Oxford
University Gazette, 21 September 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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Hensley Henson Lectures 2006–7
PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND and DR JANE SHAW will
deliver the Hensley Henson Lectures at 5 p.m. on the
following days in the Examination Schools.
The lectures come out of the work done in the Prophecy
Project over the last four years, a project in the Faculty of
Theology directed by the lecturers.
The role of the prophet
Mon. 9 Oct.: 'Why study prophets and
prophecy?'
Tue. 10 Oct.: 'Acting out the text: prophets and
the Bible.'
Wed. 11 Oct.: 'Do women make better
prophets?'
The impact of prophecy
Tue. 17 Oct.: 'Blake, Brothers, and Southcott:
three case studies.'
Wed. 18 Oct.: 'The Pursuit of the Millennium I:
reconsidering millennial beliefs.'
Thur. 19 Oct.: 'The Pursuit of the Millennium II:
building the kingdom of heaven on earth.'
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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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Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Oxford Physics Colloquia
The Oxford Physics Colloquia will be held at 4.15 p.m. on
Fridays in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, the Clarendon
Laboratory.
Conveners: Professor I. Walmsley and Professor D.
Sherrington.
DR J. MARCH-RUSSELL
20 Oct.: 'Why is our universe an (electroweak)
superconductor?: the mystery of the Higgs.'
PROFESSOR L. KOUWENHOVEN, Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands
27 Oct.: 'Spin qubits with quantum dots.'
PROFESSOR M. MOUNTAIN, Space Telescope Science
Institute
10 Nov.: To be announced.
PROFESSOR J. DALIBARD, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole
Normale Supérieure, France
17 Nov.: 'Cold atoms in flatland.'
PROFESSOR W. ALLISON
24 Nov.: 'How dangerous is ionising radiation?'
Physical Chemistry Seminars
The following seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. on
Mondays in the Lecture Theatre, the Physical and Theoretical
Chemistry Laboratory.
PROFESSOR CAROLE PERRY, Nottingham Trent
9 Oct.: 'Models of biosilica formation: from
molecules to materials.'
PROFESSOR HUBERT H. GIRAULT, Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale, Lausanne
16 Oct.: 'New tools for proteomics.'
DR DANIEL O'HARE, Imperial College
23 Oct.: 'Voltammetry on the brain: an
electrochemical study of the dynamics of neurotransmitter
release.'
PROFESSOR PETER DERRICK, Warwick
30 Oct.: To be announced.
DR SUSAN PERKIN
6 Nov.: 'Interactions between charge- mosaics.'
PROFESSOR RICHARD H. GUY, Bath
13 Nov.: 'Transport across the skin: physical
chemistry, bioengineering, and clinical applications.'
DR ROBERT A. DRYFE, Manchester
27 Nov.: 'Nanoparticle deposition and assembly at
the liquid/liquid interface.'
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Medical Sciences
Department of Biochemistry and Oxford University
Biochemical Society Colloquia
PROFESSOR SIR MARTIN WOOD, FRS, will lecture at 4 p.m. on
Monday, 23 October, in Lecture Room 1, the Department of
Biochemistry.
Subject: 'Horizons of superconductivity.'
Science Day: Glycobiology in the Medical Sciences
Division
This meeting will be held on Tuesday, 26 September,
2–5 p.m., in the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre,
South Parks Road (at rear of Sir William Dunn School of
Pathology).
The meeting will be chaired by Dr Fran Platt, Department
of Pharmacology, and will be opened at 2 p.m. by Dr Kenneth
Fleming, Head of the Medical Sciences Division.
Convener: Professor Siamon Gordon (e-mail:
siamon.gordon@path.ox.ac.uk).
DR ROBERT SIM, Biochemistry/MRC Immunochemistry
2.05 p.m.: 'The collectins—target recognition
and genetic polymorphism.'
DR CHRIS SCANLAN, Biochemistry/Glycobiology
2.25 p.m.: 'Antibody recognition of HIV-1 gp120
carbohydrates: a template for vaccine design.'
ANNE SPEAK, Pharmacology
2.45 p.m.: 'Restricted distribution of iGb3 in
mammals: implications for iNKT cell selection.'
PROFESSOR ENZO CERUNDOLO, WIMM
3.10 p.m.: 'Harnessing iNKT cells in cancer
vaccines.'
DR SIGRID HEINSBROEK, SWDSOP
4 p.m.: 'The β-glucan receptor and fungal
recognition.'
DR TERRY BUTTERS, Biochemistry/Glycobiology
4.20 p.m.: 'Therapeutic opportunities in controlling
the biosynthesis of glycoproteins and glycolipids.'
DR PAULINE RUDD, Dublin/Oxford Glycobiology
4.40 p.m.: 'Glycosylated markers of cancer.'
The Ethox Centre and Oxford Genetics Knowledge Park
Seminars: Governing genetic databases: collection, storage,
and use
Cancellation of seminar
It is regretted that the final seminar in this series, due
to have been given by Professor Alexander Capron on Tuesday,
26 September, entitled 'Ethical norms and international
governance of genomics', has had to be postponed. The lecture
will now be given in early 2007.
Botnar Research Centre
The following seminars will be held at 12.30 p.m. on
Fridays in the Botnar Research Centre.
DR PAUL GENEVER, York
22 Sept.: 'Wnt signalling in bone: poison chalice or
Holy Grail?'
DR INGUNN HOLEN, Sheffield
29 Sept.: 'Tumour-induced bone disease, molecular
mechanisms and therapies: potential benefits of combined
treatment using bisphosphonate and cytotoxic drugs.'
DR FRASER COXON, Aberdeen
6 Oct.: 'Inhibition of mevalonate pathway by
analogues of bisphosphonates.'
PROFESSOR JAMES GALLAGHER, Liverpool
13 Oct.: To be announced.
PROFESSOR ROBERT COLEMAN, Sheffield
3 Nov.: 'Clinical developments in bone
oncology.'
DR MARK PERRY, Bristol
17 Nov.: To be announced.
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Social Sciences
OXONIA Distinguished Speaker Event
PROFESSOR LORD DESAI, LSE, will speak at a meeting to be
held at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 17 October, in the Lecture
Theatre, the Department of Economics.
The meeting, which is organised in co-operation with the
Department of Economics and is open to all members of the
University, will be chaired by Professor David Hendry.
Subject: 'Politicians and economists: a troubled
relationship.'
Department of Educational Studies
BRENDA LITTLE and JUDY HARRIS will give a seminar at 5
p.m. on Thursday, 21 September, in the Department of
Educational Studies.
Convener: Dr Geoffrey Hayward, Department of
Educational Studies (telephone: Oxford (2)74024).
Subject: 'Working and learning—changing
boundaries between higher education and the workplace: a
presentation based on a recent CHERI study for HEFCE.'
Oxford Centre for Research into Parenting and Children:
Promoting the well-being of children—the role of
grandparents and kinship care
The following seminars will be given at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays
in Barnett House. Details of the 24 October seminar will be
announced later.
Enquiries should be directed to Professor Ann Buchanan
(e-mail: ann.buchanan@socres.ox.ac.uk).
Notification of access requirements should be made to Bryony
Welsman (e-mail: bryone.welsman@socres.ox.ac.uk).
PROFESSOR SARAH HARPER
10 Oct.: 'Grandparents as replacement parents and
partners.'
ADRIENNE KATZ and CLAIRE COLLIS (with young people from
Young Voice)
17 Oct.: 'Grandparents: the views of young
people.'
DR NICOLA ROSS, Glasgow Centre for the Child and
Society
31 Oct.: 'Negotiating family transitions and
relations: the perspectives of teenagers and
grandparents.'
JOAN HUNT
7 Nov.: 'Keeping them in the family: kinship care
for children who have been abused or neglected.'
PROFESSOR RICHARD HASTINGS, Bangor
14 Nov.: 'Grandparents of children with
disabilities.'
DR GEORGE LEESON
21 Nov.: 'Understanding the role of contemporary
grandfathers.'
PROFESSOR GLEN H. ELDER, North Carolina
28 Nov.: 'Grandparents in young lives: insights from
the life course and history.'
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
A round-table discussion on the subject of 'New Zealand
and international migration: current issues and policy
debates', with Professor Paul Spoonley, Professor Richard
Bedford, and officials from the New Zealand Department of
Labour, will be held on Thursday, 28 September, 1–3
p.m.
There is no charge for attendance. E-mailed requests for
bookings should be made before 12 noon on Tuesday, 26
September, to: alan.gamlen@ouce.ox.ac.uk.
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Faculty of Theology
Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Study of Religions
Unless otherwise indicated, the following seminars will be
held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Harris Seminar Room, Oriel
College.
Conveners: Dr Bettina Schmidt and Dr Peggy
Morgan.
PROFESSOR CATHERINE BELL
Thur. 19 Oct.: 'Religion, constructing the West (but
what about the rest?).'
PROFESSOR TARIQ RAMADAN
31 Oct.: 'The future of Islam as a European
religion.'
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SMRITI SRINIVAS
14 Nov.: 'Self- care and self-cure in the Sathya Sai
Baba Movement.'
PROFESSOR DOUGLAS DAVIES
28 Nov.: 'Jesus in Mormonism.'
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Saïd Business School
Complex Adaptive Systems Group Seminars
Unless otherwise indicated, the following seminars will be
held at 12.30 p.m. on Tuesdays in Seminar Room B, the
Saïd Business School. Further seminars in this series
will be announced later.
The Seminar web-page is at
www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/html/faculty_seminars_complex_systems.asp.
Conveners: Dr Felix Reed-Tsochas and Dr Sean
Gourley.
PROFESSOR STEVE LANSING, University of Arizona and Santa
Fe Institute
Mon. 2 Oct., JMI Seminar Room: To be announced.
PROFESSOR STEPHEN SHENNAN, Imperial College
17 Oct.: Selection and drift in cultural evolution:
some archaeological examples.'
DR MARCEL FAFCHAMPS, Department of Economics
24 Oct., 1 p.m.: 'Scientific networks and co-
authorship.'
DR ANTONIS PAPACHRISTODOULOU, Department of Engineering
Science
7 Nov.: 'Robust functionality of large-scale
networked systems: switching topologies.'
DR MICHAEL BIGGS, Department of Sociology
21 Nov.: 'From event-history analysis to simulation:
replaying the tape of history for the 1960s sit-ins.'
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Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit
David Patterson Seminars
The following seminars will be held at 8 p.m. on
Wednesdays in the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish
Studies, Yarnton Manor.
Convener: Dr Piet van Boxel.
PROFESSOR ROBERT MILLER, Mount St Mary's Seminary,
Emmitsburg, USA
11 Oct.: 'Israel's covenant in ancient Near Eastern
context.'
PROFESSOR GEZA VERMES
18 Oct.: 'The notion of covenant in the Dead Sea
Scrolls.'
PROFESSOR PHILIP ALEXANDER, Manchester
25 Oct.: 'The use of the Book of Deuteronomy in
rabbinic theology.'
DR ROBERT OWENS, General Theological Seminary, New
York
1 Nov.: 'Sons and daughters of the covenant in the
writings of Aphrahat the Persian sage.'
DR ADAM SILVERSTEIN
8 Nov.: 'Haman's mid-life crisis.'
JORDAN FINKIN
15 Nov.: 'Reconfigured constellations in Hebrew and
Yiddish poetry: the Modernisms of Avraham Shlonsky and Perets
Markish.'
DR HAIM SPERBER, Western Galilee College
22 Nov.: 'Patterns of leadership in nineteenth-
century Anglo-Jewry: Moses Montefiore, Lionel de Rothschild,
and David Salomons.'
PROFESSOR HUGH WILLIAMSON and DR ALISON SALVESEN
29 Nov.: Book launch: Professor Williamson's
Isaiah 1–5.
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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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Kellogg College
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER, novelist, author of The
Time-Traveller's Wife, will give a lecture/reading,
arranged by the Kellogg College Writing Centre, at 7 p.m. on
Tuesday, 10 October, in the Mawby Pavilion, Rewley House.
Enquiries may be made to (2)80898.
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St Antony's College
Pluscarden Programme for the Study of Global Terrorism
and Intelligence
Intelligence and the sociology of terrorism
The Pluscarden Programme of St Antony's College announces
this research programme, arranged jointly with the Homeland
Security and Resilience Department of the Royal United
Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies. The
programme will consist of a series of seminars in London and
Oxford, a Prize Essay Competition, and a Joint Workshop to be
held in St Antony's in December. The proceedings of the Joint
Workshop will be published in book form in 2007.
Enquiries should be directed to: pluscarden.programme@sant.ox.ac.uk
(telephone: Oxford (2)74559).
Conveners: Dr Steve Tsang, St Antony's, and Dr
Sandra Bell, RUSI.
Seminars
The programme of seminars will be announced individually
by the relevant establishment. At St Antony's, the first IST
seminar will take place on Thursday, 26 October, when
Professor Philip Bobbitt (University of Texas) will examine
'New approaches to global terrorism'. At RUSI, the first IST
lecture will be held on 3 November, entitled 'Understanding
suicide terrorism'.
Prize Essay Competition
Entries are now invited now for the competition, to be
submitted by anyone of any nationality under the age of
thirty on 31 October 2006.
Title: 'The sociology of terrorism'. Length: up to 3,000
words of original composition. Submission: to sandrab@rusi.org by 31 October
2006, with evidence of age. Adjudication: by a panel of three
academics. Prize: one year's free subscription to RUSI/Jane's
Monitor twelve months' membership of RUSI;
consideration for participation in the IST Joint Workshop;
consideration for publication in the subsequent IST
volume.
Joint Workshop
The Joint Workshop will be held at St Antony's College on
Friday, 8 December (sessions 1–7), and Saturday, 9
December (sessins 8–13). Themes to be covered at the
Workshop are:
Session 1: 'Strategic Issues facing UK
counter-terrorism.'
Session 2: 'Immediate challenges.'
Session 3: 'Practical limits to a counter-terrorism
programme.'
Session 4: 'The sociology of terrorism.'
Session 5: 'Islam in UK society.'
Session 6: 'Education and radicalisation.'
Session 7: 'The UK student body as a target for
extremism.'
Session 8: 'Terrorists and criminals—a common
cause?'
Session 9: 'Immigration and asylum—the extremist
subculture.'
Session 10: 'The Islamic community—sociology and
societal issues.'
Session 11: 'Keeping up with the pace—a view from
Whitehall.'
Session 12: 'Propaganda and counter-propaganda.'
Session 13: 'Myths and realities of terrorist
finance.'
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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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Wolfson College
Creative Arts Lecture Series
GREVEL LINDOP, formerly Professor of Romantic Studies,
University of Manchester, will give a poetry reading at 7.30
p.m. on Wednesday, 11 October, in the Buttery, 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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Friends of the Bodleian
London Lecture
VICTORIA GLENDINNING will lecture at 6.30 p.m. on Friday,
29 September, in the Society of Antiquaries of London,
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1.
Tickets cost £10, on application to Vikki
Cunningham, Administrator, Friends of the Bodleian, Bodleian
Library, Oxford OX1 3BG (e-mail: fob@bodley.ox.ac.uk,
telephone: Oxford (2)77234.)
Subject: 'Leonard Woolf: publisher, author, and
man of letters.'
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Oxford Italian Association
Lectures
The following lectures will be given at 7.30 for 8 p.m. on
the days shown. Admission costs £1 for members,
£3 for non-members; students under thirty are admitted
free.
For further information on the Oxford Italian Association,
including how to join, telephone Oxford 377479 or 865476.
GILLIAN RILEY
Wed. 25 Oct., Mary Ogilvie Theatre, St Anne's:
'Maestro Martino and his circle: the most influential cookery
text of the Renaissance.'
DR JON WHITELEY
Thur. 9 Nov., Tsuzuki Theatre, St Anne's: 'Mantegna:
the art of humanism.'
GERALD PEACOCKE
Tue. 21 Nov., Pauling Centre, 58 Banbury Road:
'Dante and Goethe and womanhood.'
Other events
Fri. 13 Oct., 8 p.m., Lecture Theatre, Rewley House:
showing of film I Cento Passi (Marco Tullio
Giordano; 114 minutes). Admission free.
Tue. 31 Oct., 7.30 for 8 p.m., Pauling Centre, 58
Banbury Road: conversazione in italiano. Admission
free.
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