Oxford
University Gazette, 22 February 2007: Lectures
Inaugural Lecture
Professor of Computing Science
PROFESSOR GEORG GOTTLOB will deliver his inaugural lecture at 5.30 p.m. on
Monday, 2 April, in the Examination Schools.
Those wishing to attend the lecture are asked to contact Elizabeth Walsh (e-mail: elizabeth.walsh@comlab.ox.ac.uk).
Subject: 'Living with computational complexity.'
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Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
Material markets: facts, technologies, politics
PROFESSOR DONALD MACKENZIE, Professor of Sociology,
University of Edinburgh, will deliver the Clarendon Lectures
in Management Studies on the following days in the Saïd
Business School. The lectures are open to the public, and
there is no charge for admission.
Enquiries should be directed to Deborah Lisburne,
Saïd Business School (e-mail: deborah.lisburne@sbs.ox.ac.uk),
or Claire Abel, Oxford University Press (e-mail: claire.abel@oup.com). Mon.
26 Feb., 5 p.m.: 'Making derivatives.'
Tue. 27 Feb., 5.30 p.m.: 'Making facts.'
Wed. 28 Feb., 5.30 p.m.: 'Doing politics.'
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Classics
Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
PROFESSOR SIMONE BETA, Siena, will lecture at 2.15 p.m. on
Tuesday, 6 March, in the Lecture Theatre, the Classics
Centre. Enquiries should be directed to apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk
or Oxford (2)88210.
Subject: '101 things to do with a Greek comedy:
Aristophanes' Lysistrata from the eighteenth to
the twenty-first century.'
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Mathematical, Physical and Life Science
John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science series
The following lectures will be given at 2 p.m. on
Thursdays in the Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road. The
full programme can be found at www.adams-institute.ac.uk/lectur
e_series.php.
DR DEAN ADAMS
1 Mar.: 'ISIS.'
DR ELIZABETH SURREY
15 Mar.: 'An overview of the International Fusion
Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF).'
DR MARCO BORGHESI
22 Mar.: ' LERST.'
DR AÏT ABDERRAHIM HAMID
3 May: 'MYRRHA, ADS, and energy amplifiers.'
DR MARIALUISA ALIOTTA
17 May: To be announced.
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Medieval and Modern Languages
PIERO BOITANI, La Sapienza, Rome, will lecture at 5 p.m.
on Tuesday, 27 February, in Room 2, the Taylor
Institution.
Convener: Professor M.L. McLaughlin.
Subject: 'Nature poetry in Dante's
Comedy.'
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Philosophy
Lecture
DR PIERO PINZAUTI, Florence, will lecture 4 p.m. on
Monday, 5 March, in the Hovenden Room, All Souls College.
Convener: Professor G.A. Cohen.
Subject: 'The nonsensical structure of modernity:
Marx and Wittgenstein.'
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Social Sciences
OXONIA Distinguished Speaker event
ANATOLE KALETSKY, The Times, will lecture at
5 p.m. on Tuesday, 1 May, in the Large Lecture Theatre, the
Department of Economics. Further information can be found at
www.oxonia.org.
Subject: 'Capitalism's new Golden Age.'
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Centre for Criminology
BEN CREWE, Cambridge, will lecture at 3.30 p.m. on
Wednesday, 28 February, in Seminar Room A, the Manor Road
Building.
Subject: 'The society of captives in a managerial
era.'
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Department of Educational Studies
Public lecture
PROFESSOR JEROME BRUNER, New York University, leading
educational psychologist and winner of the Balzan Prize, will
lecture at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, 13 March, in the Martin Wood
Lecture Theatre, the Clarendon Laboratory. The lecture is
open to the public, and admission is free.
Subject: 'Cultivating the possible.'
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Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Isaiah Berlin Public Lectures in Middle East
Dialogue
DR ROBERT SATLOFF, Executive Director, the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy, will deliver the eleventh
lecture in this series at 8 p.m. on Thursday, 1 March, in the
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College.
Subject: 'The Arab experience during the
Holocaust: a hopeful antidote to Holocaust denial in the Arab
world.'
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Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
British diplomatic perceptions of the Muslim world
The following seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 5
p.m. at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, George
Street.
SIR RICHARD DEARLOVE, Cambridge, formerly Head of Secret
Intelligence Service
28 Feb.: 'The security dimension of Middle East
policy.'
SIR ALAN MUNRO, formerly HM Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
7 Mar.: 'British relations with the countries of the
Gulf.'
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Latin American Centre
PROFESSOR ALAN KNIGHT will lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 23
February, in the Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk.
Subject: 'Mexican anticlericalism: causes,
character, and consequences.'
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Maison Française, Christ Church Picture
Gallery
The reproductive print in France
This study-day, held in conjunction with the current
exhibition at the Christ Church Picture Gallery, 'Multiple
masters: French prints after paintings, 1700–1900',
will be held from 10.45 a.m. on Saturday, 3 March, in the
Maison Française. Attendance costs £17 (students
(£10).
PROFESSOR STEPHEN BANN, Bristol
11.15 a.m.: Introduction.
DR CHRISTIAN RÜMELIN, Ashmolean Museum
11.30 a.m.: 'Interpretation versus reproduction: the
understanding of printmaking after other artworks in
eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century France and
Germany.'
ANTONY GRIFFITHS, British Museum
12.15 p.m.: 'The higher hierarchy of printmaking:
etching and engraving in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century
France.'
SOPHIE BOBET-MEZZASALMA, Bibliothèque Nationale,
France
2 p.m.: 'La lithographie sous la Restauration: entre
art et industrie.'
PIERRE-LIN RENIÉ ;, Musée Groupil,
Bordeaux
2.45 p.m.: 'The image on the wall: prints as
decoration in nineteenth- century interiors.'
DR JON WHITELEY, Ashmolean Museum
3.30 p.m.: 'Reproductive prints and the Paris salon
in the nineteenth century.'
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James Martin Institute for Science and Civilisation
James Martin Institute Lectures: Energy
farmers—from energy hunter-gathereres to a sustainable
future
PROFESSOR DANIEL KAMMEN, University of California,
Berkeley, will deliver the James Martin Institute Lectures at
5 p.m. on the following days in the Saïd Business
School.
Admission is free, and registration is not required.
Further information can be found at
www.martininstitute.ox.ac.uk/JMI/About+JMI/James+Martin+Institute+Lectures+2007
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Enquiries should be directed to Clare Ruthven (e-mail:
clare.ruthven@sbs.ox.ac.uk).
Mon. 5 Mar.: 'Energy hunter-gatherers.'
Tue. 6 Mar.: 'The global possible: but we don't
tenure Mother Teresa.'
Wed. 7 Mar.: 'Energy farmers and environmentalism
for the twenty-first century.'
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Christ Church
Lectures for Lent
The following lectures will be given at 7.15 p.m. on
Tuesdays in the Priory Room, Christ Church Cathedral.
THE REVD DR ELIZABETH CARMICHAEL
1 Mar.: 'What the Church in South Africa has to
offer the world.'
DR MARTIN CONWAY, formerly Chairman, Friends of the Church
in China
8 Mar.: 'The fifth age of Christianity in
China.'
THE REVD FLEUR HOUSTON, United Reformed Church minister,
Blackbird Leys
15 Mar.: 'The Church in the new Europe.'
THE REVD CANON PROFESSOR MARILYN ADAMS
22 Mar.: 'What hope for the Anglican Communion?'
THE REVD CANON GEORGE KOVOOR, Principal, Trinity College,
Bristol
29 Mar.: 'Training leadership for the world
church.'
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Hertford College
Starun Lecture in Polish Studies
PROFESSOR JAN HARASIMOWICZ, Wroclaw, will deliver the
Starun Lecture in Polish Studies at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 28
February, in Hertford College.
Enquiries should be directed to Alan Ross, Hertford
College.
Subject: 'Confessional rivalry in the art and
architecture of early modern Silesia.'
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Lady Margaret Hall
Heron-Allen Lecture
PROFESSOR GEORGINA MACE, Director, NERC Centre for
Population Biology, Imperial College, London, will deliver
the Heron-Allen Lecture at 5.15 p.m. on Friday, 2 March, in
the Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall. There will be an
opportunity to meet the speaker informally after the
lectures. Enquiries should be directed to Janet Wardell, Lady
Margaret Hall (telephone: Oxford (2)74302, e-mail: janet.wardell@lmh.ox.ac.uk).
Subject: 'Biodiversity, ecosystems, and human
wellbeing.'
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Somerville College
Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture
PROFESSOR JENNY MARTIN, Principal Research Fellow at the
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland,
will deliver the Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture on Tuesday,
6 March at 5 p.m. in the Lecture Theatre of the University
Museum, Parks Road.
Subject: 'The name's Bond—Disulfide Bond.
Disulfide bond catalysts and their role in bacterial
virulence and sex manipulation.'
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Wadham College
Wadham Sustainability Forum
ANDREW SARDANIS, with key discussants LORD (ANDREW)
TURNBULL and SIR TIMOTHY LANKESTER, will lecture at 4 p.m. on
Friday, 23 February, in the Okinaga Room, Wadham College.
Enquiries should be directed to Ms Cinnamon Carlarne (e-mail:
cinnamon.carlarne@law.ox.ac.uk).
Conveners: Sir Neil Chalmers, Professor Michael
Depledge, Ms Cinnamon Carlarne, and Dr Yiannis Ventikos.
Subject: 'Development in Africa.'
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