Oxford
University Gazette, 28 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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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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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 biosolical 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.'
Botnar Research Centre
The following seminars will be held at 12.30 p.m. on
Fridays in the Botnar Research Centre.
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.
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine seminars: Mind,
brain, and trauma
The following seminars will be given at 2.15 p.m. on
Mondays in the Wellcome Unit, 45 Banbury Road.
Convener: Dr Sloan Mahone.
HANS POLS, Sydney
9 Oct.: 'Psychology as politics: colonial psychiatry
and indigenous physicians in the former Dutch East
Indies.'
RALPH HARRINGTON, independent scholar
16 Oct.: ' "So jarred were all my nerves":
supernatural shock and traumatic terror in the ghost stories
of M.R. James.'
HUW PRICE
23 Oct.: ' "Worse than the darkness of the Valley of
Death": the heresy of cognitive neuropsychology in early
nineteenth-century Britain.'
KATHERINE WATSON, Oxford Brookes
30 Oct.: 'Mad or bad? A case of multiple infanticide
in rural Wiltshire, 1849.'
CECILIA RIVING, Lund
6 Nov.: 'A madman in the family: conceptions of the
mentally ill in nineteenth-century Sweden.'
BENOÎT MAJERUS, Brussels
13 Nov.: 'Liberating the body? Liberating the mind?
The anti-psychiatry movement in Europe.'
PETER BARHAM
20 Nov.: 'The complete madness: a revaluation of
Michel Foucault's Histoire de la Folie.'
RHODRI HAYWARD, University of Exeter
27 Nov.: 'Busman's stomach and the embodiment of
diversity.'
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Music
Graduate Students' Colloquia
The following Graduate Students' Colloquia will be held on
Tuesdays at 5.15 p.m. in the Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of
Music. The colloquia are open to the public. There is no
charge for admission.
EKATERINI LEVIDOU, St Antony's
10 Oct.: 'Russianising the universe through music:
the loss of Russia and the search for the transhuman.'
OWEN REES, Queen's
17 Oct.: 'Finis coronat opus? Francisco Guerrero and
motet recomposition.'
BENJAMIN WALTON, Cambridge
24 Oct.: 'Rehearing Beethoven in Paris.'
SUSAN WOLLENBERG, Lady Margaret Hall
31 Oct.: 'Some Oxford pianists of the past.'
DANIEL GALLAGHER, St Catherine's
7 Nov.: 'Playing Schumann, hearing Chopin: musical
affinities in nineteenth-century pianism.'
GREG BARNETT, Rice University
14 Nov.: 'Festa, academia and esercizio
cavalleresco: the forms and uses of the sonata
da camera.'
SARAH COHEN, Liverpool
21 Nov.: To be announced.
MARK EVERIST, Southampton
28 Nov.: 'Mozart's Twelfth Mass.'
Seminar in Late Medieval and Renaissance Music
The following seminars will be held on Thursdays at 5 p.m.
in All Souls College. The seminars are open to the public.
There is no charge for admission.
IAN RUMBOLD, Nottingham
19 Oct.: 'Hermann Pötzlinger's music
collection: codex latinus monacensis 14274.'
DAVID FALLOWS, Manchester
2 Nov.: 'Josquin and Lucrezia Borgia.'
NICHOLAS KENYON, Controller, BBC Proms
16 Nov.: 'Tradition isn't what it used to
be.'(A forum for work-in- progress)
FIONA SHAND, Magdalen
30 Nov.: 'Writing between the lines: si
placet parts and added voices in fifteenth-and
sixteenth- century masses.' (A forum for
work-in-progress)
Workshops
The ISIS Composition Workshops will be held on Monday, 23
October and Monday, 13 November at 2 p.m., Denis Arnold Hall,
Faculty of Music.
The 'Viol Saturday' Musical workshops will be held on
Saturday, 28 October at 10 a.m. in the Bate Collection,
Faculty of Music.
A Composition workshop will be held on Monday, 30 October,
11 a.m., Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music. The Allegri
String Quartet will play works written especially by student
composers.
Careers Seminar
DR EMANUELE SENICI will hold the following seminar on
Monday, 6 November, at 12 noon in the Denis Arnold Hall,
Faculty of Music.
Subject: 'Introduction to academic careers.'
Lunchtime Gallery Talk
CORRINA CONNOR will give the following talk on Tuesday, 7
November, at 1 p.m. in the Bate Collection, Music
Faculty.
Subject: 'The Jay cello: an illustrated lecture
exploring the music, repertoire, and qualities of the early
classical cello.'
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Oriental Studies, Christ Church
Violence and authority: comparative studies on European,
Byzantine, and Islamic states and state-building
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays
in Lecture Room 2, Christ Church. The series is sponsored by
the Mellon Foundation, Christ Church, the Khalili Centre for
Islamic Art, the Oriental Institute, and the Humanities
Division. Further information can be found at www.krc.ox.ac.uk/mellon_seminar.htm.
Conveners: Petra Sijpesteijn and Chase
Robinson.
JONATHAN SHEPARD
10 Oct.: 'Barbarians at the gates, right-thinking
Romans within: fear, faith, and deterrence in earlier
medieval Byzantium.'
DAVID COOK, Rice University
17 Oct.: 'Raiders and rulers: Umayyad expansionism
in the Mediterranean basin.'
DR JAMES HOWARD-JOHNSTON
24 Oct.: 'Byzantine responses to the Islamic
conquest.'
ANTOINE BORRUT, Paris
31 Oct.: 'Caliphal violence and the creation of
heroes: the example of Maslama b. "Abd al- Malik".'
JÜRGEN PAUL, Halle-Wittenberg
7 Nov.: 'Violence and state-building in the Islamic
east.'
CHRISTOPHER MCEVITT, Dartmouth College
14 Nov.: 'Religious knowledge and political power in
the twelfth-century Frankish Levant.'
ALEX METCALFE, Lancaster
21 Nov.: 'The Sicilian endgame: the Muslim community
on the eve of the 1189 revolt.'
MATTHEW INNES, Birkbeck College, London
28 Nov.: 'Aristrocratic violence and royal authority
in the Frankish kingdoms.'
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Social Sciences
ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS):
Disrupting dichotomies in migration research, policy, and
practice
The following seminars will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursdays
in the Institute of Human Sciences, the Pauling Centre.
Further information can be found at www.compas.ox.ac.uk/events/seminars_lectures.shtml.
Convener: Bridget Anderson.
RUSSELL KING, Sussex
12 Oct.: 'Students as migrants.'
JOHN DAVIES, Sussex
19 Oct.: 'Force and deception—the tools of the
anti-traffickers.'
FRANCK DÜVELL
26 Oct.: 'Questioning convenient concepts: the
sending country/receiving country dichotomy.'
MARTIN RUHS
2 Nov.: 'Agents or victims? Low-wage migrant workers
in the global economy.'
LIZA SCHUSTER, City University, London
9 Nov.: 'A clash of cultures? What underlies the
division between migration studies and race and ethnicity
studies?'
SUE CONLAN, Tyndallwoods Solicitors, Birmingham
16 Nov.: 'Dichotomies in practice: an immigration
practitioner's reflections.'
DON FLYNN, Project Director, Migrants' Rights Network
23 Nov.: 'Ghosts at the banquet: undocumented
migrants and the troubled conscience of global
capitalism.'
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.'
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.'
Oxford Seminars in Cartography
MATTHEW EDNEY, Director, History of Cartography Project,
University of Wisconsin–Madison, will give a seminar in
this series at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 12 October, in the Board
Room, the Oxford University Centre for the Environment.
Enquiries should be directed to nam@bodly.ox.ac.uk.
Subject: 'Mapping empires, mapping bodies:
reflections on the uses and abuses of cartography.'
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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
Book-launchJULIAN DIBBELL will give a talk to mark
the launch of his latest book at 5 p.m. on Monday, 2 October,
in the Saïd Business School. The talk is open to all
members of the University. Electronic registration: www.sbs.oxford.edu/events/dibbell.
Enquiries to: deborah.lisburne@sbs.ox.ac.uk.
Convener: Professor Douglas Holt.
Subject: 'Play money: gold farms, polar bear
rugs, and the ludocentric theory of contemporary
capitalism.'
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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Maison Française
Early Modern French Seminars
The following seminars will be held on Thurdays at 5.15
p.m. in the Maison Française, unless otherwise stated.
Lectures with English titles will be in English.
Conveners: Richard Cooper, Nicholas Cronk, Kate
Tunstall, and Alain Viala.
CARSTEN MEINER, Copenhagen
12 Oct.: 'The literary carriage from
Furetière to Diderot. The material logic of chance
meetings in early modern Europe.'
ANTONY MCKENNA, St Etienne
26 Oct.: 'Faith and reason in the classical age:
Pierre Bayle in the light of new research.'(Besterman
Lecture)
DAVID MASKELL, Oriel
9 Nov.: 'Ethnographie et religion chez Pierre
Corneille: Polyeucte et Tite et
Bérénice.c'
COLAS DUFLO, Amiens
23 Nov.: 'Le narrateur philosophe. Remarques sur
Le Monde Moral de Prévost.'
DANIEL MESGUICH, actor and director
30 Nov.: 'Représenter les classiques
aujourd'hui.' (Jointly with the Modern French
Seminar)
Modern French Seminar
The following seminars will be held on Thurdays at 5.15
p.m. in the Maison Française.
Convener: Marc Dambre.
DOMINIQUE COMBE, Paris III
19 Oct.: 'De l'épopée au poème,
la nostalgie de l'épique.'
JANE HIDDLESTON, Exeter
2 Nov.: 'Post-structuralism and post- coloniality:
the anxiety of theory (Roland Barthes).'
NICHOLAS HEWITT, Nottingham
16 Nov.: 'The migration of Bohemia in Paris,
1910–30: From Montmartre to Montparnasse.'
DANIEL MESGUICH, actor and director
30 Nov.: 'Représenter les classiques
aujourd'hui.' (Jointly with the Early Modern French
Seminar)
Medieval French Seminar
The following seminars will be held on Tuesdays at 5.15
p.m. in the Maison Française.
Convener: Helen Swift.
FLORENCE BOUCHET, Toulouse Le Mirail
10 Oct.: 'L'iconographie du songe allégorique
(XIIIe–XVe).'
KEVIN BROWNLEE, Pennsylvania
24 Oct.: To be announced.
ROSALIND BROWN-GRANT, Leeds
7 Nov.: 'Learning to be a good husband in French
romances of the later Middle Ages: sterility and bigamy in
Gillon de Trazegnies.'
ARDIS BUTTERFIELD, London
21 Nov.: 'Fighting talk: the language of invective
in the Hundred Years War.'
JAMES SIMPSON, Glasgow
28 Nov.: 'Memoires d'une fille (bien/mal)
rangée: Enide v.
Philomena.'
Workshops
The following workshops will be held in the Maison
Française, unless otherwise indicated.
LUCY GARNIER, St John's
Fri., 13 Oct., 9.30 a.m. and Sat., 14 Oct., 9 a.m.:
'Stendhal et la femme.'
CHRISTOPHER MINKOWSKI, Balliol, CATERINA GUENZI, EHESS,
and STÉPHANE VAN DAMME, CNRS-MFO
Sat., 21 Oct., 9 a.m.: 'Trust in stars: boundaries
of astrology. Knowledge, science and beliefs (India, Europe
and the Islamic world.)'
NATHALIE AUBERT, Oxford Brookes, PIERRE-PHILLIPPE
FRAITURE, Warwick, and PATRICK MCGUINNESS St Anne's
Fri., 3 Nov., 9.30 a.m.: 'From Belgian Art Nouveau
to Surrealism: modernity in the making.'
ANNE SIMONIN, CNRS-MFO and PETER MACDONALD, St Hugh's
Fri., 10 Nov, 2.30 p.m. and Sat., 11 Nov., 9.30
a.m.: 'Edition et politique/Publishing and
politics.'
MARIE-CLAIRE LAVABRE, CNRS-MFO and rOBERT GILDEA,
Merton
Fri., 24 Nov, 2 p.m. and Sat., 25 Nov., 9.30 a.m.:
'La micro-analyse en sciences sociales.'
SUDHIR HAZAREESINGH, Balliol and GÉRARD GRUNBERG,
Sciences-Po
Fri., 1 Dec., 8.45 a.m. and Sat., 2 Dec., 9 a.m.:
'La gauche socialiste en France et en Grande-Bretagne.'
Study Days
The following study days will be held in the Maison
Française.unless otherwise indicated.
RICHARD SCHOLAR, ANNA HOLLAND, and AGNIESZKA STECZOWICZ,
London (Organisers)
Sat., 30 Sept., 10.30 a.m., St Giles' House, St
John's: 'Pre-histories and afterlives: a symposium for
Terence Cave.'
MARTINE PÉCHARMAn, CNRS and SARAH HUTTON,
Middlesex
Fri., 27 Oct., 10 a.m.: 'The philosophy of Ralph
Cudworth: unity, life and spontaneity.'
BILL PICKERING, British Centre for Durkheimian Studies and
MARIE-CLAIRE LAVABRE, CNRS-MFO
Sat., 28 Oct., 10.45 a.m.: 'Halbwachs, Bastide and
collective memory.'
Mediterranean Writers Series
The following meetings will be held in the Maison
Française, unless otherwise indicated.
ISMAÏL KADARÉ
Tues., 31 Oct., 5.15 p.m.: Ismaïl Kadaré
will present and read from his work. (Chair: Noel Malcolm;
translator: David Bellos, Princeton)
AL-TAYYIB SALIH
Fri., 17 Nov., 5 p.m., Middle East Centre, St
Antony's: 'A conversation with al-Tayyib Salih.'
LEÏLA SEBBAR
Thur., 23 Nov., 5.15 p.m.: 'L'exil de la langue du
père, l'arabe.'
Other Lectures
The following lectures and events will be held in the
Maison Française, unless otherwise indicated.
OLIVIER ROY, CNRS-EHESS (Chair: Eugene Rogan)
Tues., 10 Oct., 5.15 p.m.: 'European Islam or Islam
in Europe?'
JACQUES LEVY, Lausanne (Chair: Graham Clark)
Wed., 18 Oct., 5.15 p.m.: 'The European city: fall
and rise.'
PIERRE MOSCOVICI, Vice-President, European Parliament
(Chair: Kalypso Nicolaïdis)
Thur., 19 Oct., 5.15 p.m.: 'Europe between crisis
and renewal.'
DENIS NOBLE, Balliol (Chair: Pietro Corsi)
Wed., 8 Nov., 5.15 p.m.: 'The music of life,
including some reflections on "Lamarckism" '.
Cinema
The following events will be held on Tuesdays in the
Maison Française at 8 p.m. Each film will be
introduced by Dr Reidar Due, Tutor in European Cinema at
Magdalen College. There is no need to book in advance, but
seats will be allocated on a 'first-come, first-served'
basis.
17 Oct.: A nous la liberté
(1931; director: René Clair)
24 Oct.: Boudu sauvé des eaux
(1932; director: Jean Renoir)
7 Nov.: L'Atalante (1934; director:
Jean Vigo)
14 Nov.: La Kermesse
Héroïque (1935; director: Jacques
Feyder)
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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 (sessions 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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Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum
The following lectures will be given at 6.15 p.m. on
Wednesdays in the Lecture Theatre in the new extension to the
Pitt Rivers Museum (entrance from Robinson Close, off South
Parks Road). Admission for non- members costs £2.
EILUNED EDWARDS, Victoria and Albert Museum
4 Oct.: 'Textiles, dress, and identity in the
Kachchh district, Gujarat, India.'
DR DIANA MARTIN, Institute of Social and Cultural
Anthropology
11 Oct.: 'From Chinese domestic artefacts into
collectables: water buckets, baby baths, and coffee
tables.'
DR PAUL OLIVER, Oxford Brookes
8 Nov.: 'Vernacular architecture in the new
century.'
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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 eventsFri. 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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