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INAUGURAL LECTURES
Action Research Professor of Clinical
Neurology
PROFESSOR G.C. EBERS will deliver his inaugural lecture at 5 p.m. on
Tuesday, 9 May, in the Examination Schools.
Subject: `Multiple sclerosis—a complex trait
paradigm.'
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Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of
American History
PROFESSOR R.W. WINKS will deliver his inaugural lecture at 5 p.m. on
Thursday, 18 May, in the Examination Schools.
Subject: `To stimulate to some action: the Harmsworth
Professorship, 1920–2000.'
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WEIDENFELD VISITING PROFESSOR OF EUROPEAN
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1999–2000
Literature and the gods
ROBERTO CALASSO will deliver this series of lectures at 5 p.m. on
Wednesdays and Thursdays of first, second, third, and fourth weeks of
Trinity Term, in the Examination Schools.
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HALLEY LECTURE 2000
PROFESSOR SIR ALAN COOK, FRS, formerly Master of Selwyn College and
Emeritus Professor of Natural Philosophy, Cambridge, will deliver the
Halley Lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 16 May. The venue will be
announced later.
Subject: `Edmond Halley and the magnetic field of the
Earth.'
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CHERWELL–SIMON LECTURE 2000
PROFESSOR FRANCIS HALZEN, Director, Institute for Elementary Particle
Physics Research, University of Wisconsin—Madison, will deliver
the Cherwell–Simon Lecture at 4.30 p.m. on Friday, 9 June. The
venue will be announced later.
Subject: `Neutrino astronomy: Antarctic dreams.'
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HENSLEY HENSON LECTURES IN THEOLOGY
1999–2000
Sacraments, Ceremonies, and Stuart Divines: sacramental theology
and liturgy in England and Scotland, 1603–62
THE REVD DR BRYAN SPINKS, Professor of Liturgical Studies, Yale
University, will deliver the Hensley Henson Lectures at 5 p.m. on the
following Mondays in the Examination Schools.
1 May: `Lex ritualis, lex credendi? From Hampton Court
to the Five Articles of Perth.'
8 May: `Calvinist consensus and Patristic Reformed
Sacramentalism, and the débâcle of the 1637 Book of
Common Prayer.'
15 May: `Baptismal controversy, the Westminster
Assembly, and the Royal Episcopal Divines.'
22 May: `Keeping the mean and ignoring the theologians?
Sacraments and the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.'
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WILDE LECTURES IN NATURAL AND COMPARATIVE
RELIGION
Evil and superfluity: two arguments against the existence of God
PROFESSOR P. VAN INWAGEN, John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of
Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, will deliver the Wilde
Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion at 5 p.m. on the
following days in the Examination Schools.
Tue. 2 May: `Two arguments for the non-existence of
God.'
Thur. 4 May: `The idea of God.'
Fri. 5 May: `God and science.'
Tue. 9 May: `God and evil.'
Thur. 11 May: `The vast amount of evil.'
Fri. 12 May: `Horrors.'
Tue. 16 May: `Belief and evidence.'
Thur. 18 May: `The presumption of atheism.'
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O'DONNELL LECTURES IN CELTIC STUDIES 2000
DR N. EDWARDS, School of History and Welsh History, University of
Wales, Bangor, will deliver two O'Donnell Lectures on the following
subject, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 11 May, and Friday, 12 May, in the
Examination Schools.
Subject: `Early medieval stones and stone sculpture in
Wales: context and connections.'
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JAMES P.R. LYELL LECTURES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY
Set in print: the fortunes of an idea,
.1450–1800
DR D. MCKITTERICK, Cambridge, will deliver the Lyell Lectures in
Bibliography at 5 p.m. on the following days in Lecture Theatre 2,
the St Cross Building.
Thur. 4 May: `The printed word and the modern
bibliographer.'
Wed. 10 May: `Dependent skills.'
Thur. 11 May: `A house of errors.'
Wed. 17 May: `Perfect and imperfect.'
Thur. 18 May: `Re-evaluations.'
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CARLYLE CLASSES IN CLASSICAL POLITICAL
THOUGHT
The politics of Plato's Republic
DR M. SCHOFIELD, Cambridge, will give the following lecture and
seminars at 2 p.m. on the days shown in All Souls College. The series
will end with a general discussion session, at 2 p.m. on Monday, 22
May.
Mon. 1 May: `The noble lie.' (Lecture)
Tue. 2 May: `Utopia and the idea of community.'
(Seminar)
Mon. 8 May: `Rule by philosophers: knowledge, virtue,
and power.' (Seminar)
Tue. 9 May: `Economic man: property and human nature.'
(Seminar)
Mon. 15 May: `Plato the feminist?'
(Seminar)
Tue. 16 May: `A city fit for Socrates: the politics of
Quietism.' (Seminar)
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ANTHROPOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY
Oxford Seminars in Cartography
RALPH HYDE, London Guildhall Library, will give a seminar at 5 p.m.
on Thursday, 25 May, in the School of Geography.
Subject: `Parish maps of London, 1686–1900:
recording an overlooked source.'
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CLINICAL MEDICINE
Oxford Clinical Neurosciences Lectures
The following lectures will be given at 11.30 a.m. on Fridays in the
Witts Lecture Theatre, the Radcliffe Infirmary.
DR A. ZEMAN, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
12 May: `Consciousness.'
PROFESSOR A.J. THOMPSON, Institute of Neurology
9 June: `Neurorehabilitation in MS: does it
work?'
DR R. KNIGHT, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
14 July: `Update on CJD.'
DR J. MORROW, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
15 Sept.: `Epilepsy, drugs, and pregnancy.'
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Oxford Eye Hospital: Oxford teaching programme
The following lectures will be given on Mondyas. Unless otherwise
indicated, they will take place in the Lecture Theatre, the Oxford
Eye Hospital, the Radcliffe Infirmary.
Convener: A.J. Bron, MA, Clinical Professor and Margaret
Ogilvie's Reader in Ophthalmology.
27 March
DR P. FRITH
2 p.m.: Fluorescein angiogram teaching.
MISS H. WICKS
2.30 p.m.: Orthoptic case presentation.
DR B. MCDONALD
3.45 p.m.: Neuropathology.
3 April
DR P. FRITH
2 p.m.: Fluorescein angiogram teaching.
MR K. IKRAM
2.30 p.m.: Presentation.
MR J. ELSTON
3.45 p.m.: Neuro-ophthalmology.
10 April
DR P. FRITH
2 p.m.: Fluorescein angiogram teaching.
MR J. ELSTON
2.30 p.m., Radiology Department, Radcliffe
Infirmary: Neuroradiology.
V. MEHTA
3.45 p.m.: Orthoptic Hess Charts.
17 April
DR P. FRITH
2 p.m.: Fluorescein angiogram teaching.
Orthoptics Department, Oxford Eye Hospital
2.30 p.m.: Presentation.
MR R. MALHOTRA
3.45 p.m: Presentation.
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Uterine Contractility Symposium
This symposium will be held from 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 3 May, in
the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the John
Radcliffe Hospital. Further information may be be obtained from Dr
Andrés López Bernal (telephone: Oxford 220982, e-mail:
alb@ermine.ox.ac.uk).
PROFESSOR S. THORNTON, Warwick
10 a.m.: `Oxytocin antagonists for toxolysis:
clinical and scientific considerations.'
PROFESSOR S. WRAY, Liverpool
10.30 a.m.: `Physiological basis of
contractility.'
DR E. LINTON
11.30 a.m.: `CRH and parturition.'
DR N. EUROPE-FINNER, Newcastle
12 noon: `Expression of CREB, CREM, and AFT Cyclic
AMP Transcription Factors in the human myometrium during
pregnancy and labour.'
DR R. TRIBE, St Thomas's Hospital, London
2 p.m.: `Calcium signalling in myometrial
cells.'
DR M. TAGGART, Manchester
2.30 p.m.: `Caves, stores, and asphyxiation:
E–C coupling in the myometrium.'
DR R. KHAN, Nottingham
3 p.m.: `Potassium channels in the human
myometrium.'
PROFESSOR R. IVELL, Hamburg
3.30 p.m.: `Oxytocin receptor gene regulation.'
PROFESSOR B. SANBORN, Texas at Houston
5 p.m.: `Hormones and calcium; mechanisms
controlling uterine contractile activity.' (Litchfield
Lecture)
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MODERN HISTORY
Special Faculty Lecture
PROFESSOR I. KERSHAW, Sheffield, will deliver the annual Special
Faculty Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 5 May, in the Examination
Schools.
Subject: `Why did Nazi radicalism not subside?'
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PHYSICAL SCIENCES
PROFESSOR HANS FRAUENFELDER, Los Alamos National Laboratory, will
lecture at 2.15 p.m. on the following days in the NAPL Lecture
Theatre.
Mon. 3 Apr.: `The energy landscape and dynamics of
proteins.'
Tue. 4 Apr.: `Myoglobin is an allosteric enzyme.'
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ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM
PROFESSOR A. BLANKERT, Slade Professor, University of Cambridge, will
lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 4 April, in the Lecture Theatre, the
Taylor Institution. Admission is free.
Subject: `Johannes Vermeer as a narrator.'
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CENTRE FOR BRAZILIAN STUDIES
Annual Conference
Brazil 1500–2000: Part I, Government, Economy, Society, and
Politics
The conference will be held on 3–4 April in St Antony's College.
Part II, `Culture and National Identity', will be held in March/April
2001.
Further details, and registration information, may be obtained from
the Centre (telephone: Oxford 554026, fax: 554030).
Monday, 3 April
Session I, Colonial Brazil (10.15 a.m.–12.45 p.m.)
PROFESSOR S. SCHWARTZ, Yale: `Economy.'
PROFESSOR A. WEHLING, IHGB, Rio de Janeiro: `Administration.'
DR J. MONTEIRO, UNICAMP, Campinas: `Indians/frontier.'
DR S. D. CASTRO FARIA, UFF, Niteroi: `Slave economy/society.'
Session II, Nineteenth-/twentieth-century Brazil: state-
building (2–3.30 p.m.)
DR L. SCHWARCZ, USP, Sao Paulo: `Empire.'
PROFESSOR R. LESSA, IUPERJ, Rio de Janeiro: `Republic.'
Session III, Nineteenth-/twentieth-century Brazil: economy
(4–6 p.m.)
PROFESSOR S. TOPIK, California–Irvine: `1830–1930
(coffee).'
PROFESSOR W. SUZIGAN, UNICAMP, Campinas: `1830–1930 (industry).'
PROFESSOR MARCELO DE PAIVA ABREU, PUC, Rio de Janeiro:
`1930–c.1980.'
Tuesday, 4 April
Session IV, Nineteenth-/twentieth-century Brazil: society
(10 a.m.–12.30 p.m.)
PROFESSOR L.F. ALENCASTRO, UNICAMP, Campinas/Paris: `Slave to free
labour/post-abolition race relations.'
PROFESSOR B. FAUSTO, USP, Sao Paulo: `Immigration/ethnicity/labour.'
Speaker to be announced: `Social policy since 1930.'
DR N. DO VALLE SILVA, IUPERJ, Rio de Janeiro: `Social structure and
social change since 1930.'
Session V, Nineteenth-/twentieth-century Brazil:
politics (2–4 p.m.)
PROFESSOR W.G. DOS SANTOS, IUPERJ, Rio de Janeiro: `The liberal
tradition.'
PROFESSOR J. MURILO DE CARVALHO, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro: `The
conservative tradition.'
PROFESSOR L. BETHELL: `The left.'
Session VI, round table on contemporary Brazil: legacies
of the past and future alternatives (4.30–6.30 p.m.)
The following will participate in the discussion: Professor Marcelo
de Paiva Abreu; Professor Boris Fausto; Professor Rogerio Werneck
(PUC, Rio de Janeiro); Professor Jose Murilo de Carvalho; Professor
Wanderley G. dos Santos; and Professor Simon Schwartzmann (IBGE, Rio
de Janeiro).
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STANDING COMMITTEE FOR THE M.ST. IN WOMEN'S
STUDIES
Annual Women's Studies Lecture
PROFESSOR T. LAQUEUR, Berkeley, will deliver the annual Women's
Studies Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 26 May, in the Auditorium, St
John's College.
Subject: `1712 in the history of sexuality and
subjectivity.'
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EXETER COLLEGE
Marett Memorial Lecture
DR P. VITEBSKY, Assistant Director of Research, the Scott Polar
Research Institute, Cambridge, will deliver the Marett Memorial
Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 5 May, in the Saskatchewan Lecture Room,
Exeter College. The subject of the lecture will be announced later.
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KEBLE COLLEGE
Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture
THE REVD CANON DR MARTYN PERCY, Director of the Lincoln Theological
Institute, will deliver the Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture at
5.30 p.m. on Friday, 5 May, in the chapel, Keble College.
Subject: `Knowledge of Angles: how spiritual are the
English?'
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ST EDMUND HALL
Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture
JEREMY PAXMAN will deliver the Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture at 5
p.m. on Friday, 5 May, in the Examination Schools.
Subject: `Surviving spin.'
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ST HUGH'S COLLEGE
Henry Rowlatt Bickley Memorial Lecture
PROFESSOR ROGER PARKER, Cambridge, will deliver the seventeenth Henry
Rowlatt Bickley Memorial Lecture at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 16 May, in
the Mordan Hall, St Hugh's College.
Subject: `Elisabeth's last act: Verdian history and the
close of cDon Carlos\.'
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Becket Institute
The following lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in the
Becket Institute, St Hugh's College.
DR J. ANDERSON
3 May: `National churches in time of change: the
search for recognition in comparative perspective.'
DR A. O'MAHONEY, Heythrop College, University of London
10 May: `The Copts, politics, and
Muslim–Christian relations in modern Egypt.'
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FRIENDS OF THE PITT RIVERS MUSEUM
The following lectures will be given as shown. Visitors are welcome
to attend, but are requested to make a contribution of £2 to the
Friend's Purchasing Fund.
DR I. FINKEL, Assistant Keeper, Department of Western Asiatic
Antiquities, British Museum
Wed. 17 May, Inorganic Chemistry Lecture Theatre, 7
p.m.: `Tales of the unexpected: board games ancient and
modern.'
J. GILLOW, author and lecturer
Wed. 14 June, Pitt Rivers Research Centre (64 Banbury
Road), 6 p.m.: `Hill tribes of south-western China.'
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