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University Gazette, 8 November 2007: Lectures
Inaugural LectureWaynflete Professor of Pure MathematicsPROFESSOR RAPHAEL ROUQUIER will deliver his inaugural lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 26 November, in the Examination Schools. Subject: 'Knots, braids, and mathematical structures.'
Professor of PoetryPROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER RICKS will lecture at 5 p.m. on
Monday, 19 November, in the Examination Schools.
Romanes LectureDAME GILLIAN BEER will deliver the Romanes Lecture at 5.45 p.m. on Thursday, 8 November, in the Sheldonian Theatre. Subject: 'Darwin and the consciousness of others.'
Charles Simonyi Lecture in the Public Understanding of ScienceSIR PAUL NURSE, Nobel Laureate, will deliver the ninth Charles Simonyi Lecture at 4.30 p.m. on Friday, 23 November, in the Oxford Playhouse. The lecture will be introduced by Professor Richard Dawkins. Tickets are £3.50. Enquiries should be directed to the Oxford Playhouse (telephone: Oxford 305305; www.oxfordplayhouse.com). Subject: 'The great ideas of biology.'
History, Social SciencesSeminar in Economic and Social HistoryThe following seminars will be given at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Wharton Room, All Souls College. Convener: Professor Avner Offer. DAVID CHAMBERS LIZABETH COHEN, Harvard EDMUND (VALPY) FITZGERALD
Medical SciencesDistinguished Lecture in VirologyDR GARY J. NABEL, Director, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, will deliver the second Distinguished Lecture in Virology at 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 27 November, in Rhodes House. Enquiries may be directed to Mrs Lynda Butters (e-mail: lynda.butters@bioch.ox.ac.uk). The lecture is sponsored by the United Therapeutics Corporation. Subject: 'Rational vaccine design for public health threats: AIDS and influenza.' Botnar Research Centre: amended noticeThe following seminars will be held at 12.30 p.m. on Fridays in the Botnar Research Centre. It is regretted that the seminar by Dr Eugene McCloskey, advertised for Friday, 23 November, has been cancelled. PROFESSOR PETRA KNAUS, Institut für Biochemie,
Berlin PROFESSOR GEORG DUDA, Centre for Musculoskeletal
Surgery, Charite, Berlin PROFESSOR PAUL THOMPSON, Poole Hospital PROFESSOR DANIEL CHAPPARD, INSERM Faculty of Medicine,
France
Medieval and Modern LanguagesProfessor Siegbert Prawer: Valedictory lecturePROFESSOR SIEGBERT S. PRAWER, Taylor Professor Emeritus of German Language and Literature, will deliver a valedictory lecture at 5.15 p.m. on Thursday, 8 November, in the Taylor Institution. Subject: 'Sigmund Freud's Shakespearean autobiography.' Sub-faculty of GermanDR REGINA D. SCHIEWER, Augsburg, will lecture at 8.30 p.m. on Thursday, 15 November, in Oriel College. Convener: Dr A.M. Volfing. Subject: 'Riskante Theologie? Minnegrotte, Engel und Eucharistie.' PROFESSOR ARTHUR GROOS, Cornell, will lecture at 12 noon on Wednesday, 28 November, in Somerville College. Convener: Dr A.M.V. Suerbaum. Subject: 'Ekphrasis, landscape, and power: some castles in Wolfram's Parzifal (Book III).'
Oriental StudiesSeminar in Modern Japanese LiteratureDR LINDA FLORES conducts this seminar, at 2 p.m. on Fridays in Michaelmas Term, in the Oriental Institute.
Social SciencesSchool of Archaeology: Astor LecturePROFESSOR NORMAN YOFFEE, Michigan, will deliver an Astor Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 22 November, in the Headley Lecture Theatre, the Ashmolean Museum. The lecture will be open to the public. Subject: 'The earliest cities and the evolution of history.' St Cross College at Saïd Business School: Business ethics lecture seriesMARK WOOD, Chief Executive of ITN, will deliver the first lecture in the Business Ethics lecture series at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 8 November, in the Saïd Business School. The subject will be ethics in television and the media. To reserve a place, contact Laura King at events@stx.ox.ac.uk or Oxford (2)78480. The lecture is sponsored by St Cross College and the Saïd Business School.
Saïd Business SchoolThe following seminars will be held at 3.30 p.m. on Thursdays in Seminar Room 14, the Saïd Business School. Enquiries may be directed to Hazel Fry (e-mail: hazel.fry@sbs.ox.ac.uk). ANDREW WHITE EAMONN MOLLOY
Oxford Centre for Islamic StudiesThe following seminars will be given at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, George Street. DR TOBY DODGE, Queen Mary, London MR RICHARD SCHOFIELD, King's College, London PROFESSOR ROBERT SPRINGBORG, London
Green CollegeMcGovern Lecture in the History of MedicinePROFESSOR ALLAN BRANDT, Professor of the History of Science, and Kass Professor of the History of Medicine, Harvard, will deliver the annual McGovern Lecture in the History of Medicine at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 6 December, in the E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green College. Subject: 'The tobacco pandemic: history, culture, and science.'
Kellogg CollegeCentre for Creative WritingJULIAN BARNES will hold a masterclass on fiction at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 14 November, in the Mawby Pavilion, Kellogg College. Mr Barnes will discuss short works-in-progress with four aspirant fiction writers. Audience participation is welcomed. Mr Barnes will also read from his own work. Numbers are limited; admission is free.
Magdalen CollegeTowards a new consitutional settlement: amended noticeThe following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in Magdalen College. Professor David Marquand will speak in place of Shami Chakrabarti on 15 November. Professor Marquand's seminar was originally scheduled for 29 November. PROFESSOR DAVID MARQUAND LORD MACLENNAN and BILLY BRAGG (to be confirmed)
St Antony's CollegeEuropean Studies CentreEurope in discourses of anti-AmericanismThis seminar will be held at 12.30 p.m. on Monday, 12 November, in the European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road. Enquiries may be directed to the Administrator (telephone: Oxford (2)74470, e-mail: anne.guillermain@sant.ox.ac.uk). Eurosceptic parties and EU enlargementThis seminar will be held at 12.30 p.m. on Monday, 19 November,in the European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road. Registration is required (contact the Administrator: telephone: Oxford (2)74470, e-mail: anne.guillermain@sant.ox.ac.uk). Middle East CentreJOHN MEARSHEIMER, Chicago, and STEPHEN WALT, Harvard, will hold a seminar at 5 p.m. on Friday, 9 November, in the Examination Schools. Enquiries may be directed to the Administrator (e-mail: julia.cook@sant.ox.ac.uk). Subject: 'The Israeli lobby and United States foreign policy.'
St Hilda's CollegeSt Hilda's College LecturesCorrigendumIt is regretted that the lecture by Dr Anita Holdcroft on the subject of 'Gender differences in medicine: what importance is diversity?', was mistakenly notified to take place on 18 November. The lecture was delivered on 18 October.
Wolfson CollegeLaunch of Oxford Poets 2007: An AnthologyOxford Poets 2007: An Anthology will be introduced by Bernard O'Donoghue (joint editor, with David Constantine), with readings by Sue Leigh, Anna Robinson, Frances Thompson, Kieron Wynn, and Lynne Wycherley, at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday, 29 November, in the Buttery, Wolfson College. Jill Hart Memorial LecturePROFESSOR NICHOLAS SIMS-WILLIAMS, SOAS, will deliver the Jill Hart Memorial Lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 22 November, in the Haldane Room, Wolfson College. Subject: 'Philology in action: the rediscovery of Bactrian.'
Oxford Bibliographical SocietyPROFESSOR WILLIAM SHERMAN, York, will lecture at 5.15 p.m. on Monday, 12 November, in the Taylor Institution. Subject: 'The beginning of the end: terminal paratext after the invention of printing.'
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