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Subject: `Firm control.'
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Subject: `Theatre.'
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22 Jan. : `Use and delight: continuity and change in attitude to nature.'
29 Jan. : `Woods of imagination and reality.'
5 Feb. : `Making and using the soil.'
12 Feb. : `Commanding the waters.'
19 Feb. : `The fragile hill.'
26 Feb. : `The quarrel over the countryside.'
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21 Jan. : `Trends.'
28 Jan. : `Peers.'
4 Feb. : `Patriarchs.'
11 Feb. : `Councils.'
18 Feb. : `Rites.'
25 Feb. : `End-times.'
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20 Jan.: `Extreme experiences and religious
cognitions.'
27 Jan.: ` "Moments of creation"---1: the bodily idioms of cosmology.'
3 Feb.: ` "Moments of creation"---2: some generalities in the religious embodiment of women prophets and divine innovators.'
10 Feb.: `In partial defence of Euhemerus.'
17 Feb.: `Therapeutics of the divine: healing as a characteristic religious idiom.'
24 Feb.: `Healing and restitution as mutual transformation.'
3 Mar.: `Satan and the computer: the European revival of spirit possession.'
10 Mar.: `Naturalistic and personalistic modes of thought.'
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20 Jan.: `Out of the Swiss lakes.'
27 Jan.: `The newest profession.'
3 Feb.: `Sacred theorems.'
10 Feb.: `Façades that grow.'
17 Feb.: `Architecture for the family.'
24 Feb.: `Wisdom builds herself a house.'
3 Mar.: `Piazza Navona and dynastic urbanism.'
10 Mar.: `The last things and afterlife.'
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Details of the final lecture in the series (2 March) will be announced later.
DR A. RYAN
26 Jan.: `No more than two cheers for
democracy?'
DR L. SIEDENTOP
2 Feb.: to be announced.
PROFESSOR L. MENAND, City University, New York
9 Feb.: to be announced.
PROFESSOR G. KATEB, Princeton
16 Feb.: `Wildness and conscience: Thoreau and
Emerson.'
PROFESSOR R. SCRUTON, Birkbeck College, London
23 Feb.: `Democracy is not enough.'
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23 Feb.: `Beveridge.'
25 Feb.: `Pilkington.'
2 Mar.: `Annan.'
4 Mar.: `Hunt.'
9 Mar.: `Peacock.'
11 Mar.: `The politics of digital.'
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Convener: Dr Soraya Tremayne.
DR A. COLES
18 Jan.: `Anthropologists' contribution to
reproductive health programmes: donor perspectives.'
DR K. HAMPSHIRE, Durham
25 Jan.: `Population mobility and regulation of
fertility among the Fulani of northern Burkina
Faso.' (Provisional title)
DR D. MARTIN
1 Feb.: `Chinese birth practices in Hong Kong.'
DR J. ENNEW, Cambridge
8 Feb.: `Early marriage and early pregnancy in
the context of children's rights: some Tanzanian data.'
DR M. COLLUMBIEN, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
15 Feb.: `A study of male sexual health and
behaviour in Orissa, India.'
DR L. RIVAL, Kent
22 Feb.: `Sexual identity, making love, and
having babies in cross-cultural perspective: case studies
from Amazonia, the Caribbean, and Euro-America.'
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M. O'HANLON
22 Jan.: ` "Mostly harmless"?:
"man-catchers" and the colonial imagination in
British New Guinea.'
M. ROWLANDS, UCL
29 Jan.: `Architectural bodies and motion in
Grassfields material culture.'
P. SPYER, Amsterdam
5 Feb.: `The cassowary will (not) be
photographed: "The Primitive", "the
Japanese", and the elusive "Sacred" (Aru,
eastern Indonesia')
W. REA, Goldsmiths' College, London
12 Feb.: ` "Dodging the deity": Ekiti
Yoruba masquerades in view.'
C. PINNEY, UCL
19 Feb.: `Corpothetics in central India: the
somatic solidarities of Hindu chronolithographs.'
P. HARVEY, Manchester
26 Feb.: `Why "smart objects" need
narratives: the transformation of objects in new museum
databases.'
A. HORNBORG, Lund, Sweden
5 Mar.: `Animism, fetishism, and machines.'
S. COLEMAN, Durham
12 Mar.: `Persons as objects and objects as
agents among Protestant evangelicals.'
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Convener: L.N. Johnson, MA, David Phillips Professor of Molecular Biophysics.
DR P. TIELMAN, Groningen
22 Jan.: `Computer simulations of membrane
proteins: molecular dynamics of lipid bilayers and OmpF
porin.'
PROFESSOR S.G. WITHERS
29 Jan.: `Structural and mechanistic studies on
glycosidase intermediates: tales from a Canadian
"trapper".'
DR C. VENIEN-BRYAN
5 Feb.: `Cryo-electron microscopy in structural
studies: transcription factor HupR; an example of a His-tag
protein crystallised on a Ni-Lipid monolayer.'
P.L. ADAMS
19 Feb.: `Structure of an histamine binding
protein.'
DR A. WLODAWER, Macromolecular Structure Laboratory, NCI-FCRDC,
Frederick, USA
26 Feb.: `Structural basis of the entry of
phage fd into E. coli cells.'
DR D. DOYLE
5 Mar.: `The structure of the K+ channel
KCSA.'
DR D. OWEN, Cambridge
12 Mar.: `The story of "Mickey
Mouse"—structure/function studies on proteins
involved in endocytosis.'
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Convener: P. Harvey, MA, D.Sc., Professor of Zoology.
PROFESSOR R. FORTEY, Natural History Museum
18 Jan.: `The Cambrian "explosion"
and the Ordovician faunal "revolution".'
DR R. BEDDINGTON, National Institute for Medical Research
25 Jan.: `Genes affecting anteroposterior
pattern in the mouse embryo.'
PROFESSOR B. GREENWOOD, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine
1 Feb.: `Pneumococcal disease in Africa.'
PROFESSOR T. CLUTTON-BROCK, Cambridge
8 Feb.: `Co-operative breeding and reproductive
skew in animals.'
J. PICKETT, Integrated Approach to Crop Research, Rothamsted
15 Feb.: `Volatile signalling: from plants to
animals.'
PROFESSOR W. EARNSHAW, Edinburgh
22 Feb.: `Biochemical mechanisms of apoptotic
execution.'
PROFESSOR B. GOODWIN, Schumacher College
1 Mar.: `Self-organisation in ant
societies.'
DR A. POMIANKOWSKI, UCL
8 Mar.: `Genomic imprinting is for sex not
conflict.'
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DR C. BROWNLEE, Plymouth Marine Laboratory
21 Jan.: `Developing in a fluctuating
environment: integration of physiological and developmental
signals in an algal embryo.'
DR A. MILLAR, Warwick
28 Jan.: `Molecular genetics of the biological
clock.'
DR S. TURNER, Manchester
4 Feb.: `Genetic analysis of secondary cell
wall formation and xylem development.'
DR S. ZEEMAN, John Innes Centre
11 Feb.: `Mutants of Arabidopsis
lacking starch-metabolising enzymes.'
DR J. BAILEY-SERRES, California Riverside
18 Feb.: `Uncovering translational control of
gene expression in flooded maize roots.'
PROFESSOR D. TOMOS, Bangor
25 Feb.: `High pressures and small volumes:
quantitative maps of plant physiology at single cell
resolution.'
DR C. MARTIN, John Innes Centre
4 Mar.: `Development of petals: specification
of cellular form and function.'
PROFESSOR H. ATKINSON, Leeds
11 Mar.: `Crop resistance to nematodes: a
benign application for genetically modified plants.'
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DR P. PENNY, MRC, Harwell
21 Jan.: `Plain genetics and fancy mice.'
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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Convener: G.M. Goodwin, BM, MA, D.Phil., Handley Professor of Psychiatry.
PROFESSOR F. CREED, Manchester
26 Jan.: `Psychological treatment for the
irritable bowel syndrome.'
PROFESSOR E.S. PAYKEL, Cambridge
9 Feb.: `Cognitive therapy for residual
depression.'
PROFESSOR E. JOHNSTONE, Edinburgh
2 Mar.: `Predictors of the development of
schizophrenia: findings from the Edinburgh High Risk Study.'
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Convener: N.N. Osborne, MA, D.Sc., Professor of Ocular Neurobiology.
PROFESSOR OSBORNE
18 Jan.: `Where does the raised glutamate in
the vitreous humour of glaucoma patients come from and what
are the implications?'
DR J. CARVER, Wollongong
25 Jan.: `How do small heat shock proteins
stabilise unfolding proteins?'
PROFESSOR R. GREEN, ASTRA Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Leicester
1 Feb.: `Neuroprection: use of GABAergic
agents.'
DR T. SHARP
8 Feb.: `Novel pharmacological strategies for
treatment of depression.'
DR G. CHIDLOW
15 Feb.: `Role of serotonin in the anterior
uvea.'
DR KAZUHIKO UNOKI, Institute of Ophthalmology, London
22 Feb.: `Growth factors in injury of rat
retina.'
DR S. EASTWOOD
1 Mar.: `Post-mortem studies of gene expression
in schizophrenia.'
DR MING CHAO
8 Mar.: `Report on a twenty-four-month study to
suggest that clonidine is a neuroprectant in retinal
ischaemia.'
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Convener: Dr J. Emery.
S. ZIEBLAND and DIPEX team, ICRF General Practice Research Group
14 Jan.: `DIPEX (Database of Individual
Patient's EXperiences).'
DR K. VENABLES
21 Jan.: `What can we learn from occupational
asthma?'
PROFESSOR G. GILLET, Dunedin School of Clinical Medicine, Otago,
New Zealand
28 Jan.: `The introduction of innovative
treatments.' (IHS Guest Lecture)
DR S. GRIFFIN, Cambridge
4 Feb.: `Should we screen for diabetes? An
evidence-led debate?'
PROFESSOR R. COLLINS and S. LEWINGTON
11 Feb.: `Blood pressure, stroke, and CHD.'
DR P. ONG
18 Feb., Board Room: `Complementary medicine
utilisation.'
PROFESSOR L. RASTAM, Malmö, Sweden
25 Feb., Board Room: `Evidence-based public
health.' (IHS Guest Lecture)
DR M. DAWES
4 Mar.: `Is white coat hypertension safe?'
DR H. HIN, GP, Banbury
11 Mar.: `Coeliac disease in primary care.'
DR T. LANCASTER and L. STEAD
18 Mar.: `The problem of attrition bias:
dealing with drop-outs in clinical trials and meta-
analysis.'
J. DAWSON, Department of Public Health
25 Mar.: `A retrospective study to compare
medium term outcomes between hip implants.'
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Convener: P.J. Morris, MA, Nuffield Professor of Surgery.
R. LECHLER, Imperial College School of Medicine and Hammersmith
Hospital
19 Jan.: `Cognate and non-cognate aspects of
peripheral T cell tolerance.'
A. DARDIK
26 Jan.: `How to build a better blood
vessel.'
D. TOUGH, Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research
2 Feb.: `Memory T cell turnover: regulation by
cytokines.'
P. LOWENSTEIN, Manchester
9 Feb.: `Acute and chronic consequences of
successful brain tumour gene therapy.'
P. WHATLING
16 Feb.: `Drug treatment for claudication.'
A. AGER, National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill
23 Feb.: `Regulation of lymphocyte and
Langerhans cell migration.'
M. BRADDOCK, Glaxo Wellcome
2 Mar.: `Tissue shear stress and therapeutic
applications for gene therapy in cardiovascular disease.'
S. KNIGHT, St James's Hospital, Leeds
9 Mar.: `Free tissue transfer to the ischaemic
lower limb.'
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Convener: H. Waldmann, BM, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Pathology.
DR R. WOOD, ICRF Clare Hall Laboratories
28 Jan.: `Nucleotide excision repair in human
cells.'
J. BABIK and K. HONEY
11 Feb.:
(JB) `Gene regulation of the IL12 p35
subunit.'
(KH) `CD40L blockade induces tolerance and linked
suppression.'
DR P. BORK, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
18 Feb.: `Comparative sequence analysis.'
PROFESSOR SIR ALEC JEFFREYS, Leicester
25 Feb.: `DNA fingerprinting: from Antarctica
to Chernobyl.'
PROFESSOR R. IRVINE, Cambridge
4 Mar.: `Inositide synthesis within and without
the nucleus.'
DR P. FAIRCHILD
11 Mar.: `Directed differentiation of embryonic
stem cells.'
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Convener: D.R. Isaacson, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Mathematics.
DR IAN RUMFITT
18 Jan.
: `Frege's logicism.'
PROFESSOR ROBERT THOMAS, Manitoba
25 Jan.
: `Why ontology really doesn't matter to the
mathematician.'
DR GIANNI RIGAMONTI, Palermo
1 Feb.
: `A proof of the Fan Theorem without Bar Induction.'
DAVID BOSTOCK
8 Feb.: `Can the intuitionist understand
semantics for the logical constants based on the notion of
proof?'
DR GIANLUIGI OLIVERI
15 Feb.
: `Patterns and infinity.'
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Convener: C.S. Kraus, MA, University Lecturer (CUF) in Classics.
PROFESSOR R. MAYER, King's College, London
21 Jan.: `Audiences for oratory: Pliny,
Tacitus, and fame.'
DR T. WHITMARSH, Cambridge
28 Jan.: `Sophistry in motion: the con-texts of
Dio's Kingships.'
A. BITEL
4 Feb.: `Levels of adulterous encounter in
Apuleius's Golden Ass, Book 9.'
PROFESSOR O. TAPLIN
11 Feb.: ` "No text can give us
straightforward information about its production and
reception" (Don Fowler). Discuss with special reference
to Homer and/or Hesiod.'
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Conveners: I.D.L. Michael, MA, King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies, and C.H. Griffin, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer in Latin American Literature.
C. PATTERSON
19 Jan.: `Ramón Otero Pedrayo
(1888–1976): Galician, Catholic, fidalgo,
orator, geographer, bibliophile, essayist, teacher, poet,
politician, playwright, novelist, and nationalist.'
DR R. DAVIES, Sheffield
26 Jan.: `The Pérez Galdós
Editions Project: creating electronic packages of the
Torquemada Novels.'
P. GARCÍA-CARO
9 Feb.: `Literary views on the close of the
First Spanish Republic (1873–4).'
D.P. GRAU
16 Feb.: ` "Home" v.
"dona". Palabras e ideas en la poesía de
Joan Fuster: un análisa estadístico-
estilítico.'
JORDI DOCE CHAMBRELÁN
23 Feb.: `Versions of absence: Hardy's
"Afterwards", Machado's "A José
María Palacio", and Jiménez's "El
viaje definitivo".'
PROFESSOR T. DADSON, Birmingham
2 Mar.: `A poet and his sources in seventeenth-
century Spain.'
DR D. CREWS, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg
9 Mar.: `Ascanio Colonna, Juan de
Valdés, and the Diet of Ratisbon, 1541.'
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Subject: `L'écriture testamentaire à la fin du Moyen Age: identité, dispersion, trace.'
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Convener: M.L. McLaughlin, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer in Italian.
Subject: `Hermeneutical problems in the first canto of Dante's Inferno.'
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PROFESSOR I. POGGIOLINI, Pavia
18 Jan.: ` "We have made Italy, now we
must make Italians": Italian history and the search for
a national identity.'
R. CLOGG
25 Jan.: `Identity and antiquity in Greece.'
H. MARTINS
1 Feb.: `Portugal and the Luso-Afro Brazilian
world.'
DR M. URQUITO, University of the Basque Country
8 Feb.: `The unsuccessful construction of
Spanish national identity and the birth of regional
identities (1808–1998).'
DR JAVIER DIAZ NOCI
15 Feb.: `Reflections on Basque identity.'
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Conveners: A.J. Nicholls, B.Phil., MA, Special Lecturer in Modern History, and H.J.O. Pogge von Strandmann, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Modern History.
Subject: `The radical deputies of the Paulskirche and German politics after the defeat of the revolution, 1849–67.'
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Convener: D. Rechter (Ph.D. Jerusalem), Research Fellow, St Antony's College.
Z. GITELMAN, Michigan
21 Jan.: `Internationalism, patriotism, and
disillusion: Soviet Jewish veterans remember World War
Two.'
C. CLARK, Cambridge
28 Jan.: `The German state and Jewish rights,
1871–1918.'
L. WEITZMAN, George Mason University
4 Feb.: `Women in the Holocaust.'
T. ENDELMAN, Michigan
11 Feb.: `Jewish converts to Christianity in
modern Europe—inside or outside the historiographical
fold?'
P. WEINDLING, Oxford Brookes
18 Feb.: `Sickness, survival, and medical
genocide during the Holocaust: the significance of
survivors' testimonies.'
A. POLONSKY, Brandeis
15 Feb.: `Compiling an anthology of
Polish–Jewish writing since 1945: the dilemma of the
survivor.'
L. KOCHAN
4 Mar.: `Men of property and Jewish
emancipation in Europe, 1780–1850.'
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Conveners: M. Szöllösi-Janze, D.Phil., Stifterverband Visiting Fellow, St Antony's College, and A.J. Nicholls, B.Phil., MA, Special Lecturer in Modern History.
DR S. PALETSCHEK, Tübingen (preceded by an introduction by
DR SZÖLLÖSI-JANZE)
22 Jan.: `The invention of "Humboldt"
and National Socialism. The idea of the German university
and the impact of National Socialism, 1920–60.'
DR M. RÖSSLER, UNESCO, Paris
29 Jan.: `Geography and area planning during
National Socialism.'
PROFESSOR H. TRISCHLER, Deutsches Museum, Munich
5 Feb.: `Small science or big science?
Aeronautical research in Nazi Germany.'
DR L. MARSCHALL, Munich
12 Feb.: `Consequences of the politics of
autarky: the case of biotechnology.'
DR C.-R. PRÜLL, Freiburg
19 Feb.: `Pathology and politics in the
metropolis, 1900–45: London, Berlin, and the Third
Reich.'
DR U. DEICHMANN, Cologne
26 Feb.: `The expulsion of Jewish chemists and
biochemists from German academia, 1933–9, and their
correspondence with German colleagues afte 1945: the
impossibilty of "normalisation"?'
DR S. KÜHL, Magdeburg
5 Mar.: `Science and the killing of the
mentally handicapped in Nazi Germany. The relationship
between eugenics and the so-called "euthanasia
action".'
DR J. REINDL, Munich
12 Mar.: `Oskar Vogt, Julius Hallervorden,
Nicolai Timoféeff-Ressovsky: three biomedical
scientists at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute for Brain
Research at Berlin–Buch during the Third Reich.'
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Conveners: R.G. Lewis, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History, and I.W.F. Maclean, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Renaissance Studies.
DR S. TYACKE, Public Records Office
22 Jan.: `Maps from manuscript to print.'
PROFESSOR C. FAHY, University College, London
29 Jan.: `The publication of two Renaissance
masterpieces: Castiglione's Il libro del
cortegiano and Ariosto's Orlando
furioso.'
DR A. ARMSTRONG, Manchester
5 Feb.: `Jean Lemaire de Belge's "Concorde
des deux Langages": changing manifestations of literary
self-consciousness in manuscript and print.'
DR H. WATANABE-O'KELLY
12 Feb.: `The library of the Electors of
Saxony, 1570–1630.'
DR V. GILLESPIE
19 Feb.: `The Book and the Brotherhood:
reflections on the lost library of Syon Abbey.'
DR C. GRIFFIN
26 Feb.: `Sixteenth-century printing workers in
Spain: evidence from the Inquisitional archives of their
professional and private lives.'
DR A. HEGARTY
5 Mar.: `Books and reading in early
seventeenth-century Salamanca, with special reference to the
diary of Girolamo da Sommaia (1603–7).'
PROFESSOR D. MCKENZIE and DR J. RAVEN
12 Mar.: `The economics of the London book
trades in the later sixteenth and the seventeenth
centuries.'
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Convener: C.H. Feinstein, MA, Chichele Professor of Economic History.
S. ENGERMAN, Rochester
20 Jan.: `Climate and institutions. North and
South America since the colonial period.'
A. WRIGLEY
27 Jan.: `Attempting to understand the interaction of
economic and demographic variables in early modern England:
what has changed in the last thirty years.'
P. JOHNSON, LSE
3 Feb.: `Does corporate structure affect
corporate performance? The case of financial services in
Victorian England.'
R. SMITH and J. OEPPEN, Cambridge
10 Feb.: `Mortality levels among British
élites and non-élites
c.1550–1900: trends and explanations.'
P. O'BRIEN, London
17 Feb.: `Singularity and significance of the
English fiscal state 1688–1815.'
N. VON TUNZELMAN, Sussex
24 Feb.: `Technology production, technology
use, and the evolution of skills.'
P. HUDSON
3 Mar.: `Micro history meets macro history.'
N. CRAFTS, LSE
10 Mar.: `Productivity growth during the first
Industrial Revolution: inferences from the pattern of
British external trade.'
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The series will continue with lectures to be given by JAMES MACMILLAN on 17 February, and MIKE ROBERTS on 10 March.
ROBERT SAXTON
20 Jan.: `Return? Journey? Circles of Light and
beyond.'
STEPHEN MONTAGUE
10 Feb.: `Stephen Montague's String Quartet no.
1, in memoriam Barry Anderson and Tomasz
Sikorski, for string quartet and electronics: an illustrated
analysis.'
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Conveners: John Baines, Stephanie Dalley.
R. MOOREY
2 Feb.: `Popular imagery in Babylonia
c.2150–1750 BC.'
W. HOROWITZ, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
9 Feb.: `Cuneiform from the Land of Israel and
Hazor.'
C. RIGGS
16 Feb.: `The Egyptian funerary tradition at
Deir el-Bahri in the third century AD.'
J. TAIT, University College, London
23 Feb.: `Why did anyone bother to write
Demotic literature?'
L. SASSMANNSHAUSEN, Tübingen
2 Mar.: `Kings and ditch-diggers: the Middle
Babylonian letter archives from Nippur.'
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Convener: M.D. Goodman, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Jewish Studies.
PROFESSOR S. FREYNE, Trinity College, Dublin
19 Jan.: `Galileans and Phoenicians.'
DR V. REBRIK, Tübingen
26 Jan.: `Sources of the excursus about the
Jews (Tacitus, Historiae V).'
PROFESSOR Y. ELBAUM, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2 Feb.: `The attitude to gentiles in Seder
Eliahu.'
PROFESSOR S. BENIN, Memphis
9 Feb.: `Holy fools? Jewish and Christian
approaches to martyrdom in late antiquity.'
PROFESSOR J. SCHWARTZ, Bar Ilan University
16 Feb.: `Material culture and Rabbinic
literature.'
DR G. BOHAK, Tel Aviv
23 Feb.: `Was Homer Jewish? Ethnicity and
culture in the Graeco-Roman world.'
PROFESSOR F. MILLAR
2 Mar.: `Christians, Jews, and others in late
Roman Palestine.'
DR S. WILSON, Carleton University
9 Mar.: `Defectors and apostates in late
antique Judaism.'
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Convener: D. Sherrington, MA, Wykeham Professor of Physics.
DR N. WILKIN, Birmingham
22 Jan.: `A quantum liquid of vortices?'
PROFESSOR J. SILK
5 Feb.: `Speculations about galaxy
formation.'
DR D. KHMELNITSKII, Cambridge
19 Feb.: `From classical to quantum
kinetics.'
DR N. FERGUSON
5 Mar.: `Mathematical biology from the
perspective of a theoretical physicist: mad cows, disease
evolution, and HIV.'
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An Inorganic Discussion Day, with presentations by some of the younger research associates in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, will be held on Monday, 8 March, 3–6 p.m.
Convener: M.L.H. Green, MA, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry.
DR P. DAY, Manchester
18 Jan.: `Application of accelerator mass
spectrometry to biological and environmental chemistry.'
PROFESSOR G.J. PIELAK, North Carolina
25 Jan.: `Ferricytochrome c. The
effects of sugar on its stability, structure, and
dynamics.'
DR N. KALTSOYANNIS, University College, London
1 Feb.: `Computational adventures in
d and f element chemistry.'
DR P. BETON, Nottingham
8 Feb.: `Adsorption and manipulation of
fullerenes on silicon surfaces.'
PROFESSOR P. DAY
15 Feb.: `The molecular chemistry of magnets
and superconductors.' (Royal Society Bakerian
Lecture)
PROFESSOR H. SCHUMANN, Berlin
Wed. 17 Feb., 12 noon: to be announced.
DR J. ERRINGTON, Newcastle upon Tyne
22 Feb.: `Synthetic challenges in
polyoxometalate and metal alkoxide chemistry.'
PROFESSOR C. REED, California, Riverside
1 Mar.: `Super anions and superacids.'
PROFESSOR T. MARDER, Durham
15 Mar.: `Well-defined conjugated rigid-rods as
multifunctional materials.'
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DR C. BAIN 25 Jan.: `The dynamics of wet interfaces.'
PROFESSOR C. PARMENTER, Indiana
8 Feb.: `Collisional and collision-free energy
flow in molecules with internal rotation.'
PROFESSOR D. FRENKEL, FOM Amsterdam
1 Mar.: `Condensation and
crystallisation—computer simulation of rare events.'
(RSC Bourke Lecture)
PROFESSOR T. MASON, Coventry
8 Mar.: `Sonochemistry: a review with
demonstrations.'
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Convener: J.P. Simons, MA, Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry.
9 Feb.: `The fascinating applications of NMR in chemistry, biology, and medicine, and its historical development.'
11 Feb.: `The NMR approach to molecular structure and dynamics.'
16 Feb.: `Biomolecular dynamics explored by NMR.'
18 Feb.: `The NMR approach for investigating the structure of solids.'
23 Feb.: `Exploration and disorder in solid polymers.'
25 Feb.: `Hydrogen dynamics investigated by NMR.'
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Convener: Professor K.E. Davies.
PROFESSOR G. LONG, Edinburgh
22 Jan.: `Computer modelling of GnRH and
magnocellular neurones.'
DR J. TINSLEY
29 Jan.: `Utrophin: the Full Monty.'
PROFESSOR S. HILLIER, Edinburgh
5 Feb.: `Paracrine regulation of follicular
development and ovulation.' (Jenkinson
Seminar)
DR W. JAMES
12 Feb.: `Aptamers: the in vitro
evolution of new ligands for research and therapy.'
DR Y. BOYD, MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell
19 Feb.: `Mouse models for x-linked disorders:
new findings from old mutants.'
DR P. MATTHEWS
26 Feb.: `What is the meaning of functional
neuroanatomy mapped by FMRI?'
DR S. SHIRAZI-BEECHEY, Liverpool
5 Mar.: `Functional and genetic control of
transporter expression in epithelia.'
DR R. HILL, Edinburgh
12 Mar.: `The role of hedgehog and bagpipe in
skeletogenesis.' (Jenkinson Seminar)
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PROFESSOR S. IVERSEN
21 Jan.: `Frontal lobe function.'
DR K. NOBRE
28 Jan.: `Directing our attention in four
dimensions.'
PROFESSOR A. COWEY
4 Feb.: `Do monkeys have blind insight?'
PROFESSOR E. ROLLS
11 Feb.: `How vision might work.'
PROFESSOR L. WEISKRANTZ
18 Feb.: `Pupil employment and di-vision of
labour. Beta late than never.'
PROFESSOR R. PASSINGHAM
25 Feb.: `Imaging and motor learning in the
human spirit.'
PROFESSOR N. RAWLINS
4 Mar.: `How animal experiments help understand
the neural basis of pain in humans.'
DR P. AZZOPARDI
11 Mar.: `Blind sight and visual awareness.'
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Conveners: C.O. Jones, MA, Olin Professor of American Government, and B.E. Shafer, MA, Mellon Professor of American Government.
P.J. MARTIN
26 Jan.: `Strategy and outcome in judicial
decision-making: three cases from the Burger Court.'
DR A.D. SHEINGATE
9 Feb.: `The politics of place in
American political development.'
PROFESSOR W.J.M. CLAGGETT, Florida State
23 Feb.: `Recruitment and political
participation: the causal nexus.'
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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 College and Westminster College.
PROFESSOR T. HOPKINS, Oxford Centre for Vaishnava Studies and
Franklin and Marshall College, USA
9 Feb.: `Negotiating religious identity: some
Indian examples.'
DR S. HAMILTON, King's College, London
23 Feb.: `To be or not to be? That is
not the question: the issue and nature of
identity in early Buddhism.'
DR S. GILLIAT-RAY, University of Exeter
9 Mar.: `Religious identity and young Muslims.'
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PROFESSOR A. LYNE, University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank
28 Jan.: `Cosmology and life in the
universe.'
PROFESSOR R. STANNARD, Open University
11 Feb.: `Cosmology and theology.'
PROFESSOR J. WEBSTER
25 Feb.: `Theology and cosmology: some
reflections.'
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Subject: `Passionate attachments out of order: meditations on Judy Garland's body.'
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Conveners: Dr R. Ballaster, Professor M. Butler, Dr F. Dabhoiwala, Dr C. Gerrard, Dr T. Keymer, Professor R. Lonsdale, Dr J. Raven, and Dr I. Rivers.
DR J. MULLAN, University College, London
25 Jan.: `Writing the history of eighteenth-
century literature.'
DR N. GROOM, University of Exeter
8 Feb.: `Forgery and authenticity: the romantic
posterity of Thomas Chatterton.'
PROFESSOR I. GRUNDY, Alberta
8 Mar.: ` "Destined for something
higher"? Potential and achievement in Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu.'
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N. GALANIDOU, Cambridge
21 Jan.: `How space was used in the
Palaeolithic and Mesolithic: in search of a new
approach.'
M. REED, Reading
28 Jan.: `Computer modelling of mammoth
extinction in North America.'
M. LENEY
4 Feb.: to be announced.
F. WENBAN-SMITH, Southampton
11 Feb.: `Recent palaeolithic research at the
Community School site, Swanscombe.'
M. WHITE, Cambridge
18 Feb.: `Island Britain: an archaeological
perspective from the Middle Pleistocene.'
I. WATTS, London
25 Feb.: `Skin changing: ritual performance in
the Middle Stone Age.'
J. MCNABB, Liverpool
4 Mar.: `Recent work on the Early Stone Age in
South Africa.'
D. DE LOECKER, London
11 Mar.: ` "A veil of stones": on the
interpretation of early Middle Palaeolithic scatters and
patches at Maastricht–Belvédère
(Netherlands).'
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D. DORLING, Bristol
18 Feb.: `Mapping with feeling: the human
cartography of people's lives.'
R. MITCHELL, Public Record Office
6 May: `Contention the mother of invention:
early maps of England in the Public Records Office.'
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Subject: `The praxis of software engineering.'
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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, Kellogg College, and Director, Stanford University in Oxford.
J. AYRES
1 Feb.: `Building the Georgian city.'
J. RHODES
8 Mar.: `Shaw House, Newbury.'
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Convener: R.G. Hood, MA, Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre.
S. SHUTE, Birmingham
27 Jan.: `Unduly lenient sentences: who passes
them?'
DR P. YOUNG, Edinburgh
10 Feb.: `Auto punishments: the fine and the
prison.'
PROFESSOR A. BOTTOMS, Cambridge
24 Feb.: `Criminology and the problem of
order.'
PROFESSOR R. ERICSON, British Columbia
10 Mar.: `The policing of risk.'
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PROFESSOR G. GRACE, Institute of Education, University of London
18 Jan.: `Realising the mission: Catholic
approaches to school effectiveness.'
PROFESSOR D. HALPIN, Goldsmiths' College, London
25 Jan.: `Developing a Third Way? Tackling
disadvantage through Labour's Education Action Zones.'
PROFESSOR S. TOMLINSON, Goldsmiths' College, London
1 Feb.: `Race and special education.'
DR G. BROOKS, NFER
15 Feb.: `The NFER evaluations of the Basic
Skills Agency's Family Literacy Demonstration
Programmes.'
DR F. FLETCHER-CAMPBELL, NFER
1 Mar.: `Whole school target setting:
application to pupils with special educational needs.'
DR S. BRITSCH, Purdue
8 Mar.: `Writing science: the development of
teacher knowledge in the integrated curriculum.'
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The cost of participation, excluding travel and meal costs,is £950. Some partial bursaries are available for graduate students. Further details may be found on the Internet at http://www-cogsci.psych.ox.ac.uk/summer-school/.
Those interested in attending the Summer School are asked to send a one-page summary of their background, and reasons for wishing to attend, by 31 January, to Mrs Sue King, Department of Experimental Psychology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD (telephone: Oxford (2)71353, e-mail: susan.king@psy.oxford.ac.uk).
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A shuttle service will be provided by the OCHJS minibus, leaving the Playhouse, Beaumont Street, at 7.45 p.m., and departing from Yarnton Manor at 10 p.m.
PROFESSOR D. CESARANI, Director, Wiener Library
20 Jan.: `Arthur Koestler.' (David
Patterson Lecture Series)
PROFESSOR T. ENDELMAN, Michigan
27 Jan.: `Gender and radical assimilation in
modern Jewish history.' (David Patterson Lecture
Series)
PROFESSOR M. IDEL, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
3 Feb.: `Golem: some comparative proposals.'
(Louis Jacobs Lectures: `Golem—new
perspectives')
10 Feb.: `Golem: some early nineteenth-century treatments.' (Louis Jacobs Lectures: `Golem—new perspectives')
DR N. FERGUSON
17 Feb.: `The myth of the Rothschilds.'
(David Patterson Lecture Series)
DR B. WASSERSTEIN
24 Feb.: `Britain and the Jews of Europe
1939–45: intelligence aspects.' (To mark the
publication of a new edition of cBritain and Jews of
Europe 1939–45\) (David Patterson Lecture
Series)
DR D. STONE
3 Mar.: `Anthony Mario Ludovici and the
extremes of Englishness.' (David Patterson Lecture
Series)
DR J. GOLDSTEIN, West Georgia College and Harvard University
10 Mar.: `The Republic of China and Israel,
1911–99.' (David Patterson Lecture Series)
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Conveners: D. Vaver, MA, Reuters Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law and Director of the Centre, and C.A. Greenhalgh, MA, Reader in Economics and Research Director of the Centre.
PROFESSOR VAVER
19 Jan.: `Intellectual property: where's the
world going?'
DR M. SPENCE
2 Feb.: `European intellectual property
harmonisation: the recent deluge.'
PROFESSOR D. BOSWORTH, UMIST, and DELI YANG, UMIST
9 Feb.: `Intellectual property law in China:
how much is there and how does it affect innovation?'
PROFESSOR J.W. HARRIS
16 Feb.: `Patenting cell lines—analysing
John Moore's spleen.'
DR R. PITKETHLY
23 Feb.: `The European patent system and
innovation: help, hindrance, or irrelevance?'
G. DUTFIELD
2 Mar.: `The public and private domains:
intellectual property rights in traditional ecological
knowledge.'
DR GREENHALGH
9 Mar.: `Protecting intellectual property:
Anglo/American trade mark and patenting practices of
selected British companies.'
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Conveners: Dr F.A. Nizami and Dr J. Piscatori.
DR D. MORGAN, SOAS, London
20 Jan.: `Cross-cultural contacts under the
Mongol Empire.'
PROFESSOR B. FRAGNER, Bamberg
27 Jan.: `The Persian language area as a
cultural region in history.'
PROFESSOR D. KING, Frankfurt
3 Feb.: `Astronomical instruments and ideas
across all boundaries.'
PROFESSOR I. LAPIDUS, Berkeley
10 Feb.: `Between universalism and
particularism: the historical bases of Muslim
transnationalism.'
DR C. HILLENBRAND, Edinburgh
17 Feb.: `Travels in divers places with divers
persons: some medieval wayfarers.'
PROFESSOR W. HALLAQ, McGill
24 Feb.: `Taqlid and the dynamics of law:
historical, doctrinal, and regional themes.'
DR D. ABULAFIA, Cambridge
3 Mar.: `The "servitude" of Muslims
and Jews in medieval Europe.'
DR M. KUNT, Cambridge
10 Mar.: `Turks and Muslims in Ottoman polity
and society.'
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Subject: `European travellers to the Middle East in the nineteenth century.'
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O. WHITE
21 Jan.: `Going native in Timbuctoo.'
R. GILDEA
28 Jan.: `Terror and talks in occupied France:
the fifty hostages of Nantes–Chateaubriant, 1941.'
S. HAZAREESINGH
4 Feb.: `A republican in Geneva: Jules Barni
and the transformation of French republicanism.'
C. LABORDE, King's College, London
11 Feb.: `The culture(s) of the Republic:
French debates on Anglo-American multiculturalism.'
N. MCMASTER, East Anglia
18 Feb.: `Maurice Papon and the Paris massacre
of 17 October 1961.'
K. NABULSI
25 Feb.: `The ley-lines of late eighteenth-
century republican war: Pasquale Paoli and Thaddeus
Kosciuszko in France.'
A. GOSCHA, Universié de Paris VII
4 Mar.: `Ruptures et continuités
idéologiques en Indochine, 1900–40.'
S. AUDOIN-ROUZEAU, Université de Picardie Jules-Verne
11 Mar.: `Les Allemands en France 1870–1
et leur représentation chez les Français.'
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V. WORTH, King's College, London
21 Jan.: ` "La parole est moitié
à celui qui écoute": listening to the
Racinian confident(e).'
W. WILLIAMS
4 Feb.: `Racine's monsters.'
G. FORESTIER, Paris IV
18 Feb.: `Editer Racine: présentation de
la nouvelle édition Pléiade.'
C. BIET, Paris X
4 Mar.: `Jouer Racine.'
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N. JAS, European University Institute, Florence
28 Jan.: `The new historiography of science and
technology and the new century: which perspectives?'
11 Feb.: `Virtues of science as virtues of state: the 1888 French law on fertiliser fraud suppression and its influence throughout Europe.'
H. DENHAM
25 Feb.: `Advent of a "subersive
science"? Ecology as a concept, practice, and proto-
discipline, 1890–1914.'
J. SEGAL, Université de Lyon II, Centre Pierre Léon
11 Mar.: `Marjan von Smoluchowski
(1872–1917) and the origins of information theory in
physics—the tribulations of a Polish physicist in
Europe.'
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Sat. 13 Feb., 9 a.m.–8 p.m.: Franco-British Study Day: `Koyré et au-delà'.
Sat. 13 Mar., Sun. 14 Mar., 10 a.m.–6 p.m.: Research Programme `Histoire et théorie des arts': colloquium, `Visual images: verbal images: other images.'
Sat. 13 Mar., 10 a.m. –5 p.m., St Hugh's College: Translation Research in Oxford meeting, `Don Quichotte et ses traducteurs' (telephone for further information: Edith McMorran, (2)74996, or Sue Robinson, (2)74222).
Mon. 15 Mar., 10 a.m.–4 p.m.: colloquium, `Victor Hugo.'
Fri. 19 Mar., 10 a.m.–4 p.m.: Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France meeting, `Cuisine et politique en France'.
Sat. 20 Mar., 9.30 a.m.–6 p.m.: Franco-British Study Day, `Changing French political systems.'
Thur. 25 Mar., 7.30 p.m.: Oxford–Grenoble Association open meeting.
Sat. 27 Mar., 9.30 a.m.–6 p.m.: Study Day, `Virginia Woolf and the body.'
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DR KOICHI NAKANO
22 Jan.: `The spoils of bureaucratic
regulation: amakudari in Japan's
"liberalised" telecom sector.'
DR SATOSHI KURIBAYASHI, Bunkyo University, Kanagawa
29 Jan.: `The limits of "efficiency"
in Japan and Asia.'
MR OMI HATASHIN, Lancaster
5 Feb.: `Japanese foreign policy towards
international peace making efforts in Cambodia.'
DR B. POWELL
12 Feb.: `Writing history for the Japanese
stage—do equestrians do it best?' (Illustrated by
video excerpts from Kinoshita Junji's Requiem on the Great
Meridian)
DR J. GILSON, Birmingham
19 Feb.: `Japan's pragmatic role in ASEM.'
PROFESSOR MIWAO MATSUMOTO, Tokyo
26 Feb.: `Ships and chips: pitfalls of self-
reliant development in Japanese war technologies.'
PROFESSOR TAKAO MATSUMURA, Keio University, Tokyo
5 Mar.: `Unit 731 and Japanese germ warfare in
China, 1937–45.'
DR A. ROY, Leeds
12 Mar.: `Turbulence and change: the Japanese
financial sector in the UK.'
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Conveners: Dr Nandini Gooptu, Dr Judith Heyer, and Professor Barbara Harriss-White.
YUNAS SAMAD, University of Bradford
21 Jan.: `Nuclear Pakistan and the emergence of
a peace movement.'
DINESH PRATAP, DAV College, Dehradun and Commonwealth Visiting
Fellow, QEH
28 Jan.: `Sustainable management of common
property resources: a case of forests in the Himalayas.'
U. VINDHYA, Andhra University and Visiting Fellow, QEH
4 Feb.: `Comrades and lovers: questions of
revolutionary identity and sexuality in the contemporary
radical left movement in Andhra Pradesh (Co-convened
with the Centre for Cross Cultural Research on Women).'
K. RAVI RAMAN, Kerala Agricultural University and Visiting
Fellow, QEH
11 Feb.: `Caste and gender: plantation
work-world in south-west Asia, c. 1850--
1950.'
M.S.S. PANDIAN, Madras Institute of Development Studies and
Visiting Fellow, QEH
18 Feb.: `Resisting modernity: two stories.'
MARTIN GREELEY, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex
University
25 Feb.: `Villages revisited: poverty reduction
and growth over 20 years.'
BELA BHATIA, Cambridge
4 Mar.: `Researching a revolutionary movement:
the Naxalite movement in Central Bihar.'
GAUTAM MODY, Vice-President, Kamani Employees Union, Mumbai
11 Mar.: `Questions of governance in Indian
manufacturing firms.'
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Details of the 11 February seminar will be announced later.
T. BESLEY, LSE
21 Jan.: `Land reform, poverty reduction, and
growth: evidence from India.'
J. GUNNING
28 Jan.: `IMF, structural adjustment, and
poverty—an evaluation.'
S. BHALOTRA
4 Feb.: `Why children work in rural
Pakistan.'
J. KNIGHT
18 Feb.: `Old and new poverty in China.'
H. WHITE, Sussex
25 Feb.: `A cause without a rebel: the World
Bank's poverty agenda.'
A. SAITH, LSE
4 Mar.: to be announced.
M. LIPTON, Sussex
11 Mar.: `The effect of fertility on poverty.'
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Conveners: Dr Cathie Lloyd and Dr Kate Fisher.
PROFESSOR F. STEWART
21 Jan.: `Social and economic consequences of
conflict: a gender perspective on the results of the QEH
study.'
DR C. HOYLE
28 Jan.: `Negotiating domestic violence.'
DR U. VINDHYA, Andhra University
4 Feb.: `Comrades and lovers: questions of
revolution and sexuality in the contemporary radical left
movement in Andhra Pradesh.' (Joint meeting with the
Contemporary South Asia Seminar)
DR C. HUMPHREYS, Warwick
11 Feb.: `Possibilities and problems:
Australian perspectives on the use of third party
applications for protection orders in cases of domestic
violence.'
DR K. FISHER, Cambridge
18 Feb.: ` "The men liked to keep you
down": conflict and contraception in Britain
1900–50.'
DR J. EADE, Roehampton Institute, and DR T. ALLEN, LSE
25 Feb.: `Ethnicity in nature or the nature of
ethnicity.'
A. FOSTER
4 Mar.: `Perceptions of domestic violence in
Tunisia: responses from health service providers, women's
organisations, and students.'
DR L. RADFORD, Roehampton Institute
11 Mar.: `Mothering in the context of domestic
violence.'
DR S. CONDON, INED (National Institute for Demographic Studies), and D. FOUGEYROULLAS, Université Paris–Dauphine
Date and venue to be announced: `Research on violence against women in France.' (In collaboration with the Maison Française)
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Conveners: A. Ljungqvist (Said Business School), Hyun Shin (Economics), and P. Willmott (Mathematics).
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).
S. RADY, Stanford
22 Jan.: `Strategic trading and learning about
liquidity.'
J. MAHRT-SMITH, London Business School
29 Jan.: `R. & D. in stand-alone firms and
conglomerate divisions.'
H. SERVAES, London Business School
5 Feb.: `Is corporate diversification
beneficial in emerging markets?'
F. EDWARDS, Columbia Business School
12 Feb.: `Hedge funds: implications of the LTCM
collapse.'
L. GERMAIN, London Business School
19 Feb.: `The speed of learning in financial
markets.'
R.D. HUANG, Vanderbilt
26 Feb.: `Tick size, bid–ask spread, and
market structure.'
A. FAURE-GRIMAUD, LSE
5 Mar.: to be announced.
J. DEWYNNE
12 Mar.: `Volatility, implied volatility, and
volatility surfaces.'
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PROFESSOR J. GRAY, LSE
22 Jan.: `How global are global media?'
S. KARLE, Dow Jones, New York
29 Jan.: `Global reach to the business
community, legal and competitive issues.'
PROFESSOR K. TOMASELLI, Natal
5 Feb.: `Global media versus national
culture—the South African case.'
N. SAKR, Centre for Media Freedom—Middle East and North
Africa
12 Feb.: `Middle East and North African policy
responses to global media shifts.'
R. BRUCE, Debevoise and Plimpton, London
19 Feb.: `Global media regulation.'
M. BOOTH, BSkyB
26 Feb.: `Global competition in TV news: CNN,
BBC, and Sky.'
I. RITCHIE, Executive Director, MBC, London
5 Mar.: `Global television: MBC, an Arabic
language global TV satellite service.'
R. STEWART, WorldSpace UK, London
12 Mar.: `Global radio: the case of
WorldSpace.'
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Subject: `Russian media law: approaches within an international setting.'
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Convener: M.H. Pelling, MA status, M.Litt., University Research Lecturer.
M. SATCHELL
18 Jan.: `Foundation and emergence: the genesis
of the English leperhouses, c.1077--1200.'
A. WEAR, Wellcome Unit, London
25 Jan.: `The failure of the English Helmontian
revolution in therapeutics.'
L. KASSELL, Cambridge
1 Feb.: ` "Some Red Powder and an Old
Manuscript": alchemy and medicine from St Dunstan to
Newton.'
A. GOLDBLOOM, Wellcome Unit, London
8 Feb.: `Samuel Hartlib, the Ephemerides, and
lay medical knowledge, 1634--60.'
C. CHAPMAN
15 Feb.: `Murder as death; or the art of dying
badly in late seventeenth-century England.'
P. WALLIS
22 Feb.: `Plague, practice, and polemic in
later seventeenth-century London.'
M. UNKOVSKAYA,
1 Mar.: `Seventeenth-century Russian
élite women and foreign doctors: the myth of the
unseen body.'
J. PHILIPS, London
8 Mar.: `Allegories of the body: Bunyan,
disease, and popular medicine.'
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PROFESSOR I. MACLEAN
20 Jan.: `Renaissance concepts of infinity.'
DR S. JOHNSTON
27 Jan.: `Digges.'
PROFESSOR N. JARDINE, Cambridge
3 Feb.: `Kepler.'
DR J. BENNETT
10 Feb.: `Gilbert.'
PROFESSOR S. GAUKROGER, Sydney
17 Feb.: `Descartes.'
DR S. HUTTON, Hertfordshire
24 Feb.: `More.'
S. MANDELBROTE, Cambridge
3 Mar.: `Newton.'
DR M.-R. ANTOGNAZZA, Aberdeen
10 Mar.: `Leibniz.'
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Conveners: Sir Julian Bullard and Professor Robert O'Neill, in collaboration with Dr M. Gibney, Refugee Studies Programme, Queen Elizabeth House.
PROFESSOR G. GOODWIN-GILL
29 Jan.: `Human rights: individuals and
justice.'
PROFESSOR J. WILLIAMSON, IMF
5 Feb.: `Failing states and economic
inequalities.'
PROFESSOR C. CLAPHAM, Lancaster
19 Feb.: `The international politics of
migration in Africa.'
US embassy speaker (to be announced)
26 Feb.: `The USA: a multi-role player.'
H.E. THE HON ROY MACLAREN, High Commissioner for Canada
5 Mar.: `Sparsely populated countries: Canada
and immigration.'
M. ELAND, the Home Office
12 Mar.: `EU policy: dilemmas for Britain?'
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PROFESSOR ALEXANDER ALEXAKIS, Columbia University
27 Jan.
: `Iconophile literature of the eighth century AD'.
PROFESSOR MICHEL CACOUROS, École Pratique des Hautes
Études, Sciences historiques et Philologiques, Sorbonne
IV
3 Feb.: `Scholarios, the last churchman of
Byzantium, and philosophy.'
PROFESSOR ATHANASIOS MARKOPOULOS, University of Crete
10 Feb.
: `Leo the Deacon, churchman and historian.'
PROFESSOR LENNART RYDEN, University of Uppsala
17 Feb.
: `Literary qualities in Byzantine hagiography.'
PROFESSOR ELIZABETH JEFFREYS
24 Feb.: `Manganeios Prodromos' ecclesiastical
writings.'
PROFESSOR EVANGELOS CHRYSOS, University of Cyprus
3 Mar.: `Acts of Ecumenical Councils as
literary products.'
PROFESSOR ALEXANDER ALEXAKIS, Columbia University
10 Mar.: `The Versions of the Life of Leo of
Catania.'
PROFESSOR ROGER BAGNALL, Columbia University
17 Mar.: `Monks and property; rhetoric, law,
and patronage in the Apophthegmata Patrum and
papyri.'
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DENIS FEENEY
20 Jan.: `Synchronising Greece and Rome.'
CHRISTOPHER BURNAND
27 Jan.: `Playing with time: Cicero on Roman
oratory.'
RICHARD FOWLER
3 Feb.: `Calibrating the Hellenistic.'
LIN FOXHALL
10 Feb.: `The running sands of time:
archaeology and short-term time.'
GILLIAN CLARK
17 Feb.: `We live in Christian times.'
ADRIAN GRATWICK
24 Feb.: `Pliny, the obelisk, and Novius
Facundus.'
KATHERINE CLARKE
3 Mar.: `Space, time, and place: Strabo's
eternal triangle.'
TESSA RAJAK
10 Mar.: `Reckoning the end of days in post-
Bibical Judaism.'
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Subject: `Killing the poor: an Anglo-Irish theme.'
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25 Jan.: `A proposal about Modestus.'
1 Feb.: `A man on a horse.'
8 Feb.: `R.'
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DR JAMES WATSON, Nobel Prize winner, and President, Cold Spring
Harbour Laboratory, New York
18 Jan.: `From the double helix to the Human
Genome Project.'
PROFESSOR BRYAN SYKES
25 Jan.: `The genetic origins of man.'
PROFESSOR ADRIAN HILL
1 Feb.: `Genetics and infection: why are some
of us susceptible?'
PROFESSOR PETER HARPER, Professor of Medical Genetics, University
of Wales College of Medicine
8 Feb.: `Genetic testing: prospects and
problems.'
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PROFESSOR C. GAMBLE, Southampton
21 Jan.: `Early beginnings.' (Discussant:
Dr C. Stringer, British Museum)
ROFESSOR P. MELLARS, Cambridge
28 Jan.: `Homo sapiens.' (Discussant: Dr
A. Sherratt)
PROFESSOR A. WHITTLE, Wales
4 Feb.: `Advent of agriculture.'
(Discussant: Lord Renfrew, Cambridge)
PROFESSOR B. CUNLIFFE
11 Feb.: `Tribes and empires.'
(Discussant: Professor M. Millett, Durham)
DR H. HÄRKE, Reading
18 Feb.: `Saxon kings and Norse warriors.'
(Discussant: Sir Walter Bodmer)
DR R. SMITH, Cambridge
25 Feb.: `Plagues and populations.'
(Discussant: Dr P. Slack)
SIR TONY WRIGLEY, Cambridge
4 Mar.: `Country and town: farmers, labourers,
craftsmen, manufacturers, merchants.' (Discussant: Dr
J. Langton)
PROFESSOR C. PEACH
11 Mar.: `Empire, the economy, and industry.'
(Discussant: Sir Robert May, Office of Science and
Technology)
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In addition to the lectures, Dr Clendenen will preach a sermon on `Hildegard: "Trumpet of God" and "Living Light" ' at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 27 January, in the chapel, Mansfield College.
Wed. 27 Jan., 4.30 p.m.: `The re-emergence of Hildegard von Bingen.'
Thur. 28 Jan., 5 p.m.: `Ecological themes in Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias.'
Fri. 29 Jan., 5 p.m.: `The relevance of Hildegard von Bingen to the question of gender and the priesthood.'
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`Reformed and Independent Arts' is a series of lectures, demonstrations, and discussions on backgrounds and contemporary trends in music, architecture, crafts, and literature in some of the Reformed and Independent churches and cultures derived from their influence. The sessions are designed for churches and universities. No previous background or experience in these subjects is needed.
A performance of a J.S. Bach cantata in the context of a Lutheran Vespers Service in Mansfield College chapel will be given by the Carillon Singers at 8 p.m. on Sunday, 14 March.
C. THOMPSON and C. BROCK
21 Jan.: `Isaac Watts's use of the Bible.'
J. WYATT
28 Jan.: `Bunyan's Pilgrim's
Progress.'
K. REYMAIER
4 Feb.: `Music reflecting theology.'
D. FOX
11 Feb.: `Welsh valleys hymns.'
J. CREASER
18 Feb.: `Milton's Paradise
Lost.'
M. HEBBLETHWAITE
25 Feb.: To be announced. (Yvonne Workman
Lecture)
C. BINFIELD
4 Mar.: `English nonconformist
architecture.'
E. STEVENSON
11 Mar.: `Hungarian reformed arts and crafts.'
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S. PARNELL, Cape Town
19 Jan.: `Issues in integrating environment
into development planning: reflections from Cape Town.'
R. ORAM, Director, Commuter Check Services Corporation, New
Jersey
26 Jan.: `Creating a shift to more
environmentally friendly transport: the case for tax-free
travel vouchers.'
W. BECKERMAN
2 Feb.: `Intergenerational justice and the
environment.'
L. MICHAELIS, OECD
9 Feb.: `Environmental policy for social
innovation.'
G. DUTFIELD
16 Feb.: `Biodiversity, conservation, and
intellectual property rights.'
J. MARQUAND, Project Leader, Management Development for Tomsk
Ecological Committee
23 Feb.: `Developing competence in Russian
environmental management.'
D. LEWIS, Secretary, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
2 Mar.: `Setting environmental standards.'
R. WELFORD, Huddersfield
9 Mar.: `Business and ethics.'
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Convener: Z. Zhang, D.Phil., Wai Seng Research Fellow in Asia Pacific Studies.
DR C.Z. LIN
9.45 a.m.: `China's economic reform: a special
survey.'
P. NOLAN, Cambridge
11 a.m.: `New developments in China's economic
reform.'
P. FERDINAND, Warwick
12 noon: `China's reform in comparative
perspectives.'
U. DADUSH, World Bank
2 p.m.: `The Asian financial crisis: the roles
of China and Japan.'
DR Z. ZHANG
3.15 p.m.: `China's foreign exchange reform:
lessons for Asia.'
Z. CHEN, IMF
4.15 p.m.: `Financial issues in China.'
DR W. ZHANG
5.15 p.m.: `Foreign direct investment in China:
Asian contribution.'
A. HUSSAIN, LSE
10.45 a.m.: `Social security in China in
retrospect and prospect.'
G. MATTSON
11.45 a.m.: `Intellectual property rights: a
comparative study of China and some other Asian
countries.'
M. YAHUDA, LSE
2 p.m.: `The international politics of China in
the reform years.'
J. FEWSMITH, Boston
3.15 p.m.: `Evolution of Chinese domestic
politics and China's integration in the world community.'
M. GAO, Tamsania
4.15 p.m.: `Village politics in China: a
comparison with other Asian countries.'
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DR M. WASEEM, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad
19 Jan.: `Pakistan and India: pasts and
futures.'
S. HAZAREESINGH, Warwick
26 Jan.: `Ideas of urban citizenship: the
agitation for civic rights and colonial resistance in Bombay
City, 1905–25.'
S. SULTAN, Cambridge
2 Feb.: `Poverty, gender, and resistance:
political action among women in a squatter settlement in
Dhaka.'
S. SHANI-GOLDWASSER, Cambridge
9 Feb.: `The resurgence of ethno-Hinduism in
India: a case study of Ahmedabad in the 1980s.'
A. PATHAK, Edinburgh
16 Feb.: `Forests, law, and state in colonial
India.'
K. BHAUMIK
23 Feb.: `From silents to talkies: capital,
class, and nation in the Indian cinema.'
PRS presentations, 2 March: (1) C. MONTGOMERY, (2) B. DE
(1) `British Indian military history in the early nineteenth
century.'
(2) `Bengal in the Second World War.'
PRS presentations, 9 March: (1) S. SHEIKH, (2) S. JAYAWARDENE-
PILLAI
(1) `Social and political history of Gujarat in the fifteenth
century.'
(2) `History of British–Indian architecture in the
nineteenth century.'
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MS M. NEVILLE-ROLFE, Regional Director, Government Office for the
North-West
27 Jan.: `Labour's regional policies: sea
change or just moving the deck chairs?'
DAME STELLA RIMINGTON, DCB, former Director General, the Security
Service
10 Feb.: `Managing secrecy.'
MS P. DENHAM, former Regional Director, Government Office for the
North-East
17 Feb.: `From industrial policy to the
regeneration of north-east England.'
BARONESS PARK OF MONMOUTH
5 Mar.: `Difficult places.'
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DR V. FITZGERALD
19 Jan.: `The security of international
finance.'
PROFESSOR J. KAY
26 Jan.: `Global business, global
economics?'
DR S. WILLETT
2 Feb.: `Physical insecurity: the globalisation
of the means of war.'
PROFESSOR I. BROWNLIE
9 Feb.: `The peaceful settlement of disputes
between states and the problem of globalisation.'
PROFESSOR R. COHEN
Thur. 18 Feb.: `Labour in an age of global
insecurity.'
PROFESSOR S. AMIN
23 Feb.: `Economic globalism and political
universalism—converging or diverging?'
DR W. SACHS
2 Mar.: `The environmental impact of
globalisation.'
PROFESSOR D. HELD
9 Mar.: `The transformation of the political
community.'
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K. NEWPORT
27 Jan.: `Charles Wesley's sermons.'
J. ENGLISH
24 Feb.: `John Wesley and politics.'
K. TILLER
24 Mar.: `Church and chapel in Oxfordshire.'
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Subject: ` "Academics like to fiddle": design tools for academics to create teaching through multimedia.'
The message must be sent to: oxtalent@oucs.ox.ac.uk , with subject `OxT S&T'99 entry', and must contain: the URL of the Web site(s); a paragraph describing each entry; the name(s) of the person(s) who created the site; and the name(s) of the presenter(s) at the `Show and Tell' event. Thee submission deadline is noon on Friday, 26 February.
Information on OxTalent's events can be found at http://info.ox.ac.uk/oxtalent/.
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DR A. FRANKLIN
Thur. 4 Feb.: `The Bodleian Library's
collection of printed ballads, seventeenth to nineteenth
centuries.'
DR C. BROWN
Wed. 17 Feb.: `Van Dyck's portrait of
Franciscus Junius in the Bodleian Library.'
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Admission to the 10 February meeting will be by ticket only, at a cost of £8: enquiries should be made to Oxford 377479. Admission to other lectures costs for £1 for members of the association, £2 for non-members.
Further information about the association may be obtained by sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to Professor J.R. Woodhouse, 47 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF.
DR E. SENICI
Wed. 3 Feb., St Anne's College: `Verdi's
Requiem, an introduction.'
(Note: the Requiem will be
performed in the Sheldonian Theatre on 20 March by the
Oxford Harmonic Society)
DR A. MILNER
Wed. 10 Feb., Halifax House, South Parks Road:
`Immigrant grapes—the cultivation of foreign varieties
in Italy.' (Tutored wine-tasting)
DR M. KATRIZKY
Tue. 16 Feb., Pauling Institute for Human Sciences,
58 Banbury Road: `Italian mountebanks in the time of
Ben Jonson.'
DR J. STRUPP, St Anne's College
Wed. 3 Mar.: `Il giardino dei Tarocchi: fantasy
gardening at Obertello.'
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Wed. 27 Jan., 8 p.m., St Anne's College: `The mass media in Italy after Berlusconi.' (Conversazione)
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Persons travelling from outside Oxford are asked to confirm one or two days in advance, with 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 C. WARBRICK, Durham
20 Jan.: `The enforcement of international
criminal law.'
DR V. LOWE, Cambridge
3 Feb.: `The International Law Commission and
state responsibility: wrongfulness or liability?'
PROFESSOR J. MERRILLS, Sheffield
17 Feb.: `International boundary disputes in
theory and practice.'
JUDGE R. MAY, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia
Fri. 19 Feb., 5 p.m.: `The International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: recent
developments.'
F. WEBBER, barrister specialising in immigration and refugee law
3 Mar.: `Refugee law in UK courts: recent
developments.'
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D.H. JOHNSON, James Currey Publishers
20 Jan.: `Religion and communal conflict in the
Sudan: the war against paganism.'
PROFESSOR D. BELSHAW, Emeritus Professor, UEA
17 Feb.: `The strategic challenge for the
churches and Christian non-governmental organisations:
poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa.'
DR S. VON SICARD, Centre for the Study of Islam and
Christian–Muslim Relations, Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham
17 Mar.: `Mission and political power: UMCA
missionaries and their relations to Muslims in Zanzibar
1864–85.'
DR D. GAITSKELL, SOAS
21 Apr.: `Beyond "devout
domesticity": five female mission strategies in
Southern Africa 1998–9.'
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