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1 Feb.: `Future hope and the end of time.'
8 Feb.: `Prophecy: true or false?'
15 Feb.: `Land and nation.'
22 Feb.: `Kingdom and Messiah.'
29 Feb.: `Resurrection and transformation.'
7 Mar.: `Paradise restored.'
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These lectures are open to the public.
19 Jan. (Inaugural Lecture): `Ruskin today.'
27 Jan.: ` "All my eye and Betty Martin": the formation of Ruskin's taste and the Ruskin family art collection.'
3 Feb.: ` "I think he must have read my book": Ruskin and the writing and rewriting of Turner.'
10 Feb.: ` "Nobody might have taken the trouble to look": Ruskin and the stones of Venice.'
17 Feb.: ` "A new and noble school in England": Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.'
24 Feb.: ` "The two paths": Ruskin after 1860.'
2 Mar.: ` "The triumph of the innocents": Ruskin, Holman Hunt, and spiritualism.'
9 Mar.: `Ruskin tomorrow.'
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There will be an open meeting for students connected with drama the following day, Saturday, 5 February (time and venue to be announced).
Subject: `An anti-hauteur view of directing.'
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Mon. 17 Jan.: `Brave New World: public service broadcasting in the twenty-first century.'
Mon. 24 Jan.: `Now you see it, now you don't: visions of reality in the twenty-first century.'
Tue. 1 Feb.: `Secrets of the cutting-room.' (Master- class/workshop)
Tue. 8 Feb.: `Moveable feast: ethics in the media.'
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Tickets are not required for admission.
Subject: `Hox genes in evolution and development: the exception or the rule?'
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Conveners: R.J. Whittaker, MA, and K.J. Willis (Ph.D. Cambridge), University Lecturers in Human Ecology.
DR J. NEWMAN
21 Jan.: `A bottom-up analysis of component
community response to elevated carbon dioxide.'
PROFESSOR K. GASTON, Sheffield
28 Jan.: To be announced.
PROFESSOR K. BENNETT, Uppsala
4 Feb.: ` "Holocene" environmental change
in southern Chile: new evidence from post-glacial lake
sediments.'
DR T. BLACKBURN, Imperial College
11 Feb.: `Extinction, endemism, and the avifauna of
New Zealand.'
DR A. CHEPSTOW-LUSTY, Cambridge
18 Feb.: `Inca agroforestry: lessons from the
past.'
PROFESSOR F.I. WOODWARD, Sheffield
25 Feb.: `Climate, CO
DR J. KERR
3 Mar.: `Scale, patterns, and the limits of data
resolution: perspectives on North American biodiversity.'
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Subject: `A historical GIS for Great Britain.'
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Convener: Dr Soraya Tremayne.
DR S. CASTLE, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
17 Jan.: `Adolescent sexual behaviour in Mali.'
DR A. ANKOMAN, Wales
24 Jan.: `The use and misuse of anthropology in
HIV/AIDS research and prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.'
DR M. KONRAD, Goldsmiths' College, London
31 Jan.: `Fertility and the substance of
anonymity.'
G. BARRETT, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
7 Feb.: `How can unintended pregnancy be measured?
Implications of findings from qualitative interviews.'
R. BARBER
14 Feb.: `Looking after children: child public
health.'
DR TREMAYNE:
21 Feb.: `Population policy in post-revolutionary Iran.'
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Conveners: J.A. Hodgkin (Ph.D. Cambridge), Professor of Genetics, and D.B. Roberts, MA, Reader in Genetics.
DR J. SULSTON, Sanger Centre, Cambridge
27 Jan.: `An overview of genome sequencing.'
PROFESSOR S. OLIVER, Manchester
10 Feb.: `The genome of the yeast S.
cerevisiae.'
DR J. PARKHILL, Sanger Centre, Cambridge
24 Feb.: `Bacterial genomes.'
PROFESSOR HODGKIN
9 Mar.: `The genome of the nematode C.
elegans.'
PROFESSOR M. ASHBURNER, Cambridge
11 May: `The Drosophila genome.'
PROFESSOR M. BEVAN, John Innes Institute, Norwich
18 May: `A flourishing weed: sequencing the
Arabidopsis genome.'
DR I. JACKSON, Edinburgh
25 May: `The genome of the mouse.'
DR D. BENTLEY, Sanger Centre, Cambridge
15 June: `The human genome.'
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DR D. STOCK, Cambridge
21 Jan.: `Structure of the transmembrane rotary
motor in ATP synthase.'
DR R. WILLIAMS, Cambridge
28 Jan.: `A structural view of phospholid
signalling.'
DR C.A. OUZOUNIS, Cambridge
18 Feb.: `Mining text and sequences for protein
interactions.'
PROFESSOR S. IWATA, Uppsala
25 Feb.: `Crystallisation and crystallographic
studies of the respiratory membrane proteins.'
DR J. LADBURY, University College, London
3 Mar.: `Specificity in tyrosine kinase-mediated
signalling.'
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Convener: G.M. Goodwin, BM, MA, D.Phil., W.A. Handley Professor of Psychiatry.
DR R. PEVELER, Southampton
1 Feb.: `Depressive illness in primary care.'
PROFESSOR L. E. DELISI, State University of New York
15 Feb.: `Schizophrenia as a life-time disorder of
brain plasticity.'
DR D. HEALY, Bangor
22 Feb.: `Antidepressants: current controversies.'
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Convener: H. Waldmann, BM, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Pathology.
DR N. SAUNDERS
13 Jan.: `Insights into the biology of serogroup B
Neisseria mengitidis from the complete genome sequence.'
PROFESSOR M. FERGUSON, Dundee
3 Feb.: `The structure and biosynthesis of parasite
and mammalian GPI anchors.'
PROFESSOR B. SYKES
10 Feb.: `The genetics of history.'
DR M. ROBINSON, Cambridge
17 Feb.: `Coated vesicle adaptors: friends and
family.'
DR A. BLOCKER, Institut Pasteur, Paris
24 Feb.: `Functional and structural analysis of the
type III secretion of Shigella Flexneri.'
P. KRAMER, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg
16 Mar.: `CD95 (APO-1/Fas) mediated apoptosis:
signalling and disease.' (Norman Heatley Lecture)
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Convener: P.D. McDonald, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer (CUF) in English Language and Literature.
DR S. DIXON
28 Jan.: `The dynamics of the manuscript verse
miscellany.'
PROFESSOR R. GROSS
Mon. 14 Feb., 5 p.m.: `Print and the public sphere
in the new American republic.'
DR R. MIGHALL
25 Feb.: `How do you edit a classic?'
DR H. SMALL
10 Mar.: `Liberal editing: literature and science
in the New Fortnightly Review and the nineteenth
century.'
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Conveners: O.P. Taplin, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, and E.M. Hall, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer (CUF) in Classical Languages.
Subject: `Oedipus in France.'
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Conveners: G. Bacciagaluppi, D.Phil., Junior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Physics, J.N. Butterfield, MA, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, and S. Saunders, MA, University Lecturer in the Philosophy of Physics.
DR N. LINDEN, Bristol
20 Jan.: `Quantum entanglement.'
SANG WOOK YI, LSE
27 Jan.: `Renormalisation group methods in
condensed matter physics.'
DR J. HALLIWELL, Imperial College
3 Feb.: `Decoherence and records.'
PROFESSOR M. REDHEAD, LSE
10 Feb.: `The intelligibility of the universe.'
PROFESSOR L. SMOLIN, Imperial College
17 Feb.: `A holographic view of relational space
and time.'
O. POOLEY
24 Feb.: `Relationism or substantivalism? The
debate's recent transformations.'
DR A. VALENTINI, Augustus College
2 Mar.: `Signal-locality in hidden variable
theories.'
DR C. DEWDNEY, Portsmouth
9 Mar.: `Reality, nonlocality, and Lorentz-
invariance in quantum mechanics.'
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T.P. WISEMAN, University of Exeter
17 Jan.: `Topography and legend.'
P. CASTRÉN, Helsinki
24 Jan.: `Vici and
regiones: addresses in late antique Rome.'
F.G.B. MILLAR
31 Jan.: `The Lexicon Topographicum Urbis
Romae and history.'
T. CORNELL, Manchester
7 Feb.: `Reconstructing early Rome.'
P. ZANKER, Rome
14 Feb.: `The ruins of Rome and their public, past
and present.'
A. CLARIDGE
21 Feb.: `The Province Reliefs and the
Hadrianeum.'
E.M. STEINBY
28 Feb.: `Monumenta: who built what in
ancient Rome.'
S. PANCIERA, Rome
6 Mar.: `Villae e domus:
sull'identificazione dei proprietari.'
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Convener: P.A. Mackridge, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Modern Greek.
Subject: `Seferis and the novel.'
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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.
DR COLIN THOMPSON
18 Jan.: `Eutrapelia and exemplarity in the
Novelas ejemplares.'
PROFESSOR JEREMY LAWRANCE, Manchester
25 Jan.: `The Turks in the Spanish imagination,
1400–1550.'
DR JUAN CARLOS BAYO JULVE
8 Feb.: `La organización del discurso
poético en el Cantar de Mio Cid.'
RAFAEL ARRAÍZ LUCCA, IDEA, Caracas
15 Feb.: `José Antonio Ramos Sucre
(1890–1930): vida y obra.'
DR ANDREW GINGER, Edinburgh
22 Feb.: `Writing about oneself in nineteenth-
century Spain: the strange case of Ros de Olano's Jornadas
de retorno.'
DR ROBERT PRING-MILL
29 Feb.: `The use of symbolic numbers in Llull's
Arbre de Sciència.'
CARLOS LECHNER, Columbia
7 Mar.: `Marriage manuals in early modern Spain.'
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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.
PROFESSOR D. ROLLASTON, Durham
17 Jan.: `Symeon of Durham and the shaping of the
past.'
H. DOHERTY
24 Jan.: `The Angevins in north-west England.'
DR R. STUDD, Keele
31 Jan.: `Reclaiming the Angevin Empire.'
N. KARN
7 Feb.: `Writers and collectors of letters in later
twelfth-century monasteries.'
DR A. GRANSDEN, Cambridge
14 Feb.: `The price of votes in abbatial elections:
Bury St Edmunds.'
M. WHITTOW
21 Feb.: `Latins in the Byzantine Empire in the
eleventh and twelfth centuries.'
DR L. USILTON, North Carolina
28 Feb.: `The king's indigent army: Royal Corrodies
in medieval England.'
S. BAXTER
6 Mar.: `The earls of Mercia and their commended
men.'
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Conveners: J.A. Bennett, MA, Keeper, the Museum of the History of Science, and I.W.F. Maclean, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Renaissance Studies.
PROFESSOR R. EVANS
19 Jan.: `Knowledge and its institutions in central
and eastern Europe.'
PROFESSOR N. MOUT, Leiden
26 Jan.: `The Lipsius Circle.'
DR N. DAVIDSON
2 Feb.: `The Incogniti in Venice and the
development of the academy in early modern Italy.'
DR R.G. LEWIS
9 Feb.: `The Geneva Academy in a changing world,
c.1560–c.1700: the rival claims
of constancy and concord.'
R. BRIGGS
16 Feb.: `The Académie Royale des
Sciences.'
DR R. SERJEANTSON, Cambridge
23 Feb.: `The arts course and seventeenth-century
British universities: functions and challenges.'
PROFESSOR B. MORAN, Nevada
1 Mar.: `Distinguishing sites and redefining
knowledge: chemistry between city, court, and academy in early
modern Germany.'
PROFESSOR M. FEINGOLD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
8 Mar.: `Mathematicians and naturalists: Isaac
Newton and the nature of the early Royal Society.'
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PROFESSOR B. HARRISS-WHITE
21 Jan.: `The local state and the informal economy:
India's real structural adjustment over the last two
decades.'
PROFESSOR L. CAPLAN, Professor Emeritus, SOAS, London
28 Jan.: `Children of colonialism: history and
anthropology of the Anglo-Indian community in contemporary
India.'
DR E. BOEHMER, Leeds
4 Feb.: `How colonial is it? Literatures of empire
reconsidered.'
DR R. ROGAN
11 Feb.: `Rewriting the Palestine War of 1948.'
PROFESSOR J.D.Y. PEEL, SOAS, London
18 Feb.: `From history to anthropology and back:
studying religious change in West Africa between the 1960s and
the 1990s.'
DR M. DOBSON and DR M. MALOWANY, Wellcome Unit for the History of
Medicine
25 Feb.: `Bounce back malaria: the fears and
challenges of malaria control in twentieth-century East Africa.'
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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 A.R.A. HOBSON
21 Jan.: `Plaquette bindings in the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries.'
DR L. HELINGA
28 Jan.: `The Historia Fiorentina
(1476): problems of textual transmission.'
DR K. JENSEN, British Library
4 Feb.: `Cataloguing incunabula: bibliographers
versus readers.'
DR T. CLAYTON
11 Feb.: `The print trade in Europe in the
eighteenth century.'
I. GADD, Cambridge
18 Feb.: `Ecclesiastical law and the English book
trade prior to 1641: some preliminary findings.'
PROFESSOR J. FLOOD, Institute of Germanic Studies, University of
London
25 Feb.: `Medicine and bibliography: the English
sweating sickness on the Continent in 1529.'
DR C. FERDINAND
3 Mar.: `The economics of the provincial book trade
in the eighteenth century: the case of Ward and Chandler of
York.'
DR M. BANNISTER, Oxford Brookes
10 Mar.: `The publishing trade and the presentation
of news in seventeenth-century France.'
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Conveners: P.A. David, MA, Professor of Economics and Economic History, K.J. Humphries, MA, Reader in Economic History, and A. Offer, MA, D.Phil., Reader in Recent Social and Economic History.
A. JANSSENS, Nijmegen
18 Jan.: `The breadwinner family.'
N. HIGGINS, Cambridge
25 Jan.: `Family formation in the Midlands,
c.1930–60.'
K. FISHER, Cambridge
1 Feb.: `Changes in married sexuality in the
twentieth century.'
L. MARKS, Imperial College
8 Feb.: `Consequences of the birth-control pill for
behaviour.'
R. ADAIR, Cambridge
15 Feb.: `Early modern illegitimacy.'
J. LEWIS
22 Feb.: `Long-term family trends in Britain.'
J. ERMISCH, Essex
29 Feb.: `Post-war trends and determinants of
family formation and dissolution.'
R. ROWTHORN, Cambridge
7 Mar.: `Trends in divorce.'
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P. KILDEA, the Britten–Pears Library
18 Jan.: ` "And light falls equally on black
and white": Britten's and Auden's longest journey.'
C. HUMPHRIES, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
25 Jan.: `Meaningful realism in analysis,
interpretation, and performance.'
R. STROHM
1 Feb.: `Murder in Armenia and voices in
opera seria.'
M. BENT, J. Craig-McFeely, and A. Wathey (Royal Holloway)
8 Feb.: `The Digital Image Archive of Medieval
Music (DIAMM).'
K. RUSSMAN, Cambridge
15 Feb.: `The United States's policy of
incorporating music performance in its psychological warfare
strategy during the Cold War and its consequences.'
H. MACDONALD, Washington University at St Louis
22 Feb.: `Beethoven's game of cat and mouse.'
C. CLARK, Toronto
29 Feb.: `Fabricating music at Esterhaza: costuming
Haydn's Armida.'
J. RICE, Rochester, Minnesota
7 Mar.: `Problems of genre and gender in Mozart's
scena "Misero, o sogno" (K.431).'
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Convener: M.D. Goodman, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Jewish Studies.
PROFESSOR GOODMAN
18 Jan.: `State and society in Roman Galilee
revisited.'
DR E. HABAS, Beer Sheva
25 Jan.: `The end of the Alexandran ethnarchs and
the death of the Genarch.'
PROFESSOR P.R. DAVIES, Sheffield
1 Feb.: `Messianism at Qumran.'
DR D. GREEN, Waikato and OCHJS
8 Feb.: `The Palaeohebraic Divine Titles in
4QIsaiahc and the Divine Titles according to rabbinic
literature.'
DR C.T.R. HAYWARD, Durham
15 Feb.: `Philo on Jacob's change of name to
Israel.'
DR T. ILAN, Hebrew University
22 Feb.: `The Schools of R. Ishmael and R. Akiba on
women.'
PROFESSOR A. BAUMGARTEN, Bar Ilan
29 Feb.: `From sectarianism to tolerance: rabbinic
Judaism in the aftermath of the destruction of the Temple.'
PROFESSOR Z. SAFRAI, Bar Ilan
7 Mar.: `Halakhic observance in the Judaean desert
documents.'
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Conveners: J.R. Baines, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Egyptology, and S. Dalley, MA, Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College
DR A. COHEN, Harvard
25 Jan.: `Some political aspects of Early Dynastic
III period southern Mesopotamian death rituals.'
C.B.F. WALKER, British Museum
1 Feb.: `Identifying archives in ancient
Mesopotamia.'
N. SCHREIBER
15 Feb.: `Black-on-red pottery: a new look at
Gjerstad's Iron Age chronology.'
DR H. WHITEHOUSE, Ashmolean Museum
22 Feb.: `The prisoners of Hierakonpolis: the
function of images in Early Dynastic Egypt.'
DR J. TAYLOR, British Museum
29 Feb.: `A good burial in the West: the adoption
of Egyptian burial practices by Libyans and Kushites,
1100–650 BC.'
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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 R. BROWN, Institute of Physics
21 Jan.: `Electronic publishing.' (Special
talk and demonstration)
PROFESSOR H. REEVES, CEN Saclay, Institut d'Astrophysique, Paris
28 Jan.: `Origin of the light elements.'
DR A.R. WEIDBERG
4 Feb.: `Physics prospects at the LHC.'
PROFESSOR K. KOHSE-HOINGHAUS, Bielefeld, Germany
18 Feb.: `Diamonds, fire, and lasers.'
DR W. HAYES
25 Feb.: `In condensed matter, relaxing muons tell
a tale.'
DR A.M. STEANE
3 Mar.: `Can quantum computing work?'
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Convener: M.L.H. Green, MA, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry.
DR P. SLATER, Surrey
17 Jan.: `Solide oxide fuel cells; bringing power
to the people.'
DR M. RAYMAN, Surrey
24 Jan.: `Selenium: from chemistry to cancer.'
PROFESSOR B.F.G. JOHNSON, Cambridge
31 Jan.: `Metal clusters and nanoparticles in
devices and catalysis.'
DR C. JONES, Cardiff
7 Feb.: `The stabilisation and reactivity of indium
hydride complexes.'
PROFESSOR M.G. DAVIDSON, Bath
14 Feb.: `Supramolecular chemistry of Ylidic
species—carbon as a hydrogen bond acceptor.'
DR P.H. WALTON, York
21 Feb.: `Synthetic models of carbonic anhydrase:
the importance of secondary interactions.'
PROFESSOR D. O'HARE
28 Feb.: `Studying reactions using time-resolved
diffraction.'
Inorganic Study Day
6 Mar.: presentations by some of the younger
research associates in the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory.
DR P.A. WRIGHT, St Andrews
13 Mar.: `Making space for molecules—design in
hydrothermal synthesis.'
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Conveners: J.D. Hunt, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Materials Science, and G.A.D. Briggs, MA, Reader in Materials.
DR K. MACKENZIE, New Zealand Institute for Industrial Research and
Development
20 Jan.: `Solid state NMR—what it is, and what
can it tell us about materials.'
PROFESSOR DR E. MEYER, Basel, Switzerland
27 Jan.: `From contact to non-contact: force microscopy
experiments.'
PROFESSOR W. STUART, Marconi
3 Feb.: `Taming the photon—materials for
getting the most out of light.' (Interdepartmental
Condensed Matter Seminar)
PROFESSOR V. RANDLE, Swansea
10 Feb.: `Control of grain boundary crystallography
in low stacking fault energy metals.'
DR D. VESELY
17 Feb.: `Diffusion in polymers.'
(Interdepartmental Polymer Seminar)
DR J. WEAVER, Glasgow
24 Feb.: `Lithographically functionalised
microscope probes.' (Interdepartmental Condensed Matter
Seminar)
DR A. PETFORD-LONG
2 Mar.: `The development of advanced information
storage materials—how can microscopy help?'
DR A. HOWE, Corus/British Steel
9 Mar.: `Models: who needs 'em—current
examples and views for the potential for metallurgical models in
the steel industry.'
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PROFESSOR I. HOPE, Leeds
21 Jan.: To be announced. (Jenkinson
Seminar)
DR J. DAVIES, Edinburgh
28 Jan.: `The ramifications of kidney development.'
(Jenkinson Seminar)
DR G. BANTING, Bristol
4 Feb.: `Membrane proteins within and beyond the
Golgi: molecular interactions and movies.'
PROFESSOR V. VAN HEYNINGEN, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
11 Feb.: `PAX-6—a post-genome era paradigm.'
(Jenkinson Seminar)
PROFESSOR A. NORTH, Sheffield
18 Feb.: `Nucleotide-gated ion channels.'
DR S. WILSON, University College, London
25 Feb.: `Genetic analysis of forebrain development
in the zebrafish.' (Jenkinson Seminar)
PROFESSOR S. BROWN, MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit, Harwell
3 Mar.: `Mutagenesis in the mouse—towards
systematic studies of mammalian gene function.'
DR S. MOSS, University College, London
10 Mar.: `Assembly and functional modulation of
GABAA receptors.'
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DR M. RUSHWORTH
20 Jan.: `Comparing the role of attention in the
sensory and motor systems.'
DR D. MOORE
27 Jan.: `Hearing loss and auditory learning.'
DR D. GAFFAN
3 Feb.: `Memory, amnesia, and cortical
plasticity.'
PROFESSOR J. STEIN
10 Feb.: `Sensory basis of reading skills.'
DR J. UTTMAN
17 Feb.: `From sound to meaning: acoustic
distortion, semantic context, and lexical access.'
DR F. WICHMANN
24 Feb.: `Modelling early spatial vision.'
DR J. COLEMAN
2 Mar.: `Probable and nonsense words.'
DR J. CAMPBELL
9 Mar.: `Consciousness and the binding problem.'
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Conveners: B.E. Shafer, MA, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, and J.W. Ceaser, MA, John M. Olin Visiting Professor of American Government.
PROFESSOR CEASER
26 Jan.: `The public philosophy as an organising
concept in the study of American politics.'
PROFESSOR D.S. KING
9 Feb.: `Americanisation and the American idea at
home and abroad: contradictions or convergence?'
PROFESSOR A.J. WARE
23 Feb.: `The "System of 1896"
revisited.'
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Conveners: C.J. Bliss, MA, Nuffield Professor of International Economics, and D.A. Vines, MA, D.Phil., Reader in Economics.
PROFESSOR P. SINCLAIR, Birmingham
19 Jan.: `Pensions and EMU.'
DR VINES
26 Jan.: `Fiscal policy co-ordination.'
C. RADAELLI, Bradford
2 Feb.: `Corporate tax co-ordination: is the EU
tackling the real issues?'
H. GRABBE, Birmingham
9 Feb.: `EU enlargement.'
J. FORDER
16 Feb.: `EU external trade relations.'
PROFESSOR W. BUITER, Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England
23 Feb.: `EU central banking.'
PROFESSOR BLISS
1 Mar.: `Competition and single market issues.'
A. JENUEMAITRE, Maison Française
8 Mar.: `European airline regulation.'
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Further information may be obtained from Dr C. Lin (telephone: (2)84701, e-mail: cyril.lin@economics.ox.ac.uk).
Conveners: A. Chawluk, MA Faculty Lecturer in Soviet-type Economies and their Transformation, C.M. Davis, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer in Russian and East European Political Economy, C.S. Leonard, MA, University Lecturer in Regional Studies in Post- Communist States, and C.Z. Lin, MA, D.Phil., Shaw Lecturer in the Economy of China.
DR J.O. MARTINS, OECD
20 Jan.: `Transition in the Baltic Republics.'
PROFESSOR P. HANSON, Birmingham
27 Jan.: `The Russian transition record.'
P.M. OPPENHEIMER
3 Feb.: `Corporate governance in Russia.'
DR M. SPAGAT, Royal Holloway College, London
10 Feb.: `The politics of co-optation.'
PROFESSOR S. ESTRIN, London Business School
17 Feb.: `Corporate governance in Ukraine.'
DR K. SULTAN, Harvard Institute for International Development
24 Feb.: `Weaknesses of the banking system in
Ukraine.'
DR S. MALLE, OECD
2 Mar.: `A decade of transition in Russia: why
Russia failed and what needs to be done.'
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Conveners: C.S. Leonard, MA, University Lecturer in Regional Studies in Post-Communist States, and J. Pallot, MA, University Lecturer in the Geography of the USSR.
DR D. DYKER, Sussex
19 Jan.: `Research and development in the former
Communist countries: asset or liability?'
PROFESSOR P. HANSON, Birmingham
26 Jan.: `Regional change in post-Soviet
Russia.'
PROFESSOR K. STONER-WEISS, Princeton
2 Feb: `The reach of Russia's party system: how
far, how deep, and what consequences?'
DR S. O'HARA, Nottingham
9 Feb.: `Agricultural restructuring and the environment in
Central Asia.'
DR A. STENNING, Birmingham
16 Feb.: `Local responses to economic
transition—the case of Nowa Huta.'
DR L. JACKSON, Wolverhampton
23 Feb.: `Ethnic minorities and the politics of
inclusion in Ukraine.'
PROFESSOR T. UNWIN, Royal Holloway and Westfield College, London
1 Mar.: `Banknotes and national identity in Eastern
and Central Europe: imagery and political process.'
DR S. DAVYDOVA, Wye College
8 Mar.: `Transformation of Central and Eastern
European countries: agriculture and integration with the
European Union.'
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Conveners: Professor J.H. Brooke, Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion, and Dr M. Yee, Associate Director, the Ian Ramsey Centre.
DR M. PARSONS, Executive Director, the Ian Ramsey Centre
27 Jan.: `Contingency and rationality in science
and religion.'
DR C. SOUTHGATE, University of Exeter
10 Feb.: `The difficult case of evolution.'
DR K. WARE
24 Feb.: ` "A raid on the inarticulate":
why does theology (talk about God) differ from scientific
discourse?'
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Conveners: Dr Ros Ballaster (Mansfield), Professor Marilyn Butler (Exeter), Dr Faramerz Dabhoiwala (Exeter), Dr Christine Gerrard (Lady Margaret Hall), Dr Thomas Keymer (St Anne's), Professor Roger Lonsdale (Balliol), Dr James Raven (Mansfield), and Dr Isabel Rivers (St Hugh's).
DR T. FULFORD, Nottingham Trent
24 Jan.: `Mungo Park, Joseph Banks, and the
expansion of empire.'
DR M. HALLETT, York
7 Feb.: `Manly satire: William Hogarth's A
Rake's Progress.'
DR T. PARNELL, Goldsmiths' College
21 Feb.: `The contemporaneity of Tristram
Shandy.'
PROFESSOR S. MANNING, Edinburgh
6 Mar.: `Hume and the fiction of the Scottish
Enlightenment.'
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Note: two lectures will be given at the meeting on 29 February.
Conveners: C.E. Webb, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Laser Physics, and P. Ewart, MA, Professor of Physics.
PROFESSOR H. HUTCHINSON, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
18 Jan.: `Lasers in science.'
PROFESSOR G. HANCOCK
25 Jan.: `Lasers in atmospheric chemistry.'
DR D. TERRAR
1 Feb.: `Lasers in the study of heart muscle
contraction.'
PROFESSOR P. FRENCH, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College
8 Feb.: `Fluorescence lifetime imaging for
biomedicine and microscopy.'
PROFESSOR D. GREENHALGH, Cranfield University
15 Feb.: `Optical diagnostics in gas flow and
combustion.'
PROFESSOR D. PAYNE, Optics Research Centre, Southampton
22 Feb.: `The optical telecommunications
revolution.'
DR S. THORPE
29 Feb.: `Doppler global velocimetry in aerodynamic
studies.'
DR E. YOUNG
29 Feb.: `Laser ablation of samples for chemical
analysis.'
PROFESSOR WEBB
7 Mar.: `Lasers in aeronomy, astronomy, and
mechanical engineering.'
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The Committee on Student Health has oversight of the provision of arrangments for the health of students, based on the college doctor system. `Student Health 2000' will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, perspectives, and information on student health and related issues, and will help inform the committee's future agenda.
The conference is aimed at anyone within or linked to the University who is concerned with student health matters (whether medically qualified or otherwise), and should be of particular interest to college doctors, nurses, deans, chaplains, and tutors, JCR/MCR officers and student representatives, and also those from Oxford institutions who deal with student health matters.
The conference programme has been devised following consultation with potential participants. There will be sessions on eating disorders, examination and other study-related stress, and student mental health care. Each session will be introduced by an expert speaker, followed by questions and a discussion.
Attendance at the conference is free, and places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Programme details and booking forms have been sent to potential delegates. Any member of the University who has not received these, and would like to do so, should contact Ms S.R. Jones, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD (telephone: Oxford (2)70563, e-mail: Samantha.Jones@admin.ox.ac.uk).
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DR W. DAVIES, Cambridge
26 Jan.: `The Aurignacian as a population dispersal
indicator.'
DR R. SCHULTING, Cardiff
2 Feb.: `The monk(fish) of Caldey Island:
subsistence and settlement on an inundated coastal landscape of
the early-mid Holocene.'
DR P. MITCHELL
9 Feb.: `Hunter-gatherer archaeology of the Lesotho
Highlands.'
DR L. BARHAM, Bristol
16 Feb.: `Making sense of the muddle in the middle:
recent research on the Middle Stone Age in Zambia.'
DR M. LAKE, London
23 Feb.: `Mesolithic foragers on Islay: GIS
simulations.'
DR J. STEELE, Southampton
1 Mar.: `Skilled hands and the archaeological
record: the early evolution of human technology.'
DR J. MCNABB, Liverpool
8 Mar.: ` "Round the bend": recent work
on the Acheulan of the Vaal river, Northern Cape, Southern
Africa.'
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For details of the Strachey Lecture (25 January), see below.
M. SPIVEY
18 Jan.: `The monad of breadth-first search.'
J.P. SECHER, Diku
1 Feb.: `On perfect supercompilation.'
A. BAKEWELL, York
8 Feb.: `Operational semantics for reasoning about
the space use of Haskell evaluators.'
O. DE MOOR
15 Feb.: `Efficient image manipulation through run-
time compilation.'
A. HOARE, Microsoft
22 Feb.: `Unifying theories of logic
programming.'
M. SAGE, Glasgow
29 Feb.: `Fran TK, a declarative approach to
building GUIs in Haskell.'
L. AUGUSTSSON, Chalmers
7 Mar.: `Cayenne—a functional language with
dependent types.'
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The co-ordinators are L.N. Trefethen and J. Scott (RAL). Further information may be obtained from Shirley Day (telephone: Oxford (2)73885).
PROFESSOR B. CHRISTIANSON, Hertfordshire
20 Jan.: `Cheap Newton steps for discrete time
optimal control problems: automatic differentiation and
Pantoja's algorithm.'
PROFESSOR N. SANDHAM, Southampton
27 Jan.: `Entropy splitting for high-order
numerical simulation of compressible turbulence.'
PROFESSOR N. VAN DER VORST, Utrecht
3 Feb.: `Improvements for iterative methods?'
PROFESSOR T. HUGHES, Stanford
10 Feb.: `Large eddy simulation and variational
multiscale methods.'
DR K. LUST, Warwick
17 Feb., RAL: `Continuation and bifurcation
analysis of periodic solutions of partial differential
equations.'
DR J. PRYCE, RMCS Shrivenham, Cranfield University
24 Feb.: `Exception-free arithmetic on the extended
reals.'
PROFESSOR B. LEIMKUHLER, Leicester
2 Mar.: `Methods for the gravitational N-body
problem.'
DR B. MOHAMMADI, Montepellier
9 Mar.: `Sensitivity analysis for design and
control in an elastic CAD-free framework for multi-model
configurations.'
PROFESSOR. A BÖTTCHER, TU Chemnitz
Wed. 15 Mar.: `C*-algebras and pseudospectra of
large Toeplitz matrices.'
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Subject: `The challenge of optimality in program specialisation.'
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Convener: P.J. Robins, MA, University Lecturer in Middle East Politics.
DR E. ESMEIJER, Phare Consultant
18 Jan.: `The political economy of illegal
narcotics.'
DR F. GREGORY, Southampton
25 Jan.: `Drugs and the new security agenda.'
DR N. DORN, Institute for the study of drug dependence
1 Feb.: `Europe: new challenges and third pillar
responses.'
M. MORGAN, BBC Monitoring Service
8 Feb.: `Narcotics and corruption in central
Asia.'
PROFESSOR E. NADELMANN, Lindsmith Center, New York
15 Feb.: `The global drugs prohibition regime:
past, present, and future.'
DR E. JOYCE, IRELA, Madrid
22 Feb.: `The Andean countries.'
P. ARLACCHI, Executive Director, UNDCP
29 Feb.: `Practitioner perspectives: multilateral
responses to illegal drugs.'
M. RYDER, Special Representative for International Drugs Issues, FCO
7 Mar.: `Practitioner perspectives: diplomatic
responses to illegal drugs.'
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Conveners: L.L. Fawcett, MA, and N.T. Woods, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturers (CUF) in Politics.
DR S. JONES, Oxford Policy Management
17 Jan.: `The politics of aid and the constraints
of conditionality.'
DR FAWCETT
24 Jan.: `Progress and prospects for regionalism in
the Middle East.'
DR C. BIEBESHEIMER, Inter-American Development Bank
31 Jan.: `The good governance agenda and developing
countries.'
PROFESSOR R. HIGGOTT, ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and
Regionalisation
7 Feb.: `Globalisation and regionalism.'
DR A. ACHARYA, York University, Ontario
14 Feb.: `The Third World and world order in the
twenty-first century: the impact of intrusive regionalism.'
DR T. CAROTHERS, Carnegie Endowment, Washington, DC
21 Feb.: `Democratisation and the developing
world.'
DR WOODS
28 Feb.: `Developing countries and the reform of
the international financial architecture.'
PROFESSOR T. WEISS, City University of New York
6 Mar.: `The politics of humanitarian
intervention.'
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Conveners: F.A. Nizami, MA, D.Phil., J.Y. Michot (Ph.D.), and J. Piscatori (Ph.D.)
PROFESSOR A. SCHIMMEL, Harvard
19 Jan.: `Jalal al-Din Rumi.'
PROFESSOR J. MORRIS, Exeter University
26 Jan.: `Esoterism, Messianism, Millenarism.'
PROFESSOR C. BAFFIONI, Istituto per l'Oriente `C.A. Nallino', Rome
2 Feb.: `Science and its legitimation in the Ikhwan
al-Safa.'
PROFESSOR O. LEAMAN, John Moores University
9 Feb.: `Miskawayh and Islamic humanism.'
DR T. WINTER, Cambridge
16 Feb.: `Ibn Kemal's criteria of Ottoman
theological normalcy.'
PROFESSOR MUHAMMAD KHALID MASUD, ISIM, Leiden
23 Feb.: `Islamic law according to al-Shatibi.'
DR J. JANSSENS, De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Louvain
1 Mar.: `Al-Ghazali's Tahafut: a real destruction
of philosophy? Of Avicennian philosophy.'
PROFESSOR D. GUTAS, Yale
8 Mar.: `The Golden Age of Arabic philosophy
(1000–1400).'
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MRS M. CHARLES
24 Jan.: `The role of introductory "It"
patterns in the constructing of an appropriate academic
persona.'
DR A. FRANKENBERG-GARCIA, ISLA, Lisbon
7 Feb.: `Using a translation corpus to sort out
Portuguese–English cross-linguistic influence.'
DR R. VANDERPLANK
21 Feb.: `What makes a good "language
keeper"? Success and failure in the Lambda Project.'
DR E. MACARO
6 Mar.: `An analysis of code switching in foreign
language classroom discourse.'
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B. HARRISS-WHITE
20 Jan.: `Gender, capital, and co-operative
control.'
A. ATKINSON
27 Jan.: `Poverty from a world perspective.'
A.K. SEN
3 Feb.: `Six billion and all that.'
M. DESAI, LSE
10 Feb.: `A.K. Sen as a development economist.'
L. CROLL, SOAS
17 Feb.: `Amartya Sen's 100 million missing
women.'
J. COHEN
24 Feb.: `Sen on capability, freedom, and
entitlements.' (S. Alkire to comment)
S. ANAND
2 Mar.: `Measuring inequalities of health.'
S. DEVEREUX, Sussex
9 Mar.: `Sen's entitlement approach: critiques and
counter-critiques.'
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Conveners: Dr Farida Abu-Haidar, Dr Cathie Lloyd, and Dr Sowon Park.
S. SALIH
20 Jan.: `Postcolonial theories.' (To be
confirmed)
J.-P. LLEDO, Algerian film-maker
27 Jan.: `Chroniques algériennes'
(film and discussion).
E. TAKYI
3 Feb.: `West African narratives in Ghanaian
feminist novels.'
L. IBNLFASSI, London Guildhall
10 Feb.: `The virgin, the whore, the witch, and the
saint: the Journey of Womanhood in the narrative of Ben
Jelloun.'
S. POOLE, Reading
17 Feb.: `Women, borders, and boundaries in the
Francophone literature of Algeria's war.'
N. HITCHCOTT, Nottingham
24 Feb.: `Migrating genders in Calixthe Beyala's
fiction.'
P. DUNWOODIE, Goldsmiths' College, London
2 Mar.: `Confronting "la question
indigène" in colonial Algeria.'
P. MCDONALD
9 Mar.: `The position of the postcolonial writer.'
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Further details may be obtained from Dominique Attala, Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LA (telephone: Oxford (2)70722, fax: (2)70721, e-mail: rspedu@qeh.ox.ac.uk, Internet: http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/rsp/).
For details on contacting the Refugee Studies Centre, see above.
B. HOVY, Senior Statistician, UNHCR
19 Jan.: `Measuring forced migration: what we know
and what we don't.'
PROFESSOR N. MACFARLANE
26 Jan.: `States, power, and refugees:
international relations and forced migration.'
DR N. VAN HEAR
2 Feb.: `Undisciplined: the virtues of rootlessness
in refugee search.'
DR M. GIBNEY
9 Feb.: `Political perspectives on forced
migration.'
MS C. BRUN, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
16 Feb.: `Newcomers and hosts: internally displaced
Muslims in Puttalam District, Sri Lanka.'
DR N. AL ALI, Sussex
23 Feb.: `Problematising "transnational
communities": a case study of Bosnian refugees.'
MS N. BIRKELAND, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim
1 Mar.: `War, environment, and forced migration in
Angola.'
DR M. DEEGAN
8 Mar: `Literary perspectives on forced migration.'
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Conveners: Clara Raposo (Said Business School), Hyun Shin (Economics), and Sam Howison (Mathematics).
N. INSTEFJORD, Birkbeck College, London
21 Jan.: `Portfolio choice and ownership
concentration.'
I. TONKS, Bristol
28 Jan.: `Performance of UK pension funds.'
T. LYONS, Imperial College, London
4 Feb.: to be announced.
R. RAHI, LSE
11 Feb.: `Efficiency properties of rational
expectations equlibria with asymmetric information.'
W. PERRAUDIN, Birkbeck College, London
18 Feb.: `The consistency of ratings and on market
yields.'
K. NYBORG, London Business School
25 Feb.: `R.&D. capital investments, and
financing under repeated moral.'
J. COCCO, London Business School
3 Mar.: to be announced.
V. SAPORTA, Bank of England
10 Mar.: to be announced.
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Convener: S. Harper, D.Phil., Research Associate, the Wellcome Unit.
DR G. SMITH, Glasgow
17 Jan.: `The experience of general practice.'
DR R. FERGUSON, Glasgow University, Caledonian
24 Jan.: `Exploring district nursing.'
DR S. ANDERSON, LSHTM
31 Jan.: `The chemist's story.'
DR M. RHODES, Birmingham
7 Feb.: `Births, bedpans, and bugs: professional
education for midwives.'
DR K. FISHER
14 Feb. `The understanding and practice of birth
control.'
DR D. ATKINSON, Open University
21 Feb.: `A history of learning disabilities.'
PROFESSOR N. SMALL, Bradford
28 Feb.: `The modern hospice movement.'
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Conveners: Sir Julian Bullard and Professor Robert O'Neill.
STROBE TALBOTT, Deputy US Secretary of State
21 Jan.: `Balance-sheet for the 1990s: how well has
the US done?'
SHASHI THAROOR, Director of Communications and Special Projects,
Office of the UN Secretary General
28 Jan.: `The US and the UN.'
AMBASSADOR YUKIO SATOH, Permanent Representative of Japan to the
United Nations
4 Feb.: `The US and East Asia.'
SIR JOHN KERR, Permanent Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth
Office
11 Feb.: `The US and the UK.'
GEN. KLAUS NAUMANN, former Chairman, NATO Military Committee
18 Feb.: `The US and NATO.'
Speaker to be announced
25 Feb.: `The US and Russia.'
R.W.APPLE, The New York Times
3 Mar.: `US domestic politics and foreign
policy.'
DR LYNN DAVIS, former Under Secretary of State and currently Deputy
Director, the National Security Strategy Group
10 Mar.: `Foreign policy challenges for the next
administration.'
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Subject: `The figure of the singer.'
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PROFESSOR M.J. GIBNEY, Institute of European Food Studies, Trinity
College, Dublin
17 Jan.: `Safe and nutritious food: global issues
for the next millennium.'
DR P.J. DALE, the John Innes Centre, Norwich
24 Jan.: `Genetically modified organisms:
environmental saviour or environmental disaster?'
PROFESSOR W.P.T. JAMES, Director, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen
31 Jan.: `Feast and famine: the paradox of under-
and over-nutrition.'
A. BENNETT, Chief Natural Resources Adviser, Department for
International Development
7 Feb.: `Food and forests: will they be compatible
in the next millennium?'
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THE HON. MAURICE STRONG, Chairman, the Earth Council
27 Jan.:: `Global sustainable development.'
PROFESSOR M. LANGTON, University of Northern Territories, Australia
3 Feb.: `Indigenous concepts of connectedness and
the new environmentalism.'
PROFESSOR H. GIRADET, Urban Futures, London
10 Feb.: `Cities, people, planet.'
DR C. JUMA, Harvard
17 Feb.: `International trade and environment.'
PROFESSOR S. YEARLEY, York
24 Feb.: `Social movements as problematic agents of
global environmental change.'
PROFESSOR E.P. ODUM, Georgia
2 Mar.: `The transformation of ecology.'
P. MELCHETT, Executive Director, Greenpeace UK
9 Mar.: `Global citizens—campaigning for
environmental solutions.'
PROFESSOR M. CASTELLS, Berkeley
15 June: `Global networks and local societies:
cities in the information age.'
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PROFESSOR K. SOPER, North London
18 Jan.: `Realism, humanism, and the politics of
nature.'
P. DUBEN, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
25 Jan.: `Risk, pollution, and regulation.'
A. STIRLING, Sussex
1 Feb.: `Science and precaution in the management
of technological risk.'
M. OKSANEN, Lancaster
8 Feb.: `Authorship, communities, and intellectual
property rights: insights for the protection of
biodiversity?'
J. MEADOWCROFT, Sheffield
15 Feb.: `Implementing sustainability in high-
consumption societies.'
C. REDGWELL
22 Feb.: `New mechanisms for ensuring state
compliance with international environmental obligations.'
N. ROBINS, Research Fellow, International Institute for Environment
and Development
29 Feb.: `Consumption, development, and
environment.'
N. WITOSZEK, European University Institute, Florence
7 Mar.: `Moral communities and the environment: the
Nordic enigma.'
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PROFESSOR A. STEPAN, Columbia 21 Jan.: `The world's religious systems and democracy.'
MS PATRICIA HEWITT, MP, Minister of State at the Department of Trade
and Industry
28 Jan.: `Social justice in the knowledge
economy.'
LORD DAHRENDORF, Warden of St Antony's 1987–97
4 Feb.: `Democracy beyond the nation-state.'
BARONESS (HELENA) KENNEDY, QC, Chair, the British Council
11 Feb.: `Reaching the parts beyond formal
diplomacy.'
MS BRIDGET KENDALL, BBC Diplomatic Correspondent
18 Feb.: `Kosovo and after: the future of spin in
the digital age.'
PROFESSOR DAVID MARQUAND, Principal, Mansfield College
25 Feb.: `Democracy in Britain.'
SIR KEITH THOMAS, President, Corpus Christi College
3 Mar.: `Heritage or history? Conflicting views of
the past.'
GUIDO DI TELLA, Argentinian Foreign Minister 1991–9, and
Honorary Fellow of St Antony's
10 Mar.: `Argentina, 1989–99: from the margins
to the centre.'
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Conveners: D.R. Priestland, MA, University Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History, and R.J. Service, MA, University Lecturer in Modern Russian History.
G. SMITH
17 Jan.: `Russian and her Eurasianism.'
C. ANDREYEV
24 Jan.: `Russia and her fascism.
E. ACTON, East Anglia
31 Jan.: `Russia and her liberalism.'
A. LUUKKANEN
7 Feb.: `Russian and her Christianity.'
D. LIEVEN, LSE
14 Feb.: `Russia and her imperialism.'
DR SERVICE
21 Feb.: `Russia and her nationalism.'
G. SWAIN, West of England
28 Feb.: `Russia and her social-democracy.'
MR PRIESTLAND
6 Mar.: `Russia and her Communism.'
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Subject: `What makes a writer?'
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SIR MARTIN WOOD
18 Jan.: `Superconductivity, eighty-nine years
on—where's it going?'
PROFESSOR M.E. FISHER, Maryland
25 Jan.: `Pictures, models, approximations, and
reality: phase transitions and the role of the theorist.'
PROFESSOR STEPHEN MOORBATH
1 Feb.: `Physics and geological time.'
PROFESSOR SIR ROGER PENROSE
8 Feb.: `Quantum mechanics: is there a limit to its
validity?'
PROFESSOR D.L.T. ANDERSON, European Centre for Medium-range Weather
Forecasts
15 Feb.: `Physics of climate.'
PROFESSOR D.A. KING, Cambridge
22 Feb.: `Atoms at the surfaces of solids:
structure, bonding, magnetism, and reactivity at solid
surfaces.'
PROFESSOR J.P. BOUCHAUD, CEA, France
29 Feb.: `Elements for a theory of financial risk:
a physicist's perspective.'
SIR PETER MANSFIELD, Nottingham
7 Mar.: `Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI):
principles and applications.'
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27 Jan.: `Features of the Muslim–Christian polemical
tradition.'
3 Feb.: `The Christian prophet and the Prophet of
Islam.'
10 Feb.: `The divine word and scripture in Islam and Christianity.'
17 Feb.: `God's unity and trinity: the Islamic–Christian debate.'
24 Feb.: `Sin and redemption in Christianity and Islam.'
2 Mar.: `Moving beyond the burdens of history.'
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Further information may be obtained from Alan Kreider, Regent's Park College, Oxford OX1 2LB (telephone: Oxford (2)88140, fax: (2)88121, e-mail: alan.kreider@regents.ox.ac.uk).
HOWARD GOODALL, London
18 Jan.: `Music and mystery.'
ANDREW CARTER, York
25 Jan.: `Requiem for Evensong.'
ROBERT SAXTON
1 Feb.: `Darkness to light; cycles and circles; the
sacred in my music.'
THE REVD JOHN BELL, Iona Community
8 Feb.: `The lost tradition of lament.'
THE REVD DR JANET H. WOOTTON, Union Chapel, Islington
15 Feb.: `The future of the hymn.'
GRAHAM KENDRICK, London
22 Feb.: `Worship in spirit and truth.'
ROXANNA PANUFNIK, London
29 Feb.: `Beyond a Mass for Westminster.'
PROFESSOR JOHN HARPER, Director General, Royal School of Church Music
7 Mar.: `Renewing the past in the present: the
living art of church music.'
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Wine and sandwiches will be served after the lectures at a cost of £2.50 per person, for which bookings should be made in advance with Mrs P.M. Sturgis, Membership Secretary, Friends of the Bodleian, Bodleian Library, Oxford OX1 3BG (telephone: Oxford (2)77234).
MRS M. CLAPINSON, Keeper of Special Collections and Western
Manuscripts
Thur. 3 Feb.: `Bryon in the family papers.'
J. PINFOLD, Librarian, Rhodes House
Mon. 6 Mar.: `The Transvaal War: a contemporary
lantern slide show and commentary.'
Members attending the lecture on 6 March are invited to view the exhibition `From the Boer War to Uhuru: South Africa in the Twentieth Century' in the Schola Naturalis Philosophiae, Old Schools Quadrangle.
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M. BRODY
2 Feb., 8 p.m., Pauling Centre for Human Sciences, 58
Banbury Road: `Renaissance maiolica at the Medici villa of
Cafaggiuolo.'
D. LEWIS
15 Feb., 8 p.m., Pauling Centre for Human Sciences, 58
Banbury Road: `Jessie White Mario, Garibaldi's unrecognised
Florence Nightingale.'
P. CLAIRE
16 Feb., 5 p.m., Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean
Museum: `Centrifugal centripetal: motifs in word pictures
of Severini, Carra, and Apollinaire.' (Lecture-
performance; programme £1)
PROFESSOR P. RYLANDS, Director, Guggenheim Foundation
22 Feb., 8 p.m., Mary Ogilvie Theatre, St Anne's
College: `Peggy Guggenheim's museum in Venice.'
(Students free)
DR S. FRAQUELI, selector of the Severini Exhibition at the Ashmolean
Museum
1 Mar., 6 p.m., Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean
Museum: `Gino Severini—from Futurism to Classicism.'
(Admission free; nominal charge for wine)
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Conversazione in italiano: `L'Italia nel 2000', 7.45 for 8 p.m., 9 February, in St Anne's College. Admission free.
Dr Alan Milner will offer a wine-tasting in the context of an imagined dinner, at 7.45 for 8 p.m. on 9 March in Halifax House. This is a ticket-only event (admission £8 per person). Tickets may be reserved by telephoning Oxford 377479.
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Subject: `The Nazis and the Rothschilds' libraries.'
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