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University Gazette, 22 March 2007: Lectures
Inaugural LecturesProfessor of Computing SciencePROFESSOR 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).< /p> Subject: 'Living with computational complexity.' Professor of CriminologyPROFESSOR IAN LOADER will deliver his inaugural lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 26 April, in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, the St Cross Building. Subject: 'Insecurity, politics, and excess.' Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and ReligionPROFESSOR PETER HARRISON will deliver his Inaugural Lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 14 May, in the Examination Schools. Subject: 'Religion and the rise of science.'
Oxford Leverhulme Changing Character of War LectureTHE RT. HON. DES BROWNE, MP, Secretary of State for Defence, will deliver the third annual Changing Character of War Lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 9 May. Further details can be found at ccw.politics.ox.ac.uk.
Mathematical, Physical and Life SciencesPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory: Hinshelwood LecturesPROFESSOR MICHELE PARRINELLO, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, will deliver the Hinshelwood Lectures 11.15 a.m. on the following days in the Main Lecture Theatre, the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory. 26 Apr.: 'Ab initio molecular dynamics.' 3 May: 'Second generation Car-Parrinello methods.' 8 May: 'Rare events and metadynamics.' 10 May: 'Tracing reaction coordinates in complex systems.' 15 May: 'Crystal structure transformation in organic and inorganic systems.' 17 May: 'Nucleation.'
Department of Zoology: Astor LecturePROFESSOR MARC MANGEL, Santa Cruz, will deliver an Astor Lecture at 4.30 p.m. on Monday, 30 April, in Lecture Theatre A, the Department of Zoology. Subject: 'Ecology, conservation, and public policy: a vision for the twenty-first century.'
Medical SciencesOxford Osler LecturePROFESSOR PETER RATCLIFFE will deliver the Oxford Osler Lecture at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 25 April, in the Lecture Theatre, the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre. Those wishing to attend are asked to contact Jayne Todd (telephone: Oxford (2)21690, e-mail: jayne.todd@medsci.ox.ac.uk). Subject: 'Oxygen metabolism and the cancer phenotype: then and now...' Botnar Research CentreUnless otherwise indicated the following seminars will be held on Fridays at 12.30 p.m. in the Seminar Room, Botnar Research Centre. Two presentations will be made at the meeting on 15 June. The seminar due to have been given by Dr Aubrey Blumsohn on 8 June has been postponed. DR NIGEL LOVERIDGE, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge DR HELEN KNOWLES PROFESSOR MARK MCCARTHY DR MIN LIANG DR ZHIDAO XIA PROFESSOR CHARLES ARCHER, Cardiff DR NIGEL ARDEN, Southampton PROFESSOR PAUL WORDSWORTH PROFESSOR ROBERT COLEMAN, Sheffield DR COLIN FARQUHARSON, Edinburgh
Medical Sciences, Green CollegeOxford Medical Seminar: How do we use clinical data? Will IT ever realise its potential in the NHS?An Oxford Medical Seminar will be held on Wednesday, 4 April, 2–7 p.m., in the Lecture Theatre, the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre. The seminar is supported by GE Healthcare, and will be chaired by FERGUS WALSH, medical journalist and TV and radio presenter. The speakers will be PROFESSOR D.E. DETMER, University of Virginia; DR MAUREEN BAKER, National Clinical Safety Officer, NHS Connecting for Health; and PROFESSOR MICHAEL PRINGLE, National Clinical Lead for GPs, NHS Connecting for Health.
Medieval and Modern LanguagesPaget Toynbee LectureGUGLIELMO GORNI, La Sapienza, Rome, will deliver the Paget Toynbee Lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 14 May, in the Taylor Institution. Subject: 'La biografia di Dante.' Clara Florio Cooper Memorial LecturePROFESSOR NIGEL VINCENT, Manchester, will deliver the Clara Florio Cooper Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 18 May, in the Taylor Institution. Subject: 'Language, geography, and history in medieval Italy.'
Oriental StudiesHebrew and Jewish Studies Unit: David Patterson SeminarsThe David Patterson Seminars will be given at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Yarnton Manor. Convener: Dr Piet van Boxel. DR TIMOTHY EDWARDS PROFESSOR MICHAEL SILBER, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem PROFESSOR DAVID ABULAFIA, Cambridge PROFESSOR BERNARD JACKSON, Manchester DR ANSELM HAGEDORN, Berlin EYAL BEN-ELIYAHU, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
PhilosophyUehiro Lectures: Ethics and world povertyPROFESSOR PETER SINGER, Princeton, will deliver the Uehiro Lectures at 4.30 for 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 29 May, Thursday, 5 June, and Thursday, 12 June, in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, the Clarendon Laboratory. Further details can be found at www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk.
Social SciencesIsrael: historical, political, and social aspectsThe following lectures and seminar will be held as stated.Convener: Peter Oppenheimer, Christ Church. PROFESSOR SHAI FELDMAN, Brandeis DANNY RUBINSTEIN, member of editorial board,
Ha'aretz PROFESSRO SHALOM LAPPIN, King's College, London OXONIA Distinguished Speaker eventANATOLE 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.' Comparing the cognitive foundations of science and religionPROFESSOR ROBERT MCAULEY, Emory University, will lecture at 4 p.m. on the following days in the Examination Schools. The lectures are arranged by the Centre for Anthropology and Mind, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Tue. 24 Apr.: 'Natural cognition.' Wed. 25 Apr.: 'The cognitive unnaturalness of science.' Tue. 1 May: 'The cognitive naturalness of religion.' Wed. 2 May: 'Unexpected consequences of the cognitive comparison of science and religion.'
TheologyIan Ramsey and Sophia Europa OxfordThe following lectures will be given at 8.15 for 8.30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College. For details of the lecture series 'Comparing the cognitive foundations of science and religion' see under 'Social Sciences' above. Conveners: Professor R. Trigg and Dr Margaret Yee. PROFESSOR R. AUDI, Notre Dame DR DENIS ALEXANDER, Cambridge
Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine ArtJohn Berger LectureNEIL MACGREGOR, Director, the British Museum, will deliver a John Berger Lecture at 6.30 p.m. on Friday, 27 April, in the Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre, the Saïd Business School. The lecture is arranged in association with New College. Subject: 'Things subverting ideas: Africa in the British Museum.'
Balliol CollegeLeonard Stein LecturesPROFESSOR GABRIEL PITERBERG, Professor of History, UCLA, will deliver the Leonard Stein Lectures at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College. 26 Apr.: 'An autochthonous settler's Bible: Ben Gurion reads the Book of Joshua.' 3 May: 'The Bible, the Nakbah, and Hebrew literature.'
St Antony's CollegeRussian and Eurasian Studies Centre'Them' and 'us': the other in the Russian imaginationThe following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Fridays in the Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College. Convener: Dr Elena Katz. PROFESSOR JOHN KLIER, UCL ADAM LEACH, Director for the Middle East, Eastern Europe
and CIS, Oxfam DR ELENA ETKIND, Cambridge DR KATZ
St Hilda's CollegeSt Hilda's College LecturesPROFESSOR KATE PURCELL, Warwick, will lecture at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 3 May, in the Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College. Subject: 'Breaking through the glass ceiling? Progress towards gender equality in early graduate careers.'
Trinity CollegeMargaret Howard Memorial LectureJOSHUA ROZENBERG, Legal Editor, the Daily Telegraph, will deliver the Margaret Howard Memorial Lecture at 5.45 p.m. on Monday, 14 May, in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, the St Cross Building. Subject: 'Words, words, words: writing about the law.'
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