Phil., Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Orthodox Studies, and S.P. Brock, MA, D.Phil., Reader in Syriac Studies.
DR S. GILLINGHAM
21 Oct.: `In and out of the Garden: historical
and literary approaches.'
DR WARE
28 Oct.: `The Greek Fathers.'
DR BROCK
4 Nov.: `The Syriac Fathers.'
DR E.J. YARNOLD, SJ
11 Nov.: `The Latin Fathers.'
W.P. ROBINSON
18 Nov.: `Contemporary understandings of
Genesis 3 as a creation myth.'
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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 JAMES PISCATORI
20 Oct.: `Religion in the study of
politics.'
DR JAMES COX
17 Nov.: `Methodological innovation and the
study of religions.'
PROFESSOR WENDY JAMES
1 Dec.: `Questions old and new in the
anthropology of religion.'
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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.
Subject: `Philosophy and the study of religions.'
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PROFESSOR JOHN MARSHALL
15 Oct.: `Neuroscience: brains or people?'
PROFESSOR WILLIAM CARROLL, Iowa
29 Oct.: `Soul and science: Thomistic biology,
an antidote to reductionism.'
DR MARY MIDGELY, Newcastle
12 Nov.: `Being scientific about our
selves.'
DR ARTHUR PEACOCKE AND DR MARGARET YEE
26 Nov.: `Can God communicate with brains-in-
bodies?'
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Conveners: Dr Ros Ballaster, Dr Marilyn Butler, Dr Faramerz Dabhoiwala, Dr Christine Gerrard, Dr Thomas Keymer, Professor Roger Lonsdale, Dr James Raven, and Dr Isabel Rivers.
DR V. RUMBOLD, Birmingham
19 Oct.: `Cut the caterwauling: silencing women
in Pope's Dunciads.'
DR A. MCDERMOTT, Birmingham
2 Nov.: `Is feminist criticism of the
eighteenth century sexist?'
DR N. PHILLOPSON, Edinburgh
16 Nov.: `History and historicism in Adam
Smith's science of man.'
PROFESSOR M.A. STEWART, Lancaster
30 Nov.: `Francis Hutcheson and his circle:
rational dissent in eighteenth-century Ireland.'
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Convener: H.F. Hamerow, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer in European Archaeology (Early Medieval).
S. MARZINIK
21 Oct.: `Anglo-Saxon belt sets?'
C. BEHR
28 Oct.: `Material evidence for the Kentish
kingdom.'
C. HAITH
18 Nov.: `Analysis of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery
at Dover-Buckland.'
J. MUNBY
2 Dec.: `Excavations at Mayenne.'
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Enquiries should be directed to Elaine Durham, Said Business School, 59 George Street, Oxford OX1 2BE (telephone: Oxford (2)88650, e-mail: elaine.durham@sbs.ox.ac.uk).
Conveners: Alexander Ljungqvist (Said Business School), Hyun Shin (Economics), and Paul Wilmott (Mathematics).
O. SUSSMAN and J. FRANKS, London Business School
16 Oct.: `Innovation, evolution, and the law of
corporate insolvency.'
S. HODGES, Warwick Business School
23 Oct., 3 p.m.: `A generalisation of the
Sharpe ratio and its application to valuation bounds and
risk measure.'
X. FREIXAS, Bank of England
30 Oct.: `A dilution cost approach to financial
intermediation and securities markets.'
D. MILES, Imperial College
6 Nov: `Pensions reform in the UK and Germany:
winners and losers across generations.'
M. DEMPSTER, Cambridge
13 Nov.: `Fast pricing of exotic options.'
S. THOMPSON, Nottingham
20 Nov.: To be announced.
C. RAPOSO
27 Nov.: `Strategic hedging and investment
efficiency.'
S. TAYLOR, Lancaster
4 Dec.: `Markov processes and the distribution
of volatility: a comparison of discrete and continuous
specifications.'
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Conveners: E.M. Jeffreys, B.Litt., MA, Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, and M.C.M. Mango, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer in Byzantine Archaeology and Art.
PROFESSOR A. LIDOV, Moscow
13 Oct.: `The miracle-working icons of Leo the
Wise.'
DR P. MAGDALINO, St Andrews
20 Oct.: `Astronomy and orthodoxy in early
medieval Byzantium.'
PROFESSOR JEFFREYS
27 Oct.: `Malalas, Procopius, and Justinian's
buildings.'
DR MANGO
3 Nov.: `Inscriptions and Justinian's
buildings.'
N. WILSON
10 Nov.: `The Archimedes palimpsest from the
metochion of the Holy Sepulchre in Istanbul.'
PROFESSOR R. BEATON, London
17 Nov.: `Towards a reading of the Byzantine
novel.'
PROFESSOR O. BADDLEY and DR N. PICKWOAD, Camberwell, London
24 Nov.: `Conserving the manuscripts and books
of the library of the monastery of St Catherine, Sinai.'
P. SARRIS
1 Dec.: `The end of Byzantine rule in Egypt and
the survival of the Egyptian aristocracy.'
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Subject: `Computer systems research: past and future.'
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Conveners: J.D.P. Donnelly and J. Scott (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory).
DR A.R. KROMMER, NAG Ltd.
15 Oct., 2 p.m., RAL: `Parallel sparse matrix
computations in the PINEAPLE Library.'
PROFESSOR L.N. TREFETHEN
22 Oct.: `Numerical conformal mapping and the
Schwarz–Christoffel Toolbox.'
DR K. MEERBERGEN, RAL
29 Oct.: `The implicitly filtered rational
Krylov method for the solution of large sparse eigenvalue
problems.'
PROFESSOR P. SAYLOR, Illinois
5 Nov.: `How the scattering amplitude yields a
comparison between conjugate gradient error estimates.'
PROFESSOR G. GOLUB, Stanford
12 Nov.: `Reconstruction of a polygon from its
moments.'
DR T. WARBURTON, Brown University
19 Nov.: `Spectra/hp methods on mixed element
unstructured meshes.'
DR P.K. STRATHCLYDE, RAL
26 Nov., 2 p.m., RAL: `k-SAT and Markov
chains.'
PROFESSOR D. DRITSCHEL, St Andrews
3 Dec.: `The contour-advective semi-Lagrangian
algorithm: a marriage between Euler and Langrange.'
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Conveners: M.R. Airs, MA, D.Phil., Reader in Conservation and the Historic Environment, and G. Tyack, MA, M.Litt., Fellow of Kellogg College and Director, Stanford University in Oxford.
DR AIRS
19 Oct.: `Lord Burghley's Theobalds
revisited.'
N. HISCOCK, Oxford Brookes
30 Nov.: `The wise master builder: Platonic
geometry in medieval abbeys and cathedrals.'
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Convener: A.J. Ashworth, DCL, Vinerian Professor of Law.
PROFESSOR B. HUDSON, Northumbria
21 Oct.: `Risks, rights, and guarantees: some
dilemmas of justice and difference.'
PROFESSOR M. MCCONVILLE, Warwick
4 Nov.: `Black defendants in the criminal
justice process.'
DR J. PEAY, LSE
18 Nov.: `Mentally disordered offenders: recent
developments in policy and practice.'
PROFESSOR N. LACEY, LSE
2 Dec.: `Penal practices and political theory:
an agenda for dialogue.'
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AMOS OZ, Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of Comparative European
Literature, and DR N. DE LANGE, Cambridge
14 Oct.: Readings in Hebrew and English from
the novels of Amos Oz.
SIR MARTIN GILBERT, CBE
21 Oct.: `Is there a specific Jewish
contribution to the twentieth century?' (Inaugural
lecture: David Patterson Lecture Series)
DR N. SOLOMON
28 Oct.: Book launch: Historical
Dictionary of Jewish Religion (Scarecrow Press).
RABBI DR ALBERT H. FRIEDLANDER, Leo Baeck College
4 Nov.: `Leo Baeck in retrospect.' (David
Patterson Lecture Series)
DR A. KUSHNER, Southampton
11 Nov.: `Asylum and refugees in the twentieth
century.' (David Patterson Lecture Series)
DR G. ABRAMSON
18 Nov.: Book
launch: Drama and
Ideology in Modern
Israel
(Cambridge University
Press).
PROFESOR A. RAPPOPORT-ALBERT, University College, London
25 Nov.: `Why did women play no part in Jewish
mystical tradition?' (David Patterson Lecture
Series)
PROFESSOR Z. GITELMAN, Michigan
2 Dec.: `Conceptions of Jewishness among
contemporary Russian and Ukrainian Jews.' (David
Patterson Lecture Series)
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For details of this term's film-showings at the Maison Française, see `Notices' above.
K. GORE
20 Oct.: `L'actualité du theâtre
de Sartre, 1943–98.'
PROFESSOR P. RILEY, Harvard
Mon. 26 Oct.: `Leibniz's Lettre sur
l'éducation d'un prince: a commentary.'
PROFESSOR J.-P. SARRAZAC, Paris III
3 Nov.: `Comment écrivent les auteurs de
thêatre en France aujourd'hui?'
D. BRADBY, Royal Holloway College
10 Nov.: `News from the front: five new French
playwrights.'
A. RAITT
17 Nov.: `Flaubert et le thêatre.'
A. VIALA
24 Nov.: `Les Dom Juan et la modernité.'
H. PHILLIPS, Manchester
1 Dec.: `Autour de Racine et du thêatre
classique: nouvelles perspectives.'
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Sat. 24 Oct., 10 a.m.–5 p.m.: `Which Napoleon?' (day-school).
Fri. 30 Oct.–Sat. 31 Oct.: international colloquium, `Action collective et intégration européenne' (programme: `Culture et sociétés: comportements politiques').
Mon. 2 Nov., 8.15 p.m: `Connaissance du Périgord—présentation et dégustation' (with Jean Roux, Etienne Roux, Jonathan Hill, and Professor Denis Noble).
Sat. 7 Nov.: `Les enjeux de la parité aujourd'hui' (Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France).
Sat. 7 Nov., St Hugh's College, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.: `Text and context: vernacular, dialect, standard language, and the stage' (Translation Research in Oxford).
Fri. 27 Nov.–Sun. 29 Nov., Faculty of Music, European Science Foundation, Wadham College, and Maison Française (first session in Holywell Music Room, 9.30 a.m.): `European Baroque opera: institutions and ceremonies.'
Sat. 28 Nov., 9 a.m.–5 p.m.: `Au commencement était le verbe: the morphology, syntax, and semantics of the French verb' (Society for French Studies).
Sat. 5 Dec.–Sun. 6 Dec.: journée d'étude franco-brittanique, `Slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.'
Sat. 12 Dec., 10 a.m.–5 p.m.: `Durkheim, Durkheimians, and the arts at the turn of the nineteenth century' (British Centre for Durkheimian Studies).
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Conveners: Professor Barbara Harriss-White and Dr Nandini Gooptu.
NAILA KABEER, Sussex
15 Oct.: `Can't buy me love? Gender, credit,
and empowerment in rural Bangladesh.'
ROBERT ANDERSON, Cambridge
22 Oct.: `Nucleus and nation: scientists and
power in India.'
APURBA KUNDU, Bradford
29 Oct.: `Never a coup: civil–military
relations in India.'
CRAIG JEFFREY, Cambridge
5 Nov.: `Money grows on family trees: class,
genealogy, and the local state in north-west India.'
K. SRINIVASULU, Osmania University, Hyderabad
12 Nov.: `Liberalisation and artisanal
communities: the case of hand-loom weavers in Andhra
Pradesh.'
CAREY WATT, Cambridge
19 Nov.: `Ephebic patriots or seditious sevaks:
the Boy Scouts and the development of social service and
civil society in early twentieth-century India.'
SULAGNA ROY, Cambridge
26 Nov.: `Debates on Hindu–Muslim
relations and "communalism" in the Bengali Muslim
press, c.1930–47.'
G. OMKARNATH, CDS, Kerala
3 Dec.: `Wages in the agrarian economy.'
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Conveners: Sanjaya Lall, Queen Elizabeth House, Jenny Corbett, Nissan Centre, and Frances Stewart, Director, Queen Elizabeth House.
J. CORBETT and D. VINES
15 Oct.: `The East Asian crisis: an
overview.'
A. ADDISON, UN University WIDER
22 Oct.: `Post-conflict reconstruction.'
V. FITZGERALD
29 Oct.: `The Asian crisis: global volatility
or unsound domestic policy?'
F. STEWART
5 Nov.: `Adjustment and poverty in Asia: old
problems and new solutions.'
C. FREEMAN, Sussex
12 Nov.: `A Schumpeterian interpretation of the
East Asian crisis.'
HA JOON CHANG, Cambridge
19 Nov.: `Korea: the misunderstood crisis.'
J. EATWELL, Cambridge
26 Nov.: `Proposals for reform of the
international financial system.'
A. BHATTACHARYA, World Bank
3 Dec.: `Policy implications of the East Asian
crisis: a World Bank perspective.'
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Further information is available from Dominique Attala, Refugee Studies Programme, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LA (telephone: Oxford (2)70722, fax: (2)70721, e-mail: rsp@qeh.ox.ac.uk, Internet: http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/rsp/).
E. LESTER, Jesuit Refugee Service
14 Oct.: `The plight of urban refugees
today.'
DR W. BOSSWICK, Bamberg
21 Oct.: `Asylum in Germany.'
S. SEN, LSE
28 Oct.: `Waiting to return home: the refugees
of South Asia.'
PROFESSOR G. GILBERT, Essex
4 Nov.: `The Northern Ireland Peace Agreement:
minority rights and self-determination.'
DR R. HANSEN
18 Nov.: `Britain, citizenship, and
immigration.'
PROFESSOR J.G. GALATY, McGill University, Montreal
25 Nov.: `Pastoralists and forced
migration.'
D. DE JONG, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands
2 Dec.: `European immigration and asylum
policy.'
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Subject: `The drinker of the devil's dregs.'
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Further information may be obtained from the Administrator, OCEES, Mansfield College, Oxford OX1 3TF (telephone and fax: Oxford (2)70886, e-mail: ocees@mansf.ox.ac.uk).
J. MURPHY
13 Oct.: `Integrating environment and economy
through ecological modernisation: an assessment of the
impact of environmental policy on industrial innovation.'
C. HAMBLER
20 Oct.: `Is sustainability an illusion?'
D. PEPPER, Oxford Brookes
27 Oct.: `Ecological modernisation versus the
"ideal model" of sustainable development: which is
appropriate for the European periphery?'
R. LÖFSTEADT, Surrey
3 Nov.: `The social dimension of risk
management.'
S. SHACKLEY, UMIST, and E. DARIER, Lancaster
10 Nov.: `Climate encounters: focus group
discussions on climate change and its relation to local
environmental issues in the north-west of England.'
W. BECKERMAN
17 Nov.: `Intergenerational justice and the
environment.'
C. PALMER, Stirling
24 Nov.: `Foucault, power, and animals.'
J. PAAVOLA
1 Dec.: `Environmental problems and policy: an
institutional approach.'
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Convener: W. Beinart, MA, Rhodes Professor of Race Relations.
M. MALOWANY
15 Oct.: `Researching malaria in Africa:
materials from the past, challenges for the future.'
F. NYAMNJOH, Buea (Cameroon), and Leiden
22 Oct.: `Newspaper cartoons and politics in
Cameroon.'
Y. HASHIM
29 Oct.: `Trade unions and democracy in
Nigeria.'
I. HOFMEYR, Witwatersrand and the Institute of Commonwealth
Studies, London
5 Nov.: `The holy war in the Congo: Bunyan, the
Baptists, and Bakongo prophets.'
R. PACKARD, Emory University, Atlanta
Tue. 10 Nov., Wellcome Unit (45 Banbury Road), 1
p.m.: `Malaria and economic change in South Africa.'
(Jointly with the Wellcome Unit for the History of
Medicine)
R. RATHBONE, SOAS
12 Nov.: `National politics in the Ghanaian
countryside: the CPP and the chiefs.'
D. JOHNSON, James Currey Publishers
19 Nov.: `Linking independence with war:
origins and continuity in the Sudanese civil war.'
W. DOOLING, SOAS
26 Nov.: `Economic crisis and the making of a
bourgeois state in the nineteenth-century Cape Colony.'
R. LAW, Stirling
3 Dec.: `Commemoration of the slave trade in
contemporary West Africa.'
DAY WORKSHOP
Sat. 28 Nov., St Antony's, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.:
`Researching Africa: methods and reflections.'
(Further details from: david.mills@qeh.ox.ac.uk, or
jessica.schafer@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk)
CONFERENCE
5–6 Dec: Franco-British conference on
slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries
(details from Dr Cecile Fabre, Maison
Française, Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE).
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Convener: A.J. Nicholls, B.Phil., MA, Special (non- CUF) Lecturer in Modern History.
Subject: `Alchemist of war.'
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Conveners: A.J. Nicholls, B.Phil., MA, Special (non- CUF) Lecturer in Modern History, and H.J.O. Pogge von Strandmann, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Modern History.
PROFESSOR POGGE VON STRANDMANN
12 Oct.: `The German Revolution, 1848–50:
the case of Mecklenburg.'
DR S. FREITAG, German Historical Institute, London
19 Oct.: `The revolutionary Friedrich Hecker,
1848–9.'
PROFESSOR H. MOMMSEN, Bochum
26 Oct.: `German military resistance and
Hitler's racial war of annihilation against the Soviet
Union.'
Z. SHORE
2 Nov.: `Hitler, intelligence, and the decision
to remilitarise the Rhineland, 1936.'
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Conveners: Anne Deighton, Wolfson College, and Graham Avery, Brussels.
J. TRUSZCZYNSKI, Ambassador of Poland to the European Union
23 Oct.: `Poland.'
M. LEIGH, European Commission negotiator with the Czech
Republic.'
30 Oct.: `Czech Republic.'
F. NORDMANN, Ambassador of Switzerland to the United Kingdom
6 Nov.: `Switzerland.'
C. LONG, HM Ambassador to Hungary, 1995–8
13 Nov.: `Hungary.'
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Convener: Sir Marrack Goulding, MA, Warden, St Antony's College.
Subject: `Norway's relationship with the European Union.'
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Convener: R.R.M. Clogg, MA, Senior Research Fellow, St Antony's College.
MR CLOGG
13 Oct.: ` "Our Christian Brethren in the
East": the Turkish-speaking Greeks of Asia Minor.'
DR G. KAZAMIAS, Bradford
20 Oct.: `The Western Allies and the Greek
famine, 1941–4.'
DR P. CARABOTT, King's College, London
27 Oct.: `Minorities and the State: the Slavo-
Macedonians in inter-war Greece.'
I. ROBERTS, formerly HM Ambassador, Belgrade
17 Nov.: `Why Yugoslavia died.'
24 Nov.: `The long spoon—diplomatic life
in Belgrade, 1994–7.'
DR M. ATTALIDES, High Commissioner for Cyprus
1 Dec.: `Cyprus on the road to EU accession.'
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The first lecture will be `The future of broadcasting', a conversation between SIR JOHN BIRT and MELVYN BRAGG. The audience will then be invited to participate.
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M. LOVE, Bristol
14 Oct.: `A spin on cynicism.'
THE RT. REVD RICHARD HARRIES, Bishop of Oxford
21 Oct.: `Religion and the media.'
T. DEAN, Commissioning Editor, BBC World Service
28 Oct.: `Truth in the global interest.'
DR N. SUMMERTON, Director, Oxford Centre for the Environment,
Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College
4 Nov.: `The media in the public interest.'
PROFESSOR C. CHRISTIANS, Illinois
11 Nov.: `Media technology and moral
literacy.'
DR C. ST LOUIS, Senior Producer, BBC Radio
18 Nov.: `Truth and race in the media.'
SR LAVINIA BYRNE, IBVM, Cambridge
25 Nov.: `The potential of the Internet.'
DR J. MITCHELL, Edinburgh
2 Dec.: `The truth is out there: decoding
popular television theologically.'
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F. WARNER
15 Oct.: `C.S. Lewis and the Psalms.'
DR P. MCCULOUGH
22 Oct.: `Lewis's Spenser.'
PROFESSOR J. BARTON
29 Oct.: `The past is another country: C.S.
Lewis and cultural relativism.'
R. TRICKETT
5 Nov.: `C.S. Lewis in retrospect.'
DR S. LOGAN, Cambridge
12 Nov.: `Shadowlife: Lewis and biography.'
THE RT REVD KALLISTOS WARE
19 Nov.: `Images of hell and heaven in C.S.
Lewis and in the Christian East.'
N. DUNBAR
26 Nov.: `C.S. Lewis as a classical
scholar.'
THE REVD DR IAN KER
3 Dec.: `Newman on C.S. Lewis's Mere
Christianity.'
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Subject: `Nuremberg Books: illustrated registers of retired craftsmen who entered two charitable almshouses during the late fourteenth century.'
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Subject: `Singing flames that break jet engines and power stations.'
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Further information is available from Ms Carolyn Evans, Exeter College, Oxford OX1 3DP (telephone: Oxford (2)79617, e-mail: carolyn.evans@exeter.ox.ac.uk), or Dr Michael Byers, Jesus College, Oxford OX1 3DW (telephone: Oxford (2)79680, e-mail: michael.byers@jesus.ox.ac.uk).
PROFESSOR M. SHAW, Leicester
21 Oct.: `The expanding scope of self-defence in
international law.'
PROFESSOR J.G. MERRILLS, Sheffield
4 Nov.: `International boundary disputes in
theory and practice.'
H.E. JUDGE ROSALYN HIGGINS, DBE, QC
18 Nov.: `Recent developments at the
International Court of Justice.'
SIR ELIHU LAUTERPACHT, CBE, QC
2 Dec.: `International claims today: the United
Nations Compensation Commission.'
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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).
MRS M. CLAPINSON
Wed. 28 Oct.: `Beetles, beams, and buttresses:
500 years of maintaining the Old Library.'
DR G. WALKER
Wed. 11 Nov.: `The Captain's Russian bell: a
village mystery.'
PROFESSOR J. BRIGGS
Mon. 30 Nov.: ` "Teaching the young
idea": children's books and education in the first half
of the eighteenth century.'
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Tue. 29 Sept.: Il nuovo cinema paradiso, Kellogg College, Rewley House Theatre (7.45 for 8 p.m.)
MR DENIS MACK SMITH
Mon. 26 Oct.: `Italy in 1998: has anything
changed?' (Dorothy Rowe Lecture, 5 p.m., Examination
Schools)
PROFESSOR FRANCIS HASKELL
Tues. 27 Oct.: `Most gratifying disorders: the
destruction of Pompei and its revival in European culture'.
(7.45 for 8 p.m., St Anne's College; admission £1
for TOIA members, £2 for non-members)
DR DIEGO ZANCANI
Wed. 11 Nov.: `The organisation of banquets in
Renaissance Ferrara, 1470–1550.' (7.45 for 8
p.m., St Anne's College; admission £1 for TOIA members,
£2 for non-members)
PROFESSOR JOHN WOODHOUSE
Tues. 17 Nov.:` The lion of Venice.'
(7.45 for 8 p.m., St Anne's College; admission £1
for TOIA members, £2 for non-members. Any profits to
Venice in Peril Fund)
MR MICHAEL LOWE
Sun. 6 Dec.: `The lute in Italy: sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.' (8 p.m., Holywell Music Room;
admission £1 for TOIA members, £2 for non-members.
The lecture will include a short recital)
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