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University Gazette, 20 September 2007: Lectures
Inaugural LectureHarmsworth Professor of American HistoryPROFESSOR LIZABETH COHEN will deliver her inaugural lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 6 November, in the Examination Schools. Subject: 'Salvaging the American city in the age of mass suburbanisation.'
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.'
Cyril Foster LectureJAVIER SOLANA, Secretary-General, Council of the European Union and the Western European Union, will deliver the Cyril Foster Lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 13 November, in the Nissan Institute Lecture Lecture, St Antony's College. The subject of the lecture will be announced later.
Clarendon Lectures in EnglishStrong women: life, text, and territory, 1347–1645PROFESSOR DAVID WALLACE, Pennsylvania, will deliver the Clarendon Lectures in English at 5 p.m. on the following days in Lecture Theatre 2, the St Cross Building. Tue. 16 Oct.: 'Borderline sanctity: Dorothea of Montau (1347–94), Günter Grass, and Benedict XVI.' Th. 18 Oct.: 'Anchoritic damsel: Margery Kempe of Lynn (c.1373–c.1438).' Tue. 23 Oct.: 'Holy Amazon: Mary Ward of Yorkshire (1585–1645).' Th. 25 Oct.: 'Vice-Queen of Ireland: Elizabeth Cary of Drury Lane (c.1585–1639).'
Clarendon Lectures in LawFrom Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles: gender, identity, and criminalisationPROFESSOR N. LACEY will deliver the Clarendon Lectures in Law at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 31 October, and Thursday, 1 November, in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, the St Cross Building.
HistoryDacre LectureSIR JOHN ELLIOTT will deliver the Dacre Lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 22 October, in the Examination Schools. The lecture is arranged by the History Faculty in conjunction with the Dacre Trust. Subject: 'Learning from the enemy. Early modern Britain and Spain.' Ewen Green Memorial Lecture in Modern British HistoryPROFESSOR PETER CLARK: will deliver the Ewen Green Memorial Lecture in Modern British History at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 16 October, in the Auditorium, Magdalen College. The subject of the lecture will be announced later. LecturePROFESSOR STANLEY PAYNE, Wisconsin–Madison, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 6 December, in the History Faculty Building. Subject: 'Franco's temptation: Hitler and Spain in World War II.'
LawAlec Roche Annual Lecture in Public International LawPROFESSOR T. MERON will deliver the Alec Roche Annual Lecture in Public International Law at 5.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 7 November, in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, the St Cross Building. Subject: 'Does international criminal justice work?'
Mathematical, Physical and Life SciencesTheoretical Chemistry Group SeminarsThe following seminars will be held at 4.45 p.m. on Mondays in the John Rowlinson Seminar Room (opposite the Main Lecture Theatre). Convener: Dr W. Barford. MARTIN HOWARD, John Innes Institute, Norwich ALESSANDRO TROISI, Warwick ERIC BITTNER, Houston and Cambridge DAVID MANOLOPOULOS
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences and Medical SciencesOxford Developmental Biology SeminarThe seminar, which is supported by the J.W. Jenkinson Memorial Fund, will be held at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, 26 September, in the Lecture Theatre, the LeGros Clark Building, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics (old Anatomy building). Enquiries should be directed to Mrs Linda Roberts (e-mail: linda.roberts@imm.ox.ac.uk). Convener: Professor Roger Patient. SEAN MEGASON, Harvard: 'The Digital Fish Project—enabling systems biology in a vertebrate embryo.' DELPHINE DEBARRE: 'Higher harmonic microscopy in investigating development.'
Medical SciencesBotnar Research CentreThe following seminars will be held at 12.30 p.m. on Fridays in the Botnar Research Centre. Postgraduate presentations will be held on Thursday, 22 November, 10 a.m.–12.30 p.m. DR COLIN FARQUHARSON, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh DAFNA BENAYAHU, Tel Aviv PROFESSOR JEREMY SAKLATVALA, Imperial College DR DAVID BEARD MR ALISTER HART, Imperial College DR EUGENE MCCLUSKEY, Sheffield PROFESSOR DANIEL CHAPPARD, INSERM Faculty of Medicine,
France
Oriental StudiesJewish Studies Seminars (Qumran Forum): The Dead Sea Scrolls after sixty yearsThe following seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Oriental Institute. Convener: Professor Geza Vermes. PROFESSOR HANAN ESHEL, Bar Ilan PROFESSOR P.S. ALEXANDER, Manchester PROFESSOR G.J. BROOKE, Manchester DR CHARLOTTE HEMPEL, Birmingham PROFESSOR VERMES DENNIS MIZZI DR ESTHER ESHEL, Bar Ilan Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit: David Patterson SeminarsThe following seminars will be given at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Yarnton Manor. Details of the 7 November seminar will be announced later. Convener: Dr Piet van Boxel. DR HANAN ESHEL, Bar-Ilan DR HELEN BEER, University College London PROFESSOR AMÉLIE KUHRT, University College
London DR FRANÇOIS GUESNET FRANCESCA BREGOLI DR CÉSAR MERCHAN HAMANN PROFESSOR REINIER MUNK, Leiden
Social SciencesValedictory lecturePROFESSOR ADAM ROBERTS will deliver a valedictory lecture at 4.45 p.m. on Tuesday, 23 October, in the Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College. Subject: 'International relations after the Cold War.' Centre for Socio-Legal Studies seminars: Challenges to media policy, law, and regulation in the twenty-first centuryUnless otherwise indicated the following seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Mondays in Seminar Room E, the Manor Road Building. Enquiries may be directed to Paul Honey (e-mail: paul.honey@csls.ox.ac.uk). Convener: Dr Danilo Leonardi. PROFESSOR PHILIP SCHLESINGER, Glasgow PROFESSOR IAN WALDEN, Queen Mary, London PROFESSOR THOMAS GIBBONS, Manchester MARIE MCGONAGLE, National University of Ireland,
Galway PROFESSOR COLIN MUNRO, Edinburgh PROFESSOR ERIC BARENDT, University College London ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) seminars: New trends in contemporary migrationThe following seminars will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursdays in the Institute of Human Sciences, the Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road. Further information is available at www.compas.ox.ac.uk/e vents/seminars_lectures.shtml. Convener: Ellie Vasta. SONDRA HAUSNER SARAH SPENCER METTE BERG MARTIN RUHS RUTVICA ANDRIJASEVIC BRIDGET ANDERSON DIMITRINA SPENCER ELLIE VASTA Promoting the well-being of children: bringing all the evidence together (tenth anniversary series)The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Violet Butler Seminar Room, the Department of Social Policy and Social Work. Details of the 30 October seminar will be announced later. Convener: Dr A. Buchanan. PROFESSOR JAN PRYOR, Victoria University, Wellington, New
Zealand PROFESSOR MARTA SANTOS PAIS, UNICEF, Innocenti, Italy NAOMI EISENSTADT, Social
Exclusion Task Force, Cabinet Office PROFESSOR SARAH STEWART-BROWN, Warwick PROFESSOR JONATHON BRADSHAW, York GEOFF MULGAN, Director, the Young Foundation, London PROFESSOR ANN BUCHANAN and DR EIRINI FLOURI
James Martin Twenty-first Century SchoolDistinguished LectureCRAIG VENTER, J. Craig Venter Institute, will deliver a Distinguished Lecture at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 25 October, in the Sheldonian Theatre. Subject: 'Genomics—from humans to the environment.' Public LecturePROFESSOR PAUL COLLIER, Director, Centre for the Study of African Economies, will deliver a public lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 14 November, in the Lecture Theatre, the Museum of Natural History. Subject: 'The bottom billion—why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it.'
Voltaire FoundationBesterman LecturePROFESSOR HUBERT BOST will deliver the Besterman Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 8 November, in the Maison Française. Subject: 'La Beaumelle, huguenot éclairé: quelques enseignements de sa correspondance.'
Magdalen CollegeTowards a new consitutional settlementThe following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in Magdalen College. PAM GIDDY, Power Inquiry, with PAUL WHITELY and CHARLES
PATTIE, Citizenship in Britain ANTHONY BARNETT, Open Democracy (formerly Charter 88), and
PROFESSOR DAWN OLIVER, UCL PROFESSOR IAIN MCLEAN and GERAINT TALFAN DAVIES, Institute
of Welsh Affairs SHAMI CHAKRABARTI, Liberty LORD BUTLER and GUY LODGE, IPPR SIMON JENKINS LORD MACLENNAN and BILLY BRAGG PROFESSOR DAVID MARQUAND
Nuffield College and the Reuters InstituteMedia and PoliticsSeminars in this series will be held at 5 p.m. on Fridays during term in the Seminar Room, Nuffield College. Details of the Michaelmas Term seminars will be announced later. Conveners: John Lloyd, David Butler, and Malcolm Dean.
Oxford Italian AssociationDorothy Rowe Memorial LectureRICHARD OWEN, The Times, will deliver the Dorothy Rowe Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 12 October, in the Auditorium, Magdalen College. Admission is free. Subject: 'Reporting Italy: twelve years as Rome Correspondent.' Other lecturesThe following lectures will be given at 7.30 for 8 p.m. in the Mary Ogilvie Theatre, St Anne's College. Admission costs £1 for members, and £3 for non-members. Students under thirty are admitted free. For further information on the Oxford Italian Assocation, and details of how to join, telephone Oxford 377479/865476, or e-mail: pmilner@clara.net. PROFESSOR GIORGIO RIELLO, Warwick DR GILLIAN LEWIS DR DAVID BOSWELL Other eventsFri. 19 Oct., 8 p.m., Rewley House Theatre: showing of film L'Ora di Religione (Il Sorriso di Mia Madre) (102 minutes, no sub-titles). Admission free. Wed. 7 Nov., 7.30 for 8 p.m., Pauling Centre, 58 Banbury Road: conversazione in italiano. Admission free. Fri. 23 Nov., 7.30 for 8 p.m., Mary Ogilvie Theatre, St Anne's: an evening of Italian music, with Rosella Bondi Blomberg (soprano), Monica Cuneo (viola), and Tony Parmenter (accompanist). Members £1, non- members £3, students under thirty admitted free. Thur. 29 Nov.: AGM and spumante party. Open to members only.
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