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University Gazette, 13 March 2008: Lectures
Inaugural LecturesRegius Professor of Moral and Pastoral TheologyPROFESSOR N.J. BIGGAR will deliver his inaugural lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 22 April, in the Examination Schools. Subject: 'Saving the "secular": the public vocation of moral theology.' Professor of Mathematical FinancePROFESSOR XUNYU ZHOU will deliver his inaugural lecture at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, 20 May, in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre. The lecture will be followed by the Nomura Lecture. Subject: 'Risk, human judgement, and asset allocation.'
Nomura LecturePROFESSOR HARRY M. MARKOWITZ will deliver the Nomura Lecture, via video-link from the United States, at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 20 May, in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre. The lecture will follow Professor Xunyu Zhou's inaugural lecture. Subject: 'A taxonomy of risk-facing behaviour.'
Weldon Memorial Prize LecturePROFESSOR NANCY KOPELL, Boston University, winner of the Weldon Memorial Prize 2006, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 21 April, in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, the Clarendon Laboratory. Tickets are not required for admission. Those with special access requirements should telephone Oxford (2)82464 a few days before the lecture. Subject: 'Rhythms of the nervous system: how to connect biophysics and behaviour.'
Julia Bodmer Memorial LectureSIR ALAN WILSON, Professor of Urban and Regional Systems, Centre for Applied Spatial Analysis, University College London, will deliver the Julia Bodmer Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 20 May, in Lecture Theatre A, the Department of Zoology. Subject: 'Superconcepts for interdisciplinary research.'
English Language and Literature, Music, Fine ArtBiblical women and their afterlives: New Testament charactersThis interdisciplinary conference, exploring the interpretation of New Testament women in art, music, literature, and theology, will be held on 16–18 March in Trinity College. Speakers include: Professor Christopher Rowland (theology), Professor Ruth Steiner (music), Fiona Maddocks (music), Professor Diane Apostolos-Cappadona (art history), and Professor Heidi Hornik (art history). The specially commissioned poem 'To cast a stone', by the acclaimed Irish poet John F. Deane, will be premiered on Sunday, 16 March. The full conference programme and booking forms are available at www.crhb.org. Enquiries may be directed to Dr Christine Joynes (e-mail: christine.joynes@trinity.ox.ac.uk). Conveners: Professor Christopher Rowland and Dr Christine Joynes.
Medical SciencesStructural Genetics Consortium: Structural biology and human healthA symposium on this topic will be held on Monday, 14 April, 9 a.m.–6 p.m., in Rhodes House. Speakers confirmed to date are: Professor James C. Sacchettini, Professor Ernest Laue, Professor Nicholas La Thangue, Dr Stefan Knapp, Professor Laurence Pearl, Dr Michael Morgan, and Professor Wayne Hendrickson. Enquiries may be directed to contact@sgc.ox.ac.uk. The conference is free, but registration is required, through the SGC Web site: www.sgc.ox.ac.uk/symposium. Joint Fish Forum and Oxford Developmental Biology SeminarThis seminar will be held from 4 p.m. on Thursday, 27 March, in the Seminar Room, the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine. The seminar is supported by the J.W. Jenkinson Memorial Fund. Convener: Professor Roger Patient. SALLY STRINGER, Manchester: 'The role of fine editing of heparan sulphate structure on zebrafish vasculature development.' THOMAS CHIPPERFIELD, Bath: 'Identifying targets of Sox10 by microarray analysis.' RACHEL ASHWORTH, Queen Mary, London: 'A role for calcium signalling in late muscle differentiation.' Neuroscience Guest LecturesThe following lectures will be given at 11.30 a.m. on Fridays in Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Block, the John Radcliffe Hospital. PROFESSOR NIGEL LEIGH, Institute of Psychiatry PROFESSOR NICHOLAS FOX, Institute of Neurology, UCL
Oriental StudiesHebrew and Jewish Studies Unit: Jews and Judaism in the early modern periodUnless indicated otherwise, the following seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Thursdays in the Oriental Institute. Convener: Joanna Weidberg. HOWARD HOTSON JOSEPH HACKER, Jerusalem FRANCESCA BREGOLI THEODOR WILLIAM DUNKELGRÜN, Chicago PIET VAN BOXEL DAVID RUDERMAN, Philadelphia ELEAZAR GUTWIRTH, Tel Aviv
Social SciencesOxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of WarPROFESSOR JOHN KELSAY, Research Professor and Richard L.
Rubenstein Professor of Religion, Florida State University,
will hold a seminar at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, 29 April, in
Seminar Room G, the Department of Politics and International
Relations. For details of a public lecture by Professor
Kelsay, on 1 May, see under 'Theology' below. Subject: 'Arguing the just war in Islam.'
TheologyPublic lecturePROFESSOR JOHN KELSAY, Research Professor and Richard L. Rubenstein Professor of Religion, Florida State University, will deliver a public lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 1 May, in Lecture Room 1, Christ Church. Subject: 'Islam and modern war.' Ian Ramsey Centre and Sophia Europa OxfordThe following lectures will be given at 8.30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Old Dining Room, Harris Manchester College. Conveners: Professor Peter Harrison and Dr Margaret Yee. PROFESSOR EDWARD B. DAVIS, Messiah College, Grantham,
Pennsylvania PROFESSOR RICHARD SWINBURNE PROFESSOR GEORGE PATTISON
Centre for CriminologyOxford Criminology SeminarsUnless otherwised indicated the following seminars will be given at 3.30 p.m. on Wednesdays in Seminar Room A, the Manor Road Building. BARBARA HUDSON, Central Lancashire VICTOR TADROS, Warwick PROFESSOR FRANK ZIMRING, Berkeley Thur. 22 May, Wharton Room, All Souls, 2 p.m.: 'The political economy of the death penalty in Asia.'
European Humanities Research CentreThe politics of opera: the French Revolution and its consequencesThis interdisciplinary colloquium will be held on Friday, 18 April, 9.30 a.m.–5.30 p.m., in Room 2, the Taylor Institution. Full details can be found at www.ehrc.ox.ac.uk/opera.htm. Enquiries should be directed to rosamund.bartlett@ehrc.ox.ac.uk.
Oxford Centre for Late AntiquityVillas and politics at the end of the Western EmpireThis colloquium will be held on Monday, 17 March, in the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', from 2 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Those wishing to attend should e-mail to neil.mclynn@classics.ox.ac.uk. The colloquium is organised with the support of Paul Pheby. KIM BOWES, Cornell: 'The best of times: villas and taxes in Hispania and Aquitaine.' (Response: Bryan Ward-Perkins) MICHAEL KULIKOWSKI, Tennessee: 'The nature of the catastrophe: fourth-century politics, fifth-century collapse.' (Response: Peter Heather, King's College, London)
Oxford University Library ServicesOxford University Research Archive Seminar: priorities for MPLS, Social Sciences, and HumanitiesFollowing the success of the first ORA seminar held in January, a second seminar will be held on Tuesday, 8 April, 10.30 a.m.–1 p.m., in the Rothermere American Institute. The seminar is for staff in the MPLS, Social Sciences, and Humanities divisions, and will be relevant to those in any way involved with research publications or other research output. The seminar will contribute to the further development of ORA. ORA (Oxford University Research Archive) is the new online archive for research materials for the University. It offers benefits such as preservation and efficient management of the digital items it contains, easier discovery of and access to research materials, plus increased visibility for Oxford research. The archive is home to all types of research materials such as conference papers, articles, book chapters, reports, and discussion papers. Enquiries and reservation requests should be directed to Sally Rumsey, ORA Service and Development Manager (e-mail: sally.rumsey@ouls.ox.ac.uk). Further information can be found at http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk and www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/ora.
James Martin Twenty-first Century SchoolJames Martin Public LectureJAMES MARTIN, founder of the James Martin Twenty-first Century School, author of The Meaning of the 21st Century, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 12 March, in the Lecture Theatre, the Museum of Natural History. The lecture is free and open to the public, but to ensure a place registration is recommended: www.21school.ox.ac.uk/registration. Subject: 'Target Earth: the grand scale problems of the twenty-first century.' Special film previewA documentary film entitled The Meaning of the 21st Century, produced by James Martin and narrated by Michael Douglas, will be shown at 4 p.m. on Thursday, 13 March, in the Phoenix Picture House, Walton Street. The showing will be followed by a question-and-answer session with the film-maker in person. Free tickets may be booked through www.21school.ox.ac.uk. Other public lecturesThe following lectures, which are open to the public, will be given as shown in the Sheldonian Theatre. PROFESSOR JOSEPH
STIGLITZ, Columbia PROFESSOR SIR JOHN SULSTON, and PROFESSOR JOHN HARRIS,
Manchester
All Souls CollegeEvans-Pritchard LecturesSecret networks and major misfortunes: an historical anthropology of 'crisis' in the African Great Lakes RegionDR RICHARD VOKES, Canterbury, New Zealand, will deliver the Evans-Pritchard Lectures at 5 p.m. on the following days in the Wharton Room, All Souls College. Wed. 23 Apr.: 'The many lives of the Nyabingi Spirit: rethinking the history and sociology of secret societies in south-western Uganda.' Tue. 29 Apr.: 'Splicing the networks: millennarianism, HIV/AIDS, and the new Christianity in south-western Uganda.' Wed. 30 Apr.: 'On the origins of violence: suicide, murder, and the limits of the academic detective.' Tue. 6 May: 'Broadcasting networks: secret networks, new radio stations, and the Rwandan genocide of 1994.' Wed. 7 May: 'Secret societies and the origins of crisis in the African Great Lakes.'
Balliol CollegeOliver Smithies LecturesDR UTTARA NATARAJAN, Goldsmiths College, London, will deliver two Oliver Smithies Lectures at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in Lecture Theatre II, the Faculty of English, the St Cross Building. 24 Apr.: 'Hazlitt and Shakespeare.' 8 May: 'Hazlitt's common sense.' Can we win the long war against global corruption?MR BEN W. HEINEMAN, JR, former Senior Vice-President for Law and Public Affairs, General Electric Co., will deliver two Oliver Smithies Lectures at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesdays in Lecture Theatre 4, the Saïd Business School. 20 May: 'Inside the private firm?' 27 May: 'Through governmental initiatives?' Leonard Stein LecturesPROFESSOR SHLOMO BEN-AMI, author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: the Israeli-Arab Tragedy, will deliver two Leonard Stein Lectures at 5 p.m. on the following days in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College. Tue. 13 May: 'The changing window of opportunities for an Israeli-Arab peace.' Thur. 15 May: 'Lessons of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.'
Green CollegeBrian Walker Lecture on Environment and DevelopmentDR ROBERT GOODLAND will deliver the Brian Walker Lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 13 March, in the E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green College. Subject: 'How the World Bank could lead the world in alleviating climate change.'
Lincoln CollegeJohn Wesley LectureDR DEBORAH MADDEN will deliver the John Wesley Lecture at
5 p.m. on Wednesday, 21 May, in the Oakeshott Room, Lincoln
College.
St Antony's CollegeAsian Studies CentreOlympic LegaciesThis conference will be held on Saturday, 29 March, from 9.45 a.m., and Sunday, 30 March, from 10 a.m., in St Antony's College. There is no registration fee, but registration is required. Registration should be arranged with Jennifer Griffiths, Asian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford OX2 6JF (telephone/fax: Oxford (2)74559, e-mail: jennifer.griffiths@sant.ox.ac.uk). Speakers include: Mark Dyreson, Penn State, USA; David Washbrook, Trinity College, Cambridge; Dong Jinxia, Beijing; Bruce Kidd, Toronto; John J. MacAloon, Chicago; Joseph Maguire, Loughborough; J.A. Mangan, Strathclyde; Malcolm Speed, Chief Executive, International Cricket Council; Brian Stoddart, former Vice- Chancellor, La Trobe University, Melbourne; Boria Majumdar, La Trobe University, Melbourne. Conveners: Boria Majumdar and Jonathan Manley.
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