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25 Jan.: `The end of the poem: "The Literary Life" by Ted Hughes.'
2 May: `The end of the poem: "The Mountain" by Robert Frost.'
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21 Jan.: `Arms and the Man.'
28 Jan.: `Work and vocation.'
4 Feb.: `Wealth and possessions.'
11 Feb.: `Honour and reputation.'
18 Feb.: `Friendship and sociability.'
25 Feb.: `Last things.'
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Professor Oakley will be available to meet students in the Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on 28 October and 4, 11, and 18 November.
21 Oct.: `Lovejoy's legacy: history of ideas, history of traditions, the Conciliarist case.'
28 Oct.: `Gerson's hope: Conciliarism in the classical era.'
4 Nov.: `Cajetan's conundrum: Almain, Mair, and the divines of Paris.'
11 Nov.: `Bellarmine's nightmare: from James I, Sarpi, and Richer to Bossuet and the Gallican Orthodoxy.'
18 Nov.: `De Maistre's denial: Febronius, Maret, and the triumph of Ultramontanism.'
25 Nov.: `Democritus's dream: Conciliarism in the history of political thought.'
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12 Oct.: `Adam and Eve.'
19 Oct.: `Imago Dei: religion and the shape of equality.'
26 Oct.: `Equality as premise and constraint.'
2 Nov.: ` "Disproportionate and unequal possession".'
9 Nov.: ` "By Our Saviour's Interpretation".'
16 Nov.: `Tolerating atheists?'
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PROFESSOR DIANA RIGG, Mr John Peter, and others
21 Oct.: `Acting in comedy.'
PROFESSOR DIANA RIGG, Miss Thelma Holt, and others
Mon. 8 Nov.: `Acting in tragedy.'
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C.J. COUSINS, Chief Planning Officer, Oxfordshire County Council
15 Oct.: `The planning of Oxfordshire in the twenty-
first century.'
DR H. LAWTON SMITH
22 Oct.: `High-tech industry in Oxfordshire: a success
story?'
N. LAMBERT, RSPB
29 Oct.: `Otmoor and the RSPB nature reserve.'
J.G. WALLACE
5 Nov.: `Two hundred years of Oxford weather
watching.'
DR A.G. PARKER, Oxford Brookes
12 Nov.: `The vegetation history of the Oxford region:
15,000 years to the present.'
PROFESSOR W.P. BRADSHAW
19 Nov.: `Transport policy in Oxford: 1899 to the
present.' (Discussant: Dr J.M. Preston)
DR D.I. SCARGILL
26 Nov.: `Oxford, 1899–1999.'
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Convener: A. Lemon, MA, D.Phil, University Lecturer (CUF) in Geography.
PROFESSOR W. BEINART
11 Oct.: `South Africa 1994–9: transformations
and continuities.'
DR A. LESTER, Surrey
18 Oct.: `South Africa in transition: an historical
perspective.'
L. WOTSHELA
25 Oct.: `The local dynamics of territorial
manipulation under apartheid: an Eastern Cape example.'
DR D. SIMON, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
1 Nov.: `Environment and development: discourse and
policy in post-apartheid South Africa.'
L. STEVENS
8 Nov.: `Housing in South Africa: what the landless
really think.'
DR P.DALEY
15 Nov.: `Environment and development: discourse and
policy in Namibia.'
DR LEMON
22 Nov.: `Reflections on the 1999 election in South
Africa.'
DR R. GIBB, Plymouth
29 Nov.: `Regional implications for southern Africa of
a free trade agreement with the European Union.'
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PROFESSOR U. HANNERZ, Stockholm
14 Oct.: `General introduction to creolization.'
DR C. STEWART, University College, London
21 Oct.: `Creolization: genealogy and destiny.'
DR K.F. OLWIG, Copenhagen
28 Oct.: `From creolized colonial order to ethnicized
nation state: Caribbean migration experiences.'
DR D. CLEARY, Harvard
4 Nov.: `Creole nation: race, nationalism and social
theory in Brazil.'
DR B. RAMPTON AND DR R. HARRISS, Thames Valley University, London
11 Nov.: `Creolization, language ideologies, and
interaction.'
PROFESSOR D. YON, York University, Canada
18 Nov.: `Making identities in global times:
creolization and the elusive cultures of youth.'
PROFESSOR S. PALMIÉ, University of Maryland
25 Nov.: `Creolizing theory: Fernando Ortiz and the
cooking of history.'
PROFESSOR T.H. ERIKSEN, Oslo
2 Dec.: `Mauritian creoledom and the concept of
creolization.'
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Conveners: Shirley Ardener, Ian Fowler, and Lidia Sciama.
PROFESSOR W. JAMES
15 Oct.: `Fatherhood reassessed in the light of
reproductive technology.'
DR C. BAWA YAMBA, Uppsala
22 Oct.: `Father–child relations: Ghana and
Sweden contrasted.'
DR R. GOODMAN
29 Oct.: `Lone fathers, absent fathers, non-existent
fathers: the crisis of fatherhood in Japan.'
R. MCKECHNIE, Bath Spa University College
5 Nov.: `Nationalism and fatherhood in Corsica.'
E. SHACKLE, Plater College
12 Nov.: `Celibate fathers: the priesthood.'
DR R. SIMPSON, Durham
19 Nov.: `Sperm: the social things of life.'
DR A. AL-SHAHI
26 Nov.: `Affection or duty? Fatherhood in Northern
Sudan.'
DR J. LITTLEWOOD, South Bank
3 Dec.: `Categorical confusion in the delivery room:
the disappearing dad.'
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Convener: Dr Soraya Tremayne.
DR P. KREAGER
11 Oct.: `Objectifying demographic identities: some
Indian examples.'
R. KHADDURI, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
18 Oct.: `An anthropological analysis: social
categories in reproductive health.'
E. ROCKHILL, Cambridge
25 Oct.: `Women's reproductive health and motherhood
in Russia.'
DR C. PANTER-BRICK, Durham
1 Nov.: `Himalayan workloads, lactation, and
reproductive ecology.'
S. KABIR, Population Control
8 Nov.: `The effect of health sector reform on the
reproductive health of women in Bangladesh.'
DR M. PARKER, Brunel
15 Nov.: `Female circumcision and cultures of
sexuality.'
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MR P. KIRKPATRICK, Addenbrooke's Hospital
12 Nov.: `Surgery for stroke prevention.'
DR N. WOOD, Institute of Neurology
17 Dec.: `Neurogenetics.'
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DR K. BHATIA, Institute of Neurology
21 Jan.: `Tardive dystonia and other drug induced
movement disorders.'
PROFESSOR N. SCOLDING, Frenchay Hospital
18 Feb.: `Prospects for regenerative treatments in
multiple sclerosis.'
PROFESSOR J.W. SANDER, Epilepsy Research Group, Queen Square
10 Mar.: `Epilepsy management.'
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DR A. RIEFFLIN, Hyptertension and Diabetes Research Unit, Buehl, Germany
6 Oct.: `Myocardial energy metabolism assessed by NMR
spectroscope.'
DR M. VANDERPUMP, Royal Free Hospital
13 Oct.: `Is there an association between autoimmune
thyroid disease and cardiovascular disease?'
PROFESSOR K. CHATTERJEE, Cambridge
20 Oct.: `Nuclear hormone receptors and human
disease.'
DR E. DUNCAN, Wellcome Unit
27 Nov.: ` "... and the hip bone's connected to
the...": a linkage study in osteoporosis.'
DR P. THORNALLY, Essex
3 Nov.: `The development of diabetic complications:
unifying theories of their biochemical basis.'
PROFESSOR F.G.R. FOWKES, Edinburgh
10 Nov.: `Peripheral vascular disease: epidemiology
and the diabetic enigma.'
PROFESSOR J. BLUNDELL, Leeds
17 Nov.: `Dietary fat and obesity—risk factors
and risky facts!'
PROFESSOR P. DONNELLY
24 Nov.: `Statistical challenges in gene hunting.'
PROFESSOR S. BLOOM, Imperial College School of Medicine
1 Dec.: `Update on appetite regulation.'
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DR F. COTTER, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
12 Oct.: `Does chromosome instability cause CLL?'
PROFESSOR M. GREAVES, Institute of Child Health, London
23 Nov.: `Molecular genetics and natural history of
childhood leukaemia.'
PROFESSOR D. LINCH, University College Hospital, London
14 Dec.: To be announced.
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DR T. LITTLEWOOD, Department of Haematology, the John Radcliffe Hospital
26 Oct.: `Erythropoietin in the management of anaemia
in patients with haematological disorders.'
DR H. SEGAL, Oxford Haemophilia Centre, Churchill Hospital
2 Nov.: `Update on Antiphospholipid Antibodies.'
DR C. HARRISON, Department of Haematology, University College
Hospital,London
9 Nov.: `Biological heterogeneity in essential
thrombocythaemia.'
DR S. KNOWLES, National Blood Service, London
16 Nov.: `Proficiency in blood group serology: is it
good enough?'
DR D. ROBERTS, Oxford Blood Transfusion, the John Radcliffe Hospital
30 Nov.: `Novel methods of immunosuppression.'
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Conveners: G. Bacciagaluppi, J.N. Butterfield, and S.W. Saunders.
PROFESSOR D. HOME, Bose Institute, Calcutta
Fri.,15 Oct.: `New facets of quantum contextuality for
a single particle.'
DR M. REDEI, Eotvos University, Budapest
21 Oct.: `Reichenbach's Common Cause Principle.'
MS K. BRADING
4 Nov.: `Gauge symmetry and Noether's theorem.'
DR J. CHRISTIAN
11 Nov.: `Evenhanded quantum gravity v.
the world as a hologram.'
PROFESSOR R. CLIFTON AND H. HALVORSON, Pittsburgh
18 Nov.: `Bell correlations in the vacuum: on a
conjecture of David Malament.'
DR B. KAY, York
25 Nov.: `What is the entropy of a closed system and
how does its wave function decohere? An answer from quantum
gravity.'
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Conveners: J.R. Ockendon, MA, D.Phil., Fellow of St Catherine's College, S.D. Howison, MA, M.Sc., D.Phil., and S.J. Chapman.
PROFESSOR J. BOOKER, Cornell
14 Oct.: `Never the twain shall meet: separating solid
surfaces with fluid films (from engine bearings to human
joints).'
PROFESSOR D.S BROOMHEAD, UMIST
21 Oct.: `Modelling digital communications.'
DR H. AHN, OCIAM
28 Oct.: `Calibration, mis-calibration, and re-
calibration.'
DR D. CROWDY, Imperial College
4 Nov.: `Hele-Shaw flows and water waves.'
DR A. OLDE DAALHUIS, Edinburgh
18 Nov.: `On the asymptotic and numerical solution of
ordinary differential equations.'
PROFESSOR J. FEHRIBACH, TU Delft
25 Nov.: `Electrochemical potential modelling of
molten carbonate fuel cell cathodes.'
DR D. SALAZAR, OCIAM
2 Dec.: `Asymptotic methods for optical fibres.'
PROFESSOR R. CAFLISCH, UCLA
Fri.,10 Dec.: To be announced.
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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.
E. SOUTHWORTH
12 Oct.: `Love, art, and religion in Galdós's
Tristana.'
N. CAPDEVILA-ARGÜELLES
2 Nov.: `Bildungsroman literario y
transgenérico de la voz de Nuria Amat: viaje al "estado
de novela".'
M. TOLEDO-VIGUERA
9 Nov.: `Post-Cold War Cuba and the narrative of the 1990s.'
DR M. SMALLMAN
16 Nov.: `Almudena Grandes' novel Malena es un
nombre de tango.'
DR M. FLITTER, Birmingham
23 Nov.: `Imagining Spain: romantic aesthetics,
Castricia ideology, and the construction of a nation.'
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Conveners: Professor T.F. Earle, Dr Claudia Pazos Alonso, and Dr Madalena Gonçalves.
Subject: `The cannibal metaphor in Machado de Assis.'
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Conveners: R.J.W. Evans, MA, D.Phil., Regius Professor of Modern History; D.A. Parrott, MA, D.Phil., and J.C. Robertson, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturers (CUF) in Modern History.
The following seminars will be given at 2.15 p.m on Fridays, weeks 1–6, and at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays, weeks 7 and 8, in the Modern History Faculty.
DR J. SHAW
Fri., 15 Oct.: `Litigation, trade identities, and
economic decline in early modern Venice.'
T. WAHNBAECK
Fri., 22 Oct.: `The luxury debate and the development
of political economy in the Milanese Enlightenment.'
PROFESSOR R. COOPER
Fri., 29 Oct.: `The Roman triumph in renaissance
France, 1515–53.'
H. BRAUN
Fri., 5 Nov.: `Outmanoeuvering the Second Scholastic:
Juan de Mariana, Augustinianism, and Classical rhetoric.'
W. WYPORSKA
Fri., 12 Nov.: `The witches of Grodzisk, Greater
Poland.'
E. LORIMER
Fri., 19 Nov.: `Loyal subjects or rebels? Huguenot
political representation in France, 1560–1629.'
DR M. WINGENS, Utrecht
Wed., 24 Nov.: `Higher education in the United
Provinces in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.'
DR L. ROPER, Royal Holloway, University of London
Wed., 1 Dec.: `Evil imaginings and fantasies: child
witches in eighteenth-century Augsburg.'
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Conveners: R.R. Davies, MA, D.Phil., Chichele Professor of Medieval History, and C.P. Wormald, MA, University Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History.
J. SMITH, St Andrews
11 Oct.: `From antiquity to the Middle Ages: a women's
perspective.'
R. JAYATILAKA, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici
18 Oct.: `Get thee to a nunnery ... Adaptations of the
Benedictine rule for women in late Anglo-Saxon England.'
D. CROUCH, Scarborough
25 Oct.: `Discovering an agenda: English kings and
their aristocracies in the twelfth century.'
H. DOHERTY
1 Nov.: `The Angevins in north-west England.'
N. VINCENT, Canterbury
8 Nov.: `The charters of Henry II: some
implications.'
D. GRIFFITHS
15 Nov.: `Burhs and border warfare: late Saxon
strategies in north-west England.'
M. BULL, Bristol
22 Nov.: `Historiographical discourse and miracula:
criticism of Henry II's expedition to Ireland in the miracles of St
Thomas Becket.'
L. ABRAMS, Aberystwyth
29 Nov.: `Converting Scandinavians.'
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Convener: R. Fox, MA, D.Phil., Professor of the History of Science.
The following seminars will be given at 5 p.m. on Thursdays (unless otherwise indicated) in the History of Science and Technology Seminar Room, Modern History Faculty.
PROFESSOR J. DURANT, Science Museum, London
14 Oct.: `Past and present: towards a contemporary
history of biotechnology in Europe.'
A. O'SULLIVAN
21 Oct.: `Creating a culture of innovation: Cambridge
physiology 1894–1914.'
PROFESSOR R.A. BUCHANAN, Bath
28 Oct.: `I.K. Brunel and the heroic age of British
engineering.'
PROFESSOR J.H. BROOKE, Harris Manchester
4 Nov.: ` "Wise men nowadays think
otherwise": John Ray, natural theology, and the meanings of
anthropocentrism.'
PROFESSOR H. GATTI, University of Rome `La Sapienza'
Fri., 12 Nov.: `Giordano Bruno's cosmology at
Oxford.'
PROFESSOR W.B. CARLSON, University of Virginia
18 Nov.: `Invention and illusion: Tesla, his backers,
and the electric motor.'
DR J. HAMILTON, Birmingham
Fri., 26 Nov.: `Making connections: science, art, and
society, in nineteenth-century London.'
DR J. HODGE, Leeds
Wed., 1 Dec.: `Charles Lyell's great change of mind
about the science of geology.'
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Conveners: A.J. Nicholls, B.Phil., MA, Special Lecturer in Modern European History and H. Pogge von Strandmann, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Modern History.
Subject: `Britain's exploitation of occupied Germany for scientific and technical intelligence on the Soviet Union.'
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DR A. GREGORY
15 Oct.: `The Empire's dead and Metropolitan
commenmoration.'
DR C. DEWEY, Leicester
22 Oct.: `The last battles for British India: why the
Sikhs nearly won the Anglo-Sikh wars 1846–9.'
Note: For this week only, the seminar will be at 3.30, to be
followed by a reception at Rhodes House to mark the publication of the
last three volumes of the Oxford History of the British
Empire, to which all present at the seminar are invited.
DR D. LOWRY, Oxford Brookes
29 Oct.: `The global impact of the South African
War.'
PROFESSOR K. JEFFERY, University of Ulster
5 Nov.: `British wars of the twentieth century and the
construction of an imperial identity.'
DR N. RODGER, National Maritime Museum
12 Nov.: `Navy and Empire: cause and effect?'
DR A. JACKSON
19 Nov.: `African soldiers and imperial authorities:
tension and unrest among African soldiers and British military and
Colonial authorities.'
PROFESSOR C. BRIDGE, Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies,
London
26 Nov.: `Australia's Imperial Wars,
1899–1945.'
PROFESSOR D. KILLINGRAY, Goldsmith's College, University of London
3 Dec.: `Colonial warriors in the Second World War.'
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Conveners: J. Cardwell, Modern History Faculty and J. Raven, Mansfield College.
The following seminars will be given at 5 p.m. in Mansfield College, except for the meeting on 18 November, which will be in the History Faculty Computing Room.
J. POOLEY, Surrey History Service
Wed., 20 Oct.: `Rebuilding a printing house: the
Nichols archive project and its value for historians of the book
trade.'
M. ECONOMOU, Glasgow University
Thurs., 18 Nov.: `Euesperides: mapping an ancient
Greek colony in North Africa.'
M. TURNER, Bodleian Library
Thurs., 2 Dec.: `London book trades: a biographical
database, 1557–1830.'
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Convener: B.E. Shafer, MA, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government.
PROFESSOR R. FORMISANO, Florida
12 Oct.: `Substance and structure, 1775–1820.'
PROFESSOR D. WALDSTREICHER, Yale
19 Oct.: `Substance and structure, 1790–1840.'
PROFESSOR M. HOLT, Virginia
26 Oct.: `Substance and structure, 1840–85.'
PROFESSOR J. SILBEY, Cornell
2 Nov.: `Substance and structure, 1820–65.'
PROFESSOR P. ARGERSINGER, University of Southern Illinois
9 Nov.: `Substance and structure, 1865–1910.'
PROFESSOR A. BADGER, Cambridge
16 Nov.: `Substance and structure, 1910–55.'
PROFESSOR R. JENSEN, University of Illinois at Chicago
23 Nov.: `Substance and structure, 1885–1930.'
PROFESSOR J. PATTERSON, Brown University
30 Nov.: `Substance and structure, 1930–80.'
PROFESSOR SHAFER
Wed. 1 Dec.: `Substance and structure,
1955–2000.'
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Subject: `Queer music orientalism.'
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Conveners: M.D. Goodman, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Jewish Studies, and G. Vermes, MA, Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies.
DR J. DUFF
12 Oct.: `Authorship and authority in first-century
Judaism.'
PROFESSOR Z. RUBIN, Tel Aviv
19 Oct.: `The Jews in southern Arabia in late
antiquity: the reflection of history in Islamic traditions.'
DR S. PEARCE, Southampton
26 Oct.: `Josephus on credibility.'
PROFESSOR G. HATA, Tama Art University
2 Nov.: `Eusebius and Josephus.'
PROFESSOR P. DAVIES, Sheffield
9 Nov.: `Messiahs at Qumran.'
PROFESSOR P. ALEXANDER, Manchester
16 Nov.: `The Community rule and the
Didache.'
DR T. ILAN, Hebrew University
23 Nov.: `Notes on work-in-progress on a corpus of
Jewish names in the Graeco-Roman period.'
DR A. SAMELY, Manchester
30 Nov.: `New and repeated information in the halakhic
discourse of the Mishnah.'
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Conveners: P.G.H. Sandars, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Experimental Physics, and J.I. Silk, MA, D.Phil., Savilian Professor of Astronomy.
PROFESSOR F.W. TAYLOR
22 Oct.: `Life in the universe as a problem in
physics.'
PROFESSOR M. WARD, Leicester
29 Oct.: `Gamma ray bursts.'
PROFESSOR P.L. KNIGHT, Imperial College, London
12 Nov.: `Atomic teletransportation: can Alice beam
Scotty to Bob? Or: More things to do with cavity QED.'
H. JONES
19 Nov.: `Turbulence, explosions, supercurrents,
Lorentz, amperes, strength—things that are needed, or put up
with, to get world-beating magnetic fields for research.'
PROFESSOR V. RUBAKOV, Russian Academy of Sciences
26 Nov.: `Towards understanding the origin of
matter–antimatter asymmetry in the universe.'
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Convener: M.S. Child, Coulson Professor of Theoretical Chemistry.
PROFESSOR BERATAN, Pittsburg
11 Oct.: `Protein and DNA mediated electron transport:
a theoretical perspective.'
DR M. WILSON
18 Oct.: `Networks, chains, rings, and holes:
intermediate-range order in ionic systems.'
PROFESSOR H.R. KRISHNAMURTHY, Indian Institute of Physics, Bangalore
25 Oct.: `Dynamical cluster approximations for
strongly correlated electrons.'
DR J. ROBBINS, Bristol
1 Nov.: `Pauli exclusion principle from non-
relativistic quantum mechanics.'
PROFESSOR B.T. PICKUP, Sheffield
8 Nov.: `Polymer chain conformations: what can theory
add to experiment?'
DR A. JEPHCOAT
15 Nov.: `Pressure: molecules to metals and vice
versa.'
PROFESSOR P.W. FOWLER, University of Exeter
22 Nov.: `Fullerene derivatives: isomers, isomers, and
more isomers!'
DR M.P. JACOBSON, MIT
29 Nov.: `Acetylene at the threshold of
isomerisation.'
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Convener: M.L.H. Green, MA, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry.
DR J.P. DAY, Manchester
11 Oct.: `Application of accelerator mass spectrometry
to biological and environmental chemistry.'
DR P. SCOTT, Warwick
18 Oct.: `Stereoselective inorganic and organic
synthesis using biaryl ligands and transition metals.'
DR R.E. MORRIS, St Andrews
25 Oct.: `From solids to molecules...and back
again.'
DR D.S. WRIGHT, Cambridge
1 Nov.: `Imido and phosphinidene anions: applications
and co-ordination chemistry.'
DR S.P.J. ALBRACHT, E.C.Slater Institute, Amsterdam
8 Nov.: `Activation of H2 in nature, an
ancient recipe: Fe, CO, often Ni, some CN, and protein.'
PROFESSOR K. VRIEZE, Amsterdam
Thur. 11 Nov.: `Tension in Organometallic Chemistry'
(Royal Society of Chemistry Nyholm Lecture)
PROFESSOR M. BOCHMANN, Leeds
15 Nov.: `Polymerisation catalysis with highly
electrophilic organometallic systems.'
PROFESSOR H.D. DALTON, Warwick
22 Nov.: `Biology and chemistry of methane
oxidation.'
PROFESSOR M. WAIS HOSSEINI, Strasbourg
29 Nov.: `Organic and inorganic molecular
networks.'
DR S. DUCKETT, York
6 Dec.: `Reaction chemistry of metal hydrides: new
perspectives through parahydrogen enhanced NMR spectroscopy.'
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Conveners: H. Tadros and A.E. Lynas-Gray.
DR M. KUNZ
12 Oct.: `CMB anistropies from scaling seeds.'
DR J. MAGORRIAN, Institute of Astronomy
19 Oct.: `Super-massive black holes in nearby
galaxies.'
DR J. DUNLOP, Edinburgh
26 Oct.: `Quasars and the formation and evolution of
elliptical galaxies.'
DR A. BLAIN, Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge
2 Nov.: `The history of energy generation in
galaxies.'
DR E. FORD, Amsterdam
9 Nov.: `Fast X-ray signals: probing the region around
neutron stars.'
DR N. ACHILLEOS, University College, London
16 Nov.: `Global modelling of Jupiter's
thermosphere/ionosphere.'
DR W. HILLEBRANDT, Max Planck Institut für Astronomie, Garching
23 Nov.: `Thermonuclear supernovae: do they measure
the expansion rate and geometry of the universe?'
PROFESSOR A. BLANCHARD, Observatoire de Strasbourg
30 Nov.: `Towards the determination of cosmological
parameters: the Cosmic Triangle revisited.'
DR U. SELJAK, Princeton
7 Dec.: `High precision cosmology: galaxies versus
weak lensing.'
DR M. VAN DER KLIS, Amsterdam
14 Dec.: `Millisecond oscillations in X-ray binaries.'
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PROFESSOR R.G. COMPTON
11 Oct.: `Recent innovations in hydrodynamic
voltammetry.'
DR A. PETFORD-LONG
18 Oct.: `The development of hard-disk read-heads: how
can electron microscopy help.'
PROFESSOR J. W. EMSLEY, Southampton
25 Oct.: `Determining structure and orientational
order from the NMR of liquid crystalline samples.'
PROFESSOR J.D. SCHIFRIN, Liverpool
1 Nov. `Structure and properties of nanoparticle
networks.'
PROFESSOR P.J. DERRICK, Warwick
8 Nov.: `Gaseous macromolecules—no longer wholly a
figment of the imagination.'
PROFESSOR B.J. HOWARD
15 Nov.: `What does a molecule really feel when it
touches another?'
DR S.R. MEECH, UEA
22 Nov.: `Ultrafast chemistry in the condensed phase:
an old story and some new directions.'
PROFESSOR E.A. HINDS, Sussex
29 Nov.: `The physics of cold atoms.'
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PROFESSOR K. REID
15 Oct.: `Collectins—mammalian lectins involved
in innate immunity in lung surfactant and blood.'
DR Y. BOYD, MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell
22 Oct.: `Tattered and X-linked dominant
chondrodysplasia punctata are defects in sterol biosynthesis.'
PROFESSOR L. CASSELTON
29 Oct.: `"Sexes" by the thousand: the
molecular basis of mate recognition in the mushroom
Coprinus.'
DR S. THOMPSON, Guy's, King's, and St Thomas's Medical School, London
5 Nov.: `BDNF modulates nociceptive sensory inputs in
the spinal cord.'
PROFESSOR C. DOBSON, Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences
12 Nov.: `Protein misfolding and its links with human
disease.'
DR J. HODGKIN, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
19 Nov.: `Immortality and infection in the nematode
C.elegans.'
DR A. STOKER, Neural Development Unit, Institute of Child Health,
University College, London
26 Nov.: `The involvement of receptor tyrosine
phosphatases in retinotectal development.' (Jenkinson
Seminar)
DR S. SWEENEY, Department of Genetics, Cambridge
3 Dec.: `Forward and reverse genetics at the
Drosophila embryonic neuromuscular junction.'
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DR M. EIMER, Cambridge
19 Oct.: `Response activation and inhibition elicited
by subliminal stimuli.'
PROFESSOR A. DERRINGTON, Nottingham
9 Nov.: `Visual receptive fields in a changing
world.'
DR S. DAKIN, Institute of Ophthalmology, London
16 Nov.: `Visual coding of word shape.'
(McDonnell–Pew Seminar)
PROFESSOR J. WARDLE, Royal Free and University College Medical School,
London
23 Nov.: `Psycho-social aspects of cancer screening
participation.'
DR G. DAVIS, Birkbeck College, London
30 Nov.: `Object-based limitations upon visual
awareness.'
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Conveners: B.E. Shafer, MA, A.W. Mellon Professor of American Government, and J.W. Ceaser, MA, John M. Olin Visiting Professor of American Government.
PROFESSOR SHAFER
20 Oct.: `The transformation of Southern politics,
revisited: the House of Representatives as a window.'
PROFESSOR J.R. POLE
3 Nov.: `Publius, history, and strategy: the
Federalist papers.'
DR K.T. GAUBATZ
17 Nov.: `Opinion polling as a dependent variable:
assessing the assessment of American attitudes toward intervention
in Bosnia.'
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Conveners: Paul A. David, Professor of Economics and Economic History, Jane Humphries, Reader in Economic History, and Avner Offer, Reader in Recent Social and Economic History.
P.A. DAVID
12 Oct.: `The dynamics of productivity surges:
electrification in the inter-war period re-examined.'
H.-J. VOTH, Cambridge
19 Oct.: `The longest year: new estimates of working
time in industrialising Britain, 1760–1830.'
T. LEUNIG, LSE
26 Oct.: `Explaining Anglo-American productivity
differentials .1900: the role of immigrant labour and
on-the-job learning in a US cotton mill.'
L. TSAI, LSE
2 Nov.: `Technology and location of the American
automobile industry.'
S. JOHANSSON, Cambridge
9 Nov.: `Did England have one mortality transition or
several?'
N. FERGUSON
16 Nov.: `The political economy of the international
bond market, 1850–1914.'
O. GRANT
23 Nov.: ` "Few Better Farmers in Europe":
productivity, technology, and change in Junker agriculture,
1870–1913.'
A. CROCKETT
30 Nov.: `Supply-side economics or secularisation?
Religious change in England and Wales in 1851.'
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Convener: K.T. Ware, MA, D.Phil., Spalding Lecturer in Eastern Orthodox Studies, Pembroke College.
M. PARGETER
14 Oct.: `Why does China persecute the faithful?'
THE REVD CANON M. BOURDEAUX
28 Oct.: `The Encyclopaedia of Religion in Russia.'
P. COLQUHOUN
11 Nov.: `The churches' role in Romanian health
care.'
B. BJELAJAC
25 Nov.: `Contemporary Yugoslav life.'
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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 WARE
19 Oct.: `The Greek liturgical texts.'
DR E.J. YARNOLD
26 Oct.: `The Latin fathers.'
DR BROCK
2 Nov.: `The Syriac tradition.'
DR S. BHATTACHARJI
9 Nov.: `The Medieval West.'
PROFESSOR A.M. ALLCHIN
23 Nov.: `Twentieth-century poetry.'
BISHOP BASIL OF SERGIEVO
30 Nov.: `The Inter-Testamental material.'
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Conveners: Professor J.H. Brooke, Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, and Dr Margaret Yee.
PROFESSOR BROOKE
14 Oct.: `The Sacred in the Secular? Proving the
relevance of religion to the sciences.'
DR C. DEANE-DRUMMOND, Chester College
28 Oct.: `Biotechnology, ecology, and wisdom.'
PROFESSOR J. BRYANT, Exeter
11 Nov.: `The genes have spoken, now send in the
clones.'
PROFESSOR R. HARRE, Georgetown University, Washington DC
25 Nov.: `Natural religion and its critics.'
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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 BROCK
20 Oct.: `The eschatological Bridal Chamber in the
Syriac tradition.'
DR WARE
3 Nov.: `Debates about the eucharistic sacrifice in
twelfth-century Constantinople.'
M. ACCAD
17 Nov.: `The Christology of John 14: two different
Antiochene approaches—John Chrysostom and Theodore of
Mopsuestia—and their Syriac inheritors in Islamic times.'
R. WHITE
1 Dec.: `The theology of prayer in St Gregory
Palamas.'
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Convener: M.S. Tite, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Archaeological Science.
A. SHIMRON, Geological Survey of Israel
28 Oct.: `The ancient waterworks of the City of David,
Jerusalem (a geoarchaeological overview), or trying to unravel a
holy mess.'
Y. GOREN, Tel Aviv and University College, London
4 Nov.: `Mineral and chemical study of the Amarna
Tablets.'
R. TYKOT, University of South Florida
11 Nov.: `New directions in dietary reconstruction
from stable isotopes: examples from the old and new worlds.'
J.-L. SCHWENINGER, Royal Holloway
25 Nov.: `Dating the extinction of the elephant bird
of Madagascar.'
R. RABINOVICH, Hebrew University, and Natural History Museum, London
2 Dec.: `Man versus carnivore in the Upper Pleistocene
of the southern Levant.'
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The meeting concludes with `Haroldo de Campos in conversation', at 7.30 p.m.
PROFESSOR LUIS COSTA LIMA, Rio de Janeiro: `Culture and its possibilities.'
DR CLAUDIA PAZOS-ALONSO: `Re-presenting the margins in twentieth-century Brazilian literature.'
PROFESSOR DAVID JACKSON, Yale: `Music of the spheres in Haroldo de Campos's Galaxias.'
DR ROBIN FIDDIAN: `The homeland strikes back: postmodern intertextuality and political contestation.'
PROFESSOR NICHOLAS ZURBRUGG, De Montford University, Leicester: `Concrete poetry and late postmodern multimedia aesthetics: a parallel.'
PROFESSOR ELISABETH WALTHER-BENSE, Stuttgart: `Semiotic conditions of originality in concrete poetry.'
NELSON ASCHER, poet and translator: `Haroldo de Campos's work: poetry and translation.'
PROFESSOR ELSE VIEIRA: `Theorising translation: Homi Bhabha and Haroldo de Campos contrasted.'
PROFESSOR PIERO BOITANI, La Sapienza, Rome: `The last voyage.'
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Conveners: C. Raposo (Said Business School), H. Shin (Economics), and S. Howison (Mathematics).
D. WEBB, LSE
15 Oct.: `The timid and the bold: risk preference,
precautions, and overinsurance.'
E. SCIUBBA, Cambridge
22 Oct.: `Asymmetric information and survival in
financial markets.'
G. CONNOR, LSE
29 Oct.: `A nonlinear characteristic-based factor
model of common stock returns.'
T. LYONS, Imperial College
5 Nov.: To be announced.
K. NYBORG, London Business School
12 Nov.: `R. and D., capital investments, and
financing under repeated moral hazard.'
A. STOMPER, Vienna
19 Nov.: `Lending-relationships and banks' information
about industry-specific default risk.'
T. HELLMAN, Stanford
26 Nov.: `Venture capital financing.'
N. WEBBER, Warwick Business School
3 Dec.: `An icosahedral lattice method for three-
factor models.'
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Subject: `From computation to interaction: towards a science of information.'
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Conveners: A.J. Ashworth, DCL, Vinerian Professor of English Law, and R. Young, MA, University Lecturer in Criminal Justice.
PROFESSOR A. SANDERS, Bristol
20 Oct.: `The impact of victim statements: the lessons
of recent research in England.'
PROFESSOR A. MORRIS, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
3 Nov.: `Conferencing in juvenile justice: a re-
offending and re-conviction study.'
D. FAULKNER
17 Nov.: `Prisons as a public service: culture,
structure, and accountability.'
DR P.O. WILKSTROM, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge
1 Dec.: `Crime as social action: integrating
individual and community perspectives in the study of crime and
crime prevention.'
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PROFESSOR D. MCINTYRE, Cambridge
18 Oct.: `Schools as equal partners in educational
research: a realistic way forward?'
PROFESSOR M. HAMMERSLEY, Open University
25 Oct.: `Why research into practice does not go.'
M. ROSS, University of Exeter
8 Nov.: `Being there: towards an arts-based
research.'
PROFESSOR T. NUNES, London
15 Nov.: `Predicting and promoting deaf children's
numeracy development.'
DR P. SIMMONS, London
22 Nov.: `School effectiveness research: equity
issues.'
PROFESSOR W. CARR, Sheffield
29 Nov.: `Methodology and ideology in educational
research.'
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PROFESSOR N. MYERS
11 Oct.: `Population, environment, consumption: time
of breakdown or breakthrough?'
D. LAMBERT, President, QIT Madagascar Minerals Ltd.
18 Oct.: `Dilemmas of mining in Madagascar–an
integrated approach to evaluating social, economic, and
environmental impacts at regional scales.'
PROFESSOR R. WHITE, Director, Institute for Environmental Studies,
University of Toronto
25 Oct.: `Do we have the means to build the ecological
city?'
P. JONES, Biffa Waste Services Ltd.
1 Nov.: `Waste and the resource management
revolution—20/20 vision.'
PROFESSOR C. KIBERT, Florida
8 Nov.: `Reducing ecological footprints: the role of
the construction industry.'
DR D. MADDISON, University College, London
15 Nov.: `The amenity value of climate in India.'
U. COLLIER, WWF-UK, Climate Impacts Programme
22 Nov.: `Facing a changing climate: the challenge for
nature conservation.'
DR G. BODEKER
29 Nov.: `Medicinal plant biodiversity and
implications for human health, rainforest conservation, and
indigenous cultures.'
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Conveners: Anand Menon and Jeremy Richardson.
K. NICOLAIDES
19 Oct.: `The Amsterdam Treaty: what happened and
why?'
S. HIX, LSE
26 Oct.: `Why the European Parliament won at
Amsterdam.'
A. STONE SWEET
2 Nov.: To be announced.
J. PETERSON, Glasgow
9 Nov.: `US–EU trade relations after the Uruguay
Round.'
C. RADAELLI, Bradford
16 Nov.: `Comparing narratives in the EU: structure,
agency, and the cognitive dimension of politics.'
E. JONES, Nottingham
23 Nov.: `The politics of EMU.'
B. ROSAMOND, Warwick
30 Nov.: To be announced.
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Conveners: Dr Mats Berdal and Professor Robert O'Neill.
DR S. MILLER, Harvard
15 Oct.: `Threats and dangers: what will be the
challenges?'
DR M. SERRANO
22 Oct.: `Transnational crime and international
security.'
N. MORRIS, UNHCR
29 Oct.: `The UN and international security.'
GEN. SIR RUPERT SMITH, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
5 Nov.: `Armed forces and intervention.'
DR G. ROCHLIN, Berkeley
12 Nov.: `The US as principal upholder: problems and
opportunities.'
DR J. SHEA, NATO
19 Nov.: `NATO and international security.'
M.G. ANDREANI, International Institute for Strategic Studies
26 Nov.: `Arms control and weapons of mass
destruction.'
PROFESSOR C. GREENWOOD, LSE
3 Dec.: `International law: intervention and
international society.'
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K. KAMANDA, poet and novelist
Wed. 13 Oct., 8 p.m.: `La poésie africaine
aujourd'hui.' (French Language/World Literature
series)
AIR MARSHAL SIR TIMOTHY GARDEN, former Director, Royal Institute of
Strategic Affairs
Fri. 15 Oct., 8 p.m.: `European defence and security.'
(European Movement lecture)
W. BARBER, Voltaire Foundation
Thur. 28 Oct., 5 p.m.: `Voltaire: travel and
travellers' tales.' (Early Modern Research Seminar in French
Literature and Culture)
D. BELLOS, Princeton
Thur. 4 Nov, 5.15 p.m.: `Jacques Tati, a man and his
films.'
C. ROBINSON
Wed. 10 Nov., 8 p.m.: `Authority and difference in the
poetry of Aimé Césaire.' (With readings in
French by Nicole Gore) (French Language/World
Literature series)
T. CHESTERS
Thur. 11 Nov., 5 p.m.: `Ghosts and the ghostly in late
sixteenth-century France.'(Early Modern Research Seminar in
French Literature and Culture)
J.-C. RUFIN, author of L'Abyssin
Tue. 16 Nov., 5.15 p.m.: presentation of
L'Abyssin, to mark its recent translation into
English.
D. COX, British Library
Thur. 18 Nov., 5.15 p.m.: `Language and politics in
Algeria's post-independence Arabic literature.'
T. BEKRI, writer, poet, and lecturer, and P.N. NKASHAMA, poet, novelist,
and lecturer
Thur. 25 Nov., 8 p.m.:
(T.B.) `Les littératures
maghrébines d'expression française.'
(P.N.N.) `Littératures africaines.'
(French Language/World Literature series)
H. MERLIN, Sorbonne-Nouvelle
Fri. 26 Nov., 5 p.m.: `La question des origines de la
nation. Problèmes de langue et de politique au dix-
septième siècle.'(Early Modern Research Seminar
in French Literature and Culture)
STUDY-DAY
Sat. 27 Nov., 10 a.m.–9.30 p.m.:
`L'interprétation en questions.'
P. ALEXANDRE, writer and journalist
Tue. 30 Nov., 5.15 p.m.: `La Cinquième
République en péril.'
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Subject: `Intermetallics: some venerable issues revisited.'
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DR J. BREEN, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London
15 Oct.: `The last rites of the Tokugawa.'
PROFESSOR M. SUZUKI, Shiga University, Japan
22 Oct.: `High speed growth and contemporary
Japan.'
M. COWIN, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Research Analyst
29 Oct.: `An optimist's view of changes in Japan.'
DR G. ROWLEY
5 Nov.: `Memoirs of a real Geisha: on translating
Masuda Sayo's Geisha.'
PROFESSOR K. OKACHI, Ryûkoku University, Kyoto, Japan
12 Nov.: `The recent economic recession in Japan: its
causes and cure.'
F. LEISHMAN, Southampton Institute
19 Nov.: `From reinvention to realism: reassessing
policing in Japan.'
DR A. WASWO
26 Nov.: `The social agenda in postwar housing policy,
1945–65.'
DR K.-P. KOEPPING, Heidelberg
3 Dec.: `Embodying national symbols in a peripheral
possession movement in postwar Japan: the case of Odoru
Shûkyô.'
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Conveners: N. Gooptu, MA, University Lecturer in South Asian Studies, J.U. Heyer, MA, University Lecturer (CUF) in Economics, and B. Harriss-White, MA, Reader in Development Studies.
M. ROBERTS, Adelaide
14 Oct.: `Pejorative phrases and inside-outside
structures in Sinhala political thought.'
P.K. DATTA, Delhi
28 Oct.: `Locating communal riots in the political
culture of Bengal in the 1920s.'
D. BHATTACHARYA, SOAS, London
11 Nov.: `Colonial surveillance of Calcutta and the
"Goonda" problem.'
M. VICZIANY, Monash, Australia, and O. MENDELSOHN, La Trobe, University
25 Nov.:
(M.V.) `Foreign direct investment in India:
has economic liberalisation made a difference?'
(O.M.) `From precolonial to postcolonial law in India.'
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Conveners: E.V.K. Fitzgerald, MA, University Research Lecturer, and F.J. Stewart, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Development Economics.
M. WOLF, The Financial Times
14 Oct.: `International financial reform.'
A. WINTERS, Sussex
21 Oct.: `The Millennium Round and the developing
countries.'
R. SUTCLIFFE, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
28 Oct.: `International migration, development, and
equity.'
K. SAUVANT, UNCTAD, Geneva
4 Nov.: `Global FDI trends and policy
implications.'
G. STANDLING, ILO, Geneva
11 Nov.: `Global labour flexibility: seeking
distributive justice.'
A. WOOD, Sussex
18 Nov.: `Globalisation and wage inequality in the
south reconsidered.'
B. COATES, Director, World Development Movement
25 Nov.: `Rights and responsibilities of foreign
investors.'
DR FITZGERALD
2 Dec.: `International taxation and development.'
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Subject: `The figure of the singer.'
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Subject: `English pilgrims to the Tomb of Christ.'
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Subject: `Io la Musica son': Monteverdi and the problems of opera.'
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Conveners: Dr Anne Deighton, St Antony's College, and Mr Graham Avery, European Commission, Brussels.
H.E. AMBASSADOR SALOLAINEN, Finnish Ambassador to the UK
22 Oct.: `The Finnish Presidency of the Council of
Ministers of the European Union.'
DR R. DWAN, Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution Project,
SIPRI, Sweden
29 Oct.: `The European Union and neighbouring sub-
regional organisations.'
F. GAUDENZI, Chief Negotiator with Poland, European Commission
12 Nov.: `Poland's membership of the European
Union.'
PROFESSOR J. RAPCSAK, State Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office,
Hungary
19 Nov.: `Hungary's membership of the European
Union.'
A. BAILES, Political Director, WEU
26 Nov.: `Under a European flag? From WEU to EU.'
M. EMERSON, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels
3 Dec.: `Reshaping the wider Europe: the impact of the
Balkan crisis.'
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SIR JAMES CRAIG
15 Oct.: `Britain's changing view of the Middle
East.'
SIR MARRACK GOULDING
22 Oct.: `Kuwait, 1961.'
SIR JOHN COLES
29 Oct.: `King Hussein.'
I. LUCAS
5 Nov.: `Arms for the love of Allah?'
C. LONG
12 Nov.: `Egypt's moderating role in Middle Eastern
politics.'
SIR ALAN MUNRO
19 Nov.: `Saudi Arabia, Britain, and the West during
the Gulf crisis.'
LORD WRIGHT OF RICHMOND
26 Nov.: `The changing role of the British Ambassador
to Saudi Arabia.'
SIR DAVID GORE-BOOTH
3 Dec.: `The Middle East portfolio at the FCO.'
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Subject: `Stepping out in Babylon: politics and theology in the thought of David Nicholls.'
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DR G. MILLS
12 Oct.: `The use of ICT in the history classroom.
Lessons from the past.'
DR B. JAWORSKI
19 Oct.: `The use of video-recordings in analysis of
classroom interactions and teaching development.'
DR C. DAVIES
26 Oct.: `Communication and interaction in a teaching
situation and the role of technology therein?'
PROFESSOR J. MASON, Open University
2 Nov.: `Modes of interaction in the classroom and the
role of technology.'
DR D. SUDNOW, Seattle
16 Nov.: `Obscure relations between learning and
teaching and the role of technology therein.'
DR R.S. SLACK, Edinburgh
23 Nov.: `The development and use of information
systems in companies and communities—some observations.'
PROFESSOR D. SHAPIRO, Lancaster
30 Nov.: `Technologies for self-organisation.'
DR C. CROOK, Loughborough
7 Dec.: `Technology and educational practice: a
perspective from cultural psychology.'
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Subject: `Take two squares: ethnic clothes without patterns.'
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