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University Gazette, 26 October 2006: Lectures
Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American HistoryPROFESSOR LINDA KERBER, Harmsworth Professor 2006–7, will deliver the Harmsworth Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 16 November, in the Examination Schools. Subject: 'The stateless as the citizen's other: a view from US history.' Note: the lecture was previously announced as taking place on Tuesday, 14 November.
Clarendon Lectures in EconomicsUnravelling the mystery of economic trendsPROFESSOR PETER C. B. PHILLIPS, Yale University, will deliver the Clarendon Lectures in Economics at 5 p.m. on the following days in the Department of Economics. The lectures are open to the public, and admission is free. Enquiries should be directed to natasha.antunes@oup.com. Mon., 20 Nov.: 'The mystery of trend: using trends as coordinates and instruments.' Tues., 21 Nov.: 'The passage through unity: mildly integrated and explosive time series.' Wed., 22 Nov.: 'Transition and growth: econometrics of convergence and clustering.'
J.W. Jenkinson Memorial LecturePROFESSOR 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.'
Hudson LecturePROFESSOR 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.'
ClassicsArchive of Performance of Greek and Roman DramaDR SUE JONES will lecture on Monday, 6 November, at 2.15 p.m. in the Lecture Theatre, Classics Centre, George Street. All welcome. Enquiries: tel. (2)88210 or e-mail apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk. Subject: 'Modernism and Greek dance.'
Mathematical, Physical and Life SciencesDistinguished Lecture in VirologyThe inaugural Distinguished Lecture in Virology will be held on Thursday, 30 November, at 4.30 p.m., followed by a champagne reception in Museum Court from 5.45 p.m. PROFESSOR BARUCH BLUMBERG, Nobel Laureate: 'Hepatitis B. The first cancer vaccine.' DR DENNIS BURTON, The Scripps Institute: 'The challenge of an HIV vaccine from the antibody perspective.' DR MARTINE ROTHBLATT, United Therapeutics: 'Management of xenoviral risk.' John Adams Institute Lectures SeriesThe following lectures will be held at 2.30 p.m. in the Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road. DR JOHN CARWARDINE, Argonne DR SERGEI NAGAITSEV, FNAL DR ANDY WOLSKI, Cockroft Institute DR RICHARD P. WALKER, Diamond Light Source
MedicineGuest LecturePROFESSOR KEITH MATTHEWS, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Dundee, will lecture on Tuesday, 28 November, at 5 p.m. in the University Department of Psychiatry Seminar Room, Warneford Hospital. Subject: 'Neurosurgery for mental disorder in the twenty-first century.' Laboratory of Molecular BiophysicsThe following seminars will be held on Fridays at 1 p.m. in Lecture Room 1, Biochemistry Department, unless otherwise stated. Convener: Professor Louise N. Johnson. PROFESSOR DAVID FELL, Oxford Brookes PROFESSOR FRANK WATT, CIBA, Singapore DR GARETH BOLITHO AND DR VERNON SMITH, Molecular
Dimensions Ltd DR JAMES PARKER, Institute of Cancer Research, London
Medieval and Modern LanguagesModern Hispanic Research SeminarPHILIP SWANSON, University of Sheffield, will lecture on 31 October at 5 p.m. in Room 3, the Taylor Institution. Convener: Professor Edwin Williamson. Subject: 'Where is Latin America?'
Oriental StudiesMellon Sawyer Seminar SeriesViolence and authority: comparative studies on European, Byzantine and Islamic states and state-buildingANTOINE BORRUT, Paris, will lecture on Tuesday, 31 October, at 5 p.m. in Lecture Room 2, Christ Church. For more information go to http://www.krc.ox.ac.uk/mellon_semin ar.htm. Conveners: Dr Petra Sijpesteijn and Professor Chase Robinson. Subject: 'Caliphal violence and the creation of heroes: the example of Maslama b. 'Abd al-Malik.'
Social SciencesOxford Institute for Economic Policy (Oxonia) Seminars: Aspects of GlobalisationThe following seminars, organised in association with Exeter College, will be held on Mondays at 5.30 p.m. PROFESSOR NICHOLAS CRAFTS, Warwick STEPHEN KING, HSBC CLIVE CROOK, Atlantic Monthly Israel: historical, political and social aspectsThe following evening lectures will be held in weeks 5–8 at 8 p.m. Convener: Peter Oppenheimer. SIR MARTIN GILBERT, Honorary Fellow, Merton College DR ANTHONY JULIUS, Birbeck College, London, and Mishcon de
Reya JOHN LLOYD, Editor, Financial Times
Magazine PROFESSOR ITAMAR RABINOVICH, President, Tel Aviv
University Department of Educational StudiesThe following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. in the Department of Educational Studies. PROFESSOR NEIL MERCER, Cambridge DR MICHAEL PROSSER, Higher Education Academy
Saïd Business SchoolMarketing, Culture and Society SeminarsThe following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. in the Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre. Seminars are open to all. The seminar on 1 November is co-sponsored by RSA. Further information from christine.seal@sbs.ox.ac.uk. JULIET B. SCHOR, Boston College ALAN GILES, Former CEO, HMV Group
Oxford Centre for Islamic StudiesDR MUHAMMED NIAZ ASADULLAH, Reading, will hold the following seminar on 1 November at 5 p.m. in the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, George Street. Subject: 'Religious schools, social values and economic attitudes: evidence from Bangladesh.'
Reuters Institute for the Study of JournalismPROFESSOR GUY BERGER, Rhodes University, South Africa (Speaker), and PROFESSOR WILLIAM BEINART (Discussant) will hold the following seminar on Wednesday, 1 November, at 12 noon in the Committee Room, Green College. All welcome. Further seminars in this series will be announced at a later date. Enquiries: kate.hanneford-smith@politics.ox.ac.u k. Subject: 'Contested media policy in South Africa—the first decade of democracy.'
Refugee Studies CentreSeminarsThe following seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of International Development/Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road, unless otherwise indicated. MS SUSAN D. TAMONDONG PROFESSOR PETER LOIZOS, London School of Economics DR HEIN DE HAAS MS ANNA SCHMIDT, California, Berkeley Harrell-Bond LectureMS SHAMI CHAKRABARTI, Director, Liberty, will deliver the Harrell-Bond Lecture on Wednesday, 15 November at 5 p.m., in the University Museum, Parks Road. Subject: 'Asylum: the new dirty word.'
All Souls CollegeChichele LecturesWM. ROGER LOUIS, University of Texas at Austin, and past president, American Historical Association, will deliver a Chichele Lecture on Thursday, 2 November, at 5 p.m. in the Old Library, All Souls College. All welcome. Subject: 'All Souls and the Suez Crisis of 1956.'
Lady Margaret HallCanada SeminarJENNIFER WELSH, Professor of International Relations, will hold the following seminar on Friday, 24 November, at 5.15 p.m. in Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall. All welcome. For further information please contact Janet Wardell on (2)74302 or e-mail janet.wardell@lmh.ox.ac.uk. Subject: 'Values and vision in Canadian foreign policy.'
St Anne's CollegeHoskins LectureJ. 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?'
St Antony's CollegeRussian and Eurasian Studies CentreRussia and Eurasia: Domestic and International PoliticsThe following seminars will be held on Mondays at 5 p.m. in the Lecture Theatre, St Antony's. Conveners: Dr Paul Chaisty and Dr Alex Pravda. DR SALLY N. CUMMINGS, St Andrews DR GWENDOLYN SASSE, London School of Economics DR BOBO LO, Royal Institute of International Affairs,
Chatham House DR JULIE NEWTON, American University of Paris PROFESSOR DAVID HOLLOWAY, Stanford
St Edmund HallPhilip Geddes Memorial LectureMATTHEW 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.'
Somerville CollegeJames Bryce Memorial LecturePROFESSOR 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.'
Templeton CollegeFoundation Lecture 2006PROFESSOR TOM BURKE, Visiting Professor at Imperial College and University College London, will deliver the 2006 Foundation Lecture in Memory of Clifford and Evelyne Barclay at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 9 November, in the Clifford Barclay Lecture Theatre, Templeton College. Subject: 'Business and the environment in the twenty-first century: risks, rewards and responses.'
University CollegeGlobal Economic Governance LectureTHE HON. DR MONTEK SINGH AHLUWALIA, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, India, will give the annual Global Economic Governance Lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 1 November, in the Examination Schools. Subject: 'Managing globalisation in India: critical issues.' Global Economic Governance ProgrammeALAN BEATTIE, the Financial Times, will lecture on Friday, 3 November, at 2 p.m. in the Swire Seminar Room, 12 Merton Street, University College. Subject: 'What's happening in the WTO trade talks?'
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