Oxford
University Gazette, 15 November 2007: Lectures
Inaugural Lecture
Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics
PROFESSOR 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.'
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Professor of Poetry
PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER RICKS will lecture at 5 p.m. on
Monday, 19 November, in the Examination Schools.
Subject: 'Rhythms: 1. Trains (Dickens to
Dylan).'
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Charles Simonyi Lecture in the Public Understanding of
Science
SIR PAUL NURSE, Nobel Laureate, will deliver the ninth
Charles Simonyi Lecture at 4.30 p.m. on Friday, 23 November,
at 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.'
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Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Department of Plant Sciences: Mary Snow Lecture
PROFESSOR SUSAN WESSLER, University of Georgia, Athens,
will deliver the Mary Snow Lecture at 4.15 p.m. on Wednesday,
21 November, in the Large Lecture Theatre, the Department of
Plant Sciences.
Subject: 'Understanding the other Big Bang: how
TEs amplify throughout genomes.'
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Medical Sciences
Norman Heatley Lecture
PROFESSOR ANTHONY HYMAN, Max Planck Institute of Molecular
Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, will deliver the
sixteenth Norman Heatley Lecture at 4 p.m. on Thursday, 29
November, in the Lecture Theatre, the Medical Sciences
Teaching Centre.
Convener: Professor Herman Waldmann.
Subject: 'Boveri revisited.'
Distinguished Lecture in Virology
DR 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.'
Medical Sciences Division Science Day: Vaccinology
The Science Day will be held on Wednesday, 5 December, in
the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre.
Conveners: Professor Richard Moxon and Professor
Siamon Gordon.
DR K.A. FLEMING
1.30 p.m.: Opening remarks.
BENJAMIN DAVIS
1.45 p.m.: 'Exploring glycoimmunology.'
THOMAS HANKE
2.05 p.m.: 'Development of HIV-1 vaccine.'
ANDREW POLLARD
2.25 p.m.: 'Maintaining humoral immunity in early
childhood.'
HELEN MCSHANE
2.45 p.m.: 'Developing an improved TB vaccine:
results from clinical trials.'
MARGARET STANLEY, Cambridge
4.15 p.m.: 'HPV vaccines—where are we
now?'
JOHN WOOD, NIBSC, Potters Bar
4.35 p.m.: 'Pandemic flu vaccination—prospects
and problems.'
Health Economics Seminars
Unless otherwise indicated the following seminars will be
held at 4 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Conference Room, the
Rosemary Rue Building, the Old Road Campus. Further
information will be found at www.herc.ox.ac.uk.
Convener: Borislava Mihaylova.
DR TERRY FLYNN, Bristol
20 Nov.: 'Reconstructing the QALY: how
best–worst scaling methods can open the quality of life
black box.'
PROFESSOR PETER SMITH, York
Wed. 12 Dec., 3 p.m.: 'How much does it cost to save
a life year? Evidence from English programme budgeting.'
PROFESSOR JOHN BRAZIER, Sheffield
15 Jan.: 'The fole of condition specific measures in
deriving health state utility values for economic
modelling.'
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Medieval and Modern Languages
Autoridad y poder en la literatura del Siglo de Oro
This colloquium will be held on Friday, 23 November, and
Saturday, 24 November, in the Saskatchewan Room, Exeter
College.
Convener: Professor Edwin Williamson (e-mail:
edwin.williamson@exeter.ox.ac.uk).
Friday, 23 November
IGNACIO ARELLANO, Navarra, CHRISTOPH STROSETZKI,
Münster, and PROFESSOR WILLIAMSON
9.30 a.m.: Introduction.
ULRICH WINTER, Marburg
10 a.m.: 'Reliogisidad y poder en la literatura
(memorialística) del Siglo de Oro.'
RONALD TRUMAN
11.30 a.m.: 'La Inquisición española y
el mundo de la erudición europea en los primeros
decenios del siglo XVII: el caso de los libreros
madrileños.'
COLIN THOMPSON
2 p.m.: 'Autor y auctoritas: las
Eclogae de Virgilio y las 'Églogas' de
Garcilaso.'
CERSTIN BAUER-FUNKE, Münster
3 p.m.: 'Reflexiones sobre autoridad y poder en la
obra de Antonio Enríquez Gómez.'
IGNACIO ARELLANO, Navarra
4.30 p.m.: 'Poder, autoridad, y
desautorización en el teatro calderoniano.'
Saturday, 24 November
CARMEN RIVERO, Münster
9.30 a.m.: 'El poder y el bien común en el
Quijote.'
MARÍA ANTONIA GARCÉS, Cornell
10 a.m.: 'Poder y saber en Cervantes: de la
'Epístola a Mateo Vázquez' a Los tratos
de Argel.'
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Social Sciences
South Africa Seminar
DR DANIEL HAMMETT, Edinburgh, will give a seminar at 4.30
p.m. on Wednesday, 21 November, in Seminar Room West, Garden
Building, Mansfield College.
Convener: Dr A. Lemon.
Subject: 'Respect and resistance: claiming
coloured identities in South Africa.'
School of Archaeology: Astor Lecture
PROFESSOR 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.'
Department of Education: public seminars
PROFESSOR GUNTHER KRESS, Institute of Education, London,
will lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 19 November, in Seminar
Rooms G and H, the Department of Education.
Convener: Professor Ingrid Lunt.
Subject: 'The challenge of multimodal semiotic
theory for education: learning, curriculum, assessment.'
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Refugee Studies Centre
Harrell-Bond Lecture
HRH PRINCE EL HASSAN BIN TALAL OF JORDAN will deliver the
Harrell-Bond Lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 21 November, in
the Museum of Natural History. Enquiries may be directed to
Corinne Owen (e-mail: corinne.owen@qeh.ox.ac.uk).
This year's lecture marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of
the founding of the Refugee Studies Centre.
Subject: 'Human rights and refugees.'
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Green College
McGovern Lecture in the History of Medicine
PROFESSOR 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.'
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Magdalen College
Towards a new consitutional settlement
LORD MACLENNAN and BILLY BRAGG (to be confirmed) will give
a seminar at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 22 November, in Magdalen
College.
Subject: 'A democratic second chamber: why
patronage and placement are not enough.'
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St Antony's College
European Studies Centre
The following events will be held at 5 p.m. on the days
shown in the Seminar Room, the European Studies Centre, 70
Woodstock Road.
MARTIN CONWAY and DIMITAR BETCHEV
Tue. 20 Nov.: 'How can we tell if Europeanisation
ever happened?'
SIR IVOR ROBERTS
Thur. 22 Nov.: 'Conversations with Milosevic and
other war criminals.' (Public lecture)
LORD (PADDY) ASHDOWN and PROFESSOR NANCY BERMEO
Tue. 27 Nov.: ' "Exporting democracy" after
Iraq—shall we every intervene again?' (launch of
Swords into ploughshares: how to convert military
victory into lasting peace, not endless guerrilla
war)
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St Hilda's College
St Hilda's College Lectures
Corrigendum
It 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.
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Wolfson College
Launch of Oxford Poets 2007: An
Anthology
Oxford 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 Lecture
PROFESSOR 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.'
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