Oxford
University Gazette, 12 October 2006: Lectures
Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative
Literature 2006–7
Culture and politics in Germany: a durable tension
PROFESSOR WOLF LEPENIES, Professor of Sociology,
Wissenschaftskolleg, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin,
will lecture at 5.30 p.m. on the following days in the
Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College.
Mon. 16 Oct.: 'German culture: insecurity and
arrogance.'
Tue. 17 Oct.: 'The German spirit and the German
Reich.'
Tue. 24 Oct.: 'With the help of irony: Thomas
Mann's conversion to politics.'
Wed. 25 Oct.: 'The aesthetic appeal of
fascism.'
Tue. 31 Oct.: 'After World War II: the
resurrection of culture.'
Wed. 1 Nov.: 'After reunification: the end of
arrogance.'
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Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American
History
PROFESSOR LINDA KERBER, Harmsworth Professor 2006–7,
will deliver the Harmsworth Lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 14
November, in the Examination Schools.
Subject: 'The stateless as the citizen's other: a
view from US history.'
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J.W. Jenkinson Memorial Lecture
PROFESSOR MICHAEL AKAM, Director, University Museum of
Zoology, Cambridge, will deliver a Jenkinson Memorial Lecture
at 5 p.m. on Monday, 20 November, in Lecture Theatre A, the
Zoology/Psychology Building.
Tickets are not required for admission. Anyone wishing to
attend who has specific access requirements is asked to
telephone Oxford (2)82464 a few days before the lecture.
Subject: 'The evolution of segmentation
mechanisms in animals.'
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Hudson Lecture
PROFESSOR GEOFFREY TILL, Defence Studies Department,
King's College, London (based at the Joint Services Command
and Staff College), will deliver the Hudson Lecture at 5 p.m.
on Monday, 13 November, in Room 6, the Examination
Schools.
Subject: 'Trafalgar, Tsushima, Medway and the
decisive battles of the twenty-first century.'
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Strachey Lecture
PROFESSOR THOMAS A. HENZINGER, EPFL, Switzerland, will
deliver a Strachey Lecture at 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 17
October, in the the Lecture Theatre, the Computing Laboratory
(Wolfson Building).
Subject: 'Reliable systems engineering.'
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Classics
Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
PROFESSOR CHRISTIAN WOLFF, composer, and formerly
Professor of Classics and Music, Dartmouth College, New
Hampshire, will lecture at 2.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 18
October, in the Lecture Theatre, the Classics Centre.
Subject: 'Greek tragedy and some
twentieth-century experimental music.'
Modern receptions of ancient Greek and Roman
cultures
Unless otherwise indicated, the following
interdisciplinary seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays
in the History Faculty Building. Enquiries should be directed
to amanda.wrigley@classics.ox.ac.uk,
heather.ellis@balliol.ox.ac.uk,
or isobelhurst@hotmail.com.
Two papers will be given at all meetings except that on 23
October.
DR PANTELIS MICHELAKIS, Bristol
16 Oct.: 'Filming death at work: silent cinema,
theatre, photography.'
DR GIDEON NISBET, Glasgow
16 Oct.: To be announced.
DR JOHN HOLMES, Reading
23 Oct., History of the Book Room, English Faculty:
'Lucretius at the fin de siècle: faith,
science, and poetry.' (Joint meeting with the Victorian
Graduate Seminar)
DR JESSICA MEYER, Oxford Brookes
30 Oct.: 'The Three Thousand of Thermopylae:
classical imagery in British First World War mourning
practices.'
DR ROWENA FOWLER
30 Oct.: 'Virginia Woolf's Greek choruses.'
DR MIRIAM LEONARD, Bristol
6 Nov.: 'Reception and the return of the
repressed.'
HEATHER ELLIS
6 Nov.: 'Marcus Aurelius: a conflict between
classics and Christianity in Victorian scholarship.'
DR DEBBIE CHALLIS, National Portrait Gallery
13 Nov.: 'Old news: classical antiquities,
excavation, and oriental landscape in the nineteenth
century.'
DR SHELLEY HALES, Bristol
13 Nov.: 'Living with Pompeii: domestic
reconstruction in the nineteenth century.'
DR KATHERINE HARLOE
20 Nov.: 'Between aesthetics and history? Some early
responses to Winckelmann on ancient art.'
DR LIZ POTTER, Bristol
20 Nov.: 'Ideas and ideals of Athens in Britain in
the nineteenth century.'
DR MARK BRADLEY, Nottingham
27 Nov.: ' "Creating a desert and calling it 'pax'
": reading Tacitus' Agricola in Victorian and
Edwardian England.'
DR ALI PARCHAMI
27 Nov.: 'Victorian and Edwardian perceptions of
Rome.'
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English Language and Literature
Fin de Siècle Seminar Series
The following seminars will be held on Thursdays at 5.15
p.m. in the Meyerstein Room (11), St Cross Building, Manor
Road. All welcome. Enquiries: sarah.davison@st-annes.ox.ac.uk.
Convener: Sarah Davison.
J. ADAMS, Institute of English Studies
12 Oct.: 'Decadent or hearty? Kipling's
dilemma.'
M. COPP
26 Oct.: 'The fourth imagist: F.S. Flint and the
road to modernism.'
N. SHRIMPTON
2 Nov.: 'Romanticism and the
fin-de-siècle: the case of Samuel
Palmer.'
D. NOVAK, Louisiana State University
23 Nov.: 'Iconography gone Wilde: Christopher
Millard, pictorial bibliography, and the "real" Oscar
Wilde.'
Medieval English Research Seminar
The following seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 5.15
p.m. in the History of the Book Room, St Cross Building.
Conveners: Professor Vincent Gillespie and
Professor Malcolm Godden.
DR N. ZEEMAN, King's College, Cambridge
18 Oct.: 'Ethics and affect: song in Chaucer,
Lydgate and Henryson.'
PROFESSOR E.G. STANLEY
25 Oct.: 'Hopefully and joyfully in Old and Middle
English.'
K. CLARKE
1 Nov.: 'Griselda bites back: reading/writing
Griselda in fourteenth-century Italy.'
DR B. MCCREESH, Universitée du Québec
à Chicoutimi
8 Nov.: 'Christianity and paganism in
Fóstbroeära saga.'
DR J. WATTS
15 Nov.: 'The changing meaning of "the commons" in
the long fifteenth century.'
S. WOOD
22 Nov.: ' "Ecce rex": Piers Plowman
and sermons.'
PROFESSOR J. MANN, Girton College, Cambridge
29 Nov.: 'Courtly ethics and courtly aesthetics in
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.'
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English Language and Literature, Theology
Literature and Theology Seminars
The following seminars will be held at 5.30 p.m. on
Thursdays in the History of the Book Room, the St Cross
Building.
Conveners: Benjamin Burton (St Edmund Hall),
Johanna Harris (Somerville), and Patrick Hornbeck (Christ
Church).
ELIZABETH CLARKE, Warwick
19 Oct.: 'Bare poetry and human ornature: the
ideological conflict over poetry in the seventeenth
century.'
PAULINA KEWES
2 Nov.: 'Providence and example: the literary
iconographies of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor.'
THOMAS BETTERIDGE, Oxford Brookes
16 Nov.: 'Sir Thomas More's Treatise on the
Passion and Prayer.'
DR HORNBECK
30 Nov.: ' "Faste knytted wiþ the sacrament of
matrimonie": marriage in Wycliffite texts.'
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History
Early Modern Europe Seminar
The following seminars will be held on Tuesdays at 2.15
p.m. in the Powicke Room, the History Faculty Building.
Conveners: Professor Robert Evans, Dr Howard
Hotson, and Professor Ian Maclean.
JOHN ELLIOT, Oriel
10 Oct.: 'Contrasting Empires: Britain and Spain in
America.'
GEORGE HOLMES, All Souls
17 Oct.: 'Pope Leo X and Italian culture.'
NICHOLAS JARDINE, Cambridge
24 Oct.: 'Kepler, God, and the virtues of Copernican
hypotheses.'
DAVID GOODMAN, Open University
31 Oct.: 'The Great Italian Renaissance debate
revisited.'
WILLIAM DOYLE, Bristol
7 Nov.: 'The American Revolution and the European
nobility.'
JARED DIENER, Balliol
14 Nov.: To be announced.
ULINKA RUBLACK, Cambridge
21 Nov.: 'Appearances of the body politic in the
early modern world.'
DR HOTSON
28 Nov.: 'Small is beautiful: German territorial
fragmentation and the pedagogical revolution,
1560–1640.'
Central European Seminar Series
Further information on these seminars will be found at
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sant1786.
Conveners: Dr Robert Pyrah and Dr Marius Turda (Oxford
Brookes).
DR L. TOP, Birkbeck, London and DR E. LAFFERTON,
Cambridge
Sat., 21 Oct., 1.45 p.m., Wolfson: 'Psychiatry in
the Austro-Hungarian monarchy: institutions, politics,
architecture.' (Session 1. Chair: Dr M. Turda,
Oxford Brookes)
DR R. YEOMANS and K. KOCOUREK, SSEES–UCL, London
Thurs., 2 Nov., 5 p.m., Taylor Institution:
'Propaganda and ideology.' (Session 2. Chair: Dr
Pyrah)
DR A. KALLIS, Lancaster and DR R. MALLET, Birmingham
Sat., 11 Nov., 1.45 p.m.: 'Urbanism and Fascism.'
(Session 3. Chair: Dr M. Feldman,
Northampton)
PROFESSOR P. PULZER
Thurs., 23 Nov., 5 p.m., Taylor Institution:
'Austrian historians and the Third Reich.' (Session
4: Special Lecture)
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History of Art
Antiquity after Antiquity
GERVASE ROSSER will lecture on
Thursdays at 10 a.m. in the Department Lecture Theatre, Littlegate
House, St Ebbe's. The lectures on 2 Nov. and 23 Nov. may need
to be rescheduled. Please check the departmental Web site for
revised times.
12 Oct.: 'The tyranny of antiquity.'
19 Oct.: 'Old stories: telling the history of art
in antiquity.'
26 Oct.: 'In between what? The 'Middle
Ages'.'
2 Nov.: 'The shock of the old, and a new history
of art.'
9 Nov.: 'Antique fragments and the artistic
imagination.'
16 Nov.: 'Ancient art the measure of beauty and
taste.'
23 Nov.: 'Antiquity on display: museums and
cultural politics.'
30 Nov.: 'Classicism and modernism: an impossible
rupture?'
Art History: Concepts and Methods
The following lectures will be held on Tuesday at 12 noon
in the History of Art Department Lecture Theatre.
Conveners: Dr G.A. Johnson and Dr G.
Parkinson.
DR G.A. JOHNSON
10 Oct.: ' "Art History": an introduction to
historiography and methods.'
DR G.A. JOHNSON
17 Oct.: ' "Artist": authorship, intentionality and
"genius".'
DR M. KWINT
24 Oct.: ' "Taste": art and aesthetics.'
DR G. PARKINSON
31 Oct.: ' "Style": connoisseurship and
attribution.'
PROFESSOR M. KEMP
7 Nov.: ' "Symbol": iconography and iconology.'
DR G.A. JOHNSON
14 Nov.: ' "Beholder": the reception of art.'
DR G. PARKINSON
21 Nov.: ' "Sign": semiotics and structuralism.'
DR G. PARKINSON
28 Nov.: ' "History": ideology and the social
histories of art.'
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Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Organic Chemistry Colloquia
The following colloquia will be held on Thursdays at 4
p.m. in the Dyson Perrins Lecture Theatre, unless otherwise
stated. The Pfizer Mini-Symposium will be held on 9 November
(details below). All visitors welcome. Enquiries: Jeremy.Robertson@chem.ox.ac.uk.
PROFESSOR J. WILLIAMS, Bath
12 Oct.: 'Borrowing hydrogen in organic
synthesis.'
PROFESSOR S. O'CONNOR, MIT
Tues., 17 Oct., 4 p.m., Wolfson Seminar Room, CRL:
'Alkaloid biosynthesis in periwinkle.'
DR J. GILDAY, Bristol
19 Oct.: 'Designing a manufacturing process for
Iressa: the chemicals that knew more chemistry than the
chemists!'
PROFESSOR A. ARMSTRONG, Imperial College London
26 Oct.: 'New methods and synthetic applications of
asymmetric heteroatom transfer.'
PROFESSOR J. SUTHERLAND, Manchester
2 Nov.: 'RNA: prebiotic product, or biotic
invention?'
PROFESSOR E. BLOCK, SUNY
16 Nov.: 'Chemistry in a salad bowl: the
organosulfur and organoselenium chemistry of garlic and
onions.'
DR J. LIDDLE, GSK
23 Nov.: 'The synthesis and development of
homochiral diketopiperazines as oxytocin antagonists for the
treatment of premature labour.'
DR P. O'BRIEN, York
30 Nov.: 'Back to basics: catalytic asymmetric
synthesis with organolithiums.'
Pfizer Mini-Symposium
The Pfizer Mini-Symposium will be held on Thursday, 9
November from 2 p.m. in the Wolfson Seminar Room, CRL.
DR. S. MARSDEN, Leeds
2 p.m.: 'Synthesis of complex amino and hydroxy
acids via extended enolates.'
DR J. HARVEY, Pfizer, Sandwich
2.40 p.m.: 'Novel heterocyclic chemistry in drug
discovery.'
DR M. PORTER, University College London
3.20 p.m.: 'Studies towards the synthesis of the
sarain core.'
Solid Mechanics and Materials Engineering
The following seminars will be held on Mondays in Lecture
Room 8, Information Engineering Building. For further
information contact John Huber on 01965 (2)83478.
C. BISHOP
16 Oct., 1 p.m.: 'Grain boundaries in the
phase-field.'
D. DE FOCATIIS
23 Oct., 1 p.m.: 'The influence of molecular
parameters on the drawing behaviour and on Craze initiation
in polystyrene.'
X. MARKENSCOFF, California, San Diego
30 Oct., 1 p.m.: 'Stress amplification in thin
ligaments.'
R. PAYNTER
6 Nov., 4 p.m.: 'Ring dislocations—effects of
path cut and application.'
T. BIELER, Michigan
13 Nov., 2 p.m.: 'Computational modelling of grain
boundary microcrack using a slip interaction based definition
of boundary character.'
D. HARRIS, Manchester
20 Nov, 2 p.m.: To be announced.
S. SALISBURY
27 Nov., 1 p.m.: To be announced.
Soft Matter, Biomaterials and Interfaces
The following interdisciplinary seminars will be held on
Tuesdays at 4 p.m. in the John Rowlinson Seminar Room unless
otherwise indicated.
Conveners: Professor J. Klein and Dr R.
Thomas.
DR A. LOUIS
17 Oct.: 'Positive design in self-assembly, from
clusters to viruses.'
DR H. ASSENDER
Thurs., 26 Oct., 4 p.m.: 'Is the surface of a
polymer different to the bulk, and does it matter?'
DR D. KLENERMAN, Cambridge
31 Oct.: 'Watching single molecules on living
cells.'
DR R. BERRY
7 Nov.: 'Bacterial flagella and other small
things.'
PROFESSOR M. CATES, Edinburgh
14 Nov.: 'Jamming of colloids at interfaces and in
bulk suspensions.'
PROFESSOR P. CLAESSON, Stockholm
21 Nov.: 'Interfacial properties of comb
polyelectrolyte.'
DR J. STOKES, Unilever Corporate Research
28 Nov.: ' "In-use" physics of structured food and
personal care products: from rheology to tribology.'
Plant Sciences Research Talks
The following research talks will be held on Thursdays at
4 p.m. in the Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant
Sciences.
Convener: Professor J.A.C. Smith.
A. MCIVER, Agribiotics Inc., Cambridge, Ontario
19 Oct.: ' "Agribiotics Inc.": an example of modern
agribiotechnology—taking research through patents to
commercialisation.'
DR J. GOODRICH, Edinburgh
26 Oct.: 'Control of plant development by
Polycomb-group genes.'
DR G. OLDROYD, John Innes Centre, Norwich
2 Nov.: 'Signalling in symbiosis.'
M. HARRIS
9 Nov.: 'The evolution of sexual dimorphism in
flowering plants.'
DR J. GUTIERREZ-MARCOS
9 Nov.: Epigenetic asymmetry in plant gametes.'
DR T.-L. ASHMAN, University of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
16 Nov.: 'Berries, bees and weevils: studies of
gender and sexual dimorphism in a wild strawberry.'
PROFESSOR D. EDWARDS, Cardiff
23 Nov.: 'The invasion of the land: challenges for
plants and people.'
DR J. CHRISTIE, Glasgow
30 Nov.: 'Structure and function of phototropin
receptor kinases.'
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Seminars
The following seminars will be held on Thursdays at 4.15
p.m. in the Dobson Lecture Room at the Atmospheric Physics
Laboratory. Because on rare occasions the arrangements need
to be changed, anyone intending to come to Oxford specially to
attend should check first by telephoning Oxford (2)72933.
PROFESSOR S.E. BELCHER, Reading
19 Oct.: 'Forest–atmosphere interactions: the role
of boundary layer dynamics.'
DR E. FISHER, ETH Zurich
26 Oct.: 'Land surface–atmosphere interactions
during the 2003 European summer heatwave.'
DR M. P. BALDWIN, Bellevue, WA
2 Nov.: 'The stratosphere and climate.'
PROFESSOR N.O. RENNO, University of Michigan
9 Nov.: 'Atmospheric heat engines.'
DR P.I. PALMER, Leeds
16 Nov.: 'The terrestrial biosphere observed from
space.'
DR C. BUONTEMPO, UK Met Office
23 Nov.: 'How the noise can become the signal: the
"improper" use of GPS to detect meteorological
variables.'
DR L.P.H.T.J. ROGBERG
30 Nov.: 'On the predictability of the Martian
atmosphere.'
Theoretical Physics Seminars
The following seminars will be held on Fridays at 2.15
p.m. in the Dennis Sciama Lecture Theatre.
Convener: Carole Jordan.
DR A. LOUIS
13 Oct.: 'No free lunch? Coarse grained treatments
of complex soft and biological systems.'
PROFESSOR P. POSDIADLOWSKI
27 Oct.: 'Type 1a supernovae as cosmological
probes.'
DR R. MOESSNER
10 Nov.: 'Some unusual types of order in condensed
matter.'
DR D. GHILENCEA
24 Nov.: 'Living with ghosts.'
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Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics:
Mathematical Geoscience Seminars
The following seminars will be held on Fridays at 2.30
p.m. in Seminar Room 3, Dartington House, Little Clarendon
Street.
PROFESSOR H. HUPPERT, Cambridge
20 Oct.: 'Volatile exsolution from volcanic craters
and other fluid exchange problems.'
DR B. MALAMUD, King's College London
3 Nov.: 'Wildfires, risk and ecosystems.'
DR G. NICHOLLS
17 Nov.: 'Statistical inversion of South Atlantic
circulation in an abyssal neutral density layer.'
DR G. SANDER, Loughborough University and OCIAM
1 Dec.: 'Sediment and chemical transport in shallow
overland flow.'
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Medical Sciences
Norman Heatley Lecture
PROFESSOR CARL NATHAN will deliver the fifteenth annual
Norman Heatley Lecture at 4 p.m. on Thursday, 26 October, in
the Lecture Theatre, the Medical Sciences Teaching
Centre.
Subject: 'Can immunology contribute to
chemotherapy? Challenges of tuberculosis.'
Richard Doll Seminars in Public Health and
Epidemiology
The following seminars will be held on Tuesdays at 1 p.m.
in the Lecture Theatre, Richard Doll Building, Old Road
Campus. All welcome.
Conveners: Andrew Roddam, Derrick Bennett, and
Jonathan Emberson.
DR T. PANG, World Health Organisation, Geneva
17 Oct.: 'Cross the bridge or fade away: using
knowledge for public health improvement in the developing
world.'
DR J. BROOKS and DR R. PATEL, Center for Disease Control,
USA
24 Oct.: 'Incidence of AIDS defining and non-AIDS
defining malignancies among HIV-infected persons.'
DR L. CARPENTER
31 Oct.: 'Malaria and Epstein Barr virus as
co-factors in the aetiology of Burkitt lymphoma: results from
a case-control study of children in Uganda.'
PROFESSOR M. LAW, London
7 Nov.: 'Statins and rhabdomyolysis and other muscle
disorders.'
DR J. KOPLAN, Emory University, Atlanta
14 Nov.: 'Preventing childhood obesity.'
PROFESSOR C. COOPER, Southampton
21 Nov.: 'Prevention of osteoporotic fracture: from
cradle to grave.'
DR J. YARNELL, Queen's University, Belfast
28 Nov.: 'Prospects for preventing early
cardiovascular disease in Europe: epidemiological
aspects.'
T. PETO, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
5 Dec.: 'The bottom-up approach to child survival: a
large RCT of rectal artesunate in acute malaria.'
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Medieval and Modern Languages
German Lectures
The following seminars will be held on Mondays at 5.15
p.m. in the Noel Salter Room, New College, unless otherwise
indicated. Their occasion is the 150th anniversary of Heine's
death and the fiftieth of Brecht's. All welcome. Contact:
Charlie.louth@queens.ox.ac.uk.
PROFESSOR M. PERRAUDIN, Sheffield
16 Oct.: 'Deutschland, Atta
Troll, and Heine's early reflections on the epic.'
PROFESSOR J. REED
23 Oct.: 'Political violence in Heine and
Brecht.'
DR A. PHELAN
30 Oct.: 'Christmas arrangements with Harry Heine:
Die Heimkehr 37–9.'
DR T. KUHN
6 Nov.: 'Brecht: on being a banished poet.'
PROFESSOR R. ROBERTSON
13 Nov.: 'Heine's poems of exile' (to include 'Anno
1839' and 'Jetzt wohin?')
DR K. LEEDER
20 Nov.: 'Brecht's afterlife in modern German
poetry.'
DR K. HILLIARD
27 Nov.: 'Being struck dumb in Heine.'
Romance Linguistics Seminar
The following seminars will be held on Thursdays at 5 p.m.
in the Taylor Institution Room 2.
Convener: Professor M. Maiden.
PROFESSOR MAIDEN
19 Oct.: 'Haide la seminar: thoughts on Romanian
imperatives.'
PROFESSOR S. DWORKIN, Michigan
26 Oct.: 'On the future of Romance linguistics.'
R. FINBOW
9 Nov.: 'On the names of Romance languages.'
PROFESSOR M. WHEELER, Sussex
16 Nov.: 'Explaining divergence in inflectional
paradigms: Romance evidence.'
DR O. SPEVAK, Toulouse
23 Nov.: 'The placement of personal pronouns in Late
Latin.'
DR S. PAOLI
30 Nov.: 'Focusing on Triestino: clause-internal and
external focus positions.'
Spanish Medieval and Golden Age Research Seminar
AGUSTÍN COLETES, Oviedo, will lecture on Tuesday,
17 October, at 5 p.m. in Taylorian Room 3.
Subject: Viajeros británicos en la
Asturias medieval.'
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Committee for Palaeography and Bodleian Library
Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies
The following seminars (involving original manuscripts)
will take place on Fridays at 2.15 p.m. in the Cecil Jackson
Room, Sheldonian Theatre.
Conveners: Professor Nigel Palmer, Professor
Richard Sharpe, Dr Martin Kauffmann.
DR R. RUSHFORTH, Cambridge
13 Oct.: 'Eleventh-century English personal
manuscripts.'
PROFESSOR I. SHORT, London
27 Oct.: 'Bodleian MS. Digby 23 and the Oxford
Chanson de Roland.'
DR B. BOMBI, Canterbury
10 Nov.: 'Canon law manuscripts in the Bodleian
Library: the liber extra.'
PROFESSOR N. MORGAN, Cambridge
24 Nov.: 'The patrons, contents and decoration of
English twelfth- and thirteenth-century psalters.'
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Social Sciences
Extra-legal Governance and Organised Crime Discussion
Group
The following discussion group will meet on Wednesday at
1.30 p.m. at the Centre for Criminology, Manor Road Social
Sciences Building, Seminar Room 341. All welcome. Enquiries:
john.carlarne@sociology.ox.ac.uk.
Conveners: Diego Gambetta, Heather Hamill,
Federico Varese.
DR N. CARRIER
18 Oct.: To be announced.
DR D. HARBORD, Market Analysis Ltd
25 Oct.: 'Enforcing cooperation amongst medieval
merchants: the Maghribi traders revisited.'
DR Y. GUICHAOUA
1 Nov.: 'Who joins ethnic militias? A survey of the
Oodua People's Congress in south-western Nigeria.'
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology: Fatness,
food and childbearing: cultural perspectives on the body,
nutrition and reproductive practices
The following workshop will be held on Sunday, 14 October
in the Seminar Room, 61 Banbury Road. Enquiries: info@anthro.ox.ac.uk.
R. BARBER
9.10 a.m.: 'An anthropology of obesity.'
M. UNNITHAN, Sussex
9.30 a.m.: 'Reproduction and obesity.'
A. GUNTUPALLI, Tübingen
10.15 a.m.: 'Is there any relation between fatness
and reproductive health? A study of body mass index and
reproductive health of Indian women.'
N. HESLEHURST, Teesside
11.15 a.m.: 'Trends in maternal obesity incidence
rates, demographic predictors, and health inequalities in
36,821 women over a fifteen-year period.'
M. MABILIA, Padua
12 noon: 'Childbearing, breastfeeding and body
weight in Tanzania.'
S. ULIJASZEK AND H. LOFINK
2 p.m.: 'Obesity: biocultural perspectives.'
L. APHRAMOR, Coventry
2.45 p.m.: 'Reproducing inequalities: fatness and
health promotion narratives.'
A. DE-GRAFT AIKINS, Cambridge
3.30 p.m.: 'Food (in)security and fertility in
Ghana: bridging the population–physiology gap.'
S. CLARKE, NUI Maynooth
4.30 p.m.: 'Unhealthy, unwealthy, unwise: social
policy and nutritional education in a disadvantaged
community.'
Fertility and Reproduction Seminars: Fatness, food, and
childbearing: cultural perspectives on the body, nutrition,
and reproductive practices
The following seminars will be held on Mondays at 11 a.m.
in the Seminar Room, 61 Banbury Road. Enquiries: info@anthro.ox.ac.uk.
Conveners: S. Tremayne and M. Unnithan.
TILUTTOMA BARUAH, Guwahati, India
16 Oct.: 'Polycystic ovary: its relation with body
weight and food habits of the Assamese and Bengali women of
Assam (India).'
DEVI SRIDHAR
23 Oct.: 'The Maharaja Mac: changing dietary
patterns in India.'
EMILY HENDERSON, Durham
30 Oct.: 'Assessment of perceived health risk among
British Pakistani mothers in Middlesbrough.'
SARA RANDALL, UCl
6 Nov.: 'Fat, fertility, mobility, and slaves:
long-term perspectives on Tuareg obesity and
reproduction.'
CATHERINE DEGNEN, Newcastle
13 Nov.: 'Brain food: feeding children and forging
kin in the GM era.'
SASKIA WALENTOWITZ, Berne
20 Nov.: 'Women with great weight: fatness,
reproduction and kinship among the Azawagh Tuareg in
Niger.'
Educational Studies Seminars
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. in the
Department of Educational Studies, 15 Norham Gardens, Garden
Building, Oxford OX2 6PY. Telephone: Oxford (2)74024.
DR M. J. EVANS, Cambridge
16 Oct.: 'Using stimulated recall to investigate
pupils' thinking about online bilingual communication.'
(Convener: Professor E. Macaro)
PROFESSOR P. HIRST, London
18 Oct.: 'Education and human nature.' (Convener:
Professor R. Pring)
PROFESSOR C. HOWE, Strathclyde
13 Nov.: 'Group work in science: from principles to
practice.' (Convener: Professor T. Nunes)
Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Seminars
The following seminars will be held on Tuesdays at 4 p.m.
in the Boardroom, OUCE, unless otherwise indicated.
G. BURCHELL
Thurs., 12 Oct., 12 noon: 'Foucault, territory,
Europe: reflections on securité ;, territoire,
population.'
J. LEVY, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and
Chôros Laboratory, Institute of Territorial
Development
17 Oct.: 'Globalisation: an epistemological issue
for the social sciences.'
A. LEYSHON, Nottingham
24 Oct.: 'Sites of sound: recording studios,
networks of creativity and the musical economy.'
P. TRAWICK, Cranfield
31 Oct.: 'On scarcity, equity and transparency:
ethnographic encounters with the moral economy of water.'
G. HENDERSON
7 Nov.: To be announced.
S. DADSON, CEH Wallingford
14 Nov.: 'Landscape response to changing
climate.'
T. QUINE, University of Exeter
21 Nov.: 'Carbon dynamics: a space for geomorphology
in earth system science?'
S. TOOTH, Aberystwyth
28 Nov.: 'Wetlands in drylands: key geomorphological
and sedimentological characteristics, with emphasis on
southern African examples.'
Oxford Centre for Water Research Seminars
The following seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 4.30
p.m. in the Oxford Centre for the Environment (Board
Room).
Convener: Professor W.M. Edmunds.
M. PAWLYN, Grimshaw, London
18 Oct.: 'Water, energy and waste—new
approaches to resources.'
PROFESSOR L. VINCENT, Wageningen
25 Oct.: 'Struggling with water scarcity: water
rights and water availability in the Lower Odzi watershed,
Zimbabwe.'
P. SWANN, DfID
1 Nov.: 'Water and DFID's new White Paper.'
DR R. HOPE
8 Nov.: 'Can integrated watershed management work
for poor farmers and water ecosystem services in India?'
A. GRAY, Jerusalem
15 Nov.: 'The water crisis in the Palestinian
territories—is a sustainable future possible?'
PROFESSOR M.CARMEN LEMOS
22 Nov.: 'Water governance: can science save NE
Brazil?'
S. PURI
29 Nov.: 'Towards a UN convention on transboundary
aquifers.'
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Social Sciences and St Antony's College
Economics of Transition Seminar
The following seminars will be held on Tuesdays at 5 p.m.
in the Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College, unless otherwise indicated.
Enquiries: Oxford (2)84767 or carol.leonard@sant.ox.ac.uk.
Conveners: Dr C. Leonard, Dr C.M. Davis, Dr A.
Chawluk, and Dr L. Yueh.
A. NURELLARI, European University of Tirana
17 Oct.: 'Post-Communist transition in the Balkans:
the Albanian experience.'
C. GERRY, UCL
24 Oct.: 'Inequality, fiscal capacity, and the political regime: lessons
from the post-Communist
transition.'
S. BAUMIK, Brunel University, London
31 Oct.: 'Ethnic conflict and economic disparity:
Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo (co-authored with I.N. Gang
and M.S. Yun)
P. HANSON, Chatham House
7 Nov.: 'The recent turn to statism in Russian
economic policy.'
P. SINCLAIR, Bank of England
14 Nov., Deakin Room: 'Factor price and asset market
consequences of the end of traditional Communism.'
D. DICKINSON, Birmingham
21 Nov.: 'Monetary policy in China.'
W. CARLIN, UCL
28 Nov.: 'Institutions and economic reform.'
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Theology
Classes in Eastern Christianity
The following classes will be given by Dr Elena
D-Vasilescu on Thursdays at 5 p.m. in the Faculty of Theology
Seminar Room, 11 Bevington Road, unless otherwise
specified.
12 Oct.: 'The icon and the iconographer': talk
accompanied by a Power Point presentation.
19 Oct.: Workshop on icon painting (a practical
demonstration by an iconographer).
26 Oct.: Talk on
pilgrimages.
2 Nov.: Pilgrimage to Christ Church Cathedral,
to the tomb of St Frideswide, the patron saint of
Oxford.
9 Nov.: 'Saints.'
16 Nov., 9 a.m., Canterbury Road: 'The Bible as
an icon.'
23 Nov.: 'St John Damascene on sacred
images.'
30 Nov., 3 p.m.: 'Icons as sacred images.'
(Talk in front of the icons of the Ashmolean Museum and
Christ Church Icon Gallery)
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Research Laboratory for Archaeology
The following seminars will be held at 10.30 a.m. on Thursdays in the
Board Room, Department of Geography, Dyson Perrins Building,
South Parks Road.
Convener: S. Blockley.
J. HILLER, Rutherford Appleton Laboratories
12 Oct.: 'Synchrotron radiation in archaeology and
cultural heritage.'
K. WILLIS
9 Nov.: 'How can a knowledge of the past help to
conserve the future? Biodiversity conservation and the
relevance of palaeoecological research.'
K. HAMILTON, Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service
23 Nov.: 'The Great Yarmouth archaeological map:
urban archaeological deposit modelling through borehole
drilling.'
R. HOUSLEY, Glasgow
30 Nov.: 'The origins of Venice based on wetland
archaeology and coastal geology.'
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Saïd Business School
Finance Seminars
The following seminars will be held on Tuesdays at 5 p.m.
in the Edmund Safra Lecture Theatre, West Wing, Saïd
Business School, unless otherwise indicated. To download
papers and view any changes please see http://www.finance.ox.ac.uk.
Enquiries: Oxford (2)88902 or professorial.secretary@sbs.ox.ac.uk.
D. THESMAR, HEC
17 Oct.: 'How do firms react to balance sheet
shocks? Evidence from land holdings.'
P. BOSSAERTS, Californian Institute of Technology
24 Oct.: 'Why cognitive biases may not always be
relevant for asset pricing.'
F. DE JONG, Tilburg
31 Oct.: 'Valuation of pension liabilities in
incomplete markets.'
G. DESGRANGES, Cergy-Portoise
7 Nov.: 'Strongly rational expectations equilibria
acquisition of information and the Grossman-Stiglitz
paradox.'
A. LO, MIT Sloan
Wed., 8 Nov.: 'Reconciling efficient markets with
behavioural finance: an evolutionary synthesis.'
(Special Seminar)
H. HONG, Princeton
14 Nov.: 'Do arbitrageurs amplify economic
shocks?'
E. KANDEL, Hebrew University Jerusalem
21 Nov.: 'Selling hopes: managerial compensation and
perceived growth options.'
D. MARTIMORT, CICT
28 Nov.: 'Mechanism design with private
communication.'
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Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit
Lunchtime seminars in Jewish Studies
The following seminars will be held on Thursdays at 1 p.m.
in the Oriental Institute, Room 314.
Convener: Dr Piet van Boxel.
M. NEVADER
12 Oct.: 'Finding Moses amidst the Kings of
Judah.'
PROFESSOR P. ALEXANDER, Manchester
26 Oct.: 'The ancient versions of the Hebrew Bible
as cultural artefacts: the case of the Book of
Lamentations.'
DR M. FREUD-KANDEL
9 Nov.: 'Minhag Anglia, a celebration of the
two-fold blessing of being Jewish and British.'
DR R. MILLER, Mount St Mary's Seminary, Emmitsburg
23 Nov.: 'The Israelite historical credos in
Assyriological context.'
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Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Second Annual Nissan Motor Company Senior Executive
Lecture
The Second Annual Nissan Motor Company Senior Executive
Lecture will be held on Thursday, 12 October, at 5 p.m. in
the Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre.
TADAO TAKAHASHI, Tokyo, and C. DODGE, Nissan Europe
Subject: 'The Nissan production way (NPW) in
Japan and the UK.'
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Special Lecture Series
The twenty-fifth anniversary Special Lecture will be held
on Friday, 24 November, at 5 p.m. in the Nissan Institute
Lecture Theatre. R. MACFARQHAR, Harvard
Subject: 'Conflicts in the post-Confucian world:
China and Japan in the twemty-first century.'
Japanese Studies Seminars
The following seminars will be held on Fridays at 5 p.m.
in the Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College.
Conveners: Roger Goodman and Ian Neary.
D. WILLIS, Soai University, Japan
13 Oct.: 'Japan metamorphosis: transformation in the
cultural borderlands of Japan.'
A. WOODIWISS, East London
20 Oct.: 'Human rights in Asia: learning from
Japan.'
MACHIKO OSAWA, Japan Women's University
27 Oct.: 'Globalisation and the growth of
non-standard work arrangements in Japan.' (Joint
seminar with St Antony's College Asian Studies
Centre)
C. MADELEY, Kent
3 Nov.: 'Kaishinsha, DAT, Nissan and the British
motor vehicle industry, 1912–86.'
TOSHIHIRO MINOHARA, Kobe
10 Nov.: 'Crossing the Rubicon: the rationale behind
Japan's decision for war in November 1941.'
MIKA KO, Sheffield
17 Nov.: 'Representing Okinawa: contesting images in
contemporary "Japanese" cinema.'
J.R. BARTHOLOMEW, Ohio State University
1 Dec.: 'Japan and the politics of the Nobel
Prize.'
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
FLORIANA FOSSATA, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London,
with JOHN LLOYD (Financial Times, discussant), will
lecture at noon on Wednesday, 18 October, in the Committee
Room, Green College. Enquiries should be directed to kate.hannaford-smith@politics.ox.ac.u
k.
Subject: 'The state of the media in Russia.'
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James Martin Institute for Science and Civilisation
The governance of science
The following seminar series will be held on Tuesdays at
4.30 p.m. (weeks 2–8) in the Saïd Business School,
James Martin Seminar Room. Enquiries: jmievents@sbs.ox.ac.uk or
Oxford (2)78818.
DR JEROME RAVETZ
17 Oct.: 'Governing the science of the
unknown-unknowns.'
DR ROBERT HAGENDIJK, Amsterdam
24 Oct.: 'The politics of public participation in
the knowledge economy.'
PROFESSOR NATHAN HULTMAN, Georgetown University
31 Oct.: 'Risk, resilience and climate change: the
role of business.'
DR ELIZABETH FISHER
7 Nov.: 'Beyond the science/democracy dichotomy:
law, risk regulation and administrative
constitutionalism.'
DR IAN BAILEY, Plymouth
14 Nov.: 'The neoliberalisation of climate
policy.'
DR ANDREW BARRY
21 Nov.: 'The politics of interdisciplinarity.'
LORD (ROBERT) MAY
28 Nov.: 'Science and society.'
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Green College
McGovern Lecture in the History of Medicine
PROFESSOR MARK HARRISON will deliver the annual McGovern
Lecture in the History of Medicine at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 26
October, in the E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green
College.
Subject: 'War, epidemics, and empire: the British
army in the Middle East during the First World War.'
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Hertford College
Hertford Tyndale Lecture
DR ALEC RYRIE, Birmingham, will deliver the Hertford
Tyndale Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 19 October, in the
Examination Schools.
Subject: 'The English Bible and piety in the
Reformation.'
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Magdalen College
Rowe Memorial Lecture
PROFESSOR GIORGIO GALLETTI, Professor of Architecture,
University of Florence, will deliver the Rowe Memorial
Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 20 October, in the Grove
Auditorium, Magdalen College (entrance through Longwall). The
lecture will be given in English.
Subject: 'Cecil Pinsent's Italian gardens.'
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Nuffield College
Sociology Group Seminars
The following seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 5
p.m. in the Clay Room, Nuffield College.
Convener: Richard Breen.
P. HEDSTRÖM
18 Oct.: 'Tie-formation mechanisms and the evolution
of labour-market networks.'
J. GERSHUNY
25 Oct.: 'Tobit or not Tobit: how should we model
time data from diaries?'
B. EBBINGHAUS, Mannheim
1 Nov.: 'Are employment regimes in sync with
"varieties of capitalism"?'
S. MAU, Bremen
8 Nov.: 'Transnationalisation of the life
world.'
C. MILLS
15 Nov.: 'Jobs: desirability, expectations and
satisfaction.'
A. HOLM, Copenhagen
22 Nov.: 'Explaining the attenuation bias in the
Mare-model.'
T. SNIJDERS
29 Nov., Large Lecture Room: 'Statistical inference
for social networks dynamics.'
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St Anne's College
Hoskins Lecture
J. HARWOOD, Chairman of the Northmoor Trust for
Countryside Conservation, will deliver the Hoskins Lecture at
5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 7 November, in the Tsuzuki Lecture
Theatre, St Anne's College.
Subject: 'Demos and science; the breakers of the
English landscape?'
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St Antony's College
St Antony's International Review (STAIR)
Enquiries about the following STAIR events should be
addressed to stair@sant.ox.ac.uk. Web:
www.sant.ox.ac.uk/stair.
Panel Discussion
A panel discussion, sponsored by STAIR, will be held on
Thursday, 19 October, at 7.45 p.m. in the Nissan Lecture
Theatre, St Antony's College. DR C. HEPBURN and DR B.
MUELLER
Subject: 'Kyoto and beyond: managing the global
climate crisis.'
Conference
A conference, sponsored by STAIR, will be held on
Wednesday, 6 December, in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St
Antony's College. J. DER DERIAN, Brown (keynote
speaker)
Subject: 'The Internet: power and governance in a
digitised world.'
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European Studies Centre
Remembering 1956: De-Stalinisation and Suez after fifty
years
This meeting will be held in St Antony's College on 10 and
11 November. Details of registration may be obtained from Mrs
Ulli Parkinson, European Studies Centre (e-mail: european.studies@sant.ox.ac.uk).
Further details may be found at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~conf1956.htm.
Conveners: Jane Caplan and Catriona Kelly.
Keynote lecture
PROFESSOR ARNE WESTRAD, LSE, will deliver the keynote
lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 10 November, in the Lecture
Theatre. The remaining sessions of the conference will be
held on Saturday, 11 November.
Subject: 'The global 1956: end of the post-war
era?'
Panel 1, 9–11 a.m.: The secret speech and its
aftermath in Russia and Eastern Europe
PROFESSOR POLLY JONES, SSEES–UCL: 'The secret
speech: responses and repercussions 1956–2006.'
DR MARK PITTAWAY, Open University: 'The social roots of
political revolution and failed de-Stalinisation: Hungary's
1956 revolution in context.'
PROFESSOR ZBIGNIEW PELCZYNSKI: 'Poland in 1956.'
Panel 2, 11.30 a.m.–1 p.m.: Western European
responses
DR MARIE-CLAIRE LAVABRE, Sciences-Po: 'The Parti
Communiste Français and 1956.'
PROFESSOR MICHAEL KENNY, Sheffield: 'The multiple meanings
of "1956" for the left in Britain.'
DR HOLGER NEHRING, Sheffield: 'Germany—the invisible
1956.'
Panel 3, 3.15–3.45 p.m.: Suez
DR LAURA JAMES, Economist Intelligence Unit: 'Suez the
sideshow: continuity and change in Egyptian foreign
policy.'
DR TONY SHAW, Hertfordshire: ' "Are they enemies or just
socialists?" Anthony Eden, the British mass media, and
propaganda during the Suez crisis.'
PROFESSOR AVI SHLAIM: 'Sir Anthony Nutting and the Suez
saga.'
Panel 4 (round-table), 4–6 p.m: The
eyewitness and the historian
Participants in this round-table discussion will be Dr
George Gömöri, Professor Wlodzimierz Brus,
Professor Michael Kaser, Sir Bryan Cartledge, John Rettie,
and Charles Wheeler.
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St Edmund Hall
Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture
MATTHEW D'ANCONA, editor, the Spectator, will
deliver the Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on
Friday, 27 October, in the Examination Schools.
Subject: 'Confessions of a hawkish hack: the war
on terror and the media.'
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St Hilda's College
St Hilda's College Lectures
DR SARA DELAMONT, Cardiff, will lecture at 5.30 p.m. on
Thursday, 19 October, in the Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's
College.
Subject: 'Women and higher education: can the
subaltern ever be happy?'
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St John's College
St John's College Research Centre
PROFESSOR RODERICK A. SMITH, Senior Visiting Fellow
2005–6, will lecture on Thursday, 26 October, at 5.15
p.m. in the Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College.
Subject: Planes, trains and automobiles: journeys
to hell or green paths to the future?'
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Somerville College
James Bryce Memorial Lecture
PROFESSOR KAY DAVIES will deliver the James Bryce Memorial
Lecture on Tuesday, 31 October, at 5 p.m. in the Lecture
Theatre of the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, South Parks
Road.
Subject: 'Muscular dystrophy: past, present and
future.'
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Wolfson College
Ronald Syme Lecture
PROFESSOR PETER BROWN, Professor of History, Princeton,
will deliver the Ronald Syme Lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday,
26 October, in the Hall, Wolfson College. The lecture will be
open to the public.
Subject: 'Commercium spirituale:
Paulinus of Nola and the poetry of wealth.'
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Oxford Asian Textile Group
SUSAN CONWAY will lecture on Wednesday, 25 October, at
6.15 p.m. at the Pauling Centre, 58 Banbury Road.
Subject: 'The Shan of Burma: textiles of the
nineteenth century.'
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